"Help us to Re-found the University for the Future"
Happy New Year and happy winter/summer.
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Alumni are joining the network all the time. Check it out regularly for
news from friends.
LIGHTS OUT JANUARY 6, 2003
The Christmas lights on the three campuses will be on for the last time
this season on January 6, 2003. Once again Mary Helen [Pinkie] and Bill
Pinner and classmates from the mid-1940s are hosting their annual Three
Kings Party at Brackenridge
Villa to bid fond farewell to the season, and a welcome to the new year.
This group of alumnae have been hosting this party nearly every year
since their graduation.
WELCOME NEW ALUMNI/AE
A special welcome to the ranks of the alumni/ae to our graduates of December
14, 2002. Please remember to keep your information up to date so you
will be able to keep up with the news.
AMPHITEATRE DEDICATED TO DENNIS O’MALLEY JANUARY 14th
The late Dennis O’Malley, vice chairman of the UIW Board of Trustees
and board member of
IWHS and St Anthony’s, will be remembered and honored on Tuesday,
January 14th, with a month’s mind Mass on campus. After the liturgy
the university will dedicate the amphitheatre in the new Gorman Business
and Education Center in his honor.
PHONATHON TOTALS AS OF DECEMBER
By the end of December the UIW alumni Phonathon approached the $80,000
mark in gifts and pledges. The advancement team callers will resume
calling in January. The student callers noted a higher than usual number
of undisclosed pledges for the annual fund this year, and we encourage
all alumni and alumnae to complete their pledges or make a gift before
the end of May, 2003, the end of the UIW fiscal year.
KEEP UP TO DATE
The next issue of The Word is in preparation so please send your news
items about jobs, weddings, births and other Activities to Dick McCracken.
Items for IWHS should be sent to Cybele Bolado iwhs@universe.uiwtx.edu,
and St. Anthony’s to Patrick Greener greener@universe.uiwtx.edu
Don’t forget to let us know about new addresses, email addresses and phone numbers so the information will keep coming, and let your friends know that we now have eNewsletters to complement printed materials.
UIW COOK BOOK---Unique Gift
UIW’s Campus Ministry Office has produced a cookbook full of favorite
recipes entered by alumni, faculty, staff and students. It is available
for $10.00, tax and shipping included, at UIW Campus Ministry, UPO 29,
4301 Broadway, San Antonio, TX 78209. The books are $8 if you pick them
up on campus. Julie Engel, Assistant Director of Campus Ministry
M.A.R.S. $1,000 AWARD AVAILABLE FOR ALUMNI NOMINATIONS---DEADLINE NEAR
http://www.uiw.edu/alumni/mars.html
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
ANNOUNCEMENT:
The Charline McCombs Empire Theatre’s LATE NITE
CATECHISM raises $12,000 for local community
Arts Center Enterprises, Inc. to present the Sisters of Charity of the
Incarnate Word with funds donated during the 3-week production of Late
Nite Catechism at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre Catechism classes
are never as much fun – or as hilarious – as
when they are led by Sister in the international hit comedy Late Nite
Catechism, directed by Vicki Quade and Maripat Donovan. Late Nite Catechism,
directed by Patrick Trettenero, returns, as part of the AT&T Wireless
Great Performances Series, to the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, located
at 226 N. St Mary’s Street, on January 7, 2003 for 16 Performances!
There is a group from UIW going to the matinee on January 12, 2003.
LATE NITE CATECHISM, the interactive comedy that ran at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre January 2 – 20, 2002, tickled San Antonio’s funny bone and opened audience’s hearts. “SISTER”, comedienne Amanda Hebert, humorously took audiences back to catechism class for almost 3-weeks at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre. At the end of each performance, Amanda stood at the theatre doors and thanked audiences for taking her “class”. At that time she also accepted donations to benefit the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word.
In association with the show’s producers, Arts Center Enterprises, Inc., managing the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, selected the local Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word as the beneficiaries of the funds. Kirk Feldmann, Executive Director of Arts Center Enterprises, Inc. said, “This is the perfect example of how theatre and the performing arts can nourish the community, not only by lifting spirits and enriching lives, but by also providing direct financial contributions back into the community.” Approximately 6,000 patrons attended the show during its run at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre and audiences donated $12,000.
In each city on LATE NITE CATECHISM’S touring schedule, “SISTER” adopts
a congregation of retired Sisters for whom she collects an offering.
Many retired sisters do not receive Social Security benefits. In San
Antonio, the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word prefer to direct
their efforts toward helping others, since they are able to care for
their own retired Sisters. Their ministry, Sisters Care, will utilize
the $12,000 contribution in helping to care for the frail elderly, some
of whom are retired Sisters, to help them remain in their homes and maintain
their independence as long as possible.
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A MISSED OPPORTUNITY?
Rev. Greg Nevlud told this delightful story during an Advent liturgy,
and perhaps it would provide a backdrop for New Year resolutions:
A man was lost in the desert and sought water to quench his thirst. He encountered a man in the desert, and instead of water offered to sell him a tie for $35. “I need water, not a tie,” he pleaded. “I feel your pain,” he responded, “So I will offer you two for $35.”
Discouraged, the man went on until he spied an oasis in the distance. There, amid lush vegetation, was a magnificent hotel with an elegantly dressed gentleman at the entrance. “At last,” the parched pilgrim greeted the gentleman. “I am dying of thirst and surely you have a restaurant inside where I can get water!”
“Indeed we do, my friend. But you’ll need to wear a tie to come in.”
Dick McCracken, Dean dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu