 Gerard P. Lietz, Sr. 72 of Evanston. Beloved husband for 46 years of Mary Lietz nee Einhorn, loving father of Martha, Kristin, Bernard (Robin), Gerard Lietz Jr. and Gretchen (Jason) Wening; proud grandfather of Gloria, Graham, Sophie, Helen, Hazel, Emily and Paul; dear brother of Miriam Lietz.  Visitation Monday November 29, 2010 3:00 p.m - 9:00 p.m. at Donnellan Family Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. at Old Orchard Rd. Skokie and Tuesday 9:00 a.m. until time of funeral Mass 11:00 at St. Athanasius Church,1615 Lincoln Street Evanston, IL 60201. Interment Private, St. Boniface Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Center For Sharing, Casa Isabel,(www.casaisabel.org), 3525 E. "A" Street, Pasco, WA 99301 or St. Vincent DePaul Society c/o St. Athanasius, 1615 Lincoln Street Evanston, IL 60201. Gerry's Guestbook will remain online until November 28, 2011. Click here to visit the Guestbook. | |
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Byrne Hall
The Academy building was turned over to DePaul University, and renamed Byrne Hall. Bygone DePaul | Special Collections & Archives
Monday, November 29, 2010
In Memoriam - Gerry Lietz
Friday, November 19, 2010
25-year Club Luncheon
There was a great turnout on November 19th for the 25-year Club luncheon at the Union League Club. Father Udovic welcomed us and Phyllis Griffin, The Theatre School; Ray Coye, College of Commerce; and Steve Jost, CDM share memories from their 25 years at the University. Twenty individuals were inducted by Fr. Holtschneider. For those members of the DES who are also 25-Year Club members and couldn't be at the luncheon today, a few pictures:
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| 2010 Inductees |
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Holtschneider's Six-Year Contract Extended
The Chair of the DePaul Board of Trustees sent out the following email to the DePaul Community today, November 2, 2010:
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students:
DePaul University's Board of Trustees is delighted to announce that we have approved a six-year contract extension for Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., citing strong support for his extraordinary leadership as the university's eleventh president.
We are confident that, working together with DePaul's committed faculty and staff, Father Holtschneider will continue to build on DePaul's rich tradition of providing a quality education to a diverse student population.
Please join me in congratulating Father Holtschneider on the continuation of his tenure as our president.
Sincerely,
Mary Dempsey
Chair
Board of Trustees
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students:
DePaul University's Board of Trustees is delighted to announce that we have approved a six-year contract extension for Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., citing strong support for his extraordinary leadership as the university's eleventh president.
We are confident that, working together with DePaul's committed faculty and staff, Father Holtschneider will continue to build on DePaul's rich tradition of providing a quality education to a diverse student population.
Please join me in congratulating Father Holtschneider on the continuation of his tenure as our president.
Sincerely,
Mary Dempsey
Chair
Board of Trustees
Monday, November 1, 2010
In Memoriam - John R. Cortelyou, C.M.
John R. Cortelyou, 82, Former President of DePaul
The Rev. John R. Cortelyou, who wrapped up a 60-year academic association with DePaul University as its eighth president, serving in a period of growth and turbulence, died on Saturday at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. He was 82 and a resident of the Chicago campus. He had been in failing health since the summer, the university said.
Father Cortelyou was president from 1964 to 1981. He guided the university -- named for Saint Vincent de Paul, founder of the charitable order -- through the civil-rights and anti-war stirrings of the 1960's. He then shaped the decisions of the 1970's that brought DePaul considerably more acreage and buildings, with additions to the Lincoln Park Campus and expansion of the Loop Campus. New construction included DePaul's first permanent residence hall, the Schmitt Academic Center and the Stuart Center. Father Cortelyou helped revamp the undergraduate curriculum and raised the standards of research by inaugurating the first doctoral programs. He also oversaw the development of the theater school into a prominent theater conservatory. After he stepped down as president, he was university chancellor and chief fund-raiser until 1993. He continued his daily work as chancellor emeritus until the summer.
John Cortelyou was born in Chicago and graduated from DePaul Academy in 1932. He completed his collegiate and theological education at St. Mary's Seminary in Perryville, Mo., and was ordained in 1940. Returning to Chicago, he taught at DePaul Academy, earned an M.S. in biology and joined the university faculty. He added a doctorate from Northwestern University in 1949 and undertook a career as a comparative endocrinologist. He served as chairman of the department of biological sciences in 1951 and held that position until his appointment as president. He was one of the university presidents who helped the Chicago Board of Education weather years of stormy racial confrontations over the school integration decreed in the 1960's.
Father Cortelyou is survived by a stepbrother, Charles Burgess, of Chicago.
Author: WOLFGANG SAXON Edition: Late Edition - Final Page: 15, New York Times, November 14, 1996 Copyright 1996, The New York Times Company
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REV. JOHN CORTELYOU OF DEPAUL
Rev. John R. Cortelyou, 82, president of DePaul University from 1964 to 1981, shepherded the institution through the tumult of the 1960s and 1970s, and helped it grow in size and reputation.
A native of Chicago and member of the Congregation of the Mission, Father Cortelyou, who had been a Vincentian priest for more than 50 years, died Saturday in St. Joseph Hospital after a long illness. Father Cortelyou was responsible for many innovations in the academic life of the university. Revisions in undergraduate curriculum such as the expansion of the liberal arts and the inclusion of non-Catholic works in theology courses, and the addition of the school's first doctoral programs, were part of his handiwork.
In 1972, under Father Cortelyou's direction, the university opened the School for New Learning, a non-traditional educational program for adults over 24. And with his help, DePaul acquired the Goodman School of Drama from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978.
Father Cortelyou guided the university through expansion projects, among them the purchase of eight McCormick Theological Seminary buildings, creating much of the east side of DePaul's Lincoln Park campus. Under his leadership, the university also expanded its Loop campus. "He was very attuned to what was going on around him and was interested in all of that, particularly in the welfare of the students at the university, whom he had devoted his whole life to," said Rev. Ralph Pansza, Father Cortelyou's religious superior at the DePaul Community House for Vincentian fathers and brothers.
Father Cortelyou began his own academic career at DePaul Academy, where he graduated in 1932. He received his collegiate and theological training for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary in Perryville, Mo., and was ordained a priest in 1940. He then returned to his hometown, where he taught at the DePaul Academy from 1940 to 1943, until he joined the faculty of DePaul University. Father Cortelyou earned a doctorate in biology from Northwestern University in 1949, and began a career as a comparative endocrinologist. He was named chairman of DePaul's department of biological sciences in 1952, where he remained until assuming the presidency in 1964.
After his retirement as president in 1981, Father Cortelyou served as chancellor and then chancellor emeritus of the university until July. "He always wanted to be involved in whatever was going on . . . to end up his days with his boots on," Pansza said.
Survivors include a stepbrother, Charles Burgess.
Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church, 1010 W. Webster Ave. A mass will be said at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the church and a committal service will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday at All Saints Cemetery Chapel, 700 N. River Rd., Des Plaines
Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Page: 5 Copyright (c) 1996, Chicago Tribune Company. All rights reserved. Chicago Tribune, November 11, 1996
The Rev. John R. Cortelyou, who wrapped up a 60-year academic association with DePaul University as its eighth president, serving in a period of growth and turbulence, died on Saturday at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. He was 82 and a resident of the Chicago campus. He had been in failing health since the summer, the university said.
Father Cortelyou was president from 1964 to 1981. He guided the university -- named for Saint Vincent de Paul, founder of the charitable order -- through the civil-rights and anti-war stirrings of the 1960's. He then shaped the decisions of the 1970's that brought DePaul considerably more acreage and buildings, with additions to the Lincoln Park Campus and expansion of the Loop Campus. New construction included DePaul's first permanent residence hall, the Schmitt Academic Center and the Stuart Center. Father Cortelyou helped revamp the undergraduate curriculum and raised the standards of research by inaugurating the first doctoral programs. He also oversaw the development of the theater school into a prominent theater conservatory. After he stepped down as president, he was university chancellor and chief fund-raiser until 1993. He continued his daily work as chancellor emeritus until the summer.
John Cortelyou was born in Chicago and graduated from DePaul Academy in 1932. He completed his collegiate and theological education at St. Mary's Seminary in Perryville, Mo., and was ordained in 1940. Returning to Chicago, he taught at DePaul Academy, earned an M.S. in biology and joined the university faculty. He added a doctorate from Northwestern University in 1949 and undertook a career as a comparative endocrinologist. He served as chairman of the department of biological sciences in 1951 and held that position until his appointment as president. He was one of the university presidents who helped the Chicago Board of Education weather years of stormy racial confrontations over the school integration decreed in the 1960's.
Father Cortelyou is survived by a stepbrother, Charles Burgess, of Chicago.
Author: WOLFGANG SAXON Edition: Late Edition - Final Page: 15, New York Times, November 14, 1996 Copyright 1996, The New York Times Company
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REV. JOHN CORTELYOU OF DEPAUL
Rev. John R. Cortelyou, 82, president of DePaul University from 1964 to 1981, shepherded the institution through the tumult of the 1960s and 1970s, and helped it grow in size and reputation.
A native of Chicago and member of the Congregation of the Mission, Father Cortelyou, who had been a Vincentian priest for more than 50 years, died Saturday in St. Joseph Hospital after a long illness. Father Cortelyou was responsible for many innovations in the academic life of the university. Revisions in undergraduate curriculum such as the expansion of the liberal arts and the inclusion of non-Catholic works in theology courses, and the addition of the school's first doctoral programs, were part of his handiwork.
In 1972, under Father Cortelyou's direction, the university opened the School for New Learning, a non-traditional educational program for adults over 24. And with his help, DePaul acquired the Goodman School of Drama from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978.
