THE U N I V E RSITY MAGAZINE '- ' : WINTER New EET program takes 2007 'practical' a step further, leading to solid job opportunities for the class. It's Page first graduating 16. a balancing act of preservation growth in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County. A BU Mum vs. in the middle. Page 14. is right From the President's Desk not easy being green.' 'It's KERMIT THE FROG - Anyone who reads my columns on a regular basis knows I often start with a how I feel about the subject at hand. Although my research led me to quotations about the wonder of nature from quotation that summarizes . Aristotle ("In all things of nature, there something of the marvelous.") is understand the meaning of patience. to writer Hal Borland ("Knowing Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."), Kermit words on being trees, I seemed In this instance, "green" refers to BU's Academic Quad, the open space extending from the Warren Student Services Center to the Andruss Quad, part of BU's Master construction during parking lot will Plan, has much In invisible Library. The Academic component of campus When it is completed this fall, a of the past decade. campus buildings and Warren — — Bakeless, will front on McCormick, a grassy lawn (see for details). some respects, the Academic Quad abundance of open space Lightstreet Road, a current North been an disappear and seven Waller, Andruss, Centennial, Sutliff page 2 to offer the wisest "green." site in photos an old-fashioned idea. We see an archives: the grove along playground where Kehr Union stands today, a lagoon of Montour Hall Hall, to is from the campus name just and a few. a large lawn that at the extended from Perm Street to The campus had 19 acres of open space and athletic new buildings improved students' lives, the amount The Academic Quad will help us to reclaim it. grounds in the 1950s but, as green space dwindled. The quad will provide outdoor spaces suitable for large gatherings, of such as commencement, or private conversation and studying. The campus' outdoor sculpture will be grouped among the plantings, and a historic fountain, a gift from the Class of 1940, will be returned to a place of prominence (archivist Robert Dunkelberger explains in "Over the Shoulder," beginning on page 30). The quad also improve pedestrian safety, as parking spaces and traffic are will moved from the heart of the campus. The short-term steps of being green won't be easy. and summer months, construction and create temporary obstacles completed next fall, the vehicles will for getting Academic Quad environment where even Kermit would Jessica S. Kozloff During the upcoming spring move earth in the center of campus from place to place. But when it is will transform asphalt to greener); feel at home. an Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a of the Pennsylvania State System of member Higher Education Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board of Governors as of December 2006 Kenneth Kim E E. Jarin, Chair Vice Chair Lyttle, C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair Matthew Baker E. Lammando Marie Conley Paul FEATURES Dlugoiecki S. Daniel P. Elby Michael K. Hanna The Original Hot Page 6 Mom Vincent J. Hughes Kyle J. Mullins What between friends has become a started as a joke Joshua A. O'Brien club with thousands of members across the country, Allison Peitz Guido M. Pichini including celebrities like Britney Spears. The Hot Edward G. Rendell Moms JamesJ. Rhoades aims Christine J. Toretti Olson Aaron A. Walton Gerald in Zahorchak L. Lahm Club, founded by Jessica Denay '96, motherhood and has been featured to reinvent major media, such as the "Today" show, CNN and People magazine. Chancellor, State System of Higher Education Judy G. Hample Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees Robert J. Gibble Steven Ramona H. Lammando When most college students graduate, Michaels '87/'88M Dampman '65 Charles C. Housenick '60 affairs, 71 Knepp Joseph J, Mowad Fedor-Michaels still keeps her new director of alumni is using her passion for the and alumni. Pennsylvania Proud Page 10 David J Petrosky President, a strong tug that university to connect current students '07 Steven J. felt connected to BU. As the '67 A. William Kelly Circle they look forward to going off into the world, but Lynda Fedor- '94, Secretary Alley LaRoy G. Davis Coming Full Page 8 Chair Vice Chair B. Barth, Marie Conley Robert '68, Bloomsburg University Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie and Jeffrey Jessica Sledge Kozloff Executive Editor Liza Benedict have one thing in common, Pennsylvania. Davis all As an associate professor of history, Davis researches Co-Editors Pennsylvania's rich history Eric Foster which he captures in a Jessica textbook for high school students. Bonnie Martin Husky Notes Editor to Live and Learn Page 12 Brenda Hartman Denay Lahm's online support group change the face of motherhood. Director of Alumni Affairs Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/"88M Adjusting to college Editorial Assistant Learning Communities aim to Irene Johnson participate in the life can be a but BU's Living difficult transition for students, make the transition a little easier. Students who communities are often more motivated and obtain higher GPAs. Communications Assistants Lynette Mong '08 Balancing Green and Growth Page 14 Emily Watson '07 Agency Snavely Associates, LTD Art Director '85 understands the delicate balance has spent the last Commission helping Debbie Shephard Designer Curt Mike Domin 20 years Charged Page 16 Eric Foster for the Cover Biswajit and Ray is County Planning to find that balance. Cover Photography On between preservation and growth. He as the principal planner with the Lancaster COVER STORY Woodcock the coordinator of BU's electrical electronics engineering technology program. Address comments and questions Bloomsburg: The University Magazine Work Ray knows what As a design engineer, Professor Biswajit industry. In 2000, he brought that knowledge to from to: scratch. Soon offering students the electrical and BU it takes to succeed in the to create an academic program electronics engineering technology program began hands-on experience and paid co-ops. Waller Administration Building 400 East Second Street Page 19 PA 17815-1301 Bloomsburg, Alumnus Ralph E-mail address: lbenedict@bloomu.edu Visit Bloomsburg University on the Stage Web at two very Bhoinsburg: The University Magazine: is & Speedway Miller doesn't believe a closed has used the business knowledge he gained httpi//www.bloomu ,edu. different arenas: NASCAR and at door means a missed opportunity. Miller BU to land him in the winner's circle in regional theater. published three times a year for alumni, current students' families and friends of the university- com. Contact Alumni 4058; fax, Affairs by phone, 570-389- 570-389-4060: or e-mail, Bloomsburg University is an AA/EEO institution and is accessible to disabled persons. Bloomsburg is committed to affirmative action News Notes Page 22 Husk}' Notes Page 30 Over die Shoulder Pase 32 Calendar of Events by way of providing equal educational and employ- ment opportunities all for Page 2 alum® bloomu.edu. University DEPARTMENTS Husky Notes and other alumni information appear at the BU alumni global network site, www.bloomualumni. for moms blossomed into a nationwide movement persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, disability or veteran status. WINTER 2007 News Notes Academic Quad improvements are planned culminates a decade of preparation Service Center. for the facilities in the area, including a $2.75 million expansion to the Warren Student Excavation of the area will begin this spring. Highlights of the approximately $2 million project include: • Reinstalling a fountain, a gift from the Class of 1940, in the center of the quad. Green space boosts campus beauty • Creating an outdoor cafe at the southwest comer of Andruss Library. When the new Academic Quad opens this fall, a space in • campus now overrun with blacktop and cars will be replaced by lawns, walkways, an outdoor cafe and a piece of BU history. The Academic Quad will be the centerpiece of a decade of expansion and renovation of many BU facilities, such as Centennial Hall, Warren Student Services Center and the center of the lower McCormick Center, and an improvement to the entrance Relocating sculptures to • and Center to create a natural amphitheatre with a • Replacing invasive, non-native more appropriate Waller the construction of Andruss Library represent an investment spaces is lot all of the parking spaces lost from the have already been replaced. the When the quad proj- number of faculty and staff parking lower campus will increase from 563 to 648. complete, the on stage. Norway maples with tree species. Reitmeyer notes that ect $28 million intimate Grading the space in front of Warren Student Services and parking behind McCormick Center. These projects and of more than more attractive settings. total in BU's facilities, according to Colin Reitmeyer, assistant director of facilities for planning and construction. The Academic Quad can be considered an extension and completion of these projects that also improves campus safety by removing from its traffic and parking center. "For the $8.4 million Centennial Hall renovation and expansion, the building was redesigned with the facade facing the interior of campus in anticipation of the creation of a quad," says Reitmeyer. "Similarly, the $5.4 million expansion to McCormick Center not only adds the teaching space we need, but it's been located deliberately to complete that side of the Academic Quad." Reitmeyer notes that more Plans for the Academic Andruss Quad include an outdoor cafe near Library. BLOOM SBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Great Sticks! BU wins The BU 13th national field field The win was the 24th hockey title hockey team completed an undefeated 2006 season to capture the Huskies' 13th national title in the past title 1-0 Pensacola, NCAA Division II National Sports Festival in 10th Division crown II of the year for the Huskies, tying a school a season. for It was and three 1 3th national its and career with a mark of 86-1 Bloomsburg State College's won the first field women's hockey team, also coached by national title in 3-2 victory over Lynchburg