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DEPAUL magazine

Summer 2012

SUCCESS STORIES from ALUMNI UNDER 40

Share Your DePaul Pride— Here, There and Everywhere If you’re heading out for a vacation this summer, be sure to pack your favorite DePaul gear. We’re collecting fun photos of alumni decked out in Blue Demons attire or otherwise showing their DePaul pride. Snap a picture and

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send it to [email protected] with your name and the location

Front cover Mitesh Dixit (LAS ’98), an architect based in Rotterdam, runs major projects around the world.

where the photo was taken. Highresolution images preferred.

Carol Sadtler, Editor

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Christian Anderson, Contributing writer Kris Gallagher, Contributing writer Louisa M. Worthington-Fitzgerald, Contributing writer Maria-Romina Hench, Copy editor and contributing writer Read us online at depaul.edu/magazine

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University News Celebration Partnerships Exhibits Progress

Commencement Lake View High School

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New at the Museum

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Campaign Update

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Features Spotlight

Alumni Stars under 40

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Archives

Football at DePaul

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Alumni Connections News

Info You Can Use

Class Notes

Who’s Doing What

Alumni Planner

Coming Events

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Since We Were Last

Together

our university keeps moving onward and upward. There’s always a lot going on around campus and in the lives of DePaul alumni that attracts attention from Chicago to the global community. Here are just a few such items since our last issue.

DePaul student work on The Red Line Project, a news, entertainment and community website, won three prestigious Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago Headline Club in May. The site was a finalist in four categories and took home three Lisagors, competing against Chicago’s professional journalism outlets.

Paula Luff, associate vice president for Financial Aid, DePaul students and J.D. Bindenagel, then-vice president for Community, Government and International Affairs, joined Sen. Dick Durbin at a news conference on the Lincoln Park Campus to support legislation that would keep student loan interest rates from rising. The news conference was reported nationally by NBC and locally by WLS-TV.

DePaul University is No. 19 in Diversity MBA Magazine’s annual 50 Out Front for Diversity Leadership, the top ranking achieved by an institution of higher learning. The rankings focused on workplace diversity and leadership opportunities for people of color at a wide range of for- and non-profit organizations.

For the third year in a row, DePaul earned a ranking in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges. The guide, which was created by The Princeton Review and the U.S. Green Building Council, features colleges in both the United States and Canada that have comprehensive sustainability plans in place.

The Hollywood Reporter praised The Theatre School for its low student-faculty ratio and notable alumni as the school made the entertainment magazine’s list of top drama schools. Others on the list: The Julliard School, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Yale University School of Drama and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Melissa Ockerman, assistant professor in the College of Education, was named Counselor Educator of the Year by the Illinois School Counselor Association. Two alumni of the college’s graduate school counseling program also were honored: Dustin Seemann (EDU ’08) was named High School Counselor of the Year, and Kim Kopec (EDU ’04) was named Internship Supervisor of the Year.

DePaul’s newest academic building, Arts & Letters Hall, has received LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, which recognizes leadership in energy efficiency and environmental design. The building’s estimated annual energy savings over a standard code-compliant building of its size is 26 percent, according to Illinois Clean Energy.

University News

Commencement 2012

Commencement 2012 Honors Graduates, National Figures Nationally acclaimed experts in education, theatre, law, business, computer science and public relations were invited as speakers and honorary degree recipients as part of DePaul’s 114th commencement celebration this spring. Seven ceremonies featured the following dignitaries:

College of Law

School for New Learning

Also honored at the ceremony was

Speaker: John B. Simon, a nationally

Speaker: Laurent Parks-Daloz, author and

Al Golin, a leading figure in the public

renowned attorney with the firm of Jenner

pioneer in adult learning and the utilization

relations industry and founder of the

and Block and former federal prosecutor

of life experience in shaping education

international agency GolinHarris, an

who is a leader in Chicago’s civic and

programs in the United States.

advisor to major global corporations

philanthropic spheres. Simon also is a

and organizations.

member of DePaul’s board of trustees

College of Liberal Arts and Social

and a former chair.

Sciences and College of Science

College of Commerce

and Health

Speaker: Brian Campbell, industrialist,

College of Education

(combined ceremony)

investor and philanthropist who has led the

Speaker: Linda Darling-Hammond,

Speaker: E.O. Wilson, a Harvard professor

growth of several investment and

a professor of education at Stanford

and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize,

manufacturing concerns while supporting

University and one of the nation’s top

one of the world’s most influential biologists

numerous charities throughout the Midwest.

experts on education reform. She led

and evolutionary theorists of the past

President Barack Obama’s education

half-century.

transition team.

Also honored was James J. O’Connor, former chairman and CEO of Commonwealth

College of Computing and Digital Media

Edison, current chair of Armstrong Industries

School of Music and The Theatre School

and College of Communication

and co-chairman of the Big Shoulders

(combined ceremony)

(combined ceremony)

Fund, a leading organization providing

Speaker: Jackie Taylor, actress, theatrical

Speaker: Alan C. Kay, a seminal force in

access to Catholic elementary and

producer and founder of Chicago’s iconic

the development of the personal computer

secondary education for low-income,

Black Ensemble Theater, which recently

and the Internet through his work with the

inner-city children.

opened a multimillion-dollar performing arts

Advanced Research Project Agency at the

and cultural center in Chicago’s Uptown

University of Utah and the Xerox Palo Alto

community.

Research Center.

Job Outlook Trending Up for 2012 Graduates As this year’s graduates look for jobs, the employment landscape looks better than it did last year.

“Things are looking much more promising for 2012 graduates. We’ve seen a big increase in job postings on DePaul’s recruiting site,” says Gillian Steele, managing director of DePaul’s Career Center. “The job postings in May were up 43 percent over May 2011. The 862 jobs posted represent the third-highest total since January 2007—the highest having occurred in March 2012.” Eighty-two percent of these job postings were for full-time positions. Among the positions most in demand are those in professional services, health/social and human services, and accounting/finance/banking, Steele said. The top seven bachelor’s degrees in demand are business, accounting, engineering, computer science, physical sciences, communication and social sciences. At DePaul, industries showing the largest growth in job postings from 2010 to 2011 are professional, health care, social and human services, and accounting/finance/banking. According to Recruiting Trends 2011-12, nearly 40 percent of employers will hire candidates from all majors, seeking the best talent regardless of field of study. Computer science majors are still in strong demand in nearly every sector, and the supply of graduates will not be sufficient to fill all available positions. Accounting, finance and supply chain management are also expected to do well this year. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) predicts that employers will hire 10.2 percent more new college graduates than they did in 2010-11. More than half of employers intend to increase salaries an average of 3.3 percent. Employers value the fresh perspective and skill set younger workers bring to the table. Many companies that participated in NACE’s survey stated that their organizations are too “top heavy.” In addition to increasing hiring due to company expansion and business growth, employers are looking to replace a retiring workforce and gain younger talent. Additionally, many employers plan to hire more interns this year—8 percent more than last year. Internship programs again emerged as the top recruiting strategy used by most employers (not including postings to college and organization websites). Social media are now used by 36 percent of employers (up 10 percent from last year) and are expected to

DePaul’s Alumni Relations works in partnership with the

become core recruiting tools as more organizations quickly adopt

Career Center to offer Corporate Connectors, a program to help

various media options.

DePaul students and alumni make a smooth transition to a new job

Seventy-three percent of employers said they preferred

or prepare for an upcoming interview at a specific corporation.

candidates with relevant work experience, according to NACE. At

Several hundred alumni have offered to meet or correspond with

DePaul, 68 percent of those who had academic internships reported

fellow alumni or students who are applying to their companies.

that it led to employment, supporting the emerging paradigm that

These volunteers welcome DePaul-affiliated new hires or interns

internships have become the new entry-level jobs.

who’ve recently joined their firms.

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University News

DePaul to Boost Science and Technology Learning for Lake View High School Students DePaul has worked for years with middle school teachers to increase their knowledge in math and science teaching and has invested in high-quality faculty and facilities in science and technology. “For many years, DePaul University has been deeply committed to enhancing the educational experiences of Chicago Public School students and teachers through a wide range of initiatives, from training science and math teachers to providing classical music instruction for grammar school students,” Fr. Holtschneider said. “This new partnership between Lake View High School and DePaul bolsters that bond and furthers our mission to be an institutional anchor for Chicago. By providing Lake View students with greater access to DePaul’s high-quality faculty and facilities in science and technology, we hope to ease their transition into college and send them on the path toward entering careers in these fields.”

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (left) and the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., DePaul president, tour Lake View High School.

DePaul University will continue its long involvement with Chicago Public Schools in a new partnership with Lake View High School, providing opportunities for the high school students through the university’s science and technology programs. The Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president, announced the partnership with Mayor Rahm Emanuel on May 23 at Senn High School, the partner school for Loyola University Chicago. The mayor is encouraging Chicago’s four-year universities to pair with the city’s public high schools to help the schools “launch in a new direction,” Emanuel said. The universities will offer programs and services tailored to each school’s needs with the hope of boosting the schools’ achievement. Forming a bond with Lake View will be natural for DePaul. Next year, the high school will be one of the city’s five Early College STEM Schools (ECSS), focusing on technology skills and career readiness.

DePaul is the first four-year university planning to offer college courses through ECSS by giving eligible Lake View students access to some of DePaul’s college courses. To align the school’s curriculum with college standards, DePaul will support Lake View’s curriculum development, providing data analysis and on-going education for its teachers. “I want all the potential that exists in DePaul’s math classes, their science classes, their teachers and their students to apply to our kids,” Emanuel said. Lake View students will benefit from DePaul’s commitment to enhancing its science and technology programs. In 2011, DePaul established its 10th college—the College of Science and Health—to respond to the growing demand for well-educated professionals in the rapidly growing science and health care fields. To support high-quality science and education research, DePaul has constructed two science facilities in the past 15 years on its Lincoln Park Campus. Forty-five percent of the computer degrees held by Chicagoans come from DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media.

NATO Host Committee Director Addresses Consular Corps Lunch Guests The Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president, welcomed diplomats to Cortelyou Commons on April 12 for DePaul’s Seventh Annual Consular Corps of Chicago luncheon and thanked them for supporting the university’s international initiatives. The consuls general heard from Lori Healey, executive director of the Chicago NATO Host Committee (at left), who described the city’s plans for the NATO summit on May 20 and 21.

