r> THE UNI Y-E:R SI TY MAGAZINE WINTER 2006 From the Executive Editor As I approach my second anniversary as Bloomsburg University's director of communications and executive editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine, I'm meeting more and more devoted university close to their hearts. all of our readers staff what's happening I hope each on campus and alumni who hold this magazine updates issue of this in the lives of students, faculty, and alumni. As you'll in on BU recall, we added the class notes section, Husky Notes, to the 2004, and we're pleased with the positive feedback we've received. fall also discovered that a word of explanation is magazine We day of instant necessary. In this communication, we've become accustomed to the immediacy of e-mail, Instant Messenger and the 24-hour news cycle. 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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is member of the Pennsylvania State System a of Higher Education Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board of Governors as of December 2005 Kenneth E. Jarin, Chair Kim E. Lyttle, Vice Chair CR. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair Matthew E. Baker Mark Collins Jr. Nathan Paul R. FEATURES Lammando Marie A. Conley Conroy Beauty and Brains Page 6 Dlugolecki S. Daniel P. Elby Passersby see an elegant mansion; entrepreneurs Michael K. Hanna David see the latest technology Holveck P. Vincent J. Hughes Allison Peitz with BU's Institute for Interactive Technologies. Guido M. Pichini Edward G. Rendell The Bloomsburg Regional Technology Center James j- Rhoades firms the facilities Christine J. Toretti Olson L, and services they need Zahorcak employment for current students offers grow to their businesses while creating internships Aaron A. Walton Gerald and an abundance of opportunities arising from a strong relationship and and recent grads. Chancellor, State System of Higher Education The Super Page 10 Judy G. Hample Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees When Jim McBride 70 retired A.William Kelly 71, Chair from the Air Force he Robert J. Gibble '68, Vice Chair and then Steven thought he had found his ideal retirement job. Secretary B. Barth, Ramona H. Alley Lammando Marie Conley Roben Dampman LaRoy G. Davis never expected to lead the '94 '65 He Wyoming Department of Education and be responsible for the education '67 Charles C. Housenick of the '60 state's 78,000 students. Mowad Joseph J. Shymansky President, Rising with the Page 14 David J. Petrosky Jennifer a school superintendent position, Sun '06 Bloomsburg University Jessica Sledge Kozloff Owner of Sun Buick Pontiac Lori Guitson '87 the Women's Retail Executive Editor was Initiative first GMC to in Moosic, Pa., complete GM's program. Guitson has learned through sports and professional endeavors Liza Benedict Co- Editors that being successful is not Eric Foster her best. enough; she has to be Bonnie Martin Husky Notes Editor Doug Hippenstiel '68, '81M COVER STORY Irene Husky Heart Page 16 Editorial Assistant Johnson Doug Hippenstiel's Communications Assistants Lyneite Mong '08 his dedication to Emily Watson '08 collection of Agency will retire Snavely Associates, Ltd can be seen in husky memorabilia. Hippenstiel next month from his post of Alumni Affairs, but Art Director BU love for alumni and his impressive he'll '68 as director remain a Husky through and through. Debbie Shephard Curt Witness Page 20 Designer to History Woodcock Most people have seen Cover Photography on Eric Foster television, residence On the Cover Doug Hippenstiel retires next month life McCormack for administration 10-month tour of duty after a the devastation of war but James that and conflict in Afghanistan '90/'93M, BU's assistant director of and technology, saw put his skills it and training firsthand during a to the test. quarter century as director of Alumni Affairs. Address comments and questions Funding the Future Page 22 to: Bloomsburg: The University Magazine Waller Administration Building Scholarships play an integral role in the 400 a place from which to build. The East Second Bloomsburg, Street PA 17815-1301 Bloomsburg University on the Bloomsbwg; The University Magazine is friends of the university. Husky Notes and other alumni information appear at the BU alumni global network site, www.bloomualumni. com. Contact Alumni Affairs by phone, 570-3894058; fax, 570-389-4060: or e-mail, alum@bloomu.edu. Bloomsburg University and is is an AA/EEO accessible to disabled persons. committed need that. DEPARTMENTS published three times a year for alumni, current students' and of a university, but they Web at httpy/www.bloomu .edu. families life Foundation, a separate organization dedicated to supporting BU, provides just E-mail address: lbenedict@bloomu.edu Visit BU institution Bloomsburg Page 2 News Notes Page 23 Husky Notes Page 31 Calendar of Events Page 32 Over the Shoulder by way of providing equal educational and employUniversity is ment opportunities to affirmative action for all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, disability or veteran status. WINTER 2006 News Notes Devoted to Benton Native^ will funds BU scholarship Thomas Diltz left Benton, Pa., in the early- hometown 1940s, but his love for his lifetime. As a monument lasted a to his affection for the small Columbia County community, Diltz established a scholarship that will help Benton residents attend BU. be awarded in Diltz willed fall The first scholarship will 2006. more than $98,000 Bloomsburg University Foundation an annual scholarship for BU to the to establish freshmen who graduate from Benton Area High School. Diltz, who earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas, BU through his brother, is connected to Carl Diltz '43. Carl Diltz says his brother graduated from Benton High School in 1941, enrolled in a 10- week engineering school in Bloomsburg and then moved Thomas to Diltz spent time in front of the camera while working for the Texas University Extension Program. He joined the Navy in 1943, was stationed in New York, Illinois, Iowa and Oklahoma, and became an aviation cadet. Philadelphia to study with the Signal Corps. "Tom and U.S. After his discharge, he earned fine arts degrees University of Texas. He made from the February 2004 He remained in Texas, where he at the I talked with Carl Diltz says. Benton, and he liked that he could do something for Benton films for the Texas University and and Wildlife Commission where he worked until his retirement. had no children, and "We discussed how he could create something for the people of Benton. He loved Extension Program, moving to the publications department of the Texas Parks his wife him about his will," as a memorial to our folks." For information on establishing a scholarship through the Bloomsburg University Foundation, died in call (570) 389-4524. age of 80. Business Specialist BU hosts Fulbright scholar from Calcutta Sharmistha Banerjee, a senior lecturer at the University of Calcutta, helped professor Ruhul management Amin and adjunct faculty Steve Hibbard teach three classes who last fall. Banerjee, has 10 years of teaching experience, one of five faculty from member India selected was from among specialist in small business management and entrepreneurship, Banerjee says that India benefits from having a relatively large labor pool and citizens Sharmistha Banerjee, with a relatively high level of left, spent the fall for Americans to diversity. 3,500 years of heritage," she says. yet have so diverse, one country. The food, the language and it is still the clothing change Most "We "It is when you travel 200 miles." Indians speak three languages, adds She notes, language of India; and official English. Banerjee and Amin presented a paper, "Comparative Small Business Effectiveness: Toward a Model," at the International Business and Economic semester teaching at BU. At right Ruhul Amin, management professor. is skills. is its Banerjee: a vernacular language; Hindi, the 141 applicants for the fellowship. A The most important thing appreciate about India however, that many of the businesses in India are family-run without records being kept or taxes paid. BLOOMSBURG Research Conference. The presentation nominated for best was paper at the conference. UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Extreme Makeover Husky mascotgets a, new BU look mascot Roongo's extreme makeover was revealed the football last fall at game opening the Huskies' undefeated season. Here Roongo takes a break from cheering to pose with BU President Jessica Kozloff, her husband Steve and their children and grandchildren. Shown, left are Kyle Kozloff, his wife daughter Lily. to right, seated Emme and their Standing, second row, are the Kozloffs' grandsons, Ethan Collins and Cameron Kozloff. Standing, back row, are Becky Kozloff Collins holding daughter Libby, her husband Jeff Collins, Roongo and Jessica and Steve Kozloff. Applied Chemist BU professor contributes to Nobel Prize-winning research A first-year professor has hand knowledge that first- of the research won the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry for Robert H. Grubbs of allows for the creation of natural polymers, such as plastics or rubbery materials and pharmaceuticals. Morgan, the California Institute of Technology. John P. Morgan contributed six papers and five Grubbs who worked more than for with five years as a graduate student at patents to Grubbs' work, which Caltech, said an important was component recognized for impact on its of the research environmentally safe chemistry its and chemistry. According to its potential uses medical in the field. Grubbs' research focused on creating compounds reactions faster and that make more team is John contribution to green Morgan P. who chemists Grubbs' team created could be theory of chemistry. He made degradable. The catalysts known in those theories and pharmaceuticals without see and negative ecological effects. of chemistry," catalysts accelerated reactions Currently, by more than one hundred times. from biological sources. many drugs come Morgan utilize Currently, ested in became the field for applying can also be used to produce learned N-heterocyclic carbene effective. His research cared about the Morgan, the polymers that was able to the practicality Morgan Morgan is said. inter- using N-heterocyclic He use is also interested in Metals that are used to combat can have a negative immune response. Morgan hopes carbenes can be used to disguise the metals so the immune system carbenes for ecological and body's reactions considerably, but they teaching him the importance of medical purposes. Because combat them. allowed us to make compounds applied chemistry. that we Morgan couldn't make said. This before," technology WINTER 2006 came credits "When Bob into this business, was surrounded by he inorganic they are strong metal binders, carbenes can be used to clean up metal from waste streams. their diseases, particularly cancer, Grubbs with "Not only did they speed up in biological organisms. doesn't News Notes Dean Retiring Liu retires from Liberal Arts, Agbango serves as Hsien-Tung Liu, dean interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts, retired in January after 14 years at Bloomsburg University. Liu's Hsien-Tung Liu academic background includes a bachelor's and a master's degree In his retirement, he is in English and a doctoral degree public policy. in returning to California. In his time at BU, Liu was an advocate for liberal arts education, and the work of Dean's ago Award faculty. academic He rigor instituted the for Excellence several years to recognize faculty for their teaching and research. George Agbango, professor science, is Arts until a permanent dean to George Agbango coming was in elected a 1979. In Member of 1981, to in named. Atlanta. A native of Ghana, Prior 1 990, Agbango Parliament of the Ghana National Assembly Agbango was Ghana's accredited delegate left in at Clark Atlanta University United Nations General Assembly. Following Ghana, Agbango is Bloomsburg University Agbango taught and at Spelman College, both of political serving as interim dean of Liberal Africa in 1 983 to pursue Brit tingham Sept. 10 runs through the Red Raider defense during the match-up that saw BU beat Shippensburg 49-21. to the political instability in advance studies United States. He holds a doctor of philosophy degree Jamar in the in political Face in the Crowd Brittingham comes in third for Harlon Hill trophy, is featured in SI science from Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, and master's of public administration degree from Atlanta University. Sophomore tailback Jamar New Trustee Brittingham of Levittown Bloomsburg native appointed Harlon 2005 finished third for the Hill Award honoring NCAA Division IFs college Bloomsburg native Charles C. "Nick" House- football player of the year. nick '60 was appointed to BU's Council of Brittingham, Trustees last fall. A councilman with the Town of Bloomsburg for the past 12 years, Charles 'Nick' Housenick chaired the town's parking and Housenick municipal authorities and is a past director of Bloomsburg Rotary Club, Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce and Columbia Alliance for Economic Growth. the Professionally, he's had two distinct careers: as president who was featured in Sports lllustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" section in late October 2005, was one of 26 candidates just the overall and second sophomore be named to the top three since 1987. During the 2005 season, Brittingham led the country in game with 187.5 and and general manager of the former Housenick Motor Co. and as an account executive with the financial planning firms of with 17.5 points per game. Hutton and Co., Williamsport, and, Oppenheimer and Co., Bloomsburg. Year. E.F. Each of the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education ees whose members approved by the since 1989, with are is advised by a Council of Trustrecommended by the governor and Jamar Brittingham to rushing yards per He in scoring average totaled 2,060 yards rushing and was named the PSAC Eastern Division Player of the He also earned PSAC East Player of the Week five times during the season. Bloomsburg's only Harlon Hill winner who won the award is Irv Sigler '99 in 1997. state Senate. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE At the State Level Volunteer Responder CGA president joins Board of Governors Simpson member of state radiation team BU's Community Government was David Simpson, associate professor of physics and applied Association president technology, has joined Pennsylvania's Radiological Assis- appointed to the Pennsylvania One of a team of about 40 volunteers across the state, Simpson may respond to radiological incidents where he will advise the on-scene commander regarding issues and hazards. As a member of this team, Simpson has tance Program. been issued a set of radiation instruments from the state to use in this response. The team provides the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency with the calling on capability of radiation safety experts from across the state to respond as needed to a radiation incident. System of Higher Educa- State tion's Hm W-i Board of Governors last fall. Nathan Conroy of Nescopeck, a senior majoring in secondary education hold the position history, will until J -- and Nathan Conroy he graduates. To be eligible, a student must be serving as president of the student government association at one of the 14 State System universities. The nominee's name works from the State System chancellor's office to the Governors and then to the governor its way Board of for review. After the governor reviews the students' qualifications, names are sent to the state Senate for a vote. Conroy has been involved with the CGA since his He also is president of the Orientation Workshop Leaders, known as OWLs. He serves as chair of the Kehr Union board and new student organizations sophomore year. committee. Conroy is University Democrats, and Political active in the Democracy Model United Nations, Matters, History Club Organization for Student Involvement. As president of CGA, he also has a seat on the Blooms- burg University Foundation Board of Directors. The PASSHE Board of Governors consists of 20 members that plan and coordinate development and operation of the David Simpson will use these radiation instruments as a volunteer with Pennsylvania's Radiological Assistance Program. Artists Unite Student group raises $742 for Katrina victims BU's Student Art Association responded last fall to an appeal from Louisiana State University made through the National Association for Schools of Art and Design. The students held an art sale that raised $742 to purchase art supplies for affected by Hurricane Katrina. Shown sale are, at right, student Jes Engle, a ceramic piece by faculty and, far right, member LSU students during the who Karl displays Beamer Leigh Wetterau, president of the Student Art Association, while Nicole Clark and who prices works Matthew Bonner WINTER 2006 shop. BU Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. bW^Hb 1 v 7 m v^Li^ . — ?j. ' i *) i ill J 1 1 J Hyi' --- — ;'.-•?"'. — r fi I r - * >» -J i a a -J : • ii J/BSai STORY BY JACK SHERZER PHOTOS BY ERIC FOSTER and Brains Small towns generally aren't seen latest technology. Bloomsburg's as the hub of the new Regional Technology Center aims to change that perception with a partnership of BU faculty and alumni, entrepreneurs, community members, and state and local ] — R^ « -fk 4 government officials who have created a facility where business opportunities are nurtured while keeping young graduates in the region. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE jt S ^HESsSKH len talking about what sets the recently opened Bloomsburg Regional Technology Center apart, Mark T. Burke points to a wall jack with three telephone connectionlike ports. Throughout the pillared elegant, white- mansion, these simple- looking jacks allow easy access for computer networking or cable, telephone connections. "We aren't just limited to sitting someone in a certain area with one computer," says Burke, director of Keystone National High School, an accredited provider of distance learning programs. month we need to a given "If in add three Mark T. Burke '99M shows off the Bloomsburg Regional Technology Center, home of Keystone National High School. —no run- people, we're ready to go ning wires across the ceiling or how to trying to figure out them At was get step further service." Burke is also quick to point out preserved historic mansion and its blended modern infra- tenant only is when it opened in July why at least four others 2005, and have already followed Key according to Burke and others, is and graduate students Bloomsburg University's tute for Interactive Insti- Technologies and the technology industry. For years, the university has been a valuable resource for technology firms, on with faculty able to consult projects and well-trained student interns who often prized employees. WINTER 2006 first-class as well as space for established Companies in the center expertise afforded sity, and by the univer- a thriving tech center could be a catalyst for attracting become building," says is a marvelous Tim Phillips, chair of the university's Department of Instructional also keep our graduates in the munity. As it grows, the benefits ripple out, stores benefit, housing benefits from Burke, it, but perfect example. intern with Keystone in tum-of-the-century building that has been reborn." online course offerings and then became a full-time employee. The company, which serves more than 25,000 students worldwide, its students faculty. The university's Institute for Interactive Technologies also plans Attracting companies to the the 1999 depends on Bloomsburg's technol- Technology and all a when the company created its ogy program and win is He started as an and a starts small." degree in interactive technologies tive Technologies. "This is a is it who earned a master's director of the Institute for Interac- area area, keeping that expertise in the com- from Bloomsburg in 1999, could benefit from the nearby "The tech center the strong relationship between in creating a center other technology firms to the area. suit. to the center's success, the faculty by could serve as an incubator for firms. pan of the reason Keystone became the center's first structure that ago the idea new technology firms, that the beauty of the carefully cleverly least five years bom to take that relationship a way around, Phillips says. "These are the types of jobs that will attract people and to open an office in the center, which Burke says will further help companies access the expertise they need. "The connection Continued on page 8 is he critical for us," says, adding that from the university work on interns everything from marketing to devel- new online oping graphics. "They animation and come know- in here we need to get done; drey have the skills we need, and we ing what couldn't do it without them." The Keystone High School In addition to Keystone, the now houses Conveyor Co., center an engineering BU graduates, left to right: Kristie '89r01M, Charles Wachira '99/'03M, Kelly Higgins Millar '99M, Susan Soozie' office that designs power plant equipment; staff includes these Feola Schaffer '93/'01M, Vanessa Klingensmith '99M, Dorie Dowhower-Henrie Hummel '76/'82M, Barbara Cotner Laidacker '94M and Ginger Phillips Morgan RGT Shaffer '94/'01M. Associates, a marketing firm that New New York and Connecticut; "When you look at one helps housing developers in Jersey, and Keynetx provides biggest reasons firm that Inc., a leave Web hosting and area, it's because they don't find the kind of challenging jobs they are looking for in their consulting services. The Bloomsburg Regional Technology Center's an first said Seibert, big step toward who field," received a master's from Bloomsburg in in education "I'm a believer in technology, of the young professionals I projects succeed around the Gordner think we'll be very says. "I state," successful in encouraging recent graduates to start the tech center new businesses at and encouraging becoming a 1978. "Having existing businesses to set up when brings to the area companies in the offices in the tech center, using high-tech field that can convince either reality came in 2002, members sold their former lodge on Market Street to the Elks Columbia Alliance for Growth, a non-profit Economic kind of facility and have professionals to stay here of the affiliate this their families here." Columbia Montour Chamber of Gordner, who also sits on Ben Commerce. The mansion, located Franklin's board, says near Market Square, was built by a intrigued with the idea of harness- town physician around 1900. Working with the chamber and ing the "gem" represented by the the university were cials Bloomsburg university's technology school using offi- and Ben Franklin Technology Partners, state to it to influence development an organization created and funded by the he was and economic off campus. Gordner helped secure $ 1 million spearhead in state capital project funding had been by Govs. (Bloomsburg technology) Ed Edwards, president of the Chamber of Commerce and the Alliance, says the community already has benefited from the project. "We wanted to preserve Edwards its adding that town leaders were concerned that the mansion's architectural significance, which mixes Greek Schweiker and Rendell. Additionally, Victorian styles, from strong support from Sen. John he pushed future generations. Gordner and Gov. Ed Rendell, as a well as from two Bloomsburg former Gov. Mark Schweiker and state Rep. David Millard Ben Franklin, says sense to build on university already ogy companies. it just recognized revival would be Their efforts paid was taken off. and lost for Obvious in restoring the deep grads, program, created under Rendell, care 75 provides incentives for projects that wood paneling in the partner with colleges and universities entrance area, where visitors find a to attract industry. stately fireplace against the far wall '88. Larry Seibert, regional manager for to get the site Keystone Innovation Zone. The to reclaim community and architectural features," says, The $4 as be able that building for the that million project also benefited satellite students or graduates." technology business development. set aside and have seen other incubator-type made the relationship the had with technol- Firms locating in the Greater and Susquehanna Keystone Innovation One Zone, which includes the tech another huge center, may be eligible for tax credits next year, according to the Columbia building's a grand staircase to the right. office off the lobby features yet fireplace. A wall-to-wall oriental rag graces the lobby, and on the two upper Alliance. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Bloomsburg Regional Technology Center The Greek revival and Victorian mansion was built around 1900 by a town physician. Before being purchased by the Columbia Alliance for Economic Growth in 2002, it was the local Elks lodge. The extensive, $4 million renovation about technology companies and preserved the mansion's charm, including how they work. woodwork, stained and leaded windows and original hardwood original glass floors on student 18,000 square on four feet of leasable space floors (including the completely Dedicated fiber optic trunk to building with speed connections to each flexible, secure, Lisa Verge's career path illustrates Conference rooms on each floor that can be shared by tenants. Shared grads in the area. After receiving an break rooms and a shower and changing • Keyless entry system and video surveillance. • Tenant control of heating/cooling, which • For more information, contact the Columbia Alliance (570) 784-2522 or on the — how local opportunities can keep Building-wide cable television distribution system. at company about what it's like to work with clients and get a product out the door that's when they get high- office. • Growth is undergraduate degree in biology area. from Bloomsburg in 1996 and then a master's in instructional technol- included in the lease for rate. ogy in 1998, Verge went Economic ton, N.J. Web at www.bloomsburg.org/ creates online instructional courses for workers, agreed in up have been restored. Plenty of windows wanted a site close downtown, hoping to generate throughout give natural further offices on floors all levels, light to the even in the basement, which has been renovated with wide hallways. as organizers economic benefits was a factor to Technologies, says additional companies have He foresees more technology moving firms to the area, the void. the tech center rooms and the ability to lease believes the center will attract big firms looking to expand both test and smaller the waters. Verge says her firm has hired Bloomsburg technology graduates and brought on interns. EduNeering.com also has benefited from the university. it, creating opportunities who to stay in the area. The value of the "We're very interested in looking to the future, beyond what we're doing today," Verge says. (instructional technology) "The program does a good job of internship opportunities at the university with these companies keeping up to date in a rapidly cannot be overstated, he changing industry." says. "We can all b talk until we're blue in the face and read fills With shared conference consulting with the experts at close to want WINTER 2006 difficult at the and for graduates dedication of the Regional Technology Center. was into the tech center more job State Sen. John Gordncr takes part in the it ones looking to expressed interest in the tech center. to set varying amounts of space, she assistant director of the Institute for Interactive Verge says and she thinks district. Karl Kapp, a professor of instruc- and 1999 a branch office in Bloomsburg. time to find suitable office space, for Bloomsburg's main business tional technology Edwards, a 1973 Bloomsburg grad, says location also to employer EduNeering.com, which SOURCE: Columbia Alliance for Economic Growth wooden to Prince- Knowing she wanted return to the Bloomsburg area, her Alliance/technology_center. levels, the not until a a real understanding." • assets also include it's under the the president of a small start-up renovated basement). • But actually pressure of a deadline or talking to the upper levels. Building highlights include: • is we want Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. native. He lives 10 B L O O M S B U R G THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WANTED: SUPERINTENDENT FILL STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTEN- DENT'S UNEXPIRED TERM. MUST BE WILLING TO SPEND WANTED: PERSON TO $1 Jim McBride 70 keeps trying to retire. BILLION TO $2 BILLION IN SCHOOL RECONSTRUCTION, He retired as a GIVE AWAY PROCEEDS FROM $440 MILLION COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS AND BE IN TRUST FOR LINE FOR school MORE district east of thought MONEY FROM MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR STATE SURPLUS. APPLY TO WYOMING. niche: colonel from the Wyoming Department of Education, hed found Denver. programs and distance learning a post that put Jim Sandi close to their daughter Monique's family in Cheyenne, But and his wife Wyo. broke into open warfare between Trent Blankenship, the Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal late in summer of 2005. Blankenship resigned in the middle of his term, which state the hostilities He even his retirement A back-office job managing federal for the full Air Force and as superintendent of a school superintendent, and officially ends in January 2007. The leadership was failing, badly, and with public recriminations. "Several people inside me," McBride recalls. and outside "They I'm not politically connected. What really pushed him I the department had gotten you put your name thought I had no chance at all." said, 'Why don't into the ring describes the department as a very to know in the hat?' were the nominees. McBride complex and difficult organization. "There who were just politicians who were talking about running. They hadn't read No Child Left Behind they couldn't even spell NCLB!" His wife said, "Why complain? Why not just fix it?" were people — "So here I am," he says. And there went his retirement. Again. In many ways, it's a dream job. "Wyoming's on the crest of an economic boom that's going to last another decade. We not only have the ability, but we have the funds to make this happen. It's going to be a neat ride," McBride says. Economic boom: Donkey wells plunging and rising filled with oil 24/7, mile-long trains of coal bound for Cheyenne and points east, tractors churning up bentonite on "farms" near the Montana border, trains loaded with soda ash in the southwestern part of the through sagebrush and wheat hunting, fishing, fabulous scenery, dug up, pumped out, scraped Continued on next page WINTER 2006 state, cattle