INGI99Sft *r V* riendshl in I Clay and Fire EDITOR'S VIEW recent months, I've had the chance to reflect In things. Family. Surroundings. Goals. many When think about these changes, me of Bloomsburg makes this issue me things have changed for I many ways, my good. feel smile a little my me being a better is, along with to understand and communicate more three-year-old son, C. communication - that seemingly obligatory "why?" and a look at I my realize all communicator. That J., who forcing is it is me effectively. might be the hardest Trying to answer each question so it And more. In reaction to this magazine relates to those experiences have led to better at a lot of over the past few years. I things above. After 18 years in this business, Effective on Accomplishments. So part. not followed by the know with practice I'll become home and in the new I that will help, both at role I've played here at the university since early last year. Anyway, my reflections have dealt with past the following pages offer a glimpse at appreciated. And at some and present. So, things I've always others I'm noticing more, like the beauty of the campus and beauty in the pottery works and friendship of an art professor and his Japanese cohort. Family, something that has taken on new meaning of our campus experts. My love me, for is on the mind of one of sports was refreshed a little when presented with this odd mixture - old and new, a gun and a baseball. Huh? It works. Believe me, just read on. Our writers talk of a campus that is expanding beyond the dreams of wildest Games, it will this be with alumnus. As I watch future Olympic new enthusiasm, knowing Bloomsburg students are helping the next generation of U.S. winter athletes. What of life. a wonderful place Sometimes we take it is that deals with so right in front of us every day. This a little C. J., more more and Now take notice. and he can keep many aspects for granted those things that are asking, magazine made I me sit up can share even more with "Why?" The answers are getting fun. Jim Hollister Executive Editor Bloomsburg: The University Magazine 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 who have made a contribution during the preceding calendar year. Members of the most recent graduating class will receive two free issues of "Maroon and Gold." Others may receive the publication by paying a S10 annual subscription. Checks for subscriptions should be made payable to the B.U. Alumni Association, 400 East Second Street, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. in the fall Information for inclusion in classnotes should be mailed, faxed (717-389-4060) or e-mailed via Internet falum@bIoomu.edu). Visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.bloomu.edu THIS IN VOL. 4 NO. ISSUE I SPRING 1998 1 Bloomsbun u •. M s G A A Z Karchner was E. minors, Matt his baseball big leagues. 5 BOARD OF GOVERNORS Vice Chair; Kim in the Should he continue with The Bloomsburg alumnus decided and soon found himself on the road to the to give baseball another try, STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION Jr., at a crossroads. career or find something else to do? I BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA IS A MEMBER OF THE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION. R Eugene Dixon Decision Pays Major League Dividends by Marc Mullen '98 After years of playing Making Every Pitch Count by Andy Sodergren '97 Whenever a pitcher delivers a baseball to the Chair; R. Benjamin Wiley. Lytcle.Vice Chair; Syed R. Ali- plate, Berman. Christopher J. Cerski. Daniel R Elby, Richard A. Fino, Forney. Charles A. Gomulka. Eugene W. he has gun pointed a at him. Alumnus Danny Litwhiler is Zaidi, Muriel Jeffrey responsible. W. Coy. Glenn Y. Hickok Jr.. F.Joseph Loeper, Rocco A. Ortenzio. Tom Ridge. JereW. Schuler, Andrew H. Shoffner, Patrick J. Stapleton, John K.Thornburgh. 2. Major League Dividends 6 Creating Impressive Impressions by Sandra Christine J.Toretti. Home acres of land at CHANCELLOR, STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION James H. McCormick fields, LaRoy G. Davis 10 Vice Chair "67, First David 14 O'Connor J. Campus new opportunities to individualize their and at less cost. Mohr The spirit of generosity is the lifeblood of Petrosky Bloomsburgs Ted Stuban BLOOMSBURG future. Philanthropic partnerships with friends help the university maintain James H. McCormick. Ex-Officio PRESIDENT, contributing to Planning to Give by Kathleen David all Jr. Cope 73 J. — at the university. Partnerships Expand their degrees in less time Jr. Robert W. Buehner Kevin M. of students entails caring for athletic trees education. Often, these partnerships enable students to complete H. Alley James T Atherton life institutions give students R.Adams. Secretary Ramona The job University. by Trina Walker Partnerships between Bloomsburg and other A. William Kelly 71. Second Vice Chair Jennifer Frank Curran and his crew of 12 take care of 282 dozens of flower beds and scores of the quality of BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES Joseph J. Mowad. Chair '99 Bloomsburg its alumni and competitive edge, provide scholarships and meet future challenges. UNIVERSITY' Jessica Sledge Kozloff BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY' ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Nancy Feher Edwards 70, President John S. '66. Vice Mulka 7 Sandra Jefferson Rupp JohnTrathen Doug 16. Forged in Clay and Fire 16 . A in Clay and Fire unique collaboration between master Japanese potter Shiho Kanzaki and associate professor of President 1 Friendship Forged by Eric Foster Secretary Bloomsburg '68. Treasurer art Karl Beamer has brought to the attention of the international art community, exposed dozens of Bloomsburg students to a unique cultural heritage C. Hippenstiel '68. Ex-Officio, and artistic discipline, and forged a friendship that spans the globe. Director of Alumni Affairs BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION Elbern H.AIkire Victoria Anthony M. L. Jr., 1 Range Mountains of Alaska through wilderness, unnamed mountains, and unpredictable weather. 78 22 EDITOR Kathleen of caribou, wolves and bears, Bloomsburg's Quest program. While there, they found untamed EXECUTIVE EDITOR Jim Hollister trails explorers journeyed in the Brooks Director Treasurer Hill, Exploring America's Final Frontier by Roy Smith Hiking the Mihalik,Vice Chair laniero. Executive David 20 Chair Mohr Training Future Olympians by Eric Foster Millions watched as athletes from around the world competed CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Eric Foster in the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Last Bloomsburg University graduate students had PHOTOGRAPHERS R.Wagner future Marlin 22. Training Future Eric Foster Olympic athletes for competition Olympic Training Center Olympians in a hand in year, three preparing by helping researchers at the Lake Placid, N.Y. Photo by Ron Vesely/Chicago White Sox 24 Joan Heifer DESIGNER T. a catch-phrase it's often topic in a recent interview. 70 26 News 3 What's Happening Briefs B. Fuller Lentczner Donna Cochrane Doug C. become Sociology professor Sue Jackson discussed this sometimes controversial Janel A. Fry Joan values has hard to find consensus on what constitutes either family or values. ART DIRECTOR Lawrence Mohr Family of politicians and commentators from across the country. But John Lorish EDITORIAL BOARD Nancy Feher Edwards FamilyValues interview by Kathleen Terry Wild Studios Address comments and questions Marlin R. Wagner to: Bloomsburg University Magazine Waller Administration Building Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301 Internet address: I Cover photo by Hippenstiel '68 holl@bloomu.edu 32 The by Last Word Jessica Sledge Kozloff, president, Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 I Fans fill the stands for a White Sox home game Comiskey Park. at DECISION PAYS Major League Dividends BY It MARC MULLEN PHOTOS BY RON VESELY/CHICAGO WHITE SOX AND MARLIN R.WAGNER ' was the summer of 1993. Matt Karchner had undergone games rotator cuff surgery after playing only six baseball Memphis, a triple A farm team Royals. for the long before he got the getting for major league Kansas City "I from Bloomsburg pregnant with their and first child, work or keep I and go quit life. down and wife all "Terry and talked. I give I my if try.' easiest thing for me would have been to say 'the heck with it' and not go back." During that off-season, Karchner was signed by the Chicago White Sox. His arm bounced back from the and he found himself with the White Sox farm team in Birmingham, playing with Michael Jordan. But Karchner's baseball career path took quite a different turn season's end, he White Sox triple from Jordan's. had moved up A there, but By a level to the affiliate in Nashville. opened the 1995 season it is no place call to the majors situation. A controversial __-. . and never be satisfied 'You'll mid-season summer of you don't go back and White Sox's top pitchers thrust "The Karchner into a new role me would was a tough situation. were only two or three if try' easiest thing for have been He was not We say 'the heck with games out of first, and then the big trade," Karchner explains. "We lost to it' and not go back." [Wilson] Alvarez and [Danny] Darwin, probably our two best Hernandez, our closer. It was we were close two months remaining. of July and "For me, it to and [Roberto] winning the division was a great chance. bad, something good comes. I It was back to the other role as a had some success as the closer." Karchner starters, frustrating because middle illustrates his success seems like it was the end tide with just out of everything either going to shine or go relief pitcher. Fortunately, by describing I a particularly memorable moment from last season. Chicago was visiting Seattle. With a one- run lead, Karchner was called on to save the game for the White Sox. There were runners on the corners with Bloomsburg University Magazine 'W-'-.-" field. Yankee Stadium." like seasons have passed since the for the the "It never be satisfied you don't go back and surgery, There room and walked onto locker for the team. the credit in the "The was pretty New York. After dressing such a rush to get to incredible. three of the world, because she said, 'You'll in came out of the trade last going," says point in his was I most of his to Karchner of that turning sat went from almost quitting to Karchner has made the "That was a big decision right - should It Two a decision had to be made. there was game, University in 1989. His wife, Terry, was call. "I track to the major leagues, which fast amazing," says Karchner. He had been playing in minor leagues ever since graduating on the SPRING 1998 3 MAIOR LEAGUE DIVIDENDS bloomsburg University Chris Lynch. MIDDLE Gary Saxton. BACK Erik Pedersen, Steve one out in the to to (I — FRONT to r) Jeff Szczecina, Dave Robinson, Chad Holdren, Brian Yarasheski, Steve Sees, Dave Baradgie, Sam Jerome, Rob Bowman. Brian Davis, Paul Holmes, Jeff Gyurina, J.P.Thomas, Cory Terwilliger, Bob Groshek, Bruce Beaver, Dale Thomas (asst. coach). Matt Haney (asst. coach), Mike Bruno, Warren Shipe.Tim Pritchard, Matt Karchner, Carl Albertson, 989 baseball team 1 (I r) (I r) Clemens, Joe Bressi coach), John Babb (head coach). (asst. bottom of the ninth inning, and he was facing "That was tough. But dangerous hitters. "Shortly after guy that Karchner. "I on to score I started closing, don't think I him got it I to pop up and was doubled "That was a very personal that situation - being given knowing the game was back that as far sport. last I as I I came in to face Martinez, a had ever gotten out in before," says moment for I I hands was like all. at matter when Bloomsburg, he He was a third We baseman didn't have he decided he would give the position a "That kind of a funny is pitch doubleheaders. and played throw the decided and that I The story," time, first third the next. That didn't ball from third would pitch the second worked out first work because to first in the game It took him a few years to I game A we ball and found couldn't it hard to give hit rule. Bloomsburg. "We were I we won or lost. We we had," recalls everything it think that was one of my 1985 graduate of Berwick High School, For good reason - that was it who it again his I wasn't. I was just a walk on," chuckles Karchner. life. College supposed to be fun and is it is, but it you prepare mentally. You can gain a good also helps training, on things." Karchner remains optimistic about being in Chicago when drafted. always joked that she was at school on a scholarship and had," was when he met played Softball for Bloomsburg. Entering this year's spring after he might never Bloomsburg University Magazine just giving wife, perspective realize at didn't matter if staying the last semester after he lost. in everybody's [of doubleheaders] because of the American League's designated hitter 4 SPRING 1998 or It I gained by going to school was maturity, because those four years are such second game. Then we Karchner continued batting for a couple of years up. won were just giving well." beginning to play professional play. "The big thing pitched the I if we would recalls. "I started concentrating Karchner never regretted going to college or try. Karchner it, I pitching at baseball's highest level, Karchner Karchner. "And to play. It didn't everything many pitchers, so got over greatest experiences playing baseball." "I with a great bat. However, during his senior Bloomsburg is going out there to just "We were just going out there I had the most fun playing last at bat." he began playing baseball year, put in believes he were can remember, in any as a closing pitcher. In fact, wasn't a pitcher at got a save. liked being Karchner didn't always have the game resting in his I and a challenge my hands. me. always want to be the one that takes the shot or has the Even though he to short right field. Seattle tried up, ending the game. after on pitching more," Karchner says. "I was kind of hung up on batting, and that cost me. My mind wasn't really focusing on pitching. Once I let go of the batting, it was liberating. I can pitch. Now let's go with that and give that all I've got." Mariner Edgar Martinez, one of the American League's most the season opens in April. a critical time Making Every Pitch Count BY ANDY SODERGREN PHOTOS COURTESY OF '97 Whenever Matt Karchner, or any other leagues, delivers a baseball to the plate, him. Danny Litwhiler the reason it's ST. PETERSBURG Once pitcher in the major he has a gun pointed at doesn't actually hold the gun, but he's (FLA.) TIMES AND BLOOMSBURG the gun was developed with the help of John Paulson, inventor of the there. Litwhiler, a 1938 graduate of Bloomsburg, carved himself quite a nice career out of baseball, and his invention of the JUGS Pitching Machine, Litwhiler wasn't certain JUGS speed gun is his most valued accomplishment. The JUGS gun lets Litwhiler derive a bit of satisfaction from every major league game he sees. It's used to measure the how it would be velocity of pitches at almost every level of baseball. instructor for the "The adaptation of the speed gun into the major leagues my proudest achievement," Litwhiler said from his home in New Port Richey, Fla. "Every time see a game, I still stands as I think back of the time While improve on sometimes gun to was no JUGS gun." serving as head coach at Michigan State a as minor league Pl'«ure Cincinnati Reds, he attended a taken (941 in Danny Utwni, er New York catching, Yankees-Detroit - "1^? George ^ ^adelph.a at b bat, Ernie Lomfa;ardi, Barr, umpire. Tigers game. Star left-handed pitcher Rudy May approached Litwhiler because he'd been struggling. The two of them proceeded to leaguer began thinking of ways to assess the bullpen, his pitching talent. "I tried and many different, and ways to measure a pitcher's speed," would have them throw putty against a unscientific, board to judge the day, there used. Then, while serving University in the early 70s, the former major Litwhiler said. "I One when UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES size of the imprint." he saw a police officer using a measure the speed of passing Litwhiler an idea, and the cars. rest is history. and May fired some pitches that Litwhiler and his invention clocked. After analyzing the various speeds, the coach explained to May his approach to pitching. mound the suggested adjustments and took the May made that night against the Tigers. new type of radar This sight gave "I was extremely nervous style," rest. I had messed up Litwhiler recalled. However, He went out and tossed a May put his pitching his concerns to complete-game, two-hit shutout against Detroit. Although Litwhiler acknowledges the development of the JUGS gun as his standout achievement among more than a in a number of hundred other innovations, he takes pride other baseball accomplishments. A major leaguer for the Phillies, Cardinals, Braves and during an 1 1 -year playing career, Litwhiler batting average of .281 with 107 lifetime two consecutive Golden Glove error in title two years. runs. He had committing only one And he helped the Cardinals win a world home run in the fifth game of the Series. Litwhiler has think about Bloomsburg the home Reds a lifetime in 1944, belting a World rtth years, amassed it is had an impact on the sport of baseball. the next time you see a game - a little Just piece of part of ever)' pitch. gun JUGS speed Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 5 BY SANDRA HORNE PHOTOS BY JOAN HELFER.THE TERRY WILD STUDIOS, AND MARLIN R.WAGNER ' Thirty years of working outdoors has gently weathered his complexion. The shade of his hair bears a striking likeness to the burnished bark of a mature white birch. The windows a in his office frame panoramic view of the pastoral Susquehanna Valley, an appropriate person whose profession setting for a linked with nature. stranger, Upon meeting is a Frank Curran's handshake is firm, yet friendly. Curran, supervisor of Bloomsburg University's grounds crew, is Frank Curran as skilled at cultivating relationships people as he "We do is at with tending the land. office furniture. Despite the variety a lot of things that people don't of assignments, grounds crew tasks know about," says Curran. Best known for their meticulous revolve grooming of the 282 acres, staff for university's Curran and his of 1 2 are accountable much more than creating attractive swathes of mani- cured grass and well-tended flower beds. They set up - from for House to spring commencement at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds. They assist in snow removal and winter maintenance of sidewalks, landings and steps. Some members of Curran's crew are routinely dispatched to move 6 SPRING 1998 Bloomsburg University Magazine common purpose - One of Curran's most visible duties is integrating the landscape with the diverse architecture on campus. Each structure requires a different touch. Carver Hall, the university landmark, stands in historical contrast to the contemporary design of the newly constructed Andruss Library. special events concerts at Nelson Field around a creating a visually pleasing environment. "You're trying to bring notice to the building," Curran requires to it says. "Sometimes that be softened - the size of the building, the angles, will dictate that [relationship] for you." an attractive, friendly positive influence students, faculty He understands atmosphere has a on the experiences of and staff. W 1 . "^ "" The university 5 4 . % ?i grounds crew cares for dozens of flower beds and flowering trees on campus. Curran is sensitive to the needs on campus. He many different particularly aware is of the concerns of the office of residence which life, is housing and responsible for student safety. ym-r-- He constantly monitors the height and fullness of the shrubs and hedges around the dormitories to preserve safe access for the residents. "The big thing you planting he now is see in ••• our landscape [an awareness for] safety," says. urran's concern for the health safety of students is and reflected not only in his thoughtfully planned vegetation, but also in his strategy | for landscape management. His insists on a selective maintenance policy use of pesticides. "I with worry about putting chemicals down this community," he very, very careful areas I He lieu about says. that. Certain uses safe soaps on shrubbery style. "Some people he acknowledges. is a who to There are tells it, some people Boop is one grounds crew member has earned Curran's confidence. you what he wants and then he you have do take he says pragmatically. Janice in "1 some minor damage a safe environment. tradeoffs," Giving them ownership of their work don't," of an application of chemicals. promote also skillfully utilizes the indi- prominent feature of Curran's management "We're won't spray." think you accept Curran vidual expertise of each of his employees. it," full reign "He lets on how you want to she says. B/oomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 7 Janice Boop prepares flowers in the greenhouse for planting. pampas in her designs. There is no random planting in any flower bed. Christopher "Everything that do, every piece of mail that goes out, of Keller, director we admissions, stresses the intricate link between the physical appearance of the campus and institution. every college fair we attend, the public's perception of the He regards Bloomsburg's to get students to visit the is convenient access to Interstate 80 as a valuable asset and welcomes random by prospective students and of people don't realize how many come to our campus that we don't even know about," says Keller. "They'll just drive in, pick up some literature, and walk "A campus. The visits visit is key. their parents. lot You don get a second chance t visitors to make a first impression? around by themselves. That's where our Bloomsburg's varsity entirely by the university TV oop is five grounds crew. and maintaining flower beds all meet. Again, thirty- on campus. She I apprenticed under recent retiree \J Kressler, whom Curran "taking us to a different Kressler 's innovation the plant diversity Bob credits with to really shines. it's that first expand on the grounds. Boop on the According to campus Keller, the aesthetics of the him fulfill his objective. we do, every piece of goes out, every college fair we helps mail that attend, is to get students to visit the visit is key. You don't first get a campus. second impression." and university's appearance, and on Curran and ornamental grasses Bloomsburg University Magazine caverns, the chaos took chance to make a blue fescue and The jagged displacement from recent construction impression personally, that's important." The 8 SPRING 1998 are that visitors get, not only visually, but continues this tradition by including like They "Everything that level." was grounds crew wonderfully friendly to the people they responsible for designing, I planting r\ was constructed Softball field line its toll his crew. was probably the we'll ever "The steam biggest project have disturbing the whole lower campus," he says. Some mature trees and all of the cactuses were regrettable casualties. "It was hard," he admits. In some places may take years it to recover the lost maturity. CREATING IMPRESSIVE IMPRESSIONS He maintenance and preparation Proper of the athletic fields on the upper campus are also an important part Mary Gardner think there's a satisfaction in this job," A of Curran's responsibilities. Athletic Director shoulders his numerous responsibil- ities gracefully. "I values the first when he was Pennsylvania course superintendent whether As it's the right off the bat that need gymnasium or a physical educator, to befriend it's the Race Golf of the Bloomsburg University grounds you learn crew in 1982. those people you and work with hired as at Mill and Camping Resort in Benton. He assumed his current position as supervisor "You are so dependent on your physical field. of native of South Bend, Ind., Curran ment and plant, lot says. migrated to northeastern relationship between the athletic depart- the grounds crew. he When at all levels. pressed, he describes himself as Burt [Reese, assistant athletic director,] "an optimist and a survivor." Each season and myself share reflects the a grass-roots philosophy. We view these people as partners Boop works on the flower beds on the Janice need this partnership to be able to carry we do here, especially in athletics." Sports camps are an important source Carver the Hall lawn. of revenue for the athletic department. "They're our lifeline for scholarship is about the rigorous time constraints the camps fields. "When come here, they are in fields," candid often create for Curran. first knows out what funds," confirms Gardner. She wisdom of his patient labor. is why he does not remember Perhaps that and people from other universities awe of our she says. "They're amazed way they are maintained Curran he ever planted here, but he - the big beech by Schuylkill Hall. athletic at the and cared for." already preparing for the is ahead. "You know challenges that lie Bloomsburg going to grow," he "We have tree the exact location of the oldest is to plant smarter. says. We have to plant things that can take care of themselves." While he wisely anticipates heightened services, demand a grounds crew for Curran has no intention of relinquishing his hands- on style. No detail escapes his watchful eye. was Curran's decision It to redress the grounds around the Five Friends Memorial, dedicated to students who an off-campus house October five lost their lives in 21, 1994. fire The on land- scaped grounds bordering Mickey Dietz is responsible for preparing the university's athletic fields for the memorial vanished games. during the recent excavation "Sometimes we have around from use in to turn fields for field twenty-four hours. He for a new steam line. When hockey to soccer that phase of the project copes so well was complete, Curran directed with the demands that the different his staff to disturb the coaches put on him. People seem to have one confidence that Frank will find a way to take care of us." Gardner mentions to final time so the prepared properly. memorial soil could be He was determined to ensure that the a special indebtedness John "Mickey" Dietz, who, under Curran's direction, oversees all the athletic five living symbols, the dwarf Alberta spruce trees, would not merely thrive, but flourish. Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 9 Samantha Januzzi spent her junior and senior years of college in the hospital. have it And she wouldn't any other way. Mike Fountain Last summer, and spent twelve quit his job weeks at the ocean. Larry Lisnock's first two years of college didn't cost What do They him a thing. these people have in common? earned degrees from Bloomsburg all University, and took advantage of Bloomsburg's partnerships with other institutions to individualize their education. Januzzi completed her clinical training in radiologic technology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., simultaneously earning credits for a bachelor of science degree from Bloomsburg. Fountain wasn't just beach-combing and dolphin-watching. He was gathering marine life samples to be analyzed as part of his marine biology training. In Bloomsburg students can currently December, Fountain graduated from choose collaborative degrees in Bloomsburg with a bachelor of science engineering, law degree in biology with a marine well as in the allied health fields of physical biology option. and occupational therapy, pharmacy, At the time Lisnock was going to school, tuition in the radiologic technology program at Center was Hazleton-St. Joseph's Medical free. The two-year certificate he earned there was acknowledged as 60 credits at Bloomsburg. So, he was able credits for clinical and marine biology, as medical imaging and medical technology. "Our collaborative partnerships with other universities allow us to offer a wider variety of losing credits. Others involve earning programs than we would other- others offer Still amount of time. A recent agreement with Widener University School of Law, Harrisburg campus, lets students finish college and and earn a law degree in a total of six years. The 3 + 3 agreement offers students at Bloomsburg the opportunity wise be able to provide ourselves," explains Wilson Bradshaw, provost work. dual degrees in a condensed complete their last to year of undergraduate vice president for academic affairs at studies as continue his education toward a bachelor Bloomsburg. "We simply would not Widener. of science degree. be able to re-create the same caliber of plete the requirements for graduate study, As job markets become more competitive and educations more expensive, students engineering program to enter Bloomsburg are looking for as a junior and programs that give them educational options and advantages. State, or the we find at Penn medical imaging expertise of Johns Hopkins, or the marine biology field experience of Wallops Island." For nearly 30 years, Bloomsburg has been working in partnership with other first year law students at When they successfully com- they receive both a bachelor's degree from Bloomsburg and a juris doctor from Widener. In the physics department, Bloomsburg students have the unique opportunity to Educational options • Some of obtain both a bachelor of arts in physics Bloomsburg's collaborative degree or mathematics at Bloomsburg and a partnerships have grown, greatly expanding programs involve transferring from one bachelor of science in engineering from educational options for students. school or program to another without either universities 10 and SPRING 1998 facilities. Recently, those Bloomsburg University Magazine The Pennsylvania State University field is so or Wilkes University. After three years at Bloomsburg, students who meet the aca- demic requirements can transfer to Penn State or Wilkes, where they study two additional years. At the end of five years, are such degree - a clinical Students have fewer years of tuition to less few years expensive state school that home and is year, at a closer to then transfer to the more expensive school for their specialized programs that already exist some fields, particularly those requiring clinical study, flexibility do the with a is imperative. Because the medical imaging if at clinical final year offered you get accepted into me a job, year, their flexibility I was able to • Because of and often non-traditional learning opportunities, collaborative the university for one degree programs do seem to offer study for two and finish distinct advantages in the job market. who is currently the "In medical imaging, most employers now looking for are Program Director of Radiologic two-year Technology says Lisnock. at Hazleton-St. Joseph's. felt which Job-market advantages of university studies," explains Lisnock, doing his clinical rotation him useful background knowledge for the anatomy and physiology courses he later took at Bloomsburg. Januzzi, on the other hand, completed her program in reverse order, and felt it gave her an first elsewhere. Flexibility • In in a rapport with the staff my clinical study and they accept immediately," notes Januzzi. program your sophomore Lisnock degree. Universities save the expense of re-creating Bloomsburg "Most students do two years of either then two years you could study universities. pay, or they can complete a at while doing a variety of scenarios. of the other. But programs often faster, they can be less expensive both for students and for complete their degrees up "I built may clinical or university study, they have a B.A. and a B.S. Not only competitive and program enrollments are limited, students gave "in" for finding a job. certificate a bachelor's degree. is Knowing this, Januzzi chose Bloomsburg's program because, time, it A just not enough," the at was one of the only schools in the country that offered a degree program for radiologic technology." Within the last year, Bloomsburg has new program with Johns Hopkins Hospital. "Students can now developed a BYTRINA WALKER PHOTOS BY TERRY WILD STUDIOS. MARLIN R.WAGNER AND THOMAS KLINGER choose two of five modalities for their clinical rotation," explains Januzzi. is a big bonus "This in today's market," she con- you can be licensed in two and also have a degree, you are way tinues. "If areas ahead of the game." Jim Moser, chairman of Bloomsburg's physics department, feels that Bloomsburg's general studies provide a foundation desirable to employers. "Students in our engineering degree program have the advantage of having received a liberal arts background in addition to their specialized studies," he says. "Employers are looking for specialists who also have a well-rounded background." Fountain agrees. "I think a general degree with an option in marine biology will make me more marketable. I have a broader-based biology background than a straight marine biology major. That me more options in gives the job market." Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 II PARTNERSHIPS EXPAND CAMPUS A hint of things to come • Some of with other encouraged to partner both within and outside of Bloomsburg's partnership-degree programs institutions, have been in existence for nearly 30 years. our Others are as recent as several months increased collaboration old. And still others are being pursued. what is system," says Bradshaw. In fact, emphasized on many "As happening we continue to see an increase nationwide in higher education. The the proper utilization ot distance Pennsylvania State System of Higher learning technologies, Education, of which Bloomsburg partnerships across the country. member, is a is particularly active in providing grant funds to support collaborative programs. "In this system we Bloomsburg students Island are The Degrees collect samples at Marine Biology Consortium in program involves Bloomsburg and an physical therapy additional three at at Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia. At the end of the program, students are awarded more opportunities and more students flexibility in their often use education. Programs numbers same 3-2 or 3-3 degree program, ly resulting in a usual- agreements continue to grow over years will at Bloomsburg, then matricu- combination of study. For example, late to a a 2-3 program involves attending one ular choices are in Philadelphia school or program for two years and Rhode another for three years. 2-3, resulting in a master's degree. Marine Biology Option - within the Biology Major • Bloomsburg students Medical Technology pursue a bachelor of science degree began pharmacy school, the The program Island. is and then pursue their two-year radiographer degree. Another option they study at two and then come back The Johns Hopkins Hospital option two most pop- clinical certifications as well as their bachelor's degrees. The Mansfield University option gives junior status admission to students science at Mansfield University. Students can then earn a B.S. in two years and usually oldest option program • Bloomsburg's in allied health in 1970. Students amass 96 credits biology with a marine biology option. in three years at the university, then As part of that option, students take a one-year series of three-week courses Marine Science Consortium Island, Va, the ting. at Wallops hospitals, where they have access to salt marshes, estuaries and barrier island beaches. field The program combines some days study in a hospital those 10.) is affiliated set- with 10 but students are not limited to The result is a bachelor of sci- at Bloomsburg. lasting more than 12 hours. allied health fields. Bloomsburg then Students begin at transfer to another school where they obtain a degree. 12 SPRING 1998 Bloomsburg University Magazine program provides Mathematics in at a B.A. in Physics or Bloomsburg and a B.S. Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University or Wilkes University. The Bloomsburg curriculum and is tough intense. Students take specific preparatory courses in addition to requirements. Several engineering fields Medical Imaging • Medical imaging has become the most popular allied are offered. health career choice at Bloomsburg, with Pre-law • A new partnership with Widener University School of Law, approximately 150 students currently Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy • Bloomsburg offers preparatory programs in several • This 3/2 cooperative dual-degree the university's general education ence degree. lectures, study and labs for an intensive course of study - clinical (Bloomsburg at do a who have earned associate degrees in applied Engineering and Liberal Arts in is the university for a year, leave for baccalaureate degree. Students prepared in pharmacy study two years to describe the am of collaborative list gives students the opportunity to pursue Occupational therapy students follow the more I to finish their degree (1-2-1). bachelor's or master's degrees. Degree partnership programs give will see certain that this certificates in physical therapy, as well as Bloomsburg we in and the next few years," says Bradshaw. two or three years at is Wallops Wallops Island.Va. Collaborative levels in the State System's "Imperatives for the Future." Bloomsburg's partnership programs are consistent with own The options accommodate several enrolled. for this program scenarios. Students They then attend Bloomsburg for two years. they can study at Or the university for earn a bachelor's degree from Bloomsburg and can already have earned a two-year certificate as a radiographer. Harrisburg campus allows student's to two a juris doctor years. from Widener Bloomsburg students in six are guaranteed admission to Widener providing they meet appropriate requirements. REFLECTIONS PAST • PRESENT FUTURE • .._ & Stephanie Husted Fetterman '88 Stephen Alumni - West Lawn, PA Patricia "Petey" Bloomsburg, Dana & Audrey Adams - Parents of Stefanie and Susan '00 - Lansdale, PA McDowell-Goulstone Friend and Honorary Alumna — PA Bloomsburg University was a warm, friendly environment for us. Not only did during our junior year, but we we meet also received great educations which have benefited our careers. Bloomsburg is there. It's now watch people take hill" offer so many opportunities rewarding to see the commitment and to know that make a difference. We gained am thrilled to I am ballets - in is We a school which cares appreciate the contemplates a change. is receiving as she Our concerns about were my hometown. allayed when we understood results of that To me, the various fund-raising "drives for the Greek system. Other parents progress" help to keep the town and the the good experiences because of Bloomsburg, and now we are university viable. back to show our appreciation. Bloomsburg is oriented town, and the college BU. Now, we, too, a familyis the steps being taken by the administration to strengthen students do giving flexibility both Stefanie and Susan pledging a sorority of the wonderful musical programs - especially symphonies and students. the faculty guidance Susan for adults some be able to enjoy Bloomsburg its students have to change their majors and music lover and a us, about in knowledge and to have the "college on the from the community. an excellent school where students can become involved.The vote to expand Kehr Union occurred while we were For fascinating to It's told us of their children had at feel that we and our daughters are part of the Bloomsburg a part family. of that philosophy. YOUR GIFT I want to support Bloomsburg University with my Annual Fund gift of: 3 $45 $20 LI hardworking students of today and tomorrow to excel and You are invited to reflect on the value of a Bloomsburg University education, as have other alumni, parents, and friends, when making a contribution to the Annual Fund. will help achieve their highest aspirations. _) Enclosed my check or money order made is The Bloomsburg U$I00 LI $250 other $. I authorize my charge Please print: The Bloomsburg University Foundation to to the credit card below: gift DVisa MasterCard Discover Name payable to University Foundation. # Alumna/us, Class of Expiration date Faculty/Staff Signature Friend Mail to: Parent Name of child attending The Annual Fund BU The Bloomsburg Class of University Foundation, Inc. Development Center, Dept. B Address City /State/Zip 400 East Second Street . Phone (Home). Bloomsburg, PA 1 1 _(Work). Phone: 7 7-389-4 28 1 Comments: 1 or 1-800-526-0254 Fax: 7 S00I0 1 $ 78 5- 30 7-389-4945 1 1 ^V^^LOOMSBURG Iff UNIVERSITY (dKfi FOUNDATION * ,*V-?,U,. ^ BY KATHLEEN For most, college experiences, is and and memories MOHR PHOTOS COURTESY OF MICHAEL KOLOJEJCHICK, EVELYN KILPATRICK AND THE RUPP about growing up, momentous relationships. Foundation about friendships It's that last a lifetime, not just classrooms later look for ways to show about his When 72, who maintains first and attending golf tournaments, tremendously from Bloomsburg Everyone of students, "I like one of their believed they really cared for education for the next 33 years, retiring from Nazareth Area Senior High in 1990. is The former student organist and Obiter contributor me and recent interview. She thoroughly enjoyed her four years at Bloomsburg and she many students, Kolojejchick depended on "There were times when I couldn't No one ever They would care of made me say, 'Just I would be embarrassed. feel go uncomfortable. for Bloomsburg because they did so much for Encouraged by her brother, who had already established a trust for his % alma mater, Kilpatrick contacted Susan Helwig, director of development, and discussed a variety of charitable options. For Kilpatrick, a unitrust seemed to be the it.'" best choice for a tax advantage. "I like IMG, an insurance and financial planning knows the value of estate planning. Augmenting annual gifts to Bloomsburg taken out a the the donation SPRING 1998 Bloomsburg University Magazine is to be used. annual income until determined amount University, Kolojejchick has life insurance policy and Bloomsburg University how I how gave a contribution and could specify business in Kingston, 14 had given her so much wanted to do to return the favor. "I me," she shared. ,1 register. We'll take Today, Kolojejchick, a successful partner of named the university somehow wanted financial aid. and felt it felt alive." afford the tuition Jr. reminisced about the long porch and living in Waller Hall, in a something I Michael "Midge" Kolojejchick children." would be that there would commitment to keep that legacy of be a faculty Like an experience for which he professors manifesting a true love could have a wish, family me and taught business "Bloomsburg was a family-oriented campus. school treated at He remembered family, State talks of his family to attend college. For him, college grateful. for the foundation. Evelyn Kilpatrick graduated Teacher's College in 1957 undergraduate experiences with enthusiastic pride. member the cash value for he came to Bloomsburg as a freshman in 1967, he was became an extension of his if I Jr. Bloomsburg friendships by serving on the advisory board the College of Business the Kolojejchick, beneficiary. annual tax deduction for the grow Alumnus Michael "Midge" its he receives an of the policy continues to their appreciation. his as this, premium and and books. For some, those formative years made such a lasting impression that they By doing FAMILY . I I receive an pass on, then a pre- will be given each year to a business education student, preferably a graduate of Nazareth Area High. I Various Ways to Create Gifts of Significance encourage others to think seriously planning their about gifts." Rupp For Bob and Sandy Bloomsburg '71, their years at University were "a delightful part of our lives." Besides met and Bloomsburg in love, where they received fell It a "good helped us develop a great deal as Evelyn Kilpatrick which have increased Some examples open about are they received while at their appreciation for the them for support Bloomsburg, especially from professors, and they agree with Kilpatrick that it is satisfying and important demonstrate their gratitude. Throughout the years to since they graduated, they have contributed generously to the Husky Club and specific capital campaigns, like the library. In addition, Mrs. Rupp is secretary and former president of the alumni association. But they wanted to do more. ^k bout a dozen years ago, before Mr. Rupp returned to Bloomsburg to be assistant principal at Bloomsburg /"^^^ High School and later principal of Bloomsburg /^^ JL ML. to make a financial bequest Life Insurance: friends play a tremendous in a trust for a specified Income from the Trust: Income-producing trust Foundation during is securities number of years. paid to the Bloomsburg University this time. At the end of the specified period, the securities are returned to the donor or other beneficiaries. Charitable Remainder Unitrust: Cash or securities can be placed, irrevocably, with a trustee who pays someone (probably you) income, based on a trust's value, usually for life. set percentage of the Following the death of the person receiving the income, the securities or cash passes to the Bloomsburg University Foundation. live. Following the death of the last as long as either of person receiving the life. retain the right to After your death, the foundation rights. Foundation. Bob and Sandy Rupp Without philanthropic partnerships with Bob and Sandy Rupp, Evelyn Bloomsburg University would not be like Kolojejchick, able to maintain its competitive edge, provide scholarships and meet future challenges. Lead can be placed Wills or Bequests: You can designate a specific amount or a percentage of your estate for the Bloomsburg University advancement of university. people Charitable assumes ownership Bloomsburg's future. Alumni any its kind of loyalty of generosity that role in the for and ownership designations. use the property for your are the lifeblood of and no longer needed by changing the beneficiary Bloomsburg University Foundation, you members of spirit and Homes and Farms: When giving homes or farms to the and became gifts Bloomsburg's Legacy Society. and acquisition. real estate, income, the securities or cash passes to Bloomsburg University. ago during a campaign drive It is this mutual funds, Life insurance original purpose can be given you They confirmed that commitment about a year charter are stocks, bonds, your spouse (or other designated person), will. planned Appreciated assets are those from the time of initial in value Charitable Gift Annuity: Cash or securities are placed, irrevocably, with a trustee who pays a set income to you or to the university in their for of giving, and Middle Rupps decided School, the common form personal property such as antiques, paintings, or "collectibles." people." The Rupps the most is education that prepared us for the future. gifts are are as easy as writing a check. Appreciated Securities: earning the special recognition as the place they Cash: Cash Kilpatrick, and Michael With many of these options, there can be tax benefits for you during your lifetime and for your estate. Because these benefits vary, it is important that you consult a knowledgeable attorney, accountant, financial planner, or estate planner to help you plan. The Bloomsburg to University Foundation seeks private funding support the mission of Bloomsburg University. In 1997, the foundation raised a record $1.8 million. For more information about giving to The Bloomsburg University Foundation, Inc., contact the Development Office, 400 East Second Street, Bloomsburg, PA 17815, or (717) 389-4128. bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 15 " F I I 1 998 aloomsburg University Magazine • in Clay and Fire BY ERIC FOSTER PHOTOS BY MARLIN R.WAGNER AND COURTESY OF THE BEAMER FAMILY Each time Karl Beamer throws split oak into the mouth of the pottery kiln, flames shoot from the chimney 40 feet pungent sour smell of burning wood fills the air. away The Inside the kiln, dozens ofpots glow white-hot. For six days, Beamer, associate professor of art at Bloomsburg University, his students 24-hours a day friends work It takes another week for the kiln in shifts to to cool and keep the fire burning. enough to open. Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 17 cups, bowls, vases The and other pots enter the kiln as bare, unglazed, gray clay. They leave richly colored brown, amber and even blue. In some red, extreme heat of the places, the wood ash and clay, fire fuse is unique - a Town of Bloomsburg Japan's and most users. Kanzaki learned there was collaboration between potter and nature. found himself among Bloomsburg the kiln all both past Bloomsburg, and Beamer soon The type of wood burned, the kind of clay used and the position of the work within a group from During invited to visit Japan. Kanzaki visit, among listed significant potters, was among the Japanese present, a potter in the computer network Shiho Kanzaki, in Japan. computer creating a rough, textured surface. Each piece In 1991, the established a link with a fired a kiln of pottery. "Whatever kind of nonverbal contribute to the final product. communication was going on, you could like electricity. I just felt like in a foreign country. I felt feel it a sense I wasn't of Karl home," says Beamer. "He finished the and firing, In the his art of making pottery year, at Bloomsburg. he taught himself to speak English, and in the family at their home "At this point, we will 1999. in Mainville. felt the Kanzaki family while Japan. in visiting Shown from the Kanzaki family left are, standing: Ginny and Nikolle Beamer. Seated: Kori, Karl, believe in their character says Kanzaki. "I felt that is One Bloomsburg, is also the result of a - that of and humanity," we had unique his who works I him said, 'Fine, we'll anagama I never thought for a second pottery. to the attention international art running of the community, exposed artistic discipline and forged of Kanzaki's one I would be "Because of this town are tional ceramics The kiln has kiln, this well-known produce more in kiln, which critics, "All and later exhibited in University's Haas Gallery. of the works have potter's humanity," Beamers work. introduce Japanese people to On the surface, the two unlikely pair. After family lists his great loves as ice want "I to my American brother Karl through his works." potters were an and art, Beamer hockey and auto racing (he races a dirt-track car). Trained as a lawyer, Kanzaki But both are is also a Buddhist men who have taken chances and done things the hard way. Kanzaki shocked his family by giving up law studies to pursue pottery and worked at his art for 25 years a community and before gaining international acclaim. Beamer graduated from Kutztown in the interna- community," says Beamer. been featured in the magazines University with a bachelor's degree in art in 1966 and immediately landed a job teaching art in the The relationship between the Bloomsburg art professor and the School came about in the most manner. The Internet. Cumberland Valley and wrestling the district, Beamer recalls District. coach in A football Japanese potter feeling like a favored son, but unlikely was missing. "By the third SPRING 1998 identical be presented to Japanese collectors Ceramics Monthly and School Arts. 18 is Bloomsburg. His works and friendship that spans the globe. this Beamer. will says favor.' home to there, he'll firing priest. dozens of Bloomsburg students to a unique this." United it," be partners.' lopsided and not in your said, Their partnership has brought knew that space to build I 'It's I to have a kiln in the offered Beamer. "He While second to Japan in the spring of says Kanzaki of dream was States. a to the evening the two potters went for a in the 500-year-old Japanese tradition of Bloomsburg a very And soon, the hometown of Shigaraki than 300 ceramic works and conduct a Bloomsburg "Ginny [Mrs. Beamer] and Beamer and Japanese potter Shiho Kanzaki, could walk outside. existence of this unusual kiln, buried in a hillside just outside of collaboration "I close understanding." Keiko, Shiho andYuki Kanzaki. The Kanzaki shares. a feeling become He will travel Beamer always welcome in our home," says Beamer. The Beamers enjoy into the kiln second hometown. Japanese potter's of 1992, he fall his wife, Keiko, visited the It is wood For Kanzaki, Bloomsburg has become a of 1991, Kanzaki demonstrated Over the next and loads was amazed." I fall Beamer during the night. Bloomsburg University Magazine something year, I felt my artwork was underdeveloped. going to die if I stayed one I "Some people was felt I more minute." Beamer Over the summer, he studied ceramics at The Pennsylvania State University. By effort. If they're and pursue don't have a art full-time at completed and his a place to live. would eventually He TheThrough another two years in the 70s and 80s, Beamer constructed half a dozen kilns of campus various types on so students could create ceramics in a variety of He began styles. As hard 1993 for his iron "Crab" that was exhibited in the state Capitol Building. hours to keep the workers company. many as Ginny Beamer. 200," says Beamer has fired the kiln - loaded with student works as well as his own At the height of "When I first hounded me," week-long anagama enriched students' firings has forever came I'll reaches 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit, hot again.'" to melt steel. Outside, there is plenty of warmth from fellowship. saw I leave here, Working He comes strong, but he's doing M0$MM f^ lfcvii&*.- wS him "He it for Now, nearly four years after graduation, Stackhouse often takes a week from work Recent graduate «--,, Beamer W*3m that you going work.' to to is make "He said, Are hard a lot of sure that started recalls. "He pushed working harder. plishing things that Foulke took six way. I more I started didn't think classes a little. accomI could." with Beamer. firing. anagama-fired cup is testament to "It's not about being "It's about being pretty," says spiritual. When you drink from an anagama cup, you know so much thought went into the much effort went into the firing to create that cup." That's the kind of insight that makes Beamer proud of the students he works with. Like the fusion of wood ash and clay didn't I think this was painting prefab ceramics or I which reaches filled. work? This He wanted something," she temperatures as high as 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit. to get into a class with had been removes the bricks that have sealed during shape and so Anne Worley Foulke remembers begging -£jfl kiln the necessity of doing things the hard Foulke. to help with the biannual firings. ' kept the An benefit. deep and get the best to dig Allan Stackhouse across your out of yourself." : ijM myself, 'God, never talk to his professor in a different light. He wants you he the kiln, Stackhouse at has a hard attitude. kiln lives. to the university, "I said to kiln, for the the nature of the discipline." graduate student recalls when Beamer feeds the do what's necessary extreme temperature of the Allan Stackhouse. Karl I It's here. They all learn something, and we learn something from them." the firing, the temperature inside the kiln m lazy. on "I rigor of conducting ' is coming Just as the the United States. K he harder on the fact that people are comfortable of the two potters as they prepared for enough much 40 people descend upon the Beamer kiln in the since. being outcome. For a typical kiln opening, about kiln forever alters the pottery inside, the and spring he to the professors." as his students think himself. "I kind of think of myself as at all spring of 1993 intensified the collaboration fall earn Nikolle and Kori, and other potters stop by like every like to them, Beamer can be Chesapeake Bay Program first firing in in, who her MFA. Neighbors, students, friends of daughters as Kanzaki's me introduced earning honors from the Pennsylvania The construction of the put homestead. "A couple of times, we've had to create sculpture, in I "He personally drove me to Penn State to apply to the graduate program there and high school, found himself at Bloomsburg. years since have been eventful. we not successful, then good program." put in just as much," says Foulke, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), after teaching think I "For every ounce of sweat I week's notice, they lined up a graduate and found care," I students deserve something for their security of his job at assistantship because think that I'm the easiest says. "I grader on the campus, but the next summer, he had decided to leave the Cumberland Valley Penn State. "Fortunately, I have a wife as whacked as am," he says affectionately. With only a think I'm deliberately difficult, basically found on the side of a cup many students remain after firing, a part of his life long after graduation. A 30-minute documentary nominal fee from is TV'Services, Bloomsburg University Magazine available for a (717)389-4002. SPRING 1998 19 Exploring America's Final Frontier PHOTOS COURTESY OF ROY SMITH BY ROY SMITH gray wolves had spotted group of Wolf! Kurt the tundra only four hundred yards from our three a crossing camp Creeks. at the We were in Mountains confluence of Survey and Unakserak the heart of Alaska's Brooks Range in the Gates of the Arctic National Park, 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle. A week earlier we had been ferried the 250 miles out of Fairbanks in a bush plane and landed, three at a time, on a gravel bar by the Alatna River. Our planned starting point had been socked in by clouds, forcing us to reverse our route ward - deeper and trek north- into the Arctic Circle instead of out of were 1 1 at the it. We half-way point in our -day journey toward Kutuk Pass, near a small glacial lake where a float plane would Our party of eleven had '97 as part of University's mountain tundra. three Bloomsburg University and Dane Czaplicki; Jeremy a break Quest program. The group was comprised of Brown, Mike Caeari students, Chris Rader from Danville, who was taking Delong from Rhode Hummel, from Orangeville; Andy Island; Erica Rose and Cleve Rehm, and Bloomsburg. myself, support we common goals, few days. For some, this was first-time backpackers in often hike for seven or eight hours, with an hour for lunch and a from other than those made by the We had chosen the Gates of the Arctic mountainous, there are no caribou, wolves and trails bears. National Park for our trek because contains the Bloomsburg University Magazine time camping. also their first had followed a training regime, but Alaska are always surprised. We would In preparation, everyone it 20 SPRING 1998 enthusiasm and the on the journey. For most, this was Few had backpacked for more than a gave each other short break every hour, and only cover five miles. Besides being from Boston College; Diane Anusky from Philadelphia; Kurt Saxton, ages ranged from the early 20s to the early 60s, a differ- their first time to Alaska. Bloomsburg crag overlooking autumnal Island climb a 3,000-foot peak. ence that was reduced by journeyed to Alaska in August of Quest director Roy Smith on a Rhode come to find us. Our Kurt Saxton of Orangeville, Diane Anusky of Philadelphia and Andy DeLong of some of most and remote spectacular without areas in some of its visits to Rose Hummel, North America. Years go by valleys where there are 60, of Bloomsburg wades through still Alaskan water carrying her unclimbed mountains and unnamed peaks. To further guard boots. against any future desecration of this park, a large area has been The summit designated as Wilderness, which precludes the intrusion of motorized vehicles or man-made structures. from where the water day we journeyed further north up the Each Valley, ascending higher into the mountains. On the sixth Unakserak River day, we left the spruce forests and its simplicity. bare, rain-streaked rock faces of flows either toward the Ocean to the North Yukon river to the south. The views were Arctic alder thickets behind, emerging into an open, mountain tundra landscape, empty, breathtaking in or the and silent Above us the foreboding, unnamed mountains magnificent across the soared into mist-shrouded, autumnal the clouds. Summer weather tures in the upper in the early days of the trip gave us As we traveled north and gained 70s. swept in from the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. come when warm as early as mid-August. night temperatures fell which can We were glad to have the extra layers as low On the day before the prearranged arrival of our float plane at Kutuk Pass, the weather further deteriorated. of an early winter? We had enough but what then? With what little Was this the precursor food for another four days, food remained, it impossible to get out on foot. Occasions like this made mountains. Low clouds and meant no dangerous to plane; fly it is driving blind in these recognizable landmarks such as We decided to valleys. on our fortune at being in such a extraordinary place. We agreed to take a hike up a nearby The terrain, besides being mountainous, has no trails other made by the caribou, wolves and bears. At lower than those elevations, thickets of alder and willow kept hikes to only five miles a day. ing day. Rose and Cleve The rest evening. won the draw Our time was this chance that we might come way The weather again. following day our pilot was able to take us out, Is two Alaska the frontier? once last at a time. American Most of America was like Alaska. A place where the eccentric, the imaginative, those who needed more Jeremy Rader of Danville examines space and an the remains of a towering unnamed summit looking for the right niche, might list of ascents. Above us a Gyrfalcon soared on the wind, its plumage already turning white to match the inevitable winter snow. and late that to leave endless horizon, or those just our for the first ones out float plane. of us stayed up mountain, adding yet another to he approaching, and there seemed put aside our thoughts of potential peril and dwell if continued to improve. The mountains. Pilots depend on mountains, lakes and river out of Bettles to see within minutes they had their tent down, bags packed and were little too He had flown could take some of us out and return for the others the foDow- us realize the remoteness of these Arctic rain The weather cleared a The clouds began to rise from the valley floor, and our spirits lifted. The wind from the south gave us our first hint of an approaching plane. It was our pilot taking advantage climbing into a Cessna would be a haunting, that evening. little of a break in the weather. as 3 1 degrees. It is lonely landscape. elevation, We carried clothing in the event of an early winter tundra. tempera- temperatures dropped, accompanied by low clouds and rain that sufficient lay astride the continental divide, dam formed Alaska's along a river ice in Unakserak Valley. get another start. But even Alaska is changing, at least for now travel cultural flavor of our many who there to capture the and natural history last frontier. For information on future Quest adventures, contact the Quest office at (717)389-4323 or look them up on the World Wide Web at www.bloomu.edu/quest.html. Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 21 Training Future Olympians BY ERIC FOSTER Joohee Im, a graduate student in exercise PHOTOS COURTESY OF LEON SZMEDRA Leon Szmedra, associate professor of exercise physiology at Bloomsburg, tests Junior Olympic physiology, takes a blood sample athletes at Lake Placid, N.Y. at the 22 SPRING 1998 Bloomsburg University Magazine Olympic Training Center in from an athlete Lake Placid, N.Y Szmedra before fits his a young skier with monitors downhill run. TRAINING OLYMPIANS Under Szmedra's guidance, Bloomsburg 1998 Winter Olympics are over. The Millions watched in awe from around the world abilities and pushed the as athletes tested their limits of their sports in Nagano, Japan. Although it will until the next be another four years Winter Games, future American Olympic skiers for and them. skaters are already preparing And Bloomsburg several students profiled the fitness level of athletes through a variety of tests, measuring aerobic capacity, muscle strength and body composition. They also were involved in a project that evaluated the blood flow and oxygen use in muscles of Junior Olympic skiers, ages 9 to 17, compete in the slalom who and giant slalom Data was collected with monitors University graduate students will have events. played a part in their training. strapped to the skiers as they began their In the fall of 1996 and the spring of 1997, Joohee Im, Heather Bickhart Baranoski and Garrett Felix, runs and information was downloaded to a Graduate student Garrett laptop computer as runs were finished. Leon Szmedra, and graduate student Joohee Im "The helped nice thing about doing this over member Felix, faculty program of Bloomsburg's exercise physiology at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center. conduct research Olympic Training at the the last seven years athletes Szmedra, associate professor of exercise Olympic team," and athletics at we've seen several Szmedra. says while doing a variety of exercises in the The "He would have father. me become a let me look let professional skier. But he also In another study, athletes were tested physiology in the department of health, physical education is go from the junior team to the Center in Lake Placid, N.Y. Leon show how at other sides of the world as well." At age 14, moved she both train to Colorado so she could and attend school. Bloomsburg, introduced these graduate laboratory. students to the project through a U.S. laboratory tests duplicate conditions athletes After graduating from high school, she Olympic Committee Science Grant and experience on snow. attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, university support. closely correlate with the tests Szmedra became involved with Olympic athletes at Lake Placid when he accepted snow, then lab tests will tests If closely the laboratory tests on the Calif., can be used to pin- point specific areas for skiers to work on. an invitation from senior sport physiologist This will greatly increase athletes' ability Kenneth W. Rundell, to to a colleague know well while working on he came projects improve "Students stayed right in the Olympic dormitory complex, Syracuse University. Since 1991, Szmedra and had has visited the center about twice a year, says Szmedra. working with the canoe/ kayak, alpine (cross combined country skiing and ate the same meals a chance to talk with the athletes," For one of the students, the project A native of much South Korea, Joohee Im jumping), women's spent ice hockey and country's national ski team. She country skiing and rifle marksmanship) n World Cup Austria, Series races in Europe, and Japan in four events - downhill, slalom, giant slalom and super But six Before coming to University, Joohee Im was a member of the South Korean National Ski Team. Im and hours a day, her father grew frustrated that her training schedule hang out with to couple of years skiing, her interest in the sport new approach. would study make ski training more effective. became aware of Bloomsburg Instead of competing, she ways to She University and its exercise physiology program through a simple flyer on a bulletin board. "The program sounded very research which is what I wanted," says oriented, Im, now 24. Her studies have a special in her own life. She has learned that training with the proper technique important as putting in energy. "The training effective as says. prevented her from receiving a well- rounded education. "He's about things other wanted returned, but with a as after training for 10 days a week, I meaning giant slalom. teams. Bloomsburg competed lost interest in skiing. to learn friends," she says. After a of her youth training for that ski biathlon (cross than skiing. provided a way of reconnecting with her past. and soon wanted "I away from their performances. together during doctoral studies at as a skier She is it is in the hero," she says of her Korea United is of time and is not as States," she continuing her work with athletes this spring as my in lots interns selected to one of only three work at the Olympic Training Center each year. Im is skiers at using her time with the young Lake Placid to share wisdom from her own experience skier. "I want you should you learn to as a competitive emphasize learn how to to them ski for that fun before to ski for competition." Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 23 FAMILY What 0. your public experience is I think the whole element of control and autonomy with families? a tricky is one for families. come out of their confident, autonomous Children need to After earning i • my master's degree at the University of Texas in 1970, did clinical social work for three years at a health department in Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles north of Dallas. Currently, I teach seven out of eight courses that are offered in Bloomsburg's program. Because of social welfare rearing as individuals. What 0. is beings to be accepted in spite of their differences. This has to do with caring for others, understanding diversity, others regardless of who and accepting they are. my my favorites. one of is human have some kind of value and they deserve What values do you by your students? background, the topic of families arid children All other 3. family 0. your perception of families II in the nineties? my students, find see reflected for the most They part, reflect traditional values. • tend to be primarily traditional in terms think there are tremendous d challenges facing families today. A. The family has always been expected by society to values, changing it comes to socializing there have always been some kinds of societal norms go by. difference now, I up and even when I was growing started in social I I felt Although I see some of these don't think the acceptance of roles that great. is recently asked a they for think the primary from when I roles. struggling with when And families to them perform the primary responsibility children. of their perspectives on appropriate male and female group of students how about parenting, whether or not parenting these days tended to be egalitarian, or whether or not males and females today reflected traditional roles. They told me they think roles are changing, but at used to be more public consensus as to the same time most of them, what those norms were. Much controversy related discussions, indicated they really work in the early seventies, exists that there is today about what really are the appropriate norms for parents to teach are more comfortable with what would be more traditional kinds of roles. think there is probably a myth shared considered to their children. I by a number of people QWhat do you consider the most • significant values to pass on to a younger generation? in other that they've changed more than they find in really have. many households are kind of status quo. reflect the roles I today things Most people they grew up with. iln my opinion, three important • values to pass on individual has worth. are: 1. define traditional? essential that responsible adults teach children to feel good about themselves; to help them realize they can make a unique contribution to society. 2. Another important value has to do with self-determination. Individuals need to learn to make responsible decisions. Would you Each u. It is It is important to make good decisions them to make decisions that are going to affect them as they mature from childhood to adolescence. 1 *"»• Well, I use the in the role of task leader Traditionally, cast women do most of the household chores, take care of the children, do the nurturing. decision makers. Bloomsburg University Magazine is and the female in the role of the emotional leader. and then 24 SPRING 1998 traditional to two-parent household, the male teach children to trust word describe a situation in which, in a Men are the Of course, in primary many households now, mothers work as well as fathers. VALUES Children are treated feel by good about themselves because of the way they adults, not necessarily spend together. Quality time is How do «. It's how much by of the essence. economics affect family values? iThe pursuit of material wealth increases kinds of • from stress, do I think stress, stems stress. but particularly economic all between expectations of what parents would a difference like to time they the classic quality versus quantity debate. for their children and what they are able to do for their children. Children have increased ideals about what they should At an Individuals who models items than was the case in previous generations. With computers and VCR's and giant TV screens, I think we're finding children have a traditional perspective of what should go on in a family may find it difficult to accept alternative to two-parent households. That's a struggle for a lot of students who come from one-parent households or get. need more expensive earlier age, children feel that they come from trying to keep up with their peers from an was growing up it wasn't as big a deal as it earlier age. is now. I When I think part of that has to do with mass media and advertising. households where maybe the mother or father has a companion. can be troubling or conflicting for them to deal with the It difference between their perception of ideal family values and How significant is I the reality of their individual circumstances. Advertising A How does 0. I -*• to perform effectively as a university student, an individual messages that • improve on needs to have a great deal of self-confidence and not be still being the The if they think from or not accepted by conflict can restrict them from opening up 1 in classroom I create truly independent individuals. is necessary to How is 1 that affected by the increasing number of single parents or households which two parents work? phenomenon this It affects individuals in different ways. There are so factors that play a part in effective parenting. in which I brought up the parental attention or not children feel in many The context generally promotes the picture of two-parent families ideal. This adds to the confusion often hear the term family values used by politicians religious leaders. is A Why is this such an important platform? Astute politicians and religious leaders considerable portion of this group they believe is message when they're with their parents that they count - that they are valuable. feelings, to share their their lives. at least capitalized They need to express their thoughts about what's happening in to have a sense that they're secure, that one adult human being is going to be there for them. That doesn't necessarily mean the adult has long periods of time. to be there for concerned with what is an erosion of traditional family values. Rightpoliticians have opportunistically on the emotionality of this issue because they believe the changes in values they see are disturbing "the moral fabric" of our relates to know family values a hot-button topic to a large percentage of the population. perceive as the ideal. some opportunity talked about earlier. and whether are entitled to I We good about themselves. Young people need to get the They to since the late seventies, advertising wing conservative ministers and J for their peers. discussions about families. QYou mentioned that parental attention Although there have been attempts stereotypes, too. troubled by a lot of anxiety, which can result different extremely significant in terms of the it promulgates as to what is appropriate The messages are loud and clear that the images being projected are the way life should be. I think advertising plays an important role in promoting gender think the conflict created by a discrepancy between is on family values? the normal child. this conflict affect students? perception and reality affects self-confidence. In order their reality is the effect of advertising society, which they Hillary Clinton, in her pronouncements on "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child," counters their perspective with one that acknowledges the impact of the community and the environment on how a reared child is and what kind of values that child embraces. B/oomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 25 NEWS Huskies get new A former NEWS BRIEFS AIR S.I.D. Nursing graduates achieve perfection ROTC radio disc jockey with 10 years of experience Each of the 42 nurses information has been Air Force I director of flight to university mation for at Tom McGuire will promoting 1997 and took the nursing is another Examination passed. That no longer necessary success ranks Bloomsburg's Bloomsburg University program McGuire comes first among all freshmen and sophomores nursing programs in the who wish nation. "We're always in the to take Air Force Reserve Officer Training ninetieth percentile, but this Corps (AFROTC) courses. Bloomsburg's 18 varsity athletic teams. Taking sports infor- for University in the spring of offers National Licensure Bloomsburg University. ROTC on campus classes named be responsible who graduated from Bloomsburg in sports Jtfr wj BRIEFS Although is AFROTC has been a rarity," says M. Christine Alichnie, chairperson of the nursing department. The University and hospital form Sports Medicine national average for passing Institute from Wilkes University, available to Bloomsburg Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he students for many years, served in a similar role for participation required travel 10 years. There, he created, once a week produced and hosted a cable expense to Wilkes University, Bloomsburg University and The Bloomsburg Hospital television show, "Colonels about a 45-minute drive away. have teamed together to form Corner," that featured an Currently, juniors, seniors analysis of football games. graduate students must McGuire graduated from travel to Wilkes in 1985 with a degree Army ROTC in communications. at their Wilkes for available at the own exam 89 percent and the is state average is 85 percent. the and Bloomsburg Sports Medicine still Institute. The Bloomsburg Sports classes. Medicine courses are also Institute combines the resources of both Bloomsburg. institutions to offer medical services to recreational GLOBAL THEATER PROVIDES DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE athletes, middle and high school students, as well as program, has helped stage two overseas productions with the Modern Theatre and Myth Company based In the summer in New York City. of 1996, Anselm designed costumes for a production Greece. This past to Szeged, Cyprus, in summer, Anselm traveled Hungary, where she designed the Meeting of and research Here call in the United performance it States, art," says tell Other nations represented we Anselm. students." at the festival included Russia, Japan, Great Britain, During the past director of year, Bloomsburg Karen Anselm, Italy and Hungary. Anselm Theater is Bloomsburg, in areas athletics, fitness performance." Over 20 providers and organizations have joined the Institute, which launched services last fall SPRING 1998 Bloomsburg University Magazine its with orthopedic Festival, region II, states. which covers the to the sports medicine focus, the Institute promotes clinical internships, education research experiences. 