College of Virginia, Fla. title NCAA titles. Hutchinson, in also the head coach Jan Hutchinson. Bloomsburg's senior class ends 25 years. The win over Bentley College of Waltham, Mass., was played as part of the record for wins in school history, a November 1 981 j— r~i HRf *^w ^'1 ft, ikPz^VStk ^ hHEht u Eventful Listing Updates available on campus entertainment Bloomsburg University has a new way of keeping people in touch with cultural events on campus. Anyone interested in knowing about concerts, art and athletics at exhibits, the Celebrity Artist Series BU may sign up at The Academic Quad will feature a park-like setting in front of Andruss Library that will be home to the campus' outdoor sculpture (top left and right). The fountain donated by the Class of 1940 will be reinstalled in the center of the quad. WINTER 2007 to receive periodic e-mail updates http://www.bloomu.edu/events. E-mail updates will arrive every seven to 14 days. News Notes Digging In American Archeology features BU students System Two BU Leader BU student appointed PASSHE board students participated in an Ohio archaeology dig that was featured in the fall 2006 issue of to American Archaeology magazine. The two BU anthropology majors, Joshua O'Brien, Community senior Kitawna Government Association burg (top was named president, to the Pennsylvania Board of Governors. He the second he BU student weeks two years in be named to the board, and to he graduates. Students considered for the position are presidents of the student association at one of the 14 universities A (lower right), spent three and a half Joshua O'Brien is will retain the position until Harrisburg native, O'Brien government the State System. in a junior majoring is CGA since his freshman He year. also participates in political in the a participating in excavations at Hopewell moundbuilder settlement site in southern Ohio. The Brown's Bottom science and communication studies and has been involved with science organizations on and sophomore Judith Steinhilper of Bloomsburg State System of Higher Education's Hoover of Middle- right) 1 site co-directed excavations were by BU anthropology DeeAnne Wymer and Paul Pacheco of SUNY-Geneseo. professor political campus and the College Republicans. Positive Partner BU adds $121 BU is million to local economy Columbia County's million to the county's BU and its benefit of report, largest employer, contributing $121 economy each year. The economic 13 sister institutions is outlined in a "The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education: Economic Impact on Commonwealth the of Pennsylvania," prepared by West Chester University's Center for Social and Economic Research, College of Business and Public Other key - BU's $357 - and staff on data from 2003-04: economic impact is more than generates Fifty percent of its more than students, visitors, fac- $ 148 million a year. BU's approximately 950 employees new to Columbia County; 80 percent live in the by the commonwealth and BU yields a return of $11.25 in total State sales tax students, faculty and Sixty-six percent of in the Harrisburg Diocese that own buildings. staff total all faculty as family and average of 4.67 hours per month annual value of $872,879. staff for volunteer an an estimated BU students volunteer an CCM its headquarters, the College Hill, as a The Rev. Don Cramer home away from home. $3.5 million per year. and He sees as a place where students are welcomed Newman House on and individual income tax paid by last service at one of the only three college have their dollar invested BU Ministry and himself "a freshman," Cramer looks programs Each arrived at Campus forward to building on a tradition of Northumberland counties. Catholic eager to work with students. Proclaiming three-county area of Columbia, Montour and economic impact. - The Rev. Don Cramer fall appropriated to - New priest heads Catholic Campus Ministry Affairs. million. reside in - findings based Spending by the university and ulty - BU total statewide Freshman Father After six years of seminary and five years as an ordained priest, Cramer holds two bachelor's and two master's degrees. He joy and satisfaction that I made in his vocation. "Every night, I finds a difference," he says. average of 3.5 hours each month. BLOOMSBURG deep go to bed knowing UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE The high ropes course on BU's upper campus is a convenient site where working professionals learn to unit, High Ropes — which focuses on self-awareness strengths Corporate Institute challenges MBA students work together and overcome fears. and weaknesses. uncertainty, It teaches learning about your them and these personal lessons to deal with transfer into their professional lives." Students pursuing a master's degree in business administration aren't often asked to climb maneuver around an 50 feet into the air and obstacle course set high in the trees. and chair of the in the workforce. management department, has class to participate in a pants to climb up a telephone pole requires partici- and move through series of obstacles before rappelling to the Benek-Rivera says. "We do this in a and use it skill