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FALL <strong>2010</strong><br />
Connecting <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> Alumni and Friends<br />
Learning Transformed<br />
Reimagined library marks new era<br />
for academic excellence
STAFF<br />
Editor<br />
Tina Potterf<br />
Volume 34 • Issue Number 3 • <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2010</strong><br />
Strategic Communications Director<br />
Casey Corr<br />
Senior Designer/Art Director<br />
Terry Lundmark, ’82<br />
Photographer<br />
Chris Joseph Taylor<br />
Editorial Assistant<br />
Maura Beth Pagano, ’12<br />
Contributing Writers<br />
Dave Anderson, S.J., Annie Beckmann, Chelan David,<br />
Maura Beth Pagano, ’12, Cheryl Reid-Simons,<br />
Mike Thee and DJ Weidner, ‘07<br />
contents<br />
Copy Editor<br />
Sherri Schultz<br />
Proofreader<br />
Geri Gale<br />
ADMINISTRATION<br />
President<br />
Stephen Sundborg, S.J.<br />
Vice President for <strong>University</strong> Advancement<br />
Mary Kay McFadden<br />
Associate Vice President for<br />
<strong>University</strong> Advancement<br />
Mark Burnett, ’84<br />
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14 26<br />
28<br />
Assistant Vice President for Marketing<br />
and Communications<br />
Soon Beng Yeap<br />
Assistant Vice President for Development<br />
Sarah Finney<br />
FEATURES<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
Assistant Vice President for<br />
Advancement Services and Annual Giving<br />
Linda Hulten<br />
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14 Library of the Future<br />
The opening this fall of the new<br />
Lemieux Library and McGoldrick<br />
Learning Commons marks <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>’s largest investment in<br />
academics and will transform the<br />
way our students learn.<br />
20 Service as Vocation,<br />
Not Vacation<br />
Many <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> grads are<br />
postponing their job searches to<br />
dedicate themselves to service at<br />
home and afar.<br />
4 People<br />
Cathy Haffner gave up a successful<br />
corporate career and found a more<br />
content and balanced life; Dave<br />
Anderson, S.J., and Natch Ohno, S.J.,<br />
are important “players” on the men’s<br />
and women’s basketball teams.<br />
8 Campus Observer<br />
Sociology professor Gary Perry is<br />
leading an SU delegation to New<br />
Orleans to help in the long-term<br />
recovery efforts there, five years after<br />
Hurricane Katrina; community at the<br />
center of the Academic Salons; Albers<br />
and the School of Law benefit from<br />
the presence of Jesuit Assistant Frank<br />
Case, S.J.; SU students team with news<br />
professionals to examine and improve<br />
coverage on homelessness.<br />
13 Faculty Research<br />
Assistant Professor Tanya Hayes<br />
researches land rights and property<br />
management laws in Honduras.<br />
25 Alumni Focus<br />
Stephanie Lum, ’98, is a popular<br />
news anchor and reporter for an<br />
NBC-affiliate in Hawaii; new Alumni<br />
Board of Governors President<br />
Sean Henderson looks to engage<br />
young alumni in meaningful ways;<br />
Albers graduate Christina Davis is<br />
improving the livelihoods of business<br />
owners in Malawi, Africa.<br />
30 Bookmarks<br />
31 Alumni Events<br />
The new Lemieux Library and McGoldrick<br />
Learning Commons is the library of the<br />
21st century, a modern facility that cultivates<br />
learning and collaboration for today’s student.<br />
COVER ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE DALTON COWAN<br />
Letters<br />
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32 Class Notes<br />
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35 In Memoriam<br />
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<strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Catholic and Jesuit identity and character. Inquiries<br />
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Check out web extras and special features<br />
at www.seattleu.edu/magazine/.<br />
37 The Good Word<br />
Service for a just and humane world.<br />
SU Magazine <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2010</strong> | 1<br />
huffmaje@seattleu.edu.
St.Ignatius Medal for<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> Archbishop<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s highest honor bestowed on<br />
Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett is this<br />
year’s recipient of the St. Ignatius Medal, <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>’s most prestigious and highest honor.<br />
The medal is in recognition and appreciation<br />
of Archbishop Brunett’s outstanding leadership, service<br />
and support. He will receive the award at SU’s annual fall<br />
gala on Oct. 29.<br />
Named in honor of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder<br />
of the Jesuits whose work inspires the mission of <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>, the St. Ignatius Medal aims to recognize<br />
individuals within our community who inspire others<br />
through their service, volunteerism, leadership and humility.<br />
The award also recognizes individuals who have<br />
profoundly influenced the university’s progress.<br />
The St. Ignatius Medal for Archbishop Brunett comes<br />
13 years since his appointment as archbishop of the<br />
Archdiocese of <strong>Seattle</strong> by Pope John Paul II. During this<br />
time the archbishop has provided vision and leadership<br />
for Catholic education.<br />
Born Jan. 17, 1934, in Detroit, Brunett<br />
studied for his priesthood at Sacred Heart<br />
Seminary and at the Pontifical Gregorian<br />
<strong>University</strong> in Rome. In 1958 he was<br />
ordained to the priesthood in Rome.<br />
Catholic education has been<br />
central to the archbishop’s work.<br />
In 2002 he created the Fulcrum<br />
Foundation, which works to improve<br />
access to Catholic education<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett has served in the<br />
Archdiocese of <strong>Seattle</strong> for the last 13 years.<br />
and support to Catholic schools. The foundation also helps<br />
provide tuition assistance to students in need. In his years<br />
as archbishop Brunett has opened several elementary and<br />
high schools in the Archdiocese of <strong>Seattle</strong>. Additionally,<br />
he has been instrumental in guiding the direction<br />
of religious education curriculum throughout<br />
the Archdiocese as well as advocating for<br />
professional development for Catholic<br />
school educators.<br />
Archbishop Brunett joins past<br />
St. Ignatius Medal recipients Ann<br />
Wyckoff and Rhoady Lee, Jr. and<br />
Jeanne Marie Lee.<br />
Read more about the award at<br />
www.seattleu.edu/stignatiusmedal/.<br />
PHOTO COURTESY OF Archdiocese of <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
We Want to Hear From You<br />
Input and ideas sought as <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> Magazine<br />
designs a new look in print and online<br />
This fall <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> swings open the doors on the new Lemieux Library<br />
and McGoldrick Learning Commons, signaling the most significant investment in<br />
academics ever.<br />
The library and learning commons is a modern library with technology and community<br />
building at its core and a space that will inspire collaboration. Learn more about what<br />
else makes this library special in this issue’s cover story on page 14.<br />
And check out the story online and share your memories of the A.A. Lemieux Library<br />
of yesteryear. By doing so readers will be entered into a contest to win a prize. <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> Magazine online also will have pictures from the public event—Sept. 30,<br />
<strong>2010</strong>—to mark the official opening of the new library and learning commons.<br />
While you are browsing the magazine online be sure to check out web extras,<br />
including an extended Q&A with Stephanie Lum, ’98, a top news anchor and reporter<br />
in Hawaii. And be sure to weigh in on our latest poll question.<br />
In the coming months <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> Magazine will undergo a dramatic facelift<br />
as we redesign both the print and online formats. The aim is not only to refresh and<br />
revitalize the overall look, layout and style of the magazine, but also to present stories<br />
in a new way and offer content that is distinctive, engaging and speaks to the mission<br />
of the university, its community and alumni.<br />
As editor, I want to hear from you all, our valued readers. What would you like to see<br />
with the revamped magazine? What is currently working or what could work better?<br />
Are there features or sections you’d like us to consider introducing or expanding? And<br />
how can <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> Magazine play a role in engaging our alumni even more?<br />
Submit your suggestions, critiques, ideas and thoughts via e-mail at sumagazine@<br />
seattleu.edu or to me directly at tinap@seattleu.edu. You also can drop us a line the<br />
old-fashioned way via mail, Attn: Tina Potterf, editor, <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> Magazine,<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>, 901 12th Ave., <strong>Seattle</strong>, WA 98122.<br />
I look forward to hearing from you and, as always, thanks for reading.<br />
—Tina Potterf, editor<br />
2 | St. Ignatius Medal<br />
Alumni:<br />
Have an interesting story to tell?<br />
Want to sound off on a story<br />
you’ve read in the magazine?<br />
We want to hear from you.<br />
Send story ideas, including first-person essays, for<br />
consideration to sumagazine@seattleu.edu.<br />
SU Magazine <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2010</strong> | 3
People<br />
Ginny Hutchinson (left) and Cathy Haffner, ’83, traded in the stress and demands of corporate life and started a movement<br />
that is rooted in happiness—finding joy and contentment in everyday life.<br />
The Good Life<br />
Cathy Haffner, ’83, finds happiness in the everyday<br />
Plenty of people daydream<br />
about rebooting their lives,<br />
but it’s rare to find someone<br />
who actually does it. It’s<br />
rarer still to find someone who does<br />
it while perched on one of the highest<br />
rungs of the corporate ladder.<br />
But that’s exactly what Cathy<br />
Haffner, ’83, did two years ago,<br />
quitting her job as senior vice president<br />
of corporate marketing for the United<br />
Services Automobile Association,<br />
co-writing a book and launching an<br />
inspirational movement to promote<br />
the little and big things that make<br />
life better. In the process she traded<br />
boardroom presentations to executives<br />
for workshops in women’s shelters and<br />
book club meetings. And she says her<br />
life is better because of it.<br />
“The corporate life has been about<br />
how you make the most money for<br />
your company,” she says. “The past 18<br />
months have been the most rewarding,<br />
but it hasn’t been about making the<br />
most money.”<br />
Instead Haffner co-authored a<br />
book, Better Because of You. Co-written<br />
with friend Ginny Hutchinson, it’s<br />
a collection of quotes, stories and<br />
strategies the women collected during<br />
their years in the corporate world. It’s<br />
not advice on career success but rather<br />
a book about finding and nurturing the<br />
little things that make us happy.<br />
“We tend to think happiness has to<br />
be a euphoric state,” Hutchinson says.<br />
“But our premise is to make life a little<br />
bit better.”<br />
PHOTO COURTESY OF CATHY HAFFNER/BETTER BECAUSE OF YOU<br />
Rather than waiting for some kind<br />
of life-changing experience to bring<br />
happiness, Haffner and Hutchinson<br />
encourage people to create their own<br />
happiness.<br />
The duo based their book on three<br />
core beliefs: Life is what you think;<br />
if you think positively, life will turn<br />
out positively. Life is a cycle; it’s not<br />
a straight arrow going<br />
up but a series of circles.<br />
Life is a gem, with seven<br />
different facets: health,<br />
wealth, wisdom, work,<br />
play, others and service.<br />
This isn’t the first<br />
time Haffner’s life has<br />
taken a dramatic turn.<br />
She started life in a grass hut in the<br />
Philippines, moving to the United<br />
States when she was a toddler and<br />
the Navy transferred her dad to<br />
Bremerton, Wash. Having grown<br />
up in Silverdale, Wash., she decided<br />
on <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> after a high<br />
school friend came back for a homecoming<br />
with a compelling description<br />
of SU. “She said she went to a place<br />
that taught her how to think, not<br />
what to think,” recalls Haffner, who<br />
credits the Jesuit education for instilling<br />
a strong sense of responsibility<br />
to contribute to her community and<br />
make the world better.<br />
At SU she studied premed, but a<br />
semester abroad in Italy convinced<br />
her that medical school wasn’t her<br />
calling. She discovered a passion<br />
for financial marketing at her first<br />
job in the marketing department of<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> First National Bank, where she<br />
met Hutchinson. Before long, other<br />
corporations came courting. She left<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> First for a position at U.S.<br />
Bank before moving east to Merrill<br />
Lynch and later, GE Capital.<br />
During this time her husband,<br />
“...every day we make choices, and<br />
every day we can make a choice to<br />
make our life a little bit better.”<br />
Cathy Haffner, ’83<br />
Noll, was a teacher and coach, but<br />
as her career took off he opted to<br />
be a stay-at-home dad to their three<br />
daughters so she could focus on work.<br />
Eventually the economic downturn<br />
hit, and layoffs at GE Capital left<br />
Haffner with an offer of a new job<br />
working in global marketing. The rub<br />
was that she would be away from her<br />
home and family for most of the week.<br />
With her oldest daughter a senior in<br />
high school, Haffner had to assess<br />
her priorities. “As encouraging or<br />
flattering as [the promotion] was, I<br />
just could not bring myself to being<br />
gone five days a week,” she says.<br />
Haffner opted to accept a position<br />
with USAA, a Fortune 500 financial<br />
