Kathleen Hermann Balousek has devoted her life to community service. In 2013, she was named Catholic Charities’ San Francisco Bay Area Catholic Woman of the Year. She has counseled troubled and suicidal teens and served on the board at a crisis hotline agency; founded a local chapter of Shoes That Fit, which supplies shoes and clothing to immigrant children; and launched a foundation to provide tuition support, religious activities and more to disadvantaged children and their families.
Diane Cavanaugh Millea is a family nurse practitioner at Methodist Community Health Clinic, providing care for underserved and underinsured patients. She twice served on the College of Nursing’s Alumni Advisory Board, was board president from 2011 to 2015 and currently serves on the board of directors of Creighton’s Alpha Sigma Nu chapter. She also volunteers at the OneWorld Community Health Clinic Annual Women’s Health Event, the annual Black Family Health event and Project Homeless Connect.
Eric Ernest is a prominent contributor to the field of emergency medicine, exemplifying the ideal of “men and women for and with others.” Along with being a staff physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Nebraska Medicine, he also leads several emergency medical services (EMS) agencies and is involved with his profession on a local and national level. He also mentors EMS personnel at numerous local fire and emergency response departments.
Financial professional Philip Grybas has a reputation in the communications industry for streamlining and improving business practices. He has broad expertise in international finance, financial planning and analysis, and currently is board chairman of Great Plains Communications Inc.; audit committee chairman and executive committee board member of the Private Directors Association; and Governance Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He serves on the Graduate School Alumni Advisory Board.
Jeffrey McCroy is president and CEO of Christian Brothers Investment Services, a Catholic investment management firm. He is responsible for the firm’s mission and strategic direction at the intersection of faith and finance, serving Catholic investors across the globe. McCroy takes great pride in that mission and credits Creighton with helping form who he is today — both personally and professionally. He is a member of Legatus, an international organization of Catholic business leaders.
Kurt Stormberg is a board-certified orthodontist. He is past chair of the School of Dentistry Alumni Advisory Board and the current president of the Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists. Stormberg has a passion for giving back to his profession and has directed many nonprofit boards, including the San Diego County Dental Society and the San Diego Dental Health Foundation. He has been a delegate to the American Dental Association, American Association of Orthodontists and California Dental Association.
Steven Seline is president of Walnut Private Equity Partners, a firm focused on transactions and consulting for high-net-worth families, and Walnut Radio, which owns several Omaha-area radio stations. His career successes are numerous but describe only a portion of who he is. He and his wife, Sue, a 1982 graduate, have generously supported the journalism department, law school, dental school and athletics programs. He has a lengthy record of service on numerous nonprofit boards and as an alumni advisor to the law school.
Joseph Herbert has been a pediatrician in Santa Cruz, California, for more than five decades. Following medical school and a stint in the Navy Medical Corps, he embarked on a life of service that began with a 1993 service trip to the Dominican Republic. Since then, he has been on more than 30 international medical service trips, including being medical director for Creighton’s Institute for Latin American Concern program. A teacher and mentor, Herbert has influenced hundreds, if not thousands, of medical professionals.
Serving the people of the Dominican Republic has been a personal and professional mission of physical therapist Nicholas Kietzman-Greer. He participated in Encuentro Dominicano, and later returned to the D.R. as a PT student, where he met his wife, Laurie, who was completing an internship through Rockhurst University. Together they have touched thousands of lives by constructing churches, interpreting for Spanish-speaking patients at clinics, and providing food and companionship to those without.
