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Family
Mark Jaime
Mark has spent most of his career in higher education. Begin in Student Life, and then serving as the Director of Housing and Student Activities at Dominican in 1986 and 1987. Mark rejoined Dominican in the fall of 2004 as the Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Fund and currently serves as the Associate Director of Alumni Relations.
Mark tells his story of growing up in Sacramento and the importance of family. He shares how his path was leading him to culinary school and the food industry, when he made a sudden turn into working into Student Life and ended up at Dominican University of California.
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Roots for Life
Margaret Dierner
Sister Margaret Diener, a member of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael and currently the Director of Santa Sabina Center, the Dominican Sisters' retreat center adjacent to Edgehill Mansion.
Sr. Margaret is also a Dominican alumna, former faculty member and current member of the board of Dominican's board of trustees.
Sr. Margaret has named her reflection, "Roots for Life". What she knows is that her roots were and continue to be family, farm, faith and education - these inspired and sustain her commitment to what we celebrate today as Dominican values.
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My First Generation Experience
Briana Chavez
Briana Chavez of the Class of 2019 talks about her experience at Dominican through the lens of a first generation college student majoring in biology. Briana discusses her love of research, her time studying abroad in Spain, and her growth as a leader.
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If you can dream it, you can make it happen
Stuart Horne
Stuart has been teaching Internet radio for Dominican's Communications program since he served as one of the founders of the successful radio.dominican.edu - also known as Penguin Radio. He has been the radio voice of the penguins for 20 years.
Additionally, Stuart has more than thirty years’ experience in sound recording, having worked with top musicians in the recording industry. But one of his most treasured moments at Dominican was in 2012 when he was voted Teacher of the Year!
In this talk Stuart talks about his relationship with Dominican University of California and intertwines it with his passion for music and recording.
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Catching the Dominican Spirit
Carla Kovack
Our story teller today is Sister Carla, Kovack, OP, class of 1969 – this is her golden reunion year. Besides being an alum, Sr. Carla has taught Catholic Social Teaching as an adjunct faculty member and as a Campus Minister taken students to leadership institutes, the national preaching in action conference, LaBamba trips to Tijuana and mission trips to Uganda.
In her talk, Sr. Carla talks about her time as an educator, teaching in elementary school, being a school principal, teaching at Dominican University emphasizing points in her life that she experienced the Dominican Spirit.
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My Time at Dominican
Michael Henkes
Our story teller today is Michael Henkes. Michael was first hired at Dominican College as the Grounds Manager and three years later became the Associate Director of Facility Services. Over the next 22 years, he would actively participate the growth of the campus facilities from the 1994 installation of a new soccer field to the renovations of Meadowlands Hall in 2015. We asked Michael to share his story because of the beauty we see each day and in every step we take anywhere on this campus.
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Bridging My Dreams to Reality
Bridgett Hernandez
Bridgett Hernandez (Class of 2018) tells her story of how she came to Dominican University of California and how a deer changed her college experience. She talks about her club activities, travel abroad, involvement in the campus community, and her work with San Rafael High School’s Avid Program through a Service Learning course.
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My Dominican Journey: From San Rafael to Fanjeaux and Back
Marianne Stickel
Marianne Stickel reflects on her 16 years as the University’s Registrar telling stories of her first day on the job in 2002, as a graduate student studying the Humanities, exploring grief from through Dante, and her travels as part of the campus community, Fanjeaux France and China.
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Remain Resourceful
Jeremy Carmody
Today we come to hear the story of Dominican Sister of San Rafael, Sister Jeremy Carmody. Sr. Jeremy was born and raised in Sacramento. She was in the first graduating class of St. Francis High School. During her life, her ministry experiences have included high school education and administration, director of formation for the congregation and later congregational leadership, and finally service in health care.
Sr. Jeremy, a Dominican alumna (Class of 1945), remembers her life as an undergraduate student, socializing with her classmates in the Wicker Room and Hunt Room (located in Meadowlands Hall) and sneaking off to the “Smoke House” (currently the Gazebo located between Guzman and Meadowlands Halls).
Based on Campus Ministry’s lecture series, “We Come to Tell Our Story,” Heritage and History podcasts share through storytelling the rich heritage of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael and others who have nurtured and empowered our university throughout the years.
The Heritage and History Lecture Series moved under the auspices of the University Archives in the Fall of 2022.
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