for professionals already get there," Smith says. "How do And how can they take that up in other day-to-day situations?" MBA program, contact Blair MBA program coordinator, at (570) 389-4392 or astaley@bloomu.edu; for information on BU's Corporate conjunction with our or contact Institute, visit http://www.corporateinstitute.org, fears," first Roy Smith at (570) 389-4323. Representing Students Recognizing Excellence Knepp serves on Council of Trustees BU Students Named to PA Academic Team Steven Knepp, a senior from Three recipients of the Middleburg with a major in All-Pennsylvania Academic elementary education, Team award is serving as the student representative to BU's Council of Trustees. several students who One of Plains last fall. student Trustee graduated, he was by System of Higher Education, before he Ed Rendell. was appointed by Gov. While attending BU, Knepp has been student government and academic organizations. WINTER 2007 active in enrolled at BU recipients of the Team award, committee and by Judy Hample, State — As All-Pennsylvania Academic a screening chancellor of the Pennsylvania Ryan Geiger and Angela Peck applied for the position after the previous interviewed — of Danville, William Katsak of of Halifax Steven Knepp the For information on BU's Staley, ground. "(The course) helps students overcome their Roy Smith, people to remember their coping they deal with the situation? high ropes course, run by BU's Cor- The course on BU's campus "I tell mechanisms when they required students in her Professional Development Skills porate Institute. Institute Director unfamiliar settings, a valuable But, for the past three years, Joan Benek-Rivera, associate professor According to Corporate high ropes course motivates individuals to think clearly in Ryan Geiger and William Katsak scholarship to any of the 14 schools of Higher Education. college students in the Pennsylvania State System The awards recognize who have they are eligible for a tuition a group of community achieved academic excellence and demonstrated a commitment to their colleges and communities. The image of the ideal mother has been personified by TV characters June Cleaver, Carol Brady and like Clair Huxtable. Jessica Denay Lahm '96 believes for a it's time makeover. HSrMtBH Jessica Denay Lahm '96 Hot Moms Club started the after the birth of her STORY BY MARK "Reinventing motherhood" goal of Jessica Lahm Lahm's Hot 2006 — in 2000. all '96 Those feeling in "The climate for Gabriel in 2000. ambitious, even for a Bloomsburg alum. But that's the — which had fighting post-natal frumpiness. almost 300,000 among her new-mom Lahm's washed-up DIXON who has built a business around Moms Club started as a joke is E. members in late October friends after the birth of her son, Gabriel, New Jersey suburb were mostly in their mid-20s, but were nevertheless. motherhood wasn't what it is now," says Lahm, who now uses the surname Denay, her middle name. "There was an image and stereotype around mothers." People told her she didn't look like a mother poses, but making her wonder why being a — intending it as a mother had such compliment, she sup- a negative connotation. Light bulb. BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE son 'You owe it centered and balanced, DENAY LAHM JESSICA At first, When you're tiiat's when you can be die best mom. to your family to recharge yourself. '96 Lahm and her friends fought back with laughter and sarcasm. moms." Then, They Mixing with the show-biz crowd took on a personal called themselves the "hot Moms Club." Then, Lahm put the "Hot up a Web site (www.hotmomsclub.com) and wrote book "The Hot Mom's Handbook" to promote — a dimension when she met and married her now ex-husband, Bryan Dattilo, of — the Our Lives." Lahm continued Web site. three Then, magazines: People, it Good Housekeeping, Woman's US Weekly, Oxygen, Day, Ebony. "I told Pierce that bad news." — clothing Moms, with T-shirts and jeans. (The jeans are snug and low cut, not those infamously lumpy "mom jeans" once on "Saturday Night October 2006, the Live.") In makers of Suave shampoo kicked promotion tying off a the company's products to the idea of motherly heat while also plugging Lahm's The core of the business Web site and book. is the Web site which, says Lahm, "covers everything mom-related." Each month has a theme beauty, style, relationships, parenting, — and products, health, sex and "Moms That Rock," "HotmomPrenuers" and ence, "It's amazing that it's part-timers, "especially a couple of An celebrity six people and a couple of out as just me my friends." According how would like it, but 1 I first job was in Paramus, phone "I wasn't sure was came really did," she recalls. "It an intense experience." But, call that after several years, the state had cut the school's ing for went into Manhattan and began teaching young performers on Broadway and young sional athletes," says Pierce Brosnan, who while filming "The Lahm. Thomas Crown Affair." famous," she says, "and found that and insecurities." "So all many moms was turning it's about eschew- to self-identity. it kids have the your when you can be the best mom." some shrewd marketing going on here, notes