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Designed to sweat

A national publication focused on higher education management will honor RecPlex, the University of Dayton’s new fitness and recreation complex for outstanding architecture and design.

Ladar institute gains sponsors

Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin and Textron Systems Corp. become the Ladar and Optical Communications Institute's first corporate sponsors.

Homily for Larry Hadley

Homily for Mass of Christian Burial for Larry Hadley
Immaculate Conception Chapel, University of Dayton
June 15, 2007
Given by Father Chris Wittmann, S.M.
Readings:
Wisdom 3:1-6,9
Psalm 103 (The Lord is kind and merciful)
1 John 3:1-2
John 6:37-40

Acclaimed sports economist dies at 62

Larry Hadley, co-author of a much-publicized and controversial study that determined taxpayer dollars are not needed to build new Major League Baseball stadiums, died Saturday, June 9. He was 62.

A national winner

The University of Dayton Quarterly has been named the best alumni tabloid in the country for high quality resulting from an effective use of budget and staff.

DECA to become charter school

The pioneering Dayton Early College Academy will apply to the state to open as a charter school in the 2007-2008 school year operated by the University of Dayton to preserve momentum created by the first four years of the experimental school.

Revitalization

UD is moving ahead on an 11-acre riverfront redevelopment project, including Building 26 commemoration.

Citirama to showcase UD student housing

This summer's Citirama home show won't draw people to a traditional urban neighborhood.

In the first partnership of its kind in the country, the Home Builders Association of Dayton is teaming with the University of Dayton to showcase student housing during the Aug. 2-5 home show.  It's free and open to the public.

The $2.5 million project will feature new five-unit attached townhouses on Stonemill Road and four renovated houses on Stonemill Road and Frericks Way — including the ever-popular ''Castle,'' known for its distinctive turret.  Expected to be completed in July, the homes will house 55 students.

''This year's Citirama introduces cost-effective and innovative approaches to student housing design,'' said Walt Hibner, executive director of the Home Builders Association of Dayton.  ''This type of showcase demonstrates the ability of our contractors to build more than traditional market housing."

Officials from the Home Builders Association of Dayton and UD today showed the architectural renderings and construction progress as a record 1,700 alumni and guests began to converge on campus for Reunion Weekend. The University of  Dayton's tight-knit south student neighborhood — with its front porches and small-town ambiance — sparks memories and nostalgia among alumni.

''This is a perfect weekend to announce this project in the heart of a neighborhood that's so special to alumni and students,'' said Daniel J. Curran, president of the University of Dayton.  ''This neighborhood symbolizes UD's Catholic, Marianist mission of living and learning in community, and this project signals that we are committed to maintaining its front-porch character.  For a college student, it's a memorable experience to live in a neighborhood filled with your classmates — and to be able to walk down the street and have dinner with the Marianist brothers and priests who live here."

The University of Dayton, one of the most residential universities in the country, owns 328 properties, including houses and duplexes, in four student neighborhoods (south, north, Holy Angels and Wyoming) — unique on college campuses nationwide.  About 90 percent of UD's undergraduates live in the immediate campus environment in housing ranging from traditional residence halls and apartments to ArtStreet and single-family homes with porches.

The floor plans for the new and renovated homes include front porches, energy-efficient windows, doors and insulation; durable and low-maintenance interior and exterior finishes; and state-of-the-art mechanical, safety and communication systems.  The architectural features blend with other homes in the neighborhood. Greater Dayton Building and Remodeling, doing business as Oberer Thompson Co., is the project's contractor.

"The Home Builders Association of Dayton is proud to be presenting the 2007 Citirama in the University of Dayton's south student neighborhood,'' said Jenny Diorio, president-elect of the association and a UD graduate.  ''The Citirama projects in the past have been a venue to showcase the magnificent transformations of neighborhoods.  As I recall my past UD experiences in this neighborhood, this transformation is no exception."