26 of and human sports injury clinics. In addition vice chair of American College Mid- Atlantic University's theater Joseph Hazzard, head athletic trainer at avenues for education at the 7th International "I'm going to have a lot to expect. says Oedipus political. Americans might and "but opens up increased would all like aspects of medical care scenery and costumes for a production of "Most of the productions were very doesn't look at "This partnership will not only address the practical sport injury management," Free Theatre. Theater in other regions in the world often college athletes in this area. and NEWS BRIEFS KEEPTHE HEISMAN, SIGLER Fans who have seen University football years can a Bloomsburg game in the last four now say they have On December seen the best. running back 12, 1997, senior IS ON TOP OF THE Bloomsburg leader from HILL 1969-72 dies games and scored 20 Robert touchdowns, lead- under whose leadership ing the Huskies Bloomsburg's physical to an 8-2 record. grew J. Nossen, a president Nossen, of Monroeville, Irvin Sigler received the Harlon Hill Trophy, Continuing presented annually to the top football player the "you have was 76 and had served seen the university's president best" theme, 1969 to 1972. in NCAA Division II. The division's equivalent of the more PSAC widely-known Heisman Trophy was the awarded Eastern to Sigler in Florence, Ala., at a banquet held in honor of the three Division finalists Presented for the first from the Pennsylvania time ever to a player Nossen was instrumental to title won by Conference (PSAC), the award caps a career which saw the tailback named division. Columbia Residence the No other school has accomplished that PSAC East Scranton Tri-level Parking president, Bloomsburg's general education program was restructured so that students could choose their own and national records and won two PSAC Nossen earned a bachelor's East "Offensive Player of the Year" awards. degree His career totals included 5,105 yards and California, Berkeley, 55 touchdowns, both conference records. master's Bloomsburg, at become one of only two Division a new Pittsburgh where he was associate provost established and professor of higher education until his national record rushing for Northwestern University. From Bloomsburg, Nossen moved to the University of more than 200 yards per game He and and doctoral degrees positions at several universities. history to average (203.8). the University of teaching and administrative NCAA II at Prior to Bloomsburg, he held gained 2,038 yards in 10 games to runners in general education courses. Sigler established 31 university, conference his final season at Bakeless Garage. Also while he was to In his four seasons with the Huskies, During Hall, Commons, Center for the Humanities and the feat. numerous all-star teams, including first team AilAmerican by the Associated Press and the American Football Coaches Association. Sigler campus structures, including fourth consecutive time the Huskies finished on top of their State Athletic Pa., as the from the building of several Coach Danny Hale's 1997 team marked for the award. facilities significantly, has died. more than 200 retirement. yards in five consecutive Greeks get Greek students and coordinate new He is of leadership skills, Scott experience. Nathanson to help students have the best home." has been Greek experience they can," N.Y., named Greek says life. an advocate of how to "One of my jobs is Nathanson. "Pledging a development organization undergraduate fraternal of residence will serve as enhance the coordinator coordinator in the office activities to interact in a and having A a family learning democracy away from native of Brooklyn, Nathanson comes to Bloomsburg from Emory fraternity or sorority can have University in Atlanta, Ga., a lot of values attached to the Part of being in a Greek it. New and Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 27 BRIEFS E PROFESSOR FINDS WARMTH When Mainuddin Afza taught during the 1996-97 academic to wear gloves on he had hands - inside the his classroom. "The classrooms were very cold," says Afza. "But the people are hospitable. That can make up BRIEFS S FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC IN but the economy in Azerbaijan year, W is going through a slow, yet unmistakable, recovery. By 2007, estimated that their annual oil it is revenue will be $7 billion in a country with a population warm and of 8.5 million. for the cold prosperous country in the region." It will be a developed and Bordered by Iran temperature." and Afza, professor of to the south management Russia to the north, at Bloomsburg, was Azerbaijan teaching in the for- important to the U.S., A New Home for mer notes Afza. an Old Tiffany while Bud Smeenk (left) Fellowship. Dividing Koch of Peter Koch (right) and Peter his Stained Glass in Williamsport Soviet Republic on a Fulbright is politically "Azerbaijan is a secular nation. time between popu- Religiously, the Western University lation is Muslim, but and Khazar they have diplomatic Tiffany stained glass in the University, Afza ties new library building. Koch's company has been contracted taught undergraduate have a close relation- double panel of install a and prepare the to clean windows for installation in the new library. Books will be moved into the completed library soon after the building in early is ship with Turkey, which and small business United policies. He also a lot of things to Agbango "Azerbaijan book on edits spoke to professor of political science, many groups. is an Bloomsburg Trends in Contemporary Politics, published last year by Peter Lang. In addition to serving as editor, Agbango wrote two chapters, "Political Instability and Economic Development Africa" in and "The its program reputation as one of only 500 programs Nation Building: The Liberian Experience." Written entirely of Professional Studies. on issues of political instability, of the College To become an accredited institution, Bloomsburg must NCATE democratization and economic submit a report to development. each year demonstrating the 28 SPRING 1998 Bloomsburg University Magazine Bloomsburg effectiveness of programs. The its education NCATE also site visit last April, during which Bloomsburg's programs. Accreditation of Teacher Ann Lee, dean of the Institutions that NCATE standards ment meet must docu- the quality of faculty and graduates and show a conceptual framework for each program based upon current and established research. The university's next review will be in the year 2001. to use the facilities of the US be fewer students waiting Two students from Azerbaijan are expected to attend in the nation accredited by the to by Africans, the book focuses will fall. reviewers observed Education (NCATE), according Crisis of in line this University's National Council for Sub-Saharan made, there conducted a four-day teacher education maintains ally 35 people. Because of the contacts he has some problems now, has edited a book, Issues and African an States." embassy, which could only accommodate is oil-rich country," says Education programs remain in elite company up outside computer and reading be optimistic about. Afza. "They're having African politics George Agbango, associate students lining struggling economically, in part due to a war with neighboring Armenia, Afza found expected to open is Afza remembers management, and business Although the newly-freed republic summer. and and graduate courses international of the spring semester, and the Israel in entrepreneurship management, conclusion with in the fall of 1998. NEWS PBS president to speak at Bloomsburg University's field commencement hockey team won spring Ervin S. Duggan, president and chief executive PBS officer championship of speaker for Bloomsburg ment visited commence- campus last fall to watch the Huskies May 9. Saturday, second Alumnus and Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Mark Schweiker be the featured University's spring national for the consecutive year. (Public Broadcasting Service), will the 1997 NCAA Division II Schweiker, Since his appointment as who play. played football while a student at Duggan has make PBS a more president in 1994, worked to Bloomsburg, nimble, entrepreneurial organization. has launched a initiatives in that end, 345 member Duggan stations. PBS joined after four years as commissioner of the Federal Communications A Democrat Commission. m Try and picture what Bloomsburg The plan upper campus Where call for will they be located? committee on campus and convergence 20 years. The entire process is doing just mapping out recreational fields. After data and public input has been a plan to gathered, the committee, using the help of consultants, will present three is expected to take alternate plans two to the university years. community that Called the computer Master Plan will technologies. Advisory dated into a single ties to member Lyndon of B. Johnson's craft the document. group The charged is Facilities that future Plan will be construction and define the federal government's meets the long- supporting public his in the early Master presented to the Tom Contos president and and Sandi Kehoe-Forutan trustees. is done The committee term needs of the university and efficiently as possible. Washington career resulting with ensuring renovation broadcasting. be consoli- Committee, the Public Broadcasting Act to Duggan began be used. Current plans satellite, tele- His role in will construction of intramural and ing, cable, public broadcasting date to he helped they're of broadcast- phone and staff, how the How many new buildings will there be? guide the university's growth for the next as a will also address newly-purchased 90 acres of land on the shape policies governing the President Jessica University will look like 20 years from now. that, when and President ITl'iiMTIiVtl UTURE George Bush, he helped 967, field Kozloff (right) at the game. A nominated by President 1 with programming, education and technology for its (center) PBS host of new To talks hockey coach Jan Hutchinson as from the university and students, as well as the Even before the plan may see several is complete, you major projects on campus includes representatives in the next several years, including the faculty, staff creation of a Student Services Center in the 1960s as a reporter for The town. Co-chairs of the committee are Sandi old Andruss Library building, renovation Washington Post and Kehoe-Forutan, associate professor of and expansion of Scranton Commons, later served as national editor for geography and earth science The Washingtonian magazine worked in the 1980s. with Ben J. He is co-author, Wattenberg, of Against All Enemies, a 1977 and as a city planner in Australia, architect and university's and Tom who previously both Canada Contos, campus construction of additional student apartments similar to the Montgomery Apartments on the upper campus. assistant director for the planning and construction renovation of Centennial Gymnasium, and office. political novel. Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 29 NEWS NEWS BRIEFS MEDALLION GETS NEW ACCESSORIES ^&*^^ *3P The Bloomsburg University Medallion, worn by the president at official functions such as graduation, has a new chain and storage case thanks to the work of two Bloomsburg High School teachers. Art teacher E. Richard Bonham (right) created the cast bronze medallion chain. Like the medallion, the chain features depictions of wheat and maize. This not Bonham's is creation for the university. He the medallion in 1983, the Husky the Carver Hall lawn and the statue on university's Mitrani Awards. Kirk Marshall Bloomsburg grad steps (left), industrial technology teacher at High School, hand tooled first also designed Bloomsburg a cedar storage case for the medallion. down as Mansfield head While ties between Bloomsburg University and Mansfield University will continue, one connection will be broken with the retirement of this spring Rod C. Kelchner, president of Mansfield Introducing matter when you graduated or where you live now, you're an important part of Bloomsburg University. Being launched in early 1998, the On-Line Community and will since 1984. Kelchner joined the faculty Bloomsburg University's Alumni Connections On-Line Community No University of Pennsylvania team Forensics wins 70 awards Alumni Connections feature up-to-date information activities exclusively for Bloomsburg alumni. The Bloomsburg University team won 70 awards during the fall find the site and register? 1997 semester. the First- Place Team Award Shepherd College at visit our home page www.bloomu.edu and click Shepherdstown, W.Va., in October. Competing with returned to awards. In tournament alumni menu. Then follow Morgan Baltimore, on the newest wave to Bloomsburg University. with 18 hit SPRING 1998 bloomsburg University Magazine aid, dean dean of development and He and head holds a bachelor's degree and from Bloomsburg a master's degree Bucknell University. Kelchner and at his wife, loan, State University in Md. Competing other colleges and universities, the Huskies returned to campus with 16 awards. 30 of student financial in history at a the easy instructions. assis- dean of students/director football coach. team took Award be ready to jump also has external relations, Community You'll tant sor, Sweepstakes on the men. He of students, associate profes- campus Connections On-Line link dean of dean of men, as acting 1 other colleges, the Huskies the at and assistant served Mansfield the Second-Place on the Alumni instructor in November, Simply 1964 as a history Highlights include winning with 24 How do you Mansfield in at forensics have four children: Amy, Matthew, Mindy and Ted. from WHAT'S HAPPENING New York City Opera's "Daughter of the Regiment" Tuesday.Apnl 14, on the Art Exhibits Hall, Blair will give a lecture in found abandoned and adopted by battlefield Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m., and a 8 p.m., Old shop room G-20. Blair French, a comic and joyous tale girl Science 2, Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Sung of a young Brass Menagerie Thursday.April work- Friday.April 3, at 8:30 a.m. is speaking in conjunction University- with Bloomsburg's Seventh Annual Community Health Sciences Symposium. 5, Saturday, May Pennsylvania Golf Outing 2:30 p.m., Haas warm-hearted soldiers.Tickets Center for the Arts, Mitrani Friday, July 17, are $30. Hall. Course, Skippack, information, Exhibits are in the Haas Gallery Hours are Monday of Art through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call New York Women's Chamber Ensemble Choral Ensemble and Husky Singers Thursday, Kenneth (717)389-4646. May S. Carver 28, Hall, Gross Auditorium. The ensemble and renowned University Student Art Association Willow Run March 1 7 through April "The Telephone" and "The Saturday, April 18,7:30 p.m., First Medium." Tickets are $ Presbyterian Church, 5. 9. Singers Steven Bagnell, Sculpture and (717) 389-4346. call (717) 389-4128. University Concert Main Street Inn, Bloomsburg. For Band Spring Concert information, call (717) 389-4128. Sunday.April Painting Retrospective 3 call Berwick. Friday.April 3,6:30 p.m.. Magee's March 25, noon. 1 1 Weekend Husky Club Auction Bloomsburg. Reception.Wednesday, April 1 For Sept. 18-20. For information, p.m., Inn, Rte. For ticket information, Chamber 1 March 21,6 Saturday, Pa. (717) 389-4128. call Parents' President's Gala Kehr Union, Ballroom. two famous chamber operas, Skippack Golf Special Events Tuesday, April 7,7:30 p.m., vocalists will re-create Menotti's Bloomsburg Bloomsburg 9, Fairgrounds. Southeastern Orchestra Sunday.April Undergraduate Commencement through April 24. 1 9, Student Research 2:30 p.m., featuring guest conductor/ Poster Session composer Bruce Yurko, Haas April 22-23, Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Pennsylvania Golf Outing Friday, Sept Heritage 18. Golf Course.York, Kehr Union, Multipurpose South Central Rooms 345A information, Pa. Hills For (717) 389-4128. call Reception.Wednesday, and 345B. April 1 5, Paramount Brass 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 30, Carver Master of Arts Kenneth Thesis Exhibition The April 27 through May 10. S. Hall, Gross Auditorium. quintet won the Grand Prize New York at the 1992 Brass Husky Club Fall Saturday, April 25,7:30 p.m., First Spring Golf Outing Thursday. Presbyterian Church, Friday.April 24, Mill Bloomsburg. and Camping Resort Benton, Conference Quintet Competition. Tickets are $15. LeTrio Gershwin Thursday, Oct. Kenneth S. 1 5, Carver Hall, Gross Auditorium. Classical guitarist Alfred Street, pianist Jean-Noel Roux and Husky Club Concert Choir and Husky Singers For information, Concert Band Knoebel's Grove "Pops" Concert Sunday.April 26, 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., Knoebel's Grove, Elysburg, weather permitting. Golf Outing Oct Country Club, Race Golf Pa. information, 5, 1 Frosty Valley Danville, Pa. call Homecoming (717)389-4128. October 23-25. For Siblings' For (717) 389-4128. call and call information, (717) 389-4346. Children's Weekend April 24-26. For information, cellist call (717) 389-4346. Benoit Charvet perform the music of George Gershwin. Tickets are $ 1 Provost's Renaissance Lecture Series 5. Jamboree Celebrity and Chamber Series Artist Lectures are free and open to Concerts the public. For Performances are free. For more call more information, Saturday, April 25, 5 p.m., mances are information, at call (7 7) 389-4284. (717) 389-4201. Frank Piano Master Class Sunday, March 22, 2:30 p.m., with Raymond Cramer, Haas Center Cincinnati for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Symphony Orchestra Wednesday, March 25, Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Guest soloist will be violinist Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg. Tickets are $35. Hall. is available through the 1 8 p.m. For more call a.m. to Studio Band with Alumni Sunday, March 29, 2:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Chamber Friel Wednesday, March 18,7:30 Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Friel is p.m., of Commerce offi- co-author of the Graduate of the book Fitness After SO, S. in Carver Hall, Gross Auditorium. call (717)389-4287. Saturday.April 25. For Steven Blair Kehr Union, Ballroom. Author performances are For information, Alumni Day information, Thursday and Friday.April 2 and Tickets are required.AII Kenneth (717)784-2522. book, Breaking the Mob. 3, at Gross Auditorium. Former police cer Theater Information about this street (717) 389-4199. festival information, Tickets are required.AII perfor- 1 downtown Bloomsburg. call (717) 389-4058. Adapted from the novella by Commencement Friday, May 8. Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani "The Robber Bridegroom" Hall. EudoraWelty, April 24,25,29,30 and May I and 2, 8 p.m.: April 26, 2 p.m. Mitrani Hall. Bloomsburg University Magazine SPRING 1998 31 THE LAST WORD Commitment and perseverance are when attributes coaches stress encouraging athletes to consistently perform at their highest level. F. "Fitz" Dixon, Eugene chairman of the Board of Governors of the State System of Higher Education since its infancy, personifies these characteristics. Considering that, no better pairing may exist than the chairman and the dedicated group of stu- Bloomsburg dent/athletes at Mr. Dixon's to Bloomsburg of the University. the presentation visit for State System's all- sports trophy for the second consecutive year brought together a truly dedicated individual and a group of successful young people. These student/athletes exemplify the ideals that have influenced people to recognize our State System's chair as a leader. The annual named trophy, in Dixon's honor, was initiated to recognize the 14-member university in the State System that enjoyed the best overall athletic success in a particular academic year. Our in student/athletes more ways than fit just that description winning games. At Bloomsburg, additional attributes like balance, foresight and consistency have led to notable athletic achievement. Successful athletes develop character putting Each it on the line for their day, they also put it by team. on the line in the classroom, building careers that will serve them long after their athletic Bloomsburg University accepts the PSAC Dixon Shown from left: basketball player Holly All Sports Trophy for the second consecutive year. Curnow, President Jessica Kozloff, Gerald Hall of the Hall Foundation, which provides scholarship funds to the university that wins the Dixon Trophy.Athletic Director Mary Gardner, tennis player Rob Dixon, and F. Eugene Dixon Jr., chair of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's Board of Governors. days have ended. BY JESSICA SLEDGE KOZLOFF Over the past two years alone, we have PRESIDENT. BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY earned seven Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference team championships, two national championships, had 26 Ail- The personal relationships these out- standing representatives of Bloomsburg Americans and 123 all-conference foster The program, which includes nine teams each for men and women, unmatched, and even envied, circles. has posted a winning percentage during facing that time of .685. obstacles together then dealing with the performers. These numbers would seem staggering during their time here are nearly Camaraderie among teammates, students have earned recognition from the nurture forth the best academic and athletic efforts, truly exemplifying the label "student/athlete." 