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from the president

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jesuit lives

Mario M. Powell, S.J.

Alejandro Olayo-Méndez, S.J.

Sam Sawyer, S.J.

Michael Rozier, S.J.

Jeremy Zipple, S.J.

A hub for Jesuit thinking

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Kathleen M. McGillycuddy NC ’71

year in review

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statistical and financial highlights

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becoming a jesuit Five Lives at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry

O ne of the key responsibilities of a Catholic

university is to mediate between faith

and culture, especially to enrich the

conversation between the Church and the world. As

John Paul II wrote in the 1990 document Ex Corde

Ecclesiae—“From the Heart of the Church”—in

addition to producing its own original research, the

Catholic university should offer “continuing reflection

in the light of the Catholic faith upon the growing

treasury of human knowledge.”

Boston College fulfills this duty in a particular way

through its graduate School of Theology and Ministry

(STM), established in 2008 when the Weston Jesuit School

of Theology reaffiliated with the University. STM prepares

those studying for the priesthood, as well as lay men and

women, to serve the Catholic Church in the 21st century.

Approximately 60 Jesuit scholastics and recently

ordained Jesuits are among 380 students enrolled at

STM. They study such subjects as Scripture, ecclesiology,

Church history, and pastoral theology in classes with other

religious and lay men and women from the United States

and international locations. These members of the Jesuit

order also have the opportunity to take courses in the

humanities and sciences, business, education, and law,

both at Boston College and at other schools in the Boston

Theological Institute.

This Annual Report profiles some of these Jesuit students

and the ways they contribute to the University community

and receive from it.

William P. Leahy, S.J.

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There are about 60 Jesuits studying this fall at

STM, which is housed on the Brighton Campus. They

come from 24 countries, including France, Kenya, Chile,

and Vietnam. Approximately one-third are ordained,

studying in programs such as the doctorate in sacred

theology, which leads to a degree granted in the name

of the Holy See. But some 40 are young Jesuits in train-

ing who have come to Boston College on their road to

priestly ordination. Known as “scholastics,” they illus-

trate Boston College’s role in educating a generation of

young Jesuits for ministry.

A scholastic’s three years at STM typically follow

seven to nine years spent as a novice, a graduate student

of philosophy and theology, and a worker in ministry—

often as a teacher at a Jesuit high school.

For American Jesuits, this extended period usually

leads to enrollment as a scholastic at either STM or

the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California,

to study for a professional ministry degree, known as

the “M.Div.,” for master of divinity, before ordination

to the priesthood. A scholastic will work concurrently

toward another degree, usually the licentiate in sacred

theology, focusing on research in a subject area such as

Scripture or theological ethics. After further graduate

study or active ministry, training concludes with up to

a year in “tertianship,” practicing reflection combined

with ministry among the poor. And this brings the

Jesuit to final vows and full membership in the Society

of Jesus, a journey of roughly a dozen years.

STM is a professional school, like Boston College’s

law and social work schools. Specifically, it is a divinity

school—analogous to its Protestant counterparts at

places such as Harvard and Yale—and distinctive as

the only Catholic divinity school in the United States

situated within a significant research university.

This allows STM to provide “a rigorous overview of

the Catholic intellectual tradition” joined to an intensive

training in the “best practices” of pastoral ministry, says

Dean Mark Massa, S.J., whose own research field is

American Catholic history. “One of the challenges for

younger Jesuits is how to master the tradition in an

appreciative and critical way,” he adds.

Because it is sited within a university, STM offers a

range of resources for meeting those challenges, says

Massa. In addition to partaking in the school’s degree

programs, students can avail themselves of offerings

across the liberal arts, sciences, and the professions.

Through the Boston Theological Institute, STM students

can also take courses at Harvard Divinity School, Ando-

ver Newton Theological School, Hebrew College, and

other institutions. Additionally, says Massa, the Univer-

sity offers many opportunities for pastoral work through

campus ministries.

As members of a graduate community in which

lay students predominate, even in classes in such sub-

jects as preaching, Jesuit scholastics at Boston College

prepare themselves for American Catholicism’s future—

which, the dean adds, will depend in no small part on

lay ministers. “You have to be able to appreciate the

gifts that lay people bring, gifts you may not have,”

he observes.

What follows are profiles of five STM scholastics

training for Jesuit life in the 21st century.

In June 2008, Boston College established its School of Theology and Ministry (STM) through a

reaffiliation with the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, which had been part of Boston College from

1959 until 1974. Of some 380 students currently enrolled at STM (which also includes the Department

of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry), roughly two-thirds are Catholic lay men and women

preparing for a broad variety of ministries. Aside from a cluster of Protestant clergy, the rest are Catholic

priests, nuns, permanent deacons, seminarians, and other members of religious orders. By far the largest

religious grouping is the Jesuits.

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Saying yes

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On a sunny day in October of his senior year at Boston

College, Mario Powell borrowed a friend’s car and drove

to Boston’s South End. He arrived, unannounced, at

the front door of what was then the

New England Province of Jesuits

(since moved to Watertown). He

pressed the intercom button and

heard a secretary’s voice: “Who are

you here to see?” He replied, “I think

I’m being called to be a Jesuit.” She

buzzed him in. Three months after

graduation, in May 2003, he was

a Jesuit.

Powell was born in Arkansas

into an extended family of Southern

Baptists. He moved with his family

to Hawaii and then, when he was

in eighth grade, to Los Angeles,

where his parents enrolled him in

a K–8 Catholic school. That year, he

stunned his family by announcing

he was converting to Catholicism.

Soon after, he was introduced to the

Jesuits at Loyola High School.

Powell began wrestling with

thoughts of a priestly vocation dur-

ing his sophomore year at Boston

College. A history major, he won the

2001 Amanda V. Houston Fellow-

ship, named for the University’s

first Black Studies Program director,

which supports a summer of travel

and research for an undergradu-

ate of African descent. He chose to

go to St. Louis to study the impact

of inner-city Catholic education on

students and families. The project

made him think more about a life

of service to the faith. But he

continued to wrestle with the idea

of priestly ministry.

In fact, Powell recalls, he became

“afraid of the question” of a vocation

and kept telling himself, “I can’t do

this. I can’t do what God is calling me

to do.” During his junior year, he con-

fided in Robert Barth, S.J., literature

professor and former Arts & Sciences

dean. Barth, who died in 2005, told

Powell he was sure that, for the time

being, God wanted him to be happy

as an undergraduate student. “It was

the best advice I could have gotten,”

he says. “I decided to be a normal

Boston College student, but to be

more intentional about my faith life.”

He attended daily Mass and volun-

teered for many service projects.

At the beginning of his senior

year, Powell became involved in a

small vocational discernment group

led by University President William

P. Leahy, S.J. “That’s when I got up

the courage to go down to Provincial

headquarters,” he recalls.

Powell notes that during a Jesuit’s

formation, the order “throws at you

what Jesuits have done” in various

ministries “to see what sticks.” What

has stuck with him so far are his

three years at Cheverus High School

in Portland, Maine, teaching history

and theology, before returning to

Boston College in August 2011 for

his STM studies.

“I really didn’t want to teach high

school,” Powell says, then laughs

and adds quickly, “I went there and

absolutely loved it.” He explains

that he found himself drawn to

the “earnestness and honesty”

of high school boys and girls who

don’t mind telling a teacher that the

lecture they just listened to was un-

inspiring. “And you could see them

forming as young men and women

from year to year. It’s amazing to

see how they grow, learn, mature.”

Powell adds, “I would in a heartbeat

go back to a Jesuit high school.”

For now, Powell is back at Boston

College, “the place where I said

yes to God.” He expects to receive

his master of divinity in May 2013.

Soon after that he will be ordained,

before spending a third year at STM

advancing toward his licentiate in

sacred theology.

In addition to his studies, Powell

is lending a hand with ministries

on campus. When he gets a chance,

he takes a moment to sit on a bench

on Linden Lane dedicated to the

memory of Fr. Barth and reflect.

Being at Boston College, home to

more than 150 Jesuits, Powell says,

“You kind of see the society in the

grand arc of our lives. You could see

that played out on campus. You could

see yourself in 40 years by looking at

the older men on campus.” He adds,

“And I love what I see.”

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Over the past three years, Alejandro Olayo-Méndez’s theo-

logical training has owed much to STM but also to the

University and to Greater Boston’s higher-education hub.

He regularly dashed from STM on

Boston College’s Brighton Campus

across Commonwealth Avenue to

the main campus for classes in

Catholic social teaching with the

renowned theological ethicist David

Hollenbach, S.J., of the University’s

theology department. He crossed

the Charles River equally often for

graduate courses at Harvard Divinity

School with professors who included

anthropologist David Carrasco, an

internationally recognized author-

ity on religion and migration in the

Americas.

In May 2012, Olayo-Méndez de-

fended his dissertation, “Expanding

Horizons: Migration and Theological

Virtues,” in front of his STM thesis

director Ernesto Valiente, a theolo-

gian whose research areas involve

Christology and Latin American

liberation theology, and Carrasco.

