Saint Mary's Magazine Winter 2003 - Saint Mary's University of ...

CAMPUS NEWS
The Burbage Players were organized
by Brother J. Philip (1946)
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Redmen basketball team defeats famed
Harlem Globetrotters, 49-44 (1945-46)
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Saint Mary’s
supports the work
of an innovative
Swiss treatment
center for children
Fending off
Dragons
For more than 15 years, Saint Mary’s has been
involved in a ground-breaking treatment center for
children suffering from life-threatening illnesses, psychic
traumas and various physical, emotional and cognitive
disabilities. David Eldred, Ph.D., one of the founding
psychotherapists of the M.-L. von Franz Institute in
Zurich, Switzerland developed a friendship with Saint
Mary’s president, Brother Louis DeThomasis, when
both were doctoral students at the Union Institute in
Cincinnati. Since the late 1980s, Saint Mary’s
University has assisted the institute in the areas of fund
raising, foundation creation and benefactor relations.
Tim Burchill ’68, Saint Mary’s vice president for
university relations, has led these efforts on behalf of
the institute and visited Zurich in 2001 for a first-hand
look at the innovative work of the team of
psychologists, psychotherapists and physicians who
work with these aggrieved children.
The M.-L. von Franz Institute provides
psychotherapeutic services free-of-charge or at nominal
fees to children whose personality development has
been deeply affected by a critical life event, such as
cancer. The treatment facility in Zurich offers unique
therapies that teach these children to develop a sense
of self-identity and self-worth.
The royalties from
the sale of the
popular children’s
book, Corduroy, go
to the Don and Lydia
Freeman Research
Fund to support
psychological care
and research at the
institute.
16 SAINT MARY’S MAGAZINE WINTER 2003