The Boston College
Chronicle
april 10, 2008-vol. 16 no. 15
Commencement
University to Honor Popular Historian
Fr. Neenan, Brother Arias, AARP head Hansen,
Trustee Associate Jones also to receive degrees
By Office of
Public Affairs Staff
Award-winning historian David McCullough, author of the
critically acclaimed and best-selling books 1776 and John Adams,
will address the Class of 2008 at
the University’s Com­mencement
Exercises on May 19.
McCullough will receive an
honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters degree at the ceremonies,
which begin at 10 a.m. in Alumni
Stadium (Conte Forum in case of
rain).
Also receiving honorary degrees
this year are: Brother Celestino
Arias, ’90, OFM Cap., whose ministry has included youth empowerment in Boston and combating
AIDS/HIV in Africa (Doctor of
Social Science); American Association of Retired Persons President-elect Jennie Chin Hansen,
’70 (Doctor of Nursing Science);
University Trustee Associate Anne
P. Jones ’58, JD ’61, a former Federal Communications Commission member (Doctor of Laws);
and Vice President and Special
Assistant to the President William
B. Neenan, SJ (Doctor of Humane
Letters).
David McCullough has been
widely acclaimed as a “master of
the art of narrative history” and “a
matchless writer” who has won two
National Book Awards and two
Pulitzer Prizes for his best-selling
historical volumes.
His books have been praised for
their scholarship, their understanding of American life, their “vibrant
prose,” and insight into individual
character. His most recent book,
1776, is a New York Times No. 1
best seller in both hardcover and
paperback, with more than three
million copies in print. His previous work, John Adams, remains one
of the most critically acclaimed and
widely read American biographies
of all time. It is presently in its
63rd printing and is the basis for
a seven-part series currently airing
on the Home Box Office television
Continued on page 4
Joan Seidel
David S. McCullough, author of 1776 and John Adams will receive an honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters degree and address the Class of 2008.
Graduate Programs Rise
in US News Rankings
By Ed Hayward
Staff Writer
DANCING THE HOURS AWAY—The sixth annual Boston College Dance Marathon, held March 29, raised more
than $51,000 for Franciscan Hospital for Children. Fifty-three dancers took part in the Hollywood-themed event,
held in the Flynn Recreation Complex, and guests included some of the hospital’s young patients.
Provost Announces Faculty Search Plans
Institute for Liberal Arts
director, new budget
officer are named
By Sean Smith
Chronicle Editor
Boston College plans to undertake searches for as many as
44 faculty positions, including 19
newly created ones, during the
2008-09 academic year, Provost
and Dean of Faculties Cutberto
Garza announced last week.
He also noted the debut this
month of a new online system
aimed at strengthening BC’s undergraduate advising system, and
INSIDE:
the appointments of Prof. David
Quigley (History) as inaugural
director of BC’s Institute for Liberal Arts (ILA) and John Spinard,
’84, MBA’98, as executive director for budget, policy and planning in the Office of the Provost.
Garza made the announcements as part of an “open letter”
updating faculty on the implementation phase of the University’s Strategic Plan, which sets seven major institutional directions
for Boston College in academics,
research and student formation.
These and other developments
highlighted in the letter reflected
efforts by senior and academic
administrators, Garza said, “to
April 15 tribute to Fr. Woods
is planned (page 3)
ensure that implementation activities progress at a good pace.”
In addition, Garza hailed the
“stellar performance” of the University’s professional and graduate programs in the latest US
News rankings [see separate story
on this page]. Extending the successes of these programs, he said,
“is a strategic imperative for Boston College.”
Garza said that while the University’s public campaign to fund
the Strategic Plan initiatives will
formally begin later this year, early pledges of support will enable
BC to commence faculty searches
in the next academic year. The
Continued on page 4
Arts Festival prepares to celebrate
its first decade (page 5)
Led by the Graduate School
of Social Work’s climb to the
14th best program in the country, four Boston College graduate
schools improved their standings
among the elite US universities,
according to the recently released
US News & World Report’s 2009
America’s Best Graduate Schools
rankings.
In addition to GSSW, which
saw its ranking climb from 24th
place in the previous survey, the
Lynch School of Education, Carroll School of Management and
Law School all moved up in the
annual survey of the nation’s best
graduate programs.
CSOM went from 39th to
34th, the Lynch School from
22nd to 18th, and the Law
School improved two spots to
26th. Nursing schools were not
reviewed this year, so the Connell
School of Nursing maintained its
place at 26.
Provost and Dean of Faculties Cutberto Garza praised the
leadership, faculties, students and
staffs of the graduate programs
and professional schools.
“The University is justifiably
proud of its standing among the
top national institutions of higher
education; nonetheless it is always satisfying to have external
confirmation and recognition,”
Garza said.
“These most recent accomplishments reflect the superb leadership of the deans; the unqualified excellence and commitment
of our faculty; the intellectual
strength and ambitions of our
graduate and professional students; the unstinting dedication
Continued on page 3
Tuition and Fees Approved
By Jack Dunn
Director of Public Affairs
The Boston College Board of
Trustees has approved a 6 percent
increase in tuition, fees, room and
board for the 2008-2009 academic year, raising the total cost
of a BC undergraduate education
to $49,560.
Specifically, tuition was set at
$37,410 and mandatory fees at
$540. The room rate was set at a
minimum of $7,160, and board
was set at $4,450.
To sustain Boston College’s
commitment to providing opportunity to talented students regardless of their family’s financial
resources, the University raised
student financial aid by $7 million, or 6.5 percent, to $114
million. Boston College remains
one of only 30 universities in the
United States with need-blind
admission that meets the full
demonstrated financial need of
Continued on page 8
New UGBC team ready to
take office (page 6)
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
april 10, 2008
Adrienne Leslie, ’08, enjoys the
applause after winning one of her
three statuettes at the fourth annual Baldwin Awards ceremony
honoring Boston College student
filmmakers, held March 28 in the
Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. Her documentary “Eat Drink
Talk Think: Perspectives from
Behind the Counter,” a montage
of interviews with students who
work in the University’s dining facilities,” won in the categories of
Best Documentary (where it tied
with “Indian Healthcare: Right or
Privilege?” by Amanda Abel, ’07,
and Daniella Morello, ’07), and
Best Picture. Leslie’s film also
won the Viewer’s Choice Award.
(Photo by Joan Seidel)
East and West at BC
He’s a master chef, a television
personality and the owner of a
nationally renowned restaurant,
the Blue Ginger in Wellesley. But
there’s more to Ming Tsai than
meets the eye, and that’s the reason he’s been invited to speak next
week on campus.
Tsai will present “East-West
Cuisine and the Asian-American
Experience” on April 15 at 4 p.m.
in the Murray Room of the Yawkey
Center, an event sponsored by the
Asian Pacific Islander Employees
of Boston College. More than
200 people are expected to attend,
according to Warren Yi-Jeng Chiang, program administrator and
academic counselor at the Office
of AHANA Student Programs.
Host and executive producer
In the long run
Colleagues and former students came to wish Prof. Stephen
Brown (Theology) a happy 75th
birthday on March 29 in entirely
appropriate fashion: a day-long
symposium, followed by a dinner
and special presentation of a volume of essays in his honor.
Brown, a member of the BC
faculty for almost 30 years, is
widely recognized for his expertise in medieval philosophy and
theology. The director of BC’s
Institute for Medieval Philosophy
and Theology, Brown edited the
critical edition of the texts by William of Ockham and has served as
a consultant for a project aimed at
digitizing the Vatican Library.
The title of the symposium and
festschrift, “Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages,”
Value judgment
Alumni brought paintings, porcelain and pistols – along with dozens of other rare and not-so-rare
artifacts and heirlooms from attics
and mantels – to the Boston College Lifelong Learning Institute’s
inaugural “What Is It Worth?”
event at Alumni House on March
27.
The items were evaluated by
Skinner Auctioneers appraiser Stuart Whitehurst, one of the many
Skinner representatives who appear
on PBS-TV’s popular “Antiques
Road Show” program. Whitehurst entertained and informed the
70 alumni at the event with his
of “Simply Ming” on PBS, Tsai
has worked with The Food Network and was nominated for an
Emmy Award for hosting “East
Meets West with Ming Tsai.”
But Yi-Jeng notes that Tsai also
is spokesman for the Food Allergy
and Anaphylaxis Network and a
founding member of Chefs for
Humanity, an alliance of culinary professionals and educators
providing nutrition education,
hunger relief, and emergency and
humanitarian aid to reduce hunger across the world.
