Saint Mary's Magazine Fall 2004 - Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

FROM NEWS THE AND EDITOR VIEWS
Saint Mary’s
welcomes new
vice presidents
Michael G. Gibbs, Ed.D., joined
Saint Mary’s as the vice president
for development in July. Dr. Gibbs
worked nine
years at his
alma mater,
DePaul
University in
Chicago, where
he served as
the assistant
vice president
for University
Initiatives, special
assistant to
the president,
and program
coordinator for the Department of
Alumni Relations.
Dr. Michael G. Gibbs
Vice president for
development
Winona campus
graduates 860
On Saturday, May 8, the Winona campus of
Saint Mary’s University hosted two
commencement ceremonies to mark the end of
the academic year.
During Winona campus undergraduate
commencement, 285 students received
bachelor of arts degrees. An honorary Doctorate
of Educational Leadership was conferred upon
Brother Lawrence Goyette, FSC, founder of the
San Miguel Schools movement. And,
Outstanding Male and Female Seniors Nathan
Semsch and Jennifer Lawrence gave student
perspectives.
Dr. Gibbs replaces Tim Burchill
’68, who was named the first fulltime
executive director of the
Hendrickson Institute for Ethical
Leadership.
John Pyle, Ed.D., formerly associate
vice president for enrollment
management at the Twin Cities
campus, was named vice president
for Graduate and Professional
Programs — Twin Cities campus.
Brother Robert Smith ’76, FSC,
Ph.D., was named vice president for
mission. He is a tenured associate
professor of theology and chair of
the department. In August 2003,
he returned to the Winona campus
after three years as the dean and
director of Christ the Teacher
Institute for Education in Nairobi,
Kenya. He is also the director of the
Center for the Enhancement of
Learning and Teaching.
Brother Lawrence
Goyette, FSC
During the Winona campus School of Graduate and Professional
Programs commencement, approximately 575 students in the six
graduate programs administered from Winona participated; 691 students
were eligible to commence. Along with the conferring of degrees, Erica
Brown, M.Ed. in Teaching and Learning, and Chad Richtman, M.S. in
Geographic Information Science, gave student perspectives.
The Saint Mary’s Nairobi campus graduated 54 during its ninth
annual commencement ceremony on May 15. The Twin Cities campus
graduated 385 during commencement ceremonies June 5.
$500,000 gift
to endow
scholarship
The Philip H. Corboy Foundation of
Chicago has made a gift of
$500,000 to Saint Mary’s
University to establish the Philip H.
Corboy — Mary A. Dempsey
Endowed Scholarship.
Philip Corboy, a prominent
personal injury trial lawyer in
Chicago, was educated by the
Christian Brothers at Saint George
High School (Evanston, Ill.) and is a
past trustee of Saint Mary’s College.
Mary A. Dempsey, Corboy’s wife
and a 1975 graduate of Saint
Mary’s College, serves as
commissioner of the Chicago Public
Library for the city of Chicago. In
1999, Saint Mary’s University
awarded Dempsey an honorary
Doctor of Liberal Arts Education
degree for her accomplishments in
advancing the status of public
libraries and positioning the
Chicago Public Library as a national
model.
Brother President Louis
DeThomasis said he is “pleased and
grateful that people of such
integrity and character as Phil
Corboy and Mary Dempsey will
now be associated with Saint Mary’s
University — and more importantly
with scholarships for our students —
in perpetuity. This wonderful and
generous endowed scholarship will
make it possible for future leaders
of the caliber of Phil and Mary to
enjoy access to a Saint Mary’s
University education.”
Every year, there will be a
new Corboy-Dempsey Scholar
in the freshman class at Saint
Mary’s University of Minnesota.
Scholarships will be renewable for
four years. The Corboy-Dempsey
Scholarship honors and perpetuates
the long-standing relationship
between Saint Mary’s University
and the Greater Chicago area,
home to more than 4,400 Saint
Mary’s alumni. Students eligible for
the Corboy-Dempsey Scholarship
must graduate from a Chicago-area
high school.
6 SAINT MARY’S MAGAZINE FALL 2004