firm serving military families. That<br />
meant uprooting her family again, this<br />
time to San Antonio, Texas, but they<br />
were ready to leave the high-pressure<br />
pace of the East Coast.<br />
Unfortunately, she soon found<br />
herself putting in 15-hour days at her<br />
new job. Her stepsister died at the<br />
age of 39, her daughters were soon<br />
going to be leaving home and Haffner<br />
wanted a change. She quit her job<br />
and during a visit to<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> reconnected<br />
with Hutchinson. The<br />
two women discovered<br />
that they had both left<br />
their jobs on the same<br />
day. Taking that as a<br />
sign, they began talking<br />
about what they wanted<br />
to do with the rest of their lives.<br />
Eventually they settled on writing<br />
a book and creating an informational<br />
website, www.betterbecause.com,<br />
where people share the everyday things<br />
that make their lives better. Their<br />
book is available from major book<br />
retailers as well as at the SU Bookstore.<br />
The two also lead workshops and talks<br />
based on their experiences.<br />
And while Haffner, who still calls<br />
San Antonio home, admittedly has<br />
made a dramatic change in her life, she<br />
says her message is that it isn’t always<br />
necessary. “This is about the fact that<br />
every day we make choices, and every<br />
day we can make a choice to make our<br />
life a little bit better.”<br />
—Cheryl Reid-Simons<br />
4 | People<br />
SU Magazine <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2010</strong> | 5
People<br />
Faith in the Team<br />
As chaplains for the men’s and women’s basketball teams, Fathers Dave<br />
Anderson and Natch Ohno bring encouragement and more<br />
PHOTOS BY CHRIS JOSEPH TAYLOR<br />
Dave Anderson, S.J., extends a hand and words of encouragement to men’s basketball players<br />
in the locker room this past season.<br />
A<br />
couple of years ago, alumni Anderson, “was that the Jesuits are inchaplain<br />
Dave Anderson, volved in all aspects of students’ lives.”<br />
S.J., was walking back to At <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Anderson was<br />
his office after visiting an welcomed onto the basketball team.<br />
alumnus near campus when the spirit<br />
moved him to take a detour to the<br />
Connolly Center. There he sought out<br />
Later in that first season, when the<br />
Redhawks played the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Washington, Anderson had occasion<br />
the men’s basketball coach and asked to meet Cameron Dollar, thenif<br />
the team would be interested in<br />
having a Jesuit as team chaplain.<br />
The idea had actually been on Father<br />
Anderson’s mind for awhile. As an<br />
undergraduate at Gonzaga <strong>University</strong>,<br />
he’d observed Father Tony Lehman<br />
taking a seat as chaplain alongside the<br />
players and coaches at men’s basketball<br />
games. “What it said to me,” says<br />
assistant coach for the Huskies. Dollar<br />
would be introduced as SU’s new head<br />
coach a month later, and one of his<br />
very first orders of business was to ask<br />
Anderson to continue on as chaplain.<br />
The Jesuit enthusiastically re-upped.<br />
A similar arrangement would soon<br />
be made on the women’s side. Not<br />
long after Joan Bonvicini was hired as<br />
SU’s head coach of women’s basketball<br />
in 2009, she found herself at a staff<br />
meeting, sitting next to Natch Ohno,<br />
S.J., assistant to the vice president for<br />
Student Development. Father Ohno<br />
asked Bonvicini if there was anything<br />
the Jesuit community could do for<br />
the team. “Without missing a beat,<br />
she said, ‘Well, I want a Jesuit on the<br />
bench,’” Ohno recalls. He checked<br />
with his rector, and it was decided he<br />
would join the team.<br />
What exactly does it mean to be<br />
team chaplain? There is no playbook,<br />
and both Jesuits are careful to clarify<br />
what was expected of them. Ohno says<br />
Coach Bonvicini told him that he was a<br />
member of the team and that he could<br />
be as involved as he wanted to be. One<br />
of the people with whom Anderson<br />
conferred, Assistant Athletic Director<br />
Eric Guerra, suggested that the<br />
team chaplain’s role was to provide<br />
“presence and support.”<br />
In addition to their game-related<br />
duties, which for Ohno range from<br />
leading the prayer before tip-off to<br />
providing gum and mints to the injured<br />
players on the bench, both chaplains<br />
make it to nearly every practice.<br />
“It is great to have a Jesuit priest<br />
work so closely with our program,”<br />
says Coach Dollar. “Father Anderson<br />
is a key part of helping us fulfill our<br />
mission and develop holistically.”<br />
Any doubts Anderson may have<br />
had about his value to the team were<br />
put to rest last fall. It was a<br />
Natch Ohno, S.J., provides support and more as the chaplain for women’s basketball. Like Father Anderson,<br />
Father Ohno is often seen on the sidelines at SU’s home games.<br />
busy time for the team, which was<br />
gearing up for its first season with<br />
a full Division I schedule, as well<br />
as for Anderson personally. He had<br />
been on the road quite a bit, visiting<br />
alumni who were dealing with lifethreatening<br />
situations. One evening,<br />
Dollar called his chaplain to check<br />
in. Anderson recalls the conversation:<br />
“I asked Coach Dollar how he was<br />
doing, and he said, ‘I’m doing fine,<br />
but we’re missing one of our coaches.’<br />
I said, ‘Oh really, what happened?’ He<br />
replied, ‘Well, where’ve you been?’”<br />
Bonvicini is similarly grateful for<br />
Ohno’s presence. “Father Natch is a<br />
settling force in the locker room and on<br />
the bench,” she says, “and we definitely<br />
look to him for inspiration and advice.<br />
What he does for our program is a lot<br />
more than just basketball. He helps<br />
bring us all together.”<br />
Ohno came to his role as chaplain<br />
as a self-described casual basketball<br />
fan. For his part, the 6-foot-2-inch<br />
Anderson played basketball in high<br />
school—a forward with a decent outside<br />
shot. Having a high basketball IQ<br />
can be something of a mixed blessing.<br />
Anderson frequently has to remind himself<br />
to refrain from offering coaching<br />
pointers to the players because that’s<br />
not allowed by the NCAA. He’s also<br />
had to work at laying off the referees.<br />
But once a victory is sealed, the<br />
chaplain revels in the moment. “I’m<br />
pretty sure Father Anderson was the<br />
first person to run onto the court after<br />
we won the game at the buzzer at<br />
Portland State,” says men’s forward<br />
Aaron Broussard.<br />
Ohno also knows his way around a<br />
postgame celebration, even if his manner<br />
is a little more restrained. “My<br />
favorite memory of Father Natch,”<br />
says Bonvicini, “is when we finally<br />
earned our first win of the season. He<br />
and I walked arm-in-arm out of the<br />
gym together, celebrating the joy of the<br />
moment.”<br />
Asked if he ever prays for a win,<br />
Anderson laughs before saying, “I<br />
don’t think God works that way.”<br />
—Mike Thee<br />
6 | People<br />
SU Magazine <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2010</strong> | 7
PHOTO COURTESY OF GARY PERRY<br />
Gary Perry calls post-<br />
Katrina New Orleans “a<br />
tale of two recoveries.”<br />
Five years after Hurricane<br />
Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the<br />
rebuilding process continues. While<br />
some areas of the city have ostensibly<br />
recovered to nearly a pre-Katrina state,<br />
many others seem frozen in time, with<br />
signs of recovery hard to find.<br />
“You go to the heart of the city,<br />
the French Quarter or the Garden<br />
District, and things are coming back;<br />
there’s a vibrancy again,” Perry says.<br />
“But when you venture out not too far,<br />
you are reminded that this was a city<br />
that was underwater.”<br />
Campus<br />
O B S E R V E R<br />
Rebuilding in Post-Katrina New Orleans<br />
SU delegation eyes scholarly approach to short- and long-term recovery efforts<br />
While some parts of New Orleans are showing marked improvement in the years since Hurricane<br />
Katrina, many areas bear a constant reminder of the pace of recovery.<br />
The devastation in New Orleans<br />
hits home for Perry, an assistant professor<br />
of sociology at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
who has ties to the city and whose<br />
relatives were directly affected by<br />
Katrina. (His mother is from the area,<br />
and his aunt was displaced by the<br />
hurricane.)<br />
As a scholar, Perry has worked with<br />
hurricane survivors who resettled in<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> and King County through his<br />
involvement with the county’s housing<br />
program, Common Ground. In 2007<br />
he co-organized SU’s “Remembering<br />
the Gulf Coast” week to raise awareness<br />
of the plight of Katrina survivors. In<br />
2008, he led a group of students on a<br />
service immersion to New Orleans.<br />
But Perry wanted to do more to<br />
integrate a scholarly approach to the<br />
city’s rebuilding and recovery work.<br />
To this end, he spearheaded<br />
a pilot immersion program called<br />
Remembering Katrina for selected<br />
SU faculty and staff who spent a week<br />
in the city this summer. Remembering<br />
Katrina takes a scholarly and<br />
community-based approach to<br />
addressing the long-term needs of the<br />
people there and in helping to right<br />
social injustices that linger.<br />
The SU group joined colleagues<br />
from Fairfield <strong>University</strong> and partners<br />
at Loyola <strong>University</strong> New Orleans.<br />
The impetus for this immersion was<br />
born out of what Perry saw during<br />
his many trips to the city and the<br />
lack of opportunities for those in the<br />
academic world to participate in the<br />
recovery with community members.<br />
“Through my conversations with<br />
various community partners in New<br />
Orleans, I am hearing this growing<br />
call for a spirit of service that is rooted<br />
in social justice,” Perry says.<br />
There is still much to be done in<br />
working to improve the lives of those<br />
affected by Katrina, notes Perry, who<br />
cites a New York Times editorial from<br />
last December, which stated that<br />
6,500 people are living in abandoned<br />
properties post-Katrina, as well as a<br />
“You go to the heart of the city,<br />
the French Quarter or the Garden<br />
District, and things are coming back ...<br />
But when you venture out not too far,<br />
you are reminded that this was a<br />
city that was underwater.”<br />
report by Louisiana Weekly that<br />
more than 11,000 individuals are<br />
homeless five years later.<br />
Rather than just leading a group<br />
of academics into New Orleans<br />
and telling the residents what they<br />
think should be done for long-term<br />
recovery, Perry created a model<br />
that works directly with residents,<br />
community leaders and scholars to<br />
assess their needs and the best ways to<br />
be of service.<br />
“Jesuit universities in the United<br />
States, with their commitment to<br />
social justice, academic excellence<br />
and global education, are poised to<br />
establish an unprecedented model for<br />
responding to the continued aftermath<br />
of Hurricane Katrina,” Perry says.<br />
Quinton Morris, assistant professor<br />
of music, was part of the<br />
SU delegation that spent a week in<br />
New Orleans this past summer. For<br />
Morris, director of SU’s chamber<br />
and instrumental music program,<br />
Gary Perry, assistant<br />
professor of sociology<br />
the experience marked a return to<br />
his roots. Morris attended Xavier<br />
<strong>University</strong> of Louisiana, and while<br />
an undergraduate there he made the<br />
decision to pursue his interest in<br />
music. He also performed with the<br />
chamber and symphony orchestra at<br />
Loyola <strong>University</strong> New Orleans.<br />
Before he made the trip, his first<br />
return to the city since 2000, Morris<br />
said he hoped to learn more about how<br />
he could assist to further rebuild New<br />
Orleans.<br />
“I’m sure the city has changed<br />
dramatically, especially after Katrina,”<br />
he says. “This experience will be eyeopening.”<br />
Rose Ernst, assistant professor<br />
of political science, is a colleague of<br />
Perry’s and was aware of the work he<br />
has done around community-based<br />
scholarship both in <strong>Seattle</strong> and in New<br />
Orleans. This factored into her interest<br />
in participating in the immersion. She<br />
was looking to integrate the experience<br />
into her teachings.<br />
“I want to learn more about<br />
the betrayal of New Orleans, both<br />
immediately after Katrina and five<br />
years later, as I teach and research<br />
in the areas of U.S. politics, social<br />
movements, and race and class<br />
politics,” says Ernst. “I also hope to<br />
learn more about conditions on the<br />
ground; movements for social, racial<br />
and economic justice; and what I, as a<br />
researcher and teacher, have to offer to<br />
social justice efforts.”<br />
Later this fall, Perry hopes to host<br />
an event at SU where the participants<br />
can share their experiences in New<br />
Orleans. A filmmaker accompanied<br />
the team, so a documentary screening<br />
may be part of the gathering, along with<br />
entertainment featuring Louisianabased<br />
musicians.<br />
For more on Remembering Katrina<br />
check out the group’s blog at<br />
http://thekatrinalegacy.blogspot.com.<br />
—Tina Potterf<br />
PHOTO BY HEATH BRAUN<br />
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Campus<br />
O B S E R V E R<br />
“It is ... important that we engage<br />
the communities around us.”<br />
Sharon Suh, associate professor and director,<br />
Academic Salons<br />
Community Dialogue<br />
<strong>2010</strong>-11 Academic Salons explore the intersection of community, youth and justice<br />
PHOTO BY JENNIFER RICHARD<br />
Illustration BY Getty Images<br />
The relationship between<br />
community, youth and<br />
justice will take center stage<br />
for the <strong>2010</strong>–11 Academic<br />
Salons, which will examine how the<br />
university and its partners can engage<br />
in meaningful ways with the greater<br />
community.<br />
