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saint martin’s university • spring 2018

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Alumni Reaching for the Saint Martin’s mourns loss of

Ken Garland & Eileen Reilich INSIGHTS SPRING 2018

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saint martin’s university spring 2018

4 EDITORS Genevieve Canceko Chan Kevin Hyde CREATIVE DIRECTOR Marki Carson PRINTING Capitol City Press CONTRIBUTORS

Abbey Bergquist Austin Byrnes Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D. Br. Boniface V. Lazzari, O.S.B. Tiffany McDuffy Amanda Moore Jamie Olson Deanna Partlow Melissa Roth ‘17 Vince Roux ‘17 Kathleen Thomas MBA ‘14 Kim Van Vleet ’05, MBA ‘07 Katie Wojke

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A Powerful Awakening

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Reaching for the Moon

Working towards inclusive excellence Melissa Roth ’17 and Vince Roux ’17

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Two men’s soccer players etch their places in Saint Martin’s history

Martie L. Moore ’92

A passion for excellence in nursing

Ken Garland / Eileen Reilich

Saint Martin’s mourns the loss of beloved baseball head coach and beloved education faculty member

DEPARTMENTS

3 President’s Greeting 10 In Their Own Words 14 Monastic Happenings 16 Campus News 26 Athletics

30 Alumni Profile 34 Alum Notes 40 In Memoriam 44 Calendar of events 46 Last Look

The life of a college president includes many public events, including many campus events. We had a number of events on campus that brought together students, faculty and staff. For each year for the past three years we have focused on a theme identified in our mission statement. Two years ago our theme was Faith, last year Reason, and this year Community. Gatherings throughout the year have focused on Community. Our students led much of this effort, bringing forward conversations and concerns about the issues of diversity and equity. Together we worked to encourage dialog and understanding, while practicing hospitality and listening.

We learn so much when we connect people from across campus, across disciplines, across generations.

We share in the celebration of new accomplishments, new students, new faculty and staff. We share our traditions, some unique to this campus like our Pack the Pavilion and Dragon Boat Festival. We also share when we grieve for those in illness and death. This spring, we came together as a campus to mourn two members of our Saint Martin’s family. In March, we lost our baseball coach and dedicated supervisor of our grounds crew, Ken Garland, who led our Saints baseball team for ten seasons. In April, we lost Dr. Eileen Reilich, beloved faculty member and mentor in the College of Education and Counseling for twenty years.

We look now to next year’s theme: Service. We begin to transition from Community to Service at this year’s Commencement, where will recognize three community leaders who have served so readily for decades to our greater community here in the South Sound region: Virgil and Barbara Clarkson and our very own Abbot Neal Roth. We recognize that service is a common element of all faiths. I think St. Benedict would be proud that we our living our mission and that we value all for what they bring to our community and the service they provide to one another.

A special thank you to alumni and friends who support our students, whether through donations or service. I am pleased to say that our Science Initiative is moving forward, with over $8 million in pledges received toward our $10 million goal. We hope to be wrapping up this campaign over the next few months. Remember, there is always the opportunity to give and I hope you consider helping us reach this important goal of providing new science labs and classrooms for our students and faculty.

I look forward to a Year of Service focused both internally on-campus as well as with the greater community in which we reside. It is with Service that we continue to strive to fulfill our mission of educating students in the Catholic, Benedictine tradition, as we have for the past 123 years.

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

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AWAKENING Working towards inclusive excellence

What does it mean for an institution to engage with diversity?

What does it mean to try to ensure that diverse perspectives and viewpoints are included and represented in the life of a community?

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by Kevin Hyde

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n the last two years, the University community has engaged in several new and wide-reaching initiatives to create a more inclusive and welcoming environment on campus. These changes have emerged due to conversations among students, faculty, staff and administrators over a longer timeline, stretching back more than six years.

Colleges and

universities throughout

the country are

grappling with the

issues of diversity and equity. Saint Martin's University, guided

by our Catholic,

Benedictine values,

has been examining how our sense

of community is

challenged and defined by these very issues.

While the University’s efforts have made a positive difference in the campus climate, the community also recognizes that there is still more work to be done.

“The last couple of years I would say it was like a powerful awakening for the campus,” says John Hopkins, Ph.D., associate dean of students and the director of service and diversity initiatives.

“These [initiatives] are not solutions. An institution comes to the realization that it has to have these components. Again they do not solve the problems of diversity and equity. They don't solve the issues of exclusion that certain students experience. But they start to move us in a direction where we cannot help but understand ourselves this way.”

Seeking and supporting diversity The University’s Office of Admissions has worked hard to recruit students who will succeed at Saint Martin’s and who want to be members of the community.

Pamela Holsinger-Fuchs, Ph.D., dean of enrollment, explains that the diversity of the student body has not happened by accident, but is an intentional result of the University’s recruiting strategies.

Over the last few years, the Office of Admissions has incorporated criteria from Turning the Tide, an initiative launched from the Harvard Graduate

School of Education to make the college enrollment process more equitable. “For our process, [for instance,] we take into consideration whether somebody works a job while they’re in high school, or if they’re a caregiver for their elderly grandparents or siblings,” says Holsinger-Fuchs. “Because not every family has the luxury of allowing their kids to be involved in the baseball team or Key Club or Future Business Leaders of America.”

The idea behind Turning the Tide is to evaluate students’ applications in a way that promotes more meaningful contributions to others and engagement with the public good, assesses ethical engagement in a manner that reflects varying types of family and community contributions across race, culture and class, and redefines achievement in ways that level the playing field for economically diverse students. In an effort to make the admissions process as accessible and approachable as possible for prospective students and their families, the Office of Admissions has also translated some of its informational materials to Spanish, and two of the current admissions counselors are fluent in Spanish.

The Office of Admissions is looking for students for whom the Catholic, Benedictine community of Saint Martin’s is a perfect fit, and it is the students’ investment in the Benedictine values (particularly listening, community living, respect for persons, hospitality and justice)— an investment supported by faculty and staff—that has prompted many of the new developments on campus over the last few years. Many of those changes have emerged from conversations among members of the community and from gradual shifts in understanding.

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Saint Martin's Today

Our campus community is a vibrant mix of More than 1/3 of undergraduate students on campus are first-generation students.*

30% of the student body has a military affiliation

There are international students from 15 different countries

45% of the student body identifies as a student of color.

different backgrounds, perspectives, cultural

histories and traditions.

Today, the student body at Saint Martin's is more

diverse now than at any *Students who are the first in their families to attend college.

Janie Sacco, associate director of housing and residence life and a candidate in the education doctoral program at Seattle University, says that there was less of a consciousness about diversity on campus when she first started working here five years ago, though that mindset has changed thanks in great part to the individual efforts undertaken by people throughout the campus to make Saint Martin’s more inclusive and welcoming. “I worked with Heather Nicole Saladino [assistant director of housing and residence life] to do training with resident assistant (RA) staff to make sure they knew about safe zone training and could talk about race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and disability,” says Sacco.

Within the University’s division of student affairs there have been consistent efforts to ensure that students are not only supported but also trained to be leaders when it comes

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to being inclusive. “Diversity and equity work is very much a part of what we do,” says Hopkins, “whether it’s student training or leadership development or service projects.”

Hopkins explained that RAs, student orientation leaders and members of student government are expected to have cultural competency, or the ability to understand and interact with cultures and belief systems other than their own.

In addition, the Diversity Taskforce has been one of the guiding forces supporting changes on campus. The Diversity Taskforce was created in 2010 as a result of the Saint Martin’s University Strategic Plan for 2020 and the plan’s imperative to cultivate an engaged, diverse, global and inclusive community. Hopkins leads the Diversity Taskforce and Sacco currently serves on it; many other faculty and staff members have contributed to its mission over the last eight years.

other time in the history of the University.

Listening to our students While some of the shifts in the campus environment were gradual, the last two academic years have seen more urgent action. The divisive runup to the 2016 presidential election made many students, faculty and staff feel unsure about their place in the Saint Martin’s University community.

After the election, things changed on campus and there was a lot of polarization, shared Melissa Rosscup, a senior psychology and business administration major who serves as the vice president of the Saint Martin’s LGBTQA* Club. Anthony Williams, senior psychology major and president of Saint Martin’s Black Student Union, shared that “We all woke up and came together as a community, as one, with the administration, faculty and student body.”

“Students really drive the change in the institution,” Sacco says. “As staff

and faculty, we create avenues for people to express themselves, but students have been the ones who are pushing for things, advocating and sharing their experiences.”

Jeremy Newton, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of psychology, agrees with Sacco’s assessment. “The students have always been out in front when trying to create change on these types of issues. The faculty and staff have gotten some results working on issues through the Diversity Taskforce and other committees at the University, but when students bring up the issues that they want to be changed, they manage to create the most change.”

A few years ago, Sacco approached Hopkins with the idea of starting a women of color group, something students had expressed interest in having. “We brought together faculty, staff and students who all identify as women of color, and then we started a men of color offshoot of that group,” Sacco says. “Those two groups represent a space for people to share their experiences and come together.”

STUDENT LED

There are a number of student-led

clubs and initiatives on campus, like the Women of Color and Men of

Color groups, Black Student Union, the Latino Student Alliance, the

LGBTQA* Club, the Filipino Heritage Club, Hui `O Hawai`i Club, the Ara-

bic Student Association and others,

through which students can educate the Saint Martin’s community and

support and advocate for each other.

The Diversity and Equity Center One of the most prominent examples of what student advocacy has achieved on campus is the Diversity and Equity Center, which opened in 2017. Located in Harned Hall and affectionately known as the DEC, the center is overseen by Hopkins and is intended to be a place where everyone who comes through the door is treated with dignity and respect, where students from marginalized or vulnerable groups can come together to create and deepen a sense of community and where everyone can learn together, challenge each other and practice listening. “The Diversity and Equity Center is rooted in Benedictine values and Catholic social teaching,” Hopkins says. “When you walk in, regardless of your identity and your background, there is a relationship we all create together where we affirm each other’s fundamental humanity.” The DEC has already hosted a number of events on topics related to diversity and social justice work, and many student clubs on campus gather in the DEC’s meeting space.

“The club leaders invite faculty to come have lunch with us [in the DEC],” Williams says. “And we share our stories, we share our experiences and how we feel as students of color here on campus. And we talk about various social issues that are going on around the world. We're educating each other on many things.”

“It seems like people can have hard conversations in that space [the DEC], but it doesn't affect anyone's feelings toward each other,” Rosscup says. “People can go in there, have differing opinions, but not dislike the person for having those opinions.

In that space, it feels like we can

separate ideas and opinions from an individual person.”

