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4 Editor Jennifer Fellinger Creative director Marki Carson printing Capitol City Press Contributors Meg Nugent Dwyer Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D. Kyle Karnofski Mary Law Brother Boniface Lazzari, O.S.B. Rick Noren Bob Partlow Deanna Partlow Greg Scheiderer Katie Simons Photographers Aaron Barna Aric Becker Steven Herppich Dane Gregory Meyer

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Insights is the official magazine of Saint Martin’s University. © 2013 all rights reserved.

We invite your comments and suggestions. Please email them to jfellinger@stmartin.edu.

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New Cebula Hall

What makes the University’s newest building ”green”?

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Mastering the Art of Balance

Joe Skillman MIT’13: teacher, family man, alumnus

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Social What?

Tweets, likes and hashtags, brought to you by the Saint Martin’s Social Squad

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Trailblazing Saints Women who charted new territory for Saint Martin’s

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Dreams of Engineering a New Country Students preparing to be leaders back home in Libya

28 Alumni Profile Christine Schaller ‘93 DEPARTMENTS

Saint Martin’s University is an equal opportunity educator and employer.

Visit us online at www.stmartin.edu.

3 President’s Greeting 30 Abbey News 36 Campus News and Events 48 Alum Notes

24 In Their Own Words 32 Timeline 44 Athletics News

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Here at Saint Martin’s, we often speak of the Rule of Benedict, Saint Benedict’s guidebook for community living. Written some 1,500 years ago, the Rule certainly has withstood the test of time. Given its longevity, it’s not surprising that one of its main precepts is “stability.”

For our beloved monks of Saint Martin’s Abbey, the vow of stability is an important part of their Benedictine commitment. In taking their vows, they dedicate themselves to their monastic community for life. Many of our monks first came to Saint Martin’s decades ago as boarders or “day scholars,” and chose their vocation shortly thereafter. For these men, Saint Martin’s is the only workplace they’ve ever known, even as, over the years, their monastic roles within the community have changed.

It is an interesting contrast to the life of today’s graduates. Studies say that those entering the workforce today will hold 12 to 15 jobs in their lifetime. On average, they will be changing their work environment every two to three years. (Thank goodness for our Office of Career Services, which primes Saints for the job search/interview process!) Our graduates’ lives are defined by technology that can be rendered obsolete within months of inception and by social media that thrives on the immediacy of the moment. Prepared for a world where all is indeed flux, the class of 2013 is adaptable, creative and forward-thinking.

Where does stability fit into all of this?

Graduation season is the perfect opportunity to ask this question. There may be no greater time of instability than commencement. On May 11, we gathered in Marcus Pavilion to celebrate our newest alumni, more than 450 in all. For many, this day signaled a time to uproot and move on — to a new job, a new home, perhaps even a new degree program. And yet, no matter what changes in these graduates’ lives, Saint Martin’s will always be “home” to them. We hope that their alma mater will remain, for their lifetime, a place that represents excellence, perseverance, service and stewardship, and that the values of Saint Martin’s will serve as a “true north,” unchanging even as the world around them transforms in marvelous ways.

And so, in this issue of Insights, we explore the stories of many inspiring individuals who, in diverse ways, represent stability. These individuals have overcome obstacles to honor the enduring values of Saint Martin’s. You’ll read of pioneering women who made their mark at Saint Martin’s, some before the institution became coeducational. You’ll meet two graduate students who are developing the skills to bring stability to their home country, and an alumna whose experience as a Saint continues to influence her professional life on “the bench.” You’ll discover the spirit of our Social Squad, whose members treat the challenges of social media as an opportunity to build community.

Remarkable things are happening at Saint Martin’s. We have a new award-winning “green” building that is garnering much attention, three Fulbright Scholars — two faculty and a graduate student — who reflect the quality of teaching and learning on campus, and a softball team that just finished a historic season with a top 25 national ranking. You’ll find all of that and more inside.

It’s a good time to be a Saint. But then again, it has been for 118 years!

I hope you enjoy this issue of Insights, and that as you read the following pages, you'll take a moment to consider how your life has been enriched by the gift of Benedictine stability.

Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D. President

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The building is constructed primarily from prefabricated framed panels and joists made from FSC-certified sustainable lumber.

New Cebula Hall On Earth Day, April 22, 2013, the Saint Martin’s community gathered for the formal dedication of Fr. Richard Cebula, O.S.B. Hall, new home of The Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering.

More than 300 guests were on hand to celebrate the environmentally sustainable structure designed for LEED Platinum certification.

The completion of Cebula Hall represents an important milestone for the University, which took on no long-term debt to construct the facility. Built through the generosity of alumni, friends and supporters, Cebula Hall has been funded in full by people who understand the importance of Saint Martin’s and its graduates to the world. In January 2013, the Norcliffe Foundation of Seattle awarded a very generous grant to the Engineering Initiative at Saint Martin’s University. The grant from The Norcliffe Foundation leveraged a “top-off grant” of $600,000 from the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust to finish paying for the construction of Cebula Hall.

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Extremely efficient fixtures and equipment reduce water usage by

48 percent.

Spaces inside and out were organized to maximize collaborative learning opportunities.

Labs and classrooms are positioned directly across from a transparent faculty office suite that is outfitted with a glass writing surface to support both planned and impromptu study and research sessions as well as visibility between spaces.

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Projections estimate a energy cost savings due to optimized energy systems and power produced from a solar array.

The building displays many engineered systems as a way of surrounding faculty and students with real-world examples of the concepts they study. Many of the building’s structural, civil and mechanical systems are displayed or “peeled back” to facilitate dialogue and support the school’s curriculum.

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Much of the furniture and construction materials are made from recycled materials — 27 percent overall — including salvaged plywood used for table tops and 111 soda bottles used to create each faculty side chair.

The construction cost was per square foot, dispelling the notion that environmentally sustainable buildings cost as much as 15 percent or more than similar non-sustainable buildings.

4,600 plants make up Cebula Hall’s

surrounding landscaping.

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any new graduates breathe a sigh of relief on commencement day. Please forgive Joe Skillman if his was deeper and more audible than most May 11, when he received his Master in Teaching degree and teacher certification after completing the Secondary Teacher Alternate Route (STAR) program at Saint Martin’s University.

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Consider what Skillman has been up to over the last twoand-a-half years: He welcomed two sons into the world, held a teaching job, split a youth-ministry gig, sold a house, moved in with his in-laws, bought a house, and moved again — all while maintaining a 4.0 grade-point average in the academically rigorous STAR program.

“I don’t feel like reading this summer,” Skillman laughed, recalling the coursework as he bounced seven-month-old son, Ben, on his knee while we talked on the deck of his Federal Way home the week before commencement.

Skillman has long had his mind on teaching, but took a bit of a detour. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in chemistry at Western Washington University, and was enrolled in the teaching program there. He was one course and some student teaching away from finishing when he burned out.

“I want to be passionate about what I’m doing, and I wasn’t passionate about the education courses I was taking at that point in time,” Skillman recalled. “I was just done.”

Skillman started classes in June of 2011 and raced through the program, finishing his written comprehensive exams in March and orals in April.

Skillman said the program has made him a more reflective teacher.

“I want my students to have an understanding of science, because that’s one of my passions, but I also just want them to have a desire to learn,” he said. “I didn’t really realize I had that until going through Saint Martin’s. I’ve moved from being a scientist to being a science teacher.”

Courses about how the brain works appealed to him as a new dad, too.

“That made it even more interesting, to see how I can apply some of what I’m learning to parenting, and how I can apply it to helping my kids learn,” Skillman said.

“I’m glad I chose Saint Martin’s and feel like it prepared me well,” he said, “but it is not for the faint of heart. It’s a lot of work in a short amount of time.”

Skillman is looking forward to something he hasn’t enjoyed in years: a little time off with his family. His most strenuous plan for the summer is taking two-and-a-half year-old son, Gus, to the zoo. u

He spent a year on the road with NET Ministries, leading retreats for Catholic middle- and high-school students, and worked another year at NET’s headquarters in Minnesota.

“I found a lot of fulfillment serving with NET,” Skillman said. “I had a lot of fun doing that and growing in my faith.”

He later taught for a year at St. Charles Borromeo School in St. Anthony, Minnesota, and while there got engaged to his wife, Anna, also a Northwest native. They soon moved back to Washington and found work at St. Patrick Catholic Church and School in Tacoma, where Joe teaches middle school science and they share the parish’s youth ministry position.

The catch was that Joe had a conditional teaching certificate that would last for only two years. He had to figure out a fast way to get permanent certification while still teaching at St. Patrick’s.

The STAR program turned out to be a perfect fit. Ann Gentle, Ph.D., director of the program, helped Skillman tailor it for his situation. The Archdiocese of Seattle covered part of the cost.

Joe Skillman is hooded by President Roy F. Heynderickx at the 2013 Master's Hooding Ceremony, which took place in Saint Martin's Abbey Church the morning of commencement.

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by Meg Nugent Dwyer

Tweets and retweets. Updates, likes and comments. #Hashtags and check-ins.

There’s only one way to understand the language of social media: Lean in, hold

on tight and don’t be afraid to be social.

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Social Squad #SMUSocial

t Saint Martin’s University, students aren’t the only ones who know the difference between a tweet and a retweet, a reply and a like, or the various nuances of hashtags.

When you are checking out a school as a potential student, you want to see what other students who are already enrolled there are saying about it, and that’s what we bring.

— Matt Hankins Foursquare campus ambassador

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These days, Saint Martin's president and members of the administration are navigating their own Twitter accounts, as are faculty and staff members who are recognizing the trend that students are much less likely to communicate via standard emails than they are via tweets, Facebook and other forms of social media.

“I wanted to start using Twitter because our students don’t always check the University webpage and they don’t check their email, so, how are we supposed to be in contact with them?” says Nicole Phillips, executive assistant to the dean of the University’s School of Business.

“But even though I knew I needed to learn how to use Twitter, I was a little afraid of it,” she confesses. “That’s why I’m glad the Social Squad is here.”

As envisioned by Saint Martin’s Web Manager Carl Lew, the Social Squad is a band of savvy students the Office of Marketing and Communications started employing in 2011 to help strengthen the University’s presence and brand on social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Foursquare. In recent months, the Social Squad has been reaching out to the Saint Martin’s community in efforts to educate it about the how-tos of social media. The students’ goal is to encourage professors, staff members and administrators to become more comfortable with social media so they will use it themselves to interact with the student body.

“The Social Squad is cutting-edge among smaller universities that are getting involved with social media. The fact that most cabinet members at Saint Martin’s have their own Twitter accounts says a lot about the willingness to experiment with media and communication, both from the top down and the bottom up,” says Chadd Bennett, director of research and publications for the Independent Colleges of Washington, an association of 10 private, non-profit colleges in the state. “Some of our member institutions that are dipping their toes in social media are asking to be connected to Saint Martin’s so they can get advice on how to use social media.”

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were able to significantly enhance Saint Martin’s profile by generating tweets that reached more than 192,000 Twitter accounts following the squad’s ongoing social media coverage of the University’s 2012 Gala.

This year's Social Squad included tweeters, bloggers and videographers.

The Social Squad has been providing a picture of Saint Martin’s to prospective students by using their own voices as current students, a perspective the University is unable to provide through its more traditional marketing materials, says Lew, who oversees the squad of 12 students, which has included tweeters, bloggers and, more recently, videographers.

“It goes to presenting a more genuine view of what it’s like to be a student here because it’s from the student perspective,” Lew says. “The Squad provides an alternate way of looking at SMU and it also provides more of that authentic conversation, another form of engagement between current students, as well as prospective students.”

According to Matthew Hankins, a sophomore and squad member, “When you are checking out a school as a potential student, you want to see what other students who are already enrolled there are saying about it, and that’s what we bring.”

“There’s a whole generation of students, say aged 15-25, who don’t embrace email because they haven’t been in a work setting yet where they have had to use email, and receiving anything through snail mail is before their time,” says Alex Hendricks, a junior and the unofficial “Boss of the Social Squad,” according to the handwritten sign perched on a desk in the Old Main office he shares with his fellow squad members and Lew. “Social media is the preferred medium for prospective students right now, and communicating with them in their preferred medium can give Saint Martin’s an edge.”

Besides, Hendricks adds, “If we’re not on social media, it’s a mark against us. If a prospective student tries to find Saint Martin’s via social media and we’re not on Twitter and we have no Facebook or Instagram account, that student will think, ‘Social media is the main way I communicate, so why doesn’t this school have any social media?’”

