The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

THRU FEB. 12 - Anoka County Ramsey Community College will present 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" for five performances Feb. 3-12. Sunday, Feb. 12 matinee is at 2 p.m. All other showtimes are at 7:30 p.m. Alumni Night is Feb. 4. Tickets are $8. They are available at the college's bookstore or at the door one hour before the performance. Tickets may also be purchased online at http://www.arccbookstore.com/coonr. The Coon Rapids Campus Performing Arts Center is at 11200 Mississippi Blvd.

For more information, visit http://www.AnokaRamsey.edu or call 763-433-1100.

Driving Refresher Course

FEB. 9 - This four-hour refresher course is taught by Minnesota Highway Safety Center certified instructors. The class will explore the latest in vehicle technology, changes in laws and review defensive driving principles. Class is Thursday, Feb. 9 from 5:30-9:30 p.m. at the Champlin Ice Forum, 12165 Ensign Avenue. Fee is $20 at the door. AAA discounts apply if you show your membership card.

Info: 1-888-234-1294, http://www.mnsafetycenter.org

Bulletproof your computer

FEB. 9 - A-H Community Ed presents a class designed to help bulletproof your computer Feb. 9 from 6-9 p.m. Computer security is not just virus protection any more. Learn the basic risks associated with your Internet connection, how to detect and remove viruses, ad-ware, spyware and Trojans from your computer; plus how to secure your computer from the never-ending array of new threats. Parental control software and services will also be discussed. Class fee is $29 and is held at the Staff Development Center located at the A-H School District Staff Development Center, 2727 North Ferry Street, Anoka. Info and registration: 763-506-5766

MOPS

FEB. 9 - MOPS, a group for women who are pregnant or have young children (birth to kindergarten), meets on the second and fourth Thursday of the month from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Anoka. For more information, contact Joelle at 763-422-8911 or fbcanokamops@gmail.com.

Learn to knit

FEB. 9 THRU MARCH 8 -Learn basic techniques: cast on, knit, purl, increase, decrease, finising and pattern reading while making a tote bag to be felted. Bring size 8 knitting needles and yarn for practice. Scissors, tapestry, need and stitch markers will be needed after first week. Class fee is $55. This is an A-H Community Education class that runs for five sessions on Thursdays from 6:30-9 p.m. at the Staff Development Center, 2727 Ferry Street, Anoka. Info and registration: 763-506-5766

Put laughter in your marriage

FEB. 10 - Good marriages make good families. Learn why laughter and spontaneity are so important in marriage and how to make that happen. Gain brief insight into the family as a unit and how your well-being is a key component in that unit. Discover ways to play together as a family and the positive outcomes of laughter. This fun, interactive evening includes a pasta bar/salad meal and free tickets to the 8:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Show next door. This is a one-session A-H Community Education program held Friday, Feb. 10 from 6-8 p.m. at COR Counseling and Yes And Food! In Coon Rapids. Class fee is $49/couple. Info and registration: 763-506-5766

Couples who cook

FEB. 10 - Celebrate Valentine's Day with a romantic meal for two featuring recipes you are sure to love plus some new techniques you may not have tried before. The menu includes cheese souffl?, chicken Florentine, baked mushroom risotto, garlic roasted broccoli and bananas foster for dessert. Eat in class. Hands-on class. This is an A-H Community Education class with a supply fee of $24 per couple and class fee of $35 per couple/friend. Class is held Friday, Feb. 10 from 6:30-9 p.m. at Champlin Park High School. Info and registration: 763-506-5766

Steak Fry

FEB. 10 - A steak fry will be held from 6-8 p.m. at Elks Lodge 44, 2875 Brookdale Drive, Brooklyn Park. Guests can choose an 8-ounce steak, six breaded shrimp or half a fried chicken served with a baked potato, salad and garlic toast. Tickets cost $10. Proceeds benefit the Brooklyn Center Lioness club. Info or tickets: 763-227-0545 (Sharon).

