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6 EDITOR Meg Nugent Dwyer Jennifer Fellinger CREATIVE DIRECTOR Marki Carson PRINTING Capitol City Press CONTRIBUTORS Ann Adams Deanna Bourgault Genevieve Canceko Chan Jonathan Dwyer Soledad Fratis Bianca Galam Bob Grisham Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D. Kyle Karnofski Mary Law Brother Boniface Lazzari, O.S.B. Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B. Deanna Partlow Sarah Rumbaugh Vanessa Schuler Katie Wojke

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A Tale of Two Studies

Team teaching triggers new ways of thinking

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10 A Day in the Life at SMU A day at Saint Martin’s captured in photographs

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Let Me Get the Door for You A story about unexpected kindness

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Greetings from the Benedictine Institute Keep up with Institute news via new column

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Saints Have a Plan Campaign helps grads plan for the future

DEPARTMENTS 3 President’s Greeting 22 In Their Own Words

26 Alumnus Profile 28 Abbey News

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31 Campus News and Events 38 Timeline 44 Athletics News 48 Alum Notes

from the office of the

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Greetings from Saint Martin’s!

Another spring has come and gone, as well as another graduation season. We were blessed with beautiful blue skies in May as we gathered in Marcus Pavilion to celebrate our newest alumni, over 400 in all. For now, the caps and gowns have been put away and we welcome the warmth of summer to our campus.

I’m often asked, what does a typical day at Saint Martin’s look like? Thus far, I can tell you that there really is no typical day. All are different, yet follow the cyclical pattern of the academic calendar filled with classes, meetings, meals and prayer. Depending on the season, athletic and outdoor activities change, as do visiting lecturers and special events.

What is typical is the vibrant enthusiasm of our students, as well as our devoted faculty, staff and monastic members, who remind me of why Saint Martin’s is important to this region and to the world.

“Community” is a theme in many of my letters for Insights. In fact, community is one of the University’s core themes, along with faith, reason and service. Certainly every campus community may be referred to as a community. However, a distinctive mark of the Benedictine philosophy, of the Saint Martin’s experience, is what we’ve described in our strategic plan as the “self-conscious regard for people’s mutual inter-dependence and the way we embrace respect for all the necessary work and roles that make the human community.”

In this issue of Insights, we celebrate how each and every member of Saint Martin’s realizes this definition of community.

It’s in the story of professors from vastly different disciplines taking team teaching to a new level, fusing perspectives to form new understanding. It’s in the story of how one alumnus’ desire to open a Student Health Center on campus inspired him to choose a career in public service and social change. The feature article, “A Day in the Life,” is a multi-page photo essay that literally shows the breadth and story of our community, from dawn to dusk.

At Saint Martin’s, we celebrate community on the largest scale with Commencement. It is also expressed in the simplest act, such as opening a door.

What does a typical day at Saint Martin’s look like? I invite you to turn the page for a glimpse. Or better yet, come back to campus to see for yourself and I’ll be happy to tell you more!

Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D. President @SMUPresident

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Saint Martin’s interdisciplinary courses trigger new ways of thinking

by Deanna Partlow

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hen two hydrogen atoms collide, the result is fusion — the creation of an atom of helium — accompanied by a burst of energy that powers the universe.

A similar phenomenon occurs most semesters at Saint Martin’s University when educators from divergent fields of study combine forces to create an intriguing and sometimes unconventional interdisciplinary course. The energy released when two fields of study are combined sheds light on both, and both students and teachers can discover fresh insights.

During spring 2014, two such interdisciplinary classes — Career Management and the affectionately nicknamed “Dramanomics”— offered students an opportunity to think outside of the box.

“The class was extremely helpful,” she says. “It taught me many techniques, habits and behaviors that I could directly take into the workplace.”

While she knew something about networking, she is discovering just how crucial making professional connections can be.

“I t became very clear to me students

weren’t engaged in thinking of life after college. The cultural message is, ‘You only need a degree to get a job’ but those days are over.”

Career Management, formally a part of the business administration curriculum, is a class about getting yourself in prime shape for the nitty-gritty, real world of life after college.

Co-taught by Ann Adams, director of career development and associate dean of students, and Paul Patterson, associate professor of business and economics, the class serves as a springboard to achieving sustainable success in the workplace.

Students in the Career Management class meet once a week at the noon lunch hour, which they spend working rigorously to produce solid resumes, build a network, practice interviews and develop job search strategies.

Sophomore Annabel Warnell, a civil engineering major, considers her experience in the class as time well spent.

“I got to participate in some great resume-building activities, as well as valuable interview prep work,” she recalls. “However, I was surprised by the insights into how to gauge whether I might be happy in a particular job environment, as well as simple things I can do now to set myself up for success later on in life. I also learned about considering different situations beyond merely the employee’s perspective.”

While the class awards just one hour of academic credit, it isn’t only university seniors or business students who are taking advantage of it.

Chloe Read, for instance, just finished her freshman year as a community services major.

Director of Career Development and Associate Dean of Students Ann Adams chats with guest-employers at April’s Career Management Social. Students in her team-taught Career Management course dress up in their business-best and practice making professional connections (“networking”) with representatives of area businesses, organizations and agencies who volunteer their time. Team-teaching the course with Adams is Paul Patterson, associate professor of business and economics.

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“I found through the class that a network is very important, because most jobs come from people within your network,” says Read.

Describing how the class evolved, Patterson explains he and Adams talked for years about the large number of graduating Saint Martin’s seniors who were unprepared to seek a job.

Many never ventured into the University’s Office of Career Development or did so only when they were about to graduate, Adams says. “It became very clear to me students weren’t engaged in thinking of life after college. The cultural message is, ‘You only need a degree to get a job,’ but those days are over.”

She and Patterson aim to give students essential job search skills and tools long before graduation day.

She reassures students that neither the major they’ve chosen nor the job outlook for employment within that major precludes finding relevant employment.

The jobs are there.

“Instead, we try to teach (students) to translate what they do best into what an employer needs,” Adams says.

Members of the business and education community and state agencies visit the class several times a semester to talk with students about what they look for in successful employees. And in late April, Adams hosted a social with area employers to give students in the class an opportunity to polish their networking skills.

Calling the socials “a treat,” Alyssa Melder, a sophomore majoring in business administration, says she appreciates the practice it provided.

“This course did make the ‘real world’ extremely ‘real’,” she says. “Because I have not put much serious thought into my future career, it was and still is important to be keeping my doors open and communicating with business owners for my future.”

Patterson, internship director for business majors, is a one-man cheering squad for internships and the role they play in preparing students for careers.

“They’re a wonderful way to get experience,” he says.

“It’s a big plus to have an outside organization say you’ve worked well within their company.”

Many internships are paid and also earn valuable course credits for students. Some, like the annually offered H&R Block internships, provide free training for college stu-

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dents that other potential employees must finance.

“So,” he says, ticking the advantages off on his fingers, “you become a tax preparer, you earn money, you earn academic credit and you have a second job for life, if you want it.”

Like Adams, he’s willing to work with students in any discipline to secure academic credit for their internships.

Promoting a particular internship during one recent class, he tells students, “It’s a great opportunity. Don’t let it pass through your fingers.”

Students are listening. The Career Management class has been a favorite since it began a few years ago. In fact, as more students have learned the value of it, there’s often a waiting list.

Across Harned Hall from Career Management, another hybrid class recently wrapped up the spring 2014 semester.

Dubbed “Dramanomics” by its creators, the formal name of the course is “Acting and Economics: The History of Economic Thought on Stage.”

While drama and economics seem like a counterintuitive pairing, the truth is that dramatists and economists toil in the same field: making sense of their world, say the faculty members leading the class, Heather Grob, Ph.D., associate professor of economics, and David Hlavsa, professor of theatre arts.

An era’s milieu of religious, scientific, philosophical and economic ideas, as well as its political and social climate, bubble away in a giant stew, out of which rise fresh ideas and ways of viewing the world. While the great economists may put the stew in one bowl and dramatists serve it in another, it’s the same stew — the same world — and both are trying to make sense of it.

In their quest to understand the “cross-pollination” between drama and economics, students study major economic theories, such as those of John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith and Karl Marx. They perform scenes from plays by George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht. And they also read other plays and discuss or write papers comparing the playwrights’ approach to economic issues with the economists’ approach.

“I never thought of plays this way, but put in a play context, I can visualize and understand the theories better than straight economics,” says Grace Caruso, a junior majoring in theatre arts and psychology. “I never knew anything about economics before I came to this class.”

The “Dramanomics” teaching duo — Heather Grob, associate professor of economics, and David Hlavsa, professor and director of theatre studies — enjoy one of their class’ final sessions as students loosen up with theatre-style warm-ups.

In performing scenes from the 1943 play “Good Woman of Setzuan” she and other students discovered the connection between German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s Marxist economic views and his play’s message.

About half of the Dramanomics class major in business.

They, too, think the team-teaching experience is worthwhile. They say it breathes life into the fairly dry, theoretical universe of economic theory.

The play, Hlavsa says, revolves around the ‘gods’ appearing on earth, looking for a good person. If they can find someone who is truly good, then the world can remain as it is.

Grob began exploring the possibilities of an interdisciplinary class with Hlavsa after a friend suggested she read Gerhart Hauptmann’s turn-of-the-century play, “The Weavers.”

“Told that Shen Te is a good woman, they give her money so that she can make her way in the world, but given the capitalist system, she finds that being kind and charitable to others has terrible consequences, including financial ruin. To save herself, she literally puts on the mask of an invented ‘cousin,’ Shui Ta, a shrewd and heartless man,” Hlavsa explains as he recounts the plot.

“The behavior of the characters in the play is psychologically truthful but in order to play it the way Brecht intended it, the actor has to look beyond psychological explanations and incorporate into the performance the play's systemic Marxist critique of society,” he says.

Ryan Miller, a senior majoring in theatre arts and music, says the class has been an eye-opener. “We can appreciate each of these plays on surface values but understanding the economic point of view allows you to analyze them on a whole new level.”

The story is about a group of starving, downtrodden workers who, when finally pushed too far, rebel. The class took on shape from there, pushing the comfort level of both professors as they designed it.

“I read more about Elizabethan history to make connections between mercantilism and Shakespeare,” Grob says.

Hlavsa says he’s become much more knowledgeable about economic history than he ever was before. He thinks that understanding the economic backdrop helps the actor make informed decisions about how to play a character.

“Money is power,” explains Hlavsa. “And you can see how money is affecting a scene. Lots of times, money doesn’t mean money — it means sex and power and control and freedom.” u

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A typical April day at Saint Martin’s. It dawned gray — a sweatshirt-jacket-fuzzy hat kind of day — but full of possibilities; a day to celebrate — not the big “E” events, but the thousands of small, lyrical moments that compose the songs of our lives. Spring, with its reckless explosion of color and intoxicating scents, welcomed monks crossing to the Abbey Church for mass, staff members hurrying to their offices and students walking to classrooms, backpacked shoulders bent. They were on their way to make discoveries about the world, themselves, each other and life; to learn from faculty members still in the midst of making their own discoveries. As the Saint Martin’s community practiced acts of faith, reason, service and yes, frivolity and friendship, the day’s essence was captured by two photographers. dolumqui non earum nimus, tium sunt.

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Wiping away yesterday’s fingerprints at Harned Hall, custodians and many others in the Saint Martin’s community are already hard at work as the monastery stirs and resident students squeeze in a little more shut-eye …

5am to Noon

5 a.m. After an all-night movie marathon like the one this student had in Baran Hall, an early morning snack break is an absolute must.

5:15 a.m. Of course, sometimes it’s having nothing clean

left to wear that keeps you out of bed. Nothing like early morning laundry chores to make you appreciate your mom.

5:45 a.m. Brewing coffee, frying bacon and fresh-baked pastries — the scents of morning — drift through Old Main.

Bon Appètit bakers and chefs go to great lengths in the kitchen to provide a welcoming breakfast at St. Gertrude’s Cafeteria.

6:25 a.m. As dawn casts a soft glow across campus, our

Benedictine monks power through their own early morning work-out, prayers in Saint Martin’s Abbey Church …

7:35 a.m. … followed by breakfast and a few moments of quiet reflection in the monastic dining room, the comforting and enduring beginning of the monastic day.

5:30 a.m. Campus Security officers, too, have logged several hours to keep Saint Martin’s safe and secure. Here, they climb the stairs to Old Main on their early morning campus round.

6 a.m. Getting a leg up on the competition, students

enrolled in “Boot Camp Fitness,” a spring class offering, power through an early morning work-out.

7:40 a.m. More construction is underway at the other end of campus. Here, a contractor measures up the next piece for the gazebo outside Old Main.

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7:45 a.m. Our dedicated grounds crew: Creating a beautiful campus one small step at a time, one day after another, one season after the other, throughout the year.

8:30 a.m. The Student Services staff gets its meeting off right – with a birthday celebration!

11 a.m. Calculating learners: Budding engineers get the gist of

acceleration, velocity, heat and more in GE 205 Dynamics class at the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering.

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7:50 a.m. A heady cup of coffee from the Monks Bean is absolutely essential to facing the day, and it’s well worth standing in line for as long as it takes.

9:30 a.m. Between classes in Harned Hall, students do a quick final review before their next class begins.

11:30 a.m. Although Saint Martin’s has many peaceful corners, St. Gertrude’s Dining Hall at lunchtime is rarely one of them. Like most days, this day found the popular meeting-and-eating place packed.

7:55 a.m. Students leave the residence halls and are off to class with five minutes to spare.

10 a.m. Students explore the world of thoughts and feelings affecting human behavior during a psychology class on cognitive behavior.

11:45 a.m. Students fit in a little time for trivia and a few laughs in the Trautman Student Union Building.

An afternoon and evening full of opportunities

Care and focus are two of the keys to a successful outcome in biology lab.

8 a.m Physics students enjoy the light show as they explore glowing emission tubes with spectroscopes.

10:45 a.m. The heat is on for this committee, in charge of making Saint Martin’s Commencement — May 10 — a smooth and memorable event.

12 p.m. Lunch? Not for this bunch! Members of the Social Squad “hash out” the best strategies to tweet, blog and Facebook Saint Martin’s news faster than the speed of thought. #Social INSIGHTS SUMMER 2014

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1:15 p.m. Strrrreeeeeeeeeetch! Students warm up for team-taught “Dramanomics” class. (See related story, page 6)

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2:15 p.m. Students in the Russian language course can say and write much more than “good afternoon” in that language.

2:45 p.m. When the day’s going good, pizza with a friend at Harned Hall can make it even better.

3 p.m. Training gets underway. Here, members of the men’s baseball team prep for practice by warming up and stretching. Look out for this team in 2015! Run-jump-run. A member of the Saint Martin’s track and field team concentrates on the rhythm, gliding smoothly over the hurdles. Members of the women’s softball team take their game seriously, on the field and in the classroom. (see related story, page 44)

4 p.m. Getting their cardio on, many members of the community wind up a busy afternoon at Charneski Recreation Center, whether on the elliptical trainers, doing Zumba, running laps on the indoor track or body conditioning with free weights.

4:30 p.m. Some students on this day choose to work on their arm and wrist dexterity pie-ing a favorite faculty or staff member — an exercise to raise money for victims of the Oso, Wash., mudslide.

5:15 p.m. After a day at the books, dinner at St. Gertrude’s Dining Hall provides a welcome chance to get together with good friends for good grub. Among the favorites, the fully-loaded fresh salad bar, with marvelous in-house dressings stirred up by Bon Appètit’s versatile chefs.

6 p.m. Another round of prayers in the Abbey Church, and the monks, too, are off to dinner at the nearby Monastic Dining Room in Old Main.

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6:05 p.m. The Saints’ young volleyball team now with a year of experience, get in a practice for next year!

6:15 p.m. For civil engineering students, the day is never done.

6:25 p.m. For more than a few Saint Martin’s

students, evening is when the class day begins, often after a full day at the workplace.

8pm to Late

8 p.m. A busy day is winding down, and in the twilight, the solitary notes of one student’s soft song float across the campus.

9 p.m. Students with energy to burn go for the goal in intramural soccer and basketball games, two of the spring 2014 semester offerings.

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8:15 p.m. Flapjacks and maple syrup — served with a side of laughter! If you’ve missed dinner in the dining hall, a sure-fire alternative is stirring up a belated feast in the community kitchens of Saint Martin’s residence halls.

9:45 p.m. An aspect of many classes is hands-on learning, skills that will be useful and necessary on-the-job, such as learning to correctly read blood pressure.

6:45 p.m. You know the academic year is winding down when it’s Student Appreciation Night, and some of Saint Martin’s most accomplished students are honored for their achievements. The annual event is hosted by the Associated Students of Saint Martin’s University.

7:30 p.m. A group of SMU International students lift up their voices in song, demonstrating once again the aptness of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s observance, “Music is the universal language of mankind.”

8:30 p.m. Time to catch up on what’s happening

8:40 p.m. At Spangler Hall, it’s game night — you win some, you

with friends, relatives and the latest ball games via social media.

lose some!

10:15 p.m. For some students, a quiet night on the couch rounds out a good day …

8:50 p.m. The name of the game here is “studying.” It’s definitely a winner.

10:30 p.m. … and for those not already exhausted by studies, texting, pie-throwing and game night, it’s the chase, just about ready to begin outside Spangler Hall lobby as this group of scavenger hunters heads out.

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10:50 p.m. Still going strong at Spangler Hall! Too much coffee?

11 p.m. Not quite. The snack-and-caffeine queue

(or snack-and-C8H10N402 queue, to the chemistry majors) is still intact at Parsons Espresso in Parsons Hall.

11:20 p.m. … and they finally arrive. On their docket, checking the nooks and crannies of all the dorms, classrooms, bathrooms and hallways — outside, too.

12 a.m. Conference Services staff members at the Hal and

Inge Marcus Pavilion are still buttoning up the latest successful event and gearing up for another one tomorrow.

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11:30 p.m. These students take a break from the scavenger hunt to check out their booty.

11:15 p.m. A group of RAs chat while they wait for Campus Security members to make their evening rounds …

11:45 p.m. A tray of home-made goodies before bed. Why not?

12:30 a.m. Students power down before officially calling it a day.

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In the eternal slumber party that is dorm life, students eke out a last few moments of the evening for what’s important: friendship.

And so ends this spring day: A day that composed a small piece of the life of each member of the Saint Martin’s community; just a sweet memory for everyone here on campus.

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by Vanessa Schuler

This is a story about unexpected kindness. About the moments that take us by surprise. And about serving others in little ways that make a big difference.

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t began one morning last summer as I was leaving Saint Gertrude Dining Hall. I noticed a young man holding the door at the west entrance of Old Main, a much-used portal that connects upper campus with lower campus. The student opened the door for anyone who approached.

“I’m acting as doorman,” I heard him say to someone walking through.

After working on Parsons, the student paint crew moved to Old Main. And so did Alex’s habit.

These days, he opens the doors according to his class schedule. Last fall, it was Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

This past spring, it was Monday through Friday from about 7:45 to 9 a.m.

“After breakfast,” says Alex. “I try to finish my breakfast quickly so that I can get to the door.”

A few weeks later, there he was again. And again, a couple weeks after that.

How do people respond? “Mostly they thank me,” says the soft-spoken biology major. “On rare occasions, they ask me My fall semester came and went without much thought why I do this. I say ‘I don’t know. It’s just a habit. ’ I just about the young man. One chilly morning at the start of open the door and greet them. They ask me how I am. spring semester, I decided to park my car in a different lot, I ask them how they are. Some people smile and thank which prompted me to take a different me. Tell me ‘Good morning.’ Some route to my office.

