Happy autumn/spring!
M.A.R.S. $1,000 AWARD AVAILABLE FOR ALUMNI NOMINATIONS
Purpose:
The University of the Incarnate Word McCracken Alumni Referral Scholarship
was established with the goal to recognize UIW alumni as an effective
vehicle in the recruitment of new students, while strengthening the connection
of our graduates to the university. Alumni will be involved in identifying
prospective students who will benefit from an Incarnate Word education
and uphold the mission of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word.
Program:
Starting immediately, any graduate of UIW can nominate one prospective
freshmen or transfer student per year to receive a $1000 voucher towards
the cost of attendance in their first year beginning Fall 2003. Deadline
for nominations February 1, 2003.
The universe is ours and MARS has come to earth! Effective immediately the McCracken Alumni Referral Scholarship [MARS] is available for alumni/ae nominations. Under this plan any UIW alumnus or alumna can nominate one prospective freshman or transfer student per year a scholarship voucher of $1,000 towards the cost of attendance in their first year beginning with the fall of 2003. An incoming student may not have more than one MARS voucher. The nominated student must meet the UIW admissions standards, complete all appropriate admissions forms, and the voucher is good for the first year only and is not renewable. However, an alumnus/a may nominate another student the following year. It is preferred that the voucher accompany the student’s application for admission, but it can be forwarded to the Admissions Office before or after acceptance. If the voucher does accompany the application, the $20 admissions application fee will be waived.
This new program is designed to encourage our graduates to continue the Incarnate Word legacy and provide a financial incentive as well. The deadline for submission of nominations for the fall semester is February 1, 2002. To receive a M.A.R.S. packet with additional guidelines contact dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu and materials will be sent to you. The printed materials are currently in production.
LATEST ISSUE OF THE WORD ONLINE AT:
http://www.uiw.edu/thewordonline/
CATCH UP ON THE NEWS AT:
http://www.uiw.edu/newsarchive.html
GENERAL UIW NEWS: WORD OF THE MONTH AT:
http://www.uiw.edu/wotm/
SAD NEWS
We mourn the loss last month of faculty member Dr Mary Beeman, and the
sudden death of student Gloria Espinosa who would have graduated in December.
SCIENCE CAMPAIGN
We met the Mabee Foundation Challenge at $12 million raised, but we still
have $2.7 million more to raise to meet all of the costs. Groundbreaking
should be late spring or early summer of 2003. Did you know that liberal
arts alumni have contributed a tad more to the campaign than science alumni?
Can science alumni do better? We bet you can.
http://www.uiw.edu/newsinfo.html#scampaign
LOAN FORGIVENESS IN NURSING
http://www.uiw.edu/newsinfo.html#nforgive
UIW CAREER CENTER INFORMATION
http://www.uiw.edu/career/ and
http://uiwtx.erecruiting.com/er/security/login.jsp
NEWS ABOUT TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
http://www.uiw.edu/newsarchiveS02.html#teacherprep
UIW FITNESS FACILITIES
For a brochure on UIW Fitness Facilities [Cervera Wellness Center, Barshop
Natatorium] with alumni/ae discounts email me your name and address: dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu
WOMEN’S CONNECTION and CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
Alumnae Sister Neomi Hayes, CCVI, former dean of students, CCVI U.S. Provincial,
CCVI General Superior and co-founder of Visitation House in San Antonio
and Sister Dot Ettling, CCVI former General Superior and UIW faculty member,
have taken on a new ministry for women, and we invite the alumni/ae to
take a look.
www.womensglobalconnection.org
a ministry of Interconnections
Print and fill out the Christmas ornament order form. (Adobe Acrobat PDF file)
CONCERT TO HONOR THE LATE SISTER MARIA GORETTI
The Composer's Alliance of San Antonio is hosting a Concert on Sunday,
October 6, 2002 at 4:00 pm, Ruth Taylor Theatre at Trinity University.
Drs. Ken Metz and Misook Kim will have their work performed along with
other area composers. Ken is premiering a brass quintet entitled "Goretti
elegies", composed in memory of Sr. Maria Goretti Zehr. Misook will
perform her composition "Seven Little Pieces for Flute and Piano"
with flutist Jean Robinson.
