2003-05 Community

              A newsletter for the faculty and staff of the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University May 2003
CSB Welcomes Kathleen Hall Jamieson
as Commencement Keynote Speaker
prepared by Jo Ann Shroyer
CSB director of communication
Communication and Marketing Services
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, political campaign expert and pro-fessor
of communication and dean at the Annenberg School
for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, will
deliver the keynote address at
the CSB commencement cere-monies
at 2 p.m. Saturday, May
10, in the Clemens Field House.
CSB will present an honorary
doctorate — for the first time
since 1979 — to Jamieson. Bio-logy
major Karolanne Hoffman
will deliver the student address to
her 476 classmates comprising
the CSB graduating class of 2003.
During the 1996 general elec-tion,
Jamieson, who also is the director of the Annenberg Public
Policy Center, served as a commentator on the debates for
(See CSB Commencement, page 7)
SJU Commencement to Feature PBS
Correspondent as Speaker
prepared by Michael Hemmesch
SJU director of communication
Communication and Marketing Services
Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for “The NewsHour with
Jim Lehrer” on PBS, will deliver the commencement address at
2 p.m. Sunday, May 11, in the Saint John’s Abbey Church. Also
at the commencement ceremo-ny,
SJU will present its Pax
Christi Award to Dr. John Page,
former executive secretary of
the International Commission
on English in the Liturgy. Linda
L. Hoeschler, executive director
of the American Composers
Forum, will receive an honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters
degree, while Suarez will
receive an honorary Doctor of
Laws degree.
James Mulrooney, a political science major from Inver
(See SJU Commencement, back page)
Commencement Activities Planned
Kathleen Hall Jamieson Ray Suarez
prepared by Communication and Marketing Services
Dr. Carol J. Guardo has been appointed CSB president by
the college’s Board of Trustees for the 2003-04 academic
year. She will begin her official duties on July 1. Current pres-ident
Mary E. Lyons has accepted the presidency of the
University of San Diego and assumes that post on July 1.
Guardo is past president of Rhode Island College in
Providence, and of the Great Lakes College Association, a
consortium of 12 selective liberal arts colleges in Michigan,
Indiana and Ohio. She also has served as a trustee at many
private colleges. Since 1996, Guardo has been a consultant to
colleges in areas of strategic planning and governance.
Guardo has been actively involved with both CSB and SJU
in a variety of consulting roles since 1993. She played a criti-cal
role in helping to establish the coordinated academic
administration for the colleges and led an extensive assess-ment
of the effectiveness of the colleges’ coordinated admin-istrative
structure. She also assisted the CSB Board of
Trustees with the college’s last presidential search in 1995.
“I am thrilled to be able to help lead the College of Saint
Benedict through this period of transition,” Guardo said.
“This is a special opportunity to contribute to the college’s
standing as a distinctive liberal arts institution.”
“Our paramount objective in making this selection was
that the president embrace the mission and vision of the col-lege
and sustain our momentum,” said Susan Lester, chair of
the CSB Board of Trustees. “Carol Guardo’s experience in
(See President, page 7)
CSB Names Carol J. Guardo as President
Author Jon Hassler Receives
Colman Barry Award from SJU
prepared by Communication
and Marketing Services
SJU presented the 10th annual Colman Barry
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Religion
and Society to author Jon Hassler, SJU class of
1955, to honor his service to humanity through his
writing. The award was presented on Friday, April
25, in conjunction with Saint John���s Day activities
and the celebration of the appointment of SJU
President Dietrich Reinhart, OSB, to a third six-year
term.
Hassler, a nationally respected author of novels,
plays and nonfiction, is widely considered one of
the most insightful, entertaining and authentic voic-es
of Minnesota. His novels Staggerford and Grand
Opening have won prestigious literary awards, and
he is the recipient of the 2000 Flanagan Prize from
the Minnesota Humanities Commission and the
2000 Distinguished Minnesotan Award from Bemidji
State University.
Hassler received his bachelor’s degree from
Saint John’s and master’s from the University of
South Dakota. He was writer-in-residence at SJU
from 1980 until his retirement in 1997 and is cur-rently
Regents Professor Emeritus of SJU. He and
his wife, Gretchen, live in Minneapolis. Among his
most recent works are a novel, Staggerford Flood
and a work of nonfiction, Good People — from an
Author’s Life.
The Colman Barry Award for Distinguished
Contributions to Religion and Society recognizes
the contributions that the Rev. Barry, a Benedictine
monk of Saint John’s Abbey and former president of
SJU, made during his life of scholarship and teach-ing.
The author of several books, including his
three-volume Readings in Church History and
Worship and Work, the Rev. Barry began his teach-ing
career at Saint John’s in 1952. He died in 1994.
The Rev. Barry was responsible for the creation
of the Jay Phillips Chair in Jewish Studies in 1969,
the first such chair at an American Catholic college
and the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library in 1964.
His creative leadership set the roots on the SJU
campus for Minnesota Public Radio in 1967, which
has grown to become one of the top public radio
networks in the nation.
The Colman Barry Award for Distinguished
Contributions to Religion and Society is given annu-ally
to those who, like Rev. Barry, have made signif-icant
contributions to human knowledge, under-standing
or communication in religion and society.