spread out wind energy farms near Laramie, rumors of opals and gold. If it can be grass, off, harvested, butchered, shot at, cast for, 'The thing that's often missing education in leadership.' is real —Jim McBride '70 or even looked Wyoming has it at, for sale. And it's a that The state is under a court order to improve its school facilities and in its fourth lawsuit over financing which means spending SI billion or more in school construction statewide. Thanks to Wyoming's wealth, McBride doesn't have he says, to scrounge for the money. You ought to be able to control Right now, each Wyoming school architectural firm school. and creating plans "Then they submit the plan them we can't pay for One was it. and we to us, To end in the Taj list by a Democratic governor. Just weeks lican appointed he slashed 5450,000 from the budget, and bridges as well as tear "The thing tell be a one- Mahal construction." a handful of basic plans, along with an a la of extras that the districts pay for themselves. for the job in a deputy superintendent position, "showing that he can build leadership," military and down palaces," according to an Casper Star-Tribune. missing in education that's often he says. "I've and lots lots had a and is real experience in the lot of lots of practice... and I genuinely like people." avoid that, McBride has suggested the state offer its districts carte that will A few months into his tenure, McBride had already editorial in the four times per square foot the going rate. If we're not careful, there'll upsmanship an dream to and run. he placed one of his competitors fis- costs." district is hiring for its tail what they have garnered kudos from just about everyone. He's a Repub- into his job, "Even in a boom, you ought to be cally responsible. be accredited. He institutions of higher learning do, they'll turn — Still, all believes once the diploma mills see market. seller's So what's next for McBrides schools? windswept Wyoming, where one county can be as large as Connecticut and have a population of 4,900 In "A small elementaty, a large elementary, middle schools, people, where the drive to a full-service grocery store high schools, maybe even a junior high," he says. may be 60 miles one way, where "neighbors" sometimes to help guide the facilities commission so that "I want we build some of these and then when the community is ready, take them through and say, What's wrong with this?' We've got to be very careful to develop some criteria." The state's also sitting on a S440 million trust fund that will allow free college educations for students —Hathaway scholarships, in Wyoming He sees families to honor of former going to happen." the scholarships as a children can go to college for proved graduation free. "It will rates, better learning, development boom — it's Though legislation for "On any given we have about the same number some large urban have less districts. —more frontier schools 14 classes of six, 10, Many of our 48 school many have numerous than 350 kids, rural than 'rural.' Graduating aren't is uncommon," he says. "One for us to make every effort at — in im- last That's the legal decision out lawsuit says, 'the best the state can provide.' where computers and video come there are only seven students in the class the scholarships won't be want staff rules, writing story- boards for commercials and hiring way to honor him?" One dark cloud over the says, 'What better Wyoming's reputation for harboring diploma mills. Because of a legal loophole, the state is the nominal home of numer- ous "colleges" that give out worthless degrees, that Hathaway scholarship money provides a to close that loophole math class. the class that and only two Why not hook her up to and have her teach way? He's optimistic and excited about the possibilities. staff. scholarships: to take her several schools throughout the state On this snowy October day, he's just returned from Hathaway's funeral, and he pauses and in. Suppose, he proposes, Mrs. Smith teaches math, but almost pick-a-category." have already started developing McBride plans day, of kids in school in the entire state (about 78,000) as of the an economic passed until sometime this spring, McBride and his lure. enthused about the equal access and equal education that their end is computers and distance education. of the biggest challenges way to draw young Wyoming with the knowledge 15 miles apart, McBride possibilities of districts Gov. Stan Hathaway. "That's going to happen," McBride states. "That's absolutely live and Will McBride run for a full term as state superinten- when this partial term ends? "I'm not ready to make that announcement yet." he says, "but I can't dent imagine having accomplished everything in the brief time remaining. is a great time to I love what I I want do, be in education in Wyoming!" do to and it truly b all delectable by requiring Laurie Creasy, a Pennsylvania native, in now writes and edits Wyoming BLOOM SBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE jij]ij75 ™ RLOOMSBURG e University Foundation Following in the footsteps of inspiring educators like Christa McAulifFe, the first teacher in space, Kerry Gordon of Danville is learning to educate toddlers and young children. A scholarship funded by contributions to Bloomsburg University Foundation makes that possible. Learn how you can help other BU students like Kerry reach their dreams. Call (570) 389-41 28. Or check the at www.bloomu.edu/giving. World Wide Web I m sin Wm*^* 1 J College down is like a four-year driver's education course that prepares life's merge onto expected journey, you may a road. But, instead of the an interesting detour. That's what happened to Sun the before deciding own dealership. at STORY BY DAWN LEAS manager sales was time it buy her to She resigned from Saturn and entered the General Motors Women's Retail Initia- program, designed to increase the tive presence of women in the automotive Lori Guitson learned the word meaning industry. For almost Guitson studied "drive" long before she . . She learned it while competing and coaching on diamonds and hockey field two in McLean, Va., and worked in various dealerships to gain experience in Softball and service, sales fields. Guitson graduated from Blooms- parts. was the first female to get into burg University in 1987 with a degree the program, and I in secondary education/math. to "I She planned, of course, to teach and did for a short time. hand at She also tried was the her my dealership," she explains. get owner of became the Sun Buick Pontiac GMC Marywood University in Scranton in Moosic, Pa., where she led the crew of 28 employees who team to a 24-3 record and an Eastern States Athletic Conference service (ESAC) champi- there, she moved on to Mansfield University. "I where she heads new Buick, vehicles make onship in 1988. From and used says, I really care came back and but didn't started like that as not just car. I lifetime of cars to need member," Guitson family and friends. treat the Guitson, who challenge and competitiveness of sell- from Lehighton says the the path to an education career, she drive realized that a future in the automotive Her recent her Guitson spent and served bucket like a 1 1 seat. years at Saturn as the franchise's sales WINTER 2006 one to sell a To retain business, customer like a family ing cars, and after trying to get back on fit any them, plus their we She found she liked the against for a season Who has most influenced her my drive and my success, Jan Hutchinson, my field career? "As far as hockey and drives to commute 45 minutes favorites include a Pontiac and BU," at 'Winning wasn't enough. the coach who, last fall, me. want ever I I to need earned her "I guess throughout that being successful I We had our best," Guitson says of to play be to is I a Pontiac G6 coupe. She believes playing sports prepared her for business by teaching carry not enough my best, be the best I my life, can be and what- at am doing." In Guitson's office, several gates are strategically placed to confine her retriever, Cosmo. Could they for the hurdles has overcome to achieve her Guitson level of success? Possibly. But, she defdy maneuvers around these, just as she cleared the hurdles that stood in her way as she drove toward buying ing its success, GMC and cultivat- b Moosic each day, allows her to test many of the vehicles sold at Sun. Solstice coach Softball she says. Sun Buick Pontiac says. and Hockey Championship Team. that philosophy simple and to sell Softball BU and still holds at GMC be in business." area tempted her to veer off the educa- industry 235 shots golden is to soft- 457 shots against in a career. And she was a member of the 1984 BU Field "We believe," she new direction. A help-wanted ad for a new Saturn store in the Allentown tion route. hockey be a metaphor person one a field customer, be honest, be straightforstill Little Area High School. She played and and was at Pittston (Pa.) 1,500th career victory. "you can take care of your "My goal Guitson explains. Then life's detour led Guitson in is and basketball ball ward and much as I liked teaching and coaching," a resonates with values from Guitson's years with Saturn. for the area. vehicles of play on her first girl to League team and then went on for and to substitute, the set goals mediocrity. She settle for and Pontiac and Sun's philosophy enjoyed the but just didn't sell or model. position there coaching field hockey Softball, her to be competitive, to not to In January 2004, she coaching, spending a year at Softball female first complete the program from A to Z and find yourself taking two individual goalkeeping records: years, National Auto- at the mobile Dealers Association Academy sold a Saturn. .or a Buick. .or a Pontiac. trip '87. Guitson Lori manager and general her position of the you for the superhighway. At graduation, you receive your "license" and carefully Freelance writer Dawn Leas is the associate director of admission for Wyoming Seminary Lower School. She lives with her family in northeastern Pennsylvania. STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS Doug Hippenstiel '68/'81M has lived most of his life within a few miles of Bloomsburg University, so he was a natural for the post of Alumni Affairs director. After almost 26 years at the helm, he's preparing to retire from an Alumni Association he steered into the 21st century. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE — " MM Mj hen you MM mm office step inside Douglas Husky eyes blue greet [ippenstiel's I you from all MW Incomers. Plush Huskies and framed Huskies, a Husky welcome mat and a Husky footstool, Husky ornaments and Husky statues. Almost 26 years worth of Husky collecting lines the shelves, desk, windowsills and floor of the office of the director of Alumni Affairs in Fenstemaker Alumni House. "I can't see anything Husky and not buy it," says Hippenstiel, who even pondered a real Husky puppy before realizing he valued his furniture too take his obsession that much to Danville been a News all had worked part-time English. At the for the as a reporter/photographer, stringer for the same tute teaching to help During his nine time, he moonlighted by full-time years at the Association, handling production of cation. He became substi- support his growing family. Morning its growing publi- the full-time director of Alumni 1980 following the retirement of Bloomsburg first director of Alumni Affairs, retired me to apply for the job, saying it's a good job pointing out that the job has grown tremendously He currently travels about 20,000 miles a year to alumni events this spring. whom BU President Jessica Kozloff has for a family man," Hippenstiel says with a roll of his eyes, along with the Alumni Association. of accomplishments with a special event —"and Continued on next page Maroon and Gold" actually became a Husky moved into the director's office. He grew called "Mr. long before he up just a few miles down the road in Lightstreet and enrolled at the university in 1964. Bloomsburg, I "If it hadn't been for probably wouldn't have been able to go to college," says Hippenstiel, whose family couldn't afford expensive tuition. He enrolled as a history me I'd major, but "everybody told never get a job teaching history," so he switched to English. To he quips this day, that he doesn't take any student's choice of major seriously mencement. "I until com- comfort parents by saying, This try to is their opportunity to explore.' After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1968, Hippenstiel taught English for three years in the Central Columbia and Danville Area school signing on with what was then now Press Enterprise — in the before Morning Press Bloomsburg "That was a tough decision because Hippenstiel districts I as a reporter. loved teaching," recalls. In the 1960s, However, he ence in the field also loved journalism, went back WINTER 2006 and his experi- to seventh grade, when he Press, Alumni school superintendent Donald Watts. "He encouraged things Husky ends on March 31, 2006, when he will retire 26 years as director of Alumni Affairs. The Alumni Association will honor his longtime commitment and The man and he had Morning Press while he taught Hippenstiel began working part-time for the University's after list years in college, he Affairs in far. Hippenstiel's professional dedication to lengthy began helping with the school newspaper. For two Doug Hippenstiel was of Maroon and Gold. editor-in-chief that doesn't count flying." Most events are in Pennsylvania, where 75 percent of Bloomsburg alumni live. Over the past two decades, the Alumni Association has gready increased the events it number of sponsors, now topping 50 to 60 each year. Hippenstiel notes that the total is deceptively since Doug Hippenstiel is shown as a college low, homecoming, for senior, above, example, counts as one event, although and early in his career as director of Alumni Affairs. it Together, encompasses numerous call tion university haven't forgotten has always emphasized communication. "When I ment and started as from an alum," he and recalls. "Except for the publica- fundraising, there wasn't a lot of communica- good more alumni in the life of the university. "A lot of alumni welcome the opportunity to interact with students, " Doug Hippenstiel says. involve Today, answering e-mails from alumni often consumes a large part of Hippenstiel's association itself can send an e-mail to 6,000 alumni in a matter of minutes. number jumps we association has for been able to more alumni in the life of the university, Hippenstiel says. "A lot of alumni welcome the opportu- nity to interact with students." Already, alumni are acting as mentors to students. .and to other alumni. . The "Mentoring" link on the Alumni Association Web site, www.bloomualumni.com, connects those who volunteer with those who are looking for a mentor. The Web site offers information to alumni in a way the director couldn't have imagined In addition to the online tion bought and renovated office is has an online directory of all advances the make. 'We've always had A primary goal for the Alumni Association is to involve than 50,000 graduates. Already, the director empha- Bloomsburg University alumni. about good Alumni Board who were very supportive," House during Hippenstiel's sizes, the association "That's says. addresses while compiling a print directory of more living many of the entire soon, as the association collects e-mail of. "It's all Hippenstiel credits a positive relationship with more than that proud do," he says. workday. The He hopes the relationships." Alumni Board members he A primary goal for the Alumni Association is to and —an accomplish- them that Hippenstiel is particularly really at the root of what a really tion with alumni." 1 that the association Hippen- a former English teacher Alumni Affairs director, we all had typewriters, not computers. Once in a great while, I'd get a letter from an alum. Once in a while, I'd get a phone first of these communication improve- reporter, As stiel all ments help alumni know individual programs. on 26 years ago. home, the Alumni Associa- its Fenstemaker Alumni tenure. The director's the second floor of the stately building, pur- chased in 1985 from the estate of Dorothy Dillon '24 and named in honor of Howard F. Fenstemaker 12, BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE As director of Alumni Affairs, Doug Hippenstiel travels more than 20,000 miles a year to alumni events. Most events are in Pennsylvania, where 75 percent of Bloomsburg alumni live. who was editor of the alumni quarterly for and president of the Alumni Association 45 years for a decade. down the home he shares with his wife Hippenstiel will retire just a few miles road, to the Almedia Son Robert Hippenstiel earned a business manage- ment degree from Bloomsburg in 1998, works for Weis Markets and lives in Millville. The Hippenstiels excuse their daughter Joanna Pruden for attending Miami Kathy. Although they attended the same high school, the University of they didn't start dating until they were at BU, where since she earned a full-tuition scholarship to the Kathy earned a degree in elementary education in Florida school. She lives in Loyalsock 1969. She's already retired from her career as an teaches elementary school teacher in the Central Columbia Technology School will Hippenstiel's list of retirement activities be spending time with Kathy and their children. becoming in Williamsport. swim and walk true to your school Looking for a bigger connection with your alma mater click to "to-read" shelf during his busy bought books 1 on "Volunteer." You'll see a make list of more than 60 contact with other alumni. Opportunities range committees to the legacy scholarship committee. You can collect and preserve information about alumni have served in the armed Web site forces, assist with the or help plan who trip its start in 1 979, when says. a group of programs got New Jersey alumni began representing the university Admissions Office at that involves had enough of those three careers, and 952 to the Class of 2002 one of them," Hippenstiel It's I loved each says. his last job, though, that has forged the relationships home, —and he'll the most most souvenirs. With no room be getting rid of most of the Husky treasures in his office; his three grandchildren get dibs on their favorites (he'll youngest grandchild, a who was bom in August). Husky through and through. relationships." first have to choose for the After will all, "It's all remain about b attend 25 to 30 college fairs a year, says founding coordinator Dick Lloyd '62, who recruited Bloomsburg students even before he retired from his alumni relations position with Rutgers University. "Bloomsburg was very important to me," Lloyd says. "As kids and their parents are walking down keep that name in the aisle at college fairs. . .I want to front of them." "This really extends the reach of our Admissions Office," adds Douglas Hippenstiel, director of Alumni Affairs. "Many of our out-of-state students are from New Jersey." WINTER 2006 in Affairs director. "I've can honestly say I The mementos may go, but Hippenstiel prospective students find out more about the university. 1 want anything Alumni Teacher. Journalist. had college fairs throughout the Garden State, helping Today, alumni from the Class of don't my various careers." at of the longest-running volunteer "I a time clock or deadlines. I've Alumni an annual theater to Stratford, Ontario. One could read them," he Hippenstiel expects to remain involved with the Alumni Association as a volunteer, but on his terms: from the alumni tent at home football games to regional Association than faster retires, up on his career. "I always www.bloomualumni.com and events and organizations that allow you to help out and to He also intends to spend lots of time reading the 100-plus Once he and fellow alumni? Go to avoid a "couch potato" in retirement. novels and biographies that have built Be Township and Pennsylvania College of at the Hippenstiel plans to District. Topping math rather than Bloomsburg, Tmcey M. Dooms is in State College, Pa. a freelance writer and editor living after Hurricane Katrina. But Afghani- stan is skills, where his training and dedication were put to their greatest test. Invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979, Afghanistan was a battleground for clashes between Soviet and Afghan, or James McCormack group of BU is among mujahidin, forces for the ensuing a dedicated 10 years. The withdrawal of Soviet students and former staff, war between forces led to civil students who leave their everyday routine behind when their country PAKIST' He considers calls. various factions, his which in turn coalesced into a struggle between the hard-line Islamic fundamentalist tour of duty in Afghanistan nearly three years ago to be Taliban and the Northern Alliance. the greatest test of his skills and training. The history of those struggles was written in the landscape of Bagram. As each side captured, Witness to History lost or recaptured territory, they laid fields of mines. For the American troops and the STORY BY ERIC FOSTER local Afghanis, the many fields of mines yielded a harvest of death When Maj. James McCormack stepped off the transport plane Bagram Air Field, McCormack has seen and disfigurement. "There wasn't computer technology go from the day that a mine didn't detonate," technology, at he entered a specialized equipment of scientists country that bore the scars of two and mathematicians decades of continuous warfare. appliances students use every It day. In nearly major combat by U.S. forces in the military, Afghanistan had passed. seen even greater changes. McCormack Army engineer like '90/'93M, the "It's work was around the airfield about 35 miles 20 years with McCormack has gone from being a situation just beginning. Buried in the arid soil where blue suiters didn't talk with green suiters to an integrated approach," McCormack, now north of Kabul were more than says 8 million landmines. major with the 213th "Forty-eight hours after I was standing I arrived, in a minefield that had been cleared the day before," recalls McCormack. "Mine clearing doctrine was being written based on McCormack. to the pervasive was March 2003, and much of the But for an recalls t a CROSS w m. 52910 im mm max c«m Area Support Group based lBt 5.160 j ,, nm 'til lit in Allentown. McCormack k,« trained in Kansas and Germany, was on standby for the first Gulf War, Afghan workers use a our experience in Afghanistan." As BU's dence 20 life assistant director of resi- for administration and a constructed playgrounds and walkin northeastern Pennsylva- ing trails nia and spent a week in Louisiana hammer and chisel to carve doors in steel shipping containers that were converted into buildings at the U.S. compound in Kabul. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE — a gone from being a situation where blue 'It's green suiters to an integrated approach.' Most of the mines were anti- tory. It seemed suiters didn't talk with —James McCormack that military history runs in cycles, and we were dinner plate and weighing just a few due for a conflict. figured I'd rather pounds. Fields were cleared with be a leader." personnel devices, smaller than a armored bulldozers through the soil plowed that and detonated the I about So McCormack, who from ground with chain National Guard as an infantryman. to set in 1993, enlisted in the buried explosives. After a field it flails would be checked by had been McCormack's tour was supposed In addition to managing tripling of the site's power grid video-teleconferencing center at the U.S. Embassy. mines by stepping on the Getting the work done tion fields fields. tractors. and to a common-sense working with area con- "Whatever you asked the Afghan contractors they could do After three years, he engineering unit. "Engi- neering spans everything from destruction James McCormack, photo above, poses right, shipping containers are stacked to create a building in Kabul. The constant warfare also mean says, Afghan electrical wiring. They'd use wire suitable for a McCormack. not nearly heavy enough for the volt- "That's the only branch that could keep me interested." ages being used. But In Afghanistan, after several weeks of clearing mines, where he served called to McCormack found as facility engineer that the Afghani workers learned quickly. And what Kabul home extension cord they lacked in technique, the Afghani workers made up "The compound became the aries operating post of a two-star general — less is just 17 and the Office of Military Coopera- than half that of tion-Afghanistan," says citizens. nothing but war," says McCormack, who was about the age of the typical Afghani when he chose to was a sophomore Bloomsburg, and was a major two-lane road, an elementary school and "We were join the military. it sand. at occurred to me a passive observer to his- WINTER 2006 McCormack. The compound was located in the hean of the city, nesded between civilian properties. separated by 7 feet of and earned — bound- respect. "We were making buildings of steel shipping containers, out and the doors and windows had to be cut into them," McCormack remembers. "While some workers cut out the doors with a torch, others were cutting the openings with a chisel sledge and hammer." b A 500-pound car bomb would have taken out half the compound," says in determination to get the job done age of an Afghani "A whole generation knew I For example, he workers took a different approach to quality that bridged cultural American that what you wanted." and deputy ganison commander. years old "I McCormack. show them exact- more than mark the land. marked the people. The stan did It to ly to do, they'd say says construction," says McCormack was in Afghani- it," "But you'd have to transferred to a military with Afghan workers. Above required a broad knowledge of many construc- edge of approach steel and managed the construction of a top-secret soldiers left in in the Kabul compound, McCormack cleared, did, set off rogue fourth from it all facility 20 buildings issues of the specially trained piles of soil left at the overseas; stretched to a very busy 10 months. oversaw the unwary cleared months to last six electrical dogs. But killing of them." men with metal and and bus carrying German troops, "proofed," or detectors could, exploded next to a arrived, a earned a mines. Other machines thrashed the off the Two weeks before bomb I I I master's of business administration BU aren't just in Iraq. McCormack. "And car bombs Eric Foster is co-editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine. A home's foundation serves as a strong base and roof above. Just like a footing of cinder block and concrete, the Bloomsburg for the walls University Foundation provides solid support to BU students, faculty and programs. The scholarships also gave her the opportunity of a — lifetime credits a chance to study in England and earn 12 through a College of Business exchange program. "Without the scholarships, I would have never been able to afford the valuable experience," she says. Lindberg says the Foundation serves as "the broker who have between those the ability to help and those who need the help." and Robert Kessler, Kessler Memorial Scholarship. Christine Gasper, center, thanks Diana sponsors of the Robert 'B J.' Involved with Lindberg in the by directors, chaired administers both restricted and Future Funding the Donors of restricted or areas, gifts target specific hard work. The Bloomsburg University Foundation sees these "rewards" as a top priority to offset costs for BU students. "The Foundation handles the university," donors on planned university. all philanthropic gifts to explains Maryann LaCroix Lindberg, executive director of the and vehicles mounting that BU Foundation. such gifts, as produce income We handle all for the flexibility and can be used donor or the is to make in 8,570 students aid. is among the 90 percent of BU's Scholarship, the "The landscape has changed, and the need budget comes from the is critical," Thirty-eight percent of state. who want to come attend, to BU but turn do so because they can't afford teacher, Gasper is career as a business education grateful for the scholarships she received. "The scholarships helped to ease the massive burden of college. Every time I knew that I would fewer loans that year," she says. Memorial Meyer and Mildred Eaton down an offer to scholarship, She was awarded three scholarships from the "B.J." Kessler volunteer programs, to encourage alumni to mentor financial who receive some form of financial Foundation: the Robert fund The work of the Foundation goes beyond fund raising and financial management. 'We work in partnership with alumni and others in the community to develop As she begins her for scholarships. Gasper, the College of Business' top honor graduate December 2005, initiatives. Gifts also to attend." sure financial donations are used as donors intend. earmarked meet university expenses to national alumni programming. prospective students Foundation, a separate organization dedicated to supporting BU, Half of the funds raised are to she adds. "Today, only 36 percent of the university's trusts, gifts-in-kind." But the primary role of the BU departments students and to establish internships," Lindberg stresses. "We work with bequests and which gifts. perhaps purchasing equipment or financing conferences or recruitment for unrestricted priorities, like scholarships, travel Senior Christine Gasper sees scholarships as a reward board of faculty/student research. Unrestricted gifts provide more STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN effort is a Victoria Mihalik of Millville, academic record has been Levitt scholarships fully have received." I I received a be able to take out "I feel as though my rewarded by the b Scholarship and the Walter Rygiel Scholarship. "The scholarships that the determination to I have received have given do well me in college," says Gasper, who hails from Beaver Meadows, near Hazleton. pushing myself to the ways believed in academically. The scholarships acted "I al- limits, especially as my motivation." Bonnie Martin is co-editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine. Editor's note: To BU Foundation's find out how you can be part of the efforts, call (570) 389-4128 or visit www.bloomu.edu/giving. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Husky Notes Six inducted into Athletics Hall of Fame Class 2005 graduates were inducted into BU's Athletic SixHall of Fame as part of the fall celebration, bringing the total to 109. The newest inductees 2005 homecoming number of members are: Stanley Elinsky '60: Elinsky was a three-sport standout for the Huskies earning and wrestling, track a total of 1 1 letters in football, and field. He taught in Deposit Central (N.Y.) School for in 1994, and and coached 33 science years, retiring football, wrestling, and track His coaching successes include 22 tourna- field. ment team championships and 210 individual tournament champions. Michelle Simons ball career as the third) '92: Simons finished her BU basket- second all-time leading scorer (now with 1,661 points. A four-year, all-conference player, she ranks as the Huskies' career leader in steals with 352, is sixth in career assists with 296 and seventh in career blocks with 78. She helped the Huskies to NCAA and PSAC playoff appearances and one PSAC championship. Simons played in the Women's four Tom Martin '87: National Basketball League from 1999-2001 and served as an assistant coach at East The Athletic Hall of Fame's Class of 2005 is shown with BU President Jessica Kozloff, center. They are, left to right, Tom Martin '87; Saundra Lewis, widow of Millard Ludwig '48; Stan Elinsky '60; Kozloff; Jeff Carruthers '79; Michelle Simons '92; and Gina Lindenmuth Miller '90. who Stroudsburg and Martin was an outstanding football player finished his career as BU's second all-time leading He also had 501 yards and 705 yards in kickoff returns for 3,915 yards offense. Twice named first-team All-PSAC, he also rusher with 2,709 yards rushing. Bucknell universities. receiving Gina Lindenmuth Miller for four seasons, '90: Miller, a Softball pitcher earned run average. She struck out 429 batters in 456 of total earned first-team All-ECAC honors as a senior. He compiling a record of 55-8 and a 0.80 h l several school records more yards and tallied three innings pitched, while throwing 49 complete games and or 22 shutouts. In 1990, she was a first-team All-America year record of 27-6-1 which included one overall and won State the Eleanor Wray Award as the top female senior athlete. Miller helped lead the Huskies to four PSAC titles and a third-place Division II Championships finish in the rushing. Martin helped the team to a three- in 1990. PSAC Championship, the Lambert Cup as the top team in Eastern Division NCAA set games with 200 finals in Millard Ludwig 1948 II football and a trip to the NCAA semi- 1985. '48: Ludwig, a soccer player, graduated Jeff Carruthers 79: Carruthers, a two-time Ail-American in and two-time PSAC champion, holds Bloomsburg high jump marks both indoor (7-0) and outdoor (7-PA). He won the PSAC title in 1977 when he jumped 6-10, Navy during World War coming back the next year other goals. After graduation, he served the Millville school jump of 6-10y2. At the to win his second title NCAA championships, he with a finished after interrupting his studies to serve in the U.S. II. As a two-year member record 6-1-2, while scoring twice and assisting on 11 district as a teacher, guidance counselor, assistant to the fourth in the high jump in 1977 and second in 1978. superintendent, coach and athletic director. And at PSAC championships, he had a second-place finish in the high jump and top-six finishes in the long jump, the triple jump and the 4 x 400 relay team. He received the Robert B. Redman Award as the top three sports for senior male athlete. Service the WINTER 2006 of the soccer team, he helped the Huskies to a then-school 26 years and, in 1987, He coached was recognized as Pennsylvania Athletic Director of the Year. Ludwig was president of the Bloomsburg College Alumni Association from 1973 college's Distinguished to 1981 and received the Award. He died in 2001 at the age of 77. Husky Notes 50Q George Sharp has ^jO published by xlibris.com, Births written another novel, "Harriet," Xlibris and available online through www. Kaitlyn Sue, July 6, www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com. '56 Middle States team that evaluated High in the Virgin Islands in May 2005. St. Juliet Grace, Sept. Croix Central 1 '87 and Monte Mingle McCawley Magel Laura Richard Naradko June 29, '91 and Frank '91, /T Cf Alex Kozlowski and his wife Mary moved \J and J mond, Va., to be close to their three who six grandchildren. Alex, retired years in sales and sales management, gifts for the United is '92 and wife, Lauren, a daughter, Sadie Irene, Matthew Smith service to children during the fifth after 31 annual Kids Day America/International in South Whitehall Township. As men's basketball league, the Parkland Elementary Wrestling A retired Parkland High School history teacher, he has been active with the 1999 to 2005. on He and his wife Carole the BU Alumni Alumni Board from '04H, are parents of Tracy Vandervalk Anderson William, Sept. '89, Their granddaughter, Laura, is 2, '94 and husband. Megan Hardisky Estock '94 and a son. Jack husband, David, twins, David 2004 Elizabeth, Feb. 3, Steve Bucher '95 and Oct. Bill, 2005 wife, Pam, a daughter, Abigail Olivia, 10,2005 Jennifer Kraatz Falkoff '95 and husband, April 8, Gil, a son, Alex Joseph, 2005 Allison Paynter Hastings '95 and Ian Hastings Sarah Lynn, July 14, '94, a daughter, 2005 Marsha Wilkinson Kouf '95 and Ronald M. Kouf '94, Madison March Elizabeth, Justine Boettger a a daughter, Katie Marie, June 24, McCormick '96 and Randy McCormick '96, 2004 Tara Neyer '96 and husband, Len Gnade, a Oct. 24, a daughter, 2004 24, who is married to Bob Hafner '80. sophomore at BU. George Hartna was elected to the Jim Thorpe Area Sports Hall of Fame. He worked for Reader's Digest Association from 1975 to 1996, retiring as a senior vice president. He and his wife, the former Janet Miller, have two daughters, Jill and Susan, and Joanne Derricott Hafner '95, a daughter, recre- ation director since 1975, he runs four playground programs, a Association since 1989 and served Anna Bauer Smith married children Derricott of Allentown was recognized for his Program, concerts and other events. '93 and Katharine Margaret, June 20, 2005 Way of Greater Richmond and Petersburg. Bill and husband, Douglas, a son, to Rich- now director of major /T /T '93 Douglas John, Dec. 20, 2004 from IBM Corp. \J \J daughter, Raegan Frances, Jan. 14,2005 and 5 daughter, and wife, Amie, a son, Nicholas Jack, Sharon Aukema Lipps 5 '86, a 2005 Oct. 2, Wills Eye Hospital. at Magel 2005 Bruce Rosengrant the an operation daughter, Leeann, April 23, 2005 35-year teaching career and, after retiring in 2000, regained his eyesight during '84, a '88 and husband, Lewis, a daughter, Amy Havard Schumaker '92, a is a daughter, Grace Evelyn, April 20, 2004 2005 recipient of Dolly Parton's V/|" Chasing Rainbows Award. In its fifth year, the award recognizes someone who overcame life's adversities to be a successful teacher. Jim was legally blind throughout his Jim Gallagher '91. 2005 , Stephanie Simmons Geyer 'CT("\ Leo Mulhall, a teacher, disciplinarian, coach, athletic ^JJs director and assistant principal at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional High School for 34 years, has been honored with the renaming of the school's football and soccer stadium. VT A Marley 2005 Robyn Talbot Mingle Harrison Morson served as co-chair of a 13-member '85 and Jerry Susan Ripple Marley son, Jake William, 2005 Jane Nolan Schleppy '96 and her husband, Mark, a daughter, 2004 Reese Marie, July 11, Michael Stebila '97 and four granddaughters. } /T "7 Pat Zelner Kaczmarek retired in 2004, joining the Tom Kaczmarek '65. Montgomery School District and six years in a private school. They have two children, Kristine Kaczmarek Hopkins '92, married to Craig Hopkins '91, \J / retirement mode of her husband, Pat taught for 21 years in the and Kevin Kaczmarek, married to Unit 21. Melanie Bolkovich Berryman a son, Samuel Michael, Sept. Patty Mullen Janet, July 5, Doan 20, David Berryman '99, '99 and husband, Rick, a daughter, Emily Jean Shingara Spieles '99 and March 31 after five years as executive director of the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate He holds a doctorate from Perm State University. will retire BLOOMSBURG Donald Spieles Jr. '93, a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, June 23, 2005 Shelley Levan Stokes '99 and husband, Jean Marie, July 7, Carl, a daughter, 2005 Colleen Horan '02/'05M and Frank Ferrari '99 and 2005 2005 Carly Lynn, July 15, information services. Q VlO '98, a son, Stephanie Christian Kaczmarek '94. They also have four grandchildren. Deanna Woolcock Robinson, a librarian at Northampton Community College, was promoted to assistant professor of 9/T Angela Schaub Stebila Michael, June 29, 2005 Eric Kramm, a daughter, Mallory 2004 UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Marsha Loeper Hubler '68/'93M published eight 71* books during the past three years, including six that are part of a Joanne Stubbe Gary A. Clewell was named to the board Ambassador Bank, Easton. horse fiction series for children. Keystone Stables Series. Sandra Ingram Pascal retired in an elementary teacher. For the Boyertown Area School 25 35 years as after 9 to the Hazleton Area Sports Hall of the Minnesota Vikings. New York Giants and He and his wife Janet for Nancy Fruehan Bohr w 33 retired after teaching mathematics in the Central Dauphin School District years. four with are parents of a } and a daughter, Lindsay. son, Matthew, *7^ / Now a management consultant in New York City, Bob spent eight seasons with the of directors for Lafayette years, she taught in the District. Bob Tucker was elected Fame. last June 2005 Chamock is a senior staff accountant with the Lyons Companies, Wilmington, Del. girl/ "70 I Terence Maher is superintendent of the Pine Grove _J Area School District. He and his wife Margaret have four children: Megan, Maran, Kathryn and Timothy. 5 /T f\ Judy Dapp Murray retired in June 2005 from the \J Js Steelton-Highspire School District, where she taught } business education for 31 years and substituted for five years. "7/1 Robert Beierschmitt is principal of the Northum/ I berland County Area Vo-Tech School. Halden McClure is serving on the board of Pace Resources is married to John "Chip" Murray '68, who retired in 1999 from the Steelton-Highspire School District, where he Inc. of York. served as assistant to the superintendent. The Murrays have financial officer of Pace. She two sons, Christopher, 35, and Jonathan, 32, and a grandson Nathan, Joseph Mushinski retired after teaching three children: Christopher, Tia 35 2005, after years. Robert Simons County. 8, teaching science in the Mechanicsburg School District for at the State *"7CT Maryjean Cummings Bower won the grand prize in an online recipe contest for soccer moms, sponsored / by Mrs. T's Pierogies. Sue Jones Davenport, a kindergarten teacher at the F.L. Garrison Memorial School, Shickshinny, was included in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Sandra Massetti, executive director of operations at Phoebe Home Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Allentown, (right) was } and Brandon. '"7/"\ Dennis D. Bohr retired on June \J major of unit management chief 36 years Honesdale High School. She and her husband Harold have / is and treasurer Correctional Institution at Coal Township. 5. Linda Mroczka Newberry at A CPA, he is vice president, He and retired after teaching his wife, the former 35 years in Wayne Ann Marie Gilhool, have a daughter, Bridget. J elected president of the board of BU grad finds closure and NOR-PANPHA new beginning in Melbourne east (North/North- Region of Pennsylvania Association of 60 years, Lawrence Ksanznak After '53 found closure in England. Ksanznak's brother, Thomas, was a World War in II pilot whose plane went down Melbourne during inclement weather. Ksanznak spent six days in England the Steeple the Morden Airfield, his brother attended pub where he played the church Mass and darts and met local residents. The Ksanznaks his sister Patsy —Lawrence, his wife Nan, —were and her two daughters invited to England after a chance meeting at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial. At the gravesite, a home. He and man who invited the Ksanznaks to for six days. his sister had visit visited their brother's is of creative problem-solving exercises published just 8- or 9-years-old when the plane down, and learn more about Lawrence Ksanznak, went his brother. who was in seventh when Thomas died, believes that trip brought him closer to both his grade his those memories alive, he presented Thomas' purple heart to his grandson. the author of "Snfbbles," a collection more about his last days. At the end of the trip, 250 people attended an impromptu memorial service at the site where Thomas' plane crashed. Ksanznak was able to meet people who remembered the crash, some who were to learn brother and his memories. And, to keep WINTER 2006 1. Sutliff Micheletti grave in the past, their latest trip provided a Ksanznaks' friend that researchers had Thomas' Judy Services Her two-year term began Jan. Although Ksanznak flew with Thomas, David Crow, told the recently recovered wreckage from Homes and for the Aging). Melbourne chance retracing his brother's steps at where Non-Profit plane in the front yard of a Melbourne by Gifted Education Press of Manassas, Va. Details can be found at http://www.giftededpress.com. } "7/^ / \j David E. Coffman was elected secretary of the South Central Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. David is sole proprietor of Busi- ness Valuations and Strategies of Harrisburg. Husky Notes "> Q JL Paul Ziegenfuss, a lieutenant colonel in the Marine "I \J Corps, received the Bronze Star Medal for his service and deputy as the director Karen Ishii joined the Sylvan Learning Center staff in Lewis- burg. She is employed by the Lewisburg School also "7 "7 George Bierman won I given to the I state's the 2005 amateur Kelly best degree black won five belt, Championships in gold medals a seventh- is World Karate 2000 and 2001. at the Petersburg, Russia, in St. who Q ") Richard A. DiLiberto Jr., Carolyn McMaster Salerno earned a master's degree from Temple University in summer 2005. A special education teacher at Spring-Ford High School, she is married to Greg Salerno 78, who is the general manager of Fred Beans Volkswagen of Devon. Young Conaway lawyer to serve as "7r~\ Michael Dennen is senior vice president for PNC / ^S Bank of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Denise Reed Gross was promoted to the rank of colonel in the Army The fifth DTLA president during the association's 26-year history, DiLiberto earned his juris doctor from Widener University School of Law. He Del., Newark, lives in with his wife Faith and their three daughters. Linda Anderson Firestone is superintendent of the Northampton Area School District. Kevin Kerrigan, a CPA and partner at Wiss & Co., was presented with a testimonial from the Accountants Certified Public at their New Jersey Society of annual convention, citing his outstanding leadership as vice president ? Young a partner with the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association for 2005-06. exemplifies athletic achievement, sportsmanship, leadership, dedication and overall contribution. George, Iraq. \D^t Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, is serving as president of Award, who athlete Communications District. ") 9 director of the Information Systems Coordination Center in and 21 years his of service to the society. Thomas Speakman is dean of enrollment services at Shippensburg University. Reserve. Marriages Michelle Dupes '77 and Steve Karen DeVito Neas, June 25, 2005 Garrison, Megan Christopher Aurand '78 and Rebecca Lynn, July 8, 2005 E. Pesavento and Christopher Debra Ann Berry '79 and Frank Nov. 25, 2005 2005 Brooke Clews Sept. 3, Kathleen Hazen '82 and Timothy Kuhlen Wendy Jones 2005 Timothy Glowatski Tammy Linton, Scott Hons '91 April 8, '91 and 2005 and Sara Booth, Greg Reimer '92 and Pamela July 31, Artl, David DeFelice, July 2, 2005 Jennifer Bozung '95M and Leo III, April 16, Melody Douglas Kutch, 2005 '95 and David May 14,2005 Edward Mullin and Michael Munley,May21,2005 Nyree June Stoltz '97 and Craig Hack, 18, Matthew Beaugard, May Furlong, 2004 Brier, '97 Suzanne and Kurt May 7, 2005 July 9, '97 Jeremy Powlus and Gabriel '97 and Amy Jo Moyer, June 25, 2005 June '97 and Arthur 2005 '95 and Russell Reinbolt, April 9, 2005 Robin Shappelle 17, '97 and Adams, July '98 and 31, Stacy Tomczak McCann, Aug. 26, 12, Scott, Feb. Matthew Black, May 28, 2005 2005 4, Michael '00 and D'Annunzio, June 2005 4, '00 and Dana Stephen Blaisse'OO,June18,2005 2005 Jeanette Parry Christopher 2005 T. '01, Thomas Maxwell Nicole Merkel Eric '00 and Swank '00, May 28, 2005 1,2003 June John 2005 '98 and Jeffrey Dana Chontofalsky Pierce, Bill 2005 Jennifer Tursi '98 and Hengge, March Christopher Vorce Zets, April 23, Doug '98 and Adam 11, '00 and Wendy Englar '00 and 2004 McCormick March 2005 Helene Czerniak 2005 Amber Wenckus Herrlich, '00 and Steven 2, May 8, 2004 Christopher Suda, Nov. 27, 2004 '96 and Rathbone, April Amy Neitheimer '98 and Adam Justine Boettger '96 and Randy Siegel '97 and Paula 2005 Pamela Dower '00 and Karen Ringo Frederick '00 and David 21, Mason Lunger '98 and Michelle Benintende, May 5, 2005 Paglione, April 9, Wisniewski, Aug. 13,2005 Wood, May Hallowell.May21.2005 Jr. '97 19, Mark Jordan, LaMalfa, April 30, 2005 2004 June Matt Kuntz, July 15, 2005 Shannon Cobb '98 and Mario Kenneth Reichenbach Erin Sipics, '99 and Amy Chisesi '98 and Hoyes, July 22, 2005 and Diane Talarico Kimberly Cogan 2005 Elia '98 and Heath Casey Hardy 2005 Heather Sabol 1998 14, Deborah Davison 26, '99 and Strawn Kim Vetter '98 and William Orlowsky, June 25, 2005 June Ralph '96 May 28, 2005 Herman Brian Kistler '97 and Kimberly Bastress, Erika Wes '99 and 2005 Amy Malloy '99 and Grosso 2005 Christina Jaclyn Janowicz Schaeffer, July 23, Daniel Pekol Russell, '96, Sept. 12, and Amber Andrea Campbell '97 and Susan Reimer '97 and '95 and Caroline '96 18,2003 '98, Oct. Nicole Paduch 2004 Catherine Laverick '93M and R.Lewis '97 Kimberly Mollath July 23, 2005 '97 Richard Bentrewicz '98 and Thomas, July 9, Jason Simms Bracey, April 20, 2005 Murray, J. Jennis Jr., '96 and Grant May 28, 2005 '99 and Chad Jessica Reesman '00 and Michael Campbell, June 19, 2005 BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 5QO Norm Balchunas, who O ~J War studies, has been promoted to colonel. He is than 106,000 students across the U.S., Europe and the His previous assignment was as a B-52 squadron Pacific. commander where he led and flew combat operations over Afghanistan Palmer is and branch manager Ambassador Bank. a partner at Sage Communications vice president office of Lafayette Sharon Emick Gallagher is Partners in Philadelphia. Karen Halderman Murray is director of public relations for Walker Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations in Concord, N.C. Karen and her husband Arthur Indian live in Trail, 9 more responsible for 785 Air Force units, 2,000 instructors and for the is senior managing director within FTI Consulting's transaction advisory services group in Chicago. director of Air Force is Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. In that capacity, he and Iraq. Margaret Miller Gabel David W. Smalstig recently graduated from Air College with a second master's degree in strategic N.C. They have four children. David Rolley was promoted to vice president at Sovereign Bank. He also serves as community banking manager at the bank's Broad Street branch in Montoursville. Q Ol A Mary Hassenplug received Prize for Distinguished New Jersey last May. rial the Princeton University Secondary School Teaching in Memo- In 2004, she received a Fulbright Fund Scholarship for study in Japan. She has taught at High Point Regional High School for 18 years. Tina M. Souders joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a clinical assistant professor and director of the part-time advanced standing master of social work program in Winston-Salem. Tina was recently elected to the board of directors of the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. ") Q Cf Holly McCloughan Balatgek was promoted to \J -J senior branch-operations administrator with Leesport Financial Corp. Kimberly Kitchen Derr is associate counsel and Del., branch manager for Old Republic National Title Insurance Co. She earned a law degree from Widener Wilmington, University School of Law. Brynne Richter '00 and Tucker Peterson, Sept. 18,2004 Miki Smith '00 and Chris Furnish '00 and Christie Strayhorne John 2004 Plantarich, Nov. 20, '02 and Pete Jessica Dennish Jonathan Hile Jamie Hartman '02 and Kristin Miller Renee Klinger Gene '02 and Patricia Kringe '02M and James and Warrington, July 9, May 21 2005 Karen Miraglia '02 and Jeffery Jennifer Albertson Jeremiah Neuhard, '01 , Marissa Campanella Ryan McFarland, Amy Hannis Miskar, June '01 4, John Hughes May '01 14, and 2005 and Nicholas and Erin Smith, 2005 Walter, July 2, '02 and Elizabeth III, Melissa Snyder '01 and Mark 2004 Engleman, Oct. 8, Julia '02 and Eric 2005 Tina Blessing '02 and Vincent Timpanelli, May 29, 2005 II, June '03 and II, 21, 2005 2005 12, '03 and David Amy Barrett '03 and May 7, 2004 Matthew Kristin Alan Boop, July 4, '04 and 2005 Ferris, Sept. 11, Laura Themens Leventry and Denice Michael 2003 '04 and Nicole Morret, Aug. 13,2005 Smith '04 and '03, Sept. Delany, June 4, 2005 Thomas Davis Jr. '02, Sept. 25, Kym Brague Derick 2004 Jessie Burleigh '05 and Gregory '03 Jared Augustine 2005 Reimer '04 and Courtney Becky Woodruff '04 and '03 and Stephanie Barnes Naumes,June4,2005 Ross, Oct. 9, 2004 Jessica Torres 2005 Kevin Primerano '04 and Sarah W.NeillReidy'03and 2005 '03 and Larry 2005 '04 and Saul Shannon Richmond Barnhart, Aug. 6, 2004 16, Kehm,May21,2005 Rasmus '03 and '02 and Arthur Banaszewski Peiffer, June '04 and Maria Maciejewski Eric 02, Timothy Staub Oct. 2, March '03 and 2005 Jones, June 24, 2005 Douglas Engles, April July 2, 2005 Karpovich, July9, Krebs, 18, Weidner 02M and William True Gerringer 4, 1,2005 '03, Oct. Makara Melinda Pytak Jarrod Renee Witmer Kimberly Armstrong Jamie '02 and Tara Miller, Kyle Covill Wolf, Sept. Christine Matthew Harrison Danielle Ludwig and Kristen Heard '04 and Jeffrey Kelly '03 and Scott '03 2005 Benjamin Stewart '01 Mary 21, Matthew Newhard and Heather Kuntz, May 7, 2005 Angela Shearer 02 and Jennifer Sadowski James Coombe'03, May Frank Ratkiewicz 2004 Russo, April 30, 2005 May 13, 2005 Katie Gresh '04 and George Harner Reedy, Sept. 17,2005 DeVitis, Oct. 30, llya 2005 Gina Nork '02M and Joshua Kristen Kohler 01 Ross, '03 and 2, Nicole Moberly May 29, 2005 and James Eberly '04 and Decker, July 31, 2004 Derek Salmi '01 Amanda Tlumach, April Stamp, July 24, 2004 July 25, 2004 M and Barry 2005 Laura Miles '03 and Jeffrey Nicholas Puleo 2005 '01 2004 '02, Oct. 30, 18, Seltenheim Huston Bloom, June 2005 '03 and Scott Yerger, June Christy Vaughn '00 and John 9, Kyra Doddy Ackourey, July 16, 2005 Janelle Mohry-Kirk Knecht'02, June Amy Scholl Dave 11,2004 '05 and Katelyn Mannion, June April 30, 11, 1 1 , 2005 '05 and Joe 2005 '05 and Jesse Rinck, 2005 Emily Varley '05 and Samuel Shaffer '05, July 16, 2005 Husky Notes won PACCA's Award band Jim have two of Excellence in 2003. She sons, Jacob and her hus- and Jackson. New York. Paul Nasrani owns the Adirondack Creamery in Gerald Ganz of Clarks Summit director of finance for is Friendship House. in the Allen-Rogowicz /T Lori Barnes Maley of Schuylkill Haven financial officer Abbey, is and senior vice president chief for — 17 years teaching at } and their four sons: Larry Kagen is a kindergarten teacher in the QQ OO District. officer at Sheri Nothstein president Luzerne National Bank. Anthony Harvest Family Markets is Inc., owner of Country Palmerton. She was featured in an article published in the Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal. She and her husband Christopher have three children: Lydia, } Q r\ j7 C^ tions, Matthew and Jonathan. to chairperson of the is vice president 2005 edition. on off the fitness scene, including finishing at the Fame Pro Championships. years, Model World more than 10 Fitness A model for he also has acted in MTVs "Slam," and "Miami Vice," starring actor Jamie Foxx. For more information: www.tommybryant.com. Barbara Meyer Hostetter graduated from Alvemia College with a master's degree in elementary education last May. She was selected as the outstanding student teacher among all the graduate students and accepted a kindergarten position at McKitrick Elementary School in Lutz, Fla. She and her 5-yearold daughter, Brianna, live in Tampa. Todd Reichart is a stage, film and TV actor. He married Bonnie Bassler, a molecular biologist, on Jan. 19, 2002. They Jennifer Lopez's "South Beach" live in Princeton, N.J. Sharon Sperling Watkins Lori Havrilla Burke and senior is a faculty member at Blue Ridge Elementary School. account manager of Forge Marketing Communica- Allentown. David DeGerolamo is corporate development director with Aqua New Jersey Inc. He lives in Phillipsburg. Donna Loeb Rickert was promoted to controller Bank was promoted story showcased his accomplishments second Yocum Jr. was promoted to assistant vice and loan operations 5 The and inducted into the Endless / Mountain Division of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of is head wrestling coach at Lock Haven University. Tricia Reilly and Bing, assistant professor of business at Lehigh Valley College, &r Health Magazine's winter Matthew, Fame. He Haverford Township School Eric, 7; Tommy Bryant (left) was featured in Exercise lives Michael. Q "7 Rocky Bonomo was \J He Ephrata Middle School. in Parkesburg with his wife Lisa Adam, Da\id and resides in Pottsville business administration department. Phil Rudisill began teaching at Octorara Middle School last after to assistant 4. '{~\^ John ZJ Berkshire Bank, Wyomissing. fall High School. She with her husband David and children, Cory, 17; Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Q O \J Brown Wapinsky was promoted principal at Pottsville Area Robert Schwalm was inducted t Jacqueline at Affinity of Pennsylvania, Spring Township. 'flO j7 J Cheri Carter Johnson earned a doctoral degree in family studies at the University of Delaware. Dan Pszeniczny won the 25th annual Forty Fort Lions Club Five-Mile Run last May. There were 234 finishers. James Vopal was named 2005 Somerset County Coach of by The Newark Star- Ledger, the 2005 Courier-News Coach of the Year and the Mountain Valley Conference-Valley Division Coach of the Year. the Year Barbush was promoted to associate creative director at RPA, the largest independent ad agency headquartered on the West Coast. He lives in Woodland Hills, Calif., with his wife Lisette and two sons, Alec and Noah. Sharon Ford Bixler is employed by Lutheran Social ")f\ f\ Z7 VJ J. '94 Matt Rhoads succeeded his father Harold as president of Central Pennsylvania Transportation. Services of South Central Pennsylvania as the area executive director for two continuing care retirement communities in York. '>C\ Is Michael Gerard and his family moved to Raleigh, N.C., where he has accepted a position as project manager with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina. Mary Mahoney-Ferster joined VR Business Brokers, Lewisburg, as a sales associate. Michele Stine Paisley, manager of employee relations at The Hershey Co., is participating in the Leadership Hazleton program for 2005-2006. CT Heather Bennett became J the principal of Roosevelt Elementary School in the Allentown School October 2005. She joined the Allentown district in executive director of the Danville Center, is the president of the as first-grade teacher. Vicki Muckenthaler Blevins completed the Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon last July in 16:17:51. The Ironman consists of a 2.4-mile swim, 1 12-mile bike ride and 26-2-mile run. Robi Hess graduated from officer candidate school at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash., and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army National Guard. He is the 515th Regional Training Institute in Santa Fe, Diana Rose Dixon, '91 Child Development District in 1996 Jeremy Shuler earned assigned to N.M. a master's degree in education at Wilkes University. Pennsylvania Child Care Association's board of directors. She BLOOM SBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Oak Grove Kristin Snyder West, a kindergarten teacher at Nikki Hlavacek Keller Elementary School, DeKalb County, Ga., was selected as the Week for Oct. Adanta Falcons Staples Teacher of the She married to Brian is West 2005. 9, '96. at tr\ (L Andrew Dunning joined ICORE Healthcare as a Zs \j director of managed care. fall. She is vice president of community Way of Lackawanna County. Carlos Ojeda Jr. is a professor of management and business Kutztown University. Michele Orris Triponey '97M joined Aspen Technology as senior vice president for global customer support Jennifer Boyer Hopkinson became the owner of Animal Care Hospital, Lewisburg, last is impact marketing for the United Kirk Ream is men's basketball coach '98!Harrisburg. He previously was an one of three veterinarians ' practicing full-time at the animal hospital. She lives in Lewisburg at and training. Perm assistant State coach at Dickinson College for three years. with her husband Michael and their son Evan. Christopher Knarr is } a senior instructional Family Eye Care of NEPA in Honesdale. Zs Zs Rachel Masterson '96/'99M technologist at Moorestown, C\ C\ Matthew Corso, a 2005 graduate of the Pennsylva- manager with Rettew a project Associates Inc. CramerSweeney is Instructional Design, nia College of Optometry, has joined the staff of an intern ors as tion Center. N.J. Christopher O'Reilly adviser at Millennium is and assistant vice president Wealth Management and at He also earned hon- the William Feinbloom Vision Rehabilita- He and his wife Paige live in Honesdale. Scott Dietrich received a doctoral degree in physical financial education with a specialty in athletic training Private Banking. Jane Nolan Schleppy received a master of science in education from Wilkes University on September 11, 2005. University last May. He is an West Virginia at assistant professor in athletic training at East Stroudsburg University. Christine Kopistecki Lindsay works for South Eastern "7 Joe Domborsky was promoted to senior sales and ">C\ Zs / marketing services manager at and Mrs. T's Pierogies. He MRI and is Hospital. She and her husband live in Manomet, Mass. Dawn Wolcott Maniskas '99M is a his wife reside in Bloomsburg. Angela Gerolamo wrote assigned to a mobile unit at Falmouth (Mass.) Washington May/June 2005 issue the article "Nurse in Internship Program" that appeared in the doctoral candidate at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, School of Audiology. She ofAPNANews. the founder of Aberdeen Audiology in is Wayne. She and her husband have two children. Leon O'Neill IV was awarded (right) Deaths the doctor of osteo- pathic medicine Loie C. Bickert '27 Clyde H. Hartman '50 Barbara Wildermuth Goss 72 degree from Philadelphia College Alma Pullen Barnum Marjorie Davis '28 Homer Erma Gold Shearer Lewis Ballantine '29 '29 Frances Yetter Leisenring '30 Bethia Allen King '33 Hummel Bessie Stahl '33 James Kleman David Hyde 72 of Osteopathic George Kost 72 '51 Medicine in June 2005. He Francis V. Perry '51 Dorfred Bussey Large Dorothy Karschner Steele '52 John Pastuszek 72 Robert Stevenson '53 Lawrence James Eleanor Baron Skovronsky '34 '51 B. Creasy '57 currently completing an Medicine and Denistry of New 72 Marian Shaffer Dinger is internship at the University of Jersey, Stratford, N.J. Phoebe Golden Williams 72 '57 Ramon DeTato Strohl 72 Dara Pachence has earned Perm State 73 a master's degree at Helen Latorre Tinelii '36 John Shirey '57 Michael Drumtra '59 J. MahalaJr. 73 University, along with certification 73 Dorothy Mensinger Ellen Cawthorne '38 Eleanor Morris Williams '59 Lawrence Mohn 74 as a second language teacher. Ray McBride '39 Dorothy Zanzinger Bangs '60 Timothy Reagan 74 is Margaret Blecher Hyssong '40 Jerome A. Levans '61 Jean Moss Davis Wayne E. '41 Mantana Williams Mack '41 Robert Neary Dianne Baton/ Miller '61 Mary Louise Thomas Evans Karl '62 as a reading specialist Roxanna Hunsinger Pletchan Robert Neary '62 Pamela BairPilat Grace Richardson Buttman '43 Chester Choplick '63 Mary Kathleen Beltz Rarig '64 Bruce Wallace '88 Violet Keller Epley '45 Joy Propst Moore '46 Anastasia Gerlak Chipko '48 Norman Falck '49 '49 James A. Susan Dreibelbis Boyle '50 Krum She Dauphin District, Harrisburg. Kepner '80 Stella Chilek Loucks '42 Jeanne a teacher in the Central School 75 and English '80 Jenna Bauman has been '00!:recognized as an outstand- '81 ing teacher by the governor of John "Jack" Zeigler '64 Martin G. Bane '65 Terry L. Attivo '68 Doris Miller Molter '68 Patrick Bussacco 71 Breig Ruland '84 Virginia in response to a letter sent to his office David Pysher '89 Marjorie Comrey Titman by the parents of one of her students. She has been teaching '91 fifth grade in the Rocky Run Brenda Carlen Zellner '92M Elementary School, Fredericksburg, Joseph Makowski '98 for four years. Kaitlin Brice '03 John Christmas, a district man- ager for Automatic Data Processing WINTER. 2006 29 Husky Notes } f\ "O Brian Bingaman is Charity Martin Castner Richmond, Va., achieved 100 percent club membership for sales during ADP's fiscal year 2005. John recently was promoted to the downtown Richmond territory. John has also competed in in triathlons Jeff and four marathons Chrusch wrote a book, "Amotivational Syntax: Insights, Former Antidisestablishmentarian More information can be found at Misfit." special events assistant at The Adam live in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia. Christina Crecca participated in a in Australia. She in the past year. is University of the Arts. She and her husband is summer research project pursuing a doctorate in computational at the University of Florida. chemistry Heather McCarthy Revelations and Rants from a Media head strength and conditioning \J _J coach for all 23 varsity sports at LaSalle University. is math and a science teacher at Tuscarora Junior High School. Rachel Melnick obtained funding through www.fiascopresents.com. a co-operative Kimberly Barto Crisp is a supervisor at Brown Schultz Shendan Fritz of East Pennsboro Township, near Harrisburg. agreement with the USDA to continue her doctoral graduate work She She has four years of accounting experience. Phytopathological Society. & Jeffrey Rott began his third year at Seminary in Philadelphia, studying priest for the to St. Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Roman Catholic He is a first-year theologian with four years until ordination. Jeff on the is also serving BU Alumni Board. Wynn Shimko is a learning support teacher in Rhonda the Selinsgrove Area School District. She and her husband is a member of the American Brandon Weese joined Auction Inn, an eBay marketing company in Lancaster, as a marketing manager. Ryan Yanoshak is sports information director at East Stroudsburg University. He previously worked as a sports services writer and ")f\A administrative officer in the retirement services division of School \J I editor for eight years. Sarah Delaney is teaching third grade at Elementary School in the District, Dana Street Wyoming Valley West Forty Fort. Kyle Hughes was promoted to branch loan and operations Fulton Financial Advisors. head coach of the women's swimming team Neil Yost is Mount Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md. St. State. service representative in the insurance division. Todd Shimko '00 reside in Riverside, with their two children, Todd and Emma. Amy Simmons of Lancaster is record-keeping and at Perm Erin Mincavage joined the Zinn Co. as a commercial lines Charles Borromeo be a at manager at Fulton Bank's south York branch. Stefanie Kline the is head girls' basketball coach at Bloomsburg High School. } r\ \J Bama, video production coordinator "I Kelly J. Precision Design, Hazleton, won two Telly Awards the firm produced Trent Flick is for — a silver Heather Mindick accepted for was part of a team which and a bronze for videos — Hazleton Area School Gerald Ott MMI Preparatory School in Freeland. administrator of the Shenandoah Manor Company Inc. administrator in late 2004. He is a physics teacher at Lindsay Waros, University, 2003 and became a licensed and his wife, the former Abbey Ford 9 '00, have a daughter, Michael Smith is an assistant coach for the BU women's John Nogel f\ "^ Rocco Forgione earned Ail-American Conference \J £* all-star recognition for his contributions to the Pioneers arena football team this past season. Shannon Fry '02/'04M is teaching seventh-grade English and eighth-grade Integrated Studies and PSSA Preparation Mountain School District. Colleen Horan '02/'05M was appointed instructional technology specialist and computer science instructor at classes at Line an intern there in 2003. is a staff accountant in Boyer & Ritter's East office. Valerie Pergolini } also f\ Cf John Holody joined Boyer & Ritter as a staff \J _/ accountant in the East Pennsboro office. Pennsboro lacrosse team. School. George Washington interning at the Smithsonian Institution in is Washington, D.C. She was Alyxendria. Twin Valley High a graduate student at Nursing Center. He joined JDK Management in a teaching position in the District. CPA Group, a is Newark, a staff accountant Del., with SantoraBaffone accounting and consulting firm. Derek Rupert was certified as a personal trainer by the American College of Sports Medicine. He is employed at the Williamsport YMCA. Kimberly Tohill '05M is a Spanish teacher Mountain High School in Schuylkill Haven. at Blue DeSales University, Center Valley. Melissa Scheer completed her master's degree in special education at Long Island University in 2004. She currently teaches children with autism, ages 9 to 11, in Huntington, N.Y. Traci Yoder in Gainesville, is a graduate student at the University of Florida where she is taking an interdisciplinary tract concentrating on women's and African studies. During the summer of 2005, she traveled to Arusha, Tanzania, for seven weeks of study funded by a Fulbright Scholarship. BLOOMSBURG Find more Husky Notes online at www. bloomualumni. com. Send information to alum@bloomu.edu or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker Alumni House, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St., Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815 UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Women's Choral Ensemble Lectures and Husky Singers Sponsored by the for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. For Thursday, April for Culture more information, Haas Center for the Spring 2006 Celebrity Artist Series Mid-Term All events are in Monday, March 6 Spring Break Begins March Saturday, 1 1 , office at (570) noon Haas Center call the box 389-4409 or check the Celebrity Artist Series Classes Resume Monday, March Spring Web site at www.bloomu.edu/ 20, 8 a.m. tickets. Community Government Association cardholders pay Weekend Begins all Friday, May 4 to the public. "Webcasting Worldwide: Spring Concert of the Innovation Saturday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. Presbyterian Church, Street, 345 Bloomsburg Among A Study Leading Webcasters in Wednesday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m. Andruss 13 Countries" Library, Schweiker Room Stephanie Schlitz Spring Concert "The Copenhagen Saga" Tuesday, Feb. 14, Matthew Wednesday, March 8 p.m. Reserved, $25; Brahms' "Academic Festival" CGA cardholder, $12 Slotkin, guitarist Andruss Library, 29, 7 p.m., Schweiker Room Overture, Op. 80; and 5 Conrad Quintyn May 6 Saturday, Tchaikovsky's Neil Simon's Prisoner of Juliet" Overture; Saturday, Sunday, April 4, 13 T.S. BU Graduate Commencement Andruss Concert Choir Spring Concert Monk Jazz Festival, Friday, April cardholder, 7, $5 Concerts Concerts listed below are open Summer 2006 Session -May 30 to July 7 Session - June 1 9 to July 28 I to the public free III —July 10 Session IV Session V - June 1 Session VII VIII - June and Children's Friday to Sunday, April 21 to Concert Band Spring Concert Alumni Weekend Sunday, April 23, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22 for the Arts, 1 1-800-526-0254 Mitrani Hall Faculty Recital Chamber Orchestra Renaissance Jamboree Kunyoung Kim, piano Symphony Ball Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m. to Sunday, Feb. 19,2:30 p.m. Evening of dancing and music 5 p.m. K.S. Gross Auditorium, Friday, April 28, Carver Hall Kehr Union, Ballroom 16 6 p.m. 9 to July 28 18 23 For details, call the Alumni Affairs office at unless otherwise indicated. Downtown Bloomsburg 9 to July 7 -May 10 to Aug. Chamber Orchestra Concert Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor and Handel/Casadesus's B Minor Viola Concerto in Agnes Maurer, violinist Sunday, March 26, 2:30 p.m. St. Matthew Lutheran 123 N. Market St., Church, Bloomsburg Gospel Choir Annual Gospel Rama Saturday, April 1,4 p.m. Kehr Union, Ballroom WINTER Siblings' Barre. For tickets: (570) 826-1 100 Session VI -July 10 to July 28 Session Special Events Weekend Haas Center of charge, April 22, to Aug. 18 -May 30 to June 19,7 p.m. Schweiker Room 7:30 p.m. Kirby Center, Wilkes- II Session Library, Brahms' "Ein Deutsches Requiem." Saturday, CGA Undergraduate Commencement Saturday, May 13 April for the Arts, Mitrani Hall 7:30 p.m. Reserved, $10; 12 2:30 p.m. 9, Wednesday, Haas Center CGA cardholder, $12 May Forensic Anthropological Perspective" 7:30 p.m. Reserved, $25; Finals End May March A "Concierto de Aranjuez." Second Avenue May 8 Saturday, "The Existence or Non-existence and Rodrigo's of 'Race?' Finals Begin Monday, "Romeo and LA. Theatre Works presents Classes End Friday, and open Richard Ganahl BU Community Orchestra Reading Days - No Classes Thursday and Free Chamber Singers Market Rent 17,6 p.m. April Arts, BU Institute and Society. shows. Classes Resume Monday, 7:30 p.m. Mitrani Hall First half of ticket's face value for Thursday, April 13, 10 p.m. 6, Homecoming Friday to Sunday, Oct. 6 to 8 RSVP: (570) 389-4289 Parents Knoebels Pops Conceit Weather permitting Sunday, April 30 Concert Band, 2 p.m.; Jazz Ensemble, 5:30 p.m. Weekend Friday to Sunday, Nov. 3 to 5 Over the Shoulder By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist The Hartline Science Center: Dedicated to a Love of Learning Daniel H. Keffer Hartline The dedication of Hartline Science Center's addition on Aug. 31, 2005, celebrated the expanded and modernized academic and research days tion facility that officially opened three Construc- earlier for the start of the fall semester. on the original part of the center began in the spring of 1967, with classes first devoted to the study of science obvious choice was to dedicate mark in the field: it at for the cen- Bloomsburg, the to a family that the Hartlines. Daniel S. made Hartline Bloomsburg He Normal School (BSNS) State 1890 and then Lafayette University. earn a degree from left to returned in 1897 to start the department of biology, which he headed until his ment retire- in 1935. was an able scholar and showed interest in all areas of science, including astronomy. When the time came to choose a name its to the as a teacher in Hartline held there on Jan. 28, 1969. ter came Hartline S. He would take his students on the surrounding countryside, sometimes to see the mines at rock formations a great geology and field trips to by trolley car, Lime Ridge and the iron at Buckhorn. Hartline's wife, Harriet Keffer Hartline, assisted in teaching the sciences at the normal school, and a their son, Haldan Keffer 1920 BSNS graduate. called, went on was Hartline, Keffer, as he was to earn a medical degree from Johns Hopkins in 1927. After 40 years of research, primarily involving the physiology of the eye, Hartline rewarded the for his efforts 1967 Nobel was with a share of Prize for Medicine. While the center as a whole was named for the Hartline family, the first-floor auditorium was dedicated in honor of a Kimber fourth person, a 1913 BSNS graduate 1935 to was returned in succeed Daniel Hartline as profes- sor of biology career Kuster. Kuster who and the science He had retired in a distinguished 1962 as chairman of and math department. Today's 120,000-square-foot Hartline Science Center is not only a tribute to the importance of science at Bloomsburg Daniel S. Hartline took students on field trips to see rock University, but also to four remarkable individuals formations at Lime Ridge and the iron mines at Buckhorn. made the study and teaching of science their life's who work. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE The University Store. Shop in your pajamas. Shopping couldn't be easier. The University Store offers the convenience of shopping online for hundreds of items at www.bloomu.edu/store. Are you looking for BU giftware or clothing, like T-shirts, sweatshirts and hats? Study aids or test preparation materials? of all Alumni apparel for grads Even BU afghans, rocking ages? chairs and diploma frames may be purchased with gift at the online store, along cards in popular amounts between $25 and $950. New items are added to the store every year, so week during check back online the academic often. 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They The University Store 7:45 a.m. to 8 p.m. are, left to right, sophomore Dan sophomore Becky Brady from Reading, and junior Abby Longfrom Lock Haven. 400 East Second Street Bloomsburg, PA 17815 General Information: (570) 389-4175 Customer Service: (570) 389-4180 www.bloomu.edu/store L.A. THEATRE WORKS PRESENTS NEIL SIMON'S The Prisoner Celebrity of Second Avenue Artist Series Spring 2006 JoBeth Williams ("The Big Chill," "Poltergeist") and Hector Elizondo ("The Princess Diaries," "Pretty Woman," "Chicago Hope") star in LA. Rent CBS-TV's Feb. 14 Theatre Works' •8 p.m. Reserved, $25 CGA radio theater production of Neil Simon's tale cardholder, $12 about a married couple trying to survive in New York LA. Theatre Works: Prisoner of Second Avenue after the husband LA. loses his job. 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Page I 10. .\ From the Desk President's When 1 talk to the parents of new students each summer, I can always count on being asked about career opportunities related to the student's major. My answer is a very personal one. best thing any student can career," I reassure the parents, answer I well this way for "is to study two reasons. and graduate with good grades. If do to prepare for a full what they love." our students study what they love, And, "The and rewarding to so often in our lifetime that a specific degree be absolutely honest, isn't do they'll we change careers nearly as important as learning how to leam. my own case, I accidentally got into administration because wanted a job my husband's first medical practice. Following the path away from a full-time teaching position, I stepped outside of my comfort zone, pursuing opportunities that In I near eventually led halfway across the country to Bloomsburg University feel and a position I blessed to occupy When Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios, presented Stanford University's commencement address last June, he advised the graduates to "find what you love." "Your work is going to be truly satisfied is to work is to love fill a large part of your do what you believe is life," great he said, "and the only way to work. The only way to do great what you do." When asked, I tell every BU student and every BU parent that, like Mr. Jobs, I too believe the secret to true professional success rests in personal fulfillment and a passion for the work. The alumni introduced in this issue of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine personify this theory in the fields of education, public relations, veterinary medicine attributed to you love and Here at and fitness. Their can be described by a quotation spirit I've seen both entrepreneur J. C. Penney and philosopher Confucius: "Find a job you'll BU, never go to work again." this "passion for learning" is every student. Enjoy these articles that passion leads to success. Jessica S. Kozloff what our faculty strive to nurture in about our graduates, our "proof of the pudding" . Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is member of the Pennsylvania State System a of Higher Education Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board of Governors as of February Kenneth Kim 2006 E. Jarin, Chair Vice Chair E. Lyttle, C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair Matthew E. Baker Mark Collins Jr. Marie A. Conley Nathan Paul Daniel FEATURES Lammando Conroy R. Page 6 Dlugolecki S. Da\id Flexing His Talents Elby P. Michael K. Hanna Age 35 is considered almost ancient in the fitness Holveck P. model world, but age Vincent J. Hughes hasn't stopped Tommy model com- Allison Peiiz Bryant Guido M. Pichini Edward G. Rendell petition in James J. Rhoades spots in Bowflex commercials and fitness magazines. '92. Since Bryant's first fitness Miami, his winning ways have landed Christine J. Toretti Olson Aaron A. Walton Gerald PR with Heart Page 8 Zahorchak L. Chancellor, State System of Higher Education Sharon Emick Gallagher '83 had big dreams JudyG. Hample came graduation, but her dreams after when true only Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees she discovered her true love: public relations for A. William Kelly 71, Chair Robert J. Gibble '68, Vice Chair Steven Banh, Secretary B. Ramona H. Alley Lammando Marie Conley Robert '94 non-profit organizations. In May 2005 honored one of Pennsylvania's best 50 for that passion as she was women in business. Dampman '65 LaRoy G. Davis '67 Charles C. Housenick '60 JosephJ. Think Like an Economist Page 10 Mowad Mehdi Haririan believes students need how to see DavidJ. Petrosky Jennifer economic theories apply Shymansky '06 Keeping Bloomsburg University President, to real that philosophy in Jessica Sledge Kozloff by well-known economists Executive Editor who world situations. mind, he sponsors like visits Paul Krugman, often speak to standing-room-only crowds. Liza Benedict Co-Editors For the Love of It Page 12 Eric Foster Bonnie Martin Webster defines avocation as Husky Notes Editor Doug Hippenstiel '68, '81M "a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation, Editorial Assistant especially for enjoyment." Three Irene Johnson BU's Communications Assistants occupations" add to their community explain what members of their "subordinate lives. Deirdre Miller '08 Lynette Mong '08 COVER STORY Emily Watson '07 Agency Page 16 Snavely Associates, Ltd Pet Art Director Debbie Shephard Jennifer Boyer Hopkinson's day Designer not have Curt Woodcock Rx to the dogs, for dogs, cats but this '96 and small pets BU graduate would fills her day at the in Lewisburg. Bienvenido a Guatemala Page 18 the Cover Veterinarian Jennifer Boyer cat any other way Caring Animal Care Hospital Cover Photography Gordon Wenzel/impressions On it may go Hopkinson '96 Address comments and questions A partnership between the university and the Bucks County Organization for Inter- and her Mikie have been together since her days at BU. cultural Advancement, led by J. Carol Vance opportunity to: Bloomsburg: The University Magazine last fall. Two '60, created a unique student teaching students traveled to the American School of Guatemala where they taught second- and third-graders and enjoyed a bit of the Guatemalan countryside. Waller Administration Building 400 East Second Street Bloomsburg, Freshmen Plans Page 21 PA 17815-1301 E-mail address: lbenedict@bloomu.edu Visit Bloomsburg University on the Freshmen Web at Computer Aided Design and Engineering Graphics, challenging them The University Magazine is published three times a year for alumni, current students' world design projects families and friends of the university. Husk)' Notes and other alumni information appear at the BU alumni global network site, \\ww.bloomualumni. com. Contact Alumni Affairs by phone, 570-389-4058; fax, 570-389^060; or e-mail, and classroom lectures. Professor James Moser has other ideas for students enrolled in http:ZAvww.bloomu.edu Bioomsfjurg; in a 100-level course generally don't stray too far from the textbook to provide real and the campus community. DEPARTMENTS Page 2 alum@bloomu.edu. Bloomsburg University is an AA/EEO institution and is accessible to disabled persons. Bloomsburg for area non-profit agencies News Notes Page 22 Husky Notes way of providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard Page 30 Over the Shoulder to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, Page 32 Calendar of Events University is committed to affirmative action ancestry, disability or veteran status. by SPRING 2006 News Notes Building the Basics Saleem Khan and his brother, center, BU economics professor Saleem Khan education to foster strong market economies. international conferences, Khan has been particularly involved in economics education in Russia, where he has been a consultant to the Russian Finance Academy in Moscow. But Khan's the basics, latest effort is a and home. With return to founded the Mubarak Learning Founda- and launched first will strive to make endow the who a non-govern- it mental organization and raise foundation so it are taught from 7 Urdu, the language of and basic math Pakistan, English is self- during intensive four-month sessions. "We will also work to center, also 50 to 14, funds supporting," he says. The main six centers is educating children, ranging in age year. "If successful, centers for the to in create skirls an aware- ness of political possibilities," says Khan. housing the Mubarak Library, is located in Rahimyar Khan in central Pakistan with five Those interested branches in nearby towns and skhan@bloomu edu villages. more about Khan by e-mail at in learning the effort can contact . his brother, Aslam M. Khan Naru, Saleem Khan tion Each of the personal resources toward funding the I A frequent presenter at M. Khan Nam. seated literacy centers they are establishing in Pakistan. Economics professor funds six Pakistani literacy centers has traveled the globe promoting A.slani pose with community leaders and teachers at one of the six literacy centers in Best in Business New honor society founded his native Pakistan. The need for the centers is acute, says Khan. With a rapidly growing population of 160 million, Pakistan has than half the number of people more who live in the U.S. residing in a country one- tenth lation its size. is Sixty percent of the popu- under the age of 25, and the literacy rate is only 40 percent, shrink- ing to about 12 percent for women. The professor has committed BU's newest honor society inducted society. Beta Gamma Sigma, is its first members this spring. The business honor the only society affiliated with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International, an internationally recognized accrediting agency for business Membership in degree programs. Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest honor a student can receive in an undergraduate or master's business program accredited by AACSB. The society admits the top 1 percent of the senior class, the top 7 percent of the junior class and the top 20 percent of students studying toward a master's degree inducted into the society become lifetime in business administration. Students members. his BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Credit Hours ACE and dual enrollment programs serve high schoolers Eighty- four high school students from 12 school districts, two private high schools and one regional technical school are enrolled in — the ACE BU courses this spring through two programs (Advance College Experience) Program and the state-funded dual enrollment program. The ACE program offers opportunity to take courses by paying locations high school students the at the BU campus a discounted rate, either or at satellite 25 or 50 percent of regular tuition. Students must pay applicable Through the dual enrollment program, state-sponsored grant, students The which may take courses for a fee. income level within eligible school districts. By taking courses through can earn college credits while is fees. funded by a determined by the limited cost for students is either program, students fulfilling high school require- ments, according to James Matta, assistant vice president and dean of graduate studies and call research. For information, (570) 389-4824. Luke Haile Undergraduate Investigator Student Haile receives research award Kozloff honored by Black Conference Findings from research on the exercise abilities of children gained recognition for Bloomsburg, BU American College Investigator exercise science student Luke Haile. Haile, of was awarded Sequence on a is The PBCOHE in his mentor, BU how the children's performances. The children were initiatives its two groups, and oxygen consumption test on a treadmill. The only difference between the two groups was the order in which the tests were performed. The researchers found that the testing order was the anaerobic test was performed performance on the treadmill perform the treadmill test first, test. first it When significant. diminished the children's However, the children could treadmill, to fitness, "If be a without affecting their performance for tests of aerobic fitness, like walking a such as riding a stationary bicycle with resistance. more convenient to the tests, and minority minority faculty and Past recipients of this award include Judy Hample, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System for Higher vice provost for at be conducted on a different day than a test of anaerobic the tests are accurate lot its educational equity is it when conducted on for parents who have the same it could to drive their children could reduce costs, as well," says Andreacci. SPRING 2006 Penn State and Robert University; Hill, vice chancellor for day, award who diversity at BU. During her tenure, the university Education; Terrell Jones, on the bicycle. Current practice president's presented to individuals staff pool. performed an anaerobic test on a stationary bicycle and a maximal all is student enrollment and order of exercise tests affects split into and programs has increased exercise science assistant professor Joseph Andreacci, Haile studied award its February. George Agbango, president. Kozloff also has supported December currently an exercise science graduate student at BU. With president's in have significantly enhanced the mission of the organization, says Achieve Maximal Anaerobic and Aerobic Power." Haile earned his undergraduate degree and during the 36th annual conference Undergraduate Student for his research titled "Influence of Testing Child's Ability to The Pennsylvania Black Conference on Higher Education (PBCOHE) honored BU president Jessica Kozloff with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter of the of Sports Medicine's Award State Honor public affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Jessica Kozloff News Notes Tech Support BU earns state grants totaling $263,000 Lee Retires BU was awarded Grad a retires as dean of two $200,000 grant state grants to for the Greater support technology: Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone and a $63,000 grant for the Pennsylvania Professional Studies Center for Computer Forensics Research. The grants were earlier this year by Gov. Ed Rendell. The $200,000 Keystone Innovation Zone Grant funds announced Ann Lee is retiring at the end of May after being part of BU as a student, faculty member and, currently, dean of the College of Profes- "I never planned to go to Lee says. "I was and Dad told first me I could be earned a bachelor's degree in pre-school special education Bloomsburg and, after five years, director of the local Easter Seals center. new companies. Grant Starter Kit funding will be used to create the Pennsylvania Center for Computer Forensics Research, equip becoming dean Studies 10 years ago. She returned computer forensics dean of the School of Education of the College of Professional The College exceptionality programs, nursing new and growing specialty, focuses evidence of computer-based crimes. The Pennsylvania Center for Computer Forensics Research will support the developing forensics industry and BU's proposed computer computer Winning Ways Huskies open season at JMU of Professional Studies The Huskies and speech pathology and audiology. of the will travel LfV^ilSiHwU^Mj^I j'MSffSi%JOjj'M'M M south Mason-Dixon Line for XCS^W wU^^rJ the 2006 season opener, During her tenure, Lee says she has seen more rigorous accreditation and performance standards James Madison enacted and welcomed the "new ideas and tremendous 40 new Computer on obtaining to encompasses elementary and secondary education, energy" of more than a research laboratory and support faculty research. forensics degree program. became as assistant professor of special education, later serving as assistant before developing and delivering The $63,000 Keystone Innovation class at the Easter Seal Society of Central Pennsylvania's BU in 1978 for and educating employees . native, 1969. She taught the facility in common needs tance and, where gaps exist, develop forensics, a Shamokin deal with training Lee being a dean." Lee, a companies. Individuals from local companies I my potential. all Ann came here and folks helped me .that's what the State System about. And, I've had the privilege of a nurse or a teacher. universities are who at traditional e-leaming; the existing e-leaming companies will offer assis- a 19-year-old single parent to realize professionals will discuss sional Studies college," will be used to bring together existing e-leaming companies with faculty members. Two graduate-level degree programs were introduced — the Last season, title; University Saturday, Sept. 2, BU went JMU was 7-4 in 1 1 -1 and won the in Harrisonburg, Va. PSAC Eastern Division 2005, a year after capturing the Division l-AA national championship. doctor of clinical audiology and master's of curriculum and instruction. certificate Other innovations were a principals program and an agreement that permits BU bachelor's students to complete requirements for a degree in elementary education at Community Luzeme County The rest of the Huskies College. and between 6 months and 12 years old. She hopes to dog and, with her husband Lanny, complete American Red Cross disaster as a therapy have a list a mile long," she says of retirement. to live to Oct. be 1 15 just to fit half of it in." KUTZT0WN at Mansfield 28 at Millersville EAST STR0UDSBURG at Cheyney 1 Check www.bloomu.edu/sports opening Shippensburg WEST CHESTER (Homecoming) Nov. 4 Nov. response training. have CLARION at 14 Oct. 21 "I at Edinboro Oct. 7 being "grammy extraordinaire" to six youngsters "I'll CALIFORNIA Sept. 23 Oct. dog is: Sept. 16 Sept. 30 Lee's retirement plans include travel, crafts finish training her schedule Sept. 9 for details, including times for the kickoff. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Springing to Action BU athletes assist in hurricane relief efforts Student Advocate Agbaw semi-finalist for award Thirty-one Steven Ekema Agbaw, professor of English and founder Institute for of BU's Frederick Douglass of athletes, First- Houghton who Mackin controlled tents that housed Transition and 43 Mifflin Co. Agbaw was nominated tirelessly to said Agbaw by provost Steve James "We wanted Ekema Agbaw 50 to 100 volunteers. to help other people out in their time of of the women's soccer team. Athletes in Action is a worldwide organization of Chris- develop and implement innovative strategies that help transition more than need," said Becky Ritter, a senior from Phillipsburg and member "has worked Bloomsburg freshmen make the six student- 2,000 people a day. The students stayed in climate- the National Center for the First Year in The group, which included volunteered to help clear houses of debris, rebuild schools and universities, and serve meals to Year Student Advocate award sponsored by Experience and Students of BU's Athletes in Action group spent New Orleans assisting with the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Academic Excellence, was one 12 semi-finalists for the Outstanding members spring break in tian athletes founded in 1966. from high school to college and cope with a rigorous academic curriculum." Second in 18* Series 'Spirit' moves again Orders are being accepted by BU's Super- Round- visory table for the second of five train cars in the "Spirit of series, the tanker. Top Value BU" BU makes Proceeds will benefit student schol- and Camp HERO Camp Victory, Millville. logo and paw prints and arships teams in the Pennsylvania BU made at State Athletic Conference. featured The tanker, produced by Weaver Models, Northumberland, is an "O" gauge, triple track, 1:48 scale Tankers are available model with three-rail and couplers, a at a $50 each, plus $4.95 cost of shipping and handling per car. Checks, payable to the Supervisory Roundtable, trucks may be complete brake system, Bloomsburg University of fully detailed and highly underframe detailed styrene body. Painted Union sent to Jolene Folk, Pennsylvania, St., 400 E. Second Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815. For more information, Kiplinger's top 100 lists call the top in 1 00 list of the best values in public colleges, the February edition of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. Landing at number 88, BU shares the Chapel Hill Kiplinger's and Michigan State list and affordable are measures public colleges final list of University. Schools that for their was academic to-faculty ratios, and universities were compared compiled. Schools quality, SAT/ACT scores, freshman retention and four- to six-year graduation rates, as well as cost 4042. The deadline for out-of-state students. tanker sports the Huskies orders SPRING 2006 Sept. 15. were ranked on such as admission rates, student- ladder and lettering, the is make combination of top academics both in-state and out-of-state students. yellow with maroon with schools costs. More than 500 before the known Tom Patacconi at (570) 389- Pacific list such as Penn State University, University of North Carolina at and financial aid for BU was ranked 68th for To win the Fitness Model Expo World Championship, successful competitors must have symmetrical and toned physiques. Tommy Bryant's winning ways have brought the BU graduate magazine spreads, TV ads and role in a major motion a small pi Flexing His 1 Talents STORY BY GREG BACH w ill Most people return from Bahamas with a trip to the habits Tommy Bryant came back with a new career. After he placed second competition in Miami in his fitness first that model picked up the tab World Championship in Toronto, who where he garnered that happened, the flood gates flew open and club in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Bryant, a company his doorstep. splashed in magazine spreads for Exercise and Health and Men's Workout, among others, and he's Vice," star Colin Farrell pushes on a commercial "One of my goals was ing the Bowflex spot. him out way dur- of the the top. It's the Nike of the him busy this year with TV ads. where he just never really sets in on TV," Bryant I week with weights in the morning and I hard on myself and I'm usually pick myself apart. commercial get text messages airs, from I'm by the success don't go into I it to fail," "I to the There are also a lot of challenges, and just fighting off the cravings to cheat SPRING 2006 there's "Competitions are also runs his he at says. compe- getting is of people diet." "My off me a lot of want to be trained nothing more gratifying than helping their fitness goals. It's good is sit I teach and teach their kids or going to enhance their quality of life, and feeling." also squeezing in definitely ing to Anything a fitness standpoint, they can take with some want next acting classes in in future movies. and take my says. "If you're proactive you to get to the big screen level," he if not, then you're just go- back and hope the phone determination is rings." any indication, should be ringing for years to come, his b "Any- Greg Bach Beach, Fla. it. the hardest part on your staff his time. kind of piggy-backing which lot for the rest of their life If Bryant's had is can make things happen and, upper how much fun I'm having doing is says. growing demand on hopes of gaining speaking parts go in to do very well. What's probably most surprising me Bryant fast. I've he room table." and workouts, Bryant Bryant says. "A talents to the echelons of the industry remarkably I them that's a my old model world, Bryant has ascended take on, diet," the dining to offset the loved ones. At the age of 35, considered almost ancient in the because members someone from see yourself football teammates." "I'm not surprised 75 percent Despite a schedule packed with photo shoots, per- "To up some weights because I feel I've to work on this or that. Whenever something airs, I it's someone reach when you says. "I'm pretty satisfied. After the friends call or had at competitions because don't go into it to fail.' -tommy bryant by the Bowflex guy. keep They'll usually picking I I because tastes like not surprised by the success I've 'I'm clients," personal appearances at trade my own toughest critic so thing we just Bowflex body in shape, Bryant works his personal training business shows, as well as doing print ads. titions gets; in so long." the exposure I'm getting, to Portland, Ore., spent two 15 -hour days filming fitness tough. Fitness personal training company, which employs two for Bowflex. equipment world." Bloomsburg To keep you what pizza sonal appearances realized," Bryant says of land- "It's Bowflex flew Bryant got it tell out four days a "But On top of all that, he earned a ing a scene in a club. I'm never diet. "It's same cravings everyone won and lost at non-speaking role in the upcoming movie "Miami "It and plenty of water. appeared MTV programs like "Slam" and "South Beach." In a fitness had on built I His chiseled abs and model agency smile have been prized spot get the is 1992 Bloomsburg grad, wound up dump- in order to handle the opponunities that were landing on now," Bryant says of his models His diet egg whites, green vegeta- fish, cardio in the afternoon. ing his job as a branch manager for a staffing on life cringe. low-fat diet strict much fun in that, but it's just a way of "There's not haven't my whole life changed," says Bryant, perched on a stool at a fitness would make most people couldn't even a second-place finish. "Once an unbelievably have to use our mind power over our stomach. Model Expo for a trip to the Fitness to bles, oatmeal, potatoes, rice him to give it another shot at a competition in the Bahamas - and it's a good thing he listened to his pals. Besides grabbing top honors, he gained a sponsor and sticking foods such as chicken, encouraged last year, friends work Bryant attributes his success to his dedicated sunburns, vacation photos and useless souvenirs. is is a freelance writer based in West Palm phone STORY BY MARK always nice to be honored for doing what you love. That's what happened for Sharon Emick Gallagher last May when the Rendell administration and five business journals named her one of Pennsylvania's best 50 women in business. The annual award It's recognizes the impact women business owners and business leaders have in creating jobs and building communities. When Sharon Emick Gallagher '83 graduated from Bloomsburg, the native imagined a rate Munq\ dynamic future Pa., in corpo- communications. Launching products. Advising movers and shakers. Making a big impact and pulling It all happened. But be only a prologue down a it fat salary. turned out to to the career in non- now her true love. After spending much of the profit public relations that is past 20 years working with a clients, a variety of Gallagher and a partner founded PR agency devoted solely to the needs of non-profits. "It took that long to get the confidence," laughs Gallagher. "Some people start businesses in their 20s but, for me, gaining all it took that experience for people to trust us enough." Non-profit execs, she says, are savvy, not nearly the naive do-gooders one might expect. "'Quite often, they're better at E. DIXON communications" than corporate where she joined another advertising policy there, who know their products but may not understand outside agency in a job that lasted politics." birth of her perspectives, she says. in 1991. leaders, was Gallagher started out in 1983 first until the daughter, Meghan, Another daughter, Julia, bom in which meant prod- Norfolk, Va., chapter of the National clients, Multiple Sclerosis Society. "That's ucts. That, Gallagher confesses, where didn't learned fundraising," she I explaining that she organized recalls, move selling her heart. But she learned strategy. "Larger clients base walk-a-thons, bike-a-thons and even all read-a-thons to raise money. PR and media buys on a strategic Formal training in fundraising was plan," she explains. "So, scarce in those days, so she learned it from the ground up. would write proposals with rience, but Gallagher. had I a good had no expe- boss," says posals to radio stations, McDonald's, We were always looking for sponsors." Naturally, she also entered those events. "They're very popular with Gallagher, trying to it sell Ironically, says means that a a product can't talk focus on the Take oil filters. issue is issues in that industry. A big environmental disposing of oil correcdy, so you talk that and why about the importance of it's important to use a 20-somethings," she says. "People reputable company." up 20 or 30 friends, spend their day together on their bicycles and What feel that they've contributed when some- Suddenly, things were In 1986, partly because of the clear: Gallagher wanted to do was to that, she realized she needed a master's degree, and suddenly makes about policy, she political yakking sense. Beck, a former journalist, launched Sage Communications in 2002. Today, its clients include Big Brothers/Big Sisters, mentoring services the Philadelphia which provides to young people; Neighborhood Development Collaborative, which on focuses revitalization initiatives in under-served areas; and Living Beyond Breast Cancer, which aids women after surgery. In Beck's mind, what most qualifies Gallagher for this work is her passion. "We're working with a nursefamily partnership that sends public health nurses into low-income communities to work with teenage moms," says Beck. The nurses help help non-profits think strategically. To do they are finished." company about that product. "You have to sign thing communica- to link into that plan." Which means? "I "And I would present pro- Pizza Hut, anyone. of their marketing, advertising, tions also all to care Gallagher and partner Barbara 1993. Both agencies had corporate organizing special events for the says, began I Understand which she received the mothers get through their pregnancies and, then, get back on track to school or work. "The stories that come out have such passion that I've of this seen with tears in her success of those proposals, Gallagher from the University of Maryland Sharon was hired in 1995. eyes," says Beck. "She feels a great by the development as director of MS Society's Philadelphia Back in Philadelphia once again, deal for the people she freelanced briefly and joined the with, managing events. More important, there was a whole well-connected Tiemey agency for you new area of fundraising to leam. "I moved from writing corporate work for proposals to writing for foundation tions, as public affairs officer. In chapter. She had a staff and was responsible for grants," she explains. "That dealing with people give me $10,000 meant who would about a year. In 1997, she went to 2006, to to really support phia MS only hired away by agency. a local advertising Two years later, her then-husband to Providence, STRING 2006 R.I., largest founda- Pew will spend $204 million research. cares very much about civic engagement," says Gallagher, whose which pays who we work when off triple-fold work done." PR people love their get to see the Not clients, all but it's obvious Gallagher does. "The thing that drives us these organizations serve ties that need help," she is that communi- says. "They inspire you." And they say thank you. "You don't hear that much when you're b selling oil filters," she says, job was to communicate with officials she followed Charitable Trusts, support environmental, energy "Pew 18 months, then was Pew and public policy a program." Gallagher remained with Philadel- the one of the nation's sitting there and outer policy makers about the programs "I Pew supported. not only learned about public Mark E. Wayne, Dixon Pa. is a freelance writer in CareerJournal.com reports that the number of economics degrees awarded years. 40 percent over the past five H. Summers, former secretary of the in the U.S. has increased nearly The reason? Lawrence Treasury, says it's because "people are fascinated with applying the economic mode of reasoning to a wide variety of issues." Think Like an Economist STORY BY JACK SHERZER Until the 1980s, you couldn't and "marketization" entering professor in 1982, and his dedication to current find "privatization" in a dictionary. Today, with terms like "world economy" daily conversation, it's research keeps classroom lectures relevant. Far from no surprise that the National Center for Education Statistics lists economics as one of the most popular college majors in the U.S. As people globalization deal with To Haririan, Haririan, remote to BU it, Instead, it's a window standing the world, and that perception ed him "I timely, says literature professor of economics. life. to the field that is texts to get the message across field, students can hear their ideas firsthand. need to be familiar and know what's happening what don't under- research, it is the same If you as a bottle that is getting empty." Among the well-known speakers he's brought to are New York Times columnist Paul Krug- attract- campus he loves to teach. never thought about any other job," says Haririan, who grew up in Tehran. "When I was in high school do with the in order to have better information for the students. to to his who has worked inviting many to the univer- devoted researcher says Haririan. "You er," economics doesn't deal with theories everyday a "To be a good teacher, you need to be a research- the study of and significant is with leaders in the understand the forces behind how to economics becomes more Mehdi on dusty students, he sity so his try to and relying I man; Robert H. Frank, an economist Graduate School of Management was reading news from around the world and I was thinking that what happens in one country affects what ics happens Buchanan Center in other countries." The opportunity to work closely with students first him to Bloomsburg University as an assistant and Gordon Tullock, and Mason at at the Johnson Cornell University; a professor of law and econom- a distinguished research fellow in the James for Political Economy at M. George University. attracted 10 BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE New School for Social Research, where he earned a doctorate in economics. While in graduate school he met his wife Christine County Community who teaches at Luzerne College. Haririan has shared his research findings with students and other professional economists over the 25 years. He wrote a book in 1989 last that looks at the economics behind state-owned enterprises and authored or co-authored more than 20 articles that appeared in professional journals. His research focuses on the kinds of tasks makes it sense for government to do, rather than the private sector. An example he explains, Mehdi Haririan bases his classroom lectures on current of an appropriate government task, providing assistance to workers lost their jobs, giving the get research in the field of economics. is back on their feet. Currently, Haririan Many of the speakers typically charge thousands of dollars for their appearances, to convince them but Haririan often to forego their fees is able because of their who is studying the economic reforms occurring in the central and eastern European countries, and the privatization of state-owned enterprises ization. With global- the ongoing concerns about outsourcing how the United of jobs overseas and professional relationship. who have support necessary for them to States will adjust changing world economy, Haririan's and adapt to the are involved in the decision making," Haririan says. research particularly timely. "They love when they see somebody speaking on "When we talk about issues of outsourcing and offshoring, we talk about comparative advantage," "The students are able to campus who is listen to the author of the people book or the paper Haririan says. "That they've read." Haririan was through his to the world of business who has a textile company and real One father's footsteps, tist exposed first father, estate interests. is of his brothers followed in their and the other became a rocket working in the defense industry scien- in California. Haririan says that country research is particularly timely. the idea that the country that means it." the kind of work one may have done in the past ends up moving elsewhere. In the United States, for example, outsourc- ing has resulted in fewer manufacturing jobs. But, overall, that doesn't With ongoing concerns about outsourcing of jobs and how the U.S. will adapt to the changing world economy, Mehdi Haririan's is can provide a good cheaper should provide mean fewer jobs for the U.S., just different kinds of jobs. "There are studies showing outsourcing is really not going to create fewer jobs in the U.S. Ultimately, is it going to create more jobs because corporations are going to expand more," he says. But for Haririan, teaching exened a bigger pull than the lure of the family enterprises, and he knew study- After earning his undergraduate degree studies brought him to SPRING 2006 the wave of the future, and you want each of my from to do that I have to know myself what is and then first to to the Iowa going on." Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania native. He lives in Hairisburg. stu- them in Iran, his graduate the United States, State University for his master's is that," Haririan says. "I dents to think like an economist, and in order for ing economics was the path he wanted to follow. Economics National University "Globalization cannot stop b FOR THE When others define us solely by career, they miss the thing line as a — vital portion of our psyche to refresh, unwind and express our creativity, the thing known as our avocation. OF The we do a what we do IT can blur between being a teacher and being a student. does for It Ervene Gulley, chair of the English department, when she takes her seat at the piano. Gulley joined the BU faculty in after 1970 earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Bucknell University and master's and doctoral She has taught courses on modem/contemporary American, British and the and European literature works of Shakespeare, but piano performance. for most of her and Library of Musical Classics, nur- "A tured her talent. She played piano someone found to town for six quence of living in a small started lessons at a young area, I age." Her first instructor had studied become a concert pianist before moving from Italy to Carbondale, to piano is a delight." Playing the piano has offered "a number of opportunities I wouldn't have otherwise enjoyed," she Pursuing choral music during to the gift after BU and, later, instructor John class Couch James Douthit and enrolling in a Often asked to accompany mance faculty and senior perfor- majors, Gulley has performed individually and with BLOOM SB URG world and I'm not in charge." Studying the piano also keeps her connected to her students. "I can always see where it could have been better or should have been better," she says. "It helps me remember what it's like each semester. music love a completely different she earned her She soon began studying with says. my job, but it has its stressful days. When I play, I'm in "I keyboard when her parents Kunyoung Kim, students," she says. "As a conse- play for a half hour," she says. fine throughout high school, accompa- degrees. a piano teacher I commence- out the Steinway roll nying various choral groups. ing When I was 6 years old, who would come ment, "they but his discipline, along gave her a piano as a housewann- life. "Our town had fewer than 300 people. Before each graduate students, she her college years, Gulley returned Piano music has provided the soundtrack bands, orchestras and ensembles. exceeded the young with assignments from Schirmer's she remains a student in another discipline, of his skills recalls, degrees in English from Lehigh University. Pa. His talents far a student. students . .how feel back with to be a lot of serious when they get papers my comments." - By Bonnie Martin UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE — go near a body of water without bring- can't "I ^ r Dang LaBelle, BU's ing a fishing pole," says storeroom supervisor and an avid angler. Mount- ed fish decorate the walls of his office fishing trips past line one storeroom LaBelle's fascination with and photos of wall. things fishy began in all when he home Thailand before he came to the United States A drainage was 5 years old. would overflow pipe behind his in the rainy season pond would team with and the resulting would catch fish that LaBelle with an improvised net of screen. Fishing is now an integral part of LaBelle's life. A weekend in the spring or autumn will find him wading in a nearby stream or pond. And it's not just the usual trout and bass that draw LaBelle to the water. In fact, he prefers angling for more unusual species typical various types of panfish or big crappies. He's also organized trips to fish for salmon in York with BU colleagues. else learn, taking "1 new people hooked," says LaBelle. "It's New enjoy watching someone out, getting people not work for me. It's fun." A litde bit of fun was what LaBelle expected on a warm June afternoon in 1986. Instead, he set a national record. LaBelle at his wife Amy were having a picnic Dam in Hamburg, Pa., about 60 and Kaercher Creek miles southeast of Bloomsburg. Naturally, LaBelle little fishing so he and Amy set out row boat. Dang dropped a hook on an intended to do a in a 12-foot 8-pound He line. got a bite — a big one. fish across the water. Dang slowly reeled Back and forth swam the Amy maneuvered the boat while the fish in, careful not to break the thin nylon filament. Finally, after shallows, it ashore. 40 minutes, he cornered the jumped over the It was side of the boat a muskellunge, its mouth fish in the and heaved filled needle-like teeth, one of which caught LaBelle's and gashed it. No typical fish, this weighed 40 pounds — muskellunge a record that put LaBelle's in the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of - By Eric Foster Continued on next page SPRING 20 6 with thumb Fame. name FOR THE OF IT Norm Manney a Give and turn he'll it into a tree branch, work of art. In his free time, BU's paint shop foreman crafts elaborate walking sticks. wooden Whether marking the accom plishments of veterans or preserving favorite childhood pastimes, Manney's walking sticks all tell a story. Manney's love of woodworking began dunng He Corps. his time in the collected sticks Marine and marked them with names and to record vice his had taken him. began tree where to carve dates 23 years of serLater, walking Manney sticks out of branches and discarded scrap wood. When his wife Debra sug- gested he sell his work, the hobby turned into a small business. It stick, Manney four make a walking takes weeks to from the first steps of shaping the wood, to carving or burning a pattern and placing the inlays, to the final steps of staining coating it it and someone comes up with an with polyurethane. Manney makes many of the walk- see what ing sticks for veterans, personalizing "It's them with military-themed pins and carvings. He understands the and then I can do with it," a challenge to look at try to make it." idea, he something Manney created one stick using shooter pride of military service and creates marbles his customer had played each stick with the individual vet- with as a child. eran in mind. "The sticks stick sparkle history of a person. ferent," he tell the Each one's dif- aren't limited to the military. with another artificial Manney receives 40 walking says. But Manney's walking sticks He made "It's I says. jewels. orders for about a fun hobby, that's what do when it is. It's what I intend up my day job,' " he says. He hopes to to one day open a small his walking Manney is sticks. I give store to sell For now, though, content to spend his time making new walking ing and perfecting his - By Lynette Mong sticks, polishcraft, b '08 sticks a year, in addition to the sticks he sells locally. "When BLOOM SBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE a Bloomsburg University education brings to your Team up lifp with today's Bloomsburg University students by helping to fund their education To learn through scholarships. how you can the fields you care help students most about, in ^ call (570) 389-4128. |r check the World Wide Web at: www.bloomu.edu/giving! LOOMSBUR(| TNIVERSm DATIQN Inc. As a little girl enjoying nature walks with her grand- father, Jennifer birds Boyer Hopkinson was drawn to injured and other animals. She wanted to "fix" whatever ailed them. Today, this 1996 Bloomsburg University graduate tends to the needs of up to 40 animals daily at the Animal Care Hospital, the she and her husband Michael STORY BY KIM BOWER-SPENCE own in practice Lewis- burg, Pa. She spends her days caring for dogs, BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE More than 58.3 percent of U.S. households own one or — American and "pocket cats her husband, pets," like rabbits and who holds a business ferrets, while degree from Lock Haven University, manages the business end. "I can focus on the medicine and surgery part of it," she says. "Ever since third grade ian," she admits, recalling "little I wanted how an aunt dubbed her members' veterinarian" as she coddled family and dogs. Long before applying plunged into the ing cages Pa., be a veterinar- to Hopkinson work, clean- her From BU, Hopkinson went on to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, graduat- worked at animal hospitals in Reading and Allentown before buying the Animal Care Hospital October from Dr. Alice Gora, last who remains at the As the owner, Hopkinson chance relishes the says. different when it's your own practice," She admits the for permission." opportunity; it old son, Evan. so was greatly influenced "We love on In just fact, it was her 30 miles the region. a business their 2-year- the area," explains Hopkinson. and the people a great area to raise children, much friendlier here by than what we're used affection for are "You go into this profession because you drew her back Hopkinson was accepted both at to BU and at a private liberal arts college in central Pennsylvania. But Bloomsburg's reputation and like ani- mals, but those animals are attached to people," she She finds and deal with it critical to their emotions. learn to "read" people "Sometimes the animals are the easier part of the two," she laughs. One and her staff face of the biggest obstacles she Care Hospital has set up a fund to help people and who clients can return unused animal medications to a bin for others to use free of charge. Hopkinson advises students thinking of a career in veterinary medicine to work in an animal hospital. "School can prepare you to an extent, but to being in the trenches." it Beyond doesn't biology, ogy and even speech communications — to prepare for the talks they'll inevitably be asked to present. "You never nity will call realize how many people in the commu- and ask you to speak at career days or, like She finds her profession particularly much more manageable who put herself difficult when she must euthanize a pet, but tremendously rewarding when a sick animal is healed and able to return home to its family. beloved pet is all we see an elderly person whose they have but it's great when you see when they are able just left. It puts the pressure on, how happy the to take their best friend amazing what animals can do people are home. It's for people." That bond exists on a personal level for Hopkinson, companion at the Animal Care Hospital is price tag appealed to Hopkinson, whose through school working three part-time jobs. She a long-haired black cat served as a technician at nearby Bloomsburg Veterinary apartment during her student days in Bloomsburg. Hospital, held a and played Pottsville. work study job in a campus violin with the Schuylkill The violin, cafeteria Symphony in which she began playing in third grade, also earned her a scholarship through the university's music department as she performed with the daily who moved into her off-campus Today, he's part of a family that also includes two rier-mix dogs, Alex and Kermit, and Sweet Pea. But, only the feline a cockatiel has his own cage Hopkinson says her back, she says taking courses Bloomsburg education prepar- for veterinary school practice. Looking more finance and economics would have helped her SPRING 2006 and to better understand ter- named at Animal Care Hospital with the handwritten nameplate, "Mikie Hopkinson." b university orchestra. ed her well is helping clients pay their pets' medical expenses. Animal "All too often, to." Bloomsburg, located east of Lewisburg, that with Girl Scout troops, ask for a tour," she says. family's decision to relocate to central Pennsylvania wasn't simply based "It's she 'You can use the newer drugs or perform some of newer procedures without asking the for dealing human clients. students should consider courses in finance, psychol- to implement many of the ideas she learned in veterinary "It's And human psychol- ogy courses would have been helpful compare practice part-time. school. the business aspects of the career. can't afford the care their pets need, of "go-fer." ing in 2000. She Veterinary Medical Association reasons. cats hometown of Dallastown, and working her way up to the unof- at a clinic in near York, ficial title to college, dirtier side of veterinary more companion animals. Kim Bower-Spence is a freelance journalist from Berwick, Pa. Two Bloomsburg education majors found themselves student teaching at a bilingual school in Guatemala City last fall and witnessing both extremes in the country's economic spectrum. teaching assignment, at Millville Area Elementary School, and received her bachelor's degree in early child- hood and elementary education "gutsy" \s\Jz hen Bloomsburg environment University student Ginamarie Romano do student teaching signed in up to Guatemala, people told her she was "gutsy." After all, the only foreign country she'd ever been to before ada. At least she Romano was Can- had her high school Spanish to fall contrasted with the upper-class back on. at The American in December. Then she made her next move — to Florida, where she teaches a gifted second-grade class in Opa Locka, near the Spanish/ School of Guatemala, where stu- English cultural dents had chauffeurs and body- She notes that her well-behaved guards, plus maids who carried their backpacks. Guatemalan students were much less of a culture She taught third-graders at the bilingual school, catching a 6:15 a.m. bus to get there before her On weekends, mix of Miami. shock than her Amer- ican students. "They listened; they respected you," she says. Romano was one BU students of the first two students arrived. in a different world. "1 she explored the country, shop- change program. The program ping result of a longstanding relationship and landed flew to Guatemala City know what to expect when I went down there, although 1 knew I was going to a thirdreally didn't world country," she recalls. Wide- spread poverty in the city at village markets, dipping her toes in the Pacific Ocean and climbing a volcano. When Romano returned to Pennsylvania in October, she fin- ished her second student- to participate in the exis between The American School of the Guatemala and the Bucks County The Organization for Intercultural Ad- School needed teachers new partner- vancement, and their ship with Bloomsburg University. private, bilingual American who spoke English as their native language to serve as speaking models and teachers for Spanish-speaking From Pennsylvania students; the Pennsylvania educa- to Central America The tors relationship goes 1977, back Keystone State Educators Boost Guatemalan Teaching to when a group of adventur- formed the Bucks County For almost 30 years, the Bucks County Organi- Organization for Intercultural Advancement and helped fill Advancement has been zation for Intercultural that using Pennsylvania experience and knowledge ous educators from Bucks County traveled to need through Guatemala and other countries to consult on curriculum J. visiting teachers. Carol Vance '60 got her taste of first Guatemala in the early and school design and introduce 1990s. She was teaching in the innovative educational practices. Southern Lehigh School to improve education in Since its founding Guatemala. 