“As a group of Asian American
professionals at BC, it is important for us, as a group, to raise
awareness for issues that face us,”
said Yi-Jeng. “Ming Tsai is one
of the few Asian Americans that
has made it into the mainstream
media. He’s also a local guy who is
committed to local causes and we
think he’d be a perfect individual
to speak to the community.”
Trained by master chefs worldwide, Tsai opened the Blue Ginger in Wellesley in 1998, the same
year he received Chef of the Year
honors from Esquire magazine.
Blue Ginger and Tsai have been
awarded dozens of awards since
that time.
In 2000, Tsai launched a Blue
Ginger line of food products with
Target, which was expanded in
2005 to include frozen entrees,
stir fry kits and sauces. He is also
the author of three cookbooks.
A raffle will be held during
the April 15 event at $2 a ticket,
with proceeds benefiting the Asian
American Resource Workshop.
For more information, e-mail
apie@bc.edu.
—MB
AROUND
AROUND
CAMPUS
Eagles Begin Frozen Four
Battle Tonight in Denver
Playing in the NCAA ice hockey “Frozen Four” National
Championship round has become almost an annual rite of spring
at Boston College.
Coach Jerry York’s Eagles will play North Dakota in the national
semifinal round in Denver tonight (6 p.m., ESPN2). The winner
of the BC-UND game will meet the winner of the other semifinal
game, Notre Dame vs. Michigan, on Sunday (7 p.m., ESPN).
The Eagles defeated Minnesota and Miami of Ohio on March
29 and 30, respectively, to advance to the “Frozen Four” for the
third consecutive year, the eighth time in the past 11 seasons and
the 21st time overall.
The NCAA victory over Minnesota was a special milestone for
York, who recorded his 800th win as a college coach, the most of
any active collegiate hockey mentor. York, a 1967 BC graduate,
also coached at Clarkson and Bowling Green before taking over the
duties at his alma mater in 1994.
Boston College last won the NCAA hockey championship in
2001. Last year, BC lost to Michigan State, 3-1, in the national title
game in St. Louis.
—Reid Oslin
The Boston College
dence College, said, “Even
refers to the scholarly exthough I never had the oppression in French, le longe
portunity to take a course
duree — “the long duration”
with Steve, and he was never
— and celebrates Brown’s
officially my advisor, Steve,
influence on the range of
through generous initiative,
scholarship from the patrishas remained throughout the
tic period, 200-500 C.E., to
years my greatest mentor,
the so-called early Modern
when revising my dissertaperiod of the 16th century,
tion, seeking grants, applying
explains event co-organizer
for jobs, publishing work, and
Assoc. Prof. Eileen Sweeney
exploring ideas.”
(Philosophy).
Theologian
Stephen
Brown’s
March
29
festschrift
Interviewed afterward,
“It really is a ‘long midalso
was
a
tasteful
birthday
celebration.
Brown
said, “It was wonderdle ages,’” she says. “The
ette
(Philosophy)
and
graduate
ful
to
see
so many friends,
notion of the boundaries
student
John
Slotemaker,
as
well
some
coming
from
far away. Havof the periods, ancient, medieval,
as
Rev.
Matthew
Lamb,
a
foring
trained
in
philosophy,
and
modern, are changing expanding
mer
BC
theology
professor
now
at
then
taken
a
position
in
theology,
and overlapping and Steve’s work
Ave Maria University in Florida, I feel fortunate to be at BC, where
and influence respects that.”
More than half of the 40 con- where Brown is teaching this se- I’ve been able to explore both disciplines in a way that’s satisfying
tributors to the festschrift turned mester while on leave.
During
the
presentation,
Juan
and rewarding. It’s rare to have
out for the occasion. The sympoCarlos
Flores,
MA’95,
an
associate
this kind of community.”
sium included talks by Brown’s
professor
of
philosophy
at
Provi—SS
BC colleagues Prof. Oliva Blanch-
knowledge of the attic treasures
and his frank appraisal of their current resale value.
BC’s Lifelong Learning Institute
(LLI) is an on-going peer learning
and participation program sponsored by the Alumni Association.
Members gather weekly to discuss
and share knowledge on a variety
of topics.
“The biggest thing people want
to find out is whether or not what
they have been told about an item
is true,” noted Whitehurst after
his presentation. “People are given
a particular sequence of ownership or where it came from, and
oftentimes people are curious as to
whether or not it is true.
“I get a lot more questions
about ‘What is it?’ than ‘What’s
it worth?’” he said. “They don’t
always think that their things are
treasures, but by and large I think
people are more realistic about the
value of things, but more questionable about the originality.”
Whitehurst asked each owner
“What do you know about it?” as
he displayed the individual items.
“Sometimes it only takes one
drunk uncle to make people think
they have a valuable piece of art or
history,” Whitehurst laughed. “Or,
if grandmother owned it, it must
be 200 years old or you think it
goes back to the Magna Carta.
“If I use the words ‘cute’ or
‘sweet’, be prepared for a low value,”
Whitehurst cautioned, although
some of the items submitted he
valued in excess of $10,000.
“The program was most definitely a success,” said Carol Naber,
LLI’s program manager who organized the event with the help of
Alumni Association staffers Gail
Darnell, Julie Nuzzo and Sophie
Chitlik, ’11. “We are trying to
broaden the institute’s appeal to
alumni of all ages, and this event
certainly drew a broad spectrum.
“Maybe this will be an annual event,” she added. “You never
know what is lurking in that attic.”
—RO
Chronicle
Director of Public Affairs
Jack Dunn
Deputy Director of
Public AFFAIRS
Patricia Delaney
Editor
Sean Smith
Contributing Staff
Melissa Beecher
Ed Hayward
Reid Oslin
Rosanne Pellegrini
Kathleen Sullivan
Eileen Woodward
Photographers
Gary Gilbert
Lee Pellegrini
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T he B oston C ollege
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april 10, 2008
April 15 Event a Tribute to Fr. Woods
Advancing Studies College dean to mark two major milestones
By Ed Hayward
Staff Writer
Students, alumni, faculty and
friends will pay tribute to Woods
College of Advancing Studies
founding Dean James A. Woods,
SJ, next Tuesday, marking his 60
years as a Jesuit and 40 years as a
dean while raising money for scholarships and other support for the
college that bears his name.
“Of course it’s a fundraiser,” Fr.
Woods says, immediately launching into his loud trademark chortle, sending laughter reverberating
through the offices in McGuinn
Hall. “I don’t do things like this
unless we can raise some money for
the college.”
While many of Fr. Woods’ accomplishments are in plain view —
the college that bears his name, innovations in continuing education,
Fall River’s Bishop Connolly High
School, which he helped found
— many more go largely unseen:
the hospital visits, officiating the
marriages of students and alumni,
even appearing in court to speak up
for someone who needed it.
The words his long-time friends
use to describe his work could just
as easily be used to describe a priest
tending to the needs of a parish, not
just a dean attending to a college.
“What the public doesn’t realize
is that what is most prominent is
his pastoral sense of people – that
extraordinary care for people who
come to the college,” says University Chancellor J. Donald Monan,
SJ, who served as BC’s president
for 24 years. “He sees in people
what sometimes they may not see
in themselves yet.”
Fr. Woods was just 17 when he
entered the Society of Jesus, at a
time when young men could still
enter the society straight from high
school. Ordained a Jesuit priest in
1961, he worked in a number of
posts as a teacher and educational
administrator at BC, as well as assignments within the Jesuits’ New
England Province.
In 1968, Fr. Woods was appointed dean of the University’s
Evening College – called “night
school” back then, but quickly
transformed into what is now
known as continuing education.
The college now serves a student
body that is diverse by many measures: ethnicity, income, age, and
language.
Fr. Woods tries not to complicate the focus of the college, which
enrolls nearly 500 undergraduate
and graduate students. “It’s about
telling people they can do it; that
whatever their aspirations, their education can help them fulfill their
lives and that they are capable of
being educated.”
The college was named in Fr.
Woods’ honor in 2002 thanks to
a $5 million gift from Katharine
B. and Robert M. Devlin and their
family. Bob Devlin was a former
student of Fr. Woods at Cranwell Preparatory School in Lenox,
Mass., and two of the Devlins’
sons, Michael, ’88, and Matthew,
’90, graduated from the Evening
College.
For years, the school has offered a serious education outside of
the traditional undergraduate timeframe, a critical option for students
who work full-time during the day,
have responsibilities for child or
elder care, or who prefer a part-time
schedule or the intimate classroom
settings within the college.
While he has celebrated many
milestones in his life as a Jesuit and
as dean at BC, Fr. Woods says his
approach to each day is no different
than when he arrived.
“Why should it be?” he says.