Sister Maria Goretti will also be honored by the Tuesday Musical Club of San Antonio in November.
CCVIs ELECT U.S. TEAM
On September 15, 2002 the Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word in the
United States elected a Leadership Team for the next four years beginning
January 1, 2003. Elected Province Coordinator was Sister Bette Bluhm,
CCVI, IWHS ’56, BA ’60, MA ’70. Other members of the
team are Sisters Rosita Hyland, BA ’64, Carol Bird, BA ’64,
Michelle O’Brien, BS ’67, Eleanor Geever, BA ’63, MA
’79, and Rose Ann McDonald, BA ’63, CCVI.
OCTOBER 11, 2002
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2002.
11:15 a.m.
DEDICATION OF THE GORMAN BUSINESS & EDUCATION CENTER
which includes the
Dreeben School of Education
Invocation by Dr. Buckner Fanning
Speakers: Michael Dominguez, Assistant Secretary,
United States Air Force
Sister Helena Monahan, CCVI
Dr Lou Agnese, Jr
Mr James Gorman
Dedication Blessing and Reception
[directly west of the Mabee Library on campus]
NEW ALUMNAE BOOKS
Olivia---“She Was Hospice” by Sister Olivia Prendergast,
CCVI, BSN ’56, [formerly Sister Ann Francis, CCVI] edited by Gene
Shelburne and G. Donald Curphey. Traces Sister Olivia’s roots in
Ireland and the establishment of hospice care for the Texas Panhandle.
Sister Olivia was also on the IWC nursing faculty.
Sunshine in a Cup, a collection of true stories of her contact with animals and nature over the course of fifty years by Dr. Irene McCrystal, BA ‘51 , Professor Emerita of English at San Antonio College.
And don’t forget: UIW Cookbook by the Campus Ministry Office. The sample recipe to be sent this year with birthday greetings is for a German Chocolate pie, a favorite of Sister Teresa [M. Edward] Grabber, CCVI and the late Sister Maria Goretti Zehr, CCVI. The whole book is $10 [includes tax and postage].
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 MEMORIAL
Written by an eleven-year-old poet with MD, Mattie Stepanek:
For Our World
We need to stop.
Just stop.
Stop for a moment
Before anybody
Says or does anything
That may hurt anyone else.
We need to be silent.
Just silent.
Silent for a moment
Before we forever lose
The blessing of songs
That grow in our hearts.
We need to notice.
Just notice.
Notice for a moment
Before the future slips away
Into ashes and dust of humility.
Stop, be silent, and notice
In so many ways, we are the same.
Our differences are unique treasures.
We have, we are, a mosaic of gifts
To nurture, to offer, to accept.
We need to be.
Just be.
Be for a moment
Kind and gentle, innocent and trusting,
Like children and lambs,
Never judging or vengeful
Like the judging and vengeful.
And now, let us pray,
Differently, yet together,
Before there is no earth, no life,
No chance for peace.
Mattie J.T. Stepanek
September 12, 2001
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OCTOBER 24, 2002
The University will bless and formally dedicate the spectacular new high-rise
building next to the Grossman International Center with a week of international
speakers on campus. On the afternoon of October 24th the university in
a formal academic convocation will confer an honorary doctorate upon Hearst
executive Frank Bennack, and Bishop Edmund Carmody of Corpus Christi will
bless the new building. The inaugural event in the 800-seat Sky Room atop
the new facility will be a gala banquet sponsored by the World Affairs
Council of San Antonio.
HERITAGE DAY ON OCTOBER 16, 2002
Annual Heritage Day activities on campus begin with an 8:30 a.m. prayer
service in the CCVI cemetery, tours of the congregation’s archives,
a noon Mass in the Chapel, and an afternoon ceremony in the Motherhouse
Chapel to honor employees with ten and more years of service. All who
can attend are welcome to these events. See the alumni calendar on the
web for specifics. http://www.uiwtx.edu/cgi-dir/we4.0/webevent.cgi?cmd=opencal&cal=cal2&
HERITAGE DAY QUIZ
October 16th is Heritage Day on campus. Join in the fun by seeing how
many items you can answer in this short quiz. It is open book and okay
to call friends for help. The answers will be sent on October 16th, or
earlier if you are too impatient to wait.
