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celebrate the importance of critical thinking.

examine the

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They

articles

and

ideas.

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professional success

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is

may be unwashed

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of the universe. But they also must learn to balance the celes-

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VOL. 2 NO.

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SPRING 1996

1 Romance

Bloomsbu]
PRESIDENT
Jessica

scoot across the floor.

Kozloff

S.

Room

the Laundry

Bloomsburg alum Donna Grove finds
time to write award-winning romance novels amid
piles of children's laundry and "dust bunnies" that

MAGAZINE

THE UNIVEKSITY

in

hy Trina Walker

COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES

Ramona
Joseph

J.

6 These are the Days of Miracles and
Wonders by Mark Lloyd Miracles and magic.

H. Alley. Chair

Mowad.Vice Chair

Robert W. Buehner.Jr.. Secretary
Jennifer R. Adams

How does the modern

James T.Atherton.Jr
LaRoy G. Davis
David J. Cope
David

Petrosky

J.

university balance these

contradictory approaches to an understanding of
2.

Ted Stuban

Romance Writer

the world around us.

A. William Kelly

Kevin M. O'Connor
James H. McCormick, Ex-Officio.

12 Taking a Leap Into Entrepreneurship

BLOOMSBURG LrNI\TRSm' .\LUMM ASSOCWTION

Clifford

Maurer

'66.

classroom

Secretary

move

'68. Treasurer

John J.Trathen

Doug

BLOOMSBLIRG UNI\'ERSITT FOUNDATION

Hill.

The

Director

laniero, Executive

T.

their markets.

how the

Lentczner

by Michael

Cummings
we

Internet promises to transform the ways

communicate. This

Treasurer

E^ECUTO'E EDITOR
Joan

up on

University students

and help budding business owners

16 Weaving the Web

J.Jan Girton. Chair

Elbern H.Alkire Jn.Vice Chair

David

when Bloomsburg

into the field

get a leg

C. Hippenstiel '68. Ex-Officio,
Director of Alumni Affairs

Anthony

Entrepreneurship goes outside the

by Jason Kirsch

Marvin Meczger '86. President
Sandra Rupp '7 1. Vice President

create

article

looks at the 'Net and shows

and the tovwi
an electronic community.
university

are cooperating to

EDITOR
Markland G. Lloyd

21

PHOTOGRAPHERS
Joan Heifer
Brian Donnelly

12.

Uncovering Scholarship
What does

Entrepreneurs

it

mean

and why

is

scholarship important? This article examines these and

DESIGNER

other questions to shed

John Lorish

some

light

on the importance

of research and inquiry at the university.

ART DIRECTOR

Greg

byEricFoster

to be a "scholar"

Ricciardi

25 News

EDITORLAL BOARD

Nancy Edwards

Briefs by James HolUster

'70

Lawrence B. Fuller
James Pomfret
Susan M. Helwig

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Comrr\ertl2iry
Sometimes,

Address comments and questions

bowl of

to:

it

chili

by Sylvia M. PeroUi

takes a special cause

-

- or just

a steaming

to bring out the best in us.

Editor

Bloomsburg
Waller Administration Building
Bloomsburg University

Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Internet address:

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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a
member of the State System of Higher
Education. Board of Governors of the State
System of Higher Education include:
F. Eugene Dixon Jr., chair, Lafayette Hill; Julia
B. AnsU, Wee chair, California; Muriel
Berman, Allentown; leffery V^. Coy,
Shippensburg; Glenn Y. Forney, Shavertovm;
Dr. Eugene W. Hickock Jr., Secretary of

Bloomsburg University of Permsylvania is committed to pro\iding equal
educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard

Education; James A. Hughes, Philadelphia;
F.

Joseph Loeper, Drcxell

Pittsburgh; Christopher

Stroudsburg;

Amy

L.

Hill;

Kim

Makos

E. Lyttle,

M.
Thomas J. Ridge, Governor; Philip
Rowe Jr., Wyomissing; Elizabeth L.

Shippensburg; Joseph

Schmid (student). West Chester;
W. Schuler, Harrisburg; Patrick

Jere

Stapleton, Harrisburg; Christine

Indiana; R. Benjamin Wiley,

J.

Vietnam era veteran status or union membership.
committed to affirmative action and will take
provide such educational and employment opportimities.

orientation, disabilities,

Cover photo

illustration

Nespoli,

Berwick;
D.

to race, color, reUgion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, lifestyle, sexual

(student).

Martin (student),

by Greg Rieciardi,

The

imiversity

is

positive steps to

additionally

The Lorish Company

J.

Toretti,

Erie.
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SPRING 1996

While at Bloomsburg, she battled for
titles

on the women's tennis team.

After college,
English, she
offices.

Today,

armed with a degree

worked

a novelist and a

law

in Lancaster

Donna Grove

is

in

a mother,

self- described ''organiza-

tionally impaired" housewife.

TiMiamam
IN

WRITTEN BY TRINA WALKER

•

THE

PHOTOS BY BRIAN DONNELLY

Overlook the fact that Grove
(nee Royer, Bloomsburg class of '81)
is
is

a published novelist and her
rather ordinary.

Her home

life

is

a

traditional split-level in a modern,

middle-class neighborhood, where back

yards run into each other and^ bicycles
in the driveways.

She drives her kids

lie

to

school in a beat-up blue station wagon.

Cereal boxes line her counter,

and

baskets of laundry wait to be put away.

eyond the coat rack ladened
muhi-sized jackets, past the
'

with

umbrella stand
ets,

with tennis rack-

filled

her office in the basement.

is

Equipped with two desks, a computer
shelves teeming with books, this is

and

room where Grove's
come to hfe.

characters

the

Grove's writing schedule

around her

is

juggled

of "Mom." With

real job

husband, two sons, two cats and

a

an occasional visiting dog. Grove
has her hands

"Up

full.

now,

to

my

catch-as-catch-can.

puter on

Run an

day.

all

I

writing has been
leave the

I

errand. Write another.

load of laundry. The only time
get

to

myself

is

com-

write a paragraph.

I

Do

a

really

from 10 p.m.

to

midnight or midnight to 2 a.m." Grove
hopes to change that schedule
that her youngest son

is

now

in first grade.

With the nevdbund freedom of six
whole hours to herself each day,
her goal is to commit more time to
writing. She wants to be able to cut

book from

the production time for a

months down

10

to

six

or

eight

months.

Grove loves the benefits of working
at

her

home, such as being there for
kids and not wearing panty

hose. But she admits the distractions

make for a struggle to keep motivated.
"The one thing about writers,"
Grove reveals, "is that we love to have
written:

We

Donna Grove,

'8

1

,

won

the Golden Heart Award from the

product. But

we hate to

actually write!

When you're sitting there

who

be an attractive diversion!"

a week,

Despite her sporadic writing schedule and the interruptions

of boys asking for lunch, Grove has

managed

to publish

three novels in the past two years, with a fourth due to hit

bookstores in October of 1996.
first

romance

novel,

A

Touch of Camelot,

won

the

Golden Heart Award from the Romance Writers of
America (RWA). That award opened doors for Grove that
prestigious

she might otherwise have

pounded upon

for years.

The Golden Heart is a national contest for unpublished
members of the RWA. Completed manuscripts are judged by
feUow romance writers. When Grove's manuscript became a
finalist in

of America

At the recommendation of a friend. Grove found an agent,

staring at a blank screen, even cleaning out the refi-igerator can

Her very

Romance Writers

love to have a finished

the contest, she gained admission to the seemingly

impenetrable world of publishing.

submitted the manuscript to several pubUshers. Within
it

was

sold.

Since then. Grove's writing has quickly ballooned into a
full-time job. "I probably

on research
working on

for
edits

spend

a third

my

of

new book, another

a

and the

on the

rest

'working time'

third writing
'business':

or

copying

manuscripts, ordering ads, designing bookmarks, arranging

book

signings," she says.

Grove's books are

fiiU

captivating characters.

Return

to

of spirited dialogue, vivid scenery,

Her most

recently published novel.

Camelot, takes place in the late 19th centur>', -with

characters traveling

from the gas-ht

streets

of Philadelphia to

the scenic British country-side.

For each novel, she spends months researching historical
data.

She reads books about period costvmaes and 19th century

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She pores over old

slang.

town

maps,

work at a funeral home.
"Then I hit 30!"

ing

visualizing

•where her characters will

At that point, desire to try

stand and \vhat they can
see.

For Return

much

to

won

Camelot,

to

calls

(The

her some time to write. She

and her husband had pur-

bury, England, were

more

chased a computer.

affordable than a flight!)

ed, 'If

She contacted the Glas-

tonbury

librarian

GROVE

in 1892?

Were the

streets

town

have

lights

needed.

"I

paved? Tourist brochures provided

write to

know that

the

gas

think

photographs of the places she would recreate for her readers.

to labor alone, in

Manheim, a small town outside of
Lancaster, set amid the cornfields and co^v pastures of central
Pennsylvania. "The next book takes place in Lancaster," Grove

you're crazy or

Grove herself Hves

Ln

comments. "Here, the research was
I'd give

my

at

fingertips.

thought

I

in \vTiting

is

a combination of

timing, luck and persistence.

maybe.

I

I

guess there's a chance to

don't kno'iv when! But

money.
always wanted to be a

I

make money someday,

don't think anyone should

get into this for the
"I've

It's

mo\'ie

star.

So you

say, 'Let's

You think 'What
be sensible.

For ten years after college,
as a legal secretary, then

it's

such a long-shot

just ignore

—

are the chances of

being a

like

making

it?'

now.'"

important for people

who

that's just

what she

did.

She began

as a paralegal. After her

-ss'hatever

type of job would

second
fit

her

are aspiring to

You do not have
your closet, and wonder if

there are groups out there.

satisfied

if

with any book imless

it

has a happy ending. Also,

I'm fascinated with characters and characterization. Since these

According to Forbes magazine, romance
^vriters'

markets, making up 48 percent of

is

it

was

a natural."

one of the

all

more than 25 million readers in North America. "If you Hke
romance and you want to write it, your chances for success may
be greater than in, say, mystery ivriting. You can write for fun,
but most of us want to sell what we write!"
And once the first book is sold, is a writer on the road to success?
hesitates. "I'm

pond. At
that,

I

first

I

wanted

faster. It's

just

to

not sure.

wanted

I

feel like a little fish in a

to publish a book.

pubhsh another. Now,

I

Then, once

want

to write

never ending."

?s^-*^l
Donna Grove:

4

SPRING 1996

Bloomsburg

"I

leave the

Uima^ Magazine

computer on

all

day.

I

largest

paperbacks sold,

\\'ith

Grove

Let's get a real iob.'"

worked

son was born, she took

but

writer,

one of those things you

career.

it's

three elements are key to historical romance,

not a very secure business," she explains. "You don't make

much money.

it

your basement or
you have any talent. Your first feedback does
not have to be from a faceless editor in New York."
Grove chose the historical romance genre for several reasons.
"I love doing the historical research," she explains. "And I'm
not

myself a break!"

Grove believes her success

"It's

do

Joining local writing clubs

gave her the support she

Did

books.

research

"I decid-

ever want to do this,

I

I'd better

DONN.\

for

information not available
in

failure.

Glaston-

was long-distance.

phone

out over fear of

Grove's part-time job gave

of Grove's research

v/rite a paragraph.

Run an errand. Write another.

Do

a load of laundry."

I

big

did

them

LETTERS

And, she adds, nothing changes
published. Yes, her sons thinlc

home

at

after

neat that

it's

books and that you can even buy one
husband tells her to enjoy her success.

your book

Mommy

is

her sons are

still

have

home and

door with the words, "Don't come

room. Don't

talk to

me,

work?

Sometimes. But they don't always

Grove admits that she
no respect from her

list,

gets

still

when

read through

Donald

well

it. It is

We

could imitate.

can

done and something

learn

all

from each

I

wish we

other.

R. Gerth

President, California State University

Sacramento,

Calif.

work seriously. And if

— she

she'll still

be

It is

Sunday afternoon, and

I

have just browsed leisurely

through Bloomsburg: the University Magazine. What a
beautiful piece of work!

you are bleeding."
Does the warning

unless

or

I

working, she closes the

is

take her

for sharing the first edition of

— The University Magazine. Over the weekend

Bloomsburg

and you still
have dust bunnies. And you still
get no respect from your family."

in this

Thank you very much

in California. Sure, her

But, she says, "You

When

Dear Editor:

writes

sticky kitchen floors,

Grove

TO THE EDITOR

—

hits the best seller

Mom, just

The contents and the quality of the writing represent
Bloomsburg exceedingly well
but the creative layout and

—

the superb printing job propel the publication into the

realm of

artistry!

fooHn'

Bloomsburg has a very special place in my heart, and I
want only the best for that place and those people.
It is comforting to know that "she" has such a capable and

family.

will always

loving caretaker [in Dr. Kozloff]!

Introducing the

new and

Maryan

G.

efforts.

McCormick

Higher Education

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is

magical

and magical

is

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in the

And

baby

the

art

Bubble

with the baboon heart

And I believe
These are the days
of lasers in the jungle

.

.

These are the days

of miracles and wonder.

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all

around

us, so

some

ccording to Bloomsburg Uni-

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GREG RICCIARDI
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In Mexico, people believe that tears

flo\'

ulous claims deserve to be
tested.

PHOTOS BY

anthropology profes-

Dee Anne Wymer, mirac-

Such skepticism

is

part

and parcel

of being an educated person in today's

from

JOAN HELPER

a

Madonna's painted

eyes.

society,

says

Wymer, whose course on

pseudoscience examines the "miracles" of
In India, die faithful beUeVe that a

ESP, faith healing

and creation

She believes

the responsibility of

it's

science.

the university to provide students the

marble statue of the Elephant

tools to

God

do the

testing.

drinks milk offered by devotees.

In California,

his

an evangelist claims that

mother once

sliced

of bread into two

enough

up a small

full plates

heel

of bread

-

to feed ten people.

In Israel, a psychic's mental

Dee Anne Wymer, anthropology

professor,

who

teaches a course about pseudoscience, believes the

energy bends spoons.

university has an obligation to teach skepticism,

"Students deserve to get three things

On American

television, viewers

watch

out of their education

at the university,"

Wymer. "They should

says paleobotanist

be able to read well, to write well and
a secret

government autopsy performed

to think well."

Thinking well means being able "to
evaluate arguments critically,"

on the body of a space

alien.

Wymer
vvdth

presented

students

surface,

number of questions: WTio's
presenting the idea? What motives might
to

In photographs of a forming universe

expects

an idea to drive beneath the

ask a

the presenter possess? What's the larger

taken recently by the Hubbel space

picture? Are there alternative
tions that

seem

to

make more

Most people understand the
telescope,

some

see the face of

God

in

explana-

sense?
role of

science in "testing" claims about the
natural world. Wymer says that "science
a vehicle for critical thinking"

the billowing clouds of gas.

is

— perhaps

not the only vehicle, she admits, but a

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primary means of evaluating natural

— found

phenomena.
Bloomsburg University professor
Larry Mack, chair of the chemistry
department, explains that scientists are in

said they believed in

up explanations

the business of "setting

about the world." The

and reproducible."

tions are "testable

From

explana-

scientist's

these explanations, says Mack, sci-

models —

entists create

theories

—

to

explain things.

ut an increasing

number of

Americans are turning from
scientific explanations

ural

numbers of

ing

phenomena. And growconcerned

scientists are

about what they perceive
science" trend.

of nat-

an "anti-

as

A recent conference of the

New York Academy

of Sciences explored

"the contemporary flight from reason

and

."

its

associated antiscience.

Speakers

at

"politically

.

the conference pointed to

induced

motives

behind

ESR

a belief in astrolog)^

It's

difficult)'

believe

or refuse to

what science "teaches." Radio

show maven Rush Limbaugh

talk-

rejects

theories about the "greenhouse effect"

because "the earth has always taken care
of

itself."

A

recent Gallup poll suggests

that almost half of

all

Americans believe

.

scientific

legal

are not.

And

rather than the scientific use of

having

words such

are

as

more

law and theory. In the

are elaborate hunches.

The opposite

scientific theories,

Simpson

claims

—

trial

people think

Johnny

heard

extravagant

courtroom, laws are inviolable; theories

are

Cochran's

during
little

the

Many

of science's

critics

point to

of the National

Center for Science Edu-

and

A recent G-alluppole. sw^esh fhaf

attor-

ney Thomas C. Sager,

\vrit-

/>7

CJresirioni&i^

o^er e\/otafiot^.

ing jointly in the journal

laws are

-£rfio<.TS:—

more important

than theories, that
'laws'

believe,

scientific

miRflCLE-S

^ B/oRYTH-m^

ES>p

r

cannot be 'broken,'

and that a

law,

once estab-

Hshed, cannot be altered:
It is scientific 'Truth.'"

Scientific

facts

—

basis for scientific laws

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the

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can and do change. For

:

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i

in creationism over evolution.

study of college students

—

Another

more than

a decade, for

Bermuda Triangle,
miracles and biorhythms

instance, scientists

Homo

beheved

sapiens had 48

belief in ghosts, the

that

psychic healing,

chromosomes. The

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i-

'

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:

.

surveying

O.J.

better than

Eugenie C. Scott, executive director

intro-

—

unsupported hunches.

is

true in science.

erroneously, that scientific

distrust

.

They

familiar wixh the

Most of us

and "perfectly closed behef systems."
Whatever the cause of this growing

many Americans

.

most people expect

But

laws to be immutable, unchangeable.

Creation/Evolution, say that

undeniable that

explanation

understand the language of science.

"most laypersons

is

is

."

paranormal because many of us don't

"the rise in religious fundamentalism"

it

The goal

expected.

through theor)'

convincing

people to be skeptical about claims of the

antirational rhetoric." Others pointed to

antiscience bias,

say Scott

science,"

are able to look at old data differently.

Nearly half of the students expressed

have

and technologies

and Sager,
mind
about an
"it's OK to change your
new
data,
or if you
explanation if you get
"In

Almost 80 percent of the same students

cation (NCSE),

.

About 55 percent

tools

have revealed there are only 46.

checked yes to miracles and biorh)'thms.

Scientists

new

duction of

that about 40 percent of the stu-

dents believe in ghosts.

za

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;"'
£

se

6o

TO

&o

9o

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instances of scientific fraud
takes

—

science

— or mis-

dom

to underscore their opinion that
is

more

claims

healer's

faith

peoples

or

The difference between the scientist
and those who turn from science's
methods is largely a matter of attitude.
Scientists know enough about the

problems

psychic's

a

beyond

go

Science sometimes offers less-than-sat-

"Ifi

science, ifs

OK to

change your mind

where

why

Being

alone

The

happen.

things
in

if you

get

new

data, or

meaningless universe can

be frightening.

And

"out

exists

life

When

are

expected.

these

are consistent with

rrulk,

the marble, the

air,

the stone absorbs a small

terns

we

set

fails to

and discover

California

make

the

to process pat-

linkages. That's

and

why
recall

— telephone
from
we're
thinking
about
when
— make sense of

tant friends

calls

dis-

that

ran-

is

work with

exper-

imental procedures that help reduce the

own

influence of their
tations

such safeguard
of

beliefs

on the experimental
is

replicabUity

many independent

and expec-

results.

—

investigators to

reproduce the same experimental
If several

One

the abil-

results.

independent verifications

repli-

an individual investiga-

experimental

results,

then the

likeli-

from

porous so that

sufficiently

amount of

impression that

liquid, thus giving the

the

for.

see patterns in the clouds

coincidences

themselves.

scientists

known

reveals that the god's base, carved

god "drinks."

The

points out that

up

of

Scientists are trained to

the atmosphere.

ancestors in their mightiest endeavors.

is

biases

In this case, the scientist's examination

marble,

brain

of the beliefs, expectations

and

miracles than

some readers derive satisfaction knowing
benign extraterrestrials aided our

that

human

that science also

control the influence

physical properties of the

Gods that space travelers helped the

the

alternative

often understood,
is

Are there explanations that
It's

ancient Egyptians build the pyramids,

Wymer

tries to

tor's

for

argues in Chariots of the

Bloomsburg's

isn't

there

supernatural intervention.

there."

connections we're looking

them.

cate or duplicate

oU data differently.

Erich von Daniken

Sometimes, science

test

drink milk asks whether

and simpler explanations

at

how to

she says,

ity

who exam-

if you are able to look

some would

so,

rather believe that other

scientist

claims that statues

ines

vast,

a

confirm their

an absolute.

belief in

about an explanation

a

look upon such

events to

chance or accident seem to

is

not an absolute. The

faithful

be the only explanations
for

explanations

empirical

goal,

People can be uncomfort-

us

hat

to realize that "truth"

the nature of our world.

Most of us know that science is all
about testing hypotheses, says
Bloomsburg's Wymer. Science teaches

Israel.

of

fallibility

about

able in a universe

native
the Ten

Lost Tribes of

linguistic confusion.

isfying explanations

us.

credible than a

consultation.

Science's

North America's
become descendants of

spaceships.

just as fallible as astrologers'

predictions. Scientific theories, the critics

conclude, are no

around

occurring

patterns

Unfamiliar lights in the sky become alien

scientist

concludes

that

the

Elephant God's "consumption" of milk
is

not miraculous

at

all.

The devout

Hindu, on the other hand, finds the

phenomenon

a

decision.

a "miracle" that does not

It is

confirmation of a faith

merit skeptical inquiry or

critical analysis.

Professor Larry Mack, chair of Bloomsburg's

chemistry department, sees no conflict

between science and

faith.

Eloomsburg University Magazine

SPRING 1996

9

MIRACLES

hood of subjective contamination

Why

—

It's

should most of us

non-scientists

concerned

about

—

be

on moral

takes

these

political

—

come into
The battle

— and even

nent,

because they go to

—

Henry Morris
and the

writ-

tainly the

dean

ciate

for

must be

Bloomsand

burg's College of Arts

Christians to

the ancient
there
al

is

a

arts

—

citizens.

Romans have recognized

body of knowledge

— the

appropriate for free

Our democracy

also

liber-

(liberi)

needs a

this issue or,

ignore

it.

.

.

.

sci-

a great mistake for

ence.

nonsense."

on

It is

compromise

perhaps even worse, to

(The evolution theory) has

Poliakoff,

"is

to

prepare people to be participants, not
victims,

in

our

increasingly

and

students,

a

God intervenes directin human affairs. They

nent
ly

evolution

It's

as

anti-

evolution science

is

bending spoons, but also

about

or

the origin of the universe and the role of

the divine in

human

affairs.

earth, say scientific creationists,

has existed only thousands

this difference in

is

As Morris

teaches

an elaborate

of

structure to justify

devastating the

cerns into the legislative arena. At least

says,

"The Bible

work

the

that

creation

was

accom-

and completed

in the six days of creation

week,
the Genesis story."

and immoral
are

Why

not science.

the

"rationale of the host of
that

establishment places

plished

Morris contends that

antisocial

is

world today (abortion, the drug
culture, homosexual activism, animalistic amorality, and so on.)"
The creationists have taken their con-

UFOs

The

scientific

dating so important?

may

students to question their

The

of years, not billions.

practices

lead

ago.