The squad members have come a long way since their initial efforts to tweet and blog about their personal experiences as students at Saint Martin’s. Last fall, for example, they

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“A tweet is a very simple thing but you can reach large numbers of people that are normally not imaginable for a small university like ours,” Hendricks says.

Plus, social media is very cost efficient. “It costs nothing,” says Social Squad member Stephen Mahnken, a sophomore, “and people using social media are constantly checking it for updates. As long as Saint Martin’s is on social media, people are going to be seeing what’s happening at the University.”

Lew is especially proud of the squad’s successful strategy to fill more seats at a Saints winter basketball game. Within a few hours of a request from Athletics for help in finding ways to encourage more students to attend the game, squad members seized on the idea of organizing a “Harlem Shake” event for halftime entertainment. They generated excitement through tweets and Facebook messages that invited students to take part in Saint Martin’s official version of the Internet meme. (Enjoy the video at bit.ly/X1RekW.) “Just a few emails were sent and no fliers were posted anywhere; it was all communicated through Twitter and Facebook about when students should show up,” Lew recalls.

“The students arrived, ready to go, in costumes they made on their own, and the stands were full at halftime — it was one of the best attended basketball games we’ve had in a while.”

To maintain this momentum, the Social Squad has been taking steps to ensure the entire Saint Martin’s community understands not only the importance of social media as a marketing tool but as a communication tool they can incorporate into their daily routine.

“We realized we can’t have a strong social media presence externally if there’s not a strong social media presence internally,” says Lew. To that end, Hendricks and Mahnken have been demystifying the likes of Twitter and Facebook through a series of workshops the Social Squad has hosted on the Lacey campus. So far, they have conducted workshops with University President Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D., and cabinet members, as well as with some faculty and staff members. Mahnken has also made presentations about Twitter and other forms of social media to his business communications class.

The president says Twitter is a medium he can easily embrace. “I believe in brevity, and Twitter works with my particular style because you are limited to 140 characters,” says Heynderickx. “If you can’t say what you want to say in 140 characters, it’s really not worth saying.”

Hendricks likes to start his workshops by helping attendees set up their own Twitter or Facebook accounts. “For a lot of people,” he says, “that’s the biggest hurdle to get over because it signifies taking that first big step to getting to know social media.”

Next, he teaches the basics — how to tweet, how to like a person’s Facebook status, how to retweet, reply or post an image.

The Social Squad has established office hours two days a week for people to stop by with questions or concerns they may have about various types of social media. Squad members are also known to conduct workshops “on the fly” for learners who feel they need the help.

“We want to foster the idea that the whole school can come and ask us about social media, not only for professional use, but for personal use, as well,” Lew says.

In addition, the Social Squad is in the final stages of producing its “Social Media Starter Packet,” a tutorial for the Saint Martin’s community that provides step-by-step

with Hankins’ help Social Squad member Matthew Hankins was named a Foursquare “campus ambassador” in October 2012.

At the time, he was one of only 77 students at college campuses nationwide to receive this distinction.

Foursquare is a location-based, social media service with the ability to recommend places to visit and experience based on the user’s activities. With the help of their cell phones, Foursquare users “check in” at different places such as restaurants, parks, museums and stores. In exchange for checking in, Foursquare awards badges, points and even mayoralties, an honor bestowed on the person with the most check-ins at a venue over the past 60 days.

guidance on social media use, as well as a glossary of social media terms.

“During the workshops, there is always so much information coming at people. It can be overwhelming. With the packet, they don’t have to worry about forgetting what they have learned because it’s all written down for them to refer back to,” says squad member Brooke Sanchez, a sophomore.

“The packet is designed to lower the stress and fear associated with learning something new.”

The squad hopes the starter packet will help dispel another misconception about social media, Sanchez says. “People think social media is a bit trivial or they think of it as the newest craze that won’t stick around. Well, it’s been around for several years already and it’s getting bigger all the time.

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Stay connected with the University through social media!

Visit www.stmartin.edu/social for a list of our official social media accounts.

“Having this ambassadorship helps solidify and add credibility to our goal of becoming a driving force in social media, both for our students and for the community around us,” Hankins says. “We have been able to establish an exceptional presence on Foursquare, as a school, and to have a complete venue listing, which further spreads the word about Saint Martin’s.”

“Foursquare as a company has helped further the social networking abilities of Saint Martin’s by sending me stickers, badges, buttons, banners and shirts to give away while doing promotions around campus,” Hankins adds. “Being an ambassador has forged a connection with the staff at Foursquare that has been invaluable in our ability to support events and further establish the social media community throughout the school.”

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Gladys Dawson Buroker

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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view,” wrote environmentalist Edward Paul Abbey.

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t is those individuals who navigate the most challenging trails — the pathfinders who venture through uncharted and uncertain terrain — who often remake their world.

When Saint Martin’s carved its first trails, those involved overcame many obstacles to establish the young institution and help it thrive. Over the years, the trails deepened with frequent use, although sometimes a visionary soul would step off the path to chart a new course.

Among those visionaries were several trailblazing women who helped remake the landscape of Saint Martin’s history. Here are some of their stories.

Ahead of her time Gladys Dawson Buroker The life of Gladys Dawson Buroker reads like an adventure novel.

As a Depression-era teenager in Bellingham, she yearned to fly. Scraping together enough money for 15 minutes’ worth of flying lessons at a time, she learned to navigate the skies from World War I pilot Herb Buroker. In 1931, the 17-year-old soloed.

For a time, Gladys parachuted with a barnstorming troop, she wrote in her 1997 book, Wind in My Face: Autobiography of Gladys Dawson Buroker, Pioneer Pilot.

In 1937, she and Herb married. With Olympia airport manager Gwin Hicks, they gave flying lessons through their business, Buroker-Hicks Flying Service. At the time, Gladys was the only female flight instructor in the Northwest.

Her history crossed paths with that of Saint Martin’s College when the federal Civil Aeronautics Act passed in 1938. Anxious about a potential military conflict and the country’s considerable pilot shortage, Congress passed the act to set up a trial civilian pilot training program. The initial program gave equal access to young men and women nationwide.

Although Saint Martin’s was an all-male institution then, it was among those chosen to help train student-pilots, wrote Father John Scott, O.S.B., in his history, This Place Called Saint Martin’s. Aviation ground school classes began on campus in summer 1939, taught by the Burokers and Hicks. Gladys became the first female instructor at Saint Martin’s, and several young women enrolled in the ground school program.

Many ground school grads next took pilot training, which was taught by Herb Buroker and pilot Jack Mifflin at the airport.

As war loomed, officials expanded the program but dropped women from it, anticipating that its graduates would be funneled into the all-male military. Gladys continued ground school classes at the College, Scott recounted.

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the entire Saint Martin’s pilot training operation — instructors, students, planes and equipment — was shifted

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from the vulnerable Pacific Coast inland to Pasco. There, its students spent their Christmas vacation in training.

A few months later, the Navy appropriated the Pasco field for its own use and the program was again transplanted, this time to Weeks Field near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

The College’s students traveled there on the Saint Martin’s bus, driven by Fathers Gerald Desmond and Robert Wippel, O.S.B. In mid-1942, the Saint Martin’s/Buroker-Hicks collaboration ended when the military revamped the program to train only Navy air recruits. Although the Burokers continued to prepare pilots, Saint Martin’s early foray into extension programs came to an end. Some 400 pilots had been trained in three years.

Gladys Buroker left flight training for a time in 1950 when a fire destroyed the couple’s hangar and business in Coeur d’Alene, according to a Spokane Chronicle article. The Burokers moved to an area farm.

At 53, Gladys enrolled at North Idaho College to become a nurse. But the daredevil in her refused to sit still. She returned to flight instruction and kept her pilot’s license until she was 80. When Herb died in 1973, she took up hot air ballooning.

Buroker died in 2002 at the age of 88.

An accountant becomes number one Sirkka Stevens The hiring of Sirkka Stevens, the first female employee to work “on the hill” at Saint Martin’s, was neither intentional nor expected. It was, however, amusing.

In December 1988, Stevens retired after a 34-year career at Saint Martin’s and recounted the story of her hiring in Insights magazine.

The story goes that in August 1953, her husband’s cousin, Ken Stevens, was graduating from Saint Martin’s College just as her husband, Don Stevens, was beginning his studies there. Ken told Don he could get Sirrka a job at the school, and Don told Sirrka.

It was news to the monks, since Ken evidently had consulted no one. Sirkka arrived unexpectedly at the school to inquire about her new employment, speaking with either Father Meinrad Gaul, O.S.B. or Father Bede Ernsdorff, O.S.B., she said.

Neither was in charge of hiring at the time. Nevertheless, Father Bede escorted Stevens to Father Walter Hellan, O.S.B., the Abbey’s business manager.

He wasn’t responsible for hiring, either. Father Bede told Father Walter: “Put this girl to work. Her husband’s starting school in September.”

She was instructed to come in the next Monday. The Abbot, away in Rome, knew nothing of it.

“I guess he figured I could stay until the Abbot got back and got rid of me,” Stevens said.

Her career began with half-day jobs that shifted between the bursar’s and registrar’s offices, the bookstore, the switchboard and the library. The monks still were puzzled about what to do with her, she recollected.

Over time, she landed in the bursar’s office and accounting, where she eventually was hired as bursar — Saint Martin’s financial manager.

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Years later, Father Walter told Stevens he’d been dumbfounded when she appeared with Father Bede.

She recalled him saying, “Hiring a woman! It’s probably why you’re still here. I didn’t know what else to say. I was just sitting there with my mouth open.”

Elda Brophy was hired by then-Saint Martin’s President Father Michael Feeney, O.S.B. and Dean of Students Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B. as the College’s first dean of women.

Don Stevens transferred to the University of Washington to continue pre-dental studies, explains Stevens’ daughter, Elsa McDonnell ’82. Before he started, Sirkka developed a serious case of mumps. He was forced to withdraw, and financially was unable to return to Saint Martin’s. Don went to work for the Olympia Brewery, where he’d had earlier summer jobs, and he remained there for the rest of his career.

Brophy was a magna cum laude graduate in English and education from Eastern Washington State College. She had earned a master’s degree at Gonzaga and was in the midst of completing her doctorate at the University of Washington when she came to Saint Martin’s.

Sirkka stayed on at Saint Martin’s. She loved its closeness and couldn’t imagine being happy working elsewhere, she said. The Stevens family became Catholic converts, and Saint Martin’s — the College and Abbey — became part of the fabric of their lives.

A close 45-year friendship between Brophy and alumnus Paul Kerber ’68 had its roots at the College, where Kerber was student body president at the time. In a happy coincidence, they were also neighbors.

On the job, Sirkka was a meticulous bookkeeper whose job came to center on student accounts, according to Mary Law, registrar emeritus and a longtime friend of Stevens.

While her work was mostly behind-the-scenes, Stevens sometimes worked directly with students and their families on financial issues.

“When Sirkka did get to connect to students, she really connected, and she became like a mother to them, especially to some of the Middle Eastern students who were far away from home,” Law remembers.

McDonnell says several Saint Martin’s graduates have told her they couldn’t have completed their education if her mother had not helped them work out the finances.

Stevens, the first woman to be awarded the University’s President’s Medal for service to Saint Martin’s, passed away Nov. 24, 2012. She was 84. A celebration of her life will take place at 1 p.m. July 20 at the Norman Worthington Conference Center.

Shepher ding our first female students Elda Brophy, Ph.D. In the fall of 1965, as much of the nation roiled in tumult over race relations and the Vietnam War, Saint Martin’s College was undergoing its own radical change — stepping away from its 70-year-long all-male tradition to become coeducational.

Elda Brophy, Ph.D.

Elda and her husband, Walter, who died in 1986, had a farm near Elma, and the Kerber family was included in many events there. He says Brophy became like a second mother to him and his wife, Sue, and like a grandmother to their son.

Kerber describes Brophy as a woman with a warm smile who always had time for people, used words wisely, and loved kids and education. She also had courage and “piercing eyes that looked into your soul.”

“She would take on situations that were controversial, simplify them and make them work — a true innovator,” he says.

One example is provided by Father Kilian, who also had a long friendship with the Brophys: “She was very elegant with a wonderful sense of humor. I remember her response when the women students were protesting the regulation of

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‘no trousers or slacks for women in the classroom or dining hall.’ After several intense meetings with the students, Elda finally gave in with the words (I’ve never forgotten them), ‘My dear young ladies, you may wear trousers only if they ride well’.”

Along with guiding young co-eds through their college years, Elda continued her professional activities as an educator.

She taught courses in primary education as a faculty member at Saint Martin's, and she later became president of the Northwest Association for Teacher Educators.

When Brophy retired from Saint Martin’s, the couple raised horses, including one that won a championship in a national miniature horse competition. Elda also indulged her creative bent, churning out numerous pieces of art. And, at 78, she decided to learn Hebrew, her eighth language.

She never lost her love of teaching and children, says Shawna Brophy Martin, Brophy’s granddaughter. Brophy was a parent educator for Grays Harbor College through much of the ’90s.

Brophy was 100 when she died in February this year.

The educator who couldn ’t retire Lillian V. Cady, Ph.D. When Lillian V. Cady, Ph.D. met a student or employee at Saint Martin’s, she made a strong impression — an impression that often elicited descriptions like “stern” and “no-nonsense.”

Cady, now 82 and a resident of Seattle, came to Saint Martin’s in the early 1980s to head the College’s education program.

When she was younger, she served with the U.S. Naval intelligence during the Korean War.

A petite woman who favored tailored suits, Cady was known for a style that was as direct as her gaze.

As head of Saint Martin’s Education Department, Cady’s knack for handling problems of all kinds with intelligence and resolution caught the eye of thenPresident David R. Spangler. When the post of vice president for academic affairs (VPAA) came open, he tapped her for the job.

“She was the most professional, objective administrator I have ever seen,” he says of Cady. “She handled everyone fairly and evenly. She expected competence of herself and everyone around her, and she earned their respect.”

“Did you ever have a boss you’d do anything for?” asks Mary Law, retired registrar. “Lillian was that boss, and I never questioned what she asked me to do. She’s the most amazing woman I’ve ever known — truly.”

Law tells a story of a potential transfer student who came

by Saint Martin’s one day when Cady was still in the Education Department. She was sitting at her desk with the office door open, so he walked right in, asking, “Why should I go here instead of to some other education program?” She thoroughly peppered him with reasons, and he wasted no time in going downstairs to enroll, Law says.

Despite her no-nonsense exterior, Cady has a funLillian V. Cady, Ph.D. loving side that has helped her build friendships across Just prior to her arrival at Saint Martin’s, the country, Spangler says.

Cady had retired from one of several She loves the WSU Cougars, the arts and baseball, positions she had held at Washington’s Office of especially the Seattle Mariners.

Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). There, She also adores Peeps, the marshmallowy Easter candy, she’d already made her mark nationally through her and likes them best frozen, Law recalls. When Cady work on teacher education issues. was at Saint Martin’s, spring often came with Cady’s gifts of the little fellows.

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Cady first retired from Saint Martin’s in the mid-1980s. She did further work at OSPI and also began a term on the Saint Martin’s Board of Trustees. Twice more, she returned to the College as interim VPAA while the College conducted nationwide searches to fill the post, Spangler says.

“I hired Lillian three times as VPAA, and she just kept coming back for more punishment,” he laughs. “She always did a bang-up job, and I never hesitated to ask her to come back.”

Cady is one of a select few to be awarded the Saint Martin’s President’s Medal for service to the University.

A Saint through and through Randi Johnson ’83 At 29, Randi Johnson harbored a desire to learn that brought her across the threshold of Saint Martin’s College, initiating a relationship that lasted a lifetime.

Johnson died of cancer last November, but the alumna’s passion for her alma mater lives on in some of Saint Martin’s best-loved traditions.

Kurt Kageler ’91 MBA’97 spoke at the service celebrating Johnson’s life and legacy, held at Saint Martin’s on Dec. 15., 2013. He remembered Johnson’s kind, compassionate, gentle spirit and ability to inspire people with her attitude. “She always placed the needs of others above her own,” said Kageler. “Randi was a great volunteer but an even better friend.”

When she arrived as a student in the late ’70s, Johnson already had a full life as a mother and breadwinner. But with characteristic enthusiasm, she told then-registrar Mary Law that she wanted to be a “real student.”

She immediately accomplished her goal. When Johnson wasn’t in class, she was planning or participating in one activity or another. Her trademark laughter often revealed her whereabouts. She had a knack for organization and a clear vision of what steps were needed to make an event or activity a success.

“She never wanted to be student president or anything — it wasn’t about that for her,” says Law.

“But she’d get involved and, pretty soon, her leadership skills would make her the leader.”

Johnson was tirelessly dedicated to causes dear to her heart, remembers Law. “Whenever animals or kids were in trouble, she was there,” she says.

Randi Johnson

Fortunately for so many students who followed her, Saint Martin’s became one of Johnson’s causes.

After earning her community service degree in 1983, part of Randi went to work for the Washington State Department of Revenue and another part rolled up her sleeves for Saint Martin’s.

With a handful of other alumni, she helped breathe life back into the Saint Martin’s Alumni Association.

“Everybody respected Randi,” says David R. Spangler, Ph.D., president emeritus of Saint Martin’s. “She was never in it for herself, but just wanted to make things better,” Johnson remained on a quest to champion Saint Martin’s students. She helped found the association’s Capital Food and Wine Festival, a highly successful scholarship fundraiser which celebrated its 24th year this spring, and served as chairwoman for several years. Other fundraisers supporting the association’s scholarship endowment usually included Johnson.

At commencement, her congratulations and warm handshake were often the association’s first official welcome to new alums.

According to Spangler, Johnson always remained a positive force, even when her illness made it more difficult to take part.

“A lot of people looked to her to do things, and she always stepped up to the task,” he says.

Law puts it another way: “If you knew Randi, you were blessed.” u

What memories do you have of trailblazing women at Saint Martin’s?

Email your memories to jfellinger@stmartin.edu or tweet them using the hashtag #SMUwomen.

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Dreams of engineering a new country

by Bob Partlow

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Mustafa Zaaid, Master of Engineering Management Program

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Massud, 31, is finishing his first year of a two-year Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program at Saint Martin’s, after which he will return to his home country with the academic foundation to become a project manager in the oil and gas industry. Zaaid, 32, is finishing his first semester in the same program and shares Massud’s goal of returning home to help.

“In Libya, you don’t find a lot of management engineers,” Massud says. “That is why I came to the U.S., to get this experience. My country did not teach us how to be a manager or how to be a leader. To be a good manager, you need to see the big picture.”

Massud’s passion sends a clear message: He will be there to help Libya draw its own “big picture” as the country charts its future.

Massud, who was named a Fulbright Scholar in 2011, has remained committed to this goal, even when the political upheaval in Libya forced him to defer his prestigious scholarship a year. Interested in the Seattle area, he decided on Saint Martin’s after hearing it had “one of the best engineering schools in Washington.” But instead of starting the MEM program in fall 2011 as originally planned, he started in fall 2012. One year into the program, his enthusiasm has not waned.

In fact, it was Massud’s enthusiasm — for management, for leadership and for Saint Martin’s — that inspired Zaaid to enroll in the MEM program.

Reflecting on the challenges Libya faces, Zaaid says, “We are beginning from zero. We are making a new government. I will go back to build my country. We were dying for 42 years.

Now at least we can stop dying.”

Many more potential leaders are expected to follow Massud’s and Zaaid’s path. The new Libyan government plans to send 50,000 students abroad during the next five years to complete the education necessary to create the human infrastructure of a new society. According to Zaaid, Saint Martin’s provides the ideal education to begin that process.

“It’s an amazing program,” he says. “It’s the best place for an education.”

Both men have overcome much to get where they are today. They lived all their lives under a brutal dictatorship, struggling to advance themselves in a public education system that did not teach English. Their families had to find ways to survive financially. Finally, there was the bloody revolution that allowed Libyans to reclaim their country and their future.

Massud was born in Jadu, a mountain town in western Libya, and grew up in Tripoli. While his mother, Aisha, stayed home with the four children, Massud’s father, Saleh, taught elementary school, a job that paid about $300 a month — not enough to send his children to private schools where they could learn English. So, to help fund his children’s education, Selah worked on the side as a businessman. He wanted his boys to be engineers, a goal that Massud pursued.

After studying five years at the University of Tripoli, Massud earned his undergraduate degree. His studies were “tough,” he says, and knowledge was gained in a difficult political environment. “There was no freedom at that time,” he explains. “If you said something, you were in trouble.”

But he persevered, and beginning in 2006, began working as a testing engineer for the Halliburton Company, helping determine the quality and quantity of oil at various drilling sites. In 2008, he began working for Schlumberger, a multinational energy company, which gave him job experience, both inside Libya and in three other countries. When he wanted to advance his career and education, the company also gave him a long leave of absence and a job waiting for him when he returns.

Zaaid was born in Benghazi, the youngest of six children.

“I came from a poor family,” he says. But he studied hard and his oldest sister taught him English. He graduated from the University of Benghazi and also began working for Halliburton. As a pump engineer, he was responsible for the process of transferring cement and water into oil-drilling rig holes.

Zaaid’s education at Saint Martin’s is being provided through a scholarship from Libya’s Ministry of Higher Education.

His master’s degree will enable him to take the next steps in his career and will also help supply Libya with the leadership and stability it needs to grow in a time of transition, when the rules of a new society are still being determined.

Both young men love the learning environment and sense of community that are part of Saint Martin’s.

Zaaid commends the University for its acceptance and support of people of all faiths, and says he aims to encourage more students to choose Saint Martin’s. “I am trying to find ways to get scholarships for others,” he remarks.

“I have lots of friends,” Massud says. “The international office and my professors are always trying to help me and provide the support that I might need. It is a community to me, not just place to get a certificate.”

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ne would think that, after coaching 20 years at the collegiate level, losing the final game of a season would become easier to accept, especially when reflecting upon all the success our team enjoyed this year. Yet, there is nothing quite like facing the reality of having no more games to play or practices to plan.

For the 2013 Saint Martin’s softball team, it has been a record-setting season that began not long after the first day of class in September. It was difficult to imagine improving upon the previous season, which saw our program go from nine wins in 2011 to 33 wins in 2012 — one of the greatest win-loss improvements in NCAA Division II softball history. But, every new season allows each coach and player to dream of greater things to come.

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#SAINTSALIVE Our 2013 season began with great hope on the big island of Hawaii at the Kona Classic Softball Tournament.

It was truly a struggle to play in paradise. We won only two of six games, then headed over to Oahu and played slightly better, winning both games of a double header against BYU-Hawaii. Little did we know that, following this inauspicious start, our team would come together and succeed beyond anyone’s imagination.

The players had worked hard preparing themselves physically for success. As any great team will tell you, however, it is not the physical preparation but the faith you have in yourself and those around you that leads to excellence. When I took over the softball program in 2011, the team had more than enough talent to win games, but it took a new level of belief by a few key players to turn a team with little expectation of winning into one that could see greatness in themselves and their teammates. This newfound belief emerged at the Best in the West tournament in Turlock, California, last year, as we played our way into the championship round for the first time in Saint Martin’s history.

By early April 2013, when this year’s team headed south to the same tournament, our play had definitely improved. Still, no one could have anticipated the results that were to come. We won five straight pool play games, including an upset of highly ranked Humboldt State University and a semi-final win over Chaminade, then found ourselves playing for the tournament championship on Sunday. Although it ended in a difficult loss, finishing second was another first in our program and a building block toward our ultimate goal of excellence.

Our success in California led to a fantastic month. We ended April with a 16-3 record, clinching the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) championship at home against Central Washington on the final day of league play. Although it was extremely rewarding and the first championship in program history, it didn’t guarantee a spot in post-season play. For the first time, the GNAC’s automatic berth to post-season was going to be awarded to the winner of the conference tournament the following weekend.

I believe it was our experience of playing into the championship game a month earlier that allowed the team to overcome any anxiety to win the tournament and earn a spot into the NCAA Regionals.

As the season climaxed, every member of the team felt a great amount of support from both the local and campus communities as we prepared for the trip to NCAA Regionals. It was a blessing for the players to have professors and administrators who understood the importance of this opportunity. Whether it was moving a final exam to accommodate a player’s schedule or allowing a later checkout from the residence halls, the support from everyone was sincerely appreciated.

It was a difficult championship game loss to Humboldt State that ended our season and sent us on the long bus ride back to the SMU campus and back to reality, sad and frustrated, yet full of memories that will last a lifetime.

