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Creating
World Citizens

DePaul Headlines pp. 2-11
From the latest national rankings to new connections with today’s global
community, your university continues to serve and excel.
DePaul Features pp. 12-23
The university addresses the need to turn our students into global citizens—
with creative programs that reach from our home campuses to strategically
chosen sites around the globe.
DePaul Alumni Connections pp. 24-36
You can find DePaul alumni around the world, in 49 countries and four territories.
Read about some of them and catch up with all the latest alumni news.

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Inside VISION twenty12
Guided by the university’s
strategic plan, VISION twenty12,
faculty and staff across the
campus are expanding existing
areas of excellence and creating
new ones. To view videos that
tell these stories, visit depaul.edu
and click on “Latest INSIDE
twenty12 Video Highlights
Internationalization, Episode 6.”
“DePaul graduates’ global
citizenship skills will
prepare them for a new
world, some of whose
dimensions cannot be
anticipated at this time.”
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Since We Were Last Together
Your university keeps moving onward and upward.
There’s always a lot going on around campus and in the lives
of DePaul alumni that attracts widespread attention.
Here are just a few such items since our last issue.
Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I., archbishop of Chicago, returned to the Lincoln Park Campus Feb. 15 to
celebrate the eighth annual Cardinal’s Mass for College Students, as 300 Chicago-area college students gathered
to affirm and rejoice in their faith. Bishop J. Peter Sartain of the Diocese of Joliet concelebrated.
A distinguished group of 40 consuls general representing countries from six
continents attended the second annual Consular Corps of Chicago Luncheon hosted
by the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president, on Feb. 8 at DePaul. Keynote
speaker was former U.S. Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III, D-Ill.
Graduating senior Rania El-Sorrogy won the top prize of $5,000 in the first Illinois-Missouri region Idea
to Product collegiate entrepreneur competition with a business plan for producing books with modular bindings
that allow chapters to easily be added or removed from the text. Also, she and her team captured first prize
in the DePaul New Venture Challenge with a plan for an online and cable dance-related network.
The Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) announced that DePaul’s master
of science in human resources degree program has been designated as the first program in
the nation to fully align its curriculum with new academic guidelines established in 2006 by
SHRM. The designation recognizes DePaul’s program for its quality and comprehensiveness.
In an effort to help support and mentor first-year students and foster opportunities for women and other
traditionally underrepresented groups in information technology, the School of Computer Science,
Telecommunications and Information Systems created an intiative that recently received a $500,000 grant
from the National Science Foundation.
The creation of a new College of Communication from the existing department of
communication, a longstanding unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was
approved unanimously by the board of trustees on March 3. (See p. 9.)
Her Royal Highness Rahma bint El Hassan of Jordan joined other guests this May in a gathering to honor College of
Law Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni’s contributions to DePaul University and its International Human Rights Law Institute.

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P R E S I D E N T I A L P R E C I S
“While we have faculty and administrators
working and researching in virtually every corner of the world, our primary
goal in this outreach is a deep transformation of the way we teach, the way
we live and the way we work in an increasingly interdependent world.”
Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M.
President
International New programs, new sites 6
Leadership News deans appointed in CTI, Communication 9
Hot off the Press Faculty books for summer reading 10
Recognitions DePaul shines in spring rankings 11

U n i v e r s i t y N e w s
International Offerings
Expand to Include
Dual-Degree Program,
New MBA Program Site
An innovative new program will send 24 students
from the School of Computer Science,
Telecommunications and Information Systems
(CTI) to Europe over the next four years—giving
students the opportunity to earn a degree from
CTI and a degree in international business from
a higher education institution in Europe. The program
includes a semester at Ecole de Commerce
Européenne in Lyon, France, a semester in
Linköping, Sweden, and a final year at CTI. The federally
funded program also incorporates students
from Western Illinois University in the partnership.
According to program coordinator Daniel Mittleman, associate
professor at CTI, the program is designed to provide information
technology students in the United States with the skills to function
in the international business economy. “Giving technology students
the opportunity to gain international experience, intercultural teamwork
skills and European business contacts will set them apart
from their competition as they enter the job market,” he says.
Joseph Kinsella, associate vice president, international programs,
says that initiatives to engage the university in the international
community—efforts which involve sending students abroad,
“Giving technology students
the opportunity to gain international
experience, intercultural
teamwork skills and European
business contacts will set them
apart from their competition
as they enter the job market.”
— Mittleman
providing DePaul programs to students in other countries and
educating international students on our campuses in Chicago—create
the perspectives educators and students need to be prepared for life
in today’s global village. “International programs will help us think
outside the box when it comes to international education. My hope
is that we will begin to perceive international education in terms of
more than just travel. These kinds of interactions with people and
institutions abroad also must change the way we think about ourselves
and the way we live our daily lives,” he says.
These programs are expanding rapidly. “We are aggressively
working to build the visibility of DePaul in other parts of the
world, and we are already seeing steady increases in new international
student applications—60 percent more than last year. Our
outbound student numbers are also on a steady rise, following trends
we’ve set since September 2001,” says Kinsella.
DePaul’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
(KGSB), which has long-standing, successful
MBA programs in the Czech Republic and Bahrain,
added a program in Taipei, Taiwan, this fall,
according to Michael Jedel, associate dean for
international programs and distance learning and
professor of management. Kellstadt partners with the
Pan Asia Human Resources and Consulting Corp. to
offer the MBA degree to part-time students. Most of
the courses are taught by a DePaul professor on site,
the remainder by approved local professors. “We try
to balance pedagogy and academic quality; we also
have to balance our international programs and
the allocation of faculty resources here,” Jedel says.
The university’s other existing overseas programs include a master
of arts degree in applied professional studies offered by the School for
New Learning in Bangkok, Thailand; a master of science degree in
business information technology offered by CTI and KGSB in Bahrain;
KSGB’s master of science in human resources in Bahrain; four master
of science degrees—in telecommunications, computer information and
network security, information systems and software engineering—
offered in Amman, Jordan, via distance learning from DePaul professors
in Chicago; and more than 30 study abroad programs. (See list p. 21.)

Institute for Business and Professional Ethics Launches Program
to Advocate Reducing Poverty through Commerce
The College of Commerce recently launched an ambitious threeyear
program to promote the creation of business initiatives to
reduce poverty and health care inequities in Chicago as well as in
developing nations.
Sponsored by the college’s Institute for Business and Professional
Ethics (IBPE) and supported by a $45,000 grant from Abbott
Laboratories, the initiative features a lecture series, which kicked
off March 5 with a talk by William Easterly. He is the author of
the bestselling book, “The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s
Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good.”
Patricia Werhane, Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and
director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, and
William Easterly, professor of economics and Africana studies at
New York University, shown with Easterly’s bestselling book.
A professor of economics and Africana studies at New York
University, Easterly is a nationally known expert on long-term
economic growth and the effectiveness of foreign aid. He worked
for 16 years as a research economist at the World Bank and is a
fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C.
During the 2007-08 academic year, the IBPE will sponsor
programs that examine how business could expand health care for
the poor and reduce the number of uninsured. In the third year
of the project, IBPE’s goal is to develop new, appealing models for
the business sector to address urban poverty and health care
access locally and globally.
“While this focus on the for-profit sector is only one of
several viable models, it is one that challenges both traditional,
classical economic models and the view that only charity or
government is capable of addressing poverty,” said Patricia Werhane,
Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and director of the IBPE.
“As we will learn from our speakers, models for long-term change
can come from for-profit programs that promote dignity, responsibility
and self-reliance among recipients and the companies that
create these programs.”
Stuart Hart, author of the newly published book, “Capitalism
at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in
Solving the World’s Most Difficult Problems,” is scheduled to
continue the lecture series on Oct. 8.
The IBPE also is actively involved in the United Nations
Global Compact Networks. Created by the United Nations in 2000,
Global Compact challenges business leaders and a coalition of
U.N. agencies, labor unions, academic institutions and civil society
organizations to advance universal principles for human rights,
fair labor practices, environmentalism and anti-corruption.
DePaul is taking a leadership role among the 120 academic institutions
that have joined Global Compact to develop educational
materials that will be used for teaching principles for responsible
business worldwide.
For information about the public lectures,
contact the IBPE at 312.362.8786.
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Bassiouni Receives Hague Prize for International Law
Longtime international human rights jurist, scholar and
activist M. Cherif Bassiouni, distinguished research professor
in the College of Law, was honored with The Hague Prize for
International Law in a ceremony in the Peace Palace at The Hague,
Netherlands, on June 28. The universally recognized prize
acknowledges his outstanding contribution to “the study and
promotion of international criminal law in general and to the
creation of the International Criminal Court in general,” according
to The Hague Foundation. Bassiouni was chosen as its first recipient.
Bassiouni has many ties to The Hague, the world’s center of international
justice. In the early 1990s, Bassiouni chaired the United Nations’
Commission of Experts, which produced evidence of war crimes in
the former Yugoslavia and led to the establishment of the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia by the Security Council.
That work continues to be useful to this day. When the International
Court of Justice at The Hague recently rendered a decision about
genocide in that region, they cited the report of the Commission of
Experts 34 times, according to Bassiouni.
This commission’s work was linked to DePaul. “The database for
the commission was in the College of Law’s International Human Rights
Law Institute [IHRLI], and we had more than 140 law students and
young lawyers, mostly from DePaul, who worked in it,” says Bassiouni,
who was co-founder and president of IHRLI.
Bassiouni also chaired the committee that drafted the statute
for the International Criminal Court, which was established at
The Hague in 2002 to try individuals responsible for genocide and
other serious violations of international humanitarian law.
In heading the IHRLI (he is now president emeritus) and the
International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa,
Italy, Bassiouni has worked all over the world, helping Iraq craft its
new constitution and train judges and lawyers; investigating human
rights abuses in Afghanistan and Iraq; teaching state security police
about human rights in Cairo; and many other missions.
“The nature of the work itself is very painful,” says Bassiouni.
“When I first investigated the policy of systematic rape in the former
Yugoslavia, I interviewed 223 rape victims—probably the most
heart-wrenching experience I’ve ever had.”
“Tangible results”
are what keep him
going, he says.
“When I first went to
Afghanistan at the end
of 2004 [representing
the United Nations],
I discovered 852
people who had been
unlawfully imprisoned
for over 30 months.
And the prison conditions
were horrible.
I worked day and night
for three months and
I finally got them out.”
Bassiouni says
that an accomplishment
of this nature
is not personal satisfaction,
but something
larger. “It’s a different
kind of joy. It’s as if
Hague Prize Recipient Bassiouni
God used me as his
instrument to get this
thing done,” he says.
He also sees The Hague Prize in larger terms. “The advantage
of the award is that you can use it to make other people aware
of what needs to be done in defense of human rights,” he says.
One of the components of the prize is the opportunity to give
the keynote address to the Hague Colloquium on Fundamental
Principles of Law that takes place in the year after the award. Bassiouni
says his topic will be “what it always is—the need for international
criminal justice, the need for early intervention to prevent genocide,
crimes against humanity and war crimes. The need for human justice
remains irrespective of who the victims are.”
For Bassiouni, this work is “a fundamental part of Vincentian
values. That’s what our students must learn.”

