Insights Summer 2016

saint martin’s university • summer 2016

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Internships

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4 EDITORS Genevieve Canceko Chan Meg Dwyer Deanna Partlow CREATIVE DIRECTOR Marki Carson PRINTING Capitol City Press CONTRIBUTORS Ann Adams Josiah Dailey ’16 Tam Dinh, Ph.D. Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D. Br. Boniface V. Lazzari, O.S.B. Megan Lobdell Cristina Luevano ’17 Fr. Kilian Malvey, O.S.B., HS’55, ’64 Sean Malvey Deanna Partlow Abbot Neal Roth, O.S.B., ’65 Sheila Steiner, Ph.D. Christine Towey ’15 Katie Wojke Gail Wood 4

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A steward of God

Celebrating Father Kilian among us

18 Internships

Don’t leave Saint Martin’s without one

26 What in the world!

Semester abroad provides new outlook for student

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The silent era Alumnus profile Patrick Loughney ‘69

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Edward Barton and Jeff Crane, Ph.D. Saint Martin’s welcomes new CFO and new Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

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Saints Champion Soulful jump leads to Nationals DEPARTMENTS 3 President’s Greeting 22 In Their Own Words

28 Alumnus Profile 30 Monastic Happenings 32 Benedictine Institute

34 Campus News and Events 35 Timeline 41 Events Calendar 42 Athletics 46 Alum Notes

In every issue of Insights, we reflect on the past, take stock of the present, and glimpse into the future.

This summer, we celebrate the 80th birthday of Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B., ’64. Over the years, Father Kilian has served nearly every role at Saint Martin’s: student, faculty, abbey member, staff, alumnus and trustee. In all of those roles, Father Kilian, a living embodiment of our four core themes, has passionately and compassionately engaged others in dialogue on the topics of Faith and Reason in loving Service of our Community.

This fall, we will welcome one of our largest incoming classes to campus. We will see students from over 20 states and U.S. territories. While Washington is still by far the most represented, with about 120 first-year students, we also welcome more than 20 students from Hawaii! We’re excited to receive many students who come from alumni families, some several generations deep. We are equally excited to see that more than 30 percent of new students are among the first in their family to attend college. Saint Martin’s has long been committed to expanding access to higher education. Here’s to our growing Saints family!

Lastly, I personally want to thank all of our faculty and staff who come together year after year as one community to support one another in our joint mission to support our students. Thank you for your time, your talents and your heart. Individually and together, we strive to create that “Saint Martin’s experience” for all of our students, hoping that their time here truly is a transformative one — one that will provide them with the knowledge and skills needed in the world, but also nurture within them a sense of vocation and purpose. This is our hope as we roll out initiatives of our strategic plan — the progress of which will be shared at www.stmartin.edu/journey!

In the meantime, enjoy the warm weather. We look forward to seeing you on campus in the coming months!

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

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Wholehearted Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B., HS’55,’64

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ost parents look at their baby and pronounce him or her “the most beautiful,” as indeed they are. But John and Helena Malvey had it confirmed by a crowd in New York City, who declared their first-born child John Joseph — now Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B. — “Most Beautiful Baby in New York.” The tumble of blond curls that crowned his head are now wispy and white; the face wears the soft folds that come with advancing time; age spots dot his hands. But even after almost 80 years, he is considered a most beautiful man by those who know him.

He is called “an amazing teacher,” “the embodiment of a Benedictine monk,” “the heart and soul of Saint Martin’s,” “a leader and visionary” by those who know him.

And they rejoice that he remains a vital part of Saint Martin’s Abbey and University.

Longtime friend and Saint Martin’s College graduate Curt Kondrack, ’78, summed up what many feel as Father Kilian approaches his 80th birthday on Aug. 27: “God made him a very special man, and he’s keeping Kilian around for us to enjoy and be with.”

As Father Kilian approaches this landmark in his life, we celebrate his presence among us.

Since his novitiate as a Benedictine began, Father Kilian has lived the order’s motto of “ora et labora,” sanctifying each day with prayer. His day starts before 5 a.m. and ends when it ends. Since his first days as a novice, the ‘labora’ continues to include two or more jobs at time.

He’s had a surfeit of jobs over the years, but no one has been more important than another, he says: “It all needed to be done.” His favorites placed him in close contact with people, working as a mentor, colleague and teacher.

Associate Prof. of English Julia Chavez, Ph.D., who serves alongside Father Kilian as an advisor for the University’s Benedictine Scholars Program, finds his energy level aweinspiring. He’s usually in his office hard at work when she arrives and is busy when she leaves.

“When it seems I have too much work to do or a discouraging event occurs, I think of his presence on campus and it buoys my ability to persevere. In ways that permeate everything, he helps keep me going and reminds me that the obstacles are temporary and can be worked around. He’s been very inspiring to me.”

An amazing teacher

Father Kilian teaching debut was in 1965, and Vince Strojan, ’68, remembers the College speech class he taught that year.

“Kilian was in shock about the first three weeks. We had a large contingent from the East Coast … you can just imagine a speech class with all these kids from there.”

Speeches delivered with East Coast brogues made class amusing to the locals, but what stuck out to Strojan was Father Kilian’s “unique ability” to connect with the divergent group, Strojan said.

He saw what they had in common. Most of his students were 18-year-old kids, away from home for the first time and, in many ways, fragile and naïve. Father Kilian was the father figure who instilled confidence and supported them as they transitioned into college life. Strojan never forgot.

“I can tell you exactly what I ’ve learned from Kilian, and that is humility. He’s so selfless. He thinks about others before himself.”

Father Kilian says he learned to teach by experience, making plenty of mistakes in the process. Among the worst was his intolerance for the same slapdash attitudes and behaviors he himself earlier displayed as a student, he said.

“I used to throw students out of class for not reading the assignment or when they went to sleep in class. I was notorious about it, and being unthinking and overly judgmental was a big failure on my part. I came to realize I was embarrassing them.”

Kondrack laughs, recalling his first class with Father Kilian.

Father Kilian, fresh from advanced English studies abroad, was teaching introductory English, and the students were shocked when their first writing assignments came back drenched in red ink. His own paper was marked “D+.”

“I got one of the better grades. He was absolutely brutal,” Kondrack said. “Kilian came back (to Saint Martin’s) thinking we were all English superstars, but we were young and we were taking the class because we had to.”

The students met with him and struck up a bargain for the chance to rewrite assignments, but what Kondrack took away from the incident was amazement in Father Kilian’s willingness to listen and compromise.

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Birth Born John Joseph Malvey, Aug. 27, 1936, in Manhattan, New York City – the oldest child of John and Helena O’Sullivan Malvey.

Heritage Irish Catholic, liberal Democrat.

His parents were both from the village of Ardgroom in Cork County, Ireland.

They were neighbors and close childhood friends who came to America in 1935.

Religious vows Simple vows, July 11, 1958; Solemn Vows: Jan. 22, 1967.

Ordination to Diaconate, July 1972, Cardinal Hennan, London; and to the priesthood, Aug. 24, 1973, Saint Martin’s Abbey Church,

by Archbishop Murphy, Seattle Archdiocese.

Siblings James “Jim”, HS’56, ’63; Kathleen, Holy Names Academy; Richard “Sean,” HS’67; ‘73.

“As time went on, Kilian realized this was just a beginner’s English class and became more understanding of where our abilities were. I think that was a learning experience for him.”

By the 1980s, Father Kilian was something of a classroom superstar, although Dianna Rockwell Shank, Ph.D., ’91, now an English professor at Southwestern Illinois College, was disconcerted. Like many new Saint Martin’s students, having a monk as a professor seemed “alien” to her. Then one hot fall day, Kilian stopped in mid-lecture and shed his habit.

“Not growing up Catholic, I was surprised to see that he was wearing running gear — shorts and a shirt — underneath.

Monks wore clothes? And exercised? That same class, I realized that I had made the best decision in attending Saint Martin’s. Kilian would get so excited in class about our discussions.”

In her religious studies class, she said, “One of the assignments he had us do was rewrite the book of Genesis. So,

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"The most giving man I 've ever known." being the punk feminist girl I was at the time, I rewrote it with God as a woman. I thought Kilian would be shocked, but he wasn’t!”

says, and now and then, Father Kilian took him to breakfast or lunch, just to talk.

Instead, the result was a “wonderful” one-on-one conversation about religion and spirituality: “I will never forget him being a true model of open-minded and inquisitive discussion. He was the first person who taught me to support my thinking with examples …”

“I could ask about anything, and he was incredibly easy to talk to. He is an incredible mentor … I consider him a great friend, which seems really strange because he’s four times older than I am. But I feel like he’s one of my best friends because of the vibe he gives off. He is the most loving, giving person.”

Students gravitated to Father Kilian’s classes for years, said retired University President David Spangler.

The epitome of a Benedictine monk

“He gave students a tremendous education,” Spangler said.

“I knew he’d get a heavy (teaching) load because a lot of students came to him, and he’d take on extra classes because he was so giving.”

That has remained a constant, said recent graduate Dean Decker ’16. Decker is a member of the first cohort of Benedictine Scholars, a program largely shaped and overseen by Father Kilian as part of Saint Martin’s Benedictine Institute.

Through Father Kilian, many Saint Martin’s students have become attuned to the school’s Benedictine nature, and that has occurred because of Father Kilian’s openness, Spangler said. “He has this knack for letting people know he cares about them.”

“That seems very rare to me these days, that he is willing to take time just to respect the other person and talk about their lives, and I think he does that in a marvelous way.”

Decker, also non-Catholic, began attending prayer each day at the Abbey Church early in his freshman year. The monks welcomed him with such love and compassion, he

Brother Neal (now Abbot Neal) and then-Brother Kilian taking a break on campus. Plotting mischief or discussing theology?

Ordination to the priesthood Aug. 24, 1973, Saint Martin’s Abbey Church, by Thomas A. Connolly, Archbishop, Seattle Archdiocese.

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In a perfect world

“I have always had a profound desire to write: fiction, in the manner of Flannery O’Connor, autobiography and poetry. I love to oil paint and would love to spend a semester with a class of painters in some far-off magical place."

He seems so quintessentially monastic that most people are surprised to learn that Father Kilian joined the monastery almost by default. He was going to be a dentist, and then switched to English with no grand plan for his future.

What’s more, he calls his acceptance into the Benedictine community of Saint Martin’s “quite amazing.”

“I was a bit of a rogue and not very focused or serious about my studies or much of anything else when I applied.”

His attitude changed markedly by the end of his novitiate, when he took his cousin’s advice very much to heart: “When you’re taking those vows, you’re promising God, and you’re promising to be faithful.”

“I may not have always been the best monk, but I try hard to be faithful to those vows,” he says.

Their work for Saint Martin’s took them different directions — Father Kilian to the College and Abbot Neal more to parish work — but their friendship is a constant. They are each other’s sounding board and source of support, they say.

“I remember when Kilian decided to go ahead and study for the priesthood. I was delighted because I was thinking about it at the same time,” Abbot Neal says. “I was at his ordination, and for a Catholic, that’s a very important time in one’s life.”

Father Kilian’s ordination in 1973 proved to be a bittersweet personal time. After his third year of study at Heythrop College in London, he sandwiched in a visit to Ireland to see relatives before coming home for the ceremony.

After visiting, he hitchhiked to Shannon Airport and was out-of-touch with his family. He returned home, unaware that his beloved father had died unexpectedly.

The grief he felt for his father’s death is forever paired with the joy of his ordination at Saint Martin’s Abbey Church.

He and Abbot Neal Roth, O.S.B., entered the novitiate in the same group, an auspicious beginning to their enduring friendship. Their first year of silence and contemplation as novices began with Neal’s silence and Kilian’s contemplation as they walked down to chores on the Saint Martin’s farm: “This guy is my novitiate mate? He was so quiet and shy, it didn’t seem very promising.”

“When I arrived at SeaTac, my Dad’s funeral had already taken place; the family home seemed empty and sad without his wonderful joyful spirit, and great sense of humor,” he said.

The pair was detailed to dig the grave of yet another of a series of monks who died during their novitiate, he said.

As they completed digging, Neal jumped into the hole and laid down, arms folded, saying, “I just wanted to see what this looks like.” Kilian peered down at him for a moment,

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“He’s been shoveling dirt on me ever since!” he laughs.

“We’ve always been friends even though we’re so different — kind of like brothers from a different mother.”

Poverty has been easy to accept; obedience to the abbot and to the community and its needs, the toughest, he says.

They bonded quickly, though, thrown together by work assignments, common studies and more than a little tomfoolery, including the “cemetery story” Abbot Neal is fond of sharing.

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He treasures monastic life, Father Kilian says. The prayer life, the routine, his family of monastic confreres serve to balance and nourish him, providing him a deep well that he can dip into for the strength necessary to minister to those around him and to help guide the University community: “If I don’t pray and am not faithful to that monastic schedule, my life tends to get unraveled. It’s very important to me.”

“The prayer life of the community, the patience of individual confreres, and the grace of God has helped to soften my, at times, radical Irish, liberal, democratic values and perspectives and to eradicate the deception of selfrighteousness!”

" The heart and soul of Saint Martin's"

Father Kilian draws deeply on the sustenance he finds in monastic life to nurture and care for those around him. Abbot Neal Roth, O.S.B., calls Father Kilian the most giving man he has ever known: “There’s not an ounce of selfishness in that man.

He is a very thoughtful, charitable person.”

Former Campus Ministry Director Jonathan Dwyer calls him “one of those people who change people’s lives – and he has changed our lives.”

