8,665 research outputs found
Letter from Frank A. Ross, St. Louis, Missouri, to C. H. Miller, Alabama, November 14, 1900
No full textThis is a document from the C. H. Miller Store records. The business was located in Miller, Marengo County, Alabama
Samuel H. Miller Interview, 16 October 2014
No full textSamuel H. Miller is the longtime executive of Cleveland-based Fortune 500 Company, Forest City Enterprises. A native Clevelander, Miller grew up on the city\u27s east side where he attended Glenville High School and later Adelbert College. As a member of Forest City Miller spearheaded the company\u27s move into real estate development and was responsible for much of the suburban development in the Greater Cleveland Area. Miller\u27s community involvement and philanthropic endeavors are prolific, having served on numerous boards of trustees including Cleveland State and donating millions to regional organizations, most notably The Cleveland Clinic. Of note in this interview is Miller\u27s description of his early life in Depression-era Cleveland and his rise within Forest City Enterprises. In the interview Miller also mentions several notable figures including James Rhodes, James Nance, Louis Stokes, and details the circumstances surrounding the selection of Michael Schwartz as President of Cleveland State University
Samuel H. Miller Interview, 16 October 2014
No full textSamuel H. Miller is the longtime executive of Cleveland-based Fortune 500 Company, Forest City Enterprises. A native Clevelander, Miller grew up on the city\u27s east side where he attended Glenville High School and later Adelbert College. As a member of Forest City Miller spearheaded the company\u27s move into real estate development and was responsible for much of the suburban development in the Greater Cleveland Area. Miller\u27s community involvement and philanthropic endeavors are prolific, having served on numerous boards of trustees including Cleveland State and donating millions to regional organizations, most notably The Cleveland Clinic. Of note in this interview is Miller\u27s description of his early life in Depression-era Cleveland and his rise within Forest City Enterprises. In the interview Miller also mentions several notable figures including James Rhodes, James Nance, Louis Stokes, and details the circumstances surrounding the selection of Michael Schwartz as President of Cleveland State University
Miller Collection; no.01852
No full textSepia image of Gideon Bantz as a young attorney while living in St. Louis, Missouri. Image mounted on a yellowed matte board.Appointed Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of New Mexico Territory by President Grover Cleveland.Master file: image/tiff; 265,067 KB: Computer Hardware: Intel Pentium (R) 4 3.20 GHz/ 1.99 GB RAM manufactured by Dell; Operating system: Windows XP 2002; Creation software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 version 9.0.2; Scanner: flatbed reflective scanner Microtek 1000XL; Scanner software: Microtek SilverFast Ai 6.4.2r2b; Scanned by Jackie Becker on 2010-02-26
Miller Collection; no.01848
No full textSepia image of boy identified as Gideon Bantz. Verso: Written in pencil; ""Uncle Gideon Bantz as a boy (Judge Gideon Bantz, Silver City N. M. Federal Judge appointed by Pres Cleveland).""Appointed Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of New Mexico Territory by President Grover Cleveland.Master file: image/tiff; 62,838 KB: Computer Hardware: Intel Pentium (R) 4 3.20 GHz/ 1.99 GB RAM manufactured by Dell; Operating system: Windows XP 2002; Creation software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 version 9.0.2; Scanner: flatbed reflective scanner Microtek 1000XL; Scanner software: Microtek SilverFast Ai 6.4.2r2b; Scanned by Jackie Becker on 2010-02-26
[Hughie Miller, St. Louis Federal League (baseball)]
No full textOriginal data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: H. Miller, St. Louis Feds.Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbai
Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University
No full textFall 2003 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis UniversityT H E M AG A Z I N E O F S A I N T L O U I S U N I V E R S I T Y
F A L L 2 0 0 3
By Lawrence Biondi, S.J.
Saint Louis University President
I’m convinced that it must have been a SLU graduate who coined the phrase, “What a small
world.”
I’m sure you’ve all had a similar experience: you’re sitting in a restaurant, standing in line
to check out at a grocery store or even taking in a ball game, and someone around you says
something like, “Didn’t you go to SLU?”
Whatever the opening line, what almost always ensues is a brief conversation between two
people. They may have never met before, but it’s as if an instant connection has been made.
They begin talking like old friends.
Although I realize that this phenomenon frequently happens between
people who share a common identity, I often come away from such experi-ences
convinced that members of our SLU community transcend the
superficialities of just sharing an alma mater or even a fondness for a particu-lar
sports team.
I truly believe our mission and our Ignatian heritage unites us on a deep-er
level. The recent Homecoming festivities only reinforced my belief. As
all of you know, during Homecoming, we welcome thousands of former
students back to campus, putting them in contact once again with each
other and with our current students, faculty and staff.
There were tours of Grand Center, our own home in Midtown, as well as
the new and improved Busch Student Center. There were parties, outdoor
concerts, Billiken soccer, a parade and fireworks. There were golf outings,
class reunions and tailgates. And serving as an appropriate, intimate ending
to the weekend, there was the Golden Billiken Brunch for members of the
classes up to and including the class of 1953.
Alhtough all of these activities are entertaining and help to demonstrate
our appreciation for members of our SLU family, perhaps the most satisfy-ing
element of Homecoming is found in the personal interaction between
longtime friends. For Homecoming is one of the few times during the year
in which generations of Billikens come back to campus to celebrate and
commemorate their shared identity. Alumni reminisce about old times
while also introducing their former classmates to their personal families. We at SLU show off
our campus and introduce our current family of students, faculty and staff, who share their
own thoughts and feelings about the SLU experience.
Alumni often share their own success stories, but more importantly, their stories about fam-ily,
friends and faith. They tell me how the philosophy, ethics and theological components
they once grumbled about now serve them well in their everyday lives.
Conversely, we let alumni know that SLU remains committed to informing and transform-ing
our current students, who, in turn, will transform society in the spirit of the Gospels. I
give assurances that although the nature of higher education has changed, SLU remains true
to its Jesuit, Catholic heritage — just like it has for generations, all the way back to its found-ing
in 1818.
Yes, we truly see the spirit of Saint Louis University revealed and refreshed during our
Homecoming festivities. It gives me great joy to hear about the ways in which members of
the SLU community continue to make a difference for their families, for their communities,
for their professions, for their world. Though it is only one weekend during the year, there’s
undoubtedly an invisible bridge that links generations of Billiken alumni together. We can be
reassured that SLU continues to succeed in preparing its graduates for a lifetime of service to
humankind.
It’s wonderful to see that SLU is indeed “where the heart is” in so many people’s lives.
UNIVERSITAS
Volume 30, No. 1
Editor
Laura Geiser (A&S ’90, Grad ’92)
Assistant Editor
Chris Waldvogel
Contributors
Clayton Berry
Jeff Fowler
Photo Credits
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On the Cover: The new Busch
Student Center courtyard. For
more photos of Busch Student
Center, see page 12.
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FALL 2003
6
Home-Court Advantage
Take a peek at the plans for
Saint Louis University’s proposed arena.
10
Remembering Father Ong
A look at the life of one of
SLU’s most noted scholars.
12
Center of Attention
The renovated and expanded
Busch Student Center is drawing raves.
16
Momentum
The Campaign for Saint Louis University
marks its first anniversary.