New Academic Leaders Appointed This Spring
JACQUELINE TAYLOR, Dean of the College of Communication
Jacqueline Taylor will lead the new College of Communication, which will officially come into being July 1.
Taylor, professor of communication, was named associate vice president for Academic Affairs in 2006. Prior to that,
she served for seven years as founding director of the DePaul Humanities Center.
From 1995 to 1999, Taylor served as associate dean of graduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences. She chaired the communication department from 1990 to 1995.
In consultation with the department of communication faculty, Provost Helmut Epp selected Taylor this spring.
“Jackie’s infectious enthusiasm, boundless energy and superb administrative skills, along with a great faculty, promise
success for the new College of Communication,” says Epp.
A performance studies specialist, Taylor is the author of “Grace Paley: Illuminating the Dark Lives” and a recently
published memoir, “Waiting for the Call.” She earned a Ph.D. in communication at the University of Texas at Austin.
DAVID MILLER, Dean of the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems
The School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI) has named David Miller,
associate professor, its new dean. Miller, who joined DePaul in 1981, had been serving as CTI’s interim dean
since 2005.
In 1994, Miller became the associate chair of what was then the department of computer science. When CTI
was established the following year, he was named the school’s first associate dean.
In addition to the recommendation of the university search committee and the support of CTI faculty and staff,
there were several reasons for Miller’s selection over three other finalists from a national search.
“David has a keen understanding of the emerging needs of the information technology sector and a succinct
vision of CTI as a center of innovation and entrepreneurship,” says Epp. “His work with both internal and external
constituents has been essential to CTI’s ability to meet the challenges of maintaining cutting-edge programs
and retaining its reputation for excellence.”
Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Ohio Wesleyan University and both a master’s degree
and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
Taylor
Miller
Scholars and Policy
Experts Examine Images
and Realities of Islam
A former U.S. assistant secretary of defense
and an international panel of Islamic
scholars explored the United States’ evolving
relationship with the Islamic world during
a town-hall-style program hosted by Aminah
Beverly McCloud, director of DePaul’s Islamic
Panelists pictured with McCloud are (from left to
right): Abdel Bari Atwan, editor in chief of Al-Quds
Al-Arabi, a London-based Arabic-language daily
newspaper; Sherman Jackson, associate professor
of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of
Michigan; and Richard Perle, an American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research fellow and former
U.S. assistant secretary of defense. (Not shown:
Panelist Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman
Professor of Government and director of the Institute
of African Studies at Columbia University.)
world studies program, in late February.
More than 400 people attended the event at
DePaul University’s Merle Reskin Theatre.
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Hot Off the Press
Chinese Studies Program
Launched
DePaul has launched a comprehensive
Chinese studies major that includes Mandarin
language training, history, political science,
■ If the prospect of making a business presentation sends you into a cold sweat, consult
“The Professional Communications Toolkit,” Sage Books (2006), by D. Joel Whalen,
professor of marketing. This how-to book covers skills for succeeding in a range of
communications venues, from one-on-one business conversations to small staff presentations
and keynote addresses before large audiences. New technology also is covered.
■ “Instant Identity: Adolescent Girls and the World of Instant Messaging,”
Peter Lang Publishing Group (2007), is heralded as the first book of its kind to explore
the millennial generation’s prevalent use of instant messaging and its implications for the
future. Author Shayla Thiel Stern is an assistant professor of communication.
religious studies, and arts and culture. At an
event celebrating the launch are (left to right)
the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M.,
president; J.D. Bindenagel, vice president
■ Hailed by critics as a cross between James Baldwin’s soulful song and the nightmare
poetry of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, “Free Burning,” Three Rivers/Crown (2006), by
Bayo Ojikutu, instructor of English, is a novel about a man who makes a series of bad
choices after losing his white-collar insurance job.
■ Thomas R. Mockaitis, professor of history, has distinguished himself as a television
news analyst and expert on terrorism. His “The ‘New’ Terrorism: Myths and Reality,”
Praeger Security International (2006), argues that what is being labeled as a new brand
of terrorism bears a striking resemblance to past extremist movements and represents
a “culmination of trends evolving over decades.”
■ “Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of
Sexuality in America,” Beacon Press (2006), by Thomas A. Foster, assistant professor
of history, is a provocative investigation of male sexuality from the end of the Puritan
age through the American Revolution. It debunks many historical beliefs about sex
and identity during this period in American history.
■ A guide to understanding Islamic immigrants to the United States from the Middle
East, South and Southeast Asia and Africa, “Transnational Muslims in American
Society,” University Press of Florida (2006), by Aminah Beverly McCloud, director of
the Islamic world studies program, challenges the predominant perception that Islam
is monolithic and exclusively Arab.
for community, government and international
affairs; and Professor Xiaoxiang "Frank" Li,
dean of foreign languages at Southeast
University (Nanjing). (See p.16.)
■ In “Winning Elections with Political Marketing,” Haworth Press (2006), by
Bruce I. Newman, professor of marketing, and his co-editor, Philip John Davies,
director, Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, set out to answer the
question, “What does it take for candidates on both sides of the Atlantic to get elected?”

Part-time MBA Program, College of Law
Earn High Rankings by U.S.News & World Report
DePaul University again takes its place in the upper reaches of
U.S.News & World Report’s graduate program annual rankings,
which are closely watched by students
and higher education institutions across
the country. The part-time MBA program
and the College of Law and two of its
programs were recognized this spring.
DePaul’s career-focused MBA program
for working professionals has earned a top-10
rating a dozen times. The majority of MBA
students nationally study in part-time programs,
which allow students to work full
time while attending classes in the evenings,
on weekends, on multiple campuses and
using Internet technology.
“DePaul’s repeated top-10 showing
acknowledges our success in offering a high-quality, flexible MBA program
that provides students with the practical knowledge they need to
advance in their careers,” says Ray Whittington, dean of DePaul’s
Kellstadt Graduate School of Business (KGSB).
Founded more than 50 years ago, DePaul’s MBA program offers
students 26 concentrations of study. The college’s faculty represents
a diverse blend of leading scholars and distinguished business
professionals who bring real-world experience to the classroom.
Graduates benefit from DePaul’s extensive and active alumni network.
The DePaul University College of Law has been ranked among
the top 100 law schools in the country for the second consecutive year,
and its health law and intellectual property (IP) programs are among
the best, according to the latest survey of America’s professional schools
conducted by U.S.News & World Report. The survey also recognized
the law school’s student population as being among the most diverse.
“The College of Law at DePaul is dedicated to providing students
with a rigorous course of academic study and top-quality programs in
an environment that reflects the university’s commitment to diversity,”
says Glen Weissenberger, dean of the College of Law. “The latest U.S.
News rankings illustrate that the College of Law’s exceptional faculty
and its focus on creating strong specialty
programs, like health law, have helped it earn
recognition among the best in the country.”
DePaul’s health law program landed
in ninth place among all such programs in
the nation, moving up one place from last year
when it tied for 10th place with the University
of Minnesota. The intellectual property program
at DePaul was ranked 13th in the survey.
Established in 1984 as part of DePaul’s
Health Law Institute, the health law program
is one of the first American Bar Associationaccredited
programs of its kind in the country.
Students can earn a master of law (LL.M.)
degree as well as a certificate in health law.
“We are honored that our peers have distinguished DePaul’s
program as one of the most outstanding in the United States,” says
Michele Goodwin, who directs the institute. “We offer a theory-based
challenging program as well as embrace the practical, hands-on skills
approach to health law. Our students confront and respond to the
most critical health-law issues of the day.”
DePaul’s IP program, which was initiated in 1997, boasts
more than 30 courses and certifications in IP such as patent law,
information technology, and art and museum law.
“Our IP program has been ranked above schools like New
York University and Harvard University in this survey,” says Barbara
Bressler, who directs the program. “We have consistently been
ranked among the top 15 programs in the country, which is a major
accomplishment given the quality of the programs that exist.”
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P E R C E P T I V E P O I N T
“We have75 percent of the world’s economy
represented [by the consuls general of Chicago] in this room. We look
forward to working with this extraordinary university.”
Mexican Consul General Carlos Manuel Sada Solano,
outgoing dean of the Chicago Consular Corps, at DePaul on Feb. 8, 2007
Cultural Studies at DePaul Creating world citizens 14
World-class Chicago A multi-faceted view 18
International Students At home in the world 20
Deciphering the Tree of Life A bioinformatics project 22