When you see something people ignore me. I don’t mind. I open the doors for them because it’s As I walked up the steps to the west that’s not right, don’t wait convenient for them.” entrance of Old Main, I saw him. The for someone else to fix it. Alex has become a fixture, always same young man, this time opening the door for me. at the door of Old Main, awaiting Fix it yourself. the arrival of the next person. He I wondered about this student and his expects no praise or recognition. simple gesture. Why was he doing this? Was it for a class?

But people do notice him — and appreciate his simple act An exercise for his church? What inspired him to open of kindness each morning. doors for people, seemingly every day?

Last summer, several international students on campus for When you work in the Office of Marketing and Communia summer program were so moved by Alex’s service that cations, you know to follow a lead. So, I asked the student before they left, they offered him a gift. his story, and this is what I learned: “It was very nice of them to do that for me,” he says When Alex Setuckmarie was a freshman at Washington modestly.

High School in Tacoma, his daily routine included an His gestures of kindness aren’t confined to opening doors. early arrival to school. The doors at the back of the buildWhen he was in high school, Alex noticed people weren’t ing, near where he sat each morning, were always locked. returning their trays after lunch.

Every day, students and teachers would come to the doors, discover them locked and have to walk around to the front “At first, this irritated me,” he says. “But then I just started of the building to get in. taking the trays back myself.”

At first, Alex ignored this. Eventually, he decided to open He did this from the time he was a sophomore until he was the doors for them. So he did. Every morning for the next a senior. When Alex graduated, the cafeteria gave him an four years. award for his three years of service.

“People found it convenient for me to be there,” recalls “I guess this taught me that, when you see something Alex. that’s not right, don’t wait for someone else to fix it. Fix it yourself.”

Fast-forward to the summer of 2013. Alex, by this time a Saint Martin’s student, was a member of the summer paint It begins for any of us when we put down our excuses and crew. The students’ first paint job was in Parsons Hall. As commit. Alex Setuckmarie inspires me because he simply in his high school days, Alex would arrive at Parsons early began. Not because he was instructed to or because a grade and wait for his colleagues. They would appear, weighed depended on it, but because he saw a need and stepped in down with buckets and paint supplies. So he would open to fill the void. u the doors for them. Soon, he was opening the doors for everyone.

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am a registered nurse with a rewarding career that offers me the privilege of helping people in need every day. I am a proud member of the Class of 2014 of Saint Martin’s University with a newly earned Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. I am the devoted mother of two loving, beautiful children. And I will never forget all that I learned while facing often-daunting challenges on my way to these tremendous blessings.

I was born in Texas to immigrant parents and spent the first six years of my life in Mexico. I did not become fluent in English until I entered the fifth grade. I was able to attend school in the United States after my mother and father were able to obtain legal status here.

At the age of 14, I became pregnant with my son, David.

Yes, I was an unmarried, teenaged mother who everyone, including my parents saw as a failure,. But I refused to give up on my studies, even though I now had a child to raise.

Every morning, I would pack up my books, along with my son’s diaper bag, and drop him off at daycare before rushing to school, where I continued to earn good grades. This was truly a challenge but I strongly believed that this experience helped me become who I am today.

I graduated from Paso Del Norte High School in only two years, at the age of 16, in 2001, with the highest grade point average of my class and a nursing assistant certification. I was also the valedictorian, and I couldn’t have been happier!

However, it was not easy to find regular employment in Texas. Because of that, we decided to move to Washington in 2005, and I continued my studies at South Puget Sound Community College. Money was very tight and I needed to work full-time while attending classes as a part-time student. In 2010, I earned an associate of arts degree and, in 2011, I earned an associate of science degree in nursing.

These days, I am practicing my skills as a registered nurse in the orthopedic unit at Providence St. Peter Hospital. I started working there in 2007 as a nursing assistant and I was offered a registered nurse position on December 5, 2011. During the past seven years of employment at Providence, I have had the honor of receiving the Spirit Award, which recognizes employees who demonstrate the use of the Providence core values — compassion, respect, stewardship, justice and excellence — on a daily basis.

Working at St. Peter’s gave me the opportunity to meet Louise Kaplan, director of the RN-to-BSN Program in Nursing at Saint Martin’s, through an evidence-based research class she taught at the hospital. This class led to my

“I am especially grateful for the help and support I have received in the form of scholarships this past academic year. This generosity has enabled me and others to make our goals and dreams a reality.”

assisting in the development of the “Orthopedic Fracture Guidebook,” in which I take great pride.

The guidebook was sparked by an observance of mine and a colleague that our patients with fractures experienced high levels of anxiety after a traumatic event. The guidebook has been a great success, and we obtained funding to have it available to our patients permanently. As part of this project, we earned an education scholarship to go to a national nursing conference last year. We also submitted an abstract of our project to the Seattle Nursing Research Conference. Our project was accepted, and we recently had the opportunity to present it.

My next big goal is to become a certified orthopedic nurse, and eventually, I want to become a nurse practitioner.

As I mentioned before, this journey to a nursing career as a young mother has not been easy. I am currently the only breadwinner in my household, and I have quickly learned the importance of adapting to change.

My son is now 14 years old and has grown to be a very respectful, talented young man. I also have a beautiful 7-year-old daughter who I dearly love. They continue to motivate me to keep moving forward.

I have also had the honor of mentoring several co-workers who are going back to school by providing them with the encouragement they need to help them reach their goals.

I hope to be a valuable role model for my children and others in the future.

I am especially grateful for the help and support I have received in the form of scholarships this past academic year, most notably a $1,500 Providence St. Peter Hospital Foundation Scholarship and a $1,000 O’Grady Scholarship, through Saint Martin’s University.

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EJ Juarez ’08

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PROFILE

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n the years since his graduation from Saint Martin’s University, EJ Juarez ’08 has been building a career in social justice that’s based on this unequivocal premise: “There is no reason for poverty, racism or other forms of oppression to exist.”

Juarez says he has dedicated his life “to breaking down sites of oppression and elevating underrepresented communities in civic life.”

The Yakima native was recently hired as political director for Progressive Majority Washington, where he recruits, trains and strives to retain progressive elected officials at the local and state level. “We’re building an important pipeline of elected champions for social justice,” Juarez says. “You can have the best policy in the world and the right legislation but if you don’t have the lawmakers in place who will actually pass that legislation, then it’s just a dream laying idle on a table.”

Juarez also plans to ensure the state Legislature more accurately reflects the makeup of its citizenry. “I want to make sure our government looks like the people it’s supposed to serve,” Juarez says, meaning he wants more women, people of color, those from various ethnic backgrounds and those of different sexual orientations to be elected into office.

“It is critical that everyone has the opportunity to participate in the responsibility of shared governance.”

Before joining Progressive Majority in April, Juarez, who now lives in Seattle, served as community relations and development manager for the Statewide Poverty Action Network, Washington’s largest anti-poverty organization.

“It’s a movement of people working together from across all income levels for economic and racial justice,” he says. Juarez’s main responsibility there was to support the organization’s vision of a state “where everyone can meet their basic needs.”

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In addition, Juarez was recently appointed by Governor Jay Inslee to serve on the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs. He is the youngest person on the committee, which is charged with engaging the Latino community statewide and addressing issues affecting Hispanic communities. The network also makes policy recommendations to the Legislature and governor.

Juarez traces the evolution of his passion for wiping out poverty and attaining equity for marginalized communities to three major influences: the community where he was raised, his family and his experiences as an undergraduate student at Saint Martin’s University.

“I grew up in Central Washington, where I saw people working so hard every day of their lives but they still struggled to get by and get ahead,” Juarez recalls. “I realized it does not have to be this way; I learned how poverty is not a choice but that it’s something we, as a society, sadly tolerate.”

Juarez was raised in a lower middle-class household, and his mother grew up poor in Wapato. His father, a migrant farmworker originally from Mexico, eventually earned a college degree and now works with migrant families and limited English-language populations in the Yakima School District. Juarez credits his parents with cultivating a home life that, while lacking in material luxuries, was rich in concern for the underrepresented in society.

“I remember my sister, brother and I watching the news on TV and having these long conversations with my parents about politics, equity and racial justice,” Juarez recalls. “Our parents talked to us about these issues as peers looking for solutions, not as children.”

Juarez encountered that same level of respect for his ideas and opinions when he arrived on the University’s Lacey campus as a freshman with a plan to major in community services.

“The best thing about Saint Martin’s is there are opportunities to flourish,” he says. “I specifically remember being impressed with the staff’s and faculty’s dedication to growing my strengths. Saint Martin’s never put up barriers. If I had an idea and I wanted to do something about it, the first response I got from the University community was never ‘No.’ It was, ‘Okay, how can we help you get that done?’”

Juarez got this exact response from the University community during his junior year, when he decided he wanted to establish the school’s first-ever Student Health Center. At the time, Juarez was a student representative on the Saint Martin’s University Board of Trustees and was serving as senator of campus development as a member of the university’s student government organization, the Associated Students of Saint Martin’s University. (ASSMU) He’d been hearing stories around campus of international

Juarez smiles as he cuts the ribbon during the 2008 Student Health Center dedication at Saint Martin's.

exchange students routinely seeking medical attention from hospital emergency rooms, even for minor health events, because there wasn’t a health facility on campus at the time. As a result, students sometimes faced expensive medical bills.

“Not having health services was not that unusual at very small colleges like Saint Martin’s but EJ single-handedly laid the groundwork for getting this project off the ground and completed,” says Melanie Richardson, dean of students.

Juarez viewed the project this way: “We wanted to help folks get the services they need.”