DePaul Art Museum Awarded LEED Silver Certification The DePaul University Art Museum recently received LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for sustainable design and construction principles. The facility includes sustainable features, such as energy-efficient HVAC and lighting systems, storm-water collection, retention and filtering systems, water-efficient landscaping, a partial green roof and reflective roof coatings. These design elements reduce energy consumption by 17.6 percent.

DePaul Art Museum Exhibit “Draws” on Images of Social Transformation

Frank Selby, Light Blue Riot, 2010

Showcasing 13 artists who use drawing to meticulously translate images originally received through photo-based media or digital circulation, the exhibition “Drawn from Photography” includes images of war and protest as well as views of urban landscapes and industrial developments.

Free and open to the public, the exhibit runs through Aug. 19. “In focusing on the act of drawing as well as on the content and meanings of their images, the artists in the exhibition engage and connect political events and meditative practice,” says Louise Lincoln, director of the DePaul Art Museum. “The works become a way for artists—and viewers—to understand our place in the world.” More than any other art form, drawing is traditionally understood to be an inherently intimate and direct means of expression. The act of drawing is a way to deliberately slow things down. Whether using found media sources or their own photographs, the artists share a reconstructive, labor-intensive

impulse that counteracts the rapid dissemination of information that defines the media age. The artists in the exhibition adopt a variety of approaches to their subjects. Emily Prince and Mary Temple create evolving installations that respond to contemporary events, such as the war in Iraq; Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant, D-L Alvarez and Frank Selby replicate iconic photos of political clashes and countercultural movements; Fernando Bryce comprehensively redraws historical documents; and Ewan Gibbs and Richard Forster copy their own snapshots of the changing industrial landscape. In each case, drawing as translation marks a desire for agency coupled with a sense of distance between the world and the artist’s attempt to comprehend or impact it. “Drawn from Photography” is organized by The Drawing Center in New York and curated by center curator Claire Gilman. For more information, visit museums.depaul.edu.

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Campaign Raises Sights to $300 million The Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign for DePaul surpassed its original $250 million goal in February 2012, with two years remaining in the campaign timeline. Following a recommendation by the capital campaign committee and university leadership, the DePaul University Board of Trustees voted to expand the campaign, increasing the goal to $300 million. The campaign will continue on its original time frame through June 30, 2014. “The Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign has been the most ambitious in our university’s history, and I am very grateful and pleased to say that our alumni and friends have responded with historic vision and generosity,” says the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president of DePaul University. “Our trustees, campaign volunteers, leadership donors, and alumni from all ages and backgrounds recognize the importance of this effort in fulfilling the dreams of students and their families and in strengthening the DePaul mission for future generations.” “In setting the bar higher, we are confident that the same commitment that resulted in the campaign’s early success— commitment to DePaul’s current and future students—will enable the university to reach this new goal,” says Mary Finger, senior vice president for Advancement.

Scholarship Resources Key to Mission The Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign is the most ambitious fundraising initiative in the history of DePaul University. In announcing the campaign’s new $300 million goal, campaign leaders set as a primary focus the achievement of the $100 million goal for scholarships. Tena To date, DePaul has raised $75 million toward the $100 million goal for student scholarships. Scholarship funds are distributed among students in DePaul’s 10 colleges. Lisandra Tena (THE ’12) ran away from a troubled home and dropped out of high school, but eventually found her way through a GED program and community college. “Before DePaul, I could only dream of experiencing an

education from The Theatre School, since there was no possible way my father could afford it, having eight other children to support,” she says. “Now, I am happy to say I am the first in my family to attend college, but I am even happier to inspire my younger siblings and encourage them to dream big, because anything is possible. Scholarships made my dream into reality.” The Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign bolsters the university’s commitment to the education of first-generation college students, especially those from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Scholarship gifts are gifts of opportunity, helping DePaul to provide high-quality education to students demonstrating intellectual potential and academic achievement. Building these scholarship resources strengthens DePaul’s mission to assure talented students from diverse backgrounds are able to strive and achieve an excellent DePaul education.

of this campaign and its record-breaking success thus far signify recognition on the part of the donor community that our university has matured as one of the leading institutions of higher learning in the country. We must continue to work hard to fulfill the responsibilities that come with leadership. This campaign will provide DePaul with critical resources to continue to offer an excellent education across the disciplines to the most talented students from a broad cross-section of backgrounds.”

Greenberg Gift Supports Pioneering Collaboration

Facilities Foster Academic Excellence The performing arts play a crucial role at the university, fulfilling DePaul’s Vincentian mission to educate both the mind and the heart, awakening within individuals a response that can help them realize their potential as human beings. The Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign for the Performing Arts will help ensure that theatre and music remain important components of university life for the next 100 years. Completing much-needed, state-of-the-art facilities for DePaul’s renowned theatre and music schools is a top focus of the expanded campaign goal. While The Theatre School and School of Music are ranked among the country’s top conservatory-style programs in their respective disciplines, the schools have long been housed in inadequate facilities. The campaign aims to create spaces for DePaul’s theatre and music students to learn their art in facilities commensurate with their respective schools’ national reputation. In addition to highly qualified faculty, strong financial aid and scholarship support, along with easy access to an arts-rich environment like Chicago, every truly excellent performing arts program requires top-notch facilities. These buildings, says John Culbert, dean of The Theatre School, are “physical manifestations of DePaul’s commitment to providing a world-class education and will aid in attracting top faculty and students while facilitating specialized excellence.”

Alumni Giving Key to Campaign Success Gifts at all levels are instrumental toward reaching and exceeding milestones in the Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign for DePaul University. “The historic $30 million gift from Richard Driehaus is the largest among thousands of generous investments by alumni in the Campaign for DePaul University,” says Fr. Holtschneider. “In many ways, the goals

Donna and Jack Greenberg look on as Marc Skvirsky, vice president and chief program officer of Facing History and Ourselves, and DePaul President the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., sign a collaboration agreement at a May event. Chicago Director of Facing History and Ourselves Bonnie Oberman is at right.

A visionary campaign commitment from DePaul alumnus and trustee Jack Greenberg (BUS ’64, LAW ’86, DHL ’99) and his wife, Donna, has led to a first-of-its-kind, multi-year collaboration between DePaul University and the international nonprofit organization Facing History and Ourselves. The collaboration will incorporate Facing History’s acclaimed resources, materials and classroom strategies on civic engagement and social justice throughout programs for working and aspiring teachers in DePaul’s College of Education. The collaboration, with the potential to impact thousands of elementary and high school students, is the first between Facing History and a university college of education. “Facing History and Ourselves has developed very powerful and effective pedagogies and professional development programs for teachers that address some of the most critically urgent issues of our time,” says Fr. Holtschneider. “This agreement strengthens and extends the College of Education’s programming in a manner consistent with the university’s historical commitment to social justice.” For more information on the campaign, including the current fundraising total, please visit campaign.depaul.edu.

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As you know, DePaul University alumni are a wide array of interesting and accomplished people. To celebrate that, every year we choose a group of young alumni whose careers and lives are on the rise—based on nominations from themselves, the faculty members who taught them, their friends, or others who have noticed their achievements. As your university grows—with the addition of two new colleges in the past few years—we increase the number of alumni selected to reflect the ever-evolving opportunities for growth that DePaul offers to those who look for them. We hope you enjoy this seventh annual issue and find it an interesting mix of professions, personal histories and achievements. May it highlight for you, and anyone you share it with, the real measures of a DePaul education—not only professional success, but creativity and satisfaction in other facets of life. You may be inspired to nominate yourself or other alumni for next year’s issue. Just send a few details about your achievements or those of another DePaul graduate. Email us at [email protected].

Seventh Annual Edition

Flying High: SUCCESS STORIES from ALUMNI UNDER 40

Carla Stone (EDU ’97) Math and Science Teacher Nichols Middle School, Evanston

Mitesh Dixit (LAS ’98) Design Director Claus en Kaan Architecten

It’s hard to say what inspires Golden Apple winner Carla Stone more— basketball or chocolate-covered ants.

Mitesh Dixit remembers that he sometimes rolled out of bed to make his evening classes at DePaul in his pajamas. “I was on my own schedule,” he says.

She credits basketball, and in particular DePaul women’s basketball Coach Doug Bruno, with teaching her skills and strategies that she uses in the classroom every day: an intense work ethic, visualizing success, being quick on her feet, service to others and the importance of teamwork.

Although he says he’s been “lucky to be at the right place at the right time” in his career as a successful international architect, it’s tempting to attribute his accomplishments to his ability to create his own way.

“Basketball is like a game of life,” says Stone, who played center and forward for the Blue Demons from 1991 to 1995, followed by 11 years on the pro and semipro circuit abroad. “You have to overcome obstacles and any kind of negative situations, find a way to look at it in a more positive way, persevere.” Teaching, like basketball, should be fun. Stone admires how her 12th-grade biology teacher used “crazy, off-the-wall” tactics such as candied ants to draw students in. She makes math and science just as invigorating for her sixthgraders, who create everything from cooking shows to multimedia presentations. “I’m really focused on reaching all my writers, my performing artists, my architects, my builders, just really understanding that kids learn in so many different ways,” she says. “Credit to Doug, credit to DePaul, for keeping me in tune with the individuality of each child.” Her next challenging population? Introverts. Ebullient by nature, Stone is studying how to work effectively with quiet students during one of the free graduate courses she’s taking, courtesy of the Golden Apple Foundation. She’s close to finishing her book “Path of the Enlightened Teacher: Lessons in Self and Classroom Motivation.” (She also co-authored “Three Diseases of the Prostate” with her father, Albert Stone.) And, she’s collaborating with other Golden Apple winners on ways to address educational issues ranging from poverty to preparing the next generation of teachers. She says that, too, reminds her of DePaul. “I love being associated with an institution that’s known for helping people,” Stone says. “I am very grateful to DePaul for the whole ideology of being a Vincentian. It’s a way of life.”