Valentine's dinner

FEB. 11 - A Valentine's Dinner will be held from 5-9 p.m. at the Izaak Walton League, 8816 West River Road. There is seating at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dinner includes beef strip loin, salad, mixed vegetables, scalloped potatoes, dessert and sparkling cider. A string quartet from Park Center Senior High will perform. Tickets cost $20. RSVP to 763-493-8013.

Freeze!

FEB. 10 - Freeze! Will be offered at Joseph E. Wargo Nature Center Feb. 10, 10 to 11:15 a.m., ages two to four, $3. For more information, call 651-429-8007 or visit http://www.anokacountyparks.com. Located at 7701 Main Street,_Lino Lakes.

CPHS Senior Party planning meeting

FEB. 13 - A CPHS Senior Party planning meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 13 at 7 pm., in the IMC-Media Center at CPHS. All are welcome to attend to help plan this fun event, which is scheduled to be held Sunday, June 3 at Blainbrook Entertainment Center in Blaine. https://sites.google.com/site/cphsseniorparty/

School board work session

FEB. 13 - An Anoka-Hennepin School Board work session is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14 in the Educational Services Center located at 11299 Hanson Blvd. NW, Coon Rapids.

Love languages

FEB. 14 -MOPS will meet at Solid Rock Free Lutheran at 9:30 am. Pastor Gary Haug will share about the topic "Love Languages" as we seek to build up that special relationship within our marriages.

Monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month and include food, fellowship, childcare and the opportunity to build relationships with other young Mothers. Children will be encouraged and cared for through the Moppet program which includes a story time, snack and playtime. For further questions call Michele at 763-427-6093 or Renee at 763-261-7412. Solid Rock is located at 737 Bob Ehlen Drive in Anoka.

Our MOPS monthly evening Bible study continues the third Tuesday night of each month at 7p.m. at Starbucks in Maple Grove. If you are unable to come to a daytime MOPS meeting, we hope you can join us for this evening event. The name of the study is "Finding Joy in All You Are: A Mom's Ordinary Day Bible Study.

Valentine wine dinner

FEB. 19 - A-H Community Education presents a special Valetine wine adventure Sunday, Feb. 19 at Buona Sera, in Champlin. Chef Raffaele Virgillo will prepare a spectacular five-course dinner featuring Italian specialties perfectly paired with fine wines. Come away with an enhance understanding of food and wine pairing as well as lasting memories of a fun evening. Must be 21 or older. Wine dinner is $65 plus tax per person. Class fee is $15. Info and registration: 763-506-5766

PhotoShop 102

FEB. 21 & 28 - Go beyond the basics of PhotoShop with shortcuts, trick, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. Learn advanced PhotoShop techniques for layering, masking, color adjustments, blending, filtering and more. Prerequisite: PhotoShop 101 or equivalent. Class fee is $75 for returning students, $89 for new students. This is an A-H Community Education class that runs for two sessions on Tuesdays 6:30-8:30 p.m. located at Champlin Park High School. Info and registration: 763-506-5766

Winter Bar Olympics

FEB. 25 - The 2nd Annual Winter Olympics will be held at Fritzy's Sports Bar, located at Sundance Golf & Bowl in Dayton. Events include bowling, rodeo golf, darts, bean bag toss and tippy cup. Teams interested in participating should contact the Scott at Fritzy's at 763-420-4700.

College planning info session

FEB. 28 - A parent information session, specifically for parents of high school juniors, will be presented on Tuesday Feb. 28, 2012. The presentation will begin at 6:30 in the North Lecture Hall. Topics to be covered include: choosing a college, planning early, the application process and college admission tests. Questions can be directed to Mrs. Baker @ 763-506-6844

Jodi Livon, The Happy Medium

MARCH 8 - A-H Community Education presents Jodi Livon, The Happy Medium, Thursday, March 8 from 6:30-9 p.m. at Champlin Park High School. Livon will teach how you can use your intuition as an internal alarm system. Seminar will include spontaneous readings of several random audience members. Info and registration: 763-506-5766