This academic year has also seen the advent of the Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT), which exists to give people a platform to voice their experiences of bias and share their stories to the administration and broader campus community; and to provide the University with a method of tracking incidents of bias that can help educate faculty, staff, administrators and board members on students’ experience of community. The BIRT is composed of members of the community selected by University President Roy Heynderickx, Ph.D. “At Saint Martin’s we have learned that while we can't expect to be free of the social dynamics present in the wider society, we can commit to noticing, naming and responding to micro and macro-aggressions, insults and invalidations, whether intentional or unintentional,” says Leticia Nieto, Psy. D., chair of the Master of Arts in Counseling program and professor of counseling. “This is to insure that negative experiences are not absorbed by members of marginalized groups. Acknowledgement of the realities of oppression and privilege in the day-to-day life of our campus goes a long way to the creation of deep community, authentic respect and the opportunity to work for justice.”

Kate Boyle, Ph.D., dean of the College of Education and Counseling and Saint Martin’s–JBLM, served as a consultant during the formation of the BIRT and explained that the BIRT works towards reconciliation and understanding. “The purpose of the team is not to be punitive, but instead to support and serve as an ally to the student, and then to educate and hold people accountable if need be.”

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An ongoing community commitment As Hopkins observed, the initiatives over the last few years are not solutions, but they do move the University community in a positive direction. One of the models for higher education institutions to follow for building inclusive communities is called “inclusive excellence,” and, as Hopkins pointed out, the model, which is endorsed by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, asks that every person on campus, whatever their capacity, put forward a commitment to promote diversity and inclusion.

For this academic year, the University chose to celebrate the core theme of community, following on its focus on faith and reason over the previous two academic years.

At the start of the academic year,

Saint Martin’s held an all-staff and allfaculty diversity and equity workshop to examine how the community is addressing issues of diversity, race and equity and how to better serve Saint Martin’s students. The workshop was led by Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D., who has been a consultant and trainer for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice. DiAngelo earned her Ph.D. in multicultural education from the University of Washington, where she now serves as a lecturer.

Many members of the community are working towards that ideal of inclusive excellence. Faculty like Newton, Nieto, Tam Dinh, Ph.D, LICSW, program director and associate professor of social work, and Teresa Winstead, Ph.D., associate professor

“The Benedictine approach to listening with the heart, with humility and reflectiveness—that’s a part of the practice.”

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of society and social justice, among others, incorporate diverse perspectives and social justice concepts in the courses they offer. “In looking at the content I teach, I try to see whether my students’ experiences are reflected in the social work curriculum,” Dinh says. “And I think about how I can discuss issues that are relevant to their communities, so that they’re learning about themselves—not just the mainstream community. They’re also learning how to serve the people that they care about.”

Students, faculty, staff and administration are working together—talking to each other and listening to each other—to make Saint Martin’s as welcoming and inclusive as possible.

Boyle observed that there is a willingness of the community to have difficult conversations and work on issues of diversity and inclusion. “I think there’s an openness to examine our hearts,” she says. “The Benedictine approach to listening with the heart, with humility and reflectiveness— that’s a part of the practice.” u

Thanks to Kate Boyle, Ph.D. Tam Dinh, Ph.D.

Pamela Holsinger-Fuchs, Ph.D. John Hopkins, Ph.D.

Jeremy Newton, Ph.D. Leticia Nieto, Psy.D. Melissa Rosscup Janie Sacco

Anthony Williams and

Teresa Winstead, Ph.D. for their contributions to the article.

Advancing Equity

Saint Martin’s College of Education and Counseling awarded state grant to address diversity, equity and access within education programs Saint Martin’s College of Education and Counseling (CEC) has been awarded a two-year grant, totaling $20,000, from the State of Washington Professional Educators Standards Board’s (PESB) Pilot to Policy Grant: Advancing Systemic Equity program. The grant is intended to be used by educator preparation programs to increase equity and recruit and retain diverse students, with the goal of preparing a greater number of diverse teachers and administrators to work in Washington state public schools.

Saint Martin’s will use the grant to develop new sustainable strategies to support racial equity in its teacher education and school administration programs. The University will work to make systems-level changes and work in tandem with efforts campus-wide to support access and inclusion for all students. The CEC will be working extensively with internal players and community partners in order to execute its Equity Action Plan (EAP).

The EAP outlines five high-priority goals and attendant strategies, including: • Supporting the exploration of teaching careers for Saint Martin’s firstyear students and sophomores and reaching out to candidates who are already living and working in the area • Expanding recruitment and outreach by securing more scholarship funding for underrepresented students and updating recruitment materials and strategies • Increasing alternate pathways to teaching by changing requirements and providing more resources for Saint Martin’s Secondary Teaching Alternate Route (STAR) program • Giving students appropriate support systems, including electronic learning assessment tools, peer-to-peer connections, field supervisors who are trained to do equity audits and mentoring for pre-service teachers of color • Creating an inclusive campus climate by hiring and retaining more diverse faculty, staff and administrators, conducting an audit of the curriculum to make improvements and articulate an anti-oppressive curriculum, continuing collaboration with external stakeholders and partners for new initiatives, requiring student teachers to complete an equity audit, engaging all CEC faculty in conversations around race, racism, and oppression, providing professional development opportunities to reflect on how to create welcoming environments for all and proposing a new agreement for community college transfer students entering the teacher education program.

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hen they were undergraduates, Saint Martin’s alumni Melissa Roth ’17, Vince Roux ’17 and Jamie Widdowson ’17 established a process to create large quantities of highquality lunar regolith (soil) simulant that includes agglutinates (small masses of mineral and rock that are produced, on the moon, by micrometeorite impacts) that mimic those commonly found in actual lunar regolith.

Roth and Roux have built a controlled facility on campus that will allow researchers to test their equipment and technology in an environment that approximates the lunar surface. Roth and Roux established a company, Off Planet Research, LLC, and are in contact with a number of aerospace corporations and space agencies that have expressed interest in the team’s simulant and lunar simulation lab.

Melissa Roth: There’s recently been a big push to go back to the moon. It’s always been there, but until the last couple of years, it hasn’t made as much economic sense. We have to return to the moon before Mars or deeper space. The larger problem with this is that we don’t know how to function on the moon for any length of time.

Vince Roux: The missing piece of the puzzle is the economics of

staying on the moon; that's what the industry is focusing on.

Roth: Being able to function on the moon for a long period of time is why simulants matter. We need technology to be able to last on the order of years, not days. This is where better testing and the development of better technology needs to occur. Right now there isn’t lunar soil that we can use. It degrades so quickly, and there's so little of it, that you need to have simulants.

Roux: The quality of existing simulants is low because of the degree that they’ve been used and the amount that they’ve degraded.

There is demand for a large amount of good quality simulant that’s representative of actual lunar regolith—so having simulant in a lab that can do testing is a unique thing.

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The inspiration Roux: Well, the idea started when

the Google Lunar XPRIZE was announced. One thing I realized early on was that nobody was going to back a lander or a rover to go to the moon if we couldn’t prove that it would work. So we looked for simulants and a controlled lab to conduct testing, and I found out that there weren’t many high-quality simulants around. So the idea came that we could produce this lab and this simulant. We took a portion of this concept, specifically designing the equipment to manufacture the simulant on a large scale, to use as our senior project with the intent that after graduation it would continue as a business.

Roth: Last year was spent on research and design of the simulant equipment, which is unique. Most simulants have been made under strict contracts, with a limited budget and limited time to deliver a certain quantity. We made a ton of progress in the last year, and in the last six months we've started ramping up the production process, building our lab, refining our simulants and offering our services to clients.

Roux: We’re approaching this as engineers and researchers. We don’t approach this as a company that's merely trying to sell a product or answer a call for a contract. We get involved with our potential clients, and we speak with them to learn about what they’re trying to accomplish, what the challenges are going to be, and work with them to solve those challenges.

Roth: We consider ourselves more

of a service than a product; it’s an ongoing relationship with the clients that doesn’t end with a purchase of simulant.

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Producing the simulant Roth: The most difficult aspect has

been scaling up and making this an automated process. We started doing this by hand, but that's not feasible when you want to produce metric tons of simulant. We needed to design equipment to replicate the natural formation processes.

Roux: We looked at the formation of the individual particles, what the processes were and how we could replicate those processes. The trick was doing that without reintroducing unfavorable effects. We had to produce a crusher that was all impact so that our particles wouldn’t have polished or rounded edges. We did a similar thing with forming the agglutinates. We don’t know of anyone else in the world who’s been able to manufacture a true agglutinate structure on a large scale.

Roth: One surprising thing about the process was that the simulant kept destroying our equipment. Just a couple grains of it get in between a bolt head or a moving mechanism in the equipment and cause everything to seize up—it’s a very aggressive material. In the later iterations of our equipment, we had to design for that.

It’s allowed us to understand how the material works. We’re able to provide a consulting service to our clients now, because a lot of people don’t know how to work in lunar regolith like we do from working with it every day.

The simulant and the lab Roux: Now we’re getting our production rates up. We have gone through several iterations of our equipment. And each time we make

an iteration, we learn something new and we have to make adjustments to our designs.

Roth: This time last year we had just switched from creating our agglutinates and crushing by hand to having the first iteration of our equipment. And since then we’ve had countless iterations on three primary pieces of equipment.

Roux: The equipment that we are dialing in now will be able to produce simulant at the rate of tons per day, which is remarkable.

Roth:: But as we’re producing simulant, we're starting to put some into the lab, and theoretically, we can even start having clients come in now.

Over time as we add more simulant and climate-control features, it will become even more desirable because clients will be able to test larger pieces of equipment in more representative conditions for longer periods of time.

, Why it s important to be in Lacey

Roux: Having this here is really important. Organizations that are sending missions to the moon will be coming to Washington to do their testing and bringing their people, their equipment and their expertise into this area. That is going to be a significant benefit not only for other businesses that would get to work with them but also for students.

When I was working toward my bachelor's degree, I had several offers for internships at some interesting places, but as a single parent I wasn’t able to take off and travel for months at a time. And there are a lot of people who are in similar situations, where they can't pursue an internship for economic or social reasons.

Roth: This region in general has the ability to be a gateway into the evolving space economy. There are already some very large space companies here like Boeing or Blue Origin, and there are a bunch of smaller space businesses as well. We already have the foundation here to grow a space economy like those in Houston or down in Florida, and it's possible that the Pacific Northwest could be a major leader in the space industry.

We appreciate all the support and encouragement the University and School of Engineering have given us in the last two years. Not just any university would allow students to set up a lab on campus!

Their assistance and advice has been invaluable, and we hope our project will serve as a model for future, successful senior projects. u

The cone penitrometer tests the cohesion of soil, in this case simulating the soil on the moon.

Roth and Roux verifying their product in the Saint Martin's Engineering Annex with materials that make up lunar soil.

Since the interview, Off Planet Research (OPR) has announced two collaborations.

The first collaboration is with the French company JPB Système to evaluate their fasteners for use on lunar technologies.

The second is with Dayl Martin, who has a research fellowship at the European Space Agency, to analyze and characterize OPR's lunar regolith simulants and conduct joint research experiments.

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Abbey News

MonAsTic HapPeNings

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

lmost 35 years ago, Benedictines around the globe celebrated the sesquimillennial anniversary of the birth of their founder Benedict of Nursia in 480. Benedict authored his Rule almost a millennium and a half ago. Since that time, it has been the basis not only for the way of life of Benedictine monastics, but for the laity and other vowed religious as well. In the 58th chapter of his Rule, Benedict addresses the admitting of new members into the monastic community. He admonishes the community not to grant them easy admission. The Rule of Benedict is to be read through to him completely three times in the course of a year, after which he may be formally admitted. Most Benedictine communities hear the Rule read aloud three times in the course of a calendar year. In the case of Saint Martin’s Abbey, a chapter, or partial chapter, of the Rule is read aloud each night following dinner in the monastic refectory.

The period of a year, during which the candidate hears the Rule read three times, corresponds to our present novitiate, which Canon Law requires to be at least a year and a day. At present, the Abbey has one novice, BROTHER DAMIEN JOSEPH RAPPUHN. BROTHER DAMIEN JOSEPH was received as a postulant on New Year’s Day 2017,

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and entered the monastic novitiate in July 2017. PRIOR NICOLAUS WILSON is the novice master. This past Fall, under the direction of PRIOR NICOLAUS, his community read the entire Rule to Brother Damien Joseph on one afternoon.

Readers during the two-and-onehalf-hour reading were PRIOR NICOLAUS, FATHER BENEDICT AUER, FATHER PETER TYNAN, and this writer. During the reading other members of the monastic community joined the novice and the readers for shorter periods of time. This public reading was a first at Saint Martin’s, an innovation on the part of the novice master.

On New Year’s Day 2018, PRIOR NICOLAUS took on a new assignment when ABBOT NEAL ROTH appointed him prior of the monastic community. At the same time, ABBOT NEAL appointed BROTHER MARK BONNEVILLE treasurer for the Abbey. For the past three years, these two positions had been held by FATHER JUSTIN MCCREEDY who, while he steps down from these two positions with the gratitude of the Abbot and community, will continue to serve as a member of the University’s Board of Trustees. In 2014, FATHER JUSTIN celebrated his golden jubilee as a Benedictine. The Abbey’s subprior is BROTHER RAMON, who also has served the monastic and University

communities as postmaster, and the University as one of the original supporters/participants in the University’s annual Dragon Boat Festival.

Vocation director FATHER PAUL WECKERT and Oblate director BROTHER EDMUND EBBERS were both in Rome last summer, the former to take a series of classes in monasticism and the latter to attend a world-wide gathering of Benedictine Oblates. University chaplain FATHER PETER was in Europe at about the same time, as leader of a tour-cum-pilgrimage.

Late this past Fall, ABBOT NEAL received word of the death of our former confrere FATHER DOMINIC HAHN, who had been in failing health for some time. The Abbot, FATHER DOMINIC and FATHER KILIAN MALVEY were all contemporaries. Before his priestly ordination, FATHER DOMINIC worked in our library and as postmaster. Following his ordination, he exercised his priestly ministry in parishes in Washington and Oregon, and continued to do so following his release from vows and incardination into the Archdiocese of Seattle.

May he and all of our recently deceased rest in the Lord’s peace! u

FATHER CLEMENT HERMAN PANGRATZ Our much-beloved confrere, Father Clement Herman Pangratz, passed peacefully to God in early July 2017 in his 98th year, having celebrated his 75th anniversary as a monk and the 70th anniversary of his priestly ordination.

Father Clement was a gentle, deeply spiritual man, with a great love of nature and of music. As a young man he enjoyed hiking in the Olympia National Park near Port Angeles, Washington, where he grew up.

Father Clement was, at various times, Abbey organist and choir master. In 1949, he received a degree from the Georgian Institute of America, Chicago, and taught music within the monastery and in our schools. In his later years, he delighted in listening to concerts on classical radio stations and to classical CDs. Father Clement was a glazier and a candlemaker. It was he who collaborated, in his role as glass cutter, in the creation of the fine stained glass windows within the monastery depicting the good works mentioned in Benedict’s “Rule for Monasteries.” When this writer was a novice, it was Father Clement who gave him and Brother Ramon Newell instructions in dipping and refining wax candles as Abbot Raphael Heider phased out the Abbey’s candleshop.

Czech was Father Clement’s first language, spoken with his parents, born in what today is the Czech Republic, and his three siblings. He later learned American Sign Language to communicate with his younger sister who became deaf as a result of a bout with Scarlet Fever at a very young age.

A very spiritual man, Father Clement was confessor and spiritual advisor to many of his confreres over many years. His priestly ministry included work in archdiocesan parishes, at McChord Airforce Base (now part of Joint Base Lewis-McChord), in chaplaincies, including the Veterans Administration facility at American Lake, and later, presiding at a weekly Mass for the residents of Panorama, a Lacey retirement community. During the time he served in Port Angeles, he did much driving, even in winter, so as to offer Mass at such distant places as Forks and Clallam Bay. Father Clement was very much what the late Father Bede Ernsdorff called a “community man.” He was a regular at all community exercises: the Divine Office; Mass; meals in the monastic refectory; and community recreation. In his later years, he delighted in passing the recreation time reading the science section of The New York Times, or playing a friendly game of cribbage with some of his younger confreres.

He delighted in people, and even when in residence at the care center where he resided in his final years, he continued his pastoral ministry and “drove” himself in his wheelchair to visit the other residents.

Our beloved confrere is greatly missed. R.I.P.!

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Saint Martin’s engineering faculty member Jill Walsh, Ph.D., earns funding support from WSDOT for bridge deterioration research Jill Walsh, Ph.D., PE, assistant professor of civil engineering, has earned significant funding support from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) for a research project that will assist WSDOT’s Bridge and Structures Office in determining the deterioration rates for reinforced concrete bridge substructure elements.

WSDOT’s Bridge and Structures Office is responsible for managing the State of Washington’s bridge inventory. Managing the bridge inventory includes performing routine inspections, identifying repair and maintenance needs and prioritizing these needs. To assist with planning and budgeting activities in the state legislature, the Bridge and Structures Office has been directed to begin looking beyond the current needs and start forecasting future needs based on expected element deterioration. To accomplish this, the Bridge and Structures Office must establish deterioration rates for each bridge element.

Saint Martin’s University welcomes Teri Moser Woo, Ph.D., as incoming director of the RN-to-BSN nursing program Saint Martin’s University welcomes Teri Moser Woo, Ph.D., as the incoming director of the RN-to-BSN nursing program. As director, Woo’s official duties will be to oversee the program and faculty and to secure reaccreditation of the program next year. Woo will lead the growth of the nursing program at Saint Martin’s by applying for the creation of a Bachelor of Science of Nursing (BSN) at the University and the creation of a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) once the BSN program has been established. Woo will start at Saint Martin’s on July 1, 2018.

Woo comes to Saint Martin’s from Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), in Tacoma, where she is currently a professor and associate dean for graduate nursing programs. She brings more than 30 years of nursing experience and educational leadership to Saint Martin’s University. She graduated from Oregon Health Sciences University with a BSN in 1984, an MSN in childrearing family nursing in 1989 and a post-masters pediatric nurse practitioner certificate in 1993. She earned her Ph.D. in nursing at University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing in 2008. Woo was named a fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2009.

Erin Jonasson, Ph.D., Andrea Kunder, Ph.D., Lindsay Meyer, Ph.D., and Lori Sirs, DSW, join the College of Arts and Sciences Saint Martin’s University’s College of Arts and Sciences added to its faculty Erin Jonasson, Ph.D., as an assistant professor of chemistry, Andrea Kunder, Ph.D., as an assistant professor of physics, Lindsay Meyer, Ph.D., as an assistant professor of psychology and Lori Sirs, DSW, LICSW, as an assistant professor of social work.

Jonasson obtained her Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She most recently served as a visiting assistant teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana, and previously was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting research scholar at the same institution.

Kunder earned her Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire. Kunder most recently served as an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik, in Potsdam, Germany.

In February, Kunder received a grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust of Vancouver, Washington, for her project, Bulge Radial Velocity Assay—RR Lyrae (BRAVA—RR) Survey: Mapping the Bulge with RR Lyrae Stars. Kunder’s work will examine the structure of the Milky Way’s inner region (the

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Bulge), which is an unsettled topic in astronomy. RR Lyrae stars, wellunderstood variable stars, are used to reveal structures within the galaxy, and a pilot survey of RR Lyrae stars in the Bulge has yielded evidence of a heretofore-debated small metalpoor classical structure in the galaxy’s center. This intriguing structure may be a relic of the earliest epoch of star formation in the Milky Way, composed of the earliest stellar populations to form within the universe’s initial dark matter halos.

Kunder’s project proposes a more extensive spectroscopic survey of the Bulge RR Lyrae stars to build a full chemo-dynamical model of this population. This study will help in obtaining a complete picture of the formation and accretion history of the oldest, innermost regions of the Milky Way and a window to the initial conditions of galaxy formation.

Meyer obtained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, with an emphasis on child/family clinical psychology and neuropsychology, from the University of Montana, in Missoula, Montana.

Meyer most recently served as a postdoctoral interprofessional fellow at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Sirs earned her DSW in social work, with a focus on clinical practice and leadership, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a licensed independent clinical social worker and, most recently, was the owner and counselor at Sound Connections Counseling and Consulting, LLC, in Tacoma.

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Grassland enhancement project Robert Bode, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, is leading a grassland enhancement project at Saint Martin’s University. Bode marked and surveyed two plots in the north field of the Saint Martin’s Lacey campus for biodiversity.

In the plots, one native plant was found, but the remainder were invasive Eurasian grasses and herbs. In October 2017, the plots were brush-hogged (a process that uses heavy-duty, dull blades) to reduce the amount of invasive grass biomass present. One plot (plot 1, experimental) was raked to remove dead biomass and weed-whacked so that the grass has a minimal impact on the plot. Plot 2 (control) was left as-is after brush-hogging. After the intense treatment, much soil was exposed in plot 1, and one pound of a special seed mixture that contains 11 of the most aggressive native plant species was spread on the ground.