Educating
World Citizens
C u l t u r a l S t u d i e s a t D e Pa u l

Nobuko Chikamatsu encounters a dilemma at the
start of every quarter: how best to teach advanced
Japanese, which is among the most complex tongues
to master.
Schooling students in how to
string together words or characters
is the easy part. The real trick
lies in going beyond the verbs and
pronouns to enmesh the students
in a culture—to teach them to
see through different eyes.
“I was getting ready, preparing
for a quarter,” says Chikamatsu,
an associate professor of Japanese,
“and there was, in a Japanese
history textbook from Japan, a
picture that showed just the shell
of a bombed building.”
The picture said wreckage.
“If you were to look through an
American text of that same event,
the A-bomb on Hiroshima, you’d
see a picture of the bomb, or
the mushroom cloud we have all
seen. That says power,” she says.
And so, in one of the hundreds
of classrooms on campus,
in front of dozens of the school’s
23,000 students, Chikamatsu
begins a new quarter with a single
striking example of the different
ways in which two cultures
experience and interpret the same
event—a step toward the university’s
commitment to preparing
true world citizens.
We live in a global community where transactions across cultures
occur many times a day, not just over vast distances but often
face-to-face. Being able to see through the eyes of someone from
a different culture, to be a world citizen, has become a life competency—and
a job skill. The challenge for students is threefold:
to become aware that there are interpretations beyond one’s own
cultural experience; to learn about the other culture’s perspectives;
and to be able to successfully negotiate differences between cultures.
It falls to DePaul faculty to equip students with these skills
as they mature out of the classroom and into the work force and the
world. The imperative is to prepare students to “compete in a
We live in a global community where transactions across
cultures occur many times a day, not just over vast distances
but often face-to-face. Being able to see through the eyes
of someone from a different culture, to be a world citizen,
has become a life competency—and a job skill.
Chikamatsu
Johnston
global world by employing the cultural insights and critical thinking
skills they developed in the
classroom and the community
during their years at DePaul,”
says the Rev. Dennis H.
Holtschneider, C.M., president.
Happily for the university,
DePaul faculty and students
enjoy a multicultural campus
in the middle of an international
city; both environments
reflect the richness of the
global community. “Here,
at DePaul, we’re trying to
produce [well-]rounded
students. Diversity is big,”
says Katie Ferrari, a 19-yearold
art history major who
hopes to become an architect.
The character of DePaul’s
multicultural environment
is a big reason that DePaul has
had a long-standing commitment
to educate its students
for a larger world. The
university has acted on many
fronts—from encouraging
diversity of every sort on its
campus to building a curriculum
that satisfies the need to
prepare students for a global
society. “The guiding philosophy
is to provide liberal
education programs that address the most significant emerging
social and global needs,” says Charles Suchar, dean of the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences. “The world has changed and the
curriculum needs to reflect these changes.”
And the need for such changes is only accelerating. “The pace is
astonishing,” says Mark Johnston, Spanish professor and chair of the
modern language department. He says he has seen student demand
for modern language courses grow by 53 percent since 2003. >>>
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tThe Chinese studies major in the modern languages department
launched in fall 2006 is a prime example of how the university is
developing resources to meet those needs. A recognition not only of
the fast-growing power and influence
of China, but also of its rich culture,
the new program builds on the existing
Chinese language minor and Chinese
teaching programs, integrated with
relevant courses in other disciplines
such as history, the arts, religious
studies and political science.
“We’ve combined talents and
disciplines to create the strongest
curriculum of any Chinese program in
the Midwest. The program emulates
our highly successful interdisciplinary
Japanese studies major, which enrolls
nearly 300 students each year and
is the largest program of its kind in
the Midwest,” says Johnston.
Like the Japanese studies
program, which has been in existence
for more than a decade, one of the new
Fojas
program’s goals is to generate K-12
teachers capable of preparing incoming
students for advanced international
studies. Already, several Chicago-area
schools offer Chinese, and the Chinese
language program in Chicago Public
Schools is one of the largest in the
nation. “We are the only university
in Illinois that offers certification for
Chinese language teachers,” notes
Johnston. “This will feed back into
our Chinese studies program.”
McCloud
DePaul also has created three
separate majors in Spanish or
Latino studies to recognize a population that is too often lumped
into one culture, and which today is so intertwined—commercially and
otherwise—with the United States and with Chicago.
“Chicago is the third largest Latino market in the United States,
behind only Los Angeles and New York. Above Miami, even.
That’s astonishing,” says Johnston. “And the people—whether they’re
Mexican, Honduran, Cuban and on
and on—the frequency with which
they go home and how freely we
move across the border now demands
that we know each other.”
The pursuit of profit is often the
driving force behind this flattening
of the globe, but commercial success
shouldn’t come at the expense of
everything else, Camilla Fojas, associate
professor and director of Latin
American and Latino studies, points
out. “We are living in a globalized
world. This is especially so in a global
city like Chicago that is the recipient
of people, goods and services
from all over the world,” she says.
“That said, it is cynical and
perhaps mercenary to think that
literacy in other cultures and
languages is useful only as a means
to success in a globalized market.
The critical appreciation of the
experiences, history, politics and
cultural work of racial and ethnic
minorities is crucial to becoming a
thoughtful, intellectually curious,
empathic and culturally literate member
of a global society,” Fojas says.
Course offerings such as those
which cover such issues as the
nature of the immigrant experience,
social diversity in Latin America,
and the Hispanic experience in
music, literature and art are just a few examples of the ways in which
the curriculum addresses this need for Latino studies students.
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It is that mix of the business and the culture that drew Morgan
Gallup, a senior, into a double major in business administration
and Chinese studies. Having visited Beijing, China, for two months
in 2005, she became acutely aware
that just knowing the language was
not enough. “You have to understand
a culture in today’s world. It’s such a
global economy that draws on so many
areas. You can’t just drop in a country
and expect to know the people or
do business.”
Religious differences widen
misunderstandings between groups
perhaps more than any other cultural
element. The Islamic world studies
program headed by religious studies
Professor Aminah Beverly McCloud
addresses these differences.
“Muslims come from over 80
countries to America, and some are
already American,” says McCloud. She
points out that the mélange of cultural
identities in nearly any group provides
not just one viewpoint, but many.
“Look at my class,” she says of her
Islamic culture course. “I have
Mexicans, Bosnians, South Asians
and Arabs, white and black adults
along with young people of every faith.
We learn from each other.” So it is with
the Islamic culture, which has many
faces. “Islam is a world civilization,”
McCloud points out.
Today’s global migration of all
manner of people, ideas and cultures,
at an unprecedented speed and volume,
has created new fears—and conflicts.
Lots of new immigration makes a country’s citizens, who were there
first, uneasy about their place in the society.
Student Morgan Gallup and Chinese studies
Visiting Professor Tian-long Chang
“You have to understand a culture in today’s world.
It’s such a global economy that draws on so many areas.
You can’t just drop in a country and expect to
know the people or do business.”
— Gallup
“Citizens feel disenfranchised, so scared, especially when they can
no longer understand what is being said around them or misunderstand
gestures or cannot read signs on the front of stores,” says McCloud.
“And that’s where some of the fear comes
from with our becoming so diverse. That
our home is being taken away, our place.”
This fear can be great enough to
cause conflict. “It’s dangerous. It’s beginning
to tear at this society,”she says.
McCloud’s class found examples
of these culture clashes as they examined
the ways in which Arabs and Muslims
are depicted in the media. They also went
to the Internet to find jihadist Web sites.
She says the class elected “to respond
[online] to the jihadist Web sites as students
in the West, challenging the jihadists’
perceptions.” Students also responded
online to people who had distorted ideas
about Arabs and Muslims.
“How can we be most effective?”
she asks. “Sitting in this classroom,
learning is one way, but you have to be
proactive as well.”
The Islamic world studies program
currently requires one year of Arabic
language study. Johnston says that one of
the next goals of the modern languages
department is to offer an Arabic studies
major, which will complement the Islamic
world studies program with an intensive
Arabic language component.
That will be yet another step in
ensuring that DePaul students are supported
by a curriculum that reflects the cultural
diversity in which they find themselves
today, and, ever more so, in the future.
Eric Ferkenhoff previously wrote for the Chicago Tribune
and now contributes to The New York Times and TIME magazine.
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DEPAUL,
CHICAGO
and the
WORLD
As contemporary metropolises
strive to establish their credentials
as global or “world-class” cities—
by offering financial incentives to induce corporate relocations,
by hosting mega-events such as the Olympic Games,
or simply by inserting the words “international” or “world”
somewhere in the name of their local airport—we sometimes
forget that many of America’s urban centers have long been
international. Consider, for instance, Chicago’s demographic
profile in 1910, when nearly 80 percent of its population had been
born outside the United States, or had at least one parent who had
immigrated to the U.S. Or glance at historian Arnold Lewis’ wonderful
book “An Early Encounter with Tomorrow” (University of Illinois
Press, 2001), which documents the reactions of late-19th-century
European visitors to marvels such as the Columbian Exposition,
the Union Stockyards and the skyscraper-sprouting Loop.
We also often forget that depending on your perspective—
a corporate office suite overlooking the booming west Loop, or
along Devon Avenue in West Rogers Park, international Chicago
has distinctly different meanings. In the first instance, Chicago
is an important global metropolis due to its preeminence in
commodities and futures trading, as an advanced business services
node, and still—after so many decades—as a transportation hub.
Devon Avenue, in turn, is a beachhead for aspiring Indian and
Pakistani entrepreneurs, a “community center” for an occupationally
diverse and regionally dispersed South Asian immigrant population
and exotic “night out” for countless Chicagoans who have never
glimpsed the Atlantic or the Pacific, much less the Indian Ocean.
Yet, if all politics is local, perhaps the same can be said of
globalization. And at its local level, metropolitan Chicago and its
many communities have been on a 50-year globalization tear. In
the last half-century Chicago has, in effect, shifted from an international
to a truly global city, especially at the socio-cultural level.
Whether riding the CTA, shopping at IKEA, picking up coffee
at Dunkin’ Donuts or exploring the flavors of a recently arrived
ethnic cuisine, encountering the human dimension of Chicago’s
globalization is unavoidable. Our city was an immigrant capital at
the turn of the last century, and at the dawn of a new millennium
it remains an immigrant capital. But contemporary Chicago is a
global immigrant capital. We are no longer simply talking about
European immigrants, as diverse in language and culture as they
may have been. Now you can name the country—any of the
193 in the world—and some or many of its sons and daughters
live in Chicago. The human face of immigrant Chicago is now
Argentine, Thai, Lebanese and Eritrean.
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by Larry Bennett and John Koval

We also can no longer assume that immigrants are poorly educated
or lacking in occupational skills. Consider contemporary Chicago’s
diverse mix of immigrant economic niches: Filipino doctors, nurses
and medical technicians; Indian and Chinese information technology
specialists; Mexican laborers and service workers; Korean and Indian
start-up entrepreneurs, to mention but a few. Nor are our immigrants
limited to Catholic, Protestant and Jew, but now include growing thousands
of Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. It is also time to dispense with
the stereotypical image of the central city, immigrant enclave. Today’s
Chicago immigrants can be found in middle-class and even exclusive
suburban neighborhoods. Most crucially, we can no longer assume that
immigration is a one-way exodus from country of birth and at the cost
of severed family ties and lost friendships. Contemporary immigration
is frequently a two-way highway in which the back and forth are
fueled by low-cost telephone plans, satellite TV and the Internet.
slightly older law students, and returning adults in the College of
Commerce or the School for New Learning for jobs located very close
to home, in globalized Chicago. Others will leave our city, some drawn
to towns, cities and rural areas many flight hours and nation-states
beyond the borders of the United States. It is obviously one of our
university’s principal responsibilities to equip these various students—
lifelong Chicagoans, immigrant students who return to their countries
of birth, and American students who will relocate abroad—with the
academic, professional and technical skills necessary to perform their
varying economic roles. But it will be equally important for our university
to train them in skills of global citizenship, which will incline them
to observe and to appreciate variations in language, national identity
and local business cultures. As global citizens our graduates will
recognize that globalization is not simply a code word for “universal
Americanization.” DePaul graduates’ global citizenship skills will
Authors Larry Bennett
and John Koval (in hat)
explore Chicago’s Devon
Avenue neighborhood.
The reality of globalization within contemporary Chicago is not
merely increased foreign imports and exports, or industry-specific profit
and job losses due to cross-national competition. It is not merely the
greatly increased accessibility of formerly exotic vacation destinations.
It also means, as the title of our recently co-edited book proclaims, that
we have before us “a new Chicago.” And this Chicago is new not just
in the sense of the freshly rebuilt city that rose from the ashes of the
Great Fire of 1871. Ours is a socially and culturally transformed
new Chicago. Nor will our home metropolis’ evolution end with the
assimilation of the region’s current cohort of 1.6 million immigrants.
This generation of immigrants will drive contemporary change, and in
so doing contribute to ongoing changes in our region.
What does all of this mean for DePaul and its programs? Training
our students for the emergent globalized world means that we will
prepare many of our young liberal arts or computer science majors,
prepare them for a new world, some of whose dimensions cannot be
anticipated at this time. If we educate our students properly, they will
not simply be surfers riding the current wave of globalization. Rather,
they will be shapers of an emergent globalization that must produce a
more environmentally sustainable world, and coincidentally, a world
that needs to be more socially and economically balanced than the one
in which we live at present. And of course, all of this holds irrespective
of where our graduates “land,” in a corporate suite high above the west
Loop, serving an ethnically diverse citizenry in a far North Side ward
office, or running a nonprofit economic development program in Kenya.
Larry Bennett (professor of political science) and John Koval
(associate professor in sociology) are co-editors of “The New Chicago:
A Social and Cultural Analysis,” published by Temple University Press
in 2006. Other DePaul faculty co-editors on this volume are Michael
Bennett, Fassil Demissie, Roberta Garner and Kiljoong Kim.
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AT HOME in the WORLD:
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS on CAMPUS
Some 900 students from nearly
100 countries around the globe are
part of the current DePaul family,
according to Rosanne Roraback, director of the International Student
Office (ISO). Most of them are graduate students, most enrolled in
the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business or the School of Computer
Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI); another
sizable group is enrolled in the English Language Academy.
They’ve come—these bold, well-educated, highly motivated
students—to enjoy the advantages of a superior university education. As
to what happens after that, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, winner of
the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, raises a question in a recent essay that
every international student at DePaul considers over and over: “…the
question of how much we belong to the country of our first passport and
how much we belong to the ‘other countries’ that it allows us to enter.”*
In talking with these students, it’s fascinating to see how they
process this essential question as they make themselves at home at DePaul
and in Chicago and move through their schooling and their lives.
Shahzad Sabir (COM ’01), who returned to Pakistan after graduation
and recently stopped by the ISO to say hello during a business trip,
says the quality education empowered him to make a difference in his
community and helped him in his family business.
“You learn in the USA to be adaptive, and when you return to
your home country you use the same skills to adjust back in the culture
and try to make a difference through your education in your own
environment,” he says.
Sabir loved his experience at DePaul—the lifelong friends he made,
the fast pace of Chicago and the valuable business skills he gained. It
was difficult for him to return. “I felt like a different person there,” he says.
But, using the networking skills he had learned at DePaul, he found
like-minded people in Karachi when he became involved in Rotaract,
a service club for people 18 to 30 sponsored by Rotary International.
Today, Sabir says he has an ideal balance of “here” and “there;”
his education has enabled him to boost his family’s wood-products business
to an international level in a newly thriving Pakistani economy,
and he can live there with his family while traveling around the globe.
Dalto
*Pamuk, Orhan, “My First Passport,” The New Yorker, April 16, 2007, p. 57.
Liu and Michal Mordarski, CTI international student from Poland
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by Carol Sadtler

