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HSB Hall of Fame,
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MacLean Chair Lectures, page 4
Mayor Visits Campus, page 4
HawkEye
Saint Joseph’s University’s weekly newspaper
March 31, 2008
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu to Visit Campus,
Lecture on “Creating a Community of Peace”
By Harriet Goodheart
Nobel Peace Laureate and human
rights activist Archbishop Emeritus
Desmond Tutu will visit Saint Joseph’s
University on Sunday, April 6, and
deliver a talk at 7 p.m., in the Alumni
Memorial Fieldhouse.
His lecture, “Creating a Community
of Peace,” will draw on his life’s work
as a tireless crusader in pursuit of
peaceful solutions to conflicts around
the world, his leadership as chairman
of South Africa’s Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, his role in
helping his country bind up its wounds
in the post-apartheid era, and most
recently, his efforts to resolve the crisis
in Kenya. He continues to raise his
voice for peace and justice all around
the world.
Saint Joseph’s President Timothy
R. Lannon, S.J., will introduce Tutu at
the event, which is free and open to the
public. It is presented by the Office of
the President, Office of External
Affairs, Office of Mission and Office of
Institutional Diversity.
In addition to receiving the 1984
Nobel Peace Prize, Tutu’s accolades
include the 1986 Magubela prize for
liberty and the 2007 Gandhi Peace
Prize, bestowed by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam, president of India. Most
recently, Tutu has traveled to Kenya,
where he has been working to bring an
end to the country’s violence and political crisis.
Born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, South
Africa, Tutu planned to become a
school teacher until South Africa’s
white minority government in 1953
imposed on black students an inferior
system of education that eliminated
math and science classes in hopes
of keeping them in a permanent under-
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Sunday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m., Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse
The event at Saint Joseph’s is free, tickets are required.
For ticket information, please contact Jeanne Montgomery ([email protected])
in Saint Joseph’s Office of External Affairs, 610-660-1109.
(continued on page 2)
Alumnus, Former Trustees to be Honored at SJU Commencement
By Jeffrey Martin ’04, ’05 (M.A.)
Saint Joseph’s University is pleased
to announce that it will recognize
Brian ’69 and Nancy Duperreault,
Charles Kahn, Jr. and James Nevels
with honorary degrees at the Class of
2008 commencement exercises. Mr.
Duperreault will deliver an address
during the undergraduate ceremony
and Nevels at the graduate exercise.
Commencement weekend will be held
this year on Friday and Saturday, May
9-10. The graduate ceremony will
begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, and the
undergraduate ceremony at 3 p.m.
Brian and Nancy Duperreault
James Nevels
Charles Kahn, Jr.
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Haub School of Business Honors
Daniel J. Hilferty At Hall of Fame Dinner
By Carolyn Steigleman
Hilferty
The Erivan K. Haub School of
Business will recognize Daniel J.
Hilferty III ‘78, president and chief
executive officer of AmeriHealth
Mercy, with the 18th Annual Hall of
Fame Award during a dinner and
award presentation on April 3. As the
recipient of this award, Hilferty will be
acknowledged for his outstanding corporate citizenship, strong leadership
and management qualities.
This prestigious award recognizes
business leaders who exemplify the
characteristics of excellence the school
of business seeks to foster in its students. Hilferty joins a growing list of
successful and impressive successors
who have expertly shaped the business
world.
As the president and chief executive officer of AmeriHealth Mercy,
Hilferty is responsible for the leadership, strategic direction, business
development and operations of its network of companies, including its sister
organizations Keystone Mercy Health
Plan and AmeriHealth Mercy Plan.
Headquartered
in
Philadelphia,
Hilferty and his thriving organization
impact more than two million members nationwide.
“Because of his long-standing business experience and involvement with
the University, Hilferty is a model Hall
of Fame Award recipient,” said Joseph
DiAngelo, Ed.D. ‘70. In 1978, Hilferty
earned his bachelor of science degree in
accounting from SJU. He then received
his master’s degree in public administration from American University in
Washington, D.C. “With more than 25
years of health care, government
affairs, communications and education
experience, Hilferty possesses the leadership and management skills
necessary to spearhead a successful
company and inspire generations of
Haub School students,” DiAngelo
commended.
The school’s Hall of Fame Award
dinner will take place at the Hyatt
Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s
Landing on Thursday, April 3, 2008, at
6 p.m. For additional information,
contact Mary Finelli at 610-660-1645
or [email protected].
In Memory
Robert Edward King, father of Christina King Smith, Ph.D. of biology, passed
away on March 23. Funeral services were held March 29 at Saint Philip's Episcopal
Church in New Hope, Pa.