"Creation science

she acknowledges that the critical spirit

notion not about astrology or

beings walked the earth contem-

world view where an immi-

Christian and immoral.

her

human

Genesis find that the theory

But who is to distinguish between sense
and nonsense?
When Bloomsburg anthropologist
Dee Anne Wymer fosters a spirit of
in

they

million years ago.

see

inquiry

—

attempt to "prove" that dinosaurs and

influence.

irreversibly technological society."

critical

spectrometer analysis dating

the "age of dinosaurs" at 65 million to 200

of evolution threatens
says

—

and materialistic philosophy of the world today than any other
lent secularistic

and nonsense.
goal,"

later repealed.

poraneously, as recently as 10,000 years

Those who believe in the creation
account from the Book of

"Our

.

probably contributed more to the preva-

of examining beliefs
and practices to inform ethical and
moral decisions. Educated people must
be able to distinguish between sense
citizenry capable

.

on the foundation of science itself
Using scientific methods
including
chemical and metallographic analysis of
dinosaur bones, as well as mass

between "sense and

Sciences, believes that "educators since

The law was

."
.

undertaken to build an alternative theory

between the Bible and

able to distinguish

freedom of belief and speech

most important

area of apparent conflict

says that educated people

Michael Poliakoff, asso-

in

public schools" so as "to ensure freedom

cer-

is

dean of Arts and Sciences

today's world.

of

and evolution-science

tion science, creation advocates have

evolution question
Michael Poliakoff, associate

treatment

says that "the creation-

—

be an educated person in

creation-science

Arkansas)

(in

"balanced

Instead of simply dismantling evolu-

the heart of education

and
means to

legislature

a

Bible

ing in Science

what we think

it

one state
mandated

of religious exercise [and] to guarantee

overtones.

Creation science propo-

critical inquiry?

It's

faith

deepest conflict.

issues involving objectivity

and

at this level that sci-

ence and

reduced.

is

outlined

as

Genesis

in

whereas evolu-

1,

contend that the
(meaning evolution) has been going on for millions of
years in the past and is still going on
tionists

process of

'creation'

in the present.

"Scripture
definite

on

could

this point

hardly
,"
.

.

.

be

more

says Morris.

WONDER

"In

Scientific creationists try to justify the

fact,"

he continues,

"if

I

could veri-

of God, then

I

would have

Biblical account of earth's origins because

fy the existence

evolution science

power over the

perceived to threaten

is

upon which

the very basis

view of the world

is

constructed.

reation science
says

the Christian

not science,"

is

Bloomsburg chemistry

professor Larry Mack.

"It's

an

elaborate structure to justify

the Genesis story."
little

the

religious

Mack

and

impulse

the

method.

scientific

"Many
found

Nonetheless,

reason for conflict between

finds

by

he

as

says,

with overlapping boundaries.

circles

He

labels the circles: aesthetic, philosophical,

and

religious.

circle

labeled

scientific

The

and

aesthetic

religious overlaps

philosophical.

It

does
circle

way of knowing

the

world. "Science tries to 'prove' things," he

"But the existence of

says.

God

can't

be

particular cause. That's

and

science.

.

.

.

on the

Religion centers

transcendent dimension of

human

indeed of all creation,
which is irrelevant to scien-

much

that

trying

i

r

\

_l^

\

//;.i/\r,^

_

—y
,

V"
"

to

Wymer, who

and

irreversibly

.,

they

y
i

technological society.

is

—

explains.

not concerned

science to

interpretation

logical

of

say.

argues, using carbon

on earth with human beings," says
Wymer, "then they're trodding on my

And

it's

happen

to

prophet

darn

a pretty

fair

to

— whether by
or not — doesn't diminish

bring

critical

science

the miracle," says Mack.

Lots
verified

of

life's

experiences

can't

be

by experiment.

"The reason
"is to

object to dealers in

14 dating methods, that dinosaurs walked

turf.

I

the

lous

faith, for instance."

"When someone

1

life.

that

"Explaining the miracu-

human-

tions of science. "There are

results,

important and mean-

and walk humbly with God.'

recognizes the limita-

guarantee

them

cast

to test what's

good idea when he said,
'Do justice, show mercy

our increasingly

describes

herself as a secular
ist,

to

really

Micah had

proper bounds."

its

val-

— but

ingful in

not victims, in

to

and

Larry Mack, "not

aside

think

j

1

ues," says

be participants,

edge or a method beyond

Wymer and Mack

PHILDS>6mml

KLl-lulOUS

:l
1

\

to

ence comes from "over-

about issues of

/J\^
A
^ ^.Y^

'

is

prepare people

prop up their claims. Mimicking scientific methods and jargon does not

i

"College should be a time for challeng-

life,

necessarily

faith "using" the trappings of

-p-^_i^
Qci

Bloomsburg's chemistry department

ing one's beliefs

sci-

means,

it

chair agrees.

of the "tension"

—

what

today's society."

''Our goal

to say

between religion and
reaching"

science as an ally in a

think, to be an educated person in

investigation.

The bishops go on

"Experimental science

samrific-

li^,,

I

irreconcilable conflict between religion

and shouldn't try to answer," she

^q_

think critically whenever

to

The Catholic bishops of the United
States, writing in Science and the Catholic
Church, believe "there can be no

questions that science can't answer

'proven by experimental means.

Pesthetic-

expect students to exercise skepti-

"extend a body of knowl-

not touch science. For Mack, each
represents a different

"I

cism and

someone claims

tific

experiment,"

he

that,"

chuckles, "is a very sobering thought!"

things in the world can't be

he sketches out on a blackboard four

And

divine.

analysis to those claims.

for education," says

know when-and how-to

Mack,

try."

Entrepreneurship
WRITTEN BY JASON KIRSCH

PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER

Berwick's

The Daily Grind Coffee

A

House.

QaOi

ness: she's too

Or

pathologist,

by Carol Bankus. You

ment

Treasures, a

ago.

yet.

off

handsomely

toys,

begun to pay
and not just

—

Bloomsburg Chamber of Commerce and

local

financial institutions, Bloomsburg's students are gaining valu-

and local people who may be long on
and short on business experience are learning how to leap

able business experience,

into entrepreneurship.

Take Nancy Gelber, for instance.

A

victim of downsizing,

Gelber lost her job as an administrator at a nearby hospital several years ago. Today, she operates

House

in Berwick. There, she serves

to customers she

12

SPRING 996
1

knows by name.

Bloomsburj Univenity Magazine

A

speech

opened

Tiny

rapidly growing consign-

store in Millville, just over a year

She started with 18 consignors.

Now

place

—

Marianne Creasy, an employee at a local hospital, is another
budding entrepreneur. Creasy thought that Pennsylvania's only
town needed a community welcoming service. So she started
one.

A

Not only has she met

by operating
community resource

a lot of real nice people

Basket of Helios, Creasy has

become

a

from her endeavor.
especially in a rural area
It's not easy to start a new business
but Gelber, Bankus and Creasy didn't tackle the task alone.
They had the support of the Local Enterprise Assistance
Program (LEAP), a non-profit initiative providing business services and small loans to microentrepreneurs.
Two Bloomsburg University professors, Pamela Wynn, an
associate professor in the management department, and Frank
Lindenfeld, a professor in the sociology department, modeled
LEAP after an economic development program of the Grameen
Bank of Bangladesh.
In the mid-1970s, the Grameen Bank extended loans to budding business owners who needed economic support and creat-

and

gets a ton of personal gratification

—

Because of a grassroots community effort involving universi-

ideas

Bankus

it.

Bankus' retirement plan.

for their owners.
ty faculty, the

busy running

more than 100. The store isn't just
where people can buy clothes,
it is part of
shoes and baby equipment
a

But these business ven-

tures have already

so busy, she

she has

not find them in

Fortune magazine. At least

not

is

take Carol Bankus.

Helios. Tiny Treasures

may

—

street

can barely find time to talk about busi-

of

Basket

main

The DaUy Grind Coffee
up "home-spun fast food"

Gelber's restaurant

—

just off

ed "borrowing

circles" to

spread the risk

if

a particular enter-

By

bank had lent over $400 million to
The repayment rate was close to
99 percent. The bank's program was a phenomenal success.
Wynn and Lindenfeld believed a similar approach to economic development could also be successful in rural
Pennsylvania. Along with a few enthusiastic community members and a grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, they
prise failed.

more than

established

1

LEAP

The program

Matthew Powers,

1992, the

million borrowers.

in the

summer

offers three

of 1992.

major

because he hopes to

own

a small busi-

ness someday. Powers and his partner consulted for a manufac-

gourmet gift-baskets.
"The owner entered the program because she wasn't

turer of

anything," says Powers.

"We

We

then

selling

researched what consumers liked

about the products, what they didn't
habits.

services: technical assistance,

a senior majoring in business administra-

tion, enrolled in the class

and

like

their

— what the

made recommendations

buying

owner

should do, what she should change, what she should keep.

business training and small

As consultants, we go out and

business loans.

do what small business own-

"If individuals

seling

need coun-

their business

—

to

such as

are

paired with

students in business admin-

For

consecutive

eight

Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3

explains
the

Belinsky,

consists of low-cost

business training.

istration or senior-level

Kimberly

gain practical

The second component of

LEAP

graduate

undergraduates,"

And we

experience."

— they

or financial analysis

how

do or don't have time to

do.

marketing, survey research

know

don't

ers

on some aspect of

p.m., microentrepreneurs

LEAP

program manager
from the Bloomsburg Area
Chamber of Commerce.

Bloomsburg
Magee Center

meet

University's

at

to

receive

intensive training in market-

"The students provide tech-

ing,

finance,

nical assistance while serv-

taxes,

insurance and business

ing as business consultants."

law.

These students are

a

three-

credit course offered

by the

tangible

the course

select-

is

outcome of

the develop-

ment of a business

ed from the Small Business
Institute Seminar,

One

accounting,

"When

plan.

the business train-

ing course ends, participants

form

College of Business. Stu-

are encouraged to

dents in the seminar provide

peer enterprise association, a

problem-solving support
to LEAP participants and
get "hands-on" consulting

network of microentrepreing circles of the

Grameen

experience.

Bank program,"

says

Jason

Dimm,

a

information systems,

assist-

ed a small-business operator

who wanted

to

neurs similar to the borrow-

buy and

"I

learned so

many

knowledge about.

laws and regulations
I'd

to anyone interested

- Marianne

recommend

in

I

the program

the

starting a small business."

Creasy, owner,

A

I

Basket of Helios

forums

on

a fixed

County

and Bob's Bank."
The groups serve

for people to share their ideas

also agree

Columbia

Micro-Business Network

sell

showed the owner how to use her
computer data base," Dimm says. "She was so pleased that
she sent each of us a check for $50 and a thank you card.
We couldn't accept the money, so we sent it back."
Dimm could not accept the gesture, but he was happy to take
away some valuable experience.
"The program let me take the skills I've learned throughout
my college career and apply them. I also learned communication and interpersonal skills," Dimm adds.
partner and

far

two groups have formed,

had no

discontinued merchandise.

"My

the

Chamber's Belinsky. "So

senior

majoring in computer and

a

sum

that each

as

and seek support. They

member will

time to generate a pool of savings. This fund

is

contribute over

used to finance

small loans for individual group members. For instance, a

owner may need to purchase a cash
may seek money to buy some new brushes.

restaurant
artist

member

is

an

other's business plans

and then

ready to apply for financing.

Members

Group members review each
decide which

register or

of the group have a stake in

its

members'

success. If

Bloomsburg Universitf Magazine

SPRING 1996

one

|3

member
entire

defaults

group

is

on

a

loan from the group's investment pool, the

The

affected.

dollar

ro^sing circles are typically small

encourages group members to

amounts

— $50

fiaUill

at risk in these

or $100

— but

bor-

the system

their financial responsibilities.

Microentrepreneurs can also apply for credit direcdy through

LEAP

— the

success of her business to a tight business plan. "Students helped
refine

my business plan and played devil's advocate," she explains.

Without a basic business knowledge and

through the program, participants can find out

component of the program. Through the
Rural Enterprise Development Corporation (REDC), the nonprofit governing body of the program, LEAP is able to finance

viable idea for a small business," says

small loans ranging from $500 to $10,000

finds that there

third

— sometimes
businesses —

"Banks often don't lend to small
profitable for them," Belinsky said.
to

is

offer credit to those

"One of

who cannot

higher.
it

the goals of

isn't

LEAP

obtain a loan from

a conventional lender."

a business

"road

map," microentrepreneurs might make a wrong turn. "By going

student in business administration.

A

Marianne Creasy, who owns
is

no market

if

they have a

Donna Creasy,
Donna is not

a graduate

related to

Basket of Helios. "If research

for a product or service, entrepre-

neurs have an opportunity to change their focus or delay the
start

of a business until their business plan

is

refined."

Carol Bankus was not interested in a loan, but wanted techni-

and business

cal assistance

She received both. "Three

saN^w.

"Three students helped research the martet
and
I

learned

-

let

me find

what could
I

a competitive niche,

not"

offer that others did

Carol Bankus owner. Tiny Treasures

According to Paul Reichart, president and

CEO

of Columbia

Count)' Farmers National Bank and president of the program's

board of

directors, nearly $200,000

REDC. He

is

available

through the

expects the figure to double soon. Contributors

include the To\sti of Bloomsburg, the federal Rural Development

Administration and the Presbyterian Foundation USA.
Reichart sees

LEAP

as a

model

for

economic development

"I like to help people," Reichart says. "If

Since

its

it's

we can
is

help people

better for

it."

program has helped more than

50 local microentrepreneurs develop business plans, conduct

and market research, organize finances, learn
computer software and create effective advertising campaigns.
Nana- Gelber, owner of The DaUv Grind, attributes the

feasibility studies

14

SPRING 1996

Blooimbuif UimasCf Magazine

Bankus

sa^'s.

"I

learned what

I

me

find a competitive

could offer that others did not"

Marianne Creasy had no idea how

to start a small business

on

her own. Without any prior business training, she completed

leap's business training course and thought

woman.

it

was

"fantastic!"

reaUy appreciated the program," says the Bloomsburg

"I

many laws and regulations I had no
recommend the program to anyone intersmall business. It's a good way to go. It's also

learned so

knowledge about.

a win-vdn and society

inception, the

niche,"

"I really,

throughout rural Pennsylvania.
get off the ground,

students helped research the market and let

ested in starting a

I'd

fun to share ideas with the group.

And

the graduate students

I

was paired with reaUy helped me with my business plan. They
were available at the drop of a telephone."

And at the drop
universit)'

and

business ideas

of a telephone, folks in Bloomsburg

in to\sTi

— stand ready

—

at the

to help people with small-

become people with small

businesses.

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WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CUMMINGS

Pursuing knowledge
and adventure, the
Greek hero Ulysses sailed
the remotest reaches of the

Mediterranean Sea, encountering marvels at
every turn. He ran into a
one-eyed giant, a sorceress,
the king of the winds,

phantoms from hell and
wonder of wonders - a
company of mermaids

-

^N IN

7a
ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN JAKUM

whose siren-song offered
endless access to wisdom.
Well

if

only he had waited

a few score centuries,

Ulysses could have expe-

PENNSYIVANIA^^

rienced equally marvelous

wonders on the Internet
by merely clicking a
mouse. He wouldn't have
had to leave the comfort
of his ergonomic
computer chair.

WEAVING

The

a vast, rolling q'ber

Information Systems in the College of

on the

sea that daily transports count-

Business, believes that in five to ten years,

expects to be able to "hold a foot

the Internet will merge with telephone

computer,

and

all-

send the information directly to the

in-one communications center enabling

manufacturer. Within days, customers

Internet

to

knowledge

of

shiploads

less

sailors

is

electronic

human

the far reaches of

— and

absurdity.

In a single evening, cybernauts can

weigh

anchor

the

at

Frog-

Virtual

Dissection Page, read the Irish Times or

Jerusalem

the

view the

Post,

Map, research

television technology to create

will

made

A

fits

student

Phil-

in

adelphia will be able

Toronto Vegetarian Association,
download information from the world's
largest libraries and databases, go shopping at online super malls
and explore
the Bloomsburg cam-

attend classes at
Bloomsburg University,
Michigan State and the
Sorbonne in Paris via the

—

President Clinton or

ted

send an electronic
comeuppance to Rush
Limbaugh. They can

room," Dutt

ever

it

student.

charges!

way

ogy to exchange X-rays
and other medical
records firom satellite

same

up, his

The only

picture

Specialists

in Danville are offering

the scientific

diagnosis and

tation,

method, the invention

"Not

treatment for patients
in Renovo, Jersey Shore,

ofprinting and the

State College

and other

locations.

arrival of the

telecommuting

As

many busimay replace

expands,

Industrial Age did."

nesses

student

a

that

perfectly."

long-distance consul-

one location speaks

in

'net

If

footware

clinic sites.

student's
says.

custom-

receive

DanvUle are already

in

will

world

seismically, the

would be able to view
and interact with the

out incurring long-

Hall

affect the

but the instructor

tor,

— with-

phone

the

then

using Internet technol-

able to view the instruc-

student or professor at

Tapping into the

happen, and

only will the student be

message for any

distance

in

to the

it,

inger Medical Center

home.
"One or more video
cameras would be moun-

Cybernauts can e-mail

up

Physicians at Geis-

historic

leaving

newspaper.

Town

without

Internet

pus or read the student

the university

something

to

the

leave a

"We are watching

other end.

Someday, he

scan

will

interact with users at the

Online

celery

which

the user to see, hear and

with

Stargazer

an

Internet, says Dutt.

some

BILL GATES

would

or

all

of their

with "virtual"

offices

appear on the screen. It
would be a voice-activated system."
Bedridden and physically impaired

by distant workers recruited through
Internet want-ads, says Gil Gordon,

provider such as a university, a govern-

students, as well as students isolated

of

ment agency or

by

would become fully
"mobile," enabling them to attend the

consultant in telecommunications and

is

quite easy.

requirements are a modem-equipped

computer and access through a "gateway"
commercial service

a

such as Prodigy or America Online.

Many

observers maintain that the

colleges of their choice.

"Among

Internet represents an advance

fire.

In his

those choices might be a

Disney University or an

as revolutionary as the discovery

of

geography,

book The Road Ahead,

Dutt

says,

Microsoft's president Bill

sess

will

to

happen, and

affect the
ly,

it

world seismical-

tion

The most popular section of the

technology
electronic

which was developed in the
a communication network

capable of surviving a nuclear war,
the

World Wide Web. The Web

is

is

an

agglomeration of more than 100,000

distance learning.

business products, online

cross references that take

them from one

of the Industrial

shopping, tele-medicine

Web

infinitum.

arrival

In addition, he predicts,

online

Age did."
Bloomsburg University

marketing

and telecommuting

of

will

become commonplace.

multimedia

James

Dutt,

the Internet

chairman of the Depart-

see, hear

ment of Computer and

at the

SPRING 1996

Bloomsburg University Magazine

will

enable users to

and interact with users

other end.

"sites"

with hypertext links

enabling users to "cHck on" highlighted

site to

another

— ad

Users can also type in the address of a
site to

Professor James Dutt believes

professor

18

as

same way the scienmethod, the invenof printing and the

the

tific

the

provide

Some workers

central headquarters.

1960s

his-

toric

known

would remain "in the field" indefinitely,
making only occasional visits to a

mercial enterprises, pos-

watching something

NJ, a nationally

virtual-office technology.

Internet,

are

writes:

NBC,

Monmouth,

along with other com-

"We

Gates

NBC University,"

because both Disney and

online offices staffed

go directly to

it.

For example, to

Tens of thousands of

reach "America's Job Bank," users would

businesses big and small

type "http://www.ajb.dni.us/" To reach

already have a presence

the

White House, they would type

THE WEI

more by national
computer

"http://www.whitehouse.gov" To reach

limited

Bloomsburg

borders than

University's "address," users

simply type in "http://www.bloomu.edu"

networks.

"There's

we want

"Ultimately,

two-way

to have

just

tive

video

interac-

and out

in

no way any government
around the world could

of

summon search tools named Gopher,

Archie and Veronica, which contain

control the content of the

indexes.

Internet."

Depo,
Bloomsburg's
town administrator.
To help implement its

To find
can

information, users

specific

But because of

sometimes

arrangement

of information, the Internet

from

far

is

and communica-

perfect as a research

One

and the

vastness

its

helter-skelter

Internet watchers

Washington

Dutt,

of

editor

the

Atlantic

way of

barriers standing in the

Internet

use.

For example, "most people in the

U.S.

still

daily

do not use computers

life.

in their

Most people who do use

computers do not have Internet connections.

Most people who do have

Internet

connections don't have

connec-

Internet

fast

Even those

tions.

who

have the

fastest possible

Internet

connections
have

don't

still

good
what

maps

road
is

very

there.

It's

for

possi-

ble to just waste a lot of

time flipping pages on
the

finding

increasing

recently

if

ties,

revolution linking Bloomsburg

network
access to

expand,

to

communi-

vice, a

kind of segmentation

"All

ties

of this

while, at the

becoming so
involved with online chat groups and
news groups that they are losing interest
in the people around them.
To counteract this problem while also
taking advantage of the Internet and

ing opportunities.

only a matter of

tie

Internetters are

communications technologies,
communities are establishing

regional networks, or mini-Internets, that

help

will

ser-

communi-

same time, training

important new technology,"

in this

In

people

get

interested in their local

them
Depo

country.

24-hour

community calendar of news and

when Internet users identify more with on-line "virtual
communities" than with the communities in which they live. This phenomenon
is already occurring in some parts of the
occurs

offers,

government

events and connections to local libraries.

more

leaving slums in their wake.

A

Free Net

to the world.

cities to rural

different

consortium
went online with

Bloomsburg Area
(BAFN). The

the

Town Administrator Gerald
Depo sees a telecommunications

numbers of people may move

out of crowded

some

it's

faster.

He

predicts that,

easi-

by the end

of 1996, the Internet will be available over

many cable TV

systems.

Dutt acknowledges that the potential
exists for

misuse and exploitation of the

Internet, as evidenced

by the debate

Congress about what

sent over the 'net.

is

in

But he also points out that the Internet's
potential for misuse

is

no

different

other forms of technology

from

— including

the telephone or videorecorders.