Several Saint Martin’s biology students gently transported 34 small individual Lupinus polyphyllus (Broadleaf lupine) plants and seven Eschscholzia californica (California poppy) plants in a grid pattern on Oct. 24, 2017. Plot 1 will now await further transplants to arrive in spring 2018.

Marcela de Souza, Ph.D., and Celeste Trimble, Ph.D., join the College of Education and Counseling Saint Martin’s University’s College of Education and Counseling (CEC) added Marcela de Souza, Ph.D., and Celeste Trimble, Ph.D., as assistant professors of education to its faculty this fall. Marcela de Souza earned her Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with her dissertation, Succeeding in School: Exploring How Academic Achievement Is Possible for Mexican-origin English Learners. de Souza most recently served as an adjunct professor at San Jose State University; as a lecturer online with Concordia University of Chicago; and as a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. de Souza has an article, Understanding Mexican Immigrant Students in American Schools: A Case Study of Two Preparations in Mexico, that was published in Cogent Education—Curriculum and Teaching Studies. The article presents findings from the last phase of a qualitative study conducted in public schools in Guadalajara, Mexico, a region with high migratory rates to the U.S. Trimble earned her Ph.D. in language, reading and culture from the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Arizona, with her dissertation, Entering into Particulars: Reconceptualizing Adolescence through Young Adult Literature and Critical Narrative Pedagogy. Trimble most recently served as a ninth and 10th grade English teacher and the PBS

student reporting lab coordinator at Baboquivari Secondary School in Topawa, Arizona.

Trimble participated in a panel at the Tucson Festival of Books in March 2018. The panel was entitled Our Stories, Our Lives: Indigenous Literature in the Lives of Teens. After a week of workshops, Trimble helped high school students articulate and present their thoughts and analysis of literature.

Trimble will also attend the Children’s Literature Association Conference in Houston, Texas, in June 2018. She will deliver a presentation entitled Activism as An Incentive to Read: Resistance Role Models in Indigenous Middle Grade and YA Fiction.

Matthew Ballard, Ph.D., joins the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering Saint Martin’s Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering added Matthew Ballard, Ph.D., as assistant professor of mechanical engineering to its faculty this fall.

Ballard earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, with an emphasis on fluid dynamics, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia. He most recently served as an instructor of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Lorraine, which is located in Metz, France. He has also worked as a flight test engineer and mechanical engineer at the Naval Air

Warfare Center Weapons Division, in China Lake, California.

Grant award Bonnie Amende, Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics, and Suzan Porter, lecturer in mathematics, have been working this year to improve the mathematical entrance options for veterans and other students at Saint Martin’s. The Association of Chief Academic Officers (ACAO) awarded Saint Martin’s University a Digital Fellows Grant for a campus project to restructure Math Lab - MTH 100 and to develop and implement a new course, Intermediate Algebra for Microsoft Software and Systems Academy (MSSA) - MTH 102, to support veterans. MSSA is a successful veteran’s transitioning program created at Saint Martin’s.

This funded scholarship of pedagogy breaks new ground for Saint Martin’s on mathematics assessment and will provide a model for the other universities serving veterans in the MSSA and similar programs.

Andrew Barenberg, Ph.D., joins the School of Business Saint Martin’s School of Business added Andrew Barenberg, Ph.D., as an assistant professor of business to its faculty this fall. Barenberg earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

He most recently served as a visiting assistant professor at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio. He also worked as an instructor, teaching assistant and research assistant at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Olivia Archibald retirement After nearly two decades at Saint Martin’s, Olivia Archibald, Ph.D., professor of English, is retiring from the University this spring.

Beloved by her students and her colleagues alike, Archibald has remained committed to the liberal arts, helping to give students the kind of well-rounded education that they can build on for the rest of their lives. Her teaching put the creative and the analytical into conversation with one another, so it is telling that her two trademark classes—Creative Writing and Literary Criticism—bridged the ends of that spectrum.

Archibald’s contributions to the University are almost too many to count. From the moment she arrived on campus, she directed the Center for Scholarship and Teaching, and in that role she shaped the professional lives of countless faculty through programs like the Friday Faculty Lunch series and Summer Teaching Workshops. She led the initiative to publish the student-written book “One Rule, Many Men: The Monks at Saint Martin’s Abbey” (2009), mentoring those involved for several years as she ushered the project through to completion.

Along with fellow English professor Jeff Birkenstein, Ph.D., she developed the Summer Bridge to Success, a program that taught foundational study skills to our most vulnerable incoming freshmen.

After the death of her dear friend and colleague Leslie G. Bailey, Ph.D., in 2010, Archibald helped to create an endowment in his memory that now funds the enormously successful Les Bailey Writers Series, as well as an annual award for a graduating English major. In 2016, she organized the inaugural Summer Creative Writing Institute, which features novelist Jim Lynch as writer-in-residence and will convene for the third time this summer.

— Jamie Olson, Ph.D., associate professor

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First Dean of School of Business Richard Beer steps down After eight successful years, Richard Beer, Ph.D., will be stepping down as dean of the School of Business effective June 30, 2018.

Beer joined Saint Martin’s University in 2010 coming from the School of Management at the University of San Francisco where he had served as an associate dean.

As the inaugural full-time dean of the School of Business, Beer’s first task was to prepare the school for the foreseeable generational transition in the faculty. The School of Business had been blessed with excellent faculty beloved by the students, but retirements were looming large and it was time for strategic succession planning. Fast forward eight years, and all but one of the current fulltime faculty have been hired in the last seven years. They continue the tradition of excellence established by their predecessors. Today the faculty is more diversified than ever.

Another milestone was to seek recognition of the school’s excellence by obtaining professional accreditation through the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) in 2016. The accreditation process also proved essential in giving the school its own identity and esprit de corps. The necessary creation of external advisory boards also helped to cement the school’s connection with the business community and provided new opportunities for internships and experiential student projects with local businesses and organizations.

During his tenure at Saint Martin’s, Beer also held the title of professor of computer science. Beer’s academic training, doctoral degree and scholarly work are in informatics; his unique interdisciplinary background proved to be a valuable asset when called upon to serve as the interim dean of the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering in 2015.

Being German-born and having come to the U.S. as an exchange student himself, Beer has a great passion for creating study abroad opportunities.

Beer launched a summer exchange program (Business Economics Summer Term, B.E.S.T.) with a German partner institution. Now in its fifth year, it enjoys increasing popularity with the business students.

the culmination of 30 years of study and practice and certifies the holder to provide training to individuals seeking psychodrama certification.

Nieto participated in The People’s Gathering Conference: A Revolution of Consciousness, held at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma in March. Nieto was a member of a panel discussion entitled Race Dialogue Among People of Color.

The objectives of the conference were to help participants assess their current level of cultural competence; increase their awareness and understanding of the depth and breadth of institutional racism and its effects; and to engage in effective community, school and workplace social justice dialogues.

Abbot Neal leadership award In February, Abbot Neal Roth, O.S.B. ’65 was recognized for being one of Leadership Thurston County and Thurston County Chamber's 2018 Distinguished Leadership Award winners. The award recognizes leaders who “demonstrate outstanding initiative, inspire others and make a significant impact in our community and beyond.”

Leticia Nieto In Feb. 2018 Leticia Nieto, Psy.D., chair of the Master of Arts in Counseling program and professor of counseling, earned her Trainer, Educator, Practitioner (TEP) credential in sociometry, sociodynamics and sociatry (psychodrama and sociodrama) from the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. The credential is

Linda Maier and Mary Jo Hartman Linda Maier, Ph.D., assistant professor of education, and Mary Jo Hartman, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, co-presented at the Lilly Conference in Anaheim, California, in Feb. 2018. They spoke on a panel entitled Building Student Engagement of Faculty Learning Communities and shared information on strategies to start a faculty learning community and how

this model can be utilized to build student community and engagement in the classroom.

Dead Sea Scrolls conference Ian Werrett, Ph.D., director of Saint Martin’s Spiritual Life Institute and an associate professor of religious studies, presented his paper, Out of the Wilderness: Qumran, Jesus, and Ritual Purity, at an international symposium entitled The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: Clear a Path in the Wilderness, which was held April 29 to May 3, 2018, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Museum.

Publisher contract Julia Chavez, Ph.D., associate professor of English, has entered a contract with McFarland Publishers for a book-length companion to the major works of Charles Dickens.

This A-to-Z style reference book, which draws upon carefully curated material from Dickens's life and times, will fit into McFarland's Literary Companions series. It will assist students, teachers and other interested readers to engage deeply with Dickens's writings by providing background, context and commentary for such classics as “Oliver Twist,” “Great Expectations,” “A Tale of Two Cities” and “A Christmas Carol.”

Essay collections Robert Hauhart, Ph.D., J.D., professor of criminal justice, sociology and legal studies, and Jeff Birkenstein, Ph.D., professor of English, had two collections of essays that went to press in fall 2017 and are due to be released in 2018.

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The first volume, “Critical Insights: American Literature and Social Justice” (Salem Press/Grey House), includes essays from Saint Martin’s faculty and alumni: Todd Barosky, Ph.D., associate professor of English, writing on William Dean Howells; Hauhart and Alyssa Slate ’17 writing on the life and work of Philip Roth; and Birkenstein and Ericka Manthey ’10 writing on Margaret Atwood and women’s dystopic fiction.

The second volume, with an international body of scholars from Russia, Spain, Cyprus, Poland, Canada, Israel and the UK, among other places, is entitled “European Writers in Exile” (Lexington Press).

Engineering scholarship With the leadership of Brian Zeigler ’79, president of the Engineering Advisory Board (EAB), and Terry Monaghan ’62, longtime member of the EAB, the EAB has established an endowed fund for the Dean of the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering to support engineering students with acute, short-term financial needs. The fund was announced at the 2017 Gala in honor of Monaghan’s 80th birthday. The fund currently has over $100,000 and the target is $500,000. These funds will be used to help engineering and computer science students who have financial impediments to success.

To contribute to the fund, please contact David Olwell, Ph.D., dean of the Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering, or Katie Wojke, assistant vice president for institutional advancement.

School of Business tax prep The School of Business partnered with the IRS to hold a volunteer income tax assistance center to prepare and file income tax returns for qualified members of Saint Martin’s University and the surrounding community.

Approximately 20 students ran the center: four as site coordinators and the remainder as tax preparers. Return preparation was free of charge to the community. Diane Bingaman, MAcc, CPA, assistant professor and chair of accounting, served as the faculty sponsor for the income tax assistance center, which ran from early Feb. to mid-April.

