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VOLUME 98 I ISSUE 20
Honoring the legacy of CSA founder Pam Rector
via Patrick Furlong
Pam Rector, the director of CSA, next to Anthony Garrison- Engbrecht, her former
colleague who donated a kidney to Rector in January.
In her 22 years at the
University, Rector inspired
change and action.
Molly Jean Box
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“She was a force in our community”
said Patrick Furlong, longtime colleague
and friend of Pam Rector, director
of the Center for Service and Action
(CSA), who passed away on Feb. 15.
Rector was a deeply involved and
gracious member of our community,
whose influence extends beyond her
work at CSA.
“She had this incredible reach and
influence on so many of us and mentored
us, myself included,” said Furlong. As
the associate director for CSA and an
LMU alumnus, he was able to witness
Rector’s impact firsthand. According to
Furlong, Rector’s deep care for people,
both within and outside the community,
will be what is missed most about her.
“And that’s what hurts the most.
People won’t get to see that in its full
effect. We thought she was going to
get healthy and we’d get to have that
again. Not having that feels like a
loss,” said Furlong.
In 2018, Anthony Garrison- Engbrecht,
former colleague of Rector’s, learned
that his friend and mentor was in need of
a kidney transplant. He had been made
aware of the situation through a post
made by Rector’s daughter, Grace.
“I remember Pam’s daughter as a
kid walking around in her Girl Scout
uniform selling cookies in her wagon.
So when Grace posted ... that [Rector]
needed a kidney ... I called Grace and
said I’m happy to get tested and find out
if we’re a match.”
On Jan. 21, Garrison - Engbrecht donated
his kidney. According to him, it was the
least he could do for the woman who did so
much. “ For me it was just giving an organ,
she gave her life to this.” Regardless of the
outcome, Garrison -Engbrecht said he
would do it again.
Rector served this campus for 22 years,
during which she founded CSA — an
implementation into our community
that revolutionized “how LMU shares
our mission with the world and ensures
that our students become for and with
others,” according to President Timothy
Law Snyder, Ph.D. in the message from
the president.
Rector’s service and impact have been
recognized through multiple awards and
honors including the Madonna Della
Strada Award from the Los Angeles
Regional Council of the Ignatian
Volunteer Corps and the Barbara Bonney
Staff Award for professional excellence.
The accolades are a testament to
Rector's dedication to do whatever
needed to be done.
See Rector | Page 2
Three new living communities coming fall 2020
The communities will be located in the
new residence halls and available only for
returning students.
Haley LaHa
Asst. News Editor
@LALoyolan
While the Loyolan has previously reported on the new
Gender and Intersectional Identities Living Learning
Community (LLC), there are another three new living
communities being introduced in fall 2020: the Arrupe
LLC, Entrepreneurship: Innovating for Resilient
Communities, and Vanier. All four living communities are
for returning students and will be located in the new pod-
style residence halls constructed in the East Quad.
Named after Father Pedro Arrupe, S.J., and rooted in
Ignatian values, the Arrupe LLC encompasses LMU’s
multifaceted mission to promote faith and justice in
an intentional and relational way. It embraces the
education of the whole person through a curricular and
со
-curricular experience offering both academic and
service opportunities to encourage students to become
more involved with the community around them in their
development as Ignatian leaders.
“[This LLC is about] forming Ignatian leaders who
have compassionate minds and intelligent hearts to
embrace their vocations of being a person who is for and
with others,” said Father Marc Reeves, S.J., associate vice
president for mission and ministry, director of catholic
studies and director of the Arrupe LLC. “This is a way of
inviting the students to move beyond the words of our
mission statement and have an opportunity to experience
it first hand, living it out in ways they probably already are,
but maybe in more intentional conscious ways.”
Students in the program will take a class together in the
fall and in the spring. These courses will fulfill some of the
University’s core curriculum, particularly covering the
Faith and Reason and Ethics and Justice core Integrations
requirements. Both classes will be tailored specifically for
the cohort in the program.
It is anticipated that many of the participants of the
LLC will already be involved in service through Greek life,
service organizations or another one of the many service
opportunities offered by LMU. If a student is not part
of an active service program, they will be encouraged to
become involved with one of the community partnerships
sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, the
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary or the Society
of Jesus. However, other service opportunities not
sponsored by such partnerships will not necessarily be
excluded, according to Father Reeves.
“Living-Learning Communities, especially Arrupe, offer
a wonderful atmosphere for aeertain important value or goal
to become a tangible reality, in the hope of impacting others
and planting a seed of growing towards a more holistic life,”
said Mikaela Adams, a freshman management and theology
double major, who is interested in applying to Arrupe.
The Arrupe LLC is open to all students as long as the
LMU registrar’s office identifies them as a sophomore
or junior in the next academic year who hasn’t taken
the specific core courses. There was a soft deadline for
applications on Feb. 14.
The Entrepreneurship: Innovating for Resilient
Communities living community will immerse students
in both the LMU College of Business Administration
and the LMU Center for Urban Resilience. Through both
academic and project-based opportunities, students will
address topics such as water security, food security, green
infrastructure, biodiversity, human mobility, social inequity
and economic stability in discussion of how to produce
sustainable communities in an entrepreneurial setting.
“It’s a different type of lifestyle, starting your own
company, going to school and working on a startup, and
we wanted to foster a community where those people who
want to pursue that kind of lifestyle could be together and
feel a sense of community and help each other now and
in the future,” said Darlene Fukuji, the associate director
of LMU's Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship. “We
also wanted to create more engagement with our students
to solve some of our world’s biggest problems.”
The LLC is open to rising sophomores, juniors and
seniors of all majors. In the fall semester, students will take
a specially tailored course consisting of an introduction
to entrepreneurship with components from the Center
for Urban Resilience (CURes). The spring semester will
be more focused on project -based learning and social
entrepreneurship.
Through various projects, students will be able to
develop their own ideas and structure for potential
entrepreneurial proposals. The program will be forming
partnerships with various companies in Los Angeles with
which students also have the ability to make connections,
build relationships and discuss ideas.
“I know LMU students care. They’re very service-
oriented, they care about the community, they care about
the environment, they care about making the world abetter
place and it’s going to be empowering when you know the
technical side of things and gain the experience and street
cred for doing it,” said Fukuji.
The Vanier living community has a different structure
than any of the other communities. It is not considered an
LLC because it is not attached to specific academic courses
that the students in the program will take together.
See Communities | Page 2