Controlling the Internet, says Dutt,
"is

educated

telecommuting continues

what you want."
Dutt says

time for access to the Internet to get

and

who was

the

says.

other

projects,

the

consortium

expects to offer e-mail services, teleconferencing capabilities and distance-learn-

computers

will

Residents

without

be able to use terminals

at

various public locations.
Just

how

far the

telecommunications

revolution and the Internet will take

Bloomsburg

— and the world —

years immediately ahead

intense debate

Depo,

that's

is

in the

a subject of

and speculation. But,

says

part of the fun of this

Hall

that

er

For example, says

in

the

goals,

seg-

an anthropologist,

other

However,
Carver

as

without

Internet

is

mentation of people and
ideas.

there are certain practical

many

worries

tions tool. Moreover, says James Fallows,

Monthly,

problem

potential

that

home

each

region," says Gerald E.

impossible without having

of police

some kind

would be even harder on

schools,

local libraries,

the

unfolding revolution.

and other institutions.
The town of Bloomsburg and surrounding communities are in the
forefront of this movement.
With the assistance and participation
of Bloomsburg University, the town
joined with Columbia County, seven
hospitals

school

Medical

Geisinger

districts,

and
and
other
institutions to form the Bloomsburg
Telecommunications Consortium for
Columbia County and Region, Inc. The

Bloomsburg

Center,

important

consortium's goal

Hospital

organizations

is

to develop

advanced

telecommunications technology

state."

Policing

computers to

—

often

available only to densely populated areas

Internet than elsewhere, he continues,

— while

because phone networks tend to be

community

creating heightened interest in
affairs.

Columbia County Courthouse

Bloomsburg University Magazine

SPRING 1996

19

WELCOME TO

An

ideal opportunity for the

If the Internet is a

way

to navigate

the cybersea of international

Bloomsburg Area

nication, then the

way

commu-

for local people to

Free-Net

is

ride the

wave of community news

a

and information.

Anyone can
using

a

town and the university and the region

Bloomsburg Free-Net are building
an on-ramp for the information superhighway. The grant wiU pay for firstthe

year

start-up

costs

—

including

hardware and software, telephone Unes
for users and one Internet access hne.

access the Free-Net

home computer and

a

password. Accounts are free to residents of the local region.
is

BAFN home

Once

'Z

connected, the
page appears.

The page

lists

different

topical

together.

The Telecommunications Consortium received the grant from
NTPN and is coordinating the
Free-Net project.

Depo's approach to the new communication technologies is decidedly
democratic. He insists that everyone
should have access to the information
superhighway
not just people in
the big cities. "I'm convinced," he says,
that the competition that has followed telecorrununications deregulation is going to bring
advanced systems to business
and schools," he says. "It wriU
also be available to people in
their homes
but most
.

a variety of

areas,

.

.

—

community events,
education, human sere.g.,

likely

government, relimouse,
readers can move the
cursor to the topic of
interest and click. Another

only those in the more

vices,

densely populated areas."

gion. Using the

Depo's concerns go
beyond the conflict between
urban-rural access. "We're
concerned about a technological underclass," he says.
To bring the technology to the
"have-nots," consortium wants
to install pubMc computer termi-

screen will appear - perhaps
a calendar of

on

what

is

going

in the region next week.

BAFN

will

also

have

connection to
Internet, and people wiU be able to
access information on the area anywhere in the world.
According to Bloomsburg University professor James Dutt, one of the
project's organizers, the whole FreeNet is like a "little electronic
dedicated

city,

complete with information

highways and by-ways."
The first such "electronic
inated in Berkeley, Calif,

city" orig-

more than

a

decade ago, Dutt says. Since then,
about 100 communities
usually
large metropolitan areas
have
developed Free-Nets.
But thanks to a $10,000 grant from
the National Public Telecomputing

—
—

Network (NTPN),

20

work

—

modem. The user simply dials 784BAFN, and enters her or his ID and

the user

to

SPRING 1996

B/oom$6urj

l/njvereit)'

local organizers of

Mogozine

nals at several sites

—

the court-

house, public libraries, municipal
buildings and local schools.

The Bloomsburg Area Free-Net
just

is

After the
is

frrst

expected to

program
cost about $5,000
year, the

annually, says Dutt.

Much of the impetus for this kind
of "electronic community" comes
from

Town Administrator Gerry

Depo For

years,

he has urged the

and hospitals, businessand government to pool their

area's schools

es

telecommunication resources. Depo's
efforts crystallized in the creation of
the Bloomsburg Telecommunications

Consortium for Columbia County
and the Region.

the

start,

say. Initially, it is

hook-up

—

"we

organizers

its

not a free Internet
can't

afford that

right now," says Dutt.

"The grant has helped us

get

up the

"We'U still
have to keep it up and running." Such
systems in other communities have
been supported by corporations and
basic system," he explains.

government. And, as Gerry Depo
says, the Free-Net is "an ideal
opportunity for the town, the university

and the region to work

together."

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UNCOVERING

Imagine, Connie

Chung

teaching chemistry class

or Peter Jennings lecturing on

'Why not Connie Chung?''
for graduate studies

Youd

Of course,
well

is

and

statistics.

asks Patrick Schloss, assistant vice president

research at Bloomsburg. "She delivers well.

think that she'd he a great instructor."
Schloss doesn't really believe that delivering

the sole measure of great college teaching.

"In fact she's a

good

actor,"

answers Schloss.

"But good actors do not necessarily scholars make."

What does make
in the

a scholar? And

undergraduate classroom
WRITTEN BY

TO

scholarship

faculty,

remaining

field,

ERIC FOSTER

•

their views challenged

means staying abreast of their
and vibrant, and having

by

just in teaching

Scholarship

— but

detrimental to faculty," says

in other disciplines as well.

how

The
to

discipline students learn

everyday life

activities

also

detector," says Keith.

Undergrads

Program

Matta. "Take Latin, a good 'dead'
language," he says.

"What new could

new

translations

graduate.

of

in

material being made."

Jennings

left

of excellence,"

Amy

Green, biology major from Ashland, PA,

how

to

may

not

in

to dis-

the

is

her an edge

how

says Green,

"Getting

scholar can."
to

separate fact from fiction, the relevant

a skill that

you have

gamut of

Biology major Amy Green

know what

irrelevant.

"Research

which

is

intensely

disciplines ranging

from

accounting to zoology.

Students too, benefit from practice in learning

from the

in grad-

good prepara-

with faculty mentors. Their projects run

applying for entrance to veterinary school.

Connie Chung doesn't have the expertise

criminate between conflicting views. She

discover,

"It's

The two dozen honors students work

the

with

says Schloss. "Every discipline has con-

A

are doing research

research-focused."

believes her research gives her an edge

as arbiters

weight to give them.

"Our students

much the same way they would

tion for graduate school,

best?

know. "In

absence of scholarship, you're

fhcting views.

Bloomsburg's Honors

uate school," says Keith.

And which translation is the
Connie Chung or Peter
necessarily

in

are expected to complete a the-

or a major creative project, before they

sis,

possibly happen in Latin? But there

Connie Chungs

weighing pitches for

learn how to do
you can apply the technique
anything. It gives you a built - in BS

to

there are changes in every field, says

wouldn't

to

"When you

research,

important for faculty to stay

constantly

interpreting a survey reported

newspaper

credit cards.

abreast of changes in their field, and

are

through research can be applied

— from

in the

mental challenge."
It's

to

history. "Research

questions are important."

They need the

stay alive intellectually.

Honors and Scholars Program and
and scholarship is
ask the right questions. Learning which

an associate professor of

important for faculty to

is

and for students?

director of the university's

Jim Matta, director of grants. "It causes burnout, which happens

— not

for faculty

partly learning

peers.
is

—

scholarship important

is

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOAN HELPER

creative

"Constant unrelieved teaching

why

to learn," says Jeanette Keith,

when
into

is

hoping that her research

will give

she applies for veterinary school.

veterinary

who grew up on

school

is

very

competitive,"

a farm in Ashland. For her honors

"The Role of Intestinal Parasites in Bovine
Management," Green examined the manure of more than 300
project,

cattle

from 19 farms

in the region.

She analyzed the samples

Uoomsburf UnJveisSy Alogozine

SPRING 996
1

at

23

SCHOLARSHIP

And \vhile undergraduate students may be urJikely to unlock the

pital in

Leighow Veterinary HosDamdlle where she

secrets of the universe in a chemistr)' lab or discover a "lost"

had an internship. She

Shakespeare play

presence of intestinal parasites

would negatively

affect

the weight of the

cattle.

Instead she found

that only one type

had an

parasite

Utde stuff

a

invoked in the

from Bloomsburg
a degree

in

in

December with

their cattle

mass communications.

study".

know what

they

Katherine Yurchak, Muncy, graduated

Some

have and ho^v to

"We have an honors student doing research to

I

Now,

I

dogs and

cats.

really liked

An
ss'hich

to svork

^^'ith

%\'ould like to focus

on

farm animals.

large

thesis

I

Now

is

helping conduct a

how weightlifting

study to see

mobility of senior citizens.
"I see this as
^\'hat

an extension of

we do in the classroom," say's
Leon Szmedra,

74 years-old,

associate professor of exercise
physiology.

Two

students wiU use

Wigwams

complete graduate

the

history

of

adoptive

her

hometown, Muncy in nearby Lycoming Count)'. Profits from
the book are being used to create a scholarship for nontraditional students.

It

took her a year to complete her research,

a year she says she "stole"

from her

faculty

mentor Walter

Brasch, professor of mass communications.

must
the Honors Advisory Committee.

In order even to begin their studies, honors students

submit

a

proposal to

The process

"We

itself

theses.

Mathematics

professor

Mehdi Razzaghi has involved
two graduate and four under-

James Matta, director of research, and

graduate students in a 572,000

for graduate studies, help guide the

project funded

university's research

by the Risk

Patrick Schloss. assistant vice president

programs.

Science Institute, a private research foundation. Razzaghi and
the students are creating a statistical

model

to evaluate the risk

of birth defects caused by environmental toxins.

provides another kind of education.

require that students prepare proposals for their

"In a lot of cases, students get to present their research at

"and we frequently make them rewrite the

regional or national conferences," says Keith. For example,

research," says Keith,

prospectus. After the

first,

they're asked to write

a

one Keith wishes

it's

graduate. "As an under-

grad,

have

didn't

I

a

chance to do this kind of
research.

Nobody

me how

to

proposal.

I

taught

graduate

wouldn't have

Leon Szmedra. associate professor of

had such

graduate school

a terrifying time in

the practice."

if I'd

had

—

to

be honored by the

paper, "Looking

Attachment
for

annual

Style

for

Psi

— graduate and under-

Chi Honor Society for

his

Mr. Goodbar: The Relationship of

and Number of Times

Chemical Dependency

in

Love to Propensity

Teenage College Students."

in

"Many times, smdents -wiU -svork wth faculty even when they're not
on both sides. The
faculty member has an extra pair of hands to help wth the project, and

taking a course for credit," says Matta. "There's gain

the

construct a

exercise physiology, sees research as

Magqane

at the

Vorhies was one of only eight students

she had had as an under-

BJooimbiirf Umvasitf

Connie Schick presented Vorhies' research

second semester's w^ork."

but

SPRING 1596

sor

meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Boston.

can be a gruelling process,

an "extension" of classroom work.

William Vorhies, a psychology aliunnus, and psychology profes-

second proposal for their
Creating the proposals

24

are also

A team of nearly 20 Bloomsburg graduate and undergraduate
students

data collected fi-om the study to

explores

may yield

for the world."

Yurchak graduated in December, 1995. Her book, Where
Stood,

non-drug

see

Bloomsburg students outside of the Honors Program

project director

by Katherine Yurchak grew into a book

has sold out of three printings.

knowledge

if

"That

active in research.

small animals like

mfh farmers."

working

honors

wanted

arthritis sufferers," says Keith.

can improve the strength and

treat them," sa\'s Green.

And Green now knows a little more about the career she'd like
to have. "I thought

of the "htde" stuff that has involved Bloomsburg

methods can help

No\v,

parasites

tried 2,000 times before he

students has been significant.

"This was very useful for
the farmers whose herds were

uncover new knowledge.

by Shakespeare without doing the

Thomas Edison

first.

a significant bit of

co^v's health.

stUl

lost plays

created a light bulb that worked," says Keith.

of

on

effect

—they may

"You don't find

expected to find that the

smdent experiences a professional

"\\Tien

faculty

inject

their

apprenticeship."

own

research

classroom, students notice," says Schloss.
to

"We

into

the

don't need

keep faculty out of the labs so they can spend more time

with students.

We

need

they can spend more time

to

get students

is'ith faculty."

into the labs so

NEWS
Five friends

NEWS

BRIEFS

remembered

Commemorating one

Quite a Quilter!

of the worst

Karen Trifonoff, assistant professor

tragedies in university history helped

the university
friends

and

community

to

of geography and earth science, was

honor

reminder of those before them.

issue of National Geographic.

On

The National Geographic uticle,

members of the university
community came together with the
Oct. 20,

David

Cope

William Kelly

dedicate the

fire to

the "Five Friends

Memorial

all

New

Plaza."

October 1994

fire.

killed in

Bloomsburg's Council of Trustees.

of the Year" in 1988.

Petrosky of

Those students

N.J.;

Joseph Selena of Wyoming, Pa.

for the

those duties, Petrosky was the

term ending January 2001.

director of

the Titusville Area Schools since 1973

and

and

with the intermediate unit.

serves as chairperson of the

elor's

bushes and

studies.

trees.

is

He

also

Kelly, a

as did student

who

university President Jessica Kozloff,

the 109th district to the state

and

FM

student trustee Jennifer Adams, a
junior from Catawissa.

is

visible

WVL\-TV and WVL\

89.9, the region's public

casting stations.

He was

their quilts with large squares

of material, a center design

and wide

The Ohio

borders.

quilters pieced

together
smaller

rectangles in

repeated patterns

House

served as the chair of the House's

Graduate programs
continue to grow

Youth and Aging Committee, secre-

Enrollment in graduate programs

House Appropriations
Committee and vice chair of the

Bloomsburg increased by about
percent

Agriculture Committee. Other

year's total.

committee assignments included

ment

He

formerly

tary of the

1971 Bloomsburg alumnus

president of

—

multicolored

assistant executive director

of Representatives.

earned his master's

and highly

herself a quilter

terms as the representative from

a 1973

earned a degree in English,

the well-known

assistant

make

Stuban served eight successive

degree in education at the university.

government President Chris Vogler,
ministers

He was

degree in comprehensive social

with accompanying plantings of

campus

department.

from 1989-91. Cope

cipal

Friends of the five offered

pupU personnel,

director of special education

graduate of Bloomsburg with a bach-

benches arranged in a semicircle,

the three

held since 1990. Prior to assuming

the faculty of

—

Trifonoff

found that the Pennsylvania Amish

executive director

of the Northeastern Educational

the district's junior high school prin-

Humanities, the memorial includes

is

Intermediate Unit, a post he has

Moscow and Ted Stuban

social stuches

Located between Andruss Library

remembrances,

Petrosky

Cope of Titusville,

Cope has been on

James Palmer of MQlviUe; and

five

12-member

"Young Alumnus

of Berwick. Each will serve a six-year

Derek Mooney of Downingtown;

and Bakeless Center

appointees to the

council are David

Deborah Keeler of MUton,

Pennsylvania and Ohio.
the university's

A. William Kelly of Kingston, David

an

were Kyle Barton of Staten Island,
N.Y.;

featured in the "Geographica"

of Amish people living in

trustees begin appointments

Four new faces have joined

New

current or former

Bloomsburg students

Ted Stuban

site for

The memorial, to be constructed
this spring, will honor the five young
people,

David Petrosky

section, contrasted the quilt designs

famihes of those killed in an off-

campus

November

featured in a story in the

give future students a

Transportation, Health and Welfare,

Local Government,

broad-

selected as

Fisheries

and

Game and

Rail Freight Pohcy.

last fall

at

6.5

from the previous

The program's

enroll-

success was included in a

report issued late

by Patrick

last fall

Schloss, assistant vice president
for graduate studies

and

research.

The graduate programs

OUR FIRST GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT
Bloomsburg, which granted

of graduate programs on campus, the
its first

its first

commencement

in art history, art studio

administration degree.

larger,

and

been stronger

and student

childhood education, education of

at

the deaf/hard of hearing

Bloomsburg. Faculty

exercise science

interest in graduate

fitness.

education warranted this ceremony."

education and speech pathology.

The

their mentors, highlighted the

event.

and adult

university also has

technology, nursing, special

relationship between graduate students

commencement

university's

master of education

programs include those

Graduate coordinators,

in biology,

business education, ciuriculum and instruction,

thesis advisers, practica supervisors or other faculty

elementary education and reading. Nearly 700

who had

students are enrolled in graduate programs

a significant role in the student's

participated in the hooding ceremony.

and

master's programs in instructional

The traditional hooding ceremony,
symboUzing the close working
and

The

program

expected to enroll 20 for

fall

of 1996.

to grow, Schloss reported.

accounting, audiology, biology, early

the graduate student culture has never

—

Health care programs continue

confers master of science degrees in

research, "graduate

is

the

In addition, the university

assistant vice president for graduate

enrollment has never been

—

awards a master of business

According to Patrick Schloss,

special education.

The newest graduate program

the master of science in accounting

and communication.

It

candidates in December.

and

education, instructional technology

graduate

degrees in 1963, offers master of arts degrees

exercise for 90 graduate degree

studies

business, reading, elementary

and

Acknowledging the increased presence
university held

with the largest enrollments include

year-old e.xercise science

26 students.

The

three-

program has

New graduate offerings

are being developed in nursing.

Two programs

that are in the

proposal stages are applied mathematics and physical therapy.

"We

are also discussing a professional

doctorate in audiology," said Schloss.
Schloss also indicated that the

graduate school plans to expand

its

off-campus programs, including cus-

tomized offerings

Foods

in

at

American

Home

Milton and Pennsylvania

Power and Light

in Ber%%'ick.

at the university.

BJoomsbufg University Magazine

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NEWS

BRIEFS

Fame
members

ON THE PLAYING

Athletic Hall of

inducts five

October's induction of five people to

and

Bloomsburg University Athletic

the

Fame brought the
ber of members to 57.
Hall of

The

num-

total

the Huskies'

team

in the nation.

of Coatesville. Also

is

the

Northumberland and Cathy Sheridan

ranked second

women's tennis team grabbed the

crown

in

commissioner, Bloomsburg

six

is

one

of only four schools in the conference

reactivated

to

ed

its

nearly nvo years, proWdes support

has the best gender equity ratio

and direction

in the conference.

fraternity
It

and

for the tmiversity's

take notice.

for

The 12-member board

— which

includes students, faculty and

commimity
attention on

schools are spending

its

match the general undergraduate
all

students

on campus.

rate for students

—

as well

years

between

their

80 percent and 81

is

percent for athletes. These

more

figures
al

Bloomsburg University

-

freshman and sophomore

scholarship money,

and re-examining the "relationship

GPA

PSAC and national
norms. Our retention

PSAC

"while six other

leadership development

And, over

exceeds

state,

as well as a representative of the

— hai focused

All- Americans.

the general student population

reported recently that

staff,

year

as its overall retention rate for

article in the

western part of the

Academic

rate for its student athletes

Reporter, a daily paper in the

life.

last

athletes.

Association, Bloomsburg's retention

CaUfomia (PA) Observer-

Greek students and researches

ways to improve Greek

An

Bloomsburg

PSAC

by the National CoUegiate Athletic

People are beginning to

sorority system.

develops educational programs

in the

According to data released recently

men and women. Bloomsburg

to

athletes are also

number of scholar

average for

of athletic scholarships awarded

Greek Advisory Board. The

its

virtually

be in compUance with Title LX

body, which had been inactive for

field

our scholar-athletes has inched up to

for

regulations regarding the proportion

reactivat-

on the playing

the past three years, the cumulative

Greek Advisory Board
Bloomsburg University has

went

Since 1990, Bloomsburg has fielded

for the first time since 1985.

At the same time, according to the

PSAC

success

excelling in the classroom.

Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

of Mountaintop.

series

only part of the story.

Our student

The women's soccer team

finished no. 8 in the country, while

honored were PhiUip Lockcuif of
('84)

Our

hockey

team finished the season ranked second

and Stephen

The

program" in the conference.

crown

field

PSAC

on to say that "Bloomsburg has
become the model [athletic]

sports vrinning

tied for the di\'isional

last year's

All-Sports Trophy."

last fall. Overall,

with a 10-1-1 record. The

Mich.; Ivlichael Blake ('82) of Upper

('78)

fall

FIELD.

captured

teams enjoyed

percentage was .830. The football

Jon Bardsley ('82) of Brighton,

Eachus

the classroom

athletic

remarkable success

highest athletic honor this year were

J.;

in

Our

recipients of the university's

Saddle River, N.

BRIEFS

.

compare with nation-

standards of 69 and 76

percent respectively.

.

statement" governing the social
organizations.

The board's
advisor)'
is

over-riding goal, says

board chair Mark Lloyd,

Sports hotline

to bring "unrecognized" social

You can now

organizations back into recognized
status.

that

The board has recoirunended
and sororities

upcoming sporting events and
other athletic news through

all fraternities

begin a process toward national
affiliation.

get the latest

sports restdts, the schedule of

new Husky Hothne.
The hotline, with information

the

National Greek

organizations, says Lloyd, offer

updated each day following a

support that "local" fraternities

Bloomsburg

intercollegiate athletic

find difficult to acquire.

Women's
Students

Campus
The

is

Growing

studies.

who want

about women's issues can

90-acre parcel of land adjoining the

The new women's

upper campus. The parcel

at

is

to west

of Nelson Field House.

No

specific

university

is

engaged in a

feasibility

study to determine the need for

SPRING 1996

a

minor
fall,

dozen apphca-

commimication

curriculum and foundations,

economics, Enghsh, history, political
acres.

eioormburg Umvmity M<ig<mne

science

and psychology.

of sports information.

a service offered

To get sports scores and game
simply

call

717-389-BUBU.

.

More than 250 Bloomsburg students

— awarded nearly $200,000
scholarships in the

were recognized

November The

fall

in

semester

—

at a reception in

reception, sponsored

by the Bloomsburg University

from the departments of

health sciences,

office

details,

anthropology, biological and aUied

studies,

additional

26

studies

more than

ble courses

but the

on-campus housing.
The university now ovms 292

now

Bloomsbturg, approved in the

includes

purpose has been

identified for the property,

more

undertake a minor in the area.

university has acquired a

is

.

to learn

by the

event,

Honoring scholarship.

Alumni Association and the
Bloomsburg University Foundation
in cooperation with the financial

aid office,

is

held each year to

award a portion of the

universit)''s

scholarship support.

The

university's total scholarship

package for the 1995-96 academic
vear

is

S703,000.

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—

Paying for college

now easier to

Last

pay for undergrad-

uate classes at Bloomsburg.

deferred

A

payment program, which

Fund campaign

Parents'

fall's

with a $90,000 target

$115,000 in

been expanded to allow

upperclassmen to pay their tuition

—

on Oct.

institution in

1

the State System of Higher Education

State

kind of support.

divide the

payment of their

the course of three

fees over

the

in January,

sent prior to the fifth of each
university

is

of fees

the budget plan for

at

"With

this

agreement

fund

payment

in place,

we

have the necessary tools to collect

our accounts receivable and offer

new

a

this

alternative without additional cost to

the university," said Michael Robatin,

come

to

Bloomsburg,"

scholarships require

may be

a thing

ment and executive director of the
Bloomsburg University Foundation,

the

transfer

new

— thanks

saw students standing

— not once, but twice —
and

of fees owed the

later to

says John

pick up a

who applied after Oct. 27
EFT program was initiated,

Students
the

grands. This
to rent

uses

Steinways to teach his students,

summer

and her M.Ed, and Ed.D.

from the Pennsylvania

A memorial fund
new

library in

to the

to select the university's

in contributing

fund should contact

Bloomsburg University

the

latest addition.