a Philadelphia marketing expert, Anne Buchanan of Buchanan Public Relations. As a business model, she says, There's also the Hot Moms Club is an example of how Corporate America succeeds by cutting its market into thin 'What she has here is a want slices. group of intelligent, probably slightly affluent mothers," says Buchanan. "What group of to talk to these women?" Moms Club probably According to Buchanan, a Hot wouldn't have succeeded before the Internet, but online marketing permits Lahm tively target the smaller contacts. She was Kelly Preston T-shirts — and advertisers segment of women to the idea. "I think she's to effec- who respond onto something," says Buchanan. advantage of show business and Cindy Margolis to wear "Hot Mom" and provide the endorsements which can make decisive difference in obtaining publicity. Angie — able to convince stars like Celine Dion, Harmon and Forrest Whitaker When actors showed up signing party, cameras followed. And at a HMC got a when Britney Spears donated affili- ated charity. book, for the original "Hot Mom"? A second "Womb with a View," for expectant mothers, is due out in April 2007, same to When you're centered and balanced, that's What's next went from had mom" really has a "hot profes- actor I struggle with feeling guilty doing family to recharge yourself. a radio show is in the works and other products undoubtedly will follow. So many mothers. So Mark WINTER 2007 I her maternity wear to Have More Compassion, an and son "I that blurb in Star magazine Among her clients was traveled with his wife — privately teaching the poorest of the poor to the rich and the fears Lahm, being martyrdom and holding on book budget. She was unemployed. "I to Lahm also had the high school for troubled teens. the August mom interviews. profitable," says when it started news nothing to do with appearance. Rather, advertisers wouldn't moms making a differ- education major, Lahm's N.J., at a There are hot becoming so Lahm, who now employs and astrology. great anything for themselves," she says. "But you owe Rockin' Hot line, had I Moms Club into a business," she says. "And Tonight," the "Today" show, corporate partners. There's a fitness Hot the — about for HMC Web site went up. By then, was generating 200 e-mails per day, and she realized and keep up with her new venture. Then, TV: "Entertainment Then and here is where the $ comes in sponsors and Brosnans to teach for the after the that she couldn't teach "Access Hollywood" and others. satirized weeks who played Lucas on "Days E. Dixon is little time, a freelance writer in b Wayne, Pa. a Conning Full Circle STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN "What is it about this place?" a father asked after he toured BU with his daughter. "I can't stop thinking about it." Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/'8SM says he's not alone. "It" brought her to BU as a student more than two decades ago; it continues to bind her tightly to the campus and its people. Lynda Fedor-Michaels makes no secret of her genuine enthusiasm for BU, the hard-to-define quality she Bloomsburg experience" and what "Bloomsburg has this affairs. "And, calls "the has meant to her life. way of developing your potential. your perspective, values and alumni it skills," . says BU's director of when you leave, you stay the same person, but changed for the better." BU may have changed Fedor-Michaels but, unlike most graduates, she never since left. She's 1983 when her future been connected sister-in-law, to the campus who had earned a Moving Forward Lynda Fedor-Michaels has three main goals as she expands on programs established by Doug Hippenstiel during Engage more alumni events in BU Alumni Weekend like his 26 years by welcoming (this the university to them through them BU from alumni 1 3 to affairs: campus to the year from April visits her last year before retirement, in 1 for 5) or bringing faculty, students and, during President Jessica Kozloff. bachelor's degree in elementary education a few years Connect current students with alumni through programs earlier, encouraged her to check it Alumni out. the Classroom. "Students need to in know who and see what a Bloomsburg education can do There was never any doubt that © she'd attend college somewhere, Fedor-Michaels says. Her parents, for like our alumni are them," she says. Continue to offer programs and services to benefit alumni and the alumni association, such as loan consolidation and reduced rates on who still live in the Wilkes-Barre home where she grew up, empha- insurance and travel. sized the importance of education "I grew up in who people found first. Bloomsburg," she at And I says. Jumping right in to college life, she was involved in the Community Government Association and years before Council of Trustees. tive to the Each experience showed her the possibilities that lay ahead and, although she earned her bachelor's degree in education, she when she in 1987 for four tunities," says and a staff mentors world of oppor- Frank became a mentor dents. lot on his perspectives people from diversity working on campus vice president for student "She had a huge impact on December 1996 office. In woman, one of those push you your after campus first own in women who So, instead of leaving was new students —now, this year in her new position. Fedor-Michaels sees not only a BU students and alumni, but also an interconnectedness that alumni upon affairs. "Current students need in education, simultaneously plan- ning her wedding. She became a what Bloomsburg did for me.' It's a people experience. Whether you're full-time residence hall director in talking about June 1988 and, four months spective students or at the later what alumni and hear the stories are doing about Bloomsburg with pro- end of the experience after they've graduated, married Frank Michaels. it's WINTER 2007 They have been much and had a "After they graduate, zero in on where we have to their interests were, not their class years." As she connects and reconnects with is BU alumni, Fedor-Michaels seeing the "Bloomsburg experi- ence" come full circle. Her Catherine "Katie" Fedor, at a junior BU, majoring in nursing. Katie Fedor 78, the is Bonnie Parker- who BU near- sister-in-law introduced Aunt Lynda to ly niece, is 25 years ago. b same connection." Bonnie Martin is co-editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine. 'this is on Homecoming Weekend, she the to so as director of become a classroom teacher, she stayed on to earn a master's degree to see introspective. also the daughter of she's building BU to — more indepenand variety of experiences," she explains. ori- their families. She's reconnected young graduates "Students today are more Fedor-Michaels to greet definition of "school spirit" dent, less likely to be joiners charge of the freshman similarity in potential." more than has evolved over the years, as well. exposed into their entation program, she often She was an example of a strong, capable, independent to and as a mainte- a few miles from The . been and my life. too. nance repairman in the dorms." home had 120 later, 1,000 students graduated with the to a many walks of life. And, for the last three years, he's with some of those students life and some of Class of 2006. "Bloomsburg changed him, crediting the late Jennie Carpenter, affairs. members; 50 years of them. who was director of residence to era of 1956, for example, hall direc- my job was all about the stu- tor, among the Fedor-Michaels, from era the difference can be attributed to accepted a position in the admissions faculty who opened up and differ Lycoming sheer numbers, she says. The Class The couple moved that the classroom wasn't had to remembers. "As residence knew accepted her diploma her future. "I moving remains the same, alumni attitudes Hall for another four years," she the Student Education Society. She served as the student representa- Although the connection Resi- we lived in a tiny two-bedroom apartment group of this put family Columbia into dence Hall, where type of connection that's the "He moved second in for their six children, importance only to family. Editor's note: on alumni For information events, news and volunteer opportunities, see the Alumni Online Community www.bloomualumni.com. at BU Pennsylvania Jeffrey Davis, associate profes- sor of history, grew up in the Iti! mountains and wide open spaces of Washington state. His academic research, on the other hand, looks eastward, focusing on Colonial Amenca and one of the AN INTERVIEW BY ERIC 13 original colonies, Pennsylvania. Davis' textbook for high school students, "The Pennsylvania Jour- ney," was published last The word "keystone" year by Gibbs Smith. At nearly the same time, central stone all the other stones in place. Pennsylvania A was nicknamed the Keystone Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. Bloomsburg: What more than 200 interested by country, Pennsylvania was, ago in * the economic, social and political far, J most diverse and vibrant years State recognition of its important role in in Pennsylvania's history? Davis: In the early history of the the of an arch that holds he was named the associate editor for Pennsylvania History: you refers to the state ~velopment of the United and colony. And so much of the States. Museum Commission) ennsylvania Historical and founding of the country happened here. The capital of the United States was Philadelphia for a while. If you match up Pennsyl- vania against the other colonies, even in the Colonial period most like ethnically which is what we and what religiously. I it was are today, a pluralistic society, both like And it was a hotbed about it. It was of politics the happening place. Bloomsburg: Does Pennsylvania have a towering historical figure? Davis: Benjamin Franklin. By far, the preeminent historical figure Bloomsburg: What aspects of Pennsylvania history should make Pennsylvanians proud? Davis: There's a lot recognizable. This year Pennsylvanians can take pride When you look at William Perm's principles in in. founding rounded. pretty and pluralism, remarkable of humor comparison to the other his 301st birthday. man. good self-promoter, and a practical, too. which would played in the founding of the United States with the authority and financial benefit. times, and — He had a good sense He got himhim political