Each of us will have our own special memories from this magical season, whether it was the conference championship win, our conference tournament victory, our #17 national ranking in the Division II coaches’ poll, Lacey McGladrey earning First Team All-American and GNAC Most Valuable Player honors, Sam Munger being named GNAC Pitcher of the Year, or any one of the other accolades that the team collected in 2013.

In a season filled with so many firsts, it is impossible to decide how one compares to another, but I’m not sure it gets any better than watching your players achieve excellence under the spotlight of post-season play.

It can be easy for some to question the value of athletics on a college campus, especially with recent national headlines that make all of us cringe. But when you’re involved with a team of players that excel academically, toil tirelessly in their athletic pursuits, and then work part-time to help pay for school, it makes you proud to say that you’re their coach. u Rick Noren, in his third season as head coach of Saints softball, earned Coach of the Year honors for the second consecutive season from the GNAC.

Smart Saints Not only has the Saints softball team excelled on the field this season but it has also been a top performer in the classroom. A total of seven student-athletes earned Academic All-GNAC honors, the most in the GNAC, including senior Madi Davis, who had the highest GPA among GNAC softball players for a third-straight year.

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Insights posed a question to members of the Class of 2013 shortly before commencement exercises on Saturday, May 11, in Marcus Pavilion:

What was your best experience as a student at Saint Martin’s University?

Here are some of their responses:

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I attended the national American Chemistry Society’s annual spring meeting for the past three years — 2011 in Anaheim, 2012 in San Diego, and 2013 in New Orleans. This year, I presented my senior research thesis, and that determined the career path I will pursue.

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Working with David Hlavsa, my theatre arts professor! Because Saint Martin’s has a small theatre arts program, there were a lot of opportunities I wouldn’t have had at a larger school.

I directed a full-length play as an undergraduate, which is pretty remarkable!

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—O livia Baumgartner (B.A., theatre arts/sociology and cultural anthropology), who has been hired by AmeriCorps to work with at-risk youth in Baltimore

— Daniel Mast (B.S., chemistry), who will be attending University of Nevada to pursue a Ph.D. in radiochemistry

At Saint “ Martin’s, the University president The relationships I’ve built here.

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knows your name. Everybody knows

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your name. It’s a close-knit place.

—C rystal Maria (B.A., political science), who will be attending Seattle University School of Law with the goal of working in family law

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Being in my early forties, I was a non-traditional student while working toward my Bachelor of Social Work. On

my first day at Saint Martin’s, I met Dr. Katya [Shkurkin] for advising. It was wonderful meeting

It’s a tie: leading the last year of Sigma Tau Delta, especially working on our student-run literary publication, SMUniverse, and writing my senior thesis on Oliver Twist and Harry Potter. It’s awesome to be able to say, ‘We made a book from the ground up’ and also ‘I am now a Harry Potter scholar.’

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—T annia King (B.A., English), who plans to pursue a master’s degree in education, teach middle school and high school, and continue writing

somebody on the first day of taking those steps toward my new life.

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— Maureen Bailey (B.S.W., social work), who hopes to “give back to others what everyone at Saint Martin’s has given to me”

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— James Yarton, (M.E.M., engineering management), who will be working for Hargis Engineers Inc. (Seattle)

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Completing all of Professor Stout’s stats classes. He’s really tough but we learned a lot!

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—S teven Suslick (B.A., business administration), who hopes to “get a job serving my community, bringing with me my experiences from being at Saint Martin’s and my experience in the military”

was something to do every day, whether it was a comedian, a magician, bingo night, craft night or something else. And it wasn’t just the same thing every year.

There was always something new to do.

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— Jared Beard (B.A., history), who hopes to pursue Division II coaching at Friends University in Kansas while earning a master’s in education or counseling

“ The faculty. I absolutely love my professors

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When we were studying city planning, our engineering design class went on a field trip, going around to examine the boundary markers between cities and counties. This trip is typical of the hands-on experience you get at Saint Martin’s. Here, it’s not just classroom lectures with 400 students in attendance.

life and “Student campus life. There

. I was a math major at Saint Martin’s and a junior officer in training in the U.S. Army ROTC at Pacific Lutheran University. I had to maintain a good balance between my military life, my student life and my civilian life. My professors were very supportive of what I was doing; they helped me through to earn my degree and meet my military requirements. It made my college experience a lot more enjoyable.

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—B rian Hutton (B.A., mathematics), who is headed to the Fort Benning Army base in Georgia for training as an armor officer

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Being a veteran means lots of paperwork, and using the VA can be confusing. Ronda Vandergriff in the registrar’s office did an outstanding job and made sure everything was clear to me. She was always there to answer questions about anything I had to submit. She knew what she was doing.

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—C aleb Thetford (B.A., psychology), who plans to pursue a master’s degree in clinical counseling and work with veterans

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Christine Schaller ’ 93

by Deanna Partlow

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hurston County Superior Court Judge Christine Schaller, who ran a successful 2012 election campaign while balancing professional duties and caring for two young children, says she owes a great deal to Saint Martin’s.

When Schaller, a 1993 Saint Martin’s College graduate, addressed supporters at her campaign kick-off last year at the Norman Worthington Conference Center, she said, “I can say with certainty that I would not be standing before you today as a candidate for judge if not for my excellent parents and had I not been here about 20 years ago … being taught by some of the most dedicated and talented professors. This has been a place of beginnings, transitions and growth for me.”

Schaller says she discovered who she was at Saint Martin’s.

“The core of who I am is how my parents raised me, but Saint Martin’s changed my life,” says Schaller. “I came into my own there and had so many opportunities. At Saint Martin’s, you could be whatever you wanted.”

Saint Martin’s runs in the family. Schaller is the daughter of two alumni — Ed Schaller, Jr. HS’62 ’66, who died in 2001, and Rose Schaller ’74.

Like many students, she looked forward to going away to college after completing high school locally. Her father, then a member of Saint Martin’s Alumni Association and the College’s Board of Trustees, talked her into giving Saint Martin’s a try. “He was very persuasive,” she laughs.

Schaller soon discovered opportunities for her to make a difference. She got involved in student government and became captain of the cheerleading squad. She participated in the Model Arab League, a competition that helped students learn about Middle Eastern issues.

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She also found professors who inspired her, beginning with her first religion class from Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B. Her learning continued through courses in history and political science taught by two professors who played a pivotal role in her education, Rex Casillas, Ph.D. and Roger Snider, Ph.D. Having grown up in the shadow of her older sister, Nicky, “an outstanding athlete and the brain of the family,” Schaller says Saint Martin’s also taught her that she, too, had her share of talents, abilities and the drive necessary to succeed.

Succeed she did.

Schaller graduated magna cum laude and enrolled in Gonzaga University School of Law. In 1996, she completed her law degree with cum laude honors, then passed her bar exam that summer.

Along the way, she realized she was a “home” girl, one who was happiest near her family. So she moved back to Olympia and joined her father’s law firm, Foster, Foster and Schaller, as an associate attorney. The firm practiced several different kinds of law. She found she loved family law.

“You have an opportunity to help people when they’re at one of the most difficult stages in their lives,” she says. “When I went to law school, I didn’t understand you could have such a positive impact on people’s lives by advocating for them.”

Outside the office, she took part in several community activities, including providing free legal work. She also served on several boards, the alumni association and the United Community AIDS Network among them.

In 1999, Schaller married Chris Kradjan in a ceremony performed by Father Benedict Auer, O.S.B., who later baptized their daughter. The couple settled in Tacoma, midway between his CPA consulting job in Seattle and hers with the Olympia law firm.

That same year, a receptionist at the law firm suggested fielding a team in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

Schaller took the first of many walks on the team, named the “Foster, Foster and Schaller Loopholes” by her dad. Two months later, this activity took on new meaning when Ed Schaller was diagnosed with cancer. He died May 21, 2001.

“I was fortunate I was exceptionally close to my dad,” she says. “He was my dad — but we were also friends and business partners. It was hard on my sister and me because he died before we had kids, and we knew our children would never know him.”

Cancer came yet again into her life in December 2003, when her mother began the agonizing fight against the disease.

Her mother is now doing well. Schaller looks back on her

parents’ illnesses as her greatest challenge. It deepened her compassion and empathy for others, something of immeasurable value when working with the many people she meets facing adversity.

One day, Schaller was asked by Olympia Municipal Court Judge Lee Creighton to pro tem — substitute — for him in his court.

“I’d never thought about doing that,” she recalls. “There’s a big difference between being an advocate for a client and being a decision-maker. I really wondered if I could be fair — but when a judge asks you to do something, you don’t say no.”

By the end of her first day, she felt reassured and continued to substitute. Judging a case, she realized, was looking at the same set of facts from a different perspective. When a post came open for a court commissioner in the Family and Juvenile Court in 2005, she was chosen for the job.

Schaller’s professionalism, ethics and respect for those who come before her in court earned her accolades from the Thurston County Bar Association, which has given her the highest ratings among Thurston County judicial officers in three of its four recent surveys. In 2009, she was named Jurist of the Year by the Washington State Bar Association’s Family Law Section.

Her campaign for the Superior Court post drew an impressive roster of professional endorsements and ultimately earned her 67 percent of the vote.

Schaller says she brings to the bench important skills she first learned in her history and political science classes. She learned to analyze issues and developed writing skills able to pass muster under the critical eye of her professors.

When she assisted Casillas with an entry-level class once a week, she began learning to speak to students in a way that prompted responses.

“That’s an important skill as a judge,” she says. “It helps with jury selection when people need to be pushed beyond their comfort level and boundaries.”

Schaller goes forward in her career with a vote of confidence from those at Saint Martin’s who know her caliber best.

“From the time she first came here, she has been a source of consistent excellence and never settled for anything but the best from herself,” Casillas says. “I think she will be a splendid judge — she has all the earmarks: fairness, reason and a commitment to justice.” u

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Abbey News

Monastic Happenings

by Boniface V. Lazzari, O.S.B.

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Stability, such as the millennial stability of the San Pelayo nuns, is characteristic of the Benedictine life, even in adversity. This summer, the Saint Martin’s Benedictines celebrated stability when it marked the 60th anniversary of monastic profession of two of its members. The longest professed Saint Martin’s monk this year celebrated his 72nd anniver-

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sary of monastic profession. Long-time stability can even be characteristic of Abbey employees. This winter, the monks mourned the passing to God of their friend and long-time accountant, Donna Smith, who, at the time of her death, had been employed by the Abbey for some two decades.

Our late confrere FATHER RICHARD CEBULA was honored by the University by having the new all-green engineering building named for him. FATHER RICHARD, an engineer, founded the University’s stellar engineering school over a half a century ago. ABBOT NEAL ROTH blessed the new Cebula Hall in a special ceremony this spring, the same afternoon that he blessed the newly designed Abbey Courtyard, which has been named for FATHER PRIOR ALFRED HULSCHER in recognition of his many contributions to the community of Saint Martin’s over the years.

This spring, ABBOT NEAL, in the company of FATHER PAUL WECKERT and FATHER PETER TYNAN, traveled to Mount Angel, Oregon, to pay a visit to BROTHER NICOLAUS WILSON, who is doing theological studies there. . . FATHER PAUL, beginning July 1, will be assigned to St. Columban Parish, Yelm, Washington, according to a recent announcement from the office of the Archbishop of Seattle. St. Columban has had a long tie to the Abbey.

Former Benedictine pastors of St. Columban include the late FATHER TERENCE WAGER, who built the present parish church, the late FATHER FELIX WIRTH and the later FATHER WILLIAM MAAT, among others. . . Immediately after the close of the academic year, FATHER KILIAN MALVEY traveled to St. Gertrude Convent, Cottonwood, Idaho, with a group of 10 Saint Martin’s students, the Benedictine Scholars. The Scholars spent a week in retreat learning about the St. Gertrude Benedictine community and things Benedictine. The Cottonwood Benedictines are part of Saint Martin’s history. For years, several Cottonwood Benedictines lived in a convent at Saint Martin’s, at the site of the present Abbey Church, and ran the kitchen and meal service. They returned to Cottonwood in 1959 . . . BROTHER RAMON NEWELL was once more a participant in the spring Dragon Boat Races. Before the beginning of the races, the boats were blessed by FATHER PETER. . . BROTHER NICOLAS will spend the summer at the Abbey, as will BROTHER LUKE DEVINE. BROTHER LUKE is in a doctorate program in theology in Berkeley and at present is in the midst of preparing for special comprehensive examinations.