Foundation

21

room in the
memory of Sponsellen

Those interested

New York City this

DOCTORS FOR THE

State University.

has been

established to dedicate a

two smaller

will travel to

Doctors with a Bloomsburg University bachelor's
degree hanging on their walls

up a

lot

more

in the next

Beginning the end of
at least ten

of the seats

at

717-389-4128.

ST

academic

filled

The two
agreement

up

which

to ten graduates

Bloomsburg up

trained as primary care physicians.

program must
by checking

on the loan

application forms.
initiative also allows

"If

we have

and they

all

guaranteed

to go there

seats," says

be

—
— they have

year, sLx graduates

Louis Mingrone,

were admitted

to the

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
All eight

1994-95 graduates were admitted

to professional schools.

"The relationship ivas almost an automatic one,"
Mingrone. "Our students have been going

said

there for a long period of time.

chairperson of the department of biological

And

and

They're leaders

allied health sciences.

of

according to Mingrone. Following the 1993-94

ten qualified students

want

eight

as part

the university's pre-professional programs,

an

to ten guaranteed seats for students to

indicate their intention

Bloomsburg usually graduates between

PCOM agrees to accept
offers

dean of the College

Liu,

and 12 pre-medicine students a year

from Bloomsburg each

The agreement

Hsien-Tung

of Arts and Sciences.

(PCOM)

EFT program

next semester. Those

says

by Bloomsburg graduates.

institutions have signed
in

year,

The Philadelphia

College of Osteopathic Medicine

may be

"This agreement represents an unequivocal
recognition by a major medical school of the quality

of education provided by Bloomsburg University,"

few years.

this

at

may be showing

semester. Others can take part in the

The new EFT

who

Leadership Awards will add to the

annual scholarship

sylvania

means we won't have

Foundation. The Presidential

year.

the appropriate areas

undergraduate degree in education

from Indiana University of Penn-

one for their performances."

Couch,

qualified for the plan for spring

participating in this

Couch, associate professor

of music and the university's piano

laniero, vice president for university

check for any existing balance.

when

A 1927 graduate of Lewistown
High School, Sponseller received her

tremendous investment,

performers prefer Steinway concert

first

to sign the check over to the univer-

university

a

to all student

both to students and the university.

sity for ftilfillment

and Practices
Commission and the Pennsylvania
Department of Education.
Professional Standards

instructor. "Celebrity Artists Series'

loans to speed the transfer of funds

in line

gift

('75)

of the university," says Anthony

(EFT) program.

Past practice

published by the Pennsylvania

the area or another representative

electronic fund

EFT can be apphed

it's

in

Review of Reading Components

of Teacher Education Programs,

made

"A Steinway appreciates with age,

package of more than $700,000.

She wrote

The Elements for Consideration

so

— by an alumnus from

university's total

of the past

to Bloomsburg's

State Teachers College.

Hudock of Williamsport.

high school graduation

faculty at Bucknell, West-

minster College and Bloomsburg

vice president for university advance-

"We're hoping to have these

?

lines outside the business office

Mitrani Hall in the Haas

from Michael and Barbara

scholarships awarded to students

in

Lewistown school system and served

of the Bloomsburg University

Long

During her 29-year career

education, Sponseller taught in the

on the

at

possible through a generous

advancement and executive director

. . .

Reading Conference in 1965.

mances

academic promise,

evidence of leadership capability.

director until 1981.

center stage during musical perfor-

that students exhibit exceptional

ceremony

A cashless college

finest

Steinway

purchase of the piano was

as well as

its

She established the Bloomsburg

According to Anthony laniero,

says President Jessica Kozloff.

The $1,000

Bloomsburg's graduate

served as

Center for the Performing Arts.

acknowledge and recruit talented

at their

university comptroller.

Presidential Leadership

for high school seniors.

students to

A $55,000

of the Keystone

Reading Association, Sponseller

reading program in 1964 and

concert grand piano will occupy

"These scholarships are designed
to

the start of each semester.

University

Foundation has approved $25,000 to

month.

currently under

contract with an outside agency to

manage

The Bloomsburg

pianists at

gift,

one of the world's

across

for high school students

Award

February and March with notices

The

grand

instruments.

of the spring semester. Equal

start

payments are accepted

to a

Bloomsburg University in the
coming years will run their fingers

months each

The plan began with

semester.

mem-

Sponseller died

30, 1995.

initiated

leadership awards

to

M.

A past president

University inaugurates

for

. .

Long-time Bloomsburg faculty
ber Dr. Margaret

This success cemented Bloomsburg's

in securing this

Memorlam

In

raised

Thanks

The deferred payment plan

gift.

—

in several installments.

upperclassmen allows students

BRIEFS

and pledges.

gifts

position as the no.

already existed for incoming students, has

A grand

Parents' Fund tops target

a timely solution
It's

NEWS

BRIEFS

they've been ve:v significant graduates.

—

they're

doing very

well."

students to begin accruing interest

on deposits sooner.

Stctamsburg Untversity Magazine

SPRING

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NEWS
more than money

Giving

more than

money while
The

and

their time

The Off-Campus Student Housing

they are on campus.

off-campus

was awarded a

university

plaque during the

fall

And

honoring the

a series of hearings

and developing

Association.

number of the

housing

as well

as preliminary designs for additional university

housing on the upper campus.

A combined town.'university
newsletter has been created that

and meetings

discusses inspection

enforcement

pool of

1995.

each pint of blood

The

a total of 19

by the

recommendations, and

May

task force

and code

actiNities

town, general safety

deUvered to town and uni-

donated, four hves can be saved, so

details

had

how

tenants

can obtain legal

recommen-

ad\ice and other

dations directed to

assistance.

a quarter million people

donations drawn

"We

university's

student newspaper

studied every

at the university.

John Trathen and

recommendation and

Shoup,

Julie

blood drive, schedule the

periodically

is

pubUshing off-cam-

responded to each of

co-chairpersons of the on-campus

pus student housing

them," said Jessica
drives,

handle publicity, find volunteers

up

at the drives, setting

tables, chairs

The

the university.

have received blood products from

and work

a

versity leaders in

of blood over the past 45 years.

many as

to review the availabihty of student

last spring.

recommendations that were

have donated more than 64,000 pints

as

work

.

at a

University students and employees

Statistics say for

its

the university has responded to a

initiatives

university has conducted a feasibility study

The task force spent more than
six months holding

meeting of the Community

Government

completed

The

fatal,

group's recommendations.

university's 45-year-old tradition of

donating blood to the Red Cross.

The plaque was presented

fire

education and training

Safety Task

Force formed to deal with issues raised by a

American Red Cross.

Just ask the

BRIEFS

TASK FORCE REVIEW

. .

Bloomsburg students and employees
give a lot

NEWS

BRIEFS

Kozloff, president of

information with

the university.

safety tips

and food.

for the off-campus

housing program

Students

falls

under the

and

identi-

fying where to call

Responsibility

for information

now

and

assistance.

An "Off-Campus

office

form

of student

Housing

tenants

standards. Residence

in late January to reach

association

life staff

Greek

Bloomsburg's students have decided
to take a

more

active role to

improve

result

is

the formation of a

tenants association, the

first

the State System.

"This

is

a student initiative that

has the complete support of the university's administration," said

Vogler, president of the

off-campus and
provide informa-

safety awareness

tion to those

programs

planning to

for off-

campus students.
The student hfe committee of the Forum reviewed
and is recommending necessary changes in the
e.xisting drug and alcohol poUcy and starting a
Drug and Alcohol Intervention Program with the
community and local school districts to coordinate

in

Chris

Community

was held

students li\Tng

will

continue to provide

off-campus housing conditions.

The

— including
—

affairs

Fair"

do so
future. Residence halls are holding

in the

mandatory

spring meetings to help those planning
to

make

the

A "Parents'

move off-campus

Guide

was included

to

in the near future.

Off-Campus Student Housing"

in the latest Parents' Newsletter.

Government Association (CGA),
the students' governing organization.

Vogler worked with a core group

of fellow students to develop

State releases funds for

the group's basic goals.

The student

campus student residences and
work with the town's code
the

officers, as well as

CGA attorney, to

students
leases

who

and

tenants.

A

counsel

'Let's talk

have questions about

Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor

Mark

Schweilcer ('75) brought

news

to his 20th class reunion during

Homecoming

good

1995 in October:

the state had released $7,125 million
in

alumni

new

[Tom

football

game.

those seeking to

SPRING 1996

move

off

campus.

Bhomsburx Univmitf Magazine

of floor space, making

it

the largest

building on campus.

took

Among the

notable features of the

all

of a minute and

new

he said

do

it.'"

ing area. There will be study seating

'Let's

building will be a rooftop read-

$10.5 million with the university

more than 1,000 students, stack
more than 400,000 volumes
and access coimections for 645 per-

The

sonal computers that can be expand-

The
the

construction cost of

total

new hbrary

is

estimated at

library.

project

published and serve as a guide for

four-story build-

the governor

contributing $3,375 million.

housing. The results will be

"It

The new

ing will include 105,000 square feet

Schweiker told

survey to be developed by

concerning the condition of student

Building.

this for

luncheon before the

homecoming

funding for construction of

the

at a

about

their responsibihties as

the association will pose questions

28

,

five minutes,'"

association will

deal with safety concerns in off-

enforcement

the governor

"I said to

Ridge]

university library

was approved

for design in

1992, with design costs
to a Httle over
state

paying

The new
be

ne.\t to

all

amounting

for

space for

ed to accommodate another 125
computers. The

librar\' \\ill also

have

$2 million and the

meeting rooms with

but $140,370.

audio-\isual and tele\ision access.

library building will

Waller Administration

facihties for

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BRIEFS

Honoring
Red GaJl^her

Shown from
honored

at

Bloomsburg

Sue Jackson, Shareen

Silva, Nancy
Madhav Sharma and Carl Jones.

for
Gill,

nearly 25 years, died

Long

on November

6.

interested in international

Madhav Sharma has worked to
number of international
students who come to Bloomsburg

business, Gallagher initiated foreign

exchange programs in The Netherlands,

He

are individuals

the university's Martin

Luther King Humanitarian Award:

Francis Gallagher, a professor of

management

left

w/ith

increase the

Belgium and France.

in France

and stengthen the

University

taught as a visiting professor

and England. In 1991 he

ty's ties

universi-

with other colleges around

He

participated in a People to People

the world.

exchange in Warsaw, Poland; Prague,

number of community outreach

Czechoslovakia; and Moscow, Russia.

programs, including the Gandhi

in

has helped organize a

A graduate of Stonehill College

Festival, celebrations

North Easton, Mass., Gallagher

Nepalese

earned his

MBA from Temple

University

and

international festivals.

his doctorate

Five

from Lehigh.

The Red Gallagher Memorial
Scholarship has been established in
his honor.

Those wishing

a contribution

made

to

make

should send checks

payable to the Bloomsburg

Five individuals were

awarded

400 East Second Street

Bloomsburg,

PAl 78 15

students as a program assistant in
the department of developmental

Task Force's training the trainers

and

program, she has worked with

instruction

Humanitarian Award

numerous organizations

Sampler Program. She

Martin Luther King

at the

annual

Commem-

orative Banquet.

Honored were

faculty

members

Sue Jackson, associate professor of

The Development Center
Bloomsburg University

Senior Shareen Silva has mentored

Honored with Martin Luther King Award

the university's Martin Luther BCing

University Foundation to
this address:

of Chinese and

new years, and numerous

to increase

in the College
is

president of

sensitivity to racial, gender, sexual-

the Association of Hispanic Students

orientation and other issues. She has

and a copy editor and writer

from 1965

and Madhav Sharma, coor-

for

the student newspaper. The Voice.

peace Corps volunteer

also served as a

Senior Carl Jones has mentored

to 1967.

dinator of international education;

long-term projects to boost the

many black and Latino students at
the university. He has been involved

as well as students Shareen Silva

creativity of students, including

in the Black Cultural Society,

and Carl Jones.

students at Martin Luther King High

Orientate Other College Hopefuls

Among the honorees' achievements:

School in Philadelphia. She has been

and Students Together Alleviating

Sue Jackson has served on the

active in the International Society for

Racial Tension.

Teaching Alternatives and

deversity training

English,

University-Comunity Task Force on
Racial Equity. As a

member

of the

Nancy GUI has undertaken

is

several

a leader

and

in starting the annual Diversity

He

Help

has helped in

workshops on

off campus.

Conference for Area Colleges.

How can you

A

save taxes,

charitable deferred annuity permits you to donate cash or

marketable securities

income

generate retirement

income and "do good"
for Bloomsburg?

for

life

to the university

—

for you,

may

In addition, you

and

receive a guaranteed

and your spouse,

if

you wish.

get

when you make

•

an income

•

a reduction and deferral of capital gains taxes,

tax

deduction

• the satisfaction of

making a generous

gift

the

to

gift,

Bloomsburg.

Here's an example:

If

Answer: Establish

you are 45 and contribute $25,000

that begins

to a charitable

deferred annuit}'

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

Academic

Art

Calendar

Exhibits
Haas Gallery hours are Monday
through

Mid-Term,
Tuesday, March

5,

10 p.m.

Spring Breai<
Begins, Saturday,

March

10, 10 p.m,

Classes Resume,

Spring Weekend
Begins,

Kenneth

March 20 to April

3,

Haas

Gallery.

S.

Gross Auditorium.

Music Major Recital

S.

Osenbach, tenor, Mary

Smith, piano, Sunday, March

24, 2:30 p.m.,

Carver

Hall,

Kenneth

Gross Auditorium.

2:30 p.m.. Studio Band, 6 p.m.,

Knoebel's Grove, Elysburg.

Directed by Terry Oxiey and

Stephen Wallace.

Orchestra Pops
Concert

Curator Carol Burns; jurors

President's Ball

MondayApril

Robert Koslosky and John Cook.

Dance music by the Studio Band,

Town

March

Reception, Wednesday, March 20,

Saturday,

24 West Ballroom, Bloomsburg.

cert will be

Scholarship benefit event, tickets

the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Directed by

p.m.

LaRocca

Isabella

Photographs, April

to April 30,

1

April

1

1

,

noon to 2 p.m.

the art gallery

Exhibit by

May

30, 6 p.m., Magee's

required. Call the

Center

at

Development

389-4 28.

If

weather

Mark

Reservations limited. Directed

Hall,

Concert Band

May 2 to

14,

Haas Center for

Jelinek.

Kenneth

S.

Gross Auditorium.

Studio Band

2:30 p.m., Haas

Center for the Arts, Mitrani

Hall.

Pops Concert
Wednesday, May

1,

0,

Haas Gallery Reception,

May

2 to 4 p.m.

2,

Park, Bloomsburg. Raindate,

Choral Ensembles
Women's Choral Ensemble,
Chamber

Singers and

Senior Recital

Finals Begin,

7:30 p.m., Haas Center for the
Arts, Mitrani Hall. Directed by

and Eric Nelson.

2:30 p.m.. Carver Hall,
S.

Gross Auditorium.

Catawissa
Military

University-

1

Commencement,
May

4,

Kenneth
Miller

bass, Saturday,

18,

Monday, May 6

Wendy

2.

Husky

Singers.Thursday, April

Finals End,

May

Directed by Stephen Wallace.

Matt Hare, string
5

May

6:30 p.m.,Town

Directed by Terry Oxiey.
1

May

Saturday,

inclement, the con-

in

TuesdayApril 30, 7:30 p.m.. Carver

by Stephen Wallace.

Sunday, April

is

Student Recital

1

class.

Reading Day,

Saturday,

29, 6:30 p.m..

Park, Bloomsburg.

noon to 2

May 4

May

Sunday, April 28, Concert Band,

Hall,

Ann

Thursday,

Sunday,

Thursday, March 21,8 p.m., Carver

Association Juried
Exhibition

Master's thesis exhibit.

Classes End,

Groves Pops

Franklin

Sumani

April 8, 6 p.m.

Knoebel's

Menagerie Quintet

Student Art

Charles Haruna

4, 10 p.m.

Classes Resume, Monday,

Saturday,

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Haas Gallery. Reception, Thursday,

Monday, March 18,8 a.m.

Thursday, April

Friday,

The Brass

May

Band
8

Haas

Community

Tuesday,

Orchestra

Center for the Arts, Mitrani

14,

p.m.,

Hall.

1

Sunday, April 21 2:30 p.m., Haas
,

Center for the Arts, Mitrani

Hall.

Featuring double bass soloist

Edgar Meyer. Directed by Mark
Jelinek.

Concerts
Admission

is

otherwise noted.

Edgar Meyer, MondayApril 22,

Jazz Night

noon. Old Science

Studio Band with guest

Celebrity
Artist Series

Double Bass
Master Class

free unless

trombone

call

the

Celebrity Artist Series box office
at (717) 389-4409.

Goldeneye
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,

Third and Market streets,

March 5 to

Suzuki String

Bloomsburg. Featuring a perfor-

Mitrani Hall,

Recital

mance

Hall.

March

7,

8 p.m.,

Directed by Stephen Wallace.

Carver

March

Hall,

Auditorium.

SPRING 1996

B/oomsburg Un/versrty /VIogaz/ne

Films

Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.,

Saturday,

30

room G20.

Wesley United Methodist Church,

soloist,Thursday,

Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
For ticket information,

Hall,

Concert Choir

16,

2:30 p.m..

Kenneth

S.

Gross

of Handel's Messiah with

7,

7 and 9:30 p.m.,

Haas Center for the Arts.

Heat

guest orchestra and soloists.

Wednesday, Friday and Sunday,

Directed by Eric Nelson.

March

20,

22 and 24, 7

Mitrani Hall,

p.m.,

Haas Center for the Arts.

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Toy Story

Lacrosse

Wednesday.April 24, 7 and 9:30

April 5, 3 p.m.,

7

p.m.; Friday.April 26,

April 28,

Mhrani

Hall,

p.m.; Sunday,

a.m. and 7 p.m.,

i

1

Father of the
Bride II

upper campus.

Softball vs. Shippensburg, Saturday

April 6,

Haas Center for the Arts.

Frostburg, Friday

vs.

p.m.,

1

upper campus.

Kutztov/n,Tuesday

Softball vs.

April 9, 3 p.m.,

upper campus.

Baseball vs. Shippensburg,

Thursday,Aprll 25, 7 and 9 p.m.;

Wednesday, April

FridayApril 26, 9 p.m.; SundayApril

upper campus.

28,

2 and 9

p.m., MItrani Hall, Haas

10,

1

p.m,

Men's Tennis, Bloomsburg Duals,

Center for the Arts.

Special Events

Friday and Saturday April 12

Spring Fling

and 13,lov/er campus.

SaturdayApril 20. Special games
Softball vs. Mansfield, Saturday,

April 13,

p.m.,

1

upper campus.

and food stands

be set up on

will

campus, while an area rock band
Lacrosse

vs.

William Smith, Sunday
will

perform

in

the Kehr Union

April 14, noon, upper campus.

Ballroom
Men's Tennis

vs.

Mt

Tuesday April 16,3

St Mary's,
p.m.,

in

the evening.

Renaissance

Jamboree

lower campus.

SaturdayApril 27, Main Street
Baseball vs. Kutztown, Saturday,

Town
April 20,

of Bloomsburg. Food,

upper campus.

p.m.,

1

more than

music, games and
Softball vs.

Lock Haven, Sunday

April 21,1 p.m.,

Lacrosse

upper campus.

EWL

only.

April 22, 3:30 p.m.,

Championships,

Friday and Saturday,

March 8 and

Field

fill

Main

Street for the day

Monday

upper campus.

Baseball vs. Millersville, Wednesday
9,

April 24,

Nelson

will

p.m.,

Baseball vs. Susquehanna,

Wrestling,

booths

upper campus.

home games

Includes

craft

vs. Philadelphia Textile,

Sunday April 21,1

Sports

200

p.m.,

1

upper campus.

House.
Lacrosse

vs.

April 25,

4

St Joseph's,Thursday

vs. Philadelphia Textile,

Lacrosse

p.m.,

upper campus.

Thursday, March 21,4 p.m.,

Men's Tennis,

PSAC

upper campus.
Championships, Friday and
Softball,

Husky

Classic, Saturday

Lectures

Saturday April 26

and Sunday, March 23 and 24,
and 27, lower campus.
upper campus.
Softball vs. West Chester,

Men's Tennis

vs.

Saturday

Swarthmore,
April 27,

Wednesday, March

p.m.,

1

upper campus.

27, 3 p.m.,
Softball vs.

lower campus.

C.W Post Sunday

Patricia Ireland

NOW (National

President of the

Organization ofWomen).Thursday

March 2 .Workshop, 4

p.m., lec-

1

April 28,

1

p.m.,

upper campus.

Baseball vs. East Stroudsburg,

Saturday,

March

1

p.m.,

Softball,

1

upper campus.

p.m.,

Bloomsburg

Sunday March

Ballroom.

May

Softball vs. Millersville, Saturday,

30,

3

Kehr Union

Baseball vs. Mansfield, Saturday
30,

upper campus.

March

ture, 7:30 p.m.,

1

,

Invitational,

upper campus.

4,

1

p.m.,

upper campus.

Henry Foster
Former nominee

for Surgeon

General of the United

Thursday April
p.m.,

1

States.

leaure, 7:30

Kehr Union Ballroom.

Softball vs. East Stroudsburg,

Workshop, Friday

WednesdayApril 3,3

a.m.,

p.m.,

1

,

April 12,8:30

Kehr Union Ballroom.

upper campus.

Bloomsburg Umrersrty

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THE LAST

Dear Doctor Kozloff
/recently

Living near a fi-aternity and working

took part in the
American Heart Association's
Walk-a-Thon at Town Park.

who walked

Everyone

Sunday
of

credit,

PRESIDENT JESSICA KOZLOFF

find
BY SYLVIA PEROTTI

certainly deserves a lot

one capacity or anoth-

involved with the university

dents, faculty, staff

—

is

—

stu-

impressive.

it's been my good luck to
most students to be friendly and
considerate. I cook pots of chili for my
frat neighbors, and they help shovel the
snow from my sidewalk.
Of course, there are some students who

near a fraternity,

that

but the fact that over half the

"walkers," were, in
er,

A LETTER TO

on the
That
least

hill.

tells

Now,

me

there are nearly 7,000.

that there

seven times the

likely to

is

be

at

don't keep their parties indoors. There

fuss!

Did we have parties back then? You bet.
Were we loud? At times, sure we were.
Students then were looked on as

some who

are

erty.

When

just

maybe

don't respect others' prop-

The students, along with everyone else,
gave up several hours of their Sunday
afternoon to show their support for this

beanie-wearing, soda fountain-sitting,

the university as the asset

worthy cause.

rah-rah kids.