Learn Italian cooking

MARCH 20 - Learn the art of making classic Italian cuisine such as stuffed pasta dishes including Rotolo and a variety of Lasagna dishes at this demonstration class held at Buona Sera Restaurant in Champlin. Food Supply Fee is $35, plus tax. Class fee is $15. This is an A-H Community Education class held Tuesday, March 20 at Buona Sera from 7-9 p.m. Info and registration: 763-506-5766

Raingarden workshop

MARCH 22 - Get ready for spring by planning a garden that beautifies your yard and helps keep our water clean. Register now for a Raingarden Workshop and Design Studio, taught by landscape design specialists from the nonprofit group Metro Blooms. The $10 - $15 workshops will be offered from March to mid-June throughout the metro area, and on March 22 at Champlin Park High School, in Champlin. Register online at http://www.metroblooms.org.

Computers for Seniors 101

MARCH 24 & 31 - A-H Community Ed is offering a class for seniors to learn how to operate a mouse and how to use menus. Create some files with very little typing. This gentle introduction to computers will help you feel comfortable sitting at a computer. Designed for those with no or very little experience with lots of hands-on practice time in the classroom. The class is two sessions long from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in the Staff Development Center, 2727 North Ferry Street, Anoka. Info and registration: 763-506-5766

Champlin Champs

2ND MONDAYS -The Champlin Champs 4-H Club meets the 2nd Monday of the month at United Methodist Church 921 Downs Road at 6:45 p.m. Champlin Champs 4-H club is for kids ages K-12 and their parents. New members are welcome. Call 612-596-2115 for more information.

Parents of children with ADHD/ADD or EBD

1ST TUESDAYS - Meet people who share your questions and learn what has worked or not worked for them. Come for support and information on the first Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m., at the Anoka County Human Service building, 1201 89th Ave. N.E., Blaine. The class is free and childcare is provided free of charge but reserve a space by the preceding Sunday evening. Sponsored by Anoka County Family and community Support Services and provided by Central Center for Family Resources. Call 783-4949 to reserve space or for information.

MOPS Meetings

2ND TUESDAYS - MOPS meetings will be held the second Tuesday of each month at Solid Rock Free Lutheran beginning Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 9:15 a.m. Meetings will include food, fellowship, childcare and the opportunity to build relationships with other young mothers. Children will be encouraged and cared for through the Moppet program, which includes a story time, snack and playtime. For further questions call 763-427-6093 and ask for Michelle. Solid Rock is located at 737 Bob Ehlen Drive in Anoka, MN.

Parents of Children with Autism

2ND TUESDAYS - Meet others who share your questions and learn about what has worked or not worked for them the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Anoka County Human Service building, 1201 89th Ave. N.E., Blaine. No meeting in December. Children over 12 years meet the 3rd Tuesday, monthly. Sponsored by Anoka County Family and Community Support Services and provided by Central Center for Family and Community Support services and provided by Central Center for Family Resources. Class is free, with childcare provided free but reserve a space by the preceding Sunday evening. Call 783-4958 to reserve a space or for more information.

Champlin Park Youth Hockey Association

3RD TUESDAYS - CPYHA board meetings are held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the small conference room at the Champlin Ice Forum located at 12165 Ensign Avenue North. The CPYHA provides and promotes youth hockey for the benefit of Champlin, Brooklyn Park and Dayton residents.

Grandparents & Relatives Raising Children

1ST THURSDAYS - Grandparents and relatives raising children in the group will discuss legal and financial options, understanding and dealing with emotions about raising children, as well as learning ways to better help the children the first Thursday of the month from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. While grandparents and relatives meet, the children are invited to participate in a free supportive playgroup. Registration required. Call Connie Booth at 612-879-5351 or Linda Hammerstein at 612-879-5307. Sponsored by Lutheran Social Services and Anoka County Family Support Service. No fee but donations accepted.