Each year, the monks of the Abbey award a certificate and a check in the amount of $2,500 to the Staff Member of the Year and to the Faculty Member of the Year. The awards are presented to the winners during the annual universitywide Honors Convocation by ABBOT NEAL. The winners are nominated by the community at large and selected by a committee comprised of staff, faculty and one monk.

Each winner is also honored with a personal gift given at a private luncheon that ABBOT NEAL hosts annually for the winners. This year’s winners were Jim Overdeep, technology support specialist, and Brian Barnes, Ph.D. assistant professor of history.

The Saint Martin’s community has not yet achieved the millennial stability that marks the San Pelayo community, though in a few years we will mark a century and a quarter of presence on this Lacey hilltop and can trace our ancestry back to ninth century Bavaria and beyond.

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Boniface V. Lazzari, O.S.B., writes Abbey News and oversees the Abbey Concert Series.

Abbey Church events begins a new season In early April 2013, CALMUS, the renowned vocal quintet from Leipzig, brought the 2012-2013 Abbey Church Events season to a close. The a capella quintet adeptly sang polyphonic works dating from the 13th through 16th centuries. It was in CALMUS’ encore that the audience experienced a radical departure from classical polyphony when the group sang a very contemporary piece by Sting.

The 2013-2014 Abbey Church Events season will open on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013, with an 8 p.m. recital by pianist Alexandria Le. This will mark Ms. Le’s second appearance on the series. She previously appeared in recital at the Abbey in February 2012.

Alexandria Le was awarded a Bachelor of Music at Eastman and a master’s at SUNY/Stony Brook, where she currently is completing her Doctorate of Musical Arts. In 2011, she was named a winner of the coveted Pro Musicis International Award and in 2007 was a firstprize winner of the Brawshaw and Buono International Piano Competition. For eight years, prior to entering the university, Ms. Le regularly traveled by plane from her Nevada home to the San Francisco Bay area for her piano lessons.

On Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, at 3 p.m., Ms. Le will conduct master classes for selected students at Kreielsheimer Hall on the Saint Martin’s campus. Both Saturday’s recital and Friday’s master classes are open to the public, though seating is limited for both events.

Abbey Church Events is an annual concert/lecture series established by the monks of Saint Martin’s Abbey in 1980. The series brings gifted musicians and recognized academics to the Abbey Church. Abbey Church Events is funded by the interest on a small endowment established by the monks of Saint Martin’s Abbey, as well as by free-will donations, bequests and occasional grants. All events on the series are free to the public, though a freewill donation is suggested.

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What΄s been happening at Saint Martin΄s

January 15: At long last The University’s new engineering building, Fr. Richard Cebula, O.S.B. Hall, opens its doors to students on the first day of spring semester. Awaiting the students are state-of-the-art classrooms and labs in the innovative, sustainably built three-story building.

February 2: Focus on leadership As part of their community leadership summit, SMU student leaders welcome Father Doug Mullin, O.S.B. from Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Mullin delivers a keynote address on the role of Benedictine values in a leader’s work. Later in the day, University trustees participate in a discussion on the personal journey of leadership.

January 30: Accreditation affirmed Saint Martin’s is reaccredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, which commends the University for its forward-thinking strategic planning, systematic program assessment of values integration, enhanced student engagement through community programming, and robust engagement of the board of trustees.

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February 4: Welcome back, soldiers!

More than 3,000 visitors gather at Marcus Pavilion for a welcome-home celebration honoring members of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 2nd Infantry Division.

The event, hosted by the Lacey sub-chapter of the Association of the United States Army, recognizes soldiers returning from Afghanistan.

February 10: Generosity at its best

February 8-10: Saints come home

At the annual Scholarship Luncheon, Saint Martin’s says “thank you” to benefactors who invest in students through gifts and scholarship endowments.

Homecoming returns to campus, drawing more than 100 alumni for a weekend filled with activities.

February 15-18: Golf and sunshine Friends and alumni head to Palm Springs, California, for Saint Martin’s annual Desert Rendezvous.

March 10-15: Alternative spring break trip Ten SMU students and three faculty/staff members travel to Yakima for a weeklong immersion trip focused on social justice advocacy. Working in coordination with Catholic Charities, the students make quilts to be used in housing communities, participate in a College Night for high school students, help teach ESL classes, and visit an orchard, where they meet with farm workers and a farm manager.

March 6-9: Hoopin’ it up February 9: Take a bow, inductees!

SMU welcomes new inductees into the Hall of Fame/ Hall of Honor, and launches the High School Hall of Fame to recognize individuals whose achievements are linked to Saint Martin’s High School.

For the second consecutive year, Saint Martin’s hosts the GNAC men’s and women’s basketball championship tournament. Thousands take to the stands of Marcus Pavilion over the course of four days to root their teams on to victory.

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March 26: The lecture to end all lectures?

Selected by Saint Martin’s students, Father David Pratt, Ph.D., assistant professor of philosophy, delivers the University’s fourth annual Last Lecture. Sponsored by ASSMU, the Last Lecture program centers on the question, “If this were your last lecture before a group of students, what would you say?” Pratt’s topic: “The End of Lecturing.”

April 8-12: Break the silence SMU calls for an end to sexual violence during its fifth annual Sexual Assault Awareness Week. Urging the campus and local community to speak out on the issue, the week’s activities include a self-defense class and a “Take Back the Night” candlelight march on April 11.

March 23: Cheers!

The Saint Martin’s Alumni Association presents the 24th Annual Capital Food and Wine Festival, showcasing the best vintners, microbrewers and restaurateurs of the South Sound.

April 18: Serving Centralia

April 5-7: Rolling out Cebula’s red carpet Saint Martin’s showcases Cebula Hall as an event venue, hosting more than 100 engineers and engineering students from the Puget Sound for the Society of Women Engineers’ regional conference. Two weeks later, Cebula holds the regional annual conference for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

A partnership that authorizes SMU to offer baccalaureate degree programs to Centralia College students while they remain on the Centralia campus is officially renewed at a signing ceremony attended by the presidents of both institutions. Centralia students have the option of pursuing bachelor’s degrees from Saint Martin’s in elementary education, criminal justice and, this fall, accounting.

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April 22: Two dedications, one great day The Saint Martin’s community is blessed with a beautiful, sunny Earth Day for two campus celebrations — the dedication of the Father Prior Alfred J. Hulscher, O.S.B. Courtyard (pictured), followed by the dedication of Fr. Richard Cebula, O.S.B. Hall. The events draw friends and alumni from as far away as Saudi Arabia.

May 7: Saints and stewards

April 23: Scholars Day and Honors Convocation The Saint Martin’s community celebrates student scholarship during this day focused on academic achievement.

The Association of Washington Business (AWB) honors Saint Martin’s with a 2013 Environmental Excellence Award in Sustainable Communities and Green Building. The award recognizes the University for its construction of Cebula Hall as a “green” facility. Two SMU representatives — Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D., president, and Zella Kahn-Jetter, Ph.D., P.E., dean of The Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering — are present to accept the honor at AWB’s 21st annual environmental awards in Spokane. “These award winners are meeting the needs of their customers and taking care of their communities while showing that environmental sustainability is a smart way to do business,” says Don Brunell, president of AWB. “Employers like these are making the world a better place and strengthening the economy at the same time. They are also an excellent example of the fact that Washington is such a great place to live and do business.”

May 13-23: London calling Eight SMU students kick off their summer with a study trip to London and Stratford-upon-Avon.

Led by Stephen Mead, Ph.D., professor of English, the students see two plays at the Globe Theatre, take in four West End shows, and enjoy a backstage tour of the National Theatre. In the bard’s hometown, they visit the Royal Shakespeare Company theatre, where they watch performances of Titus Andronicus and Hamlet.

April 27: Dragon Boat Festival Competition heats up on the water as 32 teams paddle it out on Budd Bay at the Port of Olympia. This year marks Saint Martin’s eighth annual Dragon Boat Festival, sponsored by the Office of International Programs and Development.

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May 23: Well done, team!

Lacey City Council honors the SMU women’s softball team for the coaches’ and players’ commitment to excellence both on the field and in their community.

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Fulbright Scholars plan work abroad Dan Windisch This spring, Dan Windisch, Ed.D., professor of education, was selected to be on the Fulbright roster for five years as an education and counseling specialist.

The Fulbright Specialist Program promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas. As a Fulbright Specialist, Windisch is eligible for a grant to engage in a short-term collaborative two- to six-week project at an institution abroad.

Windisch doesn’t have immediate plans for the potential grant opportunity but anticipates he will use it to support work in Tanzania he’ll be commencing this summer. The project comes at the behest of the Archbishop of Songea, Tanzania, who recently invited Windisch to Songea to provide advice on “matters concerning guidance and counseling” for both the college of medicine and education faculty at Saint Augustine University.

“Currently, Tanzanian universities do not teach Westernstyle counseling,” explains Windisch, who serves as director of the Master of Education guidance and school counseling strand at Saint Martin’s. “Based on talks I’ve had with Father Hugo, a Tanzanian priest who completed the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology program at Saint Martin’s last year, there is a need to have Western counseling approaches as part of the college curriculum. I am very honored and humbled that they have asked for my help.”

Windisch will visit Tanzania June 24 – July 3 to begin exploring the possibility of establishing a Western-style counseling program in Songea. In the same trip, he will be accompanying his wife, Susan Leyster, director of service immersion programs at Saint Martin’s, to Saint Anne’s Orphanage and School in Chipole, Tanzania, to set up a month-long service trip for Saint Martin’s students next summer.

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Academy, thanks to a Fulbright Teaching/Research Award he received for the fall 2013 semester. KSPA is a school in northwest Russia that Birkenstein first visited in 2012 with his English Department colleague, Jamie Olson, Ph.D. As a Fulbright Scholar, Birkenstein will be teaching advanced English writing, speaking and oral argumentation classes as well as literature courses, specifically American and Russian short stories, at KSPA. “Nearly all major modern English-language short story writers — from James Joyce to Sherwood Anderson to Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway to Raymond Carver and beyond — have been influenced by Russian writers,” explains Birkenstein. “Thus, to teach the modern short story is to teach the Russian short story as well. If a deeper understanding of the genre is the goal, then Russian short stories are inextricable from the American version of the genre.”

Birkenstein also will use his Fulbright award for research, which he plans to conduct with Igor Krasnov, a KSPA professor with whom he connected during his 2012 visit. In collaboration with Krasnov, Birkenstein will explore best practices for teaching the history of the modern short story across cultures and will examine how authors from different countries have mined the common experience of life to produce structurally similar, yet culturally distinct, stories.

Specifically, the two professors will focus on how food is used as a narrative device in the short story.

Part of being a Fulbright Scholar, says Birkenstein, is being a cultural ambassador. He credits his global outlook to his family, who cultivated a curiosity about other cultures.

“When I was fourteen, my grandparents took me on a trip to central Europe, including Hungary, Czechoslovakia (then both Communist) and Germany,” says Birkenstein. “The world opened up to me then and I realized that people are people everywhere and cannot be neatly fit into blocks of people with simplistic and shared ideologies.” u

Faculty updates Amanie Abdelmessih, Ph.D., professor of mechanical

Julia Chavez, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, is one

engineering, served on a panel, “Graduate Student Funding,” and presented the article, “Preparing for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam,” at the Society of Women Engineers’ 2013 Region J Conference, held at Saint Martin’s Cebula Hall. Abdelmessih is a co-track organizer of Track 10: Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment for the 2013 Heat Transfer Conference, to be held in July in Minneapolis; her article, “Steady State Temperature Gradients in the Non-Blinking Human Eye Prepared for Surgery,” has been accepted for publication at the same conference. Her article, “Design and Construction of an Instrumented Instructional Small Scale Rankine Vapor Power Cycle by and for Undergraduate Students,” co-authored with five Saint Martin’s undergraduates, was published in the proceedings of last year’s Heat Transfer Conference. Another article, “Synchronous Distance Learning For Undergraduate Thermal Engineering Courses Trials and Improvements,” which Abdelmessih co-authored with Irina Gendelman, Ph.D., associate professor of communication, was published in the proceedings of the 2012 American Society for Engineering Education Conference.

of 20 faculty members nationwide chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges and Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies to participate in an Ancient Greece in the Modern Classroom seminar on the Iliad. The five-day seminar will take place in July at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. In April, Chavez presented her paper, “Following the Footsteps of the Brontes: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Animal Stories” at the annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada in Vancouver, BC.