That month, he was awarded two

degrees, his master of divinity as

well as a licentiate in sacred theology

(which required the dissertation).

In August, he left for England to

begin doctoral work in the Migration

Studies and Development program

at Oxford University.

“It gives you an opportunity to

stretch yourself, so you could truly

create a dialogue on many issues—

a conversation that’s larger than it

might have been,” Olayo-Méndez

says of his course work in the wider

University and at Harvard.

The Jesuit also stresses the value

of studying with a group of students

at STM who represent 30 nations,

bringing a world of religious and

cultural experiences to his education.

“It reminds me that the Church is

bigger than what I often see, that the

Church has multiple expressions,

and that God has multiple faces and

journeys with us in many different

ways,” says Olayo-Méndez, who was

ordained in May 2011. “That’s been

one of the graces of this time for me

at BC.”

A native of Mexico City, Olayo-

Méndez entered the diocesan semi-

nary in Mexico City after graduat-

ing from high school in 1988, but

decided five years later that he wasn’t

ready to accept the call to ordination.

He left the seminary, earned a com-

munications degree from a local

Jesuit college in 1999, then worked

for three years with Pricewater-

houseCoopers in Mexico City. In

2002, he volunteered as a human-

rights advocate for indigenous

people in southeastern Mexico,

where he met Jesuits from Oregon.

That year, he joined their province.

Olayo-Méndez views global mi-

gration studies through the medium

of faith. His licentiate thesis aims

to fill a scholarship gap in the field.

It examines not just the experiences

of solitary migrants but of others

they encountered on their journeys,

including those who “help or abuse”

migrants, and communities such as

parishes that may or may not wel-

come them, he explains in the paper.

Theologically, Olayo-Méndez frames

the discussion with the virtues of

faith, hope, and charity—“God’s

gracious response to sin in a world

in which people are all too often

forced to move away from their

homes in search of better living

conditions,” he writes.

For three years before coming

to Boston College in 2009, Olayo-

Méndez worked with the Jesuit Refu-

gee Service in Colombia, India, and

Sri Lanka. In the summer of 2012,

he led a five-week “immersion expe-

rience” for 10 young Jesuits from the

United States and Mexico. Setting

out from Honduras in mid-June,

they traveled in buses and rented

cars, sleeping in church basements

and overnight shelters. They met

with migrants on the move, with

parishioners, with humanitarian

workers, and others along a not-so-

solitary trail to El Paso, Texas.

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Crossing borders

Olayo-Méndez by the Higgins Stairs

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Care of the soul

Sawyer outside Higgins Hall

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Since late January, thousands of Internet users have clicked

daily on The Jesuit Post (thejesuitpost.org), a social media

website for the Facebook generation “about Jesus, politics,

and pop culture; the Catholic Church,

sports, and Socrates” that makes a

case for God in a secular age.

With blog posts, essays, a Twitter

feed, and articles with headlines like

“Contemplation After Gaga” and

“Crowdsourcing the Saints,” the

Post is not an official venture of the

Society of Jesus. It was crafted and

launched by four Jesuit scholastics,

including the School of Theol-

ogy and Ministry’s Sam Sawyer,

a contributor and assistant editor

who manages the site from a laptop

he carries around with him on the

Brighton campus.

Sawyer says that he and the other

three Jesuits—who are students

at the Jesuit School of Theology in

Berkeley, California—are seeking out

young adults who are “hard to reach

through traditional modes” such as

parishes and diocesan newspapers.

During their concurrent years of

formation, he says, the four have

asked one another repeatedly: “How

does the Church address itself to a

contemporary culture that is no lon-

ger in contact with the institutional

forms we’ve grown up with?” The

short answer involves creating social

media and new platforms by, for,

and about young Jesuits who are in

that culture, though not entirely of it.

A native of Scranton, Pennsylva-

nia, Sawyer found his own spiritual

path through a decidedly low-tech

medium: a public lecture in Boston

College’s Higgins Hall. He was a

second-semester freshman majoring

in computer science in the spring of

1997, when Jesuit theologian How-

ard Gray spoke there about St. Igna-

tius and the early Jesuits, how they

“bonded around a shared desire to

care for souls,” Sawyer recalls. The

words struck him dramatically.

“That’s the name for what I want-

ed to do—help souls,” he remem-

bers thinking. He was, however,

sitting next to his girlfriend at the

time. “I spent the next six months

trying to pretend nothing happened

in Higgins.”

While ducking the vocational

question, Sawyer threw himself

into Boston College’s faith life. He

went on Ignatian retreats. Together

with six other undergraduates, he

helped launch Kairos, still a thriv-

ing Boston College retreat program.

After graduating in 2000, he taught

for a year as a volunteer at a Jesuit

middle school in Baltimore. Then he

worked for three years as a software

engineer on satellite communica-

tions and missile-defense radar

projects at Raytheon in Boston. But

along the way, Sawyer stopped “try-

ing to pretend” and embraced his

Jesuit vocation. He joined the Mary-

land Province in August 2004.

For two years before beginning

his studies at STM in the fall of

2011, Sawyer taught introductory

philosophy courses in the core

curriculum at Loyola University

Maryland. It was a defining part of

his Jesuit formation. Teaching “at

the heart of the curriculum,” he

says, a professor can help students

connect the classics to their lives

and puzzle out their place in the

universe. That’s what he did as an

undergraduate in the A&S Honors

Program: “It taught me you could

be robustly Catholic without leaving

your brain at the door.”

Now, Sawyer is setting his sights

on a lifelong ministry in higher

education. He plans to receive his

master of divinity degree and his

licentiate in sacred theology in 2014

and will also be ordained at that

time. Then he will begin doctoral

studies, probably in philosophy.

And he plans to continue asking the

kinds of questions that engendered

The Jesuit Post: “How do we evange-

lize our nominally Catholic under-

grads? What should our outreach

look like in the classroom?” He

added, “Boston College has been

in the vanguard of wrestling with

these questions.”

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Michael Rozier recalls the random event that set him on his

path to ministry. It was in November 1999—his fresh-

man year at St. Louis University, a Jesuit institution.

A fellow student holding a clip-board walked up to him and asked, “Are you going to Fort Benning, Georgia?” Rozier, who grew up in a small Missouri town and was a premed student at St. Louis, had no idea what the young woman was talking about. But, he says, “I had a crush on the girl,” and he soon joined a group of 250 stu-dents traveling to a protest at Fort Benning’s School of the Americas, a controversial U.S. military facility that has trained thousands of Latin American military officers, some of whom were implicated in charges of human rights violations.

“I’m not a protest guy,” Rozier says. “I’m the kind of guy who likes to work within the system for change. This was an aberra-tion for me.” But in preparing for the protest, he learned about the six Jesuit faculty and staff mem-bers at El Salvador’s University of Central America who were assas-sinated in November 1989 along with their housekeeper and her daughter. The Salvadoran officers responsible for the massacre were trained at Fort Benning, according to independent congressional and United Nations investigations of the murders.

The six Jesuit scholars and activ-

ists “chose to cast their lot with the poor, even if it killed them,” says Rozier. “I had never had anything in my life that compelling—that I would do to the point of death.” He remembers saying to himself, “There must be something to this [Jesuit] life, if men so talented, so gifted, are willing to live like this.”

Rozier joined thousands of others from around the country to form a funeral-like proces-sion to the gates of Fort Benning, demanding that the school shut down. They carried large white wooden crosses bearing the names of the slain. The annual protest continues today, drawing several thousand, including busloads of St. Louis University students, to the marches.

After the Fort Benning experi-ence, Rozier learned more about the Society of Jesus, especially from Jesuits on campus. He began to feel a call to that life, most intensely at Mass. But he was also deeply torn by those feelings, to such a degree that he stopped going to Mass for about a year between his sopho-more and junior years.

“I wanted to go to medical school,” he says, amused as he recalls his thought processes as a 20-year-old. “I thought that if I cut

this [Mass] out of my life, maybe God would leave me alone and let me be a doctor.”

The plan didn’t work. Rozier resumed going to Mass and en-tered the Missouri Jesuit Province shortly after graduating in 2003. “I fell in love with the life, and I never looked back.”

During his nine years as a Jesuit, Rozier has carved out a niche in public health. He picked up a master’s degree in the field at Johns Hopkins University and spent six months in Geneva work-ing for the World Health Organiza-tion before returning to St. Louis University in November 2008. There, he taught public health ethics for two-and-a-half years and launched a new bachelor of science program in public health.

In August 2011, he arrived at STM. “These three years are really about growing in my understand-ing of what it means to be a good Jesuit priest and how to integrate the pieces of my life” that include being a priest and a public health professional, he says.

Rozier plans to incorporate public health into his academic work toward a licentiate in sacred theology under the direction of New Testament Professor Thomas Stegman, S.J. He expects to receive that degree along with his master of divinity in May 2014 and to be ordained shortly afterward.

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Life plan

Rozier in the O’Neill Library atrium

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Double exposure

Zipple in the quad

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During his Jesuit formation, Jeremy Zipple has observed the

world through the eyes of faith and the lens of a camera.