CDAA Board Meetings

SECOND TO LAST SUNDAYS - CDAA Board Meetings are held on the second to last Sunday of each month. The public is welcome to attend. Meetings are held at the Rebels Youth Athletic Building at Jerry Ruppelius Park located at 10951 Elm Creek Parkway. The CDAA provides and promotes athletic and recreational activities for the benefit of the residents of Champlin and Dayton. Info: http://www.cdaasports.org.

Open Skating

ONGOING - Open skating is currently offered at the Champlin Ice Forum Wednesdays from 10 to 11:45 a.m.; Saturdays 6:30 to 8 p.m. and Sundays 1:30 to 3 pm. Student cost is 44. Adult cost is $5. Skate rental is $3. Open skating is provided for recreational skating only. It is important that participants observe the rules of open skating in order to make it an enjoyable experience for every skater. The program is not designed for hockey, figure skating practice or formal skating lessons by an instructor. Long blade skaters are welcome during weekday morning sessions. The Ice Forum is located at 12165 Ensign Ave. in Champlin.

Tribute Trees

ONGOING - The Friends of Parks and Trails of St. Paul and Ramsey County work with the city of Champlin to offer Tribute Trees as living gifts that may be planted in city parks. The recipient receives a card at the time of the order, and a map of the tree location after its planting in spring. The cost is $75 per tree, or $200 for three. Call Peggy at 651-698-4543 for more information.

McGruff House

ONGOING - The Dayton Police Department works in cooperation with the McGruff House program, which was designed to assist children who are in danger or have a medical emergency while going to and from school. If interested in being a McGruff House participant, contact officer Dane McAlpine at 427-2017.

Adult Children Anonymous

ONGOING - Adult Children Anonymous is for adult children who seek healing from the hurtful effects of life events growing up in addictive and other dysfunctional families. Meetings are Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the Faculty Room (205), St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, 9100 93rd Ave. N. in Brooklyn Park. Please use the Education Center/School entrance. Contact Mary Ann at 561-6796 for more information.

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February 12, 2012, 7:58 PM EST

By Oliver Staley

(Updates to add year of Snyder’s Ph.D. in 39th paragraph.)

Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- When Marion McCollom Hampton graduated from the Yale School of Management in 1982, the program didn’t grant business degrees and she didn’t want one. Its mission was to train leaders of all sorts, not just executives, she said.

Yale “was not your father’s business school,” said Hampton, 61, who works as an adviser to family-owned companies. “When the school was founded, it had an absolutely unique niche in the management-school world.”

Yale SOM opened in 1976 with a focus on grooming leaders in government and philanthropy. Now the school is preparing to take on Harvard Business School and the Wharton School with a new $222 million building and new dean -- Edward “Ted” Snyder, who previously led the University of Chicago’s top-ranked business school. As Yale’s business school sheds its outsider status, alumni and former faculty worry that it risks losing its unique qualities just when the business world needs them most.

“I’m not sure that the changes that are being made now are going to produce the sort of graduate who is going to use that management and business knowledge to make a difference in the world,” said Hampton, who turned down the opportunity to convert her management degree to an MBA. “To make it just another business school, to me, is a shame.”

Public-Mindedness

Snyder, 58, who took the helm in July, was hired by Yale University President Richard Levin to help raise the business school to the levels of Yale’s top-ranked schools of law and medicine. Snyder, who led Chicago’s Booth School of Business for a decade and the University of Virginia’s business school before that, said Yale can improve without giving up the public- mindedness that sets it apart.

Yale SOM trains its graduates to understand the complicated relationships between business, government and society, Snyder said in an interview in his New Haven, Connecticut, office.

“The world is facing extraordinarily big issues,” Snyder said. “Leaders have to be aware of what’s going on. Obviously they need to be competent in solving business problems but they need to be in tune with this extraordinarily important layer of complexity.”

Snyder said his mission is to tell the world what Yale graduates can offer.

“We’ve got some great people here who can help the world solve some big problems,” he said.