pragmatic side. self into positions and the Declaration of did On the other hand, he was a colonies of the time. Obviously, the role Pennsylvania signing of the Constitution Of all was probably the most well He was pretty good at everything he true Renaissance the colony, they were very idealistic principles of tolerance in is the founding fathers, he he stands out as and the most give He was a scoundrel at a philanderer. Independence in Philadelphia was the keystone that held the republic together. And, in the 19th century during the was a key player. With and petroleum and all the industrial revolution, Pennsylvania timber, coal, steel manufacturing that took place, Pennsylvania was a huge contributor. Pennsylvania has so many "firsts" in building roads, canals and railroads. areas like Bloomsburg: How important was he to the way our nation turned out? Davis: his to He was important approach move to politics in and many ways, especially for He really helped his drive. Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary movement. In his efforts to get France into the war on the side of BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE societies throughout the state. The Underground Railroad came right through Pennsylvania, especially through the areas of Lancaster and the Maryland-Pennsylvania border. The Susquehanna River was one of the Of course, the Mason- crossing points. Dixon Line was the border between Pennsyl- —between North and —and Pennsylvania was vania and Maryland South a state that mixed views of the country. There were abolitionist societies, and there were reflected the strongly promoted who There were those anti-abolitionist societies. abolition and those who were very ambivalent. Bloomsburg: So was border it a cultural state as well as a geographical border state? Davis: Absolutely. Many people Philadelphia in particular ties, of had strong both economic and family, to the had South. Philadelphia a strong textile Many people had moved from the South or had family who moved to the South. But, once the Civil War started, Pennsylvania was second only to New York in its contributions in manpower to industry. the war. was very important. He was a large enough contributor that things could have been very the United States, he different Once the war started, Pennsylvanians rose to the occasion. Bloomsburg: Coming from Washington state, without him. is there anything about Pennsylvania culture that surprised you? Bloomsburg: At the other extreme, who is the unknown figure who should be better known? Davis: Andrew Carnegie. He is well known, but his connection to Pennsylvania first free Heinz. who founded one African American churches in Philadel- phia. Milton Hershey, George Westinghouse, John steel cable is you find out that's Philadelphia, agricultural. and was involved city where I community. grew up, It In the 19th century, Davis: It was a hotbed, on both counts. Especially on emancipation. There were abolitionist movements and WINTER 2007 there's it's not a is here, and and very very different. In the that Pennsylvania has. But is topography and Eric Foster rural Little Italy or German terrain, states by how lush and green it is. b co-editor 0/ Bloomsburg: University Magazine. on the East one of the most beautiful what was Pennsylva- and emancipation movements? that was a mix. The West doesn't have the Coast, Pennsylvania far, its is case. There's Pittsburgh and between them it's very same experience . the West, Very much an East Coast There are ethnic communities. Not that you the steamboat inventor. Bloomsburg: state. and urban. But when you come not the with the Brooklyn Bridge, Lee Iacocca, Robert Fulton, nia's role in the suffrage coming from an Eastern don't have that in the West, but We have more than our share of industrialists. John Morgan invented My impression, state, industrialized not as well known. is Richard Allen, an African American of the Davis: Pennsylvania The Freedom, new friends and a new style of learning can make the transition from high school to college an intimidating experience. More than 500 BU students weather the transition more easily by participating in living learning " communities. For freshman Terrell Garrett of Philadelphia, being part of a living learning community has eased the transition from high school to college. STORY BY LYNETTE M he ever set foot on Before campus, freshman Garrett Terrell knew he wanted "One of the major reasons I'm doing well is because sessions together to live in the we have study and can work, as a same residence interact inside classroom. O N G hall The environment helps group, with our professors. I'm ease freshmen into college never intimidated to ask a professor allowing upperclassmen to take ick Douglass Institute Living Learn- for help mentoring and leadership ing Community. know who I am and what to spend his first year at BU as part of the Freder- Alumni from Philadelphia's all do high school Lankenau High the spark. "They eficial his said it — was ben- to help environment for student-faculty them both," attention," assistant vice president lives with other Frederick Douglass students in Luzerne Residence Hall. The