“I lean on him emotionally and spiritually in many ways,” he said.

Those around him sense how much he values and cares about them, and it’s not always about the big things, he said. At a freshman retreat, for instance, Father Kilian didn’t stand by and watch, but joined in the games with students.

Decker saw those qualities during a Benedictine Scholars’ retreat at St. Gertrude Monastery in Idaho, when they were greeted by some of the same nuns who had once cooked and worked at Saint Martin’s and the younger sisters. The nuns warmly welcomed the group at the door, but it was Father Kilian they were most pleased to see. It was obvious he held a special place in their hearts, Decker said.

“He was the same person with them as he was with us, and he felt so at home there with them that week. He served as their priest and gave mass. You could feel the Kilian spirit at work … It was very cool to see them light up when his spirit walked through.”

That loving spirit has sustained numerous friends.

While living in far-away Japan and Mississippi, Prof. Shank received notes of encouragement and friendship from Father Kilian. He seemed to reach out to her at her most lonely, miserable moments, she said. She still has those notes.

Strojan described it this way, as he spoke of Father Kilian’s presence at countless family weddings, baptisms, funerals and other events: “We always think of him as someone who’s done so many personal and private things for us. Then we get to an alumni function and find he’s done those same things for everyone. He’s like everyone’s private priest!”

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"Father Kilian is one of the kindest souls I 've ever known. He radiates with light and inspires me to be more compassionate, open and loving of everyone. I will never forget him." _ Amy Pollard ’16 To express their gratitude to Father Kilian, Strojan, his wife Sandy and a nucleus of other alumni worked with the University’s advancement office in the 1980s to create a scholarship endowment in Father Kilian’s name. The first fundraising event raised enough money to endow it, and it is still growing. To Strojan, the best reward is the delight Father Kilian takes in choosing recipients for the scholarship, which is earmarked for students who couldn’t afford to attend Saint Martin’s without its help.

A leader and visionary

While personal and professional relationships have helped form the fabric of Father Kilian’s life, so, too, has his strong sense of morality, justice and inclusion. Standing up for those beliefs hasn’t always been easy or comfortable.

He calls the Vietnam War era “a difficult time to be a conscientious objector,” but that he was. On campus, anti-war rallies, speakers and

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marches were the norm, and he was deeply involved.

Serving as College registrar during those years, Kilian didn’t hesitate to ignore the local draft board’s insistent requests to submit the names of students who fell below a 2.0 grade point average. Finally, board representatives marched into his office, demanding a full student GPA list.

He refused to comply. They left in a fury — without the list, and he quickly issued a warning to students with subpar grades to get their grades up. Many did.

“That was a tough time,” he says.

Another tough time was the early years of the Spiritual Life Institute. Now in its 34th year, it is considered by many to be one of Father Kilian’s most important contributions to Saint Martin’s. It was designed to bring outstanding theologians and thinkers to campus to explore facets of the world’s religious traditions.

Among the institute leaders were feather-rufflers like antiwar activist Daniel Berrigan, S.J., and moral theologian Father Charles Curran. Cutting-edge topics included that of the institute’s debut in 1982: “Women and the Church: A Call to Full Participation.”

That topic surprised no one. Father Kilian grew up with a family of strong, intelligent women and learned the role of women in early church history; he has always advocated for a greater leadership role for women in the church.

Spangler, who became president two years after the institute’s launch, discovered that the “nice guy upstairs teaching” wasn’t shy about making waves if he thought it was necessary or just.

“His nature was not to just accept, but to think about things. Kilian was shepherding through something that was very new, and it wasn’t an outreach that was comfortable for everyone,” Spangler says. “The people he brought in were thoughtful, and I would say they often questioned the status quo — they were trying to get people to think instead of blindly believe.”

Spangler, who had to approve speakers, frequently found himself in difficulties with various constituents of the College, as did Abbot Conrad Rausch, who became abbot four years after the institute was launched. The abbot was kept in “constant turmoil” by various institute clashes, he said. As for Kilian himself, he repeatedly was called in to explain, advocate, justify and defend his decisions and choices.

“I lost all of my youth and my hair during that time,” he laughs. “I think (Spangler) trusted me — the speakers

weren’t crazy,” Father Kilian said. “In some ways, they were the most spiritually gifted and had amazing spirituality.”

Father Kilian’s latest endeavor as executive director of the Benedictine Institute has gone more smoothly. The institute was launched in 2011 by President Roy F. Heynerickx to support the University’s Benedictine traditions and values.

Father Kilian is retiring as the institute’s executive director but is confident the institute is on course to preserve Saint Martin’s distinctive Benedictine milieu.

Dwyer, too, thinks the institute will continue successfully — and that is due Father Kilian, he says. “He has a longer vision and a sense of things. He’s a permanent piece of Saint Martin’s and he will be here when everyone else leaves … I’ve seen him with a variety of people, and he has opinions that aren’t always popular, but he’s not afraid to take a stand. No one ever begrudges him for a position he takes about something. I’ve met very few people who have that kind of personal power.”

Father Kilian plans to remain in the classroom and active at the University as long as possible.

“Retirement is such an alien thing to me. Life is so short — why would I want to retire when I can be engaged with people? I love being a teacher, I love being a monk, and I love my priestly duties. I love what I do, and I am grateful.

It’s all been so life-giving for me,” he said.

Life has blessed him with two families — his parents and his three siblings, whom he loves “profoundly,” and his confreres, who sustain and support him, he says What life has taught him is this, he says: “Trust in God and the goodness of life, and good will come of it. If you strive to do the best you can, somehow it’ll work out. I really think we were created to be at peace and to be happy.

I believe that good overcomes any evil, and that we are instruments of God’s light — of peace, reconciliation, justice and harmony.”

Embarrassing memories

“When I was dean of students, I kept a dish of cigarettes in my desk drawer for students who were too financially strapped to purchase their own.”

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“If I have accomplished anything of worth in my life, in some mysterious way, it has to be attributed to the opportunities I have been given. The example of selfless generosity of my parents; the moral lesson from my father of treating others as I would wish to be treated; the inspiration of my faculty and staff colleagues, and the spiritual light of my Catholic faith graced by a loving and merciful God. For all of this I am deeply grateful.”

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Not many people remember the young John Malvey who came to Saint Martin’s as a youth – the boy who loved horses and long car rides across the Palouse on crisp, starry nights.

Father Kilian Malvey’s journey to Saint Martin’s Abbey began long before his birth, actually. Amid the growing social and political strife over an independent Ireland and freedom from British rule in the early decades of the 20th century, his father’s family, the Malveys, and his mother’s family, the O’Sullivans, began trickling into New York City from Cork County, Ireland.

His parents, John Malvey and Helena O’Sullivan, soon followed. With them, they brought little but a solid work ethic, a strong sense of family and their Irish Catholic faith and resilience. Childhood friends, they married in New York in 1935. Their first child, John Jr. — now Kilian — was born the year after, followed by James, Kathleen and Richard, now known as Sean.

The Malveys moved to Purchase in rural Westchester County, N.Y., as the ’40s approached, becoming the clan’s “country cousins.” John Sr. cared for the extensive greenhouses and gardens of a wealthy man involved in the New York City floral trade.

Father Kilian says his father was a remarkable gardener, a man with little formal education but with great native intelligence and an even greater heart, deeply loved by family, friends and the community. His mother, too, always opened her heart, especially to those in need of kindness or the basic needs of life, he says. She had attended business school and managed the family life and finances. “She was amazing, I think maybe

Greatest heroes His parents, sister and brothers Education Doctorate of Ministry, University of California, Berkeley; Master of Arts, Marquette University; Master of Theological Studies, Boston Theological Institute; Bachelor of Arts, theology, Heythrop College, University of London; Bachelor of Arts, Saint Martin's College, ‘62; Diploma, Saint Martin’s High School, ’55.

she would have loved to go on and become a professor or teacher or banker. She always had her nose in a book,” he added.

In County Cork, the elder John Malvey had once worked as a shepherd, and Father Kilian says his own tenderness for animals, especially horses, came from him. His father was not one who wanted to see his children sitting around, and long before Kilian was a teenager, he was mucking out stalls and caring for polo ponies at the nearby country club.

Their neighbors were mostly families whose members cooked, cleaned, chauffeured and otherwise worked to keep the nearby mansions running smoothly. He remembers the Italian families who dried pasta on the clothes lines, baked fat loaves of bread and welcomed neighbor

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Growing older

“Aging has never been an issue with me. Perhaps my living and working with 18-19-year-old students since 1957 to the present has given me a sense of the present rather than being more conscious of the passing of time.�

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kids in for meals. He also recalls being a child of wartime — sharp, vivid memories of fire alarms, blackout drills, and sometimes, a procession of army cars that streamed into the neighborhood. They slid to a stop at neighboring houses, men in uniform emerged and knocked at doors bearing the dreaded news of a son missing or dead. He still hears the screams and cries that followed, piercing the quiet hum of daily life.

Kilian’s best friend was the only African-American child in his grammar school. As the pair swam in the lake, terrorized cows in the nearby field and slept over at each other’s houses, Kilian remained unaware of the underlying racial prejudice surrounding their friendship until years later.

Anonymous notes urged his parents to break up the friendship, but his friend was always warmly welcomed at the Malvey home: “… they didn’t want me to ever think there was anything wrong with being friends with someone different, racially, than myself,” he says of his parents.

A move to Washington

In the 1940s, Father Kilian’s Aunt Mary and her family moved to Sequim, Wash., and prompted by her glowing reviews, other family followed. In 1948, the Malveys traveled by train to Port Angeles, near Sequim. Expecting to see cowboys and Indians on the way, Kilian, then 12, was disappointed that the West wasn’t really wild, says Father Kilian’s brother Sean (Richard), who now lives and works in New York.

The extended family enjoyed get-togethers, and Sean recalls times when the adults would roll up the living room carpets and there’d be Irish dancing.

At the city’s Queen of Angels Parish Church, the elder John Malvey hit it off with fellow Irishman Father Bernard Neary, O.S.B., a Saint Martin’s monk and pastor there on assignment. Father Bernard quickly hired him to drive school bus for the Catholic school, a job he held for the next 45 years.

The Malveys revered education, and the Malvey siblings still marvel that their parents somehow managed to send them off for the best education they could find in the area, says Sean.

On the advice of Father Bernard, young John was sent to boarding high school at Saint Martin’s in 1953. Two more Malvey sons followed: Sean HS’67, ’73, and James “Jim” HS’56, ’63, who now lives in Chelan. Their sister Kathleen went to Holy Names Academy in Seattle, then trained as a hairdresser. She still lives in Port Angeles.

During summers, Father Kilian worked night shift at the local pulp mill. He says he’d look around the lunch room,

"As Brother Kilian, dean of students at Saint Martin's College in the mid-1960s, he principally steered the social conversion of Saint Martin’s from a traditional men’s Catholic college to the beginnings of a modern, coeducational Benedictine institution. Father Kilian’s remarkable life as a brother, priest, educator, advisor, friend, confessor, confidant, disciplinarian, life coach, advocate, booster and defender helped define the college and now university over five decades. His ministry can be best described as having made God real to so many students and, later, their spouses and children.." _ Mark Templeton ’69

see the haggard, bored faces and thank his lucky stars his wasn’t going to be among them.

After graduation, he enrolled at Saint Martin’s College in a pre-dentistry program then switched to English. The trouble was, he just couldn’t get serious about his studies, says Father Kilian.

The little ’49 Plymouth from his parents had proved to be just the ticket for driving back and forth to Pullman, where several cousins and friends were attending WSU. Come Fridays, young John would head off for a wild weekend in Eastern Washington. Late Sunday night, he’d drive back, too exhausted to make class on Monday morning.

His grades were bottoming out during his sophomore year; meanwhile, his parents were struggling to put all four children through Catholic schools. His father issued an ultimatum: either get serious about college or come home and join that crew of tired faces at the pulp mill.

He chose school, and soon after, Father Conrad Rausch, O.S.B., asked him if he’d ever thought of joining the monastery. Only semi-interested, he agreed to talk to Abbot Raphael Heider, O.S.B. The meeting occurred, plans for the future were discussed with the abbot, and the nervous young student agreed to return to Saint Martin’s July 10 to begin his novitiate.

It was April 1959. The semester soon ended, and Kilian went home, forgetting all about the commitment. As July 10 neared, the abbot called Kilian’s pastor to say he was expected at the abbey, and the pastor called Kilian’s home.

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Father Kilian was conflicted, but decided to follow through, saying, “My folks were great about it. They said if it didn’t work out I could leave it.”

But work out it did! During the next two years, he rounded the corner to a new life as a monk.

As novitiates draw to a close, each novice chooses the names of three saints whose name they’d like to bear. The abbot chooses their monastic name from the three.

Misunderstanding these directions, young John chose just two names. Looking through the “Book of Saints” at the library, he settled on “Sean,” with “Kevin” as an alternative.

Hurrying back to turn in his list, he ran into some confreres.

“You’re supposed to choose three,” they told him. So he flew back to the library, where the book was still open to the Ks. He scanned the nearest pages, then added “Kilian” to his list.

Assured that monks normally get their first choice, which for him would have been Sean, Father Kilian says he was appalled the next day, when the time came to receive his monastic name and the abbot announced that going forward, his name would be “Kilian.”

Tackling the abbot soon after, he says, he asked why he hadn’t received his first choice. “Seeeeen?” the abbot replied. “Who’s ever heard of a monk called Seeeeen.”