Top Five

Snyder said he loves competition -- he set a Colby College record in the triple jump in 1972 -- and he’s determined to boost Yale SOM’s rankings. He wants it to be one of the top five U.S. business schools in a decade, he said.

Yale’s full-time MBA program is ranked 21st by Bloomberg Businessweek compared with first for Chicago, second for Harvard and third for Wharton. Yale graduates’ median base salary was $100,000 for the class of 2011, trailing the $120,000 earned by business school graduates at Harvard and Wharton.

While Yale has produced prominent executives like Indra Nooyi, chief executive officer of PepsiCo Inc. and a 1980 graduate, it’s escaped the notoriety of high-profile alumni winding up in prison, such as Harvard’s Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron Corp., and Wharton’s Raj Rajaratnam, a hedge fund manager convicted of insider trading.

Snyder won’t try to impose his ideology on Yale faculty, which would be “suicidal,” said Steven Kaplan, a finance and entrepreneurship professor at Chicago Booth. Instead, he’ll boost the school by identifying its strengths and selling them to potential students and donors, Kaplan said.

“SOM has a lot more potential than it has currently reached,” Kaplan said. Snyder “has to figure out how to position the school and he’ll market that externally.”

Nonprofit, Government Jobs

Yale didn’t offer a masters degree in business administration until 1999, and didn’t phase out its masters of public and private management until after 2001. While most graduates take jobs in private industry, 10 percent work for nonprofit organizations and government, compared with 3 percent of graduates at Harvard Business School and 1 percent at Wharton.

In the wake of the financial crisis, Harvard Business School appointed Nitin Nohria as dean in 2010. Nohria, who has written about ethics, says business students should take a professional oath of conduct. Harvard also introduced a leadership course designed to immerse students in real-world experiences. In 2010, Wharton, part of the University of Pennsylvania, said it would overhaul its curriculum with a new focus on ethics and on global issues.

Yale SOM was at the forefront of introducing those ideas to business education and should continue to be a leader, said William Donaldson, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the first dean of Yale SOM.

Advancing the Cause

“There’s a lot of criticisms of business school in general, as perpetuators of what’s going on that’s bad in business,” Donaldson said. “Yale has a position where it can really advance the cause, because it’s Yale and because of the history of the school.”

Snyder will be boosted by a new 242,000 square-foot building, designed by Norman Foster and set to open in 2013, which will allow the school to add more students and faculty. Snyder plans to expand international programs, which he said lag behind those of other business schools and the rest of the university.

He also wants Yale to bolster its reputation with corporate recruiters from top companies. Already, the school is placing more graduates at businesses such as Barclays Plc, Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Co. than in years past, Snyder said.

Teamwork Culture

“The numbers aren’t huge -- they’re going from zeros, ones, twos and threes to fours and fives and sixes -- but it makes a huge difference for the school going forward,” Snyder said. “We’re never going to be a big core school for McKinsey but are we going to be an accepted source of high-quality talent? We don’t want that question to come up.”

Barclays went from hiring two graduates from the class of 2010 to seven from the class of 2012, according to the company.

“The thing that really stands out is teamwork,” said Tara Udut, Barclays Capital’s head of campus recruiting for the Americas. “It’s part of the overall culture there.”

Alumni worry that to climb in the rankings, Yale SOM will reorient itself around the world of finance and Wall Street, said Chris LaFarge, who graduated in 1980.

“The rankings are distorting a business school’s ability to do something outside of the box,” said LaFarge, CEO of MedicaMetrix Inc., a medical-device company in Wayland, Massachusetts. “Yale should be able to get away with it because it’s Yale.”

‘Points of Pride’

While rankings don’t tell the whole story about business schools, they can attract more applicants and please graduates, said David Schmittlein, dean of the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“Rankings can be points of pride with alumni and the feelings alumni hold for the school are important,” Schmittlein said.

Students and faculty will also look to Snyder to provide stability at an institution that has had little of it, going through 10 deans in its short history.