And

the

BU

It

was gratifying

to

watch

president offer her encourage-

ment before the walk and shake hands
when it was over.
In 1950, during

my

short time at the

People today are
kids. Their

still critical

bad deeds

get

—

but their good deeds
plenty

— seldom

all

of college

the attention,

and there

are

get noticed. Like their

old Bloomsburg State Teachers College,

participation in the Heart Walk-a-Thon,

about 1,000 students attended the college

for instance.

up
community

these few clean

the

community

—

like its

—

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is.

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heart walk and in Habitat for

and

will

the university's contributions to the

in countless other little

will

be noticed.

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it

their acts,

Humanity

"good deeds"

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UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

1996

EDITOR'S VIEW

They

have been compared to

F.

Scott Fitzgerald's

"new generation," a group he described

more than

grown up

success;

all

the last to the fear of povert}'

faiths in

Today s

man

all

wars fought,

- sometimes

called Generation

their counterparts in the 70s.

more

and more

and the worship of

shaken."

from

conservative,

gods dead,

all

college students

are different

older

to find

as "dedicated

practical

diverse.

and

less socially

They face

X-

They are more

aware.

They are

a tougher job market.

This issue of Bloomsburg looks at today's students and explores

how the

university has changed to

the "new" student.

We examine how the universits' is preparing

students for tomorrow's jobs

new

meet the needs of

and how technology

opportunities for learners and teachers

Just as students

- and

their

is

opening up

alike.

needs - have changed, so too

has the university changed to meet those needs. This issue of

Bloomsburg's magazine looks at the changes time has wrought

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is

published twice a year

and spring semesters. A separate publication, "Maroon and Gold".
including class notes and alumni news, will be sent twice a year to all alumni
in the fall

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Members of the most recent graduating class will receive t^vo free issues
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VOL 2

NO.

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2 Teaching

Bloomsbun

of your

6

2nd Vice Chair
Secretary

Kelly.

Ramona H.AJley

David
J.

j.

Cope

2.

Teaching Technolog}-

exist a

to anticipate

tomorrow's

How can today's graduates
ready for tomorrow's jobs? How can a university

employment opportunities?

O'Connor

I'N'R'ERSm" .ULT-INI

be

balance specialized kno\\iedge \sath general learning?

ASSOOAnON

Sandra Rupp 7 President
Nancy Feher Edwards VO.Vice President
Carolyn Vemoy Reitz '5 Secretary
1

— Tomorrow's Jobs

So what can today's colleges do

Pecrosky

James H. McCormick, Ex-Offido

BLOOMSBURG

Skills

generation ago. The speed of change has not slowed.

Ted Scuban
Kevin M.

Today's

by Jason Kirsch Whole categories of jobs didn't

Robert W. Buehner.jr.
James T.Atherton. Jr.
David

for the ride

life.

Mowad, Chair

Jennifer R,Adams.Vice Chair
Davis.

of Technology

Climb aboard the information superhighway

COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES

A. William

Age

the ways teachers teach and the ways learners learn.

Jessica S. Kozloff

UiRoy G.

the

Technology has transformed the ways we

Hve and work. The transformation has also revolutionized

PRESroEXT

J.

in

by M. G. Lloyd

MAGAZINE

THE UNIVEilSI'

Joseph

THIS ISSUE

2

1996

Discover what Bloomsburg

.

1

is

doing to answer these

questions about tomorrow's job market.

.

John j.Trathen '68,Treasurer

Doug C.

Hippenstiel '68, Ex-Offido,

10 Tales from a Kinder, Gentler Time

Director of Alumni Affeirs
BLOOMSBl.'RG UXP.'ERSm'

FOUXDAnON

Anthony

laniero. Executive

David

to discover

Director

Bloomsburg through the eyes of three generations

Hill. Treasurer

of alumni.

E\ECLTT\X EDFTOR
Joan

T.

To know where you are, you have
where you've been. This article looks at

by M. G. Lloyd

Bbem H.AIkire Jr., Chair
L MihalikVice President

Victoria

Lentczner

14 The Face of Developmental

EDITOR
Marldand G. Uoyd

b\'

Joan Lentczner

Instruction
The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas

PHOTOGR.\PHERS
Joan HeKer

14.

Developmental Instruction

urged his readers to "rage against the dying of the Ught."

Brian Donnelly

For more than 20 years, students whose economic

DESIGXER

or educational backgrounds might otherwise have

John Lorish

obscured their talents

now

have found opportunities to

ART DIRECTOR

succeed in the university's Developmental Instruction

Jane! A. Fry

program. Thomas might be encouraged

EDITORIAL BOARD

the Hght

Nancy Edwards 70
Lawrence B. Fuller
James Pomfret
Susan M. Hehwig

on

to

know that

...

—

Address comments and questions

16 The Contemporary Student
the
Changing Face of Today's Student

to:

By

Editor

Bloom^urg

Eric Foster

They've been called slackers, twenty-

somethings, baby-busters and Generation X. They also

Waller Administration Building

Bloomsburg University
Bloorasburg,

is

PA 17815

make up

the greatest proportion of today's college

students.

Who

from

Internet address:

Ilo}#husky.blo omu.edu

sisters?

16.

Conterrporary Student

Bioomsburg University of Pennsyivania is a
member of the State System of Higher
Education. Board of Governors of the State
System of Higher Education include;
F. Eugene Dixon Jr., chair, Lafeyette Hill; Julia
B. Ansil, vice chair, California;

are these students?

their parents

— or even

How are they different

their older brothers

and

This article takes a close-up look at today's

student

— and

24 News

discovers

some encouraging signs.

Briefs

Muriel

Berman, Allento\%Ti; Jeffrey Coy,
Shippensburg; Glenn Y. Pome)', Shavertown;
Dr. Eugene ^V. Hickock Jr., Secretary of
Education; James A- hughes, Philadelphia;
F.

Joseph Loeper, Drexell Hill;

Pittsburgh; Christopher

Stroudsburg;

Amy L. Martin

Shippensburg; Joseph

BenWck; Thomas

Rowe

Kim E.

Makos

J.

M.

Lyttle,

(student),

(student),

Nespoli,

Ridge, Governor; Philip

Wyomissing; Elizabeth L.
Schmid (student), West Chester;
Jere \\'. Schuler, Hanisburg; Patrick J.

D.

Jr.,

Stapleton, Harrisburg; Christine

J.

Cover

illustration

by

John Lorish

The Lorish Company

Torelti,

Indiana; R. Benjamin Wiley, Erie.

Blixmsbuii UninrsiCf Magtizme

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I

—

Imagine a teacher in a world without textbooks

or books

of any kind, for that matter.
It's

hard for us today.

But printed books are a
Western world. Not

relatively recent

until the

phenomenon

in the

middle of the 15th century did

Johannes Gutenberg's printing press make books affordable
WRITTEN BY MARK LLOYD

and

accessible

—

for individual

—

men and women.

The printing press revolutionized Western thought.
By "popularizing" the Bible, some historians have argued, the
printing press made possible the Protestant Reformation and
transformed the way individuals saw themselves in the universe.
But if Gutenberg's invention of movable type and the printing
press revolutionized mankind's relationship with

transformed education.

No

God,

The printing

in monasteries or the universities.

press

— and teaching — more democratic and

education

it

also

longer was learning cloistered up

made
accessible.

Today, the personal computer promises to revolutionize the

way we

il

get

and use information.

In just over 50 years

PC

— an eyeblink

in evolutionary

—

time

made information instandy accessible, even to
young children. The Internet has eliminated time and distance
the

has

as barriers to knowledge.

Personal computers perform complex computations faster

human

than any

being.

They check grammar and detect spelling errors.
They create music and provide graphic animations.
Modern teachers are using PCs as tools to create informationrich classroom environments.

The change

4^W

is

especially significant at institutions like

Bloomsburg, which prepare students for teaching
For most of its 169-year
teachers.

Even today

history,

— though Bloomsburg

imiversity awarding undergraduate

business, arts

nursing

and

— about

sciences,

and

careers.

Bloomsburg has taught
is

a

comprehensive

and graduate degrees

allied health areas

in

such as

a third of the university's 7,000 students are

enrolled in teacher preparation programs.

For Robert Gates, an assistant professor in Bloomsburg's

curriculum and foundations department, successhil teachers

must

still

exhibit enthusiasm

classroom.

and

display professionalism in the

A recent study conducted by Gates and faculty colleague

Viola Supon, assistant professor, sought to identify the qualities

and competencies most sought by school supervisors in young
enthusiasm and professionalism
teachers. "These qualities

—

—

haven't changed," he explains.

"But today's teacher must also exhibit

new tech-

nological competencies to be effective."

PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER

vVmong those technological competencies,
he includes the use of chalkboards and
overhead projectors, but also such

media

as interactive television,

CD-Roms and

the Internet.

Bloomsburg Unrvenity Magazine

WINTER

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TEACHING

"Today's teacher must find creative ways to help learners

become problem

— using

he

says. "

Computer-assisted learning

the computer to enable students with different learning

proceed

styles to

solvers "

at their

own

pace

— encourages

that kind of

Gates, for instance, acknowledges that students with computers
at

home

in

Cahfornia demonstrate a growing disparity between the

have advantages over those that don't. Studies done

technology "haves" and the "have nots."

He also worries about
among urban and

problem-solving, says Gates.

potential inequalities of access to technology

That's one of the changes in education today, says Henry
Dobson, professor of curriculum and foundations.

rural school districts.

Today's teacher teaches problem-solving

A generation
wanted

geography lessons about Africa might have

asked third-grade students to draw and color a
continent. Their
artistic skill

map

of the

work might be evaluated for accuracy and

nearness,

and presentation. Students lacking fine-motor skills

might be penalized

developmental deficiency.

for their

teacher,

Dobson

says,

might ask

a

group of

tion to create a database of such variables as literacy
life

expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa. Students

would then graph the data using appropriate applicaand determine whether a correlation existed

tion software

between these

variables. This

approach emphasizes problem-

solving rather than representational

is

not in improving

productivity, but in solving problems. Using technology

appropriately,

Dobson

says,

encourages students to develop a

The long-term success of this change in pedagogical

focus will be

measured, says Dobson, by an educational s\'stem that produces

who "can help solve our ozone problem, develop

ative solutions to pollution or

generate

power from

Though the

a fusion reaction.'

use of computers in the

classroom promises to revolutionize
education, the solution has also

generated

its

own set of problems.

to stay
five

home from

school to

work on

a report? If there are only

computers in the classroom. Gates

says, the child is likely

accomphsh more on the home computer than going

to

school that particular day.

Tomorrow's technology might make the classroom obsolete.
Distance education
sateUites

— using
— permits

interactive television

and computers

teachers

and

and

learners to be

thousands of miles apart working on the same lesson or project.

The technolog)' is just around the comer, Dobson says. Teaching
and learning are no longer limited by distance, time and age

—

college professors.

The

implications for the educational establishment are immense.

Bloomsburg mathematics professor Reza Noubary has another
concern about the computer's impact on students.
that inappropriate use of the

"layer cake of thinking skiUs."

people

school offers?

8-year-old thfrd-graders can have dialogs with 50-year-old

skills.

Permitting students to explore "if- then questions," the

computer becomes a "mind tool" whose value

home may be superior to what the
What should a parent say to a child who wants

technology they have at

to

Today's
third-graders to use a computer and Internet connecand

Why should kids go off to school each morning when the

Bloomsburg educator, teachers who

ago, says the

to present

There are also new questions for parents and educators.
Gates says.

skills.

cre-

computer

in teaching

He beheves
mathematics

may diminish the role of creativity in math thinking. "Students
who learn mathematics using computers are likely to have a
thinking process different from those who have learned
mathematics based on a traditional teaching
st)de,"

he

says.

He

admits that computers are able to

compute"

far faster

than

human

beings, but they lack the ability
to "think creatively."

TECHNOLOGY

/ /

^"^ hould we

WW m

^k
I

educate students to use computers, or

should we teach them to use

'

mathematics?" he

^

The answer

r^^

Teachers

is

who

to

their

own brains to leam

asks.

do both.

use the computer to "simulate the real

world" are applying the technology appropriately, says Noubary.
"Using

it

as a supercalculator

Most young

teachers

to share information.

is

improper."

embrace the computer and

power

its

Many are using the Internet to make

themselves better teachers.

Dobson

is

part of the Great Lakes Collaborative, a telementoring

program based

in Belleville, Michigan.

Internet, teachers

many as

anywhere

6,000 effective

math and

By logging onto the

world can get access to

in the

science lesson plans.

as

They talk

with teacher experts via e-mail to get answers to questions about

They

instructional content or technology.

get

new

ideas for the

classroom by reading the CoUaborative's electronic newsletter.
Similar initiatives connect students wdth experts.
Star Schools

kids a day

Program, Dobson

— not

day,

m respond.

he

— but

face-to-face

a kid in Minnesota

says,

six

or seven

electronically. "At 10 p.m.,

may ask a science

He'll

Through the

may talk with

this

kind of technology diminishes

the importance of the teacher or the classroom experience.

"Teachers are trained to use behaviors in the classroom that can
contribute to a child's success," he argues.

how to

motivate students. "Their job

water.

.

,"
.

he

says.

is

Good

teachers learn

to help lead the horse to

"A good teacher wdU find a way to get the

Dobson

agrees. "Today's teacher
is

changing too

is

not the knowledge authority

fast for

S.

KOZLOFF

We've been called the "college on the

any one person to be an

authority for very long. Today's teacher

is

the facUitator, probing,

inquiring, eliciting the 'ah...hahr response."

hiU."

However, when our young people come off the
give

new meaning to

the term active learning.

spend thousands of hours during the year

chUd

in

hiU, they

Our

students

in schools, libraries,

and area

centers, correctional institutions

They work, not only

businesses.

Bloomsburg and surrounding

communities, but throughout the

hometowns

horse to drink. That's a teacher's job."

— knowledge

BY JESSICA

question. At 8 a.m. the next

have his answer before he goes off to school!"

Robert Gates doesn't think

Learning on the Streets

like FrackviUe,

state in

many of their

Lewistown, Milton, Scranton,

Shamokin, Sunbury, WiOiamsport

.

.

and the

.

Ust goes on!

This faU 60 students have been tutoring in local elementary
schools. Fifteen football players served as

mentors to students

40 others ran a weekly

in another district, while

recreation/mentoring program for "at-risk" children.
equal

number mounted

this area.

County

a voter registration

An

campaign

in

Students surveyed flood-affected Columbia

residents.

More cooked

chicken at the Mental

Health Association's barbecue.
This kind of community sendee

is

a

two-way

street.

While

they are helping others, our students are learning important
lessons about

what

it

means

often discover important

when

to

be part of a community. They

new skills

that

improve job prospects

they leave the university.

Times have changed.
viewed

as a

be getting

No longer is community ser^dce

punishment. Part of the educational process must
being good

this generation involved in

citizens.

I'm proud to say our students are taking ownership for their
education and bringing

it

to

life.

This

phone rings our students answer the
Jessica Sledge Kozloff

is

is

real stuff.

When

the

call!

in her third year as president

of

Bloomsburg Universit)' of Pennsylvania, a member of
Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.

Bloomsburg UnivefziTy Magazine

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WRITTEN BY JASON KIRSCH

PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER

headlines abound. "1996

Trendy
Career Guide:

20 Hot Job Tracks."

"Forecast '96: Job Mart Great for
Grads." "Outlook '96: Help Wanted!"

may be frightening
who will soon

Job market forecasts

—

especially for students

adorn caps and gowns. Have they chosen

Did they learn the

a lucrative field?

knowledge and skiUs necessary
perform the job? Has

to

their education

prepared them to work in today's
global environment?

One

of the functions of a university

to prepare

its

is

students for jobs. But

preparing students on the basis of today's
job requirements

is

insufficient.

The

reason? Change.

Author Isaac Asimov once wrote:

"It is

change, continuing change, Lne\dtable
change, that

the

is

society today.

No

dominant

factor in

sensible decision can be

made any longer without taking
account not only the world as

world as

it \vill

be

into

it is,

but the

This, in turn,

means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our ever^Tnan must take on a
science fictional way of thuiking."
Anticipating change

is

a challenge, says

Wilson Bradshaw, Bloomsburg
Universit)''s

academic

provost and vice president for

affairs.

responsibility to

"But

be

it is

the university's

visionan,'

—

to look

A university's methods of prognostication
balls.

at

grounded

So

how does

in tarot cards or crj'stal

a university look

tomorrow's opportunities

that

may not

even

"We

with our peers

ahead," he explains.

are not

"It is a collective process," says

Bradshaw.

—

ahead

for jobs

exist yet?

talk

with one another

— within our

—

institution

and other institutions. We take advantage
of the knowledge and wisdom of our faculty to help us determine

areas

what academic

need to be addressed."

That

is

one way a university

Bloomsburg University's most
valuable resource for understanding

And

it is

work environone way that Bloomsburg

is its

direct links

between academic programs and
outside professionals.

6

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996

B/oomsfaurg Unjversrty Magazine

Statistics

which includes projections of the
labor force, economic gro%\'th and

occupational emplo)Tnent covering a

From

publications like the Handbook,

explains Barnett, universities

demands of the job market so

says Barnett.

that

its

Carol Barnett, director of Bloomsburg

Development Center,

much is learned from magazines,
and government publications.

may learn

"Of course,
word of mouth,"

job market patterns and trends.
a lot can be learned by

University's Career

publishes

the Occupational Outlook Handbook

University tries to be responsive to the

students will be prepared for the future.

the job market

Bureau of Labor

10 to 15-year period.
stays

abreast of changes in the

ment.

Every two years, for instance, the U.S.

"And the

ating source for job

Bloomsburg

Internet

is

a prolifer-

market research."

Universits^'s

most valuable

resource for understanding the job market

between academic

notes that

is its

journals

programs and outside

direct links

professionals.

"They are a very important

link

between

academia and the professional world," says
Harold

Bailey, professor

of mathematics

and computer science and
(IIT).

On"How

Comprised of business

and

what

director of

Bloomsburg's Institute for Interactive

Technology

occasion, the council even evaluates

better for students to learn

will

be required of them

tomorrow?" Bailey

Council relays information to the univer-

and member of Pennsylvania's State
Board of Nursing, the university's health

technology. According to Bailey, the council

keeps the program abreast of the job market

— what type of preparation employers
are expecting

and what kinds of job

opportunities are avaOable.

"The moment someone

says, 'Hey, Bailey,

your students are not meeting our expectations,'

we're going to change," says Bailey.

from Bloomsburg University in

According to Christine Alichnie, dean of
Bloomsburg's School of Health Sciences

graduate program in instructional

business majors who graduated

notes.

professionals, the IIT's Corporate Advisory

sity's

More than 90 percent of all

critiques student work.

care

programs look ahead

The Health

in several ways.

Sciences Advisory Council

1995 found erq)loyment.

"We
tion,

ask them to evaluate their preparaand we ask them if their employers

may be

contacted," says Alichnie. "After

we

meets twice a year for university faculty

receive permission,

and health care professionals

that should be addressed

to exchange

we

ask about areas

and how our

information. Each year, the School of

programs should

Health Sciences also conducts follow-up

Based on our follow-up studies, we make

surveys of students

who

have graduated

within the previous two years.

revise their curriculums.

changes."
Just this

fall,

in fact, the university

an adult nurse practitioner

initiated

program

in response to changes in the

health care industry. Nurse practitioners
are

primary care providers that managed

care organizations

want

to hire.

much of a

Alichnie also notes that

program's success in preparing

depends on the professional
faculty.

"Our

its

students

activity of

its

faculty are actively involved

in the practice

and research of health

care

at area institutions," says Alichnie.

"Through

we main-

faculty involvement,

tain contact with the professional world."

With

all

these systems for academic

planning in place, one would

like to

assume that a thoroughly prepared
graduate with a degree soon becomes an
established professional with a job.

Unfortunately
the picture

is

— but not

who

—

not so perfect.

More than 90
majors

surprisingly

percent of all business

graduated from Bloomsburg

University in 1995 found employment.

However,

less

than 60 percent of elementary

education students found employment.

Undoubtedly, these figures

may be

interpreted in a variety of ways.
Last year, Bloomsburg's business graduates

may have been well

prepared and

high in demand. Bloomsburg's elementary education graduates

may also

have

been excellently prepared, but ask any one
of them what they learned from their job
search

and

they'll

probably

tell

Bloomsburg University Magazine

you

that

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Pennsylvania's market for teachers

just

is

South and West, where student

in the

lie

Many graduates
far from home

preparing students for "what's hot,"

and

teach students to talk the talk

populations are booming.
prefer not to relocate so

walk the walk prepare graduates

A imiversity can look ahead at tomor-

for the jobs of tomorrow."

will be.

years, despite trends in partic-

ular job areas, says Carol Barnett,

between

And

as evident

by the world's fascination

with the cyber-code

80 and 90 percent of all Bloomsburg

future

designers, analysts

employment or continuing

"Our students

unusual for us to get

"It is

letters,

is

The

going to require developers,

and managers of com-

not

at all

number

of) marketing, advertising

public relations managers

from students who have gone off thanking

is

and

also projected

employers impressed with students'

Many young professionals
may find opportunities to communicate,
promote and sell the new millennium's

preparation."

products, services and images.

us for preparing

them

well,

but also from

So what are the future careers that are
expected to challenge today's students?

Many of the fastest growing occupations
continue to exist in the

fields

of health

getting older

— and
The
population
and Uving longer —

more people

are

and computer science

good reason.

for

nation's

is

soon going

to

need

care.

successfijl,

more times throughout

these

the

young

professionals

must manage

money they expect to earn. More

and more individuals and companies

demand

the services of financial

strategists to help

them make

that

and

In the long run, you'U do better

if

is

skills.

you

are

do."

Today's students must be wiUing to take

ally

risks

and

and be

flexible

—

profession-

geographically, says Bradshaw.

They must

understand and respect

also

cultural diversity.

But most important to students'
professional future, says Bradshaw,

is

their ability to apply their education.

on teaching

theory,"

he explains. "To learn

theory for the sake of learning theory has

no

value.

how to

To learn theory and understand

use

to solve

it

problems

—

that

talk the talk

prosperous futures.

graduates for the jobs of tomorrow."

and walk the walk prepare

"Without the fundamental knowledge a

a

general education

wUl not

program provides, people

understand what

fully

on around them,"

And even one's ideal

is

going

may
And they may

says Liu. "Hence, they

not find happiness in any job.

not find happiness outside the boundaries

job stiU doesn't guarantee happiness.

of their work"

With these characteristics of the

Liu acknowledges that the ability to find

marketplace in mind, some educators

happiness surely cannot be attained through

emphasize the proposition that a

the study of liberal arts alone. That

should be more

Tallying one-half of an undergraduate's

Bloomsburg University seeks to

why

is

cultivate

than vocational. Perhaps the true worth

curriculum, Bloomsburg's liberal arts

an environment that helps students learn

of education, they say,

(or general education) requirements

ways to find happiness.

is its

ability to

prepare people to find happiness and

include courses in the humanities, the

satisfaction inside

arts, the social sciences, the

— and

outside

—

the worlqjlace.

and

Sciences,

believes that one's ability to find happiness
is

behavioral

sciences, the natural sciences

Hsien-Tung Liu, dean of Bloomsburg
University's College of Arts

direcdy related to education

is

the direction education should take. Those

academic programs that teach students to

the

are constantly rendering

college education

be

to

most of their earnings and ensure

Many people even change careers
once or twice. New trends, technologies and
others obsolete.

you are going

If

"Traditionally, universities have focused

And, of course, Barnett continues,

career.

skills

"One should never
on

you must choose a job

happy with what you

Today's average professional changes
jobs six or

list.

consistent with your interests

to increase.

will

a lot

one graduates.

some

According to Barnett, the need for (and

not only

hit

a career decision based solely

'what's hot,'" says Bradshaw. "Engineers

puter hardware, software and burgeoning

interconnected networks.

get jobs," says

Bloomsburg's Bradshaw.

our informa-

http://,

tion appetite has not been sated.