1977, the Bucks County in Organization has grown to include District from across Pennsylvania and looking to make found it a at for the members - though the name opportunity change in her life. remains the She The American School of Guatemala, where she was Continued on next page same - and to promoting literacy a rural its focus has shifted among the poor the in areas of Guatemala. Board member Vera Rearick Derk '60, a former reading supervisor, uses her contacts with publishers to cultivate book donations. "To date, we've sent $77,000 worth of books to Guatemala," says Derk. "We recently mailed 3,000 books." The Bucks County Organization's other programs include: Sponsorship of The American School's satellite schools in rural areas of Guatemala and public schools that serve the children of sugar-cane workers and Mayan Indians. schools serve poorer regions, where as These many as 43 percent of first-grade students do not continue on to second grade. Professional development assistance for Guatemalan teachers through the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and other schools. The American School is the official labora- tory school of the university. Bucks County Organization board members Jolene Borgese and Renee Cartier travel to Central America every year to present seminars to as 400 Guatemalan teachers. many as 'Once you get into a third-world country and you see people riding buses you realize resource teacher, observing for them Before she night long to get to classes, are.' - new to increase their proficien- knew it, she was When Vance returned to the member of the Bucks County Advancement. Currently, she's president of the organization substitute teacher in the and a Benton Area School Distnct. and a Guatemala, paying their Hock, Bloomsburg member of the Bucks County problem, she learned, because The American students and gave workshops. thought it would be an excellent placement for our student teachers," Ann Lee says, noting that Guatemala and Pennsylvania. student teachers to stay for a School's cooperative country's culture, while Pennsylvania regulations require at least half speaking and a bilingual teacher in of an education major's semester to work of student teaching be completed together. taught second grade with a within the state. "It's kind of discouraging," she says. teacher. The student teacher who Lee, lived in a retires in May, hopes house with other teachers from the other options materialize. She sees school and enjoyed traveling the possibility of the Educator throughout the Central American country on weekends. "It culture shock," she says. immersed culture was "We were in an entirely different in Pennsylvania, Exchange Program as a summer project or as a semester-long a student-teaching assignment for students and way of life." Back the university does not regularly ditional Hock who follow up with an ad- assignment in Pennsylvania. In the meantime, the Bucks offer international opportunities for completed her student teaching at County Organization student teaching. Beaver-Main Elementary School in other directions with in Bloomsburg before receiving her another was working in the Spanish month, Natalie Hock Buchhalter Immersion Program began teaching Lehigh School at a private Calif. The Valley. area has a large system makes to is helping her with it turns out, the first two at The American School of Guatemala may also be the throughout Guatemala while least for a while, says Lee. student teaching last school's new director BLOOMSBURG Southern Center visiting principals fail, Vance it almost impossible recalls. "Once you get into a third-world country and you see people riding city. Buchhalter enjoyed traveling fall. and noted that the American school she says the language she learned new job and at District in One of the Spanish-speaking population, so As and Natalie Hock and teachers December 2005. The following Bloomsburg student teachers left, Educator lan administrators her Romano, its Exchange Program. Seven Guatemavisited Pennsylvania schools, in Guatemala graduates Ginamarie continuing education and getting married in Monica, BU is bachelor's degree in elementary Montessori school in Santa Recent full semester to better adjust to the program placed both an English- childhood and elementary educa- Bloomsburg the Guate- doesn't speak Spanish. That wasn't Guatemalan Arierican School, they explored Carol Vance '60 heads the educator exchanges between at malan program, even though she Bonnie Williams, chair of the early the J. abroad and jumped Hock at Hock had organization that sponsors Guatemala in January 2005 with While Natalie studying long been interested in going each classroom "We and Romano was who was also elementary education. a of the College of the possibilities for own tuition, travel Organization board, traveled to tion department. two later, students were headed for teaching with Organization for Intercultural Professional Studies at months '60 living expenses abroad. Student United States in 1993, she became a Ann Lee, dean BU Bloomsburg principal of the school. board carol vance j. Just eight and modeling lessons teachers there cy. all how lucky we last buses you all night long to get to classes, realize she says, how lucky we are," b two, at The would like Tracey M. and Dooms is a freelance writer editor living in State College, Pa. UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE freshman Plans It's nothing like the real thing" says the 1968 hit by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. BU's first-year engineering students could sing along as they confront client's genuine problems and create workable solutions. 'Ain't a required 100-level course for all engineering students, but that doesn't mean STORY BY GEOFFREY MEHL has to it be routine. Computer Aided Design and Engineering Graphics could easily be just a book hypotheticals, but profes- sor James it some series of text- Moser real prefers to give world flair. So teams of students concentrate on actual design projects, with an emphasis on learning the client's needs and coming up with workable plans to solve genuine problems. Moser non- invites local profit organizations and the campus community to make requests, and then the students, mostly freshmen, the challenges of "the real thing." to modify a building to create a face A local church hopes new social hall. An an- Students Brian Micucki, Tabitha Chlubicki, Cathy Auburger and Crystal Henion take one — thropology professor would like to see a Native Ameri- American anthropology And BU's Student Health Center is expanding and needs a new floor plan. an enormously rewarding experience can dwelling reconstructed. Moser explains resolved. Others want some sense case of the Student Health Center, of a public university come all into play. dents a taste of what real projects are of cost. In the the requirements "It gives the stu- like," he out the semester, and the course's conclusion is whom evaluate the results. Crystal Pa.; N.J.; Henion of Oley, classroom exercises at Pa., and expected simpler the onset of their first Township, and Fitzgerald Flowers of Upper Darby, works at its Kehr Union home. was working with the university's planning construction office, gaining insight into institution develops such semester have to a great plan," she says. a recognized expert in archaeology SPRING 2006 and Native and how a major pleased. "They "They were very what our Now their plan withstand the formal review process the university applies to any construction project, BU. Instead, they worked with professor DeeAnne Wymer, in projects. was more than needs were and solved the problem." will at is A crucial part of the impressive, very professional, listened to Pa.; the quality were paired with Lucinda Harris, director of the Stu- came up with Tabitha Chlubicki of Cathy Auburger of Glen Rock, more depth. Wymer praised work after hearing the presentation. In the end, Harris unexpected. Freshman engineering majors Brian Mikucki of Delran, but soon Josh Picard of Norristown, Mike Kutch of Greenfield project a For many of the students, the challenge was Wyoming, first, that gave the Pennsylvania residents Brandon Groff of Lebanon, the formal presentation of the project not only to the client to class peers, all of a bit scary at dent Health Center, where an expansion project says. Half a dozen projects keep students busy through- but also of their goals that are not completely to get look at their basic class a lot that the projects are not necessarily Some begin with simple. last plans for reconstructing a Native American dwelling. Geoffrey Mehl is BU's publications director. b Husky Notes Quest trips designed for alumni and friends Bloomsburg University's Quest program offers trips ranging from a hike in a nearby state park to biking and trekking through in Colorado Ecuador. The following trips are open to For friends. many of these and most equipment trips, the rain forest of BU alumni and no experience necessary is provided. Varied amounts of is physical stamina are required. • Walking Across June 19 Ireland, to 27: Participants will hike Ireland's long- distance some trails Aspen Music is . • Lost through of the country's most significant historical and Machu Picchu and Peruvian Andes Trek, Aug 12 • from village participants into the south- budding adventurer and unpaved em Peruvian Andes to mountaineer, the an explore one of the earliest includes Ecuador's cloud rsmith@bloomu.edu. The adventure brings indigenous The leader Mountain Biking, July 15 civilizations. is Dave Conlan, dbconlan@yahoo com . to 22: Participants will fly into Gunnison, Colo., with • Africa's Kilimanjaro transportation arranged Safari, Sept. 3 to 17: to Crested Butte The group where will Africa's highest Between Crested Butte and Kilimanjaro, traveling through City, Colo., cyclists all from old logging roads climbing above single tracks, often an altitude of The leader is 7,000 Brett Simpson, bsimpson@bloomu.edu. • Kili, participants on The adventure begins Hike in the Rockies, Festival, July and short day in remote cloud forests, whether group will hike over Maroon Maroon area, to The leader is bloomu.edu. continue as the from glacier is • Trekking in Patagonia, Chile, Feb. 12 to 25, 2007: This trekking adventure travel to crevasse rescue. in the southern Patagonian The Andes of Chile trip concludes with a soak in natural hot springs. leader is Dave Conlan, dbconlan@yahoo.com. takes the group into one of the natural wonders of South America, the Torres Del Paine National Park. • Mountain Biking Across the Roof of Africa, Dec 28, leader is The Dave Conlan, dbconlan@yahoo.com. 2006, to Jan. 12, 2007: This 24 for those to "* West through the Bells Wilderness trip is who are comfortable the Pass, Aspen. The to group learns proper moun- Aspen trips, the nights in villages along Roy Smith, rsmith® trail feet. equipment and spend the route. 31: After gradual acclimation 9,000 Cyclists will carry basic exploration of the lost Incan Mountains and Music: Music roads, often at altitude of with a three-day two-night The Dave Conlan, dbconlan® yahoo.com. leader and 'Avenue of Volca- The will experience the a multi-day safari. forest noes." tain techniques, Upon wilder side of Tanzania feet. up of the planet's six eco-systems. trip to village then participants choose volcano, will ride a variety of terrains, to and venture they will spend two days. Lake that location, they will bike mainly along pathways and pubs along the way. The leader is Roy Smith, Colorado Wildflowers of Ecuador, 2007: Designed for the to 20: in Guraghe Highlands. From Incan Trail and Mountains Dec. 27, 2006, to Jan. 13, cultural regions, eating • Festival. Roy Smith, rsmi th@bloomu edu The leader For additional information, including costs and physical requirements, call dealing with the (570) 389-2100, check online unexpected. at Participants will contact trip leaders at e-mail travel from Addis www.buquest.org or addresses provided. Ababa, the capital visit coincides with the of Ethiopia, to the BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 5 *y f\ Victor J. O Zr Ferrari and his accomplishments were recognized when the Col. Victor J. Ferrari Community Family Resource and Learning Center was dedicated Oct. 7, 2005, in San Antonio, Texas, where he A veteran of World War II, 1991 he was an Air Force navigator as former President George Stark Fowles retired from HW Bush's 943rd Point Illinois State University years as assistant director for from the U.S. Air Force and Pepsi-Cola, he plans retired golf, more than 16 and human resources information systems. Also benefits lives. whose B-24 was shot down over Holland. He joined USAA as a training director after retiring from the military and worked as a bank president until he retired from that career in 1988. Active on the San Antonio Commission on Literacy, the San Antonio Commission on Elderly Affairs and advisory boards for school districts, colleges and universities, he was honored in Thomas in January, after to volunteer as a bench referee for the ISU Lady Redbird basketball and volleyball teams, and participate in the McLean County. American Cancer Society's Relay for Life of He will part-time while his wife, Eileen, continues at also work They will ISU as a nursing professor. who teaching in Poland, and their daughter, Sarah, a law is visit their son, Aaron, student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. reached He can be at tsfowles@ilstu.edu. of Light. ^ 5 gl \J Jm* Fame. 5 £l Fred Frey was inducted into the Luzerne County Chapter, Endless Mountains Region, Sports Hall of A five-sport star at Tunkhannock High School, he lettered in football for four years at and football at BU and coached A \JTT He then enrolled at BU and, following graduation, taught business law and medical Luzerne County at Commu- Thomas Scholvin Muncy school Area and Florida. conducted at BU fostered her interest in preserving the past. UU math He and districts, he earned Nova Southeastern his wife, Margaret, 7^T^ / ^ Nancy (right) retired in January after 39 years E. Wisdo, former director of the Office of States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), became one of three USCCB in February. A of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice Peace from 1996 to 2001 she , as a have three grown children Domestic Social Development, United associate general secretaries of the Jean Booth Gelbaugh a doctor of University in is and a candidate for a licentiate in canon law at the Catholic University of America. J^T^y / %J Doug McClintock teacher at Mechanicsburg Middle School, where she also ran the after-school and knitting day with last assistant professor of education at and four grandchildren. member }/^/^ an is Immaculata University. The former superintendent of Octorara Donna Krothe Goobic, a retired educator and current drama coordinator at Northwest Area High School, is part of the Historical and Preservation Society of the Greater Shickshinny Area, an organization preserving landmarks through miniature woodcarvings. In a January Times Leader said student research Novem- Future Business Leaders of America. education degree from Donna last on Northampton County Council. She plans to retire in June from Northampton High School where she teaches business/technology and advises the .A. ber to a four-year term nity College. story, communication the University of Buffalo, at Diane McGeever Neiper was elected 7^T~1 called his experiences during four years of active duty with the terminology for nearly 25 years a professor of and sciences Speech Language Pathology and Audiology." Harold Cole was the focus of a veteran profile last fall in The News of Delaware County. Harold rereservist. disorders baseball Wyoming Valley West. Marines and two years as a Rosemary Lubinski, recently published her fifth textbook, "Professional Issues in / 5 £l Q V/O clubs. math, game She was honored on her Cancun, Mexico, of Doylestown spent a week as a volunteer in mission in with Discovery Service Projects. The project involved building 18 a full-school assembly. concrete-block houses in an area devastated by Hurricane '67 Gretchen Hummel Brosius '67/70M started her second four-year term as Wilma. This was Doug's in January. Gretchen has taught Montessori preschool classes 24 years and currently teaches at the Northumberland Christian School. She and her husband E. Eugene Brosius, an attorney, have been married for 36 years and have three grown children. for the past 7^T r^ / 1th trip abroad with DSP. Marylou Kempf Alfonso more Husky Notes online www.bloomualumni.com. at Send information to alum@bloomu.edu or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker Alumni House, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St., Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815 is J^7/C / \J Cyndy Landis Kryder wrote an The King's essay included in the 316-page anthology, "Stories of Strength." Thompson at a Time" focuses on close friend Deb Snyder '76 and her struggle with a rare, life-threatening illness. Proceeds from book sales benefit disaster relief charities, including the Red Cross, Americare and the Salvation Army. Ordering details are at www.storiesofstrength.com. Rosa Solines Stroh is vice president/treasurer of the Hershey Co. She joined the company in 1982 as senior treasury analyst/pension asset management and held a variety of positions in the treasury department. SPRING 200 enrolled at i_J Seminary, Los Angeles. "One Breath Find 1 mayor of Northumberland Husky Notes Deborah Dell Watson Births of Magnolia, Del, Bayhealth Medical Donna Osmun Schwartz Center s vice president of the southern region, was elected to the Andrea American College of Healthcare Executives' Council of was a health care executive at Susquehanna Health System and Geisinger Medical Center. Hara Freireich Kinsey Paul, Oct. Mar)' Agnes Kratz was trustees of Wyoming School. She is named to the board of for the daughter, Melissa, Nov. Wyoming Valley Courtney, Oct. principal for a year as assistant '92 and husband, Mark, a daughter, Morgan '92 and husband, Shawn, a daughter, Mary-Katherine "Kate" King Welsh '93 and husband, Greg, a son, Connor Michael, Sept. 16,2005 West at Thomas, a 2005 Christine Girman middle school and a half. She has taken courses and Perm State universities. 6, '92 and husband, 2005 Aug. 31, 2005 tion in the Donegal School District. She formerly taught in the 25 years and served 8, Michelle Kochenash Milisits West School District and president of the Wyoming Seminary Upper School Parents Association. Susan Ursprung is supervisor of curriculum and instrucdistrict for and husband, Andrew, a son, Jonathan '91 18,2005 Stephanie Campomizzi Malarkey Seminary College Preparatory an inclusion teacher Emma Zeitler Peters '89 and husband, David, a daughter, Kylie Grace, Dec. 27, 2005 Regents. She formerly 5^T^T / / '88 and husband, Kevin, a daughter, Mike Kwasnoski Chester, Millersville '95 and wife, Margo, a son, Noah Andres, Nov. 11,2005 5^TQ / C3 Col. Edward Bezdziecki recently retired after 26 Shawn years in the U.S. Air Force. During his career, he Rachel Wilbur Wacek was stationed at the Pentagon; Grafenwoehr Army Installation, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and air force bases in Florida, New Hampshire, Maryland, Alabama, Texas and Washington, D.C. He earned tor. He previously was Connor Robert, July 2005 Condel '97, a son, 2004 Paul Wood '95, a son, Eric James, July 22, 2005 manager of Coatesville. Teri Gamier Miller '97 and husband. March ?^7Cj) Becky McNabb Sullivan was recognized in Nurs/ y^ ing Spectrum's Greater Philadelphia edition as 28, Dec. 2005 nursing excellence award. She is director and hospital for Montgomery Hospice Medical 9, Rusty, a son, Joshua Caleb, 2005 Susan Laughiin Mackey recipient of the of home care 15, Amy Lautermilch Wood '96 and Norristown's municipal administra- city 13, and husband, William, a son, Daniel '96 and Christopher Kimberly Kels Condel a master's degree in business administration is '95, William, Nov. 22, 2005 from Central Michigan University. Paul G. Janssen Jr. Laverty '95 and wife, Kimberly, a son, Connor, Dec. '98 and husband, Philip, a son, Philip Jr., 2005 Justin C. Wagner '98 and wife, Valentina, October 19, Jennifer, a daughter, Avary 2005 Center, Norristown. Crystal Kovaschetz 5 Q f\ OU James L. Quinn Lillian is director of fixed operations for Sloane Automotive Group, Philadelphia. Kelly Stubbs He Ann Pennington '79, is a special Q O '99 and husband, Mike, a daughter, Ridgeley Corey Keith, a son, Alexander, Sept. 29, 2005 Darlene Weihbrecht Steinberger '99 and husband, Robert, a son, Michael James, Aug. 26, 2005 Stacey Myslivy Weaver April '01 and husband, Bradley, a son, Jacob, 2004 "1 Judy Lutz MacNeal was named senior vice and sales manager for National Penn Leasing, a subsidiary of National Penn Bank. Joseph A. Mayo received a 2005 teaching award from the Kevin Monroe '02 and wife, Chanell, a son, Casey James, -A. president Society for the Teaching of Psychology. He earned Q^ VJ jL* Annette East Bruno is 7, Karczewski Heath Wilson Area School assistant professor of Northampton Community College. She taught elementary and middle school students in the education 2005 Dec. Lori '03 and husband, Troy, a daughter, Aubrey Lena, Dec. 27, 2005 master's and doctor of education degrees from West Virginia University. He has been on the faculty of Gordon College in Georgia since 1989, serving as department chair from 1993 to 1997. 5 Gerald, a daughter, 2005 Sheila Devine Pogash '99 and husband, education teacher in the Lower Merion School District. They have two sons: Matt, a junior at Lower Merion, where he plays baseball, and Tim, a sophomore at Harriton High School, where he acts in school plays and sings in choral groups. 5 Carman Nicole, on Dec. 21, continues to play semi-pro baseball. His wife, the former Lee Wertz '98 and husband, Grace, Jan. 12,2006 at BLOOMSBUK.G District for more than 20 years. She also and Kutztown universities. Hugh Turner was promoted to vice president of finance taught at East Stroudsburg with Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa, Atlantic City, N.J. Hugh has more than 20 years of accounting and finance experience within the casino industry. A G A Z I N E Q "2 Sharon Butler Burke is vice president of cornmunity services and resource development for Maternal and Family Health Services Inc. She previously served 9 5 er «3 as the MFHS director of resource development. Elizabeth Lees Caramihalis teaches Spanish QA O A Winnacun- High School, Hampton, N.H. She previously taught at Sanford High School, Cape Elizabeth High School and Morse High School, all in Maine. Jim Griggs was named vice president of finance at Woolrich Inc. He has been with the firm since 1987. net and trust officer with First Columbia Bank and Trust Co., Bloomsburg, received her Series 7 and 63 licenses after at Victoria Amici Bartlow, assistant vice president completing an examination process by the North American Securities Administrators Association. licenses, she is now a registered representative Columbia Financial With with the First FCBT. Services, a division of Edward Caminos is corporate controller of BPZ Energy, Houston, Texas. Ed has more than 20 years of experience in senior accounting and finance positions, primarily with international energy companies. 9 Q £* Cindy Smith C3 %J English vice is president of underwriting Shantillo leaves financial officer post services at Geisinger Health Plan. to study for the priesthood for She has been with GHP 18 years. She and her earning a bachelor's husband Barry have two sons, Reuben, 23, and Ryan, 17. Kimberly Hendricks is degree in accounting vice president, finance, for JLG Fifteen years after enrolled She previously was based a different type of at in educational institution, a fall New York City with Bristol- Myers Squibb Co., most seminary in Washington, D.C. Last McConnellsburg. Industries, from BU, Jerry Shantillo '88 recently as vice president of he moved one finance, corporate develop- step closer to a second career ment. She earned an MBA from as a Roman Catholic priest when he began pursuing New York University. religious studies at the professor of marketing Pontifical Mark A. North American worked is and chairman of the department of College in Rome. Shantillo Mitchell management, marketing and law in at Coastal Carolina the financial side of the University. He healthcare industry before was on the faculty of the entering the seminary. First University of South Carolina with Guthrie Healthcare Upstate. System, Sayre, and, later with married and Q £l financial officer of United Michael Gigler was promoted to senior vice president at Wachovia Bank. He has been a senior relationship manager in He earned Wachovia's Northeast Pennsyl- Binghamton, N.Y., his 5 titles C3\J included controller of Guthrie Clinic and chief operating Medical Associates. an is has three children. United Healthcare System, and He previously MBA from Binghamton vania Commercial Banking University in 1991. Group, responsible healthcare administration, a field he says September 2005, he entered seminary he "greatly enjoyed," the Pontifical North to enter seminary. studying theology he enrolled Gregorian University in Rome. Theological College at Catholic University, Washington, to prepare for theology studies. D.C, Then, in at American College, Studying for the Diocese of Scranton, at for the Greater Lehigh Valley. In 2003, he resigned from at the Pontifical expects to remain in He Rome for five years before returning to the U.S. began his career in Meridian Bank. He 1986 at He earned a master's in business administration at Moravian College. Greg Sullivan was inducted into the West Branch Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall SPRING Husky Notes manager rehabilitation at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, he earned a master of science degree in speech pathology in 1989. Chris resides in Royersford with his wife Sue Paluba He was recognized of Fame. at Hughesville High School and coached wrestling Q ^T He is of Banking, she }Q(^ vice president and Columbia Bank and is 2006 Central Atlantic is a member of Norm have a son, her husband Shane. of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association's Profes- married to Timothy Karas Sharon Ford Bixler was appointed corporate and wellness services for Lutheran J(\f\ y^ \J Development Network. She has written articles for PA Banker Magazine, ABA Marketing Magazine and Financial is Deb Manney joined the Susquehanna Valley House Hope as a secondary education teacher. She and S C3 sional Services Online. She as a three sons, Tyler, Kyle and Hunter. for First Trust, Bloomsburg. Director of the He and his wife Kim have senior accountant. Army. marketing director Advanced School Edwards '88, and their children Nick, 12, and Erin, 8. Duane Ruch joined Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc. BU. After graduation, he at Michelle Molyneux Karas C3 / accomplishments Montoursville High School. at currently a major in the U.S. } for his wrestling director of health Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania in York. '84. Sharon has been with Lutheran Social Services as an area executive director since October 2004. Carla Shearer Christian was '88 Division youth director Christian, senior a member of the BU Athletic husband Ric are NCAA Doug Rapson launched field is Hall of Fame. She enrolled in the master of organizational is program Immaculata University. Promoted at his first weekly podcast, "Geek Acres," featuring his thoughts about science fiction, tech and her the parents of Brooklyn, Cole and Carlin. Chris Edwards leadership at to the hockey team. the Chambersburg YMCA, 25th anniversary III named to Doug and his wife Debbie have They live in Mifflinburg. Michael Tokach was promoted to director of customer care toys and Internet happenings. a son, Christopher. at Silberline company Manufacturing Co. He since 1995. Inc. He has been with the holds a master's degree from College Marriages Kit Griffiths 76 and Todd Kelchner, July 9, Brian Motz, July 16, Filomena Costantino Joseph Covert, Kristen Yuskoski '96 and 2005 '88 and 2005 Oct. 8, Aug. 5, '91 and Gary Taylor, 2005 Petty, Oct. 23, 2005 Demming Yoniski III '92 and David Oct 7, Thomas Kerri 2005 Doll, Christine Fink '95 and Terry Turpin, Oct. 15,2005 John Hnatishion Minahan Sommers, Ann Amanda Shepard Joseph Jodi Jodi Pall '99 and Michael June 25, '98 and Brian 2005 Kelly Ann '99 and Jacqueline Curry, July 16, 2005 Phillips Aaron 15,2005 Dallabrida '00 and Robert Davis, Sept. 17,2005 Richard Kunkel Stawiarski, '00 and Summer May 21 2005 , '00 and 2005 Crystal Varner, Oct. 23, Kristina Ashworth Oct. Brock Marshalek Erica Petrushka '98 and Jeffrey Reyer '99, '00 and Shimkanon '00 Ryan Wertz, Aug. 13,2005 Alison Burton '01 and Daniel Blaney Marissa Campanella May Ryan McFarland, '01 14, Andrew Desiderio '01 and Katie Pearson, May 13, 2005 Sarah Schuman Joshua Moore, '01 and 2005 Oct. 8, Jason Schwass '01 Larissa Haught, Aug. and 12,2005 KristySkuntz'Oland Michael Porambo and Kristopher Provencher, Rebecca Stephens Jan. 14,2006 Richard Bell, '01 and July 23, 2005 Amy Vesnefskie '00 and Stephanie Anderson '02 and Peter Loomis, Sept. 17,2005 Domenic Breininger Chad Shirk '95 and David Calvert '99 and Jennilyn June Wesner, June Jill Flaska, Oct. 22, 2005 Ann Beierschmitt '96 and Carter Frantz, Sept. 17,2005 Jessica Brackbill Jill Gushka 11, '99 and 2005 '99 and William Zeruth, Aug. 7, 11, 2005 Barnes, Aug. 6, '01, Aug 13,2005 '02 and Kimberly Armstrong Yeselavage Helen Bortner 2005 02, '00 and Troy 2005 '01 Eric Engleman, Oct. JodyKarge and Justin 8, 2005 '02 and William McCarty, Sept. 10, 2005 Tara Klach '96 and Michael Bethany Hartman Rubenstein, Aug. 20, 2005 Tarah Kucheruck '02 and Peregrim July 30, 2005 and Timothy Van Schoick, Amy Bruggeman '01 and ShaunGuida, Sept. 16, July 16, 2005 Mark Heisey, June 2005 Jr., and 2005 2005 '95 and Michael April 30, Bingaman Joseph Mazaika '95 and Marie Augustyn, Aug. 20, 2005 Kelly '97 and Julie Peterman, Sept. 10,2005 '93 and '88, Jesse Sorber 16,2005 '98, Sept. Jennifer Cross Rissmiller '97 and Karen Robison, Oct. 15,2005 Leanne Shamp Jill Gene '97 and Kimberly Sarah Burkholder'01 and 2005 Murphy '99 and Matthew D'Angelo Urban '99 and Schaeffer, July 23, Gregg Pavlick Jason Henry Laura Dean Wes Jill Zimmerman, Nov. 2005 Jaclyn Janowicz Danielle Esposito '97 and Truly Walters '90 and Mark 26, 2004 Megan Pesavento '96 and '99 Christopher Murray, Nov. 25, 2005 18, Adrianne Barnett BLOOMSBURG Jr., 2005 Leiby '02 and Rickey Sept. 10,2005 UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE He and his wife Carmella have Misericordia. They live in Beaver ?