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from Leslie C. Quick III, member and
past chair of St. Bonaventure's Board of
Trustees, and his wife, Eileen. In 1999,
two $1 million endowments were
named after longtime faculty member
Dr. James J. Martine. The grants to fac-
ulty, now in their 11th year, are funded
through the interest generated by the
endowment.
students to Seneca culture
tures and heavy reading for
homework -- the staples of
many college classes. But for
St. Bonaventure students in a
special section of World
Views, their classroom essen-
tials balanced on a different
set of staples -- ones provided
mainly from a community
outside the Bonaventure Bub-
ble.
class -- a core-area course
every SBU student takes --
focused on the social issue of
health and medicine, with a
particular emphasis on the
Seneca Nation's relationship
with health and medicine.
For a keen understanding of their
views and practices, Hilmey decided
not to simply lecture out of a textbook
but rather take his class to the Seneca
Nation.
going out and interacting with members
of the community. In this case, we were
tion," said Hilmey, an assistant profes-
sor of chemistry.
from the Faithkeepers School. The
Steamburg school was founded by
Lehman "Dar" and Sandy Dowdy and
teaches aspects of the Seneca culture,
with a notable emphasis on the salva-
tion of the Seneca language. Lehman
Dowdy died last summer.
how Native Americans approach health
world view at how they approach
health and how they approach medi-
cine," Hilmey said. "(But) it became
about how culturally different we are
from the Senecas, and to understand
health and medicine from a different
perspective requires a more global un-
derstanding of their culture."
ter, he and the class took about seven
trips to the Faithkeepers School to en-
gage in lectures with their teachers and
do poster presentations. Additionally,
the class attended a lecture from Ed-
ward Gray, a Mohawk medicine man.
For a final project, the class gave pre-
sentations to Salamanca High School
science classes on American Indian
medicine and the scientific method.
Topics ranged from sweat lodges to gin-
seng.
his course offered students a re-
warding learning experience. "It
was ... the ideal way to obtain a
world view because we were not
reading about them, we were not
watching a video about them --
we were speaking with them and
learning from them," he said.
Section Meeting of the
Mathematical Association
identification, communicating
mathematics effectively, and how
mathematics classes were among
the topics that were explored dur-
ing a regional meeting of the
Mathematical Association of
America (MAA) at St. Bonaven-
math faculty and students under the
leadership of assistant professor Dr.
Maureen Cox.
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hosted Trustee Bill Purcell for the
talk "The Next New Generation of
Leadership."
Whalen presented "From Bona's to the Big
Apple" and spoke about the prestigious
Christie's program and the New York art world.
faculty and community members to listen to
spoken word poet Anis Mojgani, hosted by the
SBU Slam Poetry Club. Club members James
Riley, '12, and Makeda Loney, '14, performed
original poems to open for Mojgani.
International Studies programs hosted Dana
traditional Iroquois medicine to Dr. Mary Adekson, Dr. David
Hilmey, and SBU Clare 208 students Rudjany Aristilde, Nicoya
Robinson, Brooke Huebner and Angell Benjamin.