32 SPRING 1998 Bloomsburg University Magazine As does the mentoring that done by coaches and is faculty trying to hockey team, which captured second consecutive national the Harlon Hill Trophy NCAA Division II player. These standouts highlight the efforts of all our student/athletes and the wonderful leadership of coaches like Jan Hutchinson and Danny Hale. facts confirm that our student/ athletes succeed on all fronts. Their performances on and off the field speak for themselves. effort. 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Account number (all digits): Expiration . : Office of Marketing arid Communication Non-Profit 400 East Second Street Organization Bloomsburg, PA"17815-1301 US Postage Paid State College, PA Permit No. 41 UNIVERSITY *»-: A Member of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Educ ^ 46 m '£ W<4" ' I ft k ftffift*''', I r** »«*! 5,P*^j. rrym, - A* /n^wve^^a 3m! State System of Higher Education r James McCormick ffa v > I "Mm SttR ITOR S PDVOLUME J i 4 . VIE W ISSUE 2 When 1 words can't quite come who I'm around people find the to put a finger on what mind good are but is it what they do, at to describe that intangible often it's I can't quite them apart. Does someone like that something that there. sets you? for Jim McCormick. When I'm around him I feel and admire his ability to accept the constantly .growing and demanding changes he faces. He takes things personally, a spin-off of that incredible passion, and that alone sets him apart from many. For me, it's the energy. the chancellor, I see his passion Better yet, he shares that passion with those near him, and But more. there's anything I not something It's can explain. Whatever I can grab on to and he's got it is, It's not good news. its 15th anniversary. The chancellor's Oh, you won't see the celebration in any obvious way, State System is celebrating celebrating, too! but contagious. For students in it. Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education that's The it's label. it's there. He's his feel, his heart been in the driver's seat since the beginning. have been in every decision ... His touch, every change. So, while he's - alumni, employees, colleagues - he deserves some celebrating of his own. sharing this celebration with friends all of us and' While being interviewed, the chancellor shared with our contributor Trina Walker an old adage: "the only thing that flexibility right into the State youth tends w'ho are . . to much more willing beyond young. Speaking of change, you may Bloomsburg. The Cover design More difference. certain is change." be well, . is System. notice is change than those of us to some He's built 15 years young and It is in this issue of probably the most noticeable subtle changes can be found inside. With h'BP*>f our new designers at Paskill and Stapleton Graphic ^ptamnications, we've tried to make a lot of information a dable and attractive. Keep saying As you've probably figured out it, "change by now, change is the little more good."-' plays a large role in this Read about changes our Latino students have experienced. Or hear stories, from a number of our Bloomsburg family who have been part of the Smith, makers of Crayola crayons. Sometimes many changes' at Binney issue. Bloomsburg: The University Magazine is published twice a year - in the fall and A separate publication, "Maroon and Gold," including class notes and alumni news, will be sent twice a year to all alumni who have made a contribution during the preceding calendar year. Members of the most recent graduating spring semesters. class will receive two & change working very hard On a personal note. moving from us when made payable to the Alumni Association, 400 East Second Street, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. B.U. Information for inclusion in classnotes should be mailed, faxed (717-389-4060) or e-mailed via Internet (alum@bloomu.edu). on the World Wide http://www.bloomu.edu Visit us Web at Jim Cover photo by Carl Socolow I our neighbors. Check out keep them how the university is "in the loop." mentioned Trina Walker above. She's been a frequent across the state. You're not getting away, Trina. You'll hear it's subscription. Checks for subscriptions should be to contributing writer. Trina and her family are experiencing change as well. They're free issues "Maroon and Gold." Others may receive the publication by paying a $10 annual of affects others, like Hollister, Executive Editor time to prepare for the Spring issue, t FALL 1998 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a member of the State System of Higher Education. BOARD OF GOVERNORS Kim THE Chair Jr., E. Lyltle, Vice 4 LOOMSBURG STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION P Eugene Dixon VOLUME . UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Chair R. Benjamin Wiley. Vice Chair Syed R. Ali-Zaidi, Muriel Herman, Jason W Coy. Bozzone. Jeffrey B. Daniel P Elby, Lawrence Glenn Y- Forney, Charles A. Gomulka, Eugene W. Hickok Jr., P Joseph Loeper, Roeco A. Ortenzio, Tom Ridge, J'ere W Schuler, John; K. Patrick Thomburgh, j. MAROON & GOLD 2 Flini, J". Stapleton, Christine J. Toretli. CHANCELLOR, STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION James H. McCormick Crayons, as an ideal place Maroon & Gold in Every Box - pg. 2 6 IT'S Mowad,. Chair J. put the skills and values they OUT ALL MAPPED Geography and earth science professor Duane Braun COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES A & Smith, famous for Crayola to acquired at Bloomsburg into practice. BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY Joseph BOX IN EVERY Alumni have chosen Bimiey devote 25 years to the creation of geological will maps William Kelly 71, Vice Chair of northeast Pennsylvania. Roberl \V Buehnerjr., Secretary Ramona H, Alley James T. Aihenon Jr. David j. Cope 73LaRoy G. Davis '67 Heather L Derek "99 Kevin M. O'Connor David J. Petrosky CULTIVATING A CULTURE 8 Latino students at Bloonisburgfind a values, way to share their hentage and ideas. Ted Stuban 10 HEY, NEIGHBOR! James H. McComuck, Ex-Officio The University and PRESIDENT, BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY It's all Jessica Sledge KoziolT mapped out- pg. 6 build the Town of Bloomsburg relations. / VICE PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT Anthony M. laniero 12 WILL SOCIAL SECURITY SURVIVE? si Dave Martin, BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION associate professor o//mance and business law, discusses his views on Social Security. Mulka '66, President Albenson Chapman '67, Vice President Anne Klemkosky '59, "Secretary John good S. Eileen Mar)' 14 DOGG'S MUSIC PLAYS John J. Traihen'68, Treasurer Doug C. Htppensiiel '68, Ex-Officio, Director of Alumni ON Tragically billed in a car accident last fall, AO'airs Ci. Jeff Smith has scholarships established in his honor. ,,-.«BW BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ElbemH. Establishing roots Alktejr., Chair on their own - pg. 8 Victoria L, Mihalik, Vice Chair Anthony M David A- Hill, laniero. Executive Director 16 THE EVOLUTION OF A SYSTEM Treasurer In 15 years, Pennsylvania's State $m HolHster 78 of universities that serves approximately 94,000 EDITOR gpattileen System of Higher Education has grown from an idea into a network EXECUTIVE EDITOR ' students each year Mohr 20 ACT ONE: THE TRANSFORMATION CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Eric Foster PHOTOGRAPHERS A Ed Carta Peter Shaheen behind the scenes view of what "on the boards takes to get a it show " Carl Socolow - Randall Presswood M.irlin R. 23 A FITTING LIBRARY Wagner Tin- DESIGNER all Graphic Communications, opening of the new Harvey .4. Andruss library brings Celebrating 15 years - pg. 16 Paskiil &r Stapleton of the university's library resources under one roof for the Inc. first tune in decades. ART DIRECTORS Jim Paskiil 24 NEWS BRIEFS Todd Falk EDITORIAL BOARD 31 Terr)' Riley Sandy Rupp 71 Linda Sowash 74 Bob Wislock Address comments and questions CALENDAR 32 THE LAST to: WORD President Kozlojj talks about the Presidential Bloomsburg University Magazine Leadersliip Waller Administration Building 400 Second Street Bloomsburg. PA 17815-1301 Program East A new Andruss library- pg. 23 Internet address; holl@bioomu.edu LOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE RJ LOOMSBURG ft r H t UN I VIRSI D M A G A Z I N I What do you remember? The The and The perfect points? smell? The green yellow box? names? color (A '..emsen Sachetti 71 Photos by Pete Shaheen The thrill of opening a Crayola crayons remember is vividly. new box of something most of us It takes us back with moments of creative expression and family fun - completing a school project, a smile to designing a greeting card or coloring in a favorite coloring ^^ " T> f^^ book. "*' It's no surprise that the Easton, PA, & ompany Binney Smith, known worldwide for its instantly identifiajj producjfl 98 ame ltion in Whited fflrlts States Crayola products. However, it n^ may come of twelve graduates Bloomsburg graduates working for Binney & Smith, makers of Crayola crayons. From center back clockwise: Susan (Klucsik) Tucker 75, Tom Roberts '81, Bob Shelly 76, Oren Woodruff 76, Peg Ovsak '88, as a surprise that a total alumni see Bloomsburg work a link there. These between the educational strengths that attracted them to Bloomsburg University as students and the corporate values they embody today. Janis (Kromer) Singley 77, Creative personal development Hewitt '83, Morgan Whitebread 78, Mike Steigerwalt 78, Missing from photo is John Reilly 74. few times when she made a career move in 1996. Brad Drexler is key to both. Peg Ovsak '88 heard "Go, Huskies!" quite '83, Bill BURG UNIVERSITY After A G A Z 1 N E news of Ovsak's hiring at Binney a & Smith FALL 1991 was announced in-house, she received number congratulations from a employees who also happened to be manager In her position as is find invaluable. I daily in projects recruitment. looking for candidates of human many resources, one of Ovsak's responsibilities "My course work provided me with a skill set that Bloomsburg alumni. who I use team and wearing the maroon and gold made it from video productions and speech writing As Steigerwalt's mass communications major, Bloomsburg too. a impact that Teamwork played to setting strategic efforts." exemplify a significant still influences him. company communication direction for When (middle linebacker). Being part of the colored with challenges. of fellow 77 a big part in education Although he came to State College at Mike Bloomsburg, then (BSC) because Brad Drexler (1983) & Smith values, Binney Ovsak often Drexler took courses in television turns to the alumni directory for potential production, public relations and She has firsthand knowledge journalism, where professor Walter of Bloomsburg's educational foundation. Brasch helped bring focus to career applicants. Ovsak traces her interest in human Now he choices. is director of corporate work to two influential professors - Francis "Red" Gallagher communications, responsible and John Olivo. She says employee, and resource own marketing public Gallagher's experience as a personnel director "added life Olivo's And human Keeshan company before joining Binney & Smith. to He's worked with Bob (the original Captain Kangaroo), on "Leave It to Beaver"), Mister Rogers, actor/dancer Vereen and another consumer-product company says the 13-year Binney Jerry Mathers (Beaver She worked in commercial finance for communications a very colorful is of," & Smith veteran. resource positions after graduation. and "This be a part emphasis on personnel issues inspired her to seek crisis efforts. to the textbook" in a required personnel management course. for relations, electronic, artist Ben Peter Max. Drexler has also directed special events at locations Her excitement about the company such as Universal Studios-Hollywood, its work environment, its focus on employee and work/family issues, as well as its corporate values - integrity, Disney World, culture, Room and As a New York's famed Rainbow the White House. summer of the reputation of Drexler remembers his objectivity, innovation, partnership (a "probie"), and high performance - semester on campus as quiet. As a member infectious. of the Phi Iota Chi sorority (a Pixie sister), working with is Ovsak learned about a diverse great time to college group of people have life lasted. just outside Ten years hole. later, Peg proclaims that decisions she made during her says the is another graduate competency he gained Bloomsburg prepared him at for a career bad as director of financial planning, reporting and analysis. "The team approach that off an idle railroad which I significant in college's program was an influence," says Steigerwalt. "It's own important to be able to strengths to the table." as a small college with the feel of a bigger school. launched the carry with athletic is world and the He remembers Bloomsburg also recalls playing golf at golf career today's corporate bring your our courage." Wolfey's. "This officially Brad Drexler '83 who He (offensive end) carries over into his job a the transition to There we'd leap business first "On hot days we would drive of town to an old swimming trestle, testing college years. was and develop friendships and completing projects on deadline. pledging a sorority was one of the best make It its department, his football experience probation student me "We had opportunities own to this day." But football was really Drexler's game ideas, to try and we were treated our as professionals from the get-go." LOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE B LOOMSBURG MVERSITY MAGAZI & Smith worldwide. As an accounting major, Steigerwalt was bedeviled by professor Bernard Dill's weekly quiz on Wall Street That includes plants in Canada, Mexico journal articles. distribution centers in Australia "I used without to hate now. it I it. But can't live I read the Wall Street for and the United Kingdom financial information into practiced the team approach through all He lived male residence nicknamed "The Zoo." "Freshman year, I met a group of guys on the hall, lived with them in Elwell for two years and then moved hall tellingly How is Factory and Germany. His department incorporates Two Rivers Landing in historic downtown Easton, PA, is a 20,000- at both the its parent square-foot family discovery center. firm, Hallmark. In a different way, Steigerwalt college living arrangements. The Crayola as well as company's plans and those of Journal every day." in Elwell Hall, an Binney Kids of Just imagine, over Steigerwalt might have down the hill from a dining tray, 20 years ago been sledding ages can experience live manufacturing as well as dozens Ben Franklin on of hands-on exhibits maneuvering through campus on crutches the hilly all Crayola crayon and marker and For more information (a football, (610) 515-8000 or not a sledding injury) or comparing notes web site at activities. call the visit http://www.crayola.com - with fellow business administration a crayon made wax and pigment mixture is poured into a mold Parafin Crayola® Crayons are made from two basic ingredients: paraffin wax and pigment. off campus with them. We matured together," Steigerwalt says. In fact, Shelly '76, director of finance, resident adviser on was a Steigerwalt's floor. Today, Steigerwalt is responsible for long- and short-term financial planning who students between classes in Sutliff Hall. Bob Janis Singley 77 was one students. Singley chose Bloomsburg because offered not only a solid it foundation in business but exposure to vanety of fields. Her high school also teacher, of those had been her eighth grade math encouraged her to look into a business career rather than secondary education math. As marketing information services a adviser, manager, Singley is tracking product movement and responsible for sales forecasting through demographics as well as syndicated and point-of-sale data. Her department also compiles information for planograms, the schematics for product displays. Store shelves feature just Crayola crayons. much more Walk than into any toy department and you'll probably find Washable Markers, Brush Tip Markers, Mini-Stamper markers, Changeables and Overwriters, watercolor paints, dustless chalk, WetSet clay, compound and Model Magic modeling activity kits, all bearing the Crayola insignia. Binney & Smith brands also include Liquitex decorative and fine art materials, Revell Monogram model Tom Roberts LOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE kits, and Jazzy fashion and PALL craft accessories for girls. Even A through enrollment in the Executive Silly MBA Putty. Singley enjoys working for a company that prides itself on both a good work environment and a strong product line. "I feel good when I give one of our quality products as a gift - program at Columbia University. Like Drexler and Steigerwalt, Roberts was involved with college athletics. He swam two Singley remembers trips to the The tiny fowl made it safely to a special education class the next day, but only had after its escorts' car to be when he PA and C. Harold a states. become involved in activities that can help prepare them for their future. As program director of the BSC Marketing Club, he became interested in advertising Binney. Smith form to her roommate had to see a farmer about 1885 Edwin touch with are in Roberts encourages todays students Bloomsburg Fair, in particular, one especially wet fair in 1975. She and a chick. keep from the swim team," he a gift of creativity," she remarks. Smith, Easton, years for the Huskies I & of Binney and Coach Eh McLaughlin. "Some of the closest friends Brief History arranged a by an executive from an ad / M A ^B ^| call their JK^k company Binney i^A & Smith. Early g- ;! I Products jrWm include red WOM used in barn jUB ^^B The partnership and ^k _ ^k visit agency. s^*~~^^ t j^^W ^^ oxide pigment paint and carbon black for tires. 1900 The company begins producing pencils in ^^B£ The crayons are wrapped and sorted by color jgM Mill. Then collated and packed school Easton 1903 Noticing a need into a green m slate its for safe, quality, and yellow box affordable, wax r crayons, the company produces the first box of eight Crayola Crayons, selling for a nickel. pulled out of the mud by During her senior moved off campus First Street. a tractor. year, Singley house on to a conversation at Binney Roberts '81, director the the course work David him schedule second major in marketing. Roberts continues to broaden his scope beyond he a colorful historic recalls. is currently responsible for product sales to wholesalers as well independent 100 billionth and Crayola Crayon outlets. rolls off the a concentration in to secure a getting," is have found relations. 1996 and All of the graduates say they Roberts majored in mass and public wife Alice. as all food, drug, regional semester she Heskel, his adviser, helped talked recorded as the consumer products advertising "We take this milestone Tom communications with we education Roberts of field sales, moved into that house moved out. The Crayola name was coined by Edwin Binney s opportunities to share thoughts and ideas. we were later, a & Smith revealed that division, members about where could Casper Frantz ("Sper") was her landlord. Years club gave sales at Binney much environment like the gave them their start line & Smith an at one that Smith Bloomsburg. Both encourage creative personal development while emphasizing distinct values. There's just thing missing - TODAY Binney one Berrigan's Subs. Crayola* BLOOMS is: RLOOMSBURG _L*/ r H UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE i it's all mapped by Eric Foster JBt- jfib* Duane Braun, working at a light table, creates geomorphology maps, which show the thickness of glacial material on top of bedrock. His work will be used by developers and planners for \\ generations to come. A map of time hangs At first glance map and by closer inspection, the north and project east, office wall. south and west. His the development map life "This is - Growing up the stuff immediately beneath is maps he attended let - stopping to How many Is it it how much They tell water is essential. how about 20 years behind surrounding states They difficult tell it will to excavate. And they tell engineers how much ground settling to expect on new construction and what kind be of building foundation will be needed. Braun is creating a map eastern Pennsylvania bounded by the - for all of north- a triangular area New York and to do old." is an ideal New sand, gravel and soil that been scraped sand? available for wells. developers was 12 years thousand years ago, receding glaciers dumped are For town planners, the answers such questions are at his professors Northeast Pennsylvania there until one reaches bedrock? to maps place for Braun to do his work. Twenty of the material feet of Fredonia to study skip the introductory course. since he pay special lying just beneath the topsoil. Gravel? Clay? SUNY doing exactly what he wanted much Observation helps Braun deter- mine the type and depth hunter in the "I'm one of those crazy people who's depressions in fields and outcroppings cliffs. him near Albany, was already so expert using topographic attention to rock cuts along roads, of to find geology, he fossil He started using topographic new fossil sites. By the time cliffs. geologists. There's no symbol in the map's legend commitment and dedication. Maybe there should be. Each summer, as part of as 1 ,000 miles Braun was an avid Braun explains the geography of a boulder Lehigh County to a group of professional field in until 2008. 2 5 -year project, Braun walks as to in the Helderberg New York Mountains of nearby for a 2008, but by mapped 10,000 of Belgium, El Salvador or Kuwait. your house," he explains. "Pennsylvania one sees neatly have 12,000 square miles - an area the size will help guide and growth - the to retire in that time he'll of communities for decades. of ahead of schedule and under is budget. He plans northwest through Bloomsburg, Williamsport, and Coudersport on the drawn boxes containing dates. This map charts where the geography and earth science professor has been every summer since 1983, and where he'll be each summer on running from Allentown Braun's Pennsylvania's northeastern quarter. On a line on Duane resembles an it ordinary topographic Jersey state lines in mapping this information. Some areas Canada onto the state's rolling hills making geomorphology the study of surface geology, complex and interesting. "I've become a guru of glacial history in the state because of this project. There's haven't been studied by a geologist since only a handful of us in the 1884. I'm in an area where there's been six, hardly anything done in my up takes special pride in the fact that the to BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINI I who have state, five this specialty," says or Braun. "In Pennsylvania, there are areas with specialty. do is new." Braun is more than two-thirds through his mapping project, funded entirely by the Pennsylvania Geologic Survey and the U.S. Geologic Survey. He Everything had off the surface of eastern to 500 feet of glacial material on top of bedrock, and there are areas with less than six feet to blast for a In most having a - which makes it difficult basement." places, there's an advantage lot of glacial material on top FALL 1991 an error of bedrock, says Braun. Having a large consistent. amount of sand and gravel helps maintain a good water supply. the correction can be applied to an entire the entire year. In the encompasses map and produces field he drafts the fall, a final is discovered, I'm an outdoor person, area." In the spring, he acquires the Braun has broken his task into a three-part process that If map By mapping the depth of glacial material over bedrock, Braun can help planners predict which areas will have good supplies of underground water. topographic maps for the area to be summer and compares them to the soil mapping, well data and aerial photographs. From this covered in the information, he does a tentative interpretation of what lies I'm into map under the mapping. regions subsurface. During the summer, aided by two junior or senior geology students, he verifies his interpretations through why that's It's a happy field coincidence, checks that involve driving every road in the area, along with lots of walking. "Most of our graduates work in *-\ consulting firms around the and it needs to be this This project helps them get familiar with the state's geology." Summer But it's Braun the to field work can be arduous. work outdoors that drew geology in the an outdoor person, mapping. It's a first that's it done." place. "I'm why I'm into happy coincidence - enjoy doing this and enjoy doing I state. needs to I be done. interpretation of the area studied during the past spring 300 to and summer - 500 square a light table, miles. typically Working at he creates the maps from transparent sheets. Each of the three transparent layers that comprise a shows different information. map layer lines and shows topographic contour lines that separate areas of different earth materials. layer map The bottom shows lines that The middle denote the thickness of earth materials over bedrock. The top layer contains all the labels for earth materials and thicknesses. To stay on schedule, he must complete a "quad," a square miles, and interpretation, every year, map five to of 50 1 5 pages of two weeks. Each he finishes between six and 12 such maps. "There's an advantage to having one person do it," an interpretive error, at least says Braun. "If it I will have Braun often takes students outdoors on field trips - giving them a chance to see the geology of Pennsylvania firsthand. be B L O O M S B U R ( I 1 V£ R S 1 T Y M A G A Z I i gLOOMSBURG The Life of a Latino at Bloomsburg University By Carlos Ojeda '97 Photos by Marlin R. Wagner & i 1 0 In a recent thunderstorm, lightning damaged an old neighborhood. tree in It my \ * 40-. develop was obvious the old needed to be replaced with a new one - a task that turned out to be easier The old tree was very stubborn and refused to be uprooted from the place it network or community had rested comfortably to get the tree women helped in And the resident way they could. storyteller occupied the children by explaining why children the tree it "What makes at the child roots BY who much more identify with their We are various than the immigrant music and many a Latino fraternity. a definite culture shock. For who come first to Bloomsburg, time their music is "There many it is considered to be different or odd," Godoy says. "They are used to living in a place where everyone sees things like they do." cultures that blend together to form a rich heritage with powerful roots in our communities and in our way when we "It's you of families. We are So what happens life. are uprooted? challenging," says Karen feel lost. You accepts you and is right he was. Over time, grow and spread. They a don't who common theme Latino "its know who doesn't. I often community throughout the small at Bloomsburg as it struggles to adapt to an environment roots, child, its roots." And how United some," says Mucio wish there were more Latinos here." This with uncontested wisdom and said, tree's difficult for Godoy, a senior and brother of Lambda Latinos But Latinos are community and Quintero, a junior and resident adviser in so strong?" The old man looked living in the of Schuylkill Residence Hall. "Sometimes he could continue, one of the children interrupted, "It's States. task. was very old and very strong. But before said for Latinos, Sigma Upsilon, a unique getting the tree out of the ground had become such a difficult The venerable storyteller told the some sense family. dances, delicious ethnic foods, out of the ground. The loss of is people men major obstacles: culture shock and the of Latin America or persons of Latin backgrounds. every gives American origin event. ways that its life. It are described as native inhabitants what began as a one person job soon became a neighborhood gathered, discussing strength, The same can be who for a long time. So, Everyone came outside. The its the tree the ability to endure. tree said than done. a gives the tree a many of its members, is foreign. who attend Bloomsburg face two that, for Latinos REMEMBERING THEIR ROOTS LOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE FALL 1991 Fay Ortiz-Golden, former Bloomsburg admissions counselor and a Bloomsburg grad explains, "Many of the who come Latinos here are first family to attend college. They it and the ins when outs, enough of a And don't have make there isn't support system in place to help them." "You tree's roots grow ar.o in their the tools to all they get here. Over -:';;.