Mariana Dalto, a graduate student in finance from Buenos Aires,
may well stay here after fulfilling her longtime goal to earn an MBA in the
United States. She is set on a career in corporate finance and says that,
because “in Argentina the economy is not good,” her growth opportunities
are here. “Here, when you go in a company they train you; you have the
opportunity to learn while you’re working. Here you can be 25 years old and
be a manager. In Argentina, you can’t be a manager until you’re 40,” she says.
After studying five years in Argentina for her undergraduate degree,
working as an au pair in Wisconsin and Boston to improve her English
language skills, then training in an internship program with Marriott
Hotels in Chicago, Dalto is happily installed in the MBA program,
working as a research assistant in the finance department at DePaul
during the day and attending classes at night. She chose DePaul’s program
for its flexibility and because people at DePaul reached out to her.
“When I was looking for schools, I went to other open houses.
I didn’t feel welcome. My advisor at the [Kellstadt] open house was
helping international students understand the system. When I e-mailed
her, she e-mailed me back with all the information I needed. She was
always nice and helpful and made me feel welcome,” Dalto says.
Like other international students, Dalto has found the ISO a
great support resource. “When I had to change my visa, I didn’t need
to hire a lawyer. Jane [Kalista, advisor, ISO] gave me all the support
and information I needed, even though she’s so busy,” she says.
Bojana Murisic, an undergraduate math major and a student
athlete on DePaul’s tennis team, who came to study from Subotica,
Serbia, also feels that her opportunities are here. “In Serbia, the conditions
are very poor, so of course I would like to go back and be with
my parents, but it’s much better for me [here].”
Murisic would like to become an actuary for an insurance company
or consulting business, and wants to get her MBA after she finds
a job. “I felt comfortable as soon as I got here,” she says. “I like the
environment around DePaul very much, and especially because six
[out of nine] of my teammates are European. Actually, my best friend
from Serbia is also playing tennis here.”
Like other international students, she finds her professors very
helpful and is surprised at the degree to which they make themselves
available, compared with instructors in her home country. “When I
first got here I saw the syllabus of one professor. His name was written
and office hours, phone number and e-mail address. I thought,
‘Why would he give me his phone number?’” she says.
Jordan Liu (CTI ’00), who came here in 1998 as a master’s degree
student and as part of a group of 20 students that CTI had recruited in
Shanghai, feels torn between his new home and his adopted one. Now
nearly finished with his Ph.D. and working as a part-time instructor at
DePaul, he lives in Chicago with his wife, Maggie Tan (CTI ’03), who
also came here from China and completed a master’s degree. “After you
graduate, you’re caught between two continents to decide whether to
pursue a higher degree,” Liu says. “Not only do you have to consider
your own personal pursuit, also you have to consider family far away.”
Liu enjoys Chicago and has always felt very welcome at DePaul.
“The most difficult thing is being afraid of not fitting in, because we
[the people in his department] are so different…At DePaul, maybe
because of the culture or because of the Vincentian ideology, I feel most
of the people are good at talking to people. It’s the reason I stayed.”
He is attracted to the opportunities emerging in his rapidly developing
homeland, but would miss many of the things he enjoys about the
culture here. “In China, you can’t talk about politics,” he says.
Wherever he chooses to make his home, Liu is aware he has a most
valuable tool—a dual perspective. “Because I have been in both countries,
I can put myself in both environments. The biggest thing that surprised me
is the misunderstanding between people just because of where they are.
It definitely enhances your ability to think; you add one more perspective.”
No matter where they go from DePaul, Chicago and the United
States, all international students share this valuable insight. They—along
with those students born here who venture forth to other countries—
become citizens of the world.
Croatia
Hungary
They’ve come—these
bold, well-educated,
highly motivated
students—to enjoy the
advantages of a superior
university education.
And going the other direction…
Outbound students from DePaul study in the following locations this year:
Mexico City, Mexico
Istanbul, Turkey
Vienna, Austria
Dublin, Ireland
Krakow, Poland
Leuven, Belgium
Madrid, Spain
Melbourne, Australia
Osaka, Japan
Paris, France
Rome, Italy
Sheffield, England
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Argentina
Chile
El Salvador
Ghana
Hawai’i
Kenya
London, England
Morocco
Nagoya, Japan
Merida, Mexico
Athens, Greece
Beijing, China
Hong Kong
Bonn, Germany

Decipher ing the Tree of Life:
Biologists and CTI Students
Collaborate at The Field Museum
dDeep in the basement of one of the nation’s top natural
history museums, researchers toil away.
They seek to unlock the secrets of different species,
current and extinct. They seek to discover evolutionary
patterns over time, and changes in an organism’s DNA
as it evolves. They seek to connect related species on the
grand phylogenetic map, more commonly known as the
“Tree of Life.”
Many museum researchers lack customized, highpowered
computational software tools to help further their
work, unlike their counterparts in the private sector. Since
most museum research is open source, in the public domain
and often involves species long extinct, there is little market
demand to create such tools.
However, together with researchers at Chicago’s Field
Museum, a group of bioinformatics students from DePaul
University’s School of Computer Science, Telecommunications
and Information Systems (CTI), has helped create programs
to move the researchers’ work forward.
“We are interested in making the process of scientific discovery in
biology and evolution easier by applying computational tools to some of
the big questions in biology,” says Mark Westneat, curator of zoology
at The Field Museum.
Developing tools to fit the unique and specific analytic and graphics
needs of the researchers is key, he adds.
“Most biologists are fairly non-intuitive when it comes to computers,”
Westneat says. “I can imagine a computational tool that I could use,
but I’d have no idea how to create and implement it.”
That step is where the students of DePaul CTI instructor David
Angulo come in. Since last summer, several students each quarter work in
collaboration with Field Museum researchers to create programs that
simulate evolution in a species, mimic different environmental conditions,
by Shawn Malayter

sequence DNA and analyze other biological data, and many other
programs specifically tailored to the researchers’ projects.
“Computer scientists have their own unique vocabulary, so it’s really
important to have students immersed in an environment with biologists,
who think and work in an entirely different way,” says Angulo.
“Bioinformatics is about merging the two
outlooks, training computer-savvy students to
be able to fill biologists’ needs.”
“Sometimes at first, we’d talk past each
other,” Westneat says. “But as the weeks
pass, lingo is picked up on both ends, and
we find solutions to problems. There’s a lot
of very useful programs for researchers that
simply haven’t been written yet.”
Angulo also has addressed the occasional
communication issue with his students.
“We’re encouraging them to make Flash
movies to show how their software is working,”
he says. “We’ve found that works much
better than technical jargon.”
But according to Richard Ree, a botanist
at The Field Museum who also is working
with the students, the benefit of the program
can’t be one-sided.
“We try to come up with projects that
captivate the students, as well,” Ree says.
“We don’t want them doing simply data-entry
work, we want them to be able to contribute
and write programs that reach consensus
and provide confidence in the results.”
Westneat concurs, noting that in many
cases, the research couldn’t get done without
the programs written by the DePaul students.
“The projects we choose are all new, thus
making a novel contribution to the biological
sciences,” he says. “Even though some of the
computational approaches we are using are
well known, we are still combining things in
new ways.”
Angulo explains that the project is a perfect fit for the nascent
sequence of bioinformatics course offerings at CTI, which combine a
technology skill set with scientific know-how.
“Bioinformatics is a large and rapidly growing field, and our students
primarily come from computer science backgrounds, but they also want
“ Most biologists
are fairly nonintuitive
when it
to understand biology, biochemistry and pharmacology,” he says.
“This sort of project is exactly the type of experience that employers in
the industry want to see.”
comes to computers.
I can imagine a
computational tool
that I could use,
but I’d have no
idea how to create
and implement it.”
Mark Westneat
Zoology Curator, The Field Museum
The project has shown “excellent” progress so far, according to all
parties involved. One of the most recent prototype applications, Westneat
says, will help analyze the evolutionary tree for
many different species of coral-reef fish. Angulo
noted that future projects may include principles
of artificial intelligence, although currently
most of the software being written “would
classify as graph-generating programs.”
Eventually, Westneat believes that the
type of work that the DePaul students are doing
can help biologists research more topics in
quicker fashion.
“There’s a huge need for new software
tools that operate on a large scale to analyze
different populations of data,” he says.
“Anything we develop is open-access, so flexible
computational tools that operate in a common
scientific language and provide access to
information are really valuable to us.”
According to Ree, the proliferation of
databases in genomics and proteomics research
in recent years has further defined the necessity
for such tools.
“There’s so much more information out
there in our field, so there’s a need for more
computational power to deal with it all.”
However, given the vast, nearly unlimited
combinations of biological life on the planet,
how do researchers and students keep projects
manageable?
“It can be difficult,” Westneat acknowledges.
“But there are almost always little pieces
of the grand puzzle of the tree of life that can
be developed as a short-term project. Imagine it
as someone programming a huge project like
Google Earth. That’s a massive undertaking, but you have one programmer
focusing on the roads and images for Illinois, which is far more
manageable… but the thing to remember is that asking scientific
questions about the biodiversity of life is so important right now.”
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alumni news
P E R S O N A L L Y P U T
“DePaul broadened my view globally and
inspired me to connect academia with the real world. The MBA program
gave me a holistic view of marketing—it’s not just about the bottom line,
but about connecting with people.”
Nancy Paez (COM ’01)
National Training Director for MindShare China
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Alumni in Action What’s up in NYC? 29
Class Notes See what your classmates are doing 32
Alumni Planner Info on upcoming events 36

Constantine Bakouris: When Studying Abroad
Means Coming to Chicago
Constantine “Costas” Bakouris’ drive to
succeed was evident as soon as he arrived
at DePaul in 1962 from his native Greece.
In addition to being a full-time student,
Bakouris (COM ’66, MBA ’68) worked more
than 35 hours a week at the National Baking
Company, which supplied area restaurants with
bread and other baked goods. With characteristic
energy, he quickly worked his way from
bread-slicer to logistics manager to purchasing
director. “I was hungry for success,” he says.
Several decades later, Bakouris credits
his years at DePaul with giving him the academic foundation necessary
to fulfill his business ambitions, while teaching him some important life
lessons. “I gained a practical approach to getting things done,” he says.
“I learned that if you apply yourself, you will be rewarded, and I learned
to look at things not as problems but as opportunities.”
Bakouris’ own rewarding business career has taken him around the
world. He held key positions with Union Carbide, including managing
director of the chemical giant’s operations in Greece as well as vice
president/general manager of its European consumer products division
in Switzerland. He also served as chairman of Ralston Energy Systems and
is now an executive with Viohalco, a Greek metals trading and manufacturing
conglomerate.
A L U M N I
A B R O A D
His impressive résumé also includes serving as managing director
for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, by personal invitation from
Greece’s prime minister. Currently, Bakouris is chairman of Transparency
International Greece, the national chapter of an international nongovernmental
organization with chapters in more than 90 countries
dedicated to fighting corruption and promoting government transparency
and accountability.
Despite having “no time to breathe,” Bakouris always finds time
for his alma mater. As DePaul’s unofficial ambassador in Greece, he
coordinates alumni activities in that country and with his wife, Viky,
hosts study abroad students at their home in Athens. He is a former
member of the College of Commerce advisory board and is an active
supporter of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center. In fact, one of
Bakouris’ fondest college memories is of playing pinochle with friends,
including classmate Harold Welsch, who now teaches management
at DePaul and founded the university’s Coleman Entrepreneurship Center.
Bakouris is a devout believer in the value of international study.
“With globalization in full swing, studying abroad is a must,” he says.
“Knowing different cultures helps improve your capacity to understand
the world and to communicate more effectively.”
He also thinks overseas study fosters flexibility in a rapidly changing marketplace—sound
advice he gave his son Stefanos, a 1999 graduate of DePaul.
“Studying abroad enhances your ability to cope with change and to adapt
more quickly and with less resistance, making you more competitive,” he says.
Aaron Morris: Student of the World
Aaron Morris (LAS ’03) (back row, far
right) says he first fell in love with all
things Japanese watching “Shogun,”
a TV mini-series based on the novel
by James Clavell, when he was
8 years old. Today, almost 30 years later,
he is a high school English teacher in
Fukuchiyama City, Japan, having been
well-prepared for life and work abroad by
DePaul’s international studies program.
As a DePaul student, Morris spent
two semesters in Osaka, where he went
to school and lived with an exchange family—an experience he says is definitely
“the way to go” for students serious about learning Japanese. And he
says that mastery of the language is a must for living in this unique country.
“Despite globalization, Japan is still very insular and monocultural,”
he says. The foreign population is a mere 1 percent of the whole, and
Morris is the only foreigner—student or staff member—at his school.
A devoted traveler and self-proclaimed “student of the world,” Morris
appreciates DePaul’s multifaceted approach to international studies. “My
studies included economics, politics, sociology, anthropology…a lot of
different ways to look at the world,” he says. “I am endlessly fascinated by
different cultures and the ways different nations interact with one another.”
by Barbara Storms Granner

Before embarking on his most recent adventure, Morris worked
as a Japanese- and English-fluent international relations specialist for
the Kiyosato Experimental Educational Project (KEEP), an Americanbased
nongovernmental organization (NGO) that helped modernize
dairy farming in Japan after World War II. Today, KEEP is run entirely
by Japanese citizens and is working on development projects in the
Philippines and Eastern Europe.
After his current contract expires, Morris hopes to put his fluency
in Japanese to work for another NGO or as a translator. “I consider myself
an international citizen,” he says. “My dream is to help further communications
between cultures.”
Nancy Paez: Conquering China’s Media Frontier
As a media industry professional in
China, Nancy Paez (COM ’01) says she
feels like a pioneer in the “Wild West
of communications.”
Paez is national training director for
MindShare China, the country’s largest media
agency, which develops communications
planning strategies and buys media time
and placement for such clients as Motorola,
Ford, Nike and Pepsi, as well as several local
Chinese companies.
She explains that the need for marketing,
communications and media-planning services
has exploded since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001,
which brought a market of more than 1 billion people into the global
trading system and opened up a whole new world of media opportunities—from
traditional print outlets to innovative interactive media,
from billboard space to cyberspace.
Paez is responsible for training more than 750 employees in nine
MindShare offices across China. She lives in Shanghai but spends a substantial
amount of time traveling throughout China and the Asia-Pacific region.
She says her College of Commerce experience helped prepare
her for this role. “DePaul broadened my view globally and inspired me
to connect academia with the real world,” she says. “The MBA program
gave me a holistic understanding of marketing—it’s not just about the
bottom line, but about connecting with people.”
Her DePaul connections are kept current through her participation
as a local representative in the Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) program,
a volunteer network of alumni who offer to talk to DePaul students and
alumni about their chosen careers and, in her case, her adopted country.
She also attends alumni events in China, most recently a dinner with
a group of alumni and DePaul’s president, the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider,
C.M., when he visited Beijing last year.
She enjoys acting as an ambassador and welcomes inquiries about
her field, her career path and her life in China. “I believe I will always
maintain my DePaul connection,” she says.
Jennifer Sanchez: Taking Aim Against AIDS
from Chicago to Africa
Jennifer Sanchez (LAS ’06) knows exactly
what she wants to do with her life: work
for an international nonprofit organization
on HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.
That clarity of vision, unusual in a recent
college graduate, began to take form in a
Discover Chicago class Sanchez took her
freshman year called “The Diverse Faces
of AIDS.” It was sharpened by several
opportunities DePaul presented to her.
During her junior year, Sanchez spent
the spring quarter in Paris on one of DePaul’s
many study abroad programs. She lived with
a French family, attended classes through the international language
school Alliance Française, and honed her skills in French—the national
language of several African countries. “My experience in France taught
me a lot about dealing with life in a new country and meeting new
people. Through this I gained confidence in myself,” she says.
Sanchez was chosen to participate in DePaul’s highly selective
McNair Scholars program, a federally funded program that supports the
educational aspirations of first-generation, minority and low-income
students in higher education. The program prepares promising students
like Sanchez for graduate school and post-graduate work by providing
test preparation, guidance throughout the application process, access
to research possibilities and other support.
Through the McNair Scholars staff, Sanchez learned of—and was
awarded—a research grant to study HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. Using a
statistical software program she had mastered in her research methods class,
she studied the relationship between social support and the rates at
which women get tested and disclose their HIV status to their partners.
“I definitely want to go back to Africa,” she says. “My summer in
Tanzania was the best experience I’ve ever had. It taught me not to take
things for granted, things like hot water and around-the-clock electricity.”
Sanchez is currently on the staff of the McNair Scholars program
at DePaul. She will attend the University of Michigan in the fall to
pursue her master’s degree in public health—the next step in pursuit
of her goal.
“Knowing different cultures helps improve your capacity to
understand the world and to communicate more effectively.”
— Bakouris
Barbara Storms Granner is a freelance writer and principal
of Brainstorms Writing and Communications Consulting in Evanston, Ill.
To contact the ASK office, call 312.362.8282
or e-mail program director Vicki Klopsch at vklopsch@depaul.edu.
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Study Abroad Is
DePaul Alumnus’ Business
When Brian Boubek (COM ’95), CEO and founder of Tempe,
Ariz.-based CEA Global Education, was ready to study abroad,
he had already completed his classes at DePaul University. He had to
make his own arrangements for a year’s study in France after graduation,
but those efforts eventually led him to a million-dollar idea.
“It took me three or four months just to prepare all the details,”
notes Boubek of the difficult pre-travel and admissions arrangements that
he had to negotiate to enroll in a yearlong French language and
culture program at the University of Burgundy in 1995. “It was very
Boubek
time-consuming and a lot of work.”
That was before cell phones and e-mail, when communicating with university officials in France could be a painfully slow process.
“All they had was a fax machine and the phones were quite difficult,” Boubek explains. “They didn’t have voicemail or anything like that.”
Boubek’s less-than-ideal experience prompted him to write a guidebook for U.S. students looking to study in Europe. His “Student’s
Guide to Studying in France” included information about getting student visas, changing dollars into francs and wiring tuition money
abroad. But he felt he could offer something better than a do-it-yourself manual.
“After I finished the book, I decided that I would provide a service where I could help other students more directly,” he says. “I would
charge a fee to do all the work and make it all very easy for them.”
That decision evolved into a business plan for CEA. Boubek’s vision took shape while working in his brother’s 100-square-foot bedroom in
the months following his return from France in early 1996. He sent his first study abroad participant, a Cornell University student, to the University
of Burgundy later that fall.
Joseph Kinsella (LAS ’89, ’96), associate vice president of DePaul’s International Programs Office, says that Boubek’s experience in France
is one of the best outcomes a study abroad program can hope for. “Brian came back with knowledge about working in another society and
negotiating another set of cultural practices that led to his success with CEA.
“Something that Brian has gotten very good at is the ability to open businesses very quickly in different parts of the world. I know this grew
out of his immersion experience in France,” Kinsella observes.
But CEA was not an instant success story. Boubek says that he posted a $41,000 loss in 1996. In the next couple years, he maxed out
seven personal credit cards to finance business expansion—moving operations from his parents’ house in Chicago to new and larger premises in
Phoenix. That investment eventually paid off. This year, the company will report $30 million in revenue.
According to Boubek, CEA has grown at a dizzying annual rate of 30 percent since 2000. Currently, it has partnerships with more than
150 U.S. universities, including DePaul, and 44 academic institutions in 15 other countries.
Here are the top 10 countries or territories where DePaul alumni live.
Those marked with an asterisk also are sites for DePaul degree programs.
W h e r e D o O u r I n t e r n a t i o n a l A l u m n i L i v e ?
Country or Territory
Total Alumni
Canada 77
Hong Kong 51
China 42
Puerto Rico 38
Thailand* 36
Czech Republic* 33
England 25
Japan 20
Germany 20
Overseas Military 19
(Europe, Africa, Middle East)

Regional Alumni Chapters Expand the DePaul Network
Buoyed by a string of successful activities in its first year,
DePaul’s New York City alumni chapter—which includes Long
Island and Westchester, N.Y., and parts of Connecticut and New
Jersey—now aspires to more ambitious goals.
“The next level for us is reaching out and getting increased
involvement from the more than 1,500 alumni in the tri-state area,”
says chapter co-leader Sean Harvey
(LAS ’95). “That will involve creating
more informal events and
activities that really speak to our
community’s diverse needs and
interests, as well as creating an infrastructure
to support those events.”
Since its first meeting in May
2006, a core group of nine committee
members has organized several alumni
events, including a November reception
with the Rev. Dennis H.
with who maybe I would never have had contact with again if
I weren’t involved,” Hanson notes.
“Being able to reconnect with fellow alums who share the
Vincentian values is what makes DePaul unique,” Harvey explains.
“Through the alumni chapter, we can now recapture that spirit and
renew the values that link all of us in the DePaul family.”
According to Cynthia
Lund (EDU ’97), director of
the university’s alumni outreach
efforts, the DePaul family
extends much farther than
Chicago. “Our alumni live
in every state and in more than
50 countries,” she says. “Staying
plugged into the alumni network
through local chapters offers
great benefits, such as career
networking opportunities when
Holtschneider, C.M., president of
DePaul. For most of the 115
attendees, it was the first time to
meet the new president and hear
New York City alumni chapter members Anne Drennan (COM ’81)
and Wanda Edwards (EDU ’91) at a recent reception with the Rev.
Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., DePaul’s president. The Nov. 14 event
attracted 115 DePaul alumni and friends from a three-state region.
moving to a new city.”
Expanding the number
of regional alumni chapters
is one of the main goals of
about the university’s many accomplishments since they graduated,
according to chapter co-leader Lena Hanson (COM ’05).
Other alumni activities have included coordinating Blue Demon
the DePaul Alumni Association, says Lund. Chapters are now active
in Arizona, Southern California, Denver and Washington, D.C.
A new chapter currently is being formed in Detroit.
basketball events, New York City’s first Vincentian Service Day, a theater
outing and a student send-off. Hanson and Harvey explained that such
events have created opportunities to meet old friends and reconnect
with the university. “I have friends out here that I went to DePaul
For more information on how you can become involved
with DePaul alumni in your area, please drop an e-mail to
dpalumni@depaul.edu or call toll-free 800.437.1898.
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Alumni Board Celebrates a Great Year
The DePaul University Alumni Board, which represents the Alumni Association,
supports and advises the Office of Alumni Relations in its mission to provide current
and future alumni a lifelong connection to the DePaul community, building relationships
that foster affinity, loyalty and support of the university and its Vincentian mission.
— Alumni Board Mission Statement
2006-07 Alumni Board members (l to r):
Anne Drennan, David Cagigal, David
Harpest, Jack Cummins, Rick Ton,
Jason Jacobsohn, Owen McGovern,
Roni Buckley, Mike Ulinski, Martha
Trueheart and Bill Carsley. Not pictured:
Valerie Black-Mallon, P.J. Byrne, Katie
Hamilton, Athir Mahmud and Arbin Smith.
Message from Outgoing President Anne Drennan
Dear Alumni,
It has been a great pleasure to lead such a dedicated, talented set of board members through
this inaugural year. As I look back at our efforts to re-establish a university-wide Alumni Board,
I must say the experience was fantastic. The support, ideas and enthusiasm of board members
and alumni at large are reaching all levels of the university—as evidenced by the participation
of several student leaders and deans in the Alumni Board’s most recent meeting. As I prepare
to move into the role of past president, I want to share just a few thoughts with you.
The Alumni Board is energized by several positive developments at DePaul, including:
■ As articulated in VISION twenty12, the university’s strategic plan, DePaul continues to recognize
and appreciate its alumni as integral members of the university community.
■ A degree from DePaul is valuable and is becoming even more so with the success of the
university and the accolades it continues to receive. This is great news for alumni.
There are many ways for you to be involved and connect with DePaul University:
■ The event-filled Reunion Weekend is Oct. 12-14. See alumni.depaul.edu/reunions for a listing of
activities. Come and meet members of your Alumni Board at the Reunion Brunch on Sunday morning.
■ The Office of Alumni Relations continues to organize opportunities to network with other alumni
and strengthen their professional connections in Chicago and around the country. Be sure to
update your contact information, particularly your e-mail address, so you can receive university
updates and event notices.
■ Give back to DePaul students. The Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) program seeks enthusiastic
alumni willing to mentor students, provide practice interviews and even invite a student to their
workplace for a full- or half-day of job shadowing. For those who are able, I also encourage you to
provide internship opportunities or scholarship support.
The Alumni Board would love to hear from you—let us know what types of events interest you, what
you thought of the alumni events you have attended and whether you would like to volunteer. Reach out
to us at an alumni event, e-mail dpalumni@depaul.edu or call the alumni office at 800.437.1898.
Please know the board will continue to do its best work with your encouragement, feedback and participation.
It is in our individual and collective best interest to be an active part of the DePaul alumni community.
In DePaul,
2007-08 Alumni Board
President
Jack Cummins (LAS ’88, JD ’92)
Vice President
Arbin Smith (LAS MA ’00)
Secretary
Owen McGovern (COM ’77)
Past President
Anne Drennan (COM ’81)
Valerie Black-Mallon (THE ’01)
Roni Buckley (SNL ’01)
P.J. Byrne (MFA ’99)
David Cagigal (COM ’76, MBA ’78)
Bill Carsley (LAS ’61, ’67, JD ’69)
Rita De La Pena (SNL ’86)
Katie Hamilton (LAS ’03)
David Harpest (MUS ’00)
Jason Jacobsohn (MBA ’02)
Jackie Luvert (LAS ’80, MBA ’99)
Athir Mahmud (LAS ’98, CTI MS ’02)
Rick Ton (CTI ’03)
Martha Trueheart (EDU ’00)
Mike Ulinski (CTI MS ’06)
Rhonda Watson (LAS MS ’99)
Anne Drennan, Outgoing President, DePaul University Alumni Board