He points out that Jesuits seek to find God in all things, and

he has conducted this search in part

by making feature-length documenta-

ries for PBS and National Geographic

Television. Sometimes the films lend

easily to spiritual contemplation,

as with Zipple’s 2006 feature film,

Xavier: Missionary & Saint. Sometimes

not, as in his 2009 documentary, Rat

Attack, about a plague of black rats

that overrun the bamboo forests of

northeastern India every 48 years.

The Mississippi native has been

shooting documentaries since high

school. But he is certain he wouldn’t

be a Jesuit if he hadn’t visited

Chestnut Hill, almost on a whim,

during the summer of 1995 before

his high school senior year. At the

time, he was in Boston for a college

tour, and Boston College wasn’t on

the list. But his father nudged him

toward the Heights, and the young

man took an immediate liking to the

place. He applied and was invited

to participate in the University’s

highly selective Presidential Scholars

Program, which covers the full cost

of tuition for four years as well as

summer programs.

During a dinner at Boston College

for prospective Presidential Scholars,

Zipple found himself at a table with

William Neenan, S.J., vice president

and special assistant to the president.

“He sealed the deal. I had no category

for a person like this—a priest, an

economist, witty, with a wide breadth

of knowledge and a taste for litera-

ture,” says Zipple, who knew no Jesu-

its and very few fellow Catholics while

growing up in southern Mississippi.

He recalls thinking, “Wow! Who are

these Jesuits? I felt like I could learn a

lot from these guys.”

Zipple went on to major in eco-

nomics and music, graduating from

Boston College in 2000. He then

taught math and music at a K–8

Catholic school in New Jersey, served

as codirector of a contemporary litur-

gical choir, and studied philosophy

at Fordham University. In 2002, he

entered the New Orleans Province of

the Society of Jesus.

Zipple points out that he had an

“untraditional regency experience,”

referring to the three years Jesuits

normally spend in ministry before

resuming studies in theology. He

spent that time (2007–10) as a writer,

producer, and director for National

Geographic Television in Washing-

ton, D.C., where he coproduced not

only Rat Attack but Quest for Solo-

mon’s Mines, about treasure seekers

who, inspired by the Bible’s account

of King Solomon’s riches, search for

evidence of splendid temples and glit-

tering palaces yet to be found.

He returned to Boston College in

August 2010 for his divinity studies at

the School of Theology and Ministry.

Zipple likes the fact that Jesuits

are a minority at STM. “We’re a big

contingent, for sure,” he says, “but

we’re outnumbered by lay students.

We’re in close contact with women,

which usually doesn’t happen at a

seminary. We’re training to be priests

of the Church for the people of God,

privileged to be challenged by lay

men and women. I think I’ll be a

better priest as a result—much more

plugged into the lives of real people—

because of my time here.”

In addition to his course work

in Scripture, Eucharistic theology,

preaching, and other subjects, Zipple

has renewed his ties to the Chestnut

Hill campus. He mentors Presiden-

tial Scholars as well as students from

economically disadvantaged back-

grounds, among other ministries.

Zipple continues to look at the

world through his camera lens. He di-

rected, wrote, and produced his latest

film, Quest for the Lost Maya, based on

new archaeological findings about a

forgotten Mayan society in Mexico’s

Yucatan Peninsula. It aired on public

television nationwide in March.

He expects to complete his master

of divinity in May 2013, at which

time he will be ordained. After that,

Zipple plans to stay on at STM for his

licentiate in sacred theology. Perhaps,

he says, he will focus on the history of

American Catholicism—“and hope-

fully get a film out of that, too.”

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Stanislaus Alla, S.J., a doctoral candidate in theology from

southern India, is writing a dissertation that places Catholic

and Hindu bioethics in a comparative light. In the course

of compiling such a systematic treat-

ment, he has faced what would seem

to be an imposing task: “We don’t

have a Hindu bioethics,” he says

matter-of-factly, sitting on a bench

beside Bapst Library, across from St.

Mary’s Hall, the Jesuit residence at

Boston College. “I’m building it [a

Hindu theology of medical ethics] so

I can compare the two.”

Willy Moka-Mubelo, S.J., comes

from the Democratic Republic of

Congo, a central African nation

racked by civil war (being fought

largely over control of natural

resources). His country is a fixture

on the international human rights

radar screen, which has recently

detected violations including a

marred national election and

child rape by state security forces.

Moka has made human rights his

dissertation topic in philosophy

at Boston College, where he also

teaches undergraduate courses. But

the struggles endemic to his country

of origin have spurred him to

investigate a more profound and

troubling question: “What is the

relevance of the language of human

rights in a context where there is no

rule of law?”

Alla and Moka are part of an

international contingent of young

Jesuit priests at Boston College,

here for doctoral studies in an array

of academic disciplines. They are

among 12 such Jesuits engaged in

these pursuits and in residence at St.

Mary’s. Their places of origin range

from Malta and China to Bolivia and

Burundi; their areas of study include

education, counseling, fine arts, and

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sociology as well as philosophy and

theology. (Another two dozen inter-

national Jesuits are enrolled at the

School of Theology and Ministry on

the Brighton campus; they typically

pursue ecclesiastical degrees in the-

ology and live in a Jesuit community

adjacent to that campus.)

At one time, Catholic colleges and

universities in Rome, Paris, and Lou-

vain, Belgium, were the prime desti-

nations for Jesuits going abroad for

graduate study; few came to Boston

College. That has changed signifi-

cantly in the past decade or so, says

T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., rector of the

Boston College Jesuit community.

“Boston College has become

one of the leading global centers

of graduate education for young

Jesuits,” rivaling Louvain and Paris,

Kennedy points out. This, he adds,

reflects the University’s “reputation

as a preeminent center of Jesuit

liberal arts education,” which has

become known to potential students,

including Jesuits, around the world.

Educating the laity has been a

critical part of the Jesuit mission

since the Society opened its first

school in Sicily in 1547, Kennedy

observes. As he sees it, the Jesuits’

doctoral work at Boston College

helps “carry on the educational

mission of the Society.”

Asked why he came to Boston

College, Alla, who arrived here in

2006 with a Flatley Fellowship for

graduate theological study, replies,

“It’s a hub of the Jesuit cross-pollina-

tion of ideas and insights.” He speaks

as a Jesuit from India, a thriving

domain of the Society of Jesus; more

than a third of the Jesuits in forma-

tion worldwide are members of

Jesuit provinces in that country. But,

he says, pointing toward St. Mary’s

Hall from across Linden Lane, “This

building has more Jesuit wisdom in

the world than any other perhaps.”

He refers mainly to theological

knowledge and internationally promi-

nent experts in that discipline such

as James Keenan, David Hollenbach,

and Francis Sullivan—all members

of the University Jesuit community.

The directors of his dissertation

are Keenan and a Jesuit at Harvard

Divinity School, Francis X. Clooney,

who teaches comparative theology.

Alla’s field research has taken him

to Catholic and Hindu hospitals in

India to examine how the institu-

tions treat patients from the lower

castes, how families come together

to make decisions about treatment,

and other medical concerns. He has

also adapted Hindu concepts such

as dharma (usually translated as “to

hold together”) to develop an ethic of

social responsibility in health care.

“My purpose is to help foster in-

terreligious learning in India for the

mutual enrichment of the two ethi-

cal worlds,” Christian and Hindu,

says Alla. “That will be an area of

my lifetime project.” He plans to

wrap up his dissertation during

the fall of 2012 and return to the

Vidyajyoti (“Light of Knowledge”)

College of Theology in Delhi, where

he previously taught moral theology

to undergraduates.

For his part, Moka, entering his

third year of doctoral study, expects

to receive his Ph.D. in 2015. At

that point he will return to teach

philosophy to Jesuit scholastics in

central Africa, where he may also

emerge as a public intellectual amid

the region’s evolving political scene.

“You need structures for human

rights to become a reality. And that’s

not the case for many of our African

countries,” he observes, referring to

institutions such as an independent

judiciary and nongovernmental “civil

society” organizations.

In addition to their studies, the

international Jesuits also minister

pastorally either on campus or in

local parishes. “I’m first a Jesuit, and

then a professor and someone who

does research,” Moka says. “I don’t

need to neglect the priestly aspect of

my life.”

Educating international Jesuits

is not without its challenges, as

Kennedy notes. For one thing, since

9/11 it has become harder to secure

American visas for the men. “Some

have a tough time getting back” into

the United States after a visit home,

he says. That aside, Kennedy uses

a Latin phrase coined by Virgil to

describe all of the Jesuits studying

at Boston College—spes gregis, “the

hope of the flock.” He explains,

“We’re trying to form men to go out

and take the places of those who

went ahead of them.”

(standing, from left) Jesuit Community Rector T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., with Stanislaus Alla, S.J., and Willy Moka, S.J., in Saint Mary’s Hall

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from the chair

It is my pleasure to share with you the Uni-

versity’s Annual Report for 2011–12, titled

Becoming a Jesuit: Five Lives at Boston

College’s School of Theology and Ministry. This

report focuses on Boston College’s role in educating

the next generation of Jesuits for ministries in the

contemporary Catholic Church and on the Univer-

sity’s emergence as an international center for Jesuit

graduate education.

Its profiles of five Jesuit scholastics currently studying

at the School of Theology and Ministry, along with an

overview of the experiences of Jesuit priests from around

the world who are pursuing graduate studies at Boston

College, illustrate some of the strategic directions that

inspire the University’s $1.5 billion Light the World capital

campaign. Boston College aims to be an intellectual and

cultural crossroads of Jesuit, Catholic life, on a path to

becoming the world’s leading Catholic university and

theological center.

In my first year as chair of the Board of Trustees,

I am exceedingly proud of Boston College and of the

faculty, administration, and students who continuously

pursue excellence in higher education, service to others,

and accomplishments in the world. I am grateful for all

that you do.

Kathleen m. mcgillycuddy nc ’71

Chair

Boston College Board of Trustees

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year in review

ACADEMIC AFFAIRSThe University conferred 2,327 undergraduate and 1,923

advanced degrees including 146 doctorates, 260 J.D.s,

and 27 canonical degrees. Award-winning television jour-

nalist Bob Woodruff spoke at the 136th Commencement,

where he received an honorary doctorate in humane let-

ters. Joseph A. Appleyard, S.J. ’53, a former member of the

English faculty, director of the A&S Honors Program, and

founding vice president for mission and ministry; William

V. “Bill” Campbell, chairman of Intuit, Inc.; Navyn A.

Salem ’94, founder of Edesia Global Nutrition Solutions,

which manufactures innovative foods to treat and prevent

childhood malnutrition; and Liz Walker, an award-win-

ning former TV news anchor and founder of the Walker

Group, an international social service organization, also

received honorary doctorates. Victoria Kennedy, president

of the board of trustees of the Edward M. Kennedy Insti-

tute, addressed graduates of the Law School on May 25.

Twelve seniors and four recent graduates received Ful-

bright Fellowships, which fund a year of international

postgraduate study. Nine students were awarded Gilman

Scholarships for study-abroad programs, and three

students received U.S. Department of State Critical Lan-

guage Scholarships for intensive language study abroad.

Boston College retained its number 31 position—its

highest to date—in the U.S. News & World Report 2012

rankings of American universities. The University rose

to number 39 in the magazine’s “Great Schools, Great

Prices” category. The Carroll School of Management was

ranked 24th in the roster of “Best Undergraduate Busi-

ness Programs.”

The Graduate School of Social Work achieved Bos-

ton College’s best-ever ranking: number 10 in the

U.S. News & World Report tally of social work schools,

released in March. The Lynch School of Education

retained its place among the top 20 schools of educa-

tion at number 18. The Carroll School full-time MBA

program ranked number 37 overall; its part-time MBA

program ranked 28th nationally. Boston College Law

School ranked 29th nationally.

In addition, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the Carroll

School of Management’s undergraduate program ninth

best in the nation. And Boston College placed 26th in

Forbes magazine’s annual list of “America’s Top Col-

leges,” released in August.

Communication was the most popular major for the

fourth consecutive year (916), followed by economics

(847) and biology (827). International studies was the

most popular minor (195), followed by Hispanic studies

(124). The Lynch School enrolled the largest number of

graduate students with 1,003, followed by the Graduate

School of Arts and Sciences (864), the Carroll School

(839), and Law (791).

In a March 29, 2012, letter to the Boston College commu-

nity, President William P. Leahy, S.J., pointed to a cluster

of signal academic improvements between 2006 and

2011: the University’s U.S. News ranking rose from 40th

to 31st; SAT scores of incoming students increased 31

points, to 2014; and undergraduates identifying them-

selves as AHANA (African American, Hispanic, Asian,

and Native American) rose from 25 percent to 28 percent.

In addition, Leahy noted, sponsored research grants [ from

federal sources] grew from $31.5 million to $46 million,

an increase of 46 percent, during the same period.

The University received a record 34,050 applications

(3.3 percent more than the previous year) for 2,270 seats

in the entering class of 2016. Applications increased

among early action (6 percent), AHANA (4 percent),

and international student (23 percent) candidates. The

College of Arts and Sciences set a new enrollment record

with 6,153 students.

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The Graduate School of Social Work celebrated its

75th anniversary. The school also established a Center

for Social Innovation (dedicated to promoting social

justice) and the Immigrant Integration Lab, an applied

research center.

The Carroll School began to offer a minor in manage-

ment and leadership to nonbusiness majors studying in

the College of Arts and Sciences. The school launched

its 19th dual-degree program: a joint MBA and master’s

degree program in urban and environmental policy and

planning offered by Boston College and Tufts University.

Prudential Financial became the sponsor of the Bos-

ton College National Retirement Risk Index, which is

produced by the Carroll School’s Center for Retirement

Research.

Thaly Germain, a former school principal and an

executive director of the national nonprofit New

Leaders, was named director of the Lynch Leadership

Academy, a one-year development program for early-

and mid-career principals from Boston’s public,

Catholic, and charter schools, run by the Lynch

School of Education and the Carroll School of Manage-

ment. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation

awarded $1 million to the Lynch School of Education

for its Leaders in Urban Education Fellowship, which

supports master’s degree students who agree to work

with economically disadvantaged children in city

schools. President Leahy, the Lynch School, and the

city of Newton announced that the University will

provide local public schools with $300,000 worth of

computer upgrades and education-related technology

over the next three years.

Rev. James P. Burns, director of faculty outreach and

program assessment for University Mission and Ministry

at Boston College, was named interim dean of the Woods

College of Advancing Studies, overseeing a school that had

been directed since 1968 by its namesake, James Woods,

S.J., who retired after 44 years. Students, friends, fellow

faculty, and administrators gathered at Conte Forum April

17 to celebrate Woods’s career and contributions.

Best-selling novelist Colum McCann, author of the

internationally lauded Let the Great World Spin, gave

the keynote speech at the University’s eighth annual

First Year Academic Convocation.

Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, New

Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert, Harvard psycholo-

gist Steven Pinker, and University of Virginia media

studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan were the featured

speakers at “Science in the Liberal Arts University: Why

It Matters to Us All,” an all-day October 29 symposium

sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts. Earlier

that month, the Clough Center for the Study of Constitu-

tional Democracy hosted a two-day conference, “Secular-

ism, Islam, and Democracy: Constitutional Tensions

and Accommodations.”

Karen H. Morin, president of Sigma Theta Tau Inter-

national, the national nursing honor society, gave the

fall Pinnacle lecture, “Lessons Learned: Leadership in

a Global World.” American Nurses Association Presi-

dent Karen Daley, M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’10, delivered the

spring Pinnacle lecture, “Leading the Charge: A Nursing

Agenda in the Age of Health Care Reform.”

Margaret H. Marshall, former chief justice of the Mas-

sachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, discussed the U.S.

Constitution and the Magna Carta—a version of which

was on display at the McMullen Museum—in a lecture

cosponsored by the Clough Center for the Study of

Constitutional Democracy and the McMullen.

The eighth annual Massachusetts Foundation for the

Humanities fall symposium, “Cyberspace and Civic

Space,” which explored the political, social, and cultural

impacts of the Internet on democracy, drew a crowd of

some 300 to Robsham Theater on November 19.

Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life Direc-

tor Alan Wolfe moderated “Are Mormons the New Catho-

lics and Jews? Mitt Romney and the Political State of the

Union,” a panel discussion with Kristine Haglund, editor

of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and Stephen

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Prothero, Boston University professor of religion, at the

School of Theology and Ministry’s inaugural Dean’s Col-

loquium on Religion and Public Culture in March.

The earth and environmental sciences department

honored longtime faculty member James Skehan, S.J.,

unveiling a bust of the noted geologist and author on

April 25, his 89th birthday.

FACULTY RESEARCH AND AWARDSAssistant professors Liane Young (Psychology), Dunwei

Wang (Chemistry), Michelle Meyer (Biology), and Ying

Ran (Physics) won prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research

Fellowships, which are awarded to the nation’s best

young scientists and scholars in recognition of their

early career achievements.

The National Institute of Nursing Research named Con-

nell School of Nursing (CSON) Dean Susan Gennaro to

its National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, the

institute’s principal advisory board.

Assistant Professor J. Elisenda Grigsby of the mathemat-

ics department received a National Science Foundation

Career Award to further her work in topology.

The Faculty of 1000, a research library service, recog-

nized biology Professor Ken Williams’s research on

molecular markers for HIV activity as among the top

biological and medical research projects in the world.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Eranthie Weerapana

received a three-year, $300,000 Smith Family Award

for Excellence in Biomedical Research and a $450,000

Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award to support

her research. Led by Zhifeng Ren, Boston College physi-

cists discovered two previously overlooked stages

of carbon nanotube growth.