“I have a positive outlook. Things
look rosy to me. I see people and
know that they want to live a good
life and take advantage of the opportunities before them. The needs
are just as great today as they were
40 or 60 years ago.”
Notes of thanks and requests
for help arrive in the mail, some
addressed as simply as “Father
Woods, Chestnut Hill.” Alumni
send thoughtful letters to the dean,
faculty and staff.
“How comfortable you made
me feel about my return to higher
education,” wrote one alumnus. “I
swear to this day that you knew
more about me than I remember
putting on my application.”
Rev. James A. Woods, SJ, is celebrating 60 years as a Jesuit and 40 years as a
dean at Boston College. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
Wrote another: “In essence, Fr.
Woods taught me that life is truly
what we make of it, and no matter
where we come from, rich or poor,
it does not determine how far we
can go.”
When his fellow “’48ers” gather
annually to mark the date they
entered the Society of Jesus, it is Fr.
Woods who orchestrates and serves
the traditional meal: lobster or turkey salads, potatoes and strawberry
shortcake for dessert.
“It’s hard to exaggerate the
achievements of Fr. Woods,” says
Prof. Joseph F. Flanagan, SJ (Philosophy), who recalls that Woods
was voted “most likely to succeed”
among the 34 men who entered the
seminary in August of 1948.
“He did achieve. But what I
respect most is the extra dedication
he has to his vocation. He is an
exemplar of what the Jesuit priest
should be. He has achieved beyond
any measure of his talents.”
The celebration of Fr. Woods’ 40th
year as dean of the Woods College of
Advancing Studies and the Class of
2008 takes place at 6:30 p.m., April
15, at Anthony’s Pier 4 Restaurant in
Boston. For more information about
the event, call ext.2-3900.
Administrators Hail US News Results University Employees to
Continued from page 1
Dean for Graduate Programs Jeff
and hard work of staff; and the Ringuest and his leadership team.
philanthropic support that enables “The Carroll School takes pride
innovation and program enhance- in this accomplishment and the
ment in each of the schools.”
effort we have put into a very real
The 10-place improvement strengthening of the program,”
by GSSW affixes the school at Boynton said. “This is a result
the top of Catholic universities
of everyone’s hard
with social work
work and a string of
programs and sixth
important innovaamong private unitions over the past
versities, said Dean
few years including
Alberto Godenzi.
the introduction of
“During the past
a highly personalized
few years we have
and professionalized
been competing for
curriculum, a revistudents, faculty,
talized focus on ethand staff with the
ics and core values, a
top schools at Michtransformed Career
igan, Washington
Strategies office, and
University, Colum- GSSW Dean Albert Godenzi
leveraging excellent
bia, and Chicago,” said the US News ranking was faculty who are totalGodenzi said. “This “the result of the great work of ly committed to our
is the result of the our school community.”
students, both inside
great work of our school commu- and outside the classroom.”
nity. Today, I am grateful to the
The Lynch School emerged as
leadership of Boston College and the top-ranked school of educato our fellow deans and faculty tion among Catholic universities
across the nation that their trust for its undergraduate and graduate
in us translated into the highest programs that prepare students to
ranking increase of any major so- serve as teachers, administrators,
cial work program.”
human service providers, psycholAscending to 34th marks the ogists, and researchers.
highest ranking ever for the Carroll
“The Lynch School enjoys
School’s full-time MBA program its excellent reputation because
and lands the school in the top of the hard work and expertise
eight percent of all accredited full- of our faculty and staff,” Dean
time MBA programs, achievements Joseph O’Keefe, SJ, said. “As we
Carroll School Dean Andrew move the school forward, we will
Boynton attributed to Associate continue our upward trajectory.
External rankings and recognition are important, but our goal
is to accomplish our mission to
prepare educators and psychologists who empower communities
to enhance the lives of children
and families.”
Law School Dean John Garvey welcomed the recognition that
comes with improved rankings,
but said the focus of the school is
one of consistent improvement in
the teaching and learning of law.
“I’m very happy about our
move up in the rankings this year,”
he said. “This is due to the overall
strength of our students, faculty,
and staff, and to the initial effects
of a number of measures we have
taken to improve the School. Our
Strategic Plan is designed with
one thought in mind – to make
Boston College Law a better law
school. If we focus on that goal,
continued improvement in both
US News and other rankings systems will surely follow.”
Garza noted that the University’s
programs would not be in ascendancy today were it not for prior
generations of faculty, staff and students. “I would be remiss if I also
did not acknowledge the important
role played by those who laid the
foundations for today’s success. Thus
a heartfelt thank you to our faculty
emeriti, alumni, and retired staff.”
The US News & World Report
rankings are available online at gradschools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.
com/grad.
See Medical, Dental Hikes
Boston College employees face
hikes in their medical and dental
plan rates, the Benefits Office announced in its recent Universitywide mailing on the open enrollment period.
Effective May 1, rates for the
both the Harvard Pilgrim PPO
and HMO plans will go up by
8.75 percent. The DeltaPremier
plan rates will increase by 7.7
percent, and the community-rated
DeltaCare plan by 3 percent.
The total monthly health
and dental plan premiums will
be: PPO, $505.40 (individual), $1,364.61 (family); HMO,
$454.41 (individual), $1,226.91
(family); DeltaPremier, $34.65
(individual), $117.52 (family);
DeltaCare, $32.09 (individual),
$79.33 (family).
Benefits Director Jack Burke
noted that there will be no changes in health plan co-payments or
benefits, or to the Contribution
Schedule, whereby the University
contributes 80 percent to the PPO
premium and 85 percent to the
HMO premium.
During April, eligible employees may switch coverage from
one plan to another, enroll in a
medical or dental plan for the first
time, or change membership from
individual to family (or vice versa). Applications for enrollment or
changes must be submitted to the
Benefits Office no later than April
22, with the transaction effective
May 1.
For information, contact the
office at ext.2-3329 or see www.
bc.edu/offices/hr/employees/
open-enrollment.html.
—Office of Public Affairs
Clarification, Correction on
March 27 Chronicle Items
A caption on page 2 in the Boston College Chronicle
March 27 edition that accompanied the photograph
of a reception in Burns Library for Irish and Northern
Irish police officers neglected to mention that the Center for Irish Programs hosted the event. Also in March
27, an article on the Romero Award Scholarship ceremony
misspelled the name of award finalist Stephanie Sanabria.
Chronicle regrets the above omission and error.
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
april 10, 2008
McCullough to Speak at Commencement
Brother Celestino Arias, ’90
clude The Johnstown Flood, The
Great Bridge, The Path between the
Seas, Mornings on Horseback, Brave
Companions and Truman.
In addition to his many literary
and historical honors, in 2006 he
received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
Brother Celestino Arias, ’90, is
more commonly known as “Brother Tino” among some of the toughest streets of urban Boston and New
York City, as well as the far corners
of East Africa and South America.
Born in New York and raised
in Spain, Brother Arias has devoted
his life to his Catholic faith and
service as a teacher, humanitarian
and advocate of the poor and marginalized.
He entered the Order of Friars
Minor Capuchin in 1990, after
graduating from BC with dual degrees in history and philosophy, and
fulfilled his post-novitiate formation
requirements at BC and Maryknoll
School of Theology. He holds a
master’s degree in social work from
Columbia University.
In 2000, Brother Arias built the
Catholic Charities Cape Verdean
program in Boston from the ground
up, empowering urban children
and local families. More than 200
youths were affiliated with the center last year, receiving counseling
and academic assistance or participate in organized sports instead of
gangs.
Currently working as co-director
of postulancy at St. Michael Friary
in Brooklyn, Brother Arias manages
a program he established: Cap-Aid,
the Capuchin Africa Initiative for
Development, which helps foster
social and human development,
combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases and promote sustainability in Africa. The program was
realized after Arias spent over eight
months with the Capuchin Friars
of Kenya and Tanzania, where he
helped to develop and support a
dozen projects for the poor and sick
refugees.
Jennie Chin Hansen, ’70
From a research assistant at an
unknown nonprofit to presidentelect of AARP, Jennie Chin Hansen, ’70, has kept the care for elders
the focus of her career.
Next month, she will become the
first nurse, the first Asian American
and the first baby boomer to lead
the AARP, the national nonprofit
membership organization dedicated
to addressing the needs and inter-
Anne P. Jones, ’58, JD ’61
ests of persons 50 and older.
A two-time delegate to the White
House Conference on Aging, Hansen has held leadership roles at the
Agency of Health Care Research
and Quality, Effective Healthcare
Stakeholders group, the Advisory
Board of the Institute for the Future
of Aging Services and the Robert
Wood Johnson Executive Nurse
Fellows Program.