Bresnahans Honored
SJU President Br. Dietrich Reinhart presented an
alumni achievement award to Richard Bresnahan,
SJU class of 1976, during a dinner celebration on
Friday, April 11, at Avalon Event Center in Fargo,
N.D.
Growing up in Casselton, N.D., Bresnahan began
his study of ceramics at Saint John’s. He went to
Japan his senior year as an apprentice under
Nakazato Takahsi, a 13th-generation potter and the
son of a “Living National Treasure.” Over the next
three-and-a-half-years, Bresnahan acquired a vast
knowledge of potting techniques, kiln construction
and firing methods, earning the title, Master Potter.
Upon returning to the U.S. in December 1978,
former SJU President Rev. Michael Blecker prom-ised
to make Bresnahan an artist-in-residence at
Saint John’s, where he set up his first studio in the
summer of 1979. Since then, he has worked with
and trained more than 70 emerging artists and stu-dent
apprentices receiving fellowship opportunities
from the Jerome and Grotto Foundations.
In 1993, Bresnahan began building a massive
wood-burning kiln in Minnesota, which he named
after his mentor, S. Johanna Becker. With the help
of 30 volunteers, he completed the project two
years later, in October 1994. The wood-burning kiln
is 87 feet long with a 37-foot long backpressure tun-nel,
making it widely acknowledged as the first of
its design and the largest kiln in America.
Bresnahan’s rich and rewarding career at SJU
and the Pottery Studio was chronicled in a 1997 film
“Clay, Wood, Fire, Spirit: The Pottery of Richard
Bresnahan,” directed and produced by John
Whitehead, which won two Emmy awards. Body of
Clay, Soul of Fire: Richard Bresnahan and the
Saint John’s Pottery is a book by Matthew Welch
(Afton Historical Society Press, 2001) that tells the
fascinating story of Bresnahan’s professional and
personal life and describes the community of artists
that have gathered around him and Saint John’s
Pottery. It also offers insight into Japan’s handmade
ceramics and apprenticeships, as well as a lively his-tory
about the Benedictine monks who founded
Saint John’s Abbey in the 1860s. Since 2001, some 68
works from 13 Grotto Foundation Apprentices, 19
Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists and
Bresnahan have been touring the Midwest.
Also at the event, Richard Bresnahan Sr.
received an honorary bachelor of arts degree from
Saint John’s. The elder Bresnahan attended the
University of North Dakota for several years before
serving in the Navy in the Pacific during World War
II.
After the war, he enrolled at SJU as a junior and
would have graduated in the class of 1948.
Unfortunately, his father passed away quite sudden-ly
at the age of 43, and he had to return home to
Campus News
Recipients of the Tom Creed
Award Announced
The Committee on Academic
Computing has selected three
recipients for the 2003 Tom Creed
Award for innovation in the class-room
using information technology.
Frank Rioux, Jeanmarie Cook and
Stephen Saupe have been hon-ored
this year for their technologi-cal
applications in promoting learn-ing
in their courses.
For many years, Rioux, profes-sor
of chemistry, has worked
toward integrating computational
techniques into his classes, includ-ing
assignments asking students to
learn from practicing these tech-niques.
Often, this has led to
papers and conference presenta-tions
sharing his assignments and
thoughts with chemists outside
CSB/SJU. His continued, deep
integration of computer technology
into his courses is recognized by
the committee as exemplary.
Cook’s incorporation of Web-based
materials into courses is con-sidered
excellent, but the commit-tee
was most impressed by her
successful integration of Web-based
discussion into a course on
intercultural communication. By
establishing a bulletin board shared
with a sister class in China, the
associate professor of communica-tion
gave students the opportunity
to learn more about communicating
with members of a different culture.
Although it would have been easy
for such discussion to stagnate, this
discussion board appeared to thrive
over the semester, with many stu-dents
of both classes contributing.
Saupe, professor of biology, has
displayed outstanding use of the
Web, including most notably his
development of a Web-based
newsletter alerting students and
faculty to events, opportunities and
others’ work in the biology depart-ment.
The committee appreciated
the thoroughness and personality
reflected in his extensive personal
and class Web pages.
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Casselton, one semester shy of graduating, to care
for his mother and four siblings.
The SJU Alumni Association Board of Directors
selects up to four alumni each year for recognition
of their professional careers and community serv-ice.
Past recipients include former Sen. Eugene
McCarthy; Johnny “Blood” McNally, a charter mem-ber
of the NFL Hall of Fame; Roger Birk, former
chairman of Wall Street’s Merrill Lynch; Jim
Scheibel, vice president of the Corporation for
National Service; and Steve Seidel, executive direc-tor
of the Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity.
Spirituality Center Offers
Retreats and Programs
submitted by Katie Sturm
publicist, Saint Benedict’s Monastery
The Spirituality Center at Saint Benedict’s
Monastery offers one-day to three-day retreats, faith
formation programs, personal retreats and spiritual
direction. Offerings are open to both women and
men of all faith denominations. Following is a listing
of the retreats and programs available in May.
Dreamwork and the Path of Individuation
Thursday, May 15, 7-9 p.m.