Maxim Shrayer, professor of Russian, English, and Jew-

ish Studies, received a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship to

support his work on responses to the Holocaust among

Jewish-Russian poets serving in the Soviet armed forces

or as war correspondents during World War II. Theology

Professor Roberto S. Goizueta was named winner of the

2012 Yves Congar Award for Theological Excellence.

English department Chair Suzanne Matson won a 2012

Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose from the National

Endowment for the Arts for a work of fiction in progress.

Lynch School Assistant Professor Katherine McNeill won

an Early Career Research Award from the National As-

sociation for Research in Science Teaching.

James Lubben, the Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor

in the Graduate School of Social Work and director of

the Institute on Aging, was among the first fellows

named by the American Academy of Social Work and

Social Welfare.

The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College

was awarded a $2.7 million Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

grant to research productivity in an age-diverse work-

force; it was the research center’s third multimillion

dollar grant since 2005.

Carroll School Professor Michael G. Pratt, who directs

the doctoral program in organizational studies, was

named the first O’Connor Family Professor. Biology

Chair Thomas Chiles, who is part of a team of campus

scientists developing biomarkers that track cancer-

ous cells, was named the DeLuca Professor of Biology.

Philosophy department Chair Arthur Madigan, S.J., was

appointed the Albert J. Fitzgibbons Chair in Philosophy.

Promoted to full professor were Kevin Ohi (English),

Prasannan Parthasarathi (History), Benjamin Howard

(Mathematics), Franco Mormando (Romance Languages

and Literatures), Ourida Mostefai (Romance Languages

and Literatures), Catherine Cornille (Theology), Ruth

Langer (Theology), and Kathleen Seiders (Marketing,

Carroll School of Management). Faculty members

promoted to associate professor with tenure were

Dunwei Wang (Chemistry), Cyril Opeil, S.J. (Physics),

Owen Stanwood (History), Gerald Kane (Information

Systems, CSOM), Gergana Nenkov (Marketing, CSOM),

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Linda Salisbury (Marketing, CSOM), Katherine Gregory

(CSON), Brian Galle (Law), Katherine McNeill (LSOE),

Patrick Proctor (LSOE), Stephanie Berzin (GSSW), and

Nancy Pineda-Madrid (STM). In addition, Associate

Professor of History Julian Bourg was granted tenure.

JESUIT, CATHOLIC MISSIONThe School of Theology and Ministry (STM) received

a $200,000 grant from an anonymous foundation to

undertake what is believed to be the largest and most

comprehensive study of Hispanic ministry in Catholic

parishes in the United States. Assistant Professor Hosff-

man Ospino, director of Hispanic ministry programs

at the school, is leading the survey.

The Weston Jesuit department became the Ecclesiasti-

cal Faculty at the School of Theology and Ministry. Jane

E. Regan is the new director of continuing education at

the school. Fourteen parishes in the San Francisco Bay

Area offered “Forward in Faith: Educational Enrichment

for the Thinking Catholic,” a pilot catechetical program

based on lectures and discussion topics developed by the

School of Theology and Ministry, and sponsored by the

bOSTON COLLEgE vICE pRESIDENTS (standing, from left) James P. McIntyre, Senior Vice President; John Butler, S.J., Vice President

for University Mission and Ministry; Mary Lou DeLong, Vice President and University Secretary; Patrick J. Keating, Executive Vice President;

Thomas P. Lockerby, Vice President for Development; Michael J. Bourque, Vice President for Information Technology; Thomas J. Keady, Vice

President for Governmental and Community Affairs; Patrick H. Rombalski, Vice President for Student Affairs; Daniel F. Bourque, Vice President

for Facilities Management; James J. Husson, Senior Vice President for University Advancement; (seated) William B. Neenan, S.J., Vice President,

Special Assistant to the President; Peter C. McKenzie, Financial Vice President and Treasurer; Cutberto Garza, Provost and Dean of Faculties; Leo

V. Sullivan, Vice President for Human Resources.

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Church in the 21st Century Online and the Archdiocese

of San Francisco.

The STM launched Lumen et Vita (“Light and Life”),

an online journal showcasing student research and

book reviews.

Erik Goldschmidt, executive vice president of Wash-

ington, D.C.’s Foundations and Donors Interested in

Catholic Activities, became director of the Church

in the 21st Century Center in January.

Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann, president of Hebrew College,

delivered the fourth STM Anniversary Lecture, “Beyond

Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: A New Paradigm for the 21st

Century,” on October 4, 2011.

William V. D’Antonio, a fellow of the Institute for Policy

Research and Catholic Studies at the Catholic University

of America; Mary Gautier, senior research associate at

the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at

Georgetown University; and Michele Dillon, chair of the

sociology department at the University of New Hamp-

shire, joined Boston College theologians Lisa Sowle

Cahill and Hosffman Ospino at a conference organized

by the Church in the 21st Century Center to analyze and

comment on data from “Catholics in America: Persis-

tence and Change,” the fifth in a series of surveys track-

ing U.S. Catholic beliefs, practices, and demographics.

Noted Canadian philosopher and author Charles Taylor

lectured on “The Evolution of Secularism” and discussed

“Revitalizing the Catholic Intellectual Tradition” with

Rev. Robert Imbelli of the theology department during a

two-day visit to Boston College sponsored by the Church

in the 21st Century Center, the philosophy department,

and the Alumni Association in November.

A near-capacity crowd turned out at Robsham Theater

April 18 to hear Boston College Law School Dean Vin-

cent Rougeau, University of Notre Dame Professor of

Law and Theology M. Cathleen Kaveny, and J. Bryan He-

hir, the Archdiocese of Boston’s secretary for health and

social services, respond to the question, “Is Religious

Liberty Under Threat in America?” at a Church in the

21st Century Center panel discussion.

Boston College was named to the 2012 President’s

Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll,

which recognizes higher education institutions that

demonstrate a commitment to exemplary community

service. President Leahy was among nine Catholic lead-

ers in education cited by the White House for service to

their institutions or communities.

STUDENT LIFEHealthapalooza, a kick-off event for the new Office

of Health Promotion, drew approximately 2,000 stu-

dents to O’Neill Plaza October 5 for yoga and exercise

demonstrations, chair massages, and food tastings,

among other health-boosting activities. More than

a dozen campus offices and organizations, from

Athletics to University Mission and Ministry, orga-

nized the event.

The Division of Student Affairs established Pathways, a

pilot residential life program for first-year students that

aims to foster formation and closer relationships among

students, resident assistants, and faculty. Guided by 110

leaders from the sophomore and senior classes, some

1,100 freshmen took part in “48 Hours” weekends to

reflect on their college experience and ways of taking

advantage of the University’s intellectual, social, and

spiritual resources in order to enhance it. The Volunteer

and Service Learning Center launched the First Year

Service Program, a pilot project in which students vol-

unteer with other first-year students weekly or monthly

at Boston-area Catholic schools, homeless shelters, and

other nonprofit organizations.

Some 500 students spent spring break on volunteer mis-

sions to poor and marginalized communities in 11 states

across the country, part of the student-led Appalachia

Volunteers Program, one of the University’s oldest and

largest service organizations. According to the University’s

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government affairs office, Boston College students spend

more than 375,000 hours doing volunteer work each year.

Running under the tagline “Because YOU matter,”

juniors Chris Osanto and Kudzai Taziva were elected

UGBC president and vice president, respectively.

Sandra Dickson ’13 accepted the University’s annual

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Scholarship at the 30th

annual scholarship ceremony February 10. Malika Weekes

’13 was also nominated for the King scholarship. It was

the first time two CSON students were chosen as finalists.

Rui Soares ’13, a premed student and the director of

the 4Boston volunteer program, received the annual

Archbishop Oscar Romero Scholarship March 31.

Approximately 275 members of the Class of 2013, who

graduate in Boston College’s sesquicentennial year,

joined 90 faculty for an evening at the John F. Kennedy

Library in Boston that included tours, dinner, and a

talk on the subject of conversation, “The Essence of a

University,” by Fr. Michael Himes. The event was part

of an ongoing celebration of the class’s benchmark

150th status.

Performing a medley of “Next to You” and “Don’t Matter”

in front of a panel of judges from the Jesuit community

and some 350 audience members, Ricky Scheiber-

Camoretti and Julianne Quaas, A&S ’15, took the top

award of $350 in the eighth annual BC Idol competition

on February 16. The event raised $3,500 to help sup-

port music lessons and instrument purchases at the St.

Columbkille Partnership School, a Catholic elementary

school in Brighton operated in collaboration with the

Archdiocese of Boston and Boston College.

More than 1,400 students participated in the fifth an-

nual Relay for Life, a two-day walking relay in the Flynn

Recreation Complex on February 24 that raised funds for

cancer research. The student-led Prison Ministry Initiative

organized a special exhibition of prisoners’ art, Seeing the

Man: Art from Behind Bars, A Vision of Restorative Justice

and Healing, which was on exhibit in March and April.

Boston College ranks 7th among “medium-size”

colleges and universities in the 2012 survey of top

Peace Corps volunteer-producing schools. At the time

the survey was taken, 39 Boston College undergradu-

ate alumni were serving overseas. Since the agency was

founded in 1961, 737 Boston College alumni have served

in the Peace Corps.

Boston College’s Dining Services placed seventh in the

Daily Beast’s 2011 Best College Foods survey.

ARTSThe Robsham Theater Arts Center raised the curtain on

its 30th anniversary season October 26 with a produc-

tion of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, directed by

Paul Daigneault ’87, Monan Professor in Theater Arts

2011–12. A “Bollywood” adaptation of Shakespeare’s A

Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by faculty member

Luke Jorgensen, which ran during the Boston College

Arts Festival April 26–29, closed the anniversary year.

John Bell, a prominent puppeteer, scholar, and teacher

who began his career with Bread and Puppet Theater,

was named the Monan Professor in Theater for 2012–13.

From September 4 through December 11, the McMullen

Museum of Art presented the North American debut

of Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, an exhibition

that showcased treasures from the 300-year-old Society

of Antiquaries of London, including manuscripts of the

Magna Carta from 1225 and the Winton Domesday Book.

The McMullen’s spring exhibition, Rural Ireland: The

Inside Story, a visual exploration of how Irish country

people worshipped, mourned, educated, and entertained

themselves, ran from February 11 through June 3.

Novelist Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life

of Oscar Wao (which won both a National Book Critics

Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize), delivered a Lowell

Lecture and met with student writers, faculty, and staff

during a three-day campus residency in February.

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Tony Taccone ’72, the artistic director of the Berkeley

Repertory Theatre, who commissioned Tony Kushner’s

Pulitzer-winning Angels in America and codirected its

world premiere, received the Alumni Arts Award at the

14th annual Arts Festival in April.

English Professor Paul Lewis and students in his fall

semester course, Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary

History, researched, created, and mounted an exhibi-

tion of the same name that was on display at the Boston

Public Library March 28–July 30, 2012.

ATHLETICSThe Boston College men’s ice hockey team won the

NCAA championship with a 4–1 victory over Ferris State

University on April 7 in Tampa, Florida. It was Boston

College’s fifth championship overall, and its third in five

successive seasons. The national title was head coach Jerry

York’s fifth, and his fourth with Boston College.

The women’s ice hockey team advanced to the Frozen

Four for the second year in a row but fell to defending

champion Wisconsin 6–2.

Senior sailor and four-time All-American Annie

Haeger won her third ICSA Singlehanded National

Championship in Chicago on November 6. Haeger also

won the Nathaniel J. Hasenfus ’22 Eagle of the Year

Award, given to one male and one female senior student-

bOSTON COLLEgE DEANS (standing, from left) Thomas B. Wall, University Librarian; Susan Gennaro, Connell School of Nursing;

Andrew C. Boynton, Carroll School of Management; Alberto Godenzi, Graduate School of Social Work; Mark S. Massa, S.J., School of

Theology and Ministry; (seated) Maureen Kenny, Interim Dean, Lynch School of Education; David Quigley, College of Arts and Sciences;

Vincent D. Rougeau, Boston College Law School. (Not photographed: James A. Woods, S.J., Woods College of Advancing Studies.)

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athlete who are outstanding citizens, leaders, scholars,

and athletes. Men’s hockey captain Tommy Cross was

the other winner.

Boston College was the most represented school in

Super Bowl XLVI, with six former Eagles playing for

the Vince Lombardi Trophy: Mathias Kiwanuka ’05,

Chris Snee ’04, Will Blackmon ’06, and Mark Herzlich

’10 for the New York Giants, and Ron Brace ’08 and

Dan Koppen ’02 for the New England Patriots.

Boston College tied with Duke University for second

in the nation in the Graduation Success Rate among all

Football Bowl Subdivision schools, with a score of 97.

Only Notre Dame’s 99 was better.

UNIvERSITY ADvANCEMENT The Light the World campaign—Boston College’s largest

and most ambitious fundraising effort—passed the $903

million mark toward its overall $1.5 billion campaign goal.

At the end of the year, more than 105,000 donors had made

commitments to the effort, which fuels University priorities

including academic excellence, financial aid, athletics, capi-

tal projects, student formation programs, and the advance-

ment of Boston College’s Jesuit, Catholic mission.

In September, the Lower Campus office building

known since 2002 as 21 Campanella Way was renamed

and dedicated as Maloney Hall, in honor of campaign

benefactors Nancy and University trustee T.J. Maloney

’75, P’09, ’13, and three generations of their family.

EXECUTIvE COMMITTEE OF THE bOARD OF TRUSTEES (standing, from left) Stephen P. Murray, Marianne D. Short, R. Michael

Murray Jr., John L. LaMattina, William J. Geary, T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., Susan Martinelli Shea, John M. Connors Jr., Robert J. Morrissey; (seated)

William P. Leahy, S.J., Kathleen M. McGillycuddy, John F. Fish.

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The Cadigan Alumni Center, named for benefactor

Patrick F. Cadigan, ’57, P’91, in gratitude for his $15

million campaign commitment, opened its doors on

the Brighton Campus in March.

More than 26,677 undergraduate alumni made gifts,

increasing the rate of undergraduate alumni partici-

pation to 26.5 percent. A major force in driving this

achievement was the BC GOLD Rush Challenge, in

which graduates of the last decade raise funds toward

an individual class goal—and secure rights to name a

$25,000 scholarship for a deserving student. Six of the

10 most recent classes—2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010,

and 2011—met this challenge in 2011–12. Boston Col-

lege’s newest alumni, the class of 2012, set a University

record for senior class gift campaign participation,

with 1,033 graduates contributing. Meanwhile, member-

ship in the Shaw Society, which recognizes donors

who make legacy gifts to Boston College, increased to

more than 1,725.

Maureen O’Keefe Doran ’69 and Christopher “Kip”

Doran ’68, parents of two Boston College graduates,

received the William V. McKenney Award, the Alumni

Association’s highest honor, for their commitment to

health and medicine—he as a psychiatrist and she as

a psychiatric nurse—as well as for their humanitarian

efforts as recent Peace Corps volunteers in Botswana,

Africa. Other honorees included innovative educator

Hrag M. Hamalian ’05, who took home a GOLD Award;

pro bono attorney Juan A. Arteaga ’99, who won the

Ignatian Award; and Terry Fulmer, M.S. ’77, Ph.D. ’83,

who received the William C. McInnes, S.J. ’44 Award for

Professional Excellence.

The Boston College Wall Street Council held its most suc-

cessful annual gala to date on April 26, raising $2.2 mil-

lion to support the Presidential Scholars Program. More

than 1,000 alumni, parents, and friends turned out for

the tribute dinner at the Waldorf Astoria New York. Mario

J. Gabelli, chairman of GAMCO Investors, Inc., Boston

College parent, and longtime lead supporter of the pro-

gram, was awarded the President’s Medal for Excellence.

Reunion Weekend 2012 broke attendance records, with

more than 5,300 alumni and their guests returning to

the Heights.

MANAgEMENTThe Boston College Board of Trustees approved an $862

million budget for the 2012–13 academic year, a 2 per-

cent increase over the previous year. The budget calls for

a 3.6 percent overall increase in tuition, fees, and room

and board, raising tuition to $43,140. The University

increased need-based undergraduate financial aid by

6.4 percent, to $90 million, bringing total financial

aid to $143 million. The fiscal ’13 budget includes an

additional $7 million for academic and infrastructure

projects outlined in the Strategic Plan.

Kathleen M. McGillycuddy, retired executive vice presi-

dent of FleetBoston Financial and a 1971 graduate of

Newton College of the Sacred Heart, was elected chair-

woman of the board of trustees at its meeting in Septem-

ber. The first woman to hold that position, McGillycuddy

became a trustee in 2002 and cochairs the University’s

Light the World capital campaign.

The University completed the renovation of Gasson

Hall, which reopened in August. The divisions of Hu-

man Resources, Finance, and Advancement relocated

to the Brighton Campus from More Hall. Stokes Hall,

a 183,000-square-foot humanities building, is slated to

open in January 2013.

The University announced plans for a 15-month celebra-

tion of its 150th anniversary, from September 2012 to

December 2013. Scheduled events include academic

symposia, a Sesquicentennial Speakers Series, an inau-

gural Founders Day celebration, a meeting of leading

Catholic college presidents, and a student concert at

Symphony Hall. The Boston College Sesquicentennial

officially began September 15 with a 4 p.m. Mass at Fen-

way Park in Boston.

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financial report

OvERvIEWWe concluded last year’s financial report by noting that

“recent events in Washington, in the Middle East, in

Europe, and on Wall Street point to the volatility of the

economy and world events.” Unfortunately, as we reflect

on the financial results of fiscal 2012 a year later, we

find ourselves in very similar circumstances. Financial

market volatility and uncertainty about world events

continued throughout the year. At the beginning of fiscal

2012, the S&P 500 stood at 1,345; it rose to a high of

1,419 before falling back to 1,310 at year’s end. Similarly,

the MSCI EAFE Growth Index stood at 1,733, fell to 1,310,

and leveled off at 1,333 by the end of the year.

However, by almost any other measure, fiscal 2012 was

a very successful year at Boston College. Enrollments in

undergraduate and graduate programs were strong, ad-

mission applications reached record levels, construction

activity was robust, and faculty hires and promotions

were unimpeded.

FISCAL 2012 FINANCIAL RESULTSAs noted in the “Growth in Net Assets” chart (see page

28), the University’s net assets decreased by $76 million,

a 3% reduction over previous year levels. Strong fundrais-

ing results, plant asset increases, and operating expense

savings were offset by a –4.2% decline in the University’s

total investment portfolio performance. The primary li-

quidity ratio, “Expendable Resources to Debt,” decreased

slightly, from 1.7 times coverage in fiscal 2011 to 1.5 times

coverage in fiscal 2012 (see chart, page 28).

The University’s endowment fund decreased by $132

million, to some $1.76 billion. Investment losses of $92

million, contributions of $43 million, net assets reclas-

sified or released of $6 million, and $89 million used in

support of operations drove the decrease. The portfolio

return on the endowment fund was –5.3% versus the

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S&P 500 return of –0.4% and the Barclay Aggregate

Bond Index of 7.1%. Over the past 10 years, the endow-

ment fund has generated an annualized return of 6.3%

versus the S&P 500 return of 4.1% and the Barclay’s

return of 5.7%. The University’s endowment portfolio is

well diversified, with 41% in domestic and international

equities, 10% invested in fixed income securities, and

49% invested in alternative strategies including abso-

lute return funds, private equity funds, and real asset

funds. The portfolio is liquid and well positioned, with

more than 50% of it invested in securities that can be

redeemed in 30 days or less.

Campus building projects proceeded apace in fiscal

2012. Construction of a major new academic building,

Stokes Hall, continued. It is expected to be completed

in October of 2012, and open for business before the

start of spring semester, in January of 2013. Renovations

of Gasson Hall on the Middle Campus and 129 Lake

Street and 2121 Commonwealth Avenue on the Brighton

Campus were finished. Two significant projects started

in fiscal 2012—installation of new artificial turf in

Alumni Stadium and reconfiguration of the plaza

between O’Neill Library and Gasson Hall (replacing

concrete with grass and trees)—were expected to be

completed before the start of fall semester 2012. Gross

plant assets increased by $106 million in fiscal 2012.

Strong enrollments led overall revenue growth of 2.2%.

Tuition and fee revenues exceeded budget amounts

while the related student receivables remained low.

To assist returning students and their families, Boston

College increased financial aid funds by 5.1%. The Uni-

versity saved on expenses in many areas of the operating

budget, most notably on salaries and fringe benefits, and

continued to aggressively pursue operating efficiencies

in areas such as utility consumption, technology pro-

curement, and research commodity procurement.

CONCLUSIONBoston College was able to continue the momentum

of its academic, research, and student formation pro-

grams in fiscal 2012. But our economic rollercoaster

ride is likely to continue during fiscal 2013, as the

presidential campaign and results of federal elections

continue to dominate the news and sway market

volatility. As this financial report makes clear, we are

not immune to the effects of market instability. But

we have become practiced and adept at managing in

periods of volatility and uncertainty. Our planning

processes, control systems, and procedures have been

well tested, and we believe they are in good shape to

help the University manage throughout these difficult

times. In fiscal 2013, the administration will work hard

to provide the necessary resources to continue our

important mission, and maintain momentum in our

academic, research, and student formation programs.

Our goal continues—Ever to Excel!

peter c. mcKenzie ’75Financial Vice President and Treasurer

the university’s fiscal 2012 financial statements

are available at WWW.bC.EDU/OFFICES/CONTROLLER

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EXpENSES

OpERATINg AND NONOpERATINg REvENUES *

* Fiscal 2012 net realized and unrealized investment losses are excluded from this analysis.

tuition and fees, gross 61%

auXiliary enterprises, gross 18%

sponsored research, grants, and financial aid 7%

investment income, net 1%

private gifts 11%

other 2%

instruction 30%

public service/other losses 1%

auXiliary enterprises 19%

student aid 18%

academic support 7%

research 5%

student services 6%

general administration 14%

total eXpendable resources

total operating debt

fy2008 fy2009 fy2010 fy2011 fy2012 fy2008 fy2009 fy2010 fy2011 fy2012

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statistical and financial highlights

statistics 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

FULL-TIME EqUIvALENT ENROLLMENTUndergraduate 9,505 9,512 9,599 9,518 9,484Graduate/professional 3,152 3,308 3,414 4,120 4,046Total full-time equivalent enrollment 12,657 12,820 13,013 13,638 13,530

FULL-TIME EMpLOYEESFaculty 679 708 725 737 752Staff 2,228 2,316 2,293 2,304 2,296Total full-time employees 2,907 3,024 3,018 3,041 3,048

CAMpUS FACILITIES (gross square feet)

Chestnut Hill Campus 5,481,766 5,481,766 5,493,499 5,501,713 5,501,689Newton Campus/Brighton Campus/other 1,313,008 1,317,818 1,301,227 1,588,275 1,619,779Total gross square feet 6,794,774 6,799,584 6,794,726 7,089,988 7,121,468

financial (fiscal years ending may 31) In thousands of dollars

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL pOSITION *Total assets $3,153,053 $2,898,500 $3,092,938 $3,487,314 $3,394,746Total liabilities (824,404) (888,269) (905,514) (1,012,011) (995,896) Total net assets $2,328,649 $2,010,231 $2,187,424 $2,475,303 $2,398,850

ENDOWMENT AND SIMILAR FUNDS *Net assets $1,849,801 $1,491,158 $1,647,653 $1,889,079 $1,757,447Investment income 13,866 11,487 10,768 14,127 13,998Realized and unrealized investment gains (and losses), net 62,200 (401,392) 180,485 271,796 (94,442)

pHYSICAL pLANT *Land, improvements, and purchase options $215,049 $232,822 $234,200 $238,048 $241,023Buildings (including capital lease and purchase option) 873,603 962,539 1,004,577 1,026,711 1,113,092Equipment 178,015 179,000 191,622 200,569 199,909Library books/rare book and art collections 147,812 155,814 164,739 173,918 182,414Plant under construction 35,852 38,242 17,610 67,898 76,870Physical plant, gross 1,450,331 1,568,417 1,612,748 1,707,144 1,813,308Accumulated depreciation and amortization (498,998) (530,929) (573,137) (619,065) (658,847)Physical plant, net $951,333 $1,037,488 $1,039,611 $1,088,079 $1,154,461

STATEMENT OF ACTIvITIES *Total operating revenues, net $600,684 $621,018 $628,354 $643,654 $653,663Total operating expenses 600,587 620,916 628,247 643,544 653,550Total non-operating activity 93,199 (318,520) 177,086 287,769 (76,566)

STUDENT AIDUniversity scholarships, fellowships, and prizes $107,229 $113,752 $123,315 $132,594 $139,488Federal/state programs (including Pell grants) 8,330 8,571 10,579 10,834 9,964Student loans granted by the University 6,313 5,299 4,005 5,434 7,845Total student aid $121,872 $127,622 $137,899 $148,862 $157,297

* 2008 amounts adjusted to reflect Weston Jesuit School of Theology affiliation.

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board of trustees 201 1–12

OFFICERS

chair Kathleen m. mcgillycuddy nc ’71

vice chair john f. fish

secretary t. franK Kennedy, s.j. ’71

TRUSTEES

draKe g. behraKis ’86President and CEO, Marwick Associates, Lexington, Massachusetts

patricia lynott bonan ’79Managing Director (Ret.), JPMorgan Chase & Co., Potomac, Maryland

matthew j. botica, esq. ’72Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, Illinois

cathy m. brienza nc ’71Partner, WallerSutton 2000, L.P., New York, New York

Karen izzi bristing ’84Owner, Equinox Equestrian Center,Sun Valley, California

john e. buehler jr. ’69Managing Partner, Energy Investors Funds,Mill Valley, California

hon. darcel d. clarK ’83Supreme Court Justice, State of New York,Bronx, New York

charles i. clough jr. ’64Chairman and CEO, Clough Capital Partners, L.P., Boston, Massachusetts

juan a. concepción, esq. ’96, m.ed. ’97, j.d., m.b.a. ’03Attorney, Boston, Massachusetts

margot c. connell, d.b.a. ’09 (hon.)Chair and Member of the Advisory Board, Connell Limited Partnership,Boston, Massachusetts

john m. connors jr. ’63, d.b.a. ’07 (hon.)Chairman, The Connors Family Office, Boston, Massachusetts

robert j. cooney, esq. ’74Partner, Cooney & Conway, Chicago, Illinois

Kathleen a. corbet ’82Founder and Principal, Cross Ridge Capital, LLC, New Canaan, Connecticut

leo j. corcoran, esq. ’81President, Autumn Development Company, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts

robert f. cotter ’73President (Ret.), Kerzner International, Coral Gables, Florida

claudia henao de la cruz ’85Chair, Centro Mater Foundation, Coral Gables, Florida

john r. egan ’79Managing Member, Carruth Management, LLC, Westborough, Massachusetts

john f. fishPresident and CEO, Suffolk Construction Company Inc., Boston, Massachusetts