On the other hand, his mother was thrilled. It seemed that Kilian was the patron saint of Ardgroom Village, where she grew up. In the village stood a holy well. It was called “St. Kilian’s Well.”

Father Kilian continues to be a close friend, confidant, advisor and role model to alumni like myself. Many of us first knew him as Brother Kilian when we arrived on campus. We all grew older and closer through the years. He has never shown us to be judgmental or less than understanding of the directions we chose in life. He has remained our unconditional tie to Saint Martin’s and the loyalty that has continued over more than 50 years for many of us. As close and endearing as he is to the thousands of lives he has touched, and continues to inspire, he is, above all, a devoted monk first and foremost. We love Father Kilian for all that! _ Tom Barte ’68 18

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“She was delighted, and I was stunned,” he said.

Over time, young John Malvey merged into Benedictine Father Kilian, well-loved teacher, mentor and spiritual guide, a man leavened by a great sense of humor and a mischievious streak, one who long ago learned that the riches of life are best found in the form of family and friends.

Those who have been with him through much of his journey say the years haven’t really him at all: “He’s very kind, very loving, very generous with his time — he’s always been that way,” said his brother Sean.

Vision for Saint Martin's University

To contribute to the Father Kilian Malvey Scholarship Endowment visit www.stmartin.edu/father-kilian

With the liberal arts as the fundamental guideline for the University’s core curriculum, my hope is that our students are not only professionally and excellently trained for a career in their chosen field of study, but also, and more importantly, truly educated human beings in the tradition of the liberal arts. The word ‘liberal’ comes from the Latin ‘libré,’ meaning ‘to free’. My hope is that Saint Martin’s would continue to educate students in that spirit, so that our graduates — freed from prejudice, narrow-mindedness, ignorance, stupidity, sexism, gullibility, racial discrimination, intolerance of those different from oneself — are free to speak for the less fortunate and to be a voice for the oppressed, the poor and the victims of social and economic injustice. That is what I hope Saint Martin’s graduates will be like.”

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Don’t leave Saint Martin’s without one

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alia Pedro Trujillo ’16 doubles up on many things.

The new Saint Martin’s graduate, who eventually wants to become a professor, majored in both history and political science and managed to squeeze in two minors. It stands to reason that in the last 12 months, she’d squeeze in dual internships — one with State Democratic Sen. Karen Frazier and another with U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) in Washington, D.C. She’s taking a year off from school, but when she returns to academia, her internship experiences will give her an edge on the competition applying to graduate schools, and eventually finding that plum job in her field.

Trujillo has found other benefits, too — professional and personal.

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“When I walked away from both internships, I walked away confident that I could work an eight-hour day, work in a way that was respectful and thoughtful to others, dress professionally, write constituent letters, schedule meetings, and with extensive knowledge of the legislative process. The skill sets, the knowledge, the network and all the other things that you come away with — you can’t put a price tag on that.”

Sheila Steiner, director of assessment and accreditation at Saint Martin’s, says of internship experiences, “As a psychology professor, I’ve seen students develop a sense of confidence and competence.”

She tells the story of one Saint Martin’s student who interned with a local police department working with high-risk teens a few years ago, saying, “She was really scared when she began. Later she told me, ‘Now I feel like a grown-up.’ She was kind of quiet and reserved, but by putting herself in a challenging environment, she grew as a person.”

For students who can take an internship earlier in college, classwork gains context, say both Steiner and Ann Adams, director of career development.

Trujillo agrees: “The few political classes I took after my DC internship were more relevant because of the internship experience. It’s one thing to learn about something from a lecture and another to be able to pinpoint (a lecture) to a specific example I witnessed that was relevant to the topic at hand.”

She said internships also gave her a grip on the complexity and nuances of issues and situations in her field.

“I could figure out how constituents might feel, the various factors Congress people had to wrestle with, how the media might perceive the issue, and the sides political parties were likely to take …”

At Saint Martin’s; 21 majors offer internship credit, nine academic majors now require an internship component as part of their degree. Biology students are most likely to take an internship, with between 30 and 40 percent completing at least one before graduation.

Similar to apprenticeships of old, internships are an agreement that enables a student to exchange their labor for practical, hands-on experience. While the work often is directly related to the student’s career interests, that’s not always the case.

“Basically, they have to have a start date and an end date, and students must learn something professionally in the process,” Adams says, describing an internship’s basic structure.

Internships are learning experiences in so many ways! While interning for Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell’s office in Washington, D.C., Saint Martin’s political science major Dalia Pedro-Trujillo – pictured here between her roommates – explored the highlights and history of the nation’s capital, lived and worked with students from across the country and learned she had the “right stuff” on-the-job. Her long-term goal is to become a professor.

Some are paid, others are not; some earn college credit, others do not; some last a semester or a summer, others last only a few weeks or a month. If they are structured for learning, they provide a valuable experience.

Steiner says academic internships — those bearing course credits in an area of study — normally involve a contract signed by the school, student and employer. A faculty supervisor does site visits and keeps in touch with the student. When the internship is done, students do a project or paper based on their experience. The broad goals are to make sure a student is learning something meaningful and relevant and is adequately supervised and directed by a professional in their field, she says.

In majors such as social work, internships must also meet certain competencies required for the degree, said Tam Dinh, Ph.D., Saint Martin’s director of field practicum for social work.

The National Survey of Student Engagement reported in its 2015 High-Impact Practices survey that 38 percent of Saint Martin’s seniors either took or were taking an internship and another 26 percent planned to do an internship after graduation, Steiner said.

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Undergraduate majors offer internships 9 out of 25 Undergraduate majors require internships including: Communication Studies Community Services Elementary Education Special Education Education Studies, Nursing, Psychology and Theatre Arts 3 graduate programs require extensive practicum hours: Masters in Education Master in Teaching and Masters in Counseling Psychology

The actual percentage may well be higher, simply because the numbers aren’t possible to track, says Adams. She doesn’t hear from every student who interns, and many students wait until graduating to intern.

Finding an internship is, for most, the first hurdle to interning. The University’s education students are placed

by Saint Martin’s. In many majors, especially those like social work where they’re a requirement, departments have long-established relationships with employers, says Dinh. Students in other majors must find their own internships.

The Career Center posts internships that have legitimate learning opportunities, Adams says. Students also find internships through the University’s career fairs and through networking and online sources.

Alumni, especially, have proven to be “an enormous resource,” says Adams, who has built a networking relationship with many.

One business student drew up a specific list of businesses and asked Adams for help finding an internship with one of them, she recalls. Through the networking website, LinkedIn, she pulled up an alumnus who worked at T-Mobile and approached him. They were quickly able to arrange an internship for the student, she said.

Students are increasingly aware of an internship’s ability to jump-start their careers.

In a 2012 survey, the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that 60 percent of U.S. college graduates who interned received at least one job offer. About 59 percent of those organizations who used interns reported they converted interns into full-time employees. Indeed, many private and public-sector employers’ internship programs are specifically designed to find talented entry-level employees.

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Newly minted civil engineer Nathan Morgan, a June graduate, discovered his dream job through a two-summer internship with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation in North Dakota and Wyoming.

Trujillo’s husband, Nathan Morgan, who graduated beside her in June, is among the many graduates now employed where he interned. The civil engineering graduate spent the summer after his sophomore year interning with the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation office in Bismarck, N.D. Last summer, he again interned with the bureau, this time in Casper, Wyo. His initiation into the profession included lots of fieldwork, the first internship working on water treatment and reclamation projects, the second on dam safety and inspection.

He discovered that he loved the service-minded nature of the job and the work itself, especially the fieldwork. He is now a full-fledged bureau employee doing exactly what he enjoys. He also was able to choose his employment location and opted to return to Wyoming, a state he describes as “awesome.”

Morgan had the Cadillac of internships. As a student in a STEM (science-technology-engineering-mathematics) field, he took advantage of an opportunity found online through a federal program called Pathways. The program was established to replace some the many retiring federal workers in STEM-related fields.

Morgan’s internship not only paid well but also included housing and other incentives designed to attract interns to very rural areas of the country. He returned to finish his degree at Saint Martin’s with new skills and a healthy chunk of savings that helped ease his senior year. Best, he returned knowing he’d chosen the right field.

“I love being a public servant… I want to be useful, and going into the federal government feels really useful. I definitely love working for the Department of the Interior.”

While the learning provided by an internship is seen as a key factor in getting jobs with many employers, many students feel priced out of this rite-of-passage into the workplace.

Expanding access to internships Morgan had the Cadillac of internships. As a student in a STEM (science-technology-engineering-mathematics) field, he took advantage of an opportunity found online through a federal program called Pathways. The program was established to replace some the many retiring federal workers in STEM-related fields.

Morgan’s internship not only paid well but also included housing and other incentives designed to attract interns to very rural areas of the country. He returned to finish his degree at Saint Martin’s with new skills and a healthy chunk of savings that helped ease his senior year. Best, he returned knowing he’d chosen the right field.

Meanwhile, Trujillo, the child of immigrant parents and one of Saint Martin’s first cohorts of Benedictine Scholars, says she was only able to accept her internship with Sen. Maria Cantwell because of substantial support.

The Washington-based nonprofit College Success Foundation funded her internship through a program for minority students. The foundation picked up the tab for just about everything — airfare, lodging in one of the priciest areas of the country, food, even bus passes.

“Without them, there’s no way I could have afforded it,” she said.

Many internships, especially those that are unpaid or geographically removed from the student’s home area, are sometimes perceived as “a luxury for many of our students,” says Steiner.

Students are basically taking a job without pay. And if they’re interning for academic credit, they also have to pay tuition for the credit hours they’re earning. Also, the time devoted to interning can significantly cut into a student’s part-time job and work-study.

For majors like social work and education that require an extensive for-credit internship — for example, social work requires a minimum of 600 internship hours — many students face an arduous uphill challenge, says Dinh. And because social work students often intern at nonprofits and social service organizations, nearly all their internships are unpaid.

In an effort to lessen that financial burden, Dinh’s department worked with the Washington’s Children’s Administration on a new internship agreement. This fall, the agency will begin paying University interns $15 an hour for up to 20 hours of work, Dinh says.

While an internship is necessary for theatre arts students to complete their degree, hardship, theatre arts Prof. David Hlavsa, Ph.D. says many of his students can tap into area professional companies and the internship hours tend to mesh with after-school availability.

Recognizing the value internships add to a student’s degree, Adams is working with the Office of Institutional Advancement on the first stages of an endowed internship, with the goal of providing funding to help all students afford an internship.

Vice President Cecelia Loveless said that effort currently includes exploring grant opportunities and trying to identify donors with an interest in supporting Saint Martin’s students in need of financial assistance during an internship.

Many area companies and agencies see supporting internships as an opportunity to bring insight and innovation into their organization.

At the McCleary-based Simpson Door Company, Continuous Improvement Manager Robert Nachatilo shared this, “Most recently we partnered with Saint Martin’s engineering department to add two summer internships, helping us to fast-track key automation projects. Our interns have been a delight to work with and have offered a fresh and relevant dimension on each project they are involved with.

They have positively impacted our business in a big way.”

“It is important because it provides an opportunity for students to have a real-life experience in their career,” Loveless said. “Often times, applying what they have learned in a classroom is as significant as the classroom experience itself.”

Some of Saint Martin's long-term internship partners AmeriCorps Behavioral Health Resources Bliss & Skeen CPA The Boeing Company Community Youth Services Enterprise Holdings Family Support Center HDR Engineering Kokua Peace Corps Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Rachel Corrie Foundation SCJ Alliance Skillings Connelly Inc. Washington State Legislature

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eeking to belong is something very innate. Everyone goes along their own path to try and find belonging. I think back to my time in high school and how divided it was between cliques and groups that seemed to exclude others who weren’t a part of the ‘in’ crowd. I’ll be honest. I tried to fit into some of those groups.

But none of them were a fit and, at the time, I struggled to figure out why I wasn’t being accepted. Looking back, the reason is easy to see: I was trying to be someone else. I was trying to fit everyone else’s concept of who or what I should be. I was trying to be interested in pop culture to fit in with popular groups or act like I was really good at acting (I’m not) to fit in with the theatre group. But I wasn’t trying to be myself. Maybe it’s a bit cliché but I think everyone has a bit of an awakening when it comes to being themselves.

I had mine when I came to Saint Martin’s in 2012. I took a leap of faith into something new and unknown. I committed to the university and moved away from my home in Anchorage, Alaska, to a campus I had never even seen before. I was a part of two new programs at Saint Martin’s, as well: the first cohort of Benedictine Scholars and Norcia Community. I didn’t really know what to expect. After settling in on the Norcia floor, I realized that I already had friends. I was immediately greeted by my next-door neighbor, Dalia Pedro, who greeted and welcomed me even before my suitcases were in my room.

Basically, everyone around me was in the same boat, unsure of what was to come and wanting to connect with others. The best part was there were no expectations of anyone. I had no stereotype to try and play toward (like I saw in high school). I had to be myself. Not too long after moving in, I met the rest of the Benedictine Scholars.

I can’t remember exactly what my first meeting was like with my fellow Benedictine Scholars but it would be so interesting to go back and see. I imagine that there was probably a lot of uncertainty. There wasn’t much structure or understanding of what exactly the Benedictine Scholars were, at

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the time. However, I think that because of that, it brought the 10 of us even closer together. I do remember a specific meeting we had well into our first year together. We all went around and listed off strengths we had, areas we struggled with and things that we enjoyed doing. Even though it’s something so simple, getting ourselves to open up and be honest with each other went a long way toward helping us connect, work and develop those deep friendships.