The subject matter is particularly<br />
germane as SU is set to collaborate with<br />
and engage youth and their families<br />
from Bailey Gatzert Elementary<br />
School through the <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
Youth Initiative, a comprehensive<br />
community-driven plan that will<br />
unfold in the coming months.<br />
The Academic Salons this season will<br />
emphasize the significance of working<br />
toward justice in a more local context,<br />
says Sharon Suh, associate professor<br />
and director of the Academic Salons.<br />
The discussion will be framed by<br />
various events including speakers,<br />
guest lectures, films and readings.<br />
Over the summer, first-year students,<br />
faculty and staff were given a book to<br />
read before the start of the academic<br />
year that ties back to the theme.<br />
This year’s selection is Whatever It<br />
Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to<br />
Change Harlem and America by Paul<br />
Tough. Whatever It Takes chronicles<br />
the creation of the Harlem Children’s<br />
Zone, founded in 1970 to provide<br />
children from the neighborhood with<br />
education, social services and community<br />
support from early childhood<br />
through college. The Harlem Children’s<br />
Zone Project began as a pilot program<br />
to reach into the community and<br />
directly affect its members. What<br />
started with one neighborhood block in<br />
Harlem has spread to nearly 100 blocks,<br />
with services extended to the children<br />
and families who reside within.<br />
Among the collaborators for the<br />
planning and programming of the<br />
Academic Salons is the Center for<br />
Service and Community Engagement,<br />
which is leading the charge on the<br />
Youth Initiative. There also will be<br />
events sponsored or spearheaded by<br />
the different colleges and schools;<br />
through its close work with Magis:<br />
Alumni Committed for Mission,<br />
the Salons will provide events that<br />
promote alumni participation.<br />
While a commitment to service<br />
is integral to the mission of SU and<br />
evident in the fact that three out of<br />
four students complete service each<br />
year—in addition to the many faculty<br />
and staff who participate in service<br />
initiatives locally and internationally—<br />
Suh says there are opportunities for<br />
greater connection with community<br />
neighbors.<br />
“There is often a tendency to explore<br />
social justice from a global lens<br />
in order to see what can be done to<br />
help alleviate suffering in other<br />
areas of the world,” she says. “It is<br />
equally important that we engage the<br />
communities around us.”<br />
Learn more about the Academic Salons<br />
at www.seattleu.edu/academicsalons/.<br />
—Tina Potterf<br />
Grace Greenwich, director of Alumni Relations at the School of Law, converses with Frank Case, S.J., at a reception after Red Mass at the<br />
School of Law. As the Jesuit Assistant, Father Case splits his time and duties between the law school and the Albers School of Business.<br />
Ready to Assist<br />
Frank Case, S.J., relishes role in business and law schools<br />
Enter the term “Jesuit assistant”<br />
into an online job<br />
search site and it’s unlikely<br />
you’ll f ind many—if<br />
any—matches. But such a position<br />
has existed at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
since 2009. The Jesuit assistant to<br />
the Albers School of Business and<br />
Economics and the School of Law is a<br />
one-of-a-kind job held by Frank Case,<br />
S.J. Established to provide a liaison<br />
between the two professional schools<br />
and the Jesuit Catholic mission, the<br />
post serves an important role.<br />
“Without any Jesuits on either<br />
faculty or staff, the schools were<br />
looking for some visible assurance<br />
of their pursuit of the university’s<br />
mission within their missions,”<br />
says Father Case, who served as an<br />
associate professor at Albers from<br />
1975 to 1986.<br />
Case’s time is split about 50/50<br />
between the two schools. His agenda<br />
includes various requests for his<br />
attendance at events where he might<br />
provide an invocation or a blessing.<br />
Beyond his duties as Jesuit assistant,<br />
Fr. Case often lectures or hosts classes<br />
and seminars, such as one for business<br />
and law faculty on Ignatian pedagogy.<br />
In addition to his teaching background,<br />
Case served for more than 20<br />
years in internal Jesuit administration<br />
as Provincial of the Oregon Province<br />
and regional assistant for the United<br />
States in Rome. During his last three<br />
years in Rome, he served as General<br />
Secretary of the Society of Jesus.<br />
“When I came to the end of my<br />
stint in Rome, the Oregon Provincial<br />
asked me to consider two or three<br />
possible assignments on my return to<br />
the Northwest,” explains Case. “One<br />
of them was this particular job, and<br />
in the end, after some consultation<br />
and prayer, Father Pat Lee assigned<br />
me here. I was delighted to be back in<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> and at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>.”<br />
The campus offers the most visible<br />
manifestation of the changes that have<br />
come about since his initial time here<br />
nearly 25 years ago.<br />
“Its new buildings are stunningly<br />
beautiful and efficient,” he says.<br />
Case also has noticed significant<br />
changes in the spirit and sense of<br />
mission on campus.<br />
The students with whom he lives<br />
in Campion Hall strike Case as<br />
being much less boisterous than the<br />
students in Bellarmine Hall back in<br />
the day, where he resided during his<br />
first tenure.<br />
“Of course,” he concedes, “that<br />
may be a sign of my own aging and<br />
a gradual withdrawal from a more<br />
boisterous lifestyle of bygone years.”<br />
Where does Case, who recently<br />
turned 72, see himself in five years?<br />
“I might still be here, sinking deep<br />
roots in an easy chair somewhere on<br />
campus. Whatever it is, I will be very<br />
happy to be in the Lord’s hands.”<br />
—Chelan David<br />
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Campus<br />
O B S E R V E R<br />
Faculty<br />
R E S E A R C H<br />
Covering the Homeless<br />
Participant Rosette Royale listens during a discussion on the homelessness project.<br />
Notable journalists team with SU students to examine reporting<br />
and news coverage of family homelessness<br />
A<br />
half-dozen local media<br />
projects on family homelessness<br />
took shape over the<br />
summer through a unique<br />
program housed at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
and made possible by a grant from the<br />
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.<br />
Six accomplished journalists from<br />
the Northwest spent three months as<br />
fellows at SU’s Center for Strategic<br />
Communications, examining the<br />
nature and extent of family homelessness<br />
in Washington state. They<br />
were aided by eight students who<br />
received scholarships for their efforts as<br />
researchers and production assistants.<br />
Participating media organizations<br />
include the the <strong>Seattle</strong> Times; NPR<br />
radio affiliates; and the esteemed PBS<br />
program NewsHour. The journalists<br />
were chosen by a six-member advisory<br />
panel of SU faculty and community<br />
experts on family homelessness.<br />
“We put out a call to the Northwest<br />
journalism community to propose<br />
reporting projects, which were<br />
evaluated based on their potential<br />
to contribute to the project’s goal<br />
of increasing public awareness and<br />
understanding of family homelessness<br />
in Washington,” says the center’s<br />
director, Barry Mitzman.<br />
“In working to increase public<br />
awareness and understanding of family<br />
homelessness in Washington, we feel<br />
that we’re very much living the SU<br />
mission to provide leadership for a<br />
just and humane world.”<br />
Student scholars and journalist<br />
fellows participated in three, all-day<br />
seminars on campus this past spring<br />
that featured panels of homelessness<br />
experts who represented service providers,<br />
academia and research institutions.<br />
The seminars also included field<br />
trips to organizations that serve the<br />
homeless. Wrap-up discussions each<br />
day gave participants an opportunity<br />
to address challenges they face in<br />
their research and story development.<br />
“I hope this approach to publicservice<br />
journalism gets replicated<br />
with other issues, such as the environment,”<br />
says student-scholar<br />
Cassandra Little, ’10.<br />
Little and Emily Holt, ’10, assisted<br />
Carol Smith, a reporter for InvestigateWest,<br />
an independent nonprofit<br />
organization devoted to investigative/<br />
narrative journalism. Their comprehensive<br />
reporting efforts focus on<br />
stories of homeless youth and are now<br />
featured on InvestigateWest’s website<br />
at www.invw.org.<br />
—Annie Beckmann<br />
Read more about this project at<br />
www.seattleu.edu/magazine/.<br />
PHOTO BY CHRIS JOSEPH TAYLOR<br />
PHOTO BY CHRIS JOSEPH TAYLOR<br />
Remote Control<br />
Assistant Professor Tanya Hayes focuses research on<br />
property rights, conservation and forest management<br />
Tanya Hayes teaches environmental studies in Arts and Sciences.<br />
The genesis of Tanya Hayes’<br />
journey to Río Plátano,<br />
Honduras, can be traced to<br />
the heartland of America:<br />
Bloomington, Ind. It was there, at<br />
Indiana <strong>University</strong>, while enrolled in<br />
a joint PhD program with the School<br />
of Public and Environmental Affairs<br />
and Political Science, that she was<br />
mentored by Dr. Elinor Ostrom,<br />
Nobel Prize winner in economics.<br />
Under the tutelage of Ostrom,<br />
Hayes became particularly<br />
interested in community<br />
management of forests<br />
and agricultural lands.<br />
When she was looking for<br />
a project for her master’s<br />
thesis, she learned about<br />
agricultural expansion—<br />
deforestation caused by<br />
the migration of farmers<br />
and ranchers—in Río<br />
Plátano, a remote region<br />
of Honduras.<br />
“My thesis looked at<br />
why colonists [farmers and<br />
ranchers] were moving to<br />
the region and the impact<br />
that various land-use and<br />
conservation policies had<br />
on supporting or thwarting<br />
this immigration,” says<br />
Hayes, an assistant professor<br />
of environmental<br />
studies in the College of<br />
Arts and Sciences.<br />
After completing her master’s,<br />
Hayes expanded her research for her<br />
doctoral dissertation. “I began to look<br />
at property rights and management<br />
policies in Río Plátano and compared<br />
these to property rights and policies for<br />
forest management in a neighboring<br />
reserve, Bosawas, Nicaragua,” she says.<br />
In contrast to Río Plátano, where<br />
the Honduran Ministry of Forestry<br />
held all land rights and management<br />
rights to the reserve, in Bosawas the<br />
indigenous residents went through a<br />
long participatory planning process<br />
by which they eventually obtained the<br />
communal title to their territories in<br />
the reserve and the sole right to make<br />
management decisions regarding<br />
forest and land use.<br />
“My investigation looked at if<br />
these different management processes<br />
and policies made a difference in<br />
controlling agricultural expansion and<br />
how they impacted local governance<br />
by the indigenous residents,” she says.<br />
Hayes began the study in 2001 and<br />
finished the project in 2007. Her primary<br />
findings show that the indigenous<br />
residents who hold communal tenure<br />
in Bosawas are better able to control<br />
agricultural expansion and prevent<br />
deforestation than the indigenous<br />
residents who live in a governmentmanaged<br />
reserve at Río Plátano.<br />
One of the biggest challenges to the<br />
research was accessibility. To reach<br />
Río Plátano, she had to first board<br />
a small plane and then complete the<br />
second leg of the journey by dugout<br />
canoe.<br />
Hayes plans to continue conducting<br />
applied research and incorporating the<br />
lessons learned into the classroom.<br />
She is currently involved in a research<br />
project with a set of NGOs in Colombia<br />
that looks at conservation of forests<br />
on the lands of poor peasant farmers in<br />
the East Andes.<br />
—Chelan David<br />
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The learning commons<br />
redefines the role of<br />
a 21st-century academic<br />
library in teaching<br />
and learning.<br />
The new<br />
Lemieux Library<br />
and McGoldrick Learning<br />
Commons is the university’s<br />
biggest investment<br />
With its opening this fall the Lemieux Library<br />
and McGoldrick Learning Commons, <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>’s largest investment in academics, creates a bold<br />
new mecca for today’s students.<br />
As the Chapel of St. Ignatius is often regarded as the<br />
spiritual center of campus, the library and learning commons<br />
likely will serve as the intellectual center.<br />
The much-anticipated and reimagined library is expected<br />
to become the campus hub for students, faculty and<br />
academic activities. The new six-story presence transforms<br />
not only the original A.A. Lemieux Library, built in 1966,<br />
but also student learning for the 21st century.<br />
At a cost of $55 million, the renovation and new<br />
construction increases the square footage by 50 percent to<br />
more than 125,000 square feet. But size is just a slim chapter<br />
in this library book.<br />
in academics<br />
Library<br />
Momentum and excitement about the project increased<br />
over the past decade when it became obvious a 1960s<br />
library designed primarily to be a warehouse for books<br />
could no longer address changes in teaching and learning<br />
styles and expectations of technologically savvy students<br />
and faculty. And for a university with a vision to be the<br />
premier independent university of the Northwest, the<br />
need for a new library and collaborative learning space<br />
continued to grow.<br />
By spring 2008, SU had launched the public phase of<br />
its capital fundraising campaign, with facilities—and the<br />
library—as a central piece. At the outset of the campaign,<br />