£. a first generation students, the all cc be reactive," says can't Godoy oo-j~.oo a of r.stv./cr.-c i Latino students. "Those people that say or community that they have been treated badly by the university tend to be reactive." Quintero adds, we have but gives tne it's outside the Spanish department," says so to find ways. Lysett Martinez, a senior. "This It's is very ^"' Most of us who want interact, not We Godoy agrees, "We need we need administration and be exclusive. Seeds won't a ability and curriculum classes made university has a to make commitment to Bloomsburg will find (Lambda Sigma Epsilon) and radio show on The conferences a Latino culture. tree, it is and needs to be a neighborhood event. there at is a common Bloomsburg cry the Latino share, if there is one thing the students wish the university would change, it would be to increase the support structure within the administration and faculty. "We don't have enough Latino Voice, specialty-interest and workshops. But students alone can't carry the faculty campus on the campus newspaper university. Like replacing the the an station, Latino representation resources and share their culture with the burden of cultivating director, Cultivating a culture. That of a Bloomsburg University is the life Latino. life of Latinos an Association of Hispanic Students, a Latino WBUQ, proactively take advantage of university Sydney Howe-Barksdale, lies in "their roots, child, their roots." sorority (Chi Upsilon Sigma), commitment from to Because the strength and to grow. "Latinos fraternity of Latino students to up - more can and roots have begun Upsilon, takes time from a chat with brothers. requires a just catching has increased. Seeds have b'een planted active multicultural center, a Latino community is be and needs to be done," according to adviser of the Latino fraternity, plant themselves. Roots won't suddenly "Even though we've come a long way, this Office of Social Equity. and multicultural programming who come and Lambda Sigma walk on campus to has It a difference." In recent years, diversity Terry Riley, associate professor of English great strides. system in place that allows the Latino students to to e.~c-.re/ work be more the time I've been in Bloomsburg, the If j to inclusive of the Latino culture. But in students " '"^ '" ~~"'~ don't." stronger presence of Latinos in the on It 'b>~" gives the tree the people they can identify with. agree, Latino students a positive college experience must be willing to get involved in the greater campus community. We need to the "~" important. Other students have our duty." appear. -:ree ;:s our music, our food in Bloomsburg because different, Hiram Martinez sometimes hard "It's to express our culture, Latino students begin to develop own new roots of From left: Ramon Ruiz, Karen Quintero, Mucio Godoy, Jeremy Torres, and Hiram Martinez. their at Bloomsburg University. T^LOOMSBURG I -/ THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Students, university representatives, town and Bloomsburg residents sit down officials together and work on maintaining positive relationships. Pictured at left are students Dominic Copeland, Rob Morrison, and Eliza Ayers; below are member Isabelle Tarr, a resident and Dan of the Task Force on Racial Equity, Bauman, Town Council member and former mayor, and his wife, Dolly. Town Administrator Gerald Depo is in the background. Hey Neighb Students and residents of the Bloomsburg community meet to talk about how to preactlwely Travel a short distance in any population. Many of these neighbors have no connection whatsoever university, a to the but their proximity creates unique relationship. Ask the people who live close to campus what the secret to a successful relationship GO~cXlSl but away from the campus of Bloomsburg University and what do you see? Houses. The homes of a diverse direction is and you'll get a variety of answers. But, many communication is a will agree that key factor in making By Jerri Brouse any relationship work. Whether the photos by Marlin relationship R. Wagner is between two people or 20,000, communication is the to improve the connection year "Communication is probably the most important thing to have going you when you're forced to live together anywhere," says Mayor for Mary Lenzini-Howe. As with most college campuses, standard issues surface time and time again. For someone living in a college town, having daily late the students next door are using your parking space - again - can be Many see the invisible line that runs between (TKE) crossed. But people in Remaly talks a college community as about the students voluntarily shoveling found a way snow from her walk even erase retrieving her says. in the winter and runaway dog. "They have years," she "The students and neighbors are trying hard to foster good relations." The university and the Town of Bloomsburg recognize that keeping the lines of communication open is With to get a student time faculty and people, there are body of staff, and a full- town that bound to be disagreements. However, instead of fighting, the people of Bloomsburg and the at the university from the different BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Maybe line. has a population of almost 12,000 positive relationships. not only to keep those lines open, Bloomsburg have over that approximately 7,500, about 850 Community strive the local it. (background) As a result, people university and the community campus and one that should not be especially important to maintaining in downtown Bloomsburg, gives students and residents a chance to celebrate their differences. disrupted by a your car in front of your house because Howard and Jean Remaly have lived next to Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity been our friends over the Street Festival, held life night party or not being able to park frustrating. cornerstone. for six years. Mrs. after year. have opted approach - they table, together, and talk. sit officials for a down at a FALL 1991 Once a month Town-Gown the Committee, an organization consisting of 20 to 30 members, hashes out the ups and downs of community versus campus life. In the beginning, they met once a year, but that wasn't enough for some excellent communication and we deal Bauman, has watched forthright with a lot of issues." At each monthly meeting there years. outcome is a standing agenda. As part of that agenda, the committee deals with incidences that have occurred since the last He Town-Gown Committee, others committed to any other business, reactive. the board. some members got together and way the committee would function. No more once-a-year meetings. Now they would meet once a month. And no more dealing only with existing problems. They would try to anticipate problems and prevent some repeatedly addressed include student always agree, but housing, zoning, parking, underage opportunity to drinking and ways the university can out the problems." So, redesigned the is an opportunity also Some new the community is Bauman. "We may not excellent," says As leader of the Town of the committee was rather informal and Bloomsburg, Lenzini-Howe has many unorganized. He described it as "mostly a complaint session where we heard the same thing over and The committee includes over again." Tired of the university representatives president for student way things were going, Bauman and Preston Herring, vice others got together and life, revamped the process. Ianiero, vice president when advancement, for university we have the down and try to work at least sit Bauman remembers when help out in the community. from erupting. Tony the and the university of the issues that are making "The working relationship between to bring or old, before the but also by better for everyone. people. They wanted more interaction. They wanted to be proactive instead of There the is made not only by of efforts community meeting. evolve over the it believes visible progress That's things started to and Jessica Kozloff, president town officials Lenzini-Howe happen. "We made a number and Larry Smith, chief of police; town business people, contributed to a better a member of small accomplishments that relationship," He of the landlord and Town Council dormitory members including former mayor Dan Bauman. It may sound too easy get a and everything truth is, it will be Vice President Tony Ianiero and Mayor Mary Lenzini-Howe discuss current and complaining about the noise future issues facing Bloomsburg residents and the university. and disruptions. Establishing permit parking near fine. The works. Though things aren't responsibilities. is But at the top of her making sure town and list relations continue to thrive. committee members say working together the success thus far to communication. a common goal She the key. is Ianiero calls the committee "an effective group that is proactive and positive." "The committee gives us the opportunity to get to the heart of any issues brewing out believe it there," he says. works extremely well university. We the university want the neighbors is "I for the to feel a friend to them. Gown is She credits mutual ideas and concerns," she celebrates their diverse cultures. in any a large says. day, international music, food, "We're dealing with two groups of people who may not share the same perspectives on quality of life costumes The communication between the university and the town hasn't always been this good. It's taken some time to build the alliance they have today, and veteran Town-Gown Committee member that the university and the community Town-Gown Committee. "There is about how things fill For one dance and Bloomsburg's Main Street with a vibrant array of colors and aromas, issues. not ignore share can be attributed in part to the also points out the success of activities the university and number of people to make sure you have a body that gets together to talk about "I feel it is vital There can be too Kozloff agrees the good relationship tangible community plan together in an effort to draw the two worlds together. For example, each fall the Community Street Festival welcomes students back and Committee. kind of relationship that involves Through the Town-Gown Committee, we can communicate with each other. If there is a problem, we want to address it, it." was another achievement. Bauman Town- a strong believer in the residential areas to alleviate residents' frustration university always perfect between the two factions, toward dormitory to a girls' because neighbors were group of people together to talk says. being changed from a boys' association, students of the university, Bauman recalls Elwell Hall many misconceptions work without good communication." and hundreds of students, university employees and community folk join the festivities. "We're here to be friends and help our community," Ianiero work as hard as trust and we can says. to "And we'll continue to each other, understand each other feel comfortable with each other." BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Can the Social Security system in this country withstand the retirement of baby boomers? Might other options make more sense than Social Security? David Martin, Bloomsburg University associate professor of finance law arid MBA program his views on and business coordinator, discusses the state of Social Security. bciaLSecuritv y Pat Parker photo by Marlin R. Wagner QUESTION What's wrong with the current Social Security system? ANSWER The basic problem is that Social payment those working Security functions as a transfer between generations. That is, today are paying to fund the retirement of people who are presently retired. People mistakenly believe that the toward Social Security money they pay money. In reality, within six years, most people take out of the system in benefits all of the money is their they've put in during their working years. Then, their benefits come from the Social Security taxes of people still working. The baby boomers, those of us born between 1945 and 1955, are more numerous than the generation behind us. As a consequence, that younger generation going to have more of their income talfen to pay for Social Security than we are. Sofjae have estimated that by the year 2030, if there are no structural changes in Social Security, the taxes required to pay for Social Security, FALL 1998 neighborhood of 60 to 70 percent of an set QUESTION Several strategies for solving problems have Social Security's financial been proposed. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? up ANSWER handle first. this. Let's talk Means to if Social Security above a certain level, then the amount of Social Security benefits through retirement will decrease, perhaps the all way to zero. which Another idea retire. to eliminate is income cap on which people the $62,000 have to pay Social Security taxes. The problem with these methods is that you are going to run out of people to tax. And we be saying to will many people companies have acceptable funds, just when it I does with insurance companies. Congress can set guidelines getting many of the benefits. take money from people Security, you're I "When I tell them how high their I how It how system runs out of money, their eyes go wide." funds can operate. In addition, under will take a privatization plan, an active role, just as I up If Social Security begins more and offer less at retirement, will current 18- to 24-year-old ANSWER In be 50 and still 2030 those students employers When I tell all the baby them how high and the go wide. expect to see says, "Here's your benefit." You have no control over level of your risk. 60-70% of his or her paycheck go towards Social Security. how they personally view risk. When Social Security began under do now. Today, handle these things readily accessible through magazines, the So their eyes if money, 2030 a Bloomsburg graduate can Right now, the government takes Social Security taxes be In with health insurance. information about investing has become responsibility. will working. They'll be they do working with private to is. Social Security system runs out of think didn't invest like they set society. I funding Social Security for talking about taxpayers investing in and having fiduciary own students at Bloomsburg be affected? Roosevelt during the Depression, people companies people to create their And we can better our how important think to cost very possible. But with privatization we're portfolios of stocks, will allow QUESTION the Social Security create wealth within the context of yes, that's able if that a lot of one or two stocks, is wealth. That's Investing privately will allow people to invest in all why actually a much to engage. That's think privatization privatization your investment or the would work. People worry money could be lost by stocks. If you go out and them. to take care of moral contract in which better situation than Social Security. Social Security privatization investing in a people ought that to give think there's a lot of misunderstanding about is their Social Security taxes could them benefits. The solution I prefer is privatization, whereby we begin to allow people to invest for themselves. Then, no one has This It's for Social going to have believe that they go out to pursue their careers, boomers. going to how you they have an obligation to create wealth. under which but they're not going to be politically untenable. If you're Finally, the system yet government could decide which that they have to be taxed for Social Security, on are not would get to privatization. As tell my students, I happening, and lowering the benefit once people who wouldn't get any benefits. That's taxes could be already is Those who 10 to 15 years for example, fund companies could register Other approaches involve delaying the retirement age, to those people. should get most of their benefits. those you have income from sources other than you'll receive There are a variety of ways to a privatization system. For about means testing testing simply says that should continue to receive with the government, and the like There are a couple of ways now those benefits. The government has a moral duty ANSWER the basic problem. Security have contributed that happen, politicians aren't going to let that's is invested or does the federal government decide? individual's payroll. Obviously, the but money individuals choose where their Medicare, and Medicaid will be in the Internet, and other sources. we're talking about individuals taking prudent risks and increasing their own wealth. QUESTION How QUESTION How would to privatization is privatization different from current private investing? Do ANSWER transition. I the transition occur? see this as a long-term Anyone receiving Social BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 13 ~R LOOMSBURG J THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Dogg's Music Plays On by Kathleen Mohr Photos by Marlin R. Wagner and Courtesy of John and Cheryl Motko John and Cheryl Motko point out some of their son's favorite CD's to Jay Green '98, Wayne Mohr, and TV and WBUQ general manager Mike Progin '99. The Motkos donated director of radio services, Smith's extensive collection to the University. Pearl Jam's screaming guitars fade and the disc jockey announces, "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and Thursday night at girls, it's 12 o'clock, and you don't have anything better to do. So, stay tuned to us here at 91.1." In the fall of 1997, Mike Ives, "Skippy" Kaub, and Derek Russell room every Thursday Doug Lisk, Pete hung out in their living night from midnight until 2 a.m., their buddy Jeff "Schmitty Dogg" campus radio station. As freshmen the year before, the five of them had formed close bonds and were confident they would be music and listening to Smith on WBUQ, the friends forever. In fact, they got along so well they decided to move off campus and live together their Spending time together was one of to do. No change year. tragic accident that would their lives. On Jeffrey one foresaw the sophomore their favorite things the afternoon of October 4, aspiring disc jockey M. Smith was He was 19 killed in a one-car accident. years old. Smith was quiet and reserved. According to his mother, Cheryl Motko of Allentown, PA, "He was really a good kid. We'd try to get him to loosen up a little, to go out and have fun. Often he'd stay at home with us on Friday and Saturday night." However, friends at school saw another side of him. Everyone who knew subtle, dry wit. 14 BLOOM SBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Schmitty Dogg appreciated his FALL 1991 Ives recalls the anticipation worked hard and excitement of the August 1997 move-in day, a at it, but by the end of his freshmen year he had discovered his Schmitty came bursting through the door changed his major, he was happier." Kramer on Seinfeld. Later, we'd be sitting around joking and laughing. He'd sit back not saying too much, but he'd be the one who'd come through with the one-liner that would crack everyone up." "He didn't think he was affecting like didn't realize John Motko, Smiths stepfather, says. Roch King, men's swimming head coach at Bloomsburg, agrees. "Jeff was a it," very good friend to the other He was the team. members of trustworthy and Sitting in the studio, and a at humor Howard man. promote music each meet was shocked when Jeff over their hearts. initials "S.D." Smith brought a unpretentious emotional strength to the team. was also a solid to the team. swimmer and an asset at a particular meet against Montclair needed He King remembers Smith's dynamic performance critical points. Jeff drying off from his last was event and I We all the time. I'll think of him." radio station will benefit from this tragic In addition to donating Smith's extensive CD WBUQ, collection to Michael Moffit to the the is first recipient Swimming Award, Gregg Warkulwiz started the Even though he ragged on first recipient of a S500, Jeff is Smith "Schmitty Dogg" DJ Award, and me, his humor was mostly good-hearted communications majors Raina Lubert sarcasm." and Trisha Pittman Matkowski had agreed to do a Saturday morning show alone last October 4th so Jeff and a high school a friend, Jacob Eisenhardt, could Jeffrey will each receive M. Smith Memorial As an ongoing tribute, awarded these scholarships will be who annually to students visit when he S1000 Scholarship. friends at Edinboro University. Eisenhardt was driving in of a S500, Jeff Smith "Schmitty Dogg" enjoyed the a strong their lost before their next broadcast together, still when living in the house. their son's honor. control of his vehicle, left the road and went over an embankment. The morning State. never forget that meet. "I'll interaction. season and seen in the last liked been especially tough it's still Motkos have established scholarships played about alternative bands. At first I during the I guys This year, four students and the got into [radio] "I that who when my can be riding alone on a bus and loss. admits Graig Matkowski, joking around, then felt I never been a disc jockey before," offer insight of silence they observed before he during his limits of propriety it "Thoughts of Jeff crop up played a big Thursday night show. "I'd Ives says for the Stern and, like Stem, often pushed the couldn't believe roommate threw the paper on my bed. Going on the air that night without him was really tough." right liked listening to provocative disc jockey teammates trusted and respected him. moment felt role in his broadcasts. Friends say mischievous pranks on each other, his Their loss could be Smith home. He liked fooling around with the audience, and to Even though they pulled with a microphone listening audience, Smith's straight dependable." "I and says Ives. "Once he found his niche He just death in The Voice, Bloomsburg's student newspaper. passion. "He found his place as a D.J.," day that symbolized the groups independence. "Out of nowhere, people, but he was. real work chosen demonstrate ethic, contribution to field, and team characteristics exemplified The