Alumni Newsletter
July 2004

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

LATEST ISSUE OF THE WORD ONLINE AT:

http://www.uiw.edu/thewordonline/

The spring issue is online. The next issue is due out in July.

CATCH UP ON THE NEWS AT:

http://www.uiw.edu/news/newsarchive.html

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

Weekly News: http://www.uiw.edu/newsletter

CHECK OUT THE UIW ALUMNI NETWORK

http://www.uiw.edu/alumni/anet/

Sometime soon a new Alumni Networking Network system will be online. In the meantime the old network will be up and running and please check back if you wish to join, or let the Alumni Office know and we will notify you when the new system is operational.

ADCaP NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE: http://www.uiw.edu/adcap/adcapnews.htm

OTHER HANDY LINKS:

http://www.uiw.edu/hr/ UIW Human Resources;
http://www.uiw.edu/mission/ma_missnewsltr.html Mission Newsletters;
http://www.uiw.edu/career/ UIW Career Services;
http://www.uiw.edu/alumni/newsletter/ back issues of the Newsletter;
http://www.uiwlogos.com The Logos student newspaper,
http://www.uiwtx.edu/~athletic/ News on Athletics,
and http://www.uiw.edu/carillon.html if you are homesick for the campus and http://www.womensglobalconnection.org CCVI Women's Global Connection, http://www.uiw.edu/admissions/alumvolapp.html Alumni Admissions Volunteers.

Interesting link of the month, Summer Camps for Children: http://www.uiwtx.edu/~athletic/camps.shtml

MASS SCHEDULE

The weekly Sunday Mass in Our Lady’s Chapel is at 10:30 a.m., but there are no Masses scheduled for the month of July .

IN THIS ISSUE..

*Annual Scholarship Sweepstakes
*Founding Dean of Pharmacy School Selected
*Pharmacy Association to hold UIW Benefit
*Getting Alumni Tours Back on Track
* Women's Global Connection Sponsors July Conference
*Fall Alumnae Lunch Bunch
*Wordsworth Book Club Fall Reading List
*MARS Scholarship Rovers
*Interested in Alumni Involvement?
*An Idea and News from Alumni
*UIW Credit Card Available
*UIW Pins by Zelime Matthews

ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP SWEEPSTAKES---2004

From now on all proceeds from the annual Sweepstakes will go directly into the Brainpower Scholarship Endowment and scholarship awards for UIW, IWHS and SACHS students will come directly from the scholarship endowment interest. All of you made this possible, $1 at a time. God bless you. The winners will be selected by computer at the annual alumni party "By the Dawn's Early Light" at Brackenridge Villa on July 4, 2004.

http://www.uiw.edu/alumni/sweepstakes2004.html

Come by Brackenridge Villa after 9:30 a.m. on the 4 th for some food and live music by the Small World, and some special July 4 th door prizes---all free. The main sweepstakes drawing will be before noon.

UIW PHARMACY SCHOOL FOUNDING DEAN NAMED

UIW Provost Dr. Terry Dicianna announced that we are bringing a native Texan home!  Dr. Arcelia Johnson-Fannin has accepted the position as the founding Dean of the School of Pharmacy. Dr. "J," as her students at Hampton called her, will begin on July 1, 2004. Her first duties will include some grant activities and attendance at two national pharmacy conferences in July. A brief bio is included below. She will arrive on campus in early July. Her offices will temporarily be located on the 2 nd floor of the Watson Enrollment Center.

Biography 

 Dr. Arcelia Johnson-Fannin is the founding Dean of the Hampton University School of Pharmacy in Hampton, Virginia. Over the past seven years she guided the new school through the steps to full accreditation with ACPE, raised over $2.5 million in the first 3 years of operation, and supervised the ground-up renovation of a building to house the school.