18
Lore of the Rings
A SLU professor is one of the world’s
foremost experts on J.R.R. Tolkien.
C O N T E N T S
2
SLU named a
‘Best Buy’ again
Saint Louis University is
the nation’s top educa-tional
buy among all Jesuit
institutions according to U.S.
News & World Report, which
again recognized Saint Louis
University as one of the
country’s best values in high-er
education. Overall, the
magazine also ranked SLU
among the top four Catholic
universities in the country.
In the publication’s
“America’s Best Colleges
2004” issue, SLU is No. 41
on the best values list among
all national doctoral universi-ties.
This is the sixth consecu-tive
year that U.S. News has
highlighted the University as
a leading educational value.
SLU is the top Jesuit institu-tion
on the best value list and
the No. 2 Catholic school,
second only to the University
of Notre Dame. U.S. News
determines best values by
measuring academic quality
with the net cost of atten-dance
for a student who
receives an average level of
financial aid.
U.S. News also named Saint
Louis University among the
top four Catholic institutions
on its ranking of best national
doctoral universities, a group
that includes nearly 250
schools. SLU is No. 78 on
the list, with only Notre
Dame, Georgetown
University and Boston
College ranking higher.
HOMELAND SECURITY: Hundreds of people attended
the first town hall meeting on homeland security featuring
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge Oct. 7 at
Saint Louis University. An interactive event with high
audience participation, the forum included (from left) Frank
Sesno, host of Worldtalk and former CNN anchor; Steve
Rohleder, global chief executive for government, Accenture;
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay (Law ’80); Ridge; Dr. Karen
Webb, chief medical officer for Saint Louis University
Hospital; and Col. Tim Daniel, director for the Missouri
Office of Homeland Security. University President
Lawrence Biondi, S.J., gave the opening remarks.
Sword award
to honor Westfall
Saint Louis University will
give its highest honor to
the late George R. “Buzz”
Westfall (A&S ’68, Law ’69).
SLU will recognize the late
political leader with its Sword
of Ignatius Loyola during the
DuBourg Society Dinner
Dec. 7. Mr. Westfall died
Oct. 27. He was 59.
One of the region’s most
influential public figures of
the last 20 years,
Mr. Westfall was
elected St. Louis
County executive
in 1990 and was
re-elected three
times. Noted for
his bipartisanship
and regional focus,
his accomplish-ments
included the establish-ment
of a shelter for battered
women and children.
The Sword of Ignatius
Loyola is named for the
founder of the Society of
Jesus. Symbolic of the
Ignatian vision of service,
sword recipients have given
themselves to humankind for
the greater glory of God.
Louis; Keith F. Muccino, S.J.,
assistant professor of internal
medicine and Catholic chap-lain
at Georgetown University
School of Medicine; and
Robert L. Niehoff, S.J., vice
president for budget and plan-ning
at the University of San
Francisco.
New trustees
join SLU board
Three new trustees have
joined the Saint Louis
University board: L.B.
Eckelkamp Jr., chairman of the
board and CEO of the Bank of
Washington (Mo.) and chair-man
and president of Cardinal
Bancorp and Cardinal Bancorp
II, which owns the United
Bank of Union and Citizens
National Bank of Greater St.
SLU JOINS A10 CONFERENCE
Saint Louis University is joining the Atlantic 10 Conference.
The Billikens will begin intercollegiate athletic competition
in the Atlantic 10 during the 2005-06 academic year.
The Atlantic 10 Conference is in its 28th year of NCAA
Division I competition. The league’s members include
Dayton, Duquesne, Fordham, George Washington, LaSalle,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Richmond, St. Bonaventure,
Saint Joseph’s, Temple and Xavier.
Saint Louis University currently is a charter member of
Conference USA. In early November, five C-USA member
schools — Cincinnati, DePaul, Louisville, Marquette and
USF — accepted invitations to join the Big East Conference.
Five new schools — Central Florida, Marshall, Rice, SMU
and Tulsa — filled C-USA’s vacant positions.
For more details, visit www.slubillikens.com.
Three new deans
now on campus
Dr. Ellen Harshman (Grad
’78, Law ’92) is the new dean
of the John Cook School of
Business. She succeeds the
retiring Dr. Leroy Grossman,
who was interim dean for one
year. Harshman has served
SLU in several leadership roles
since 1972, including associate
dean of the business school,
director of the career planning
and placement center and assis-tant
to the vice president for
student development. She also
holds the rank of associate pro-fessor
of management and
most recently was SLU’s senior
vice provost. Among her many
responsibilities in this role,
Harshman administered com-
NEWS BRIEFS
By The Numbers
4 National rank of Parks College
of Engineering and Aviation’s
aerospace engineering program,
according to U.S. News and
World Report. Overall, Parks’
undergraduate engineering pro-grams
moved up three spots on
the U.S. News list to No. 27.
498 Residents sponsored by
SLU’s School of Medicine in 50
different residencies, subspecialty
residencies and fellowships rotat-ing
through eight affiliated teach-ing
hospitals and 18 affiliated
health care institutions.
8,742 Phone pledges made dur-ing
fiscal year 2003 for a total for
1 mil-lion
has been raised through
phoning.
In September, SLU sponsored a
two-evening gala event called
“Denim & Diamonds” to
benefit public education,
research and treatment of liver
disease. On Sept. 12, Willie
Nelson headlined “Denim,” a
concert to benefit the SLU Liver
Center and the Julia Spears
Foundation for Liver Disease.
On Sept. 13, “Diamonds” fea-tured
country music artist Naomi
Judd, who spoke at a black-tie
dinner to benefit SLU’s Liver
Center. … Dr. Robert B.
Belshe, Adorjan professor of
infectious diseases and director of
the Center for Vaccine
Development, received the
Clinical Virology Award for
2003 from the Pan American
Society for Clinical Virology. …
Sandra H. Johnson (A&S ’73),
the Tenet Endowed Chair in
Health Law and Ethics is one of
four winners of the 2003
Pellegrino Medal for contribu-tions
to health care ethics. …
Dr. Marla Berg-Weger, pro-fessor
and director of field service
education for the School for
Social Service since 1995, has
been named associate provost. …
Maria Whitehead, a member of
Wake Forest’s 2002 NCAA
Division I field hockey champi-onship
team, is SLU’s new head
field hockey coach. The appoint-ment
is her first head coaching
position. … Dr. Seung H.
Kim, professor of international
business and director of the
Boeing Institute of International
Business, has been appointed to
serve on the Presidential
Advisory Council for the
Peaceful Reunification of the
Republic of Korea.
RESEARCH PLANS: Preliminary plans are under way
for the design and site selection for a new research center at
the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, part of
an 300 million “Campaign for Saint Louis
University: Where Knowledge Touches Lives.”
pliance with the University’s
accrediting agencies, served as
a liaison with state-wide edu-cational
agencies and oversaw
the libraries, Reinert Center
for Teaching Excellence and
office of institutional study.
Harshman has earned numer-ous
honors during her SLU
career and was named SLU’s
Woman of the Year in 1981.
Dr. Charlotte Royeen, a
national leader in her field of
occupational therapy, is the
new dean of the Doisy School
of Allied Health Professions.
