The Marygrove College Newsletter

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Volume 19 • Number 5 • October 30, 2007

Thursday, November 1 Flu shots 12-1 p.m. Madame Cadillac Building, Alumnae Hall Contact: Dave Sichterman, 313-927-1319 or dsichterman@marygrove.edu

moNday, November 5, To Friday, November 9spirit Week/Founders’ day CelebrationSee details below.

be part of what’s happening at marygrove!

The Meaning of Founders’ Day 80 Years LaterAs we approach Founders’ Day, which is officially November 10th, I thought about the significance of that day and the events we hold at the College to commemorate them. Founders’ Day honors the formation of the religious order of women known as the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1845 in Monroe, Michigan. Their founding was significant in several ways. This brave group of women was begun by a woman of color, Theresa Maxis. They

committed themselves to educating women in an era when that wasn’t a popular thing to do. They set up schools of higher learning to advance the position of women, first in Michigan and Pennsylvania and later in Ohio, Minnesota and other Midwestern states.

Thankfully for us, they founded St. Mary College in Monroe in 1905 also on November 10th, which was to become Marygrove College in Detroit and dedicated on November 10th, 1927. It was at the invitation of Bishop Gallagher that the IHMs moved the College to the burgeoning city of Detroit.

This courage, determination and leadership are what we commemorate during the week of activities we’re calling Spirit Week/Founders’ Day. Marygrove College 80 years later continues in the footsteps of our founders and sponsors as we commit to a vision of Urban Leadership. This Marygrove Matters contains all the information you need to be present, be active and be inspired. I invite you to join me.

David J. Fike Ph.D., President

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WedNesday, November 7Founders’ day Convocation12 p.m.Liberal Arts Building, Theatre Contact: Kim Sanders, 313-927-1259 or ksanders@marygrove.edu

Thursday, November 8have a seat…and more! Chair auction and strolling dinner6:30-9 p.m.Madame Cadillac Building, Alumnae HallContact: Maureen Leonard, 313-927-1308 or mleonard@marygrove.edu

moNday, November 5w Green and Gold day The Marygrove community is encouraged to wear Marygrove green and gold.

w office/residence hall decorations up for the week will be judged on Friday.

w Karaoke entertainment12 p.m. Main Dining Room • Lemonade and cookies• Individual best-dressed Green and

Gold contest

Tuesday, November 6w College Fest Tug o’ War between Faculty, Staff and Students Outside Madame Cadillac Building

w Club dance Contests2:15 p.m.Main Dining Room

w introduction of Women’s and men’s basketball Teams and Games Week-long participation in board games, card games, ping-pong and poolStudent Center Building, Student Recreation Room

w ihm open house at hartman hall 3-5 p.m.Students will be able to talk with some of the Sisters who live there.

w Tunnel Tour5:30-6 p.m.

LOOK AT THOSE BEAUTIFUL BABY FACES!Students, we’ve gone back, way back, to bring you your talented, hardworking, devoted and inspiring leaders—faculty and staff—as once they were…

Leaders start somewhere, don’t they?

Join us in making fun-filled connections to our past by participating in our Baby Face

Thursday, November 8w academic bowl for students

Friday, November 9w Party for students in Florent Gillet 9 p.m.-12 a.m.Residence Hall Marygrove students will be allowed in free with ID. $3 for outside guests.

w Judging of residence rooms announced at the party and Campus Offices for SPIRIT announced Friday afternoon

Contact Janet Hunt, 313-927-1220 or jhunt@marygrove.edu

Marygrove Matters, the College’s bi-monthly newsletter, is published by the Communications and Marketing Department and reports on campus news and other information regarding students, faculty and staff. The next issue is scheduled for November 12. Please e-mail your information by November 1 to LNwachuk9649@marygrove.edu.

renée ahee, Editor w Tresa meyer, Graphic Designer w Lasbrey Nwachukwu, Coordinator

Editorial Staffmarygrove College 8425 W. mcNichols road detroit, mi 48221

Marygrove Matters

Contest as part of the Founders’ Day Celebration Week November 5-9.

Drop by the library, check out our display case and fill out an entry form! See if you can name all those beautiful babies and toddlers. Winners will be posted on Friday, November 9.