Motkos explain "Jeff will live on through spirit - by Smith. their generosity. this gift." Matkowski read of Smith's untimelv pulled him back into the pool. I needed him to swim an event he hadn't planned on swimming, and needed him to place. I asked him to step up and do I I something big When for the team, and he did. other people see that kind of commitment - putting the good of the whole above personal needs they're inspired." King had too, to step up to a challenge, and deal with one of the most difficult situations of his coaching career. After experiencing the initial shock from hearing about the accident and feeling like he'd "been kicked in the stomach," he went over to Smith's house to console his grieving friends. "Coach King was us. He really like a dad to all of helped us pull through," says Ives. Smith enjoyed swimming and Jeff Smith, pictured with roomate Mike Ives, was known for his quick wit BLOOMSBURG U N 1 and making friends V E R S I T Y easily. MAGAZINE STORY HOVER V > THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE £ hy Trina Walker Photos by Carl Socolow Former Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania president James H. McCormick had a vision. He imagined a higher education system that would work hard to meet the needs of all Pennsylvanians. One with a streamlined management and financial credibility. One that would encompass all of Pennsylvania's stateowned universities. One with a vision for the future. Not all visions are realized, but McCormicks was - with a little McCormick twist of fate. Today, serves as chancellor of Pennsylvania's System of Higher Education, State nowxelebrating 15th year. its Susquehanna jjlpverlooking the River in Harrisburg, gesHiJres McCormick toward architecture replete [warm bricks, symbolic archways n open long-porch. He views un-ipfiased otfices of the ersit'y Center 14-membet e The abundant is Dixon as an extension Stale System. light is no accident, the fact that the buildings and fidSilargelv resemble a university caif pus, not a government office. These buildings truly represent t vve believe in doing here," brmick says with a sense of pride, decided that our buildings and nds should reflect an environment lgher education, not state biiftaucracy" f is And so, the of green lawn. parking garage beneath an expanse The old Harrisburg invisible, built " Academy buildings have been updated to house academic boast large And classes. windows, with atrium giving even inside offices and McCormick welcomes He warmly projects. McCormick quick to point out that these is offices are not "The System." The System, he asserts, is the 14 universities, the 94,000 students, and the 1 1 I do McCormick - it don't I do most other people but aim to provide the kind of free where talented people can have the challenge and excitement of buildin new programs and moving E Eugene Dixon visitors to the central offices of the State System. But excited," not that I precisely this sense of openness It is become "It's things as well as a central hallways a sense of openness. that really the offices State System's Jr. , ahead. chairman o Board of Governors since the beginning, concurs that one of the State System's greatest strengths lies in its people. ,700 employees across the state. These offices belong equally to each of those universities. McCormick is IMe decided deservedly proud of the State System's history. In 1983, that our then president of Bloomsburg, he was asked to become the interim first 'University' instead of 'College,'" recalls Bloomsburg alumnus, Neil Renaldi. Today, buildings and chancellor of the newly created State as director of financial System of Higher Education, which brought together under a governing board the 14 state-owned Little did he expect to job 15 years "I came in the should reflect have the to had no expectations of I if I permanent job, so I didn't stepped on toes. 1 was only trying to get to it work the way 1 He also worked with would education, not state universities. capacity manage chancellor's position, later appointed, nonetheless. "After 15 years, McCormick was heartsick about - the place of some of his fondest memories. But he was we truly react as a universities," Dixon states. programming higher quality of presidential leadership and faculty, we staff. The result who is System could be. our universities with a better education." attract quality students leave At Bloomsburg, McCormick was for his leadership good people He maintains "If there's job done. that successful philosophy. been one thing that I've tried to do, it's create an environment where the talented people in the organization can get charged up and facilities planning and existing facilities, compare them with space guidelines and determine what is needed relative to the education programs offered and number of students involved," explains Donald R. Scheaffer, assistant vice chancellor for philosophy of to get the which were process. "We inventory and an outstanding administrative support state funds, follows an orderly our universities have attracted a that finding we can long-term plan. Today, each university "Because of driven by a vision of what the State known because the funding to keep costs down." often dispersed without consideration of a system rather than as 14 individual this, leaving Bloomsburg power and means campuses can build independently for Bloomsburg, he didn't even apply permanent financial Prior to 1983, universities appealed State System. Fully intending to return for the The incredible. really nice facilities, the governing board but was nominated, and is "This bureaucracy. staff. leveraged the strength of the geographical diversity of the to establish a strategic direction for the to By pulling resources we have together, I pulled together an office and a than they would be able to individually. it when got back to Bloomsburg," McCormick explains. With no time to lose, he quickly like borrow and invest money more efficiently getting the care each university. "As a system, the universities are able an environment in the spirit of helping development of new programs and facilities for later. Bloomsburg. for how united financial strength plays a key role universities. still management the State System, Renaldi explains Strength in Unity With the creation of the State System, State College became Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. "At the time, it meant little more to me Bloomsburg than needing a new t-shirt that said facilities management. "The know advance in when universities they're going to get funding for a certain project and can plan accordingly." Financial accountability is something that the Office of the Chancellor and each of the universities take seriously. ILOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE OVER STORY McCormick is is "My job emphatic. be the universities' advocate, but to I also have a responsibility to the citizens of this We tight ship. And commonwealth run a to don't tolerate deficits. our accountability is rewarded." Indeed, the State Systems proven history of strong financial credibility affects monies it receives from the state and donations from private as well as its investors, credit rating with lenders. Governor Ridge has pledged $40 think we're going to have to earn million a year for the next five years every year. toward State System facilities. And, while development activities go on each university, the State System year raised money to be supported, at things in order to earn it it and think there are several I we need to do." last more than $1.6 million be distributed And in 14 to the A universities. plan for the future The vision McCormick shares with Always evolving the State System's Board of Governors With a successful 15-year track some might be tempted to rest record, on meet the needs of students - A few years System after the State began, the Board recognized that the vocabulary doesn't include educational needs of a large "rest" or The "agile." Equity is sees the State Two State System's Office of Social now focuses attention on those constituencies that previously System as one continually evolving and always improving. number of Pennsylvanians were not being met. he rarely speaks without using the words "responsive" and that According years ago, a formal Byron Wiley, equity to System strives for the director, the State implemented. The goal goal of having "no identifiable is to improve fell through the cracks. continuous improvement process was either unserved or every aspect of the State System, from constituency that teaching to administration. underserved in terms of higher "We measure is education opportunities." These ourselves against and ethnic other higher education providers and constituencies include racial also against private industry," notes minorities; Stan Carr, director of continuous academic disciplines in which they improvement. "We have to with other higher ed providers, but have to can't for state resources. in we and governor, And we like good money at the State System strives to these groups. couldn't agree more. don't see a big pot of action, develop proactive programs to serve job and continually getting better." McCormick More than affirmative more than just balancing the military veterans. numbers, the to invest us unless we're really doing a of race; students with both physical and learning disabilities; and returning convince those stakeholders, the legislators particularly those in economically disadvantaged, regardless be good in the sense of competing women, remain underrepresented; the be exceptionally competitive, not only Neil Rinaldi to students. their laurels or at least quit while He Managei all they were ahead. McCormick's "quit." But Director of Fina is, first, "I end of the rainbow for higher education. I "We need to be learner-centered, student-centered," McCormick asserts. "We're going to have to offer what FALL 1991 students need it, time at a when particularly older students they need the entire system," notes David Gray, vice who chancellor for information technology. are He need to continuously improve, always better. There back and saying 'we've made is do not time for comfort, going to expect the same kind of explains that the universities already are sitting convenience from their university that linked through a wide-area-network that This they expect from their banks. has been re-engineered and upgraded. good we are, how can it be better?' "And if we can have that philosophy "And there's Gray also more. We'll have to get initiated the "Keystone over this business of each institution Library Network," which will link being everything to everybody. We're together going to have says. "There's money, to McCormick or a Chinese language department. If a student needs be to some other owned why public's interest, If that's not do own many finally," says new technologies and continuously improve, to me that this system - all it would seem of its Pennsylvania well and will prosper. be key to eliminating "The only thing that certain is change. We is need absolutely to be the type of State System of Higher Education that types of students. "Then and student-centered, work with others, willing to and perhaps others that would be created - will be serving Also underway are pilot programs of how universities video-based distance learning, will it.' McCormick, "we doesn't fight it, but works to shape it." in the it?" program In fact, the State Systems approval process dorm room," he we can be accountable, use the away from entering an duplication and serving the needs technology. other sectors, with privately be a their if 'No matter be willing and excited about being cost- says. or of being responsive allowing literally home something that "We'll also have to collaborate with schools, with business. more "Students will from for willing to get that through distance learning or to share resources libraries, interlibrary loan request, from another a course going to have university, we're 14 campus point and a click program a physical therapy them effectively. example, for every school for have to collaborate," not going to be enough all a time for saying, is designed to ask is the question, "Does it fit the plan?" The process helps eliminate unnecessary duplication and encourage cooperation among the universities. universities create also helps It programs that are in keeping with the goals of the State System as a whole. Accountability continues to be important, not only to state government and taxpayers, but to students and employers," the chancellor adds. "And we need to talk We to explain to need make about that accountability. what it is that we do a difference in students' lives." "There's a lot of value in our institutions that often goes unrecognized," agrees Carr, who has experienced the State System as a student and employee at Bloomsburg, and as a parent with children in State System tell beginning universities. "We're the story a little better all Another element of the to the time." State System's future involves technology. With only one half of one percent of the budget allocated to central office administration, employees - number only about 50. But the technology available to them is state "Now we same spirit of of the art. are trying to bring that technological innovation to BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE When Randall Presswood, director for pe< performing arts Haas Center making a they hope to see they're a go< Few, however, h to formance. hat ;:zXt transform And ,ent. ai: -lit it takes Mitrani Hall into a colorful, entertaining event. Celebrity Artist Series director John jack" Mulka starts the booking process much two years in advance. After wading through reams of promotional materials and talking with agents too numerous to count, Mulka and the as as Community Arts Council, representing community members and students, decide which events to bring on campus. And the whirlwind of activity faculty begins. There's contract negotiating and facilities at Bloomsb has the paperwork ready for membe of the local International Associate Television and Stage Employees to s Let's see, electricians, carpenters, movers, stage directors, prop directors; and don't forget work-study students eager to gain hands-on, practical theater experience. Local workers help the production crew who've arrived long before the performers. While props, costumes, instruments and lighting are being unloaded, the stage crew assesses the facility. In some instances, a member has made company a preliminary visit and the set design has been adjusted to accommodate the specific dimensions scheduling, marketing and selling tickets, of the Mitrani stage. In other situations, coordinating parking and shuttle buses, What happens next is truly amazing. The energy level is high. There's a job to do and little time to do it. Organization and efficiency are essential. By 8 a.m. dn performance day, a Presswood deals with those issues by phone, fax and Internet. Equipment is still being hauled in when stage set up starts. A computerized light board is programmed. Lights hoisted. Colored gels strategical!) placed Wires are run. The sound syster Music stands carefully positio Backdrops lowered. Just bei tractor trailer has negotiated tricky lobby doors arc opened, the maneuvers to back up to the loading dock for Mitrani Hall. The hustle-bustle floor evaluating set design and hiring help, And the of things to do doesn't list stop there. of staging a hours show starts. in less than 12 is mopped. Once again, the show will go"^ 'RLOOM93URS Behind the Scenes It's showtime. A well-dressed and seemingly well-known gentleman works the crowd gathering in the Haas Center lobby with handshakes and a smile. Just before the lights dim, he finds his seat in Mitrani Hall. The curtain rises, the music begins and he watches. While most people in the audience relax and enjoy the entertainment, Randall Presswood silently critiques everything from the quality of the sound system to the lighting design to the comfort of the newly-installed seats. should. It's And he part of his job. Presswood director for is Bloomsburg's performing arts which include the Center and Gross Haas Auditorium in Carver Hall. Asked to describe what he facilities, moment does, he thinks a and it says, "I do whatever show on takes to get the the boards." (By the way, "on the boards" is theater slang for the stage.) The whatever he is refers to not always easy to define. Last year, Presswood oversaw almost 500 Randall Presswood dress rehearsals and public events attended by more than 65,000 patrons. In addition, he prepared for 265 classes and helped with 35 events organized by other departments. Because of limited space and overlapping needs, scheduling requires a good deal of foresight, careful planning and creativity. Once an event is booked, Presswood coordinates hundreds of details to ensure success. He's seldom seen without a portable phone and clipboard always ready to find solutions to the problems can occur when that dealing with long-range plans, buildings, equipment, technology, professional entertainers and speakers. Just hours before people arrive, he is dressed in a T-shirt and Haas Center sneakers, climbing out on a catwalk to replace a burned-out Presswood recognizes to the university, how and he wants light bulb. important the it facility to leave a lasting has become good impression. The location for freshmen orientation programs and commencement ceremonies, "Haas building students see at is often the first and last Bloomsburg," he notes. Working unpredictable hours and on call 24-7, Presswood transforms Mitrani Hall from a dark, empty stage to a colorful, brightly-lit event that benefits the university, community as well. and often the and bound periodicals were stored in a rented warehouse off campus. Archives and the special collections were housed in basement of Bakeless Center for the Humanities. Getty points to the current periodicals, displayed on shelves open to the public, "People can we resources now see all the have." However, the increase of space has meant more than being able to accommodate the library's collections. It's also enabled the library to better serve patrons. Seating capacity has almost tnpled, from 350 to 900. Nearly 200 computers compared to 22 groupstudy rooms, including separate rooms set are available for public use, 40 A them. So Fitting Library to find at times it was something in a a little like trying maze," adds reference librarian William Frost, by Eric Foster been Photos by Marlin R. Wagner are too small may be certainly won't On possible, but the trek be pleasant. an ill-fitting who has "Libraries to expand with books, but at the it. We must add new same time, withdraw only the old that are no longer useful." make them fit meant moving items out of the altogether. About 80,000 books Shifting items to campus, the old Harvey A. eventually Andruss Library had gradually become like Bloomsburg since 1972. dynamic. As knowledge expands, we have Hiking 10 miles in boots two sizes at pair of boots. library Alice Getty When 1964, total just Andruss' 9, old a and the library building hadn't. of relief a it - like trading a fits. long journey. For the time in decades, all teaching a sense cramped boots long journey for footwear that had been circulation desk, well. after And rooms first staff in were constantly shifting items things fit," to in alcoves that is to give new improved technology, make the A room library experience pleasurable. the specifically for displaying art Across the Tony Baratta of Berwick library's were shelves for installs a tile "Gathering Place." The tiles, mural in the created by Philadelphia artist Karen Singer, recognize hall, there's floor, a and artifacts. an area been dubbed "The Gathering on the top that's Place." And reading lounge boasts a spectacular view of the Susquehanna corporate and private donors to the fund-raising campaign that helped build the library. at been designed a' "We make were never designed computer found on each of the the library's entrance has she recollects. "In the old library, there are In addition to 1967, longest-serving library employee. a can be used spaces have been created to remembers old Andruss Having joined the that "We have library's four floors, as well. at the year after the facility opened, Getty room J. presentations Daniel Vann, dean on how to use our online resources." Photocopying and computer of the library's who works be classes resources were under a single roof. Alice Getty, facilities for exhibits, of library services. The opening of the new Harvey A. to programmatic library - with the space and meetings," says Andruss Library (May 26) brought faculty. "The new library was designed their spring semester The university had grown; and aside for graduate students day last more than 7,000 students had completed studies. Library year after the staff in 1967, a enrollment was 2,132 On May as a library, remembers the old Andruss She joined the facility opened. well. construction of the old library began in students. in the old library. There are Valley and nearby mountains - worth a a view 10-mile hike. BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE BRIEFS "NJEWS UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE ^1 THE Bloomsburg's outdoor adventure program. Peak Performance Two alumnae A And reach summit distant lightning storm and an unpredictable flashlight provided light as climbers Beth '91 set out They chose risk of Bowman '92 on their journey and Kathy Frick at to travel at night, being hit by rocks mountain warms in the they each had climbed several ountains since. But Chimborazo was their 11:30 p.m. reducing the first peak over 20,000 first time cither had acted as her feet, and this was own the guide Preparing for the January 1998 climb had taken months of planning and training. When they arrived at the climbers' refuge hut 15,500 falling as the sun at them feet, poor weather forced days before attempting the to wait four Those days helped them air, but they were final ascent. acclimate to the thin draining. Lack of Robert Wislock their appetites tasks, like also oxygen robbed them of and made even the simplest brushing their teeth, exerting. Top Aide Only 2,000 feet from the summit with one crampon between them, Bowman and Frick Wislock named president's assistant chose to press on. Robert Wislock has been named At the summit, blowing snow reduced executive assistant visibility to practically He to the president. to the president Cochrane, who Their camera froze after one picture. But Donna they'd has resumed her position Kathy human in the office of resources and labor 1 1 years, maintains his current role as director of continuous The Bloomsburg alumnae were the only climbers on the mountain without the benefit of headlamps. summit of Mt. Chimborazo, at 20,700 feet, mountain in Ecuador. crampon a The Pennsylvania State University, a masters degree in industrial Loretto, St. Francis and masters and bachelors degrees in education University. at Bucknell the ice wall with one axe. (a lost to scale crampon and an Then, within 3,700 Bowman glacier, spiked iron tread) from one of her boots, forcing her relations at Frick to the top. The announced they were "women of power." currently the women's they would face employed by Pennsylvania at it turned to other climbers for verification and lacrosse head coach Bloomsburg, he was D.Ed, Bowman and Kathy Frick was only the first hurdle on their ascent to the As they approached the mountains to He earned at the hut, announced they'd made They soon learned Frick lost a Blue Shield. Back that illumination the highest improvement. coming it. Ecuadorian hut guardian's jaw dropped. He who was relations for Before and Beth Bowman '92 (right) pose Chimborazo in Ecuador. Frick '91 (left) for a picture in front of Mt. education and training manager made in the College of Business. Wislock, nothing. The pair's water was frozen and their toes were numb. replaces faculty assistant feet of the ice summit, both of her crampons. The companions had to choose - turn back or press ahead. The weather was worsening. All the climbers behind them had turned back down the mountain. Bowman and first Frick had both gained their mountaineering experience with Quest, BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE is and coach at Bloomsburg. assistant field hockey FALL 1991 Founded It's 1985 with just in a single student as a branch Interactive! of the department of mathematics and com" MSIT program has new home science, the master's program has grown wllkm' lost successful in recent years of has a its own. Boost employment, taxation, used and students were University impacts state factors economy overall impact and is technology to determine the on the Phillips will c. new department and Institute for Interactive created to house Technologies, which links of science in students and the universit involvement of the university's faculty, staff Pennsylvania and Timothy direct its associated jartment of Financial an programs now name tal to enrollment of 90 stud* )ne of the university's companies and The institute adds instructional technology to outside (MSIT) program. agencies. an old-fashioned the county apprenticeship state. to a componen very high-tech field $183 million richer each year thanks to In addition to the university's "Because of the institute, students have a chance to Associates Inc. of Pittsburgh 966 employees, the survey showed that an additional 1,875 jobs in Columbia County were attributable to the university In Columbia County alone, the university added $76 million to the economy. Bloomsburg and the released the findings of their other 13 universities in the placement Bloomsburg According University. to a recent study commissioned by the State System of Higher Education, the university annually adds that much economy study to the states Tripp, Umbach and last spring. State skills to real- They have good experiences, and thev world projects. are successful in getting positions," says Phillips, noting that graduates have a 100 percent job rate. System combined added $2.2 billion to the Spending, direct and indirect apply their state's Timothy Phillips economy. Art you can touch stone sculptures. Valued A campus icon, the west side of the future the bronze "Young Adolescent" in front of She's now has company. been joined by large stone a pair of sculptures by Peter Hide that welcome column also a marble by Sternal to use as titled "King and Queen" by Sternal and Martha Enzmann on the north (parking benches. in front of Bakeless Center for the Humanities; and a duo L-shaped students are Student Services Center (old Andruss building); the old Andruss library building, at more than $110,000, the newworks also include a marble screen by Thomas Sternal on lot) side of Bakeless Center. Muriel Berman of Allentown, a Muriel Berman and Susan Hicks, assistant director of development, take a look at sculpture before it is moved to Bloomsburg. member of the State System Over the years, her Governors, donated the contributed benches and three other large late Berman and husband, of Higher Education Board of many Philip, have artworks to the university. 1LOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE BRIEFS 1\JEWS UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE ^1 THE Eugene Great Gifts CGA and others make substantial contributions Generous of gifts more than AMP, The a million dollars of the PRIDE Program. AMP a gift of support their Inc., Harrisburg, committed $7,000. In its second & Ruth year of support, The Franklin H. R. Wells Foundation of Mechanicsburg, Students will soon be able contributed $10,000 to PRIDE. The Whitaker to use additional recreational a San Jose, CA, contributed Wells Foundation and the support with its campus. and of for the seventh consecutive year, Government Association Inc. (CGA) will bring improved athletic fields Wolf Whitaker Foundation continue from the Community facilities to L. two $10,000 annuities. Foundation, also of Mechanicsburg, remodeled the second year of three-year its fulfilled commitment University Store thanks to the student Smart Choice government at Bloomsburg. The estimated $500,000 project construct two new Softball Bloomsburg among nation's top 100 fields, soccer fields and a education costs, fitness Bloomsburg University can proudly claim it is one of Developing Excellence) course program with the Harrisburg is School District and the State System of Higher Education, fall. Bloomsburg University. Urban, buys. For the second The University Store consecutive year, have an entirely new risk of dropping out of school Bloomsburg was lobby and interior are the primary beneficiaries. recognized in a publication an estimated $600,000 that rates America's renovation. colleges and universities. which The Student Guide to America's 100 Best College to The is Reading Conference anticipated the spring semester begins this year include: offered and campus "Prospective students should never pick a college without first doing serious comparison shopping for -cost and quality," said -publisher John Culler. -..."If and a half 120-by-80-yard fields, two schools in this book every time." and Andruss Library in honor lighting anticipated to begin this of conference founder, the late fall Margaret Sponseller, a faculty gifts to the university ember for 17 years. Muriel Berman, Stephan M. Systems over Inc., five owner of Clean Earth Pettit '89, Tampa, FL, pledged $60,000 years to establish an annually- football scholarship. Jack Mertz '43, of Venice, FL, recently contributed three annuities totaling $195,000. His sister, Eleanor Seward of Venice, FL, contributed a $55,000 annuity. Allentown, recently gave Bloomsburg University four large sculptures will which be placed about campus Family and friends of John Devlin have endowed a football scholarship in his name. Devlin, who died on July 15, 1998, had been defensive coordinator for Bloomsburg's football Mildred Quick Muller team for the past six years. '34, of Verona, NJ, created a $100,000 scholarship fund for Bloomsburg University Foundation has been undergraduate students notified of a beneficial interest in the estate of in the College of Business. Ellen that is done, the |lp5fji-.win support a study room in Softball infields, a fitness course, is Other significant funded life. contributed $15,000 to project to construct three be complete before cost for the college year. including costs, majors The Bloomsburg University The estimated 5600,000 in January. selected institution, after project, Buys profiles schools that rank highest academically, but have the lowest total Compiled by Institutional Research and Evaluation in Gainesville, GA, the guide gives information on each poverty-level children at high will already is underway, . is a collaborative America's 100 best college I (Personal Responsibility in to anticipated to begin this gift four full-size In this era of escalating of $10,000. with a PRIDE Gray Davis $44,000 Judith A. Wolf '62, of Fremont, CA, contributed a $10,000 annuity. Her father, ILOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE will '28. The gift of almost be used to fund the Matthew Gray and Ellen Gray Scholarship Fund. Mrs. Davis passed away in April 1997. FALL 1991 facilities and has been examined by an external Big Event University has review group of professionals, In March 1999, meeting the by team from the Commission university will be visited its a Information about the is goals as well university's Self-Study located on the web departments/middle/ on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The Accreditation visits normally occur every 10 years and are index.html (This considered major events in be accessed by going to an institutions Bloomsburg's Middle States Association life. Middle Atlantic www.bloomu.edu/ site can home page and Web on Other Preparation for the Campus Organizations, then accreditation visit consists of Middle States Accreditation.) Sites, in the conducting a self-study The The Commission on Higher Accreditation signifies that self-study not only reviews Education of the Middle an the institution's performance States Association also has a reviewed it has for the visiting team, programs and its web but site at Middle States Self-Study, 140 Waller Administration www.msache.org Bloomsburg University, 400 East Second Bloomsburg, PA Street, States. institution, after University in writing to Building, clicking accredits degree-granting and schools at may submit comments about Bloomsburg Middle States is educational community. colleges Interested parties, including alumni, by the own as standards set and weaknesses. strengths 17815; e-mail them to jriley@bloomu.edu; or write to the Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. helps identify the institutions | •; j..k : ,;:- . THE UNIVERS1 CD-ROM become for A CD-ROM for the hard of hearing The available. computer to help skills deaf and now is nation's CD-ROM first designed improve speechreading has been created by Sam Slike, professor of exceptionality programs, and a team of 12 Bloomsburg professors and staff and 32 graduate students. Speechreading Challenges on CD-ROM provides users with 1,500 full-motion video clips showing the front view of over 150 and profile different people mouthing everyday English greetings, common questions about the weather, dates and numbers, and speech that a person might encounter at a fast-food restaurant or a mall. Scenes [ T Y progressively challenging, Deaf and Hard of Hearing ;'B^ -;M££3WK^^^?M5M^^^Kj: : M A G A Z 1[ N E ACHIEVERS more and the program offers periodic testing to evaluate skill development. More information is available on the World Wide Web at: www.bloomu.edu/ speechreadmg.html Shown from team members Darley Hobbis '86; Helmut Doll, and computer science; June Trudnak, professor of instructional technology, and Sam Slike, professor left are associate professor of mathematics of exceptionality programs. 1 KTEWS BRIEFS ^1 THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE compiled a list of the 65 different species of trees, shrubs and vines he encountered. This Professor creates guide to Ricketts organize those Glen pamphlet In the hot summer months fall, he'll into a lists for the Bureau of State Parks that will be Ricketts Glen State Park, a available at the park office. 35-minute drive north from The guide campus, illustration of off. The is the place to cool waterfalls, lakes and tree-lined trails of the park attract more than 340,000 visitors every year. A help those visitors better appreciate the beauty with a description and identifying characteristics. Artist Sue Pottery in Bloomsburg, is the illustrator. Chamuris got the idea After hiking the park's 30 Chamuris for The study funded by the guide while taking his through dendrology (the study of aren't there to identify those grant from Pennsylvania's on all of the trees that State "This locally-oriented guide Education. to trees in the Eastern U.S., will but you have to wade people interested in nature." a field trip to is a System of Higher that are," says Chamuris. the park. "There are guides trees) class around them. trails, an plant's and allied health sciences, will miles of leaves, along each Grace 74, owner of Grace pamphlet being created by George Chamuris, associate professor of biology will feature be geared to everyday At the poster presentation, chemistry major Jennifer Freeland of Philadelphia (right) explains her work to Students display work Collaborative research between faculty and students has become fellow chemistry student Diane Lunova and Michael an annual public event Berg, assistant professor Bloomsburg. For the second of chemistry. at consecutive year, students had the opportunity to present research at the university's "Student Research and Other Creative Activities Poster Session." Fifty-five posters presented over two days in April highlighted the work of students who were mentored by faculty members. At the poster presentation, chemistry major Angela Gilby of Perkasie (right) shows her research poster to Hsien-Tung tui "The posters represent the best of student-faculty collaboration. The research emphasizes the viability (left), dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Christopher Hallen (center), associate professor of chemistry. ILOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE of student scholarship on our campus," says Patrick Schloss, assistant vice president and dean and research. of graduate studies Future Leaders Business students win top among placing the top ten in Record Help their respective competitions honors Grants reach all-time high were 1998 graduates Nicole Bloomsburg students proved they are business leaders of the future. among Six students placed the competitions Thomas of Jersey Shore, Crystal If Kovaschetz of Danville, Dana Tripoli, and Charles West Lawn. a Lambda and sophomore Gilbertsville, organization associated with the Jamie Future Business Leaders of first America. The Bloomsburg representatives were among over 2,000 students from at least 30 Ellis in the "Investment the-art of Jersey Shore, a computer and information systems major, placed Calvert of Waynesboro, a senior finance and accounting major, equipment in state-of- in labs. "We've had an For the past 14 years, the upward trend Bloomsburg chapter of Phi Beta grants for the past 15 Lambda, advised by Janice years," says Keil, in James associate professor of business Matta, director of education and grants. first in information management. David new theoretical states attending the conference. senior more technology services, classrooms and investments in the stock market. At the conference, Steven provide additional support Challenge" by earning the most money through For year. students, these grants will OOLLAft of Harnsburg placed The university 1997-98 academic MILLION junior Jennifer Hess of national collegiate business any indication, million from external grants in the j2.d team comprised of Calvert, a is is received a record-breaking $2.27 In addition to individual awards, Orlando. Phi Beta Thompson active than ever. 1998 Phi Beta at the leadership conference in external funding Bloomsburg's faculty are more New Billig of Borst IV of nation's top ten in individual Lambda placed second in finance. Also information office systems, has had more winners at However, last funding year's grant is the state conference than any a remarkable increase other institution. of more than $500,000 over the that "I only use the Professor I simplifies get stuck." weeks of exploring the program, he'll write an outline book. The speed of change for the Anyone who has used computer software programs knows how it is to get lost in a labyrinth programs are takes time and of features. Today's so sophisticated it detailed instruction for people to learn how computer industry means that "time most to navigate is of the essence when you're dealing with software." At times, months before them. he's had less to write the it is then three manuscript sent to reviewers for revisions. of business education and office information systems, understands how the process of learning to get who is often sent beta (computer slang programs before they're released so he can explore their features. He Windows, Using WordPerfect 6.1 for "The reason we've done so well is Windows for Desktop Publishing and, most recently, all that we've had more That's almost twice 47 of our average," says Matta. Last year, the 76 proposals submitted to outside agencies were funded. Some of the largest grants include: Division of Continuing and Distance Education: $500,000 from Pennsylvania's "Link-to-Learn" to initiative enable 19 organizations, including Bloomsburg, to to The university will use upgrade campus computer facilities. Student Support Services: $180,000 from the federal government to provide additional tutoring, counseling and advisement for eligible students. The program supplement Bloomsburg's peer tutoring, which available to all will is students. Educational Publishing Co., the software for test) copies of the Word 1992-93 proposal submissions - over $4 million this past year. $200,000 of the grant published by South- Western textbooks about software. very well," says Gehris, for Internet Explorer 4.0, most out of a computer program - he's written five the know Publishing Using Microsoft set in the year. participate in distance education. His books include Desktop Dennis Gehris, associate professor "You have to in the previous record of $1.76 million academic After several software mazes easy manuals when reports and Using Multimedia Tools Institute for Interactive Technologies: and Applications on the Internet, published by Wadsworth. The the State System of Higher Education in the books can be ordered through and the companies' Web sites at http://www.swep.com and a three-year project for $175,000 from technology training first year of for faculty staff. To implement this project, Bloomsburg has formed a partnership with Lock Haven, Shippcnsburg, Millersville and Mansfield universities. http://www.wadsworth.com. LOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Kerri Dorothy Tilson Class of 1940 Donald Class of 1992 REFLECTIONS PAST - PRESENT FUTURE - These alumni are securing the future of Bloomsburg University by remembering their alma mater with a portion of their earthly treasures. By acting today, these individuals will help tomorrow's students fulfill educational dreams and build memories for a lifetime. who have you have made, or are considering, a commitment to help secure the future of Bloomsburg University, we'd like to hear from you. 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Chamber Singers, Wendy Miller and Mark Jelinek directing, Kehr Union, Thanksgiving Recess Emanuel Ax, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 10 p.m., through Sunday, Nov. 29. Sunday, Nov. 22, 3 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Tickets are Sunday, Nov. $25. Orchestra, Classes pianist Fall End London City Opera, Die Saturday, Dec. 12, 10 p.m. 12, 7:30 p.m., Ballroom, tight refreshments, a carol Concert sing-a-long, a visit from Santa Claus 15, 2:30 p.m., Bloomsburg University-Community Mark Jelinek directing, Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Featuring cellist Takayori Atsumi. Selections include Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Final Exams End Saturday, Dec. 19. University-Community Orchestra and Fledermaus Caprkcioso, Faure's Pavanne, Popper's Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1999, 7:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Hungarian Rhapsody and William Grant Still's Afro American Symphony. and music of the season by Brass Menagerie. A family-oriented evening nominal cost to support at a scholarships. For ticket information, contact the Development Office at (717)389-4128. Tickets are $25. Graduate Commencement Friday, Dec. 18, 7 p.m., the Arts, Mitrani Haas Center for Hall. Theater The Fabulous Dorseys Saturday, Feb. 13, 1999, 8 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. For more information, call (717) 389-4838. Tickets are $20. Rasmus Montanus Directed by Michael Collins, Oct. 21, and 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31, 8 p.m.; Oct. 25, 2 p.m.; Carver Hall, S. of events"* Kenneth Gross Auditorium. Tickets required. Mother Jones and Her Children Directed by Ross Genzel, E. Nov. 18-20, 7 p.m.; Nov. 21, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets required. Student-Directed One-Act Plays Undergraduate Swan Holiday Classics: Feb. 17-20, 8 p.m.; Feb. 21, 2 p.m.; Commencement National Ballet An Evensong Concert Bakeless Center for the Humanities, theater room. Friday, March 26, 1999, 8 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Saturday, Nov. 21, 5:00 p.m.. Tickets are $25. Presbyterian Church, 345 Market Saturday, Dec. 19, 2:15 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Lake, Russian Singers, Wendy Chamber Miller directing. First Spring Semester The Hot 1 Baltimore Directed by Michael Collins, April 15, Street, filoomsburg. 23 and 24, 8 p.m.; April Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets required. 16, 17, 21, 22, Classes Begin Chamber Orchestra Concert Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1999, 8 a.m. Concerts Spring Break Young Person's Concerts 18, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 22, 2:30 p.m., Mark Jelinek directing, First Presbyterian Saturday, March 6, 1999, 10 p.m., through Sunday, March 14. Tuesday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Bloomsburg University- Community directing, Orchestra, Mark Jelinek Haas Center for the Mitrani Hall. A Church, 345 Market Street, Bloomsburg. Featuring cellist Takayori Atsumi. Music by Jenkins, Elgar and Resphighi. and Chamber Series For more information, Celebrity Artist Series box the March of the Toys, Haydn's Toy Symphony, Tchaikovsky's March Herbert's Carols by Candlelight Concert Friday, Dec. 4 , 7:30 p.m., of the Toy Soldiers (Nutcracker Suite) and Newman's Toy Story. Contact Ann Stokes at (717) 389-4293 for and Sunday, Dec. reservations. Miller 6, Homecoming Pops Concert 2:30 p.m.. Women's Choral Ensemble, Concert Choir and Husky Singers, Street, Thursday, Oct. 15, Frosty Valley Country Club, Danville. For information, call (717) 389-4128. and Alan Baker Wendy directing. First Bloomsburg. Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet Magee's 24 West Ballroom. Friday, Oct. 23, For information, office at (717) 389-4409. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, featuring Rip Taylor, Sunday, Oct. 11, 8 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Tickets are $25. Sunday, Oct. 25, 2:30 p.m.. Concert Women's Choral Ensemble and Husky Singers, Wendy Miller and Alan Baker directing, Haas Center for the Choir, Arts, Mitrani Hall. Suzuki Recital Saturday, Nov. 7, 2:30 p.m., featuring area Suzuki violinists. First Baptist Church of Danville, 20 Brookside Drive, Danville. Fall Golf Outing Presbyterian Church, 345 Market call Husky Club Arts, toyland theme for school groups. Selections include Celebrity Artist Special Events call 1-800-526-0254. Student Recital Tuesday, Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Bloomsburg University music students demonstrate their semester accomplishments. Homecoming October 23-25. Highlights include a parade, lunch, football game and other athletic events, receptions, a dance party and a pops concert. For information, call (717) 389-4346. Jazz Ensemble Sunday, March 28, 2:30 p.m., Steven Clickard directing, Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Spring Weekend Begins Thursday, April 1, 10 p.m., and runs through Sunday, April 4. ILOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Thejjvstwor JL THE UNIVERSITY MAGAM President Kozloff and Presidential Leadership Scholars discuss the program an informal dinner proceeding an evening at the opera. Clockwise from center: Stephanie Grilli, preside at Shannon Amy Schultz, vice-president. Schaeffer, recording secretary. ' President Kozloff, Sarah Kolsevich, . Sarah Finnegan, Terry Grant, corresponding secretary, Brian Piatt and Amanda Diesel. during the There's a great deal of talk today For example, year. last year, about a changing paradigm in students volunteered over 175 hours of higher education, a change from community a focus on teaching learning. This to a focus on not to say that teaching is and learned professors! - is service to projects such as building for Habitat for - not helping day care at a They academic advisement effective conflict on learning requires our dedication to the principle that we must connect theory community to practice, involving activities that may practice our students in empower them so they what we preach. The students in the photo above are doing just that. They are recipients of the Presidents Leadership members Award and of the Presidential Leadership Program (PLP). area. at and the I Other notable and earth science, and the Board of Governors scholarship recipients, were attending home a difference in society other's lives. Springer, associate professor of geography management and At the event captured in the photo, dinner make to Program, under the direction of Dr. Dale also building. the students university examples are the University Honors attended seminars on team building, our students in active learning. The focus and each university's important. But this approach asks us to engage at the engage students in working together with faculty, staff or student emphasize the learning process, to that actively mentors Humanity, center, tutoring and the in local schools rewarding programs coordinated by Sydney Howe Barksdale. Indeed, there are more programs like a of Ms. Lentczner and this than I can possibly list, since over her husband, Dr. Jim Dutt. The dinner 150 faculty and and the opera we attended to student organizations that are tied oj the Regiment, relax the after, Daughter was an excellent way and enjoy each to young man who has our undivided attention, is discussing one of the values I serve as advisers academic to students' other. Terry Grant, staff interests. enjoy telling students and their parents during Freshman Orientation that we want students to BLOOM he gained from the program - "the Bloomsburg University Foundation began funding importance of starting something with share with you these examples of 25 awards the right attitude." people Two years ago, the Bloomsburg to be given to high school seniors who were acknowledged at their schools and in their communities. Each recipient is offered the opportunity to participate in the A PLP leaders PLE I'm pleased to say the majority of students are able officer, he is one of 14 students, including 11 of 29 members, who have chosen to live on the PLP wing of Schuylkill Hall this year. In this living/learning environment, community leadership opportunities. so. the direction of Ms. Joan relations, the students participate in a number of activities ILOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE The PLP is but one of many doing just committed a to nurturing that, young thanks who are them through focus on learning. new Lentczner, director of university and Under schedules to do are to the dedicated professionals new PLP and veteran PLP members encourage each other to participate in programs that promote a sense of community and foster to arrange their who at University. I'm pleased to Jessica Sledge Kozloff President Bloomsburg University GIFTS GALORE Carver Hall Afghan (maroon, blue, green) 2. Pom-pom on 3. 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