Royeen most recently served
as associate dean for research at
Creighton’s School of
Pharmacy and Allied Health
Professions and professor of
occupational therapy. Prior to
that, she was the founding
chair and professor of occupa-tional
therapy at Shenandoah
University in Winchester, Va.,
and worked for several years
for the U.S. Department of
Education’s Office of Special
Education Programs. Royeen
holds a doctorate from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State
University in Blacksburg, Va.,
and a master’s degree in occu-pational
therapy from
Washington University School
of Medicine. At the confer-ence
of the American
Occupational Therapy
Association, Royeen received
the 2002 Eleanor Clarke Slagle
Lectureship Award, which is
the highest scholarly achieve-ment
bestowed in occupational
therapy.
Dr. Bjong Wolf Yeigh
joined the Saint Louis
University community July 1
as the dean for Parks College
of Engineering and Aviation.
He came to SLU from Yale
University, where he was assis-tant
provost of science and
technology since 1999. He
succeeds Dr. Charles
Kirkpatrick, who was dean of
Parks College for nine years
and is on the department of
chemistry faculty. Yeigh
received a bachelor’s degree in
engineering science from
Dartmouth College, a master’s
degree in mechanical engi-neering
from Stanford and a
doctorate in civil engineering
and operations research from
Princeton. A former tactical air
intelligence officer assigned to
Fighter Squadron 74, Yeigh
served in the U.S. Navy dur-ing
the Gulf War and for a
total of eight years in active
and reserve duties, leaving with
a rank of lieutenant.
Yeigh
Royeen
Harshman
New technology
VP on board
Ellen Watson is Saint Louis
University’s new vice
president for information
technology services.
Although Watson may be
new to SLU, she is familiar
with the Jesuit mission.
Before coming to SLU, she
was the vice president of
information service at Loyola
University Chicago, a post
she had held since 1999.
Watson boasts 19 years of
experience in her field, hav-ing
served as associate vice
president for information ser-vices
and dean of library ser-vices
at Indiana State
University for four years and
associate provost for informa-tion
resources and technology
at Bradley University for two
years. She received her bach-elor’s
degree from Wellesley
College and her master’s from
the University of Maryland.
Drabble wins
Literary Award
Saint Louis University
Library Associates pre-sented
English author
Margaret Drabble with the
2003 Saint Louis Literary
Award at a ceremony Oct.
21. Drabble, a novelist, biog-rapher,
critic and short story
writer, is the author of The
Seven Sisters, The Peppered
Moth, The Witch of Exmoor
and The Millstone. She is also
editor of The Oxford
Companion to English
Literature. Drabble joins a dis-tinguished
group of authors
honored with this award dur-ing
the past 36 years.
Recipients include such
luminaries as Arthur Miller,
Joyce Carol Oates and
Seamus Heaney. Last year’s
winner was Joan Didion.
Biodefense
research brings
schools together
Anew research center based
in St. Louis will play a
major role in protecting the
American public against
bioterrorism and emerging
infectious diseases. Washington
University School of Medicine
and Saint Louis University
School of Medicine will be
part of a multi-institutional
Midwest Regional Center for
Excellence in Biodefense and
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Research (MRCE). The cen-ter
will be funded by a five-year,
35 million grant from
the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The founding members of the
MRCE also include Case
Western Reserve University,
the University of Missouri-
Columbia and the Midwest
Research Institute of Kansas
City. The new center will
concentrate on expanding cur-rent
research efforts in biode-fense.
For example, the team’s
initial research effort will focus
on poxvirus infections, which
include diseases such as small-pox.
The ultimate goals are to
improve the safety of vaccines
and to develop new therapies.
Kavanaugh wins
press award
Saint Louis University phi-losophy
professor and mag-azine
columnist John
Kavanaugh, S.J., (A&S ’65,
Grad ’66, ’71) received top
honors from the National
Catholic Press Association. His
“Ethics Notebook,” which
regularly appears in America
magazine, earned the Best
Regular Column Award from
Kavanaugh
MIXING IT UP: What’s cooking in the department of
nutrition and dietetics in the Doisy School of Allied Health
Professions? Mark E. Miller, a certified executive chef,
shown here supervising students Christina Bologna (left)
and Diana Kingston, has joined the Saint Louis University
faculty and is teaching future dietitians how healthy foods
can be prepared to taste great. Miller, most recently a chef
at Westborough Country Club, is sold on the University’s
new, one-of-a-kind degree program that prepares students
to become registered dietitians while they receive training for
their culinary arts credential. “Our degree is perfect for stu-dents
who want to work as personal chefs, among other spe-cializations,”
Miller said.
International HIV
trial led by SLU
Saint Louis University is
leading an international
vaccine trial to study a
promising HIV prevention
vaccine in humans. The trial
is being conducted through
the HIV Vaccine Trials
Network (HVTN) of the
National Institutes of Health.
This is the first HVTN trial
to be conducted simultane-ously
in the United States and
abroad — in St. Louis,
Boston (through Harvard
University) and Gaborone,
Botswana — and it signifies a
dedication to transcending
borders in the fight against
HIV. This vaccine has never
been tested in humans. The
trial is looking at the safety
and immune response of an
experimental HIV vaccine
the association, which repre-sents
640 publications with a
combined circulation of nearly
27 million in the United States
and Canada. In honoring him,
the National Catholic Press
Association said: “Father
Kavanaugh examines public
issues through a moral lens and
discusses them thoughtfully
and powerfully.”
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The December 1963 issue of Saint
Louis University Magazine featured a
cover photo of the new Griesedieck
Memorial Hall, which was dedicat-ed
Nov. 30, 1963.
A news item mentioned that
fund raising for Busch Memorial
Center was under way — .1.5 mil-lion
had been raised, and a 3.25 million.
The issue also highlighted the
Midwest Assembly on Outer Space,
a conference co-sponsored by SLU
and held that September. The
assembly brought together a cross
section of leaders in education, gov-ernment,
labor, business, industry,
law, medicine, military and commu-nications
from a 14-state area to
consider the topic, “Outer Space:
Prospects for Man and Society.”
Participants included James E.
Webb, the head of NASA, and U.S.
Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri.
Another article featured an alum-nus,
Robert Burns (Parks ’59), who
was the first Missourian to join the
Peace Corps. Burns was a land irri-gation
specialist in Pakistan.
Quotable UTAS: “It would be
tragic if we were able to pinpoint
rockets in space but unable to deter-mine
where we were going as
human beings.” — Charles A.
Sheehan, Missouri state representa-tive
and speaker at the Midwest
Assembly on Outer Space
Sign of the times: It was reported
that tuition for the 1964-65 school
year for full-time undergraduates
and law students would be 100 over 1963-64 rates. School of
Medicine students were slated to
pay $700 per semester.
SLU nabs C-USA
GPA award again
Conference USA has
named Saint Louis
University as the recipient of
the Institutional Excellence
Award for the eighth
consecutive year. The
award is given to the
member school
with the highest
SLU listed as ‘Best
Place to Work’
For the second time since
2000, Saint Louis
University has made the St.
Louis Business Journal’s “Best
Places to Work” list. This year,
SLU was honored in the “Best
Practice” category — the only
institution so recognized — for
the development of
Hometown SLU, which is
designed to spur development
near the St. Louis campus
while assisting SLU employees
looking to purchase a home in
certain areas near campus.