In 1980, Hansen took a job in
a San Francisco nonprofit organization, On Lok, which provided
services for elders in a Chinatown
neighborhood. In just three years
she rose to the rank of director and
pioneered a new approach of elder
health care.
Hansen’s Program of All Inclusive Care to the Elderly, or PACE,
has become a national prototype
that each of the 50 states has replicated. In 1997, federal legislation
made it eligible for Medicaid and
Medicare reimbursement.
Former Federal Communication
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University expects at least 25 positions to be available due to resignations and retirements, along
with another 19 new positions, he
said. The Strategic Plan calls for
the addition of up to 100 faculty
over the next 10 years.
Another area of focus, undergraduate advising and faculty-student interaction, has seen
progress, Garza said, including
the development of a “more userfriendly” online system that will
assist departments in matching
undergraduate majors with faculty
advisors and in scheduling advising events. The History and Geology and Geophysics departments
will pilot the system this month,
with the expectation that it will
become available this summer to
all departments and schools, he
said, and the Academic Advising
Center will offer training sessions
in May.
Garza also noted that a series
of seminars for first-year students
have begun in Upper Campus
residence halls, as part of the
University’s goal to enhance faculty-student contact and foster intellectual and spiritual formation
outside the classroom.
The appointment of Quigley
as ILA director, Garza explained,
is an important step in realizing BC’s aim of becoming “the
leader in liberal arts education
among American universities.”
Under Quigley’s leadership, the
institute will coordinate and integrate activities in liberal arts across
campus, through interdisciplinary
research, publications, curricular
development and events that support undergraduate and graduate
education.
Quigley, a scholar of 19th-cen-
tury American urban and political
history who joined the BC faculty
in 1998, has been active in the
Intersections Program, Teachers
for a New Era and the Provost’s
Planning Committee on Catholic
Intellectual Traditions. He also
is serving as an interim associate
dean in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
Discussing Spinard’s hiring,
Garza cited his experience as budget and finance director at Tufts
University, where he oversaw the
budgeting process for 11 separate schools and business units.
Spinard’s role — to assist departments and the colleges and
professional schools in financial
planning and monitoring — will
be valuable as the University and
its academic units seek to refine
and sharpen the budgetary process, Garza said.
Commissioner and current Boston
College Associate Trustee, Anne
P. Jones, ’58, JD ’61, has proved
herself to be a valuable player in
multiple spheres of influence.
Born and raised in Arlington,
Jones practiced law at the Boston firm Ropes & Gray until she
joined the staff of the Security and
Exchange Commission in 1968.
She held a variety of positions at
the SEC, ultimately becoming the
director of the SEC’s Division of
Investment Management and later, general counsel of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board and the
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance
Corporation.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter
nominated Jones to the FCC and,
following her confirmation by the
Senate, she served in that role until
1983, when she resigned to join the
law firm of Sutherland, Asbill and
Brennan in Washington, DC.
She retired from practicing law
in the mid-1990s, but continues
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network.
In his career, McCullough has
also been an editor, essayist, teacher, lecturer and familiar presence
on public television – as host of
“Smithsonian World,” “The American Experience,” and narrator of
numerous documentaries including
“The Civil War.”
McCullough’s other books in-
Rev. William B. Neenan, SJ,
to work as a consultant and remains involved on various boards
and commissions. In addition to
BC’s Board of Trustees, she has
served or is serving on the New
York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee, Riversource Mutual
Fund Group, Development Gate-
way Foundation, Apollo Computer
and Motorola Inc. Jones has been
an active member of the American
Bar Association, the American Law
Institute and the Federal Communications Bar Association.
Rev. William B. Neenan, SJ,
came to Boston College from the
University of Michigan, where he
was a professor of economics, in
1980 to serve as BC’s first Thomas I. Gasson, SJ, Professor. Much
to the delight of two generations
of Boston College students and
alumni, he never returned to Ann
Arbor.
Fr. Neenan was appointed dean
of BC’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1980, a position he held
until 1987 when he became academic vice president and dean of
faculties. During Fr. Neenan’s term
as AVP, Boston College affirmed
its status as a national university,
achieving a ranking among the top
40 institutions of higher learning.
In 1998, University President William P. Leahy, SJ, appointed him
vice president and special assistant
to the president.
In addition to his many administrative duties, Fr. Neenan has found
time to publish an annual list of recommended reading, “The Dean’s
List,” which is eagerly awaited each
fall by countless alumni, students,
parents and friends of the University. “The Dean’s List,” which has
been published for a quarter century, is spotlighted in a current exhibit
in the foyer of O’Neill Library.
For years, Fr. Neenan — a native
of Sioux City, Iowa — has also sponsored a series of luncheons for BC
undergraduates from different parts
of the nation, at which his warm and
welcoming personality and homespun humor have proved a popular
and reassuring beacon for the young
students.
Information on the Commencement Exercises is available at www.
bc.edu/offices/commencement/.
Henry Levin to Give Boisi
Education Lecture April 17
Henry M. Levin, a leading expert on the economics of education and human resources, will give the 14th Annual Boisi
Lecture in Education and Public Policy on April 17 at 4:45
p.m. in McGuinn 121.
Levin, who is the William H. Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College Columbia University, will present “Expanding the Number of Alternatives for
Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analyses in Education.”
A former economist at the Brookings Institution who has
published 16 books and almost 300 articles, Levin is a nationally recognized researcher on topics such as educational reform,
educational vouchers, cost-effectiveness analysis, financing educational equity, and educational privatization.
From 1986-2000, Levin served as the director of the Accelerated Schools Project, a national school reform initiative for
accelerating the education of at-risk youngsters. Today there are
more than 1,000 Accelerated elementary and secondary schools
in some 40 states, with 50 schools in Hong Kong. In 1991, the
New York Times named him one of nine national leaders for
“Innovation in Education,” and the following year he received
the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Contributions to
Education.
The lecture is free and open to the University community
and general public. For information, e-mail joycedi@bc.edu.
—Office of Public Affairs
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
april 10, 2008
10th BC Arts Festival
Four BC Arts Alumni to
Share Talents at Festival
‘X’ Marks 10 Years for Arts Celebration
By Rosanne Pellegrini
Staff Writer
Boston College’s 10th annual
Arts Festival, which takes place
April 24-26, will include exclusive Boston-area appearances by
acclaimed filmmaker and 1988
alumnus Tom McCarthy, who
will discuss his new film, “The
Visitor,” at a special BC screening
[see sidebar].
Other alumni participants include popular author Mike Lupica, ’74, who will speak and sign
books; Paul Daigneault, ’87, producing artistic director of Boston’s
SpeakEasy Stage Company, who
will direct the Tony Award-winning musical “Urinetown” at BC’s
Robsham Theater; and Amy Lemerande, ’97, whose group Knighthorse Theater Company will present a “Shakespearean Jukebox”
— inviting audience members to
request their favorite scenes from
the famous bard’s 38 plays.
As always, the Arts Festival will
offer a wide variety of events and
activities that showcase the talents of some 1,000 BC students,
faculty, staff and administrators
— including musicians, actors,
dancers, singers, sculptors, painters, photographers, writers, curators, filmmakers, authors and
others.
The festival, which draws some
13,000 BC alumni and area residents, has a full schedule of concerts, readings, film screenings,
culinary demonstrations, and theatrical, dance and liturgical arts
performances, as well as participatory, hands-on experimentation
with ceramics, painting and more.
A program of activities for children of all ages — from pre-school
to pre-teen — also will be offered
on April 26.
Festival highlights include a
special concert of music from
Duke Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts” performed by BC’s jazz ensemble BC bOp! and gospel choir
Voices of Imani ($10 admission,
free for BC students), a Mass for
the Arts — combining Christian
liturgy with poetry, music, dance
and visual arts — a hip-hop dance
workshop and a showcase of four
10-minute plays by New England
playwrights.
In celebration of the festival’s
decade-mark, this year’s collaborative sculpture project theme,
“Ever to Xcel,” is based on the
Roman numeral “X” or “10” — a
reference to the festival’s 10 years
as well as the University’s motto
“Ever to Excel.” Adj. Assoc. Prof.
Mark Cooper (Fine Arts) designed
the sculpture forms, which are
decorated by members of BC student organizations to express their
missions and messages and will be
displayed on O’Neill Plaza during
the festival.
“The Boston College Arts Festival is one of the highlights of
the year—a fitting celebration of
the achievements of the student
artists and performers,” says Prof.
Jeffery Howe (Fine Arts), chair
of the University’s Arts Council,
which organizes the Arts Festival.
