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University News
Alliances Theological Education 6
Rankings Diversity and Success 7
Campus New Arts and Letters Building 9
Progress Campaign Update 10
Features
Sustainability Going Green 12
Breakthroughs Learning in a Digital World 22
Computing A Guide to the Cloud 24
Alumni Connections
Accomplishments Alumni Profiles 28
Photo Gallery Reunion Weekend 30
Tidbits Useful News 32
Class Notes Who’s Doing What 34
Alumni Planner Coming Events 40

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 attention from Chicago to the global community.
Here are just a few such items since our last issue.
DePaul University Chancellor the Rev. John T. Richardson, C.M., who served as president of DePaul from 1981
to 1993, has published his memoirs, “The Playful Hand of God.” As DePaul’s ninth president, he presided over
a period of remarkable growth in the school’s campus, enrollment and academic profile. His book is available in
university bookstores.
Blue Demon senior forward Keisha Hampton was a unanimous selection to the 11-person
Preseason All-Big East Team. Also named on the Preseason Wooden Award watch list as well
as the Wade Watch List, Hampton was fourth in the league in scoring last season, averaging
16.0 points per game. She led her team to the NCAA Sweet 16 last year.
Seven alumni are among 29 arbitrators appointed to Illinois’ workers’ compensation system by Gov. Pat Quinn after
a rigorous vetting process. They are George Andros (LAW ’74), Milton Black (LAW ’72), Anthony Erbacci (LAW ’52),
Gerald Granada (LAW ’94), David Kane (LAW ’81), Maureen Pulia (CDM ’83, LAW ’94) and Deborah Simpson
(LAS ’80), who earned her J.D. at John Marshall Law School.
A team of four DePaul students beat 27 other college teams in the KPMG-Association of Latino
Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) Case Competition, a national contest which
DePaul won for the second time in five years. Evelyn Baños, Jahangir Khandwala, Karen Tellez
and Jasmine Villagomez were awarded $500 each for their achievement.
DePaul University is among six institutions in the country that were presented with the Higher Education Civic
Engagement Award by The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. The awards were created
in 2009 to honor colleges and universities that are true role models for civic engagement.
Daniel Clark, a biology and psychology major, received a Presidential Volunteer Service Award.
Given by President Barack Obama, Clark’s highest “Gold Level” award recognizes his work with
the Global Brigades in Honduras to increase the quality of health care in underserved communities
there. Clark also is program director for the DePaul chapter of Global Brigades.

Lincoln Park Farmers Market

university news
P R E S I D E N T I A L P R É C I S
“The prospect that we are ‘borrowing
the planet from our descendants’
is a sobering one, and one that DePaul’s students and faculty are
taking very seriously. As the science becomes all the clearer, so does
our moral obligation to those who will follow. DePaul’s commitment
to a sustainable future is changing the university.”
The Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M.
President

U n i v e r s i t y N e w s
Chicago Mayor Visits DePaul’s CDM to Announce EMC 2 Corp. Office Opening
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
marked his 100th day in office in
August with an announcement at
DePaul’s College of Computing and
Digital Media (CDM) that the global
information technology consulting firm
EMC 2 Corp. would open a new office
in Chicago, employing 200 people.
The announcement was held at
DePaul because of the university’s
existing partnership with EMC 2 , one
of the world’s leading information
management consulting firms
specializing in data management and
cloud computing strategy. Through the
EMC 2 Academic Alliance, CDM offers
classes that incorporate content produced by the company on
emerging trends in information technology, including network design,
data storage technologies and business continuity, among others.
Joining Emanuel for the announcement were Joe Tucci, chairman
and CEO of EMC 2 , a Massachusetts-based company with 50,000
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Joe Tucci, chairman and
CEO of EMC 2 Corp., announce the opening of a new EMC 2
office in Chicago. DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital
Media and EMC 2 have an academic alliance.
employees in more than 80 countries,
DePaul President the Rev. Dennis H.
Holtschneider, C.M., and CDM Dean
David Miller.
Noting that neither public funds nor
stimulus money was used as an
inducement for the company to
establish a Chicago office, Emanuel
said, “The kids out of DePaul (are) a
stimulus.” He added that companies
moving to the city would gain from “a
workforce with a fabulous work ethic” as
well as the city’s strong transportation
network and central location.
The EMC 2 course is taught by Joe
Cannici, an adjunct faculty member at DePaul and assistant director
of information technology for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
District of Greater Chicago. The course was developed in conjunction
with DePaul’s Center for Advanced Network Studies, which was
recently established by Professors Greg Brewster and James Yu to
oversee the network technologies curriculum and research at CDM.
DePaul Forms Theological Education Alliance
“This is an opportunity for both schools to strengthen their academic
‘muscle’ to address the challenges that we face as a society and in
the church,” says the Rev. Donald Senior, C.P., president of CTU.
“The CTU-DePaul alliance is an extraordinary way to advance the
discussion about the future of theological study and to create exciting
new ways to deliver ministerial education,” says the Rev. Dennis H.
Holtschneider, C.M., president of DePaul. “CTU has been home to
some of the finest Catholic theological scholars in the nation.”
The Rev. Donald Senior, C.P., president of the Catholic Theological
Union, and DePaul President the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M.,
announce a new educational alliance.
Catholic Theological Union (CTU), the largest Roman Catholic
graduate school of theology and ministry in the United States, and
DePaul University, the largest Catholic university in the United
States, announced that they are forming an educational alliance.
The alliance is a vehicle for both institutions to explore exciting ways to
deliver educational opportunities to their respective students, faculties
and staffs. CTU sees advantages in making available to its students
preparing for ministry the managerial, communication and social media
education, among other opportunities, that DePaul provides.
The alliance will make it possible for DePaul students interested in
theological graduate study to begin doing so while still at DePaul.
Faculty will be able to expand their experience by teaching at both
institutions.

Rankings Recognize
Diverse, Successful
Student Body
DePaul’s student body reflects a broad range of ethnic,
religious, geographic and economic backgrounds; students of
color, for example, accounted for at least 30 percent of total
enrollment for the 2010-11 academic year. The university’s
commitment to diversity has been honored recently in national
rankings and the successes of its students highlighted.
For instance, Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranked
DePaul among the top 100 institutions in the nation for
conferring bachelor’s and graduate degrees upon students of
color. The rankings reflect degrees earned during the 2009-10
academic year.
DePaul was cited in more than 40 undergraduate and graduate
categories by Diverse Issues. Highlights included:
n In computer and information sciences and support services,
DePaul ranked among the top five institutions for awarding
master’s degrees to students of color.
n In the English language and literature/letters category,
DePaul ranked among the top 15 for awarding master’s
degrees to students of color.
n In the finance and financial management services category,
DePaul ranked among the top 15 for awarding bachelor’s
degrees to students of color.
n In marketing, DePaul ranked among the top 10 for awarding
bachelor’s degrees to minorities.
n In accounting and related services, the survey ranked
DePaul among the top 20 institutions awarding bachelor’s
degrees to students of color.
n In psychology, DePaul ranked among the top 20 for awarding
doctoral degrees to African-Americans.
n In law, DePaul ranked among the top 25 for awarding
degrees to Hispanics and African-Americans.
n In liberal arts and sciences and general studies, DePaul
ranked among the top 25 for awarding undergraduate
degrees to African-Americans.
Complete rankings can be found online at
diverseeducation.com/top100/.
Another publication, Hispanic Outlook, ranked the top 100
four-year colleges in the United States to award bachelor’s,
master’s and doctoral degrees to Hispanics, placing DePaul at
No. 53 for awarding 30 doctoral degrees, No. 60 for awarding
2,648 master’s degrees and No. 73 for awarding 3,324
bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics. The survey was based on
2010 graduation data. More detailed rankings can be found
at hispanicoutlook.com/top-100-schools/.
St. Vincent de Paul Award
The university bestowed the St. Vincent de Paul Award, its highest honor, to
three leaders who exemplify the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul by serving God
through the needs of humanity. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus
(far right) is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, a
groundbreaking institution that provides microloans to people living in extreme
poverty to help them develop small-business initiatives and achieve economic
self-sufficiency. Sister Carol Keehan, D.C., president and CEO of the Catholic
Health Association of the United States, has been a lifelong advocate and provider
of health care for the poor. Monsignor Michael Boland (far left) is president and
CEO of Catholic Charities of Chicago, and under his leadership, Catholic Charities
has continued and expanded its 90-year commitment to care for people living in
poverty and those in need of social services in Cook and Lake counties.
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Researchers Highlight
Dramatic Impact of Millennium Park
on Downtown
A study by researchers at DePaul and Texas A&M universities finds that since
Millennium Park’s 2004 opening, a number of indicators—including a drop in area crime
and significantly increased usage of nearby rapid transit stations—suggest the park has
benefitted the city of Chicago even more dramatically than previously perceived.
The study also quantifies what might be assumed by observation—that the park
spurred a real estate boom that added thousands of residential units to the East Loop,
and that it is generating billions of dollars in additional tourism revenues.
Among the study’s more significant findings:
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Approximately $2.45 billion in construction spending has taken place in the
vicinity of the park since 2004. Residential housing units in areas adjacent to
the park increased 57 percent and now total more than 9,900 units, while the
residential population in the area increased 66 percent to more than 10,000;
12.8 percent of all visitors to Chicago visit the park. Tourism attributable to the
park has added $11.1 billion in direct and indirect spending each year. The
number of hotel rooms in the area increased 18 percent. Cultural programs at
the park’s Harris Theater produce $3 million in ticket sales annually; and
Usage of the elevated train stations nearest to the park has increased 35 percent
between 2004 and 2010, while violent crime in the area fell 27 percent.
“Millennium Park is widely recognized around the world as a major urban
redevelopment success story,” says Susanne E. Cannon, the Douglas and Cynthia Crocker
Endowed Director of the Real Estate Center at DePaul. “This study shows that the impacts
are even more dramatic and far-reaching than was previously understood.”
The analysis was based on reviews of public records and interviews with major
stakeholders in the project, including former Sara Lee CEO John Bryan, who spearheaded
the private fundraising campaign for the park. Others interviewed include Richard Hanson
Sr., president of Mesa Development LLC, who developed two nearby luxury condominium
buildings on Wabash Avenue overlooking the park. Hanson notes in the study that despite
the overall fall in housing values, units at those buildings continue to appreciate and that
units with park views command a 29 percent premium over others.
The study utilized the “quadruple net valuation” methodology developed in recent
years at Texas A&M by Dennis Jerke, adjunct professor in the school’s landscape
architecture and urban planning department. The methodology examines real estate
projects on the basis of economic, social/cultural, environmental and sensory impacts.
The full 78-page report can be found at http://bit.ly/nI2QGg. A video featuring
interviews with study participants is available at http://vimeo.com/29045390.

“Brute Neighbors” Gives Artists’ Views
of Urban Nature, Environmental Issues
Theatre School Alumni Honored with
17th Annual Black Theater Alliance/
Ira Aldridge Awards
Winners were announced on Oct. 24 and include:
Wardell Julius Clark (THE ’08), The Sidney Poitier Award,
best leading actor in a play (drama or comedy), “Ghosts of
Atwood,” MPAACT
Shanesia Davis (THE ’02 & Faculty), The Ruby Dee Award,
best leading actress in a play (drama or comedy), “Brothers
of the Dust,” Congo Square Theatre Company
Casey Diers (THE ’09), Best Lighting Design, “Ghosts of
Atwood,” MPAACT
Austin Talley (THE ’07), The Ossie Davis Award, best
featured actor in a play (drama or comedy), “Brothers of the
Dust,” Congo Square Theatre Company
The city may seem an unlikely place to seek answers to the
deterioration of our natural environment—until you look between
the covers of “Brute Neighbors: Urban Nature Poetry, Prose &
Photography.”
Published last spring by the DePaul University Humanities
Center, DePaul Poetry Institute and DePaul University Institute
for Nature and Culture, the anthology includes the work of 50
Chicago poets, photographers and essayists who create art at the
intersection of urban and wild. The introduction to this collection
points out that scientists can work on nature as seen from the
outside “as pattern or bold fact,” but it is artists who can tell us
“how our nature interacts with nature” to help us find a
sustainable urban ecology.
The book launched to favorable reviews from the Chicago
Reader and other publications. “People were surprised at how
accessible it was—most people are afraid of poetry. We had a couple
of different launch readings and had really good turn-outs. The
copies got gobbled up,” says Chris Green, a poet and an instructor
in the English department, who co-edited “Brute Neighbors” with
Liam Heneghan, professor of environmental science and co-director
of DePaul’s Institute for Nature and Culture.
Students enrolled in the DePaul Publishing Certificate course
aided in the editing, designing, publishing and publicizing of
the book.
To request a free copy of the paperback edition from a very
limited supply, contact aperson@depaul.edu.
Visit bruteneighbors.com for an electronic edition of
“Brute Neighbors.”
Arts and Letters Building Opens
at Lincoln Park Campus
DePaul’s new
$33 million
Arts and Letters
Building, which
brings 47
state-of-the-art
classrooms to
the heart of the
Lincoln Park
Campus, opens
its doors for
winter quarter
2012. Two
academic
departments,
English and
history of art and
architecture, will
relocate to the building, which includes faculty offices and
meeting rooms. The building will replace classrooms
lost when McGaw Hall is demolished in coming years to
make room for the new School of Music complex.
According to Bob Janis, vice president for facility operations,
DePaul will apply for LEED certification from the U.S. Green
Building Council once the building has been completed.
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Campaign Begins to Have Impact
on Students and Campus
Largest Gift in DePaul History Fuels Momentum
Giving to the Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign for
DePaul University continued its historic pace this fall, with
total gifts to the campaign surpassing $215.3 million as of
Nov. 14 against the campaign’s $250 million overall goal.
A big surge occurred in October, when the university
received the largest single gift in its 113-year history, a
$10 million commitment from a College of Commerce
alumnus and his wife who made the provision for the gift
in their estate. The gift will support scholarships and a
professorship in the College of Commerce. The donors
wish to remain anonymous.
“This landmark gift is notable not just in its
magnitude, but in the profound impact it will have on the
College of Commerce and the students who come through
its doors seeking opportunity and excellence,” says the Rev.
Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president of DePaul. “This
gift is going to change the lives of countless students and
help DePaul meet our commitment to recruiting the very
best faculty to teach them. We could not be more grateful
to this generous couple for what they are doing for the
many generations that follow them.”
Adding to this fall’s momentum, DePaul set a record
in October for the number of new major gifts ($25,000 and
above) received in a single month. University leaders also
announced that during the 2011 fiscal year, the number of
alumni donors had grown to 8,024. It marked the first time
since 1998, DePaul’s centennial year, that the number of
alumni donors exceeded 8,000. Midway through the
campaign, the generosity of donors already is having a
significant impact on securing DePaul’s mission of academic
opportunity and excellence for future generations. More
than 200 new endowed funds have been created since the
beginning of the campaign; of those, 177 are dedicated to
scholarships.

Generations of Excellence
The Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign is DePaul’s first
comprehensive fundraising initiative in almost 30 years and the
largest in its history, with a goal of raising $250 million by 2014.
More than $100 million of that total will bolster the university’s
resources for scholarships, helping to ensure that a college education
is available to future generations of talented DePaul students.
Investments through the campaign focus on continuing to build
academic excellence. Nearly $37 million from the campaign will be
invested in faculty positions to continue to attract the nation’s top
teachers, and more than $74 million will go directly to the creation
and enhancement of academic programs. The campaign has provided
more than $38 million toward new, state-of-the-art facilities for the
School of Music and The Theatre School.
A major focus of the Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign is
the world-renowned performing arts programs at the School of
Music and The Theatre School. Donors to each of those schools
discuss their involvement.
Gerhard and Kathleen Bette: A Family Affair with the Arts
Gerhard and Kathleen Bette’s son, Josef, earned a B.F.A. in acting at The Theatre School in 2009. Last year,
the family made a generous gift to name the Bette Family Green Room in the new Theatre School building,
which broke ground in June 2011.
Josef suggested that the Bettes’ gift be designated for the green room. “When we asked him what the most
important place for an actor would be, he said the green room,” says Kathleen. “That’s the place where an
actor prepares just before going onstage.”
The Bettes have a cherished family tradition of supporting the arts. Kathleen is a trustee of the Music Institute
of Chicago and is a member of The Theatre School board at DePaul. Gerhard is a trustee of Chicago’s
Museum of Contemporary Art and serves on the board of Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Ill. Their daughter,
Moira, is a violist working on her master’s degree at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
“It is so important to our family to support the arts,” Kathleen says. “We are proud of The Theatre School at
DePaul and honored to be a part of its exciting future in Chicago. This new building is a testament to the
excellence of the school and to the university’s support for all its arts programs.”
Sasha Gerritson: Giving Back to Make a Difference
Sasha Gerritson (MUS ’99) and her husband, Eugene Jarvis, have made a generous naming gift of a new
opera hall at the School of Music.
“The new hall will give voice students an opportunity to rehearse daily in their performance space, something
that singers almost never get a chance to do,” says Gerritson. “The state-of-the-art facilities will provide the
necessary tools for students to compete in the professional arena, and the community at large will benefit from
a hall dedicated specifically to opera, because it raises the level of cultural awareness.”
Gerritson graduated in 1999 with a post-master’s certificate in vocal performance. She continues to perform and
has sung in many operas, including “La Bohème,” “La Traviata” and “The Marriage of Figaro.” She now serves
as professor and opera director at Northeastern Illinois University and credits Harry Silverstein, director of
DePaul Opera Theatre, for inspiring her and instilling the expertise and confidence that has led to her success.
“He really made the difference for me,” she says. “I can say that DePaul and Harry Silverstein changed my life.
Because of that, as an alumna of DePaul, I feel it is my responsibility to give back. I encourage others to do
the same.”
For more news and information on the Many Dreams, One Mission Campaign, and to view the newest campaign video in which alumni donors
discuss their reasons for giving, please visit campaign.depaul.edu.
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DePaul intern Andrew Chae (foreground) works with “Green Teens” at the Gary Comer Youth Center’s rooftop garden.

features
P E R C E P T I V E P O I N T
“May you see that something is
always there, have hope for the heart
to rise up for, come to a feeling of
settlement, find a light way of walking
on the earth.”
From “Plain Scared, or, There is No Such Thing as Negative Space, the Art Teacher Said”
by S.L. Wisenberg
(See p. 9 of this issue.)

Digging In:
Urban Agriculture Grows Vegetables—and Community
Butted up against a railroad embankment on Chicago’s South Side, a hoop house
shelters seedlings that will provide fresh produce well into November. Monarch
butterflies flutter among prairie plants before beginning their fall migration.
Chickens and ducks squawk insistently to be let out of their overnight shelter.
(from left) Anna Bakker, Carl McNeese, Emily Leidenfrost and Kyle Gajewski garden at Eden Place as part of their Urban Agriculture class.

This is Eden Place Nature Center, a mile south of the White Sox stadium
and just west of the Dan Ryan Expressway in Fuller Park. Surrounded by
aging homes, vacant lots and boarded-up buildings, Eden Place used to be
a construction dump, contaminated with lead paint and asbestos.
“[Eden Place is] this incredibly beautiful, picturesque place, an oasis
in the city, where people who typically don’t have access to that kind of
natural beauty are able to just fully immerse themselves in three and a half
acres,” says Barb Willard, associate professor of environmental science and
communication. For years she included the site in her Discover Chicago
class, Chicago Wilderness. She recently became more involved when
founders Michael and Amelia Howard and their family added a community
garden to Eden Place.
“They have to do raised-bed gardening because lead, of course, is a
huge problem all over the city, but especially there,” she says. Like most
gardens on small city lots, it also has to be organic and sustainable, which
is labor intensive. “They just don’t have the labor.”
Enter the students in Willard’s Urban Agriculture class. They do soil
analysis, experiment with plant types, convert old windows into coldframe
greenhouses—and they dig, build, plant and weed.
“With almost 30 people, three hours a week for everyone for 10 weeks,
we’re going to get so much done here,” says Emily Leidenfrost, a senior
studying environmental science and Spanish. Because her career goal is to
provide environmental education to Latino communities, the course gives her
valuable hands-on experience. “It’s cool to work with communities, teaching
them about gardening and all about the soil and the earth and the nutrition
that is associated with eating vegetables and fruit and fresh produce.”
Research in the Community
That’s the logical outcome of the work already done by Howard Rosing,
director of DePaul’s Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning,
and faculty members who teach related service-learning courses.
“For the last decade I’ve been doing research with students, in my own
courses, but also with other [faculty members], on behalf of communitybased
organizations around the issue of food access in Chicago
neighborhoods, especially those that don’t have supermarkets,” Rosing says.
Students began documenting the problem by canvassing neighborhood
stores and interviewing residents “to really understand what foods were
available, especially things like produce … and other perishables.”
While some students gather data, others use geographic information
system (GIS) tools for mapping food access as well as community gardens,
says Sungsoon Hwang, assistant professor of geography. The servicelearning
projects enable her to demonstrate the impact of geographic
studies in addition to supporting organizations, such as the Puerto Rican
Cultural Center in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.
“The cultural center is using a community garden as an umbrella
approach to addressing community problems. It can use the garden to
help promote health, economic development and environmental protection,
as well as provide educational opportunities,” she says. “Students can
observe how pillars of sustainability unfold as a whole in the local
community by conducting a community GIS project.”
Student research was pivotal in convincing community leaders in
Evanston to reverse a ban on residents keeping backyard chickens, says
Hugh Bartling, associate professor of public policy. His students
interviewed municipal leaders across the country about the impact of
allowing urban dwellers to keep a few chickens in their yard. Their
research was used to draft Evanston’s new ordinance and gain support.
Now Bartling receives a steady stream of inquiries from other communities
about the research, which he plans to include in his upcoming paper on
poultry regulations in cities.
Vision for a “Food Network”
Along with Rosing and Hwang, Willard wants to “harness all these silos
of activism” and better coordinate DePaul’s involvement in community
gardens, building on Chicago’s new ordinance that makes community
gardens easier to establish. Operating on the belief that DePaul and its
students can have the greatest impact by providing critical support during
the first three years of new community gardens, the Steans Center is
conducting a garden inventory and launching pilot projects in four
neighborhoods of Chicago.
“The idea is to create a community food systems initiative that
channels projects from various disciplines—everything from environmental
science to commerce and computer science to the law school,” Rosing says.
“[The gardens] need people to help, and the students get out, exposed to
what’s going on in these neighborhoods where there’s not a lot of access.”
DePaul is ideally positioned to lead such an initiative, Rosing says,
based on a survey his students conducted on how North American
universities support urban agriculture. DePaul already offers nearly all the
necessary core disciplines. He ticks them off:
“We can teach students to analyze compost. We can do marketing
and PR, we can do entrepreneurship, we can do nutrition by involving our
nursing graduate students. We can definitely do website development—we
have a website incubator program through the Steans Center and the
College of Computing and Digital Media. We can do policy analysis. We
can do horticultural plant science. We can definitely do urban planning
through [DePaul’s] Chaddick Institute [for Metropolitan Development].
We can evaluate water through environmental science. We can definitely
hold conferences, and we can convene people.”
That could put DePaul on the map as a national center for urban
agriculture, says Willard. “Given our interest in social justice, the
Vincentian mission, the students that are interested in it, the faculty that
are interested in it, and with everything that’s going on in Chicago, this is
the place to make it happen.”
by Kris Gallagher
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Green leaders on campus: Alexandra Moree, chair of the Student Government Association’s (SGA)
environmental concerns committee, and Anthony Alfano, SGA president.
The Greening of DePaul
In 2009, the Sierra Club “failed” DePaul on its annual Cool Schools
guide to the most eco-enlightened universities. In 2011, it ranked
DePaul among the top 50 greenest colleges in the nation.
How did DePaul make such a leap? It took thriftiness, a sense of mission
and an enthusiastic partnership between students and the staff of DePaul’s
Facility Operations (Facility Ops).
“Being ranked 46th in the nation is a pretty big accomplishment,”
especially because DePaul is in an urban environment, says Anthony
Alfano, president of the Student Government Association (SGA), which
initiated and funded many of the most visible changes. “Rural campuses
have more optio ns, like farming their own food.”
The 2009 Sierra Club rating galvanized SGA into founding its Environmental
Concerns Committee, which works with DePaul’s Sustainability Initiatives
Task Force and Facility Ops to identify green opportunities. SGA has donated
$250,000 annually for the past four years to fund projects such as solarpowered
lighting, solar-powered trash compactors that need to be emptied
just once or twice a week, a green roof on the DePaul Center and water-bottle
refill stations, all installed by Facility Ops.
“Facility Ops has been great. They are that body that gets a lot of things
done, and they like being energy efficient,” says Alfano. “When we come to
them with ideas, they’ll be at our next meeting with a list of 10 options and
their costs.”
Green is thrifty
Facility Ops’ long-time commitment to cost savings dovetails neatly with
sustainability efforts, says Jim Kohl, director of operations for the Loop
Campus: “Most green ideas are actually cost savings.”
For example, Facility Ops retrofit—replaced the internal elements—of all
the lighting in Loop Campus buildings, saving “about 30 percent in the
lighting costs, without sacrificing any light,” he says. Variable frequency
drives are being installed on large pumps and fans, which now run only as
fast as needed. A growing number of classrooms have motion sensors that
automatically turn off the lights.
Computerized “smart start” systems check outside temperatures and
humidity as well as building schedules to determine when to turn on
heating and air conditioning, says John Zaccari, director of operations for
the Lincoln Park Campus. “So, instead of guys coming in at 5 in the
morning and flipping everything on, there may be some buildings that have
the right amount of sun on them or had a program going all night that kept
the building warm, and the systems might not turn on for an hour or two.”
SGA-funded solar panels power about 40 light poles at the Lincoln Park
Campus. SGA also paid for watt-stingy LED lights in the parking garage
next to Centennial Hall. Campus landscaping now incorporates many
perennials, particularly plants native to the area. In addition to providing a
habitat for local species, the move cuts down significantly on transportation
and containers needed for annual plants, Zaccari says.
by Kris Gallagher