Presented by Galen Martini, OSB, licensed psy-chologist,
Jungian analyst
Fee: $25
This workshop will explore the concept of indi-viduation
and dreams as an aid to this necessary
transformation. Using Jung’s concepts of shadow/
complex/persona and self, we will work on several
dreams together to understand how dreams convey
messages which challenge and balance our con-scious
attitudes.
Healing Touch, Level 1
Friday, May 30, 7 p.m. to Sunday, June 1, 5 p.m.
Check-in: Friday, May 30, 6:15 p.m.
Led by Jackie Mielke, certified healing touch
practitioner
Fee: $225 (tuition fee) plus $64.50 (optional lodg-ing
and meals)
A nursing continuing education program for reg-istered
nurses, physicians, body therapists, coun-selors,
psychotherapist, other health professionals,
and individuals desiring an in-depth understanding
and practice of healing work using energy-based
concepts.
Daily Centering Prayer
A group gathers daily at the Spirituality Center
for centering prayer from 4:25-4:50 p.m. Everyone is
welcome. There is no fee.
Spiritual Direction
Fee: $35 for a one-hour session
Spiritual direction is available on a regular basis
to help people get more in touch with their inner
selves, to grow toward greater personal freedom
and recognize the many ways God invites them to
live their lives. To arrange for spiritual direction,
contact Josue Behnen, OSB, at 363-7179 or
jbehnen@csbsju.edu Partial sponsorship assistance
is available.
Internship in Spiritual Direction
Applications are being accepted for the 2003-
2005 training program for persons interested in
learning or enhancing the art of spiritual direction.
For further information, contact Kathryn Casper,
OSB, at 363-7028 or kcasper@csbsju.edu.
Private Retreat
Fee: $45 per day (includes meals and overnight
accommodations)
Gift yourself with some quiet time away. Our
Spirituality Center welcomes you! An air-condi-tioned
facility, spacious grounds and a wooded area
provide an atmosphere for prayer, quiet, reflection
and relaxation. You are invited to worship with the
monastic community in the daily Eucharist and
Liturgy of the Hours. Meeting with a spiritual direc-tor
can be arranged for an additional $30. For fur-ther
information, contact Rita Budig, OSB, at 363-
7115 or rbudig@csbsju.edu.
All programs and retreats are conducted at the
Spirituality Center at Saint Benedict’s Monastery,
104 Chapel Lane, St. Joseph. For more information
or to register, please call 363-7115 or 363-7116 or
e-mail rbudig@csbsju.edu
CSB/SJU Adds Summertime
Learning to Schedule
prepared by Glenda Isaacs Berguson
Community editor
Communication and Marketing Services
In Bernie Elhard’s Nutrition 225 course (summer
session), lab assignments are a piece of cake, or
maybe a baked Alaska or even homemade ice
cream.
Students in this laboratory-based foods course,
Experimental Food Science, will examine the
underlying principles of chemistry, biology and
physics that influence food quality. They will learn
to use the scientific method as they modify ratios
and types of ingredients and alter food preparation
methods. As a bonus, they get to eat their assign-ments.
Campus News
CSB/SJU Faculty Group,
Pastiche, Plans Spring 2003 Tour
prepared by Communication
and Marketing Services
The CSB/SJU music faculty per-forming
group, Pastiche, will pres-ent
four concerts throughout
Minnesota this month. The sched-ule
includes The Church of St.
Patrick of Edina on May 12;
Moorhead High School, Moorhead
on May 14; Mayo High School,
Rochester on May 15; and Weber
Hall at the University of Minnesota,
Duluth on May 16. All concerts will
be held at 7:30 p.m. and are free
and open to the public.
Pastiche will perform “A Soldier’s
Tale” by Igor Stravinsky. The work
combines theatre, music and a
moral. The jazzy score was written
by Stravinsky to be used as a trav-eling
theatre piece at the end of
World War I. The concerts are
sponsored by a CSB/SJU faculty
research and development grant.
Pastiche, an ensemble of vari-ous
members of the joint music
department at CSB/SJU, typically
offers two performances each year,
showcasing their many talents.
Pastiche performs an extraordinar-ily
diverse repertoire written for dif-ferent
combinations of singers and
instrumentalists — from classical to
jazz and beyond, from the sacred
to the profane and from the serious
to the absurd.
Seeking a grant?
For assistance, see www.csbsju
.edu/grants.
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The course is one of several available in the new
May/summer session being offered at CSB/SJU. The
new session is being launched — as a pilot — for
several reasons, according to David Lyndgaard,
director of academic planning and budget, Office of
Academic Affairs.
“We are attempting to provide students with as
full a slate of learning opportunities as we can,” he
said. “Some of these courses are not offered in the
traditional semesters, or we are unable to provide
as many spaces as students request during regular
semesters without increasing class sizes. We’re also
attempting to provide some of the most positive
experiences in the old January interim and have
them available in a new vehicle to students. Also,
we’ve recognized that a growing number of our stu-dents
are interested in continuing formal education
during the summer months, and this an effort to
meet that interest.”
In addition to on-campus offerings in math, com-munication,
English, music and geology, several off-campus
courses are available. Biology of the Pacific
Northwest, taught by Gordon Brown and Larry
Davis, offers students a month of field study of
mountain ecosystems in the Northern Rockies and
marine tidal environments on the Olympic Peninsula
of Washington. New York Music and the Arts, taught
by Robert Koopmann and David Paul Lange, will
expose students to cultural events in New York City.