We are all such different people and there was really nothing outside of the role as a Benedictine Scholar that bound us together, back then. All of us brought our own strengths, experiences and insights to the group, as we learned from sharing them with each other. We knew that learning the Benedictine values from the monastic community needed to be the main aim of the Benedictine Scholars. We decided one way to help spread the discussion about Benedictine values was to interview the community and make a video about it.

“I can’t imagine my life without them and all of the growth we’ve experienced, collectively and individually. It’s funny, too — the most unique thing about our situation was that we were forced to spend time together and became incredibly close friends because of it.”

So we did, and we worked hard. It still impresses me how self-driven and directed we were as a group to accomplish so much, especially just as new first-year students. I think one of the best ideas we had was to document ourselves in the form of personal interviews. We came up with a list of questions our first year, about where we were back then in 2013. Everyone was recorded answering them. Now, at the end of our senior year everyone went back and answered the questions again. Having that to look back at will be a great reminder for us all.

From all of our work, we were brought together. We had to learn what we were good at, what we struggled with and how to communicate. But what is so wonderful about the scholars goes beyond our ability to work together. We became fast friends and we still are. I feel like they’re all extended family. We might not see each other for a while, but when we do, it feels like coming home.

My fondest memory of that family feeling with everyone is definitely from our scholars retreat to Saint Gertrude’s in Cottonwood, Idaho, at the end of freshman year. There are a lot of great memories from that trip with all of us being together in a new place, such as going for a hike with Father Kilian and Campus Ministry Director Jon Dwyer, getting caught out in a thunderstorm, playing board games and spending time in silence or conversations about life. It was on that trip when I felt most connected to myself and, subsequently, most connected to the group of wonderful people I was with.

I can’t imagine my life without them and all of the growth we’ve experienced, collectively and individually. It’s funny,

The first cohort of Benedictine Scholars, pictured here with their program director Father Kilian Malvey, formed deep friendships during their four years of studying, working, playing and praying together at Saint Martin’s, says BI Scholar Josiah Dailey ’16.

too — the most unique thing about our situation was that we were forced to spend time together and we became incredibly close friends because of it.

The experiences I’ve had at Saint Martin’s have shown me how important it is to be true to yourself. I know now that I have lifelong friends, both in my cohort of Scholars and with all of the other incredible people I’ve met and the friendships I’ve made. I have gained the confidence to simply be myself and accept belonging to who I am.

I am indebted to all who have supported me, made me question my ways of thinking, challenged me to grow and succeed, and shown me kindness, hospitality and friendship. Thank you. u

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In pursuit of my passion

by Christine Towey ’15

“My more than three years of experience in communications and social media at Saint Martin’s enabled me to apply for jobs that most college graduates may not be able to because of their lack of experience. I owe Saint Martin’s my current job, my gratitude and my love of my career.”

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hen I graduated from high school, I committed to going to Washington State University. I committed to four years of living on the Palouse and being among a population of more than 20,000 students.

Then I panicked and decided I couldn’t do it.

Instead, I chose to attend the smaller school that was closer to home: Saint Martin’s University. Going to college can be... a scary experience; the idea of leaving the home you’ve known for years, the friends you’ve made.

But at Saint Martin’s, I found my new home, new friends and a new passion. Everyone was so welcoming and I still reminisce about my first year living on the third floor of Parsons Hall. Those nights when we wouldn’t sleep because we were playing hall golf or studying for tests. Little did I realize I would be studying a topic — the communications field — that proved so compelling it didn’t feel like homework.

When I started at Saint Martin’s in 2012, Communication Studies wasn't yet available as an option for students. But that didn’t stop me from having my heart set on it as my major. During my freshman year, I started my pursuit of a career in communications by working in the Saint Martin’s Office of Marketing and Communications as a member of the Social Squad. The squad is composed of a band of tech-savvy students the MarCom office employs to help strengthen the University’s presence on social media.

While serving on the Social Squad definitely provided me with the opportunity to seek the training I needed for a career in the communications field, I was able to further expand my skills and knowledge when the Communication Studies major was introduced at Saint Martin’s during my junior year. I became one of the first students to declare the new major and signed up for every class I could fit into my schedule.

I developed my own independent-study communications classes. I was so enthusiastic about my chosen field that I worried I was speaking up in class too much. I also greatly enjoyed hanging out with the associate professor who designed and implemented the communications major — she is amazing and inspiring (Miss you, Irina Gendelman!!). Eventually, I chose to pursue a full-time work position and take full-time credits over the summer of my junior year to graduate early and propel myself forward into my passion.

My more than three years of experience in communications and social media at Saint Martin’s enabled me to apply for jobs that most college graduates might not be able to because of their lack of experience. I owe Saint Martin’s my current job, my gratitude and my love of my career.

I'll never forget SMU and my time there, I will carry that every day in my heart at my job. Because of Saint Martin’s, I get to go to work every day with a smile on my face. u

In no time, the people in that marketing and communications office became my second family. I would eat lunch there and stick around after my hours for the day were over just because everyone in the office was and is amazing.

My responsibilities included tweeting for the school via the Twitter social media platform, as well as posting Saint Martin’s news and events on Instagram and Facebook. As a Social Squad member, I learned what types of information people respond to on social media and how to engage an online audience. Four years later, I was able to take the skills I honed as a squad member and transform that knowledge into a job that I landed a few months after I graduated in December 2015.

Today, I work as a digital marketing specialist overseeing multiple social media accounts, press releases, web analytics, Yelp analytics and representing a thriving company — the Integrated Rehabilitation Group, which specializes in physical and hand therapy services and boasts more than 36 locations.

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WHAT IN THE WORLD! A semester abroad provides new outlook

by Cristina Luevano ’17

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If you ever come to a point where you think you’ve determined who you are, please leave your routine.

Go someplace so far away that you’re forced to look at your life from an entirely different perspective. The truth is, you’ll never stop discovering who you are, and every experience you live through defines the person you want to become. This is what I’ve learned in my time studying abroad in Valparaíso, Chile, spring semester. During the three months that I’ve been here, I’ve experienced a myriad of emotions: Joy, sadness, anger, frustration, confusion, wonder, awkwardness and just downright happiness.

When I first arrived in Chile, I was immediately told everything would be easier for me because of my being Mexican; I grew up speaking Spanish and am fluent.

While the language barrier isn’t so much a problem for me, I have struggled in different ways. In the United States, I am a minority and have been labeled ‘Mexican’ all of my life. This allowed me in many ways to separate myself from the “White” community because society tells us we are different.

In Chile, however, I am a “gringa,” the term used to identify anyone from the United States, whether you’re of Latino, Asian or Caucasian descent. Every Chilean told me I wasn’t truly Mexican because I wasn’t born in Mexico, and this was something I’d never considered.

I was forced to look past my Mexican identity and I really began to understand how connected I am to people I previously didn’t think I was. I’ve come to realize that I don’t fully identify with my Mexican heritage because I’ve spent a majority of my life living in American society. I also don’t completely identify with being a ‘White American’ because I am very closely connected to my Mexican heritage, thanks to my parents.

Before coming here, I didn’t fully acknowledge how compelling both of these cultures are to me. Not only have these interactions with Chileans and the things

I’ve done during my time abroad made me question who I thought I was and where I stand, but they have also exposed me to new ways of thinking.

These past few months have been filled with several new and “first” experiences. During my time in Chile, I’ve had both wallet and phone stolen, lost my house keys and somehow managed to completely dismantle my glasses.

I joined a martial arts gym and (kind of) learned how to box. I faced my fear of heights when I went zip-lining, and started appreciating extreme sports when I went water-rafting in Pucón and sandboarding in Concón. I’ve spent time with the Mapuche, one of the largest indigenous groups in Chile. I’ve trekked up the Andes and hung out with one of the world’s oldest living tree species, the Araucarias.

At Lollapalooza 2016 in Santiago, I witnessed the musician I consider to be the greatest rapper of all time, Eminem, perform live on March 19. It easily became one of the greatest nights in my life. I touched a living shark and attended my first national soccer game on May 27. I’ve even gotten kicked out of class for tardiness. I’ve become friends with some people I’d never thought I’d even get along with. Everything I’ve done has given me a different perspective on myself and my life in the States.

Had you talked to me fall semester of 2015, I would have told you exactly who I was, what I believed in and where I was going. If you ask me now, I’m not sure I could give a straight answer.

Maybe I don’t know who I really am, and that’s okay. I want my fellow Saints to never stop discovering who they are because at some point, I did. While I have loved the last three years at Saint Martin’s, this semester abroad has given me perspective on how to better myself and my community.

This semester abroad has challenged me in ways I didn’t think was possible, and I’ve loved it so far.

Thank you to the IFSA-Butler Study Abroad Program and the “IFSA crew” for an amazing semester. Thank you to Saint Martin’s, Brenda Burns and the Institute of International Education (which awarded me the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship) for providing me the opportunity of an unbelievable semester abroad.

I’m excited to return to the States and complete my degree, but first, I’m going to finish up this semester in Valparaíso with even more amazing experiences. I have about two months left in Chile and I’m going to make it count.

Until fall of 2016, SMU! u

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atrick Loughney’s unexpected journey begins in a classroom at Saint Martin’s High School and, later, at Saint Martin’s College in the 1960s.

Before Loughney became a director at the Library of Congress, working to preserve silent movies and movie classics of times long past, and before he became the curator of the motion picture department of the George Eastman House Museum, Loughney’s outlook on life was shaped by his years as a student at the High School and then, the College.

“A series of teachers that I had from high school on through college simply caused me to be interested in everything, or to be open to understanding or exploring ideas,” Loughney says. “That was an important thing.”

At the time, he wasn't sure what direction his career would take. With an interest in literature, Loughney was simply ingesting all the books he could. As he read and as he listened to his teachers, without him knowing it yet, he was becoming the curator, the preserver, of movie classics.

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With his oldest brother, Matthew, a freshman at Saint Martin’s College, Loughney left his home in Lewiston, Idaho, 55 years ago and became a freshman at Saint Martin’s High School. And his journey to movie preservation began.

“It laid a good foundation for skepticism and belief joined together,” Loughney says about his education at Saint Martin’s. “For being curious. I think the education I got at Saint Martin’s, both in the high school and the college, laid down a really solid foundation for adulthood.”

But after graduating from the College in 1969 with a degree in English litera-

ture and history, the Vietnam War interrupted Loughney’s journey. After receiving a low draft number, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and enrolled in officer training school.

Reaching the rank of first lieutenant, Loughney was able to avoid an assignment to Vietnam during his nearly four-year enlistment.

“I went into the Army because I felt I was going to be drafted, even if I was going off to graduate school,” says Loughney.

After getting out of the Army, Loughney continued his education and enrolled at the University of Washington's graduate school to study English literature. As he read the classics, he bumped into an important discovery.

“I began to realize that my lifelong interest really was movies,” Loughney says. “It was something I was always fascinated by but never understood or felt you could study in an academic way.”

Loughney decided literature was interesting but not a career to pursue. He began to be more and more interested in moving in the direction of movies.

“So, I left the University of Washington without completing a master’s degree,” Loughney says.

He moved to Washington, D.C., enrolled at George Washington University, and completed a doctorate in American studies with a concentration on the history of American silent film.

“There were a lot of misconceptions about the movies of the silent era,” Loughney says.

That was partly because so few were available to be seen.

Most were lost or destroyed. Nevertheless, Loughney decided if he was going to study silent movies, it was important to study the very first years of the industry so he would have a solid foundation to study every movie made afterwards.

“That was my rationale,” Loughney says. He discovered the Library of Congress housed a great collection of early silent movies produced in America, dating from 1893 to 1915. It may be the most important surviving collection of American silent films in the United States.

“That's why I went to D.C., and what I ultimately did my dissertation on was that collection,” Loughney explains.

As he studied at George Washington University, Loughney accepted a low-level job at the Library of Congress, sorting and processing radio-recorded collections.

“It got my foot in the door,” Loughney recalls. “The great

advantage to that job was that I was able to go in on weekends and watch movies.”

“Along the way, through this work at the library, I became very much aware of the fact that many American movies had been lost or thrown away or neglected to death and how little effort was being made at the time to preserve America's movie history for future generations,” Loughney says.

Before those movies were forgotten, Loughney wanted to preserve them.

“I caught the bug and joined this movement dedicated to preserving movies,” Loughney says. “I just worked my way in and found ways of doing what I could to improve the professionalism of film archiving and preservation.”

From 1995 to 2005, Loughney, who is married and has three children, worked with the Library of Congress and was the head of the motion picture and television section. After working as the curator at the George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, N.Y., from 2005 to 2008, Loughney became chief of the Packard Campus of the National AudioVisual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Va., preserving movies, television programs, radio broadcasts and sound recordings.

He worked there for six years and is now in California with Packard Humanities Institute, continuing his quest to preserve movies and television shows.

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n Edinburgh, I have a long-time friend who occasionally sends me a disc or a book which he thinks that I might enjoy. Once, after I mentioned an interest in netsukes, (small Japanese sculptural objects), I found one tucked within the book he sent.

Weckert, whose uncle was the late FATHER EDWARD WECKERT, was a junior at Saint Martin’s High School from 1925 to 1926. Young John first had to travel by boat from the family home in Ballard to Tacoma. From Tacoma, he traveled by train to Lacey.

Of all of the books that I’ve received from my Scottish friend over the years, the one I most treasure is a poetry anthology of works collected and annotated by the late Lord Wavell, last viceroy of India. In it, there is a very light poem by W.H. Davies titled “Leisure.” The poet asks what life is if one has not the time to “stand and stare . . . to see, in broad daylight, streams full of stars, like skies at night.”

In the 1920s, the train stopped in full sight of Old Main on the other side of Pacific Avenue.

Though our early 21st century lives may seem busier than ever, summer may be the time that most affords the opportunity to “stand and stare;” a time when we may have more “holy leisure” and time to “recharge” ourselves.

While our monastic summer really begins with our annual monastic retreat, late spring’s Dragon Boat races and Commencement activities capture our attention first.

BROTHER RAMON NEWELL has been active in our Dragon Boat races since their beginning and this year was no exception. His poem, “Dragon Boating,” was printed in the race’s official 2016 program of events. FATHER BEDE CLASSICK and FATHER MARION NGUYEN also attended the races. The latter functioned as a roving photographer, capturing scenes of interest for Facebook and the University website.

No sooner had the waves subsided from the races than it was time for Commencement 2016 activities. ABBOT NEAL ROTH was the celebrant for the Baccalaureate Mass offered in Marcus Pavilion for our most recent graduates and their guests. FATHER MARION was the occasional homilist.

The processional cross used for the Mass was a crucifix that usually hangs in the atrium of the Worthington Center. It was purchased in Europe by the late ABBOT CONRAD R. RAUSCH while he was attending a Congress of Benedictine abbots. The crucifix was a gift of the late John and Eunice Weckert, parents of FATHER PAUL WECKERT. John

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Our annual monastic retreat was conducted this year by retired Archbishop John Vlazny, of Portland, Ore. As is our custom at retreat time, we honor those celebrating jubilees.

This year, FATHER CLEMENT PANGRATZ, senior monk in age and profession, celebrated the 75th anniversary of his monastic profession, as well as the 70th anniversary of his priestly ordination. FATHER GERARD KIRSCH celebrated the 50th anniversary of his monastic vows.

FATHER CLEMENT, who lives in retirement at Providence Mother Joseph, Olympia, served his monastic community in many ways for many years. He exercised his priestly ministry throughout the Pacific Northwest; he served as Abbey organist and as a member of the Abbey schola; he had been a member of the Abbot’s council and the Board of Directors of the Abbey; he held the position of Subprior; he worked with the younger monks in formation and, for many years, he was the campus glazier.

FATHER GERARD, our golden jubilarian, is a grandnephew of FATHER GEORGE MONDA, deceased, and a cousin of the late FATHER CHRISTOPHER ABAIR. Though FATHER GERARD is a gifted historian and teaches history in the University, FATHER GEORGE and FATHER CHRISTOPHER were members of the thencollege biology department. FATHER GERARD is an avid reader and an avid follower of the University’s sports teams.

He regularly offers Mass, both at St. Placid Priory and St. Peter Hospital. In June, he and ABBOT NEAL attended the General Chapter of our federation of monasteries at Belmont Abbey, in Belmont, N.C., AD MULTOS ANNOS! This past spring, retired ABBOT ADRIAN PARCHER and FATHER PETER TYNAN traveled to Mount Angel Abbey, Ore., to represent Saint Martin’s at the blessing of

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CHURCH EVENTS Abbey Church Events, founded by the abbot and community of Saint Martin’s Abbey in 1980, will inaugurate its 37th season on Saturday, 15th October. The season’s opening concert will be performed by the gifted Korean-born pianist Ji (pronounced Jee).

The 2016-2017 season continues on Saturday, 19th November, with a performance by guitarist William Feasley.

The wind quintet Windsync will perform on Saturday, 28th January 2017, and the season will conclude on Saturday, 29th April 2017 with a return engagement of Calmus, the a capella vocal quintet from Germany.

Ji was lauded by The Washington Post for his “painting of pictures even in the most difficult passages” of Ravel. Ji was a winner of the 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, as well as the Bronder Prize, from St. Vincent College, and the Usedom Festival Prize, Germany.

At 10, he was the youngest pianist to win the New York Philharmonic Young Artists Competition, which resulted in his performing under Maestro Kurt Masur.

Father Bede Classick, O.S.B., gave the blessing at the 2016 Saint Martin's Dragon Boat Festival on April 30.

Mount Angel’s newly elected abbot. BROTHER AELRED WOODARD was the featured speaker at the Benedictine Oblates’ quarterly meeting at the Abbey in April.

Two monks will be returning to the Abbey this summer after assignments away. FATHER PAUL returned in early July after several years exercising his priestly ministry in Archdiocesan parishes, and FATHER GEORGE SEIDEL will return in late summer from an academic sabbatical spent in Munich, Germany, where he resided at Saint Boniface Benedictine Abbey.

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Mr. Feasley is a native Washingtonian and currently is head of guitar studies at Shepherd University. The critic of The Washington Post said that Mr. Feasley’s guitar “sounded . . . like a small orchestra in its variety of colors.”

Mr. Feasley made his professional debut with the San Francisco Ballet in 1980. He has since toured extensively in the United States, as well as internationally, playing in such halls as Washington’s National Gallery, London’s St. Martin in the Fields and Prague’s Clementinum.

He has released four critically acclaimed recordings, including the Grammy-nominated “Simplicity,” with Russian oboist Vladimir Lande.

All Abbey Church Events concerts are presented in the Abbey Church at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. There is no admission charge, though a free-will donation is suggested.

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GREETINGS from the Benedictine Institute

Preserving the Benedictine core of Saint Martin’s

by Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B.

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rom the very beginning of Saint Martin’s history, there was never any doubt that the school was founded for the sole purpose of educating and training students based on the ideals of the Catholic intellectual tradition and the fundamental values found in the RULE of Saint Benedict, a 5th century document grounded in scripture. Though written 1,500 years ago, at a time of great chaos, as the Roman Empire was collapsing, the RULE was Saint Benedict’s prescription for a stable community devoted to God’s service. The RULE continues to be the guide that serves monastic communities such as Saint Martin’s Abbey and the apostolate of education that it has undertaken these past 121 years.

From 1895 to the mid-1960s, the education of Saint Martin’s students was, for the most part, the task of the monks of the abbey. However, with the impact of Vatican 11, and the shift in fundamental economic, political and religious mores within the social framework of the country and the Church, fewer vocations to the religious and monastic life were realized. With the shortage of religious vocations, the monks realized that the hiring of lay faculty and staff would be essential if the school was to continue its mission of education.

Today, the University has an amazing community of faculty and staff, both lay and religious, that have worked very hard with the monastic community to maintain and support its Catholic identity and its Benedictine character.

Five years ago, August 2011, President Roy Heynderickx, Ph.D., established the Benedictine Institute for the purpose of finding ways to make more visible the Catholic/Benedictine character of the school and to strengthen and reassess its position in relationship to its present and future students.

Having been asked to direct this new program, I had the benefit of a strong advisory board, established to find ways in which the University could more clearly and effectively celebrate its Benedictine wisdom, understand its Benedictine heritage and provide students with the basic tenants that mark their educational experience as uniquely Benedictine.

Several initiatives were proposed, and new programs were put into place with the general spirit of the campus community supporting the movement to celebrate and to reaffirm its Benedictine character.

The following were just some of the programs that were developed out of the Benedictine Institute: • A bi-annual lecture series focused on faith and Benedictine spirituality.

• The Celebration of Art and Culture series.

•T he erection of banners along the campus roadways celebrating the core values of FAITH, SERVICE,

REASON and COMMUNITY. •T he Benedictine Scholars Program.

• I ntroduction into the curriculum of courses on Benedictine spirituality, history and culture.

•T he OBSCULTA (Listening) weekend retreats based on the rule of Benedict for students,

faculty and staff.

•T he study of the RULE of Benedict for students enrolled in First-Year Seminar courses.

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•S haring of prayer and meals with the monks for students, faculty and staff.

•R edesign of the Baccalaureate Mass for graduating seniors.

•T he new faculty, staff and board of trustee orientation retreats each fall semester.

I will be stepping down from the executive directorship of the Benedictine Institute as of this fall semester with the appointment of Sister Gertrude Feick, O.S.B., from Queen of Angels Monastery in Mt. Angel, Ore., and will return to the classroom where I will continue teaching for the English and the religious studies departments.

Father Kilian and Saint Martin's alum Tom Barte '68 with first-year students from the Benedictine Scholars Program during their annual service trip in May 2015. During the trip, they visited St. Gertrude's Monastery in Cottonwood, Idaho, where they planted gardens with the sisters and enjoyed hiking.

It was a privilege and an honor to have worked closely with Mr. Jon Dwyer, Campus Minister, an amazing human being who brought such wisdom, knowledge, kindness and rich personal faith to the program and to the life of Saint Martin’s University students. His departure will be deeply felt by many. It was wonderful working with Ann Adams, associate dean of students and Career Center director, who co-chaired the Benedictine Identity Task Force with me these last several years; everything she does is brilliant.

With the dedicated faculty, staff and administration of Saint Martin’s University, mindful that at the heart of Saint Martin’s is its rich Catholic/Benedictine mission, future students can be assured of the very best in their educational experience, so that in all things God may be glorified. u

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Murdock grant recipients Two academics have received research grants from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Research Program for Natural Sciences. Robert Bode, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, who will be the principal investigator, received a $42,920 grant in support of his research project entitled, “Measuring the Natural Selection on Floral Traits in Invasive Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius L).” Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) is a noxious, invasive weed in the Pacific Northwest. Although firmly established in the region, population growth rates are dampened by pollinator limitation and seed predation. His research will measure pollinator availability and investigate how Scotch broom has adapted to pollinator limitation. The effects of seed predators along an elevation gradient will also be investigated. The project will provide opportunities for students to gain research skills.

Fellow Murdock grant recipient Samuel Fox, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, was awarded $33,680 in support of his research project entitled “Characterization of the gene expression response to cold stress in winter and spring wheat (Triticum monococcum).” Wheat is one of the most cultivated crops in the world and is extremely important for the world’s sustenance and economy.

Factors such as drought, salinity and temperature stresses are major contributors to crop failure. Low temperatures, in particular, both sudden and for sustained periods, can cause dramatic decreases in crop yield. Plants respond to stress by changing their genetic architecture. Using DNA sequencing, this project will analyze gene expression in wheat exposed to cold temperature stress and will provide undergraduate students with research opportunities in genomics and computational biology.

The power and beauty of math The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP) hosts an international mathematical contest in modeling each year. This year, more than 12,000 college teams from around the world participated in the contest, and Saint Martin’s was actively involved. The campus hosted a regional judging, with faculty from Seattle University, the University of Washington, Seattle Pacific University, the University of Puget Sound, Western Washington University and Central Washington University joining Saint Martin’s Carol Overdeep, Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics, and Dave Olwell, Ph.D., dean

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of engineering. They evaluated more than 1,000 team submissions. This group of judges, as a result, established a community of mathematical modeling faculty in Washington for collaboration and support. Of the six problems, Olwell wrote two and served as the chief judge for the data science problem. More than 6,000 college teams submitted solutions to these two problems. In the final judging this spring in Carmel, Calif., a handful of outstanding papers were selected.

Overdeep and Olwell, along with Katie Oliveras from Seattle University, are preparing the “Judge’s Commentary” on the data science problem for publication as an invited paper to the Undergraduate Mathematics and its Applications Journal later this summer. Preparations are underway for the 2017 contest, and Saint Martin’s faculty are expected to play a leadership role again.

We welcome our new CFO and new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Edward J. Barton has joined Saint Martin’s University as chief financial officer. Barton, of Bothell, brings more than 20 years of accounting, financial services and executive management experience to Saint Martin’s. He has managed a broad range of financial roles including leading

and managing accounting and finance teams, audit preparation, management and design, bookkeeping and tax preparation, and risk management.

Before joining Saint Martin's Barton worked with small and mid-sized businesses, as a consultant on financial operations and transactions structuring with CFO Selections in Bellevue. Before that, he was president and COO of G2 Web Services. Earlier, he served as G2’s vice president of finance.

Before moving to Seattle, Barton also served as an Army engineer officer, which sparked his passion for operational efficiency.

Barton’s education includes a BBA from Notre Dame, Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern California University and a MBA from Syracuse University. He is a Washington State-licensed CPA and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a chartered financial analyst and a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute.

Saint Martin’s also welcomes Jeff Crane, Ph.D., as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Prior to Saint Martin’s he was an associate dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Crane’s job there involved hiring, orientation and review of approximately 135 part-time faculty members. Crane

January 13: Televised game of Saint Martin’s women’s basketball team and #PackthePavilion Pep Rally January 19: Archdiocese of Seattle Mass for Life January 22: Martin Luther King Jr. celebration January 28: Year of Faith – Faith and Art January 28: Saint Martin’s chosen as a top school for military education

advocated measures to improve part-time faculty teaching, as well as their development and continued employment at UIW. Another important component of his position was management of student complaints about faculty and resolution of academic integrity issues.

At UIW, Crane assisted with assessment and outcomes development and evaluation while conducting evaluations of university-wide outcomes for a SACS accreditation.

Crane played a critical role in sustainability efforts, and assisted in writing a proposal for a sustainability office that was successful and funded. He also helped “green” the curriculum.

He is co-editor of the book, “The Politics of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Social Change” (University of Colorado Press), to be released shortly. His other books include “The Environment in History: Nature and The Formation of the United States” (Routledge Press), and “Finding the River: An Environmental History of the Elwha River” (Oregon State University Press), which made him a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in 2011.