SEAL Lab at Saint Martin's Student researchers in SEAL (Studying Emerging Attitudes and Learning) Lab, supervised by Emily Coyle, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, have been working on a community research project in partnership with the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. Coyle, her students and local volunteers are conducting surveys of adults experiencing homelessness in the Puyallup area. The aim of the research is to better understand pathways to homelessness and obstacles to permanent housing for this local population. Survey interviews also ask about individuals’ experiences of discrimination and positive and negative interactions with area police. This project is on-going; the team surveyed adults at the Freezing Nights seasonal shelter in February.

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Murdock Conference 2017 In November, eight Saint Martin’s students, along with Robert Bode, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, and Andrea Kunder, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, crossed the Cascades to attend the 26th Annual Murdock College Science Research Conference, which was held in Spokane.

Arthur Mills, working with Kunder, was one of the Saint Martin’s students selected to present his ongoing research. He used observations taken in June from the 4-meter large Anglo-Australian telescope to measure Doppler effect in stars around an old globular cluster, NGC 6441. He computed the motion of the individual stars and determined which stars move together and are part of the cluster, and which stars are not part of NGC 6441 but are merely in the field of the Milky Way galaxy. His results led to the discovery of five new cluster RR Lyrae stars and the fact that the size of the cluster is at least 1.5 times larger than previously thought.

In total, seven students presented posters in two poster sessions.

Catherine Dufresne, Kaylin Fosnacht and Danner Linhart presented their results from the summer research they did with Bode on Scotch broom.

Joseph Edgecombe was given a

speaking slot in the physical sciences section, presenting research on new organic chemistry techniques practiced in the lab of Greg Milligan, Ph.D., chair of natural sciences and associate professor of chemistry. Celia Beyke showed some of the latest data from her work in the lab of Brandy Fox, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry.

Abigail Limov and Belana Anderson, two undergraduate students conducting research with Samuel Fox, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, presented new findings regarding wheat genomics and wheat responses to cold stress.

The work presented by Limov and Anderson represents the collective research of several past students (Steven Smith ’16, Netania Craig ’17 and Anna Belford ’17). Moreover, the state-of-theart genomics project has enabled the Saint Martin’s students to work closely with and learn from collaborators at major research institutions such as Oregon State University.

WSDOT internship Saint Martin’s student Chase Weeks received a position as a paid intern for the Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) Bridge and Structure’s Office in Tumwater.

The internship’s responsibilities included updating the span capability charts for all girder types of the WSDOT-designed bridges and checking loading ratings for the new paving train.

ASBI conference Micaylla O’Leary and William Miller won two sponsorships to attend the 2017 American Segmental Bridge Institute (ASBI) national

conference, which was held in October 2017 in New York City, New York. ASBI had granted the sponsorships to Bijan Khaleghi, Ph.D., adjunct professor and state bridge design engineer, to send his students to this prestigious event.

The ASBI national conference invites the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, state agencies and the bridge community to discuss and share new innovations, products and construction methods as industry professionals.

and attended the University of Washington. She and her husband, Edwin Weaver, owned Weaver’s Concrete Supplies on Bainbridge Island, where they lived. Weaver’s connection to Saint Martin’s was through the monks, since several of them served at her childhood parish in Port Angeles.

Saint Martin's Investment Club Heather Grob, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of business and economics, helps advise the Saint Martin’s Investment Club, which invested $53,000 as provided by a gift from the estate of Angela Weaver.

The club is reviewing investment picks and making choices as a team to build the holdings of the fund. $50,000 of the gift from the estate of Angela Weaver was set aside as an endowment for the Investment Club to manage, and the endowment proceeds will be used to fund scholarships for business students with demonstrated financial need.

The Investment Club manages the endowment assets—including mutual funds, stock and bond picks, and they report out their performance annually to the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees.

The club is required to manage the assets in accordance with University policies, including social investing parameters set by the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops.

Angela Weaver, whose estate provided the gift, grew up in Port Angeles

Circle K In March, 10 members of the Saint Martin's University Circle K Club traveled to Bellingham to participate in the Pacific Northwest Circle K International (CKI) District Convention. Saint Martin's University Circle K Club contributed to 200 service hours and learned valuable leadership skills. The club received many awards, including: outstanding club achievement, most improved, outstanding membership growth, outstanding single service project, outstanding bulletin, outstanding president - Kaylin Fosnacht, outstanding editor Kiernan Hawthrone, outstanding committee chair - Lauren Allison, outstanding member - Khalid Altamimi, most service hours – Khalid Altamimi and outstanding advisor – Toni Christy. In addition, Mohammed Alharbi received the Walter Zeller Fellowship and Kaylin Fosnacht received the PNW Kiwanis Foundation Scholarship.

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Cyber Security Club Computer science students in the cyber security class and Cyber Security Club took part in the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (PRCCDC) at Highline College in March. The PRCCDC challenges students to analyze security threats and devise strategies to respond.

Saint Martin’s proudly recognizes its ninth America’s Service Heroes scholarship recipient Staff Sergeant Micah L. Murdock, a member of the U.S. Army for more than eight years, has been chosen by Saint Martin’s University as its ninth recipient of the America's Service Heroes Scholarship. The award was announced Nov. 4 at the University’s Gala International 2017.

The America’s Service Heroes Scholarship was created in partnership with America’s Credit Union to provide financial assistance to service members and their families.

SSG Murdock enlisted in the Army in August 2009, and has been assigned to many locales. In Iraq he served on the Brigade Staff, and his exceptional demeanor and mission support led to a battlefield promotion to the rank of sergeant. In 2016, he received orders to Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, Group Support Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), Joint Base LewisMcChord.

He received his associate’s degree in criminal justice from Kaplan University in January 2017 and continues to work towards his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice at Saint Martin’s University.

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Kristina Swallow, P.E., ENV SP, F. ASCE, 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers national president, headlined Saint Martin’s National Engineers Week Kristina Swallow, P.E., ENV SP, F. ASCE, 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) national president, visited Saint Martin’s University on Friday, Feb. 16, to speak at the University’s Engineering Awareness Day events and at the 2018 Engineering Banquet, which were part of the University’s celebration of National Engineers Week.

Swallow delivered the keynote address at the 2018 Engineering Banquet, an annual gathering for students, faculty, staff, alumni, monks, the Board of Trustees, the Engineering Advisory Board and other supporters of the University’s engineering program. Swallow presented a talk on the ASCE’s 2017 Infrastructure Report Card.

Swallow will return to the University next year, when Saint Martin’s hosts the 2019 ASCE Pacific Northwest Student Conference, from April 11 – 13, 2019.

Full-Tuition Abbot Scholarships at Saint Martin’s University available to graduates of Catholic high schools in the US or US territories Saint Martin’s University’s Abbot Scholarships are now available to graduates of any Catholic high school within the U.S. or its territories.

Formerly, the full-tuition scholarships were available only to graduates of Catholic high schools within Washington.

Commencement 2018 On May 12, Saint Martin’s University welcomes back alumnus and class valedictorian Patrick Crumb ’85, president of AT&T Sports Networks, a subsidiary of AT&T. Crumb will be the 2018 Commencement speaker for the ceremony, which will see 283 bachelor’s degree candidates and 90 master’s degree candidates graduate at the Hal and Inge Marcus Pavilion. Crumb is a summa cum laude 1985 graduate of Saint Martin’s University, where he was a Merit, Cheney and Chavelle Scholar, and an inductee into the University’s Society of Fellows. He went on to study at Georgetown University and American University and obtained his J.D. at the University of Washington School of Law. He will speak on the enduring value of the Saint Martin’s community and how that has influenced his successful career and life.

Also at this year’s Commencement, Saint Martin’s will award honorary degrees to Barbara and Virgil Clarkson, educational advocates and community and civic volunteers, for their commitment to education, equality and the community, and to Abbot Neal Roth, O.S.B. ’65, abbot of the Saint Martin’s Abbey, chancellor of Saint Martin’s University and member of the Saint Martin’s University Board of Trustees, for his lifetime commitment to the mission of Saint Martin’s and his devotion to living the Benedictine values and bringing them to the community. The Clarksons and Abbot Neal will be recognized as doctors of humane arts, honoris causa. Abbot Neal will be presiding over his 25th Commencement this year.

Saint Martin’s says farewell to retiring faculty and staff On Monday, April 23, the Saint Martin’s community came together to celebrate retiring faculty and staff and thank them for their many years of dedication and service to the University. We are grateful for the time they have spent as members of the Saint Martin’s community and we wish them all the best!

Olivia Archibald, Ph.D. English

Scot Harrison O'Grady Library

Susan Leyster Service Immersion

Stuart Webber, Ph.D. Business

Gordon Bellevue Physics

Fumie Hashimoto, Ph.D. Education

Hopie Lopez School of Engineering

Huabin Chen, Ph.D. Education

Pius Igharo, Ph.D. Civil Engineering

Chun Seong, Ph.D., P.E. Civil Engineering

Josephine Yung International Programs and Development

Godfrey Ellis, Ph.D. MAC

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Madsen and Navarro etch their places in Saint Martin’s history

by Austin Byrnes

The season record might not have gone the way the Saints men’s soccer team wanted it to this past season; however, transfer Brandon Madsen and sophomore Sebastian Navarro solidified their places amongst the best soccer players in school history.

Madsen broke the school record for most goals scored in a single season (16), along with most points in a single season (33). Meanwhile, Navarro broke the school record for most assists in a single season (11), and finished tied for 10th nationally in assists. Despite all the personal success, the two only had one thing on their minds, helping the team win.

“It was bittersweet,” Madsen said. “At the time I was doing really well but our team wasn’t reflecting how good of a team we were.”

“It was crazy seeing my name at the top of the leaderboards,” said Navarro. “But I just wanted to win and help the team out.”

The future of Saints’ soccer looks bright with Madsen and Navarro at the helm, both on the field and off the field. Both are first-generation students and understand the importance of excelling not only on the field, but also in the classroom.

When asked about the day he committed to college, Navarro remembered it as “one of the best days of my life.”

“All of my family was around,” said Navarro. “I brought back the letter that said I was going to Saint Martin’s and I said I was going to sign it—they were ecstatic.”

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SAINTS LEGACY

by Austin Byrnes

A local product from River Ridge High School, Makenna Schultz attended Saint Martin’s sporting events her entire life. She comes from a family of Saints, with her mom, aunts, uncle and grandpa all attending Saint Martin’s. Last year, Schultz got the opportunity to add to that family tradition, signing with the Saints women’s basketball team.

During her second season with the Saints, Schultz emerged as a scoring machine. The sophomore averaged 13.3 points per game, including a 33-point performance, en route to a GNAC Player of the Week award. Despite all the success Schultz has earned, she is quick to recognize all the help that contributed to that success.

“I think having coach (Christy) Martin communicate so well with me, and the teammates I have that supported me no matter what, allowed my confidence to grow,” said Schultz. “We love each other so much and I’ve never had a team so unique and so tight, like a family, and that has a lot to do with supporting other people and their success.”