Since Hometown SLU was
unveiled Feb. 5, 19 people
have applied to the program
and been approved. Full-time,
eligible employees may receive
f
Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University
No full textFall 2006 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis UniversityCatching up with SLU’s
Madrid Campus page 8
Not Your Typical College Cafeteria page 14 Shimmy Gray-Miller: Off Court, On the Record page 18
E d i t o r
Laura Geiser (A&S ’90, Grad ’92)
C o n t r i b u t o r s
Jeff Fowler
Nancy Solomon
“ O n C a m p u s ” n e w s s t o r i e s
University Communications
Medical Center Media Relations
Billiken Media Relations
De s i g n
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Volume 3 3 , I ssue 1
I was having dinner in Beirut with the presi-dent
of Notre Dame University of Lebanon
on July 12 when he got the call: Hezbollah
militants had just abducted two Israeli soldiers.
At that point, I had no idea just how harrowing
the next week would be.
When I left for Lebanon just two days ear-lier
to deliver Notre Dame’s commencement ad-dress,
I had no indication a crisis was brewing.
But by July 13 all hell broke loose. From my
hotel in northern Beirut, I heard Israeli jets at-tacking
the Hezbollah section of the city. From
my balcony I could see clouds of black smoke
rise into the air, and at night I could see fires on
the horizon. When the airport and major roads
were bombed, I began to wonder when — if
— I would get back to St. Louis.
For the most part, I felt safe. Because the ho-tel
was in the so-called Christian area of greater
Beirut, we were told it was unlikely to be a tar-get.
Even so, the fighting grew more intense ev-ery
day. Occasional black-outs
and media warnings
to stay in the hotel kept
me on edge. Even more
unnerving, days passed
with no word from the
staff at the U.S. embassy,
even though I had taken
care to register my pres-ence
with them several
times. Literally waiting
by the phone in my hotel
room, I began to feel like
a hostage.
Finally — at 3 a.m.
on July 19 — Saint Louis
University’s general counsel called to say he had
received word from the State Department that
I would be leaving on the cruise ship the Orient
Queen that day and would be permitted only
one 30-pound bag.
I rounded up my essential documents, left
my other luggage behind and headed to the des-ignated
staging area. Waiting in line, I heard
bombs exploding, sounding like thunderclaps
reverberating in every direction.
After showing my passport to the embassy
staff, I boarded a bus to the Beirut seaport. I
joined about 200 men, women and children
gathered there, all of us anxious to be cleared
to board ship. Bombs were dropping just a few
miles away; it was the closest I had been to the
fighting.
We finally left port at 4 p.m. with an Ameri-can
warship, the U.S.S. Gonzalez, following us
in a corridor only half a mile wide. The Gonza-lez
accompanied us all the way to Cyprus. We
arrived just after midnight, but a ship bearing
French national evacuees from Beirut had ar-rived
before us, so we had to stay on the Orient
Queen for three more hours.
Tension was high. Everyone was anxious to
get off the ship, find a place to stay and begin
making their necessary travel arrangements.
Some people fainted; some got angry. There was
some pushing and shoving and even a fistfight.
When more than 1,000 of us were told we could
disembark, the exodus process became chaotic.
Eventually, I got off the ship and to a taxi
that took me to a hotel about 50 miles away.
I was able to catch a chartered plane the next
evening, and I finally arrived in St. Louis at 1
p.m. July 21. It had taken me about 12 hours to
get from the United States to Lebanon by plane.
It took me nearly 52 hours — by bus, ship, taxi
and plane — to get home.
Although I was relieved to be out of war-torn
Lebanon, I must
confess that my experi-ences
there were among
the most memorable of
my life. I’m not saying I’d
willingly do it again, but
I am genuinely grateful
that I had an opportunity
to get to know and appre-ciate
the Lebanese people
and see how resiliently
they handled this crisis.
I also am genuinely
grateful for the sober-ing
moments I spent in
my hotel room thinking
about my life, my relationships and my work at
SLU. I know I have a reputation for being some-what
tough and business-minded at times. But I
came to realize how fortunate I am — with the
help of my God — that so many people were
thinking of and praying for me.
Even several months later, I continue to re-flect
on my life-changing experiences in Leba-non.
I am not a politician, but I know that
what’s most important is to settle this conflict
for the long term. If not, the Lebanese and Is-raeli
people — especially the children — will
continue to suffer. And unlike me, they won’t
get a call at three in the morning to board the
Orient Queen and get out.
— Lawrence Biondi, S.J.
A version of this essay appeared July 30 on the Com-mentary
page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
President’s Message
photo by Jim Visser
U N I V E R S I T A S F A L L 2 0 0 6
F E AT U R E S
Universidad
de San Luis
SLU’s Madrid campus
offers students the world.
By Laura Geiser
A landmark campus gateway framed by fall foliage.
Photo by Kevin Lowder
DE PA R TMEN T S
2 On Campus
Arena groundbreaking Update on
SLU’s national rankings Lincoln
exhibit brings visitors to campus
6 Billiken News
Soccer stadium readies for the College
Cup Forward pass marks its 100th
7 Campaign Update
Campaign already exceeds 80.5 million
multipurpose Arena Aug. 28 at the Arena site near Compton
and Laclede avenues. University officials, coaches and student
athletes as well as St. Louis dignitaries were in attendance to celebrate
the new facility, which includes a 10,600-seat Arena, a practice facil-ity,
athletics offices, locker rooms and training facilities.
“It has taken us a long time to get here,” said University President
Lawrence Biondi, S.J. “While I am not known as the most patient
man in St. Louis, I never lost faith that we would get to this day. And,
thankfully, there were many others who believed as I did.”
The new Arena will be home to Billikens men’s and women’s bas-ketball
and will host a variety of other events such as concerts, confer-ences,
trade shows and commencements. It is expected to bring more
than 400,000 people to Midtown St. Louis each year. St. Louis-based
Clayco will build the Arena, with an expected opening in March
2008.
“There are few institutions in St. Louis that have done more to
enhance life in the city than Saint Louis University,” said Barry H.
Beracha, chairman of the SLU board of trustees. “I ask our friends
from throughout the region to help us complete the fundraising for
this wonderful facility.”
Arena donors were recognized at the event, which also brought out
hundreds of faculty, staff, students and Billiken fans to witness the
beginning of the long-awaited project.
“This is one of the greatest days in Billiken
athletics history, and I’m overjoyed to be here
and be part of it,” said director of athletics
Cheryl L. Levick. “This building is a product
of a tremendous grass roots fundraising effort
because this is a privately funded facility that
did not tap into student fees or tuition dol-lars.
No matter the size of the gift, everyone
involved in contributing to this building has
the right to be extremely proud today.”
“I want to thank Father Biondi and the
board of trustees for giving our program the
opportunity to compete on a national level,”
said men’s basketball head coach Brad Soder-berg.
“When we bring recruits to campus, they now will know that we
are serious about competing with the best programs in the country.”
“The University administration has done its job in bringing this
building to life,” said women’s basketball head coach Shimmy Gray-
Miller. “Now I promise that I will do my job, my staff will do its job, and
our student-athletes will do their job to produce winning basketball.”