With the support and encouragement of Richardson and ASSMU, Juarez got to work. He conducted a survey to more accurately assess his fellow students’ methods for accessing medical care. He called other universities and colleges to learn about their models for health services. He searched for available space on campus that could be the new home for the Student Health Center and found it—a fourbedroom suite in Burton Hall that was soon converted to contain a waiting room, an examination room and storage space for medical supplies. By fall 2008, the Student Health Center was open for business.

“EJ was persistent — he was graciously dogged, and he was able to see the big picture. He took the health center project on with his great sense of humor and humility,” Richardson says. “And he didn’t have a need to take credit for it. He just wanted to see it done.”

Juarez’s efforts to bring the Student Health Center to campus helped him earn the Saint Martin’s University Visionary Leadership Award, which he received during the University’s 2008 Student Appreciation Awards Night.

And by the time he was ready to graduate, Juarez had a clear vision of his life goals. “When I first came to Saint Martin’s, I knew on some level that public service was important, that working for social change was important. But I didn’t know what social change or social justice looked like until I got to Saint Martin’s,” Juarez says. “I took classes that allowed me to examine how oppression has operated historically, and I was given the opportunity to look at oppression through the lens of how gender, race, class, history and geography all come together to impact the lives of real people.

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Abbey News

Abbot Neal Roth, O.S.B., accompanied by Father Marion Nguyen, O.S.B., and student altar servers, celebrate the 2014 Baccalaureate Mass.

MONASTIC HAPPENINGS

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uring those rare times when I am able to pay a visit to my Benedictine sisters in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain at the monastery of San Pelayo, the guest mistress gives me a room and the use of a small study in the “new” monastery. The “new” monastery, current residence of this community of Benedictine nuns, dates from about the 17th century. The nuns have celebrated the millennial anniversary of the transfer of the relics of San Pelayo to the monastery. Relative to San Pelayo, Saint Martin’s is quite young. This spring, Saint Martin’s Abbey celebrated a centennial that was remembered but unmarked by celebration. Saint Martin’s was founded in 1895, became a conventual priory in 1904, and on April 18, 1914, was made an abbey. Father Oswald Baran, for whom Baran Hall was named, was elected the community’s first abbot and served until his death in 1928.

Five years after we became an abbey, our confrere, FATHER CLEMENT PANGRATZ, was born. This spring, ABBOT NEAL ROTH and the monastic community feted FATHER CLEMENT on the occasion of his 95th birthday.

FATHER CLEMENT continues to take an active part in the life of the community and accompanies the community on the piano during Sunday evening compline in the Chapter Room. FATHER CLEMENT has served the community as its organist. He served the Abbey and schools for many years as glazier; has been a member of the senior council

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and the formation team, and served as subprior. For some years, he was stationed at Queen of Angels, Port Angeles, where he made a 250-mile round trip each Sunday to offer Mass at a distant mission of the parish. Congratulations, FATHER CLEMENT! Among the younger members of the community, BROTHER LUKE DEVINE continues his doctoral studies in Berkeley and is beginning to prepare his dissertation.

BROTHER LUKE is also an artist. As an undergraduate at Saint Martin’s, he did his senior paper on the late Japanese artist Sadao Watanabe. More recently, one of his works, titled “Come to the Table”, was accepted by Christians in the Visual Arts to be a part of one of their traveling exhibits. . . FATHER GEORGE SEIDEL, monk, musician and philosopher, traveled to the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, in late May. He attended a gathering of the Fichte Society and presented a paper on the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), a philosopher whose work he has been studying for several years.

Each spring, the monastic community awards the outstanding faculty and staff persons of the year with public recognition in the form of a framed certificate and a check. This year, PRIOR ALFRED HULSCHER made the presentation for both awards during the 2014 Honors Convocation. The honorees were later invited

to a private luncheon with ABBOT NEAL, who is the Saint Martin’s University chancellor. . . The late FATHER URBAN FEUCHT continues to be remembered by confreres, family and friends, and his grave in the Abbey Cemetery continues to be decorated with flowers and other adornments seasonally. . . BROTHER EDMUND EBBERS continues to serve the monastic community as director of the Benedictine Oblates, who hold quarterly gatherings at the Abbey and work on behalf of the Abbey as they live out the Rule of Benedict in their given state of life.

Most Benedictine communities have Oblates who are associated with them.

ABBEY CHURCH EVENTS new season is launched with a lin piano recital Abbey Church Events, Saint Martin’s Abbey’s annual concert and lecture series, was established in the fall of 1980 by then-Abbot Adrian J. Parcher, O.S.B., and the monastic community of Saint Martin’s. A continuation of a centuries-old Benedictine tradition of support of the arts and learning, the series is funded by interest from a small Abbey-established quasi-endowment, by donations from attendees and by occasional grants. During the course of its three-decade-plus history, Abbey Church Events has presented the Pacific Northwest debut of soprano Dawn Upshaw, concerts and lectures by the late American scholar-pianist Charles Rosen, and Benjamin Bagby’s acclaimed “Beowulf” declamation.

Our 2014-2015 season opens on Nov. 8 with a recital by pianist Tao Lin in the Abbey Church. The Shanghai-born Mr. Lin has resided in the United States since 1990 and enjoys an active, worldwide career as a concerto soloist, solo recitalist and chamber musician.

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

Events’ 2014-2015 season concludes on the evening of April 11, 2015 with a recital by baritone Mischa Bouvier and pianist Yegor Shevtsov. On the afternoon of April 10, in collaboration with Abbey Church Events and the Saint Martin’s University Music Program, Mr. Bouvier will conduct a series of master classes for selected vocal students. The New York Times has praised Mr. Bouvier for his “rich timbre and a fine sense of line.”

All Abbey Church Events concerts take place in the Saint Martin’s Abbey Church, beginning at 8 p.m., with the doors opening at 7 p.m. There is no charge for the concerts, but a free-will donation is suggested.

Euclid Quartet

Tao Lin

Spanish Brass, a quintet from Valencia, Spain, will perform as part of the series on Jan. 24, 2015. These five Valencians are mature, experienced musicians who are the supreme masters of their instruments and possess a great understanding of musical styles.

On Feb. 25, 2015, Abbey Church Events will welcome back the Euclid Quartet. The Quartet made its Abbey debut a few seasons back. The Washington Post labeled the playing of this quarter as, “… an elegant mix of passion, ferocity and feathery delicacy.” Abbey Church

Spanish Brass

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by Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B. hen Saint Martin’s opened its doors in 1894, the very first building housed the school’s classrooms, library and laboratories, as well as living space for the first cohort of students, several priests, brothers and scholastics. Since then, the Benedictine monks have never been far from the center of life of the Saint Martin’s University campus.

Though there are fewer monks today than during the earlier years, particularly during the early 1960s, the Benedictine values, mission and spirit continue to permeate campus life through the work of an amazing community of lay faculty, staff and alumni.

In an effort to foster the Benedictine values, as well as the Catholic intellectual tradition, the Benedictine Institute was established by Saint Martin’s University President Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D., in the fall of 2012.

The Institute, under the direction of Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B., and Father Marion Nguyen, O.S.B., has, during the past two years, developed several new programs these include the Benedictine Institute Lecture Series, the Benedictine Scholars Program, spiritual retreats for faculty, staff and board of trustees members, orientation days for new faculty and staff, and enhanced opportunities for exchanges between monks and students, faculty and staff, through shared meals, shared prayers and social gatherings. The Institute has also established new courses in Benedictine spirituality and history for incoming freshman students.

One of the core values highlighted this past academic year has been the value of service, which we find so dramatically illustrated in the life of Saint Martin of Tours, the patron Saint of the Abbey and University.

Saint Martin was traveling across France one cold winter night with his fellow soldiers when he suddenly noticed a poor, naked beggar kneeling in the snow at the side of the road. Moved with compassion and a profound sense of pity for the suffering man, Martin stopped his horse, took out his sword and cut his great cloak in half, wrapping the half-cloak around the shoulders of the shivering beggar. That night, awakened from a deep sleep, Martin saw Christ standing before him with the half-cloak wrapped around him. The great lesson from this beautiful legend is that when we SERVE our brothers and sisters in need, we also SERVE Christ.

In an effort to illuminate this legacy and to foster the value of service, the Benedictine Institute has very recently established a special award to be bestowed upon the graduating senior who best exemplifies in his or her life the virtue of service. The student will be selected by members of the faculty and staff of the University, and the award will be presented at the Baccalaureate Mass on Commencement weekend beginning in spring 2015. This prestigious prize will be known as the Cloak of Saint Martin Award.

We are also pleased to announce this article serves as the launch of a regular column from the Benedictine Institute that will hereafter appear in each installment of Insights. The column will serve the purpose of keeping our beloved alumni and friends abreast of our Benedictine/Catholic tradition and heritage as it is nurtured and lived out in the lives of our Saint Martin’s University family. u

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SAINT MARTIN’S UNIVERSITY IS #1 IN WASHINGTON! Which school in Washington state gives students the best return on their investment? Saint Martin’s University!

In its recently issued 2014 PayScaleCollege ROI Report, financial consumer website www.PayScale.com looked at 20-year net returns on investment for colleges throughout the United States, then ranked those colleges by state. In Washington, PayScale found that graduates of Saint Martin’s had the highest return on investment. The report is available at www.PayScale.com/college-roi , where the rankings are searchable by state.

PayScale’s 20-year net return is the total income a college graduate is expected to earn, minus what they would have earned as a high school graduate and minus the cost of the college they attended. That cost includes tuition, room and board, books and supplies, based on 2013 figures.

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What’s your plan after graduation?

That was the question of the semester for the Class of 2014, which helped the Career Center launch its new “Saints Have A Plan” campaign. The campaign, developed by Ann Adams, associate dean of students and director of career development, prompted seniors to define their postgraduation plans long before picking up their caps and gowns. Encouraging students to make use of Career Center resources, the campaign was designed to reach all graduating seniors, especially those who were uncertain about life after Saint Martin’s.

In February, under Adams’ direction, the Career Center rolled out the campaign.

Every participant who submitted his or her plan earned a “Saints Have A Plan” t-shirt and raffle tickets for prizes.

Several faculty members helped support the effort, many sporting the t-shirt regularly to help spread enthusiasm for the campaign. The popular red tees bear the logo of the Saint Martin’s Alumni Association, which generously sponsored the printing of the shirts.

Students did not need to have a job or graduate school placement secured before submitting their plan, but they did need to demonstrate goals and preparation to meet those goals. This might explain why a record number of Saint Martin’s students attended this year’s Career and Internship Fair, held in The Hal and Inge Marcus Pavilion on April 8. The fair, which included 16 alumni representing their organizations or staffing the alumni table to offer encouragement, was sponsored by Associated Students of Saint Martin’s University, Saint

Ann Adams, associate dean of students and director of career development and Saint Martin's Alumni Association President Tom Barte ' 68 take a moment to say “thank you,” to the Alumni Association during the

Martin’s Alumni Association, Portland State University Graduate Programs, ResCare Home Care, The Evergreen State College, Bon Appétit, and Keller Williams South Sound & Draper Home Team.

By graduation day, more than 65 percent of the Class of 2014 had turned in their plan — a great success for this brand-new initiative!

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Meet me in the library In March, Saint Martin’s University hosted an assembly of library deans and directors for the council meeting of the Orbis Cascade Alliance. A non-profit consortium of 37 colleges and universities in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the Orbis Cascade Alliance is dedicated to advancing the missions of its member libraries through collaboration and innovation. The assembly was held in Cebula Hall, with Molly Smith, Ph.D., provost and vice president for academic affairs, welcoming the attendees. Brother Boniface Lazzari, O.S.B., led a tour focused on the art in O’Grady Library. Most of the art is part of the Saint Martin’s Abbey Martin of Tours Collection, which Brother Boniface curates. Saint Martin’s University has been a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance since 2005, and Scot Harrison, dean of the library, has served the last two years as secretary on its board of directors.

Encouraging future engineers On Feb. 19, Saint Martin’s University welcomed 81 local high school students to Cebula Hall to celebrate Engineering Awareness Day. During their visit, the students visited classrooms and enjoyed a front-row seat for presentations and discussions on bridge design, energy conservation, environmental engineering and senior design projects.

The group also heard from Zella Kahn-Jetter, Ph.D., P.E., dean of The Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering.

“Engineers do really great things for people and society,” said Kahn-Jetter. “But engineers do so much of their work in the background that people often don’t realize how much their quality of life is impacted by the inventiveness of those in the engineering field.” Engineering Awareness Day falls during Engineers Week, or EWeek, founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers to ensure a diverse, well-educated engineering workforce by increasing the understanding of technology careers.

Honored for serving those who serve others The Council of College and Military Educators recently honored Saint Martin’s with its Institution Award, recognizing the University for its dedication to providing quality educational programs to veterans and active-duty service members and their families. In January, Cruz Arroyo, director of the Extended Learning Division, accepted the 2014 Institution Award plaque on behalf of Saint Martin’s during the council’s annual symposium in Savannah, Ga.

To qualify as a candidate for the award, higher education institutions must be directly involved in the support of voluntary, off-duty education for the armed forces. The council acknowledged Saint Martin’s for its academic partnership with Microsoft and Launch Consulting to provide software development and testing training to service members transitioning out of the military. Based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, the Microsoft Software & Systems Academy serves as a bridge from the military to the technology field by offering an 18-week course taught by Saint Martin’s faculty. The first cohort of 22 students finished the program in December 2013. The second cohort of 18 students completed it in May. Started in California during the 1970s, the council was born out of a desire among military educators to exchange ideas on how to best serve the needs of military personnel wanting to pursue a college education. Today, it remains an active proponent for the professional development of those in the military education community by providing a forum for the exchange of knowledge about educational programs, strategies and innovations among its members and associated partners.

ICW Ethics Bowl The new Saint Martin’s Debate Team competed for the first time on April 4 at the 2014 Independent Colleges of Washington (ICW) Ethics Bowl. Hosted at Seattle University, the full-day, judged event featured the theme “The Ethics of Science and Technology in the Workplace.” Each of ICW’s 10 member-institutions sent a team of up to five students to perform in this competitive setting, using prepared cases that explore real or hypothetical ethical issues, such as cyber security, data-mining and health information management.

The 2013-14 Saint Martin’s debate team members, who competed in this event as the Saint Martin’s Ethics Bowl Team, were: Alyssa Hancock ’16 (business management); Amy Pollard ’16 (English); Matthew Tietjen ’15 (psychology); and Simone Smith ’15 (religious studies). Tessa Blackstad ’16 (elementary education) served in the role of alternate. The students worked under the guidance of debate team faculty advisors Father David Pratt, assistant professor of philosophy, Ernesto Chavez, adjunct professor of criminal justice, and Michael Artime, adjunct professor of political science.

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Broadening study abroad In April, Saint Martin’s University joined the Institute of International Education’s “Generation Study Abroad” initiative to double the number of American students who study overseas by the end of the decade. Saint Martin’s is one of more than 150 higher-education institutions from 41 U.S. states participating in “Generation Study Abroad.”

The University’s commitment to the initiative is to triple its number of undergraduate students who study abroad over the next five years.

Leading up to the institutes centennial celebration in 2019, Generation Study Abroad will engage educators and stakeholders in the public and private sectors to help increase the opportunities for U.S. students to gain international experience through academic study abroad programs, as well as internships, service-learning and noncredit educational experiences. Building on its nearly 100year commitment to study abroad, the institute has dedicated $2 million of its own funds to this initiative over the next five years. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and several foreign governments, as well as key higher education associations and study-abroad provider organizations, have also pledged to support the goals of the initiative.

Studying abroad has evolved into a necessary part of a student’s preparation for post-graduation success, according to Josephine Yung, vice president of international programs and development at Saint Martin’s. “In an interconnected world, it is our responsibility to prepare students as global citizens,” Yung says. “Studying abroad has to be an integral part of the college experience of any student.”

Saint Martin’s University offers programs in more than 20 countries where students can spend a semester, academic year or summer break abroad. The majority of these students receive study abroad scholarships and most apply their financial aid to their study abroad experience.

Finland on a Fulbright Aaron Goings, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, will be spending the 2014-15 academic year in Finland as a Fulbright Scholar. Goings will be teaching and conducting research while he is based at the University of Jyväskylä, working closely with Jari Ojala, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of history and ethnology. As part of his research, Goings will examine Finnish immigrants who settled in the lumber regions of Washington, with a concentration on Finnish immigrants of the ’20s and ’30s who were involved in the Industrial Workers of the World, commonly known as “Wobblies.” Goings, who has extensive knowledge of working-class, Finnish-American radicals in the United States, plans to examine Finnish emigration patterns and the lives of working-class Finnish radicals before they came to the United States. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide. Two faculty members, Jeff Birkenstein, Ph.D., professor of English, and Dan Windisch, Ph.D., professor of education, were awarded Fulbrights last year.

Faculty and staff updates Irina Gendelman, Ph.D., associate professor of communication, served as a panelist at the Washington for Higher Education Sustainability Conference, held in Bellingham at Western Washington University in February. Gendelman, a member of the “Whole Systems Approach: Learning Gardens, Farms and Agriculture” panel, discussed her work establishing and using the University’s campus garden as a teaching tool for topics related to sustainability.

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— Said De Leon Tellez, Cristina Luevano, Omar Santana, Dalia Pedro-Trujillo and Annabel M. Warnell — attended panel discussions at the conference for two days.

Robert Hauhart, Ph.D., J.D., professor of criminal justice, organized a session, “Theorizing the American Dream,” and presented a paper at the 85th annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, in Portland, Ore., March 28-29. Hauhart had another paper accepted for presentation at the 12th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, June 11–13, at Universidad San Pablo CEU, in Madrid, Spain. The paper, “The Legacy of American Exceptionalism,” co-authored with Jeff Birkenstein, Ph.D., has also been accepted for publication in one of the conference journals, The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies.

Julia McCord Chavez, Ph.D., J.D., assistant professor of English, attended the annual Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago in January to present her work on Victorian serial fiction as part of a special session entitled, “American, British and Transnational Serials.”

This session explored current scholarship on 19th-century serials, including methodologies and geographies. There were an estimated 7,400 attendees at the conference. In October 2013, Chavez presented a position paper at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference in Pasadena, Calif., as part of a special seminar on “Fictionalism in Victorian and Edwardian Culture.”Chavez spoke on “Fictionalizing Shakespeare: Bardolatry, Literary Tourism, and the Victorian Cult of Personality.” She wrote the paper after being inspired by her summer 2013 trip to London with Saint Martin’s students and Stephen Mead, Ph.D., professor of English and chair of religious studies.

Chavez was further inspired by the energy brought to campus through hosting the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference.

Louise Kaplan, Ph.D., ARNP, FAANP, director of the RNto-BSN Program in nursing, gave three presentations on “Medical Marijuana and Nursing Practice in Washington State” on April 25 at the Association of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses Spring Conference in Seattle; on May 8 in Spokane at the Washington State Nursing Symposium and on June 8 at the 2014 National Council of State Boards of Nursing Discipline Case Management Conference in Park City, Utah. She made a poster presentation of a re-

search project, “Strategies to Encourage Rural Practice by Nurse Practitioners,” on June 21 at the National Conference of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in Nashville, Tennessee. She also gave a podium presentation on the same project April 11 at the Western Institute of Nursing’s 47th Annual Communicating Nursing Research Conference in Seattle.

Arwyn Smalley, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, gave two presentations at the spring national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Dallas, Texas, this year.