It’s not only her teammates who are cheering her on, but her family. The familiar faces of Schultz’s family are often seen in the Marcus Pavilion, and the support Schultz feels from her family is not lost on her.

“It’s incredible, they have always supported me,” Schultz said. “It gives me a lot of energy and a lot of support from the texts I get after the games. They tell me to keep my head up and keep pushing, and that support is really nice.”

Makenna Schultz became a star last season, adding to a family legacy that dates back generations. But the script is not complete, as Schultz still has two more seasons to build and cement her place in Saint Martin’s history, like her family before her.

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24-7 overall / 15-5 GNAC

•R eceived national votes in polls (ranked 35th and 38th overall)

• First 20-win season since 2008-09 • L uke Chavez first team All-Conference and Newcomer of the Year

• EJ Boyce GNAC All-Conference Honorable Mention

• Chavez named GNAC Player of the Week three times • Named GNAC Team of the Week • Back-to-back appearances in the GNAC Championships

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Women's Basketball 8-20 overall / 4-16 GNAC •S aniah Simpson-Patu GNAC Freshman of the Year • Elin Johansson GNAC AllConference Honorable Mention • Makenna Schultz named GNAC Player of the Week • Seven Saints named to GNAC All-Academic team

Volleyball

9-19 overall / 4-16 GNAC • Rebecca Mitchell named to GNAC Honorable Mention All-Conference Team • Most wins in conference since 2011 • Seven Saints named to GNAC All-Academic

Men's Soccer

2-14-1 overall / 2-9-1 GNAC •B randon Madsen named to second team Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) All-Region team •M adsen unanimous first team All-Conference selection •M adsen broke the school record in goals (16) and points scored (33) •M adsen named GNAC Newcomer of the Year

• Five Saints selected to GNAC All-Conference team • Nine Saints selected to GNAC All-Academic team

Women's Soccer

2-14-1 overall / 2-9-1 GNAC • Rose Robbins selected to Honorable Mention All-Conference team • Six Saints selected to GNAC All-Academic team

Men's Golf

• Season-high fourth place at Dennis Rose Invitational in Hilo, HI • Tyler Fitchett earned All-Tournament Honors at Saint Martin's Invitational • Trevor Frisby named GNAC Player of the Week • Placed sixth overall at Saint Martin's Invitational

Women's Golf

• Placed fourth overall at Saint Martin's Invitational • Placed fourth overall at Northwest Shootout • Celia Beyke finished third at Saint Martin's Invitational •H annah Reynolds placed 10th at Saint Martin's Invitational

Jackson Hand (Dec. 11), Luke Chavez (Nov. 27, Jan. 22, Jan. 29), Brandon Madsen (Oct. 23, Nov. 6), Trevor Frisby (Oct. 30), Sebastian Navarro (Oct. 23), Makenna Schultz (Jan. 29), Brian Chalkley (Mar. 4), Yadira Lopez (Mar. 4)

Cross Country

• Nine named to GNAC All-Academic team (five men, four women) • Finished 26th on the men’s side at NCAA West Regionals and 27th on the women’s side • Women finished 10th at GNAC Championships and men finished 11th • Larissa Kolasinski won the Puget Sound Invitational • Women had three top-five finishes and men had two top-10

Track & Field

• Liz Larson finished third overall at GNAC Championships in weight throw • Matt DeHan placed third overall at GNAC Championships in pole vault • Anthony Manago finished third overall at GNAC Championships in long jump • Tiffany Pott broke the school record in the pentathlon, scoring 2,736 points, placing 11th overall • 4x400m men’s relay team finished fourth at GNAC Championships

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A PASSION FOR EXCELLENCE

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N “Nursing is the glue that holds healthcare together and keeps it moving.”

ursing has experienced a sea change in the last 30 years, and Saint Martin’s graduate Martie L. Moore is in the vanguard of nursing leaders transforming their profession. Today, nurses have key roles in healthcare teams, research, education and policy-making, says Moore.

“Nursing is the glue that holds healthcare together and keeps it moving,” says Moore, 56, now chief nursing officer of Medline Industries, Inc., the nation's largest private manufacturer of quality healthcare products. Moore received the American Nurses Association’s “Honor a Nurse” Award, for a lifetime of leadership and dedication to patient care and the nursing profession, in 2016.

Moore, a 1992 grad of Saint Martin’s first RN-to-BSN nursing program, now lives in Long Grove, Illinois, with her husband of 34 years. They have two daughters, who live in Portland and Seattle.

She entered nursing in the mid1980s. Back then, nurses often wore white uniforms and were told to defer to doctors, follow orders and ask no questions.

The evolution to more dynamic roles for nurses coincided with Moore’s transformation in the Saint Martin’s nursing program. That program ended in the mid-1990s and was re-established in 2012.

Moore’s professional journey began at Longview’s Lower Columbia College where she was majoring in computer science while working at the local paper company. One day during a walk, she was struck by a sudden insight.

“I was thinking that this is not what I want to be doing… and I really had this moment—some people would call it a calling—where it was clear to me I needed to become a nurse.”

She’d earned her associate’s degree in nursing in 1984 and, as a newly minted nurse, was looking forward to a residency in a hospital operating room. But changes in government funding led to her layoff at the hospital and she found herself without a job.

The layoff proved pivotal to her career. She was hired as a medical coordinator by a neuromuscular clinic for children with developmental disabilities—some from abusive homes; others born with birth defects or genetic disorders. Her job combined the roles of public health nurse, school nurse, specialty nurse and clinic nurse. She also served as an expert witness for child protective services.

“It opened my eyes to the knowledge that nursing went beyond the hospital, and that it is about the lives that we touch, wherever they may be, whether in a community or a longterm care setting or a home-health setting.”

She also realized she needed more education. By then a wife and mom, she thought Saint Martin’s bachelor’s degree-completion program, an evening program geared to working nurses, was a good fit. The program had two paths, and she eventually chose the one in nursing leadership.

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Her twice-weekly commute from Longview to campus gave her family time together: “My oldest daughter was in the back seat doing her homework, my husband drove and I was in the front studying.”

They would drop her off, hang out at a local restaurant, then pick her up after class. “It took two-and-a-half years. When I graduated, they both got their ‘putting mom through school’ degrees because it was really a family affair,” she said.

What she gained through the program was priceless. Then-program director Maddy deGive and her other professors were “trailblazers and pioneers,” she says.

“The program taught me to perpetually grow, continue learning, strive for excellence and look beyond what is the immediate – and that is what I think is most important. I’ve been a chief nursing officer for 20 years; I’ve led large hospitals – led a magnet hospital – and I really do value Saint Martin’s and the degree preparation I had there.”

Her Saint Martin’s faculty honored their students’ previous experience, then worked to broaden and advance it, she said.

“Many times doors opened I hadn’t necessarily knocked on,” she said of

the program’s breadth. “It gave me a taste that I could be a leader … and change healthcare for the better.”

She had learning opportunities many nurses never get. For example, she learned to assess community needs.

Her community assessment focused on the city of Steilacoom to determine contributing factors to the town’s higher incidence of health issues. She did in-depth work around public health and rotations in a sexually transmitted disease clinic.

And she worked with the Washington Nurses Association executive director to write public health policy and speak to state legislators. The legislation was progressive and it passed, enabling advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.

“I will never forget how (Maddy) wanted us to understand that nursing has so much impact,” she says. “My time and experience at the College was truly foundational ... Having graduated out of that program really set me for a wonderful career.”

Moore was still a Saint Martin’s student when she was recruited as the director of pediatrics at Vancouver’s Southwest Washington Medical Center. It was just the first in a series of progressively challenging roles that took her across the country and

gave her opportunities to become an innovator in her field.

Shortly after graduation, she was recruited to St. Vincent Hospital and Health Center in Billings, Montana, to direct children’s services, nursing administration and quality.

She spent 10 years in two Montana healthcare facilities. She also finished her master’s degree in organizational management while there. She then spent seven years in two large regional healthcare systems in Maine, where she was responsible for nursing operations at a whole spectrum of healthcare facilities.

In 2007, she was recruited to the Northwest to serve as chief nursing officer at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. The hospital was a “designated magnet” facility. Less than 10 percent of hospitals carry that distinction, granted by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. It is the highest achievement a healthcare organization can earn for nursing excellence and outstanding patient care. Moore twice led St. Vincent through the demanding process of earning its magnet redesignation.

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"My passion is nursing and nurses, but it is also excellence,

and we have to continue to work to advance excellence.”

Dance” video promoting breast cancer awareness. The video went viral, with 14 million hits.

During the project, Moore was impressed by the company’s efforts to insure their products worked well and safely for care providers and patients. She joined Medline’s advisory board, and in 2014, became its chief nursing officer. Working for the company gives her an opportunity to improve healthcare on a larger, global scale, she says.

The company’s 400,000-plus products are designed by Medline engineers and scientists of every ilk. Products are developed to help healthcare professionals accelerate and achieve the best outcomes for patients, and they are integral to healthcare.

“Every time you’ve been in a hospital or other care setting, Medline’s products have been used to care for you,” she says.

To design effective ones, designers must gather enough information and data to mesh the product with people – care-providers and patients. Designers need to take into account things like a nurse’s work routine, patient safety and much more. It’s complex

work, partly because designers and care-providers speak different professional languages and don’t understand each other’s work. So part of Moore’s job is being a “translator and facilitator”—a bridge between them, she says.

“We have to be thinking and working together because in the middle are people who are entrusting the care they request or need be provided to them—that’s the challenge we have in healthcare.”

Her work takes her to many countries to observe, teach, learn and speak. “There’s so much we can learn from each other. We are all struggling with the (same problems) and have to engage in dialogues to see what we can do better by working together, and that has just been an incredible opportunity for me.”

Moore is active in professional nursing organizations and boards, where she believes she can help guide her profession. She draws from the wealth of experience earned through years of leadership to teach others about areas like patient safety, improving clinical practice and transforming culture and delivery systems.

She knows her profession needs to keep pace as research and new technologies continue to drive rapid changes. And she says she is excited about the fresh, new ideas coming from the next generation of nurses.

As for personal growth, she’s thinking about a doctorate, and while she’s served on university nursing faculties and written many articles, she still has three books she wants to write.

Her passion for her profession has never dimmed.

“I always look and think ‘how can we do this better’ – and that has driven me all my career. When we in healthcare do not do the best job possible, not only is the patient harmed and hurt, but there’s also a second victim. I have dealt with the pain and anguish that are on a family’s faces, but what’s often not seen is the pain and anguish being felt by the healthcare provider. I want to be able to think about how to develop systems and mechanisms and products that make care safer …

To be honest, my passion is nursing and nurses, but it is also excellence, and we have to continue to work to advance excellence.” u

Senior Vice President, Patient Services; System Chief Nursing Officer Maine General Health regional health system, Augusta, Maine / 2004-07

Director, Children’s Services, Nursing Administration and Quality St. Vincent Hospital and Health Center, Billings, Mont.