1. Former president S Thomas Greenburg was a convert from what religion?
2. How many verses are there to the Hymn to the Incarnate Word?
3. What is the “blue hole” on campus?
4. What was/is the names of the IWC/IWHS yearbooks?
5. What is the place of Dr Agnese’s birth?
6. What was Cabaret?
7. What was the formal name of the former IWC Pub in Marian Hall?
8. Who was the first president of IWC?
9. Name at least one campus building named for a major donor.
10. What is VP Denise Doyle’s native country?
11. What do L.V.I. and C.C.V.I. stand for?
12. Who was George Washington Brackenridge, anyway?
13. Name the IWC Academic Deans prior to 1996.
True or False
14. Incarnate Word previously had a synchronized swimming team. T/F
15. Rengin Holt taught German at IWC in 1911. T/F
16. In the 1960’s students were required to wear raincoats over
shorts and slacks. T/F
17. IWC’s first graduate was born in Monahans, Texas. T/F
18. Academic Dean Sister Clement Egan was a native Texan. T/F
19. Olympian Josh Davis learned to swim in the old IWC Pool. T/F
20. Cardinal Spellman of New York blessed the Science Hall in 1950. T/F
21. Mendell Morgan used to play soccer for the Crusaders. T/F
22. Actress Paula Ragusa Prentiss was in one of the first Nursery School
classes at IWC. T/F
23. During WW II the Administration Building was temporarily pressed into
service as a hotel/Army hospital. T/F
24. Incarnate Word has been waiting for a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for
over fifty years. T/F
25. The first three Incarnate Word Sisters who came to San Antonio were
Irish-born. T/F
MEMORIAL MASS IN NOVEMBER
Brochures on the annual Memorial Mass on November 3, 2002 at 10:30 a.m.
have been mailed and you are invited to submit names of deceased loved
ones to be remembered in the Mass and throughout the month of November.
The Mass concludes with a ceremony to remember the deceased Incarnate
Word Sisters, and then a reception in Centennial Hall. If you wish, you
may send your names to be remembered to me at dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu
PHONATHON AND ASSOCIATES CAMPAIGN
The annual phonathons and the associates campaign for the Annual Fund
are underway. Please welcome our student callers. The Associates Campaign
is largely by mail and personal visits to secure annual gifts of $1,000
or more. The university phonathon is a year long activity with a letter
sent in advance of the phone call., or you can make your pledge via email
to revinml@universe.uiwtx.edu
for the university, IWHS@universe.uiwtx.edu
for IWHS, or greener@universe.uiwtx.edu
for St Anthony’s alumni and alumnae.
ADCAP ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
Alumni from the Del Mar campus in Corpus Christi have an attractive newsletter
they mail to alumni there. If you would like to see it I can email you
a copy” dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu
Special announcement
Incarnate Word Experienced Potters: Help the Sams Center and have fun making bowls.
FA B05 will be open on Fridays to UIW students, faculty, and alumni, who are experienced potters and want to make bowls for the Empty Bowls event that benefits the Sam's Center for women and children. This year "Empty Bowls" will be on November 10 and the deadline to turn bowls in will be a week earlier. Sponsored by the S. A. Potter's Guild, the event raised over $17,000.00 for the center last year.
VAS IST DAS?
The German Chocolate Pie recipe going out with the monthly birthday letters
to alumni, alumnae and friends was a big hit and a good laugh in Germany.
Kelly A. Wiechart reports from Germany that a neighbor there never heard
of German Chocolate cake or pie as a German specialty. Coconut is not
a hot item in Germany. Makes you wonder what other “ethnic”
foods really originated in the good old U.S. of A.
Thanks to an internet newsletter, here is a tidbit of information
in favor of insomnia:
THE AVERAGE HUMAN EATS 8 SPIDERS
IN HIS/HER LIFETIME WHILE SLEEPING.
That’s –30- for this month.