Giving Update
The following alumni recently have given
their generous support to DePaul University.
Alumni Gifts—$100,000+
(January-March 2007)
■
■
Gerald Beeson (COM ’94), Gerald A. Beeson Success
Through Scholarship Endowment in Accountancy
Bertram L. Scott (SNL ’80) and Elizabeth A. Fender,
Bertram L. Scott & Elizabeth A. Fender Distinguished Lecture
Series Endowment
■ Ernest R. Wish (COM ’57) and Mimi Wish, Ernest R. &
Mimi D. Wish Endowed Scholarship; Wish Endowed Scholarship
in Music to Honor Lawrence & Geraldine Sullivan
■ Dr. James J. Koziarz (LAS ’71) and Debra A. Koziarz,
The Campaign for Excellence in Science Capital Fund
Alumni Gifts—$25,000 to $99,999
(January-March 2007)
■
■
■
James A. Barnash (LAS ’77) and Kathy Johnson,
The Campaign for Excellence in Science Capital Fund
John J. Vitanovec (COM ’79) and Kathleen E. Vitanovec,
Kathleen & John Vitanovec Success Through Scholarship
Endowment in Accountancy
Robert C. Thommes (MS ’52), Robert C. Thommes Gift
Annuity to The Campaign for Excellence in Science
Licensed to Support the Blue Demons
Show your Blue Demon spirit by purchasing an official
DePaul University license plate from the State of Illinois. In
addition to trumpeting your alma mater, the plates generate
revenue for the university’s student financial aid program.
DePaul license plates can be displayed on SUVs,
passenger vehicles and trucks and vans weighing less than
8,000 pounds. You may apply for the plates in person at
most Illinois Secretary of State facilities.
To apply by telephone, call the Secretary of State’s
office toll-free at 800.252.8980 (then select 4) or the special
plates office directly at 217.785.5215.
You also may download the application form from the
Secretary of State’s Web site at www.cyberdriveillinois.com/
publications/pdf_publications/vsd55310.pdf.
DePaul license plates cost $40 in addition to any
other vehicle licensing fees.
Theatre School Gala Supports
Scholarships
Nearly 500 guests attended The Theatre School’s 19th Annual Awards for Excellence
in the Arts, which honored notable contributors to the arts and raised a record $275,000
for The Theatre School’s scholarship fund for deserving theatre students.
Honorees included actors Alec Baldwin, Pam Grier and Michael Rooker (THE '82).
Norm R. Bobins, president and CEO of LaSalle Bank, accepted the 2007 Corporate Award
for Excellence in the Arts on behalf of the bank. Shirley R. Madigan, chairman of the
Illinois Arts Council, received the inaugural Leadership Award for Excellence in the Arts.
The evening’s host and master of ceremonies was Theatre School alumnus Scott
Ellis (THE ’78), associate artistic director of New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company
and a four-time Tony Award nominee.
Alec Baldwin, Pam Grier, the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M.,
DePaul president, and Michael Rooker (THE '82)
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class notes and to discover the many ways to
connect with other alumni and DePaul University.
’40s
Betsy Palmer (LAS ’49) was the
guest of honor at the New York State
Museum’s Second Annual Classic
Horror Movie Festival in fall 2006. She
was a regular panelist on the television
show “I’ve Got a Secret” in the 1950s.
Her career blossomed when she
appeared as Jason’s bloodthirsty
mother in “Friday the 13th” and “Friday
the 13th II.” She also was a series
regular on “Knots Landing.”
’50s
James J. Divita, Ph.D. (LAS ’59)
retired after teaching European history
for 42 years at Marian College in
Indianapolis. His most recent book,
“Indianapolis Italians,” was published
by Arcadia Publishing. The Marion
County-Indianapolis Historical Society
recognized his outstanding efforts in
local history by granting him its
2006 Fadely Award.
’60s
Denis Jana, Ph.D. (EDU ’64) portrayed
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in the 2006
Memorial Day Program and Centennial
Celebration in Long Beach, Calif.
Denis, who started teaching at a
Catholic grammar school in 1963,
has been a teacher for 44 years.
Warren B. Barshes (LAS ’65, ’69)
retired from the Wrigley Company
after more than 30 years and now lives
in Beijing, China. He provides human
resources management consulting
to local and multinational companies,
as well as to government departments.
James Grant (THE ’65) is in the
film “The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button,” co-starring Brad Pitt and Tilda
Swinton. It is scheduled to be released
in May 2008.
Bruce J. Finne (JD ’67) is currently
an examiner with the Minnesota Quality
Council. He recently retired from his
position as executive director of the
Illinois Service Commission, a position
he held for 30 years. Bruce and his wife,
Karen, have two children and
three grandchildren.
Donald F. Duclow (LAS ’68, ’69)
is professor of philosophy at Gwynedd-
Mercy College, Gwynedd Valley,
Penn. His recently published book,
“Masters of Learned Ignorance:
Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus,” includes
20 essays on three medieval thinkers.
’70s
Bruce Boxleitner (THE ’71) is Captain
Duval in PAX-TV’s “Young Blades”
and Captain Sheridan in “Babylon 5,”
which is currently in syndication.
Bruce is also on the National Board of
Directors for the Screen Actors Guild.
Sister Rita Corkery, RSM (MED ’71)
retired in 2006 after 54 years of
ministry. For the previous 12 years,
Sister Rita served as a chaplain at
St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island, Ill.,
and Little Company of Mary Hospital
in Evergreen Park, Ill.
Robert A. Clifford (COM ’73, JD ’76),
partner at Clifford Law Offices in
Chicago, received the Justice William
Brennan Award at the 26th Annual
National Trial Advocacy College of
the University of Virginia Law School.
Kenneth N. Paoli (MUS ’73) was
an invited lecturer at the International
Workshop on Computer Music and
Audio Technology at National Chiao
Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan,
in March 2007. His electronic
composition, “...a single drop,” which
features granular synthesis and audio
processing of digital samples of
water, premiered at the workshop.
Linda C. Degutis, Ph.D. (LAS ’75) is
president-elect of the American Public
Health Association, the oldest, largest
and most diverse organization of
public health professionals in the world.
She will take office in November 2007.
Arlene J. Bak
(LAS ’76) and
husband John retired
to Surprise, Ariz.,
in June 2003. They
became proud firsttime
grandparents
when Elise Rose
Bak was born
on Oct. 20, 2006.
Robert G. McBride (EDU ’76) was
elected to a six-year term on the
Community College District 509 Board
of Trustees of Elgin Community
College in Illinois. He is a consultant
with the Kane County Regional Office
of Education.
Fred A. Spitzzeri (LAS ’76, ’78),
a Naperville, Ill., attorney, was
elected president of the 2,000-member
DuPage County Bar Association.
Michael S. Jankiewicz (LAS ’77,
EDU ’81) has served as the principal
of Cloverdale Elementary School
in Carol Stream, Ill., since the school
opened in 2000. He and his family
live in Carol Stream.
Phillip A. Kosanovich Jr. (MBA ’78)
joined Promisor Relocation Services,
the corporate division of Moving Station
LLC, as senior vice president. Phillip
is a frequent moderator, panelist
and speaker at workforce mobility
industry meetings.
Anthony D. Kolton (JD ’79) was a
contestant on the NBC-TV game show
“Deal or No Deal” in February 2007.
Tony, who is president of Logical
Information Machines Inc. in Chicago,
appeared with sports legends Dick
Butkus, formerly of the Chicago Bears,
and Scottie Pippen, formerly of the
Chicago Bulls.
’80s
Kathleen W. Cizewski (MM ’80)
is celebrating 15 years of instruction
at her school, Kathi’s Musicians’ Center
School of Music in Grayslake, Ill.
She is also a music instructor at
College of Lake County.
Kevin P. Durkin (JD ’80), a partner
at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago and
current president of the Chicago Bar
Association, was given the Outstanding
Contribution to the Legal Profession
Award by the International Phi Alpha
Delta Law Fraternity.
Elisabette “Lisa” M. Waichunas
(COM ’80) recently founded Theatre
on the Green Performing Arts Studio
for the Young Actor in Woodstock, Ill.
The theatre is dedicated to enriching
young people’s lives through the
performing arts.
Thomas P. Amandes (THE ’81) is
Dr. Harold Abbott on WB's “Everwood.”
He was also in the film “Bonneville”
with co-stars Jessica Lange, Christine
Baranski, Joan Allen and Kathy Bates.
David J. Pezza
(COM ’81, JD ’85)
joined Pircher,
Nichols & Meeks,
a national real
estate law firm, as
a partner in the
firm’s real estate
group. He will be
based in the firm’s
Chicago office.
Michael Rothschild (CTI MS ’82)
joined Zencos Consulting's Business
Intelligence consultant team. He
is a certified systems auditor and
SOLARIS administrator Level I.
Bernard H. Henry (MBA ’83) has
been appointed vice president of
human resources at Alverno Clinical
Laboratories LLC in Hammond, Ind.