University graduates report finding

their education after graduation.

officer

can be hot today and cold by the time

cannot prescribe

it

what or where those opportunities

care

based on today's

make

row's opportunities, but

professional

Bloomsburg's chief academic

cautions students about choosing careers

and famUies.

Over the

While recognizing the importance of

"Those academic programs that

about saturated. Opportunities for teachers

—

particularly exposure to the liberal arts.

and

"Clubs, student publications, social

and

intellectual organizations, ^orts, residence

hall living

—

all

of these experiences

ulti-

mathematics. According to Liu, general

mately help a student find happiness in

education courses are designed to nurture

Ufe," says Liu.

a student's ability to communicate, analyze,

extracurricular activities, students

calculate

and imderstand the world

which humans

live.

in

social

as

"And by participating in

and interpersonal

important as job

skills

devebp

that are just

skills."

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oday's college students have

more freedom than

ever before.

Residence halls are co-educational. Colleges and universities are

— by

prohibited

federal

law

— from

issuing even grade

reports to parents or

The world

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es

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rom.

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article looks at three

generations of college

life

on

eiiitier

the Bloomsburg campus.

WRITTEN BY MARK LLOYD

10

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Bloomsburg Univereily Magoz/ne

T:imeS9 9»

"The war to end

Stately

all

and thorough, Miss McBride

commanded the
young

respect of her

charges.

She allowed her students "few

wars raged in Europe.

privileges" without written permission

firom parents or the school's principal.
:jki

People sang "Over There."

Even the "arrangements and location" of
off-campus lodgings had to be approved

GRACE KISHBACH MILLER

by the principal

oodrow Wilson occupied
young people
not

Not

at the

in 1917,

when

18-year old Grace Kishbach

—

come

to

to

J.

Waller,

Jr.

—

left

—

Gordon

Bloomsburg.

celebrated, as

still

"manners and mores of the

not surprising. D.

— was

danced the Black Bottom. But

in cities

Grace came to a place that

It's

were offered by a

Normal.

down in SchuyUdU County
later wrote, the

the White House. Hip

late

WaUer was, she

recalls,

his "strict sense of

judgment."

Normal

the

at

sat

—

in

lecture, fol-

an age before

and radio

—by

Classes began at 8 in the

morning and continued
Dinner was served

at

until 5 at

about 5:30. After dinner

— students would gather

in the social

room, sing around the piano and chat about events of the

day.

on Saturdays. Sundays and Mondays were
to stem the outmigration of

on weekends. Students were expected
with "Ughts out"

at 10.

But

to

girls

be

in their

often studied

with flashlights under the bedcovers.
"Absolutely

no one was permitted

to go off

campus

after 6

Punishments could be

—

Miss McBride, preceptress of Main Dormitory, enforced the

She "walked

There was contagion. In 1916, the opening of school was
delayed for about two weeks as

officials in

Harrisburg debated

all.

Two

pus.

years

the epidemic broke in

later,

full

force across

at

cam-

Many members
Some

of the student body came down wixh the
The school was quarantined and, for four

died.

weeks, those living in dormitories were not allowed to go onto
the streets of town. In the

town

itself,

15 to 20

new cases

Coupled with the
disease

of

and into

fear of

and death, students

America's involvement in a

war

in far-off Europe.

As

each term opened, young

men and women

failed to

return to classes.

Some

went to work

in factories

to support the

war

effort.

Others, including faculty,
left

to join the

armed

forces.

Grace Kishbach graduated from the Normal in 1919

after

two

years at the school

—

earning a degree

one held a high school degree upon entering

if

the customary length of time required for

teaching certificate that permitted her to teach Latin, Spanish

and EngUsh; ancient

history; arithmetic

and

algebra; reading;

botany, chemistry and physics; as well as sociology

smoking.

rules.

misfortunes.

Following her marriage to Charles Miller and armed with a

severe.

who violated hours were "campused," confined to
campus
often for weeks at a time. Students were sent home
for

accompanied

the school.

p.m.," says Grace.

Those

if

faced the growing reaUty of

a recita-

tion of the day's news.

at 7 p.m.,

to join

by a chaperone.

November.

broadcasts

rooms

—

began with a Bible reading

television

— an arrangement devised

—
the happy couple — but only

influenza were reported each day through October

lowed

off-days

trips off-campus.

friends

chapel services. Each day

and a moral

students

at the

disease.

in assigned seats in daily

Classes were held

chaperoned on

whether pubUc schools in the Commonwealth should open

Colleagues noted his "refine-

eaten "family style"

recalls that

But the Normal could not inoculate students from some

arrived at

"a person of the old school."

—

to be

when one of her

became engaged
end of the academic year, the young man invited his
fiancee and three of her friends
Grace among them
to
Grace

women

the school. Born in Bloomsburg

night.

such lodgings

Victorian era."

when Grace Kishbach

Students

if

dinner in Sunbury. Permission was granted for the three young

well into his second tenure as head of the institution

ment" and

Young women had

— even

or friend.

one historian

a native of Bloomsburg

in 1846,

relative

like a

lady of the 19th century," Grace

recalls.

taught for 37 years in pubUc schools in

— Grace

Montgomery and

Chester counties outside Philadelphia.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

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housekeeper and tutor to the

Street as a

Young lovers sang

children.

He had

the whole third floor of

on Market

the house

Street to himself.

Eda Bessie and Stuart dated throughout

'The Dipsy Doodle" and

the winter. Bessie admits she was attracted
to Stuart because,

evenings, he

'Three Little Fishies".
EDA

BESSIE

AND STUART EDWARDS

They studied

War again threatened

could get the best sticky bun in the world for 5 cents more,"

drug

in

Europe.

store

on Main

was 1939 when Eda Bessie BeUhartz met Stuart Edwards.
They were sophomores that year. It was when Harvey Andruss

Stuart recaUs.

became president of the school. He retauied the post until 1969.
Newspaper headlines in the Bloomsburg State College library
that year may have foretold the gathering war clouds, but the
campus itself retained a serenity that "beUed the times," Eda

friend

Women

the college learned

at

how to

in a straight chair

sit

up out of an overstuffed one. They were taught how

and

— danced

— and
in

Freshman Hop.

the

band

at

When
at

Sophomore CotUlion,

f^\

universe" back then,
ofiSce,

Eda

Bessie

the business office

president's office

was

there, so

Usually,

two

women were

the

women on

assigned to each room.

There were no

and one

light.

rising bell

and

sounded

at 6:45 a.m.

They shared

electrical outlets.The

to

go

or to a movie. Students had to seek "permission" to

p.m.

Chapel services were every Tuesday and Thursday in Carver
Auditorium. Attendance was mandatory.

Eda

and Stuart didn't start dating until their senior year.
He hved off campus and, for a time, paid $7 a week for room
and board. The postage to maQ his laundry home each week cost
Bessie

12 cents. Later, he took a job with the

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Money was
at the school.

Depression.
eastern

Bloomsburg University Magazine

months

after

they bought

always an issue for Stuart

it.

— and

The country was emerging from

Many of its students were

for

most students

the Great

offspring of middle

European immigrants. "Maybe

and

95 percent of students at

saw

college as the 'entry

By 1941 when Stuart and Eda Bessie graduated, Hitler had
overrun Poland and the Low Countries. His planes were
bombing London, and he had launched his invasion of Russia.
Students at the college knitted khaki-colored socks and

when

Quiet times each evening were

1 1

upward mobility and

campus.

Freshmen were allowed two "permissions" per month
study in the Waller Lobby after

to scrape together

sweaters to be added to "Bundles for Britain."

to 9.

downtown

—

But the

closet

from 7

landlady

was the

dean of instruction's.
all

—

ticket' to a better hfe."

was the "hub of the

Waller Hall was the dormitory for

seat.

They used his book money
and $10 borrowed from their

to get their children to college. Families

Old Waller HaU

The

Model

rumble

gym's hall to say their

^

the university store.

a

dancers drifted to the old

goodbyes.

housed the post

in a '31

Bloomsburg were the first generation in their families to have
graduated even from high school," Stuart says. "Parents scratched

the

says. It

A Ford — with

afford such

started playing

Goodnight Sweetheart

,

Herb Schneider tooled

around campus

sold the car a few

your Eyes

the

H&C

"and you

soon decided they couldn't

faculty

to Stardust or

Smoke Gets

coffee cost a nickel,

$35 to buy the machine. They

to

handle bouillon cups.
Students

Maybe they stopped by the

where

Street,

For a time, Stuart and his

Bessie later wrote.

2

practice."

visited in the

and warm

movies. They took long walks.

Roosevelt

It

I

nice

together in the library or went to the

sat in

one

from basketball

when he

"still

— with the worst of the Great
the White House.
Depression behind him —

Franklin

to get

was

Ranson family on Market

college's "age

of innocence" ended, Eda Bessie

says,

met on campus to register male students
over 21. That morning in 1940, "as the men milled around the
hallway in front of the old gym, someone noted that this date
was Bill Kerchusky's 21st birthday. As the gym doors opened, one
mighty push sent BUI to the head of the Une, making him the
."
first man on campus to register for the draft.
Stuart and Eda Bessie married in December, 1942, and went
the draft board

.

to live in Saverna Park,

Maryland.

Later, they

.

returned to

Pennsylvania, where Bessie continued to teach elementary

school and Stuart became a school administrator.
In 1958, the

two returned to Bloomsburg. Stuart became

director of admissions and,

Eda

later,

Bessie taught in the college's

School. Stuart retired in 1979.

dean of professional

studies.

Benjamin Franklin Laboratory

was the Age of Aquarius.

It

off-campus with one of her

father's

friends.

Part of the school's unwritten mission

Peter,

Paul and

—

Mary sang

from

a legacy

its

Victorian past

and the

to teach etiquette

social graces.

women

At dinner each evening,

"Biowin' in the

Wind"

men, jackets and

FEHER EDWARDS

and four men

Another war in a far-off land was claiming American

their rides at Centennial

Gym, careened

down Second Street and jumped off at the foot of CoOege HUl
protested when the college administration banned the boards.
Students, meeting in Centennial Gym, demanded their rights.

—

They vowed to strike until
They called the media.
Next morning,

demands were met.

their

crews had completed film-

Hai'vey Andruss was stiU president of the coUege.
to preside over the institution's

many ways,

He was about

much

since the turn of the century.

month

students could have a

stay out until

1

"late,"

a.m.

to

11.

One weekend

— permission
dorms —
once

Nancy says

No "open visitation" was allowed in
each semester when men were allowed

— but doors had
to one's

room

allowed one phone

to visit

More

of the

hall.

dorm,

for instance

By

—

at

the end

for having alcohol in a

in residence halls was Spartan. There
rooms and no telephones. Hair dryers

Life

in the

— "but

Nancy confesses,

confine-

resulted in expulsion.

today's standards.

were prohibited

—

per night. The pay phone was

serious violations

were no televisions

a

to

except for classes and meals. Detainees were

—

bottom of my closet,"
"and turned up the radio volume when I used
I

relaxed. For the first time,

slacks to class

They wore Wejuns

— but not

in

women were permitted to wear

Carver Hall, or "even

when walking

of Carver!"

hid mine

at

the

set

up

in Centennial
it

ran from one table to another to snatch

up

didn't

In '68,

Nancy met

Hall.

spend
a

all

her time in the dorms or lecture haUs.

DJ from the

married shortly

when Ed

or to the outdoor ones

off-campus party.

On

Husky football game

shown on campus

outside

Saturdays, they might go to a

East Seventh Street, where the

YMCA now stands.
As Nancy Feher's tenure at
Bloomsburg was drawing to a
close, so too was a part of

Bloomsburg

history. After

having

served 30 years as president of the
college,

Harvey Andruss

October of that

retired. In

year, faculty orga-

nized a "Teach-In" to protest the

growing war in Southeast Asia. In the
spring of 1970, 500 faculty and students protested the kUling of students
State campus in Ohio.
some ways, it was a protest over the death of innocence.
Nancy Feher Edwards taught in Bucks County for five years

after

was the dorm mother who enforced the rules.
She checked sign-out sheets each evening to find out who was

In 1975, she returned to the area

out and why. Ms. Kinney once telephoned Nancy's parents to

On

— down on

frozen pizzas steamed over Ulegal hot pots.

verify their written note granting her permission to have dinner

She and

They'd share a Coke in the Husky Lounge or go to an

on the Kent

Lucretia Kinney

local radio station.

after his graduation.

wasn't working, they'd go to movies

no refrigerators. In winter, students used
natural refrigeration, wedgiag cans of Coke and TV dinners
between the screens and the windows of their rooms. They ate
the thing." There were

closed. Students

cards before the

all filled.

Nancy

('73)

Gym. When no more

was

cards remained for a particular section,

downtown

women's dorms

wide open.

call

that matched.

wasn't until spring of Nancy's senior year, that the dress code

It

was

West

except

Violations of the rules could result in a "rooming"

ment

"Women

or Bass loafers.

Saturday nights,

Friday nights, they enjoyed an extra hour of free-

On Saturdays, they could stay out until

dom.

says.

women wore "VUlager sets," Nancy

and sweaters

skirts

Ed Edwards

forgot.

Students were expected to be in their rooms at 9 p.m. during

On

—

choice classes were

and publication of

underground newspapers, Bloomsburg was a place time

the week.

For the most part,
says

ed from various tables

most explosive period of growth.

despite skateboard sit-ins

Rules hadn't changed

women

Scheduling was done with "punch cards" that students collect-

after the television

was 1968 when Nancy Feher transferred to Bloomsburg.

In

Four

'presented' desserts."

in front

ing for the evening news, students returned to classes.
It

ties.

—

ate together at family-

"Guys served the meats," Nancy

style tables.

lives.

Young people turned on and tuned out.
On the Bloomsburg campus, the turbulence of the times
was reflected in the Great Bloomsburg Skate-Board Sit-in. Skate-

— who began

were

expected to wear dresses and nylons

NANCY

boarders

— was

In

graduating from Bloomsburg State College in 1970.

and has taught reading in the
Bloomsburg schools since then. In 1977, she earned her M.Ed.
from Bloomsburg. She teaches during the summers in the
university's Department of Developmental Instruction.

Bloomsburg Univsnity Magazine

WINTER

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DO NOT GO GENTLE

INTO THAT

GOOD NIGHT RAGE, RAGE AGAINSTTHE DYING OFTHE LIGHT— DYLANTHOMAS

THE FACE

O F

DEVELOPMENTAL

INSTRUCTION
—

which spawned this
movie Dangerous Minds
fn a recent
television series — Michelle PfeifFer portrays a teacher

additional academic support

whose students have few educational

courses.

provided

fall's

skills

but

lots

of social

state

Back then, students whose family income was

S5,000

an education, arm yourselves

income has

minds so you'll be that much tougher
They get the message.

By movie's

end, they teach Pfeiffer

to quit the classroom

— by

telling

to

world with strong

knock down."

— chaUenging her

decision

her that she must continue to

Michelle Pfeiffer does not teach at Bloomsburg. Bloomsburg

is

share of drama,

its

families with

legislation.

They are

more than 2,500 people have gone through
Bloomsburg's Act 101/EOP program. Its 52 percent graduation
higher than the national average of 45 to 48 percent.
enter the

Thirty percent of the students are non-traditional

than 18

when

They are

—

older

they begin their academic program.

students

who

are

most "at

risk

spring,

traditional

means.

to direct the institution's fledg-

101/EOP program.

Bryan proved, in the words of Chancellor McCormick

(who, as president of the then-Bloomsburg State College, had

the potential that prior circumstances

and most subject

Bryan's message to students in the

simple

— and tough: study

excellence.

to

butts.

program was invariably
and strive for

hard, stay focused

('73),

one of Bryan's

first

students and

now executive

New Jersey Commission on Higher Education,

admits today that "there were

our

Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.

unnoticed and

Never make excuses. Don't look for the easy way out.

Glenn Lang

director of the

being discarded," says James McCormick, chanceDor of

left

unnurtured."

Of

program each year, half are white,

a third are African-American. Fifteen percent are "other minorities."

Bloomsburg

hired Bryan), "that patience, caring and dedication can tap

might otherwise go unrecognized.

In the past decade,

who

in

For almost a quarter century until his retirement this past

students whose economic or educational backgrounds obscure

is

household income higher than Act 101 thresholds,

Bryan arrived
ling Act

through Act 101 or Equal Opportunity Act

rate

— or

being educationally disadvantaged in some way. Their talents

Nearly 100 students each year enter the university either

the 100 students

one chOd

more per year than a minimum-wage worker earns.
The companion initiative to Act 101 was the Educational
Opportunity Program (EOP). EOP students may come from

share of personal

struggles against the "dying of the light."

talents that

risen to $18,450 for families with

might go "unrecognized" through

campus has its

than

but their educational background must show evidence of their

not Hollywood.
this

less

nearly $8,000

"rage against the dying of the light."

But

attending college. Lawmakers

quaMed for the program. Today, the threshold family

problems. This teacher urges her students to "stay in school, get
in this unsafe

when

funding for tutoring, counseling and developmental

many of us who needed a kick in

Bryan gave us the kick we needed."

Bryan not only admonished

the state legislature passed Act 101. This legislation acknowl-

his students to do well, he put
program and a counseling staff that helped
students acquire the study skUls and academic tools for success

edged that economically disadvantaged students needed

"regular" college classes.

Jesse

Bryan arrived

at

Bloomsburg

in 1973, the

same year

that

together a tutoring

WRITTEN BY JOAN LENTCZNER
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1996

Bloomsburg University Magazine

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

in

THEY, (ACT IOI),ARE

STUDENTS WHO ARE MOST"AT

Herb Douglas and Bryan were classmates
program
the

among

full-time

Rowan

went

beyond words. He

far

To

that were important to him.

his students

produced two

children,

faculty.

Glenn Lang

he was a "solid

Wardigo's challenge

both college graduates and in

Starting this

fall,

is

.

.

and became
at a

instruction

a father to us..."

request

is

part of the

university's effort to

comes

distinctions

reduce

between

Act 101/EOP students

and "regular"

The

higher

New political

education.

who

streamiag" of developmental

and economic

realities face

students

such services. This "main-

time when changing

political

responsible for delivering

all

have a

Byran's retirement

is

peer tutoring services to

took up the weight

.

offer

managing change.

the department

father in the household. Dr.

Bryan

meeting individual

emic, advisory and coimseling services to students.

recalls that for

who "didn't

to

individualized instruction, the faculty offer a wide range of acad-

professional careers.

those

includes seven

tliat

"Our philosophy is based

math, reading and writing courses and conducting labs that

lived the values

family person" with "a stable, nurturing, achieving marriage"
that

and three part-time

student needs," he explains. In addition to teaching developmental

College in Glassboro,

New Jersey, noted at Byran's retirement diimer last spring that
Bryan's influence

BEING DISCARDED.'

on prevention of problems and dedication

groups of African- Americans in the program. Douglas,

first

a criminal justice professor at

AND MOST SUBJECTTO

succeeds Bryan as chair of a department

in the doctoral

of Toledo in Ohio. They were

at the University

RISK

challenge,

students.

Wardigo

be to provide

says, will

same

leaders have questioned

the

whether funding assistance

academic support to

programs

developmental education

for educationally

disadvantaged students

quality of

students and, at the

is

same

appropriate or cost-effective.

time, deliver effective peer

Finding new money to

tutoring service to non-

support the

ACT

program students

101

The

Summer Freshman Program
will

be but one of the

threatens Michelle

challenges facing Biyan's

will

Pfeiffer's

One challenge

successors.

different

- particularly

real-life

students of color.

isn't

from what

students

very

faces

— even

at

institutions that are far ft'om

Demonstrating
legislators

students in

Dangerous Minds

be to find better ways to

retain students

as well.

darkness that

the crime

to

and violence of

urban America. Teachers

and educators

Bryan have made a

like

the value of continuing the

Jesse

program

ence,

been beacons of hope

for a

whole generation of

is

part of Irvin

Wright's job as the

new

director of Act 10 1/EOP.

Shareen

Highlighting the programs

Dr. Jesse

Silva '96,

Michael Welsh

'96,

Courtney Maury with

students.

101 and

Bryan (seated)

be the easy part. "AH you have to do

of students

He

is

is

look

at the

number

who have benefitted," he says.

surveying other schools in Pennsylvania's State System of

Higher Education to see
lohn Wardigo,

how they plan to support their programs.

assistant professor

"THERE WERE

like

Act

EOP have helped thou-

sands of promising students.

success in improving students'
lives will

Programs

differ-

"Education takes investment

US WHO NEEDED A KICK IN

in developing the

young and not-so-young people you work with," says Bryan's
protege. Glen Lang. "For me, it's laid the groundwork to enjoy a
measure of success and hold dear the values that guide me."

of developmental instruction,

MANY OF

— investment

(see JESSE BRYAN -

OUR

MORETHAN ATEACHER - PAGE

23)

BUTTS. BRYAN GAVE US THE KICK WE NEEDED.'
Bhomsburg

University

Magazine

WINTER

1996

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*,-i

THE CHANGING FACE
OF TODAY'S STUDENT
WRITTEN BY

ERIC FOSTER

PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER

(

Wk:

R

T

T
the popular imagination, they're flannel-clad,

untucked and unmotivatedThey also make up the greater

portion of today's college students, and, stereotypes aside, they are different fi-om the
students of decades past. They're less idealistic than students of the 60s.

new-found cynicism

Baby Boomer college

They may make up

for their

in old-fashioned pragmatism.

8loomsburo

ilnivsr^ity

Magazine

WINTER

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CONTEMPORARY

about 18.5 percent of undergraduate

drugs and alcohol myself.

students were 22 years old or older. In

Christian,

I

became

a

comprehensive data), the percentage had

and after that I had to do
something. Something had to change."
Students at Bloomsburg are also more

grown

ethnicaUy diverse than their peers of even

1994 (the

latest

year for which there

to 27.4 percent.

Over

is

that period,

while total enrollment at Bloomsburg

a

grew from 5,319

Bloomsburg students were ethnic minorities

the

to almost 6,100 students,

number of undergraduate

Bloomsburg increased

students at

in every age

group

except for those age 19 and younger.

number of students aged
fell

from 2,191

The

19 and younger

to 1,976.

decade ago. In 1985, 3.7 percent of

or students from foreign countries. By
1994, 5.4 percent of students were

minorities or from abroad.

tripled,

Thirty-four-year-old Richard Zaler

is

The number

of Hispanic students, in particular, nearly

jumping from 27 students in

1985 to 80 in 1994.

one of those older students coming to

Bloomsburg

Ln greater

numbers.

A Navy veteran and former welder,
of Turbotville, came to coUege

Zaler,

because he needed to find a new
Tess Infante

He had developed asthma,

aggravated by welding fumes.

o

n the face of it, today's

Bloomsburg students

are

much

like

half are

college students.

still

two-thirds

But students have changed
coUege campuses

—

more

students

"I

on

— and on Bloomsburg's

come

to the

a career where the

The next

semester, he

was

a fuU-time student.

in subtle

are fresh out of high school,

knew I needed

the faU of '93.

are concerned about paying for coUege.

ways. While the majority of students

I

Zaler started taking classes part-time in

first-generation

More than

other.

environment wouldn't be a hazard."

their counterparts of a generation ago.

More than

"I couldn't

walk from one end of the shop

typical

career.

a condition

more and

intend to go to grad school to get a

masters in social welfare," says Zaler,

majoring in social welfare vnth a minor in
psychology. "I see myself as a therapist

working with drug addicts and alcohoUcs.

to coUege after

spending time in the workforce. In 1985

my seventh year of recovery from

I'm in
>,v.

,

-ir/iWi^iiiMifigW

They represent most of the seven
They come from a variety of
backgrounds and interests. They are
yoimg and...weU, ...older. What they share
is their membership in Bloomsburg's
continents.

CREATING

largest

COMMON

SE

freshman class-and a new-foimd

discussions of Socrates.

Bloomsburg's 1,685 freshman were
introduced to Socrates long before their

on campus

first

for their first classes.

homework-to read The

in

smaU-group

"Part of being an academic community,"

explained Bloomsburg's academic vice
president Wilson Bradshaw, "is sharing a

common set of values. This orientation

Apolcgy of Socrates-was assigned during

program-in addition

the middle of summer.

academic tone for our incoming students

So,

when

they arrived on campus for

semester, freshmen discovered
their

RIoomsburg Umverzit/ Magazine

by George Lucas, professor of

philosophy and ethics at the U.S. Naval

Academy, and engaged

orientation at the begiiming of the

I99fc

Down, heard a 40-minute, large-group
lecture

Socrates.

Their

VVINiER

issues of diversity. They met new friends.
And they also watched a dramatic adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Moon is

appreciation for the Greek phUosopher

arrival

OF VALUE

Richard Zaler

how to find

way about campus. They explored

- brought
the

an

together people from

campus

such as

to setting

justice, obligation to self

country,

all

over

to explore important issues,

and wisdom."

and

STUDENT

Tesse Infante

is

of this country," says Lyons. "We're

typical of

Bloomsburg's increasingly diverse

mortgaging our future on the backs of

student body. Born in the United States,

these students. Middle

she spent most of her childhood in the

are being told, 'we'U give

Dominican RepubUc and

later

moved

to

t^

Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

"My mom

died in

my dad," says
major

who

1

989,

and

I

don't see

Infante, a criminal justice

will

graduate in May. Like

knows about hard work.
This past summer, she held three jobs to
support herself and pay school expenses.
She worries about money - or the
Zaler, Infante

lack of

owe $17,000

I

graduate," she says, "I'U

— and

not counting

that's

financial concerns translate into

job consciousness. "I really need to find
a job," she worries. "I

good

benefits,

one

I

need

a job with

Tom

aid,

Lyons, estimates that 70 to 80 percent

of students hold
going to college.

down jobs whQe they're
He notes that a growing

nimiber of educators fear that work
distracting students

Students

who

through college

from

is

their books.

work

don't

their

the

money

increased diversity have been

its

accompanied by shifts
university serves

its

and Infante found help
college

through

in

how the

students.

classes

Both Zaler

in adjusting to

with Jim Mullen,

an English teacher in the department of
developmental instruction.

developed
Infante,

whose

now

barrier

was

my English in

difficult.

I

college," says

native tongue

is

Spanish

speaks EngUsh very weD. She's

also learned to appreciate a greater variety

of cultures than she had

known before.

way

may be borrowing

students were black and Latino. Here,

on the

learn

street."

more money

for

education than ever before in the history

Nearly 90 volunteers-including

students appreciate their

1989 also heralded a big change in

a service the university offers to help older

service to students. For the

college students. "I help people like

come to

school." As

me

an older student, he

housing.

he gets an extra degree of respect from

— such

pose.

The apartments, housing 380

upper-class students, have been

more apartments

as

Tom Contos, assistant director

make this

- participated

in the

program

as discussion leaders.

Discussions focused on the meaning of
Socrates'
lives

and

and philosophy in the ovwi
contemporary society.

Life

in

"When we
their

challenge students to stretch

minds and reach

never had a chance to talk with

exciting.

their potential,"

The whole program
message about the

Bloomsburg University President

Jessica

Kozloff-like secretary Hickok, a former
political science

major-noted Socrates'

rel-

evance to the challenges young people face

"What does

mean

are enormous."

sity

to share in a

common pur-

an

goals for the future."

a community?" she challenged the univer-

campus

issues that confront

created a

today.

the

get tough, to

university's

a political science professor, "the benefits

brought together people from throughout

working together,

educated people, Kozloff said.

said Education Secretary Hickok, formerly

The "Challenge of Socrates" also

as

when times

a better place?"

These are the

students before," he said. "That was

positive

is

nearby.

community, such

normally stand in front of a classroom.

students

filled

investigating the possibility of building

Eugene Hickok, Bloomsburg University

"I've

time, the

since they opened, so the university

In recent years, the university has
established several offices

first

in

university provided apartment-style

sticking together

few of their spouses,

to help
diversity.

dent adviser for the ofSce of adult advising,

of planning and construction, doesn't

and more than 30 upper-division

—

own

The opening of Montgomery Place

Pennsylvania's Secretary of Education

staff and faculty, a

international education

Apartments on the upper campus

professors because of his Ufe experience.

"Kids are borrowing

affairs,

and a Multicultural Center

WMle taking classes, Zaler works as a stu-

feels

the money.

I

learned about other cultures. There's a lot

more than what you

Crystal Kovaschetz

minority

"In high school the majority of

can be happy with."

Bloomsburg's director of financial

families

all

he aging of today's student body and

\

but

credit card charges for books."

you

got to be borrowed.'"

it's

"The speaking

it.

"By the time

Her

you want, but

income

it

to be citizens in

community. "What does

it

challenge ideas, the status quo,

mean
and

to

to

speak our minds? To talk productivity in a

forum? To be committed to the values of

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"We know there are more single parents
who want housing," says Herring. "There

Crystal Kovaschetz are

more

at

Bloomsburg, she came to college

the educational marketplace. These

ly

out of high school. She

students need different services than

are 95 percent of her classmates.

—

is

traditional 18-24 year-old students."

female

attention to details

Bloomsburg's students. She

is

telling.

as are

white

direct-

—

She

by DanvUle. Almost half Bloomsburg's

would include changing tables for infants
to accommodate students with children.

students

If

Zaler

and Infante represent the

"new" student on

Kovaschetz

is

a typical student, she

confesses,

"it's

intelligent,"

part of their SATs

everyone
is

unusual only in her drive to succeed. She

I'm in

else

Kovaschetz

because I'm a hard worker.

who

"There are people

come from hometowns within

100 miles of campus.
If

'4.0 business' isn't

is

my room

—

get 700s

that's

at parties,

studying.

on each

not me. When

many nights
It's

where

my

priorities are," she says.

Kovaschetz 's dedication to hard work

today's college

campus, students
like

of America. "The

because I'm super

from near

apartments in the proposed complex

10 in a

national economics competition

sponsored by the Future Business Leaders

as
is

almost two-thirds of
is

and

among the top

recently finished

are non-traditional students reentering

The
Some new

carries a 4.0 cumulative average

typical.

Like most of the 7,400 students

20-year-old

an instinct

instilled in

"Education comes in
says.

"Dad works

is

her by her parents.

many forms." she

vrixh

heavy equipment.

He

never went to a coUege, but he knows a

lot

of things rO never know."

"My mom

spoiled me," Kovaschetz

continues. "She went to Mansfield

and taught home economics
had me. But
was born, she quit working and

[University]

for several years before she

when

I

became

20

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B/oomsburg University Magazine

a stay-at-home mother."

STUDENT

being with themselves or small groups.

That's a luxury Kovaschetz doesn't

Building a sense of community

expect to enjoy. She's prepared to leave her

hometown

to find a job.

She expects to go

students

to graduate school and, ultimately, teach.

know that jobs

Today's students

in 1969,

among

a top priority for university

officials.

"What we're trying to do is build
community among the students and with

are

harder to find than they used to be.

Back

is

the university," says Lynda Michaels, a

almost 97 percent of

Bloomsburg's 750 graduates found a job,

Bloomsburg alumna who rejoined the

entered graduate school or joined the

university as a residence director in 1988.

mihtary shortly

Michaels also heads the university's

year,

after graduation. Last

orientation program.

about 80 percent of the university's

"We want to

1,600 graduates found similar positions

with each other,

Today's college graduates face a far

more competitive world than
a generation ago.

It's

those of

university,

not unusual to

helping

participation

vacancies.

\n the 60s, two-thirds of students
meaningful

life

philosophy" as a top college goal. Today,
getting a better job (82 percent)

and

making more money (74 percent)

are the

top reasons Bloomsburg students go to
college.Student
it's

life

professionals say that

tougher to get students involved in

campus

activities

today than

it

once was.

Bloomsburg's vice president for student
life,

Preston Herring, points to

many

factors that contribute to lower student

them

identif)'

and take

it

associate

with the

a step further

them understand

campus
•

Work obligations

enough time
•

m

several innovative orientation

Ufe.

don't leave students

well.

The new programs

include "The Challenge of Socrates" and

an integrated freshman seminar during

that limit the time they

the

Students are coming from a

programs

designed to increase the emphasis on

academics as

to get involved.

have to spend on campus.
•

Town of

Bloomsburg." This year the university held

Older students have family

commitments

—

that they are

part of a larger community, the

have 200 applications for advertised

listed "finding a

help

first

several

weeks of the

fall

semester.

more

fragmented homelife and culture, and are
less interested in
•

group

activities.

The products of a media-swamped

culture

—

television, radio,

students are simply

computers

—

more comfortable

B/oomsbuff Univeraly Mofozine

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DRAWINGS BY KEN WILSON
IMAGES OF THE

CONTEMPORARY STUDENT

resources they vwll

need to make

Bloomsburg a

students

projects.

success.

Despite a growing insulation of students

from campus experience,

it is

Socrates,"

more committed to environmental

The Chronicle of Higher

Education, introduced

new

ago.

And, when students do

another 465

homes for Habitat for
Humanity to organizing a recreation
program for children in a low-income
renovating

issues

than were their coimterparts of a decade

students

SOLVE helped

one-time projects. Projects range from

a mistake to

about the world aroimd them. They are

unique enough to be

identified in

contributed 2,791 hours

contribute 1,455 hours of time to

think that today's students don't care

"The Challenge of

who

of their time to ongoing community

their experience at

housing development.

While today's students

get involved

feel

more

today, their efforts

may be better orga-

financial pressures than ever before

focusing on the uncompromising pursuit

nized and perhaps

more

while they

of truth and virtue exemplified by the

those of their 60s counterparts.

to values-centered

academic

life

by

The

substantive than

may face a more

and

competitive

job market, they remain idealistic enough

SOLVE office helps
efforts. SOLVE

Experience" program, designed by Jack

(Students Organized to Learn through

make the world a better place.
The reputation of Generation X as a
group of slackers - like most generaliza-

MuUca, dean of academic support

Volunteerism and Employment), coordi-

tions

nated the work of nearly 200 Bloomsburg

contemporary student

Greek philosopher Socrates.

The "Integrated Freshman Year

introduces students to the

skills

to organize those

services,

and

A

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save taxes,

generate retirement

income and "do good"
for Bloomsburg?
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get

make

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•

a reduction and deferral of capital gains taxes,

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the

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more

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IS

JESSE BRYAN -

MORE THAN A TEACHER

W

mates and

hen

Jesse

ment

Bryan

retired last April, 50 of his

canal, in

former students returned to

ice

mark

the occasion.

evening's highlights

One of the

house.

He had one

unit where he

of New

He

Commission on

Higher Education, was one of
first

the draft

was a senior in 1973 when

at

Bloomsburg

filled

in

Kehr Union.

We were hungry

someone

He told

like Dr.

water

far

one booth

then

time.

in

we

to stay

.

.

ovm,

many of us who

needed a kick
"I

in the butt;

party,

he gave us the kick we needed.

have the privilege of being one of the

Bryan touched.
first.

—

a

he gave us a friend.

There were

many students
had

to

move

he told us 'you can have

any party you want, but you're going to do one thing: You're
Jesse

A lot of students didn't understand his ways at

In 1973 there was a rule that students

worked with the

"He dipped into his pocket
no one had to live in an
abandoned building.
"He taught the importance of
respect
for ourselves and for
others. Once, when he learned
that we were going to have a

There were

many of us who needed
friend;

us.

so that

took up the weight and became
.

with

and the town to
improve Uving conditions.

a father

a family of his

on a couch. He

faculty

didn't have a father

a father to us.

slept

"Dr. Bryan

our household. Dr. Bryan,

who had

He

comfortable place, but he chose

many of us back

who needed

basement.

could have stayed in a more

from complete.

because

rats in the

Bryan stayed with us there for a

Bryan

us

"There were

was so bad that

They would come out at night
and jump in the trash. Dr.

we were on a
mission and that we could not
faU. He told us our education
was

— linoleum.

to us.

it

matches blew out. There were

60 percent of the black students

for

rented

"There was no heat. At times,

students here after

his arrival in 1973.
"I

be an

units into nice apartments.

and

stored material

Bryan's

to

The landlord had

mentor. Lang, executive director
Jersey's

down by the

what used

converted six of the seven

was Glenn

Lang's tribute to his friend

found an apart-

I

in FernvUle,

off-

campus at the end of the junior year. Young black men in
Bloomsburg in 1973 had a hard time finding a places to rent.
"Sometimes, the places we could find were awfial. My room-

going to dress up. You're going to get out of those jeans, sweats

and sneakers. You're going to put on suits and make those young
ladies proud that you're from Bloomsburg!'
"Education

is

an investment in developing those you work

with. Jesse Bryan helped lay the

measure of success and

"HETAUGHTTHE IMPORTANCE OF RESPECT

to

groundwork

for

me to enjoy a

hold dear the values that guide me."

— FOR OURSELVES AND FOR OTHERS.'

Slaoiraburg University Magazine

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NEWS

NEWS

BRIEFS
academic

facility

campus. Study
ing for

on

The

more than

hours" study

with access to

closed.

computer data

students

much

\\'on't

be that way

new Harvey

A. Andruss Libran.;

is

campus.

The

conduits for 125 future

be placed in the

connections.

exterior of the building

Tiffany

aruiual Reading

Conference held in

from throughout the country.
This year was no exception.

The

Day-long orientation

is

opening

is

$8,394,250, and

access to the library's

reminiscent of the Long Porch

scheduled for

catalog,

on

spring 1998.

The 105,000 square

foot

CD-Rom

a local

national

building wiU be the largest

on-hne

from "Old Waller," which was
once on Second Street where

databases

network

the Scranton

as well as

and international

if

Commons and

pleasant for bikers.

The Dutch

We saw

mothers on bikes carrying children and

for pleasure.

Quest Director Roy Smith's first-person

the family groceries.

one

.

.

Our bike path took us

along the

older.

We came across

group of bikers

large

or 10

skills in

ride

bikes to

narrative about a portion of that trek.

summer

— some young
— who honed
as

athletic stars
1

through Holland. This brief excerpt

".

in their 70s or

their

basketball

and tennis,

swimming, wrestling, field
hockey and softball, soccer
and more.
In addition to the sounds

of boimdng balls and

We encountered others towing

officials'

was vocal har-

top of a dike overlooking the Markermeer

bike carts with tents and food heading

whistles, there

Polder This and other polders are

out for family vacations.

mony. The university hosted
Pennsylvania's Sweet AdeUnes

all

"No wonder everyone looked

part of what used to be the Zuider Zee

—

the Southern Sea. Since the late 17th

centuT)', the industrious

seabed. This was our

fit

Bloomiurg University's Quest program
offering a trip through Costa Rica for

than 600 of them.

."
.

.

Dutch have

first

experience at

is

on one side of the dike
higher than land on the other.
"The Dutch landscape, so much of it

women and

reclaimed from the sea, with

in September, 1997. For a complete

seeing the sea

its

medieval

Canyon
trip

extended
at

makes the country extremely

1996

Bkxmsbui^

Uniw^ Magazine

trips, rail

is

planned
list

of

717-389-4323 or lode

Quest on the Internet

at

http://www.bbomu.edu/questhtml

A
A|l 4
M9LLjByB(
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Another biking

through the Netherlands

of tree-lined canals and tree-shaded bike

More than 120 young people

a trip to Mexico's Copper

in January, 1997.

towns, windmills and hundreds of miles

paths,

and

- female barbershop singers.
Then there was the group
of Christ Crusaders - more

healthy

been creating rich farmland from the

24

work and

there are

camps. About 2,500 aspiring

gram included a summer bike excursion
is

campus.

And then

as 9

Quest pro-

-

not thousands - and their

families to

stand today.

PEDALING THROUGH HOLLAND
Editor's Note: Bloomsburg's

prospective students

bring hundreds of students

the Lycoming Residence Hall

databases via the Internet.

visits

new students and campus

visits for
is

May typically

draws more than 1,000 teachers

for

buildmg

offers a healthy

but there's also a steady

to the

the original Waller Hall wiU

Personal computers vnR

right?

stream of guests and visitors

computers with additional

Total projected cost of the

closes

summer,

schedule of summer classes,

the old. Three

facility.

for the

Wrong!

the

connections for personal

also

spring classes end in

Bloomsburg

and four Spence
stained glass windows saved
fi-om the current Ubrar)' and

features

longer. Construction

has begun for the

The building
500 pubUc access

patrons' use.

the university's softball field

used to be

new with

the circulation desk for

ground where

down

There wiU be an

The Ubrary wiU blend

available at

holidays?

mid-May, a university

the Susquehanna Valley.

library

in tiie

When

"after-

fourth floor with a view of

Laptop computers

The hole

an

outdoor reading area on the

will

be available.

wUl be

and meeting

room for
when the Hbrary

and 20
group study rooms

Summer

room

includes

space, including

1,000 people

Growing a

facility

for lobby exhibits

seat-

BRIEFS

-k'^^M

from the Harrisburg School
District

came to campus as
PRIDE program

part of the

(Personal Responsibility In

Developing Excellence) to see
life up close. Upward
Bound did more of the same

college

with students fi'om 13 area
high schools.
In the old days,

summer

was a quiet time on college
campuses. But not anymore.

NEWS

NEWS

BRIEFS

Bloomsburg admits largest
freshman class in history

NEW FACES
Howe

Barksdale

1988, the development office has quadru-

Bloomsburg's

new direc-

pled alumni support and doubled the

Sydney
is

tor of social equity.

ber of alumni donors. The Parents'

Formerly the associate

Bloomsburg has led the

director of admissions at

Higher Education

Mawr

Bryn

Mawr,

College in Bryn

aged recruitment

Fund

at

System of

in dollars raised

and par-

Aptitude Test (SAT), was in
the top third of the high

ing coordination of the

school graduating class and

serves as a
is

member

direct mail appeals

He has managed the

and telephone and per-

Righter returned to Bloomsburg after

Barksdale reports

the president's Cabinet. She

of

responsible

Philadelphia's

Hahnemann University and
He also spent a year

promoting a multicultural environment

Chestnut HUl Academy.

on

the campus. She represents the president

as assistant director

with campus and community social equity

and public

groups and coordinates and develops edu-

in Salisbury,

of alumni programs

relations at the Salisbury School

discrimination complaints and serves as

assumed

advisor to and monitors

dean of the CoUege of

all

university

,a>

;:

,

Business at Bloomsburg.

AA/EEO

He comes

Long has consulted with

several

Righter '84 has been

College, Small Business Administration,

appointed an assistant

Firestone Tire

director for the depart-

TRW Systems, Portage National Bank and

ment.

the Goodyear Tire and Rubber

since 1993,

opment

was

assistant director

fi-om 1986-88. She

of devel-

implemented a

and Rubber Company,

academic and administrative leadership
for the departments of accounting,

comprehensive annual fund program and

business education

finance and business law,

also initiated fund-raising efforts

ents

and directed the

faculty/staff

with par-

university's

campaign.

Since Helwig's arrival at Bloomsburg in

Company.

At Bloomsburg, he wiU provide

helped double support in two years. She

and

fires.

to

its

office administration,

management

and marketing.

graduate degrees each year.

department

new building
lot

in a

of thanks

has to go to Bloomsburg
students

and the

university's

Council of Trustees.

Through the Community
Government Association,
students pledged $35,000 to
the

fire

department's capital

campaign. The funds

will

generated fi-om games
activities in the

as well as

be

room

Kehr Union,

vending machine

concessions.

Bloomsburg's College of Business
grants about 400 undergraduate

. .

of

fire

couple of years, a

organizations including Montdair State

served as interim director

selective

Commonwealth,

accepting only six of every ten

moves

development, and Scott

who

by about 10 percent

Bloomsburg remained

Bloomsburg's

ness school for 14 years.

Bloomsburg's director of

increased
last year.

When the Town

he was dean of the busi-

been named

The number of applications
for admission to the university

Stamping out

to Bloomsburg
from Ithaca College, where

Susan Mitchell Helwig

roles

applicants.

responsibilities as

searches to ensure their compliance with
policies.

in extra-currictilar activities

and assumed leadership

schools in the

David K. Long has

Many

of the students were involved

one of the most

Conn.

social equity issues.

She helps resolve sexual harassment and

maintained a B average.

in high school.

professional development stints at

for

Helwig,

students,

fimd-raising efforts includ-

in govern-

an

sonal solicitations of nearly 40,000 graduates.

('82) has

more than 7,400

to

aspects of the university's

served

estate cases.

programs on

helped swell total enrollment

been responsible for several

who had

annual fiand for alumni.

cational

the

They

interim role since 1993, has

Righter,

as assistant director in

ment procurement, products liability, civil
rights, criminal and corporate law, managed
criminal, domestic, immigration and real

and

fall,

and

At three law firms she dealt

to the president

this

class ever.

Mawr she man-

activities in 10 states

new position,

new

largest

ment in four years.
The typical student in the
class of newcomers had a
1,050 score on the Scholastic

Barksdale prac-

Pa.,

supervised a staff of 12 individuals.