While the Wharton School was founded in 1881 and Harvard Business School in 1908, Yale University’s faculty and administration resisted for decades alumni efforts to start a school they saw as at odds with its humanistic values.

Under Kingman Brewster, Yale’s president from 1963 to 1977, that resistance began to crumble as the university put more emphasis on social sciences, including the study of economics and organizational behavior. The college received a bequest of $15 million from the estate of Frederick Beinecke, who died in 1971. Most of the money was directed to the founding of a new school for the study of management.

‘New and Different’

Brewster was adamant that Yale wouldn’t start a business school, said Victor Vroom, who was then chairman of the department of administrative sciences and a member of the committee charged with developing the new school.

“It’s got to be different,” Brewster told the committee, according to Vroom, 78, who still teaches at Yale. “We can’t copy Wharton, we can’t copy Harvard. It has to be new and different.”

The school, originally named the School of Organization and Management, was intended to educate managers for government, nonprofit companies and business and drew some of its curriculum from Yale departments that focused on human behavior, said Donaldson, the first dean. They even considered bringing in professors from the divinity school to teach ethics, he said.

In its early years, Yale SOM attracted students who might have otherwise considered studying law or government, Donaldson said.

Different ‘Cat’

“It was for a different sort of cat,” said Ned Lamont, a Connecticut entrepreneur and former U.S. Senate candidate who graduated in 1980. “I was on a different track and I loved the SOM message.”

Much of that spirit ended abruptly in October 1988, when Dean Michael Levine and Yale President Benno Schmidt decided to turn SOM into a traditional business school, eliminating faculty and departments they viewed as nonessential.

“They really gutted the school and made it more into a Chicago, Michigan place, more of a finance and accounting place,” LaFarge said.

Students and alumni were furious at the unilateral decisions, and hired a plane to tow a banner denouncing the moves over the university’s graduation. It took a decade for the school to regain its equilibrium.

$300 Million Gift

Snyder, who earned his Ph.D. in economics from Chicago in 1984, served as the dean of the Darden School of Business at Virginia from 1998 to 2001 before returning to run Chicago. While at Chicago, he secured a record $300 million gift from David Booth, co-CEO and chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, an Austin, Texas-based asset-management firm.

Snyder also helped found the Milton Friedman Institute, a research center named after the Nobel prize-winning economist noted for his free-market philosophy and revered by conservatives. It’s now called the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.

Snyder’s background made him a surprising choice for Yale, said David Thomas, dean of Georgetown University’s business school who received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Yale in 1986. Graduates of Yale SOM wondered if a free-market advocate would be a good fit, he said.

“That’s the question that’s on some people’s minds,” Thomas said.

Donor Cultivator

Snyder said that while he believes in laissez-faire principles, he recognizes the interconnectedness of business and governments.

“Governments are playing a bigger role and market economies are evolving very differently,” he said.

Snyder’s success at Chicago resulted from his ability to manage relationships, said Robert Topel, a professor at Chicago Booth who is writing an economics paper with Snyder. Snyder can massage the egos of “prima donna” professors, defend the business school’s interests to the university president and cultivate donors, Topel said.

“He’s extraordinarily good at communicating what it is we do and defending what we do and marketing what we do and looking the donor straight in the eye and saying ‘Can I have some money?’” Topel said.

So far, Snyder has shown a willingness to bolster the school without forcing changes, said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a senior associate dean who studies CEO leadership.

“He’s been one of the best bosses I’ve ever had,” Sonnenfeld said. “He’s come in with no grandiosity. He has ambition institutionally for the school and absolutely no ego personally.”

Yale DNA

Tom Taft, a 1985 graduate, said the school will continue to produce socially conscious graduates no matter who is in charge.

A fifth-generation Yale graduate and the great-grandson of William Howard Taft, the 27th U.S. president, Taft said the spirit of the school survived the Levine era.

“Despite efforts to turn the school into Wharton, there’s an inherent DNA in SOM that makes it a real special place,” Taft said. “Regardless of the administration, it’s going to be a place where students come in and walk out with a picture that the world is a bigger place.”