Good actions, done well
Many changes are cost-neutral but inspired by St. Vincent’s injunction to do
good and do it well. Two of Public Safety’s six vehicles are hybrids. The
grounds crew just replaced gas-powered mowers with propane mowers and
switched to biodegradable, non-synthetic chemicals for weed control.
Similarly, the night cleaning crew switched to all-green cleaning products,
which are just as effective as and less toxic than the previous supplies. Facility
Ops now uses paint and carpet glue containing few or no volatile organic
compounds, which also eliminates the chemical smell, says Kohl. All new
carpet includes recycled materials, and the vendor recycles the old carpet.
DePaul’s careful attention to using recycled or sustainable products and
recycling old materials was one reason the university received a gold LEED
certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for the Monsignor Andrew
J. McGowan Science Building.
“We’re hoping for gold certification for the Arts and Letters Building (opening
in January 2012) and silver for the new Theatre School building (opening in
2013),” says Bob Janis, vice president for Facility Ops.
Power in numbers
Some sustainable practices involve the entire campus community. SGA paid
for water-bottle refill stations to be installed in areas with high student
traffic. Each station includes a counter that shows a running total; it’s not
unusual for refills to exceed 1,800 a month.
“I’ve seen a lot less plastic water bottles being used,” says Alfano, adding that
students love the stations.
In addition to widely deployed recycling containers, the university uses a
bagging system that enables its trash hauler to more easily separate
recyclables from waste. In the first six months of 2011 alone, the university’s
trash decreased 2 percent while recycling increased 27 percent over the same
period last year.
“Recycling is a wonderful premise … but it counts on the cooperation of
students, faculty, staff and the public,” says Kohl. “We put containers
everywhere, and we empty them religiously, but we can only do so much.
The rest is up to the people.”
SGA and Facility Ops are exploring new projects ranging from digital
bulletin boards to dual-flush toilets. Often it’s just a matter of time before
technological improvements and price reductions make a project viable, says
Kohl: “As soon as an idea matures, we’re on it.”
DePaul Makes the “Green Lists”
n The Sierra Club ranks DePaul No. 46 in its 2011 list of the top 100
greenest universities in the country.
n The Princeton Review’s “Guide to 311 Green Colleges,” published
with the U.S. Green Building Council, features DePaul University
for the second year in a row.
Sustainability at DePaul
DePaul’s approach to sustainability involves more than just
operations. The Sustainability Initiatives Task Force (SITF)
coordinates the university’s approach to sustainability through
its curriculum, research and community engagement, as well.
For example, SITF is working with faculty and staff members
to deepen DePaul’s involvement with community gardens (see
page 14) through a coordinated array of course work, service
projects and research.
SITF is developing a university-wide sustainability plan that will
guide administrators as they create DePaul’s next six-year
strategic plan, spanning 2013-18. A cross-functional team that
includes faculty members, staff and students, SITF is a member
of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in
Higher Education. It is using the organization’s Sustainability
Tracking, Assessment & Rating System to accurately gauge the
university’s progress.
For more information about SITF, visit
mission.depaul.edu/Programs/Sustainability/Pages/default.aspx.
St. Vincent and Sustainability
What’s the connection between St. Vincent de Paul, a 17th
century French priest, and “sustainability,” a concept that was
first coined in 1987?
St. Vincent famously said, “It is not enough to do good. It must be
done well.” His intent was that service be not only effective, but also
sustainable. He devoted himself not just to serving the poor, but to
finding innovative ways to relieve and reduce poverty. He persuaded
governments and the nobility of his time to treat people who were
poor or marginalized humanely and established prototypes of
sustainable social service, education and health care agencies.
Today, a number of sustainability challenges are exacerbating the
issues faced by impoverished communities like those St. Vincent
served. The world’s poor are more likely to live in areas hardest
hit by drought, flood and famine and are less able to deal with it.
They’re more likely to live and work in areas where diminishing
natural resources cause conflict and are more likely to raise their
families near toxic wastelands. Even in developed nations like
the United States, low-income people often live far from fresh
food sources or in the shadow of polluters, such as coal-fired
power plants.
DePaul reflects St. Vincent’s commitment to social justice by
harnessing the expertise and enthusiasm of its faculty, staff,
students and alumni to pursue environmental justice, improve the
lives of disadvantaged people and reduce its own carbon footprint.
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Bike
Chicago
A Sustainable Ride
J. Harry Wray on the Kinzie Street cycle track.
First-year students taking Steven Carrelli’s Green Design: Bicycle
Chicago course and juniors in J. Harry Wray’s Politics of Biking
course experience the city with a different kind of consciousness.
As they ride around the Chicago area, they contemplate and discuss
issues related to transportation, politics, city planning, communitybuilding
and sustainability.
Carrelli has been teaching his class, part of the Discover Chicago
program, for two years. The students take most of their rides during
Immersion Week, and their site visits connect to their studies during
the quarter. “We get to ride to scenic places and also go to the
industrial corridor,” says Carrelli. “They see how the city runs in ways
you might not know or think about.”
The first-year students explore urban sustainability from a variety
of vantage points. One focus is urban transportation—ways people get
around, how streets are designed, and public transportation.
“I’m not an urban planner. I’m a painter,” says Carrelli, an
instructor in the Department of Art, Media and Design. He has
commuted by bicycle since he moved to Chicago 20 years ago and
has long been interested in the issues the class explores. “I’ve thought
a lot about the way we get around the city. A lot of this is part of my
consciousness.” Though it’s not the main art he makes, Carrelli has
made art that’s environmentally themed and deals with issues of
human impact on the environment and has supported artists and arts
organizations that address these issues through visual art.
He and his class ride to government and nonprofit organizations
engaged in making the city and its transportation system more
sustainable and bike-friendly. For example, they visited the Chicago
Department of Transportation to learn about the city’s Bike 2015 Plan,
which aims to encourage bicycle use for trips that are less than
5 miles, and they visited the Center for Neighborhood Technology,
which developed the I-GO car-sharing program. Students also hear
from artists and activists who seek to raise public awareness about
the impact of human activity on the environment.
In addition, students visit for-profit businesses like PortionPac
Chemical Corp., which manufactures cleaning products on the West
Side, and Uncommon Ground, a Rogers Park restaurant with a rooftop
organic garden, and talk with them about what the businesses are
doing to decrease their impact on the environment and how that
works out financially.
Carrelli says his students are most surprised to learn that dense
urban areas are really the greenest parts of the country in terms of
impact on the global environment. “Density allows for urban transit; it
allows walking and biking to be viable means to go to work and to the
store,” he says. “Our tendency to spread out is precisely the thing that
has driven our increasing appetite for energy of all kinds, and certainly
fossil fuels. Moving to places we think of as being green has made us
less green, and students are usually startled by that.”
by Maria-Romina Hench

DePaul intern and public policy student Quinn
Korreck with David Snyder, director of the
rooftop farm at Uncommon Ground.
Steven Carrelli by a green wall display at Chicago’s
Center for Neighborhood Technology.
On the first day of Wray’s junior-level class, the students bike
Chicago’s Lakefront Trail, about 38 miles roundtrip. They enjoy the ride,
take in the sights and get to know their classmates. The group takes a
break halfway through, and Wray, a professor of political science, asks
how this ride connects to politics. “They’re usually not prepared to think
about that,” he says. He then tells the students about how the trail and
the lakefront—accessible to all—are the result of political struggle.
“More than 100 years ago, people wanted to turn it over to private
developers and there was resistance,” he says. “Political struggle, in
other words, may have kept Chicago from becoming Miami Beach
north.” This conversation sets the tone for the class and encourages
students to think about course themes during their rides.
Wray’s class started as a Discover course in 2002, and three
years ago it became part of the Junior-Year Experiential Learning
program. They ride at least 30 miles weekly, and the longest trip is a
century (100 miles) to Kenosha, Wis., and back. Most of his students
are not avid bicyclists, and they are often empowered and surprised by
how much they can do on a bike, says Wray, author of “Pedal Power:
The Quiet Rise of the Bicycle in American Public Life.”
One of Wray’s favorite rides is through the very diverse
neighborhoods of Chicago’s South Side. “Most of them have never
been there, or if they have, they were in a car. To be on a bicycle has
an effect on one’s consciousness. That’s another thing that’s political:
You experience the South Side or anything in a very different way
when you’re on a bicycle than when you’re behind the wheel of an
automobile, and this shapes the way you think about the world.”
The students also ride through the Forest Preserve to the Chicago
Botanic Gardens and connect to the environment in a different way
than walking or jogging the trail. “Biking is an ongoing act of nondestructive
living, and there aren’t many of those around,” says Wray,
a member of the university’s Sustainability Initiatives Task Force.
Students in both classes consider transportation systems in other
cities and countries, and Carrelli and Wray use Amsterdam, considered
one of the world’s most bike-friendly cities, as one example. Wray,
who’s studied Amsterdam’s transportation system, says that 40 percent
of all trips are taken by bicycle, 40 percent are taken by mass transit
and 20 percent by automobile.
“We talk about the car as a tool rather than a possession. A car is
one part of transportation rather than the key ingredient,” Carrelli says,
adding that perhaps 40 to 50 percent of trips taken by car in Chicago
are less than 5 miles. “In a city, making those short trips humanpowered
can reduce carbon emissions by a huge amount.”
“Students become more aware of the fact that the way in which
we design a transportation system really matters,” says Wray, who is a
bicycle commuter. “There is a place for the car, but that place ought to
be smaller. We ought to be open to a variety of modes of transportation
and make it safer for people to walk, make it safer for people to bike,
have ample mass transportation and then have a role for automobiles.”
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Answers at the
Top of the World
DePaul Scientists Study Climate Change Mechanisms in the Arctic
It’s not just cars and factories that can have a negative effect on air
quality. So can plants and trees. Assistant Professor Mark Potosnak of
the environmental sciences program studies how the biosphere and the
atmosphere interact and specifically how the gases from plants affect the
overall chemistry of the air we breathe.
“Plants don’t cause pollution, but plant gases interact with other
types of pollution to create ozone—the kind that promotes asthma in kids
and can affect anyone at a high enough concentration,” Potosnak says. He
and his students study how leaf emissions may affect, and be affected by,
global climate change—a very intricate relationship that’s not simple to
model or predict. They traveled to Alaska over the summer to measure
leaf emissions in the wild.
“The Arctic and Alaska are showing rapidly accelerating climate
change,” Potosnak says. “Everyone thought change would happen more
quickly there, but it’s happening even faster than our models predicted.”
Spring is coming earlier and fall is lasting later, and the amount of ice is
close to a record low.
One of the group’s primary interests is the gas isoprene, a hydrocarbon
emitted by many species of trees and bushes, including cottonwoods,
oaks, aspens and willows. By itself, isoprene doesn’t constitute a harmful
pollutant; it just makes the air a little hazy, but it can react with humangenerated
pollutants to form ozone. Isoprene emissions help a tree
respond to temperature changes, and temperature sometimes determines,
to some extent, how much isoprene the tree gives off. The emissions are
by Elizabeth Gardner

also affected by the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is
increasing and is one major reason for rising temperatures globally.
Potosnak’s group has found that higher temperatures tend to increase
isoprene emissions in some plant species, whereas higher levels of
atmospheric carbon dioxide tend to decrease the same emissions. The
question is, can extra carbon dioxide reduce the emissions enough to
offset the increase caused by
rising temperatures? (Spoiler:
Apparently not.) Partly funded
by a National Science
Foundation grant, Potosnak’s
group visited the Toolik Field
Station, managed by the
University of Alaska Fairbanks’
Institute of Arctic Biology, near
the Arctic Circle. Their target
organism was a dwarf willow
that’s unique to the area and
produces large amounts of
isoprene. Enclosing individual
leaves in small chambers, they
adjusted variables like light,
carbon dioxide, humidity and
temperature and measured how
each variable affected isoprene
emissions.
Undergraduate Lauren
LeStourgeon, whose senior
thesis is based on isoprene observations, has been working with Potosnak
for the past year. She relished the opportunity to get out of DePaul’s
greenhouse and into the field. She’s studied aspens and oaks in addition to
willows and has found marked differences among the species. For example,
oak isoprene emissions don’t seem to vary with carbon dioxide
concentration. Her work is partially supported by a scholarship from the
Illinois Space Grant Consortium, a NASA program.
Despite the rapacious mosquitoes and the sleep disruption caused by
the “midnight sun,” the trip was a highlight of LeStourgeon’s DePaul
career, and Alaska was so unexpectedly warm that she didn’t need her
cold-weather gear. She estimates she studied five or six willow leaves per
day, each for an hour or more, over the course of three weeks in mid-June
and collected data on almost 200 in all. “There was a lot of standing
around,” she adds.
LeStourgeon presented her research this fall at the 2011 Great
Midwestern Space Grant Regional Meeting at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, where she won an award for best undergraduate
poster. So far, her findings suggest that rising temperatures increase
isoprene production faster than extra carbon dioxide can suppress it.
With a body of leaf-level findings about emissions, the next step is to
see whether the numbers scale up and how they plug into evolving models
of global climate change. Potosnak says figuring out the role of plant
Mark Potosnak, assistant professor of biology, and student research assistant
Lauren LeStourgeon conduct studies in the rooftop greenhouse at DePaul
(opposite page) as well as near the Arctic Circle at the Toolik Field Station
(above, pictured with colleagues from California State University, Sacramento).
emissions in atmospheric change is a key component for determining
environmental policy. “We’re not going to chop down trees, but when we
do controlled studies to understand how pollution occurs, we can make
better decisions about how to cut back our own emissions,” he says.
Potosnak began his academic career as a physics major at Harvard,
but switched his focus after one class in earth science, which showed him
how physics could help
measure the ways humans
impact Earth. At the time, one
of his professors was studying
the causes of the atmosphere’s
ozone hole.
Potosnak got a chance
to study isoprene-emitting
cottonwood trees during his
graduate study at New York’s
Columbia University, which
at the time was managing
the scientific research site
Biosphere 2 near Tucson, Ariz.
Originally built to study how
humans could live in a sealed
environment, the three-acre
facility had been converted to
a lab for studying the effects
of carbon dioxide on plants,
and the fast-growing
cottonwood had a major
presence there. “It was such a large facility that we could take entire trees
and subject them to different carbon dioxide levels,” he says.
Potosnak’s students take a variety of imaginative approaches to
environmental issues: measuring lead levels in the leaves of urban trees,
sending balloons into the upper atmosphere to measure how carbon
dioxide concentrations change with altitude, and running energy
conservation competitions in DePaul’s residence halls.
Despite persistent skepticism in a few sectors of the general public,
Potosnak says climate scientists, as a group, harbor no doubt about the
existence and origins of global climate change. “People might fight over
how quickly it’s happening or what it might mean for hurricanes, but the
broad idea that the Earth is getting warmer because of human activity is
as close to 100 percent [accepted] as you can get,” he says. “We have to
move forward and start reducing emissions, accepting that there’s going to
be climate change and figuring out what we need to do to adapt. Some
adaptations might take 20 years to accomplish, so having good scientific
models is crucial.”
Freelance writer Elizabeth Gardner has covered science, business and technology topics
for such publications as University Business, Internet Retailer and Modern Healthcare.
She is based in Chicago.
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Nichole Pinkard engages a class at ChicagoQuest.
&
Engage
Creating Success through Digital Literacy
Learn:
Nichole Pinkard, associate professor in the College of Computing and
Digital Media (CDM), talks about an interactive songbook she created as
a graduate student to help kids learn to read and spell. Its lead character
was based on Sam, a 5-year-old girl she tutored at the Cabrini-Green
public housing development.
When Sam first saw the little girl pictured on the computer screen,
she said, delightedly, “That’s me. That’s my house.” Pinkard says when
she saw Sam enter the world on the screen, “it made me realize I’m doing
the right thing.”
Katie Salen, who joined CDM as a professor in game design this fall,
also began early in her career to create successful strategies for engaging
students with digital media. While teaching interactive design at the
University of Texas in the mid-1990s, she discovered that games were
useful tools to teach students who were learning to build CD-ROMs and
websites and how to make them engaging.
“Games are beautiful little systems that you actually can take apart
and understand how they work. What you can understand is how to
engage and motivate people,” Salen says. “The students got the model
right away and were able to transfer what they were learning by looking
at games to the design of things that weren’t games.”
These two nationally known interaction design scholars and education
innovators create groundbreaking digital media initiatives to prepare a
diverse population of students with the skills and education they need to
succeed. Both scholars have attracted support from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for initiatives that support this goal.
Learning Starts with Engagement
As Salen worked with games, she noticed there was literature about
interface design and content but not about engagement—so she wrote
some. She co-authored two textbooks about the nature of games and how
games work from a design perspective. She became a game designer. She
also found herself involved in a project that included young people and
other colleagues interested in combining learning and games.
Salen realized that “a game designer is thinking about almost the
same things that a teacher is thinking about: Who is my player? Who is
my student? What do they know? What do they need to know? How do I
support them in reaching the goals that they have in their space? How
do I provide structure?”
by Carol Sadtler

Pinkard, who was always interested in education but preferred to
MacArthur Foundation that opened its doors this fall to sixth- and
build software, asked herself similar questions as she went through
college and graduate school. The summer after high school graduation,
she attended a program in Chicago for high-achieving students during
which a prominent educator gave the students a bus ride through an
underserved neighborhood on the city’s West Side. “Imagine that you had
to walk from this house to school,”
he told the students. “Would you be
here now if this was your path?”
As an undergraduate computer
science student, Pinkard tutored
seventh-graders at North Ogden Avenue in Chicago. ChicagoQuest is
an innovative public school that uses the power of games to engage
students and support them in learning critical thinking, innovation and
problem-solving skills that will help them succeed in college and their
careers. It has its roots in Quest to Learn, a school founded by Salen
and some colleagues in New
York, where Salen also served
as professor of technology and
design at Parsons The New School
for Design.
high school students from East Palo
Alto, Calif., “where the dropout rate
was 50 or 60 percent,” she says.
“I’m curious as to why and how I
made it out of Kansas City, Kansas,
to Stanford University.”
In Northwestern University’s
graduate learning sciences program,
Pinkard pursued her passion for
building computer software and
also discussed ideas with experts
in education and psychology.
“You learn how to respect different
people’s perspectives, how to
understand and present your ideas in
a different way. I always saw things
in terms of how I was going to create
systems, and educators always
A ChicagoQuest game developer and students take learning to a new
level when they “get in the game.”
The Mission Fits
Pinkard sees the connections
between what she does and DePaul’s
mission of providing access to
higher education. “It’s possible to
have a real cycle of helping kids
understand what’s possible,
providing them pathways to go all
the way through. Particularly in the
digital space—we can do something
from middle school to high school
to DePaul.”
Salen also sees a fit within
CDM’s game development program.
“It’s interesting to be in a place with
a design program that also cares
about teaching and learning. That’s
thought about how they were going to create curriculums. That’s what I
think is here at DePaul—the ability to do that interdisciplinary work,”
she says.
an unusual combination. The goal is that we can start to work with
undergraduate and graduate students who might go on to work in
schools, in new media, might go on to be mentors or design games
that can be used in a lot of different contexts,” she says.
Learning Networks across Chicago and Beyond
Pinkard formed and leads several initiatives in Chicago that work
together to engage students at school and after school. The Digital Youth
Network (DYN) is a digital literacy program that helps students learn to
master digital media tools and create and critique new media. DYN
provides young people with adult mentors—both older students and
artists—who work at in-school and after-school sites.
YOUmedia features youth-centered learning spaces equipped with
digital tools at Chicago Public Library (CPL) sites. The program engages
high school youth in activities that promote critical thinking, creativity,
skill-building and collaborative opportunities. Remix World is a private
social learning network where DYN participants and select adult mentors
can share their digital productions.
Salen leads the non-profit organization that collaborates with
ChicagoQuest, a charter school supported in part by a grant from the
Innovating, Improving, Growing
Salen is part of the Connected Learning Research Network, also funded
by the MacArthur Foundation. The seven or eight people involved in the
network will be “trying to figure out how to codify this model that the
Quest schools and Nichole’s DYN uses,” she says. “What are the design
principles? What are the types of resources and infrastructures that need
to be put into place?”
Pinkard is working collaboratively with CPL to open YOUmedia
locally and nationally. She wants to foster synergies between her college
and the College of Education and College of Communication to create
“new windows in” for digital media learners.
And she’s promised herself to do that interactive songbook she created
years ago for the iPad, so 5-year-olds, including her twin nieces, can get
going on it. “The iPad is the tool that this was designed for,” Pinkard says.
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23

DePaul University Magazine’s Guide to
The Cloud
Until recently, if you announced you were writing a cloud guide,
your audience would likely assume your work involves knowing
how to differentiate between a cirrus fibratus and a cirrus uncinus.
Now, most people who spend time online have their heads—or at
least one part of their digital lives—in the clouds.
This is a guide to that other cloud known as cloud computing. Even
though there are no fancy Latin terms to invoke, the forms these
modern clouds assume can be just as complex and as aweinspiring
as their meteorological eponym. And understanding how
they work can prove just as elusive.
The short definition of cloud computing, according to PC Magazine’s
encyclopedia, is: “Using the Web server facilities of a third-party
provider on the Internet (the ‘cloud’) to store, deploy and run
applications.” In everyday terms, that means your data doesn’t exist
in a nearby physical location. You instead call it up online from any
computer or mobile device—no more installing software that takes
up precious memory and bogs down systems.
Large companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple provide their
own file-management and cloud-storage services for all kinds of
media. When it comes to music, some of the most popular and
competitive cloud environments, Apple’s iCloud, Amazon’s Cloud
Drive and Google Music, allow users to access their own music
collections online and on mobile devices without needing to sync
those devices. To varying degrees, they also allow users to add
new music without having to download files.
Other services, including Spotify and Rhapsody, provide a tempting
alternative to the Big 3 by providing unlimited access to almost
every song imaginable for a small monthly fee. A big hit in Europe,
Spotify recently entered the U.S. market and quickly captured
music lovers’ imaginations. Closely integrated with Facebook, it
encourages users to share their music in unprecedented ways—it’s
like making personal mixtapes for the masses.
The cloud can also enhance collaboration and productivity. Using a
free document collaboration tool such as Google Docs, co-workers
in different locations can input comments and corrections
simultaneously, instead of emailing a document back and forth. It
helps, of course, to make sure everyone is on the same (virtual)
page. Successful collaboration is easily hindered by half-hearted
buy-in, says Deanna Zandt, a media technologist and author of
“Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social
Networking.” “I've even had a client who went into the Google
Doc, downloaded it as a file, made changes, and then emailed it
around,” said Zandt.
The real game-changer, she adds, has been Skype, which enables
users to schedule free calls and video chats with family and
colleagues around the globe or across town. “It saves the time and
hassle of setting up in-person meetings,” Zandt said. “The face time
is also invaluable; I'm so much more productive on a long call when
I can see the other person.”
Not all clouds are equally accessible: Public clouds offer a suite of
productivity and data management tools to users worldwide, while
private clouds are aimed more at businesses and institutions,
including DePaul, that need to control access or make specific
software and programs available. Nor does everyone agree on
where to draw the line. Many tech people, for instance, debate
whether Facebook is an example of a private cloud (one of the
biggest, in fact), or if it’s just using cloud technologies.
The good news is you don’t need to understand the science behind
cloud computing to take advantage of its many benefits. But it does
help to be open to experimentation—services are frequently
upgraded or new services are introduced—and be willing to work
with imperfect systems. While the technical requirements are
minimal—a strong Internet or cellular connection—it can cause
major headaches if online service is unavailable.
by Christine Cupaiuolo

Service interruptions can happen sporadically and without warning (a show
of hands if you’ve experienced dead zones in areas where data is slow or
non-existent). And data costs money. Some Internet plans charge for highspeed
connections, and cellular companies may penalize customers who
download or share data beyond a certain limit.
Security and privacy remain the biggest concerns. Education and awareness
are essential to reducing the risk of information exposure on any site. So
here's a tip for Google users: google.com/goodtoknow includes information on
how to create secure passwords and manage personal data shared across
the Web and on Google services.
Despite those fears, I prefer to trust my information to the cloud; the risk of a
hard drive meltdown or losing my smartphone seems a bigger threat. And I
confess I get excited about collecting, organizing and sharing information
online. I’ve also been able to let go, slowly, of the notion that our physical
collections (of, say, books or photos) must be preserved to help define and
represent us.
Massimo Di Pierro, an associate professor in the College of Computing and
Digital Media, offers another reason to trust cloud-based storage systems:
They’re run by professionals. An avid user of Skype, Google Groups and the
file-storage system Dropbox, Di Pierro says that when it’s a matter of security,
not regulation (which may require special disaster recovery policies), the cloud
offers the most secure environment.
“I trust, much more, a professional in the business of storing and protecting
the data than I trust myself to do that, and that should be the attitude of a lot
of people,” says Di Pierro. He adds by way of example that he may forget to
upgrade or monitor his intrusion detection software; a company responsible
for millions of people’s data will not make that mistake.
Di Pierro creates software, including the award-winning web2py, an opensource
application development tool. His basic philosophy is that if tools are
easy to use, people will use them. And that’s a big advantage of cloud
services; each of us ideally should be able to select and interact with a service
that matches our individual preference, while sharing the same information.
“It does not matter which software you are using locally, as long as the data is
communicated using some standard protocol,” says Di Pierro.
“In those areas where people have succeeded in creating standards, it’s
very easy to exchange data and use Web services. And when it’s easy to
exchange data, I, as a consumer, can decide how to handle and how to
present the data. This freedom of choice is now more available than ever,”
he adds.
The virtual cloud promises blue skies ahead.
Christine Cupaiuolo is the managing editor of “Our Bodies, Ourselves” (Simon & Schuster, 2011),
a project she could not have completed without the aid of Google collaboration apps. She also
consults on technology and social media and lives online at Christine2.com and @cmc2.
Massimo Di Pierro
Author’s Picks from the Cloud:
Research
Delicious: Save and tag article links, which can be kept
private or made public.
Evernote: Clip and save text, images and entire Web pages.
Information can be organized and shared via “notebooks”
(also great for recipe storage and planning trips).
Communication
Gmail: The filters are useful to reduce inbox clutter, and the
conversational threads make it easy to follow back-and-forth
communication.
Google Voice: In addition to providing free voice and video
calling worldwide, you can record and store conversations.
Deadlines
Google Tasks: Though not the most robust task
management program, I appreciate the ease with which I
can turn emails into tasks and integrate them with calendar
due dates.
Writing
Google Docs: I write and store articles online, though I
sometimes keep drafts in a free desktop program called
Notepad++.
Backup
All the data on my computer is backed up each night to
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
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alumni news
P E R S O N A L LY P U T
“Above me the shape of a hawk
drowns out the sound of the next
ten trains and with its beating wings
reaches out to stop the sky.”
From “Hawk Hour”
by Mark Turcotte
(See p. 9 of this issue.)