Contest participation limited to students! Grins, Giggles and Guffaws open to ALL!

You Can Help with the Treats!Florence Gillet Hall is accepting candy

donations for the Kiddy Disco and

Trick-or-Treat Halloween celebration

for the children at Peggy’s Place and

Interim House. You can help put

a smile on the children’s faces by

donating decorations and candy or

by decorating the residence hall on

Wednesday, october 31, 2007, at 3

p.m. Please contact Barbara Collins at

313-927-1601 or drop off candy at the

Residence Hall office Room 101.

Residence hall students continue

to help those in need by collecting

items to donate for Christmas. New

toys, gently used or new clothes

and monetary donations are on their

Christmas wish list for infants through

14 years old.

Please do what you can to support our

residence hall students in their good

works.

Spirit Week Founders’ Day Celebration WedNesday, November 7w Founders’ day Convocation 12 p.m.Marygrove TheatreRecognition of IHM sisters and associates, Honors Program students, Scholarship winners

w Lunch1 p.m.Lower Level of Liberal Arts Building by ticket obtained as people leave Convocation in the Theatre

w dinner for evening students before classesLower Level of Liberal Arts Building

w Tour of the bell Tower/ showing of marygrove Ghost story3:30-4:45 p.m.Liberal Arts Building, 4th Floor

sharing the bioneers experience: The Cosmic Walk

We’re told that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old and the elements of the Earth and of our bodies are even older than that. We’re told the Universe is 12-14 billion years old so that the stuff of which we are made is unfathomably ancient. The cells in our bodies have a direct lineage to ancient cells with a nucleus that developed around two billion years ago. This remarkable new knowledge, as much as it fascinates us, seems initially to be impersonal scientific information about a vast cosmos and to not really matter or affect our daily comings and goings. But this information actually crystallizes with a great deal more to form a coherent story of the unfolding and differentiation of the universe from the beginning to its present condition. This story challenges and informs our most basic, often unquestioned assumptions about how things are. We need great acts of imagination, of intuitive perception and celebration to help us embrace the revelatory material being offered us.

The cosmic walk, developed by Sister Miriam Therese McGillis of Genesis Farm in New Jersey, is a symbolic re-enactment that helps us enter personally into the story. There are many different ways the “Cosmic Walk” can be done. At the Bioneers Conference held on Marygrove’s campus October 19-21, the walk was set up with markers on the lawn between the two main buildings.

Walking slowly and reflectively, you moved through the entire story of the unfolding and gradual differentiation of the Universe and the Earth from the beginning to the present. It initially seemed it was a walk along a time-line, but it is much more than a time-line since we didn’t observe passing events as objective observers looking from the outside. Rather, we walked into and joined the unfolding of our very being and that of the entire Earth and the ecosystems of which we are a part. As we walked along the path and read about each event, we identified with our history. The walk enabled us to celebrate the noble creatures of the Earth, both ancient and new, to identify with the Earth and to grasp the depth of our interdependence and communion with the Earth and other beings as we participate in its unfolding out of a common origin.

Have we realized just how amazing it is to be self-aware, conscious beings… a very recent form that the Universe and the Earth have become? Have we known what remarkable creatures our brothers and sisters, the plants and animals are, each with their unique sensitivities and awareness? In this time of great need the cosmic walk can help nurture a transformed consciousness enabling us to join the great work of bringing about what Thomas Berry so aptly calls the Ecozoic era.

meet distinguished alum Lynne o’Loughlin deGrande hackathorn ‘67

The life and career of Lynne O’Loughlin DeGrande Hackathorn are inspiring and her experiences tell us a lot about the preparation she received from Marygrove and her compassion for others.

Twenty years ago, 156 people died as the result of the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Fortunately a year earlier, Lynne had worked with the Red Cross to develop a response plan for such an emergency. Within hours of the crash, the Detroit Chapter of the American Red Cross called Lynne to the scene where she remained for over a week, leading a team of counselors, coordinating services to the families and providing support to first responders. This was one of the crises that reinforced her personal creed: “We never realize how strong the human spirit is until we need it to be.”