Keith a. francis ’76*Intelligence Analyst (Ret.), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, New Bedford, Massachusetts

william j. geary ’80Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners, Waltham, Massachusetts

susan mcmanama gianinno ’70Chairman and CEO, Publicis Worldwide, North America, New York, New York

janice gipson ’77Beverly Hills, California

Kathleen powers haley ’76Manager, Snows Hill Management LLC, Wellesley, Massachusetts

christian w.e. haubPresident and Chairman, Emil Capital Partners, LLC, Greenwich, Connecticut

michaela murphy hoag ’86Interior Designer, Treasured Designs, Atherton, California

t. franK Kennedy, s.j. ’71Rector, Boston College Jesuit Community, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

john l. lamattina ’71Senior Partner, PureTech Ventures, Boston, Massachusetts

timothy r. lannon, s.j. ’86President, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

william p. leahy, s.j.President, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

peter s. lynch ’65, ll.d. ’95 (hon.)Vice Chairman, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Boston, Massachusetts

t.j. maloney ’75President, Lincolnshire Management, Inc., New York, New York

douglas w. marcouiller, s.j.Provincial, Jesuits of the Missouri Province, St. Louis, Missouri

peter K. marKell ’77Exec. VP of Admin. & Finance, CFO, and Treasurer, Partners HealthCare Systems, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts

david m. mcauliffe ’71COO and Managing Director of Investment Banking, J.P. Morgan PLC, London, United Kingdom

Kathleen m. mcgillycuddy nc ’71Executive Vice President (Ret.), FleetBoston Financial, Boston, Massachusetts

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william s. mcKiernan ’78President, WSM Capital, LLC, Los Gatos, California

robert j. morrissey, esq. ’60Senior Partner, Morrissey, Hawkins & Lynch, Boston, Massachusetts

john v. murphy ’71Managing Director, Korn/Ferry International, Boston, Massachusetts

r. michael murray jr. ’61, m.a. ’65Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

stephen p. murray ’84President and CEO, CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC, New York, New York

brien m. o’brien ’80Chairman and CEO, Advisory Research, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

david p. o’connor ’86Senior Managing Partner, High Rise Capital Management, LP, New York, New York

brian g. paulson, s.j.Rector, Loyola University Jesuit Community, Chicago, Illinois

richard f. powers iii ’67Advisory Director (Ret.), Morgan Stanley,Hobe Sound, Florida

thomas f. ryan jr. ’63Private Investor (Ret.), Boston, Massachusetts

nicholas a. sannella ’67Pastor, Immaculate Conception Parish,Lowell, Massachusetts

bradley m. schaeffer, s.j., m.ed. ’73Rector, Faber Jesuit Community, Brighton, Massachusetts

philip w. schiller ’82Sr. Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing, Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California

susan martinelli shea ’76Founder and President, Dancing with the Students, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

marianne d. short, esq., nc ’73, j.d. ’76Managing Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota

patricK t. stoKes ’64Chief Executive Officer (Ret.), Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc., St. Louis, Missouri

richard f. syron ’66, ll.d. ’89 (hon.)Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

elizabeth w. vanderslice ’86New York, New York

david c. weinstein, esq., j.d. ’75Chief of Administration (Ret.), Fidelity Investments, Newton, Massachusetts

TRUSTEE ASSOCIATES

mary jane vouté arrigoni Greenwich, Connecticut

peter w. bell ’86General Partner, Highland Capital Partners, Menlo Park, California

geoffrey t. boisi ’69Chairman and Senior Partner, Roundtable Investment Partners LLC, New York, New York

wayne a. budd, esq. ’63Senior Counsel, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, Massachusetts

james p. burns, i.v.d.Director, Faculty Outreach and Program Assessment, University Mission and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

james f. cleary ’50, d.b.a. ’93 (hon.)*Advisory Director, Boston, Massachusetts

joseph e. corcoran ’59, d.b.a. ’09 (hon.)Chairman, Corcoran Jennison Companies, Boston, Massachusetts

john f. cunningham ’64Chairman and CEO, Cunningham & Company, Boston, Massachusetts

brian e. daley, s.j. Huisking Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

robert m. devlinChairman, Curragh Capital Partners, New York, New York

andrew n. downing, s.j.Doctoral Student, University of Notre Dame, Granger, Indiana

francis a. doyle ’70, m.b.a. ’75President and CEO, Connell Limited Partnership, Boston, Massachusetts

cynthia lee egan ’78President of Retirement Plan Services, T. Rowe Price, Owings Mills, Maryland

emilia m. fanjul Palm Beach, Florida

john f. farrell jr. Greenwich, Connecticut

yen-tsai feng Roy E. Larsen Librarian (Ret.), Harvard College, Lexington, Massachusetts

charles d. ferris, esq. ’54, j.d. ’61, ll.d. ’78 (hon.)Senior Partner, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C., Washington, D.C.

mario j. gabelliChairman and Chief Executive Officer, GAMCO Investors, Inc., Rye, New York

mary j. steele guilfoile ’76Chairman, MG Advisors, Inc., Norwalk, Connecticut

paul f. harman, s.j. ’61, m.a. ’62Vice President for Mission, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

daniel j. harrington, s.j. ’64, m.a. ’65, dhl ’09 (hon.)Professor of Theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

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john l. harrington ’57, m.b.a. ’66, d.b.a. ’10 (hon.)Chairman of the Board, Yawkey Foundation, Dedham, Massachusetts

daniel s. hendricKson, s.j.Associate Vice President, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

john j. higgins, s.j. ’59, m.a. ’60, s.t.l. ’67 Fairfield Jesuit Community, Fairfield, Connecticut

richard t. horan sr. ’53 President (Ret.), Hughes Oil Company, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts

richard a. jalKut ’66CEO, TelePacific Communications, Los Angeles, California

anne p. jones, esq. ’58, j.d. ’61, ll.d. ’08 (hon.) Consultant, Bethesda, Maryland

michael d. jones, esq. ’72, j.d. ’76Chief Operating Officer, PBS, Arlington, Virginia

edmund f. KellyChairman, President, and CEO, Liberty Mutual Group, Boston, Massachusetts

robert K. KraftChairman and CEO, The Kraft Group, Foxborough, Massachusetts

robert b. lawton, s.j.Georgetown Jesuit Community, Washington, D.C.

catherine t. mcnamee, csj, m.ed. ’55, m.a. ’58Member, Congregational Leadership Team, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri

john a. mcneice jr. ’54, d.b.a. ’97 (hon.)Chairman and CEO (Ret.), The Colonial Group, Inc., Canton, Massachusetts

giles e. mosher jr. ’55 Vice Chairman (Emeritus), Bank of America, Wellesley, Massachusetts

robert j. murray ’62Chairman and CEO (Ret.), New England Business Service, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts

therese e. myers nc ’66 Chief Executive Officer, Bouquet Multimedia, LLC, Oxnard, California

edward m. o’flaherty, s.j. ’59, th.m. ’66*Treasurer, Boston College Jesuit Commu-nity, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

thomas p. o’neill iii ’68Chief Executive Officer, O’Neill and Associates, Boston, Massachusetts

scott r. pilarz, s.j.President, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

sally engelhard pingreeDirector and Vice Chairman, Engelhard Hanovia, Inc., Washington, D.C.

paula d. polito ’81Chief Marketing Officer & Group Manag-ing Director, UBS Financial Services Inc., Wealth Management Americas,Weehawken, New Jersey

r. robert popeo, esq., j.d. ’61Chairman and President, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C., Boston, Massachusetts

john j. powers ’73Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Company, New York, New York

pierre-richard prosper, esq. ’85Counsel, Arent Fox LLP, Los Angeles, California

nicholas s. rashford, s.j. Professor, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

thomas j. rattigan ’60Natick, Massachusetts

randall p. seidl ’85Senior Vice President, Americas, Enterprise Servers, Storage & Networking, Hewlett-Packard Company, Marlborough, Massachusetts

john j. shea, s.j., m.ed. ’70Associate Director, Catholic Center, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

sylvia q. simmons, m.ed. ’62, ph.d. ’90, d.h.l. ’11 (hon.)President (Ret.), American Student Assistance Corp., Roxbury, Massachusetts

robert l. sullivan ’50, m.a. ’52International Practice Director (Ret.), Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., Siasconset, Massachusetts

salvatore j. trani Executive Managing Director, BGC Partners, Inc., New York, New York

thomas a. vanderslice ’53, d.b.a. ’03 (hon.)Osterville, Massachusetts

jeffrey p. von arx, s.j.President, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut

vincent a. wasiK Co-founder and Principal, MCG Global, LLC, Westport, Connecticut

benaree p. wiley, d.p.a. ’09 (hon.)President and CEO (Emeritus), The Partnership, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts

jeremy K. zipple, s.j. ’00Director and Producer, National Geographic Television, Faber Jesuit Community, Brighton, Massachusetts

vice President and University secretary mary lou delong nc ’71

University chancellor j. donald monan, s.j., ll.d. ’96 (hon.)

*Deceased

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