Becoming St. Catherine University

RUTH BROMBACH '60, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Becoming" carries a hint of the unknown, a whiff of mystery, a question mark. What are we becoming? St. Catherine in 2009 is strong and vibrant. It is responsive to the needs of students and to current educational developments. St. Catherine is deeply respected as a leader among women's colleges.

As a university we have a great new opportunity. The entire community of students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumnae together has a chance to showcase the best of what makes St. Catherine work: women-powered and womencentered styles, problem-solving skills and special characteristics.

Unlike the common concept of university, we will remain intimate and caring. We will not be everything to everybody; we can remain committed to liberal arts and our Catholic identity because these two arms of our mission offer the most humanizing kind of education.

Doing what needs to be done is characteristic of women. St. Catherine graduates, as they always have, will take the education offered and the principles of leadership and social justice and will find always-new ways to accomplish what needs to be done.

Retaining the capacity to develop leaders committed to the good of all, educated with professional skills and a Catholic and liberal arts foundation, and buoyed by a caring, women-centered atmosphere within and without, St. Catherine University will carve its own place among the finest universities. Within our distinct atmosphere we will continue to be a very special place, a place of which we will all be proud.