Marc R. Lieberman (JD ’83) published
his first novel, “The Translator,” and
optioned the motion picture rights to
Nelson-Madison Films.
Richard W. Pehlke (MBA ’83) was
appointed executive vice president
and chief financial officer of Grubb &
Ellis Company, a leading provider of
integrated real estate services.
Scot J. Schaeffer (COM ’83) became
vice president of enrollment management
at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
Pamela M. Tope (MBA ’84) has been
named president of Verizon Wireless’
Florida region.
Linda M. Van Dyke (MUS ’85, MM ’94)
performs in the orchestra for the musical
“The Color Purple” at the Cadillac Palace
Theatre in Chicago from April
to October 2007.
Joseph Kerke (LAS MS ’87) recently
retired from a 31-year high school
chemistry teaching career. During his
career, he was awarded a DePaul-
Amoco Teacher Fellowship, a Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
grant to attend a high school chemistry
summer institute at Princeton University,
and an Andrew Mellon Foundation
grant to attend the Advanced Placement
Chemistry summer institute at Hope
College, Mich.
Jeffrey J. Kroll (COM ’87, JD ’90), a
partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been
elected a trustee of DePaul University.
Jacqueline A. Kuehl (COM ’87,
MBA ’95) created the Kuehl Marketing
Group in July 2006 to help businesses
achieve their marketing objectives.
Anna Marie Marassa (EDU ’87) was
inducted into the DePaul Athletic Hall
of Fame in 2007 both as a volleyball
student-athlete and Blue Demon coach.
Anna is the girls’ head volleyball coach
and assistant athletic director for De
La Salle Institute in Chicago.
Rachel M. Teresi (EDU ’87) has
accepted a new position as the featured
instructor at Oak Meadows Golf Club in
Addison, Ill. She played her first round
of golf at Oak Meadows, formerly the
Elmhurst Country Club, as a DePaul
student-athlete during a university event.
Leonard D. Davenport (MBA ’88)
joined Capitol Wealth as strategic
acquisitions director. He brings more
than 20 years of financial service
experience to this role.
Nick Marsico (COM ’88, JD ’91)
joined the law firm of Huck Bouma,
P.C., in Wheaton, Ill.
W. Earl Brown (MFA ’89) is Dan Dority
in the HBO series “Deadwood,” which
completed its third and final season. Earl
was nominated for a 2007 Writers Guild
of America Award for Dramatic Series
as one of the writers on Deadwood.
David C. Fuechtman (COM ’89) was
named co-head of the Wealth Planning
Practice Group at Reed Smith Sachnoff
Weaver. He is a partner in the firm’s
Chicago office.
Seth S. Jacobs (THE MFA ’89), an
associate professor in Boston College’s
history department, received tenure
in 2006. Jacobs’ first book, “America’s
Miracle Man in Vietnam,” won the
Bernath Prize for best work in the field
of diplomatic history. His second book,
“Cold War Mandarin,” was published in
late 2006. He and wife Devora (Miller)
Jacobs (THE ’89) have two daughters.
Michele M. Jochner (JD ’90, LLM ’92)
was recently elected recording secretary
of the Women’s Bar Association of
Illinois. In addition, she was named
secretary of the Board of Directors of the
Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's
Network.
’90s
Kathleen A.
Kotwica (LAS ’90,
MA ’93, Ph.D ’95)
is a partner and
vice president
of research and
product development
for The
Security Executive
Council, an international
professional
membership organization for leading
senior security executives.
Jeff Kulenovic (MBA ’90) joined
Delaware Place Bank as senior vice
president and chief credit officer.
Previously, he was executive vice
president and chief credit officer at
GreatBanc Inc., now Charter One.
Latasha R. Thomas (JD ’90) was
re-elected in February to a second full
term on the Chicago City Council,
receiving more than 66 percent of the
vote and defeating three challengers.
Latasha represents the 17th Ward.
Lucille D. Coleman (MS ’91) was
recently honored by People’s Voice,
a Lake County, Ill. newspaper, as one of
the Most Influential African Americans
in Lake County. She is a professor of
nursing at the College of Lake County
in Grayslake, Ill.
Anna Wermuth (LAS ’91) has been
promoted from associate to partner
in the employment and labor practice
at Chicago-based law firm Meckler
Bulger & Tilson LLP.
Michael A. Hawley (MBA ’93) was
promoted to senior vice president of
commercial lending at First Community
Bank of Elgin, Ill.
Heidi S. Hurst (LAS ’93) is the
statewide project coordinator for the
Nevada Immunization Coalition, which
works to promote health and decrease
the incidence of vaccine-preventable
diseases.
David Kovac (THE ’93) is the house
magician for Odyssey Cruise every
Sunday night at Navy Pier in Chicago.
David was one of five magicians
featured in a Chicago Tribune article
on Dec. 1, 2006.
Marty M. Raap (JD ’93) was promoted
to chief deputy prosecutor of the
Kootenai County, Idaho, prosecutor’s
office. He and wife Yvonne have two
children.
Daniel B. Shanes (JD ’93) was
appointed associate judge for the Lake
County, Ill., Circuit Court.
Joseph P. Lupo (COM ’94) is
co-founder of Visual Therapy, a luxury
lifestyle consulting firm in New York.
He has been seen on “The Oprah
Winfrey Show,” VH1 and The Fine
Living Network, and has been quoted in
major fashion and lifestyle publications.
Douglas M. Rue (CTI MS ’94) joined
Vanguard Managed Solutions (formerly
Motorola) as a senior systems engineer.
He has served as an adjunct instructor
at DeVry University in both Los Angeles
and Atlanta.
Catherine A. Bier (MBA ’95),
a realtor-associate with Smothers Realty
Group in La Grange, Ill., was named
top selling agent for 2006.
Daniel Lemieux (THE MFA ’95)
recently completed stunt-doubling
work for Will Ferrell in the feature film
“Blades of Glory.”
Kit O'Toole (LAS MA ’96) received
her doctor of education degree in
instructional technology from Northern
Illinois University in December 2006.
Her dissertation is entitled “Toward
a Tri-Level Model and Comprehensive
Theory for Online Writing Laboratory
(OWL) Research and Design.”
Brian E. Smith (MBA ’96) was hired
as chief financial officer of American
Hometown Publishing, a newspaper publishing
network based in Franklin, Tenn.
Joel Butler (THE ’97) is the stage
manager for Blue Man Group at
Chicago's Briar Street Theatre. J.P.
Amidei (THE ’97) is the ticket services
manager and Jason (Pierce) McLin
(THE ’99) is a member of the cast.
Brian E. Donovan (CTI MS ’97)
was appointed executive director of
management information systems
and services at Prairie State College
in Chicago Heights, Ill.
Marco G. Ferrari (LAS ’97) is a
Chicago-based video artist. He organized
the first U.S. solo performances
for Italian jazz pianist Giuseppe Grifeo
in March 2007.
Josephine S. Lee (MUS ’97) is the
DePaul University School of Music
2007 Distinguished Alumna. The artistic
director of the Chicago Children's
Choir, she was named one of the 2006
Chicagoans of the Year by the Chicago
Tribune for her work in children's
music education.
Eric R. Martuza (LLM ’97) has joined
the Chicago-based law firm of Meckler
Bulger and Tilson LLP as a partner
in its insurance practice.
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Christine A. Milostan (SNL ’97)
is the artist in residence for the art
healing program at the Sullivan High
School Health Center in Chicago.
Pierre C. Kattar (LAS ’98), who is a
photographer and editor for washingtonpost.com,
has been named 2007 Video
Editor of the Year by the White House
News Photographers Association.
Rudresh K. Mahanthappa (MM ’98)
received a 2007 Guggenheim
Fellowship in music composition. He
plans to spend the next year studying
with musicians in Chennai and
Bangalore, India, attending the famous
Carnatic Music Festival in Chennai and
then completing a music composition
that integrates Carnatic music and jazz.
Simultaneously, he plans to work on
an electronic percussion piece that integrates
Western and Indian instruments
along with Indian classical vocals.
Peter J. Schmidt (JD ’98) was recently
elected to membership in Dykema, one
of the country’s largest legal services
and public policy consulting firms.
T. Sandberg Durst, Esq. (JD ’99)
recently became a partner at the law
firm Flaster/Greenberg where his
practice will be devoted to family law.
He is based in the firm’s Trenton,
N.J., office.
Karen E. Gahl-Mills (MUS ’99)
was named executive director of the
Syracuse (N.Y.) Symphony Orchestra.
A vocalist and former cellist, Karen
currently resides in Syracuse with her
husband, Laurence.
Stephanie L. Glazer (THE ’99)
is artistic director for the Los Angelesbased
non-profit theatre company City
at Peace. The company is dedicated
to creating cross-cultural understanding
and conflict resolution using the
performing arts as a vehicle for
change and advocacy.
Peter J. Lynch (LAS MS ’99) was
appointed executive administrator of
Lions Clubs International, the world’s
largest service club organization. Peter
resides in Downers Grove, Ill., with his
wife Carri, a daughter and two sons.
Daniel Weber (LAS ’99) recently
completed a three-year periodontal
residency at the University of Michigan
and subsequently joined a private
periodontal practice in Chicago.
In November 2006, he became a
diplomate of the American Board of
Periodontology, which signifies
board certification in periodontics.
’00s
Christopher S. Grode (MED ’00)
will become superintendent of the
Murphysboro, Ill., school district in July
2007. Christopher and his wife, Lisa,
have three sons.
Lisa Montgomery
(SNL ’00) recently
received several
awards: the Julia
Beveridge Award,
recognizing her
service to the
Illinois Institute of
Technology (IIT)
community; the
Sage Award for
Leadership and Excellence in Advancing
the Status of Women through Mentoring
and Diversity in Education from the
Chicago Commission on Human
Relations Advisory Council on Women;
and the Staff of the Year Award from
the National Society of Black Engineers.
Lisa is the director of women’s
services and diversity education at IIT.
Gerard Wozek (LAS MA ’00) recently
published a book of short fiction and
travel memoir titled “Postcards from
Heartthrob Town: A Gay Man’s Travel
Tales.” He teaches writing and the
humanities at Robert Morris College
in Chicago.
Terrence “Terry” F. Canela (JD ’01)
recently accepted a position as associate
general counsel at The American
Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C.
Alana S. Arenas (THE ’02) was
named an official ensemble member of
Steppenwolf Theatre in January 2007.
She starred as Pecola Breedlove in the
acclaimed Steppenwolf production of
“The Bluest Eye,” initially staged in
Chicago and remounted last year at
the New Victory Theatre in New York.
Susan L. Gartner (LAS ’02)
contributed several profiles of female
farmers to the book “Women of
the Harvest: Inspiring Stories of
Contemporary Farmers.” A writer, video
editor and women's studies instructor,
Susan lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Joseph P. Giamanco (JD ’02) and
Juan Ooink (JD '03) opened the law
firm Giamanco & Ooink in Bolingbrook,
Ill.
Megy C. Karydes (MBA ’02) recently
launched Karydes Consulting, a
boutique marketing and communications
agency in Chicago.
Matt R. Lowe (THE ’02) was in the
cast of “The Grey Zone,” which
was nominated for the 28th Annual
LA Weekly Theatre Awards for Best
Ensemble and Best Original Music.
The show is the inaugural production
of the Because It's There Theatre
Collaboration founded by classmates
Scott Jay (THE ’02) and Danielle
Taddei (THE ’01). Costume designer
Sara Walbridge (THE ’02) was
assisted by Jen Hawbaker (THE ’05).
Kamilah A. Parker (JD ’02) is currently
an associate at Wilson Elser Moskowitz
Edelman & Dicker LLP. She serves
as the corresponding secretary for the
board of the Black Women Lawyers’
Association of Greater Chicago, Inc.
Kaila A. Story (LAS ’02) is an African
Studies doctoral candidate at Temple
University in Philadelphia. In January
2007, she returned to DePaul University
as part of a Center for Black Diaspora's
speaker series to discuss the black
female body and American pop culture.
Peter T. TerSteeg (MBA ’02) is
technical director of Quest Software's
Archiving Business Unit. Peter lives
in New York with his English bulldog,
Chester.
Susannah Hoelter de Lago (LAS ’03)
married Cristian Lago on Jan. 13,
2007. The couple currently resides in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jennifer L. Klinkhammer (MUS ’03)
is the special events coordinator
for Pacific Northwest Ballet. She and
husband Aaron Vesperman live in
the Seattle area.
Claudia Morales Haro (EDU ’03)
and Pedro welcomed Isaiah Salvador
Ortiz to their family on Dec. 29, 2006.
Isaiah joins big brother Miguel Angel.
Claudia writes, “We would like to share
our blessing with you. Having Isaiah
is a reminder that life is precious and
truly a miracle.”
Andrew Schmidt (MBA ’03) was promoted
to vice president at Delaware
Place Bank in Chicago. He will head
bank operations and serve as the
bank’s compliance officer, security
officer and information security officer.
Dawn J. Fisher (LAS MS ’04) and
her husband opened a restaurant
near DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus in
August 2006 called Uncle Sammy’s
Sandwich Classics. A week later, they
had their first child, Annie.
Dana G. Green (MUS ’04) is the
orchestra director for Naperville North
High School in Illinois. As a result of the
orchestra's superior performance, it was
invited to the 2008 National Invitational
Band and Orchestra Festival in Boston.
Corinne R. Jung (LAS ’04) is currently
enrolled in the Graduate School for
Political Management at George
Washington University and is working
on Capitol Hill.
Suzanne Lang Fodor (THE MFA ’04)
can be seen in the upcoming feature
film “Elsewhere” and in “An Open Door”
at the California Independent Film
Festival. In fall 2007, Suzanne returns
to Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe, Ill., for
the world premiere of Evan Smith’s
“The Savannah Disputation.”
Leilani M. Pao (EDU ’04) is the
Illinois State Master Pre-K Teacher at
Christopher House Lakeshore, located
in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.
Janelle Wade (COM ’04) wrote
“Looking Out My Window,” a story of
love, lust and pain told through poetry.
David D. Hubbell (MED ’05) moved to
Phoenix and is teaching fourth grade in
the Tolleson Elementary School District.
Christopher M. Kopacz (JD ’05)
co-authored the 2007 supplement of
the 4th edition of “Illinois Criminal Law:
A Survey of Crimes and Defenses”
with DePaul College of Law Professor
John F. Decker. Christopher is an assistant
defender at the Office of the State
Appellate Defender in Chicago. He
married Anne Divita in May 2006.