Instead of becoming a chemical engineer like his father and siblings, Dixit says, “I never thought once about my career” when he came to DePaul. He followed his interests in politics and philosophy, soaking up ideas, conversing with his professors and hanging out with a group of older writers off campus. “DePaul taught me how to think,” he says. Dixit went to graduate school in architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. “I wanted to deal with people, cities, cultures—and I wanted to make something. I chose architecture so I could physically practice politics.” He joined Skidmore, Owings and Merrill after graduation. From the bottom rung of the global firm’s hierarchy, he was scooped up by one of the firm’s partners to work on a crash project to design a tower for Shanghai when everyone else was off for a holiday. “I had never done a tower in my life, so I bought a bunch of books,” Dixit says. He and the partner won the competition and continued to work together. Eventually, he managed his own competition team, running projects that included the Transbay Tower in San Francisco and The New Philippine Stock Exchange in Manila. About three years later, Dixit joined Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), where he worked with founder Rem Koolhass on innovative projects such as the Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan. “The project brings together Rem’s history of working in theatre and my experience in working with towers. You’re constantly evolving—so the idea gets richer and richer as you keep going,” he says. The Taipei project allows the three theatres to function separately or as one and incorporates a vibrant night market that existed on the site. “It was important because it dealt with so many layers—the city, the theatre, the culture— simultaneously. It fulfills the requirement to make a place for a unique theatre experience. The building performs,” Dixit says. Design Director Dixit now works with Claus en Kaan in Rotterdam. “Every year of my life has gotten better,” he says. “I really want to make something with this next step.”

Patricia Esparza (CSH MA ’06, PHD ’09) Assistant Professor, Webster University Geneva Consultant, World Health Organization

Ryan P. Theriault (SNL ’03, LAW ’07) Attorney Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers

Patricia Esparza’s world turned upside down in junior high school. The native of Santa Ana, Calif., was chosen to be educated in elite boarding schools on the East Coast.

Plaintiff’s attorney Ryan Theriault understands law enforcement in a way that many attorneys don’t—from the inside.

“It was very, very difficult. I grew up in a city with 99 percent minorities and went where I was in the 1 percent. But yet it opened up a whole world for me,” she says. Esparza continued to expand her world, studying psychology at Pomona College and then moving to New York to work as a labor organizer for textile workers. “I saw the strength of people’s ability to come together in an organized way and decide on a set of goals that they wanted to achieve to improve everybody’s welfare,” she says. Seeing connections between people’s mental health and their ability to be effective—and the synergy between the community and the individual—Esparza looked for a graduate psychology program that offered a combination of clinical and community study. “DePaul was the only one in the U.S.,” she says. In Professor Bernadette Sanchez, Esparza found a mentor for her focus on community/clinical psychology research, and in Professor Kathryn Grant, she found support for her desire to link academia with public policy changes. Through grants and fellowships they developed, Esparza began to build her career, interning at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva for a summer and also connecting with members of the Illinois State Senate. Today, along with a research and teaching post at Webster University in Geneva, Esparza influences global public health policies through her work with WHO. Her recently published, co-edited book is instrumental in creating a comprehensive international mental health classification system that will be used by mental health professionals around the world. She’s happy living near Geneva with her husband and daughter. “I wanted to be where the world comes. The world comes to Geneva. This is where policy is made,” she says. Esparza is grateful for the opportunities that allowed her to use her abilities. “If I hadn’t been raised in the U.S. where I earned a free education through merit-based scholarships, I would have been lost somewhere,” she says.

In addition to having brothers who are police officers, he worked for a large suburban Chicago police department for eight years. One of his jobs was assigning tasks to offenders sentenced to community service. Rather than sending them all off to pick up trash by the highway, he developed a program to match them with tasks that took advantage of any special skills they had. For example, a carpenter atoning for a drunken driving conviction did his community-service hours with Habitat for Humanity. While Theriault has moved on, the program is still going strong. He now represents plaintiffs in personal injury cases, with a special interest in police and firefighters injured on the job. “Often there’s a David versus Goliath factor, with our little firm taking on large corporations,” Theriault says. “A lot of people won’t stand up to the big companies even if their rights have been violated.” Theriault always knew he wanted to go to DePaul, “if they’d take me.” His father had been a student at DePaul Academy, a boys’ high school formerly affiliated with the university, and inculcated his children with the Vincentian tradition of service. With some prodding from his wife, Theriault earned his undergraduate degree in legal studies from DePaul’s School for New Learning, going to school at night while working. A law degree earned the same way fulfilled a long-held dream. His heart has always been in trial law. “I want to help people, as hokey as it sounds,” he says. “We deal with a lot of tragedy, like we did at the police department. People throw themselves in your lap and cry. Although a psychology degree may have been helpful, this is where my legal training combined with my public service background is really pressed into service.” Theriault, a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, also offers his services pro bono for Prairie State Legal Services. He has volunteered for the Kane County Bar Association’s Ask a Lawyer phone bank and has served as a judge in student moot court competitions.

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Jenny Januszewski (SNL ’02) Director and Actor

Paula Hunsche (CMN MA ’06) Executive Media Director Jacobson Rost

When it comes to a new creative opportunity, Jenny Januszewski goes for it. And she often reaps the rewards.

When Paula Hunsche spoke to a graduate journalism class at DePaul last fall, she “told them to take charge of their careers, know themselves and look for ways to improve the company they are working for,” she says. It’s these tips that have made her more than 13 years in communications so successful.

She moved to Hollywood about three years ago without any work lined up. “All I knew was that there would be warm weather and palm trees. Both are things I’m quite partial to,” she says. Last year, Januszewski walked the red carpet to receive the award for Best Experimental Film at the 3D Film Festival in Hollywood. Two of her feature-length screenplays were selected for the Beverly Hills Film Festival in 2010 and ’11. Januszewski was born in Vietnam and grew up with her Polish-American parents and three siblings on a farm in Springport, Mich. In high school, she discovered a passion for fine art photography, which her parents supported. “Neither were artists themselves, but they created an environment where I was exposed to the arts and encouraged to blaze a path. I think my parents were rather brave that way,” she says. And so was she. When her mom took her and her best friend to meet some of the actors after a performance of “Miss Saigon” at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, one of them said that Januszewski should stay and go to school. “One semester later, I did,” she says. In Chicago, she explored abstract color photography and television and film production. She acted in national commercials and an Equity stage production, toured the country performing in a musical, and signed with modeling and talent agencies. When she landed at the School for New Learning—“after three or four colleges”—she studied international business and media coordination. “At SNL, I gained the most important skill ever—learning how I learn and work best. After attending one of the classes—maybe it was the Lifelong Learning course—I realized that I’m someone who needs an enormous amount to do all at once,” she says. Currently, Januszewski is directing a 2D film based on a short story by Stephen King called “The Boogeyman,” a project that suits her talents and aspirations. “I want to challenge myself with something different. I’ve never attempted an adaptation, and this is my first full-length feature film. “There’s not a huge difference between what I do for dollars and what I do for personal satisfaction. As I get older, I realize what a luxury that is. Whether it’s a motion-picture or still photography, I enjoy creating a story, sharing an emotion and creating the environment in which the subject can best share its journey with the audience.”

Hunsche’s strengths as a writer and presenter led her to major in speech communication at Miami University in Ohio. As she pursued a career in public relations in Chicago, advertising and media caught her interest. Hunsche began her career at Starcom, a leading media agency, as a communications architect. There, she pursued a master’s degree to supplement her experience with an academic background in advertising. “DePaul’s master’s program in advertising and PR was geared toward working professionals. I spoke with professors at the College of Communication, and the diligence with which my questions were answered cemented my desire to attend DePaul.” After earning her master’s degree, Hunsche left Starcom to start her own consulting business. Then she was approached by Mindshare, another global media company, for an interim position leading the team that provided communications support to BP after the Deepwater Horizon Incident in April 2010. “BP was tested like few other companies, and the resources and effort they put toward addressing the incident were remarkable. I had the responsibility of managing the advertising, integrating with the other communication efforts, analyzing those efforts and providing recommendations based on the analysis. It was a true partnership across BP and their agencies,” Hunsche says. Today, as the executive media director at Jacobson Rost, a growing marketing communications company, she manages a team of communications strategists who work with regional and national clients, including Johnson Controls, Kalahari Resorts, Stein Gardens and Gifts, Carl Buddig and BOSS. Using Jacobson Rost’s “Truth to Transactions” approach, Hunsche’s team discovers the truths that their clients are working to achieve, then develops communication strategies and transaction trackers that allow them to apply metrics to their work. “Calculating return on investment allows us to make smarter marketing decisions. It is tools like this that inspire me and drive my recommendations and daily discussions with clients,” Hunsche says. Hunsche, mother to three children under 6, says, “I have to make sure that everyone is getting my best. Balancing work with life is very important to me.”

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P.J. Powers (THE ’95) Co-founder and Artistic Director TimeLine Theatre

Nambi E. Kelley (THE ’95) Playwright and Actress Playwrights Unit, Goodman Theatre

Thankfully, P.J. Powers’ life has not gone according to plan. It’s one reason why TimeLine Theatre was hailed as the country’s Best Company by the Wall Street Journal in 2010.

Like most of her projects, “The Book of Living and Dying” came looking for Nambi E. Kelley.

“The way TimeLine came to be founded is still one of the surprises of my life,” says Powers, who began acting at age 5, was in professional shows by age 12, and came to The Theatre School (TTS) to prepare for a career onstage. He had serious doubts when classmate Nick Bowling (THE ’96) coaxed him and four other TTS graduates into founding a theatre company in 1997—one devoted to history, at that. “My reluctance at first was misinterpreting the phrase ‘history theatre’ as something that’s dry, dusty and overly academic.” Instead, TimeLine has spent the past 15 years riveting audiences through productions that connect the past with the political and social issues of today. Powers was equally reluctant when company members persuaded him to take over as artistic director in 1999. Today, he says, “While I still love acting and occasionally do it, running this company has become not only my main focus, but also my greatest honor.” “In some ways, I never trained a day in my life for this job, and in some ways, everything I did at DePaul trained me for this job,” he says. “I learned about artistic integrity, having a point of view, and using the great gift and platform of theatre purposefully. We try to choose plays that we think will mean something to people, and that was really instilled in me at DePaul.” That’s why he and his classmates run TimeLine differently from most theatres. It’s an artistic collective that democratically chooses which shows to produce. Powers’ job is to hire directors and designers, cast shows, manage marketing and fundraising, and handle the myriad tasks that enable the show to go on. He was thrilled when TimeLine was named 2011 Best Theatre by Chicago Magazine, but he’s even more proud that the company won two national awards for managerial excellence. “One of the secrets to TimeLine’s success … is that from day one we realized that producing great art alone would not necessarily make us a great arts organization. We had to focus as much on being smart business managers as we did on being smart theatre producers,” he says. TimeLine has operated in the black for 15 years. “In many ways, some of those awards mean more to us than those artistic awards, because it speaks to the health behind the scenes, which is essential for the work onstage to happen.”

