USD Magazine Spring 2006

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Save the wolf. That’s something

psychology professor Dan

Moriarty helps do through his

longtime involvement with the

California Wolf Center near

Julian. “I think we’re making

significant contributions to

maintain our nation’s ecological

integrity while rescuing at least

one endangered species,”

Moriarty says. He’s gotten a

steady stream of USD students

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involved. The work is gratifying:

“You can’t help but form a

In putting this story together, it occurred to us that it might

connection to the animals in

have been easier to talk about who isn’t volunteering at

your care,” Moriarty says. A recent

USD than it was to select a mere handful from the hundreds of altruists who populate every campus nook and

release into the wild of a wolf

cranny. While it’s inevitable we’ve left many people and projects out, we wanted to shoehorn in a few more self-

from the center “was very emo-

less souls: Newly created charter school Keiller Leadership Academy has enlisted Lonnie Rowell, Lea Hubbard

tional for everyone and a very

and Dean Paula Cordeiro of the School of Leadership and Education Sciences to work with students in the

exciting moment.” Go to

classrooms, help increase student academic achievement and serve as members of Keiller’s Board of

www.californiawolfcenter.org.

Directors ... The English department’s David Hay directs the Southeast San Diego Tutoring Program, which

lets USD students work one-on-one with kids who need extra help ... Associate Professor of Nursing Kathy James

speaks to groups about healthy eating ... Florence Gillman, Chair of the Department of Theology and Religious

Studies, is an usher co-captain — along with her husband — at the Old Globe Theatre ... And finally, theology

professor Jim Ewing volunteers with one of his students as a counselor to the homeless who seek help through

the UCSD medical clinic at First Lutheran Church in downtown San Diego. Keep up the good work.

To learn more about volunteering opportunities go to www.sandiego.edu/usdmag.

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