Mary Lou Woods, sister-in-law of Marybeth Harrington of the registrar's
office, passed away on March 23. Funeral services were held in Bradford, Pa. on
March 27.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Brings Message
of Peace and Community-building to SJU
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class. Tutu instead entered the seminary and was ordained in the Anglican church
in 1961, continuing his studies at the University of London, where he earned a
master’s degree in theology.
After returning to South Africa, he was elected bishop of Lesotho, bishop of
Johannesburg and archbishop of Cape Town. In 1995, President Nelson Mandela
named Tutu to head the commission investigating human rights violations that
occurred under apartheid. Tutu retired from the archdiocese of Cape Town in
1996 and has since served as archbishop emeritus.
While the April 6 event at Saint Joseph’s is free, tickets are required. For ticket
information, please contact Jeanne Montgomery ([email protected]) in Saint
Joseph’s Office of External Affairs, 610-660-1109.
HawkEye Information
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HawkEye is published weekly during the academic year, and monthly in the summer by the
Office of University Communications.
Publication Date
* Wednesday, April 9
Monday, April 21
Deadline Date
Wednesday, April 2
Monday, April 14
* Note: The next HawkEye will be published mid-week to allow for coverage of the
Archbishop Desmond Tutu lecture.
Copy for HawkEye may be submitted via e-mail to [email protected]; via campus mail
to University Communications, Merion Place; by phone to 610-660-1222; or by fax to
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Editor: Kelly Welsh ’05 (M.A.)
Harriet K. Goodheart
Senior Associate Director
of University Communications
Assistant Vice President for
University Communications
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University Photographer
Students Connect Hand-in-Hand
with Disabled Neighbors
By Jeffrey Martin ’04, ’05 (M.A.)
On Saturday, April 5, Saint
Joseph’s legendary Alumni Memorial
Fieldhouse will be transformed into a
carnival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., as
University volunteers host community
members with disabilities in the 32nd
annual Hand-in-Hand festival.
Each year, Hand-in-Hand volunteers, including Saint Joseph’s students,
faculty, and staff, as well as local high
school students, act as buddies and
accompany guests to various carnivalthemed booths throughout the
Fieldhouse. From face-painting and
dancing to live music and magic to simple games of chance, each visitor is
treated to a special day of fun and
memories.
This year’s Hand-in-Hand committee was led by juniors Jenna Sweeney
and Alyssa D’Amore. The committee
has been fundraising for and planning
this event throughout the year — an
effort that was aided when Hand-inHand was announced as the inaugural
beneficiary of the Hawk T program.
The committee was presented with a
$10,000 check from the proceeds of
Hawk T sales on February 28.
“Hand-in-Hand is special, because
it brings together two unique communities in Saint Joseph’s students and
people with special needs,” said
Sweeney, who has been a part of the
program since her freshman year. “It’s
great throughout the day to see that
everyone is so happy and so willing to
help.”
Hand-in-Hand was named best
student organization in 2000 and again
in 2004 by Saint Joseph’s Office of
Student Leadership and Activities and
was granted signature status by the
University in 2007. The organization
has also been honored by the
Montgomery County Association for
Retarded Citizens and the Elwyn
Institute. Hand-in-Hand is the model
for similar festivals at 10 other colleges
and universities, including the
University of Scranton, Johns Hopkins
University and Georgetown University.
For more information on the program,
contact Sweeney at [email protected]
or D’Amore at [email protected],
or contact the Office of Student
Leadership and Activities at 610660-1073.
2008 Honorary Degree Recipients Named
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“The four individuals that will be honored at this year’s commencement
exercises are shining examples of service to others,” said University President
Timothy R. Lannon, S.J. “They have been immeasurably influential to both Saint
Joseph’s University and the Philadelphia community at large and beyond, and they
are certainly worthy of this special recognition.”
Born in Paget, Bermuda and raised largely in the continental United States,
Brian Duperreault has supported his alma mater in a variety of areas since his
graduation in 1969. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees, sat on a
presidential search committee and he and his wife are inaugural members of the
Magis Society, among others. He is currently president and CEO of Marsh &
McLennan Co., Inc., and previously served as chairman of the ACE Limited and
AIG insurance groups.
Nancy Duperreault has fostered a lifelong love of learning, attending Rider
University and the University of Louisville before earning her bachelor’s degree
from Wilson College in 1972. She is an active advocate of the Jesuit pairing of
religion and academia, acting as a Bible study fellowship leader for more than 15
years. Nancy is a director on the board of the Cornerstone Foundation, which
provides aid worldwide to children, teens and adults in need, including the support
of orphans in Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana. She, Brian and their
three sons have resided in New Jersey, Tokyo, New York and Texas. They currently
live in Bermuda.