Todd Barosky, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented his paper, “Counterfeiting a Currency, a Character, and a Calling in the Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs,” at the 2013 annual conference of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, held in Cleveland, Ohio, in April. Barosky’s article, “Legal and Illegal Moneymaking: Colonial American Counterfeiters and the Novelization of Eighteenth-Century Crime Literature,” was published in the winter 2012 edition of the journal Early American Literature.

Jeff Birkenstein, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was invited to present “How ‘Significant Food’ Makes a Short Story into a Meal” at the Liminality and the Short Story International Conference, held in March at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Birkenstein’s book, The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It’s a Mad World, which he co-edited with Anna Froula and Karen Randell, was published by Columbia University Press/Wallflower Press in April. His essay, “The Houses that Alice Munro Built: Community in The Love of a Good Woman,” was published in Critical Insights: Alice Munro, edited by Charles E. May, last fall. Another essay, “‘Globals’ and the American Dream: A Survey of Student Aspirations in an American Studies Course,” co-written with Robert Hauhart, Ph.D., associate professor of criminal justice, was published this year in the journal, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology.

Radana Dvorak, Ph.D., associate dean of extended learning, and Zella Kahn-Jetter, Ph.D., P.E., dean of The Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering, headlined “Expanding Your Horizons,” a math, science and technology conference for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade girls. The conference, held at South Puget Sound Community College in March, featured a discussion by Dvorak about computing and graphic design gaming and a presentation by KahnJetter about engineers’ role in making the world a better place. Saint Martin’s students Christy Castanares, BSCE ’13, and Mieko Grant, BSCE ’13, also presented their senior capstone design projects to the attendees.

Aaron Goings, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, completed his first book, Community in Conflict: A WorkingClass History of the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy. The book, coauthored with Gary Kaunonen, Ph.D., will be published by Michigan State University Press and released in July. The book led to a number of smaller projects, including an article that ran in the May/June 2013 issue of Michigan History Magazine and another article to be published this summer in Chronicle, the quarterly magazine of the Historical Society of Michigan. Goings and Kaunonen will be starting a blog about the strike at lawcha.org/ wordpress/committee-portal/labor-online. In early June, Goings will be presenting on his book at the Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference in New York.

In January, Goings spoke on “Rooted in the Community: Finnish American Wobblies in Grays Harbor” at the Nordic Studies Circle. This spring, he presented the lecture, “Wageslaves and Radicals: Writing a People’s History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike” at Michigan State University, and moderated the panel “Anarchists, Socialists, and Utopians in the Pacific Northwest” at the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference in Portland, Oregon. In June, he will be delivering the keynote address at the Upper Peninsula History Conference in Houghton, Michigan.

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Robert Hauhart, Ph.D., J.D., associate professor of criminal justice, has signed a contract with Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, to write a book on developing and teaching senior seminar capstone courses across the higher education curriculum. Hauhart and his co-author, Jon E. Grahe from Pacific Lutheran University, have become nationally recognized researchers and instructors on capstone pedagogy. Starting in 2008, Hauhart and Grahe developed a series of studies, conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications on the senior seminar in sociology and psychology.

Their 2010 publication in Teaching Sociology, “The Undergraduate Capstone Course in the Social Sciences: Results of a Regional Survey,” was selected as one of three finalists from over 100 articles nominated nationwide for the Maryellen Weimer Award, supported by Magna Publications, as the best research publication on teaching in 2011. This year, Hauhart had articles published in World Review of Political Economy, International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies, and Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. In March, he presented “Toward a Sociology of the American Dream” at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, in Reno, Nevada.

John Hopkins, associate dean of students and director of service and diversity initiatives, presented his paper, “Justice and American Indian Education: A Reconciliation Approach,” at the Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon, in March. The paper will be published this year as an article in an upcoming issue of the journal, Philosophy of Education Society. Last year, Hopkins’ article, “Maori Education: The Politics of Reconciliation and Citizenship,” was published in Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum, and his article, “Education of Indigenous Populations,” was published in Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education.

Louise Kaplan, Ph.D., ARNP, FAANP, director of the RN-to-BSN program, received the 2013 AANP Advocate State Award for Excellence. This award, given annually by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, honors a dedicated nurse practitioner advocate in each state who has made a significant contribution toward increasing awareness and acceptance of the nurse practitioner’s role. Kaplan will be recognized in June during the AANP’s national conference in Las Vegas, where she will be co-presenting her study, “Evaluation of Washington State Health Professionals Practices for Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain,” with Donelle Howell, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Washington State University College of Nursing. Also in June, Kaplan will be a guest speaker at the National Tainan Institute of Nursing’s 60th anniversary celebration in Tainin, Taiwan.

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While in Taiwan, she will be meeting with students, faculty and staff at a local hospital.

Victor Kogan, Ph.D, professor of criminal justice and sociology, recently presented on the topic, “If We Like to Live as Greeks, We Have to Live as Germans,” at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, in Reno, Nevada, in March. Kogan also presented in the association’s 2011 and 2012 annual meetings on the topics, “Multiculturalism? Assimilation? Lessons from Singapore” and “Case Against Multi-Citizenship,” respectively.

Kathleen McKain, associate professor of French, has been invited to present at the 25th International Society for Humor Studies Conference at the College of William and Mary in July.

Stephen X. Mead, Ph.D., professor of English, presented a paper on “Desacralizing the Body Politic: The Deposition Scene of Richard II” at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America held in San Diego in April.

Jeremy Newton, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, served as a co-author with his students, Timothy Templin and Katrina Tuengel, on poster presentations at the Western Psychology Association (WPA) Convention in Reno, Nevada, in April. The students’ posters were based on their senior thesis projects. Newton, Templin and Tuengel will be attending the American Psychological Association (APA) Convention in Hawaii this summer, where they will present a poster on “Attending Holistically Versus Analytically in an Everyday Environment.” This project is part of continuing research in the experimental psychology lab looking at individual differences in how people of different cultures remember scenes from their environment. A number of other Saint Martin’s students will be attending, and contributing poster presentations to, the APA convention as well.

Additionally, Newton is a co-author on a poster presentation, “Working Memory Capacity as a Moderator in the Processing of Intrusion,” with Ling-Jun Liu, who was an exchange student at Saint Martin’s. Liu is pursuing her graduate education at Chung Shan Medical University in Taiwan, and this presentation represents work that was started in a class that she took with Newton at Saint Martin’s.

William “Scott” Norris, adjunct business faculty, received the 2012 Joint Base Lewis-McChord Distinguished Faculty Award in February.

Jamie Olson, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, wrote book reviews that recently appeared in Berfrois, Translation Review and The Minneapolis Star Tribune. Last October, he organized and moderated a roundtable of seasoned translators under the title “The Routine of Translation: Strategies, Habits, and Everyday Life” at the annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association in Rochester, New York. Olson’s translations of poems by Russian author Timur Kibirov are forthcoming in TWO LINES Online, a publication of the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco.

David Price, Ph.D., professor of sociology and cultural anthropology, was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Swedish Anthropological Association in Uppsala, Sweden, in April. Price’s address on “Counterinsurgency

by Other Names: Complicating Humanitarian Applied Anthropology in Current, Former and Future Warzones,” examined how shifts in American counterinsurgency practices now threaten the independence of humanitarian aid groups working in warzones.

Scott Andrew Schulz, Ph.D., dean of enrollment, has been invited to serve on the College Board National Forum Program Planning Committee. In September, he will be presenting the session, “Building for the Future: How to Construct Underserved Student Pipelines,” at the national conference of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling, held in Toronto.

Sarah Weiss, director of admissions, and Michelle Splinter Ofelt, assistant director of admissions/multicultural initiatives coordinator, presented the session, “Working with First Generation College Students — Two Campus Experiences, One Goal!”, at the Pacific Northwest Association for College Admissions Counseling Annual Conference in May. The session included a discussion of Saint Martin’s admissions and retention programs designed specifically to help first-generation college students succeed on campus.

A visit from the mayor On April 24, Olympia Mayor Stephen Buxbaum offered his expertise to Saint Martin’s students in a governmental accounting course taught by Michael Cohen, Ph.D., assistant professor of accounting.

Buxbaum gave a presentation on budgeting within state and local governments, and also discussed some of the fiscal challenges facing Thurston County in light of the nationwide economic downturn over the past several years. The mayor encouraged participation and questions from the audience, which in addition to students included

Richard Beer, Ph.D., dean of the School of Business, and Paul Patterson, associate professor of business and economics.

“I was thrilled to have had the mayor speak to our class,” says Cohen. “It gave the class a real-life government experience from someone who is fully accountable and responsible for the fiscal policies of Olympia. While students read about these issues in a textbook, the mayor’s discussion brought the entire budgeting process to life.”

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Traditional Chinese Medicine comes to campus Years before Dr. Heng Li became a medical doctor and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) physician, he initially had some doubts about TCM. “I did not like TCM, in the beginning. I once thought it was witch doctor’s stuff,” says Li, who spent five weeks as a visiting professor at Saint Martin’s University this spring.

“I have an uncle, a top authority on acupuncture in China, who warned me, ‘One day, you’re going to fall in love with Traditional Chinese Medicine.’ And I did!” recalls Li, a fifthgeneration TCM physician within his family.

Li is assistant director and associate professor at Shanghai University’s China Shanghai International Acupuncture and Moxibustion Training Center. He is also chief doctor in the Acupuncture and Tuina Department of the Municipal Clinic Hua Dong Hospital. Li shared his knowledge and passion for Traditional Chinese Medicine, a 2,000-year-old discipline, with students enrolled in “Traditional Chinese Medicine and Evidence-Based Practice,” the introductory course for students enrolled in Saint Martin’s RN-to-BSN nursing program.

Li’s visit is the result of a sister-university relationship Saint Martin’s has shared with the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine since 2008. Students from the Shanghai school are typically sent to Saint Martin’s for summer cultural exchange activities, and Li is the second visiting professor to arrive on the Lacey campus.

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For Li, his stint as a guest lecturer is all part of his main mission: to spread accurate information and knowledge about Traditional Chinese Medicine to the Western world, and to more fully integrate TCM with Western medicine. Today, Traditional Chinese Medicine is practiced alongside Western medicine in clinics and hospitals throughout China, and TCM has become a very common practice in the United States.

“In China,” Li explains, “Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors are also M.D.s, medical doctors. We first treat a patient just like an M.D. would. Then, following a consultation and an examination, we use Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat their problem.”

TCM practices include: Tuina (pronounced “twee nah”), a type of body massage; acupuncture; herbal therapy; dietary therapy; cupping (applying a heated cup to the skin); moxibustion (burning and applying a raw herb in conjunction with acupuncture); and Tai Ji and Qi Gong mind-body therapies.

In addition to serving as a guest lecturer, Li is assisting Saint Martin’s in planning an exhibit about Traditional Chinese Medicine. The two universities are cosponsoring the exhibit, which is scheduled to be held July 18-20 on the Saint Martin’s campus. For more information about the TCM exhibit, visit www.stmartin.edu/tcm2013. u

Unsinkable Saints A concrete canoe may not sound like a badge of honor — that is, unless you are an engineering student who sees the canoe as an opportunity to showcase ingenuity and determination.

Every spring, college teams across the U.S. participate in one of 18 conference competitions, all vying for a coveted spot in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ National Concrete Canoe Competition. To qualify, teams must place first in their regional competition. At this year’s Pacific Northwest conference competition, held at Oregon State University, Saint Martin’s student team made a remarkable showing, placing second overall.

In the racing portion of the competition, Saint Martin’s engineers claimed victory over the eventual first-place winner, the University of Washington.

Why should student engineers build a concrete canoe? John Sladek, associate professor of engineering and the team’s faculty advisor, says the competition is an opportunity for students to apply engineering principles they learn in the classroom, plus exercise team and project management skills.

“This project is totally student-directed, so they lead themselves,” explains Sladek. “The work is intensive, and

comes on top of the other requirements of spring semester, yet most of the team put in between 10 and 20 hours on the project each week, and most of spring break.”

There is far more to the annual competition than building a concrete canoe that can float. Student teams are judged on: the engineering design and construction principles they used; a technical design report detailing the planning, development, testing and construction of their canoe; a formal business presentation highlighting the canoe’s design, construction, racing ability and other innovative features; and performance of the canoe and the paddlers in five different race events.