Unfortunately, a course on Economic Development
and Social Change in China, with John Hasselberg as
faculty moderator, has been cancelled this year
because of the SARS epidemic.
The variety of courses reflects an effort to
encourage creative thinking in course offerings.
Summer learning should extend rather than dupli-cate
the educational enterprise, according to
Provost Henry Smorynski.
“Learning never stops,” he said. “Summer learn-ing
opportunities for our students provide experi-ences
that are unique or difficult to fit into regular
semester schedules. This summer we are extending
our excellence in study abroad education. We are
also creating new opportunities for intense learning
like our program with the arts in New York. I know
that we are only at the beginning of a new and excit-ing
educational venture.”
For Elhard’s students, that venture includes
kitchen encounters with exotic dishes. Although
not technically a cooking class — the course offers
science credits for nutrition majors as well as non-majors
— the course provides students a bonus of
basic instruction in food preparation, Elhard said.
“A lot of the students don’t have established
cooking skills,” said Elhard, who also teaches the
course during regular semesters. In fact, she said,
for many of the students, cooking skills consist of
boiling water to make Ramen noodles or macaroni
and cheese.
Likewise, many have a limited range of dining
experience. For example, Elhard said many stu-dents
are not familiar with baked Alaska, an ice
cream dessert sealed under a mound of meringue
and baked until golden brown. Elhard uses the
dessert to demonstrate the principle of egg white
coagulation. In a unit on protein, Elhard alarmed
some students — until they sampled the result --
when she added red wine to a pot of chicken to
make the French classic, coq au vin.
For the nutrition majors, the course serves as a
foundation for later coursework in recipe develop-ment.
For the non-majors who are fulfilling a sci-ence
requirement, Elhard said she gets satisfaction
in knowing that they have gained basic nutritional
information and basic skills in the kitchen that they
can apply throughout their lives.
New Cookbook Artfully Adds
Leftover Johnny Bread to Recipes
submitted by Michael Hemmesch
SJU director of communication
Communication and Marketing Services
Recently retired CSB/SJU professor and lifetime
cook Elizabeth Stoltz has solved the dilemma of
what to do with leftover Johnny bread in her new
cookbook, “Half a Loaf: Johnny Bread Recipes to
Nourish the Body and Soul.”
Stoltz’s cookbook takes an innovative approach
to recipes, using Johnny bread as the signature
ingredient. The Minnesota native has created
recipes that use leftovers in many forms; she not
only incorporates crumbs into her delicacies, but
bread slices, bread cubes and bread meal as well.
And, in a unique touch, the cookbook adds a
taste of nostalgia to its pages. Baked from a recipe
brought to St. John’s Abbey by the founding German
Benedictine monks over 100 years ago, Johnny
bread has established its own following among
locals and alumni, and conjures up different memo-ries
for many.
With each recipe, Stoltz includes a local photo
and a small written memory from a well-known per-sonality
such as former Sen. Eugene McCarthy,
Minnesota author Jon Hassler, and former St. John’s
President Fr. Hilary Thimmesh. Many college alum-ni
and local students at CSB/SJU also share memo-ries,
quips and quotations. The book is beautifully
adorned with stunning black and white photographs
by Catherine R.D. Wallace, a former student at CSB.
The cookbook idea arose from the many loaves
of Johnny bread that Stoltz and her family bought
for years. Stoltz, who taught at CSB for 20 years,
often drove to St. John’s to pick up a fresh loaf of
Johnny bread. The loaves are larger than ordinary
Campus News
Giving Boosts Food Drive Totals
The CSB/SJU community boost-ed
giving to record levels during this
year’s Lenten Food Drive. Food
donations totaling 2,265 pounds
increased last year’s total by more
than 1,000. Cash donations totaled
$2,295, up $630 over last year,
Josie Stang, associate director of
admission, SJ Prep, and Saint
John’s Administrative Assembly
Steering Committee member,
announced. The annual food drive
is sponsored jointly by the Saint
John’s Administrative Assembly
and the College of Saint Benedict
Administrative Assembly and
involves all community sectors —
students, faculty, staff, administra-tors
and monastic members.
“It is wonderful and heart-warm-ing
to see the generosity of our
communities during these very dif-ficult
times,” Stang said.
The food and dollars were donat-ed
to the following locations: St.
Cloud Food Shelf; St. Joseph
Community Food Shelf;
Resurrection Lutheran Church
Food Shelf, St. Joseph; Southeast
Central Stearns Food Shelf, Cold
Spring; and Avon Food Shelf.
Other years Pounds Dollars
2003 2,265 $2,295.00
2002 1,140 $1,665.00
2001 1,125 $1,600.00
2000 602 $1,101.00
1999 990 $1,615.51
1998 793 $1,273.00
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loaves of bread, and Stoltz often found she had left-over
bread that was beginning to go stale and few
ideas for its use beyond the usual croutons.
“I was intrigued with the possibilities of leftover
bread. I guess it was the old Depression-era mental-ity
of not wasting what you have,” Stoltz recalls.
Combining her idea of bread recycling with her
lifetime love of cooking, Stoltz decided to develop
delicious recipes using the whole grain bread.
Inside the cookbook, both seasoned cooks and
beginners in the kitchen will find new twists on old
recipes or entirely new recipes for every meal. But
Stoltz didn’t forget the college students she’s been
teaching for years. “Half a Loaf” has its own section
on college fare: “easy-to-make recipes suited for the
pressure of time and study.” A final section gives
appetizing bread-related recipes, such as Chocolate
Orange Biscotti, Bruschetta, and Symposium Bread
Sticks.
“Half a Loaf” costs $16.95 and is available at the
CSB/SJU book stores.
Fr. Jerome and The Road to Rome
Featured on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’
“The Road to Rome,” a series of paintings and
watercolors by Fr. Jerome Tupa, SJU professor of
French, was featured on “CBS Sunday Morning” on
Sunday, April 20.
The Road to Rome is a series of more than 50 paint-ings
that retrace the steps of pilgrims on their way to
Rome to pay tribute to the Apostles Peter and Paul. To
learn more about The Road to Rome, visit http://www
.csbsju.edu/sjualum/events/Roadtoromechicago.htm.
Faculty/Staff News
Marina Martín, professor of MCL, recently
delivered two papers at conventions. “El espacio en
la producción fílmica de Alejandro Amenábar” was
presented at CINE-LIT V, An International
Conference on Hispanic Film and Fiction on Feb. 26
through March 1. The conference was organized by
Portland State University, Oregon State University
and Northwest Film Center/Portland International
Film Festival, in Portland, Ore. The second paper,
“Mitos de la narrativa latinoamericana en la filmo-grafía
de Alejandro Amenábar,” was presented at
the 34th annual Convention of The Northeast
Modern Language Association (NEMLA) in Boston,
March 6-9.
Jeff Kamakahi, associate professor of sociolo-gy,
received a Fulbright Award for the Fall of 2003
and part of Spring 2004. He will be teaching gradu-
Campus News
Kate Hand Named New CSB
Head Soccer Coach
CSB/SJU athletic director Carol
Howe-Veenstra has announced
that Kate Hand has been appoint-ed
as Blazer soccer coach.
As the varsity head women’s
soccer coach at Cretin-Derham Hall
for seven years, she led her team to
six straight St. Paul City
Conference championships. The
Raiders have appeared in the
Minnesota State Tournament three
times, including a third place finish
in 1998. Hand has been named
section coach of the year two times.
“We are thrilled to get someone
with Kate’s experience and con-nections,”
said Howe-Veenstra.
“We believe Kate is an exceptional
fit for our current team as well as
for the future success of our soccer
program.”
From 1992-1996, Hand was the
varsity head women’s soccer
coach at Edina High School.
Hand has been a member of the
Minnesota State Select/Olympic
Development Program.
She graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1991 with a bachelor of
arts in psychology. She was also a
four-year letter winner in an NCAA
Division I program. Hand graduat-ed
from Edina High School in 1986.
She replaces former Blazer head
soccer coach, Bill Kelly. Kelly was
at CSB for seven seasons and
compiled an 89-26-13 overall
record. Kelly’s 2002 team shared
the MIAC championship with the
University of St. Thomas and
advanced to the second round of
the NCAA Tournament.
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ate and undergraduate students at Tohoku
University in Sendai, Japan. Tohoku University is
one of three Imperial Universities in Japan — the
other two are Tokyo University and Kyoto
University. Tohoku University is ranked among the
top five universities in Asia and the Pacific.
Kamakahi will be teaching courses on “American
Society” and “Inequalities” in the College of Arts
and Letters and in the College of Education. He has
previously engaged in research on the history of the
sake (Japanese rice wine) brewing industry in the
United States as well as a study of 19th Century
Hawaiian Kingdom Censuses which included
Japanese migration to Hawaii.
Kamakahi has been selected from a national pool
of scholars as one of 25 participants in the National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer
Institute entitled “Re-Imagining Indigenous
Cultures: The Pacific Islands.” The Institute is a five-week
program funded by the NEH and will be held
at the East-West Center on the University of Hawaii
— Manoa campus during the summer. Kamakahi
was the only sociologist selected as a participant.
The instructing scholars at the NEH Institute are
based at universities throughout the United States
and the Pacific.
Kamakahi is the organizer for the session on
“Indigenous Peoples” for the American Sociological
Association (ASA) Conference to be held in Atlanta
in August.
He and Kate Kamakahi, director, CSB/SJU
International Student Program, have co-authored a
paper titled “A Semi-atic View of Native Hawaiian
Identity” to be presented at the Hawaii International
Conference on Social Sciences in June in Honolulu.
The paper examines the concept of a non-solipsistic
indigenous identity distinct from diffuse status
characteristics (e.g., race, ethnicity and nationality)
and operational within complex and diverse con-texts.
Sara Rothenberger, CSB residential life, T.
Todd Masman, student activities/leadership devel-opment,
and Sheila Nelson, associate professor of
sociology, presented a program at the 2003
American College Personnel Association
Convention titled: “Coming Out of the Institutional
Closet at Catholic Institutions.” For more informa-tion,
please e-mail one of the presenters.