Sharon Feigon Gets Going
I-GO co-founder and DePaul alumna applies entrepreneurial approach to sustainability
I-GO CEO Sharon Feigon (MBA ’88) used her entrepreneurial
know-how to establish a cost-effective, environmentally friendly
way to get around the city.
I-GO, Chicago’s local car-sharing business, was established
almost 10 years ago to provide urban commuters an alternative to
owning a car. “The idea was to see if we could convince people to
sell their cars or decide not to own a car,” says Feigon. “We provide
low-emission cars all over Chicago.”
The project began in 2002 when Feigon was manager of research
and development at
the Center for
Neighborhood
Technology, a
nonprofit
organization that
fosters urban
sustainability across
the country, starting
I-GO, and, when the
project proved a
success, Feigon
decided to stay on
as the CEO.
Since its startup,
I-GO has surveyed
customers and found
that 73 percent of its
members either sell
their cars after
becoming a member of I-GO or have postponed the decision to buy a
car. Feigon hopes that more commuters will turn to walking, biking
and public transportation as alternatives.
“We want to reach our financial goals as well as our social and
environmental goals,” says Feigon, who says she gained the necessary
financial experience to run a company while in DePaul’s MBA program.
“I had worked in the non-profit world for quite a while,” she
says. “I decided to earn my MBA because I thought the classes would
help improve my skills with finances and marketing.”
“If we want the planet to survive,
we’ve got to care for our environment.”
— Feigon
After immersing herself in the business world, Feigon found the
key to running an environmentally friendly business: identify the
economic benefits within the social benefits.
“It costs over $7,000 a year to own and operate a car,” says
Feigon. “If a car-share member occasionally used public transit, that
cost is going to be cut in half. The economy is rough. People can save
that money.”
Feigon has developed a close relationship between I-GO and the
DePaul community. The university offers I-GO discounts to DePaul
students, faculty
and staff, and many
commuter students
use I-GO to get
to class.
She hopes that
with fewer cars on
the road, the city
can reduce its
carbon footprint.
“Climate change is
real, and it’s having
a larger impact,”
Feigon says.
“Car sharing
allows people
to do their part
environmentally
without sacrificing
anything.”
Addressing this issue through business is the perfect marriage of
Feigon’s interests. “I like the combination of it being a business [and
environmentally sensitive]. I have an entrepreneurial spirit and I like
to make it work,” she says. “I feel very lucky that this work can
improve the quality of life in the city.”

DePaul Theatre Alumna Completes Edes Prize Year
The $30,000 that up-and-coming director Rachel Walshe
(THE ’08) received as a 2010 recipient of The Claire Rosen
and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists could
not have come at a better time: early in her career. And that’s
the point.
The Edes prize is a no-stringsattached
financial boost intended to give
promising young artists the wherewithal
to spend an entire year focused on
making art and establishing themselves
professionally. It is awarded annually to
recent graduates of arts programs at four
Chicago-area schools: DePaul University,
Northwestern University, the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago and the
University of Chicago.
Samuel Edes and Claire Rosen
(LAW ’32), who practiced into her 90s,
were well-known in Chicago arts circles
as patrons and collectors. They immersed
their only child, Nik B. Edes, in the arts
from an early age. In fact, well before he
turned to a law career and ultimately
took over the reins of his parents’
foundation, Nik worked on and off stage
in the theatre, ballet and opera. He
knows firsthand the struggle many young artists face just starting out.
“The foundation’s board and I thought it would be worth taking a
chance on artists of all genres at the very early stages of their careers,”
Nik says. “That’s when it is the hardest for them.”
Walshe, a mother of two, couldn’t agree more. “For an artist, just
to be relieved from the stress of feeding and housing your family can
be life-changing,” she says.
Although Walshe is just starting out in her career, she’s no
beginner. In Chicago, she made a name for herself as a director of
plays by and about women at DePaul and with the Rivendell Theatre
Ensemble, where she earned a best-director nomination in the 2009
Jeff Awards for “These Shining Lives.”
Walshe also became increasingly aware of gender inequities that
exist in the theatre world. “People think that the theatre is open and
progressive,” she says, “yet women playwrights and directors are
produced and hired at a fraction of the rate that their male
counterparts are. It’s alarming.”
The Edes prize helped Walshe put
two and two together. “I thought, wow,
I’m so passionate about women in theatre;
why not spend a year trying to raise my
professional profile while pursuing a
cause I care very deeply about?”
And that’s exactly what she did.
Walshe relocated to her native Rhode
Island in 2010. With support from the
Edes prize, she continued to develop
her skills in the role of visiting artistic
director at Providence’s Perishable
Theatre, which is widely known for
its annual International Women’s
Playwriting Festival as well as its regular
program of new work by women.
Walshe’s new title opened doors,
enabling her to network with other
women directors and playwrights
throughout the country. In addition to
producing the theater’s 15th women’s
playwriting festival, Walshe directed Carson Kreitzer’s “1:23,” a
harrowing work taken directly from the confessions of two women
convicted of killing their own children.
“The Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for
Emerging Artists gave me a sturdy launching pad,” she says. “I’ve
been invited to direct a number of plays throughout New England—
my home—which is very exciting. I feel blessed and very charged that
my year was so successful in that respect.”
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A Weekend of Fun:
Reunion Weekend 2011 kicked off early on Friday, Oct. 14, as alumni attending the Reunion Luncheon gathered before the event to find their friends
and share their stories. Nearly 70 alumni were inducted into the Fifty Year Club to honor those who graduated in 1961 or earlier. They received
certificates and pins and a special congratulations from the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., president of DePaul. That evening, young alumni
met and mingled at LUXBAR, one of Chicago’s trendiest spots in the Gold Coast.
Holtschneider also celebrated with alumni at the Reunion Dinners on Saturday night. He opened the evening with law alumni at the Hotel
InterContinental Chicago. Later, at the Drake Hotel, Holtschneider engaged the crowd with news of the university and stories of students. The mood
was captured by one student at the event who said, “I’m never going to miss one of these after I graduate.”
The weekend closed with Sunday Mass and a brunch, where alumni were reminded of their school days by the presence of DIBS and a concert by
DMaC, DePaul’s all-male a capella group. As reunion guests slowly made their way back home, there was talk of next year, when the celebration
will begin again, honoring class years ending in 2 or 7.
To see more photos from Reunion Weekend 2011, go to alumni.depaul.edu/reunion.
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1. (from left) Farris (CSH ’76) and Rhonda Patterson (LAS ’76), Kathryn Sindelar (MUS ’76) and Joseph Twarowski (MUS ’76) enjoy a drink before dinner at the Drake
Hotel. 2. John (COM ’64) and Gloria Casey (LAS ’62) kick off Reunion Weekend at the Reunion Luncheon. 3. All in the family at the Reunion Luncheon: (from left)
Dominick Faraci (LAS ’63, JD ’65), Victor S. Faraci (COM ’59) and Victor D. Faraci (MUS ’54). 4. Clara Daniels (COM ’81, MBA ’89) and her guest at the Drake Hotel
for the Reunion Dinner and Celebration. 5. DIBS with future Blue Demons at the Reunion Brunch. 6. A group photo at the Young Alumni Reunion: (clockwise from
left) Martise Cooks (LAS ’06, MED ’10), Traci Ackron (CSH ’06, MPH ’10), Kevin Zielinski (CDM ’06), Katherine Assell (COM ’06, MS ’10), Stephanie Berube (LAS
’06), Midhun Joseph (COM ’06), Erin Garvey (LAS ’06, MS ’10), Kelly Carder (CMN ’06) and Teri Blazek (COM ’06). 7. Smiling for more than the camera at the Young
Alumni Reunion on Friday night: (from left) Mary Payne (CSH ’06), Lauren Paez (CMN ’06) and Michael Boyer (LAS ’03, MS ’09).

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8. James J. Wimbiscus (JD ‘61) and his wife, Jude, dance the night away at the Law Alumni Reunion. 9. (from left) Robert Peters, retired director of the Strobel Honors
Program, with his wife, Judith, Edward Wiertel (COM ’91) and his wife at the Reunion Dinner and Celebration. 10. John M. Brom (JD ’91) and his wife, Kathy, at the
Law Reunion. 11. At LUXBAR on Friday night: (from left) Rhonda Young (COM ’06), Renita Young (CMN ’07) and Janeen Mays (CMN ’06). 12. (from left) Michael
Stelnicki (CSH ’61) and Richard Mann (LAS ’63) have fun with old photos at the luncheon. 13. Bill Carsley (LAS ’61, MA ’67, JD ’69), class of 1961 reunion committee
co-chair, welcomes guests at the luncheon on Friday. 14. Sharing brunch: (from left, bottom row) Rick Gutierrez (COM ’95), Veronica Buckley (SNL ’01), Cassie Lee,
Fernanda Hopkins (SNL ’01, MA ’04) (from left, top row) Sande Cagigal, David Cagigal (COM ’76, MBA ’78) and Crystal Mary Willingham (CDM ’03).

