Summer 2005: Health Care in America

Health Care in America
How is health care changing? And how must health care providers and education change to ensure its challenges are met? Three experts provide their perspective. MORE >>

Personal Connections
by Susan Flansburg 
Most health care professionals will tell you that their desire to help heal others is connected to the most personal of experiences. MORE >>

Apartment Rwanda
by Ted Stephens III
Leaving one’s homeland, no matter how torn with strife, takes a leap of faith—and hope. MORE >>

Class of 2005 is Also the Class of 9/11
Another graduating class, many of whom entered St. Ambrose a few days before September 11, crossed the stage at the Mark of the Quad Cities on May 15. Take a look at a recap and photos from graduation day.

The Sharing of the Green
Irish Studies Program Director Ryan Dye isn’t Irish, so he didn’t develop his passion for the people of this tiny island with its huge historical impact at home. And it is a passion.
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Times of the Signs
Don Dinges ’57 never set out to be an expert in Burma Shave lore. But for this former acolyte of Father Edward Catich, the signs were always there. MORE >>

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Additional stories and Web sites from the Summer 2005 Scene magazine.

Letters Yield Stories
Two soldiers tell their stories; Arthur Gill ’57 reiterates the value of hard work; current student Katie Voelliger recounts the friendships made by her grandmother, Katie Lampe, who was in the first class of “Mercy’s Nursies”; and Tom Miller, a retired teacher and a novelist and essayist, pens a fond tribute to former History Professor Wayne DeJohn 

Figge Distinguishes Art Faculty When the Figge Art Museum opens in downtown Davenport later this summer, two SAU art faculty will have had a hand—and a brush—in drawing the first visitors to the facility. 

Passages
The St. Ambrose family suffered an unusual number of losses in the past seven months, from beloved professors, both former and current, to leaders and dedicated supporters of the university. They are all greatly missed.

Homecoming 2005, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2
Directionally challenged? Worry not—“All Roads Lead Home” during St. Ambrose’s Homecoming 2005 celebration, Sept. 30–Oct. 2 on the SAU campus.

Athletics
Go online to review spring season results and catch previews of fall sports.

 

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