Campus & Community

Patricia Phelan, JD ’89, runs her own law practice specializing in special-education law.

A member of the university’s Board of Trustees, David Conner, AB ’74, is the CEO of Singapore’s second-largest bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.

Lanie, AB ’60, and Hugh Fleischer, AB ’61, devote their lives to each other and to promoting civil rights and social justice.

The Alumni Association offers great learning opportunities through travel. Plus, alumnus Jeff Rosenkranz speaks to his ongoing relationship with the university.

The No. 4 men’s soccer team saw its seven-game winning streak to start the season come to an end with a 3-1 loss at No. 15 Dominican University Sept. 25 in River Forest, Ill. Updates also on football, men’s tennis, women’s golf, women’s soccer and cross country.

Mary C. Molloy, secretary and receptionist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science since 1981, died Sept. 3, 2011, of a stroke. She was 81.

The School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis will dedicate a new building, Preston M. Green Hall, Friday, Sept. 23, and in conjunction will hold the symposium “Challenges & Opportunities in Engineering Education & Research.” The symposium, which will feature National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh, DSc, is open to the public. It will be held from at 2:30 p.m. in Room 300 of the Laboratory Sciences building on WUSTL’s Danforth Campus. 

The No. 2 volleyball team ran its record to 14-0 — the team’s best start ever — by winning the Molten Colorado College Invitational Sept. 16 and 17. Updates also included on men’s and women’s soccer, cross country, football, tennis and women’s golf.

The women’s soccer team won the WUSTL Classic over the weekend with victories over DePauw University 3-2 and and Rhodes College 1-0. The shutout against Rhodes was the third shutout of the season for coach Jim Conlon’s team. Updates also included on football, volleyball and men’s soccer.

James E. McLeod, vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital of kidney failure after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 67. In a letter addressed to the WUSTL community Sept. 6, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced that “Washington University has lost one of its greatest citizens and leaders.”