(^~1 Laurie / .JL for a son, Gabriel. more Husky Notes online www.bloomualumni.com. Find Meadows. Kohn Churba is assistant Send information to alum@bloomu.edu or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker Alumni House, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St., Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815 costume designer "Saturday Night Live." For the past nine years, she has helped dress some at of the biggest stars, including Garth Brooks, Janet Jackson, Paris Hilton, Justin Timberlake, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hilary Swank, Halle Berry, Colin Farrell, Robert DeNiro, Jennifer Aniston and Donald Trump. She earned a master's of fine arts Mason Gross School worked on New York degree from of the Arts at Rutgers University. She's theatrical productions, including "Inherit the ^ S^ 7(~J Wind," "The Meghan, Michael Kacsmar and Park, N.J. and Comedy of Errors" and "Titanic." Wagner Kreischer earned a master's of business administration from BU in May 2005. Liesl lives in Bloomsburg U.S. Air Force. with her husband Steve and their children, Zakery and Lexus. in "Spunk," "The Price," Todd Liesl 9, He and his family his wife Beth moved to Franklin have two daughters, Kelsey, 6. Miller was promoted to the rank of captain in the He is stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base Montana. Pat Wilson was promoted to vice president of operations for Little League Baseball and 1993, he also is With the organization since assistant director of the Little Tournament, chairman of the International Committee and He committees. Softball. a member League Little League Rules of the charter and tournament has volunteered with several local agencies, including the United '93 Catherine Noll Alexander and Community Hospital. She joined Way and the Williamsport Area chief financial officer Shamokin Area the hospital staff in 2002. She and her husband Joseph have reside in Coal is vice president of finance at a daughter, Elizabeth. They Township. Sherri Derr, a certified registered nurse practitioner, has joined Recreation Commission. OB/GYN Associates at Bloomsburg Hospital. She earned a master's degree at College Misericordia. 2005 Tawnee Klinger '04 and Swartz, May 7, 2005 YustineSejuit'02andChad Malinda Lepley 04 and was promoted to director of emerSunbury Community Hospital where she's worked for nine years. Recipient of the hospital's 2003 outstanding employee of the year award, she previously worked as a staff nurse in the emergency department and, most recently, as the rapid admission nurse. Kris Vancas is head coach of the Penns Valley High School Michael DelPriore softball Taffi Ross-Johnston gency services Kevin Monroe '02 and Chanell Sink, Feb. 5, 2004 Sickora, Dec. 4, Sandra Walter '02 and Brian Dickinson, July 30, Christine Welker '02 and June Greblick, 2005 11, Derek Williams Schneider Brian June 4, Jr. '04, Nicole Mark '04 and Matthew Magill '05, Sept. Stephanie McHale Michael Bowman, July '04 and Themens, Adrienne Campbell 9, 2005 Christopher Coup, July 23, 2005 Alyssa Haraschak '05 and Alison Turner '03 and William R Phillip Oct. 8, Smith, July 16, 2005 Deeble '03 Kristi Siciliano '05 2005 and Brian Amy Yamrock '03 and Kerbacher'05,Jan.7,2006 Thomas Katie Starr '05 and Robert Ruffner Maria Digris '04 and Dr. Brayford, Sept. 3, Mark 2005 Kristyn Hughes Fox '04 and '04, Oct. 6, a assistant at varsity levels before coach in 2001. member of the board of trustees proposed Family Choice Charter School Carli is a science teacher in the Athens Area 7^t Stacy Price Linkins tor is a communications and internship coordinator at instruc- Immaculata West Chester University and Villanova University. David Maurer was promoted to supervisor in the audit services group of Reinsel Kuntz Lesher. A resident of Cumru Township, he earned a master's degree from University. She formerly taught at St. Joseph's University. M. Abdul Mobin '94M YargerJr., Aug. 20,2005 and Alongi Ltd., is a tax senior with Pulakos Albuquerque, N.M. He has seven years of accounting experience and previously was a corporate Shannon English '04M and Garth Watson, Aug. Towanda. in is to oversee the ^C\ A Adam III, formed '05 and Bridgette Reish '03 and Miller Carli Yeager-Hall and junior David Nogle '04 and Melanie Page, Oct. 15,2005 1,2005 has 12 years of experience, coaching School Distnct. Neill Reidy '03 and Laura April He becoming the Lady Rams' 19,2005 2005 15,2005 program. the seventh-grade, eighth-grade 2005 '02 and Lisa '03, Oct. Brian at accountant and an operations manager. 2005 Stephen 15,2005 Kimberly Maguire Petrosky of Mountain Top was named Citizens' Voice's top 100 Wyoming Valley athletes. teacher at Rice Elementary School and former Crestwood one of the A Nicole Hartranft '04 and High School Timothy Rhoads in three 0.73 ERA. SPRING softball coach, she played with the Huskies NCAA finals and, as a junior, led the country with a Husky Notes Andrew Dunning joined Shannon Jf\ f^ Robert Galella y \J at middle school is Tunkhannock Area Middle was an assistant School District. assistant principal School. He previously He chief accounting officer with as director, Gordon was accepted and into the is eligible to become a Jerry Palovick was nominated for two Mid-Atlantic Hersha was manager of financial policy and controls for Tyco Electronics Corp. and a senior manager with Arthur Andersen LLP and KPMG LLP. Hospitality Trust. HealthCOM fellow of Yale University's National Teachers Institute. Emmy Awards for his work at CN8 (The Comcast Regional is Stauffer Jacksonville Teachers Institute high school principal in the Abington Heights Michael Gillespie Strategic account management. Network). Prior to joining previously CN8 six years ago, Jerry was a WNEP-TV in photographer, editor and tape coordinator for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Gina Luscavage Ross is special education supervisor for North Penn School District in Lansdale. She and her husband Michael reside in North Wales. the JC\/£ Kimberly Kels Condel began teaching special education at Pocono Mountain East High School s\j in September 2005. Todd Doebler head coach associate Dame men's was promoted for the University of head coach ^P coached at Zr Notre 2004 Tennis Association Midwest * Region Coach of the Year, >• 5£J to tennis team. Todd, the Intercollegiate — v (left) is the first in Irish tennis history. associate He previously Q C3 Scott Blacker was named national Campaign Executive of the Year by the Jewish National Fund. The award was presented by Estee Lauder Chairman Ronald Lauder at a ceremony in New York. Scott is a partner in Blacker Communications, a marketing and web design firm. Sherry Clements joined the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce as events manager. She is working on a master's Pepperdine University, Connecticut degree in public relations College and Trinity College in Connecticut. Lori at Rowan University. Hoose Strimple '98M was promoted to assistant vice president for marketing at Jersey Shore State Bank. of Penn A graduate she had been serving as the bank's marketing State, coordinator since 1997. BEP's new director of economic development Shupp is ?("JQ /S Danielle Savage was Piscataway, N.J. She previously and Offshore Shupp worked at Bank of New York Pools. Jaclyn Janowicz Schaeffer earned a master's degree in reading education, with honors, from the University of Scranton in 'or Pamela J. named On Highway Engine account manager for Foley, the Caterpillar dealer in at Jefferson May 2005. She has been teaching fourth grade Elementary in the North Pocono School District '85, for six years. experience in economic F! development and '00 knowledge of the greater Reading region led Partnership. manages As to her projects with Berks Economic programs greater Reading area, for state and in Berks County the top working collaboratively 50 business growth. representatives belt for the a project manager at Refinery Inc., He is one of also a of BU's Corporate Advisory Council, an alliance of from the public and private sectors with the Institute for Interactive Technologies. Bloomsburg, with a concentrations in Amy Snader Simmons is a retirement account officer with public administration and urban and regional planning. She earned is Department of Instructional Technology and the received bachelor's degrees in political science at is interactive agencies in the country. member and geography He Operation Iraqi Freedom. Carl Seidel with other economic development agencies to promote Shupp arts. commander, HSC 602d Aviation Support Battalion, Camp Humphreys, Korea. His wife, Corina, is currendy serving economic development, she and administers county, federal assistance funding and the new job director of Michael Morella was awarded the tan U.S. Marine Corps martial Sterling Financial Trust Co. certification from the American Institute of Certified Planners. A native of Reading, Keith Strohl joined the law firm of Steckel and Stopp, with locations in Slatington, Schnecksville and Northampton. Shupp has more than 20 years of community development, experience in economic and He received his law degree at Western School of Law in New England College May 2005. including 12 years with the City of Reading. Her most recent position for Lancaster was vice president of affiliate operations Redevelopment Corporation. '01 to BLOOMSBURG Heather Critchosin '01M is an assistant technical professor of education at King's College. From 2000 2003, she was assistant professor of education and supervi- UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE sor of early childhood education at King's. She director of Educational Development is Jonathan executive Specialists Inc., Freeland, and Country Charm Learning Center Inc., Drums. Matthew Goslee has been with Century 21 Alliance Drexel Hill for the past year. He and his wife Kelly have two children, Madelyn-Jo and Noah. They reside in Holmes. L. Sabo accepted a position with the Pennsyl- vania State Department of Health as a microbiologist in the Division of Clinical Microbiology's molecular microbiology section. He worked previously and for Research, his findings at Geisinger's Weis Center were included in several scholarly publications. Erin McArthur received her masters of social work degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. She Philadelphia, for where she is lives in a social worker at Shriners Hospital Children of Philadelphia. Jf\ "2 \J%J Allison Carr received her first the Deaf. WWE Smackdown Times-Mail, Bedford, Ind. She previously worked at American , Jon Trosky '03/ 04M performed on Velocity on Jan. on Jan. 3, and on Eagle Outfitters, Bloomington. can been seen Kathryn Soke Jayne St. an advertising representative with the is Mary, a teacher in the East earned a master's degree Penn School Wilkes University. She at national interpret- ing certification from Registry of Interpreters for District, WWE at WWE.com. While professional wrestler using the ring at 10; both matches BU, he trained and in Italy. Jon also teaches Adobe Photoshop Northampton Community College. coast lOth-grade English at Pocono Mountain West High School. He is also an Great. Since graduation, he's performed at venues along the east lives in Emmaus. Wayne Whitaker is teaching as a name Supreme Lee at classes assistant 7/"\ varsity football coach. A Kim Derhammer is a partner in A Simple Plan, a \J Diane Fasold Marro joined the Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way as the early care and education coordinator for Northumberland County. Greg Roskos was a graduate assistant coach for the University of Toledo football team last fall, working with the offense. He was linebackers coach at Muhlenberg College in JL wedding and event planning business in Kingston. Mark Humphreys joined the sales staff of REMAX River ^f\^ Uw 2003 and defensive backs assistant coach at Lafayette in 2004. Valley Realty, Northumberland. Michelle Lachawiec at is a seventh-grade math teacher Exeter Township Junior High School, Reading. Larry Piccini Jr. teaches math at Lakeland High School, Jermyn. A.C. Posey is a conservation technician in the erosion and sediment pollution control program of the Luzerne Conservation District. Deaths 7 f\ Catherine Murphy McHugh 76 Gladys Bundy Krick 77 John Kuntza '49 Edward Skowronski Wary Jessie She is previously pursuing a master's degree started his Ryan Hinton was Rocco Cherilla '52 Margaret Lewis '28 Jean Allen Doughty Leonora Austin Heydon '29 Ronald Couch '55 Myrtilla Elfed Rood Abbott Jones James H. Campbell Lehigh University. elected to a six-year term on the Pleasant Valley School Board. '52 Nick Johnston is new home a sales consultant and purchasing assistant for Carriage Manor Builders, Danville. Shannon Killeen Patrick Christoff '60 '30 '30 at own construction company in Kulpmont. Stibitz '51 Dorcas Epler Riggs '27 for Beishline Surveying. Costa is a second-grade teacher at Lower Milford Elementary School, Coopersburg. Mike Habowski '50 worked £ Emily \J *J Geneva Schott Traugh Baughman 75 He is marketing assistant with Health New York City. magazine, based in '64 Jennifer Soika received a graduate assistantship through Mary Kuhn Camera David Yergey '64 '33 Catherine Albertson Fuller Potter '33 E.JeanBoran'71M Grace Worrall '33 Charles Muskauski Frank Chudzinski '34 David Mary Helen Mears Northrop Florine Lillian Moore Piatt Simpson University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She 75 Laura Long Rowe 78 '37 John Touey Jr. Robert Miner '42 LeMay Ashley Watson a new home for Carriage sales consultant Manor and Builders, Danville. '81 '85 Martha Anderson Hartman more Husky Notes online at www.bloomualumni.com. Send information to alum@bloomu.edu or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker Alumni House, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St., Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815 Find '88 Barbara Jean Ryan Ivahnenko '93 Betty Smith Linn '46 Julie Sierer Shaffer '95 Matilda Patrick Dudzinski '48 Lenard Yocum '03 SPRING 2006 is marketing manager William Wanich '42 Vincent Friday '49 pursuing a doctoral '80 Ann Marie Kephart Burke David '42 is degree in anthropology specializing in forensic anthropology. Jones 78 '37 Yeager Sanger '40 Jean Lantz Smith F. the Educational Outreach/Science Advisory Office at the Over the Shoulder By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist comes to Bloomsburg: Juan Jose Osuna at the Normal School Latin America Juan Osuna, just 17 years old when he arrived in Meandering along the edge of campus, from behind the McCormick Center all way to Penn Street, is Osuna Drive, named in 1985 for Juan Jose Osuna, a the native of Puerto Rico Bloomsburg to State Bloomsburg traveled and 1906 graduate of the Normal School (BSNS). Osuna came as part of a group of students from Latin America who to continue their educa- the U.S. in 1901, originally students from Puerto Rico needed to be acclimated to greatly disappointed homes throughout member at War in graduate, is shown surrounded by by the turn of events, he soon took advantage of a program that placed students in faculty Juan Osuna, always the serious student, Columbia University about 1920. to the Carlisle American culture while learning English. Although tion in Pennsylvania following the Spanish-American 1898. was sent Indian School because of the mistaken belief that saw the textbooks. This photo the state. Oscar H. Bakeless, a Carlisle and an 1879 BSNS young mans is potential and secured believed to have been taken at BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Rockey a young man with teaching experience in Puerto Rico, was hired in 1905, and E. Joe Albertson, a 1901 BSNS graduate who spent instructor in the Philippines, Despite their in efforts, some five years as an was taken on in 1909. of the students did not stay Bloomsburg very long; one of the Puerto Rican students left after only six days, and three others departed within two months. But, these teachers were vital in ensuring that most students succeeded. The language barrier prevented many of the Latin American students from joining the campus societies, but they participated more literary fully in athletics. number of Puerto Rican and Cuban members of a football team, and in 1907 and 1908, Cuban students fielded their own In 1903, a students were baseball team. Of all these students, Juan Osuna enjoyed the most distinguished career. After leaving the normal school, he earned three more degrees from Perm State, a divinity — a bachelor of arts degree from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1915 and a doctorate in education from Columbia University Between in 1923. earning his degrees, he spent two years serving as a missionary in Puerto Rico with the Presbyterian The Osuna family poses in 1935 Puerto Rico. Juan, standing at at their right, home in Rio Piedras, the seated are his wife Margaret and daughter Ann. him at that Miss most Welsh was second only influential was her person in his brother, BSNS life. to his wrote later mother as the Of equal importance principal Judson P Welsh. Osuna had a practical knowlHe continued to work for the Welsh In only five months, edge of English. family to pay his own way, and in the fall of 1903, he entered the normal school, graduating with a teaching on June certificate Osuna was one of 45 Puerto Rican students who came to Bloomsburg between 1900 and 1920 and one of 1 1 who graduated. A large number of Cuban students also attended the normal school at the same time, along with others from Bolivia, was command faculty summer school until 1928 and then them overcome their poor members who knew Spanish. Noble W as dean of the College of Education until 1945. During a visit to Bloomsburg in the relationship of fall of 1940, he lectured between the United States on the and the nations North and South America. In 1945, he moved Washington, D.C., and died in Arlington, Va., to on June 18, 1950. tionally a greatly respected, interna- known educator, and in recognition of his time of work, a street and three schools are after him in street on the life- named his native Puerto Rico, in addition to the Bloomsburg University campus. His time much to him that he asked to be buried The headstone in the Osuna was laid to rest is a reminder of the impact the Bloomsburg State Normal School made a century ago on the lives of many young hills. Orangeville cemetery where American of English, the school employed several SPRING 2006 of in his beloved Pennsylvania difficult at first for the Latin students to adjust. To help University of Puerto Rico, where he served as director here meant so Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru. It Mira Welsh. Juan Jose Osuna was 27, 1906. memories of to Orangeville to In 1923, his professional career began at the the farm of Mira Welsh, located north of Bloomsburg in Orangeville. Osuna also continued to hold fond Bloomsburg area and returned visit a place for He Church. holds his son James; men and women from Latin America. i C < Academic Calendar New Student Activities Girls Basketball Summer Session 2006 Session -May 30 to July 7 Summer Freshman/Act 101 EOP Orientation Team Camp, I Session II Session III - June Overnight, June 26 to 30 All-Sports 1 9 to July 28 July 21 to 23 Camp, July 31 Sunday, June 18 to Aug. 4 -July 10 Session IV Session to Aug. 18 - May 30 to June V - June Monday, June 19 Field 1 Fall 1 June 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 and 29 Session VI -July 10 to July 28 Session VII Session VIII -June 19 to July 28 -May 30 to Aug. 8 II, to Aug. 3 Aug. 6 to 10 Football Thursday, June 22 Youth Camp, June 12 to 14 Team Camp, July 16 2006 Electronic Registration Camp Transfer Orientation Monday, Aug. 7 Fall Hockey Freshman Preview Camp, July 30 9 to July 7 Adult/Non-Traditional Team Camp II, to 19 July 23 to 26 Orientation Aug. 22 to 28 Boys Soccer Wednesday, Aug. 23 Coaching School, July Classes Begin Welcome Weekend Monday, Aug. 28 Labor Day - Camp, July 23 Girls Soccer Sunday, Aug. 27 Day Camp, July 10 13 Softball 13 Mid-Term Friday, Oct. 6, to Camp, June 25 30 Swimming Parents' and Family Thanksgiving Recess Begins Tuesday, Nov. 21 to Sunday, Oct. 8 Tuesday, Oct. 17 , Friday, Nov. 3, to Weekend Sunday, Nov. 5 Resident Camp, June Day Camp, July 10 to 1 1 1 to 13 10 p.m. Classes Resume Summer Camps Monday, Nov. 27, 8 a.m. for more information and Tennis Camp, July 22 Camp II, to 26 July 29 to Aug. 2 brochures, call (5701 389-4371 or Classes End Saturday, Dec. 9 go to www.bloomu.edu/sports. Wrestling Camp, June 9 Baseball Reading Day Sunday, Dec. 10 Finals Begin 1 Finals End to 16 Father/Son Camp, June Half-Day Camp, June 19 to 23 Half-Day Camp, June 26 to 29 Monday, Dec. to Special Events Homecoming Weekend Day Camp, July 10 to 13 Day Camp, July 17 to Father/Son Camp Team Camp, Team Camp II, Graduate Commencement 15 Undergraduate to II, July 16 to 20 20 23 Team Camp, July 14 to 16 Coed Day Camp, Aug. 7 to 1 Commencement Saturday, Dec. 16 For the latest information on upcoming events, check the university www. bhomu. edu/today 6 to 18 July 9 to 13 Commuter/Overnight, June 19 1 June 23 Boys Basketball Saturday, Dec. 16 SPRING 1 Resident Camp, July 9 to 13 Reading Day - No Classes Friday, Dec. to 1 27 Thursday, Aug. 24, to No Classes Monday, Sept. 4 Friday, Oct. to Web site: to 25 The University Store. Bloomsburg memories. More than a century after Sir Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" was first performed at commencement, the well-known strains signal the todays start of bright futures for graduates. friends . and graduation . and the search by their families for the perfect gift. Make your first stop the University Store. The University Store offers items all Bloomsburg graduates can 3p wear, display and enjoy Consider — J -- an alumni cap, giftware or clothing, like T-shirt, sweatshirt, mug or decal. Or perhaps a diploma frame, BU afghan or rocking chair. BU insignia gifts, such as hoodies, sweatshirts, caps great gifts for all a BU are ages, including the special high school grad become T-shirts, and pennants, who soon will freshman. Can't decide? Gift cards are available in The University any amount. Store offers the convenience of shopping online for hundreds of items store. at www.bloomu.edu/ For a traditional shopping experience, the University Store is open seven days a week during the academic year and Mondays through Fridays during the summer. Stop by in person or online for everything BU. A Senior Lindsey Wyckoff of North Canton, Ohio, commencement. She earns a Semester Hours Monday through Thursday: Friday: 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday: Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday: Noon to 4 p.m. 7:45 a.m. to 8 p.m. bachelor's degree in tries on a cap and gown as she mass communications this Summer Hours The University Store Monday through 400 East Second Street Bloomsburg, PA 17815 Friday: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed on Saturday and Sunday General Information: (570) 389-4175 Customer Service: (570) bustore@bloomu. edu www.bloomu.edu/store ii looks forward to month. 389-4180 an African village. Walk the of Southern Ireland. Hike across the Colorado Rockies. Explore ancient Incan trails in Ecuador. This year... Bike through -«*£ trails An adventure is always waiting with Bloomsburg University's Quest program. Every year Quest offers extended trips are ^ open to BU alumni. trips or an experienced adventurer, travel to r in theology University of Dallas. Husky Notes 5 ^ f\ / \J Steve Posavec '74 Robert Francis Boyer, Macungie, retired Saucon Valley School 35 District after from He years. is in his fourth season as assistant women's basketball coach for the Dickinson College Red Devils. He is a school counselor in the West Perry School District. taught middle school and coached football and swimming. Linda Perry was honored by her employer, the Exton office of Weichert Realtors, for outstanding achievement. Births 9 ^7 "1 Jim Berkheiser had two poems accepted for / J- publication. "The Assignment" appeared in the Gail Erdley Erickson August issue of The Edison Literary Review. "Culling" Jan. summer 2007 be featured in the issue of will The Paterson W90M and husband, Stu, a son, Alissa Grimes Steely '89 and husband, William Steely Literary Review. Jay, Oct. 17, Beverly Donchez Bradley (right), Lower Saucon Township, received the Bethlehem Donna Gober Billet '90 and Andrew YWCA's Golden Valley's Cops 'n' Laurel Award for creating Lehigh Kids program. ] Nicole, Sept. 22, -w a *- ^ Melissa Harris Brown United Way's Douglas C. Hickey Humanitarian Award in Heather Bodine Wadas served as executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of North Donna Adgie Myles Nathan Dolan Billet '92, a daughter, Lauren '90 and husband, Jim, a son, Michael, Jan. 9, Graceannjan.21,2006 teacher and supervisor, he also '89, a son, 2005 James Campbell 72M, Cogan Sta5 '"7 / Jmd tion, received the Lycoming County A special education Tor, 2005 Joyce Bradley Humphrey '90 and husband, April. Eli 2006 7, Philip, Feb. '91 and husband, Tom, a son, Tommy, '91 and husband, 2006 Jim, a daughter, Chesney Mark Wadas April 5, '91 , 2006 a son, 1,2006 Christine Conant Gross '92 and husband, Joshua, a son, Zachary David Central Pennsylvania. Bill Johnson 72M retired from Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School where he taught business. Dan Rarig 72M is vice president and business development officer of Business Loan Express, Montandon. Karen Hendel Sprankle Jan. 3, William Brooks Alan / %3 Business, W. Dakey (right), board was member elected Mid Perm Bancorp an advisory of BU's College of chairman of the board of Inc. and Mid Penn Bank. He bank March '95 and wife, Denise, a son, Samuel Marsh, 2006 April 15, Jennifer Chesla 5 P"7 "2 '92 and husband, Ken, a daughter, Krista Ashley, 2006 Moran '95 and husband, Bruce, a daughter, Jillian Paige, 2006 9, Scott Bird '96 and wife, Sara, a daughter, Hannah Kayden, July Tracie Lukas Kisto '96 and husband, Dec. 2, 6, 2005 Keith, a daughter, Sara Catherine, 2005 will continue in his current positions as president Natalie Clipsham Lucca '97 and husband, Todd, a son, Jackson Ryan, and chief executive officer. May 15, 2005 Chrissy Mantione Campenni '98 and husband, Tommy, a daughter, Samara Rose, Sept. 14,2005 Bobbi Lynn Monroe Allison March 28, '99 and husband, Glen, a daughter, Annika, 2006 Shani Weston Evans '99 and husband Brian Evans David, May 12, Audrey Lantz Sept. 29, Kerri and Jacob '99 and husband, Thad Lantz '00, a daughter, Sophia, 2005 Erdman Bauer '00 and Karli '99, a son, 2006 Emma, July 8, husband, Bret, twin daughters, Delani Grace 2005 Shanna Watson Rosser '00 and husband, Brian, a son, Luke Jaxon, Jan. 11,2006 Eileen Evert '02M and husband, Scott, a daughter, Madelyn Classmates return for 75th reunion April 20, Kenneth Hawk, Barbara Lawler '02, a and Frank Golder page through the 1931 Obiter class reunion. Hawk and Golder, 1931 graduates who are now in their 90s, shared memories about Coach Thornley Booth, basketball games and curfews imposed on athletes. Hawk, of Bear Creek, retired as the assistant superintendent of Luzerne County Schools, and Golder, of Bloomsburg, retired as a high school principal in the Bloomsburg School District. left, last spring as they mark their 75th BU Eileen, 2006 son, Dylan Kathy Miner McHenry Edward Lawler, January 2006 '02 and husband, Jason McHenry '03, a son, Andrew, Nov. 11,2003 Heather Howe '04 and Jason Rogiani '04, a son, Aidan Joseph Rogiani, Dec. 22, 2005 BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE - '75 Kathleen Andrusisian was one of 12 finalists for Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year. She is support teacher at Dallas a learning Middle School, Luzerne County. Bert Leiby, Montour Township, was promoted to the position of commercial lender/business development officer by Columbia Bank and Trust Co., Bloomsburg. First Bob De Carolis ?