She also was actively engaged, as a Director, in the start-up of the Pharm.D. program at Florida A&M University. In addition to her teaching and administrative experience, Dr. Johnson-Fannin has worked as a pharmacist, research associate pharmacist, and hospital pharmacy consultant. She has served on visiting accreditation teams for both the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

Pharm.D.   Mercer University; Atlanta, GA; class standing - 1/40
Graduate work   Hospital Pharmacy Administration, St. John's University; Queens, NY
BS   Pharmacy, Columbia University; New York, NY
Graduate work   Chemistry, New York University; New York, NY
BS   Chemistry/Mathematics, Magna cum laude; Dillard University; New Orleans, LA

BEXAR COUNTY PHARMACY ASSOCIATION PLANS BENEFIT 

The Bexar County Pharmacy Association would like to invite alumni/ae and friends to their annual art auction to be held this year on August 21 st in the UIW Skyroom. Proceeds from the auction will benefit and endowed scholarship for UIW's new College of Pharmacy. The association has already presented the university with a lead gift for this new scholarship endowment. If there is any particular type of art or artist you may be interested in, please call 732-7979 to leave a message, or for any questions. Raquel Salinas, President of the Bexar County Pharmacy Association.

GETTING ALUMNI TOURS ON TRACK

The good news is that alumna Angela McCaffrey Notzon of Fuller Travel in San Antonio has agreed to join us in the quest for exciting alumni travel programs, and the sooner the better. Angela has been in the travel business for fifteen years and has a wonderful record of successful tours and happy travelers. Angela is looking for alumni partners willing to share in both the planning and the going! And put on your thinking caps for exciting destinations to celebrate our quasquicentennial [125 th anniversary, folks].

Near or distant destinations are no problem---Angela is interested in excitement, fun and quality. To join in the process email dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu and Angela will be in touch.

WOMEN'S GLOBAL CONNECTION SPONSORS JULY CONFERENCE

Women's Global Connection at the University of the Incarnate Word is sponsoring a July conference, "Building Community Leadership in a Global Society," July 29-31 in the UIW Sky Room. Registration is available online at www.womensglobalconnection.org .

Hundreds of women from across the globe, including Incarnate Word alumnae, will meet to discuss the importance of women's leadership in the 21st Century, including the joys and challenges of claiming leadership. The topics of discussion will range from spirituality in the information age to violence in women's lives. Leadership roles of women will also be explored through cross-cultural presentations. Presenters include women from Tanzania, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada and Mexico. Books and music of these various cultures will be showcased during the conference, highlighting the importance of cross-cultural awareness in today's world.

Women's Global Connection is promoted and governed by Visitation House Ministries of San Antonio, Texas, a non-profit charitable organization in the state of Texas, and is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of San Antonio.

ALUMNAE LUNCH BUNCH MAKES PLANS

The annual informal gathering of IWHS, IWC and UIW alumnae has been tentatively scheduled for Los Patios on September 13, 2004. Alumna Shirlie Grant Kaats is the event chair again this year. There are no speeches and no program, just conversation and sharing memories. And all you need to do to attend is ask the Alumni Office to put you on the lunch bunch mailing list. 

WORDSWORTH FALL BOOK READING LIST

August 31          Monica Ali, Brick Lane
September 14    Joseph Coulson, The Vanishing Moon
September 28    Alison Smith, Name All the Animals
October 12        Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire
October 26        Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
November 9        Kent Haruf, Eventide

Meetings will be held from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. in the Dr. Burton E. Grossman International Conference Center, located on the corner of Hildebrand and Hwy 281. You are invited to bring a brown bag lunch and come at 11:30 a.m. to enjoy your salad or sandwich before the presentation starts. Coffee, tea, and cold drinks will be provided. The fee for participation is $60.00 per semester ($45.00 for senior citizens and students. For more information contact: Lorraine Ewers, Office of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of the Incarnate Word, 4301 Broadway, CPO 144, San Antonio, TX 78209. Telephone: 210.829.6070 Email: lewers@universe.uiwtx.edu

YOU, TOO, CAN BE A M.A.R.S. ROVER! AUGUST 1 st Deadline for 2004

UIW graduates - Do you know a prospective high school or college student that may be interested in coming to Incarnate Word?

If so, did you know you can nominate one prospective freshman or transfer student every year to receive the McCracken Alumni Referral Scholarship [M.A.R.S.]?

This is a one-time $1,000 scholarship for first-time freshmen and transfer students admitted to UIW. Sorry, it can't be awarded to current students.

Simply email the Alumni Office dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu and we will make certain the Office of Admissions sends you an information packet, including a voucher to complete. Deadline for submitting vouchers is August 1, 2004 for the new academic year.

For more complete details go to: http://www.uiw.edu/alumni/mars.html 

AND YOU CAN HELP THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE AS A VOLUNTEER

http://www.uiw.edu/admissions/alumvolapp.html 

INTERESTED IN ALUMNI/AE INVOLVEMENT?

The UIW Alumni Office is looking for nominations or volunteers for a core group to study the formation of an official Alumni Organization to assist the university in carrying the mission forward, and playing a dynamic role in the future direction of alumni activities and events. Meetings will be scheduled for those interested or nominated. Send your nominations or your own name to gladysd@universe.uiwtx.edu

IDEAS and NEWS FROM ALUMNI

[1] Alumnus Raul Solis, '94 has an idea for First Tuesdays for all alumni/ae and friends. To find out more contact him at texashispanicmilitarymuseum@yahoo.com

[2 ] Remember Vasee (Class of '89) from Sri Lanka? "Well I've moved back to Colombo, Sri Lanka and my current mailing address is as follows: Vasee Nesiah 30/6b Clifford Road, Colombo 3, Sri Lanka 00300 Mobile: (+94-77) 771-8617   Work: (+94-11) 537-0674 Home: (+94-11) 268-7547 vasee@mediasolv.com or vasee@myway.com After my graduation in 1989, I worked in Austin for a year and then went on to USC in Los Angeles to do my Masters in Communications Management at the Annenberg School.  I've since worked for the United Nations in New York, the International Irrigation Water Management Institute, a TV station and an ISP before deciding to become an entrepreneur.  Over the last six years, I've started and sold two technology companies, that caused me to live and work in Colombo, Singapore and San Jose.  I have since moved back to Colombo where I work as an industry Analyst & Consultant. I have a wife, two kids, two dogs and a pair of turtles. I look forward to hearing from my old friends at Incarnate Word and would especially be interested in making contacts with alumni in Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. Warm regards, Vasee Class of '89."

UIW CREDIT CARD AVAILABLE

Alumni/ae often ask about the UIW affinity Mastercard available through MBNA. In addition to a personalized UIW credit card, MBNA gives UIW a percentage of all purchases/charges at no extra charge to you. Even if you make a gift on your MBNA card we will still get a percentage as an extra gift.

We receive $1,000 or more a quarter from this program, all designated for the Faculty Development Endowment. For the last quarter it was $947.

To get more information on a card, just call MBNA at 1 800 847 7378 [Mastercard] and refer to source code YH9Q.

INCARNATE WORD PINS SELLING FAST

Proceeds are for the Faculty Development Endowment [to meet a matching grant]

http://www.uiw.edu/alumni/zelime.html

Does this apply to our Scholarship Sweepstakes?

A person was praying out loud in a chapel, "Please, God, let me win the lottery. I really need the money!"

From the back of the chapel another voice chimed in, "Work with me. Buy a ticket!"

Dick McCracken, Dean of Alumni and Planned Giving dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu
www.uiw.edu

"Help us to Re-found the University for the Future" * This concept is an adaptation of the directions of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word at their last General Chapter which urges the members to "re-found the Congregation." This means to recapture the original founding spirit of 1869 which included dedication, a spirit of fearless innovation, Jesus' Gospel values of service and courage, all within the context of faith. For the university, this means an examination of our founding core values as they continue to animate our mission in the 21st century.