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Senior Nurse Executive; Vice President for Nursing Central Maine Healthcare regional health system, Lewiston, Maine / 2000-04

Director, pediatric services Southwest Washington Medical Center, Vancouver, Wash. / 1989-91

Vice President, Patient Care Services; Corporate Compliance Officer St. Peter’s Hospital, Helena, Mont. / 1997-2000

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Bob Walters HS’53,’58 donated his antique 1915 police car to the Portland Police Museum. Walters restored the car after his uncle sold him the vehicle in the early 90s. The car will be tuned up and placed in the Rose Festival Parade, and will find its place as a permanent display piece in the museum.

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Mike HS’66 and Jackie McInnes, Pat Rogers HS’66 and Mary Jo Blume, Rick HS’66 and Karen Smith, Jack HS’66 and Jan Snyder, and Mike HS’66 and JoAnn Swenson, got together for a cruise to Panama, on the Coral Princess, from Feb. 19 through March 16.

Tom Hillier ’69 delivered the keynote address in May 2017 to Gonzaga University’s School of Law graduates. He was also honored with an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Gonzaga in recognition for his career in public service and commitment to justice.

1970s Gerald “Sully” Sulliban ’73 has retired after years of service as the director of church finance for the Hawaii Pacific Baptists Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. After retiring, he

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and his wife relocated to Vancouver, Washington, to be closer to their children, grandchild, and other family in the Northwest.

Joyce Helens ’76 became president of Great Basin College in Nevada on August 1, 2017, following 11 successful years in Minnesota, leading St. Cloud Technical & Community College as president.

Lisa Isaacs ’79 has retired from her position as the crime prevention coordinator for the Puyallup Police Department. As coordinator she put together programs such as the Volunteers in Police Service, Coffee with a Cop, Paws on Patrol, and Citizens’ Academy—all of which bridge the gap between police and the community.

1980s RB “Doc” Hecker ’81 is a practicing physician and antique aircraft enthusiast who holds Federal Aviation Administration ratings as an

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He recently attended a five-day maintenance course on the C-47 offered by Basler Turbo Conversions.

He performed the pre-flight inspection for the first flight and8 acted as the flight engineer for the second flight. He can be seen as the middle figure in the cockpit windows as he monitored flight and engine instrumentation. Doc Hecker has been asked to be the lead licensed aviation maintenance technician responsible for this aircraft while in San Marcos, and he will train as a pilot in this aircraft.

The aircraft pictured, That’s All Brother, was the lead Douglas C-47 troop transport/cargo aircraft of the paratroop drop during the invasion of Normandy in the early hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Close to 800 C-47 aircraft participated in paratroop drops, glider towing and supply drops. The aircraft is scheduled to be flown to Europe in

spring 2019 as part of the "D-Day Squadron" to participate in the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.

The aircraft arrived in San Marcos in early March 2018 where it will be readied for exterior paint and interior refurbishment to 1944 D-Day configuration prior to touring.

Hecker personally owns and maintains two WWII U.S. Army Air Corps aircraft: a 1942 Boeing A-75N1 Primary Trainer and a 1943 Aeronca O-58B (L-3B) artillery spotter aircraft. He is a certified flight instructor in airplanes with instrument and multi-engine endorsements for both landplanes and seaplanes, and he holds a second-in-command type rating for the Boeing B-17G four-engined bomber. He is also rated as a commercial glider pilot.

Janice McGrath ’81 recently bought a home in Reno, Nevada, and is a registered nurse at the VA Medical Center in Reno.

George Thomas Jr. ’83 was honored as a Distinguished Alumni for Pierce College in April 2017. In his current position at the GSA’s Transportation Audits Division, Thomas works to identify overcharges and debts relating to transportation bills; saving millions of dollars in overpayment of taxpayer money. Thomas earned his associate’s degree at Pierce College and went on to get his bachelor’s degree at Saint Martin's University.

Jan Jutte ’83 was honored by Gov. Jay Inslee with the Governor’s Award

for Leadership in Management. Jan delayed retirement twice to ensure the State Auditor’s Office could continue its operations and fulfill their mission during some rough times and a change of state auditors.

Linda Rasmussen ’84 had a surprise connection with fellow alumni Thomas Sursely who attended the College in 1969. Linda, a surgeon on Oahu, provided a hip replacement for Sursely who mentioned he attended Saint Martin’s in the 60s. What a small world! Two alumni in one operating room.

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Perry Shea ’84 and his company, SCJ Alliance, were recognized at the Washington Secretary of State’s Corporations for Communities Awards. SCJ Alliance earned honorable mention and was recognized for service to the community through time, talent and treasure to nearly two dozen different organizations.

Jerry Wilkins MBA’88 was recognized as “Realtor of the Year” by the Thurston County Realtors Association.

1990s Kurt Kageler ’91, MBA’97 and wife Janel Kageler ’90, MED’03 are back in business with their children’s play place, Charlie’s Safari. Once located near the Regal Cinemas in Lacey, they are now located in Hawks Prairie

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Nancy Deakins MEM’99 was one of 19 women honored with this year’s South Sound Exceptional Woman award. The event honors women who help their organization and make the community a better place. Nancy volunteers with the Expanding Your Horizons organization.

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Joseph Cacalda ’93 led a project in Maui, Hawai'i, that created an access road from the Kahului Airport to the Hana Highway. This access road not only cut driving time tremendously but it also features a beautiful water

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Jennifer Walker ’97 accepted the position of director of public works for Thurston County in September 2017. She has worked in the department for over 15 years and has advanced within the Public Works department throughout her career.

feature that includes four waterfalls and provides measurements for evapotranspiration and on-demand irrigation.

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Derek Boysen ’95 joined Andy Johnson & Co., Inc. as a shareholder and officer. He holds the position of senior project manager, with a focus on education facilities.

Trevor Dunstan ’09 and his wife Ashley, who attended Saint Martin’s from 2004 - 2007, celebrated their

2000s Tonya (Darby) Girouard ’02 married Marcel Girouard on May 28, 2017.

10-year wedding anniversary in July 2017. Ashley was recently hired as the head cheerleading coach at Chiawana High School in Pasco School District where Trevor is also a teacher.

Brendan Campbell ’08 and Vlad Voin ’11, have obtained highly competitive postgraduate year one residency positions in the U.S. They will begin their physician careers at U.S. hospitals, Brendan in psychiatry and Vlad in internal medicine.

Alicia LeDuc ’09 was married August 26, 2017 to David Montgomery. Rachel (Robertson) Clifton ’09 was Alicia’s bridesmaid in the wedding. The officiant for the ceremony was Fr. Damas A.S. Chale of St. Agnes Chipole in Tanzania, whom Alicia met through her Saint Martin’s volunteer work. The ceremony was held at St. Joseph’s Church in Chehalis followed by a traditional outdoor Scottish convalidation ceremony near Mt. Rainier. Alicia graduated magna cum laude from Willamette University College of Law in May 2017. She briefly clerked for the Washington State Supreme Court before joining the northwest-based international firm Davis Wright Tremaine as an associate in commercial litigation in September 2017.

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Samantha (Ordos) Paradis ’10 married Nicholas Paradis on May 28, 2016. Alumna Sophia Pettis was her bridesmaid. On March 14, 2017 Samantha and Nicholas welcomed their first child, Henry Paradis.

Joseph Perkins ’10 accepted a job at the Water Management Laboratories with the Department of Health as a microbiologist. He is going to be the regional total coliform manager for the Eastern Regional Office. He will be observing public drinking water supplies to make certain they are providing safe water to Washington's residents within the region east of the Cascades.

Josh Long ’11 received a promotion to senior scientist on the Kingsford Base Research and Development team at the Clorox Company. Long began his career at Clorox as a plant engineer and was promoted to product distribution and quality manager at Kingsford’s plant in Springfield, Oregon. He took a position as scientist II in research

and development, where he made significant contributions to product and technology development. As a senior scientist, Long will take on a technical leadership role in the discovery work designed to build out the Kingsford innovation pipeline.

Roni Jo Mielke ’11 married David Funk in October 2016. The wedding party included alumni Dara Zack ’11 and Kelsey Baker ’12.

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Lorene Lee MIT’13 received her National Board certification in December 2017. Her certification is for English as a new language, language acquisition specialist. She is now a teacher in the North Thurston Public School district.

Caley (Wiseman) Robinett ’13 welcomed her first child, Lilly Michelle Robinett, on February 8, 2017.

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Tucker Maxwell ’09 joined the Guild Mortgage team as the transaction coordinator.

2010s Rachel Golda ’10 married Galen VanEeckhoutte on September 23, 2017. Alumna Lilia Bahena ’12 was in her wedding party. Rachel also received her Ph.D. in environmental

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Trivone Curry ’14 was recognized in RecruitMilitary’s 2017 Top 40 Under 40 Military list in conjunction with Veterans Day.

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John Smigaj ’14 and his business partner Morgan Misek launched a company called Trxstle that celebrates the active lifestyle the outdoors of the PNW has to offer.

Their company’s main focus is on their newest product, The Olympian, which is, as the two describe it, “a versatile fly rod and reel storage system that gives you the option of bringing your fully rigged fly rod on top of your vehicle, or that collapses down into a standard rod and reel case. With innovative features like a weatherproof housing liner and fast, stowable clamping system, The Olympian has something to offer all fly anglers.” John earned his mechanical engineering degree at Saint Martin’s.

Christine (Towey) Brenner ’15 married Austin Brenner ’15 on June 18, 2017. They had several Saints in their wedding party, including: Laura Boursaw ’16, Ronald Boursaw ’15, Tyler Sissel ’15, and Jack Freeman ’16.

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Dianne Baumann ’15 received her master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Washington (UW) in March 2017 and is continuing her Ph.D. candidacy at UW. Jessica “Sunny” Boer ’17 and Matthew Hankins ’15 were married July 28, 2017. Their wedding party included alumni Emma Jantzer ’17, Cody House ’16, and Matt Dunford ’16. The couple is now residing in Vancouver, Washington, where Matt is working for the Vancouver

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Fire Department and Sunny splits her time between working for the Washington State Department of Transportation as a transportation engineer and coaching soccer at a youth club.

Kendal Seeman ’16 has begun a teaching career in the English department at an alternative high school for at-risk youth called Eastside Academy. She wants to thank and show her appreciation to the Saint Martin’s Education Department and to Susan Leyster for all of the work she has done for the Service Immersion Department. Both have paved the way for her preparation for teaching and Leyster’s influence has also inspired her to volunteer as an emergency medical technician and firefighter for the City of Ruston.