Christine A. Maar (SNL ’05) and
her business partner, Jennifer Norris,
founded Element International Inc.,
an online retailer of organic, eco-friendly
and socially conscious products, in
late 2006.
Madeleine M. Miller (SNL ’05) has
been promoted to manager of communications
at the Council of Supply Chain
Management Professionals (CSCMP),
headquartered in Lombard, Ill.
Anthony Moore (MBA ’05) authored
the book “Scholarship Rich: Get Paid
(Not Played) to Go to College!” after
being awarded more than $118,000
in scholarship support for his undergraduate
and graduate studies. He
also founded the scholarship consultant
firm Positive Prerogatives.
Syed I. Ali (CTI MS ’06) joined IBM
Corporation in January 2006 as a
technical solution architect.
Emily B. Heugatter-Mathias
(THE MFA ’06) accepted a full-time
tenure track assistant professor position
at Centenary College in Shreveport, La.
Kelli M. Langdon (LAS ’06) is the
communication specialist at The
Chicago School of Professional
Psychology. Previously, she worked
in the school's student services
department.
Darwin A. Noguera (MUS ’06)
co-founded the Chicago Afro-Latin
Jazz Ensemble in 2006 to highlight the
musical diversity of Afro-Latin American
music and jazz.
Brenda J. Payne (SNL ’06) is the
founder of Ultra Clean Janitorial
Cleaning Service. She writes, “I am
doing quite well, and I enjoy the freedom
of having my own business. Two
years ago after being downsized, you
could not have convinced me that this
was possible. All I can say to SNL
students is ‘Try it! You will like it!’”
Mary C. Suchsland (LAS ’06) was
accepted into the Teaching and
Learning Program in DePaul’s School
of Education and is currently pursuing
a master of arts degree. She works at
Seton Montessori School in Clarendon
Hills, Ill.
I n M e m o r i a m
Lord, we commend to you
the souls of our dearly departed.
In your mercy and love,
grant them eternal peace.
Alumni
Averill E. Butterfield (JD ’26)
Walter J. Boland (LLB ’27)
John P. Cassidy (LLB ’27)
Anthony Champagne (LLB ’27)
Cornelia Bujak (LLB ’28)
S. Yale Fischman (LLB ’28)
Sydney E. Foster (LLB ’28)
Michael Obartuch (LLB ’28)
Don Whalen (LAS ’28)
Armand B. Fish (LLB ’29)
Inez A. Hanrahan (LAS ’29)
James P. O'Connor (LLB ’29)
James R. Caulfield (LAW ’30)
Joseph M. Murphy (EDU ’30, LLB ’35)
James M. Whiteside (JD ’30)
Margaret F. O'Connell (LAS ’31)
Margaret G. Shanafield (LAS ’31)
George W. Downes (LAS ’32)
Casimir S. Frasz (LLB ’32)
J. Arthur Gross (JD ’32)
John G. McQuillan (LLB ’32)
Charles J. Meier (COM ’32)
Walter L. Zalud (COM ’33)
Henry J. Zaluga (LAS ’34)
Clement F. Meier (LAS ’36)
Helen Jacob (LAS ’39)
Charles M. Rhodes (JD ’39)
John J. Weyer (LAS ’39)
Harold Wexler (LLB ’40)
Albert J. Meyers (COM ’41)
Florence F. Yarnell (COM ’41)
Albert E. Durkin (LAS ’42)
John W. Buente (LAW ’44)
Mary F. Bugyie (COM ’44)
Mary M. Kern (LAS ’44)
Florence W. Dunbar (JD ’45)
Therese C. Naddy (COM ’45)
Norine Benn (LAS ’46)
Robert J. Ley (JD ’46)
Josephine Radmer (COM ’46)
Earle H. Croft (LAS ’47)
Frank G. Whalen (LLB ’47)
Philip V. Carter (JD ’48)
Kenneth E. Olsen (COM ’48)
Arlie O. Boswell (JD ’49)
Herbert S. Grant (COM ’49)
Frances B. Holliday (LAS ’49, MA ’62)
Thomas A. Johnson (THE ’49)
James J. Trebbin (MA ’49)
Richard H. Whalen (COM ’49)
Joseph R. Malin (EDU ’50)
Vera Sherbula (LAS ’50)
Robert J. Joyce (COM ’51)
Edward A. O'Hara (LAS ’51)
David Ballou (MA ’52)
Robert W. Bute (LAS ’52)
James G. Donegan (LAS ’52, JD ’56)
Joseph J. Gabel (COM ’52)
Howard A. Reeser (COM ’52)
Harvey M. Silets (COM ’52)
Mary G. Bergschneider (LAS ’54)
Robert J. Clarke (LAS ’54)
Anthony S. Burek (LAS ’55, JD ’58)
Leonard J. Calvano (LAS ’55)
Gerald Rowe (THE ’55)
Robert V. Bradley (LAS ’56)
John Panici (LLB ’56)
William G. Ceas (COM ’57)
Lawrence S. Lannon (JD ’57)
Norman C. Lindahl (JD ’57)
Frank J. Sorrentino (LAS ’57)
James E. Woods (MS ’57)
Martin J. Witting (EDU ’58)
Mary L. Kapitan (LAS ’60)
Michael Laporta (LAS ’60)
Joan M. Ross (LAS ’61)
Marion M. Slavin (LAS ’62)
James W. Crowe (MA ’64)
Barry G. Kling (JD ’64)
George W. Williams (LAS ’64)
Betty Boudreaux (MM ’67)
Kathleen R. Lynch (EDU ’70)
Michael J. Pastuer (MUS ’70)
Melody C. Lord (MUS ’71)
Charles H. Braun (JD ’72)
Robert J. Coffel, CPA (COM ’72)
Marvin P. Cohen (MBA ’72)
Jonathan B. Lach (COM ’72)
Linda S. Paszkiet (LAS ’75)
Jacquelyn Pilliciotti (JD ’79)
Christine I. Diks (LAS ’80)
John F. Kelly (LAS ’81, MA ’96)
William P. Caputo (JD ’82)
Martha Garcia (LAS ’82)
Grant R. Lee (MS ’82)
Joseph R. Schwinger (LAS ’84)
Gerald W. Dwyer (LAS ’92)
Heidi W. Jacobson (MST ’93)
David K. Kaplan (JD ’95)
Kellie T. Maher (LAS ’95)
Kristin L. Beyer (MA ’99)
Jose Vazquez (LAS ’01)
Craig A. Rife (MBA ’04)
Karen M. Jillson (SNL ’06)
Friends
Dr. Thomas A. Brown
Dr. William J. Feeney
Adele Szymanski
Edward Szymanski
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In the winter 2007 issue of DePaul Magazine,
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A l u m n i R e l a t i o n s
Event Calendar
Call 800.437.1898 or visit alumni.depaul.edu for further information and to register.
Recent Alumni Events
July
July 14
Annual Chicago Cubs Rooftop Outing
vs. Houston Astros
Wrigleyville Rooftops, Chicago
July 25
Summer Send-off Picnic in Chicago’s
Western Suburbs
Casual gathering to welcome first-year
students and mingle with alumni
Cerny Park, Warrenville, Ill.
July 26
Detroit Area Alumni Gathering
Detroit, Mich.
August
Aug. 2
Summer Send-off in New York City
Casual gathering to welcome incoming
students and mingle with alumni
August 4
A Day At The Races:
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club
Del Mar, Calif.
Aug. 8
Summer Send-off Picnic in
Chicago’s Northern Suburbs
Casual gathering to welcome incoming
students and mingle with alumni
Flick Park, Glenview, Ill.
Aug. 11
Chicago Cubs vs. Colorado Rockies
Coors Field, Denver
Aug. 23
Chicago White Sox vs. Boston Red Sox
U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago
Aug. 28
B.B. King Concert
Ravinia, Highland Park, Ill.
September
Sept. 8
An Evening Under The Stars
wth Hall and Oates
Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles
Sept. 20
14th Annual College of Law
Alumni Awards
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago
October
Oct. 12-14
Reunion Weekend at DePaul University
Oct. 18
Executive Forum with Nicholas D.
Chabraja, CEO of General Dynamics
Royal Palms Resort, Phoenix, Ariz.
Oct. 20
Cooking Class at L’Academie de Cuisine
Washington, D.C.
Fees and registration deadlines
apply to certain events.
A Night at the DePaul Opera Theatre:
“The Merry Widow”
On March 16, over 150 DePaul alumni, friends
and MBA students attended the School of Music’s
production of Franz Lehar's “The Merry Widow.”
Before the show, the group gathered to network
and listen to a presentation by Harry Silverstein,
director of the DePaul Opera Theatre. The
Office of Alumni Relations, School of Music
and MBA Association co-sponsored the event.
Alumni Reception at the Embassy of France
On March 20, DePaul alumni and friends enjoyed
cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and delicious French
pastries at the Embassy of France in Washington,
D.C. The main gallery of the embassy provided
a spectacular backdrop for remarks by the Rev.
Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president of
DePaul University. Washington, D.C., Alumni
Chapter Leader Rhonda Watson (LAS MS ’99)
introduced the president.
Vincentian Service Day
More than 1,000 DePaul students, faculty, staff
and alumni volunteered in their communities
on May 5. Alumni in Chicago, New York and
Washington, D.C., focused on fighting hunger by
sorting and packing food at local food banks. In
Chicago, Alumni Board members and others volunteered
at the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
New York alumni gathered at the Yorkville
Common Pantry, and Washington alumni
volunteered at the Capital Area Food Bank.
Speed Networking
This spring, alumni gathered in Chicago, Oak
Brook, Ill., and New York to speed network.
Taking a cue from the speed dating phenomenon,
speed networking brings together professionals
for a night of short, one-on-one meetings
to discover complementary business interests.
In total, more than 100 alumni and friends
attended the three events.
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LOOK BACK. COME BACK.
GIVE BACK.
Reunion is a time to reconnect and meet with fellow alumni and reminisce about DePaul. We invite all alumni back
to campus for reunion weekend and will be celebrating classes from 1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2002.
ENJOY university-wide reunion festivities, including a reunion luncheon, all-alumni dinner celebration,
reunion Mass and brunch, campus and city tours, and performances by The Theatre School and the School of Music.
GIVE a gift to DePaul in honor of your reunion year.
VOLUNTEER to make it all happen. Help spread the word, find lost alumni or serve on a reunion committee.
For more Reunion Weekend information, including special hotel rates, visit alumni.depaul.edu/reunions,
e-mail reunion@depaul.edu or call at 800.437.1898.

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“Upon graduation, our students
are prepared to compete in a global
world by employing the cultural insights
and critical thinking skills they developed
in the classroom and the community
during their years at DePaul.”
Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president