tidbits
Giving Update
The following alumni gave their generous
support to DePaul University from June
through October 2011.
Alumni Association Card
Comes With Members-Only Perks
Put the power of the university in your pocket with the DePaul
Alumni Association card. This little piece of plastic helps alumni
score special discounts on a variety of products.
$100,000 to $499,999
n Karen M. Atwood (MBA ’82) and Michael L. Atwood, Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Illinois Health Sciences Scholarship, Fund for Athletics, Theatre Awards Benefit
n Tina Spencer (SNL ’92) and Raymond Spencer, Tina and Raymond Spencer
Endowed Scholarship
n Ernest R. Wish (COM ’57, LLD ’91) and Mimi Wish, Ernie Wish Endowed Golf
Scholarship, Ernie and Mimi Wish Endowed Scholarship in Athletics, Counseling
Student Endowed Award in honor of Rev. Patrick J. McDevitt, C.M.
$50,000 to $99,999
n Heather A. Nichols (COM ’93, JD ’99) and Daniel Carmody, Doug Bruno Women’s
Basketball Endowed Scholarship
n Nancy A. O’Donnell (LAS ’59), Nancy A. O’Donnell Endowed Scholarship
n Russell Patterson (CDM MS ’01) and Hallee K. Patterson (LAS ’03), Russell and
Hallee Patterson Endowed Scholarship
n Jessica Sarowitz (LAS ’91) and Steve Sarowitz, Track and Field Endowed Scholarship
in honor of Pat Savage
As automatic members of the Alumni Association, all DePaul
graduates are eligible for the free card, which is available
through an easy online application or by contacting the Office
of Alumni Relations.
Cardholders receive alumni-only benefits on campus, off campus
and online. For example, you can save on campus parking,
membership at the Ray Meyer Fitness and Recreation Center, and
tickets to The Theatre School and School of Music productions.
Sign up now for the Alumni Association card to take advantage
of the benefits and to show your school spirit.
For more information about the Alumni Association card, visit
alumni.depaul.edu/benefits/AlumniCards.aspx.
To obtain a card, log into your online profile on
alumni.depaul.edu/community and submit the card request form. The
card will be mailed to you along with information on alumni benefits
and services. You also may request your card by contacting the Office
of Alumni Relations at 800.437.1898 or dpalumni@depaul.edu.
n Theodore J. Schmidt (JD ’73) and Patricia J. Schmidt (MBA ’89), Theodore J. Schmidt
and Family Endowed Scholarship
n The Sprovieri Family and Flavorchem Co., Sprovieri Family Memorial Endowed
Scholarship in Chemistry
$25,000 to $49,999
n Alford Crook (MBA ’99) and Karin Crook, Crook Family Scholarship
New Planned Gifts
The following alumni indicated that they will support DePaul
University through a planned or estate gift of $25,000 or more.
n Anonymous (4)
n John R. D’Ambrose (MBA ’58) and Eileen D’Ambrose
n Louis J. De Salvo (COE ’66, LAS MA ’72)
n Alfred J. Thiede (CSH ’57)
n Ernest R. Wish (COM ’57, LLD ’91) and Mimi Wish
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Jobs a Concern for
More than the Unemployed
The DePaul Career Center and Office of Alumni
Relations support programs to help members of the
DePaul community get ahead.
“As a DePaul alumnus and a small-business owner in the Chicago
community, it was an easy decision to partner with the DePaul Career
Center in the pursuit of prospective interns,” says Kevin Harris
(CSH MA ’00), founder and president of QuickSolvers Inc., which
provides accounting, consulting and QuickBooks training services to
small businesses. “I had no idea what a great experience it would be,
nor the valuable contribution that I would get from the students.”
Others can experience the benefits of hiring from the DePaul
network by connecting with the DePaul Career Center and Office
of Alumni Relations. Regardless of geographic location, industry,
organization size or experience level, alumni companies can offer
fellow Blue Demons internships or jobs, industry expertise, guidance
and more. Consider the following year-round opportunities:
n Hire DePaul – Contact the DePaul Career Center at 312.362.5201
or visit careercenter.depaul.edu to learn how your organization
can connect with students.
n DePaul.Experience – Post jobs and internships directly to
DePaul students and alumni with the university’s online
career services system. To request an account, visit
depaul.experience.com/emp/enter_email.
n Online Networking – Post a position on Twitter or LinkedIn
using the hashtag #HireDePaul to encourage the DePaul
community to apply.
For more information on hiring DePaul students or graduates,
contact the DePaul Career Center at 312.362.5201 or visit
careercenter.depaul.edu.
To learn how DePaul can assist with your career needs, contact the
Office of Alumni Relations at 800.437.1898 or dpalumni@depaul.edu.
Career Week Celebrates
Five Years of Serving DePaul
Career Week will mark its fifth anniversary with a week of events
designed to help adult students, alumni and graduate students discover
their passions, advance their careers and become their best professional
selves. This year’s event will take place from Feb. 19 to 25.
Career Week has expanded from 33 events and 657 participants in 2008
to 42 events and more than 1,000 participants in 2011. Amid that growth,
the event has kept the same focus on serving experienced adults, those
in transition and those looking for a career change. “Normally, this is an
overlooked population,” says Colleen Fashing, associate director of
alumni relations.
Events take place at the Loop, Lincoln Park and suburban campuses.
Alumni outside Chicago can take part in a number of Career Week
webinars and a pre-event conference call. Tune in Jan. 11 to “Career
Week: Running 5 Years Strong” for an overview of Career Week’s
offerings. To register for the call, visit the events calendar section at
alumni.depaul.edu/events.
For Career Week updates and online registration, which opens in mid-
January, visit careerweek.depaul.edu.
Calling All DePaul Alumni Who Graduated
between 1996 and 2011
Your gift doubles when you accept the Moore Family Challenge
for Recent Alumni. The goal is to raise $250,000 by Dec. 31, 2011.
n Make gifts of any size up to $5,000
n Support scholarship funds and programs
n Become a participant in the dreams of future generations
The Moore Family will match all gifts made by recent alumni with a
contribution to the Patrick and Elizabeth Moore Endowed Scholarship
for students in good academic standing who show financial need.
Make a gift through your smartphone
by scanning this code.
For more information or to make a gift
by phone, call 312.362.8666. Visit
campaign.depaul.edu/moorefamilychallenge
for details.
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class notes
Log in to alumni.depaul.edu to read additional class
notes and to discover the many ways to connect
with other alumni and the DePaul community.
’50s
Harry C. Lepinske (LAS ’51) received an
award from the World Trade Center-Illinois
and the Turkish-American Chamber of
Commerce for his support of the Silk
Road Region through the Central Asian
Productivity Research Center, which he
founded in 2001. At age 82, he still
lectures for special programs at the
College of Business of Northern Illinois
University in DeKalb.
James J. Jennings (LAW ’57) has
attained 50 years of membership in the
Chicago Bar Association.
’60s
Edward A. Williams
(COM ’62, JD ’67)
has joined the Law
Offices of Max Elliott
Ltd. as special
counsel. The practice,
started by Max Elliott
(JD ’10), uses online
technology to better
serve contemporary families. Williams is
principal of Edward A. Williams &
Associates Ltd.
John P. McEvilly (LAS ’68) joined Avison
Young as a principal when the company
acquired Millennium Realty Advisors LLC,
the Virginia-based brokerage firm that he
co-founded in 1997.
’70s
Reunion Years:
1962 and 1967
Reunion Years:
1972 and 1977
Sheila M. Murphy (JD ’70) is an adjunct
professor at the John Marshall Law School,
teaching restorative justice.
Roza Gossage (JD ’71) received an
award from the Illinois State Bar Association
in recognition of her extraordinary service
on behalf of Illinois soldiers and military
families.
Frank M. Clark (COM ’72, JD ’76, LLD
’04), chairman and CEO of Chicago-based
Commonwealth Edison Co., will retire in
2012. He began in the mailroom in 1966.
He became the company’s first African-
American president in 2001 and its first
African-American chairman and CEO in
2005. He is a member of DePaul
University’s Board of Trustees.
Guy F. Arvia (MBA ’73) was elected first
vice president of the Union League Club
of Chicago. He has been a member since
1986 and during the past year served as
the club’s second vice president.
Robert A. Clifford (COM ’73, JD ’76,
LLD ’03) became the 135th president of
the Chicago Bar Association in June and
will serve a one-year term. He is founder
and principal of Clifford Law Offices.
David Cagigal (COM ’76, MBA ’78)
is vice chair of the board of directors for
the Urban League of Greater Madison in
Madison, Wis., as well as chair of the
education committee. The group plans to
open a charter school in 2012 to close the
achievement gap for students of color.
Josephine M. Calabrese (EDU ’76)
published four books that are available
on the Amazon Kindle. “Confessor Joe,”
“Confessor Joe Book Two” and “Confessor
Joe Book Three” are humorous works of
fiction. “Read with Your Heart and Soul”
is a short book of poetry.
Miguel A. Velazquez (JD ’77) has
joined the Florida Luxury Realty firm to
better serve his clients. He is part of the
JMB Real Estate Group, which has
multiple offices in the Tampa Bay area.
John R. Bailen (JD ’78) received a Board
of Governors award from the Illinois State
Bar Association. He is an attorney with
Bruce Farrel Dorn & Associates in Chicago.
Carl E. Poli (JD ’78)
was appointed as a
panel chair for the
Hearing Board of the
Attorney Registration
and Disciplinary
Commission of the
Supreme Court of
Illinois. He is an
attorney with Stone, McGuire & Siegel,
P.C., in Northbrook.
Robert W. Gaudry (LAS ’79) has joined
College Funding Professionals as senior
advisor. The organization helps families
find ways to pay for their children’s college
educations and protect their retirement
without incurring unneeded debt.
Thomas W. Tuohy
(COM ’79, JD ’82)
continues to work
with Dreams For
Kids, the global
youth empowerment
charitable organization
he founded in 1989.
In March, he was
invited to the White House to participate
with Dreams For Kids youth in a field
hockey game as part of the First Lady’s
Let’s Move campaign.
’80s
Reunion Years:
1982 and 1987
Sister Jean A. Kenny (MED ’81), “The
Super Bowl Sister,” has continued her
streak of predicting the Super Bowl with
surprising accuracy. Her 2011 poem,
“Prolific Packers Prevail,” correctly predicted
that the Green Bay Packers would beat the
Pittsburgh Steelers. She has a record of
19 wins and seven losses predicting the
outcome of the last 26 games.
Robert D. Kreisman
(LLM ’81), a member
of the Union League
Club of Chicago since
1984, has been
elected to the board
of directors for a
three-year term. He
lives in Evanston and
is a private practice attorney who
specializes in medical malpractice.
Catherine M. Kukec (MUS ’81) plays
with the West Suburban Concert Band and
former Morton College Jazz Band. She
also performs with various community
theatre groups and plays chamber music.
Daniel J. McAvinchey (CDM ’81)
co-founded TeachLearnRepeat.com, a
website for online learning that features
a collection of free online tools. Site
members can create drills, quizzes,
trivia and more.
Orbert C. Davis (MUS ’82) was the
artist-in-residence for the 2011 Chicago
Jazz Festival.
Richard D. Fincher
(JD ’82) completed
a one-year research
assignment in
Vietnam, sponsored
by the U.S. Agency
for International
Development. He
studied employee
disputes in the manufacturing sector and
made public policy recommendations that
were later published by Cornell University.
Nicholas G. Hahn Jr. (COM ’82) has
joined Capitol Bancorp Ltd. as interim chief
financial officer. He is a member of the
American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, the Illinois and Ohio CPA
societies and Financial Executives
International.
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Stephanie E.
Trudeau (JD ’82)
has been recognized
by “Best Lawyers
in America” in the
practice areas of
employment lawindividuals,
employment lawmanagement,
labor law-management, and
litigation-labor and employment. She is a
partner in the Cleveland office of Ulmer
and Berne LLP.
Francis M. Linguiti
(JD ’83) joined the
executive committee
of the Philadelphia
section of the Institute
of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers.
He is a former
research and
development engineer and now is a
partner practicing intellectual property law
with Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen &
Pokotilow.
James C. McWhinnie (JD ’83) received
the 2011 Grahovac Award from Meritas in
Montreal for outstanding service. He has
served multiple terms between the
company’s board of directors, executive
committee and finance committee.
Larry M. Venturelli (COM ’84) will
become executive vice president and chief
financial officer of Whirlpool Corp. in April
2012. He joined the company in 2002 and
currently serves as senior vice president,
corporate controller, chief accounting
officer and chief financial officer for
Whirlpool International.
Renee N. Izard (CSH ’84) earned the
clinical nurse leader certification from
the American Association of Colleges of
Nursing. Izard completed her master’s
degree in December 2010 and now works
at Saint Joseph Mercy Health System in
Howell, Mich.
Robert E. Bellack (COM ’85) has been
appointed chief financial officer of Newegg
Inc. He is a senior financial executive with
more than 25 years in the digital media,
e-commerce and publishing spaces. He is
also a certified public accountant in Illinois.
Robert P. Conlon (JD ’85) was elected
to the executive committee of the Walker
Wilcox Matousek LLP law firm.
David C. Defrieze (JD ’85) was selected
as the chief counsel for the U.S. Army
Research, Development and Engineering
Command (RDECOM) at Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Md. RDECOM researches
new technologies for soldiers at labs
across the country.
Jacqueline Williams (THE ’87) received
a 3Arts Award from 3Arts, a Chicagobased
philanthropic organization. Williams’
exemplary acting career was recognized at
the organization’s fourth annual awards
ceremony at the Museum of Contemporary
Art in October.
Eileen E. Brassil
(COM ’88) has been
appointed to the
executive committee
of the American
Institute of Certified
Public Accountants
