Tower Topics ~ Spring 2002

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Faculty footnotes

Sister Maria Armijo, director of the Language, Culture and Church program, attended the TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) conference last Feb. 27 through March 3 in St. Louis. The title of the conference was “Gateway to the Future.”

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Dr. Eduardo J. Echeverria, associate professor of philosophy, is featured in a three-part, three-hour television series on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), which addresses the document Dominus Jesus (“The Lord Jesus”). The series can be purchased through EWTN. Dr. Echeverria has also been invited by the Spiritual Life Center of the Diocese of Wichita to give a series of four lectures on Dominus Jesus. The series, entitled “Encountering Religious Pluralism: The Challenge to Christian Faith and the Church’s Missionary Mandate,” will be March 15-16. For more information, please contact the Spiritual Life Center.

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Abbot Gregory Polan had two articles published for the journal, The Bible Today. “Behold my Servant: Portraits of Second Isaiah’s Servant” appeared in the March/April issue, and “Hosea’s Interpretation of Israel’s Traditions” appeared in the November/December issue. He also had an article published in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series #32, Imagery and Imagination in Biblical Literature, honoring Aloysius Fitzgerald, F.S.C., entitled, “Zion, the Glory of the Holy One of Israel: A Literary Analysis of Isaiah 60.” Abbot Gregory’s columns on Scripture appear regularly in the Catholic Key, newspaper of the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.

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This fall, the editor of Counseling & Values has selected Father Duane Reinert, OFM Cap., associate professor of psychology and director of counseling services, for a second term on the editorial review board of the journal. The term extends until 2005. Counseling & Values is the official journal of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling, a division of the American Counseling Association. Father Duane receives articles that others have submitted for publication, for which he provides feedback on how to improve the articles and recommends to the editor whether or not it should be published in the journal.

Father Duane has also been recognized as an approved clinical supervisor (ACS) by the Center for Credentialing and Education, Inc., an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors.

He co-authored two journal articles, “The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test: An Aid to Recognition of Alcohol Problems in Primary Care Patients” was published in Preventive Medicine, 33, 428-433, and “The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): A Review of Recent Research” was scheduled for publication in the February 2002 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

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Brother Thomas Sullivan, library director, professor of history and chaplain, attended the International Congress on Medieval Studies May 3-6, 2001, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. He organized a session for the Congress entitled “The University of Paris (1300-1600): Prosopographical Studies,” and presented a paper entitled: “Time-to-Degree Figures and Graduation Rates for the Parisian Faculty of Theology, 1449-1465.” A revised and expanded form of this paper will be published in the 2001 edition of Medieval Prosopography. At the same conference, he presided at a session sponsored by the Institute of Cistercian Studies.

Brother Thomas attended the American Theological Library Association Annual Conference sponsored by the Divinity School of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina June 20-23, 2001.

In November 2001, Brother Thomas was notified that a proposal he submitted to the American Theological Library Association had been accepted and that Conception Abbey and Seminary Library would receive $5,000 to digitalize the 487 photographs collected by the Abbey’s missionaries in the Dakotas.

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Chaplains Father Dan Merz and Father Sebastian Allgaier, and Academic Dean Dr. Elizabeth McGrath attended the “Fifth Institute for the Preparation of Seminary Formation and Advisors” June 15-23, 2001, in Baltimore.

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Brother Jacob Kubajak, seminary and abbey treasurer, attended a National Association for Treasurer’s of Religious Institutes (NATRI) convention in Milwaukee, Wis., from Oct.31 to Nov. 3, 2001.

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Father Donald Grabner, professor of theology, was one of 16 participants June 25 to Aug. 3 in a seminar, “Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe,” at the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C. The event was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Sept. 18-22 Father Donald simultaneously attended the annual Board Meeting of MID (Monastic Interreligous Dialog) and the “Benedict’s Dharma: A Conference of Buddhist and Christian Monastics” at Beech Grove, Ind.

In April Father Donald will present a short paper, “Dialogue on Suffering and Transformation,” at the Gethsemani II dialogue at Gethsemani Abbey, Trappist, Ken. This dialogue will be a more restricted follow-up on Gethsemani I, an earlier gathering of Buddhist and Christian monastics to discuss the monastic way of life and spiritual exercises.

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