Father Cortelyou guided the university through expansion projects, among them the purchase of eight McCormick Theological Seminary buildings, creating much of the east side of DePaul's Lincoln Park campus. Under his leadership, the university also expanded its Loop campus. "He was very attuned to what was going on around him and was interested in all of that, particularly in the welfare of the students at the university, whom he had devoted his whole life to," said Rev. Ralph Pansza, Father Cortelyou's religious superior at the DePaul Community House for Vincentian fathers and brothers.
Father Cortelyou began his own academic career at DePaul Academy, where he graduated in 1932. He received his collegiate and theological training for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary in Perryville, Mo., and was ordained a priest in 1940. He then returned to his hometown, where he taught at the DePaul Academy from 1940 to 1943, until he joined the faculty of DePaul University. Father Cortelyou earned a doctorate in biology from Northwestern University in 1949, and began a career as a comparative endocrinologist. He was named chairman of DePaul's department of biological sciences in 1952, where he remained until assuming the presidency in 1964.
After his retirement as president in 1981, Father Cortelyou served as chancellor and then chancellor emeritus of the university until July. "He always wanted to be involved in whatever was going on . . . to end up his days with his boots on," Pansza said.
Survivors include a stepbrother, Charles Burgess.
Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church, 1010 W. Webster Ave. A mass will be said at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the church and a committal service will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday at All Saints Cemetery Chapel, 700 N. River Rd., Des Plaines
Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Page: 5 Copyright (c) 1996, Chicago Tribune Company. All rights reserved. Chicago Tribune, November 11, 1996
In Memoriam - Grace Peterson
Grace G. Peterson - 90 of Sun City, AZ, passed away on October 2, 2010. She was a Colonel in the US Army in WW II. Private family services have been held. Menke Funeral Home handled arrangements
Arizona Republic, October 6, 2010
In addition to her service to the university, Grace was a retired colonel in the United States Nursing Corps and served actively in World War II. She was one of the first women to attain the rank of Colonel within the U.S. military.
Grace was active in the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and established the Grace Peterson Scholarship Fund at DePaul to provide scholarships for members of the DePaul chapter of Sigma Theta Tau. Last year, the Nursing Department renamed its annual student research colloquium in her honor, for her many contributions to the program and the profession.
Private services have been held. Condolences may be sent to family friend Judy Getch at s_getch@msn.com.
Our heartfelt sympathy goes to the family, friends, and university colleagues and former students who mourn the loss of Grace. May she rest in peace.
Mission and Values, November 1, 2010
Arizona Republic, October 6, 2010
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It is with sorrow that we have learned of the death of Grace Peterson, Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Nursing. Grace served at DePaul from 1957 until her retirement in 1986. She passed away on October 2 at the age of 90, in Arizona.In addition to her service to the university, Grace was a retired colonel in the United States Nursing Corps and served actively in World War II. She was one of the first women to attain the rank of Colonel within the U.S. military.
Grace was active in the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and established the Grace Peterson Scholarship Fund at DePaul to provide scholarships for members of the DePaul chapter of Sigma Theta Tau. Last year, the Nursing Department renamed its annual student research colloquium in her honor, for her many contributions to the program and the profession.
Private services have been held. Condolences may be sent to family friend Judy Getch at s_getch@msn.com.
Our heartfelt sympathy goes to the family, friends, and university colleagues and former students who mourn the loss of Grace. May she rest in peace.
Mission and Values, November 1, 2010
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Grace Peterson, nursing pioneer
Grace G. Peterson, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Nursing, passed away on Oct. 2. She was 90.
Perterson, who resided in Sun City, Ariz., served DePaul from 1957 until her retirement in 1986.
"Grace Peterson made students feel that they could do anything they set out to do," said Karyn Holm, a Vincent de Paul Professor in DePaul's Department of Nursing. She knew Peterson since the 1970s when Holm was a master's student at DePaul and Peterson was her teacher. In fact, Peterson inspired Holm to pursue her Ph.D. at Loyola University Chicago soon after graduating from DePaul.
"You should also know that Grace, during her time at DePaul, educated the majority of the nurse administrators in Chicago," Holm said. "Nursing departments in most every hospital in the city were influenced profoundly by Grace Peterson."
In addition to her contributions to DePaul and hospitals in Chicago, she was a retired colonel in the U.S. Nursing Corps and served actively in World War II. In 1943, at age 23, she was sworn into the Army as a second lieutenant and shipped out to England, according to a published report. She served throughout Europe and was one of the first women to attain the rank of colonel within the U. S. military.
Peterson was active in the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and established the Grace Peterson Scholarship Fund at DePaul to provide scholarships for members of the DePaul chapter of Sigma Theta Tau. The nursing department renamed its annual student research colloquium in her honor, for her many contributions to the program and the profession.
Insights: A publication for alumni of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Winter, 2011, Vol. 22, No. 2, page 4.
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