Category: Articles
Breaking Bread Together
Joseph A. Sullivan, S.J., (front, third from left) hosted a dinner with Hollywood leaders as part of his campaign to move Loyola to Westchester. In the late ’20s, Hollywood was under fire from Catholics for making immoral movies. Film moguls had good reasons to respond when Loyola University’s president invited them to dinner to discuss […]
A New Plan for the Life Sciences
Today’s science education requires modern laboratories, as well as collaborative research and learning facilities that provide contemporary technological capabilities and encourage interdisciplinary research. That’s why the “Right Place. Right Time. The Campaign for LMU” is focused on raising $75 million for a new Life Sciences Building at Loyola Marymount University. A new Life Sciences Building […]
A Heritage of Coffee and Education
In 1963, the Gaviña family were Cuban émigrés and new to California. They had fled their homeland’s revolution and left behind a coffee growing and roasting enterprise. Then an opportunity presented itself: They bought a coffee roaster for $500. Today, F. Gaviña & Sons, in Vernon, Calif., produces more than 40 million lbs. of coffee […]
A Conversation With Greg Mortenson
Greg Mortenson has been building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, emphasizing education for girls, since 1993. His first book, “Three Cups of Tea,” tells the story of how he began that work. Mortenson also is the co-founder and executive director of the Central Asia Institute. In February, he lectured on campus and received the Doshi […]
Gigi Pascual ’05
Gigi Pascual, who studied business at LMU, launched The Buttermilk Truck, her gourmet food truck, in November 2009. Almost all of her menu items — pastries and other breakfast items — feature buttermilk as an ingredient. She was interviewed by LMU Magazine Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch. (Chase Gigi’s truck at buttermilktruck.com; follow her on Twitter @buttermilktruck. You can also find the Buttermilk Truck at the Abbot Kinney First Friday event most months, unless it has been hired for a private engagement.)
“A Live Wire”
In 1929, “talkies” were the newest innovation in film. To promote a fundraising campaign at Loyola University, President Joseph Sullivan, S.J., and Fox studios produced a trailer featuring Buddy Rogers and Mary Brian, two of the era’s biggest stars.