{"id":2976,"date":"2016-07-29T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2016-07-29T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:43:54","slug":"as-assigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/as-assigned\/","title":{"rendered":"As Assigned"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mekuly_As<\/a>This artefact\u00a0from the history of a young writer is just one of many delightful surprises\u00a0that has shown up in our office since I first connected with Breanna Mekuly \u201909<\/strong>\u00a0earlier this summer. Breanna’s name first cropped up when I asked the faculty to join me in the six-degrees-of-separation challenge that would eventually become the cover story<\/a> for our summer issue:<\/p>\n

Dear All,
\n<\/em>I hope you can take a minute for a helpful party game in aid of the magazine. For an image-driven feature in our summer issue, I am looking to establish connections between St. Norbert College and the following people, places or things.<\/em><\/p>\n

These are the prompts!<\/em><\/p>\n

Oscar Romero<\/em>
\nGerard Manley Hopkins<\/em>
\nDorothy Day<\/em>
\nThomas Merton<\/em>
\nMaya Angelou<\/em>
\nRabbi Riccardo di Segni<\/em>
\nRabbi Elio Toaff<\/em>
\nMarie Curie<\/em>
\n\"Mekuly_cover\"<\/a>Claude Francois Nicole of Nancy<\/em>
\nPope John XXIII<\/em>
\nthe Jewish community in Rome<\/em>
\nPremontre<\/em>
\nChrist washing the feet of his disciples<\/em>
\ndeep roots\/<\/em>stabilitas
\nPentecost<\/em><\/p>\n

Via Bridget Burke Ravizza<\/strong> (Theology & RS), I received this response from Breanna, whose name I had not heard since she graduated four years ago.<\/p>\n

Hi Susan,<\/em><\/div>\n
Here is something to use in the upcoming article for the magazine on Gerard Manley Hopkins, if it fits:<\/em><\/div>\n

“I hated poetry. So to prove a point (but mostly to teach me about wonder, beauty, and diversity), Dr. Burke Ravizza prescribed that I read and reflect upon Gerard Manley Hopkin’s poem ‘Praise Hymn’ weekly. At the end of the semester, I emerged a lover of the way in which poetic language can lead one closer to the Great Mystery, God.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Also, this summer, I have an internship with\u00a0Sister Joan Chittister and her ministries. If you’re interested, I would be willing to share my experience here and how I was introduced to her at SNC. Let me know if something like that would be anything you might be looking for. I’m always up for writing different sorts of articles, especially of how SNC has shaped my life!<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
Thanks,<\/em><\/div>\n
Breanna Mekuly, ’12<\/em><\/div>\n

Another piece\u00a0in the puzzle that would become the A Wing and a Prayer<\/a> feature … plus a lead on a new story! We took Breanna up on her offer, which led to the wonderful story of vocation, practical persistence and Benedictine hospitality<\/a> that led this month’s @St. Norbert.\"Mekuly_Quest<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Breanna had found Bridget’s actual assignment, as evidenced at the top of this post: great advice for the poetry-reluctant, and we are so glad it brought her to us! And yesterday brought Breanna herself\u00a0to the office \u2013 a welcome but\u00a0unlooked-for visit, since we had been emailing back and forth\u00a0at her temporary home in Erie, Pennsylvania. She was on her way to the Benedictine community in Indiana referenced in the Quest for Sister Joan<\/a> story. And she left with a new assignment: we hope to bring you her work again soon. Meanwhile, here is Breanna again, in a completely different outlet, on Why I Don’t Like Working at Soup Kitchens<\/a>, for Patheos blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This artefact\u00a0from the history of a young writer is just one of many delightful surprises\u00a0that has shown up in our office since I first connected with Breanna Mekuly \u201909\u00a0earlier this summer. Breanna’s name first cropped up when I asked the…<\/p>\n

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