The Duperreaults will receive Doctor of Humanities degrees in the ceremony.
“The four individuals that will be honored at this year’s commencement
exercises are shining examples of service to others. They have been
immeasurably influential to both Saint Joseph’s University and the
Philadelphia community at large and beyond . . .” Timothy R. Lannon, S.J.
James Nevels, a former member of the University’s Board of Trustees, is
founder and chairman of the Swarthmore Group, an investment and financial
advisory firm located in West Chester, Pa. The company is one of the largest
minority-owned firms in the United States. Nevels presently serves as a board
member for a number of organizations, including the Hershey Trust Company and
the Tasty Baking Company. In December 2001, he was appointed Chairman of the
Philadelphia School Reform Commission, which has been charged with overseeing
the turnaround of the Philadelphia School System, the eighth largest school district
in the United States. Nevels is a graduate of Bucknell University, the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Law
School. He will be given a Doctor of Public Service degree.
Charles Kahn, Jr., a University trustee from 1985-94, is currently president of
Kahn & Co. Real Estate. He entered the family business in 1946, after serving in the
Marine Corps in World War II and completing his bachelor’s degree in economics at
Franklin & Marshall College. He has served as president of the Philadelphia Board
of Realtors and the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors. Motivated by an intense
commitment to the community, Kahn has acted and continues to act as a board
member or real estate consultant to a host of institutions in the Philadelphia area,
including the American Jewish Committee (where he also served as board chairman), several distinguished universities and colleges, area hospitals, churches and
community organizations such as the Police Athletic League and the YMCA. In
1998, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from B’nai Brith. He will be
honored with a Doctor of Commercial Science degree.
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Winning Student Paper Examines
Honda’s Troubled Ethics
Campus Colleagues
By Dan Wisniewski ’08
Peter A. Clark, S.J., Ph.D., director
of the Institute of Catholic Bioethics
and professor of theology, gave the
annual ethics grand rounds at the
Mercy Catholic Medical Center
(Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Mercy
Hospital of Philadelphia and Mercy
Suburban Hospital) to all physicians,
nurses and support services on March
19. The topic was “Brain Death
Criteria vs. Donations after Cardiac
Death
Organ
Transplantation:
Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues.”
Richard Malloy, S.J., assistant
professor of sociology, gave a workshop, “Listen, Lead and Learn:
Creating Heroic Catholic Culture for
Today’s High School Kids. A Call to
Authenticity & Integrity,” to the
faculty of Archbishop Carroll High
School, in Radnor, Pa. As part of the
workshop, three SJU seniors, mathematics major Franci Dempsey,
sociology major James Lynch and psychology major Allison Reamy also
presented on the topic. Fr. Malloy
reports the SJU students were superb,
both in their talks and their handling of
Q & A with the faculty.
Jodi Mindell, Ph.D., professor of
psychology, presented on “Bedtime for
Babies: Sleep Disturbances in Infants
and Toddlers,” to pediatricians in
Seoul, Korea, and gave a presentation
on “Cross-Cultural Sleep Patterns in
Infants and Toddlers” to the AsiaPacific Pediatric Sleep Alliance in Hong
Kong. Dr. Mindell also gave the
Bruton Keynote Address at the annual
meeting of the Uniformed Services
Pediatric Seminar (division of the
American Academy of Pediatrics for
military pediatricians). Her talk was
entitled “Sleepy, Dopey, and Deployed:
Sleep and Sleep Disorders in Children
and Adolescents.” Dr. Mindell was also
quoted in USA Today regarding sleep
and new moms.
Stephen Porth, Ph.D., associate
dean of the Haub School of Business
and professor of management, has been
appointed to a five-year term on the
Board of Directors of Nutritional
Development Services, Inc. (NDS).
NDS procures and delivers meals and
food to schools and nonprofit agencies
serving children and the disadvantaged,
and conducts nutrition awareness programs in conjunction with these
activities. Last year NDS provided over
9 million meals, 90 percent going to
poor children or disadvantaged
families. Dr. Porth will serve on the
finance subcommittee of the board.
SJU Increases “Green”
Awareness with Campus-wide
Recycling Program
By Sarah Whelehon ’07 (M.A.)