Gar Kellom, vice president of student develop-ment,
and Fr. Robert Pierson, chaplain and SJU
director of campus ministry, also gave a presenta-tion
at the ACPA Convention. They presented, along
with senior elementary education major John
Schmanski “The Spirit of Man: Voices from Men’s
Spirituality Groups.”
Lisa Mueller, CSB residential life, received a
recognition award at the 2003 American College Kate Hand
Campus News
Caritas Awards Ceremony
Honors CSB/SJU Alumnae/i
and Students
CSB/SJU alumnae/i Sarah Ath-man,
’99, and Mike Sersch, ’00,
and CSB/SJU seniors Karolanne
Hoffman and Gabe Berendes were
honored recently at the eighth
annual Caritas Awards Ceremony
for their commitment to and
involvement in service and justice
activities.
The ceremony was April 28 in
the CSB Haehn Campus Center
and was sponsored by the
CSB/SJU campus ministry offices,
alumnae/i associations and service
learning department.
To further the culture of service
on the CSB/SJU campuses, the
Caritas Awards commend active
members of service and social jus-tice
and recognize them for making
the campuses, communities,
nation and world a better place to
live. “By praising the efforts and
achievements of the students and
alumnae/i, the Caritas Awards
inspire students to action and
remind them that a lifelong commit-ment
to the pursuit of service is
worthy of celebration,” said Carla
Durand-Demarais, CSB associate
campus minister.
Award recipients are chosen
from nominations submitted by the
Caritas Awards Committee and the
larger campus community.
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Taking Care of Yourself? I Can Barely Remember My Name!
by Jason Laker, SJU dean of campus life
Editor’s note: Each month, the Healthy Learning Community and the Partners for Healthy Learning
promote a health theme to the CSB and SJU campuses. These groups are involved in the promotion of
physical, intellectual, emotional, social, occupational and spiritual health. To learn more about the
Healthy Learning Community and the Partners for Healthy Learning, please visit the Web site at
http://www.csbsju.edu/extending/projects.htm.
If readers are anything like the author of this
article, then they’ve heard many ideas about how to
stay healthy: sleep, get exercise, eat balanced
meals, etc. Well, this article isn’t about any of that.
This writer is pudgy, doesn’t get enough sleep, and
can’t afford organic food for his whole family.
Between working full time, finishing a Ph.D. and
trying to be a good husband and father (four kids),
it seems impossible to make changes at this point.
Most readers probably know how to exercise
safely, how to assemble balanced meals, what time
one “should” go to sleep, etc. The reality is that
many people don’t have the time to work on these
things right now. This article is for those who would
like to sleep, exercise and eat nutritious meals, but
are just too busy or broke to do it right now, or
maybe just not angry enough to do it. Don’t take
this the wrong way. It would be nice to be doing
these things. But during preliminary drafting of the
obligatory New Year’s resolutions back in
December, there came this crazy idea. This year the
author, referred to herein in the third person, kind
of like a Royal, has just one resolution: Have more
fun.
“Fun” doesn’t refer to expensive hobbies or
vacations. Instead, this year it shall be OK to be
pudgy and not eat the best foods. The focus will be
on being silly with a weird sense of humor. A more
fundamental question will be: “Am I happy?”
Taking care of oneself will be about mischief and
lighthearted silliness. The sillier, the happier, and
perhaps a longer life will be the result (or at least a
smile upon exit). Here are some ideas for express-ing
a strange side:
● When in meetings, explore various fake
accents.
● Use an upward inflection at the end of state-ments
so they sound like a question.
● Consider wearing a monocle.
● Wear a dickey over a shirt.
● When answering a question, begin with
“methinks.”
● Choose a food to stockpile, such as raisins,
and offer them to people constantly until people
refer to this as “gifts from the raisin guy/lady.”
These are just a few suggestions, but feel free to
come up with new ones. Enjoy!
Personnel Association Convention. This is a nation-al
recognition awarded for receiving the
Outstanding Conference Program Award for the
2002 Minnesota College Personnel Association Fall
Conference at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
This program was a two-hour presentation titled:
“Real World vs. Road Rules.” For more information,
contact Mueller.
The following CSB residence directors received
professional development grants to attend the 2003
American College Personnel Association
Convention in Minneapolis, from March 28-April 2:
Rebecca Rawe, JoAnn Jasper, Michelle
Overtoom, Lisa Mueller, Sara Rothenberger
and Kelly Schackmann. Also attending from CSB
Residential Life was MaryBeth Thompson and
Jody Terhaar. Also attending from CSB/SJU stu-dent
development were T. Todd Masman, Sheila
Nelson, Gar Kellom, Amy Discher, Heidi
Harlander and Angie Schmidt.
Lynda Fish, CSB/SJU academic advisor to inter-national
students, and Professors Dave Bennetts
and Richard Bohr, co-directors of the Asian
Studies Learning Community, presented a panel
entitled “From Asian Studies to Asia Hands: Placing
Graduates in Asian Teaching Jobs” at the 11th annu-al
ASIANetwork conference in Greenville, S. C., on
April 11-13. ASIANetwork, of which CSB/SJU is an
institutional member, is a consortium of 150 U.S. lib-eral
arts colleges dedicated to strengthening Asian
studies on their campuses. The annual conference
is an opportunity for members to learn from one
another about the latest developments in curricu-lum,
pedagogy and programs.
At the conference, Bohr was elected to the
ASIANetwork Board of Directors. The
ASIANetwork Board develops and oversees
ASIANetwork’s curriculum projects, raises funds
for student and faculty research and study tours
among member institutions, and monitors the latest
trends within Asia-related liberal arts education.
Campus News
Extraordinary Performance
Award Recipients Named
prepared by Herb Trenz
director of human resources
Barb Fahnhorst, CSB associate
director of financial aid, and Valerie
Knopp, SJU student employment
coordinator, were recently selected
as the Spring 2003 recipients of the
EOP Award.
They were recognized at a
luncheon in their honor, with their
invited guests and those who nom-inated
them. Each recipient
received a desk clock, savings
bond and a personal day off with
pay to commemorate their selec-tion.
Please congratulate them for the
contributions they make to our
community.
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higher education, her deep knowledge of the
College of Saint Benedict and commitment to its
Catholic mission and identity and her appreciation
of the coordinate relationship between CSB and
SJU make her an ideal leader. We are very fortunate
to have someone with Carol’s leadership and expe-rience
to help us move forward.”
The Board of Trustees also announced that
Lester will chair the search committee for the per-manent
president. Guardo will not be a candidate
for the permanent position. The search committee’s
activities will commence this summer and are
expected to conclude with the selection of a new
president in spring 2004.
Guardo views her appointment as a rare oppor-tunity,
given her professional associations with
CSB/SJU. “Because I know most of the key players,
I know the two institutions and I understand the
coordinate relationship, it just seemed like the kind
of opportunity I couldn’t say no to. I have always
enjoyed my work there and have great respect for
the people I’ve worked with. It will be an adventure
for a year,” she said.
Among her immediate goals will be to sustain the
college’s momentum and to ensure a smooth transi-tion
as the search process gets underway.
“I will try to get a sense from the board and cab-inet,
the faculty and staff what are the major priori-ties,
what are things that we really can’t afford to
lose momentum on and make sure that I dedicate
my energies to those things,” she said.
“I’ve always been impressed that the college has
a nice positive momentum about it. We want to keep
that momentum going and in place so that as we
search for a permanent president the candidates
will see that momentum in action.”
Additionally, she said she wants to reassure peo-ple
about the search process “so that they feel they
have a voice and can help define the kind of presi-dent
you’re going to need for the longer term.”
She also plans to make sure that the coordinate
relationship stays healthy, “because that’s really
vital to both institutions.”
While she understands the challenges she faces,
she said she will not face them alone.
“I understand the job because I’ve done it before,
but I also think it takes good people around you,
too. As I told some of the people I spoke to about
this opportunity, if you’re looking just for a caretak-er,
you have the wrong person; it’s not my personal-ity.
It doesn’t mean I’m going try to run everything,
because you really can’t run everything in one year.
But I’m going to try to make sure that we have that
nice, vibrant, active, moving forward kind of atti-tude
and we get some things done.”
Guardo said she will devote special attention to
the qualities that make CSB unique.
“The College of Saint Benedict has a unique
standing in Catholic higher education in particular.
It may be a one-of-kind in some sense, to be a
women’s college, a liberal arts college. That will be
very important to keep in the forefront of any think-ing
because that’s a position that one needs to main-tain.
There are going to be the usual challenges of
making sure you get enrollment and making sure
the capital campaign stays on track, and those
things that are common in most situations. But I
think what’s vitally important is maintaining that
which gives you your distinctiveness.”
Guardo said her background as a psychologist,
with an interest in how students learn, what moti-vates
them and how the teaching/learning process
has changed, drives her commitment to scholarship
and the liberal arts.
“To me, the critical point in any college is the
interaction between the student and the faculty -—
that’s where the action is.”
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“CBS News,” “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,”
National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition” and
CNN’s “Inside Politics.”
She is also author or co-author
of 10 books.
“Jamieson is known
for her insightful and fear-less
critiques of the rheto-ric
used in campaigns,
offering the news-con-suming
public much
needed clarity on such communications as well as
on presidential discourse,” said CSB President Mary
Lyons. “She applies exacting scholarship to matters
of the utmost civil and individual importance in our
democracy, drilling down through the rhetoric of
politics to the meaning in the message.”
Jamieson, a 1964 gradu-ate
of St. Benedict’s
Academy, has received
numerous teaching and serv-ice
awards, including the
Christian R. and Mary F.
Lindback Award for
Distinguished Teaching. She
received her bachelor’s
degree from Marquette University and holds a master’s
degree and a doctorate from the University of
Wisconsin.
CSB Commencement Saturday, May 10, 2003
9:30 a.m-6 p.m. — CSB Bookstore Open, Mary Commons
9, 11 a.m. — Graduation Masses, Sacred Heart Chapel
10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. — Brunch, Claire Lynch Hall
2 p.m. — Commencement Ceremony
The ceremony will be televised with no ticket required in
the HCC Alumnae Hall, Claire Lynch Hall and O’Connell’s;
open at 1:30 p.m.