The Arena complex will be built on University-owned property
on the eastern end of campus and will be visible from Interstate 64/
Highway 40. It will be funded through fundraising, 1 million for the Arena, moving the University
closer to the project fundraising goal.
For others who would like to make a gift, there still is time to be
part of the Arena project. To make a donation online, go to arena.slu.
edu or call (314) 977-2499. — JF
Arena construction under way;
opening planned for March 2008
Top: The official groundbreakers: (from left) Dan Mitchell, partner, Mackey Mitchell
Associates; L.B. Eckelkamp, SLU trustee; Joe Imbs, president, St. Louis market, U.S.
Bank; Thomas Brouster Sr., SLU trustee; Soderberg; Levick; Dr. Joe Weixlmann, SLU
provost; Biondi; St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay; Kathleen Brady, SLU vice president for
facilities management and civic affairs; Gray-Miller; 19th Ward Alderman Michael
McMillan; Beracha, Vince Schoemehl, president, Grand Center; Bob Clark, Clayco
chairman and chief executive officer; and Evan Krauss, president, SLU Student
Government Association. Middle: St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay (Law ’80) addresses
the crowd. Above: Gray-Miller, Biondi, Soderberg and Levick throw the dirt.
U.S.News keeps SLU
on its ‘Best Buy’ list
For the ninth consecutive year, U.S.News & World
Report has recognized Saint Louis University as one
of the nation’s best values in higher education. In
its special “America’s Best Colleges” issue, U.S.
News lists SLU among the top 50 national, doctoral
universities on its coveted “Great Schools, Great
Prices” list. SLU joins Georgetown and Boston College
among the Catholic institutions on the best values list.
In addition, SLU climbed to No. 77 on U.S. News’ rankings of the
nearly 250 national universities in the country — a list topped by
Princeton and Harvard. It’s the third straight year that SLU has risen in
these rankings. Once again, SLU ranked among the top five Catholic
institutions in the country on this overall list.
Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology’s aerospace
engineering program was ranked No. 5, and undergraduate engineering
programs overall were ranked 29th among engineering schools whose
highest degree is a master’s.
SLU’s undergraduate business programs in the John Cook School of
Business again were ranked among the top 100 of the nation.
Princeton Review
also honors SLU
The Princeton Review has named Saint Louis University one of the top
institutions in the country for undergraduate education. SLU also was
listed as one of the best universities in the Midwest in the 2007 edition
of Princeton Review’s annual book, The Best 361 Colleges. Only about
15 percent of four-year colleges in America and two Canadian colleges
made the publication. The book does not rank the colleges 1 to 361 in
any single category.
The book’s rankings are based on a survey
of 110,000 students attending the
colleges in the book. In the survey,
SLU students spoke highly of the
University’s business, pre-med and
pre-law programs as well as unique
programs in aviation and nutrition.
Survey respondents also noted that
SLU students are friendly and that
the University offers a great library.
Doisy College of health
sciences adds new programs
Already experiencing an enroll-ment
boom, Saint Louis Uni-versity’s
Edward and Margaret
Doisy College of Health Sciences an-ticipates
even more growth in the future
as it prepares to assume responsibility
for three programs that will be discon-tinued
at the Barnes-Jewish College of
Nursing and Allied Health in St. Louis
next year.
Dr. Charlotte Royeen, dean of Doisy
College, said next fall SLU plans to offer
the following new options for SLU stu-dents,
pending approval by the board of
trustees: A new bachelor of science pro-gram
in radiation therapy; a new bache-lor
of science program in cytotechnology;
and a proposed expansion of the graduate
program in the department of nutrition
and dietetics.
SLU and Barnes-Jewish officials are
working to make sure that the transition
for both students and employees goes
smoothly. Some faculty at Barnes-Jew-ish
College will join the faculty of SLU’s
Doisy College, and students enrolled in
SLU programs still will have the option
of participating in clinical training on-site
at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
SLU honors Maronite patriarch
Saint Louis University bestowed its highest honor, the Sword of Ignatius Loyola, on
the patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church June 30. His Beatitude and Eminence
Nasrallah Peter Cardinal Sfeir, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, visited St. Louis
as part of a pastoral visit to America. He was the most significant religious figure to visit St.
Louis since Pope John Paul II in 1999, and his visit marked only the fourth time a Maronite
patriarch has journeyed to the United States. Sfeir also received an honorary doctorate of laws
from Saint Louis University.
En route to the award ceremony, University President Lawrence Biondi, S.J., (right) shares a light moment with Maronite
Bishop Robert J. Shaheen (far left) and Cardinal Sfeir (second from left).
Photos by Steve Dolan
Photo by Kevin Lowder
U N I V E R S I T A S w w w . s l u . e d u U N I V E R S I T A S F A L L 2 0 0 6
Gilsinan
to accept
professorship,
step down
as dean
Saint Louis University’s College of
Public Service has reached a new
milestone: the establishment of its
first named professorship. Civic leader E.
Desmond “Des” Lee provided funding to
support the E. Desmond Lee Professor-ship
in Collaborative Regional Education.
Dr. James Gilsinan, dean of the Col-lege
of Public Service, has been named
the first holder of the professorship. Be-cause
the professorship requires teaching,
research and service, Gilsinan will step
down as dean and rejoin the faculty on
a full-time basis at the end of December.
The honor recognizes Gilsinan’s decades
of service to St. Louis area schools, local
governments and non-profit organiza-tions.
As a Des Lee Professor, Gilsinan
will join scholars from Washington Uni-versity
in St. Louis and the University of
Missouri-St. Louis in researching ways to
help schools and communities improve
the lives of young people.
Michael Frayn wins Literary Award
The Saint Louis University Library Associates will pres-ent
the Saint Louis Literary Award to Tony Award-winning
playwright, novelist and translator Michael
Frayn at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10, in the Anheuser-Busch
Auditorium of SLU’s John and Lucy Cook Hall. The pro-gram
is free and open to the public.
Frayn is the author of several plays, including Noises Off,
Democracy and Copenhagen, which won the 2000 Tony Award
for Best Play. He has written several novels including The Tin
Men, The Russian Interpreter and Spies. He also has translated
several plays by Chekov and Tolstoy from Russian.
In receiving the award, Frayn joins a select group of previous
recipients, including Robert Penn Warren, Arthur Miller and
Tom Wolfe. The award has been presented annually since 1967.
Researchers tackle
mold removal
Armed with a $408,000 grant from
the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, a team from
Saint Louis University School of Public
Health hopes to create universal stan-dards
for getting rid of mold in homes and
buildings. Dr. Anu Dixit, assistant profes-sor
of environmental and occupational
health and principal investigator, said that
the team will review existing, inconsistent
guidelines for mold removal from homes
and buildings by surveying about 400
mold assessment and remediation profes-sionals.
The team will then use the re-sponses
to develop a single comprehensive,
scientifically sound plan for homeowners
and mold remediation experts to follow.
“The timing couldn’t be better for Hur-ricane
Katrina and Rita victims, some of
whom are still battling mold problems in
their homes and businesses,” Dixit said.
News Briefs
Saint Louis University has appointed Karla Gable director of undergraduate admission. She
most recently was assistant vice president of business development at the Missouri Higher
Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), where she oversaw all marketing and public relations
efforts. Prior to joining MOHELA in 2000, Gable was associate dean of enrollment and director
of financial aid at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.
