Mission Day 2012
This year’s Mission Day—one of the signature events celebrating LMU AT 100—was held on January 26. Dr. Kevin Starr, noted California historian and author of Loyola Marymount: A Centennial History, gave the keynote address to an overflow crowd of administrators, staff, faculty, and students in Sacred Heart Chapel. Dr. Starr’s talk, entitled “The DNA and Mission of LMU,” situated Loyola Marymount in the larger contexts of American and Catholic higher education and, like his volume on the history of LMU, proved rich in insights gleaned from his research in the University archives.
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As a follow-up to the keynote address, the Mission Day Committee and Bellarmine Forum collaborated to host a late afternoon roundtable discussion in the Von der Ahe Suite of William H. Hannon Library to address a question raised by Jesuit Superior General Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., in Mexico City in April 2010: “What kind of universities, with what emphases and what directions, would we run if we were refounding the Society of Jesus in today’s globalized world with its lights and shadows?” Roundtable participants were Mary Genino, R.S.H.M., Provincial of the Western Province of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, LMU Trustee; Dr. Paul Harris, Professor of English, Department Chair; Mary Beth Ingham, C.S.J., Member of the General Council of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, LMU Trustee; and Thomas Rausch, S.J., T. Marie Chilton Professor of Catholic Theology. Watch the video.
Click below to view previous Mission Day keynotes talks: