APRIL, 2005 ALUMNI NEWSLETTER“Help us to Re-found the University for the Future” *
"Help us to Re-found the University for the Future" *
APRIL, 2005 ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
“Help us to Re-found the University for the Future” *
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CHECK OUT THE UIW ALUMNI NETWORK
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OTHER HANDY LINKS:
www.uiw.edu/hr/ UIW Human Resources;
www.uiw.edu/mission/ma_missnewsltr.html Mission Newsletters;
www.uiw.edu/career/ UIW Career Services ;
www.uiw.edu/alumni/newsletter/index.htm back issues of the Newsletter;
www.uiwlogos.com The Logos student newspaper,
www.uiwtx.edu/~athletic/ News on Athletics
www.uiwtx.edu/cgi-dir/we4.0/webevent.cgi UIW March Sports Schedule
and www.uiw.edu/carillon.html if you are homesick for the campus;
www.womensglobalconnection.org CCVI Women’s Global Connection
www.uiw.edu/admissions/alumvolapp.html Alumni Admissions Volunteers.
INTERESTING LINK OF THE MONTH: UIW Radio http://www.kuiw.org/
MASS SCHEDULE
The weekly Sunday Mass in Our Lady’s Chapel is at 10:30 a.m.
Mass in the Motherhouse Chapel is on the second Sunday of the month, at 11:00 a.m.
IN THIS ISSUE….
DR ROBERT CONNELLY RECEIVED 2005 CCVI SPIRIT AWARD
Dr Connelly and Dr Kathi Light
It was announced on March 11th that the 2005 CCVI Spirit Award would be given to Dr. Bob Connelly, Dean of the School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering. The award was presented at the 3:00 p.m. mass on March 23rd in celebration of Incarnate Word Day.
GREAT BARGAINS! PARTY HEARTY! FIESTA St. ANTHONY!
Fiesta St. Anthony is an annual fundraiser hosted by the SACHS PTC (Parent Teacher Club) . This year it will be held in the UIW McDermott Convocation Center on April 2, 2005 at 6:00 pm. Have a chance to win a prepaid credit card valued at $5,000 and party with Faculty, Staff, Parents and Alumni. Tickets for the event are $100 each and admit up to four people. The evening is arranged in a Fiesta motif and food and drinks are included. Bargains Galore! Silent auction, live auction, door prizes, dancing and FUN. You need not be present to win. Call Carolyn Withers at 210-495-1891 to reserve your ticket or to donate auction items. Come wearing you favorite "Fiesta" attire and prepare to "Party Hearty."
FIESTA HOMECOMING MASS IN APRIL
Official IWC/UIW reunions are not until April of 2006, but there will be a Homecoming Mass and Reception to begin Fiesta Week in San Antonio on Sunday, April, 17, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. in the Motherhouse Chapel. A reception will follow. Anyone who can be in San Antonio at this time, and from all class years, is more than welcome to attend. There will be no charge, but donations will be accepted at the reception to help defray the costs. And if you can attend please let us know so we may make the appropriate preparations.
After the liturgy and the reception alumni/ae may wish to stroll the campus to inspect the new construction in various parts of the campus, and re-visit familiar sites. Contact other alumni/ae and ask them to join you at the Fiesta Mass and visit with you.
2005 SCHOLARSHIP SWEEPSTAKES
University of the Incarnate Word and Incarnate Word and St. Anthony Catholic High Schools
jewelry, Imagination Works, by Quinn McDonald, BA ’69 of Virginia
Collectible baseball bear and handmade doll by Agnes McCracken. Doll on the right has a value of $275.
one-of-a-kind, hand-painted Texas Wildflower birdhouses signed and numbered by the artist, alumna Linda Calvert Jacobson value $45.
All proceeds used to complete the Brainpower Scholarship Endowment for students at the above schools. 54 donated prizes so far, and growing:
[additional prizes will be added as donated]
Your chances of winning only increase. Winners selected by random computer drawing on July 4, 2005. You need not be present to win.
The UIW Sweepstakes is environment-friendly. The only paper needed is your check. The computer does everything for you.
All we need is the name, address and phone number of each entrant and how many chances per entrant. Two free chances for every ten. Our computer program duplicates the name for the number of entries selected. Entrants usually send $1 or $2 per chance. So, for $20 you get 24 chances to win in July.
You can email your entry information to dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu
2005 ALUMNA OF DISTINCTION
Alumna Honoree for the May 7th commencement will be Antoinette Pollock Mulvaney, BA ‘78. Toni earned her BA in English in 1978 and went on to study both law and business. Married to Judge Thomas F. Mulvaney of Beaumont, her mother is also an alumna and her daughters are looking at UIW. What is truly interesting about Toni is that she has gone from a BA in English to her position as Full Professor of Business and a lawyer at Lamar University.
PHONATHONS FOR 2004-2005
The new school year is underway, with record enrollments, and the university and the two high schools are beginning the annual Phonathons in support of the Annual Fund for fiscal year 2005. Gifts received in response to the pre-call letters were well over $30,000, a wonderful start. UIW is now at $124, 976 in Phonathon gifts and pledges, SACHS at $10,312 and IWHS at $ 16,055.
We appreciate your continued support, and we hope you will continue to respond to this appeal. The cost of education in the private sector is always rising despite our careful and prudent use of resources. The annual fund impacts students directly and they need you more than ever. Please be as generous as you possibly can. The university advancement team will be making calls throughout the year and the two high schools had periods of intensive calls by volunteers last fall. After that our advancement team students will follow up on alumni/ae who could not be reached during this intensified calling period, and sending reminders of pledges.
This year Patrick Greener coordinated the efforts of all three Phonathons, and we trust that whatever and whenever you pledge can be completed before the end of the fiscal year on May 31, 2005.
Please remember that this year is the 100th anniversary of St Anthony Catholic High School. UIW and IWHS will celebrate their 125th anniversary in 2006.
greener@universe.uiwtx.edu Patrick Greener, Coordinator
Bolado@universe.uiwtx.edu Cybele Bolado, IWHS
dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu Dick McCracken, Dean
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EVENTS
Through April 29
One person exhibit, Eloise Stoker
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Semmes Art Gallery, Fine Arts Building
April 5 (tentative)
Paul Woodruff lecture tentative title
“Democracy: Dead or Alive?”
Location TBA
April 7
Mission Matters Discussion of Dr. Bernadette O'Connor's article
"What is a Catholic University?" Drs. Julie Miller and Glenn
Ambrose will respond. 4:00-5:30 pm. Location TBA
April 11
Incarnate Word Community Orchestra 8:00 pm
Our Lady’s Chapel
April 13-15
Art Portfolios accepted for Arts Scholarships
HASS, Administration Building Room 163
April 18-29
The Landscape of the Headwaters at Incarnate Word. Student Photography Exhibit. Fine Arts Center first floor hallway. Daily. Opening reception April 18th 5 to 6:30 p.m.
April 28
Jazz Ensemble Concert at 7:30 pm
Location TBA
April 29-May 1
Extended Run Players perform “Press Cuttings”
By George Bernard Shaw Cheever Downstage Theatre
May 1
Chorale and Madrigals Concert 3:00 pm
Our Lady’s Chapel
May 5-18
Senior Student Art Exhibit
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 5, 2005
Semmes Art Gallery, Fine Arts Building
THE CUTTING EDGE ANNUAL UIW FIESTA FASHION SHOW
[there is a waiting list for tickets]
The Cutting Edge Fiesta Fashion Show & Luncheon
25th Anniversary
Monday, April 18, 2005
UIW Skyroom
Valet Parking
For more information, please call (210) 829-6013
or visit us on the web at www.uiw.edu/cuttingedge
UIW BOOKSTORE DISCOUNT CARDS AVAILABLE
If you are in or near San Antonio, or plan to visit, the UIW Bookstore has made available 10% discount cards for our faithful readers. So if you plan to do some shopping, you get a discount on each visit with the card, and after the fifth visit you get a free gift! Discounts do not apply to textbooks, food items, and regularly priced software. The cards are available in the UIW Alumni Office on campus, or we can also mail one to you.
ALUMNI/AE NETWORKING UP AND RUNNING
UIW, IWHS, SACHS Graduates Welcome
It was a long wait, but an Alumni/ae Networking Network in a new version is up and running. What started with a network of only three alumni has now grown to over 600 members from IWC, UIW, IWHS and SACHS.
Some of the earlier problems have been corrected. The new system allows anyone to view the network, but to be on the network you must register. Those who were on the old network have been carried over, and we have your username and password. Those new to the network create their own username and password. Alumni/ae are in control of the entry and all updates. Passwords can be changed but not the username. If you want a new username you need to create a new entry and have the administrator delete the old one. Duplicate entries will be deleted as discovered as this is confusing to those who use the network. www.uiw.edu/alumni/anet/index.htm
Remember please that usernames and passwords should not exceed eight characters. Less is better. If you want to communicate with classmates and other alumni put a message in Class Notes. The network will function best when employment and marketplace fields are completed. Other fields are helpful so check them all out. All information provided is voluntary, although an email address is required. ADCaP and Virtual University alumni, when you are on the network, please look at the education section and make sure the appropriate box is checked.
SPECIAL NOTE: Registration on the network is NOT automatic. The entry must first be approved by the administrator to verify alumni/ae status. This process is done at least once a day, Monday to Friday. Yes, we have already had some trying to make bogus entries.
Please report any problems to dickm@universe.uiwtx.edu If an alum email address does not go through it may be an old email address not updated on the network. If someone contacts you through the network and says they attended or is attending one of the schools, and you want verification, we will be glad to help.
IWHS NEWS
*Incarnate Word High School has set up an information hot line to keep parents and friends up to date on current high school events.
The information is updated weekly. IWHS hot line: 805-3030.
ALAMO TRAVEL GROUP VACATION SPECIALS
The Alamo Travel Group is pleased to offer the following vacation specials for UIW/IWHS/SACHS Alumni/ae and Friends. All of these are eligible for the Alumni Association donation program.
SKI SPECIALS - BOOK EARLY, SAVE BIG
VAIL - AIR FROM DFW, 4 NIGHTS AT THE CASCADE RESORT & 3 DAY LIFT TICKET. $699.00 PER PERSON
STEAMBOAT - AIR FROM SAN ANTONIO, 3 NIGHTS HOTEL AND 2 DAY LIFT TICKET. $499.00 PER PERSON
IN ORDER FOR THE ALAMO TRAVEL GROUP TO DONATE 1.5 % OF THE TOTAL VALUE OF TRAVEL VACATIONS PURCHASED, ALUMNI MEMBERS AND FRIENDS SHOULD MENTION THE FOLLOWING BOOKING CODE:
IW 101304
The telephone number is: 800-692-5266 The email address is atgvacations@alamotravel.com
The web address is: www.alamotravel.com/
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 STILL AVAILABLE
Proceeds are for the Faculty Development Endowment [to meet a matching grant]
www.uiw.edu/alumni/zelime.html
You only thought you had a rough winter! Alumna Maxine Buhler Burns, BSN ’52 hugs an icicle at her home at Lake Tahoe, CA and this is only 1/3 of it.
Reprinted from the October, 2002 UIW eNewsletter
[In memory of Mattie Stepanek]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© Hyperion. All Rights Reserved.
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.S