Anne Farrell, SU trustee, library campaign committee chair<br />
and president emerita of the <strong>Seattle</strong> Foundation, remarked,<br />
“This project will provide students and faculty<br />
with a gathering place and new digital tools for learning<br />
and sharing ideas with audiences here or anywhere in<br />
the world.”<br />
Long before its June 2009 groundbreaking, President<br />
of the Future<br />
By Annie Beckmann<br />
Stephen Sundborg, S.J., described the library as “a centerpiece<br />
in the transformation of <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>.”<br />
How the library and learning commons would best<br />
serve students took shape quickly.<br />
“We knew we wanted technology to be a more forceful<br />
presence in the services we offered and in the educational<br />
experiences of our students,” says <strong>University</strong> Librarian<br />
John Popko. “But we didn’t want to use technology to<br />
show off. We wanted to use it as a means to an educational<br />
end.”<br />
Steve De Bruhl, SU’s senior project manager for the<br />
library and learning commons, says his appreciation for<br />
this new intellectual center only intensifies with time.<br />
“Learning in a social setting outside the classroom is a<br />
component this building will facilitate,” De Bruhl says.<br />
“The environment is conducive to study that’s both<br />
collaborative and private. It’s a space where you know<br />
technology is there, but it won’t overwhelm the space or<br />
the learning experience.”<br />
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The new library and<br />
learning commons<br />
will include a<br />
coffeehouse-style<br />
café called The Byte.<br />
Did You Know<br />
The Big Move<br />
Mammoth undertaking to transport collections<br />
Back in 1966, when the library left the Administration Building and headed for new digs at A.A. Lemieux,<br />
those who were on campus recall what’s described as the bucket brigade. This involved a bevy of student<br />
volunteers snaked between the two buildings, passing boxes of books down the line from one person to<br />
another for the move into the new library.<br />
About 245,000 books, 2,000 journal titles and 6,000 media (VHS and DVD) took the library staff roughly<br />
12 weeks to pack between March and May 2009, when the Lemieux Library was vacated for renovations<br />
and new construction. In addition, the staff moved 525 special collections.<br />
Have a fun story or memory to share of the library? Share in the comments section of this story<br />
at www.seattleu.edu/magazine/. The best comments will be eligible to win a prize.<br />
Read on to learn about some of the features that make<br />
SU’s library and learning commons stand out.<br />
What’s Inside<br />
Transforming the old into the new meant rethinking<br />
every aspect of how the space might look and feel, and how<br />
its staff could support learning and scholarship in both<br />
traditional and contemporary ways.<br />
The result, as John Popko describes it, is a dynamic<br />
blend of sanctuary and community square.<br />
“We wanted this building to make us a leader in support<br />
of the pedagogy that emphasizes group projects, teamwork,<br />
peer consultations—the social dimensions of learning that<br />
take place outside the classroom,” Popko says. “We worked<br />
hard to create many varied and flexible spaces on all six<br />
floors where such interaction could flourish.”<br />
Think of a light-filled space with comfortable furniture,<br />
skylights as architectural elements, adaptable workstations<br />
and study spaces for all types of needs. The memorable double<br />
helix staircase—its railing is a significant design element<br />
from an earlier era— remains. Encounters with great art will<br />
be a big part of the day-to-day library experience, with 16<br />
spacious art walls and 55 potential art locations.<br />
Jim Hembree, SU senior development officer, says<br />
it’s an expression of the university’s mission to educate<br />
students holistically by placing museum-quality<br />
paintings, photography and sculpture in public view.<br />
The pieces exhibited include a few from the library’s<br />
legacy collection and a large infusion of new acquisitions<br />
including “What Does Compassion Look Like?” a series<br />
of 43 artworks commissioned for the Dalai Lama’s visit to<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> in 2008. These works, Hembree notes, exemplify<br />
the university’s ethic of service and social justice and were<br />
acquired for the university with support from Dick and<br />
Betty Hedreen.<br />
While up until now the university art collection has<br />
focused primarily on two-dimensional pieces, the library<br />
grounds and plaza afford exciting opportunities for<br />
sculpture, including an outdoor piece by renowned artist<br />
Joel Shapiro.<br />
A gift from Connie and Steve Rogel enabled the addition<br />
of water features and seating areas, stonework and plantings<br />
to create tranquil outdoor gathering and indoor study<br />
areas. All this is in keeping with the highest standards for<br />
ecologically friendly design with rainwater captured and<br />
routed to a rain garden to reduce the volume of<br />
water dumped directly into the city’s storm drains.<br />
Water efficiency is among the factors that contribute to the<br />
library’s green building certification from Leadership in<br />
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).<br />
What is also different about the new library and learning<br />
commons is the inclusion of a coffeehouse-style café called<br />
The Byte. Buzz Hofford, food services director at SU<br />
for Bon Appétit, says The Byte will serve coffee from<br />
Stumptown Coffee Roasters, roasted just down the street<br />
at Stumptown’s 12th Avenue location, as well as a wide<br />
selection of loose-leaf teas, a first on campus. Grab-and-go<br />
foods, hot soups, stews and more also will be available.<br />
The Learning Behind the Learning Commons<br />
An active and energetic learning environment calls for<br />
new ways to engage those who use this creative space and<br />
the staff who provide support services. For students, this<br />
translates into several new resources not routinely found in<br />
a campus library.<br />
An evolving culture of collaboration is the fuel that<br />
drives the engine of change at the heart of the learning<br />
commons, says Popko. The mission of the commons is to<br />
help students create their best possible academic work in a<br />
community that provides the specialized resources to assist<br />
them. To achieve this mission, the library now partners with<br />
the Writing Center, Math Lab and the Learning Assistance<br />
programs, all of which will now be housed there.<br />
“We are creating new collegial partnerships that will<br />
positively impact our students’ learning. This innovative<br />
effort is a recognition of the web of relationships, intentionally<br />
developed and continuously enriched,” Popko says.<br />
The learning commons redefines the scope of what a<br />
21st-century academic library is and does.<br />
“We can easily envision that a student will come to the<br />
library and learning commons for a workshop on better<br />
study habits, have a research consultation with a reference<br />
librarian and have an appointment with a writing consultant<br />
all in the same visit,” Popko says. “It’s all there by design,<br />
not by accident.”<br />
Plugged In to Technology<br />
When you consider all that went into the planning and<br />
design of the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning<br />
Commons, technology always was a dominant feature<br />
yet a bit of a wild card. Short of a soothsayer with a highdef,<br />
multimedia crystal ball, how do you predict years in<br />
advance what the tech needs will be?<br />
“We’ve had a rich technology plan in the works for years,<br />
but we intentionally delayed some technology decisions and<br />
purchases until late in the process,” says Popko. Assisting<br />
Popko was a university team with members from the<br />
library, facilities and SunGard Higher Education Office<br />
of Information Technology. One major consideration was<br />
how to address the shift in the ways students learn. As<br />
a complement to writing term papers, today’s students<br />
are interested in creating video documentaries and other<br />
content that’s easier to share not only with one another but<br />
also with a global audience.<br />
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Michael DeBlasi, director of learning technology, notes,<br />
“The partnership between <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> and SunGard<br />
Higher Education has resulted in a library with technology<br />
that enables students and faculty to create and collaborate<br />
with rich media.”<br />
Increasingly, students express ideas via pictures and<br />
video and the new library technology supports the capture,<br />
cataloging and collaboration of the media. This system<br />
provides the capability for the library to house a digital,<br />
user-created collection for student work.<br />
Everything is high definition and everywhere there is<br />
Wi-Fi, even on the outside plaza. There are 80 desktop<br />
computers in three computer labs and 120 laptop computers<br />
available through instruction and checkout programs.<br />
The first-floor Digital Media Lab features a high-def<br />
recording studio with 11 multimedia editing stations. For<br />
commercial quality recording, the library provides P2<br />
cameras, the latest in video technology. There’s a green<br />
screen for recording with virtually any background. Six of<br />
the editing stations are equipped with Final Cut Pro editing<br />
software for professional-quality editing work. The lab also<br />
has a screening room with surround sound.<br />
There’s video capture and conferencing as well as multiwalled<br />
projection technologies and wall-mounted 52-inch<br />
monitors in many of the study rooms so students can practice<br />
presentations. Students have the ability to do live streaming—<br />
in real time—to provide global learning opportunities too,<br />
in keeping with SU’s focus on global engagement.<br />
As changes and enhancements in technology enter the<br />
higher-education environment, this facility will be ready.<br />
The three-floor addition features easy-to-modify, 18-inch<br />
raised concrete tile and steel-framed floors.<br />
When you walk across those floors, you can sense the<br />
earliest watchword that fueled discussions of all who planned<br />
the new library and learning commons: flexibility. Then, as<br />
you observe the spirit and excitement of all the technologyenhanced<br />
research and scholarship that’s happening here,<br />
you realize it’s the beginning of a new era for learning. SU<br />
Encounters with great<br />
art will be a big part of<br />
the day-to-day library<br />
experience, with 16<br />
spacious art walls<br />
and 55 potential art<br />
locations.<br />
Library BY THE NUMBERS<br />
Here’s a look at what makes this new library and learning commons something special.<br />
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Lemieux Library and<br />
McGoldrick Learning Commons<br />
You Are Invited<br />
Save the date to attend the opening of the new Lemieux Library and<br />
McGoldrick Learning Commons on Sept. 30. Be there to celebrate one<br />
of the most significant events in <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s history and join<br />
us as we celebrate a new chapter in SU’s academic excellence. The<br />
dedication begins on campus at the library at 11:30 a.m.<br />
The 30-minute dedication will feature a special ceremony that<br />
includes a blessing of the building by Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett<br />
and remarks by President Stephen Sundborg, S.J. Refreshments<br />
and tours will follow. For more information or to RSVP (by Sept.<br />
22), call (206) 296-6100 or e-mail uaevents@seattleu.edu.<br />
2001<br />
The year a feasibility study was underway for a new library,<br />
followed by a concept phase, design and development.<br />
125,640<br />
The total square footage of the new library and learning<br />
commons. This combines 92,677 square feet in the<br />
renovated portion of the old library and nearly 33,000<br />
square footage of new construction.<br />
50,685<br />
The number of linear feet of books and journals that<br />
will fit in the new space.<br />
16<br />
The number of walls dedicated for art. Public art is a<br />
major feature of the building.<br />
6<br />
The floors in the new library and learning commons. This<br />
is one floor more than the old library.<br />
564<br />
The number of donors who contributed more than<br />
$37 million to the library project.<br />
11<br />
The multimedia editing stations in the Digital Media Lab.<br />
These stations are in addition to the recording studio and<br />
screening room, all part of the technology that fits with the<br />
way students learn today and will learn in the future.<br />
80<br />
The number of desktop computers spread over three<br />
computer labs.<br />
415<br />
Members of the SU campus community who submitted<br />
a total of more than 1,300 possible names in a naming<br />
contest for the library café. The winning entry: The Byte.<br />
85<br />
The hours the library and learning commons will be open<br />
each week during the academic year. Staffing these hours<br />
are 12 librarians, four nonlibrarian learning professionals<br />
and many support staff and student assistants.<br />
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Rebekah Rogalsky, ’09, helps Evan Bui draw a picture during an early childhood class at<br />
Madrona Elementary school as student Tyreese Williams works on a project.<br />
In large numbers,<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> graduates<br />
are committing to service<br />
It has been called the Compassion Boom, a time in<br />
history when acting on good intentions is a much<br />
greater likelihood than in the past.<br />
At <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>, helping others is more<br />
appealing now than ever. You’ve likely heard that three<br />
out of four students perform service as part of their SU<br />
education.<br />
Service doesn’t stop with graduation. In <strong>2010</strong> a record<br />
number of graduating seniors have committed to serve one<br />
or two years with a volunteer organization in the United<br />
States or abroad, such as Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Peace<br />
Corps and Teach for America.<br />
Joe Phillips, dean of the Albers School of Business and<br />
Economics, isn’t surprised.<br />
“That SU students are embracing service opportunities<br />
in record numbers is not unexpected,” he says. “The<br />
mission of the university attracts students who are<br />
inclined toward service work, and as we have become more<br />
intentional around the mission that attracts even more<br />
students who are service-oriented.”<br />
Service as Vocation,<br />
Not Vacation<br />
By Annie Beckmann<br />
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K<br />
X<br />
Post-graduate service is one way students can continue to live their faith and commitment to social<br />
justice after graduation. Consultations help students explore opportunities for service through<br />
established volunteer organizations after they graduate from <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Past graduates have<br />
worked with organizations such as Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Peace Corps, Lutheran Volunteer Corps<br />
and Teach for America.<br />
Here’s a list of some of the organizations that seek graduates for service<br />
COURTESY OF SEAN BAIRD<br />
AmeriCorps www.americorps.gov/<br />
Catholic Network of Volunteer Service www.cnvs.org/<br />
Center for Social Concerns http://centerforsocialconcerns.nd.edu/postgraduate/<br />
Esperanza International www.esperanzainternational.org/<br />
Global Volunteer Network www.globalvolunteernetwork.org/<br />
The Haitian Project http://haitianproject.org/<br />
Krista Foundation www.kristafoundation.org/<br />
L’Arche http://larcheusa.org/<br />
Jesuit Volunteer Corps www.jesuitvolunteers.org/<br />
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest www.jvcnorthwest.org/<br />
Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos International www.nph.org/<br />
Peace Corps www.peacecorps.gov/<br />
Rostro de Cristo www.rostrodecristo.org/<br />
Teach for America www.teachforamerica.org/<br />
For more information, contact SU Social Justice Minister Seán Bray<br />
at (206) 296-6079 or e-mail brays@seattleu.edu.<br />
The tough job market facing new graduates also may propel<br />
them toward service, Phillips says.<br />
“Many service opportunities offer a greater challenge and<br />
enable students to feel as if they are making a difference for<br />
society,” he says. “The combination of being able to make<br />
a difference while gaining valuable life skills becomes very<br />
compelling, despite the lack of salary.”<br />
Seán Bray, SU’s social justice minister, says today’s graduates<br />
have discovered opportunities to narrow the gap between<br />
themselves and marginalized populations while they pursue<br />
global engagement and community building in their studies.<br />
“After four years of hearing the mission, they truly do feel a<br />
calling to be leaders for a just and humane world,” Bray says.<br />
“They seek opportunities to be leaders who serve the greater<br />
good and discern where to put that learning in their chosen<br />
vocation.”<br />
Nearly a third of the new graduates who choose service opted<br />
to do so after their participation in a service-immersion program<br />
where they explored social, cultural and environmental issues in<br />
the United States and internationally, according to Bray. Some<br />
recognized at a young age that they wanted to devote time to<br />
service when they completed college.<br />
Take Rebekah Rogalsky, who knew by age 17 that she wanted<br />
to volunteer in Haiti. In 2006 as a high school senior, Rogalsky<br />
had her first taste of service work there. “I saw something in<br />
this weeklong volunteer experience that I wanted to develop<br />
in myself. I came back and declared I’d major in international<br />
studies.”<br />
Rogalsky later spent six weeks in Uganda with Invisible<br />
Children, a humanitarian organization. Then she met her future<br />
husband, Derek Rogalsky, at SU. They were dating over spring<br />
break in 2008 when they both volunteered with the Haitian<br />
Project, a Catholic mission that provides a boarding school for<br />
Haitian children.<br />
“We were good friends, and it was our capacity, willingness<br />
and desire to serve that drew us together,” Rebekah, ’09, says.<br />
Now that they’ve completed their bachelor’s degrees, the two are<br />
returning to the Haitian Project, where they’re the first married<br />
couple to volunteer in more than a decade.<br />
“This year of service can help a lot with career discernment,<br />
too,” says Derek, ’10.<br />
Both already have deferments once they complete one year<br />
of service. Derek, a science and engineering graduate, has been<br />
accepted at Georgetown <strong>University</strong> Medical School, and<br />
Sean Baird, ’10, will spend the next year in service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in residence with L’Arche.<br />
He will be based in one of the program’s homes in Washington, D.C.<br />
Rebekah will join Teach for America and continue to do<br />
service work in Washington, D.C.<br />
It was Sean Baird’s playful side that drew him to L’Arche,<br />
a residence for those with and without intellectual disabilities<br />
in Washington, D.C., for his year of service with the Jesuit<br />
Volunteer Corps (JVC). Inspired by Catholic social teaching,<br />
L’Arche—French for “the Ark”—is a network of these living<br />
communities in 36 countries on six continents.<br />
In or out of his mascot garb as SU’s Rudy the Redhawk, Baird<br />
has been most recognizable for his lively and good-natured spirit<br />
on campus over the past four years. He’s pleased he can lend his<br />
dance, musical and artistic talents as a resident of L’Arche.<br />
“My education focused on the mission of the university. This<br />
work is affirming of humanity for every person involved, and<br />
that’s what I’m most excited about,” says Baird, ’10, a theology<br />
and religious studies graduate.<br />
“These service opportunities<br />
are not just about investing<br />
in the common good. They<br />
are also an investment in<br />
one’s human capital.”<br />
Joe Phillips, Dean, Albers<br />
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Alumni<br />
F O C U S<br />
PROFILES | BOOKMARKS | ALUMNI EVENTS | CLASS NOTES | IN MEMORIAM<br />
In the News<br />
Stephanie Lum, ’98, is a top news anchor and reporter in Honolulu<br />
Rebekah Rogalsky, ‘09, and her husband, Derek Rogalsky, ’10, will serve in Haiti with the Haitian Project.<br />
The couple will spend a year there teaching middle and high school students.<br />
“I know I still have to pay off my student loans, but I worried<br />
that if I just worked at a café or in retail, I’d lose my enthusiasm<br />
for the social justice work I want to do.”<br />
Both JVC and Peace Corps recruiters say there has been a<br />
steady increase in the number of SU graduate participants in<br />
recent years. Historically, 141 SU graduates have joined JVC<br />
since its inception in 1956, and 315 SU alumni have served in<br />
the Peace Corps.<br />
Colleen Conboy, a <strong>2010</strong> environmental studies graduate,<br />
receives her Peace Corps assignment later this fall and expects<br />
to leave in January.<br />
“I’ve been in a bubble where it’s totally OK to be an<br />
idealist. I’ll continue to be idealistic, but more of a realist,<br />
too,” she says. “I hope I’ll learn more about the complexity of<br />
problem solving.”<br />
Conboy first pondered joining the Peace Corps before she<br />
entered SU. By her senior year, she knew it was what she wanted.<br />
As a student at she took part in a trail restoration for one service<br />
project and participated in an Appalachian service immersion in<br />
West Virginia.<br />
Albers Dean Phillips suggests that service work provides<br />
graduates with a learning experience that ultimately makes them<br />
more employable.<br />
“An extended service experience is also going to make for<br />
a more interesting job interview someday—it will give the<br />
interviewee something important to talk about,” Phillips says.<br />
“These service opportunities are not just about investing in<br />
the common good. They are also an investment in one’s human<br />
capital.”<br />
SU<br />
PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHANIE LUM<br />
Stephanie Lum, ’98<br />
Stephanie Lum grew up intrigued<br />
and interested by the<br />
news. At the Lum household<br />
in Hawaii, watching the<br />
evening news and reading the newspaper<br />
were daily rituals—her father<br />
would often quiz the kids about news<br />
that appeared in the paper.<br />
“Our parents raised us on the news,”<br />
says Lum, who is today a trusted<br />
and popular anchor and reporter in<br />
Honolulu, Hawaii.<br />
The 1998 graduate of<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> anchors<br />
four newscasts and does<br />
special reports for Hawaii<br />
News Now (KHNL/<br />
KGMB/K-FVE). During<br />
college Lum got a taste for<br />
broadcast journalism, and<br />
she was often seen roaming<br />
around campus—lugging a<br />
video camera and tripod—<br />
capturing campus news.<br />
An internship at <strong>Seattle</strong>’s<br />
KING 5 showed her the<br />
ropes in a fast-paced newsroom.<br />
Straight out of<br />
college she landed her<br />
first professional job at<br />
KUAM, a small news<br />
station in Guam, where<br />
she worked her way up<br />
from a general assignment<br />
reporter to weekend anchor. In the<br />
two years she was with the station,<br />
Lum earned her first of what would<br />
be many professional awards for an<br />
investigative piece she did on health<br />
hazards at a restaurant.<br />
When an opportunity presented<br />
itself for Lum to move back to<br />
Hawaii and work for CBS-affiliate<br />
KGMB 9 News as a morning anchor<br />
and general assignment reporter,<br />
she accepted. In 2001 she moved to<br />
KHNL and K-FVE, serving as anchor<br />
and reporter.<br />
“This is more than a job—it’s a service<br />
to the community,” says Lum, who has<br />
been named several times Honolulu’s<br />
“best local TV personality.”<br />
Professionally, Lum has earned<br />
several awards for writing, reporting and<br />
newscasts in her current role, including<br />
an Emmy award in 2008 and again this<br />
year for overall news excellence, and a<br />
2009 Edward R. Murrow Award for<br />
best 10 p.m. newscast.<br />
While Lum is most recognized<br />
behind the desk as an anchor, she<br />
enjoys the opportunities to do special<br />
projects that put her out in the<br />
community, connecting with viewers<br />
and telling their stories.<br />
Away from the news station Lum<br />
takes full advantage of Hawaii’s climate<br />
and spends a lot of time outdoors<br />
biking, running and swimming. She<br />
regularly participates in marathons<br />
and hopes to compete in a full Iron<br />
Man competition next year.<br />
Her advice to others who may be<br />
looking for a career change or a life<br />
makeover: never be afraid to explore.<br />
“Go after your dreams,” Lum says.<br />
“Seek out a mentor so they can teach<br />
you the tricks of the trade. And work<br />
hard in everything you do.”<br />
—Tina Potterf<br />
Learn what’s on Lum’s iPod and<br />
more at seattleu.edu/magazine/.<br />
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Alumni<br />
F O C U S<br />
PHOTO BY CHRIS JOSEPH TAYLOR<br />
column<br />
Alumni, Get to<br />
Know Your Board<br />
Board of Governors serves as a liaison to the university<br />
How well do you know<br />
the Alumni Board of<br />
Governors, the advising<br />
board for the more than<br />
60,000 alumni of <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>?<br />
The Alumni Board of Governors<br />
(ABOG) acts as your liaison to the<br />
university and is made up of 25<br />
dedicated individuals whose common<br />
goal is to promote the university and<br />
support Alumni Relations.<br />
The executive board consists of<br />
myself, Sean Henderson, president;<br />
Christopher Canlis, president-elect;<br />
and Karen Lynn Maher, Anni Lee and<br />
Shane Dir. Our other board members<br />
are Zachary Anderson, Analisa<br />
Castaneda, Joslyn Donlin, James<br />
Gore, Mary Henderson, Josephine<br />
Hidalgo-Tamola, William Jolly,<br />
Adam Jussel, Daniel Kelley-Petersen,<br />
Chad Marshall, Jason McGill,<br />
Sandra Mears, James Policar, Alberto<br />
Stein Rios, Lauren Sedillo and<br />
Michelle Smith.<br />
Over the years we have established<br />
three annual events designed specifically<br />
for alumni. These events are:<br />
The Advent Mass and Reception,<br />
which embraces our Jesuit tradition.<br />
During the Mass, the Chapel of St.<br />
Ignatius is packed with alumni from<br />
all disciplines enjoying the holiday<br />
and renewing their friendships. If<br />
you have not had the opportunity to<br />
experience this, we look forward to<br />
welcoming you to this year’s Mass in<br />
December.<br />
The second big event is the<br />
Alumni Awards, which this year<br />
celebrated 25 years of recognizing<br />
the best and brightest alumni<br />
and supporters of the university.<br />
The ceremony is one of the most<br />
enduring and endearing alumni<br />
events of the year. Each year ABOG<br />
members welcome the opportunity<br />
to serve on the panel that is tasked<br />
with selecting the recipients. And<br />
our third event is commencement<br />
brunch, an opportunity to celebrate<br />
the achievements of our graduates<br />
each June—the brunch is held the day<br />
before commencement ceremonies.<br />
It is a wonderful way to welcome<br />
new alumni to the community. Plus,<br />
it’s a fun and rare opportunity to hear<br />
President Stephen Sundborg, S.J.,<br />
“unplugged.” It’s a must-see.<br />
The Alumni Board of Governors<br />
is also looking for ways to further<br />
support Division I athletics through<br />
social events prior to games. If you<br />
have any suggestions on how we can<br />
engage alumni at our athletic events,<br />
please let me know.<br />
As board president, I would like to<br />
thank all of you for making my role in<br />
this exceptional university a rewarding<br />
experience. If you have not been<br />
connected or would like to reconnect<br />
with SU, e-mail Alumni Relations at<br />
alumni@seattleu.edu or contact me<br />
through <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> Magazine<br />
at sumagazine@seattleu.edu.<br />
—Sean Henderson, ’88<br />
Sean Henderson is the president of<br />
the Alumni Board of Governors.<br />
Meet Your Prez<br />
“We need to cultivate our base of young<br />
alumni and keep them engaged.”<br />
Sean Henderson, ’88, alumni board president<br />
For Sean Henderson, ’88, the new president of<br />
the Alumni Board of Governors, being involved at<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> has always been a family affair.<br />
“My sister started here in 1976 as a basketball star,”<br />
recalls Henderson, who became more familiar with SU<br />
through attending games and meeting people here.<br />
An avid soccer and softball fan, he is a season ticket<br />
holder for men’s soccer and women’s softball.<br />
Through his interest in sports, Henderson was inspired<br />
to become more engaged with his alma mater.<br />
Building and strengthening connections and engagement<br />
among students, alumni and the greater campus<br />
is top of mind for Henderson as the head of the governing<br />
board. As president, Henderson is looking to expand<br />
the board’s reach and visibility and identify opportunities<br />
for greater involvement in the daily happenings of<br />
the university.<br />
He also wants to develop programming geared toward<br />
young alumni. To this end, he has made progress: Two<br />
positions on the board are now filled by young alums.<br />
“We need to cultivate our base of young alumni,”<br />
Henderson says, “and keep them engaged.”<br />
Other goals as president: make it easier for alumni<br />
to stay in touch, both with other alumni and with the<br />
university; offer assistance in career services; and facilitate<br />
greater and more accessible opportunities in the<br />
community.<br />
“We’re available to provide assistance and give direction,”<br />
Henderson says.<br />
—DJ Weidner, ’07<br />
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Alumni<br />
F O C U S<br />
PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTINA DAVIS<br />
Start Up Business<br />
Alumna Christina Davis, ’10, brings business training<br />
classes to entrepreneurs in Malawi, Africa<br />
Christina Davis epitomizes<br />
what it means to leave a<br />
mark on the world.<br />
While a student at the<br />
Albers School of Business and Economics,<br />
Davis, ’10, created Africa Start<br />
Up, an innovative program that works<br />
with local entrepreneurs and microfinance<br />
loan recipients in Malawi. The<br />
program provides classes and training<br />
in basic business principles to help<br />
build their businesses<br />
and a better future.<br />
Classes focus on topics<br />
such as revenue and<br />
profits, record keeping,<br />
reinvestment and<br />
growth, and the importance<br />
of savings. The<br />
entrepreneurs run a<br />
variety of businesses and enterprises,<br />
from small grocery stores and<br />
electronics repair shops to honey and<br />
popsicle stands.<br />
Africa Start Up offers training<br />
to entrepreneurs who have financial<br />
capital but are lacking in the necessary<br />
skills and know-how to grow their<br />
capital and their businesses. “We<br />
are providing a sustainable business<br />
model,” says Davis.<br />
Davis’ involvement in <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
International Development<br />
Internship Program, or IDIP, was<br />
crucial to the formation of Africa Start<br />
Up. IDIP is a three-quarter course<br />
that provides undergraduate students<br />
with opportunities to conduct research<br />
on issues facing developing countries<br />
and to intern with non-governmental<br />
organizations in Asia, Africa and Latin<br />
America. Davis’ placement took her to<br />
Malawi, where she was as intern for<br />
humanitarian organization LifeNets<br />
International. For the courses and<br />
training, Africa Start Up has teamed<br />
with SU and the Malawi College of<br />
Accountancy; both have provided<br />
faculty and students to lead the<br />
“We want to create a robust business<br />
community and, ultimately, replicate<br />
this program throughout Africa.”<br />
Christina Davis, ’10, on Africa Start Up<br />
sessions, which are spread over several<br />
weeks, and provide consultations. In<br />
addition to developing sustainable<br />
business plans, the overall goal, says<br />
Davis, is to increase entrepreneurs’<br />
incomes by 200 percent.<br />
“If you increase the income of one<br />
of these entrepreneurs, each affects<br />
about 10 people,” she says. “We want<br />
to create a robust business community<br />
and, ultimately, replicate this program<br />
throughout Africa.”<br />
Africa Start Up recently got<br />
a financial boost of its own with a<br />
$20,000 grant from the Intercollegiate<br />
Studies Institute’s William E. Simon<br />
Fellowship for Noble Purpose program.<br />
The funding will assist with<br />
travel and material costs for instructors<br />
who will teach in Malawi this fall.<br />
Davis will be taking time off from her<br />
new job at Google to make the trip<br />
in September, and will be joined by<br />
Albers instructor Sarah Bee. The group<br />
will be working with small business<br />
owners who are linked up with Africa<br />
Start Up as recipients of grants from<br />
LifeNets International—an Africa<br />
Start Up partner—and from referrals<br />
through other<br />
microfinance organizations.<br />
The success of Africa<br />
Start Up and the<br />
overwhelming support<br />
from SU, peers, colleagues<br />
and the people<br />
of Malawi speak to<br />
what Davis considers a paradigm<br />
shift in the world of business and an<br />
emphasis on what’s called the triple<br />
bottom line: a business model that<br />
looks at not just the economic benefits<br />
but also environmental and social<br />
impacts.<br />
For alumni who want to make<br />
their own mark on the world, Davis<br />
encourages starting small and thinking<br />
locally.<br />
“I don’t think people should feel<br />
like they need to go to Africa to make<br />
a difference,” Davis says. “Making a<br />
difference in your own communities,<br />
or in your own life, is important.<br />
Follow your passion.”<br />
—Tina Potterf<br />
Christina Davis, ’10, is making an impact in the lives of business owners in Malawi, Africa,<br />
through Africa Start Up, a professional training program she created.<br />
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Alumni Events<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
Bookmarks<br />
Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur: Your GPS to Business Success<br />
[Aviva Publishing, New York] by Jack Fecker, ’54<br />
Jack Fecker, ’54, is an experienced entrepreneur with a bevy of tips that any business owner—or<br />
would-be business owner—would find useful. In his book, Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur:<br />
Your GPS to Business Success, Fecker does much more than simply dole out run-of-the-mill advice.<br />
The book recounts his 50-year journey to success, detailing the many ups and downs of running a<br />
business. In inspiring and humorous anecdotes, Fecker tells readers how he has learned from his<br />
mistakes and celebrated the triumphs. In each story, he shares his personal experience with one<br />
goal in mind: imparting valuable and long-cultivated wisdom.<br />
Throughout his career, Fecker has been a palpable presence in the marketplace. As an entrepreneur,<br />
CEO and business development consultant, he has parlayed his passionate and adventurous<br />
nature into a profitable and full professional life. Fecker has built more than 20 successful businesses,<br />
including one of <strong>Seattle</strong>’s first major nightclubs, the Blue Banjo. Under his co-leadership,<br />
the Northwest territorial franchise of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlours became the hotspot for sweet<br />
treats. He has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s foremost creative entrepreneurs.<br />
In Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur, Fecker takes his experience and transforms it into<br />
practical advice. Through entertaining narratives, he offers helpful suggestions<br />
on a variety of topics. The book is divided into three sections,<br />
with the first focused on turning ideas into profitable realities. Fecker<br />
calls ideas the “most essential nuggets” of any business, and stresses<br />
the importance of beginning with a creative vision.<br />
The second section concentrates on helping entrepreneurs build<br />
and sustain profits after they have opened for business. Here,<br />
Fecker encourages readers to nurture their strengths and use their<br />
distinctive abilities to the advantage of their businesses.<br />
In the final section, Fecker shares some tips for maintaining sanity.<br />
He highlights the benefits of asking for help and letting go<br />
of control, and also emphasizes the value of nurturing yourself<br />
and your relationships; that is, of scheduling time for “play”<br />
during what can seem like a never-ending workweek.<br />
Colorfully written and refreshingly insightful, Fecker’s book is<br />
a unique tool for any current or soon-to-be business owner<br />
looking to invigorate his or her entrepreneurial<br />
ventures. —Maura Beth Pagano, ’12<br />
Editor’s Note: If you have a book published, <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> Magazine wants to hear about it. We consider for<br />
review books released within the past two years by alumni, faculty and staff. Send notice to sumagazine@seattleu.edu.<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
Thursday, September 23<br />
11th Annual Costco Scholarship<br />
Fund Breakfast<br />
7 to 9 a.m., <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> Campus<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> hosts the 11th annual<br />
Costco Scholarship Fund Breakfast to raise<br />
funds for scholarships for diverse students<br />
of SU and the <strong>University</strong> of Washington.<br />
Information: (206) 296-6106.<br />
OCTOBER<br />
Monday, October 4<br />
School of Law Annual Red Mass<br />
and Reception<br />
5:30 p.m.; Chapel of St. Ignatius<br />
and Sullivan Hall<br />
The School of Law invites judges, lawyers,<br />
legislators, alumni and students to its<br />
annual Red Mass honoring members of the<br />
legal profession. Red Mass, which starts<br />
at the chapel, is a tradition dating back to<br />
14th-century England, where it was held<br />
before the opening of each term of court and<br />
attended by all members of the bench and<br />
bar. The Mass is an invocation of guidance<br />
for all who pursue justice, and is an opportunity<br />
to reflect on the power and responsibility<br />
of the legal profession. Information<br />
and to RSVP: (206) 398-4600 or e-mail<br />
rsvplawalumni@seattleu.edu.<br />
Check out more upcoming events at<br />
www.seattleu.edu/magazine/.<br />
Sunday, November 14<br />
Elgin Baylor Tournament Classic:<br />
Men’s Basketball vs. Cal Poly<br />
Time: TBD; KeyArena at <strong>Seattle</strong> Center<br />
Kick off the <strong>2010</strong>–11 men’s basketball<br />
season by attending the first home game<br />
at KeyArena. The evening will begin with<br />
a pregame alumni reception. To learn more<br />
about the reception, visit www.seattleu.edu/<br />
alumni. Information and tickets:<br />
(206) 296-2835 or goseattleu.com/.<br />
Saturday, October 16<br />
Filipino Alumni Chapter Mass<br />
and 4th Annual <strong>Fall</strong> Reunion<br />
5 to 10 p.m., SU Campus<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Filipino Alumni<br />
Chapter invites alumni and friends<br />
(Filipino and non-Filipino) to its annual<br />
reunion in celebration of Filipino<br />
American History Month. The evening<br />
will begin with a Mass at 5 p.m.,<br />
followed by a reunion reception at 6<br />
p.m. The event will feature authentic<br />
Filipino cuisine, alcoholic and nonalcoholic<br />
drinks, music and dancing, group<br />
photos and a brief program. RSVP by<br />
Oct. 8: (206) 296-6127 or e-mail<br />
alumni@seattleu.edu.<br />
Wednesday, October 20<br />
Albers Presents Andrew Doman<br />
of Russell Investments<br />
5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Pigott Auditorium<br />
Join a discussion with Andrew Doman,<br />
CEO of Russell Investments, as part<br />
of the Albers Executive Speaker Series.<br />
Information: (206) 296-5700.<br />
Friday, October 22<br />
McGoldrick Scholarship Reception<br />
5 to 7 p.m., Student Center 160<br />
Student recipients of the James B.<br />
McGoldrick, S.J. Alumni Scholarship,<br />
their families and scholarship donors are<br />
invited to attend a special reception celebrating<br />
the family legacies at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
during Family Weekend <strong>2010</strong>. Information:<br />
(206) 296-6127 or e-mail<br />
alumni@seattleu.edu.<br />
Thursday, October 28<br />
Catholic Heritage Lectures<br />
7 to 9 p.m., Pigott Auditorium<br />
Save the date to attend the first event of the<br />
Catholic Heritage Lectures. Sponsored by<br />
the Provost Office and Mission and Ministry,<br />
the lecture series topic is “Darwin, God and<br />
Design: America’s Continuing Problem with<br />
Evolution.”<br />
Friday, October 29<br />
27th Annual Gala<br />
6 p.m., The Westin Hotel, <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
Enjoy a dazzling evening of dining, dancing<br />
and entertainment at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
signature black-tie event, its annual fall gala.<br />
Join us for this special night, which raises<br />
funds for student scholarships. Information:<br />
(206) 296-6301 or visit www.seattleu.edu/gala.<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
Thursday, November 4<br />
Albers Presents Tod Leiweke<br />
5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Pigott Auditorium<br />
Join a discussion with Tod Leiweke, former<br />
CEO of the <strong>Seattle</strong> Seahawks, FGI and<br />
Sounders FC, as part of the Albers Executive<br />
Speaker Series. Information: (206) 296-5700.<br />
Wednesday, November 17<br />
Men’s Basketball vs. Oregon State<br />
Time TBD; KeyArena at <strong>Seattle</strong> Center<br />
An alumni pregame reception will kick off<br />
the festivities, followed by a game against<br />
Northwest rival Oregon State. To learn<br />
more about the reception, visit www.seattleu.<br />
edu/alumni. Information and tickets:<br />
(206) 296-2835 or goseattleu.com/.<br />
For more information on alumni events, contact Alumni Relations at (206) 296-6127 or visit www.seattleu.edu/alumni/.<br />