In her

Bloomsburg

to

the university's largest enroll-

ticipation rate every year.

ticed law for five years before returning to

higher education. At Bryn

State

Nearly 1,500 freshmen came

num-

and 50

The

university's trustees

voted to match the students'
effort, raising the university's

contribution to $70,000.

Bloomburg

University

Magazine

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25

THE

1995-96

make

Scholarships

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC TEAMS:

come

wishes

true

The wishes of a small town

Baseball

22-22

Men's Basketball

21-7

NCAA Division II Tournament

businessman have been

Women's Basketball
Field Hockey

17-11

PSAC

realized in a big

19-3

NCAA Division II runner-up

the past 10 years.

Football

9-1-1

PSAC East co-champions

Bloomsburg students have

Lacrosse

2-9

Men's Soccer

11-5-2

East co-champions

come
Best record since 1986

15-2-1

PSAC runner-up

Softball

36-12

NCAA Division 11 record

Men's Swimming
Women's Swimming

6-7

Men's Tennis

15-8

NCAA Division II Championships
NCAA Division II Championships,

Women's Tennis

18-3

NCAA Division II Championships,

Bloomsburg

& Field
Field

million to the
university for
scholarships,

he wanted to
help residents of

1-1

his

1-1

communities

NCAA Division I Championships

Wrestling

5-9

Total

204-105-4 (.658)
72-14-4 (.822)

five regional

55-38 (.591)
77-53 (.592)

ly

Winter
Spring

fall,

92 students from

high schools have

$200,000 fi-om the fund.

The

Art

Forensics cops honors

In

kiln

fund, administered in

of Mt. Carmel, has provided

mags

$1.53 million in scholarship

national

Anagama kiln firings at
home of university art

Bloomsburg's forensics team
better be able to talk, rea-

instructor Karl

and entertain very

by Union National Bank

featured

Future opponents of

son, debate

dream

received awards totalling near-

trust

had

and surrounding
realize the

of attending college.

This

FaU

Fred

bequeathed $3

PSAC Champions
Men's Track

as

When Smith
14th appearance

PSAC Champions

Women's Track &

Some 800

G. Smith Scholars.

Women's Soccer

6-4

to

way over

Beamer

aid since

the

its

inception.

Smith owned and managed
Nesbitt's Cut-Rate

in

Drug

Store

Shenandoah and Tamaqua
and resided in Shenandoah
Ln

if they expect to match
up with the Huskies. The
team concluded the 1995-96

MainviUe were featured

well

competition season with a
total
five

of 102 awards, including

sweepstakes trophies.

The team

finished last year

by placing 10th

at the

National Forensic
Association's 26th

Annual

National Tournament. The

competition included 850
competitors from 112 coUeges

and

universities nationwide.

issues of

for

National Science

Foundation grants

(April 1996)

(May/June 1996).

Geology and chemistry

In an

more than usual this fall.
The two departments
received a pair of grants

from

the National Science

is

fired

without using any kind

rich earth colors
effect

through the

of the extremely high

as well

water

memory of his

wife

late
is

officially

labeled the "Fred G. Smith

Golden Rule Trust Fund."
Eligible students must attend
Bloomsburg and be residents
of Ashland, Mount Carmel or

Shenandoah boroughs or

Moimt Carmel Township.
Students must also attend one

available because of the

and
other equipment needed
to isolate genes from DNA.

Bloomsburg Univenity Magazine

pottery

of glaze. The pottery takes on

New equipment to be

purification system

1996

kiln,

totalling $64,500.

as centrifuges, a

WINTER

anagama

Established in perpetual

Marion, the fund

heat of the wood-fired kiln.

grants include a $50,000

26

and School Arts

stu-

dents and faculty are smiling

X-ray difractometer

26 years before his death.

zines,Ceramics Monthly

to geology and chemistry

Foundation

in

two national maga-

of

^

a

five

high schools including

Cardinal Brennan,

Mount

Carmel, North SchuyUdU,

Our Lady of Lourdes
Shenandoah Area.

or

k

already knew. Bloomsburg

Bloomsburg

boasts the premier athletic

points, beating out second-

closest school

program among the 14

place Edinboro.

with top-four finishes.

members of the Pennsylvania

For the 1995-96 academic

State Athletic Conference.

The Huskies

sat

season, the 18

atop the

1995-96 ranking for the

final

inaugural

E Eugene

Dixon,

in men's

home

Huskies take

PSAC

Dixon Trophy
The standings
the

F.

in the race for

lot

titles

fall,

season ever

fall

at

tennis,

Division

II

Championships.

men's sports, for a

in field

soccer,

total

personnel and educa-

System

universities.

in the

six

women's sports and

development and operation

tional policies for the 14

top four in the conference in

and conference

The board

inception in 1983.

fiscal

NCAA

and

softbaU,

for the

System since the body's

of the System and formulates

the

Bloomsburg finished

after

plans and coordinates the

for a

men's and women's basketball

hockey and women's

of people

combined

represented in the

in football,

runner-up finishes

Eugene Dbcon Trophy

confirms what a

and women's

East

named

Board of Governors

for a record of

school. Seven teams were

titles

is

State

best

Education of Pennsylvania.

The trophy

Dixon, the Chairman of the

combined

record of 66-11-4 (.840), the

System of Higher

had seven teams

University athletic teams

the teams

all-around athletic program

Backed by conference

Bloomsburg

204-105-4 (.658). In the

Jr.,

Trophy, signifying the best

in the State

sponsored programs. The next

totalled 116

Parents lead

five

fund-raising

of 11

efforts

top-four finishes out of 18

Most Bloomsburg students
credit their parents for

making

FUND-RAISING SUCCESS

their college

education possible. But

many may not know how
State support for public higher education

pays

less

than half the cost of educating

students. Tuition

of the

and

fees

make up much

most other
colleges and universities, relies upon
philanthropy more than ever to maintain
its margin of excellence.
like

Last year, university fund-raising efforts

exceeded $1.5 million. These funds are
distributed through the

Bloomsburg

development, about one

tributes the funds to provide

classrooms, chemistry lab

tance to students

who

and

generosity of their

dads

According to figures in the
in

July

1

996 report of the

assis-

present papers at

Council for Aid to Education,

Bloomsburg parents con-

more than

Library on campus.

Fund-raising ventures such as golf outings,
the annual auction/dinner-dance

added $32,000

universities.

University faculty and staff

members

more than $78,000

in 1995,

tributed $81,000 last year.

amount

was directed

for the university,

raised

scholarships, support the honors

and

activities.

The Bloomsburg University

year included a $200,000

bequest from the estate of Mary Taubel

Mary Moore

Taubel, an 1890 graduate of the school.
('75) gave

piano, honoring Ms. Hudock's father,
Francis

J.

campaign

initiated in 1988.

funds to provide computers
in classrooms, chemistry

and

lab kits,

students

assistance to

who present papers

at national conferences.

Parents have contributed

more than $270,000
capital

development, and alumni

which has

more than $488,000

raffles

$50,000 to provide a Steinway grand

and

scholars program, provide for faculty

and

was

The

new standard

to last year's athletic fiinds.

gifts last

Michael and Barbara Hudock

to the annual fund, used to maintain

staff

set a

Foundation distributes the

Rieder, honoring her mother,

in 1990.

in gifts

Major

and

Parents' Fund.

since the parents'
is

moms

in giving to the

$1 10,000 for scholarships for student athletes.

financial

wUl

dis-

computers

kits,

this fall

from the unprecedented

Bloomsburg University

Last year, the annual fund provided about

support for the institution. That figure

More than $800,000

Bloomsburg University Foundation

new Harvey A. Andruss

well above the national average at public

up from just $6,000

raised almost $500,000 for

and program support. The

$270,000 to the capital campaign to build the

in every four

Bloomsburg alums provides

scholarships

Since 1988, the parents'

Parents have also contributed

According to Sue Helwig, director of

contributed

last year.

national conferences.

University Foundation, Inc.

and

$81,000

much. Students
benefit

fund's success, contributing a record

campaign has

rest.

But Bloomsburg,

colleges

Parents played a big part in the annual

Benner.
the

campaign

to the

to build

new Harvey A. Andruss

Library

on campus.

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1996

27

NEWS

R

I

NEWS

E F S

BRIEFS

FOUNDATION NAMES NEW OFFICERS
Elbern H. Alkire

Jr.

of

Emmaus and

Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit

Victoria L. Mihalik of MillviUe have

from 1972-1981 including diagnostic

been elected president and vice president

teacher, diagnostic teaching consultant

of the Bloomsburg University Foundation

and coordinator, individual education
program for the Education of All
Handicapped Act.
Corson has operated a private practice

for 1996-97.

Joan

Alkire

^ ^ » <9 <» ^

<»

Corson of Bloomsburg was

S.

named to

'^'isii"^'(SfW <» <»

the board.

is

the executive consultant in

of Higher Education working with the

her certification as a registered nurse

system chanceUor and the director of the

the

He

mass communications

much

The Bloomsburg University Foundation

has honored

him not

has the responsibility of securing private

following four years with General Electric.

funds to maintain and enhance quahty

and

Bloomsburg Area YMCA following
more than 30 years in education. She

once,

excellence in

all

areas of the university.

membership includes outstanding
and civic leaders
from throughout the state.

the

so that the organization

at

Lankenaw Hospital School of Nursing

Chemicals, Inc. of AUentown for 33 years

Mihalik works as preschool director for

professor Walter Brasch. So

since 1983. She earned

in 1955.

was employed by Air Products and

The Pennsylvania Press Club
thinks a lot of Bloomsburg

nursing specialist in the

Bloomsburg area

Office of Continuous Improvement.

Prof earns kudos

as a cUnical

residence to the Pennsylvania State System

Its

business, professional

served in several capacities with the

but three times.
Brasch

won

first

place

awards for feature story and
for

column, and second place

He was
named Outstanding

for education writing.
also

Advisor of a student publica-

work with
Spectrum magazine. The

tion for his

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The most recent

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NEWS
Alumni name new

officers

John

and the Kehr Union

first

at

Bloomsburg

as treasurer

Alumni

The

Edwards; John Haney '85 of

of the Alumni

Lancaster; Franklin (Ed) Jones

Association since 1980.

'54 of Philadelphia; Cliff

elected to the board of

'66

Bloomsburg; lames Pegg '67

ing the past year.

Reed

A substitute teacher in the

N.J.;

Bloomsburg Area School

Brett '82 of Maplewood,
and Cameron Smith '84

of Lafayette

Elected to fiU a one-year

unexpired term was Nancy

to

Fort.

Elected to serve their

she

is

Alumni Association, she
served on the Alumni Board

first

from 1989

two-year terms on the Board

married

in the Pennsylvania State

The Huskies, who won the
Dixon Trophy as the conference's top athletic

Anna M.

Marvin

finished second

Metzger

'86

of
at

'95

Bauer
N.J.;

A retired teacher,

married to Robert G.

Reitz, '49.

Moimtaintop,

of Somers Point,

Michele

L.

Corbin

'95

of

past president,

as

immediate

the board ex officio for the

'94 of Philadelphia;

1996-97 year.

and

Women athletes

Bloomsburg

led the confer-

ence with 46 selections.

wUl serve on

Harrisburg; John D. McDaniel

among the

14 schools in the academic

to 1996.
P.

program

performance in sports,

category.

of Directors were

Edward G. Edwards, '73.
Carolyn Vernoy Reitz, '51,

secretary.

also exceUed in

the tide of "Scholar Athlete"

for

Bloomsburg
is

A past president of the

'70,

A reading

Middle School, she

program

the classroom as they earned

Swartz Lychos '52 of Forty

academic year include:

teacher in the

Huskies' highly-successful ath-

Athletic Conference.

RobertW. Rupp, 71. Other
officers elected for the coming

vice president.

the past academic year.

Hill.

married to

Nancy Feher Edwards,

student/athletes were success-

letics

of WiUiamsport; Virginia

is

where Bloomsburg's

Sixty-seven participants in the

Fay Ortiz-Golden '87 of

and has

pools and

of WescosviUe;

sen'ed as vice president dur-

District, she

fields, courts,

mats are not the only venues

ful in

Maurer

in

classroom

terms were Nancy Feher

The 1971 graduate was

directors in 1991

Athletes succeed

'66 of

Re-elected to two-year

the

university, Trathen has ser\'ed

Association for the 1996-97
year.

John S. Mulka
Bloomsburg.

Trafhen, '68, treasurer.

will serve as

president of the
Universit)'

J.

Director of student activities

Sandra Jefferson Rupp of

Bloomsburg

NEWS

BRIEFS

Honored

athletes attained

a ctunulative grade point
average of at least 3.25.

TRUSTEES NAME OFFICERS
Joseph

Mowad, M.D., of Dan\Tlle

elected chairperson of the

has been

University Council of Trustees for 1996-97.
Jennifer

(CGA). She was elected by the student

body in March as vice

Bloomsburg

Adams of Catawissa and LaRoy
named first

for the 1996-97

Davis,

president of the

CGA

academic year.

who has served on the Coundl for

Auction produces
big winners

RCA sateUite sys-

Davis '67 of FeasterviUe were

17 years, boasts one of the longest tenures

An

and second vice

on the council He was appointed

tem, a cultured pearl necklace,

chairs, respectively.

to a six-

A secondary

A. William Kelly '71 of Kingston was

year term in January 1980.

elected secretary.

social studies teacher at

Mowad was named to the university's
coundl in November 1994. He is senior

Senior High School, Davis has previously

He has been affiliated with Geisinger since
when he joined

in the

the staff as an associate

Adams was appointed student trustee to
The junior

management major has been
dent government

member of the

the president of WVIA-TV and

WVLA-FM, Northeast Pennsylvania's public
broadcasting affiliates. He was recognized as

and

is

a

Committee of the

Communit)' Government Association

in 1988

and has served

as

an instructor in

the department of mass communication.

active in stu-

at the university

Executive

is

photo of Cal Ripken
print

He serves on the board of the Pennsylvania
Association of Broadcasters

and

by well-known

Jr.

and a

artist

the items for bid during the

Husky

is

a

recognized consultant and speaker.

Club's annual Auction/

Dinner-Dance

last spring.

Proceeds benefitted the

Bloomsburg's "Young Alumnus of the Year"

urology department.

the council in Januar)' 1995.

Kelly

an authentic autographed

David Armstrong were among

served as council chairperson.

vice president of the Geisinger Foundation.

1968

Bensalem Township

18-inch

General Athletic Scholarship

Fund. While the successful
bidders took those and nearl)'
1

50 other items home, the big

winner was the scholarship
fimd which profited to the
tune of SI 4,300.

Bloomsburg Unntnity Magazine W\KTEII. \99f,

29

Kozloff appointed to

UNIVERSITY EMPHASIZES ALCOHOL EDUCATION

NCAA

Commission

Presidents

Bloomsburg University
"There are more than 400 college-aged

management, weight reduction, and eating

deaths each week from alcohol-related
causes," says

Barry Jackson, a

disorders.

member of

During October,

The

numbers show students
on alcohol in one year

latest available

spent $5.5 billion

much

twice as

as part

of National

Collegiate Alcohol Awareness

the university's counseling department.

Week,

raise

awareness about the dangers of drug

and alcohol

as they did

use. Students

on textbooks. Of the more

wore black ribbons

to

than

memorate the Hves

lost to

1

DAWN

2 million college stu-

dents currently enrolled in

more than
300,000 of them will suffer
this country,

Jackson heads the university's

new Office

killed every

com-

alcohol abuse. Several dozen

students painted their faces

white to symbolize the

number of college

alcohol-related deaths."

student

day because of alcohol.

Drug and Alcohol Education. In addition to focusing on education and counsel-

hours in the Husky Lounge snack

ing about substance abuse problems,

Anthropology professor David

Jackson sees the

office's role as integral in

Minderhout delivered a

lecture

the university's overall wellness program.

tures differing attitudes

toward alcohol,

Educational videos aired during the lunch

for

Presidents

bar.

The 44-member
Commission is
the ongoing forum for

Association.

Presidents

college

university's

Wellness Network

programs

(DAWN)

the commission

representing the interests of

Division

II athletics.

The commission's

primar)'

concerns include institutional
control over athletic programs,

the welfare of the student-

department talked about enforcement and

coordinates

the risks of sexual assault involving alcohol.

related to stress

within the

Kozloff is one of ten

members on

about cul-

and members of the university police

Drug, Alcohol and

CEOs

NCAA structure.

athlete

The

Commission of the

National Collegiate Athletic

Jackson organized a series of programs to

—

President Jessica Kozloff has

been appointed to the

and

and

ethical

fairness.

advises the

conduct

The group

also

NCAA on academic

standards and the appropriate

balance betw^een athletics and
other institutional priorities.

A growing trend

is

ture learning." These

share in

"adven-

programs

common a field expe-

rience in the jungle or desert

or on a mountain peak. Dr.
Frederick

Hill's trip to

the

upper reaches of the Amazon
rain forest

is

typical. HiU, a

Bloomsburg University biology professor, will be
leading a group of students to

Adventure Learning

Peru early

in January, 1997.

The course incorporates
College students today have

elements of classroom

new

instruction with field work.

opportunities to learn

inside

and outside the

classroom.

Thanks

For those wishing more
information about the

to study-abroad

Amazon

excursion,

call

programs and internship

717-389-4134.

experiences, students often

ber of seats are avaOable for

campus and
away from

A limited num-

leave the college

individuals

earn credits

not Bloomsburg University

Bloomsburg.

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students.

Bloomsburg Univenity Magazine

who

are

r

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Women's Chorale

Art

Ensemble and

Exhibits

Chamber

Haas Gallery hours are Monday
through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For

Carver

more

Auditorium.

information, contact the art

department

Singers

SundayApril 20, 1997,2:30 p.m.,
Hall,

Kenneth Gross

at (7 7) 389-4646.
1

Concert Choir and
Husky Singers
Saturday April 26, 1997,8 p.m.. First
Presbyterian Church, Market Street,

Bloomsburg.

Concerts
Admission
specified.

free unless otherwise

is

For more information,

contact the music department at

(717)389-4284.

Faculty Recital
Sunday Feb.

2:30 p.m.. Carver Hall,

2,

Kenneth Gross Auditorium. Featuring
violinist

Ann

Stokes and

cellist

Mark

Jelinek

Lectures

Celebrity
Artist Series

Jazz Night '97
Thursday March

For ticket information,

call

6,

1997,8 p.m.,

the

Provost's
Lecture Series

Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Celebrity Artist Series box office at
Hall.

For more information, contact

Featuring Bloomsburg's

(717) 389-4409. All performances are

academic support services at

Studio Band.
in

Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani

(717)389-4409.

Brass Managerie

Hall.

Tuesday March 25, 1997,8

New York City
Opera's "La

Boheme"

Carver

Hall,

p.m.,

Kenneth Gross

Women's

History

Month

Auditorium.
Paula

Tuesdayjan.28, I997,8p.m.,$25.

Kamen.Thursday March

20,

l997.Topic to be announced.

University-

Bolshoi

Symphony

Orchestra
Saturday Feb.

8,

1997,8 p.m., $30.

Community
SundayApril

6,

Moscow^

in

1997,2:30 p.m., Haas

Center for the Arts, Mitrani

Festival

The AIDS Epidemic

Orchestra
Hall.

the United States

Dr. Peter Gould,

April 10-11,1997.

Featuring pianist John Couch.

Ballet
Friday March 21,1997,8 p.m., $25.

Concert Band
SundayApril

1

3,

1997, 2:30 p.m., Haas

Center for the Arts, Mitrani

Hall.

Bloomsburg Univenity Magazine

WINTER

1996

3!

WORD

THE UkST

From Nine
Professor

Ed Moses

Bloomsburg.
just

teaches English at

A creative \vriter, Moses has

published his third novel. Nine

Dancing, his

latest

Sisters

work, addresses t\vo

controversial issues

sexual abuse

Dancing

Sisters

—

child

and multiple-

personaht)' disorder.

Nine Sisters Dancing is
published by Fithian Press. Copies

ccr^ oyote comes

can be ordered by calling 1-800-662-8351.
The following is an excerpt from the book

...

I

V-^into her body,
rough-furred, prick-eared, long-striding,

deep twilight in a -svood she has never

in

known. Ho^v

is

she to

She turns fuU

travel?

know which way to
seeing only

circle,

hearing only wind in

trees,

trees,

is

no one way. And so abnipdy, %vithout
thought, she simply goes. Her going starts
something

and
rib

else mo\'ing,

bones chcking

clattering together, leg

and

and hip and

spine, shoulder, neck, skull, the

Shadow Deer up and running behind,
beside,

ahead of her: a whole

abroad

hea\-\'

hears.

There

is

now in the woods, its foot-

bind, stab, crush. Devour. For

now remembered. Has known

life.

"And knows

therefore the

one

trick that

may stay it, remembering I am Coyote,
the smart one

—

her, a tree

if

And

needs in time.

she can find svhat she
the forest gh'es

it

to

with two trunks, spHt at the

growd. She stands between.
"As she goes

stiU,

Deer goes

still.

AH

and then the heavy tread three
and two trees, and one tree a^vay.

still,

And a

flash of white, rising

treetops. It

is.

.

the

.

almost to the

bone of Deer,

in a

the heart of Coyote, there for a

stars,

Coyote's fear of her

little

time

"It is

nothing

"It is

eversthing at once, the beating of

at

"Wild

"It

is

bone shine Kke shooting

mar her, one

catching hot in her

just the

moment she has to

have, hangs

there, the tree creaking, shaking to the tips

Woman, come to guide me on

of its U\igs.
dog,

.

.

while Coyote, the fastest

nms for her life.

There

is

thrashing, a shower of leaves.

nothing.
feet drive the

breath

Coyote, the cleverest dog, hes

tains out of earth's heart.

Uttle hollo^\'.

that rapes

and renders doUs.

"She runs in the dark. WTiatever
can see in the dark, for that
lives.

this

She

is

is

is

it is

^vhere

it

the fastest of all the dogs, but

no dog, and she will never outrun

a great

One lands

on her back, extinguishes the bone-spark

out of earth's body. Drh^e blood in foun-

"The thing

fur,

lurches into the vee of the trunks, and, for

all.

"A nothing \vhose

spHnters of white

she springs away as the looming darkness

fear.

my way. Shall I stop and call her?

Bhoaisburg Ur«Krstf Magazine

It svill

hard too dark to see in the dark. Flimg

the heart of earth.

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legs

its

masked first by the lighter cacophony
of Deer, by the trip-hammer pounding of

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walking behind her on

trunks and growing nearer.

her

it all

trees,

something

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32

it is

trip, catch,

goes

rattling

boneyard announcing her name.

"Something

for

like tree

she has just

smelling

only the whiteness of old bones. There

it,

She

formless, silent

is

down in a

mottied gray and

and %sithout

scent,

disguised as the raw material of creation.
It is

quiet no\\^ the stalker's quiet.

Then

the great thudding footfall, receding, and
the quiet of earth at rest"

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