Alumni Newsletter
March 2003

"Help us to Re-found the University for the Future"

NEW SANTA ROSA ALUMNAE NURSING SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT
This scholarship endowment in nursing was established in January, 2003 by the alumnae of the Santa Rosa School of Nursing, one of the earliest Schools of Nursing in the State of Texas and the forerunner of the University of the Incarnate Word baccalaureate program in nursing. The Santa Rosa Alumnae Association was active and met annually from early in the 20th century until June of 2002. This scholarship honors these women for their dedication to the nursing profession, to nursing education, and their loyalty to the mission of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. This scholarship is awarded each year to University of the Incarnate Word seniors who are majoring in nursing, are in the last two semesters of the nursing program, and are recommended by The Dean of Nursing and Health Professions.

The Santa Rosa Alumnae are now a part of the University family. Their endowment was established with a gift of nearly $19,000 from the alumnae association funds, and anyone may donate to this fund at any time with cash, stocks or a bequest. As an endowment, only the interest earned is distributed as scholarships each year.

Pictured at the establishment meeting were Santa Rosa Alumnae Beatrice Ramm Page and Margaret Eager Butler, and Drs Kathi Light and Caroline Spana of the nursing division.

LEAVE A LEGACY PROGRAM ON MARCH 21---ALL WELCOME

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD
DIVISION OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT
INVITES YOU TO A VIDEO PRESENTATION ENTITLED
“LEAVE A LEGACY”
FEATURING PHIL PICCIONE AND JEAN MIGLIORINO
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2003 AT 10:30 A.M.,
GROSSMAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER
UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD.
ADMISSION FREE. R.S.V.P. AT 829-6014.
Alumna and Attorney Cheryl McMullan will be present as a consultant.
[The featured guests were pictured in the recent issue of the Verbum Newsletter of UIW.]

DR PAT BURR NAMED VICE PRESIDENT
“I am pleased to announce that upon the approval of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Patricia LeMay Burr has been appointed Vice President for International Programs, a position that had been unfilled since the death of Jim Tilton several years ago.

This appointment is in recognition of the growing importance of globalization on our campus. Currently, nine percent of our student enrollment is international; we offer degrees in China and will be doing the same in Mexico City in the near future; and we have sister school agreements with dozens of universities around the world.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Burr as she assumes her new duties at the University.”

Dr. Louis J. Agnese, Jr., President

NANCY PAWEL RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBIT CELEBRATES WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
Nancy Pawel, MA ’89 and retired member of the art faculty, will have a retrospective exhibit of her work in ceramics, The Road Less Traveled, from March 7 to April 14, 2003 in the Semmes Gallery of the UIW Fine Arts Center. There will be an artist’s reception at the gallery on March 7th from 5 to 8:00 p.m. Happily for all, her show will be in place for Homecoming 2003, another good reason to attend. Nancy was also featured in the first issue of the magazine San Antonio Woman [November/December 2002].

SISTER MARTHA ANN KIRK EARNS PEACEMAKER AWARD
From The Logos, 2/14/03
By Alice Ramirez, Logos Religion Editor
Sister Martha Ann Kirk's longtime travels, training and teaching about peace has caught the attention of the San Antonio Bar Foundation. Kirk, a professor of religious studies and the arts at the University of the Incarnate Word, will be among three recipients in the community of the bar foundation's Peacemaker Award. She'll be honored at the Peacemaker Awards Gala at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1, at the Westin Riverwalk.

"This annual award recognizes individuals in San Antonio who work to improve our community," Dr. Louis J. Agnese Jr., UIW president, said in a broadcast message to the campus. "Sister Martha was recognized for her work in building bridges between people of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths."

Kirk said she and Barbie Groelick, a Jewish religious educator who also will share the bar foundation award, have worked together on various peace projects for the last four years including the building of relationships between Muslims, Jews and Christians and have contributed to many educational activities on justice and peace. The award cites Kirk's involvement in focusing on the United Nations Decade for Cultures of Non-Violence. She, in turn, has been teaching the spirituality of non-violence and encouraging growing "cyber-communities" of people seeking mutuality, justice, sustainability and peace.

The bar foundation sponsors the Peer Mediation Program, which is helping 105 schools train young people in conflict resolution methods. With this training, students' self-esteem improves, there is less violence on campus, and students have a sense of shared power.