Saint Martin’s Men’s Basketball Alumni gathered for their annual reunion with Coach Vermillion.

Coach Vermillion passed away on October 21, 2017, and this was the last gathering his players had with their beloved mentor. From top row left to right: Coach Alex Pribble, Mike Waske ’66, George Parker ’71, Eugene Wilber ’68, Tom Hillier ’69, Lee Reeves ’67, Mike Dahl ’69, Garth Steedman ’68, Vince Strojan ’68, Victor Napoli ’65, Coach Vermillion, John Donaldson ’66, Henry Kappert ’70. Bottom row left to right: Herb Moxley ’72, Pat McCarthy ’66.

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N O R E UN I Let's Celebrate!

August 3-5, 2018 Friday, August 3 The 35th Annual Saints’ Golf Classic Saturday, August 3 | 9 a.m.

Supporting Saints’ Athletics Olympia Country & Golf Club www.stmartin.edu/golfclassic

Saturday, August 4 Saint Martin’s Alumni Reunion HS’58, HS’68, College ’68 Hawai‘i Club (affinity reunion) www.stmartin.edu/alumni

Abbot Neal Roth’s 80th Birthday Celebration!

GOLF

Luncheon | 11 a.m. | Marcus Pavilion Information and updates: Contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at 360-438-4366 or alumni@stmartin.edu.

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In memoriam

REMEMBERING ALUMNI OF SAINT MARTIN'S

1940s

Timothy Sweeney HS’44, ‘50 November 8, 2017

Michael Lynch ‘67 January 2, 2018

Howard White HS’44, ‘47 September 11, 2017

Rich Redifer ‘67 October 7, 2017

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Jack Conlon ‘52 September 4, 2017

Leland Gregory ‘59 November 14, 2017

Lawrence Shepard ‘71 September 19, 2017

1980s

Edwin Davis ‘83 September 17, 2017

1990s

William Tway HS’57 December 17, 2017

Carol Charpentier-Lawson ‘99 November 1, 2017

William Wertzler ‘56 January 12, 2018

Patrick Sturgill ‘99 October 7, 2017

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Rose Marsh ‘77 November 29, 2017

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Fr. Raymond Dietlein O.S.B. ‘51 October 25, 2017

Fr. Dominic Hahn HS’54, ‘73 September 4, 2017

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2000s

David Boyle ‘62 December 21, 2017

Karen Debella ‘01 September 1, 2017

John Burnley ‘66 Decemeber 29, 2017

Jody Fritz ’06, MED’14 December 19, 2017

KEN GARLAND Ken Garland, Saint Martin’s beloved baseball head coach and dedicated supervisor of the grounds crew, passed away March 16, at Swedish Hospital in Seattle.

Ken was named Saint Martin’s baseball head coach in 2008. He coached the Saints to many records and successes. In his first three seasons, the baseball team was named GNAC Academic Team Champions. Over his seasons, the Saints earned three Freshman of the Year awards and have had over 30 players named to the AllGNAC team. In 2011, Ken led the Saints to a second-place finish in the GNAC, with a conference record of 21-11. In 2014, the Saints qualified for the GNAC Championships and Ken was named Coach of the Year.

As the grounds supervisor, Ken oversaw Saint Martin’s extensive campus grounds. His crew took care of the athletic and recreation fields, and all the landscaping. He was involved in many beautification projects, including the Jan Halliday Memorial Plaza and Flag Pavilion.

Prior to Saint Martin’s, Ken was the head baseball coach and defensive coordinator for the football team at the University of Puget Sound. He also coached both baseball and football at Willamette University and Linfield College. Ken himself played football and baseball at Willamette University, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in economics and physical education. Ken earned his master's degree in athletic administration at Idaho State University.

Ken took great pride in being a member of the Saint Martin’s community—as a coach, as a staff member and as a caring colleague to all. He was a true Saint on and off the field.

EILEEN REILICH, PH.D. Dr. Eileen Reilich, beloved faculty member in Saint Martin’s College of Education and Counseling, passed away April 26 in her home.

Eileen first joined Saint Martin’s in 1997. A devoted mentor, she spent the past 19 years preparing hundreds of future educators for careers in the classroom.

She earned her master of education in Educational Administration and her Ph.D. in Educational Administration/Curriculum and Instruction from Washington State University. She held a bachelor of science in Biological Science and Secondary Education and was also a certified teacher in the state of Washington in both biology and general science. Prior to Saint Martin’s, she was a special education aide, an Upward Bound teacher, a science and math teacher and chair, a research technologist, and an assistant principal.

Within the College of Education and Counseling, Eileen was department chair, adjunct coordinator, and co-director of Field Experiences, where she managed teacher candidates during an intensive semester-long student teaching internship. She also served as Faculty President as well as on many university committees.

A passionate leader and innovator, she helped secure grants for gender equity, presented at conferences on subjects like synchronous online environments in education, real-world math, arts education, and gender equitable practices in student teachers among many other subjects.

Outside of her role at Saint Martin’s, Dr. Reilich found opportunities to combine her love of education with her passion for horses by providing workshops and other educational activities for organizations like the Pacific Northwest Endurance Rides and the Back Country Horsemen of Washington.

Eileen is best remembered loving her life as an educator.

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ALUMNI NEWS Distinguished alumni / Hall of Fame / honor

We were delighted to welcome several hundred alumni back to campus for Homecoming Weekend 2018 in late February. Events included the Distinguished Alumni Awards presentation, Saints Athletics Hall of Fame & Hall of Honor inductees, 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Marcus Pavilion, rallies for the women’s and men’s basketball teams and a special recognition to honor the Saint Martin’s Alumni Association as they transition into the newly established National Alumni Board and reemerge as the Thurston County Chapter.

Congratulations to all of our alumni who were recognized over Homecoming Weekend 2018 Distinguished Alumni Honorees

Hall of Fame and Hall of Honor

Tom Barte ’68

High School Hall of Fame 1970-1971 Boys Basketball Team

George A. Parker, Ph.D. ’71 Christine Schaller ’93 Fr. George Seidel, O.S.B. HS’50, ’55 Perry Shea ’84 John Spiller, Sr. HS’24, ’26 † Christopher Thomsen ’80

Hall of Honor Fr. Gerard Kirsch, O.S.B. HS’61, ’65 Dick Roney ’64 Hall of Fame Alicia (Denny) Morganti ’04, Volleyball Xan Nixon ’13, Men’s Soccer Harry White ’67, Men’s Golf † †Deceased

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August 3-5

2018 Reunion Weekend

Saint Martin's University Campus Amanda Moore | alumni@stmartin.edu www.stmartin.edu/alumni

August 3 Saint Martin's 2018 Golf Classic Olympia Country and Golf Club Derek Schlaht | dschlaht@stmartin.edu www.stmartin.edu/golfclassic

August 4 Abbot Neal Roth's 80th Birthday Celebration 360-438-4366 or alumni@stmartin.edu

August 30 June 10-16

Summer Creative Writing Institute Featuring Acclaimed Olympia Novelist Jim Lynch Saint Martin's University Campus Tiffany McDuffy | tmcDuffy@stmartin.edu www.stmartin.edu/writinginstitute

June 25- August 11

Saints' Youth Summer Camps

Saint Martin's Marcus Pavilion www.smusaints.com

Saints Women's Basketball Youth Skills Camp K-8th Grade June 25-28 Saints Men's Basketball Camp Boys & Girls Ages 8-17 July 9-12 Saints Volleyball Hosts Elite Prospect Camp Ages 9-12 July 13-15 Saints Men's Basketball Camp Boys & Girls Ages 8-17 July 16-19 Saints Men's Basketball Camp Boys & Girls Ages 8-17 July 23-26 Saints Volleyball All Skills Camp Ages 8-18 July 30-31 Saints Volleyball Positional Camp Ages 8-18 August 1-2

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Mass of the Holy Spirit

Hal and Inge Marcus Pavilion Angela Carlin | acarlin@stmartin.edu

• • • FAIRS • • • September 12

STEM Major Fair

Norman Worthington Conference Center

September 19

Business Fair

Norman Worthington Conference Center

September 26

Careers for the Common Good Major Fair Norman Worthington Conference Center

For more information on fairs contact Alyssa Nastasi at anastasi@stmartin.edu.

October 4

Les Bailey Writers Series: Featuring Kathleen Fleninken Norman Worthington Conference Center Jamie Olson | jolson@stmartin.edu

October 20

Abbey Church Events

Norman Worthington Conference Center The Zodiac Trio featuring guest artist Cellist Wolfram Koessel performing Messian: Quartet for the End of Time www.latitude45arts.com

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Saint Martin’s University Lacey, Washington

Saint Martin’s University Gala 2018 presents a celebration of Hawai`i & Pacific Islands.

Featuring celebrity chef & restaurateur

Join us for a black-tie gourmet affair that includes an exquisite five-course dinner, cooking demos and a live auction benefiting Saint Martin’s student scholarships.

Reserve your table at www.stmartin.edu/GalaHawaii or call 360-438-4366.

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In 2020, Saint Martin's University will celebrate its 125th anniversary.

As we approach this

milestone, we draw strength and inspiration from our 1,500-year-old Benedictine tradition and challenge ourselves to advance Saint Martin’s University to higher levels of distinction. One of those levels of distinction is in the area of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM.

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This project is for the construction of a 28,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art

science building that will house the university’s natural and physical

science programs. This facility will be strategically located near Cebula

Hall, which houses The Hal and Inge Marcus School of Engineering, and adjacent to the newly constructed Panowicz Foundry for Innovation,

which houses the engineering computer and industrial labs, creating a STEM complex at the core of the campus.

$10 Million

Overall project budget

Construction timeline

$8.31 Million Raised

Construction of the project is 18 to 24 months with a projected start date of Summer 2018.

$1.97 Million Remaining

As of 4.24.18

The Saint Martin’s Abbey recently made a gift of $1 million in support of the Science Initiative.

Abbot Neal Roth, O.S.B. spoke about the gift and why the Abbey felt it was important to contribute to the Science Initiative.

"The Abbey’s support of the Science Initiative is indicative of our passionate love and belief in what the University strives to do every year, and that is to educate,” Abbot Neal Roth, O.S.B. said. “It is our hope and prayer that others will join us in this worthy effort by supporting the Science Initiative."

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

We’re celebrating

Abbot Neal Roth’s 80th Birthday!

Saturday, August 4 Saint Martin’s University, Marcus Pavilion 11 a.m. | Lunch will be provided Formal invitation to follow.

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