Crane also served as a member of the history faculty at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas; visiting assistant professor of history at Western Illinois. University in Macomb, Ill., and assistant professor of history at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Mo. He has a doctorate and a master’s degree in history at Washington State University, and earned a bachelor’s degree in American studies from The Evergreen State College.

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January 30: Benedictine Leaders Program Community Leadership Summit February 2: Faith and Society: Transforming Encounters

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February 2: 50 Jobs in 50 States event

February 3: Liberal Arts and the Global Community: Lessons from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Ghana

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Saint Martin’s business program earns accreditation Saint Martin’s business program has recently earned accreditation by the Accrediting Council of Business Schools and Programs, a national accrediting organization.

The business program accreditation affirms that the practices and procedures of Saint Martin’s School of Business fall within standard guidelines followed by other American and international

Coach Brewer and family pitch in at an African orphanage Cross county and track and field Coach Jim Brewer, his wife, Rachel, assistant coach for cross country and track, and their children Holden, 6, and Karen, 4, spent time at an orphanage in Kenya in July to help the children there.

The Brewer family stayed at the Grace of God Children’s Center in Kaptagat, located in the Rift Valley in Kenya.

They brought with them toys and clothing for the children, as well. This was Brewer’s second trip to Kenya, and the first trip for his wife and children.

“The first time I went, I was with a group called Athletes in Action,” says Brewer. He says he attended Kenya’s

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business schools. In a process that spanned several years, the School of Business submitted a self-study report to the council that included three semesters’ worth of data.

During the past academic year council, its commissioners visited Saint Martin’s and verified that the business program meets national standards.

The accreditation affirms the educational value of the Saint Martin’s School of Business, which combines academic coursework with hands-on experience. “All of our faculty have real-world business experience,” says Nicole Phillips, executive assistant to Richard Beer, Ph.D., dean of the School of Business. “They’ve worked (or consulted) in marketing firms, as operations managers and accountants. This helps students understand how their textbook knowledge can be applied in the business world.”

national track and field championships during his initial trip to Kenya. Noting the many poor people living in Africa, Brewer explains his reasons for the family journey to Africa were based on “wanting to help my family and I to keep things in perspective. We are so blessed living in the United States. We have no want for anything, especially when compared to other places in the world.” Brewer adds, “While Rachel and I want to expose our children to a bigger world view, we also value our faith in Jesus Christ deeply. As a result, we are hopeful that while we can experience God in America, we also wanted to see what God is doing in Kenya and join God in whatever opportunities He presented to us while we were there.”

Faculty, staff and student updates Jeff Birkenstein, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented a paper, “Food as Cultural Intermediary in Chinese-American Immigrant Short Stories,” in July at the International Conference on the Short Story in English in Shanghai, China. He was joined by alumnus Tristan Beach ’10, who presented his paper, “Traditional Chinese Medicine in Lu Xun’s ‘Medicine’ and Mo Yan’s ‘The Cure.’” Beach is an instructor at the Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China.

Katie Bugyis, Ph.D., assistant professor of religious studies, co-edited the volume, “Medieval Cantors and their Craft: Music Liturgy and the Shaping of History,” (York Medieval Press) which will be published in December.

This collection of essays traces the medieval monastic office of the cantor throughout Western Europe and attends especially to how those assigned to this office recorded and restaged the histories of their communities. One of the readers’ reports anticipates this volume’s impact on the future study of medieval historiography: “Wholly original in its subject matter, modest in its rhetoric, but rich in its implications, it must be one of the most stimulating and interesting books on high-medieval history writing to have emerged in the last 10 years or so.”

Saint Martin’s students Sally Fletcher ’17, Nick Mailhot ’16 and Samantha Meek ’17, with alternate Rebecca Perdue ’17, flexed their math muscles in December 2015 as the first team from Saint Martin’s to participate in the 76th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. The team scored a hard-earned 8. “For perspective, let me tell you that the median score on this

February 6: Distinguished Alumni Awards February 6: National Girls & Women in Sports Day February 6: Homecoming Weekend February 6: Athletic Hall of Fame/Hall of Honor 26th Anniversary February 10: Ash Wednesday Campus Ministry Mass

exam is a zero, meaning that over half of the participants score no points on this 120-point exam,” explains Bonnie Amende, Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics. “It is very prestigious to score any points.” The Putnam exam is a contest open to all undergraduate students.

Caitlin Gordon, senior transfer admissions counselor, graduated in May from Saint Martin’s University with a master’s degree in education and a certification in school guidance counseling.

Heather Grob, Ph.D., associate professor of economics, was a panelist for the Allied Social Science Association/Labor and Employment Relations Association meetings in San Francisco in January.

February 12: Sigma Tau Delta’s Valentine Versus Poetry Reading February 24: Engineering Awareness Day February 26-28: Obsculta Retreat March 12: Benedictine Scholars Day March 18: Year of Faith – Seen and Heard April 5: Annual Career and Internship Fair

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The panel discussed the future of retirement savings programs, particularly the challenges that continue to face multi-employer “Taft-Hartley” pension funds. As a panelist, Grob evaluated the research presented by national experts and raised questions on its application to policy. “On this panel, I called for more research on the massive amount of lost income that could result from the insolvency of poorly funded multi-employer funds, which could potentially affect millions of participants and their families,” Grob explained. “The amount could be in the hundreds of billions and makes a compelling case for reform of these funds, bailout, mandatory savings account, or all of the above.”

Robert C. Hauhart, Ph.D., J.D., professor in the department of society and social justice, recently published “Seeking the American Dream: A Sociological Inquiry” (New York, Palgrave Macmillan).

The book is an examination of the American Dream myth through a sociological lens and is based, in part, on interviews with Olympia’s homeless conducted by Saint Martin’s alum Jessica Flores ’12 in January, who collaborated with Hauhart. Hauhart also presented a lecture and conducted workshops regarding his 2015 co-authored book (with Jon E. Grahe), “Designing and Teaching Undergraduate Capstone Courses” (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Wiley) at California State University - Channel Islands.

April 7: Faith and Society — Better Together April 7: Psychology Talks Symposium — Autism Awareness April 9: Hui ’O Hawaii’s Annual Lu’au April 9: Saint Martin’s University Theatre Arts Program presents “The Drowsy Chaperone” April 20: Hope Concert

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Hlavsa memoir snares gold INDIEFAB Book award Professor of theatre arts and interdisciplinary studies David Hlavsa has won a Foreward Reviews’ gold INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award for his book, “Walking Distance: Pilgrimage, Parenthood, Grief, and Home Repairs.”

Foreward Reviews is a trade review widely used by booksellers and librarians. It covers books published by university, independent and alternative publishers, as well as the self-publishing industry. Its awards were announced recently at the American Library Association’s annual conference.

Published by Michigan State University Press, Hlavsa’s poignant and sometimes wickedly funny book topped the family and relations category and was a finalist in the memoir category. It tells the story of a pilgrimage along Spain’s Camino de Santiago taken by Hlavsa and his wife Lisa Holtby to work through marriage matters and prepare for parenthood. The tale becomes metaphor for a journey through the traumatic stillbirth of their firstborn, James, a harrowing second pregnancy that delivers their second child, Benjamin, safely into the world, and the healing, spiritual growth and joy that sometimes buds so mysteriously amid life’s most anguishing moments.

A piece by Victor Kogan, Ph.D., professor of criminal justice and sociology, entitled “Immigration and We.” Does the problem of immigration have a moral solution?” has been accepted for publication by the Russian Criminological Outlook, 2016, No.1.

April 21: Robert A. Harvie Social Justice Lecture featuring Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhao April 26: Scholars Day presentations April 26: Honors Convocation and reception April 27: Year of Faith: Reflections April 27: Society of Fellows Spring Colloquium

Louise Kaplan, Ph.D., director of the RN-to-BSN Nursing Program, received the University of Washington Distinguished Alumni Award in May. Kael Moffat, information literacy librarian, gave a poster presentation, “Beyond the Googlesphere: Building Context in FYS Library Sessions,” at the Personal Librarian and First-Year Experience Conference, in May at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

In January, Carol Overdeep, Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics, gave a talk, “More Results on the Trichotomy Character of a Second-order Rational Difference Equation with Period-two Coefficients” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle.

David Price, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and sociology, published the book: “Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology” (Duke University Press). The book uses hundreds of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and extensive archival records to examine interactions between American anthropologists and members of the military and intelligence community during the Cold War. Eileen Reilich, Ph.D., associate professor of education, presented on “Performing Classroom Vignettes Using Forum Theater in a Secondary Methods Class,” in February at the Lilly International Conference Series on College and University Teaching and Learning in Newport Beach, Calif. Her “action research” project is a continuation of work done previously in a secondary methods class in an effort to help individual teacher candidates develop interactional expertise. Methods used include vignettes captured from

April 28: School of Business accredited by the Accrediting Council of Business Schools and Programs April 30: 11th Annual Dragon Boat Festival May 6: Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering Ring Ceremony

secondary classrooms, which are then performed using Forum Theater Frank Washko, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, presented a paper, "Segmented Innovation to Drive Interdisciplinary Design Efforts," at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Applied System Innovation in May. The paper discusses how several known innovation paradigms can be segmented to require the inputs from non-engineers for more efficient and competitive product and service designs.

An article by Ian Werrett, Ph.D., associate professor of religious studies, was highlighted in a recent special edition of History Channel Magazine that focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls. The article is titled, “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Ancient Scriptures Decoded.”

In his piece, “Is Qumran a Library?”Werrett presents his argument in favor of the Dead Sea Scrolls being the remains of an ancient Jewish library.

Teresa Winstead, Ph.D., assistant professor of society and social justice, is collaborating on a research project with John Hopkins, Ph.D., associate dean of students and director of diversity and service initiatives, and Michael Vendiola, Office of Native Education supervisor. They will document the experience of the three Tribal Compact Schools in Washington state that are navigating a new policy relationship with the state government to control the education of their children.

May 8: Saint Martin’s Class of 2016 Commencement May 26: Fifth Cohort of Benedictine Scholars named

May 6: Baccalaureate Mass and Hooding Ceremony

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First Abbot Scholars will join our community this fall A cohort of four incoming freshmen have been chosen as the University’s first Abbot Scholars. The new scholarships are full-tuition, need-based and renewable for four years.

They are dedicated to seniors graduating from Washington’s Catholic high schools. Students selected for the awards have demonstrated one or more of Saint Martin’s core values — faith, reason, community and service — in their lives. The scholarships honor Saint Martin’s first Abbot and Chancellor Abbot Oswald Baran, O.S.B., and current Chancellor and Abbot Neal Roth, O.S.B. Abbot Scholars are: • Pablo Rodriguez, College Place, a graduate of Walla Walla’s DeSales High School who is entering the pre-professional program in medicine.

Bien hecho, Fulbright winner Chyteira Dues!

Chyteira Dues, who earned her Master in Teaching degree in December, is teaching in Colombia on a Fulbright U.S. Student Program English Teaching Assistant Grant. She recently began her stint at Juan de Castellanos University in Tunja, Boyocá, Colombia, and plans to complete a community project while there.

The prized awards from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board enable recipients to teach, conduct research and provide expertise abroad for a year. They go to applicants with strong records of exceptional academic and professional achievement, service and demonstrated leadership in their prospective fields. While several Saint Martin’s faculty members have received Fulbright awards, Dues is Saint Martin’s first Fulbright student recipient.

Dues, who has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in human relations, earlier served with the U.S. Air Force. Among her duties, she taught Spanish at the U.S. Military Academy for two years.

Besides being a student, she is a public affairs officer for the Washington Air National Guard. She plans to teach in Tacoma and complete her post-graduate school counselor certification at the University when she comes home.

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• Leslie Maya, Kennewick, a graduate of Tri-Cities Prep in Pasco, who also plans to take the pre-professional program in medicine.

• Savannah Schilperoort, Yakima, a graduate of LaSalle High School in Yakima, who is entering a pre-professional program with the eventual goal of becoming an athletic trainer.

• Saul Garrola, Centralia, a graduate of Pope John Paul II High School in Lacey, who will major in mechanical engineering.

Trustee Scholarships awarded to two area transfer students Jennifer Schmidt and Whitney Shute, both transfer students from South Puget Sound Community College, are recipients of the University’s 2016-2017 Trustee Scholarships. Each student will receive a $26,000 scholarship, which will be divided among four semesters of study.

Schmidt, an Olympia resident, will enter the University’s RN-to-BSN nursing program. She is this year’s recipient of SPSCC’s Spirit of Nursing Award and is currently doing a residency with Providence St. Peter Hospital’s progressive care unit.

Shute, of Lacey, is majoring in psychology and plans a career working with adolescents and at-risk youth. She is a volunteer for the Crisis Clinic of Thurston and Mason Counties and the Lacey Stream Team.

Calendar of events

Mass of the Holy Spirit Thursday, Sept. 1, 10:45 a.m.

Saint Martin's Abbey Church

Wisdom and Chocolate Wednesday, Sept. 9, 5:30 - 9p.m.

Norman Worthington Conference Center

Robert A. Harvie Social Justice Lecture

Thank you to our 2016 festival sponsors and supporters!

Friday, Sept. 23, 4 p.m.

Harned Hall, Room 110

Les Bailey Writer's Series Wednesday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m.

Norman Worthington Conference Center

Sacred Music Concert Saturday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 23, 2:30 p.m.

Saint Martin's Abbey Church

STEM Career Fair

Wednesday, Sept. 28, 1 -3 p.m.

Norman Worthington Conference Center

Business Career Fair Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1 -3 p.m.

Norman Worthington Conference Center

Sponsors and Donors 94.5 ROXY Academy of International Education, Inc. ASSMU Capital Mall Capitol City Press Caveman Eats City of Lacey City of Olympia City of Tumwater Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Cruz and Maureen Arroyo John and Cindy Hough Olympia Federal Savings Port of Olympia Squaxin Island Tribe UW Medicine World Trade Center San Francisco

Boat Sponsors ASSMU Capitol City Press Port of Olympia Saint Martin’s University World Trade Center San Francisco

Career for the Common Good Fair Tuesday, Nov. 8, 1 - 3 p.m.

Norman Worthington Conference Center

Christmas Pops Concert and Sing Along Thursday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m.

Marcus Pavilion

Saint Martin's 5th Annual Jingle Bell Run 5K Saturday, Dec. 3, 9:30 a.m.

Marcus Pavilion

Homecoming weekend Friday, Feb. 10 - Sunday, Feb. 12 Saint Martin's University Campus

Distinguished Alumni Reception Saturday, Feb. 11, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Norman Worthington Conference Center Hall of Fame/Hall of Honor Saturday, Feb. 11, 3:30 - 5 p.m.

Norman Worthington Conference Center For a complete list of University events, visit the online calendar at: www.stmartin.edu and click on “Calendar.”

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Soulful jump leads to National Champion

by Megan Lobdell championship ranked 12th in the meet. He passed on the first height of 6-6 ¾ and then cleared his next four jumps on his first attempt, including a new career-best height of 7-1. That height broke the school record and a Great Northwest Athletic Conference record. He also holds the school and conference record indoors with a height of 7-0 ½ set last season. He is the only jumper in GNAC history to jump over 7 feet both indoors and outdoors.

Mikel Smith ’17 wasn’t supposed to be going to Saint Martin’s.

He came to SMU on a recruiting trip with his sister and decided it was the right fit for him.

And a fit he was for the University, as he is the Saints’ only National Champion in any sport and the only four-time AllAmerican. Smith competed at his first National Collegiate Athletic Association championship during the 2015 indoor and tied for fifth overall. That outdoor season, he had his bestfinish at an NCAA meet, placing third.

During the 2016 season, Smith had to get used to a new coach, Kyle Stevenson. With that coach at the 2016 indoor NCAA, he became the national runner-up, after he competed as the underdog, being ranked 12th heading into the meet.

Smith was used to being the underdog and had his sights on a national title. The junior headed into the outdoor

At the meet, Smith tied with Jeron Robinson of Texas A&MKingsville at 7-1 but won the tiebreaker because at 6-8 ¾, Smith cleared the height on his first jump and Robinson needed a second attempt.

“Winning nationals is a great feeling," said Smith after the competition. “I went out there and dared to be great and put my soul into each jump.”

“I was more nervous than Mikel was today because I knew he was ready,” said Assistant Coach Kyle Stevenson after the meet. “He has been real consistent in practice and through warm-ups throughout the day. Saint Martin’s now has its first National Champion. It took him reaching a lifetime best.”

For more information on Mikel Smith’s story, read “A bumpy past makes for a smooth approach to Nationals” in the Summer 2015 edition of Insights.

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Liedes ends golf career on a high

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Jennifer Liedes ’16 walked across the Saint Martin’s graduation stage May 7 with her degree in business and ended her women’s golf career at SMU on a high note. “Come August, it is really going to hit me that I am not going to be in school anymore,” says Liedes. “I don’t know what to do with myself.”

“Jen has had an outstanding career and leaves the women’s golf program as the most honored player in the program’s history,” says Athletics Director Bob Grisham, noting Liedes is a 10-time Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week and received the Saint Martin’s University Outstanding Senior Female Athlete Award. “To have been able to coach her and watch her play the past three years has been an enjoyable ride.”

The Olympia native transferred to Saint Martin’s from the University of Washington after her freshman year. She sat out the next year due to transfer rules and then was named GNAC Newcomer of the Year and picked for the First Team All-Conference.

In her junior year with the Saints, she led the University in almost every invitational. She was named GNAC Co-Golfer of the Year and selected for the All-Conference First Team.

Her goal that season was to win the GNAC Championships, which wasn’t accomplished in her junior year but was the following year.

During her senior season, Liedes tied for first at the GNAC Championships in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and had to play a playoff round. “Obviously, I had not had a great first round,” says Liedes about the championships.

“I went into the second day just wanting to have my last round be a fun experience and have no regrets. I played more aggressively and was not at all expecting to end up tied for first. Once I found that out, I was definitely a little flustered and nervous.”

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Liedes had a first-round score of 80 and then came back to set the GNAC single-round record by two strokes as she shot an even-par. She tied with Simon Fraser’s Michelle Waters and had to play a play-off round.

“I had never been in a play-off before, so I wasn’t really sure how to approach it,” Liedes says. “Luckily, my coach could help me through it a little bit. I was excited because I was beat with a birdie but not by some dumb mistake I made. It was just a cool experience just to say I got to do that and definitely a good way to end my senior conference tournament.”

The senior thought GNAC was going to be the last tournament for her career at Saint Martin’s, as she was named GNAC Co-Golfer of the Year and chosen for the GNAC All-Conference First Team. She then learned she made regionals. “I found out I was going, so, obviously, I was super excited about it. I just went into regionals having fun, happy to be there, and I didn’t put that much pressure on myself,” said Liedes.

Liedes opened the first round with an 82 and came back to fire a two-under par 70 in round two. In the final round, she finished four-over-par 76 to finish tied for 33rd overall. “I didn’t play great the first day, which was kind of a bummer, but the last few days, I played two of my better rounds, for sure, as far as golf striking goes. It was a really fun experience and cool that I made it.”

Liedes might not have played her best three-rounds of golf at the tournament, but she ended it on a high note since the last time Saint Martin’s was at the West-Super Regionals was in 2009. Liedes said she is going to miss her team the most since they are all so close. She said some of her most memorable moments occurred in Hawaii because it was her first time there, and she enjoyed the playoff at the GNAC Championships. She said she will miss the team trips the most and how fun they were for her.

After graduating, Liedes moved to Arizona where she will be working for Amazon. When asked if she plans on playing golf, she said, “My family here in Arizona all golf, so, hopefully, I will be able to golf with them. I’m definitely not going to give up that.”

She doesn’t want to play professionally. “I used to think that I might want to, but now, I am just ready to play for fun and not have any pressure on myself.”

>> Taylor Gersch ’17 and Sara Massee ’17 of the women’s soccer team, were named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-West Region.

>> Krista Stabler ’16 scored over 1,000-career points for the Saints women’s basketball team. In her four-year career at Saint Martin’s, she recorded 1,090 points to rank 14th in school history. Megan Wiedeman ’16 ended her career with 156 blocked shots, a school record. She is second in rebounds in her career, with 780. >> Fred Jorg ’16, of the men’s

basketball team, was named to the Great Northwest Athletic AllConference team. He was named honorable mention in his first season at SMU.

>> Five Saints basketball players

named to the GNAC All-Academic Team, Isaac Bianchini ’17, Victor Ieronymides ‘18, Hannah Reynolds ’18, Brooke Rickard ’16 and Krista Stabler ’16

>> Shannon Porter ’17 represented

track and field at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Indoor Championships. Porter competed in two events at the NCAA Championships. She finished 12th overall in the 5,000 meters and became Saint Martin’s only female indoor All-American in 3,000 meters as she finished eighth overall.

>> Jennifer Liedes ’16, of the

women’s golf team, finished her career at Saint Martin’s at the NCAA Championships. She finished 33rd overall in the threeround tournament, with a score of 228. In the final round of the

tournament, Liedes set the GNAC single-round record by two-strokes, as she shot an even par. As a team, the University finished third overall. After the season, Liedes was named GNAC Co-Player of the Year for the second year in a row and named first team for the third year.

>> Austin Spicer ’17 led the men’s

golf team as he tied his career-low round score on the final day of the GNAC Championships. He fired a 67 on the final day and had his highest GNAC Championships finish, as he placed runnerup. He helped his team finish fifth overall. After the season, Spicer and Ryan Pickthorn ’16 were named to the GNAC AllConference Team. Both were named to the first team.

>> Saints softball qualified for the

GNAC Championships hosted on the Saint Martin’s campus. After a home-series sweep over Northwest Nazarene, Saint Martin’s was named GNAC Red Lion Team of the Week and Kim Nelson ’18 was named GNAC Softball Pitcher of the Week. The Saints finished the year at the GNAC Championships with a 34-20 overall record and 16-12 in GNAC play.

>> Six softball players were named

to the GNAC All-Conference Team and Mary Dettling ’17 was a unanimous first-team selection.

Jackie Schmaeling ’17, Megan Miller ’16, Lauren Diuco ’19

and Lauren Williams ’19 were all named second team, while Alyssa Slate ’17 was named honorable mention.

>> Five baseball players were named

to the GNAC All-Conference Team and Mickey Walker ’19 was named Freshman of the Year.

Baseball finished the season 15-35 overall and 12-28 in the GNAC.

>> For the first time in the history

of Saint Martin’s, Jennifer Liedes and Nathan Morgan ’16 were named the recipients of the firstever Saint Martin’s University Outstanding Senior Female and Male Athlete Award, presented at the SMU Honors Convocation and reception. Honorees were nominated by their coaches and submitted to the Athletic Advisory Committee for voting. The committee focused on academic history, athletic accomplishment and service involvement.

>> Shannon Porter ’17, Deanna

Avalos ’18 and Mikel Smith ’17 represented track and field at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Porter finished 15th in the 1,500 meters and 18th in the 5,000 meters. Avalos finished 19th in the javelin and Smith won the title in the high jump.

>> A total of 34 student athletes were

named to the Spring GNAC AllAcademic Team — four baseball, eight softball, 10 golf and 12 track ans field athletes.

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1970s Alumni Jerry Taniyama ’70, Tommy Ai ’72, Gerald “Sully” Sulliban ’73, and Jim Lum ’73 enjoyed camaraderie and friendship during a Saint Martin’s University versus Chaminade University of Honolulu softball game on Oahu in February.

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1950s Ed Wack ’59 was honored as director emeritus by Olympia Federal Savings for his career spanning 54 years, 35 of which he spent serving on the board of directors. He was first appointed as a director in 1980 and he became chairman in 1997.

1980s Mohammed Ibrahim Sadhan ’82 retired in April after serving for nearly 35 years as a consultant engineer with the Royal Saudi Naval Forces.

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1960s Dan O’Neill HS’68 was recognized in February as a Distinguished Leader by the Thurston County Chamber Foundation and the Leadership Thurston County Program as someone who demonstrates outstanding initiative, inspires others and makes a significant impact in his local community and beyond.

O’Neill is the owner of The Barn Nursery and Great Western Supply, a 100-year-old family business that continues to meet the needs of farms, businesses and personal shoppers through core conservation values and respect of the land and nature, with a theme of recycling locally-sourced products. O’Neill is a strong supporter of education and lifelong learning through several educational boards and foundations, athletics and local school district involvement.

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Warren Fossum ’84 responded to a request for testimonials with Traeger Renegade Elite wood-fired grills and was selected to be featured in an Official TV Infomercial on YouTube. He’s in his 25th year at Yamaha Motor Corp., USA. He recently traveled to Greenville, S.C., for the company’s latest product unveiling, and will go to Quebec in August as part of a sales incentive, in which he finished first in the nation. Capping off his summer, Warren will celebrate the marriage of his daughter Brittany in September.

Dr. Linda Rasmussen ’84 and her family were featured by Kailua Beach Neighbors magazine. The article featured her career as an orthopedic surgeon, her volunteerism in the community and her passion for photography, which has become Rasmussen’s 4

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artistic outlet. She has published several books of her photography. The most recent “Nani O’ahu…Beautiful O’ahu Through a Surgeon’s Eyes,” can be found at Costco, Barnes and Noble and the Bishop Museum.

Marty Crow ’89, executive director for Habitat for Humanity of Mason County, hosted a groundbreaking 8 ceremony in April for the organization’s 25th house groundbreaking. This event coincided with the Mason County chapter’s 20th anniversary.

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Paula Nopp Stansell ’93 has been working for the past two years as a certified instructor with the Gravity Learning Center in Aberdeen. Paula and her team help youth between 16 and 21 years of age study for and earn their General Educational Development, or GED, degree.

Jason Bruhn ’96, an engineer with SCJ Alliance in Lacey, led the Thurston County MATHCOUNTS competition in February. MATHCOUNTS is a national middle school coaching and competitive mathematics program. This year’s competition was held at Saint Martin’s University.

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This year, he recruited five additional colleagues, three of whom are also Saints grads to help out: Tyrell Bradley ’11, Charlie Severs ’10, MEM’15 and Mallory Dobbs ’16.

Jutta Stevens ’97 is the Business Examiner’s 2016 Financial Executive of the Year in the mid-size company category for her work as chief financial officer for Golden Services, LLC, in Lakewood.

Rick Sangder ’98 was appointed in January as the head of the City of Aberdeen’s Public Works Department by Mayor Erik Larson. He has worked for the department since 1998.

Shannon Blood ’99 graduated with a master’s degree in strategic communications from Washington State University in May. She’s now employed as an early learning and home visiting program manager with the Washington State Health Care Authority.

Hollie Matthews ’99 is excited to have moved back to the South Sound Area after spending several years in Eastern Washington. Earlier this year, she joined the clinical staff at the new University of Washington Neighborhood Olympia Clinic. This new position allows her to give back to her community and continue to work with medical students from the UW School of Medicine, which is a passion of hers.

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Lauren Taga ’99, MBA’13, Saint Martin’s assistant director of public safety, is the recipient of the 2016 Saint Martin’s University Staff of the Year Award. Lauren was nominated by her peers for the award, which is given by the Saint Martin’s Abbey in recognition of her dedication to exemplifying Benedictine values through her work and within the community.

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2000s Joe Toner ’02 and Nic Lind ’02, principals and owners of Commencement Bay Brokers in Tacoma, have had their company recognized as one of the “Top 25 Real Estate Brokerage Companies” by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Rachel Bjorklund ’03, now the national campaign director at World Vision, has been listed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s first-ever 40 under 40 list. The list focuses on a group of extraordinary nonprofit leaders, fundraisers, foundation officials, donors and social entrepreneurs from across the country.

Robert Kemper ’03 was married to Kiran Dhanji in June 2015 at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Silverton, Ore. Fr. Kilian Malvey, O.S.B., HS’55, ’64 officiated at the ceremony, and Br. Aelred Woodard, O.S.B. provided the music. Best man Tyson Magney ’03, his wife, Sarah, and family attended. The couple resides in Japan, where Major Kemper is a C-130 aircraft commander for the United States Marine Corps in Iwakuni.

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small business administration, has been named assistant vice president and commercial relationship manager with Olympia Federal Savings.

Kaleigh ’08 and Andrew Prentice ’05 welcomed their second son, Theodore Richard Prentice, in March 2016. Theo weighed 11 pounds 7 ounces and was 21 inches tall.

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Clare Frances Lopez ’09 began working with ArtSpot in January 2016. ArtSpot is an international, professional touring theater company based in Buenos Aries, Argentina. It creates and performs original work and adapted classics for young audiences around the world. The theatre company combines musical theater, physical comedy and meaningful stories in its own fresh and distinctive way. Lopez will be spending the next year and a half touring 13 countries, preforming as Princess Anne in the musical, “D’Artagnan Defending the Crown.”

Her travels can be followed at www.clare-lopez.com.

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Ryan Meister ’09 was recently hired as a deputy coroner for Grays Harbor County.

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Jonaphine (Viray) Dunn ’10 married Brandon Dunn in June 2015 in Seabrook.

Megan Liedal (Busch) Rude ’10 and her husband, David, announce the birth of their son, Jordan Leidal Rude in November 2015.

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Bianca Galam ’11 launched a food blog in May called “Something Savored,” chronicling her foodie adventures in Seattle and beyond. Her blog can be found at www.somethingsavored.com.

Marisha Kasjan ’11 and her fiancé climbed Mt. Rainier, her second summit, in June. She says that Saint Martin’s taught her to continue to aspire to something great and challenge herself. Her next challenge is a half-marathon in November. She works for Community Youth Services in Olympia and is planning a 2017 wedding.

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Caleb White ’11 and Casey Gann MED’15 are team members with the South Puget Sound branch of Habitat for Humanity, which took home top honors in the nonprofit category of the Business Examiner Media’s 2016 Top Places to Work event.

Anelise Cruz Cichy ’12 and her husband Brian welcomed their son, Emmett Francisco Cichy, in April 2016 at Swedish Hospital in Seattle.

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Alyssa Nastasi ’12 married Jesse Sandwick in August 2015. Alyssa is the assistant director of the Saint Martin’s University Career Center.

Mary Mackenzie “Kenzieˮ Long ’13 and Jeremiah “JJ” Olson ’15 were married in February 2016. The bridal party included Brandon Meyer ’15 (best man) and Chris Womac ’14 (groomsman). Also in attendance were Shannon Jay ’99, Katie Hargrave ’11, Samuel ’12 and Aubrey ’15 Larsen, Jesse ’13 and Rae ’15 Lamp, and Jovanny Centeno ’15.

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Pro-Am league. In 2015. Evan played for the Northside Wizards in Australia’s Queensland Basketball League.

Leah Fisher ’14 received her master’s in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati in August 2015, and soon after, accepted a job as a research specialist for the State of West Virginia's Division of Justice and Community Services Office of Research and Strategic Planning. In this position, she collects data on crime in West Virginia and uses it to build publications that inform the governor, as well as others in her field. Her research is aimed toward the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, with a main goal of reducing prison population in West Virginia. She also trains those in community corrections on administering the LS/CMI, and also provides trainings in motivational interviewing and in effective practices in community supervision.

Michael Kinney ’14 has been accepted to the University of Washington School of Medicine and will begin his studies in August 2016.

Lexie Rebar ’14 received her master’s in social work with a concentration in children and youth from the University of Denver in June 2016.

Grace Caruso ’15 and Laura Krupke ’15 will spend the next year teaching at the Baotou Teacher College in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China. This is Caruso’s second year in China, having spent the last year teaching at the Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology. This will be Krupke’s first year and, prior to moving, she will be participating in an archeological dig in Navarre, Spain. The pair met at Saint Martin’s in 2011 during their freshman advising and registration session and remain best friends.

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Stephen Mahnken ’15 married Lauren Crews in April 2016 in Tacoma. Fellow Saints Zachary Carter ’15 and Torin Dooley ’16 served as groomsmen. Stephen is an account coordinator at Brandner Communications and Lauren is a nurse at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. They live in Puyallup.

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In May, Business Examiner Media celebrated the South Sound’s premier employers at its 2016 Top Places to Work event. SCJ Alliance of Lacey was named Top Place to Work as a Medium-Sized Employer, with judges impressed by how much its core values are evident in its workplace and its mission statement. It is set of values that has served the 10-year-old consulting firm well, leading to expansion into Wenatchee, Vancouver, Seattle and Denver — a steady growth pattern that has helped SCJ become one of the South Sound’s elite employers.

SCJ Alliance’s leadership team includes the following Saint Martin’s University alumni: Brandon Johnson ’04, engineering manager; Bob Jewell ’90, senior vice president; Lisa Hicks ’97, vice president, finance; Perry Shea ’84, president, as well as numerous other alumni who work in a variety of positions within the company.

Jessie Simmons ’15 became campaign manager for Kelsey Hulse, a candidate for Thurston County Commissioner District 2.

Annabel Warnell ’16 and Brandon Mowrey ’16 have joined the Olympia office of Landau Associates, a civil engineering firm. Both recent graduates are staff geotechnical engineers-in-training.

Mallory Dobbs ’16 has been hired by consulting firm SCJ Alliance. Mallory worked as a civil engineering intern at SCJ during her senior year.

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Distinguished alumni recognized Saint Martin’s University was delighted to welcome several hundred alumni back to campus for Homecoming Weekend 2016 in February. The weekend events included the Distinguished Alumni Awards, Coffee with the Monks, Saints Athletics Hall of Fame and Hall of Honor, rallies for the women’s and men’s basketball teams and doubleheader games.

This year’s Distinguished Alumni honorees were Art Fillazar ’73, of Kahului, Hawaii, Mary Gentry ’73, of Olympia, Gery Gerst ’71, of Olympia, EJ Juárez ’08, of Seattle, and Dick Mitchell ’55, of Seattle. These alumni have a lifetime of achievements, both professionally and in giving back to Saint Martin’s.

Saint Martin’s began formally recognizing its alumni in the early 1980s. Recipients are selected from nominations based on community service, professional achievement and service to Saint Martin’s University.

ALUMNI EVENTS LET'S CONNECT! Reconnect, reminisce and reunite with your fellow Saint Martin’s alumni at these fun alumni events in a city near you. For more information, visit www.stmartin.edu/alumni or contact 360-438-4366.

Father Kilian Malvey, O.S.B., HS’55, ‘64 August 27, 1936

NEW YORK CITY Saturday, Sept. 18 Brunch at La Sirena YAKIMA Friday, Oct. 7 Tieton Cider Works

Father Kilian’s 80th Birthday Party Saturday, August 20 Saint Martin’s University Marcus Pavilion Noon - 3 p.m.

Lunch will be provided.

Please R.S.V.P. at www.stmartin.edu/father-kilian Contact alumni@stmartin.edu or call 360-438-4366 for questions.

In lieu of gifts, please consider a donation to the Father Kilian Malvey Scholarship Endowment at www.stmartin.edu/father-kilian If you are unable to attend but would like to send a card to Father Kilian, please address it to: Father Kilian’s 80th Birthday, Office of Institutional Advancement, Saint Martin’s University, 5000 Abbey Way SE, Lacey, WA 98503 Fr. Kilian Malvey, O.S.B. HS’55, ‘64 August 27, 1936

let’s celebrate!

GALA INTERNATIONAL BRASIL Saturday, Nov. 5 Saint Martin’s University JINGLE BELL RUN Saturday, Dec. 3 Saint Martin’s University DESERT RENDEZVOUS Feb. 3-5 Palm Desert, Calif.

HOMECOMING WEEKEND Feb. 11-12 Saint Martin’s University FOR MORE INFORMATION Please check Saint Martin’s University website at www.stmartin.edu/alumni for the most up-to-date registration information regarding events.

Like our Saint Martin’s Alumni Facebook page to keep up on current University news and events. View and share photos of alumni gatherings and other special events, and help spread the word about your alma mater.

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In memoriam REMEMBERING FRIENDS OF SAINT MARTIN'S

1940s Lyle Hojem ’42 April 22, 2016

Peter McCabe ’60 February 8, 2016

James Neva ’72 August 3, 2015

Jessup McDonnell ’49 August 28, 2016

Dr. James “Jim” Snyder HS’57, ’61 January 16, 2016

Richard Cseak, Sr. ’74 July 11, 2015

Sr. Rosemarie Oliver Terwey, O.S.B., ’62 May 4, 2016

Gary Hackney ‘74 May 1, 2016

Stanley Spencer HS’66 December 8, 2015

Br. Theodore Vavrek, O.S.B., HS’62, ’77 January 13, 2016

Timothy Coppin HS’68 May 5, 2016

Donald Langlais ’79 July 6, 2015

1950s James Moothart ’51 January 12, 2016 John Young HS’52 February 25, 2016 William Boyle HS’45, ’53 January 13, 2016 Fr. Alfred Hulscher, O.S.B., HS’51, ’56 January 21, 2016 Dell Ray Ockerman ‘58 April 13, 2016 Richard Ogle ‘58 April 13, 2016

Anthony “Tony” Franulovich HS’71 May 25, 2016

1970s Dennis Manley ’70 January 9, 2016

Gary Bliven ’59 January 7, 2016

David Owens HS’70 February 5, 2016

Gary Marlette ’60 February 16, 2016

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Barbara Crumb ’72 February 18, 2016

1990s Teresa East MAC’99 February 1, 2016

2000s Kathleen Kneeland ‘02 May 31, 2016

2010s Connor Valenter ’11 March 25, 2016

PHIL WEIG AND (1937-2016) Longtime Saint Martin's trustee, supporter and friend Phil Weigand, 78, died on July 3.

Weigand, who was a member of the University’s Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2014, lived in Olympia, where he and his wife Judy had made their home since he retired as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Marine Corps. His second career, as a successful area realtor, was paired with community service, including his ongoing support of Saint Martin’s and its educational mission.

“Phil was always an active member of Saint Martin’s Board of Trustees and a supporter of all university initiatives,” said President Roy F. Heynderickx. “He gave his time freely to serve on many special committees and was well known and admired by many for doing so. His humor, candor and plain-spoken good sense will be missed by all of us.” The Weigands supported both capital projects and students, through special events. They also funded an annual award, the Robin Hanson Scholarship, in memory of Phil’s nephew, Robin Hanson of Walla Walla. Weigand especially enjoyed attending the annual Golf Classic and, with Judy, taking part in the annual Saint Martin’s Gala.

Besides Judy, he is survived by three children and their families.

RUTH BER G (1920-2016) Dr. Ruth Berg died on March 21, in Olympia, at the age of 95. She was a dedicated teacher and had a life-long thirst for knowledge. Berg was a professor of English and psychology, and was honored as “Teacher of the Year” at Saint Martin’s for the 1971-1972 academic year. After teaching at Saint Martin’s, Berg taught at South Puget Sound Community College. She also served as a trustee for Saint Martin’s in 1981.

Berg was preceded in death by her husband Reuben, and a daughter, Jean Jacobson. She is survived by three children: Mary Bailey, Phyllis Wilson and John Berg; 11 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

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NOTES

L A S T LO O K Anticipation is mounting on campus as Saint Martin’s readies for the Sept. 12 dedication ceremony that will officially open the new Panowicz Foundry for Innovation and the E. L. Wiegand Laboratories. The building’s name reflects the generous gifts of two major donors, University Board of Trustees Vice Chair Rick Panowicz and his wife Pam and the E. L. Wiegand Foundation. The 17,363-square-foot facility provides an inspiring new space where engineering and computer science students can test designs, explore possibilities and gain hands-on experience as they work toward their degrees.

Alongside labs for testing fluids, manufacturing, robotics and mechatronics, soils and materials, the building will house two technology classrooms, faculty offices, and workspace for senior design and competition projects. All are welcome additions that 01 will help support the growing number of students in the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering.

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Saturday, November 5 Saint Martin’s University Lacey, Washington

Gala International is a black-tie gourmet affair featuring culinary experts from a featured country for an evening of dinner, demos and a live auction benefiting Saint Martin’s student scholarships. This year’s country is Brazil.

The featured celebrity chef for Gala 2016 is Ligia Karazawa of Eataly Brasil, who will be partnered with Andrew Zimmern, star of Bizarre Foods.

Interested in attending Gala 2016?

Visit www.stmartin.edu/SMUGala for more details.

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