“It is the largest event of its kind
on campus, and it is wonderful to
see how the arts touch so many
people in so many ways.”
For complete schedule information and other details about Arts
Festival events — most of which
are free — see the festival Web site,
www.bc.edu/artsfestival.
Panel on Interreligious Dialogue April 16
The Provost’s Planning Committee on Catholic Intellectual
Traditions (CIT) initiative will
present a forum on interreligious
dialogue April 16 as part of its
series on the modern Catholic
university.
“Interreligious Dialogue and
the Catholic Intellectual Traditions,” which takes place at 4:30
p.m. in the Heights Room of
Corcoran Commons, coincides
with the release of a special volume
of the Boston College-produced
publication Religion and the Arts
titled “Interreligious Imagination:
Journey to the Heart.”
Five contributors to that volume — experts in Hinduism,
Buddhism, Islam and Judaism, all
but one from the Boston College
Theology faculty — will be the
forum’s panelists.
Seelig Professor of Philosophy
Richard Kearney, editor of “Interreligious Imagination,” will serve as
moderator. Kearney has cultivated
a reputation as a “public philosopher,” providing frequent commentary in the media and elsewhere
on topics ranging from 9/11 to the
Northern Irish peace process.
Other panelists are: Assoc. Prof.
Catherine Cornille, who researches
Hindu-Christian and BuddhistChristian dialogues, and the phenomenon of inculturation and intercultural theology; Assoc. Prof.
John Makransky, a practicing Buddhist lama who teaches Tibetan
Buddhist methods at meditation
retreats throughout the United
States; Prof. James Morris, who
teaches and writes on Islamic religion, philosophy and culture; and
Edward Kaplan, a professor of Romance and comparative literature
who is chairman of the Religious
Studies at Brandeis University.
The faculty-coordinated CIT
program is a three-year effort to
examine how BC’s programs and
activities reflect its Jesuit, Catholic character, and detail the oppor­
tunities — and obstacles — for
strengthening it. A CIT planning
committee appointed by Provost
and Dean of Faculties Cutberto
Garza and chaired by Prof. James
Keenan, SJ (Theology), is provid­
ing support for this panel discussion and other events that are in
planning stages.
Last month, CIT and the Latin
American Studies Program sponsored a talk by Rev. Jon Sobrino,
SJ, on “The Catholic University
in the 21st Century.”
For more information contact
the Office of the Provost and
Dean of Faculties at ext.2-3260.
—Office of Public Affairs
BC alums filmmaker Tom McCarthy
(above) and author Mike Lupica will be
on campus for the Arts Festival.
Diane Hutchinson Reilly
File photos by
Lee Pellegrini
Boston College will welcome
back to campus four accomplished
alumni — filmmaker and actor
Tom McCarthy, ’88, author and
journalist Mike Lupica, ’74, and
theater professionals Amy Lemerande, ’97, and Paul Daigneault,
’87 — to take part in the 10th annual BC Arts Festival, which runs
April 24-26.
McCarthy, who wrote and
directed the critically acclaimed
“The Station Agent,” will screen
and discuss his new film, “The
Visitor,” on April 25 at 8 p.m.
The following day, April 26, from
4-5 p.m., he will be the guest for
“Inside the BC Studio” — an
interview session modeled after
Bravo TV’s “Inside the Actor’s
Studio” — where he will talk
about his career with Adj. Assoc.
Prof. Luke Jorgensen (Theater).
The two events, which both
take place at the Arts Festival
Main Tent on O’Neill Plaza, are
free.
Later on April 26, McCarthy
will receive the annual Boston
College Arts Council Alumni
Award for Distinguished Achievement as part of the Alumni Evening at the Arts Festival.
A native of New Providence,
NJ, McCarthy has amassed an
extensive list of theatrical, film,
and television acting credits. His
“The Station Agent” has earned
such honors as the BAFTA for
Best Screenplay and two Independent Spirit Awards, and was
nominated for three Screen Actors
Guild Awards and for Best Original Screenplay by the Writer’s
Guild. The National Board of
Review named it third on their list
of Ten Best Films of 2003.
His new film, “The Visitor,”
stars Richard Jenkins (of the popular TV series “Six Feet Under”)
as a disillusioned Connecticut
professor whose life is transformed
by a chance encounter in New
York City, when he finds a young
couple living in his apartment.
The film premiered at the 2007
Toronto Film Festival and is being
released nationwide this month.
McCarthy’s acting credits include “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Syriana,” “Good Night, and Good
Luck,” “Year of the Dog,” “Meet
the Parents” and the final season
of HBO’s series “The Wire.” He
also has completed Peter Jackson’s
film “The Lovely Bones.”
Lupica, having already cultivated a reputation as an outstanding
sportswriter — he writes a syndicated column for New York’s
Daily News — has also carved
out a niche as a top-notch youngadult novelist. His 2007 work
Heat reached number one on the
New York Times bestseller list. His
previous books, including Travel
Team, Miracle on 49th Street and
Summer Ball — all New York
Times bestsellers — have been
enthusiastically received by youths
and adults alike.
He will discuss young adult
novels, including his latest, The
Big Field, on April 26, from 1-2
p.m. in Gasson 100. Lupica also
will sign copies of the book, which
will be available from the BC
Bookstore.
Lemerande co-founded with
her husband Tyrus the Knighthorse Theatre Company, a nonprofit organization dedicated to
bringing Shakespeare to students
of all ages. Specializing in one and
two person adaptations of Shakespeare, Knighthorse performs at
schools, colleges, festivals and
communities across the country
and around the world.
At the Arts Festival, Lemerande and Knighthorse will present “Shakespearean Jukebox:
Best of the Bard,” on April 25 at
1:45 p.m. in O’Neill Plaza, during which audience members can
request scenes from Shakespeare
plays.
Daigneault, winner of the 2007
Arts Council Alumni Award, is
producing artistic director of Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage Company. He is directing the Robsham
Theater production of the Tony
Award-winning musical “Urinetown” that will take place during
the Arts Festival.
For information on all Arts Festival events, see www.bc.edu/artsfestival.
—Rosanne Pellegrini
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
april 10, 2008
Postings
Intercollegiate Poetry Festival
is this Monday
Boston College will host the 2008
Greater Boston Intercollegiate Poetry
Festival, featuring the poetic talents of
students from some 20 area colleges
and universities, this Monday, April 14.
Poet Robert Cording, who teaches
at the College of the Holy Cross, will
deliver a keynote speech at the event,
which begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Murray
Room of the Yawkey Athletic Center.
For more information, send e-mail to
matsons@bc.edu.
April 15 concert to feature
songs from Ulster
The Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance,
Workshop and Lecture Series will present a concert on April 15 by Len Graham, one of the most heralded singers
in the modern Irish music revival.
Graham, who specializes in songs and
stories from the Ulster tradition in the
north of Ireland, will perform at 7 p.m.
in Connolly House.
The concert is free and open to the
public. For information, see www.
bc.edu/gaelicroots, call ext.2-3938 or
e-mail irish@bc.edu.
Expert on Israeli-Palestinian
conflict to speak
Norman Finklestein, a son of Holocaust survivors who is considered one
of the foremost scholars on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will present “Roots of
Conflict, Paths to Peace” on April 16 at
4:30 p.m. in Gasson 305.
Finkelstein is the author of Beyond
Chutzpah, The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada
Years, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish
Suffering and various other works. His
Web site is www.normanfinkelstein.
com.
For information, e-mail saieh@bc.edu.
Bill Mauldin biographer
to give reading
Todd DePastino, ‘88, will read from his
book Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front, the
first-ever biography of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist,
on April 24 at 7 p.m. in Cushing 001.
Depastino’s work recounts the life and
career of Mauldin, who created the
characters of Willie and Joe, two iconic
World War II soldiers, in his wildly
popular cartoon Up Front.
The event is sponsored by the American Studies Program and Boston College Magazine.
Hibbs returns to BC next week
Former Boston College faculty member Thomas Hibbs will return to campus next week for two lectures.
On April 17, Hibbs, who is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and
Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University, will present “Fearful Thoughts of Mortals:
Aquinas on Conflict, Self-Knowledge,
and the Perils of Practical Reason,”
at 7 p.m. in Gasson 305. The event is
presented by the Lonergan Workshop
as a contribution to the Church in the
21st Century Center series on the
Catholic Intellectual Tradition. For
information, e-mail lawrence@bc.edu
or call ext.2-8095 or 617-543-9853.
On April 18, the Bradley Lecture
Series will host Hibbs’ talk, “How to
Begin to Study Thomas Aquinas,” at
4 p.m. in McGuinn 121. Contact Shirley Gee at geesh@bc.edu or ext.24144 by April 14 to attend the buffet
supper and discussion in the McElroy
Dining Room following the event.