Employee Benefit
Plan Audit Quality
Center for 2011-2012. She is a CPA and
a partner at Legacy Professionals LLP.
David D. Hoffman (JD ’88) merged his
law practice of 16 years with Smith Bovill
PC of Saginaw Township, Mich. He was
featured in Michigan Lawyers Weekly
in July.
John F. Robinson
(COM ’88) was
elected to a threeyear
term on the
Union League Club
of Chicago board of
directors. He is a
vice president of
investments at UBS
Financial Services Inc.
Moria A. Bernstein (COM ’89, MBA ’91)
was named one of the 2011 Leading
Lawyers in Illinois. She owns a private
practice in Chicago specializing in family
law and residential real estate.
Alan Cox (MBA ’89) earned his Doctor
of Medicine degree in May 2009 from the
Medical College of Georgia.
’90s
Reunion Years:
1992 and 1997
Scott A. Rediger’s (COM ’90) company,
Access Media 3, was recognized by Inc.
Magazine as one of the 500 fastestgrowing
private companies in the United
States. Founded in 2007, AM3 is now the
largest non-franchised provider of tripleplay
services (Internet, TV and voice) in
the Midwest.
Martin T. Tully (JD ’90) was elected to
a four-year term as mayor of the Village
of Downers Grove, Ill. He continues to
represent clients full time as a partner
with Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.
Dexter Zollicoffer (THE MFA ’90), a
faculty member at The Theatre School,
received the Spirit of DePaul Award for
his leadership and service in the spirit of
Saint Vincent de Paul.
Michael Evans
(COM ’91) founded
The Cogent Advisor
in 2010 to serve
Chicago-area financial
industry professionals.
Evans, a 20-year
veteran commodities
trader on the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, was featured on
NBC Chicago in August offering advice
on managing high market volatility.
Timothy Hendrickson (THE MFA ’91)
was diagnosed with the rare incurable
blood disorder, amyloidosis, in
December 2010. He started a blog,
amyandme.wordpress.com, discussing
his experiences.
G. Riley Mills (THE ’91) is the co-founder
of Pinnacle Performance Company, which
teaches performance techniques to
corporate executives across the U.S. and
Canada as well as in London, Amsterdam,
Singapore and Sri Lanka.
William H. Reynolds (JD ’91) is city
administrator of Pensacola, Fla. Previously,
he was U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter’s chief of
staff, a county administrator in Wisconsin
and Michigan, and a Marine Corps criminal
prosecutor. He retired from the reserves in
January 2010 after 27 years in the military.
Narda E. Alcorn (THE ’92) joined the
faculty of The Theatre School as an
associate professor and head of the stage
management program in fall 2011.
Colleen C. Kramer
(MBA ’93) is
president of
Evergreen Supply
Company, which
received the 2011
Jeffrey Butland
Family Owned Small
Business Award from
the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The award honors a family-owned
business that has at least a 15-year
track record.
Elisabeth M.
Niemann (MBA ’93)
was named branch
manager for Wells
Fargo Advisors
Chicagoland Market,
Woodstock branch.
She has been with the
company for 23 years
in various administrative and managerial
capacities.
Amy A. Rasmussen (MUS ’93) was
named a White House Champion of
Change for her work in arts education.
The initiative celebrates U.S. leaders in a
variety of fields and causes. Rasmussen
is executive director of the Chicago Arts
Partnerships in Education.
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Suzanne E. Wiegner-Newman (CSH ’93)
is director of patient services for St. Luke’s
Home Health Services in Chesterfield, Mo.
Since 1995, she has been married to
Scott Newman (COM ’93), vice
president of finance and operations for
Baue Funeral Homes. They have three
children and reside in St. Charles, Mo.
Dawn M. Gonzalez (JD ’94) moved her
insurance coverage practice to become a
partner at Baugh, Dalton, Carlson & Ryan
LLC in Chicago.
Jennifer L. Segur (CSH ’94) was named
vice president, online channel manager at
MB Financial Bank in Rosemont, Ill. She
brings 15 years of corporate website
management experience to the job.
Eileen M. Timmins
(SNL ’94) was named
to Diversity MBA
Magazine’s list of Top
100 under 50 Diverse
Executive & Emerging
Leaders for 2011.
She is senior vice
president of human
resources at R.J. O’Brien and Associates
and is an adjunct professor in DePaul’s
Department of Management.
Bryan Dwyer (LAS MA ’95) joined the
staff of the Peace Corps in Honduras as
the director of training and development.
Reginald S. Gibson Jr. (LLM ’95) has
been appointed to the 20th Circuit Judicial
Nominating Commission for a term ending
July 1, 2015. He has been vice president
and associate general counsel for Hospital
Management Services of Florida Inc. since
2009.
Joseph Leonas (LAS ’95) was promoted
to Deputy Chief of Police in the Bartlett
(Ill.) police department, where he will
oversee the operations division. He
previously served as the detective
commander.
Janice L. Minor
(MUS ’95) is the
clarinet professor
at James Madison
University in
Harrisonburg, Va.,
and the Saarburger
Serenaden:
International Music
Festival and School in Saarburg, Germany.
She is a Buffet Crampon U.S.A. performing
artist-clinician and music reviewer for The
Clarinet, the official journal of the
International Clarinet Association.
Raymond Salazar (EDU ’95, LAS MA
’03) has been a Latino English teacher in
the Chicago Public Schools since 1995.
He blogs about his experience at
chicagonow.com/white-rhino.
Alena Tsimis
(COM ’95) runs
I Imagine Studio, a
marketing agency
with an all-female
staff that uses
technology to
communicate between
remote offices in
Evanston, Ill., and Santa Monica, Calif.
The company, which is celebrating its 10th
anniversary, donates 20 percent of its work
to pro bono clients.
David M. Adler
(JD ’97) was named
a 2011 SuperLawyers
Rising Star and
became partner at the
entertainment law firm
of Leavens, Strand,
Glover & Adler. He
taught music law this
fall at DePaul’s College of Law.
Vincent M. Auricchio (JD ’97) was
named one of Illinois’ Outstanding Young
Attorneys in Business Litigation for 2011.
Kristyne L. Baker (THE ’97) completed
a Master of Science in speech and
language pathology at Rush University.
Louise Rozett (THE MFA ’97) has
monologues in two new collections, “Young
Women’s Monologues from Contemporary
Plays” and “New Monologues for Women
by Women.” She was the consulting
producer on the short film “Civil Unions:
A Love Story.”
Kevin P. Taylor’s (LAS ’97) software
consultancy company, Obtivia, was acquired
by Groupon in 2011 after the two companies
worked together since 2009. Taylor is a
lecturer in DePaul’s College of Computing
and Digital Media.
Nicole M. Bencik
(COM ’98) is a
partner at Crowe
Horwath LLP, one
of the country’s largest
public accounting and
consulting firms. She
is a CPA and works in
Crowe’s tax practice
area in its Chicago office.
Ron S. Brand
(JD ’98) is listed in
Southern California
Rising Stars as one
of the top regional
attorneys for 2011,
the first time he
has received this
recognition. Brand
is a partner at Fisher & Phillips LLP, in
Irvine, Calif.
Brian P. Hanlon (COM ’98, MBA ’01,
JD ’04) was named the Coleman
Foundation Professor of Entrepreneurship,
an endowed chair at North Central College
in Naperville, Ill. He has been a faculty
member since 2006.
Adam R. Moreland (JD ’98) has joined
Chuhak & Tecson banking group as a
principal.
Kristin A. Waitkus
McDaniel (CMN ’99)
is chief marketing
executive for Royal
Neighbors of America,
a life insurance
organization in Rock
Island, Ill. She is also
a member of the
Royal Neighbors Foundation Board of
Directors.
’00s
Reunion Years:
2002 and 2007
Stephanie K. Bowman (JD ’00) was
appointed a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the
Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati,
where she resides with her husband and
two children.
Darla R. Brown (COM ’00) joined the
Chicago Fire Soccer Club in Bridgeview, Ill.
She will focus on securing corporate
partners for the club.
Matthew F. Carmody (JD ’00) has
been named partner at Loeb and Loeb
LLP. He works in the firm’s Chicago office
on complex intellectual property, business
and financial services litigation.
Dr. Natalie L. Kamberos (CSH ’00), a
hematology, oncology and immunology
fellow at the University of Iowa Children’s
Hospital, received a $50,000 Hyundai
Scholar Grant in June for her research on
novel treatments of childhood lymphomas
and leukemias.
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Brad Leibov (LAS ’00) became executive
director of the Liberty Prairie Foundation,
which promotes healthy ecosystems
throughout Lake County, Ill. He spent five
years as a partner at Terra Firma Co., a
real estate firm focused on sustainable
development.
Alyssa R. Schiffman (CMN ’00, MS ’08)
is the director of operations and special
projects for the Office of the Secretary
at DePaul University. She manages the
activities of the Board of Trustees and other
university governance projects.
Sarah Sypniewski (CSH ’00) was invited
to read her poem, “Paws Amidst Pain,”
during the 9/11 Working Dog Recognition
Ceremony in Jersey City, N.J. She recently
co-authored “Dog Photography for
Dummies.”
Teresa Villa-Ignacio (LAS ’00) received
her Ph.D. in comparative literature from
Brown University in 2010 and is now
teaching in the history and literature
program at Harvard University.
Craig A. Kinley (SNL ’01) was chosen
for the South Carolina Liberty Fellowship
Class of 2013. He is CEO and principal of
WiProwess, a start-up company focused
on alternative energy. He stays connected
to DePaul through the Alumni Sharing
Knowledge Program (ASK).
Kevin B. Quinn (SNL ’01) was awarded
his Ph.D. in sociology on Aug. 29. He is
a lecturer in DePaul’s School for New
Learning.
Simone C. Burns (THE ’02) began
pursuing a master’s degree in educational
theatre at the New York University
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education,
and Human Development.
Tomeka S. Reid (MM ’02) conducted
the Chicago Jazz Ensemble in the world
premiere of her work, “A Testimony of
Faith,” at the Chicago Jazz Festival this fall.
Amy L. Witt (JD ’02) was appointed
2011-2012 editor of the American Bar
Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance
Practice Section’s Law Journal. She is an
insurance coverage attorney at Plunkett
Cooney in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Erik C. Gfesser (CDM MS ’03) was
promoted to senior technical architect for
NVISIA LLC of Chicago. He also manages
projects for Taproot Foundation, the largest
nonprofit consulting firm in the United
States.
Tiffany R. Payne-Griffin (MED ’03) has
generated a buzz in the beauty industry
with her blog, therealtpayne.com. She is a
professional makeup artist who has two
screen credits.
Crystal Mary Willingham (CDM ’03) is
a contractor selling products for Endless
Links LLC, a socially conscious company
that helps empower female Ugandan
artisans. The products are all recycled,
organic and repurposed materials.
JoAnn F. Fakhouri
(SNL ’04) was a
producer for the short
film “Chicago Mirage,”
which had its world
premiere in Chicago
in June. The 35-
minute film tells the
story of an Arab-
American immigrant who spends 10 years
in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Liana K. Gadeliya (MUS ’04) received a
Fulbright grant to study at the Scuola di
Musica di Fiesole in Italy for 2010-2011.
Angelita E. Hernandez (JD ’04) was
promoted to partner at Lindquist & Vennum
PLLP in Minneapolis, where she practices
real estate and construction litigation.
Mark J. Perry (THE ’04) is an attorney in
New York City. He is executive director of
The AIDS Victory Fund, a nonprofit that
provides grants for medical research on a
cure for HIV/AIDS, and is associate artistic
director of the Candid Theater Company in
Minneapolis.
Dana A. Rice (JD ’04) has been elected
a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in
Chicago.
Cyrus K. Toufanian (JD ’04) is now
board-certified in criminal trial law. He also
was elected as secretary for the Palm
Beach Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers.
Earl J. Richardson (CDM MS ’05) is a
partner at Adams Street Partners, which he
joined in 2003. Previously, he worked with
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and
NationsBanc Montgomery Securities.
Lovin M. Saini (MBA ’05) has been
promoted to senior product manager at
Robert Bosch LLC. He started there as a
rotational trainee, then entered product
management for retail consumer durable
goods.
Benjamin A. Churchill (MED ’06) was
promoted to assistant superintendent for
high school teaching and learning in
Community Unit School District 300 in
Carpentersville, Ill. He has worked in the
district since 2008.
Nathan W. Greenhalgh (CMN ’06),
who spent two and a half years in Europe
working as a journalist, recently moved
back to Chicago to become associate
editor of HOTELS magazine.
Karthikeyan
Chakkarapani
(MBA ’07) was
promoted to IT
director, technology
solutions and
operations for the
American Hospital
Association (AHA)
in Chicago. He recently received a
Computerworld Honors Laureate award
for a collaborative initiative that improved
communication across the AHA.
Andrea R. Cristancho (LAS ’07) is
a Peace Corps volunteer serving in
Romania. She invites the DePaul
community to read her story at
andreacristancho.wordpress.com.
Erin T. Hartnett (LAS ’07), a lieutenant
junior grade in the U.S. Navy Judge
Advocate General’s Corps, graduated from
the Naval Justice School in October,
receiving her 27(b) court-martial
certification. She is stationed at the Naval
Legal Service Office in Yokosuka, Japan.
Todd S. Hofmeister (JD ’07) joined
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP as an
associate in the firm’s Chicago office. He
focuses on patent work in drug discovery
and development, specialty polymers and
polymeric resins, and molecular
biology/genetics-related technologies.
Jeffrey D. Martin
(CMN MA ’07)
was promoted to
communication
director of McDonald’s
Corp.’s Asia Pacific
Middle East & Africa
Region and is now
responsible for
internal communication strategy and
alignment across 37 countries.
Eric S. Stang (MUS ’07) moved to New
York City in October to star in the Tony
Award-winning musical “Million Dollar
Quartet” for six months as Jerry Lee Lewis.
He understudied and played the same role
in the show’s Chicago production.
Christopher Horsman (SNL ’08) was
named chief information officer/vice
president of technology at the Chicago
Transit Authority. Previously, he was an
independent IT consultant.
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Bethany R. Lang (THE ’08) is the
manager of foundation and government
grants at Christopher House, a five-site
human services agency on Chicago’s
North Side.
Lauren A. Lapkus (LAS ’08) is an
actress in Los Angeles doing improv
comedy, national commercials and
television work. She is in an NBC sitcom,
“Are You There Chelsea?” set to air in
January 2012.
Elliot M. Riebman (JD ’08) represented
former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich from
June 2009 to July 2011 at his trial and
retrial on federal corruption charges.
Matthew S. Brockmeier (JD ’09)
moved to Arlington, Va., to work as a
policy and research associate at the
Law & Economics Center at George
Mason University School of Law.
Rachel L. Brown (MM ’09, ’11) won the
violin audition to play in the South Bend
Symphony Orchestra.
Christopher R. Bultinck (MBA ’09)
began Georgetown University’s master’s in
sports management program in the fall,
concentrating in business, management
and operations.
Maria Junttila Carson (THE ’09, LAS
’09) is living in Manhattan and pursuing a
master’s degree in Jewish thought from the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Julia C. Curns (MUS ’09) is the box
office manager of The Theatre School’s
Merle Reskin Theatre.
Tosha Fowler (THE MFA ’09), Megan
L. Kohl (THE MFA ’09) and Sarah A.
Hecht (THE MFA ’10) created the
Vox Theatre Company. Their premiere
production, “Wild Women XXX,” was part
of the Chicago Fringe Festival in
September.
Aara A. Johnson (LAS ’09) graduated
in 2011 with a Master of Public Policy from
the Humphrey School of Public Affairs
at the University of Minnesota. She
concentrated in global public policy and
international education.
Jay W. Borchert (LAS ’10) won an
honorable mention from the National
Science Foundation for his work as a
Ph.D. student in the Department of
Sociology at the University of Michigan-
Ann Arbor. He is a graduate student
representative to the Society for the Study
of Social Problems, serving through 2014.
Brian J. Easley (LAS ’10) is deployed
with the 1st Cavalry Division to An
Nasiriyah, Iraq, through January 2012. He
is a disabled veteran and Army Wounded
Warrior Program alumnus who, after
graduating from DePaul, volunteered out
of medical retirement to return to active
military service.
Max Elliott (JD ’10) opened the Law
Offices of Max Elliott Ltd., in June. She
uses technology to help better serve
today’s modern families, including single
parents and the LGBT community. She
works with Edward A. Williams
(COM ’62, JD ’67).
Jodi S. Green (JD ’10) joined Meckler
Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson in
November 2010, where she specializes in
the defense of architects, engineers and
designers in construction, design defect
and professional liability lawsuits.
James R. Haluczak (COM ’10) recently
quit his day job and became founder,
partner and manager of business
development at Smart Owl Creative in
Chicago. The company specializes in
graphic and Web design, social media
consulting, reputation management and
search engine marketing.
Corey M. Ptaszynski (COM ’10) is a
production planner working for Mizkan
Americas, a premium condiments
manufacturer in Mount Prospect, Ill. He
schedules production remotely for the
company’s plant in Dallas and controls
the inventory in Kansas City, Mo.
Ryan G. Schaar (MBA ’10) was
promoted to director of finance of CCH,
a Wolters Kluwer business, where he
previously was manager of financial
planning and analysis.
Stacy M. Steyaert (THE ’10) is the
director of development and marketing
for City of Fairfax Theatre and a freelance
drama teacher, director and youth
choreographer in Washington, D.C.
Dan P. Dvorkin (THE ’11) is the cofounder,
creative director and producer
of Two Lights Theatre Company. Matt
Olson (THE ’09) is the artistic director,
and Bridget Schreiber (THE ’11) is a
board member.
Mario A. Flores (COM ’11) is a
2011-2012 public policy fellow for the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
in Washington, D.C. The paid fellowship
program lets talented Latino college
graduates gain hands-on experience in
national public policy.
Jeff R. Greene (MM ’11) won the School
of Music’s 2011 Kleinman Competition,
a $1,000 prize, for his composition,
“Organics 2011 for two percussionists.”
Bradley G. Robin (MM ’11) and
Thomas Miller (MM ’96), chair of the
School of Music’s Department of
Professional Studies, wrote original music
for “The Balancing Game,” a film by Peter
Matsoukas (CDM MS ’11). The studio
orchestra included many School of Music
students.
Adrienne L. Watkinson (MM ’11) joined
the faculty of Western Kentucky University,
where she teaches violin.
Marriages & Engagements
Julie-Ann Liechty (THE ’92) married
Reed Gardner Williams in Los Angeles on
April 8. A reception was held in Utah on
Aug. 20.
Kevin W. Douglas (THE ’00) married
Tamberla Perry in Montego Bay, Jamaica,
on May 15.
Megan C. Collins (THE ’03) married
Andrew Moore in Chicago on June 3. They
moved to Great Britain and will live in the
West Midlands region for a few years
before returning to the United States.
Megan will be working as a personal
trainer at a local gym.
Rosemary Naeger (EDU ’07) and Nate
Maher (THE MFA ’06) were married in
St. Paul, Minn., on July 30.
Eileen Arena (CDM MS ’09) married
Kurt Schackmuth on March 19 in San
Antonio, Texas. They reside in Joliet, Ill.,
and are expecting their first child in early
2012.
Liliana Huerta
(MBA ’10) and
Michelle Rossfeld
were joined in a civil
union on Sept. 10.
Liliana is a portfolio
manager and vice
president at
Associated Bank.
Michelle is a personal trainer in Chicago
and runs women’s fitness boot camps,
where the two met in 2009.
Alecia Householder
(CDM MS ’10) and
Edgar Suplemento
were married on
April 10 in Key West,
Fla. Alecia is a
systems administrator
at Northwestern
University’s Kellogg
School of Management, and Edgar is the
network administrator at EPCUSD.
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Births & Adoptions
Brian E. Estenson
(LAS ’98) and his
wife, Michelle,
announce the birth
of their son London
Xavier. He was born
Aug. 1 in Palm
Springs, Calif.
Ellen M. Gartland
(LAS ’98) and her
husband, Greg,
welcomed their
son, Calvin Joseph
Gartland, on April 9.
Louie B. Adamo
(COM ’99) and his
wife, Maria, proudly
announce the birth of
their son, Gianluca
Cristiano, on Aug. 1.
Big brother Antonio
was excited to
welcome Gianluca home.
Betsy J. Levstik (JD ’04) and her
husband, Anthony Derwinski (JD ’04),
welcomed twin boys, Shane and Brody, in
February 2011. Betsy is a partner at Cook
Alex Ltd., and Anthony is an associate at
Johnson & Bell Ltd.
Kimberly A.
Veverka (MST ’04)
and her husband,
Joseph, announce the
birth of their daughter,
Lilyan Grace, on
July 11.
Jennifer Boers (LAS
’05, MA ’08) and her
husband, Edward, are
happy to announce
the arrival of their son,
Jack Edward Boers,
who was born Dec. 1,
2010.
Timothy P.
Gebhardt (CDM ’05,
MS ’08) and his wife,
Ashley, welcomed
twin boys on Jan. 21.
Derek was 5 pounds,
8 ounces, and Hugh
was 5 pounds, 3
ounces.
Bethany Lugay
(MUS ’07) and her
husband welcomed
a baby boy, Jackson
David Lugay, on
May 24.
Jessica L. Lewis (COM ’08) and her
husband, Ben, are proud to announce the
birth of their son, Ethan Leonard Lewis, on
Jan. 17. Ethan was 7 pounds, 10 ounces,
and was 21 1/2 inches long.
In Memoriam
Lord, we commend to you the souls of
our dearly departed. In your mercy and
love, grant them eternal peace.
Alumni
Daniel Gardner (MUS ’33)
John T. Kennedy (LAS ’40, JD ’46)
Mildred Mueller (MUS ’40)
Lillian F. Bowden (LAS ’42)
Sister Angelus Gardiner (LAS MA ’43)
George Kolak (COM ’47)
Sister Pierre Marie Moore (EDU ’47)
Jerome Wolens (COM ’47)
Leonard T. Milke (LAS ’48)
James T. O’Connell (LAW ’49)
Madeline E. Voorhees (EDU ’49)
Dr. John Q. Taylor King Sr. (CSH MS ’50)
Walter S. Wolodkin (MUS ’50)
Meyer Yasnoff (CSH MS ’50, MED ’54)
John C. Stephens (MUS ’51)
Raymond W. Flodin (COM ’52)
Albert Friedman (EDU ’52)
Lt. Col. John W. Pachankis (COM ’52)
Andrew J. Salmon (COM ’52)
Leonard J. Houha (LAW ’53)
Rose A. Ramsey (CSH ’53, MS ’57)
Paul G. Coutre (LAS ’54, MA ’62)
James M. O’Connor Jr. (COM ’54)
Robert J. Braasch Sr. (LAS MA ’55)
Jerome J. Brault (COM ’56)
Fred M. Sheehan Jr. (MBA ’57)
William J. Bunch (LAS ’58)
Remo N. Picchietti (JD ’58)
Kenneth R. Kalina (MM ’59)
Henry F. Wintczak (MM ’63)
Stanley C. Hanson (CSH MS ’64)
Richard R. Carlson (LAS ’65)
Sister M. Valorie Nehl (MED ’66)
John C. Ruther (COM ’66)
Claude W. Mottram (CSH MS ’67)
Sister Celine M. Regan (LAS MA ’67)
Thomas J. Palmer (LAS ’69)
David A. Reid (COM ’69)
James M. Boushay (LAS ’70, MA ’71)
Don P. Boffa (EDU ’71)
Howard F. Davis (LAS ’71, JD ’74, LLM ’80)
James H. Cole (COM ’72)
Peggy Smith (EDU ’73)
Sister Madonna M. Mulqueen, O.S.F.
(CSH ’73)
Eileen M. Hagarty (CSH ’74)
Johnny C. Angry (COM ’75)
Rolfe F. Ehrmann (JD ’75)
Camille J. Koehl (COM ’75)
Mary D. Depalma (JD ’78)
Walter V. Smith (MST ’78)
Barbara A. Aman (MBA ’80)
Ronald E. Belanger (MBA ’81)
Manisara Geren (CDM ’82, MS ’84)
Lorraine K. Landelius (SNL ’84)
Jeffrey W. Mayer (LAS ’84, MA ’88)
Zenon J. Babij (MBA ’86)
Uvaldo Herrera (JD ’88)
John J. Grzesiak (SNL ’89)
J. W. Scheideman (SNL MA ’91, EDD ’04)
Donelle M. Bronstein (CMN ’92)
Shirley L. Wasnick (CDM MS ’93)
John Depke (JD ’94)
Bethany J. Jackson (THE ’95)
Rachel L. Wasserman (JD ’95)
June M. Rounsaville (SNL ’98)
Charles Ruth (COM ’09)
Friends
Thomas Aldredge
Jack R. Banner
Rodney J. Blackman
Mary Boelen
Debra Evenson
Theodore Pincus
Ronit Solomonow
Dr. Patricia A. Wagner
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memorial list includes only those alumni and friends
who our offices have confirmed have passed away
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Event Calendar
Visit alumni.depaul.edu/events or call 800.437.1898 for further information and to register.
Fees and registration deadlines apply to some events.
January
Jan. 5
Men’s Basketball vs.
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Jan. 11
Alumni Career Conference
Call: Career Week
Chicago
Jan. 14
Women’s Basketball vs.
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Jan. 16
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Prayer Breakfast
Chicago
Jan. 19
Alumni Volunteer Outing at
PAWS
Chicago
Jan. 21
Women’s Basketball vs. UConn
Chicago
Jan. 22
Men’s Basketball vs. USF
Chicago
Jan. 26
Alumni & Friends Reception
Kenilworth, Ill.
Jan. 29
Alumni & Friends Reception
Sarasota, Fla.
Jan. 30
Best of Second City
Chicago
Jan. 31
Alumni & Friends Reception
Orlando
February
Feb. 2
Young Alumni Sake Tasting
Chicago
Feb. 4
Game Watch: Men’s Basketball
vs. Cincinnati
Chicago
Feb. 6
Men’s Basketball vs. Marquette
Chicago
Feb. 7
Alumni & Friends Reception
Atlanta
Feb. 8
Alumni Career Conference
Call: Personal Branding
Teleconference
Feb. 9
DePaul Reception with
the President
Southern California
Feb. 11
Family Theatre and
Ice Cream Social
Chicago
Feb. 12
Women’s Basketball vs.
Marquette
Chicago
Feb. 16
Alumni & Friends Reception
Phoenix
Feb. 18
Men’s Basketball vs. Louisville
Chicago
Feb. 19
Career Week 2012 Keynote
Brunch
Chicago
Feb. 20
Career Week 2012: 5 things
You Didn’t Know About the
21st Century Workforce
Chicago
Feb. 21
Career Week 2012: Top 5
Ways to Utilize Your
Alumni Network
Chicago
Feb. 22
Career Week 2012 Lunch
Chicago
Feb. 23
Career Week 2012: Live
Conference Call:
5 LinkedIn Strategies
for Success
Teleconference
Feb. 23
Career Week 2012: Networking
Reception
Chicago
Feb. 24
Career Week 2012: Over 40
and Hired Workshop
Chicago
Feb. 29
DePaul Reception with
the President
Chicago
March
March 1
2012 College of Law Alumni
Awards
Chicago
March 6
Alumni Authors Speaking
Engagement
Chicago
March 7
Alumni Career Conference
Call: Over 40 and Hired
Part II
Teleconference
March 9
DePaul University Opera:
The Cunning Little Vixen
Chicago
March 20
Alumni & Friends Reception
Indianapolis
Recent Alumni Events
Off to a Good Start
The 2011-2012 academic year began with autumn
festivities for more than just the people on campus.
Alumni around the country enjoyed activities that
connected them with their alma mater and each other.
Receptions Roll through the West
Patricia O’Donoghue, vice president for
alumni outreach and engagement, hit the
road in October, traveling from Chicago’s
suburbs across the country to Seattle.
The exclusive alumni receptions
included complimentary wine, beer and
hors d’oeuvres, as well as an update on DePaul and a
viewing of a video about the Many Dreams, One Mission
Campaign, which is moving forward with momentum,
thanks in large part to the support of generous alumni.
Young Alumni Beer Tasting
Recent graduates gathered to quaff a pint and make
connections at a young alumni beer tasting held at
Haymarket Pub & Brewery on Sept. 14. The place was
packed with DePaul grads reminiscing and networking
while out on the town in Chicago.
DePaul Art Museum Celebration
Nearly 100 alumni
attended a special
celebration of the
opening of the
DePaul Art Museum
in October. The
museum moved to
its new location at
935 W. Fullerton
Ave., just east of the CTA’s Fullerton “L” station, in April.
The 15,200-square-foot, three-story building includes
space for class use, programs and events.
On view was the “Re: Chicago” exhibition, which
examines the careers and artistic reputations of Chicago
artists over more than a century. Enjoy the new space and
the exhibit, which runs through March 4, 2012. Visit
museums.depaul.edu for information.
40 a l u m n i

Thank You,
Ernie and Mimi Wish,
FOR THE MANY WAYS YOU FOSTER STUDENT SUCCESS.
Ernie Wish and his wife, Mimi, are $1 million lifetime giving donors, supporting
DePaul student-athletes, accountancy students, musicians and future educators as they prepare for successful careers and lives.
A DePaul University trustee since 1975 and a life trustee since 2002, Ernie funded Wish Field and the Wish Welcome Center and
was a part of establishing Success through Scholarship in the School of Accountancy and Management Information Systems. He and
Mimi fund endowed scholarships that support student-athletes in men’s golf, women’s softball, and men’s and women’s soccer. Their
gifts include the McDevitt Counseling award, which supports students in the counseling program of the College of Education, in
honor of the Rev. Patrick J. McDevitt, C.M., and the Ernest R. and Mimi D. Wish Endowed Scholarship for School of Music students
with a concentration in opera voice performance.
The Wishes also serve as advisors on a number of university boards and committees. The university community thanks them for
their commitment and hard work for DePaul.
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