e-News, from John Carroll University
Volume 4, Issue 5 | April 17, 2003
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Have a Blessed Easter!
This is e-News, an electronic newsletter from John Carroll University.
In this issue:
1. The Kresge Foundation grants an award -- and a challenge
2. A new look for "www.jcu.edu"
3. Four to receive Alumni Medal at Commencement; Alumni Service, Silver Quill awards announced
4. More 'sound bites' -- from John Carroll magazine
5. Alumni events for Easter week ... and beyond
6. Peter Paul & -- the Ohio Legislature???
7. 'Rusted Root' concert set for Apr 27
8. Notable/quotable ... On becoming a hero
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1. The Kresge Foundation grants an award -- and a challenge
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The
Dolan Center for Science and Technology is on schedule to open for the fall
semester this year and the largest construction project in our history already
is focusing national attention on the university. The Kresge Foundation, one
of the most prestigious philanthropic organizations in the country, has awarded
us a challenge grant of $950,000. The "challenge" means that we will receive
the award only if we raise the remaining $7 million needed for the Dolan Center
from a broad base of alumni and alumnae by January 1, 2004. As hundreds of alums
spread the word to gain support, you can find out more about "The Kresge Challenge"
-- and the rest of the capital campaign, "Choosing the Greater Good" -- right
now by clicking here.Not only will completion of the Dolan Center give us a more prominent spot on the higher education map, securing this award will put us in better position for future funding, both from The Kresge Foundation and from other sources that use it as a benchmark in evaluating programs.
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2. A new look for "www.jcu.edu"
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By the time you read this you may have already noticed a new look to our university website (www.jcu.edu). The previous front page, designed by Matt Donner '00, served us well. But now we're trying to give the visitor direct access from the initial screen to many more points within the website. Hence the "web menus" down the left side and across the top, which reveal direct links as the mouse hovers over each entry. The headlines in the center of the screen also provide one-click access to the most recent news items. The menu in the gold bar across the top identifies "alumni" and our other major constituents (prospective students, current students and FSA). It puts us in position for future improvements, such as the introduction of portals that can be tailored to each constituency and customized by each user. So the new look only represents the beginning of continual website enhancements. As the saying goes, "Watch this space."
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3. Four to receive Alumni Medal at Commencement; Alumni Service, Silver Quill awards announced
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In our last e-News transmission, we reported on this year's Commencement speaker, Astronaut Carl Walz MS '79, but there are other alumni and alumnae who will share the spotlight that weekend.
Receiving our highest award, the Alumni Medal, at Commencement will be Chuck Heaton '38, one of Cleveland's most respected sportswriters of all time; Bill Sweeney '48, longtime member of the President's Forum and supportive neighbor of JCU; George Wasmer '58, inspiration for Wasmer Field; and Martha Walther '76, retired US Marine Corps LTC and now VP for NYC's Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority.
At the Alumni Reception and Dinner on Friday evening, May 16, the Alumni Service Award will be presented to Lawrence Kennard '68, Charles Beringer '75 and Nicole St. Marie '94 for their dedicated volunteer efforts, and Nancy Agacinski '79 will receive the Silver Quill award as outstanding class columnist.
If you plan on attending Commencement, you can click here to find a schedule and other information.
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4. More 'sound bites' -- from John Carroll magazine
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The Spring 2003 edition of John Carroll magazine is on its way to your mailbox with compelling comments from students and professors about mentoring, in which, as University Editor Jerry Pockar describes, "one who is further along (a common path) is willing to coach and serve as a role model to the one not as far along." Click here to hear a "sound byte" from one of the numerous mentors students are finding at JCU, as well as equally brief audio segments from two other features, and then read the full stories in the magazine, which is also available online.
In fact, if you didn't do so a few months ago, you can still tell us what you think of the magazine and what you'd like to see in it by completing our quick, online survey.
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5. Alumni events for Easter week ... and beyond
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Coming up next week: The baseball team meets Mount Union in a doubleheader at Jacobs Field (Apr 23), the Young Alumni ('93-'02) meet for Happy Hour (Apr 25), alums in Pittsburgh join Father Ed Glynn for Mass and Breakfast (Apr 27), and the reunion classes (3's and 8's) continue their preparations for Reunion. In the last e-News we mentioned Duffer's Day (July 14) and the Chicago Golf Outing (Sep 15), but there are two more tee dates: Golf Outing Fore Women (Jun 16) and the Athletic Department's annual classic (Aug 4). Don't forget those little bars of soap and other travel toiletries for the "April Showers" drive for the homeless, and watch for more details on ALUMS' "NYC Cleanup" in May (May 3) -- all at Alumni Events.
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6. Peter Paul & -- the Ohio Legislature???
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When three JCU students traveled to the Ohio Statehouse recently to lobby for financial aid programs, they also met a living legend, Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul & Mary. The singer received an award from the Ohio House of Representatives for his longtime activism on behalf of social justice and then performed a song for the occasion, "Don't Laugh at Me." He actually had the House members join in with him for the final refrain -- thus inspiring what may have been the most harmonious legislative session ever held. Alas, the JCU students, though well-informed on legislative issues affecting higher education, were somewhat weaker on the category of Sixties Folk Music Stars. They didn't know who Peter Yarrow was, but they happily posed with him nonetheless. You can see the picture that most alums of a certain vintage would undoubtedly hang over their mantels had they been in it -- right here.
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7. 'Rusted Root' concert set for Apr 27
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As the spring semester winds down, a lot of students may have music on their minds, with Rusted Root coming to campus on April 27. (See brief report.
And for a look at what it's like these days to have a major musical performance at Carroll, you can view a brief video streaming clip of last year's "MTV Campus Invasion" right here.
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8. Notable/quotable ... On becoming a hero
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Alums joined members of the JCU campus community last Saturday (Apr 12) at a Mass and later at a concert in memory of Chris Britton '98, who died in an Army helicopter crash a month earlier. They heard a moving eulogy by Marty Hoehler '99, who likened Chris to a "super hero." "It’s when I think of the good Chris would have done, as a soldier, a teacher, a father, that I feel a hole," Marty said. "And I realize there is only one way to fill that hole. Every person that loved Chris must step up, and do a share of that extra good ourselves. We must become heroes to others and to ourselves." Click here for the full text of Marty's eulogy along with brief coverage of the concert.
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