Dr. Neil Seitz has stepped down as interim dean of Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and
Technology. Dr. Manoj Patankar (Parks ’92), associate professor and chairman of aviation
science, has been named interim dean. A committee has been formed to begin the search for a
new dean for Parks.
Covering more than three-dozen specialties, 112 SLUCare doctors have been selected for
St. Louis Magazine’s 2006 “Best Doctors” list. The list is based on the annual “Best Doctors
in America” database, which considers more than one million peer evaluations to create a
directory of approximately 30,000 doctors. A total of 104 SLUCare physicians were chosen for
last year’s list.
Dr. Teri Murray (Nurs ’79, Grad ’93, ’97) has been named the new director of the School of
Nursing in the Doisy College of Health Sciences. Murray, previously the associate director,
succeeds interim director Dr. Margie Edel. Murray, also an associate professor of nursing,
recently was named to the prestigious 2006 Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows
Program, which provides individual leadership development for nurses who aspire to lead
and shape the U.S. health care system. She is also the president of the Missouri State Board
of Nursing.
Dr. Jennifer Kohler (A&S ’93, Grad ’97, ’99) is the new director of the School for Professional
Studies. She is the first director of the school in a new position created as a result of the recent
merger with the College of Public Service. Kohler previously served as director of organizational
studies, interim associate dean and associate dean in the School for Professional Studies.
The National Defense Transportation Association has named Saint Louis University’s Dr. Ik-
Whan Kwon (Grad ’90), professor of decision sciences and management information systems,
as the 2006 recipient of the NDTA Educator Distinguished Service Award. Kwon is recognized
internationally for his specialization in supply chain design and management and is director of
the Consortium for Supply Chain Management Studies at the John Cook School of Business.
Campus goes wireless
This summer, Saint Louis Uni-versity’s
information technology
staffers and subcontractors pulled
150,000 feet of wire throughout campus
to make SLU completely wireless. Now
the University’s wireless network includes
the entire campus — including residence
halls and academic buildings.
Campus Kitchen marks its fifth
anniversary and serves its 125,000th meal
In September, Saint Louis University’s Campus Kitchen cel-ebrated
its fifth anniversary and served its 125,000th meal. In
2001, SLU served as the pilot school for the Campus Kitchens
Project, a growing network of Campus Kitchens that are hosted by
universities across the country.
Each Campus Kitchen shares dining hall kitchen space with
host universities; partners with campus dining to recycle safe, us-able
food that would normally go to waste; and mobilizes college
students and community volunteers to make and deliver meals to
the community.
Each month, SLU Campus Kitchen volunteers deliver more
than 2,000 meals and snacks to local residents, community cen-ters
and after-school programs. Volunteers prepare meals in an on-campus
cafeteria and then deliver them to individual families and
group service centers.
SLU’s success has paved the way for the Campus Kitchens Proj-ect
to schedule three new site openings this fall, bringing the net-work
to 10 Campus Kitchens nationwide.
Sobrino returns to
SLU after 15 years
One of Saint Louis University’s
most famous alumni was back
on campus in September for
the first time in 15 years. SLU’s Great Is-sues
Committee welcomed Jon Sobrino,
S.J. (A&S ’62, Grad ’65), who discussed
“Being Christian in a World of Poor
and Victims.” Sobrino’s contributions to
theology have been recognized with nu-merous
awards, includin
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University
No full textFall 2000 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis UniversityT H E M AG A Z I N E O F S A I N T L O U I S U N I V E R S I T Y
FF A LL LL 22 00 00 00
By Lawrence Biondi, SJ
Saint Louis University President
I recently returned from a two-week trip to Asia, where I visited our alumni and
benefactors in South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. It was a wonderful journey full of
unforgettable expressions of Saint Louis University pride and enthusiasm. Beginning
with the Taipei alumni who greeted me at the airport, I was overwhelmed by the pas-sion,
warmth and hospitality of our Asian alumni and benefactors.
The day after I got back from the trip, I arrived in my office and was confronted by
the largest stack of mail I’d ever seen. So, there, in the early hours of a blustery
Tuesday, I sat quietly at my desk, sorting the mail into “action” piles — invitations,
requests, reports, etc. It was beginning to feel like a daunting task, but then an unex-pected
gem rose to the top of the stack. Nestled between the memos and magazines
was a Christmas card, sent early by an overseas family member who wanted to make
sure it arrived in time for the holidays.
I receive a lot of Christmas cards. Some are funny. Some are beautiful.
Some are ornate. Most, however, arrive closer to Christmas. Maybe that’s
why I was so taken with this card that came before Thanksgiving. It was
a simple greeting and one I’d heard before, but its eloquence struck me.
The card read: “During this Christmas season and throughout the New
Year, may you be blessed with peace, joy and love.”
Many Christmas card verses feature similar verses or variations of the
same theme. Perhaps it was the timing, or perhaps it was my own frame
of mind, but I was inspired by the sentiment.
Blessed. Yes, that’s what we are — not just at Christmas, but always.
Life itself is a blessing! Sure, sometimes it’s hard to see the divine in our
day-to-day existence, but the fact is that the Lord’s blessings are with us
even on our worst days. Having the fortitude to make it through a rough
patch of personal difficulties is a blessing. Learning a lesson from a mistake
is a blessing. Waking up to face a new day is a blessing.
It seems that all too often we wait until the holiday season — be it
Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa or New Year’s Day — to
reflect on our gifts from the Lord. We only think to send glad tidings and
recognize our good fortune when the calendar reminds us to celebrate a
particular feast day.
But as that mid-November Christmas card reminded me, blessings
come throughout the year. I am blessed to have traveled to and from Asia
safely and to have met so many wonderful SLU alumni and benefactors there. I am
blessed to have fully recovered from the knee surgery that marked my last holiday sea-son.
And, as I say time and time again, I am blessed every single day to be a part of
our Saint Louis University family.
Years ago, I heard a song by Irving Berlin that isn’t part of his popular catalog but
whose memorable lyrics have stuck with me to this day. The song closes with this
advice: “If you’re worried and you can’t sleep, just count your blessings instead of
sheep, and you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings.”
This Christmas and throughout the New Year, may you not only be blessed, but
may you recognize all the blessings as they come. May you be a blessing to everyone
you meet. And may you always find blessings when you need them most.
May you and all of your loved ones be truly blessed with lasting peace of mind and
heart, an unbounded joy that makes you appreciate how you are loved by others, and
a love that is founded on genuine compassion.
God love you!
UNIVERSITAS
Volume 27, No. 1
Editor
Laura Geiser (A&S ’90, Grad ’92)
Contributors
Mary Flick (Grad ’93)
Jennifer (Cavato) Frakes (A&S ’91)
Chris Waldvogel
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On the Cover: John and Lucy
Cook Hall puts a new face on
SLU business education. For
more photos, see pages 6
through 9.
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fall 2000
C O N T E N T S
6
Back to Business
Business has a new name
at Saint Louis University.
10
Nursed Back to Health
A clinic sponsored by the School of Nursing
reaches out to the homeless.
14
Political Favors
An exhibition at Cupples House
sheds light on politics as usual.
17
A Man of His Word
Walter J. Ong, SJ, is a world-renowned scholar,
compassionate priest and SLU treasure.
20
After the Fall
A SLU alumnus introduces readers
to the lives of Bosnian immigrants.
2
Kimmey to Head
Health Institute
Dr. James R. Kimmey has
stepped down from his
position as Saint Louis
University’s executive vice
president and chief operating
officer to head a new initia-tive
at the University to
address critical urban health
problems in the metropolitan
area. Kimmey now directs
the Institute for Urban
Health Policy at the School
of Public Health. The new
institute will coordinate
University research, policy
analysis and education in the
field of urban health.
Before being named execu-tive
vice president and chief
operating officer, Kimmey
served as SLU’s vice president
for health sciences. He also
has held positions as director
of the University’s Center for
Health Services Education
and Research and was the
founding dean of the School
of Public Health. To stream-line
operations, the
University has eliminated the
position of executive vice
president and chief operating
officer.
SLU Launches a
Cancer Center
Saint Louis University and
Tenet Healthcare Corp.
have announced the creation
of the Saint Louis University
Cancer Center. The facility
will offer comprehensive ser-vices
that link clinical research,
education, prevention and
treatment. An entire floor of
the center will be devoted to
the latest in cancer research.
The main site of the Cancer
Freshman Class
Sets Records
The Saint Louis University
class of 2004 is setting
records for test scores and
size. The freshman class aver-age
ACT score rose a half
point to 26.2, and the grade
point average (3.47) has never
been greater. “These academ-ic
achievements are even
more remarkable given that
this year’s freshman class is
nearly 12 percent larger than
last year’s class,” said
University Provost Sandra
Johnson (A&S ’63). An esti-mated
1,400 freshmen began
classes Aug. 28 — the
University’s largest freshman
class ever. In addition, the
class is geographically diverse.
The freshmen hail from 37
states and a number of foreign
countries, including China,
India, Pakistan, the United
Kimmey
SLU Named
A Best Value
U.S. News & World Report’s
2001 “America’s Best
Colleges” has ranked Saint
Louis University 24th on its list
of “Schools that Offer the Best
Value” among national univer-sities.
U.S. News measures
value by relating a school’s
quality ranking with the net
cost to a student who receives
the average level of financial
aid. Saint Louis University
ranked 30th on last year’s list of
best values.
Kingdom and Venezuela.
While more than half of this
year’s freshmen, for the first
time, are from outside the St.
Louis metropolitan area,
Johnson said Saint Louis
University remains steadfast
in its commitment to serving
MEDICAL UPDATE: local students.
Late in August, J. Barry
McGannon, SJ, chancellor
of Saint Louis University,
underwent a very serious
operation for a malignant
brain tumor. After a stay
in the hospital, he is now
at the infirmary in Jesuit
Hall. He much appreci-ates
the prayers and good
wishes that he has
received. If you’d like to
write to Fr. McGannon,
you can address your letter
or card to him at: Fusz
Pavilion, Jesuit Hall,
3601 Lindell Blvd., St.
Louis, MO 63108.
Freshmen square dancing during Welcome Week activities in August.
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NEWS BRIEFS
By The Numbers
20 National Merit Scholars in this
year’s freshman class.
20 Percent of the freshman class
who are sons and daughters of
Saint Louis University alumni.
53 Percent of the freshman class
receiving academic and service
scholarships.
5,100 Freshman applicants to the
University this year. Up from
3,681 in 1995.
The department of occupational
therapy at the School of Allied
Health Professions will offer a new
five-year combination bachelor of
science in occupational science
(B.S.O.S.) degree and master of
occupational therapy (M.O.T.)
degree beginning in fall 2001. The
program combines the bachelor’s
and master’s degrees with a central
organizing curriculum framework.
… The SLU chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa named Dr. Charles H.
Parker, associate professor of his-tory,
its 2000 Book Award winner
for his book The Reformation of
Community: Social Welfare and
Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-
1620. The award recognizes the
best book in the arts and sciences
by a member of the SLU faculty
published in the years 1998 to
2000. … Prospective Saint Louis
University students are now greet-ed
with a newly redesigned under-graduate
admission site on the
World Wide Web. The site,
“Imagine,” focuses on the interests
and concerns of new students. The
new Imagine site is located at
www.imagine.slu.edu. … Dr.
D. Douglas Miller (B&A ’99) has
been appointed chairman of the
department of internal medicine at
the School of Medicine. Miller
provides overall leadership for the
13 divisions that comprise internal
medicine: allergy and immunology,
bone marrow transplantation, car-diology,
endocrinology, gastroen-terology
and hepatology, general
internal medicine, geriatric medi-cine,
hematology/oncology, infec-tious
diseases, nephrology, nuclear
medicine, pulmonology and
rheumatology. … Men’s basketball
head coach Lorenzo Romar has
been named to the NCAA
Division I men’s basketball issues
subcommittee. Romar joins four
other men’s head basketball coach-es
on the men’s subcommittee. …
Dr. N. Scott Momaday, the cel-ebrated
native American writer,
received the 2000 Saint Louis
Literary Award from the Associates
of Saint Louis University Libraries.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist,
Momaday has devoted himself to
keeping alive oral tradition and
Indian culture, founding The
Buffalo Trust with particular
emphasis on teaching children.
MAKING HISTORY: University archivist John Waide
(A&S ’73) (left) presents a gift to Thierry Verhaegen at the
rededication of Verhaegen Hall on Sept. 29. Verhaegen is
the great-great-great nephew of Peter J. Verhaegen, SJ, the
University’s first president. Several of Verhaegen’s relatives
attended the event, which included a reception, a tour of the
newly refurbished hall and an exhibit honoring Verhaegen
in Pius XII Memorial Library.
HAVING A BLAST: Fireworks lit up the sky in
September for the more than 1,800 alumni who came back
to campus for Alumni Reunion Weekend. For more pho-tos
from the weekend, see page 30.
Center will be the former
Bethesda General Hospital,
3655 Vista Ave., located adja-cent
to Tenet’s Saint Louis
University Hospital. Tenet
purchased Bethesda General
Hospital from Bethesda
Health Group Inc. and will
renovate the structure and
lease part of it to Saint Louis
University. University and
Tenet officials said that a thor-ough
market analysis indicated
the St. Louis area is under-served
in cancer care. “While
the development of a compre-hensive
cancer center is a
major plus for Saint Louis
University and our School of
Medicine, as well as our part-ners
at Tenet, the greatest
benefit will be to the St. Louis
community,” said University
President Lawrence Biondi,
SJ. “Currently, one in three
St. Louisans dies of cancer or
cancer-related illnesses. With
increased oncology expertise
Center’s Grant Is
Largest in History
The Center for Vaccine
Development has received
a five-year 5.9
million in direct costs and
$2.55 million in indirect costs.
The HVTN provides a com-prehensive,
clinically based
network to develop and test
preventive HIV vaccines. In
addition to units based in the
United States, participating
sites will be located in sub-
Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin
American and the Caribbean.
The network’s web of U.S.-
based units integrated with sites
around the globe will allow
the HVTN to expand rapidly
to carry out larger-scale studies
of suitable vaccines.
and continued focused
research, we will better fulfill
our mission to serve our met-ropolitan
and regional com-munities
and their ever-increasing
health care needs.”
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Buy Billiken
Items Online
The athletic department,
in conjunction with the
FANSonly Network and
Barnes & Noble Bookstore,
has announced the launch of
its online merchandise and
apparel store through the
University’s official athletic
World Wide Web site at
www.slubillikens.com. The
online store includes hats,
polo shirts, shorts, shirts,
gifts and much more from
several leading manufacturers.
Although in its infancy, the
variety of merchandise avail-able
at the online store is
expected to grow during the
upcoming months.
Humphrey is New
Vice President
Kathy Wilson Humphrey
is the University’s new
vice president for student
development. She had served
as interim vice provost since
August 1999. As vice provost,
Humphrey promotes student
formation in non-academic
areas of student life. She
oversees career services, the
health and counseling center,
campus recreation, the com-munity
outreach center, resi-dence
life, student life
programs, student facilities
and contracted services, such
as the bookstore and dining
services. Humphrey, who
joined the University in
1994 as director of residence
life, was selected after an
extensive national search.
Docs Honored In
U.S. Rankings
The faculty physicians in the
School of Medicine were
recognized in U.S. News &
World Report’s 2000 edition of
“America’s Best Hospitals,”
which places Saint Louis
University Hospital among the
top 50 medical centers in 12
specialties, up from nine spe-cialties
that made the list last
year. Following are the special-ties
that made the top 50, their
department names within the
School of Medicine (if differ-ent),
and their rankings
according to U.S. News: cancer
(oncology), 46; digestive (gas-troenterology
and hepatology),
40; ear, nose and throat (oto-laryngology),
19; geriatrics
(geriatric medicine), 7; heart
(cardiology and cardiothoracic
surgery), 22; hormonal
(endocrinology, diabetes and
metabolism), 16; kidney
(nephrology and abdominal
transplant surgery), 30; neurol-ogy
and neurosurgery, 23;
orthopedics (orthopedic
Plan Now for
Reunion 2001
Reunion 2001 planning
already is under way. It’s
not too early to make plans
to be back on campus Sept.
21 to 23 for a weekend of
fun. If your class year ends in
a one or a six, this will be a
special celebration. Reunion
committees are being formed
for the classes of 1941, 1946,
1951, 1956, 1961, 1966,
1971, 1976, 1981, 1986,
1991 and 1996. If you want
to help out, call the office of
alumni relations at (314)
977-2250 or 1-800-SLU-FOR-
U.
Please note that the follow-ing
schools will gather for
reunion on different week-ends:
School of Dentistry,
Sept. 13 to 15, and School of
Medicine, Oct. 19 to 21.
Humphrey
SLU Athletes Top
C-USA Again
Conference USA has
named Saint Louis
University as its recipient of
the Institutional Excellence
Award for the fifth-consecu-tive
year. The award is given
to the school with the highest
grade point average (GPA)
during the current academic
year for all student-athletes in
conference-sponsored sports.
Saint Louis University posted
a 3.09 GPA for all student-athletes.
The Sport Academic
Award is given to the team in
each conference-sponsored
sport with the highest GPA
for the current academic year.
The Billikens won the award
in baseball (2.94) and men’s
soccer (2.99).
surgery), 27; respiratory (pul-monology,
allergy and
immunology), 17; rheumatol-ogy,
23; and urology, 33.
WEEKEND WORK: Students, faculty and staff have donated their time, talents and con-struction
skills to the University’s Habitat for Humanity project, located in the Hamilton
Heights neighborhood of North St. Louis City. Construction, which began July 15, takes place
every Saturday with several different schools, colleges and administrative departments participat-ing
in the project. Leaders hope to finish the project Dec. 9 and dedicate the house on Dec. 16.
“Making a positive impact
on the lives of our students
will continue to be the goal
of the division of student
development,” she said.
Log On for
SLU News
If you’d like to learn
about the most up-to-date
news and happenings
at Saint Louis University,
visit the SLU Newslink site
on the World Wide Web
(www.slu.edu/newspage.html).
You also can subscribe to a
daily e-mail message that high-lights
the top SLU news of the
day, previews upcoming events
and notifies the University
community of announcements
and services.
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The October 1955 issue of Saint
Louis University Magazine featured a
cover story on the “Territory of
Hawaii” and the active Saint Louis
University alumni club there. The
article noted that one-sixth of all
dentists in the entire territory were
SLU alumni.
The magazine included a report
that construction had begun on
Marguerite Hall. The women’s dor-mitory
would be named in honor of
the wife of St. Louis, king of France.
The issue also announced that the
University was offering an American
history course for regular college
credit on KETC-TV. It was taught
by John Francis Bannon, SJ.
Another story profiled Boleslaus
Lukaszewski, SJ, a professor of phi-losophy
and University ambassador
to the freshman class. “Father Luke”
was known for his interest in pho-tography,
his organization of the
SLU “queen” coronations and his
sense of humor.
Quotable UTAS: “The university
theatre occupies a position some-where
roughly between the English
department and the basketball team.
… That’s because a university the-atre
is a place where two worlds
meet — the academic world where
‘education’ is attended to, and the
entertainment world where people
seek to escape.” — Dr. C.B. Gilford,
then director of the theatre program,
which was housed in the speech depart-ment.
Sign of the Times: An article
pondered whether a space satellite,
to be launched in 1957, would be a
forerunner of a space platform to be
used as “a stopping off place for
outer space travel.” It also asked,
“Are flying saucers actually satellites
launched by other planets for Earth-observation?”
SLU expert James B.
Macelwane, SJ, took a dim view of
both theories and explained the sci-entific
uses of satellites.
Hall of Fame Nominees Sought
Although selection of this January’s honorees already has taken place, the Billiken Club is
seeking nominations for future inductees into the Billiken Athletic Hall of Fame. The
inductees will be selected from the following categories:
• Billiken Great. Former student-athletes who brought recognition and prominence to the
University and themselves through outstanding athletic achievements as undergraduates.
• Distinguished Alum Award. Former undergraduate student-athletes who have made
major contributions to the University athletic program through personal time, effort, interest
and through many years of service, and/or those who have distinguished themselves as excep-tional
in their chosen fields or endeavors.
• Bauman Sportsmanship Award. Individuals, not necessarily former student-athletes or
alumni, who have made outstanding contributions to Billiken athletics through the demonstra-tion
of the highest principles of integrity, honesty and fair play without consideration for self
gain. (Emphasis should be placed on continued service.)
• The Bob Burnes Award. Former Billiken athletic teams that have brought recognition and
prominence to the University and themselves through athletic accomplishment.
Within each category there are two subcategories: pioneer, for alumni who graduated 30 or
more years ago; and contemporary, for alumni who graduated during the past 30 years.
To be eligible for induction as former student-athletes, alumni must have graduated at least
five years ago. Coaches and administrators must have served the University for at least five years
and have had five years elapse since their last date of University employment.
Please mail your nominations to the Billiken Club, Saint Louis University, 3762 West Pine
Mall, St. Louis, MO 63108 or call (314) 977-8180.
Two Deans on
the Move
After six years as dean of
the College of Arts and
Sciences, Dr. Shirley Dowdy
has announced
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