The students on the Saint Martin’s team included Christy Castanares, Tyler Davis, Alyssa Edwards, Mieko Grant, Jordan Jones, Chet Kocan, Daniel Lillie, Chris Luzik, Kyle Mauren, J.G. McCall, Eric Norton, Anne Petrich, Veronica Raub, Tim Sole and Morgan Watkins.

“These students have built something more than a canoe,” adds Sladek. “They may not remember a lot of the assignments they did in class, but 20 years from now, they’ll remember the concrete canoe competition and the other students they worked with.” u

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Psalms shine in newly acquired manuscript A copy of the Great Canterbury Psalter, also called the Anglo-Catalan Psalter, an illuminated medieval manuscript of the Book of Psalms, recently arrived at Saint Martin’s University from the Spanish publishing house Moleiro. The artists and bookbinders at Moleiro produced an exact copy of the Psalter — so exact that it even includes thumb smudges seen on the original pages. The manuscript is a gift of the Father Benedict Auer Poetry Endowment.

Crafted by Benedictine monks more than 800 years ago, the original Psalter was intended to be a copy of the famous Utrecht Psalter, which was created in the ninth century and acquired by the monks of Canterbury around the year 1000. In the Utrecht Psalter, each one of the 150 Psalms is accompanied by an illumination depicting a passage from the Psalm. Work on the Great Canterbury Psalter began in Canterbury around the year 1180, but the manuscript was left unfinished. In the year 1200, it was taken to Catalonia in northeastern Spain, perhaps as gift. In the mid-1300s, the illumination of the Psalter was completed by Catalan artists, possibly working out of Barcelona.

The final Psalter produced in Catalonia includes three parallel columns of texts written in Latin, Hebrew and Catalan.

The gifted Catalan artists also added illuminated scenes from the Old and New Testaments at the beginning of the Psalter. Measuring 20" x 14", the manuscript has 356 pages with 140 miniatures embellished with gold, and includes 190 ornamental letters upon gold backgrounds.

Top spots • • • • I n its evaluation of general education requirements at 1,070 colleges and universities across the country, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) gave Saint Martin’s the highest grade of any college or university in the state of Washington — a “B” — for its core of courses. Saint Martin’s was the only institution in Washington to receive a “B” grade, holding the top spot above 16 other schools. ACTA, an independent, non-profit organization that works with alumni, donors, trustees and education leaders across the United States to support liberal arts education, issued the grades in its report, What Will They Learn? Unlike other college rankings, ACTA does not consider an institution’s wealth, prestige or popularity in its grading system. Rather, ACTA rates institutions on what courses all students in a school’s B.A. and B.S. degree programs are required to take.

• Earlier this year, Saint Martin’s was named a “College of Distinction” for its student engagement, great teaching, vibrant communities and successful outcomes. Colleges and

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universities are nominated for participation in the “Colleges of Distinction” program by high school college counselors, and selection is based on information gleaned from college admission experts around the country, as well as site visits and interviews with staff and faculty, high school counselors, and administrators at other institutions. In receiving this honor, Saint Martin’s is identified as having some of the most exciting classrooms and most innovative programs in the country.

• Saint Martin’s ranks in the top 10 percent of colleges and universities nationwide for return on investment, according to PayScale’s 2013 College Education ROI Rankings.

PayScale.com ranked more than 1,500 higher education institutions in the U.S., including private, public and forprofit schools, to determine the potential financial return of attending each school given the cost of tuition and the payoff in median lifetime earnings associated with each school. Saint Martin’s was ranked 116th, one spot ahead of the University of Washington.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine Exhibit Thursday, July 18-Saturday, July 20 Cebula Hall Saint Martin’s University presents a three-day event featuring presentations by students and faculty from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Take a fascinating look at Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a form of holistic health care that has been in continuous practice for thousands of years.

For more information, visit www.stmartin.edu/tcm2013.

30th Annual Golf Tournament Friday, Aug. 3 Capitol City Golf Club Celebrate three decades of “teeing off for Saints Athletics”! Join friends and fellow alumni for Saint Martin’s 30th Annual Golf Tournament, benefiting the University’s athletic programs. The deadline for declaring foursomes is July 20. To learn more or to register online, please visit www.stmartin.edu/golftournament.

Robert A. Harvie Social Justice Lecture Friday, Sept. 27, 4 p.m.

Harned Hall Jeff Torlina, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology at Utah Valley University, will kick off the 2013-14 series with his lecture, “Peace and Justice in Northern Ireland: A Model Peace and Justice Studies Program.” For more details, contact Robert Hauhart, Ph.D., associate professor of criminal justice, at 360-438-4525 or rhauhart@stmartin.edu.

Inaugural Benedictine Institute Lecture: Eboo Patel, Author of Acts of Faith Thursday, Oct. 3, time TBD Marcus Pavilion Named by US News & World Report as one of “America’s Best Leaders,” Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, based in Chicago. Rooted in the belief that religion is a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division, Patel has written two books about interfaith cooperation, Acts of Faith and Sacred Ground. Saint Martin’s is honored to welcome Patel to campus for the inaugural Benedictine Institute Lecture, an evening event focused on faith, service and leadership. For more details, contact Sarah Holdener, director of event services, at sholdener@stmartin.edu or 360-438-4403.

Saint Martin’s University Pacific Northwest Social Action Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 30, noon Harned Hall Richard Burton, political action coordinator for the Washington State Nurses Association, will be the second featured lecturer in this new speaker series presented by Saint Martin’s History and Political Science Department. For more information, contact Aaron Goings, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, at 360-438-4406 or agoings@stmartin.edu.

Saint Martin’s Gala Saturday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m.

Marcus Pavilion Lift your forks and raise your wine glasses — Chef Michael Symon is coming to the Saint Martin’s Gala! From the on-stage Viking kitchen, Symon will deliver his unique brand of epicurean entertainment, preparing a signature gourmet dinner from a menu created exclusively for the scholarship fundraiser. Guests will enjoy a delicious celebration featuring specially selected wine and an exciting live auction. For more information, please visit www.stmartin.edu/gala or contact Bianca Galam in the Office of Institutional Advancement, 360-486-8885 or gala@stmartin.edu.

Jingle Bell Run Saturday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m.

Marcus Pavilion Run, walk or stroll the 5K route on Saint Martin’s beautiful wooded campus and enjoy the sights and sounds of the holiday season along the way. Afterwards, recharge with Christmas cookies and a cup of cocoa, and have your photo taken with Santa.

Registration opens Oct. 1. Visit www.stmartin.edu/jinglebellrun to learn more. Thanks to: Presenting Sponsor Puget Sound Energy; Gold Bell Sponsors Olympia Federal Savings Bank and Hanson Subaru; and In-Kind Sponsor L&E Bottling Company.

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by Kyle Karnofski

Jumping a bar nearly as tall as the average female wasn’t anything new for the 5'8" senior from Renton, Washington.

Going into college, Tesch had a career personal best jump of 5'5", which she cleared as a high school freshman.

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The problem was, she was never able to break that personal record — not in high school, and not during her first two years at Humboldt State, the Division II school she attended in California. At Humboldt, Tesch reached 5'4¼" — good enough for second best in school history, but still a disappointment for the competitive athlete.

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’ “ Saint Martin s was a great fit for me,” Tesch says. ’ “I m glad that I came here.”

“I just missed home so much,” Tesch recalls. Aside from homesickness, she faced the frustration of repeated knee injuries, which kept her from competing at the level she knew she was capable of.

But was she still capable? Despite her impressive past performance, Tesch battled doubts. Her personal best had been so long ago; she wondered if she would ever break her mark again.

In fall of 2011, Tesch transferred to Saint Martin’s with enough time to train and compete in a few track and field meets that year. Something clicked. By the following spring, she had broken the school record in outdoor track and field and placed seventh in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championships.

Going into her senior season, Tesch and track and field coach Chad Colwell decided to take a different approach to training. She rested more. During the summer, she went to physical therapy. And, while she focused on healing her body, she also concentrated on event-specific training to maximize her high jump.

“I ran a lot of hills and stairs over the summer,” Tesch says with a laugh.

As Tesch rebuilt her strength, Colwell made a bold decision for his leading jumper: He changed her technique. Rather than having Tesch use her normal 10-step approach, he altered it to an eight-step.

“Having a more consistent approach, along with being healthier, allows for the ability to improve,” Colwell says.

“Laura is incredibly talented. We just needed to train the approach first in order to make it more consistent.”

The formula worked. At the first indoor meet of the season at Boise State, Tesch broke her own school record with a jump of 5'3". At a University of Washington meet, she oneupped herself again with a new personal best of 5'5¾". In the third meet of the year, she smashed her own record with an amazing jump of 5'6½".

13th in the nation and first in the GNAC in women’s high jump. She placed second at the GNAC Championships, jumping 5'5¼". In fact, she equaled the eventual champion’s mark; her second-place honors came only by virtue of a tiebreaker, based on missed attempts.

Tesch’s provisional mark of 5'6½" was enough to earn the athlete a trip to Alabama for the national indoor championship on March 9. Her achievement also landed her in the books at Saint Martin’s, where she now stands as the only female in the school’s history to compete in the indoor championship.

Tesch, the lone Saint Martin’s participant in the championship and one of only 18 female high-jumpers selected to compete in her event, wasn’t fazed by the level of competition, thanks in part to some advice Coldwell gave her. Emphasizing consistency, he told her that, no matter what happened, it was going to be a “normal competition.”

He also encouraged Tesch to “enjoy it as much as you can while being focused” because only a few athletes get such an opportunity.

“I definitely wanted to keep everything the same and keep my routine and steps consistent to what I had been doing all year,” she says. “I did my best to stay calm and treat it like a normal event.”

Tesch earned a 15th place finish, nearly achieving a new personal best.

After clearing 5'3" and 5'5" on her first two attempts, she tried something she had never before accomplished: a jump of 5'7". In her three tries at the height, she nearly did clear it.

“I got really close,” Tesch says.

Tesch graduated in May, the proud owner of two school records — one for indoor high jump, and the other for outdoor.

“Saint Martin’s was a great fit for me,” she says. “I’m glad that I came here.” u

Heading into the GNAC finals last February, Tesch — a twotime Red Lion GNAC Athlete of the Week — was ranked

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As a sophomore, Patrick recorded three top-ten finishes, improving his stroke average by nearly three strokes between his freshman and sophomore season. The brothers combined for seven top-ten finishes together the last two seasons.

Jack and Patrick may share brotherly love off the green, but on the course, they are as competitive as it gets.

Jack Whealdon

Teammates for life

by Kyle Karnofski Most coaches consider it a luxury to have brothers on the same team for a year; having brothers as teammates for multiple years is the stuff of dreams.

“In high school, we were pretty competitive,” notes Patrick.

“We went at each other pretty hard for that number-one spot.”

Still, Jack admits that he loves seeing Patrick do well.

“You’re out there as an individual, but if the team does well, that’s even better,” says Jack. “If one of those guys on the team is your younger brother, well, then that’s just a bonus.”

For the second year in a row, that dream has been a reality for the men’s golf team, thanks to sibling-Saints Jack and Patrick Whealdon.

The Whealdon brothers hail from Ilwaco, a small fishing community on the Washington coast. With its cool, rainy weather, Ilwaco may not be a hot golfing destination, but it is home to one of the most successful boys’ golf traditions in the state.

As students at Ilwaco High School, the Whealdons played a prominent role in that tradition. At state, their teams combined to finish first four times, second twice, and fourth twice; individually, they boasted several top-ten finishes.

The Whealdon brothers also competed in the Washington Junior Golf Association, which, both Jack and Patrick say, prepared them to play in college.

Jack made the decision to attend Saint Martin’s and, as a freshman, quickly launched a successful college career. In his first year, he competed at the NCAA Division II Regional Tournament and was named the 2010 GNAC Freshman of the Year.

After completing two years of college golf, Jack talked Patrick into continuing their golf careers together at Saint Martin’s. Even with offers from other universities on the table, Patrick decided that SMU was the best fit for him.

This year, the two have enjoyed joint success. Jack finished tied for 11th at this year’s GNAC Championships, his best-ever finish at the conference championships.

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Patrick Whealdon

In May, Jack graduated with a degree in business administration. Patrick will return to the golf team in 2013-14 as a junior — minus his brother.

This won’t be the end of their golfing journey together, though, says Jack.

“I know Patrick and I will get the opportunity to play together many more times in tournaments down the road,” he says. “But just knowing that, no matter what happens, this won’t be the last time we’re together is reassuring.” u

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Winter All-GNAC awards

The Saint Martin’s University Athletic Department has welcomed the following new staff members:

Men’s basketball

Chad Colwell, who in January was named interim head coach of track and field and cross country, was elevated to head coach in April. Prior to his arrival, Colwell served as head track and field coach at the University of Great Falls in Montana.

Kara Peterson came to Saint Martin’s in February as the new head volleyball coach. In 15 seasons as coach of Black Hills High School, she took her volleyball team to the state tournament 12 times. Peterson played volleyball for the University of Washington.

Kelly Kavanaugh was named assistant volleyball coach in the spring. Kavanaugh comes to Saint Martin’s from the University of Alaska Anchorage, where he was an assistant coach. Prior to that, he coached high school volleyball and served as director of Alaska ICE Volleyball and the USA Volleyball High Performance Program.

Michael Ostlund became the head men’s basketball coach in April. He brings 16 years of coaching experience to Saint Martin’s. Ostlund most recently served as the head coach at Snow College in Utah, where, during his final two seasons, he posted a record of 44-19. Ostlund also served as an assistant coach at Weber State University and as an assistant coach at Saint Martin’s from 1997 to 2002.

Dee Dee Montgomery, a former Olympian athlete, joined the track and field coaching staff this spring. Montgomery competed in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and was a national champion at Louisiana State University. She arrived in Lacey with head coaching experience at University of Dayton and Vanderbilt University.

Saint Martin’s claimed six Academic All-GNAC selections, tying a GNAC record for most by a men’s basketball team.

Brady Bomber and Roger O’Neill earned Honorable Mention All-GNAC honors.

Women’s basketball Chelsea Haskey was a Second Team All-GNAC pick for the Saints as she ranked ninth in the GNAC in scoring (14 ppg) and eighth in rebounding (6.3 rpg).

Keeping up with Kyle In January, men’s basketball player Kyle Karnofski launched a blog dedicated to Saints Athletics. In his blog, he shares special features on athletes, game recaps and athlete player profiles. “One of my goals is to shed light on what it’s like to be a student-athlete, balancing athletics and academics,” says Karnofski.

Hailing from Castle Rock, Washington, Karnofski lettered in basketball, football and baseball during all four years of his high school career. Growing up, he knew he wanted to play college basketball.

He was given the chance to make that dream a reality when he joined the Saints as a walk-on in the fall of 2009.

Karnofski is working toward a degree in secondary education, in hopes of becoming a coach and teaching high school English. “I am also intrigued by the idea of becoming a sports journalist for a newspaper, magazine or website,” explains Karnofski.

Look for more stories from Karnofski during the 2013-14 school year at smusaints.blogspot.com.

For the Saints’ athletic schedules, visit www.smusaints.com.

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Richard J. Vernetti HS’60, ’66 retired April 30, 2013, after 31 years of federal service. At the time of his retirement, Richard was working for the Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency in a supervisory position. He was retired by his boss, Maj. Gen. Heidi V. Brown, and was awarded the Missile Defense Agency Director’s Career Achievement Award.

Helen Miller ’93 is employed as a SQL database administrator for the Washington State Office of Attorney General.

1970s Ralph Osgood ’79, mayor of Tumwater, received The Life Saving Award from the Olympia Police Department in May 2013. Osgood was honored for helping a woman who tried to jump off the Capitol Way Bridge onto Interstate 5.

1980s 1 Nasr Al-Sahhaf ’81 traveled from Saudi Arabia to attend the dedication celebration for the new Cebula Hall on April 22, 2013. His mentor from the University of Washington, Dr. James Wise, joined him. Nasr has been nominated for membership in the prestigious International Academy of Astronautics in Paris.

Janice McGrath ’81 is employed as a psychiatric nurse for the Nevada Department of Corrections in Carson City, Nevada.

E. Richard Patterson ’85 is the associate vice president of AECOM in Seattle.

Jerry Wilkins MBA ’88 has served the Thurston County area for 15 years with the Multiple Listing Service, most recently with the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.

Wilkins, who served 32 years in the military, holds leadership roles in numerous community organizations, including treasurer of the Gateway Rotary Club, chairman of the Gateway Rotary Foundation and commissioner of the City of Lacey’s Civil Service Commission.

Andrew Oczkewicz ’89 is the manager of the USO Northwest Shali Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, which recently was honored as the Top Domestic Large Installation Center. Having served more than 53,000 guests in 2012, the Shali Center was selected from over 100 other USO centers nationwide.

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Todd Snider ’94 and his wife, Zahra, welcomed Sameena Masako Snider into the world on Dec. 12, 2012.

Angie DeAguiar ’95 has been named principal of Meadows Elementary School in the North Thurston School District.

Sean Kochaniewicz ’95 and his wife, Carrie, welcomed daughter Finley Maura on Dec. 13, 2012.

Russell Olsen ’97 was appointed to the Thurston Public Utility District Commission. Olsen, a Department of Ecology employee, now holds the PUD’s District 2 seat.

2000s Julie (Thielan) Wyatt ’00 was named Washington State Science Teacher of the Year.

Jonathan Sprouffske ’04 and his wife, Shelly, welcomed a third “WeeSki,” Alexander Xavier, on Dec. 3, 2012.

Zac Vawter ’04 made headlines last fall when he climbed 103 flights of stairs to the top of Chicago’s Willis Tower with a bionic prosthetic leg. After Vawter, a software engineer, lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident, he volunteered to help test a robotic leg designed to respond to electrical impulses from muscles in the hamstring.

The experimental prosthetic, called the “world’s first neural-controlled bionic leg,” moves when the brain sends a signal to the leg. The stair-climb was part the annual “SkyRise Chicago” charity event hosted by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where Vawter was receiving treatment. Vawter’s story was featured on several media outlets, including CNN, NPR and CBS This Morning.

Joe Avalos ’05, MAC’10 welcomed daughter Maya Jae Lucia on March 30, 2013.

Michelle Ramsaur Muth ’05 and husband, Matthew Muth, celebrated the arrival of daughter Kinley May on Oct. 18, 2012.

Mark Stead ’05 is head of molecular biology for the New York Structural Genomics Research Consortium at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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Jill Halvorsen ’06 welcomed the arrival of a son, Baron W., on Oct. 5, 2012.

Carrie Ooms ’07 and her husband, Edgar, welcomed daughter Isabella Johanna on Dec. 13, 2012.

3 Tiffany Stewart ’07 is engaged to Stephon Harris ’07.

Joseph Mortillaro ’08 and Erin Whitesel Jones welcomed a son, Maximilian Martin, on Feb. 27, 2013.

Man Wah “Mackie” Chan ’09, MAC ’12 is employed as a mental health counselor at Monroe Correctional Complex in Monroe, Washington.

Ken Hanson ’09 is engaged to Meaghan Carlson ’11.

Clare Lopez ’09 was selected from a group of 26 applicants to receive a community scholarship from the Santa Maria Women’s Network. Lopez is a graduate of The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, California.

Ryan Pantier ’09, MEM’12 and his wife, Mandee, welcomed a daughter, Natalee Jo, on March 2, 2013.

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Zach Vella ’10 went to Cape Town, South Africa, and worked in the Red Cross Children’s Hospital for about a month. Vella earned a master’s degree in healthcare emergency management from Boston University. He is now preparing to move to Philadelphia to attend the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Christopher Cutler ’11 started working in Bellevue as a construction engineer for CDM Constructors in February 2013. CDM Constructors is a division of CDM Smith.

4 Lauren Higashino ’11 was recently named deputy coroner in Lewis County, Washington.

Josh Long ’11 has been promoted to PDC/quality manager at the Clorox/Kingsford plant in Eugene, Oregon, where he has worked since January 2012.

Ashley Hamilton ’12 was asked by Horizons Elementary School to apply for an a.m. kindergarten position this March. “I have an amazing class and I love the school,” says Ashley. “I am learning so much and can’t thank Saint Martin’s enough for providing me with the preparation and training I needed to become an amazing teacher.”

Chason Yamaguchi ’12 works as a flight attendant with Hawaiian Airlines.

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In memoriam 1930s

Robert J. Skelton HS’61 Oct. 30, 2012

J. Martin O’Connor ’80 Nov. 9, 2012

Dale Hojem ’38 Dec. 24, 2012

Hans Kask ’61 Jan. 11, 2013

Richard Hensley ’83 Jan. 5, 2013

Richard H. Williams HS’39, ’51 April 18, 2013

Brother Basil Kirsch, O.S.B. HS’63, ’70 Dec. 24, 2012

Randi Johnson ’83 Nov. 24, 2012

Clark West ’65 March 30, 2013

Ronald Sundberg MBA’85 Feb. 28, 2013

Marjorie Bryant ’67 April 28, 2013

Elizabeth Mitchell ’86 Nov. 23, 2012

Melvin R. Mackay ’69 April 22, 2013

Donna Jean Smith ’88 March 18, 2013

Robert Jacques ’42 Nov. 26, 2012 Oliver Judd ’43 Dec. 7, 2012

1950s Leonard Piccolo ’51 Nov. 4, 2012 Phillip Mitchell ’52 Oct. 30, 2012 John “Ted” Yearian HS’52, ’56 April 13, 2013 Ray (Buddy) Gagnon HS’55 April 6, 2013 James Dorian HS’57 Nov. 15, 2012 William Rhodes Feeney HS’57, ’62 April 26, 2013 Robert Engle ’58 Jan. 27, 2013 Clifford Goodwin ’59 Oct. 8, 2012

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F. Douglas Metz HS’71 April 11, 2013

Curtis Rogers ’90 April 1, 2013

Gerald Fijalka ’74 Nov. 26, 2012

Cynthia Bendemire ’93 Dec. 8, 2012

John Liddell ’74 March 30, 2013

Mary Mincher MAC’93 April 1, 2013

Adaline Tallman ’75 Nov. 21, 2012

Kim Dreher ’98 Dec. 30, 2012

Arnold Johnson ’78 Dec. 16, 2012 Terry Lee ’79 Nov. 14, 2012

2000s Joann Davis ’06 Nov. 1, 2012

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Alum News Hall of Fame / Hall of Honor On Feb. 9, Saints Athletics celebrated the 2013 inductees into the Saint Martin’s Hall of Fame/Hall of Honor. Four alumni were honored as inductees: Andy Prentice ’05, a two-time indoor track and field All-American; Emily (Thomas) Shipman ’02, the first Saint Martin’s track and field athlete to win a conference title; Hugh Antonson ’62, a three-sport athlete at Saint Martin’s High School in the early 1960s, competing in baseball, basketball and football; and Jack Sareault HS’53 ’57 (posthumous), a football, basketball, and track and field athlete at the high school who returned to coach the track and field team for two seasons. Recognition also went to inductees David Spangler, Ph.D., Saint Martin’s president emeritus who led the Saints’ transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II in 1988-89, and Adolfo Capestany, who has been “The Voice of the Saints” at Marcus Pavilion for 28 years. Congratulations to these fine individuals who have contributed so much of their time and talent to Saints Athletics!

Movers wanted!

Remember the excitement of moving onto campus as a freshman?

Relive that excitement by helping our newest class of Saints move in to their residence halls. Saint Martin’s alumni are invited to assist with move-in day for first-year students on Friday, Aug. 23 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Big muscles not required — just a welcoming spirit! Sign up today by contacting Anna Bradley, 360-412-6155 or abradley@stmartin.edu.

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Calling all alumni and friends! Join the Saint Martin’s Alumni Association team as it continues its tradition of participating in the 2013 Sand in the City sand-sculpting competition.

The sandbox showdown takes place Friday, Aug. 23 at the new Hands On Children’s Museum in Olympia. Advanced training is provided by a master sand sculptor. Don’t miss this fun in the sun!

To sign up, contact Emilie Schnabel at 360-438-4592 or eschnabel@stmartin.edu.

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LA S T LOOK On May 11, 2013, Saint Martin’s University officially became the alma mater of more than 450 graduates. Prompted

by Tom Barte ’68, president of the Saint Martin’s Alumni Association, members of the Class of 2013 turned their tassels in unison, sparking jubilation in Marcus Pavilion. Family members, friends, faculty, staff and trustees “packed the Pavilion” for the commencement exercises, which featured Archbishop J. Peter Sartain as the honored speaker. A tented celebration followed at the Jan Halliday ’89 Memorial Plaza.

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