Please direct your questions to Mary Jo Waggoner at 363-
5401 or by e-mail at mjwaggoner@csbsju.edu
Barb Fahnhorst
Valerie Knopp
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COMMUNITY
Community is published by the
CSB/SJU Communication and
Marketing Services staff:
Jon McGee, Vice President for
Institutional Planning, Research
and Communication
Greg Hoye, Executive Director
of Communication and Marketing
Services
Julie Marthaler, Office
Coordinator (CSB)
Viv Krueger, Office
Coordinator (SJU)
Mike Durbin, Sports
Information Director (CSB)
Michael Hemmesch,
SJU Director of Communication
Jo Ann Shroyer,
CSB Director of Communication
Glenda Isaacs Burgeson,
Assistant Director of
Communication/Community Editor
Tammy Hansen, Assistant
Director of Communication/
Electronic and Print Media
Greg Becker, Senior Associate
Director of Publications
and Graphic Services
Kay L. Buytaert, Associate
Director of Publications
and Graphic Services
Ron Schoonover, Assistant
Director of Publications
and Graphic Services
Louise Stenberg ’03,
Community Student Coordinator
Community will resume
publication in mid-August.
To share your summer
information and story
ideas, simply e-mail
them to Community at:
community@csbsju.edu.
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Grove Heights, Minn., will be the student com-mencement
speaker, as selected by this year’s SJU
senior class. The 2003 Saint John’s graduating class
includes 400 undergraduate men and
36 School of Theology•Seminary grad-uates.
Suarez joined “The NewsHour” in
October 1999 as a Washington-based
senior correspondent responsible for
conducting newsmaker interviews, stu-dio
discussion and debates, reporting
from the field and serving as a backup
anchor. Suarez has 25 years of varied
experience in the news business. He
came to “The NewsHour” from
National Public Radio where he had
been host of the nationwide, call-in
news program “Talk of the Nation”
since 1993. Prior to that, he spent seven
years covering local, national, and
international stories for the NBC-owned
station, WMAQ-TV in Chicago.
Suarez wrote the book The Old
Neighborhood: What We Lost in the
Great Suburban Migration: 1966-
1999, and has contributed to several
other books and publications.
Suarez also served as a Los Angeles
correspondent for CNN, a producer for
the ABC Radio Network in New York, a
reporter for CBS Radio in Rome and a
reporter for various American and
British news services in London. He
shared in NPR’s 1993-94 and 1994-95
duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards
for on-site coverage of the first all-race
elections in South Africa and the first
100 days of the 104th Congress, respec-tively.
He has been honored with the
1996 Ruben Salazar Award, Current
History Magazine’s 1995 Global
Awareness Award and a Chicago
Emmy Award.
The Second Vatican Council
approved the use of vernacular lan-guages
in the liturgy so the faithful could take a full,
active and intelligent part in the celebration of the
Church’s worship. To facilitate that process, the
International Commission on English in the Liturgy
was founded in October 1963 and was charged with
providing the English texts of the liturgical books of
the Roman Rite as revised in accord with the deci-sions
and directives of the Second Vatican Council.
Page joined the staff of ICEL in
1972. Page was named associate
executive secretary of ICEL in 1974
and executive secretary in 1980. He
served in that capacity until August
2002.
The Pax Christi Award is the
highest honor awarded by SJU and
it honors people who have devoted
themselves to God by working, in
tradition of Benedictine monasti-cism,
to serve others and to build a
heritage of faith in the world. Since
1963, 48 people have been presented
the Pax Christi Award. Past recipi-ents
include former senator and
presidential candidate Eugene
McCarthy; former Archbishop John
Roach of the Minneapolis-St. Paul
Archdiocese; Mary Jo Copeland,
founder and director of
Minneapolis’ Sharing and Caring
Hands; Amy Grant, a contemporary
Christian singer; the late Cardinal
Joseph Bernardin of the Chicago
Archdiocese; and the Most Rev.
John Kinney, bishop of the Diocese
of St. Cloud.
Hoeschler has served as execu-tive
director of the St. Paul-based
American Composers Forum since
1991. The American Composers
Forum supports the artistic growth
of composers and develops new
markets for their music. Hoeschler
recently announced her retirement
in July 2003. Prior to joining the
Forum, Hoeschler worked for 14
years in the corporate sector as vice
president of the Dayton Hudson
Corp., group vice president of
National Computer Systems and
president of Landmark Investors, Ltd. From 1976-
77, she ran the Minnesota Governor’s Commission
on the Arts.
SJU Commencement
Sunday, May 11, 2003
9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. — SJU
Bookstore Open, Sexton
Commons
10 a.m. — Community
Mass, Abbey Church
10 a.m. — ROTC Officers
Commissioning, Stephen B.
Humphrey Auditorium
11 a.m. — Commencement
Luncheon, Refectory and Old
Gym
2 p.m. — Commencement
Ceremony, Abbey Church
3:30 p.m. — Commencement
Reception, Abbey Church Mall
(in case of rain, Guild Hall)
Please direct your ques-tions
regarding graduation to
Shirley Kelly at 363-3147 or by
e-mail to skelly@csbsju.edu.
Linda Hoeschler
Dr. John Page