To continue the story please go to http://www.uiwlogos.com/

INCARNATE WORD WEEK ACTIVITIES
MARCH 25th in the Church calendar is the feast of the Annunciation to Mary that she was to be the Mother of the Incarnate Word (Luke 1: 26-38). It is our feastday, too, a day of joyful celebration for us as members of the University of the Incarnate Word.

Tuesday, March 25, 2003, Incarnate Word Day

Student Activity: Banners and Balloons. 8:00 a.m. Campus.

Lecture: Paul Loeb, motivational speaker and author. Topics include student activism, civic responsibility and empowerment. He is a scholar with the Center for Ethical Leadership in Seattle, WA. Noon. Mabee Library
Auditorium.

Liturgy: Special Incarnate Word Day celebration. Awarding of CCVI Spirit Award. 2:35 p.m.

Community Party: Dessert Social sponsored by the Nutrition Department. Jordan Plaza. 3:35 p.m. (Rain plan: Marian Hall)

Stockholm Accord Signing: Campus Ministry sponsored activity. Jordan Plaza 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Student Sponsored Activities: Commuter Student Event. Evening.

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 Luncheon: Faculty Appreciation Luncheon. 11:30. Centennial Hall. Sponsored by the Provost’s office.

Thursday, March 27, 2003 Lecture: "The Challenge of Third World Women's Theology." Dr. Kwok Pui-Lan, Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge. Sponsored by the Religious Studies Department. 7:30 p.m. Marian Hall Ballroom.

Friday and Saturday, March 28-29, 2003 Conference: Second Annual Conference on the Ethical, Social and Moral Implications of Genomic Research Technologies. Conference Theme: Human Genetic Engineering. Begins on Friday at 2:00 p.m. Marian Hall Ballroom. Register at www.uiw.edu/genome

Monday, March 31, 2003 Anniversary: Anniversary of the journey of Sisters Madeleine, Pierre, and Agnes to San Antonio. On March 31st, 134 years ago, they began their three-week stagecoach ride to a new foundation [March 2, 2003 is the 150th anniversary of the coming of the Order of the Incarnate Word to the new world. The cloistered Order wof the Incarnate Word in Lyons, France, sent four Sisters to Brownsville, Texas, March 2, 1853].

UIW NURSING STUDENTS HELP FIGHT DIABETES
Students at the University of the Incarnate Word will teamed up with San Antonio health care professionals to fight Diabetes on Diabetes Sunday, by volunteering from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 16 at the St. Phillip of Jesus parish. Nursing students helped to conduct blood pressure screenings for entire families as the Diabetes Institute will conduct free glucose screenings.

UIW has been involved with the parish of St. Philip of Jesus for a number of years, always committing the time and effort of student volunteers to the improvement of its community members. These efforts are carried out in the same spirit of caring that the university’s original founders, the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, originally came with to San Antonio. In practicing their mission, UIW requires that students engage in service-learning projects such as these.

LET’S SAVE SOME TREES! AND WIN!
Scholarship Sweepstakes is an annual alumni tradition now. We have FIFTY prizes and you can win one of them on July 4, 2003. In the past we sent out thousands of letters with thousands of pieces of paper to be filled out and mailed back in. Costly, and the trees didn’t much care for it either. And thanks to technology there are more student scholarship funds for students at UIW, IWHS and St. Anthony’s.

Using the computer the process can be relatively paperless. You email us your name, address and telephone number and tell us how many chances you would like. Then you mail us something for the chances [$1 or more each would be nice] and you can even do that online by credit card. We have a computer program that will enter your name for the number of chances to win you want. The computer even picks the winners on July 4th. Never touched by human hands. And the computer just might select your name for a trip for two anywhere in the U.S. Or a $1,000 bond, or jewelry, or watches, or pottery, or artwork, or etc. Fifty in all.

To get the entire story with directions go to Scholarship Sweepstakes at www.uiw.edu

SISTER GERMAINE CORBIN TRAVELS TO CIW
Sister Germaine Corbin, CCVI, BA ’62 and Theatre Arts Faculty accepted an invitation to teach a semester at China Incarnate Word and left for her assignment on February 10th. Many wondered which of two challenges Sister would find more difficult, using chopsticks or finding the ingredients for her native New Orleans recipes. We are sure that alumnae in China Ann Marie Cowan Ozturgut, BA ’01 and Hilda Salazar Castro, BA ’77 on-sabbatical faculty member Tim Henrich, and Dean Dr Patricia Watkins gave her an orientation.