New UGBC Administration Preparing to Take Office
By Melissa Beecher
Staff Writer
Juniors Chris Denice and Alejandro Montenegro have no illusions that taking the helm of the
Undergraduate Government of
Boston College will be easy.
The newly-elected UGBC executives, who assume their posts
on May 1, admit that making the
campus more environmentally
friendly, improving relationships
with neighbors and representing
students’ interests in the University Master Plan process are pretty
lofty goals – and those are only the
beginning.
“There are many important issues facing us this year,” said president-elect Denice, a finance and
marketing major. “It’s important to
make sure there is a strong student
voice, not only to represent the current students, but to ensure future
students have a better BC.”
Denice and Montenegro, who
were elected by nearly 52 percent of
the 2,337 votes cast in the February
student elections, have both lived
off-campus this year and believe
UGBC has a critical role to play
in neighborhood relations. Denice
said he plans to appoint a studentrepresentative to attend all the pub-
“We want the neighbors
to put a face to students
at Boston College,” says
UGBC President-elect
Chris Denice, left, with
Vice President-elect
Alejandro Montenegro.
lic Allston-Brighton City Council
meetings.
“We want the neighbors to put a
face to students at Boston College,”
said Denice. “Sometimes perception becomes reality. I, personally,
have a great relationship with my
neighbors, but we understand that
there may be some problems.”
Denice is a native of East Greenwich, RI, who served this year as
UGBC chief of staff. He has held
positions as the Residence Hall Association treasurer, Residence Hall
Council and BC Students Athletic
Committee member.
Montenegro, a political science
major from Saratoga Springs, NY,
was UGBC assistant director of
student affairs this year, and has
been involved in the Eagle Escort
program, Residence Hall Association, cheerleading and intraumural
hockey.
The two have worked together
since freshman year and when classmates started encouraging them to
run for president and vice president, they started to consider the
possibility.
“We knew that if we were going
to run, it would be together,” said
Montenegro.
Denice and Montenegro ran as
the “Green Machine” ticket and
believe that making BC more environmentally friendly should be a
priority. Denice said the University
has an obligation to make sustainability a major focus.
“It’s going to become a factor in
students choosing colleges and BC
has a responsibility to continually
improve and publicize sustainable
policies,” said Denice.
Denice advocates for an “Officer
of Sustainability” within the University administration to enforce
sustainable practices throughout
campus.
The new UGBC team says installation of the flat screen notification system, a major initiative
undertaken by the previous administration, will continue. The system
will promote student activities, reduce paper waste from flyers and
allow for immediate notification in
high-traffic areas.
Denice and Montenegro encourage faculty, staff and students
to contact them with any issues
or suggestions and are looking to
utilize e-mail more so than past
administrations. The two will regularly answer questions through
UGBC@bc.edu.
Alumni National Days of Service Will Be a Coast-to-Coast Affair
By Reid Oslin
Staff Writer
Boston College alumni from
Brighton to Orange County will
pitch in to help out projects in their
home communities during the third
annual Alumni National Days of
Service to be held this year on April
19 and 20.
The various projects, which
range from a spring clean-up of
Rogers Park, adjacent to BC’s Brighton Campus, to an MS fund-raising
walk in Atlanta to an EarthCorps
environment project in Seattle, will
engage thousands of BC grads and
their families in a tradition of community service that is growing every
year.
“I think that it really speaks to the
alumni’s experience here with their
Jesuit education,” says Senior Associate Director for Alumni Chapters Tory Leeman. “As the chapters
grow, we are learning just how important the service component was
when they were students and now
we are able to offer that as an alumni
program.”
Leeman says that participation in
the Service Days has increased by at
least 20 percent in each of the three
years that they have been adopted by
local chapters around the nation.
“We start the conversation with
chapters each December,” Leeman
says, “and almost all want to participate. This is the kind of programming where they need some assis-
tance from the Alumni Association
office – as opposed to say a ‘game
watch’ where everyone just gathers
around a TV – so we feel very valued that we can serve as a resource
in this.
“Clearly, the alumni are seeing it,
they are liking it and they are wanting more,” she says.
Locally, Amy Stanley, ’02, is
helping to oversee the Rogers Park
beautification project that will bring
nearly 50 volunteers armed with
rakes, trash bags and flower bulbs to
the local playground.
“Rogers Park a great place to
have an alumni service project,” says
Stanley, who also is the information service manager in BC’s Career
Center. “It’s a great day to reconnect
with the school, to network with
each other and to give something
back to Brighton and to help us create better community relations.
“Alumni from all over Boston are
coming to give back and to beautify
a piece of property that is so close to
the BC campus,” Stanley says.
Suzanne Camarata
Kerry Healey a Panelist for April 22
Boisi Center Forum on Gay Marriage
Former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey will take part in
a panel discussion at Boston College on April 22 that seeks to provide a wider
examination of the controversial gay marriage issue.
Sponsored by the Boisi Center on Religion and American Public Life, “Gay
Marriage in Theology, Law and Politics” will take place from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
in Higgins 300.
The panelists will explore the theological, legal and political dimensions of
gay marriage, including its controversial legalization in Massachusetts four years
ago, when Healey was lieutenant governor. Healey, who holds a doctorate in
political science and law, was a fellow at the Harvard University Institute of
Politics last year.
Other panelists at the event will be: Boisi Center Assistant Director Erik
Owens, whose research explores a variety of intersections between religion and
public life, and who serve as moderator; former State Senator Cheryl Jacques,’84,
a long-time gay civil rights activist and former president and executive director
of the Human Rights Campaign; William Stacy Johnson, a faculty member at
Princeton Theological Seminary who has written on the debates over gay marriage and civil unions; and David Blankenhorn, founder and president of the
Institute for American Values, a private, nonpartisan organization that seeks to
contribute to the renewal of marriage and family life.
Details on the event and panelists are available at www.bc.edu/centers/boisi/
publicevents/current_semester/gaymarriage.html. For more information, call
ext.2-1860 or e-mail richarsh@bc.edu.
—Office of Public Affairs
It’s One Decade and Counting
for the Boston College Club
The Boston College Club marked its 10th anniversary on March
29 with a gala event, “Night of the Stars: Celebrating 10 Years of
Excellence,” attended by 200 people. University President William P.
Leahy, SJ, spoke and was presented a check of $535,350.33, which
provides full scholarships at BC for Boston area students; there are
currently three students attending BC through the program. In photo
above, Fr. Leahy and BC Club Manager Jada Emery, center, stand
with Boston College Club Board of Governors members and cofounders (L-R) John MacKinnon, Owen Lynch and John Joyce, and
David Woodyard, EVP of ClubCorp, the club’s parent company.
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PEOPLE
Newsmakers
•Cultural anthropologist Mary
Catherine Bateson, a principal investigator at the Center on Aging
and Work, was interviewed for a
perspective piece on the “mid-life
crisis” published by the Washington
Post.
•The Boston Globe City Weekly
reported on the successful efforts
by BC Neighborhood Center Assistant Director Moe Maloney
to forge a partnership between
Allston’s Horace Mann School, the
nation’s oldest public day school
for the hearing impaired, and the
West End Boys and Girls Club.
•The International Herald Tribune
cited a working paper written by
Cleary Professor of Finance Edward Kane for the National Bureau of Economic Analysis that
places some of the blame for the
current credit crisis on international regulatory competition. Kane
also spoke with USA Today about
the lessons to be learned from
Sweden’s economic recovery in the
early 1990s.
•Writing in the Metrowest Daily
News, Research Prof. Irwin Blumer (LSOE) discussed the need for
additional revenue for local cities
and towns, in the wake of the casino plan defeat.
•The New York Times cited a report co-authored by Visiting Prof.
Elizabeth Keating (CSOM) on
the billions lost in thefts from
charity.
•The Boston Globe interviewed
Prof. Juliet Schor (Sociology) and
part-time faculty member John
Dacey (LSOE) for a story on the
trend toward no-gift children’s
New Gift Award Honors
Memory of James F. Stanton
The James F. Stanton ’42 Senior Class Gift Award has been established
to honor a past member of the Senior Class Gift Committee in recognition
of their outstanding volunteer service and leadership.
The award was established by Mr. Stanton’s widow, former Boston College Trustee Helen Stanton, GSSW ’43, and her children. Each year this
endowed fund will provide income that will be added to the Senior Class
Gift. In addition, each year at the Volunteer Tribute Dinner a member of
the previous year’s Senior Class Gift Committee will be honored. This
year’s recipient is Ryan Harms ’07, who was presented with the award at
the Annual Volunteer Tribute Dinner March 27.
A long-time distinguished and dedicated volunteer in support of the
University’s advancement efforts, Mr. Stanton worked with the students of
Boston College in the 1960s to establish the first Senior Class Gift program
in the hope of inspiring life long giving to Boston College. He was awarded
the William V. McKenney Medal as Outstanding Alumnus of the year in
1963 and received the Presidential Bicentennial Award Rahle Medal in
1976.
Among his associations with the University, Mr. Stanton was a founding
member of Bricks for Boston College, Alumni Association president, director and treasurer, a charter member of FIDES and President’s Circle and,
along with his wife, first co-chair of the Boston College Parent’s Council.
Nota Bene
Carroll Graduate School of Management student Michael Denisenko,
a data analysis specialist whose family emigrated to the US from Moscow
following the collapse of the Soviet Union, is among the Boston Business
Journal’s Class of 2008 “MBA All-Stars.”
Asst. Prof. Jennifer Allen (CSON) has been appointed co-chair of a
national committee on the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine for
the Center for Disease Control’s Cancer Prevention & Control Research
Network (CPCRN). The CPCRN provides an infrastructure for applying relevant research to local cancer prevention and control needs, and
is a subgroup of the CDC’s Prevention Research Centers, which are the
CDC’s flagship program for preventing and controlling chronic diseases.
Connell School of Nursing Dean Barbara Hazard has been selected
for two honors: the Sue B. Davidson Service Award from the National
Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS), given to NACNS
members who have generously donated their time and energy in service
to the association; and the 2008 Massachusetts Association of Registered
Nurses (MARN) Excellence in Nursing Education Award, given to a
MARN member who provides excellence in nursing education and facilitates learning and the development of learners.
Prof. Mark Reeder (Mathematics) has been awarded a new three-year,
$135,326 National Science Foundation grant for his research on explicit
Langlands correspondence, which belongs to the interface between the
fields of Representation Theory (the study of the manifestation of symmetry) and Number Theory. Verification of the Langlands correspondence, a series of conjectures which predict strong interactions between
three very different kinds of symmetries, is expected will lead to deep new
results in Number Theory.
birthday parties.
Publications
•Assoc. Prof. Bruce Morrill, SJ
(Theology) published “Liturgical
Theology as Critical Practice” in
the American Academy of Religion’s Spotlight on Theological Education.
•Prof. Alan Rogers (History)
published Murder and the Death
Penalty in Massachusetts and “The
Death Penalty and Reversible Error in Massachusetts,” in Pierce
Law Review.
•Prof. Paul Lewis (English) edited a collection of essays and response essays on the Danish cartoon controversy titled “The Muhammad Cartoons and Humor
Research,” published in HUMOR:
International Journal of Humor Research.
•Adj. Assoc. Prof. Michael Noone
(Music) published “Printed polyphony acquired by Toledo Cathedral, 1545-1669” in Early Music Printing and Publishing in the
Iberian World.
•Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer (Slavic
and Eastern Languages and Literatures) published the entries
“Aizman, David Iakovlevich,”
“Bagritskii, Eduard Georgievich,”
“Chernyi, Sasha,” “Iushkevich,
Semen Solomonovich,” “Nadson,
Semen Iakovlevich,” “Sapgir, Genrikh Veniaminovich,” and “Selvinskii, Ilia Lvovich,” in The YIVO
Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.
Honors/Appointments
•Prof. Diana Pullin (LSOE) was
appointed to a three-year term
on the American Educational
Research Association Presidents’
Standing Committee on Ethics.
•Prof. Renee Jones (Law) was recently elected to membership in
the American Law Institute. •CSON doctoral student Sandy
Hannon-Engel received a Na-
Manning Appointed Director of
Sustainability, Energy Management
Deirdre Manning, formerly utility manager in the University’s Facilities Services division, has been named director of sustainability and
energy management and the head of a new department with Facilities
Management.
Manning’s new role involves upgrading, expanding and publicizing
the University’s existing sustainability efforts in addition to her former
assignment of overseeing energy use.
“My responsibilities will include collaborating with all of the departments across the BC campus,” she said. “Facilities Management, Dining
Services, Transportation, Information Technology, Purchasing and any
group on campus can implement programs and make small changes in
the way they do business to mitigate the impact each organization has
on the environment.”
Manning said new strategies designed to minimize waste will augment the University’s on-going “BConserves” campaign to recycle plastic and metal containers and use less electricity. These include encouraging members of the BC community to print or copy on both sides of a
sheet of paper, asking the University’s vendors to provide products with
less packaging, and requesting offices to purchase paper for copying
machines that has some recycled content, she says.
“We also want to find a way to make sure that some of these new and
existing efforts are publicized,” Manning said. “If somebody is doing
something that is a good idea, we want to get the word out and hopefully, other people will try to emulate that progress. A small step taken
by many people will make a big impact.
“For example, volunteering an hour or two for Cleansweep [a program that recycles furniture and household items left behind by resident
students each spring] will help to prevent perfectly good items from
going to a landfill while benefiting those who are less fortunate in our
community.
“It’s obvious that BC has made a commitment to greening the campus,” Manning said, “and there are more commitments to come.”
—Reid Oslin
tional Research Service Award for
her project “Role of Altered CCK
Response in Bulimia Nervosa.”
NRSAs are awarded by the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of
Heath to promising doctoral candidates who have the potential to
become productive, independent
research investigators.
•Asst. Prof. Angela Amar (CSON)
was named research column editor
for the Journal of Forensic Nursing,
the official journal of the International Association of Forensic
Nurses.
•Asst. Prof. Jane Flanagan (CSON)
has been appointed assistant editor of the International Journal of
Fr. McInnes Wins Keyes Award
Rev. William McInnes, SJ,
who has been a student, faculty member and administrator
in the Carroll School of Management at various times since
he started there as a freshman
in 1940, has been presented
with the 2008 Ray Keyes Award
for distinguished service to the
school.
The award, established in
1993, is given annually to individuals who show “a commitment to high professional standards in business and personal
life, demonstrated outstanding
service to CSOM, and sensitivity and concern for students and
colleagues.” It was presented to
Fr. McInnes at the CSOM Rec-
ognition dinner on March 26.
Fr. McInnes is the first Jesuit
to receive the award. He has been
a member of the Carroll School
community as a student (Class of
1944), faculty member (1959-64
and 1996-present) and administrator (1962-64).
The Keyes Award winner is
chosen by a senior faculty committee. The award is named in
honor of the late Assoc. Prof.
Raymond Keyes, a highly-respected and well-liked member
of CSOM’s marketing department faculty for 35 years who
also served as an assistant dean
and director of the school’s graduate studies program. He died
in 2000.
—Reid Oslin
Nursing Terminologies and Classifications, a professional resource for
information on worldwide efforts
to develop standardized nursing
languages and their applications.
Time and a Half
•Prof. Uzi Segal (Economics) presented “No Externalities: A Characterization of Efficiency and Incentive Compatibility with Public
Goods” at a conference in honor of
Joseph M. Ostroy held at UCLA.
•Assoc. Prof. Paula Mathieu (English) gave an invited talk, “Accidental Tourist: Academic Life and
an Ethics of Place,” to the St. Louis
University English Department as
part of a Lilly Foundation Speaker
Series, “Academic Life: Career or
Vocation.”
Jobs
The following are among the most
recent positions posted by the Department of Human Resources. For more
information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www.
bc.edau/offices/hr/:
Asst./Assoc./Senior Associate Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Development Office
Communications Assistant, Development Office
Support Quality Assurance Analyst,
Information Technology Services
Circulation Services Supervisor,
School of Theology and Ministry Library
Collection Development/Reference,
School of Theology and Ministry Library
T he B oston C ollege
Chronicle
april 10, 2008
LOOKING AHEAD
READINGS • LECTURES •
DISCUSSION
April 10
•“Immigration and the Scandinavian Welfare State,” with Boisi
Center Visiting Fellow Grete Brochmann, noon, Boisi Center for
Religion and American Public
Life (24 Quincy Road). See www.
bc.edu/centers/boisi/publicevents/
current_semester/brochmann.html.
Reservations required, call ext.21860, e-mail richarsh@bc.edu.
•Bilingual (English and Spanish)
liturgy in support of the Ministry
of Hope, Healing and Reconciliation of the Benebikira Sisters, 12:30
p.m., St. Joseph’s Chapel.
April 11
•Symposium: “Consequences of the
Conflict: Higher Education in the
Middle East,” with Tahir al-Bakka,
former Iraqi Minister of Education; Sattar al-Jawad, former English Department chair, University
of Baghdad; and University of the
Middle East Project President Hala
Taweel, noon, Gasson 100. E-mail
tress@bc.edu.