“I have a firm belief that I don’t choose plays to perform in or to write about. They choose me,” says Kelley, who partnered with director Chong Tze Chien and fellow playwrights/actors Oliver Chong of Singapore and Antonio Ianniello of Italy to adapt “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” and perform it at the Singapore Arts Festival earlier this year. Loosely based on the Tibetan reincarnation system, the play “focuses on a relationship between a mother and a daughter, echoing the book’s premise that every relationship you have is not a singular event in history, but one that is repeated in the consciousness of every individual,” says Kelley. Similar themes are woven through the play she is writing for Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, “For Her as a Piano,” about how the lives of three generations of women interconnect across time, space, memory and music. “This play … is one of the most important pieces of work I've ever embarked upon because it is so personally connected to my own journey as a woman and artist,” she says. Her journey began when Kelley wrote a piece about her family that was so good she used it to audition for plays. She enrolled in The Theatre School as a playwright, continued to act, and has successfully blended the two ever since. Her award-winning plays have been produced from New York to Los Angeles. She recently was commissioned by the American Blues Theatre to adapt “Native Son” for the stage, and she received a full scholarship to do a writing residency at the Norman Mailer Institute this summer. Her stage work, which includes performances with the Goodman, Steppenwolf and Victory Gardens theatres in Chicago, is equally acclaimed and includes three national tours in South Korea. Kelley says her work with “The Book of Living and Dying” is particularly challenging because she herself is dealing with the death of a loved one. “When other actors embody the roles I’ve written, there is a mask, a cover of sorts. Here, where I am performing what I've co-written, there is no mask. It is me out there naked, with something that I am still grappling with in my personal life, and it's painful. “I try to remember that by engaging fully in the material, it is bringing peace and quiet to someone who may witness it and is living the same thing.”

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Agnieszka Rapacz (BUS ’99) Owner TeaGschwendner USA

Jon Harris (LAS ’95, MS ’00) Founder and President Athlife and the Athlife Foundation

To see Agnieszka Rapacz in Chicago’s North State Street retail location of TeaGschwendner is to catch her excitement about tea. She dips into bins to offer visitors smells and tastes of trend teas—macadamia, raspberry chocolate, blueberry—and the best versions of classics, such as Earl Gray, Darjeeling and jasmine.

Jon Harris studied political science as an undergraduate at DePaul, but it was his four years on the basketball team that shaped his career—not as a pro athlete, but as a person who helps athletes with their transition into the postathletic life.

Rapacz recently acquired TeaGschwendner USA, making her a partner in the largest retail tea company in the world—Tea & Beyond, doing business as TeaGschwendner. Formerly the chief financial officer of its U.S. business, she finds that the Germany-based company’s dedication to quality and her high standards are a match.

When NFL players retire, for example, Harris says, 78 percent end up broke, divorced, or battling substance abuse, sometimes all three, within a year. Many never finished college or otherwise planned ahead.

“I’ve visited the facility twice already, and I’ve seen the high-tech laboratory where they test the tea. They go directly to tea gardens all over the world. It’s all organic, and we win awards every year,” she says.

To help former athletes, Harris founded Athlife in 2004 to provide the kind of one-on-one counseling and coaching that professional leagues generally don’t. Previously, he’d been manager of player development for the National Football League and had founded, with fellow alumnus Tom Kowalski (CMN ’98), its continuing education program to help players with degree completion and preparation for graduate school.

Rapacz, who grew up in Poland, came to the United States with her family as a high school senior. “Learning English was the hardest part,” Rapacz says. At school, she excelled in mathematics and accounting, entering a state competition. She chose DePaul for college, hearing from friends that the university had good programs in business and accounting.

Athlife contracts with many professional and collegiate sports organizations, including the NFL Players Association, the NBA Retired Players Association, the Major League Soccer Players Union and the Atlanta Falcons. The organization also has contracted with more than 40 college and university athletics departments since its inception.

“I became a commerce major right away. The program is very well organized, very well put together. DePaul teaches at an advanced level, which includes the teaching of accounting on the state and federal level, which is nice to see, and I got very well prepared for taxation,” Rapacz says.

Harris got his start with the National Consortium of Academics and Sports, an organization to help student-athletes with the “student” part, after earning his bachelor’s at DePaul. The job was based at DePaul, where he also earned a master’s degree, writing his thesis on how athletes make transitions to non-athletic life.

Rapacz progressed in accounting positions for various manufacturing companies. By then she had two children. In 2002, she experienced kidney failure. “It just happened out of nowhere,” she says. After dialysis, a kidney transplant from her sister, and months of therapy and recovery, she joined Finn-Power, where she found a great mentor in her CFO. “I was a senior accountant there and accelerated to a controller. When I left the company, I was ready for a CFO position,” she says. In 2011, Rapacz also was ready to represent the United States in the World Transplant Games in Sweden. She swam her way to two gold medals and a silver, and she was inspired by her fellow athletes, who were all “friendly, happy and thankful,” she says. The same can be said for her.

Currently, Harris is moving Athlife’s pro activities into a not-for-profit foundation that promotes academic success for high school athletes. “Our focus has turned to working with kids and trying to fix the problems before they start,” he says. A native of upstate New York, Harris played basketball in high school and had heard of the Blue Demons and Coach Joey Meyer. He was looking for an urban campus with a mid-sized student body and the potential for him to learn to coach basketball. He phoned Meyer, who called him back personally and promised they’d find a spot for him in the basketball program if he chose DePaul. “That sold me,” says Harris, who made his way on to the team as a freshman walk-on and earned a scholarship as a senior. “It worked out beyond what I was hoping for. DePaul is a welcoming, family place.”

Kellie Willis (LAS MA ’10) Director Vincentian Service Corps

Dennis Kass (LAW ’06) Teacher, Infinity Math, Science and Technology High School Founder, Chicago Law and Education Foundation

College graduates who experience a gap year before they settle into a job sometimes find their lives take an unexpected turn. Kellie Willis says her year was “a total and utter surprise.”

While earning a DePaul law degree—he already had a master’s in education from the University of Michigan—Dennis Kass planned to open a free legal clinic at the school where he would eventually teach. When he started teaching at Infinity Math, Science and Technology High School, he learned that needed to be sooner rather than later.

With her undergraduate degree from Marquette University and a plan to become a librarian in hand, Willis spent a year as a Gateway Vincentian Volunteer (GVV), serving people living in poverty in St. Louis, her hometown. She worked at a social service agency established by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and lived in community with other young volunteers. Today—11 years later—she mentors volunteers in the program that changed her life. Willis explains this course of events by her spiritual journey. Raised as a Presbyterian, she met a Jesuit priest at Marquette who influenced her spiritual life and connected her with Catholic social teaching. “I didn’t have experience in service as a child. I didn’t really feel that spark until college, until I really found a home in a faith community,” she says. During her time in GVV, Willis says she learned about “Vincentian charism and asking that Vincentian question: ‘What must be done?’ For me, that was kind of like, ‘Yes, that’s my question, and this is my identity, and I want to be doing this.’” After a year as a GVV, Willis chose DePaul University for her graduate work, finding the Vincentian spirit in the people she met on campus. She also found that her Master of Arts in liberal studies program was a good choice. “I love to learn. It was a perfect fit for me. … It really prepares you for intellectual thinking, new ways of thinking.” In the summer of 2008, Willis took a leave from her studies to teach English to sixth-graders in Ethiopia, an initiative of the Vincentian Lay Missionaries. She says this rich experience prompted her to participate in an international lay Vincentian missionary conference in Bogota, Columbia. She hopes to return to Ethiopia and to become more involved internationally. In her position as director of the Vincentian Service Corps, soon to be merged with GVV and renamed the Vincentian Mission Corps, she guides volunteers learning about the Vincentian mission. Willis hopes “they find some desire to serve people who are struggling in poverty or injustice” and learn to “treat everybody with dignity, to carry themselves like servants in whatever they do, and appreciate community as the basis for positive interaction and positive change.”

“My first year here I had this impromptu clinic, which was kids running up to me in the hallway after class asking questions,” says Kass. “My second year here, we started a full legal clinic once a week after school.” His students helped him organize and advertise the clinic and served as translators. The following year, he incorporated his own non-profit legal services agency, Chicago Law and Education Foundation, and launched legal clinics at four other schools. Today, the foundation has nine clinics serving Chicago Public Schools students and their families. Kass covers some of the clinics while still teaching full time, and the rest are operated by a handful of dedicated volunteer attorneys. “I really love teaching and running my clinic,” Kass says. “It’s a unique and innovative way to address the legal needs of lots of low-income families.” Kass says the biggest help in starting the clinic and foundation was working in DePaul’s Community Development Law Clinic. “It was practical legal experience that allowed me to make this project happen.” Kass’ primary work is to connect his clients with legal resources they may not know about. “Most low-income families don’t know they have a legal problem. When they do have a legal problem, they don’t know where to go.” To that end, the foundation has partnerships with a number of organizations— including DePaul’s Center for Public Interest Law, First Defense Legal Aid, National Immigrant Justice Center and Chicago Coalition for the Homeless— that can take their cases or provide them with assistance. The foundation also teaches students about the law. Under Kass’ guidance, students work on issues that concern them, such as the DREAM Act and domestic violence. Two of their research projects have been accepted for presentation at the American Sociological Association annual meeting. Last year, students presented a paper on racial discrimination in the rental housing market on Craigslist. This year, they will present their immigration rights study. “That’s with two 15-year-old students. They will be the only high schoolers there presenting with professors and researchers,” Kass says.

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Megan Etlinger (CDM MS ’09) Associate Producer WYCC-TV

Samuel Delgado (BUS ’03) Senior Finance Manager Abbott Laboratories

When Megan Etlinger first started college, she aspired to be a dentist. But learning about cinema and the power of media led her down a new path. “You can really affect people in different ways, open people’s eyes to things, and that’s what drew me in,” she says.

People skills, technical expertise, flexibility—Sammy Delgado has it all. No wonder his career trajectory goes straight up.

She gained her first production experience at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s campus housing television station. “I had this awesome mentor who was really good at showing us how to take a project from beginning to end and make it a TV show,” says Etlinger, who won a Bronze Telly Award for one of the shows she produced as a student. She then entered DePaul’s digital cinema graduate program and started at PBS affiliate WYCC-TV (Channel 20) after completing her first year. Etlinger says she enjoys working at the public television station because of the opportunities she has to tell stories and encourage community involvement and because of the station’s focus on diversity. In addition to weekly shows that air on the station, Etlinger works on special forums that focus on community topics and issues, like Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Facebook town hall meetings and a forum with talk show host and author Tavis Smiley. She was one of the producers of “Chicago Sinfonietta: Sounds of Diversity,” the Emmy Awardwinning documentary about the life and contributions of maestro Paul Freeman, Chicago Sinfonietta founder and its retired music director. “Getting to tell stories that people can learn and grow from is motivating,” she says. “PBS is beneficial to communities, and I’m glad I’m there helping to create programming like this.” Since joining WYCC, Etlinger created and now coordinates the station’s internship, production assistant and shadow programs for students interested in pursuing a career in television. “It’s cool to have students who are excited to be a part of something like this and watch them grow and gain experience,” she says. “I was there a few years ago, so it’s nice to be there for them.” Etlinger soaks up all the knowledge she can—from projects she works on, from mentors and co-workers, and even from the experiences of her older brother, a film director in California—and says she’s been able to take advantage of all these opportunities with her family’s support. “Family is a key element of my success. My parents have been my support, and I’m just lucky to have such a wonderful network of friends and family.”

After graduating from the DePaul Strobel Scholars accounting honors program, he joined Abbott as a financial analyst and progressed rapidly through its financial professional development program, working in various locations. The six following years included more moves and a few promotions. Delgado and his wife, Fabiola, also in finance at Abbott, moved to Wiesbaden, Germany, for two and a half years. There, Delgado managed financial planning for Abbott’s Middle East and Africa region. Along with his financial and technical expertise, Delgado’s people skills contribute to his success in working cross-functionally with marketing and sales, research and development, manufacturing and supply chain and other groups—which is why he says he thrives in a large company such as Abbott. “As much as I’m a technical accounting guy, I’m a very social person as well, so I can take my technical accounting skills and apply them in a business environment beyond just debits and credits and financial statements. It was easy to come here and know that there was going to be room for growth.” Delgado says that there were “lots of venues to work on those skills” at DePaul. As a member of the first DePaul Midwest Association of Hispanic Accountants (MAHA) case competition team, which won first place nationally, he gained “great experience in terms of taking complex business topics and presenting them to partners and other senior managers from companies at a national level.” Some of his classes “were very strategic management-based,” he says. Today, as a senior finance manager for Abbott in Lake Forest, Ill., Delgado shares his time and expertise. He helps coach MAHA students for case competitions, mentors young accounting professionals and supports his profession. As a former board member of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting, he says, “Being involved in various organizations, especially as a board member, you get to develop yourself to a certain extent, but really, a big part of it is serving the rest of the members.” Delgado grew up in a family who served their community through the church. He connected with the Vincentian mission of service at DePaul, and those values inform his hopes for the future. “My goal is to continue in the organization and to lead a broader piece of it. I’d like to stay involved in global decisions. I want to learn new things so I can pass that knowledge and those experiences on to those who come after me,” he says.

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Jon Irabagon (MUS ’02) Saxophonist

Brooke Anderson (CMN MA ’09) Press Secretary for Ill. Gov. Patrick Quinn

Saxophonist Jon Irabagon gets around: touring with Michael Bublé, leading or co-leading half a dozen bands of different configurations, playing as a side man with half a dozen others, recording CDs, and connecting with new jazz communities when he’s booked for tours in Europe. (A current favorite is Bergen, Norway.) He’s won a slew of competitions and awards, including the 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and the 2011 DownBeat International Critics’ Poll Alto Saxophone Rising Star Award. He also was nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association in both the Up and Coming Artist and Tenor Saxophonist of the Year categories for its 2011 Jazz Awards.

Brooke Anderson occupies one of the hottest seats in Illinois as press secretary to Gov. Patrick Quinn, the outspoken leader of a state facing financial crises on every front. She bounces between Chicago and Springfield, tours the state and even goes abroad occasionally. Days off are rare, and tough questions from the press are almost constant. But she wouldn’t have it otherwise.

Though Irabagon currently lives in New York, it was in Chicago that he first developed his jazz chops. From suburban Gurnee, he took up alto saxophone in fourth grade and piano shortly thereafter, but didn’t consider a career in music until high school. Bob Lark, DePaul’s director of jazz studies, gave clinics at Irabagon’s high school and drew him to the School of Music. He majored not in music performance, but in music business with a minor in journalism. “I figured I wouldn’t be in school forever, and I needed to learn as much as I could,” he says, adding that the business training has been invaluable in helping him manage his career. He used the city’s jazz scene to hone his skills, with a regular Sunday night gig at Andy’s and appearances at many other venues, including the legendary Jazz Showcase. “Chicago was such a big city with so many different venues and styles,” Irabagon says. “It was a chance to immerse myself.” Irabagon moved to New York in 2001 to study with saxophonist and jazz educator Dick Oatts, who was then teaching at the Manhattan School of Music. They met when Oatts was a guest artist at DePaul. New York was the next step in creating a serious music career. Irabagon earned a master’s degree in jazz performance and then went on to the Juilliard School for two fully subsidized years in its highly selective artist diploma program. Irabagon is thankful for his undergraduate years in Chicago. “If I had moved here right out of high school, I would be competing against the top guys,” he says. “Five years in Chicago really helped me get my feet wet and get used to playing gigs at that high level.”

“Working for Quinn is the best opportunity of my life,” says Anderson, a selfconfessed political junkie. “The challenges are so dire and threaten every area of government. I wouldn’t take this position for just any elected official. Quinn is committed to giving working people a voice.” Quinn is battling to solve a pension crisis caused by decades of fiscal mismanagement and to contain the burgeoning costs of Medicaid without gutting health care for the poor. The state is facing what Anderson calls a “do or die moment,” and it’s her job to get Quinn’s message out, even when it won’t please everyone—or anyone. Anderson credits DePaul with providing the fuel to help her passion for politics catch fire into a career. A Florida native, she moved to Chicago in 2007 after an hourlong phone conversation with Professor Bruce Evensen convinced her that DePaul was the place to pursue graduate study in journalism. She’d been working at a public relations firm in Florida for health- and lifestyle-related accounts, but her heart was with politics. She was attracted by the school’s commitment to ethics and sense of mission, as well as its top-notch faculty and connections in local media. Evensen, in particular, taught her how to evaluate whether news stories were fair—a skill that’s proving indispensable in her current job. Instructor Mike Conklin, a former Chicago Tribune reporter, introduced her to Serafin and Associates, a public affairs communications firm that employed her while she was in school. “I was so engaged in every class I took at DePaul,” she says. “It was just really, really fun.” Anderson doesn’t know where her career will go from here, but for now, it doesn’t matter. “I am so focused on getting through each day, and the hours fly by,” she says. “I go to bed exhausted every night. It’s really challenging, but the governor is leading us in the right direction. I’d rather be involved when times are tough and be part of the upward surge.”

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Hall of Fame Coaching

The Rise and Fall of

DePaul Football

College Football Hall of Fame Coach Eddy Anderson compiled a 21-22-3 record at DePaul before leaving for the College of the Holy Cross, where he had a record of 47-7-4 from 1933 to 1938, including undefeated seasons in 1935 and 1937.

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The “Red and Blue,” as they were known, played intercollegiate ball from 1898 to 1938. Most home games were played at the DePaul Athletic Field on the Lincoln Park Campus, but big matches were played at Wrigley Field. Here are some of the team’s historic moments.

1900

1929

1898

A Crowd of 50,000

An Early Team When St. Vincent’s College, soon to become DePaul University, was formed in 1898, it fielded a football team. The team of 1900 played when the school was still an all-male institution.

Some 50,000 fans packed Soldier Field to watch DePaul University play Loyola University Chicago for the annual Battle of the Ole’ Brown Barrel at the 1929 homecoming game. Loyola closed down its football program in 1929, leaving DePaul and the University of Chicago as the only major teams in the city.

1931

Go Harrington! Gerald Harrington was a standout in the early 1930s. The 1932 DePaulian yearbook wrote: “Harrington is a man who is hard to stop. His form might be brought to the turf, but his spirit is never stopped. He is a good ball-carrier and also a smart one. A ninety-yard run back of a kickoff for a touchdown proved his adeptness during the past season. Two years ago, when the tide was against De Paul in one of its big battles at Soldier Field, it was Red Harrington who carried on most valiantly.”

DePaul Fans Dwindle Each game averaged tens of thousands of attendees from 1929 to 1931. During the final four seasons, DePaul averaged less than 30 percent of its 5,000 students at any one game despite several successful seasons.

1932

1935 1938

Final Score: 0 Last Squad, Few Fans In its final season in 1938, the DePaul football team went 2-7 and had the worst student attendance of any year to date. Fewer than 1,000 fans attended the homecoming game.

On Dec. 13, 1938, DePaul announced that it would no longer have a football program. A large article on the front page of the Chicago Tribune sports section chalked the cancellation up to student apathy and financial loss by the university.

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Join the Celebration at Reunion Weekend 2012

Giving Update The following alumni gave their generous support to DePaul University from February 2012 through April 2012.

Mark your calendars and start planning your return to campus because Reunion Weekend 2012 is just around the corner. Get ready for a full schedule of activities devoted to commemorating your time at DePaul, reconnecting with old friends and

$30,000,000 n Richard H. Driehaus (BUS ’65, MBA ’70, DHL ’02), The Richard H.