In the 20 years since, Lynne has been called to numerous “critical incidents” including earthquakes, hurricanes, air crashes and work-site homicides in several states. She was summoned

to the incredible tragedy at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, to work with the director, Dr. Richard Ottenstein, to manage and provide direct crisis support to the construction workers at ground zero.

Lynne graduated from Marygrove College in 1967 with a B.A. in

social science and went on to earn a Master’s degree

in Social Work from the University of Michigan. She began her own business after receiving her MSW and contracted with corporations,

including General Motors, to provide

Employee Assistance Programs.

She counsels individuals overwhelmed by relationship turmoil, financial strife, serious child development problems, chronic progressive medical issues, job stress or the ravages of addictions at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Trinity Health System.

Lynne advises today’s students to “be very clear and strong about what values you hold because life will often challenge them. Above all, our love and respect for God, self and others should be our guiding force. And don’t forget to have some fun every day.”

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Take a course for college credit that will show you the world!

is 326b 01 Costa rica: A Touch of the Tropics

is 326b 02 england/scotland: Exploration of Arts and Culture: London and Edinburgh

is 326b 03 France: Ideas that Shaped Western Civilization

is 326b 04 China: Explorations of history and Culture: Shanghai and Beijing

is 326b 05 Greece: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea

Loretta Woodard, Ph.d., chaired a panel on “Humor as Social

Commentary” at the Michigan College

English Association Conference held

at Henry Ford Community College on

October 12. Charles J. Shields, the

official biographer of Harper Lee, author

of To Kill a Mockingbird, was a featured

guest. He was invited by “The Big

Read,” a national literacy promotion

effort.

donald Levin, Ph.d., presented a

paper, “Beautiful Island in the Stream:

A Cultural History of Detroit’s Belle

Isle,” at a conference, “Greenscapes:

Sense and Meaning,” at Brock

University in St. Catharine’s, Ontario,

on October 20, 2007. The conference

was an academic and community event

that explored social, cultural and

historical aspects of gardens in human

societies.

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n sC o n g r a t u l a t i o n s

Travel Seminar CoursesContact Jennifer Gansler, 313-927-1485 or jgansler@marygrove.edu

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Special Pricing for Faculty and staff at have a seaT Thursday, November 8, 2007!In several editions now of Marygrove Matters, you’ve read that Marygrove will host the Have A Seat…and More! Chair Auction and Strolling Dinner on Thursday, November 8, 2007. What you may not know is that there’s special discounted pricing for faculty and staff so that you can attend Marygrove’s signature event of the year!

A VIP reservation is $125 vs. $150 and a Patron reservation is $75 vs. $100. As a VIP, you may attend a special reception with the artists at 5:30 p.m. with the dinner and auction beginning at 6:30. As a Patron, you may attend the dinner and auction. Human Resources has kindly made payroll deduction available to you, so please contact Sharon L. Enoex at (313) 927-1203 or senoex@marygrove.edu for the payroll deduction form. Last Friday, Sharon sent a campus-wide e-mail with the form attached. Please print, complete and sign this payroll deduction form and submit it directly to the Payroll Office by:

• 3 p.m., Tuesday, october 30, 2007, for 3 installment payments or

• monday, November 5, 2007, for 2 installment payments.

You will receive a confirmation from the Development Office of receipt of your payment agreement.

Internationally renowned artist and designer Dominic Pangborn and his wife Delia have graciously agreed to serve as Honorary Co-Chairs for this year’s event. Mr. Pangborn will also donate original works of art for the auction.

This exciting fundraiser features the work of local and national artists who have transformed vintage Marygrove chairs and other items into collectible works of art. Artists include Charles McGee, Gilda Snowden, Nora Chapa Mendoza, Shirley Woodson, and many more. Auction items include such non-chair items as paintings, sculptures, gift certificates and other non-art related items.

As you know, the proceeds go to support our students with scholarships, new academic programs and infrastructure improvements.

If you are interested attending the event, please contact Maureen Leonard at mleonard@marygrove.edu or 313-927-1308. Your support will help Marygrove College turn today’s students into tomorrow’s urban leaders.

These are just two of the items to bid on at Thursday night’s auction