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under the OAKS Who is SAU? Pam Fox is. When students enter Cosgrove cafeteria, chances are good that Pam Fox may be the one sitting on the swivel stool, ready to scan their meal cards. Pam can personally greet about half these students (that’s a whopping 400 to 500 names). With her infectious laugh and big heart, Pam is a cafeteria fixture. ‘Pamcakes’ short takes: > She first worked in the cafeteria at the age of 15. > Her father ran breakfast and lunch service in the ’60s and ’70s with only one helper. > She used to watch Rev. Edward Catich ’34 practice calligraphy while he waited for his meals. > She left and then returned to St. Ambrose in 2003 and now feels like a “second mom” to students who linger at her station. > Pam loves to bring in old yearbooks to show studentathletes pictures of their coaches as students, especially when it involves 70s-era short shorts. > She has several nicknames given by students: “Pamcakes,” compliments of basketball player Michael Kennedy, and “Pam-a-lam-a-ding-dong,” which she hears several times over each day. > She attends as many ballgames, plays and commencements as possible. “You get close to the kids.” > Why food service? “Everybody’s got to eat,” says Pam. And then she laughs. For more about Pam Fox, go to www.sau.edu/scene. —Jane Kettering Head basketball coach Ray Shovlain ’79, ’82 MBA thought his Fighting Bees played with a little more pep this year, thanks to the brassy encouragement from SAU’s new pep band. The 14-student group, part of a new ensemble class offered by the music department and led by adjunct percussion instructor Brian Zeglis, played at men’s and women’s home games. SAU Pep Band 8
4 stories PROFESSORS [142 years] Thousands of Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Craig DeVrieze original paintings by Leslie Bell ’72 Additional Faculty Retirements Brenda DuBois, PhD professor of social work, at SAU since 1997 Ragene Gwin, EdD professor of kinesiology, since 1990 Dolores Hilden, PhD professor and chair of nursing, since 1999 Craig Shoemaker, PhD professor of marketing studies, since 1992 Judith White, EdD professor and director of education, since 2007 They found a small Catholic college in a modest Midwest community, both so warm and welcoming they couldn’t help but feel at home. “It was a nice little campus,” Rich Legg, PhD, remembered of his initial impression of the St. Ambrose he discovered on arrival in 1978. “It looked like an interesting place to be.” St. Ambrose College was that in the 1970s. And St. Ambrose University still is that today, as biology professor Legg, art professor Leslie Bell ’72, MFA, music professor Joan Trapp, DMA, and philosophy professor Paul Jacobson, PhD, all look toward their May retirements. Both in terms of the physical plant and enrollment, St. Ambrose nearly has tripled in size since each joined the teaching staff in the bell-bottomed 1970s. It has not grown so big, however, that one man or woman cannot make their mark, or so vast that his or her departure won’t leave a void. Trapp will retire after 38 years of advancing the St. Ambrose mission, Bell after 37, Jacobson after 34 and Legg after 33. Each will leave a lasting legacy and Jacobson said the unique beauty of St. Ambrose is the opportunity to do just that. “The thing I always liked about St. Ambrose was that it was small enough that individuals could make a difference,” Jacobson said. “I think that is still true today.” Legg, likewise, applauded the freedom that a sense of St. Ambrose community has afforded faculty to do what they do best. And, though some of the school’s early intimacy has been lost to expansion, Legg said the school’s growth and progress are laudable, too. “I like to think of it as a mini-multiversity, with all kinds of different programs serving many constituencies,” he said. Trapp was one of six female faculty members campus-wide when she joined the music department, and she said she is pleased to have watched St. Ambrose grow more diverse among both faculty and students and more global in its outlook. “It is so dynamic and alive, and they have the global perspective of a small world,” she said. “And yet we still have to give a lot of encouragement to students to experience that bigger world. It’s easy to be isolated in Davenport and in Iowa and the Midwest. The increase in international studies, students going abroad, going different places to learn and serve, that has been a really important growth aspect.” Bell agreed. “The school has grown bigger,’’ he said, “but it has also grown much more complicated and much more representative of what the world looks like and how the world thinks.” 9
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