If you were standing in the first floor hallway of Post Hall, could you find
the nearest recycling container for your empty water bottle? Or, if you were
walking through Campion, could you quickly locate a paper bin for that
newspaper you don’t need anymore? If you answered “no,” you’d be among
the majority of students, faculty and staff who simply don’t realize the
University’s recycling presence on campus.
Last year, Michael McCann, Ph.D., associate dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences and new coordinator/spokesman for the SJU recycling program,
was brought on board to change that perception. Now in charge of a small
recycling committee that gathers feedback, evaluates the program and coordinates efforts, McCann is determined to help the campus community
understand just how “green” the University is striving to become.
To provide a sense of how much that funding has helped the
University, consider the nine tons of material recycled in 2006.
Then, wrap your head around six times that: the 54.26 tons of
matter that SJU recycled from just June 1 – October 31, 2007.
The amount is anticipated to be even greater in 2008.
“Before I got involved, a perception had been developing on campus, and
that was a sense that we didn’t recycle anything, that everything just went in
the trash,” explained McCann.
In response to what he calls this “urban legend,” McCann wants to spread
the word that not only has SJU recycled cardboard, aluminum, plastic and
paper for years, but the University also recycles batteries, fluorescent light
bulbs, leaves and other plant debris, and is expanding its program.
At the beginning of 2007, the University approved a quarter of a million
dollars to enhance its recycling program, which led to the hire of two full-time
Three students from the Haub School of Business were recently awarded first
prize in the annual Graduate Ethics Paper Competition, sponsored by The Pedro
Arrupe Center for Business Ethics.
Bledar Qato, Mark Bidoli and Ayse Kalic were awarded $2,000 for their paper,
“Honda and the United Auto Workers Clash over New Factory Jobs.”
In the paper, the students examined Honda’s recent decision to grant employment in their new Greensburg, Ind., plant, only to people living in 20 of the state’s
92 counties, many of which did not have unionized laid-off auto workers. The
students evaluated other options to Honda’s decision, and offered what they felt
was the best alternative solution that would benefit both the company and its
potential employees.
The paper was praised by panelists of the competition, composed of Saint
Joseph’s faculty members and outside business executives.
“The criteria for the competition require that a paper not just offer a proposed
solution to an ethical problem, but that it defends that solution by argument based
on a deeper theoretical understanding of ethics,” said John McCall, Ph.D, professor of philosophy and management. “The Honda paper was exceptionally clear
and organized, identified real choices that were open to the firm, and argued
persuasively for a solution by applying theory to the facts of the case.”
Kalic reflected on the impact the paper had on her outlook on the world of
business.
“This paper helped me to see things out-of-the box,” said Kalic. “Ethics is such
an important topic that makes one realize that the business world and humanism
should not be separated. People are the most important assets of companies, and
we cannot ignore human rights.”
The Graduate Business Ethics Competition stresses the real-world application
of topics learned within the classroom.
“The Arrupe paper competition is meant to emphasize the role of ethics in a
business education at a Jesuit university; it gives students an opportunity to engage
in the ethical reflection that is crucial for their future careers; and it provides
student peers a public example of student work that the University values,” said
McCall. “The competition encourages students to model the kind of substantive
and theoretically sophisticated analysis that Jesuit education should embody.”
SJU Recycling Logo Contest
Open to all students, faculty, staff
and administrators
For details and an entry form
visit the web site at
www.sju.edu/hse/recycle.html.
staff, including Ruby Robinson, recycling coordinator, and her assistant,
Anthony Williams. The money also enabled the University to purchase more
of the costly recycling bins and dumpsters.
To provide a sense of how much that funding has helped the University,
consider the nine tons of material recycled in 2006. Then, wrap your head
around six times that: the 54.26 tons of matter that SJU recycled from just
June 1 – October 31, 2007. The amount is anticipated to be even greater in
2008.
Despite the increase in funding, awareness and efforts, McCann asserts
that it’s still not enough. The recycling committee hopes to buy and place new
recycling bins in the residence halls and campus cafeterias, as well as hire workstudy students to help manage the growing amount of recyclable material.
In the attempt to raise even more consciousness on campus and create a
unified visual identity for the recycling program, the recycling committee is
sponsoring a logo contest that is open to all students, faculty, staff and administrators. For details about the contest or for an entry form, visit the web at
www.sju.edu/hse/recycle.html.
For additional questions about SJU’s recycling program, contact Ruby
Robinson at [email protected].
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Calendar
31 Monday
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Students…Get an Internship!, North
Lounge, Campion Student Center,
noon
Frank X. Gerrity Lecture: “It Was I
Who Did It: Women in the American
Revolution,” North Lounge, Campion
Student Center, 4 p.m.