In the past five years, the University of Dayton has invested more than $80 million in student residential facilities and amenities, such as wireless computing in all student housing and RecPlex, a $25 million fitness and recreation center.  In addition, UD invested nearly $5 million in new and renovated housing in the student neighborhoods and constructed two facilities that combine living and learning — Marianist Hall, a $20 million residence hall with flexible classrooms and learning spaces, and ArtStreet, a $9 million housing and arts education complex in the south student neighborhood.  UD is completing the final phase of a $20 million renovation of Marycrest residence hall this summer and has teamed with the Miller-Valentine Group to construct University Place, a two-story mixed-use development on the corner of Brown and Stewart streets that will include apartments for graduate and law students as well as retail outlets.

Citirama is free, but tickets are required.  They are available at the information kiosk at the main entrance and at the Kennedy Union information desk at the University of Dayton, 300 College Park; Home Builders
Association of Dayton, 2003 Springboro West; the Dayton Daily News, 1611 S. Main St.; and Frank Z Chevrolet, 1620 Brown St.  Citirama runs from 4 to 8 p.m. Aug. 2-3 and noon to 8 p.m. on Aug. 4-5. 

Citirama is a partnership between the Home Builders Association of Dayton and the University of Dayton, with support from the Dayton Daily News and Frank Z Chevrolet.

McIntosh Scholars celebrate 20 years of leadership

The University of Dayton and the city of Dayton will celebrate a 20-year scholarship program that has awarded more than $1.3 million to honor the legacy of local civil rights leader W.S. McIntosh.

Community and University leaders, along with program recipients, will offer a public salute to McIntosh at 5:30 p.m., Friday, June 8 at the Dayton Cultural and RTA Center, 40 S. Edwin Moses Blvd. Alumni of the program will have a reunion dinner and celebration on Saturday evening at the Engineers Club.

Each year since 1987, the University and the city have awarded the W. S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership award to a graduating African-American high school student who is a resident of the city of Dayton.

The celebration also includes an information session for potential McIntosh scholars from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 9, at Marianist Hall. High school students can talk with past McIntosh scholars about life at UD and take a campus tour. Sponsored by the admission office and the office of diverse student populations, the event is free and participants have a chance to win a $1,000 UD scholarship.

The combination scholarship/internship has been awarded to 21 recipients since its inception. The four-year scholarship award includes tuition, fees, room and board and a computer with a current estimated total value of $140,000.  The award also includes a paid four-year internship with the City of Dayton.

The goal of the program is to encourage local African-American students to attend UD and to stay in the area after graduation by supporting their education and helping them develop professional experience while in school.

McIntosh alumni include Dayton City Manager Rashad Young, who was the 1994 recipient. Dayton Early College Academy graduate Alvin Wilkerson is the 2007 recipient. Wilkerson, who also earned an associate of science degree from Sinclair Community College, will study engineering at UD.

McIntosh, a noted Dayton area civil rights leader in the 1960s, was shot and killed while trying to prevent a robbery at a jewelry store in downtown Dayton on March 4, 1974. He led several nonviolent protests that fought to open employment in local businesses to minorities.

Committee named for business dean search

Provost Fred Pestello this week appointed a search committee for the dean of the School of Business Administration.

The members of the committee are:
* Thomas Ferratt – search committee chair and Sherman-Standard Register Professor of MIS
* Deborah Bickford – associate provost for academic affairs and learning initiatives and professor, management and marketing
* Thomas Burkhardt – vice president for finance and administrative services
* Richard Davis – member, board of trustees and founder and former president, Nuveen Flagship Financial Inc.
* Jay Janney – assistant professor, management and marketing
* Father Paul Marshall, S.M. – rector and member, board of trustees
* Nancy Mohan – chair and associate professor, economics and finance
* Paul Morman – dean emeritus and professor, history
* Donna Street – Al and Marcie Mahrt Chair in Accounting.

The goal is to have a new dean in place no later than July 1, 2008.

Elizabeth Gustafson, former chair of economics and finance, will serve as interim dean, beginning July 1, 2007, when Dean Pat Meyers begins an appointment as special assistant to the president.