Driehaus College of Business

remembering everything you love about your alma mater. This year, Reunion Weekend takes place Oct. 12 to 14. All DePaul alumni are invited to attend, regardless of class year, so we hope you’ll join hundreds of graduates and friends for a trip down memory lane. Alumni celebrating a milestone anniversary—those who graduated in years ending in “2” or “7”

$100,000 to $499,999 n Robert A. Clifford (BUS ’73, JD ’76, LLD ’03) and Joan E. Clifford

(EDU ’72), Robert A. Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy n Malcolm D. Lambe (JD ’84) and Linda Usher, The Theatre School

Performing Arts Capital Campaign

—will enjoy special recognition throughout the weekend. On Friday, Oct. 12, the class of 1962 will be inducted into the Fifty Year Club at the Reunion Luncheon, which is always a memorable event. Friday evening, recent alumni are encouraged to mingle with fellow graduates from the past five years at the Young Alumni Reunion.

$25,000 to $49,999 n Frederick S. Cromer (MBA ’91) and Catherine Hanley Cromer,

Fred Arditti Endowed Scholarship n The Honorable Richard D. Cudahy (LLD ’95), Public Interest Law

Summer Fellows n Fran Ferrone (BUS ’53) and Don Ferrone, Henry and Fannie

On Saturday, Oct. 13, the Reunion Celebration will bring together DePaul alumni from near and far for a cocktail reception at the Palmer House Hilton. This festive occasion also will honor former

Ferrone - American Sightseeing Co. Endowed Scholarship in Hospitality Leadership n Anne Perillo Michuda (MM ’75) and the Michuda Family,

School of Music Performing Arts Capital Campaign

Campus Recreation student employees, as well as alumni who were resident advisors during their time at DePaul. At the Hotel InterContinental, College of Law alumni who graduated in years ending in “2” or “7” will gather to celebrate their reunion anniversaries. On Sunday, Oct. 14, all reunion classes are invited to attend the

New Planned Gifts The following alumni indicated that they will support DePaul University through a planned or estate gift of $25,000 or more.

Reunion Weekend Brunch at the Lincoln Park Student Center. n Kenneth C. Barr (LAW ’49)

To register, visit alumni.depaul.edu/reunion.

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Jumpstart Your Professional Development with an Alumni Career Conference Call “Enhancing Your Personal Brand.” “Job Searching While Employed.” “Over 40 and Hired.” These were just a few of the topics offered during recent Alumni Career Conference Calls. The monthly teleconference provides alumni with the opportunity to access valuable career advice and learn from experts in the DePaul community, including faculty, staff and fellow alumni. With DePaul graduates scattered throughout the country and internationally, these teleconferences make it easy for you to stay connected to DePaul and utilize your alma mater’s career services. The live Alumni Career Conference Calls take place on the second Wednesday of every month at noon CST. On Sept. 12, the next slate of conference calls gets under way with “Incorporating Alumni Career Resources in Your Job Search.” For more information, please visit alumni.depaul.edu/benefits/career/index.aspx.

Legacy Gift: From Students for Students Thanks to the generosity of the graduating class, more than 1,400 gifts were made to the Class of 2012 Legacy Gift, totaling more than $17,500 that will be used to assist in scholarship aid to deserving students and to various programs and departments across the university. This is only the second year of the Legacy Gift, an opportunity that allows students to give back directly to the students who follow them—via the general scholarship fund or a program or department of the student’s choosing. Last year, the Class of 2011 raised more than $11,000, with over 900 gifts made. The Legacy Gift is a unique opportunity to give back to the university, student to student. Through the Legacy Gift, students are able to ensure future generations of DePaul students have the same experiences they had while attending the university—many of which would not be possible without the generosity of donors. Students who donate are given a special cord to wear at commencement to show their support for future generations of students.

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’50s Edward Buron (LAS ’57) became a member of the advisory board for the Benedictine University Center for Lifelong Learning. The center is part of the university’s Moser College of Adult and Professional Studies in Naperville, Ill.

’60s

Reunion Years: 1962 and 1967

Malcolm O’Neill (CSH ’62) received the 2012 Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Award for his outstanding support and leadership of the United States’ ballistic missile defense program. A veteran of 34 years of active military service, he retired as a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army following a highly decorated career. Most recently, he was assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology.

’70s

Reunion Years: 1972 and 1977

Mark J. Horne (JD ’73), a partner at Quarles & Brady LLP, was named a 2012 BTI Client Service All-Star in Real Estate by The BTI Consulting Group Inc. Laura A. Ross-White (THE ’76) is a founding member of the Asylum Theatre Company and is the assistant director of its current production, “The Tempest.” The production was chosen by the Royal Shakespeare Company to participate in the Open Stages project, which recognizes new adaptations of Shakespeare’s work. Ross-White also is the manager of the Gallery Shop at Gallery North and is the artistic director of The Oberon Foundation. She is married to artist Christian White. Cathy S. Hampton (LAS ’77, MA ’81) was admitted to the Ph.D. program in systematic and philosophical theology at the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley, for the 2012-2013 academic year. She recently completed a master’s degree in spirituality at Loyola University Chicago.

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Stephen W. Micatka (BUS ’77, MBA ’85) has decided to retire and pursue his next career, after spending 27 years in financial management at Illinois Tool Works Inc. He is not yet clear on his future plans, but they certainly will involve relaxing a bit, cheering on our Blue Demons and traveling with his wife, Lenore Micatka (BUS ’77, MBA ’85), who retired from Morton Salt two years ago. William S. Bike (LAS ’79) recently published the third edition of his political science book, “Winning Political Campaigns,” this time as an e-book. He is a journalist, public relations professional and political pundit.

’80s

Reunion Years: 1982 and 1987

James P. McKay Jr. (CMN ’80), an assistant state’s attorney in Illinois, was the prosecutor in the Chicago trial on the killing of the family of actress Jennifer Hudson. He heads the complex litigations task force in the Cook County office and has prosecuted many high-profile cases. William W. Crossett (JD ’81) was inducted as a fellow of The College of Workers Compensation Lawyers. He is a founder and vice president of the Injured Workers Bar Association of New York. Richard J. Gorny (BUS ’81, MBA ’89) formed his own company in 2011 and is now president and CEO of Value Creation: Management and Financial Consulting LLC. Previously, he was director of risk management at Follett Higher Education from 2005 through 2010. Jamie T. O’Reilly (MUS ’81) created and performed a spring showcase, “Songs of a Catholic Childhood,” with singer Michael Smith in April. The shows were matched with a special prix-fixe menu at Chief O’Neill’s Pub and Restaurant in Chicago. Robert E. Douglas (JD ’82) was appointed an associate judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit. He is currently affiliated with the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office in Wheaton, Ill.

Robert W. Smyth Jr. (JD ’82) was named to the Illinois Super Lawyers list as one of the top attorneys in the state for 2012, a recognition he has received in consecutive years since 2004. He practices at Donohue Brown Matheson & Smyth LLC defending catastrophic injury and high exposure cases.

Bradford J. White (JD ’85) was appointed associate director at the Alphawood Foundation Chicago. He has more than 25 years of professional and volunteer experience in community and economic development, affordable housing, preservation, public policy and advocacy.

Steven A. Betts (JD ’83) joined the Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University as its senior vice president and managing director of assets. He is former president and CEO of SunCor Development Company.

G. Allen Barbee (MM ’86) was appointed the director of music ministries at Chamblee First United Methodist Church in Chamblee, Ga., and remains director of bands at St. Martin’s Episcopal School in Atlanta as well as music director and conductor of Peachtree Symphonic Winds.

Stephan D. Blandin (LAS ’83, JD ’86) received a Trial Lawyer Excellence Award from Law Bulletin Publishing Company for the highest reported verdict in an Illinois chiropractic malpractice case for 2011. He is a founding principal and partner in the Chicago law firm of Romanucci & Blandin LLC. Rose M. Doherty (BUS ’83) was appointed to the Illinois CPA Society board of directors. She is a partner at Legacy Professionals LLP.

David J. Kalainoff (MBA ’83) was promoted to president and chief underwriting officer of U.S. reinsurance at Alterra Capital Holdings Ltd. He has been with the company since 2002 and previously worked with its Bermuda division. John H. Wallace (MUS ’83) conducted the premiere of his new work, “Five Miniatures,” in February in Boston. The work, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass, was commissioned by Theodore Antoniou and Boston University’s contemporary music ensemble. He is the director of undergraduate studies in the School of Music at the Boston University College of Fine Arts. Leslie Schermer (JD ’85, MED ’99) was appointed unanimously as regional superintendent of schools in McHenry County. Previously, she served as assistant principal at LaSalle Language Academy in Chicago.

Steven C. Rubinow (CDM MS ’86) is chief information officer for FX Alliance Inc., an electronic foreign exchange platform. For the past six years, he was executive vice president and CIO of NYSE Euronext Inc. Jeffrey J. Kroll (BUS ’87, JD ’90), principal of the Law Offices of Jeffrey J. Kroll, was selected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. The invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society includes less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Kroll uses his 21 years of experience representing injured victims and their families at his Chicagobased personal injury law firm. Kwame Raoul (LAS ’87), an Illinois state senator, joined the national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP. He will work in the Chicago office as a partner in the labor and employment group. Allison L. Wood (JD ’87), after serving the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission as hearing board chair and litigation counsel, started her own firm, Legal Ethics Consulting P.C. The firm provides preventive ethics counseling, research for ethics inquiries, disciplinary and malpractice defense, and expert evaluations.

Richard H. Gellersted (JD ’88), a volunteer attorney for Lake Bluff, Ill.-based BENNU Legal Services, recently served as a judge in the opening round of the American Mock Trial Association competition. BENNU Legal Services is a nonprofit legal aid agency that provides assistance to immigrants transitioning into the United States and to entrepreneurial small businesses.

’90s

Reunion Years: 1992 and 1997

William Williams (JD ’90) was appointed companywide chief financial officer of H. D. Smith, one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical wholesalers. Previously, he was the company’s interim CFO. Stephen T. Powell (MM ’91, MUS ’93) appeared in the concert performance of Franz Schmidt’s opera “Notre Dame” by the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein. According to a New York Times review, “The rich-voiced baritone Stephen Powell sang with power and authority.” Theodore Aldrich (LAS ’92), president and chief operating officer of Delaware Place Bank in Chicago, was elected to the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association’s board of directors. He will serve a two-year term ending in 2014. He also serves on the dean’s advisory board for DePaul’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Peter T. Chantel (BUS ’92) is chief financial officer at SugarSync, a cloudbased data service with headquarters in San Mateo, Calif. Elizabeth G. Vaughan (SNL ’92) joined Trustmark Voluntary Benefit Solutions as regional sales director for the company’s Midwest region. She has more than 20 years of experience with the past 10 years in voluntary and worksite benefits. Oto R. Carrillo (MUS ’93) was appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra horn section in 2000. He has been teaching horn at DePaul University since 2003.