--Editors: Lisa Wolfson, Jonathan Kaufman

To contact the reporter on this story: Oliver Staley in New York at ostaley@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Lisa Wolfson at lwolfson@bloomberg.net

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Newswise — MAYWOOD, Ill. -- The Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing will honor two alumni at the Fourth Annual Alumni Awards Brunch this Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Lake Shore campus. There will be a Mass at 10:30 a.m. in the Madonna della Strada Chapel at 6453 N. Kenmore Ave., followed by the brunch and award presentation from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. in the Mundelein Center Auditorium at 1020 W. Sheridan Road.

Mary Jane Sauve, DNSc (BSN ’61), will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award, which is the most prestigious acknowledgment of Loyola nursing alumni accomplishments. Sister Maureen Grady, CSC, DMin, MA (BSN ’65), will be honored with the Spirit of Ignatius Award. This is given to a graduate who best characterizes Curas Personalis or "Care of the Person."

Mary Jane Sauvé, DNSc (BSN ’61) – Distinguished Alumni Award Winner
Dr. Sauvé has had a long and distinguished career in cardiovascular nursing (CVN) as a clinician, educator and clinical researcher. She began her career in CVN in 1969, and went on to became the director of the Center for Nursing Research (CNR) at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento in 1998, where she worked until her retirement in 2005. Dr. Sauvé also has worked at Sonoma State University and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research has focused on long-term outcomes in survivors of sudden cardiac death. Dr. Sauvé was an active volunteer of the American Heart Association (AHA) for 25 years as well as a frequent presenter at the AHA Scientific Session. She was elected as a fellow of the AHA in 2002.

Sister Maureen Grady, CSC, DMin, MA (BSN ’65) – Spirit of Ignatius Award Winner
Sister Maureen Grady is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, and she teaches communication and pastoral skills to second- and third-year nursing students at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Ind. For 10 years, she held positions as head nurse and nursing supervisor at various institutions of the Holy Cross Health System throughout the United States. Subsequently, Sister Maureen spent 20 years in Asian and Middle Eastern countries helping refugees and war victims through Catholic Relief Services and the Catholic Near East Welfare Association. She went on to teach pastoral theology to undergraduate nursing students at the Antonine University School of Nursing of Beirut before returning to the United States to serve as dean of Pastoral Formation and director of Pastoral Supervision at Saint Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Fla.

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The Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division (HSD) advances interprofessional, multidisciplinary, and transformative education and research while promoting service to others through stewardship of scientific knowledge and preparation of tomorrow's leaders. The HSD is located on the Health Sciences Campus in Maywood, Illinois. It includes the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, the Stritch School of Medicine, the biomedical research programs of the Graduate School, and several other institutes and centers encouraging new research and interprofessional education opportunities across all of Loyola University Chicago. The faculty and staff of the HSD bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and a strong commitment to seeing that Loyola's health sciences continue to excel and exceed the standard for academic and research excellence. For more on the HSD, visit LUC.edu/hsd.

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02-12-2011 02:33 Outstanding achievers in business, medicine and science were honoured by UCC at the 2011 Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony on Friday, November 25th at the University. On the night, UCC also honoured a graduate with an Alumnus Award for Voluntary Service to the University. A UCC Alumnus Achievement Award is the highest honour the University can bestow upon a graduate. Michael J Dowling President and CEO North Shore Long Island Health System College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Award Patrick Coveney CEO Greencore Plc College of Business and Law Award Sr Miriam Duggan Medical Missionary. Developed pioneering programme to stem the spread of Aids in Uganda and Southern Africa College of Medicine and Health Award Professor Seamus Davis Professor of Physics, Cornell University College of Science, Engineering and Food Science Award Volunteer Award Kieran Nestor Credits: Series Producer Dick Hogan, Office of Media and Communications, UCC Researcher Marie McSweeney, Office of Media and Communications, UCC

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