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class notes<br />
PHOTO BY CANDACE SHANKEL<br />
Alumni Immersion Trip to Belize<br />
Each spring for the past five years alumni<br />
and friends have spent a week in Belize<br />
doing service work. The Belize immersion<br />
trip was started by <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
Professor Gary Chamberlain and alumna<br />
Lauren Lake, ’04, to maintain connections<br />
between the SU community and the<br />
people of Belize.<br />
“Our hope was to have a consistent<br />
presence in Belize between SU interns<br />
and nursing students and the immersion<br />
trip with Campus Ministry so that every<br />
few months the organizations in Belize<br />
would have new supplies and volunteers,”<br />
Lake says.<br />
During the trip participants serve in<br />
various roles for organizations such as<br />
the YMCA and YWCA, and at local<br />
elementary schools. They also work<br />
alongside Jesuit volunteers.<br />
The next Belize trip will be spring 2011.<br />
For more information, contact Lauren<br />
Lake at (206) 755-9884 or e-mail<br />
laurenclairlake@gmail.com.<br />
Send-off for Student Ambassadors<br />
Staff and Student Alumni Ambassadors from Alumni<br />
Relations sent off their graduating seniors with an<br />
end-of-the-year celebration that included lunch at<br />
F.X. McRory’s and a <strong>Seattle</strong> Mariners game. Restaurant<br />
owner and alumnus Mick McHugh, ’66, (pictured front<br />
left) personally greeted the SU staff and students.<br />
Talina Silbernagel, ’05, married Jonathan Skirko<br />
Sept. 25, 2009, in Bozeman, Mont., at Holy Rosary Parish.<br />
The couple resides in <strong>Seattle</strong>, where Jonathan is in his<br />
residency training as a head and neck surgeon and Talina<br />
works as a registered nurse in the ICU and is a doctoral<br />
student at the <strong>University</strong> of Washington. Silbernagel is<br />
studying to become a family nurse practitioner.<br />
Sally Santucci married her husband,<br />
53Ronald, in June 2009. Sally and<br />
Ronald first met and became friends while<br />
students at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> and reconnected<br />
with one another in 2007.<br />
Shirley Smith celebrates her 57th<br />
60year as a Sister of Providence in <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Sue Campbell recently retired<br />
63from teaching after 27 years at St.<br />
Brendan’s School in Bothell, Wash., and six<br />
years at <strong>Seattle</strong>’s Meany Middle School.<br />
Sharon Missiaen served as president<br />
of the Washington Association of School<br />
Psychologists for the 2009–10 term and will<br />
continue in <strong>2010</strong>–11.<br />
Gene Rafanelli is living in Scottsdale,<br />
64Ariz., with his wife, Judith, after 30<br />
years of service in the U.S. Army and 12<br />
years of teaching high school JROTC.<br />
Michael Murphy retired in January<br />
692009 after more than 36 years in<br />
public treasury. From 1996 to 2008, Murphy<br />
was the Washington state treasurer. He also<br />
served 10 years as the treasurer of Thurston<br />
County, Wash.<br />
Sharon Glockner retired from the<br />
70<strong>Seattle</strong> School District in June 2008,<br />
after 38 years as an elementary school<br />
teacher. Glockner and her husband, Gary,<br />
welcomed a grandson, Moses, Sept. 14, 2009.<br />
Steve Huling was honored in the naming<br />
of the expanded and remodeled automotive<br />
technology training facility at South <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
Community College. Huling and his family<br />
have been generous supporters of the college<br />
for more than 30 years. He served on the board<br />
of directors of the college’s foundation from<br />
1991–1996, and is currently a member of its<br />
President’s Advisory Council.<br />
Robert Barr has returned home to<br />
71the <strong>Seattle</strong> area after retiring as national<br />
retail manager for Ryder Truck Rental, Inc., at<br />
the company’s headquarters in Miami, Fla.<br />
Gary Haakenson, formerly the mayor of<br />
Edmonds, Wash., has been named deputy<br />
county executive of Snohomish County, a role<br />
that began in July <strong>2010</strong>. “This is an exciting<br />
opportunity to work with the county executive<br />
and county employees. I’m grateful to<br />
[Snohomish County] Executive Aaron<br />
Reardon for the offer and look forward<br />
to working with him to meet the countywide<br />
challenges,” he said in a statement.<br />
Haakenson had served as the mayor of<br />
Edmonds, north of <strong>Seattle</strong>, since 2000, having<br />
been reelected in 2004 and again in 2008.<br />
Prior to this, he was on the Edmonds City<br />
Council from 1996 to 1999. Haakenson, a<br />
Northwest native, has lived in Edmonds for<br />
the past 25 years.<br />
Wynn Erikson just released his<br />
7217th album of instrumental music on<br />
iTunes. His music was featured at the 2009<br />
Transylvanian Ball in Portland, Ore. He now<br />
splits his time between Washington state and<br />
Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico.<br />
JoAnne Ludwig, MEd, continues<br />
77in her roles as vice principal and dean<br />
of student academics at <strong>Seattle</strong>’s Kennedy<br />
Catholic High School. Last summer, Ludwig<br />
completed her 20th year of volunteer service<br />
with <strong>Seattle</strong>’s Seafair as director of the Miss<br />
Seafair Scholarship Program. She currently<br />
resides in <strong>Seattle</strong> with her husband, Paul.<br />
Tom Galligan, JD, an expert in<br />
81maritime law, testified before the U.S.<br />
House Committee on the Judiciary in May<br />
<strong>2010</strong> about the complex legal issues arising<br />
from the Gulf Coast oil spill. Galligan has<br />
spoken extensively, published numerous<br />
books and articles and taught classes on<br />
maritime law. His scholarship has been cited<br />
by the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and<br />
state courts as well as by legal scholars.<br />
Charlene Bush was elected in May<br />
90<strong>2010</strong> to serve on the board of directors<br />
of the Washington Rural Health Association.<br />
Bush is board-certified for family practice<br />
by the American Academy of Nurse<br />
Practitioners. She has been a member of the<br />
WRHA since 2002, and is excited about her<br />
expanded role as a new board member.<br />
Kathleen Stensland, MEd, is<br />
93enjoying teaching at Rock Creek<br />
Elementary School in Maple Valley, Wash.<br />
She and her husband, Paul, currently reside<br />
in Snoqualmie, Wash.<br />
Nancy Wilson, EdD, recently moved into<br />
a new house in Ellensburg, Wash., with her<br />
husband, Dennis.<br />
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F O C U S<br />
in memoriam<br />
class notes<br />
Keena Mackay Hausmann and her<br />
94husband, David, welcomed son Gavin<br />
Mackay Hausmann, Jan. 16, 2009. The family<br />
makes their home in New Jersey.<br />
Dr. Laura Tordenti was recently<br />
96appointed vice president for Student<br />
Affairs at Central Connecticut State<br />
<strong>University</strong> (CCSU) in New Britain, Conn.,<br />
having served as interim vice president since<br />
June 2008. Prior to that, she served for eight<br />
years as vice president for Student Affairs<br />
at Eastern Connecticut State <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Tordenti has served in senior-level student<br />
service and enrollment management positions<br />
for more than 20 years at various institutions.<br />
Currently she teaches in CCSU’s<br />
graduate program in Counseling and<br />
Student Development in Higher Education,<br />
is active in civic and community service, and<br />
is a member of many professional associations.<br />
She lives in Storrs, Conn., with her<br />
husband, Lou Testa, and her daughter, Eliza<br />
Patterson.<br />
Cory Peppard received his master’s<br />
97degree in nursing from the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Florida in December 2009. Peppard and<br />
his wife, Lisa (Isackson), ’94, and their two<br />
children are currently living in Kennewick,<br />
Wash., where Cory works as a certified registered<br />
nurse anesthetist at Kennewick General.<br />
Thomas Kerbleski married Jennifer<br />
02Hedayati on Nov. 8, 2009, in New<br />
York City.<br />
Karlie Valdez, JD, formed Valdez Malcolm,<br />
PLLC in July 2009. For seven years, her<br />
primary practice area has been DUI defense.<br />
Her partner, Sean Malcolm, practices civil<br />
litigation. Valdez Malcolm sponsored an<br />
NHTSA training course for attorneys on standardized<br />
field sobriety tests in April <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Michaelann Allen, ’06 MEd, direc-<br />
of the medical assisting program<br />
03tor<br />
and a tenured instructor at North <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
Community College, was awarded the<br />
(Left) Rebecca Khalil, ’03, and her husband,<br />
Peter, welcomed their first child, Adrian<br />
Howard Khalil, Feb. 2, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Caroline Sawitz (Ramirez), ’01, and her husband,<br />
Jason, welcomed son Nicholas Ryan Sawitz, April 9,<br />
<strong>2010</strong>. He weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces.<br />
Anna Sue McNeill Assessment, Teaching and<br />
Learning Award for <strong>2010</strong>. The award recognizes<br />
an individual’s contributions to assessment,<br />
teaching and student learning.<br />
Scott Davis recently completed a<br />
07year of service with the U.S. Army in<br />
Afghanistan. He served as an infantry platoon<br />
leader responsible for leading 44 men into<br />
combat against the Taliban. Davis is expected<br />
to return to Afghanistan in early 2011.<br />
Amanda Turner and her husband, Darren,<br />
welcomed Atticus Andrew Turner Hogben,<br />
April 16, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Jennifer Muhm and her husband, Jeff<br />
09Muhm—a current <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
MPA student—welcomed daughter Ella, Oct.<br />
26, 2009. The family resides in Shoreline, Wash.<br />
Lashon Watson is earning a master’s in<br />
psychology–drama therapy with mental health<br />
counseling from Antioch <strong>University</strong> <strong>Seattle</strong>.<br />
Peter Bodnarchuk, ’71, died April 14,<br />
<strong>2010</strong>. He was 61. Bodnarchuk was born in<br />
1949 in Bayreuth, Germany, and came to the<br />
United States in May 1950 with his mother,<br />
Margaret, to reunite with his father, Wasyl,<br />
who had immigrated earlier. He grew up in<br />
Stanwood, Wash., and graduated from high<br />
school in 1967 as class valedictorian. After<br />
graduating from <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> with honors,<br />
Bodnarchuk went on to graduate from<br />
the <strong>University</strong> of San Francisco School of<br />
Law. For several years, Bodnarchuk worked<br />
for the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen<br />
in <strong>Seattle</strong>. He later owned and managed the<br />
Paparazzi restaurant, also in <strong>Seattle</strong>. In the<br />
last 10 years of his life, Bodnarchuk provided<br />
tax-consulting services to many loyal clients.<br />
He treasured the time spent with family and<br />
loved to cook. Bodnarchuk is survived by his<br />
daughters, Lisa and Lauren, and siblings,<br />
Bohdon, Susan and Linda. He was preceded<br />
in death by his parents.<br />
Robert Burr, ’50, died April 21, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
He was 89. Burr was raised on a farm in<br />
Genesee, Idaho. During World War II,<br />
he served with the U.S. Army Air Corps,<br />
stationed in England. At war’s end, Burr<br />
enrolled at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>, where he met<br />
the love of his life, Julie. The couple married<br />
in 1949 and settled in <strong>Seattle</strong>’s Ballard neighborhood,<br />
where they spent the next 60 years<br />
together. Burr’s professional life spanned<br />
nearly 40 years, during which time he<br />
worked for Northwestern Life Insurance Co.<br />
and the Washington state auditor’s office.<br />
He was deeply devoted to his faith and family.<br />
Burr and his wife were loyal parishioners<br />
of St. John Catholic Church in <strong>Seattle</strong>. He<br />
is survived by his wife, Julie; his children,<br />
Marianne, Bill and Monica; his nephew,<br />
Dennis; and his grandchildren, Daniel and<br />
Aimee. Burr was preceded in death by his<br />
brother, Bill, and his sister, Gwen.<br />
Tom Cooney, ’51, died March 10, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Born in 1926, Cooney was a proud veteran,<br />
social worker, educator, golfer, volunteer and<br />
family man. Cooney is survived by his wife,<br />
Jean; his children, Tom, Shannon and Katie;<br />
his grandchildren, Hilary, Ryan, Nicole and<br />
Hannah; and his great-granddaughter, Erin.<br />
He was preceded in death by his son, Chris.<br />
Robert Dunn, ’65, died May 18, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
He was 68. Born in Milwaukee, Dunn was<br />
raised by his older siblings, as his parents<br />
died when they were young. While enrolled<br />
at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Dunn met his future<br />
wife, Linda. After graduation, Dunn entered<br />
the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam<br />
War. During his tour of duty, Dunn was a<br />
platoon leader and second lieutenant in the<br />
First Infantry Division. He survived two<br />
bullet wounds to his back and chest, and<br />
grenade shrapnel to his head. He received<br />
two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for<br />
Valor. Dunn eventually settled in Portland,<br />
Ore., where he thrived as a commercial real<br />
estate broker. In 1996 and 2002, he earned<br />
the Commercial Association of Realtors’<br />
Retail Broker of the Year Award. Dunn<br />
enjoyed staying fit, entertaining and making<br />
others laugh. He is survived by his children,<br />
Shelia and Brian; his grandchildren, Cleo<br />
and Ossie; his sister and brother-in-law; and<br />
many extended family members.<br />
Sidney Hammond, ’61, died Nov. 13,<br />
2009. He was 75. Hammond was born in<br />
Long Beach, Calif., and spent the latter half<br />
of his childhood in Skagit County, Wash.,<br />
where his family operated a dairy farm. He<br />
graduated from Sedro-Woolley High School<br />
and Skagit Valley College before serving in<br />
the U.S. Navy. For four years, Hammond<br />