Chiara L. Mangiameli (THE ’94) was in the cast of “Rick Bayless in Cascabel” at the Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago through April.

Vincent M. Auricchio (JD ’97), of the Auricchio Law Offices, was selected as a National Trial Lawyers Top 40 under 40 in personal injury litigation.

Tara Parks (THE ’94) had a travel feature about New York City in the November 2011 issue of The Market, a magazine appearing in newsstands, first-class cabins and hotels across Europe. She still practices singing and teaches English to German executives.

Michael D. Muhney (THE ’97) was featured in a high-fashion spread in January in Watch magazine. He plays Adam Wilson in CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” and was in the movie “The Portal” with Michael Madsen. He campaigned with NATAS and ATAS for major reform for the Daytime Emmys.

Chris S. Feigum (MUS ’95) performed as Danilo in the Kentucky Opera production of “Merry Widow” and performed Brahms’ “Requiem” with the Kansas City Symphony. Tanya J. Stanish (JD ’95), a Chicago divorce and family law attorney, was promoted to senior partner with the nation’s largest matrimonial law firm, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP. She joined the firm in 2008 as a partner and has more than 16 years of experience in family law. Alexsandra Sukhoy (CMN ’95) is an adjunct professor at the Monte Ahuja College of Business at Cleveland State University. Additionally, she teaches film classes at the Cuyahoga Community College. Sukhov continues her career coaching and writing with Creative Cadence LLC. Margaret A. Larrea (JD ’96), a commander in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, recently returned from a nine-month deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, where she served as the chief of the Rule of Law Division. She is now the executive officer for Naval Legal Service Office Mid-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va. Paul D. McGrady Jr. (JD ’96) joined Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago as a partner in the firm’s advertising, marketing and entertainment law practice. He also teaches cyberlaw as an adjunct professor of law at DePaul’s College of Law. Jeremy W. Robinson (JD ’96) is the senior legal advisor/instructor for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Sarah R. Schaus (MBA ’96) was appointed assistant vice president of treasury of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. She joined Allianz Life in February 2009 as director of treasury and assistant treasurer.

Jeffrey A. Hesser (JD ’98) and Ehren V. Bilshausen (BUS ’99) were both named partner at Cassiday Schade LLP in the firm’s Chicago office. Hesser concentrates on general negligence and medical malpractice defense, while Bilshausen concentrates on construction and transportation-related litigation. Micah E. Marcus (JD ’99), a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, was named an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2012. Ray J. Melton (JD ’99) was named partner at the law firm of SmithAmundsen LLC. He works in the firm’s Rockford, Ill., office in civil litigation, personal injury defense, product liability defense, commercial litigation and insurance coverage. Brent R. Walters (LAS MS ’99) was promoted to vice president of STV, a leading engineering, architectural and construction management firm. He previously was associate general counsel, having joined the firm in 2008 in its New York City office.

’00s

Reunion Years: 2002 and 2007

Kevin W. Douglas (THE ’00) was in the cast of “Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting” at Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre through February. Jisha V. Dymond (BUS ’00) was named counsel at Genova, Burns & Giantomasi. She is a member of the corporate political activity law and appellate law practice groups and is based in the firm’s New York City office.

Colby A. Kingsbury (JD ’00), a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, received the 2011 Charles L. Whistler Award. The award honors a lawyer or consultant at Faegre Baker Daniels who has excelled in pro bono service or has made outstanding contributions to the firm’s pro bono program. David J. Wyrick (MBA ’00) is business unit director of the marine and industrial group for Charles Industries Ltd. His prior experience includes product development and design, marketing, manufacturing and business strategies focused on stored energy solutions. Patrick A. Godon (MUS ’01, MM ’03) is the artistic director of International Chamber Artists. He was also the featured soloist with the Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in November 2011. Alana S. Arenas (THE ’02) was in the cast of “The March” at Steppenwolf Theatre, where she is an ensemble member. She also received a 2012 Alumni Award for Excellence in the Arts from The Theatre School. Jason P. Eckerly (JD ’02) was named shareholder at Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney. He is a litigator in the firm’s Chicago office who focuses on the defense of toxic tort, asbestos and general liability litigation. Hisham A. Alrayes (MBA ’03) is acting CEO for Gulf Finance House, a Bahrainbased Islamic investment bank. He previously was chief investment officer at the corporation, where he has worked since 2007. David J. Corchin’s (MUS ’03) children’s book, “Sam and the Jungle Band,” was published. It is the latest in a series of children’s books that includes “Band Nerds—Poetry from the 13th Chair Trombone Player.” Patrick J. Regan (MBA ’03) is the global brewing and spirits lead with General Electric, where he has worked for more than 12 years. He helped create GE’s “power and beer” commercial with Budweiser, which aired during the 2012 Super Bowl.

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Kelly C. Elmore (JD ’04) joined Kovitz Shifrin Nesbit, a Chicago-area law firm, as a principal in its community association law practice group. Previously, she was a partner at Penland & Hartwell. Ryan W. Kastner (MBA ’04) joined Heartland Bank and Trust Company as vice president in asset management for commercial real estate. He will serve the Chicago metropolitan and suburban market from the company’s Western Springs, Ill., office. Mark M. Lezerkiewicz (MBA ’04) was promoted to manager of the Enterprise Security Program for the Federal Reserve. Kristine Meek (MBA ’04) was appointed assistant director of the Harmon-Meek Gallery in Naples, Fla. She is the eldest daughter of owners William and Barbara Meek. Curt Owens (THE ’04) is the executive assistant to the CEO and a producing associate at NETworks Presentations working on national tours, including “Billy Elliot,” “Les Miserables,” “La Cage Aux Folles,” “Shrek the Musical” and “War Horse.” Christina Toto Lynch (JD ’04) was named an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star in Business Litigation for 2012. Janai E. Brugger-Orman (MUS ’05) is a second-year artist with the Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program. Last season, she appeared as Barbarina in “Le Nozze di Figaro” and the Page in “Rigoletto.” She recently received her master’s degree from the University of Michigan. Nicole M. Homb, D.O., (LAS ’05) was selected to be an intern in the Department of Health Statistics and Informatics with the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, Homb is a practicing doctor of chiropractic and a clinical research fellow in the Master of Science in clinical research program at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.

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Brennan Parks (MFA ’05) produced and directed a short film, “15:2,” which was screened at 12 international film festivals and won Best Horror Comedy Short at the Fear Fete Horror Film Festival in Baton Rouge, La. Parks has worked in postproduction on “Hung,” “Big Love,” “In Treatment,” “The Vampire Diaries” and “Girls.” Mathew T. Siporin (JD ’05) was named as a Rising Star among Illinois litigators by Super Lawyers Magazine. Michelle J. Spellerberg (MBA ’05) became chief marketing officer of Sikich LLP in November 2011. Sikich, headquartered in Naperville, Ill., is a top accounting, advisory, technology and managed services firm for midmarket organizations. Spellerberg was formerly with CareerBuilder as the senior director of emerging media solutions. Laura B. Bacon (JD ’06) joined O’Hagan Spencer as a litigation associate in the firm’s Chicago office. She focuses on employment, professional liability and condominium association law. Phillip Brannon (THE ’06) was in the cast of “The March” at Steppenwolf Theatre. Also in the cast were Shannon R. Matesky (THE ’10), who played Pearl, and understudies Lucy T. Sandy (THE MFA ’10) and Derek N. Gaspar (THE MFA ’11). Szymon M. Gurda (CDM MS ’06, JD ’06) was named partner at Cherskov, Flaynik & Gurda LLC. The firm specializes in intellectual property issues for smalland medium-sized clients. Cecelia J. Hall (MUS ’06) appeared in Lyric Opera of Chicago productions of “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “Aida” and “Rinaldo” this past season. She made her Chicago Opera Theater debut in the title role of Handel’s “Teseo.” According to a Chicago Tribune review, “the gleamingvoiced mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall, a rising star of Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center, is headed for an important career.” Sara M. Poorman (THE ’06) is the director of marketing for Curious Theatre Company in Denver.

Jason N. Abrahams (MBA ’07) joined Club Colors, a global provider of promotional products and branded apparel, as marketing manager. He came to the company after serving as vice president of marketing at Elgin, Ill.-based National Gift Card. Jiyeon Choi (JD ’07) is staff attorney for Lake Bluff, Ill.-based BENNU Legal Services, a nonprofit legal aid agency that provides assistance to immigrants transitioning into the United States and to entrepreneurial small businesses. Timothy Frank (THE ’07) and Jessica Rosenberger (THE ’07) are in a short film, “Anatomy of Numbers,” which was shown at multiple international and independent film festivals in California. Amanda D. Powell (THE ’07) was in “Bachelorette” at Profiles Theatre. Michael R. Shoemaker (MBA ’07) is the chief compliance officer for Driehaus Capital Management LLC and Driehaus Mutual Funds in Chicago. Cortney S. Closey (JD ’08) is on the Illinois Rising Stars list as one of the top up and coming attorneys in the state. She concentrates her practice at Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth in product liability, professional negligence and commercial litigation defense. Leanne G. Medeiros (THE ’08) is the director of education and community outreach at Performance Workshop Theatre in Baltimore. Christina Nieves (THE ’08), Sean Parris (THE ’11) and Levenix Riddle (THE ’11) appeared in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Bryan Wilson (JD ’08) was named an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2012. Kimberly Dawson (SNL ’09, MA ’11) is a volunteer for the University of Chicago at the school’s Hyde Park Campus. Keira A. Fromm (MFA ’09) directed “Enfrascada” at the 16th Street Theatre in Berwyn, Ill. Rebecca L. Robinson (MUS ’09), a mezzo-soprano, won first place in the North Shore Chorale Society Competition for young artists.

Andrew J. Thompson (MUS ’09) was named the contrabassoon for the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. A St. Louis native, he was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and its outreachoriented MusiCorps Woodwind Quintet. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras in Chicago and Boston. Ian M. Tobin (LAS ’09) will be a fellow in Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office for summer 2012. He will conduct research for the mayor’s senior staff on several policies related to community stabilization.

’10s Wilma-Marie Cisco (THE ’10) directed “Baseball Music: The Sweetest Sound” with MPAACT at the Greenhouse Theater Center last spring. Cisco is MPAACT’s director of audience development, the resident stage manager and a company member. Alexander W. Konetzki (JD ’10) became an associate in the FEC compliance and vetting department of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Lindsay B. Metzger (MUS ’10) won third place in the Musicians Club of Women Scholarship Competition in March, winning a $7,500 scholarship, membership to the club and a recital in the Cultural Center. She also performed as Daphne in the Haymarket Opera Company’s production of Charpentier’s “La Descente d’Orphee aux Enfers.” Ginny Cascio (JD ’11) joined McMillan Metro P.C. in Rockville, Md., and assists clients with business, employment, intellectual property and artist’s rights issues. Noah M. Hayman (THE ’11) designed the lighting for “Jack’s Precious Moment” at Will Act For Food Theatre last winter. Azar Kazemi (MFA ’11) directed the show. Patricia L. Lavery (MFA ’11) was in the cast of “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” at Emerald City Children’s Theatre.

Chris A. Rickett (MFA ’11) was in the cast of “The Strange and Terrible True Tale of Pinocchio (the wooden boy) as told by Frankenstein’s Monster the Wretched Creature” with the Neo-Futurists. Kristen M. Staky (THE ’11) is the in-house ventilator and the assistant head of special effects at Nigel’s Beauty Emporium in Los Angeles.

Kathleen A. Clair (BUS MS ’08) and her husband, Ron, happily announce the birth of their second son, Andrew James, who arrived on Feb. 22, 2012. Andrew was welcomed home by his big brother, Tyler.

Marriages & Engagements

In Memoriam

Gianfranco Berardi (CDM ’04) is engaged to Laura Riordan. They will marry in May 2012.

Lord, we commend to you the souls of our dearly departed. In your mercy and love, grant them eternal peace.

Issa Alia (BUS ’09) is engaged to Natalie Balicki (BUS ’09). A fall 2012 wedding and reception is planned in Lockport, Ill., and Chicago. Patrick Emling (CDM MS ’10) and Jennifer McCafferty (LAS MA ’11) will be married June 30, 2012, in Cincinnati at St. Ursula’s Chapel.

Births & Adoptions Eric P. Seaborg (JD ’97) and his wife, Christina, are proud to announce the birth of daughters Alex and Sophia on April 3, 2011. The twins were welcomed home by their big brother, Jake. Michelle M. Stopka (CMN ’99) and her husband, Michael, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Evan Nathaniel, welcomed with love on Jan. 27, 2012. Evan joined big brother Vance, 18 1/2 months. Dan P. Green (BUS ’01) and Melinda Green (CSH ’01) welcomed their daughter, Ella Inez, on March 10, 2012.

Alumni Harold T. Berc (LAW ’37) Genevieve R. Mueller (LAS ’38) Jack F. Bussert (CSH ’47) Harvey W. Keller (LAW ’49) William H. Rhoden (CSH MS ’49) Andrew M. Sutton (BUS ’49) Dorothy Keenan (LAS ’50) C. Frederick Leydig (JD ’50) June C. Oda (MUS ’50) Francis E. Youssi (JD ’50) Delphine Fleming (MED ’51) Sister Annamarie Gierszewski (LAS ’52, MA ’58) Sister M. Johanna Didier (EDU MA ’53) Robert D. Edison (MBA ’53) Donna J. Johnson (LAS ’53) Frances M. Mazurek (CSH ’53, MS ’57) Leroy W. Mitchell (JD ’54) Ralph J. Vesecky Jr. (CSH MS ’54) Carrie L. Bowens (LAS ’55) Frank G. O’Connor (BUS ’57) Donald Ulias (LAS ’57) James J. Raftery (LAS ’58) Joseph F. Colligan (LAS MA ’59) Neal Farrell (BUS ’62) George F. Klepec (JD ’62) Janalee D. Lindley (LAS ’62) Carl J. Madda (JD ’62) August J. Prahlow (LAS MA ’63) John P. Dunne (JD ’64) Thomas J. Lowry (MUS ’64) Jeremiah S. Shannon (JD ’64) Thomas P. Cullen (LAS ’65) Walter J. Wadycki (BUS ’65)

Patricia J. Drown (EDU ’66) David B. Jensen (LAW ’66) Wayne F. Kalina (BUS ’67) Thomas R. Pozatek (BUS ’69) Vijay S. Sampat (LAS MA ’69) Norine C. Lynch (MED ’72) William J. Hibbler (JD ’73) Lorin E. Levee (MUS ’73) Paul A. Sweas (BUS ’75) James A. Telford (MBA ’76) Emma W. Richardson (BUS ’77) Richard L. Sosnowski (BUS ’77) Gerald J. Brady Sr. (MBA ’78) Michael J. Ryan (MBA ’86) Rupert O. Brockmann (LLM ’91) Jon A. Shultz (MBA ’92, MED ’04) Sister Caroline Vasquez (MED ’93) Glenda M. Madison (SNL ’97) Lindsay K. Habinak (EDU ’00) Danielle M. Becker (LAS ’04) Stephen A. Smith (BUS ’04) Michella McMaster (LAS MS ’06) Brian J. Fanning (CDM MS ’08) Kenneth W. Leonchik (CDM MS ’08) Nikolai K. Mazeika (MBA ’10) Friends Rosemary S. Bannan Fred Breitbeil John P. Curtin Bill Granger Richard J. Houk Joe Marconi Virginia Rutherford Stephen Vagi

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alumni relations Recent Alumni Events

Event Calendar Visit alumni.depaul.edu/events or call 800.437.1898 for further information and to register. Fees and registration deadlines apply to some events. Registration for fall events will open in late summer. Check alumni.depaul.edu for more information.

July July 18

Goose Island Pregame Party and Chicago Cubs vs. Miami Marlins Chicago July 22

St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs St. Louis July 25

DePaul Picnic Naperville, Ill.

August Aug. 1

DePaul Picnic Alumni Welcome for Graduates and First-year Students Glenview, Ill. Aug. 3

Pregame Party and Chicago White Sox vs. Los Angeles Angels Chicago Aug. 16

Sunset Boat Cruise Chicago Aug. 23

Alumni & Friends Summer Gathering Munster, Ind.

Colorado Rockies vs. Chicago Cubs Denver

United States Capitol Building Tour Hosted by alumnus and United States Senate Sergeant-atArms Terrance Gainer (LAS MS ’76, JD ’80), approximately 140 DePaul University alumni, staff and friends joined Interim Provost Patricia O’Donoghue in Washington, D.C., on April 26 for the exclusive opportunity to participate in a special reception at the U.S. Capitol building. Guests also were treated to private tours that showcased the art and history of the Capitol.

October

Tea at The Drake Hotel

Sept. 19

Private Performance by School of Music students Chicago Sept. 26

Oct. 12

Alumni Career Conference Call: Advanced Social Media for Your Job Search Teleconference Oct. 12 to 14

Reunion Weekend Chicago Oct. 18

DePaul Reception with the President Southern California Oct. 20

Volunteer Outing Chicago Oct. 28

House of Blues Gospel Brunch Chicago

November Nov. 3

September Sept. 5

Washington Nationals vs. Chicago Cubs Washington, D.C. Sept. 6

Young Alumni Kegged Cocktail Tasting Chicago Sept. 12

Alumni Career Conference Call: Incorporating Alumni Career Resources in Your Job Search Teleconference Sept. 14

Lunchtime Tour of the Modern Wing Chicago

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DePaul alumni and friends participated in afternoon tea at the historic Drake Hotel in Chicago Alumni enjoy a springtime tea. on May 12. This event quickly sold out, drawing about 40 guests. Attendees were seated in a special DePaul section to enjoy traditional tea, sandwiches, sweets and live harp music in the hotel’s Palm Court.

Arizona Giving Thanks Volunteer Day Phoenix Nov. 3

Annual Fall Tour Chicago Nov. 7

DePaul Reception with the President Barrington, Ill. Nov. 13

DePaul Art Museum Reception Chicago Nov. 14

Alumni Career Conference Call: Informational Interviews Teleconference

Vincentian Service Day 2012 Yields Great Success On May 5, approximately 1,600 DePaul University students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends came together to celebrate Vincentian Service Day, an Hard at work in Chicago’s Wicker Park annual volunteer neighborhood. opportunity designed to foster the spirit of St. Vincent and to spread the university’s mission. In addition to the events in and around Chicago, volunteers participated in projects at regional Vincentian Service Day sites in Denver, New York, Phoenix and Washington, D.C., to log nearly 4,800 hours of service. More alumni photos at flickr.com/depaulspirit.

Thank You,

James M. and Catherine Denny, ON BEHALF OF DEPAUL’S FUTURE SCIENTISTS, THEATRE ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS

The generosity and vision of Jim and Cate Denny have had a profound impact on Chicago’s leading cultural and educational institutions. At DePaul, their contributions are shaping academic excellence that spans science and the performing arts. Jim, a life trustee, serves as co-chair of the Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign Committee for Performing Arts. He served on the steering committee of the Campaign for Excellence in Science, which raised $20 million toward the construction of the Monsignor Andrew J. McGowan Science Building. The Dennys made very generous leadership gifts to the School of Music scholarships and the Campaign for Excellence in Science Capital Fund and have moved others to do the same. President of Two Rivers LLC, a family investment firm, Jim began his career as a lawyer and went on to serve as vice chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., executive vice president and chief financial officer of G.D. Searle and Co., and treasurer of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., as well as on the boards of many other organizations. At the groundbreaking celebration for The Theatre School’s new home, Jim remarked that the performing arts “open our minds to new ideas and new ways of thinking, which is crucial to human development individually and culturally.” In that same spirit, DePaul is deeply grateful to the Dennys; their remarkable contributions will inspire students, faculty members and the community for generations to come. Learn how you can support DePaul University and its students by visiting campaign.depaul.edu.

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