^7V£ / \J runs until June 201 Drew will continue as Oregon State Uni- versity's director of athletics 1. He under a contract that has served in the post since 2002. Hostetter was inducted into the Lancaster County Tennis Hall of Fame. Currently chief financial Susquehanna Bancshares Inc., officer for he was a standout tennis player Donegal High School and BU. Take a Bow Grads hit stage and screen at SIO brothers enjoyed a mini reunion in late February. Shown in the accompanying photo, left to right, are Dan Confalone 79, Greg Lawrence '80, Al Bowen 79, Glenn Horlacher '80, Jim Roth 79 and Tom Roth '80. Missing from the photo is Tom Mazzante '80. John Kehs was promoted to vice president for finance and administration for Shat-R-Shield. Michael Thew has returned to the Lincoln Unit as executive director after serving the Intermediate last two years at Eastern York School Distnct. Devona Van Nest was honored by the Pennsylvania House Huntingdon County PRIDE Inc., where she has worked for nearly 30 years. P^ineus Bantum, the character portrayed Jimmi Simpson last of Representatives for service to by '98 in spring's thriller "Stay Alive," 9 ^T^T Carl J. Kanaskie 77/79M may think he's / simply one of millions of when gamers. But this / there's no way to restart. 5 ^7 Simpson was one of the stars / movie theaters first attention as 2000 film, "Loser," appeared as Crash in year's "Herbie: First last 9 Fully Loaded." ^7Q McMonagle and chief credit officer 390 vocalists who combined chorus at New York City's the President's Day weekend concert. Wallingford, was one of a Lockwood was promoted to vice presiKaman Corp., Bloomfield, Conn. Mark Robinson, Wyomissing, was named chief financial / Erin president as y officer at John B. dent/tax of The Reading Group, Berks County. and "Cold Case." Other '02 24 relations. Ney is senior vice Carnegie Hall for later been featured in TV shows such as "24," "NYPD Millers- Retiring as Craig J. Bennett, Bloomsburg, joined Bob Twaddell, He's also Blue" Q O performed as part of the and from Vartan Bank. for gained national Noah in news and public Doris nationwide in March. Simpson retired December 2004. Columbia Bank and Trust Co., Bloomsburg, manager of its Scott Township branch. of "Stay Alive," a horror film that hit University in director of communications, Carl served Millersville for video years in game ends, ville BU grads -James McMenamin and Michael Mergo '05 - have also '01, had Erin McMonagle 5 a recent taste of the big time. the McMonagle was featured in playwright "Hungry," produced as part of Thicker Amy Herzog's Than Water 2006, a The Mag-7 at New York's Flea Theatre. Also The Mag-7 was McMenamin, who performed in 5 & Order." Mergo took part in the Playmakers Tour Studio Theatre of Sarasota. for the Young at the Florida The tour helped students prepare Playwrights Festival, a national program for Q C3 the play, "Penicillin," Maguschak (right) won 2006 Lynette Norton Award from Pennsylvania Bar Association Commission on for continuing seven plays in and previously had a guest spot on "Law Elizabeth A. the Women. Ann Marie Stelma combination of two one-act plays, and in "Waiting," one of appearing in Q f\ O \J '80/'81M education at is vice president Lackawanna College. "1 Ernest Jackson graduated in -A. New Paltz University, May from SUNY New York, with a certificate of advanced study. 5 ^ Q^ C3 David ville, is E. Kurecian (right), Orange the executive director of the Columbia-Montour Visitors Bureau. elementary students. FALL 25 Husky Notes } Q "2 Sabrina McChesney Lucas coaches the cross country program at Wallkill Valley Regional High School, Hamburg, N.J. She and husband Robert have three children. Louis Maynard, Lehigh Valley, financial officer of Lafayette is Ambassador Bank of 9 Easton. } Q J^ Henry Haitz (nght) became publisher State, in Victoria Amici Bartlow was promoted to vice /f O^T president Ernie Long Morning by First Allentown assistant sports editor at the is Herald. (Fla.) her husband, David, started the a non-profit agency serving Luzerne 9 and counties. The Joanne Kachline Trumbauer, Barto, is president of B&W Machine Works Inc. She and (right) is the executive director of Domestic Violence Service Center, Carbon of Columbia, S.C.'s newspaper, May. He previously was publisher of the Bradenton Columbia Bank and Trust Co. Call. Paula M. Triano 5 Q vJ O O ^7 Shawn C3 / moted Gelnett company in 1996. was promanager minor league (right) to assistant general of the Lancaster Barnstormers, a baseball team. £^ Q KJ O John Haney, ed Lancaster, was promotmanager for Dentsply to quality assurance site Professional, York. Renee Monahan '87M, White Haven, recently earned a doctorate in audiology from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Lisa Himes, Liutz, is principal of John Beck Elementary School in Warwick School Janet Trimmer, Aspers, director of special education in the Conewago Valley School District, received her doctorate in District. education administration from Immaculata University. Marriages Timothy Mack '93 and Schweitzer, Oct. Erika Vanessa Madeira Alexandra Reese Hestor'96,June25,2005 William '95 and Chris Darren T. McShane Dietl, Oct. 8, '95 and Lisa 2005 '96 and Jessica Secula Mark 2005 Tracey Halowich '97 and Michael Wagner, June 22, 2005 Mitch Parker '97 and Margaret Rogers-Mendoza, April 22, 2006 Susan Spitzer '97 and Thomas Cherundolo, Oct. 9, 2005 Sept. 30, 2005 III, Angela Preat '00 and Paul Oct. 23, and Eric Jr. Janelle Strenchock '01 16, and 2005 '02 and Matthew Messimer, Oct. 2, Stephanie Kym Brague Boivin, Oct. 15,2005 Smith '02 and Jason Aaron Wheaton Jennifer Riley '02 and Kristin '00 and Kimberly Lauren Whitaker '00 and Daniel Br, r Christina 2005 Lentz, Oct. 1,2005 2005 Baron, April 29, 2006 Michael Mitchell Tanya Addesso March Lisa Breiner '03 and Christopher 2005 9, '04 and Deann Yusinski, Sept. 24, '04 and Bruce 1,2005 '04, McAllister Caulfield '01 and Chad July Ellis, '02 and John Aug. 13, 2005 '98 and Anitra Johnson Andrea Mummert Yancey Matthew Murgia, Aug. Shawn McShea '04 and Brian Aug. 27, 2005 Kristen Leibig '04 and Matthew '00, Oct. 29, Erin 2005 David 11,2004 Laura Tomasetti '02 and Brian Bull and Neil Gunter, 2006 Schlichter, Oct. Jennifer Wright '00 and Joseph '01 '03, Sept. '05, '03 and Robert 2006 Danielle Crane '05 and William III Fisher, July, 10, King, Feb. 11,2006 Melissa Haire '05M and Darren 16,2005 Bennett, June 25, 2005 Katrina Miller '98 and David Amy Cechman '01 Dvorznak Wright, March 22, 2006 Adam David Parker '98 and Katie Sarah Duncan Krystal Deily '03 and Jesse Scott Glennon. July2. 2005 Heidi Rutter '05 and Justin Jessica Dunmoyer Neal Poliafico, June 18, 2005 Brandee Faust '99 and Lloyd, March 31, O'Malley, Sept. 26 2, Brian '99 and Bernard 2005 '01 and Michael Wisniewski, Jan. 16,2006 2006 Renee Geoffroy and Shane Tiffany Enama '01 and Christopher Maylath Jennifer Knoll Terefencko '01 '02, and Adrienne Campbell July 30, 2005 '03 and Jennifer Heydt '05 and Smith McGinnis Edward 2005 Dettmer, Feb. 14,2006 Mclntyre, July 22, 2005 Brough 28, '04 and Ashley Heagy Reif '03 and Sept. 17, Shultz '03 and Brett Machuga, Jan. McHenry'03,July26,2003 John 2005 Sean Steeber '04, Grilli '02 and Randal Kathy Miner Abbott, June 18, 2005 '03 and Stephanie Lapinski Brenda 2005 Danielle Bouchard '98 and 19, Heather Ivory Stefanik, July 9, Holly Sartori '00 and Ryan Poet White 2005 '01 Jenessa Brouse Robert Bradley Shershen Mumie Jason Bowman, July Stephanie Edinger '00 and Whitcomb, Aug. 13,2005 V. Steggles, Dec. 23, '99 and Torrance, Elliot Rachel Stephenson Jennifer Bedosky '95 and Brad Tara Markel '99 and Christopher Pack 2005 8, Jr., April '03 and Paul 22, Good '05, Nov. 12,2005 2006 Keith Glynn '03 and Kristan Chichilla, Aug. 6, 2005 BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 5 (\ f\ }/~\ Zr to the East "1 Regis Kohler, associate professor of radiology at .A. Pennsylvania College of Technology, "Who's He Shaner-Gordner was appointed Lycoming School Board in April. Kellie Who Among America's Teachers" has taught at for the is listed in second time. Perm College since 1987. Froelich clerks in South Africa When a recent law school }/~\ Zr ^ JU worked Jeff Therese the 27 is associate years. member work to who helped draft a country's Moon representative to the executive committee for the National Association for constitution, the opportunity was too good Campus Activities. Debra J. Savage, Watsontown, for the Williamsport had the chance with a justice '92M, vice president of Auburn in Delaware, graduate Gentilesco, Hazleton, received in the nursing field for Hyman Agency Ann YWCA Pearl award earlier this year. She has Area School is human resource to pass up. Chris Froelich '00 director Chris Froelich '00 visits with children in Soweto, South Africa, found himself in just District. during time away from the that situation earlier }C\ "2 Renee Remsky Antes opened the online business, O Mama Antes Cookie Express.com in February. Zr Diane Schlenner Barlow was named teacher of the year at Mendham Township Elementary School, Mendham Township, N.J., where she teaches fourth grade. Michael C. Jemo was promoted to a district manager for Kmart, covering the Reading, Lancaster and West Chester areas. this year as one of four Constitutional Court. U.S. law school graduates among 25 South clerks serving Africa's Constitutional Court. Froelich, who a master's degree in business administration earned both and a law degree from Seton Hall, served as clerk to Justice Johann van der Westhuizen. "The Constitutional Court is South Africa's highest on all constitutional matters - roughly equivalent to our Supreme Court - so I got to work with the most significant constitutional issues of the day. South court markedly from ours, but the approach one applies in addressing those issues are often quite similar," he says. Africa's constitution differs issues raised and the The clerkship analytical also allowed Froelich to research which international law, the justices take into account to resolve constitutional issues, interprets and human rights granted to see how the court through the constitution. "What impresses me most about South Africa is that from decades of apartheid to a functional democracy was a peaceful one," he says. "South Africa its transition has, in a relatively short period of time, become a country dedicated to the promotion of fundamental human rights. The chance to be transformation Froelich notes that learning a IPPENSTIELDR of Retired alumni director Doug Hippenstiel '68^81 M. shown was honored for more than 26 years of service during alumni weekend. Hippenstiel received a BL rocking chair, and a scholarship was established in his honor. A formal portrait, unveiled during alumni weekend, now hangs in the Fenste- maker Alumni House, which is located along Hippenstiel Drive, a name conveyed by BUs Council of Trustees. To contribute to the Douglas C. Hippenstiel Scholarship Fund, see www.bloomu.edu/giving or call BUls development center, (570) 389-4128, or alumni office, (570) 389-4058. FALL 2006 from the U.S. model," he says. "Most my work focused on humanitarian and human rights issues, here with alumni association president Sheri Lippowitsch '81, new legal system was a challenge. "Several areas of South African jurisprudence differ significantly Hippenstiel honored a small part of that humbling." is to find and we spent a lot of time on the Court trying ways to improve the living conditions in some of these townships." Froelich saw firsthand the immense poverty and hunger in the townships, especially Soweto. He also saw firsthand the positive effects of "Feed South Africa," a non-profit organization based in Johannesburg that raises funds to buy food (www.feedsa.co.za/). Froelich finished his clerkship for van der Westhuizen in July; he is currently clerking for Justice Jaynee LaVecchia of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Husky Notes Matt Spicher is } f\ Q inventory manager, USA Ultrasound SAP Processes, for Siemens Medical Solutions, USA. management office manJL ager for the City of Chandler, Ariz., was one of 20 recipients of the annual CIO Ones to Watch award, sponsored by CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council. Tyrone Howard, project y JC\ 9QQ yy Adam Michele Corbin Rudloff, Orwigsburg, was named y %J the Frederick J. the Year for 2006. She Hobbs Young Republican was recently elected to of Orwigsburg Borough Council. . y \J is chief financial officer for Bank and Trust. Stanley Piaskowski and wife Angel own and operate Liquid is public affairs officer, planfor the and Law Enforcement Bureau of Interna- at the U.S. Department of State. Cathy Carr earned a master's degree in education from Gratz College. She has taught chemistry at Hillsborough (N.J.) High School for the past six years. director for Raton, is the marketing The Partners Network, Boca Fla.. Caryn Sabourin Ward earned a doctorate minor in school psychology from North Carolina State University at Raleigh in May. Mifflinburg Technologies. 5 f\ f\ \3 \J Julie '97 Erik Falkenstein the is chief administrator of Frenchtown School District, Glen McNamee was named head football coach Dauphin High School in suburban Harrisburg. 5 f\ for Central ~1 Audrey M. Brosious, Bloomsburg, \J \~ Award offers Erin Brough, a teacher in the Baltimore City School System, "green school" in Baltimore. Wendy Long has been selected for 'Who's Who Among American Teachers." Tara McLoone earned a master's degree in training and Philadelphia. She difficult Fire, for book St. John's University, at Prudential. Sciota, opened a wrestling club, Ring of elementary through high school students. Charles E. Peterson '01M of Williamsport was elected vice designed to help other parents president of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business deal with the effects of teenage Officials. School at He is business manager of the Williamsport Area District. Barbara Slatky, Hunlock Creek, released earlier this year, is a kindergarten teacher at Arlington Heights Elementary, Stroudsburg. explores myths parents believe until they are forced to confront damage their teen's drug use is Kat"y E *y P™6 inflicting on the entire family, Pride says. Inspiration for the book came from her experience with her son, Matt, who started to smoke marijuana when he was 15. Each chapter contains a narrative and four devotional entries the 5 f\ ^ \J j~* science Melinda Hill (nght) was awarded a doctorate in macromolecular and engineering from March. She plans to return to Virginia Tech in Los Alamos National Lab for a two-year, post-doctoral research appointment. related to the chapter theme. and parent educator, serves on the board of directors of the Susquehanna Valley House of Hope and is the founder and director of Tapestry Ministry. She lives in Danville with her husband and four children. Additional information on her book is available at www.winningthedrugwarathome.com. Pride, a writer, speaker works Josh Nordmark, nearly destroyed her drug use. "Winning the Drug War and Family Therapy academic excellence. organizational development from Pride '90 took a Kathy Ely experience that into a from Evangelical School of Theology in also received the Marriage for received a and family therapy, has been working with other educators to create a charter guidance for conjfronting teen drug use it master's degree in marriage summa cum laude, May. She and turned 'OO/WM is an instructional specialist at m Pittsburgh. Verizon Hunterdon County, NJ. Alumna's book Merrey Baum is a certified X-ray technoloNason Hospital in Roaring Spring. gist at Jodi Merrey Home," MBA in philosophy with a Thomas C Graver Jr. 5 fj £l family Bloomquist ning and coordination, Jennifer Seely (right) £ her degree at Perm State University (Great Valley). tional Narcotics JC^ /i Tomczak McCann completed Stacy y C3 Justin Kobeski is an associate attorney with Law Firm, LCC, York. Kenneth Marx Jr., Port Carbon, the Austin Panther Valley School Jason McHenry is is business manager of the District, Lansford. the closing manager for Mr. Z'sAVeis Markets in Scranton. Pamela Pheasant graduated from Shenandoah University BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Conservatory in May with a master's of science in arts administration. Jenny Young opened her own Mount Holly Springs. She is a distributor for Rexair Inc. Brian Bingaman 5 f\ ^2 \J %J business, Fresh Concepts, in is head strength and condition- U's ing coach at LaSalle University, Philadelphia. Albree Boone is r~Nste] >ped into a an account executive with Rose Consulting, Bloomsburg. John Kalinoski is a business analyst at GSI Evert is new director of annual giving T^ development coordinator ,^^^k, Commerce in as the .jJM „, giving last June. In her Eileen Bergan Evert King of Prussia. Kathy Miner McHenry is a business teacher at Mountain View Junior/Senior High School in Kingsley. Angela Runciman graduated in May with a master of arts degree in English from Binghamton University/SUNY. Heather Schreiner received her master of social work degree in May 2005 and was hired as crisis director for an Allentown non-profit agency. She has since been promoted to regional director for Lehigh and Northampton B directs the M^Vl -fjf /-^jSSh ^"^ M/i ftlH i'^Bv program that supports scholarships and provides other financial support to BU. She leads a six-member staff ^^B^^^HB EUeen Ber «an Evert responsible for annual fund programs, including phonathons, database management, donor relations and gift processing. who earned a bachelor's degree from Alvemia College, joined BU's development staff as coordinator Michael G. Weremedic, Ashland, was promoted from manager of PNC Bank's Bloomsburg branch fc^ s •* new position, '02M annual fund, a major fundraising Evert, counties. new role JL_./university's director of annual to officer status. of the annual fund in November 1999. She lives in Elysburg with her husband Scott and children, Michael and Madelyn. Deaths Charlotte Ferguson Ford '24 Martha Hathaway Starkey Lenore Sterner Klingler '27 Raymond Popick Mildred Breisch Hartz '28 Glen Baker '50 Myrtle Hoegg Hayes Bessie K. '29 Francis "Frank" Tucker '30 '49 Johnson Francis J. Viola Wilt Linn '34 Clement Makowski '53 Sarah Ellen Schnure Mack '34 James Sheehan '51 Edith Blair Shute '34 Margaret Brinser Donmoyer '58 Robert Reisser '60 Merritt '37 Anne Grosek Maslow Arthur Wark '38 '38 Herbert L. Joseph F. Jones district. \J \J Elslager, Elizabethtown, with the National Civilian AmeriCorps program. Her first project is serving Community Corps, an was hurricane relief in Louisiana. is coordinator for the West Chester Borough recycling program. Robert J. Handerahan is head strength and conditioning coach for George Mason University. '60 Myron Zawoiski 7 f\ f^ Serena Meghan Fogarty Cuff '58 Varnice Pooley Overdorf '36 Thomas high school cross country coach in the same '50 '52 Sara Smith Walter '30 Rosetta 5 f\ /\ Eric Wolfgang is a third-grade teacher at Hayshire \J JL Elementary in the Central York School District and assistant Diane Snyder Shanken J. '48 Carol Kupsky is an assistant vice president with First Columbia Bank and Trust Co., Bloomsburg. Jennifer Miller is working toward a master's degree in the srimate conservation program at Oxford Brookes University, '61 Ciochon '62 Elizabeth Parsons '39 John W. McCorkill '64 Walter Woytovich '39 David Robert A. Linn '40 B. Ralph Crocamo '41 George Motsko '70 Mary Sweigart Miller '41 Mary Louise Oxford, England. She presented a research poster at the Marie Blizzard Edward Carr Thomas '41 '42 Mary Davenport Shope L. Force '66 O'Neill Gary Michael Mary Jess Hackenberger '44 Charles Karnes '82 Dorin '84 James Alda Hunter Richard '46 Donna M. Mayes Robert Welliver '46 Dennis Reigle '92M K. Eleanor E. Daniels '47 Haines '48 _ FALL Elyce Morring 73 is a radiological technologist in the medical imaging department of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. '81 Bernice Gabuzda Clapper '46 Bertha Anchorage, Alaska, in March. '81 Frank A. Zanolini J. '68 '74 Krill Joan A. Pulaski '42 American Association of Physical Anthropologists meetings in Edward Marquardt '87 Avian DeWire '93 Nicholas Nguyen '03 more Husky Notes online www.bloomualumni.com. Find at Send information to alum@bloomu.edu or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker Alumni House, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St., Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815 Over the Shoulder By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist A Title on Mount Olympus: Celebrating the Champions of 1956 Baseball has been played at Bloomsburg University since the 1880s, longer than sport. any other The school has enjoyed many excellent seasons and had exceptional players such as Danny Litwhiler and Matt Karchner who went on The 1956 squad had just the pitchers who Huda and threw play major league baseball, but only three teams seven pitching victories captured a conference championship. pitchers, This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Bloomsburg State Teachers College team that earned the titles with a perfect 6-0 conference record and 8-2 overall. These teams were coached E. Paul "Doc" Wagner, who was hired in 1950 education and physical education. Starr by to teach Wagner got his Charles Kwiatkoski, six of the previous seasons' - three Bob Dipipi and Jim - and two apiece Starr. were the only seniors on a dominated by roster the season at home with conference wins against Mansfield by a score of 5-1 and then over Lock Haven, hander Huda pitched a 8-0, as sophomore three-hit shutout. over Wilkes was followed by the first road game Millersville, Huskies to an overall record of 7-3, 6-1 in the confer- consecutive win as they scored five runs in the ence and a three innings for the league title with Lock Haven. where the Huskies earned and Huda pitched his left- A victory chance to coach the baseball team in 1955 and led the tie other Kwiatkoski and inexperienced underclassmen. The Huskies opened second of back-to-back Pennsylvania State College Athletic Conference Chuck Casper and Ed Shustack, chosen as the team co-captains. Also returning were John to six returning players, including starting outfielders at their fourth second first straight complete game. Eight days after an easy victory over Lycoming, Bloomsburg faced their toughest challenge yet at West Chester, but the Huskies rolled to the largest victory of the season, Huda 11-0, with pitching another shutout. Although a College in trip to Rider New Jersey resulted in the first loss of the year, the seasons high point came in the finale against Members of the Huskies' 1956 baseball team home Kutztown. and the coaching staff are shown during the championship season. 30 BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 1956 BSTC Baseball Team Active Roster Name Position Year Hometown Graduated Major PR Fr. Mechanicsburg 1959 Sec. Ed. Robert Boyle OF Soph. Scranton 1958 Bus. Ed. Edward Brower 2B,SS Fr. Feasterville 1959 Bus. Ed. Charles Casper OF Jr. Unionville 1957 Spec :.Ed. In/in Alexander 2B Soph. Mocanaqua 1958 Sec. Ed. Robert Dipipi P Jr. Old Forge 1957 Sec. Ed. William Freed P Soph. Pottsville 1958 Sec. Ed. Daniel OF, Fr. Bloomsburg 1959 Sec. Ed. Soph. Hudson 1958 Sec. Ed. Soph. Factoryville 1960 Elerr .Ed. Denoy Patrick Fritz PH Jonah Goobic C Wagner entrusted Huda with the start that would wrap up the second straight John Huda P, James Joy P Jr. Bloomsburg 1957 Elerr .Ed. Charles Kwiatkosk P Sr. Plymouth 1956 Sec. Ed. conference Joseph Malczyk C, Jr. Nanticoke 1957 Sec. Ed. John Oustrich 3B Soph. Taylor 1958 Sec. Ed. struck out 22 batters and led George 3B,SS Soph. Orangeville 1958 Sec. Ed. Bloomsburg Joseph Pendal SS Fr. Beaver Meadows 1959 P Fr. Lightstreet — Elerr .Ed. Richard Reichart outright championship in Edward Shustack OF Jr. Shenandoah 1957 Bus. Ed. school history James Snyder 1B Soph. Hershey 1958 Bus. Ed. James P Sr. Williamsport 1956 Elerr .Ed. 1B Jr. Johnstown 1957 Spec. Ed. 0F,PH Jr. Mifflinburg 1957 Bus. Ed. Huda for the Huskies. title pitched a no-hitter, to a 9-1 of Kutztown and the The was at final conquest first conference game Parsell Starr Robert Stroup Lock Haven where the Huskies earned a perfect league Charles Thomas PH IB record with a narrow 5-4 win. With the bases loaded and no one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, reliever Dick Reichart kept the Lock Haven Bald Eagles from scoring, clinching the victory for the Huskies. Bloomsburg loss lost the season finale Wilkes, but the at took nothing away from the championship Huda season. led the team with four wins and struck out 63 batters in only 44 innings pitched. The leading hitters for the Pendal Huskies included Shustack at .433, Caspar .346. Shustack led the Pendal had 11 at at .472, Joe .395 and George Parsell at team with 12 runs scored, and runs batted in. Overall, the team batted .323 for the 10 games and outscored their opponents 66 runs to 24. The 1956 team won with overpowering starting pitchers, clutch relief work and a timely and offense, building a base for BUs ments that continue today athletic proficient accomplish- 1956 BSTC Baseball Team Results Date Opponent Score Home/Away April 18 Mansfield 5-1 H 21 Lock Haven H 25 Wilkes 28 Millersville May 3 Lycoming 8-0 7-5 6-2 6-0 11 West Chester 11-0 12 Rider 7-8 16 Kutztown 9-1 H 17 Lock Haven 19 Wilkes 5-4 2-3 A A H A H A A Academic Calendar Fall 2006 Reading Day -No Classes Friday, Oct. Vincent Hron Life: Paintings, organized by Museum Exhibition Class, Nov. 6 to Dec. 1 The 3. A Guide for the Saturday, March Mid-Term Events are held Tuesday, Oct. 17 the Arts, Mitrani Hall, or Carver in Hass Center Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 21,10 p.m. For more information, call the box S. 389-4409 or check Resume Trio www.bloomualumni.com. with J.D. Tennis Alumni Reunion 7 p.m., Gross Auditorium, Friday, Sept. Reserved, $15; Web site at the Celebrity Artist Walter, Friday, April 27, 2007, CGA cardholder, $5 27, 8 a.m. http://orgs. bloomu. edu/arts/ celebrity_list.htm. Saturday, Dec. 9 Government Association The concerts listed below are open to the public free cardholders pay half of the tickets of charge unless Finals Begin Sunday, Oct. One Grand Evening Monday, Dec. Piano4, Saturday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m.. Finals End Gross Auditorium, Reserved, $20; Saturday, Dec. 16 CGA cardholder, $5 Graduate Commencement A Friday, Dec. 15 Saturday, Sept. 16, 12:30 p.m. Karen Brandt, (570)389-5123 2:30 p.m. 8, Haas Center for the 1 Country Race Details: Homecoming Pops Concert subject to change. upper campus Upper campus indicated otherwise. face value for all shows. Dates are Sunday, Dec. 10 15 New tennis courts, Alumni and Open 5K Cross Concerts Community Classes End Reading Day for information. Gross Auditorium. Thanksgiving Recess Begins office at (570) alum@bloomu.edu online community, Improvisation Kenneth (5701 389-4058, (800j 526-0254 or Details also are listed at the alumni for Steve Rudolph Monday, Nov. CGA $12 cardholder, Alumni Events Contact the Alumni Affairs Office at 24, 2007, 7 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Reserved, $25; 13 Celebrity Artist Series Classes Perplexed Karamazov Brothers, Flying Class of 1956 Reunion Arts, Friday Mitrani Hall and Chamber Orchestra and Saturday, Sept. 16, 1 Fenstermaker Alumni House and other campus locations Sunday, Oct. 22, 2:30 p.m. Night of Super Illusion St. Illusionist/magician Mike Super, Class of 1966 Reunion Matthew Lutheran Church, 123 N. Market St., Friday to Sunday, Oct. 6 to 8 Bloomsburg Fenstemaker Alumni House and 8 p.m., Undergraduate Friday, Oct. 20, Commencement Mitrani Hall, Reserved, $20; Fall CGA cardholder, $10 Sunday, Nov. 12,2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16 Spring 2007 Ain't Misbehavin' Electronic Registration Featuring the music of Fats Waller, Saturday, Nov. 11,8 p.m., Chamber Singers Jan. 9 to 15 Friday to Sunday, Oct. 6 to 8. Mitrani Hall, Reserved, $20; Saturday, Nov. 18, 5 p.m. Football, Huskies vs. Orchestra Concert Haas Center for the Spring 2007 First Classes Begin Spring 2007 Poinsettia Pops Friday, Dec. 1,7 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Call St., Bloomsburg p.m., $5 2:30 p.m. 3, Monday, March 5 BU Auditorium Saturday, March 10 Art Exhibits Exhibits in the Haas Gallery of Art are open to the public free Inflated Carols by Candlelight Egos Jan 19, 2007, 7 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 8 and CGA cardholder, $5 is a $2 parking two hours before kickoff. There are no advance sales for any games. Bloomsburg 389-4284. Parents and Family Weekend Friday to Sunday, Nov. 3 to 5 Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, 8 p.m., David Moyer and handmade books, Sept. 5 to 30. Reception, Mitrani Hall, Reserved, $25; CGA cardholder, For $12 Wednesday, Sept. 13,11:30 a.m. A Festival to 2 p.m. Tim Farrell/Bradley N. Litwin/ the latest infonnation on upcoming events, check the university of (Guitar) Strings Web site: www. bloomu. edu/today Classical Guitar Trio, Saturday, Ran Hwang Mixed media, Oct. 9 to Nov. 8. Reception, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 32 for Now and Forever CATS of charge. 11 :30 a.m. to 9, Presbyterian Church, St., :30 students with a valid ID are donation. Gates open Free tickets required; call (570) Prints First 345 Market Mitrani Hall, Reserved, $15; Friday 7:30 p.m., 1 $3 Tor students, $2 admitted free. There Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater Co., Friday, for adults, 7, Tickets are 8 to 12 and under 8 admitted free. Family Presentation: Spring Break Begins Redman Stadium. senior citizens, $1 for children ages Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross (570) 389-4409 West Chester Golden Rams, Saturday Oct. Jazz Ensemble Sunday, Dec. Free admission, ticket required Mid-Term locations Homecoming Weekend Presbyterian Church, 345 Market campus Special Events Arts, Mitrani Hall CGA cardholder, $10 Tuesday, Jan. 16 other 2 p.m. March 3, 2007, 7 p.m.. Gross Auditorium, Reserved, $1 5; CGA cardholder, $5 FALL 2006 The University Store. Huskies on T-shirts and sweatshirts, caps and decals, giftware, mugs and pennants. And, on the football field where the 2006 Huskies have sights on set their a repeat of last falls undefeated regular season. Huskies have been synonymous with BU pride since 1933 professor when art and wild animal trainer George Keller started the tradition with Roongo, a full-blooded North Greenland husky whose name was derived from the school colors of maroon and gold. 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