They were “Preparation of caramel as a laboratory activity to explore phase transitions and polymerization” and “Essay writing in the chemistry classroom.” Smalley and Greg Milligan, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, also mentored five students who presented posters at the conference. The students were Justin Rewerts, Kristin Okamura, Audrey Carandang, Candice Boyd and Sophia Sou. Scott A. Schulz, Ph.D., dean of enrollment, and Sarah Weiss, director of admissions, will be making a presentation on “The Emergent World of CRMs: Outlining Best Practices,” in September at the 2014 National Association for College Admission Counseling 70th National Conference in Indianapolis, Ind. They will be joined by colleagues from the University of California at Davis, University of Colorado Boulder and Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota.

Marie Boisvert, director of graduate studies, delivered a presentation, “Exploring Equity in Higher Education through Case Study,” at the 10th annual Globalization, Diversity and Education Conference in Spokane on February 27. She presented with two fellow doctoral students from Washington State University.

Janie Sacco II, residence director for housing and residence life, recently presented at the Northwest Association College and University Housing Officer Conference in Edmonton, Alberta. Her presentation, “Beyond the ADA: Incorporating Students with Disabilities into Residence Halls,” was recognized as one of the top five presentations of the conference. Sacco presented alongside colleagues from Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and Canada.

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Sponsors • 94.5 Roxy • Academy of International Education (AIE) • Access the USA LLC • Associated Students of Saint Martin’s University (ASSMU) • Capitol City Press • City of Olympia • Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation • Mary Gentry • Olympia Federal Savings • Port of Olympia • SMU Alumni Association • Studio 1 • Thurston County Economic Development Council

Friends of the Festival • Advance Travel, Inc. • Anonymous donor • Cruz and Maureen Arroyo • Dick Langill • Dr. David and Jeanne Spangler • Huabin Chen • Jan Berney • Jeff Birkenstein • Joyce Westgard • Julie Yamamoto • Mary Conley Law • Riley Moore • Scot Harrison

Endorsers • City of Lacey • City of Olympia • City of Tumwater • Thurston County Visitor and Convention Bureau • Olympia Area Chinese Fellowship • Port of Olympia • Thurston County Chamber of Commerce • Thurston County Economic Development Council • U.S. Commercial Services of Seattle and Tacoma • Washington State Department of Commerce

Boat Sponsors • ASSMU • Port of Olympia • Thurston County Economic Development Council • Access the USA LLC • Studio 1 • Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation • Saint Martin’s University

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31st Annual Golf Tournament Friday, August 1

Les Bailey Writers Series Wednesday, October 8

Capitol City Golf Club

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Since 1983, the annual Golf Tournament has raised thousands of dollars in scholarships for student-athletes in all sports.

To register online or to learn more about the tournament, scheduled to take place at the Capitol City Golf Club, visit www.stmartin.edu/golftournament.

Award-winning author Brian Doyle will be the inaugural speaker for this new series, which will begin at 7 p.m. and was established through an endowment in honor of Leslie G. Bailey, Ph.D., a beloved English professor at Saint Martin’s who died in 2010. Doyle has written 14 books, essays, poems, stories and nonfiction works, as well as novels. Doyle also is the editor of Portland, the University of Portland magazine.

Mass of the Holy Spirit Thursday, August 28 Saint Martin’s Abbey Church Archbishop of Seattle J. Peter Sartain, D.D., S.T.L., will preside over this year’s celebratory Mass of the Holy Spirit, which begins at 10:45 a.m. Each August, the Saint Martin’s community gathers in the Abbey Church for the first Mass of the academic year. All are welcome to attend! Classes are cancelled for this Mass. For more information, contact Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B., at fr_kilian@stmartin.edu or Father Marion Nguyen, O.S.B., at fr_marion@stmartin.edu.

Day of Caring Friday, September 26 Various locations Hundreds of volunteers make a difference during the annual United Way Day of Caring event. Form or join a volunteer team with Saint Martin’s alumni and friends for the annual United Way Day of Caring. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at a variety of sites. For more information, contact Service Immersion at 360-438-4581 or leysters@stmartin.edu.

Robert A. Harvie Social Justice Lecture Friday, September 26 Saint Martin's Campus Hamar Foster, Q.C., professor of law at the University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., will launch the 2014-15 lecture series with his presentation, “One Hundred Years of Advocating for Justice: Litigating the Calder Case.” The lecture begins at 4 p.m. in Harned Hall. For more information, please visit www.stmartin.edu/HarvieLecture or contact, Robert Hauhart, Ph.D., J.D., professor of criminal justice, at 360-438-4525, or rhauhart@stmartin.edu.

Saint Martin’s Gala Saturday, November 1 Marcus Pavilion This year’s celebrity chef for Gala is Lidia Bastianich, the “grande dame” of Italian cooking who has long been regarded as one of America’s premier Italian chefs. She has been a longtime contributor to public television cooking shows, has prepared two special meals for Pope Benedict XVI’s first trip as pope to New York City and won the Daytime Emmy Award in 2013 for “Outstanding Culinary Host” for Lidia’s Italy. Bastianich has even cooked alongside Julia Child! Guests of the 2014 Gala should come prepared to enjoy an evening of wonderful Italian dishes and a memorable celebration during this signature fundraising event for student scholarships. For more information, please visit www.stmartin.edu/Gala or contact Bianca Galam ’11, fundraising events coordinator, in the Office of Institutional Advancement, 360-486-8885 or gala@stmartin.edu.

Jingle Bell Run Saturday, December 6 Marcus Pavilion Kick off your holiday season by gathering with fellow alumni, students and the greater Saint Martin’s community to run, walk or stroll along the five-kilometer route on Saint Martin’s lovely wooded campus. Afterwards, enjoy a cup of cider or cocoa and Christmas cookies, and pose with Santa for a picture. All proceeds support scholarships for our student-athletes. Prizes are awarded for best times in various age categories and for most creative costume! Online registration opens Oct. 1. Please contact Bianca Galam ’11, fundraising events coordinator, in the Office of Institutional Advancement at 360-486-8885 or bianca.galam@stmartin.edu.

Want to know what’s happening on campus? Visit the online calendar of events!

Go to www.stmartin.edu and click on “SMU Events Calendar.”

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JANUARY 24: MLK celebration

JANUARY 23: Pack the (Marcus) Pavilion Fans gather to “Pack the Pavilion” and get a chance to be on live television as the Saint Martin’s Saints men’s basketball team takes on the University of Alaska Nanooks at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference game.

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The Saint Martin’s University community gathers together to honor the memory and legacy of human rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., through its annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration. Suzi Q. Smith, an American poet and spokenword artist, gives the keynote speech.

FEBRUARY 5: Last Lecture “Resisting Complacency: Luck, Choices and the Fates” is the topic of the fifth annual Last Lecture, delivered by David Price, Ph.D., professor of sociology and cultural anthropology. Students select the speaker for the Last Lecture, which is sponsored by Associated Students of Saint Martin’s University and addresses the question, “If this were the last lecture you would ever give to students, what would you say?”

FEBRUARY 7: Flag Pavilion dedication and blessing A new flag pavilion constructed to honor military veteran and active-duty students, alumni, faculty, staff and members of the community for their service to the nation is formally dedicated in a ceremony that includes the Air Force Honor Guard and the Clover Park High School JROTC Honor Guard. Terry ‘62 and Mary Louise ’60 Monaghan are the Pavilion Project sponsors.

FEBRUARY 7-9: There’s no place like home for Saints Homecoming returns to campus, drawing more than 100 alumni for a weekend filled with activities.

On February 8, renowned peace advocate, author and educator Ken Butigan, Ph.D., a 1972 Saint Martin’s High School alumnus, arrives on campus as the spring 2014 distinguished speaker for the Benedictine Institute Lecture Series during Homecoming Weekend.

FEBRUARY 25: Women who lead FEBRUARY 9: Scholarships change futures At the annual Scholarship Luncheon, Saint Martin’s scholarship recipients get a chance to thank their benefactors for making a college education possible through gifts and endowments.

FEBRUARY 14-16: Obsculta Upperclassmen at Saint Martin’s University experience this three-day signature retreat of Campus Ministry at the Gwinwood Christian Conference Center of Western Washington, Inc. & Westwood Retreat Center in Lacey. Led by a team of students, faculty and staff, participants enter into reflections and discussions with each other and with team leaders.

Women in leadership are the focus of the spring 2014 Leadership Lecture Series, created by the Saint Martin’s University School of Business.

Three distinguished women from the corporate and public sectors reflect on the challenges of leadership within their respected careers, as well as the hurdles and opportunities women face when rising to positions of prominence. The guest speakers are Carol Nelson, director of the Washington State Department of Revenue (speaking on campus Feb. 25); Kimberly J. Harris, executive officer of Puget Sound Energy (March 25), and Phyllis Campbell, chairwoman of Pacific Northwest for JP Morgan Chase & Co. (April 15).

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MARCH 9-14: Alternative spring break trip to YakimaPa

MARCH 5-8: Hoop Dreams Saint Martin’s hosts the GNAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championship Tournament for the third consecutive year, drawing thousands of fans to campus. The Saint Martin’s women’s team is part of the competition, marking the first time a Saint Martin’s team has been involved in the tournament since 2011.

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Nine students and three faculty/ staff members took part in a six-day service immersion trip to Yakima to learn about the realities of migrant farm workers and Native Americans in the Yakima area. Partnering with the Catholic Charities Housing Services of the Diocese of Yakima, the students taught ESL classes, organized recreation activities with children and worked in the Broetje Orchard. The students also heard a presentation on the political, cultural and spiritual perspectives of Native Americans from the Yakima Nation. In addition, the students met with Mexican immigrant women to hear their stories of border crossings and the struggles of living and raising a family without immigration documentation.

MARCH 29: So tasty!

The Saint Martin’s Alumni Association, with help from 75 student volunteers plus many of the region’s best vintners, brewers and restaurateurs, rolls out the 25th annual Capital Food and Wine Festival with loads of great food, music, beer and wine.

