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Celebrating Soccer Champions
No full textCBU's Lady Bucs soccer team won the Tennessee Collegiate Athletic Conerence championship in 1994. The team, along with Coach Jack Schenkel, celebrated with a cake from Seessel's, the popular Memphis grocery store.
Team members were Jennifer Seessel, ShannonGunnell, Andrea Kooba, Emily Oliver, Wendy Cook, Michelle Curet, Angela Kralis, Megan Newbern, Chrissy Curet, April Freeze, Megan Grover, Laurie Leonard, Ellen Malan, Stephani Ruzick, and Nicole Safranek (not all pictured)
Bemetra Liggins, a Lady Buc
No full textBemetra Liggins played number 10 on Christian Brothers University's women's basketball team, the Lady Bucs
Boshwit Quad
No full textBoshwit Quad, on the east side of Buckman Hall, was named in honor of Mary and Avrome Boshwit
Hall of Fame Inductees, 1994-1995
No full textThis award was presented for outstanding achievement and service to Christian Brothers High School. The recipients for 1994-1995 were: Tim Dwyer, James Rodney Feild, E. Lee Giovannetti, John E. Harkins, Robert L. Kuehner, Eugene J. Podesta, Rev. Joseph L. Tagg, III, Jesse H. Turner, Jr., William F. Wolbrecht. Deceased inductees: John B. Mason, Jr., John S. Robilio, Sr
Ice Storm: Christian Brothers Campus
No full textA tree outside Buckman Hall on Christian Brothers University campus was bent over by the weight of the ice after the Ice Storm of 1994. Rapidly falling temperatures (70 to 20 in 24 hours) during a saturating rain storm coated Memphis with two inches of ice.
The resulting loss of power to campus (which lasted for almost a week) caused all classes to be cancelled
East Parkway Iced Over
No full textIt had been 70 degrees the night before; by the next morning the temperature had dropped into the 20s and 30s. The great Ice Storm of 1994 covered the campus, East Parkway, and all of Memphis in two inches of ice.
Christian Brothers was without power for about a week due to power surges that blew up the campus transformers. All classes were cancelled for the duration
Jill Burkee Sculpting
No full textAfter a national search, Jill Burkee was commissioned to create “The Essence of Mertie,” which she appears to be working on in the photo. Burkee used marble from the same quarry used by Michelangelo, which ended up weighing nearly three thousand pounds. It was believed that this sculpture was the only one in Memphis of such magnitude at over three feet high, over five feet wide, and 13 inches deep. “The Essence of Mertie” was one of the twelve commemorated memorials by the National Sculpture Society
Buckman Quad
No full textStudent-crafted topiaries adorned campus as Christian Brothers University's part of the Memphis in May International Festival's tribute to Russia in 1993. One stood near the marker in Buckman Quad. The Quad itself was contributed by Mertie Buckman in 1986 in memory of her husband, Stanley Buckman
Detail from "The Essence of Mertie"
No full textMertie Buckman was one of Christian Brothers University's major donors and a Memphis philanthropist. CBU commissioned sculptor Jill Burkee to memorialize her in "The Essence of Mertie," a sculpture on display in Buckman Hall
Topiary
No full textStudent-crafted topiaries adorned campus as Christian Brothers University's part of the Memphis in May International Festival's tribute to Russia in 1993