Yoshiko Kakudo Contributes to Homiletics Scholarships
Yoshiko (Yoshi) Kakudo, artist and retired curator of Japanese Art at the San Francisco
Asian Art Museum, gifted the GTU $10,000 for the Father Michael Monshau Scholarship in Homiletics.
Ms. Kakudo is a friend of Father Monshau, a former member of the GTU Core Doctoral Faculty and professor of Homiletics at the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology. She was curator at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum for more than 30 years, retiring in 1994.
Marge Webb Supports Students in Church Administration
When Margaret Webb chose to establish a scholarship in memory of her cousin and longtime mentor Father Francis L. Markey, she naturally looked to the Graduate Theological Union. “It was a place bubbling with fresh thinking and ideas,” she says.
“Father relished freshness of thought, and the GTU had developed a new language to discuss the Catholic Church in breadth and depth. It was a good fit.”
The GTU...“was a place bubbling with fresh thinking and ideas.”
— Marge Webb
Ms. Webb began working with Father Markey in the mid-1960’s developing one of the first post-Vatican II parishes — Resurrection Parish in Aptos, California. “He was well known as a visionary. He’d been educated in journalism and philosophy, and he believed in challenging the Church hierarchy from within,” she says. Father Markey advocated that women have an equal voice at all levels of Church administration — in parishes, dioceses, and education. As Father Markey’s estate executor, Ms. Webb created a scholarship at the GTU in 2001 for women leaders in the Catholic Church. She contributed more than $200,000 to provide scholarships for three doctoral students. Her hope is that these women might use their degrees in church administration.
One woman already realizing Ms. Webb’s hope is Patricia Vanni, this year’s Markey Scholarship recipient. She brings her business administration background to the study of effective parish management, and hopes to help parishes develop more efficient business and personnel practices.