APRIL 5: Blessed are the Peacemakers The Benedictine Institute welcomes back Ken Butigan HS’72 to present a day-long workshop in Cebula Hall on nonviolent, transformative change. The workshop is entitled, “Blessed are the Peacemakers: Activating the Power of Nonviolent Change to Transform Our Lives and Our World.”

APRIL 5: Lu’au The aloha spirit of Hawaii makes a joyful return to campus as the doors to Marcus Pavilion open for the annual Lu’au. The popular event is hosted by the Hui `O Hawai`i Club, and an authentic lu’au feast, musical performances and entertainment from South Seas cultures never fails to attract hundreds of area residents each year.

APRIL 4-12: “Into the Woods” (“…and out of the woods and home before dark!”)

The Saint Martin’s Theatre and Music programs present this much-loved, Broadway epic in which everyone’s favorite fairy tale characters are brought together for a timeless and relevant piece of American musical theatre.

APRIL 7-11: Zero tolerance for sexual assault Saint Martin’s renews its call for an end to sexual violence during its sixth annual Sexual Assault Awareness Week. This year’s activities include a unique event during which the audience can follow the stories of sexual assault survivors through an interactive exercise.

APRIL 26: Major Works Concert The Saint Martin’s University Chorale joins the Olympia Chamber Orchestra for their eighth collaborative Major Works Concert, performing Franz Joseph Haydn’s epic piece, “The Creation.”

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MAY 7: Second installment of SMUniverse is published

APRIL 26: Ninth annual Dragon Boat Festival A record-breaking 42 local and regional teams of paddlers fiercely compete in day-long dragon boat races during the ninth annual Dragon Boat Festival, sponsored by the University’s Office of International Programs and Development, and held at Port Plaza in Olympia.

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APRIL 29: Student Scholars Day and Honors Convocation The Saint Martin’s community recognizes outstanding scholarly and artistic works completed by students during the academic year.

The Saint Martin’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, celebrates the second annual publication of the University’s literary and artistic journal, SMUniverse, with a reading in the O’Grady Library’s Benedictine Reading Room. Edited by members of the society, this year’s journal includes creative writing and visual art by students of Saint Martin’s, as well as works by students from North Thurston schools.

MAY 9: Baccalaureate Mass Undergraduate and graduate candidates from the Class of 2014, along with their families, join the campus community for a Baccalaureate Mass to celebrate their impending graduation.

MAY 10: Tassels to the other side!

With a triumphant spring in their step, members of the Class of 2014 take to the stage to collect their diplomas, thereby becoming Saint Martin’s University’s newest alumni!

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Lacey McGladrey ’14: Striving for excellence, on and off the field

by Deanna Partlow Saint Martin’s University’s lone senior softball player, Lacey McGladrey, was named 2014 female Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the Great Northwest Athletic Conference earlier this month. The award is a distinction given to only one female and one male student in the conference.

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McGladrey is the first softball player in conference history to win the award, GNAC reports. She is the third female recipient from Saint Martin’s, joining basketball players Martina Kartikova in 2005 and Dara Zack in 2011.

“It’s pretty amazing to have such a prestigious athlete at Saint Martin’s” says Rick Noren, head softball coach. “It’s a great accomplishment. ’Scholar-athlete’ is a term we use for students who are striving for excellence at all times, and Lacey has modeled this,” he says.

“It doesn’t matter if she’s in an accounting class, tutoring on campus or playing softball on the field; Lacey always strives to be excellent in everything she does.”

McGladrey, who primarily played second base, joined the team as a freshman after becoming a stand-out at Bothell High School. She wrapped up her final season on the ballfield only days before receiving her bachelor’s degree in accounting, graduating with a 3.64 grade point average. Saint Martin’s also honored her as its outstanding accounting graduate of the year.

embodies all the characteristics you “ Lacey look for in a student athlete, and she has applied these with balance to be both athletically and academically successful. We here at the University are extremely proud of her and her accomplishments over the past four years, says Athletic Director Bob Grisham.

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fourth in doubles, fifth in hits and ninth in stolen bases.

Noren, who coached McGladrey all four years, says she has a long history of winning ways.

Following the 2011 season at Saint Martin’s, she was named GNAC Freshman of the Year and First Team All-Conference. In 2012, she was recognized by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association as an All-American Scholar-Athlete. She also received several more honors that year, as she did again as a junior, when the conference named her Player of the Year, and the NFCA, First Team All-West Region and NFCA First Team All-American.

McGladrey also made time to tutor at the University’s Learning and Writing Center.

Noren says, “It may not be by choice, but she has been a natural leader … she’s really looked up to by the players, and I think if anyone ever needed any academic help, they’d go to her because she was willing to try to help.”

McGladrey credits some of her multi-tasking ability to great role models she observed on the softball team during her freshman and sophomore years.

“My hopes were to do the same for the underclassmen by showing them it is possible to be successful on and off the field,” she says.

Earning success, she says, was a challenge at times, but something that can be done. The message she’d give to future student-athletes?

“My advice would be to never give up and have confidence in yourself,” says McGladrey. “The nights that you have to stay up late and study after practice or on the road may seem like the worst nights ever at that time, but in the long run, it is worth it.

The feeling of succeeding in the classroom is close to the feeling of succeeding on the field. Feeling accomplished is one of the best feelings ever, especially when you know you worked hard for it!”

McGladrey plans to become a certified public accountant and will begin studying for her master’s degree in accounting this fall at the University of Washington – Tacoma. She’ll also help coach the Saints softball team when her schedule allows, having already mastered juggling all the balls at once.

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Defense fuels successful season

by Kyle Karnofski The Saint Martin’s University women’s basketball team ranked number one in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference March 5-8 in both scoring defense and field goal percentage defense.

Over the course of the season, Head Coach Tim Healy stressed a team-first mentality and a hard-nosed defense that put the Saints in the playoffs.

The foundation of the team’s high-caliber defense?

Lots of practice, with an accent on communication.

“We’re a disciplined team and we knew what we needed to do. We concentrated on a lot of defense at practice, so it became easier to us,” said sophomore Megan Wiedeman.

After being selected pre-season to finish eighth by other GNAC coaches, the Saints finished the season in fifth place, with an 11-7 overall conference record.

“We’ve always been an underestimated team, and we proved that we are better than other coaches thought,” said senior Chelsea Haskey.

After completing the final portion of the regular season by winning three out of four games, the Saints clinched their first conference tournament appearance in three years and a match-up with Alaska Anchorage. With Wiedeman leading the way for Saint Martin’s with a GNAC tournament-record 17 rebounds, the Saints beat the Seawolves 58 to 48. The Saints fell to Western Washington in the semifinals, 81-71.

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tically backed their squad until the final buzzer. “I thought this was the best crowd environment I had seen at Saint Martin’s in a long, long time. The team definitely enjoyed it,” said Healy.

The Saints are looking to use their success at earning a tournament berth and at doing themselves proud with a notable performance during the GNAC contest to propel them into next season.

“The team had great character, played hard and got the most out of what they had to offer,” Healy said. “We definitely surprised a lot of people.”

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Saints throwers grow their competitive edge

by Kyle Karnofski The Saints team of throwers was striving to do big things this past season with the hope that one of its members would follow in the footsteps of stand-out athlete Sam Washington ’13, a National Collegiate Athletic Association All-American.

“I don’t think anyone in this group should be satisfied until we have an All-American champion on this team,” says throws Coach Adam Midles, himself a former NCAA AllAmerican.

The Saints maintained strong performances throughout the year. On April 19 at the Long Beach Invitational in Calif., freshman Kalli Walker smashed the school record in the javelin by over 10’ with a throw of 150’-5”, which also provisionally qualified her for the NCAA Championships.

Junior Angel Rodgers set the school record in the hammer throw with a toss of 158’-10”.

Walker and fellow freshman Kirby Neale came home from the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in May with all-

GNAC honors. Neale narrowly missed the school record Saintless Martin’s in the shot put with a throw of 42 feet, 4 inches, than three inches off the record, taking third place, while Walker placed third in the javelin with a throw of 133’-7”.

A lot of the team’s success can be attributed to their coach. When Midles arrived on campus the 2012 season, he quickly placed an emphasis on increasing his athletes’ competitiveness.

“ We wanted to be a group that was competitive on a national level and we didn’t want to settle for anything less than that,” Midles says.

Midles says the determined attitude this crop of studentathletes drove the team to success. “A lot of what has happened this past year really comes down to whether the kids are buying in and executing on meet day,” he says. “It’s when things get really intense and the pressure is on that you can really tell who has bought in or not, and these kids have done a great job.”

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

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1960s 1 John Hulbert HS’66, ’68 celebrated his retirement at the end of May, after 45 years in the working world. He spent the first 20 years in the auto business and the last 25 in the financial industry, working with several banks and finally at TwinStar Credit Union in Lacey. John and his wife, Lorie, are looking forward to spending more time at their cabin on Harstine Island, boating, spoiling their new grandson (11 months old) and playing a LOT of golf. John adds, “I will never forget SMHS class of ’66 and the college years of ’67 and ’68, nor will I ever forget my classmates and the Monks who taught us."

John Farrell ’66 and his wife, Margaret, who own and co-founded Farrelli’s Wood Fire Pizza, earned the honor of No. 1 “Top Places to Work in the South Sound” in the Business Examiner’s Large Companies category in March.

2 Bill Richter ’67 ran the 2013 Saint Martin’s Jingle Bell

Run 5k with a time of 27 minutes, 10 seconds.

Michael Coomes HS’69, an associate professor of higher education and student affairs at Bowling Green State University, was presented in April with the 2014 Master Teacher Award, the highest award presented to faculty.

3 Thomas Hillier ’69 has retired after 37 years working for the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Seattle, spending 32 years as the chief. Hillier, who has devoted his career to speaking for those who quite often go

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3 unheard, has been influential in advocating for federal sentencing reform and cultivating a federal defender’s office that is considered unparalleled in its dedication to advocacy.