was a submariner, first class electrician’s<br />
mate on the U.S.S. Bugara in the Pacific<br />
fleet. After his time in the Navy, he enrolled<br />
at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Shortly after starting<br />
classes he met Rose-Thérèse Herard, and<br />
the two married in 1961. Hammond graduated<br />
from SU with a degree in education and<br />
worked in the field for more than 31 years.<br />
Throughout his teaching and administrative<br />
career, he made many friends and helped<br />
countless children and families. Active in<br />
his community, he was a longtime member<br />
of the Bellingham Pipe Band and was a<br />
member of the Lions Club and the Kiwanis<br />
Club for a number of years. He was also a<br />
charter member of Phi Delta Kappa. He had<br />
a fondness for the outdoors that included<br />
summiting Mount Baker and hiking other<br />
mountains in the North Cascades, fishing,<br />
hunting, boating and gardening. Hammond<br />
was also a World War II historian. In addition<br />
to his wife of 48 years, he is survived by<br />
his twin sister, Sylvia; his four daughters,<br />
Margo, Lisa, Marta and Laura; and his<br />
grandchildren, Ina and William.<br />
Leslie Haniger, ’58, died April 4, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
He was 77. Haniger was born in Tacoma,<br />
Wash., and attended Bellarmine Preparatory<br />
School. He earned his bachelor’s degree in<br />
education from <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> in 1958.<br />
As a retired teacher, Haniger enjoyed taking<br />
trips with his family to the Oregon Coast.<br />
He is survived by his children, Margaret,<br />
Marianna, Steven, Susan and Christopher,<br />
as well as his grandchildren, Duane, Daniel,<br />
Connor, Jacob, Emma and Anna.<br />
Ella Hill, ’85, died Aug. 14, 2009. She<br />
was 60. Although born in Arkansas, Hill<br />
received most of her childhood education<br />
in London, England. She earned degrees<br />
in nursing from the St. Louis Municipal<br />
School of Nursing and <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
During her 20 years as a registered nurse,<br />
Hill had diverse experiences. At the start of<br />
her career, she served as a lieutenant in the<br />
Army Nurse Corps. Following her military<br />
service, she worked as a registered nurse and<br />
a nursing administrator in various locations<br />
in the United States and overseas. She traveled<br />
extensively in her career and worked for<br />
several years in Saudi Arabia and Iran. After<br />
more than 20 years as an RN, Hill pursued<br />
additional education and became a licensed<br />
mental health counselor. She worked another<br />
20 years as a private practice counselor.<br />
Her many friends and family will miss her<br />
kindness, generosity, compassion, sense<br />
of humor, delightful smile and laughter,<br />
indomitable spirit and diverse interests. In<br />
addition to music, Hill loved her pets, gardening,<br />
reading, writing, traveling,<br />
visiting museums, bicycling and hiking.<br />
Allan Horrocks, ’65, died Sept. 13, 2007.<br />
He was 75. Horrocks was born Oct. 17,<br />
1931, in Kelso, Wash. He achieved the rank<br />
of corporal in the U.S. Army. For 32 years,<br />
he worked for the Boeing Company as a<br />
business manager in military and defense<br />
programs. He enjoyed hiking, fishing, poetry,<br />
classical music, opera, theater and volunteer<br />
work. Horrocks was often described<br />
as a good citizen, a family man and a man of<br />
peace. He is survived by his wife, Laura; his<br />
children, Garrett, Aaron, Paula and Allison;<br />
his daughter-in-law, Cathrin; his son-in-law,<br />
Bob; his siblings, Robert, Walter, Jerry and<br />
Mickey; and two grandchildren.<br />
William Gregory Lundquist,’ 70, died<br />
June 8, <strong>2010</strong>. He was 62. Born Dec. 16,<br />
1947, in Spokane, Lundquist graduated<br />
from Gonzaga Prep high school in 1966 and<br />
from <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> in 1970. He was a<br />
music minister at St. Patrick Parish and led<br />
the contemporary choir at St. Luke Parish<br />
for many years. Lundquist was an excellent<br />
watercolorist, photographer and designer,<br />
assisting in the liturgical design of a number<br />
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of local Roman Catholic parish churches. He<br />
is survived by his children, Michael, Galen<br />
and Anne; his brother, Stephen; and his<br />
sister, Chris. He was preceded in death by<br />
his wife, Adria, and his parents, Walter and<br />
Harriet Lundquist.<br />
Joan McDonald, ’60, ’66 MEd, died April<br />
6, <strong>2010</strong>. She was 76. McDonald was born in<br />
Lusk, Wyo., in 1934. She attended <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>, where she earned a bachelor’s<br />
degree in education. She went on to receive<br />
her master’s in education and enjoyed a long<br />
career in elementary education with the<br />
Bellevue School District. McDonald was an<br />
active member of several social organizations<br />
including the PEO Sisterhood, Beta Sigma<br />
Phi sorority, Bellevue-Kirkland Elks, Gyro<br />
International, Quilters Anonymous and<br />
Quilt Guild of Maui. She was considered a<br />
master quilt designer, and many of her quilts<br />
have been published and exhibited around<br />
the United States. In her retirement, she<br />
enjoyed a laid-back lifestyle on the island<br />
of Maui. She is survived by her children,<br />
James, John, Ted, Elizabeth and Bruce; her<br />
daughters-in-law, Judy, Caroline and Terri<br />
Lynn; her three stepchildren, Laurence,<br />
Heather and Patti; and 14 grandchildren.<br />
She was preceded in death by her husband,<br />
David.<br />
Sandra Morris, ’74, died April 8, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
She was 58. She met her husband, Richard,<br />
while enrolled at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>. The<br />
couple married in 1974 and settled in<br />
Ashland, Ore., where they raised five sons.<br />
Morris was an active member of Our Lady<br />
of the Mountain Parish as a choir member<br />
and a Eucharistic minister; she also taught<br />
religious education. She was active in youth<br />
ministry and founded the Catholic Club at<br />
Ashland High School. Until her illness,<br />
Morris coordinated the parish Rite of<br />
Christian Initiation of Adults. Additionally,<br />
she was a life-professed member of the<br />
Dominican Laity. In her spare time, she<br />
loved to swim, ski, hike and garden. Morris<br />
is survived by her husband, Richard; her<br />
sons, John, Matthew, Paul, Benjamin and<br />
Aaron; her grandson, Tyler; her siblings,<br />
MaryJo, Joseph and Winn; and many nieces<br />
and nephews.<br />
Ray Newmann, ’60, died April 22, 2009.<br />
He was 74. Born in Butte, Mont., Newmann<br />
attended high school in Rochester, Wash.<br />
After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S.<br />
Army and was stationed in England, then<br />
earned a degree in civil engineering from<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>. He began his career at<br />
the Boeing Aircraft Structural Test unit,<br />
then worked for the State of California<br />
Department of Water Resources and the City<br />
of Fremont Department of Public Works.<br />
He retired from the city in 1995 after nearly<br />
30 years of service. He spent his retirement<br />
traveling, gardening and helping his family<br />
with home repairs. Newmann is survived by<br />
his wife, Nancy; his children, Jeff, Mary and<br />
Davis; and his sisters, Joyce and Judy.<br />
Diehl Rettig, ’65, died May 12, <strong>2010</strong>. He<br />
was 66. Born in <strong>Seattle</strong>, Rettig earned a<br />
degree in accounting from <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
and a law degree from the Gonzaga<br />
<strong>University</strong> School of Law. In 1977 he formed<br />
a law firm in Kennewick, Wash., with two<br />
other attorneys. He enjoyed a long and<br />
successful career as a trial lawyer, and in<br />
1993 was elected to the American College<br />
of Trial Lawyers. An active and visible<br />
member of the Kennewick community, he<br />
was named Kennewick Man of the Year<br />
in 1995. Throughout his life, Rettig was<br />
involved with charities and organizations<br />
such as the American Red Cross, Kennewick<br />
General Hospital, United Way and Rotary<br />
International. Those who knew him will<br />
remember Rettig for his charm, intelligence<br />
and dedication to his community.<br />
Mary Margaret Rosa, ’50, died April 1,<br />
<strong>2010</strong>. She was 81. Born in <strong>Seattle</strong> in 1928 to<br />
Dr. James and Geraldine Matthews, Rosa<br />
attended Forest Ridge Convent of the Sacred<br />
Heart in <strong>Seattle</strong>. She continued her education<br />
at Barat College of the Sacred Heart in<br />
Lake Forest, Ill., before returning to <strong>Seattle</strong>,<br />
where she graduated from <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
She moved to western New York in 1955,<br />
and in 1966 received her teaching certificate<br />
from Buffalo State Teachers College. A year<br />
later she started teaching the third grade and<br />
continued until her retirement in 1986. In<br />
her free time, Rosa enjoyed spending time<br />
with her family and friends, golfing, reading<br />
and playing bridge. She is survived by her<br />
husband of 54 years, Robert; her daughters,<br />
Shelia and Susan; her sons-in-law, Robert<br />
and Charles; and her granddaughter, Katie.<br />
Joan Sharkey, ’55, died May 29, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Born June 16, 1932, at Providence Hospital,<br />
Sharkey followed up her graduation from<br />
St. Teresa’s Academy in Boise, Idaho, by<br />
attending <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong> and graduating<br />
in 1955. She enjoyed a 42-year career in<br />
education, working at various schools in the<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> School District including Seward,<br />
Van Asselt and Dearborn Park. In 1988, she<br />
retired, only to go on to work for the next<br />
14 years as an adjunct at <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />
mentoring and evaluating student teachers<br />
during their internships. A surprise bonus<br />
during those years in what she described as<br />
her dream job was the opportunity to work<br />
with several aspiring teachers who had been<br />
her students. Sharkey was preceded in death<br />
by her brother, Jim, and her parents, Maurice<br />
and Mildred. She is survived by her brother,<br />
Bill; and her grandchildren, Jeffrey, Lori,<br />
M. James and Michael.<br />
Gary Wollaston, ’55, died April 15, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
He was 80. Wollaston was raised in West<br />
<strong>Seattle</strong> and attended O’Dea High School.<br />
He met his wife of 57 years, Ginny, while<br />
stationed in Norman, Okla., with the Navy.<br />
The couple returned to <strong>Seattle</strong> to raise their<br />
family. For many years Wollaston taught<br />
at E.C. Hughes Elementary in <strong>Seattle</strong>. He<br />
loved baseball, fishing, jazz and spending<br />
time with family and friends. Wollaston will<br />
be remembered for his wealth of compassion,<br />
incredible sense of humor and sharp<br />
wit. He is survived by his wife, Ginny; his<br />
sons, Raymond, Kevin, Brian and Gary, Jr.;<br />
his daughters-in-law, Jean, Tina, Monica<br />
and Lori; his 14 grandchildren; and his four<br />
great-grandchildren.<br />
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the good word<br />
Grads Make World Better Through Service<br />
Each spring, <strong>Seattle</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
Jesuit community<br />
has the opportunity to host<br />
a breakfast for graduating<br />
seniors who will be working with<br />
volunteer service organizations such as<br />
the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and Peace<br />
Corps. This fall, recent graduates will<br />
be serving one or two years in locations<br />
such as Port au Prince, Haiti, Boston,<br />
El Salvador, Washington, D.C., and<br />
Nicaragua. They will volunteer in<br />
orphanages, homeless shelters and<br />
L’Arche communities.<br />
One recent graduate who will do<br />
service is Tess Abrahamson-Richards,<br />
who grew up on the Spokane Indian<br />
Reservation. Tess, a Costco Scholar<br />
and recipient of the President’s Award<br />
for the highest GPA in her class, will<br />
spend the next two years with Teach<br />
for America on the Navajo Indian<br />
Reservation in New Mexico.<br />
When I look back over this past<br />
year, I feel very fortunate to have<br />
come to know many students such as<br />
Tess who arrive at SU open and eager<br />
to the many experiences they will have<br />
both in and out of the classroom.<br />
They attend their classes, listen to<br />
their professors, read their textbooks,<br />
prepare for exams, write papers and<br />
form lifelong friendships. There is an<br />
understanding that their education is<br />
not just about them as individuals and<br />
what they can gain. They are aware<br />
of the gifts and talents God has given<br />
them, appreciate how valuable their<br />
education is and want to do their best<br />
in making a difference in our world.<br />
Recent graduate Tess Abrahamson-Richards, seen here at commencement with President<br />
Stephen Sundborg, S.J., will spend the next two years working with Teach for America.<br />
“I feel very fortunate to have come to know<br />
many students … who arrive at SU open and<br />
eager to the many experiences they will have<br />
both in and out of the classroom.”<br />
As Jesus responded to the needs of<br />
the people who asked for his healing,<br />
he knew he needed the support and<br />
help from his family, friends and<br />
community. He invited co-workers<br />
or disciples to help him in healing,<br />
teaching and reconciling.<br />
As followers of Jesus, we, too, are<br />
his disciples and co-worker’s. And<br />
Dave Anderson, S.J.<br />
we are fortunate to be able to join<br />
Tess and other members of our <strong>Seattle</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> family—alumni, faculty,<br />
staff, students and friends—who, in<br />
service to others, are building a just<br />
and humane world.<br />
—Dave Anderson, S.J.<br />
Father Anderson is university<br />
chaplain for alumni.<br />
PHOTO BY CHRIS JOSEPH TAYLOR<br />
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