April 12
•Workshop (in Spanish): “The
Hispanic Presence in the Catholic
Church in the US,” 9 a.m.-3 p.m.,
McGuinn Third Floor Lounge,
$15. See www.bc.edu/irepm, call
ext. 2-8057 or e-mail lambmb@
bc.edu.
April 14
•Atlantic Worlds in Black and
White Lecture Series: “Irish America and the Abolitionist Movement,”
with Maurice Bric, 4 p.m., Connolly House. See www.bc.edu/atlanticworlds.
April 15
•University Lectures in Chemistry
Series: “Landscapes of the Sciences,”
with Peter Guy Wolynes, University of California-San Diego, 4 p.m.,
Merkert 127. Call ext.2-3605, email chemchair@bc.edu.
•Conversations
With...Series:
Barbara McClintock, 7:30 p.m.,
The exhibition “Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire” continues at the McMullen Museum of Art. See www.bc.edu/artmuseum for more details.
Vanderslice Hall. Free with BC ID;
$5 for other college students with
ID; $15 all others. E-mail cohenlm@bc.edu.
April 16
•Lecture: “Grandmothers of the
Plaza de Mayo,” with Estela Carlotto and Rosa Roisinblit, 7 p.m.,
McGuinn 121. See www.bc.edu/
humanrights, call ext.2-1968, email kingei@bc.edu.
April 17
•Annual Boisi Lecture in Education and Public Policy: “Expanding the Number of Alternatives for
Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost
Analyses in Education,” with Henry
Levin, Columbia University Teachers College, 4:45 p.m., McGuinn
121.
•Writers Among Us Series: Clough
Millennium Professor of History
James O’Toole (History) reads
from his book The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America, 7 p.m.,
Devlin 008. Call ext.2-4820, e-mail
andrewma@bc.edu.
April 18
•Bradley Lecture Series: “How to
Begin to Study Thomas Aquinas,”
with Thomas Hibbs, Baylor University, 4 p.m., McGuinn 121. (Buffet
supper follows in McElroy Faculty
Chemistry Series Welcomes
Energy Landscapes Expert
The University Lectures in
Chemistry series this year will
welcome Peter G. Wolynes, the
Francis H. Crick Professor in
Physical Sciences and a faculty
member in the Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics departments at the University of California at San Diego, for three
talks on energy landscapes next
week.
Wolynes will present the following lectures from 4-5 p.m. in
Merkert 127: April 15, “Landscapes of the Sciences”; April
16, “Energy Landscapes and the
Solved Protein Folding Problems”; April 17, “Beyond Protein
Folding.”
A member of the National
Academy of Sciences and the
American Academy for the Advancement of Science, among
other organizations, Wolynes
has done seminal work in theoretical chemistry that includes
theories of chemical reactions,
quantum phenomena in liquids and theory of glasses. He is
particularly well known for his
development of the energy landscape theory of protein folding,
which brought the perspective of
modern statistical mechanics to
this central problem of molecular biology, leading to new approaches for predicting protein
structure from sequence.
Wolynes’ visit as University
lecturer is sponsored by SigmaAldrich.
—Office of Public Affairs
Dining Room; RSVP by April 14
to geesh@bc.edu or ext.2-4144).
UNIVERSITY EVENTS
April 21
•Patriot’s Day. All University offices
closed.
MUSIC • ART • PERFORMANCE
April 10
•Performance: “ALC Showdown,”
with performances by student music and dance groups, 7 p.m., Conte
Forum. Tickets $15. For information, call ext.6-9184, e-mail dea@
bc.edu.
•Performance: “No Niggers, No
Jews, No Dogs,” 7:30 p.m., Bonn
Studio, Robsham Theater, through
April 12. Tickets $10. See www.
bc.edu/offices/robsham/currentseason/dsspring.html.
•Film and discussion: “In Good
Faith,” written and directed by
Matthew Porter, ’09, 8 p.m., Higgins 300. See www.ugbc.org/nyk/
segments/0708/goodfaith.php.
April 11
•Concert: Voices of Imani, 7 p.m.,
Trinity Chapel, Newton Campus.
E-mail odsanya@bc.edu.
•Concert: Boston College Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert,
conducted by John Finney, 8 p.m.,
Gasson 100. See www.bc.edu/
schools/cas/music/calendar.html.
April 12
•Concert: Talib Kweli, 7 p.m.,
Conte Forum, $15. E-mail maryann.odusanya.1@bc.edu.
•Concert: BC Dynamics Spring
Café, 7:30 p.m., Cushing 001. See
www.bc.edu/dynamics, call 973978-0224 or e-mail mceldufb@
bc.edu.
•Concert: Boston College Flute
Choir Spring Concert, directed by
Judy Grant, 8 p.m., Gasson 100.
See www.bc.edu/schools/cas/music/
calendar.html.
April 15
•Gaelic Roots Series: Concert by
singer Len Graham, 7 p.m., Connolly House. See www.bc.edu/centers/irish/gaelicroots/.
For more on Boston College events, see
events.bc.edu or check BCInfo [www.
bc.edu/bcinfo] for updates.
O’Toole to Present Talk on
Catholics in America April 17
Clough Millennium Professor of History James O’Toole, one of the
country’s most prominent experts on American religion and American
Catholicism, will discuss his new book The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America on April 17.
O’Toole’s talk, which takes
place at 7 p.m. in Devlin 101,
is being presented as part of the
University’s “Writers Among
Us” series spotlighting Boston
College faculty authors.
The Faithful documents the
story of Catholics in America
from the perspective of the lay
believers, beginning with the first
settlements in the original American colonies. O’Toole touches on
the complex ties between American Catholics and the Catholic James O’Toole
Church leadership in Rome, and
their equally multifaceted relationship with their own nation.
With a focus on prayer, ritual and other expressions of faith by the
laity over the centuries, O’Toole traces the gradual arrival of Catholics
into the American mainstream, as well as their responses to crises, including the recent clergy sexual abuse scandal. He also offers thoughts
on the possible future of the American Catholic Church and its parishioners.
For information, call ext.2-4820 or e-mail andrewma@bc.edu.
—Office of Public Affairs
University Sets Tuition
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all admitted students. Nearly 70
percent of Boston College students receive financial aid, with
the average need-based financial
aid package projected to increase
to $27,974 in 2008-2009.
In addition, the trustees set
the University’s 2008-2009 operating budget at $772 million,
which includes revenue to support the University’s strategic
planning initiatives, new campus construction and increased
expenditures for academic programs. The budget was balanced
for the 37th consecutive year.
The University continued
to monitor announced tuition
costs at the select private colleges
and universities against which it
competes for students. Among
tuitions set thus far this year:
George Washington University raised its 2008-2009 tuition
to $40,392 and its total costs
(tuition, room, board and fees)
to $51,760.
Georgetown University raised
tuition to $37,536, and its overall costs to $50,275.
New York University raised
tuition to $37,372 and total
costs to $50,182.
Carnegie Mellon University
raised tuition to $38,430, and
total costs to $49,774.
Boston University raised tuition to $36,540 and its total
costs to $48,468.
Northwestern
University
raised tuition to $36,756 and
overall costs to $48,220.
Nationally, the average tuition, room and board increase
for private universities was 5.9
percent in 2007-2008, according
to the College Board.
“Our goal in setting tuition
each year is to enable the University to provide the best educational experience possible for
our students, while keeping the
promise of a BC education available for families regardless of
their financial need,” said Executive Vice President Patrick
Keating. “This year, increased
resources from tuition will enable
us to hire additional faculty, expand undergraduate student programs and increase our financial
aid offerings.”
Added Provost and Dean of
Faculties Cutberto Garza, “This
year’s tuition increase was driven
by inflationary pressures — including higher energy, food and
health care costs — and by our
commitment to providing a firstclass educational and formational
experience for all of our students.
“While remaining committed
to excellence both in and out of
the classroom, we have stepped
up efforts to gain yet greater efficiencies in academic and nonacademic programs throughout
the University to lessen financial
pressures faced by families of BC
students, and to narrow the gap
between the cost of attending BC
and median family incomes.”
This year, Boston College received 30,800 applicants for the
2,250 seats in its freshman class,
an increase of roughly 8 percent
over last year. It remains the
fourth-most-applied-to private
university in the United States.
Boston College was ranked
43rd in the “Great Schools,
Great Prices” category among
national universities by US News
& World Report, and placed 21st
in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Magazine’s ranking of the top 50
“best values” among American
private universities. Overall, the
University is ranked 35th among
national universities in the US
News survey.