1970s John Black ’72 recently began a new career as a global training manager at AbbVie’s, a pharmaceutical research and development company in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

4 Michael Griffus HS’74 and his wife, Melissa Parsons, will be celebrating their 34th wedding anniversary this year. He is chief executive officer for Keolis Transit America, based in Los Angeles, Calif.

1980s James Sawatzki ’81, a teacher at Bethel High School in Spanaway, has been awarded the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching History by the Washington State Historical Society Board of Trustees.

Ir Ahmad Fauzi Yahya ’83 facilitates work in project management and construction management on behalf of the construction industry development board in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is also very busy with the activities of his first granddaughter. He would like to reconnect with fellow civil engineering alumni from 1983. Please contact alumni@stmartin.edu to reconnect.

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5 Patrick McDonald ’84 earned his Ph.D. in public policy and administration from Walden University. He also graduated from the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Resident Course this June.

Scott Jarman ’87 is now a Boeing 777 captain for Korean Air.

1990s Brendon Chertok ’94 was recently hired as principal at Garfield Elementary School in the Olympia School District.

Scott Borgeson ’95 and Dawn Naylor ’95 married on Sep. 28, 2013.

2000s Timmy Wailehua ’00 was hired as the home equity line of Credit loan operations manager for Central Pacific Bank in Hawaii.

Brandon Johnson ’04 was recently promoted by SCJ Alliance to civil group manager.

Leah Munion ’04 is the founder and chief executive officer of Training Solutions, a business that provides training and learning for safety in the workplace and community.

6 Mark Stead ’05 recently began working as a scientist with Amgen in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Josh Brannin ’06 was recently hired by SCJ Alliance as a project engineer.

6 Josh ’02 and Keana ’06 Callon welcomed their third child, daughter Lucy Elizabeth Lynn Callon, to their family on May 20, 2013.

Heather Guz ’06, MAC’09 welcomed a son, Phoenix Mark Guz, on Feb. 2.

7 Marie Christensen ’06, Katie Lindauer ’07, Shannon Hanson-Bell ’06 and Brianne LaVerdiere ’06 recently reunited to catch up and reminisce.

Kalli (Konopaski) Jones ’07 and husband, Jason Jones, welcomed a son, Samuel Kevin Edward Jones, to their family on May 16.

Michael Eberly ’08 welcomed a son, Liden Thomas, on Jan. 18.

Eliseo John “EJ” Juarez ’08 was appointed by WA Governor Jay Inslee in September 2013 to serve as commissioner of the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs. The Commission’s mission is to address issues that affect the Hispanic communities in Washington.

Christopher ’08 and Dominique Meyers welcomed a new son on Feb. 4.

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8 Tristan Beach ’09 published a poem, “Grants Pass, OR: 2013” on Rawboned, an online magazine. The poem can be read at: http://rawboned.org/about/issue-2/grants-pass-or-2013/ Diana Diaz ’09 was recently hired as a payroll specialist for the Bellevue School District.

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9 Kendra (Konopaski) Fors ’10 and husband, Joe Fors,

welcomed a son, Henry Joseph Fors, to their family on Jan. 14.

married on March 1. The wedding party included Jacob Klein ’09, MBA’10, Junqing “Dirk” Sun ’10, and Luqi Wang ’12. Brian is graduating with his MBA from Michigan State University and will be taking a position with ExxonMobil Downstream Controllers.

David Goodman ’10 welcomed a son, Joshua David, on Dec. 29, 2013.

Kendrah Jensen ’09 was admitted to Colorado State University’s Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine Program.

William Watson MIT’10 welcomed a son, Amos Harvey-Jack, on Dec. 28, 2013.

Bill Richardson ’09 was hired by Anvil Corp in Bellingham.

Tyrell Bradley ’11 was recently hired by SCJ Alliance as a project engineer.

Jennifer (Sanchez) Rivelli ’09 is now the research project manager at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. In her new role, Rivelli coordinates complex research projects to assure compliance with the technical and scientific day-to-day operation of the study. As project manager, she is also involved in the development and implantation of grant and contract management, quality assurance procedures and presentation materials.

Geoff Dorsey ’11 welcomed a son, Phillipe, on Jan. 31.

Christie Urban ’09 has become engaged to Carlos Santillan.

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Shyloe Neizman ’10 recently took a position as the store planning and development coordinator at Savers.

Blaine Evans ’11 is engaged to fellow medical school student, Jenn Cheng. Evans and Cheng are wrapping up their third year at Rocky Vista University's College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Zac Lubin ’11, former Saint Martin’s University goal keeper, signed a professional contract with IFK Luleå in Sweden in February.

Blake Poole ’11, former Saint Martin’s Saints basketball center, was named Center of the Year for Eurobasket. com's All-German 2.Bundesliga Pro B Awards 2014,

In memoriam Brady Bomber ’12, MBA’13, former Saints basketball player was hired as the head girls basketball coach at his high school alma mater, Lynden Christian High School.

He finished his college career as GNAC’s eighth all-time highest player in assists, with 432. Bomber is also a staff accountant at VSH CPAs in Bellingham.

Jennifer Ganal ’13 is now an admitting representative at Providence Health and Services.

9 following his third straight season in Germany. In April, Poole returned to Washington to begin his fourth season with the Bellingham Slam.

Chanell Sagon ’11 has completed the Master of Education in Student Development Administration Program at Seattle University. Her final e-portfolio presentation focused on equity, access and student engagement. Sagon received her degree in June.

Veronica Martin ’13 will begin classes at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State University. She thanks and recognizes the faculty and staff of Saint Martin's University for assisting her in reaching this monumental goal.

Brandon Scott ’13, former men’s soccer player, has signed a professional contract with the Icelandic soccer club, Leiknir Reykjavik, as left back. He hopes to make a name for himself abroad after playing for the Kitsap Pumas professional team in the United Soccer League’s Premier Development Division last summer. The Icelandic club is located in the nation’s capital and plays in the 1st Division.

Mallory Arnold ’13 won the People’s Choice Award in Washington’s Miss Thurston County Pageant.

Angelica Villanueva ’11 is now a universal banker at U.S. Bank.

Nicole Fernandez ’11 was accepted into the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Western University of Health Sciences.

Kelsey Baker ’12 received a graduate teaching assistantship in the department of biostatistics while working towards a Master of Biostatistics degree at the University of Pittsburgh.

Nate MIT’12 and Seana MED’12 Ditterline welcomed a son, Kenley Rae, Nov. 26, 2013.

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Please send your news and photos (resolution of 300 dpi) by email to alumni@stmartin.edu or by mail to Office of Institutional Advancement, 5000 Abbey Way SE, Lacey, WA 98503.

Marelle Moehrle ’12 was hired at Meadowdale High School as a para educator.

Lance Sisco ’12 welcomed a daughter, Audrey Grace, on Jan29, 2014.

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In memoriam 1940s Bob McMillan HS’39, ’46 March 17, 2014

George Wolfe ’53 March 19, 2014

Steve Swift HS’71 March 6, 2014

Bill Hausmann HS’44 Dec. 17, 2013

Earl Stokes ’55 April 11, 2014

Barbara Meyer ’71 Jan. 2, 2014

Fr. Urban Carl Feucht, O.S.B., HS’46, ’51 Dec. 7, 2013 Ray Johnston ’49 April 23, 2014

1950s Alfred McCann HS’50 Jan. 27, 2014 Mark Moothart ’50 Dec. 23, 2013 Keith Kisor ’51 Jan. 22, 2014 Dick Husk ’52 May 7, 2014 James Bieker ’53 Jan. 24, 2014

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1960s Jon Marcinko ’60 April 26, 2014 Bill Fosbre HS’61 April 23, 2014 Kenneth Johnson ’65 Jan. 31, 2014 Robert Nowlan ’66 Jan. 31, 2014 Craig Sigman ’69 May 21, 2014

1970s Patricia Ruth ’70 Feb. 13, 2014

Arthur Romero ’72 Feb. 7, 2014 John Stoner ’73 Feb. 1, 2014

1980s Thomas Ginal ’83 May 18, 2014

2000s Mary Fischer MAC’00 Dec. 6, 2013

Limitless Possibilities

Show your support for future generations of students.

You loved your time at Saint Martin’s. You recognize the value of a Saint Martin’s education. And you know that without the generous support of alumni, parents and friends, Saint Martin’s and its students would not be the success stories they are today. We are asking for your generosity.

The participation rate from our donors is lower than most of the universities we are compared to of other similar-sized. Your support plays a critical role in our ability to recruit and retain a diverse student body, keep our percentages up in national rankings and obtain grants from foundations and other institutions.

“I give back to Saint Martin’s simply because it’s the right thing to do.

The education I received helped me immensely, and giving back is my way of expressing how much I continue to believe in the University.”

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Be one of 318 donors who reply to this appeal with a financial gift! This figure represents the number of 2014 graduates who are on their way to making a difference in their communities.

Stand up and be counted. It matters more than you know!

Every Gift Matters Make a gift to The Fund for Saint Martin’s today in the enclosed envelope, or give at www.stmartin.edu/giving.

Thank you and Go Saints!

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L A S T LO O K On May 10, 2014, 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 2014 took selfies with president Roy Heynderickx and 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 Sister Karin Dufault, S.P., R.N., Ph.D. as the honored speaker. A tented celebration followed at the Jan Halliday ’89 Memorial Plaza.

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Office of Marketing and Communications 5000 Abbey Way SE Lacey, WA 98503

November 1, 2014 ,

Lacey, Washington

Saint Martin s University presents the 2014 Gala.

A black-tie gourmet affair featuring Emmy Award winning celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich!

Join us for an evening of delicious entertainment, featuring

a culinary demonstration, gourmet dinner, specially selected wine and a live auction benefiting Saint Martin’s student scholarships.

Tickets and tables now available! For additional details, including sponsorship opportunities, visit www.stmartin.edu/SMUgala

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