March 31 - April 7, 2008
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Week of the African Child: Sakata
Wimbo, outdoors, Campion Student
Center Lawn, 11:30 a.m.
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Liberal Arts Internship Workshop,
Presidents’ Lounge, Campion Student
Center, 11:30 a.m.
Event Planning Career Panel, North
Lounge, Campion Student Center,
5:30 p.m.
3 Thursday
5 Saturday
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Hand in Hand, Alumni Memorial
Fieldhouse, 10 a.m.
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SUB hosts Trip to the Philadelphia
Zoo, off campus, Philadelphia Zoo,
noon
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Chamber and Solo Concert, Chapel
of St. Joseph-Michael J. Smith, S.J.,
Memorial, 7:30 p.m.
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2 Wednesday
1 Tuesday
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Polish Your Presentation Skills
Interactive Session, Room 319,
Science Center, 11:30 a.m.
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Polish Your Presentation Skills
Interactive Session, Room 303A,
Science Center, 3 p.m.
The David H. Burton Fellowship
Inaugural Lecture featuring
Roger L. Martinez, M.A., Ph.D.,
Candidate and 2008 Burton Fellow,
North Lounge, Campion Student
Center, 4 p.m.
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Week of the African Child:
Testimony of a Lost Boy, Library
Foyer, Francis A. Drexel Library,
11:30 a.m.
17th Annual St. Joseph Lecture:
“Becoming a Father and a Husband:
Saint Joseph in Bernard of Clairvaux
and Jean Gerson,” Presidents’ Lounge,
Campion Student Center, 11:30 a.m.
18th Annual HSB Hall of Fame
Dinner, off campus, Hyatt Regency
Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing, 7 p.m.
4 Friday
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Senior Art Thesis Reception,
2nd Floor, Mandeville Hall, 5 p.m.
Campus Currents
SJU Community Joins in
Discussion of Disparities
in Healthcare
The Senior Thesis Exhibition will be on
display in the Saint Joseph’s University
Gallery, located in Boland Hall, from
April 4 – 25. A reception for the artists,
who are enrolled in a yearlong senior
capstone course, will be held on the
second floor of Mandeville Hall on
Friday, April 4, from 5-9 p.m. The
exhibit features the work of 14 senior
fine and performing arts majors and
ranges across disciplines and styles.
Music performances will be held in the
Chapel of Saint Joseph – Michael J.
Smith, S.J., Memorial on April 26 at
7 p.m.For more information, call 610660-1840.
Saint
Joseph’s
hosted
Racial
Disparities in HealthCare: A
Conversation with Glenn Ellis,” last
week. The topic of discussions was the
Institute of Medicine’s report
“Unequal Treatment: Confronting
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in
Health Care,” released five years ago,
and what changes have been
addressed since. Ellis (pictured below)
lectures and is an active media contributor nationally and internationally
on health related topics, including
health education and health promotion particularly relevant to the
African-American community.
Michael Kerrigan
Seniors Display Art,
Perform for Thesis
Exhibition
MacLean Chair Addresses
Contemporary Moral
Crises
Amadeus Shirima, S.J., (pictured
left) the current holder of the Donald I.
MacLean, S.J., Chair in the College of
Arts and Sciences, presented a lecture
entitled “An African Perspective on
Aristotelian-Thomistic Ethics: Response
to Contemporary Moral Crises,” last
week on campus. He argued that contemporary morality is threatened by
various crises including the crisis of
identity and the crisis of meaning. He
also addressed Aristotelian-Thomistic
ethics, ethics of traditional African
cultures, dialogue between African
tradition and Aristotelian-Thomistic
tradition, and ethics of community and
the common good.
Philadelphia’s Mayor
Addresses Young
Professionals on Campus
Mayor Michael Nutter (pictured
right) fielded questions from young
professionals in the Philadelphia area
and spoke on the issues affecting the city
and region last week on campus. The
event was sponsored by the Greater
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce’s
Young Professionals Network and the
Erivan K. Haub School of Business.
Mayor Nutter addressed the sold-out
audience of Young Professional
Network members and discussed how
young people can work with city government to build a better community.
Ellis
Fiscal Year 2009 Budget
Presentation
Louis J. Mayer, vice president for
financial affairs, will present the
University’s fiscal year 2009 budget
to the campus community on
Wednesday April 2, at 3:30 p.m., in
the Wolfington Teletorium in
Mandeville Hall. The fiscal year 2009
budget was approved by the
University’s Board of Trustees at their
February 29 meeting.