COMING HOME, SWEET HOME IN APRIL
The annual UIW Homecoming and Reunion is in preparation for the weekend of April 11-13, 2003. Although there are some free events on Friday night and Sunday, the majority of the activities are on Saturday to benefit those who must be home in time for the new work week.

It is a time to revisit the campus and perhaps re-discover it, and also a time to arrange to meet and visit with Incarnate Word friends. The Bookstore, for example, has a new and much larger location on the upper campus complete with a Starbucks attached. The uninitiated will learn what we mean by the “upper campus” and for a hint see the cover of the fall issue of The Word. And contrary to the urban legend, you need not be in a reunion class to come for the fun.

Whatever the “official” schedule, there is always time and space for conversation. Brackenridge Villa becomes Homecoming Headquarters for the weekend, one of those places to sit and visit, or stroll down memory lane through the pages of yearbooks, scrapbooks, videos, publications and other memorabilia.

The annual Sister Charles Marie Frank Lecture and Poster Presentations in Nursing are on Friday evening in the spectacular new Sky Room of the International Conference Center. The speaker for 2003 is Dr. Lynn Wieck, President of the Texas Nurses Association and owner of her own research company, which focuses on the emerging workforce. This event is also open to the public and offers continuing education credit for the working professional.

The major event is the Saturday luncheon in Marian Hall for ALL alumni/ae and honoring diamond alumni/ae of fifty –one years or more, the golden anniversary class of 1953 and the silver anniversary class of 1978. Reunion classes are those graduation years ending in a “3” or an “8.” Throughout the day there are campus tours, especially to the new Gorman Business and Education Center and the new Bookstore and Sky Room, the magnificent Mabee Library, book signings, athletic games, theatre, and ending with a gala mixer at Brackenridge Villa and an evening free to visit with friends.

This year UIW students will liven up the campus with their Spring Olympics ---- campus organizations competing in fun events, live music until 8 p.m. [the musicians are also auditioning for Clear Channel Communications], and food booths. All of this is on the lawn of Dubuis Hall.

This year the Sunday liturgy will be the Palm Sunday Mass in the Motherhouse Chapel followed by a reception in Centennial Hall. Other free events will be added to the schedule closer to the event.

UIW Homecoming is lots of fun and inexpensive. It is open to all graduates and former students of all years. If you need some help with travel or housing plans now is the time to contact the Alumni Office. Every single thing you need to know about Homecoming [schedule of free stuff updated regularly], the nursing poster presentations, and registration forms is just a click away at: http://www.uiw.edu/alumni/alhcre.html

FORE, ANYONE?
Play golf? In you’d like to play in or be involved with the annual Swing-In Golf Tournament May 9th at a brand new golf course, The Republic Golf Course, please contact Director of Development Monica Martinez monicam@universe.uiwtx.edu The Auction pre-golf party is on the evening of May 8th in the new UIW Sky Room

LATEST ISSUE OF THE WORD ONLINE AT:
http://www.uiw.edu/thewordonline/

CATCH UP ON THE NEWS AT:
http://www.uiw.edu/news/

GENERAL UIW NEWS: A new web format at: http://www.uiw.edu/

CHECK OUT THE UIW ALUMNI NETWORK
http://www.uiw.edu/alumni/anet/
Alumni are joining the network all the time. Check it out regularly for news from friends.

THE WORD OF THE MONTH
The Word of the Month newsletter is now available for viewing on the web, at www.uiw.edu/wotm/

PHONATHON TOTALS AS OF FEBRUARY
By the end of February UIW alumni Phonathon approached the $100,000 mark in gifts and pledges. The advancement team callers will continue calling until April. The student callers have 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. Email appeals have been sent and the staff is in the process of mailing pledge letters to alumni with no phone number on record. Have you made a gift or pledge of support this academic year? Now giving is just a click away at http://www.uiw.edu/giving/giv_index.html

KEEP UP TO DATE
The next issue of The Word is in preparation and is due out the first week in March. Copies will be mailed but there will also be an online version posted.

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.

SUGGEST A STUDENT
If you would like to recommend a student to UIW, please e-mail howardd@universe.uiwtx.edu in the UIW Admissions Office.

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.

AND FINALLY
With special thanks for the following to alumna Mary Cay Kennedy Murray, BS ’68:

Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah's Ark.
1 Don’t miss the boat.
2 Remember that we are all in the same boat.
3 Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
4 Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
5 Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
6 Build your future on high ground.
7 For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
8 Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
9 When you're stressed, float a while.
10 Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
11 No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting. NOW, wasn't that nice?

Dick McCracken, Dean    dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu