Magis Moment: August 2022

A Message from the Vice President of University Advancement 

Loyola’s Advancement staff has been housed in Greenville Hall for four decades or so. That’s changing in the coming weeks, and we have been busy preparing for a move to Marquette Hall. 

Our staff has spent the summer learning very practically what healthy indifference means when it comes to material things (including paper documents). If you’ve moved anytime recently, or if you’ve suffered a disaster at your home like a hurricane, flood, tornado, or wildfire, I imagine you know what I’m talking about. A move or physical loss forces us to reconsider our approach to the objects around us.

Do I really need this thing (a half-broken stapler, a chair that provokes nostalgia, an old handwritten note from an alumna) to accomplish my purpose and realize my calling? My Loyola colleagues have had to ask this kind of question hundreds of times over the summer, and we are not done yet.

It’s been a great run on the Broadway Campus. We’ve done so much good work and held so many important events in Greenville—meetings of the Board of Trustees, alumni meetings and events, Masses, baptisms, at least one first-rate wine tasting, and so much more. We look forward to seeing you in Marquette Hall this fall—second floor, up the hall from the President’s Suite. I think you’ll find a Loyola Advancement team with new eyes and a clearer vision about what is essential and what is not.

AMDG, 

Chris Wiseman '88