community, he says, has kept track during his first him on year of college. also offer students opportuni- with their professors participating in special lectures, study sessions and trips. in the living learning communities you and Bloomsburg and on roles. says Jonathan Lincoln, are willing to help to while "The great thing about students it you individualized Convinced, Garrett came by life will benefit relationships to grow, give says. LLCs ties to interact who he they can me." "Anytime you can provide an lit because you have professors because they already and and outside of the and dean of is that they're motivated, energized undergraduate education and aca- and they demic says Kathy Kollar-Valovage, adviser affairs. "It helps to build a stronger sense of community, is important at any which university." Living learning communities, or LLCs, allow freshmen and returning students who share similar interests hit the ground running," to the Presidential Leadership Pro- gram LLC. "They see living the benefit of with like-minded peers." Each LLC acts as a close-knit community within the university. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 'The great thing about students in the living learning communities — Kathy Kollar-Valovage they hit the ground running.' according to students. Sophomore freshmen in the dorm can come Manheim says the connections she made in the Presidential Leadership Program LLC me Leah Hilliard of to college. The community "became a small family right off the bat. The upperclass- helped her adjust men in the dorm really helped walk me through my freshmen year." Sophomore David Flynn of Bloomsburg decided to work as a community assistant in the Presidential Leadership Program LLC for advice, and Gretchen Bomberger, a freshman from Denver, Pa., says the and LLC was Diversity "a a growing trend Flynn "When I was says. dorm helped me the and out with PLP college in general. Now the and Health to the Education is Engagement fall, dential Learning established in housed Schuylkill Residence Hall; the in Hon- —an student use LLCs are show student success higher in these communi- because students are living with and has office are They have higher GPAs more successful in their programs than similar students who Jonathan Lincoln, assistant vice aren't living in these and dean of undergraduate education and academic affairs, says communities," Madelyn Rodriguez, multi- cultural center director. Professors working within the LLCs make it a priority to get to and indication, assis- increas- component of the "I expect we're going to see these begin to develop even more," "I'd like to get to where we can coming freshmen tell all that they participate in these communities they choose to do so." Lynette Mong '08 is in- can B who have a similar focus and motivation. Resi- with a full-time Bloomsburg University community. the point people Columbia becoming an ingly important Lincoln says. ties in Hall. Staffed established in 2001. "Statistics WINTER 2007 Community Center was last fall both housed in Luzeme, were rates are growing number of assist the students involved in LLCs, a Living that and Frederick Douglass LLCs, ors I tant vice president Lincoln says, Program LLC was is know something classroom space for professor and Northum- 1998 and a professor kids. That's secretary, the center both each house fewin is takes the time to get to Honors Learning berland Residence Hall. The Presi- community initiatives with Linda Sowash, director of residence life. the dence 20 students Kokoska with classes to teach, and yet he communities have more than 200 er than new living learning about the program. created established last discusses duce themselves and leam more To housed with Diversity, at the really appreciate." LLC in Columbia and Gender and and lunch with Honors Program, Residence Hall; together, the two participants. Civic president of the still communi- oldest, Sciences Sciences, to "You're not just a number," Balz Bloomsburg, each with a unique focus. The went beginning of the semester to intro- says. "Dr. Kollar-Valovage. Currendy, there ties at a freshman, the upperclassmen in Amanda Stephen Kokoska, interim director on campuses nationwide, according there as a freshman. reversal," several friends me has been very reassuring." are seven living learning like a role Gender welcoming community right away. The support of knowing people who have gone through many of the same situations LLCs are of the class- room. Honors freshman Balz of Walden, N.Y., says she because of his positive experience "It's know students outside to can help them I out in return." as and that they're motivated, energized is an English/creative writing from Kennewick, Wash. major if Lancaster County has towns with names such as Bird-in-Hand, Blue Ball and Paradise and farmsteads where Amish families have tended fields and livestock for generations. But there that could change the county's rural flavor in a Balancing Growth and With its acres of rich in history no wonder New York minute. open farmland dotted with small towns and little changed from Colonial days, it's that 5 million people visit Pennsylvania's Lancaster County annually. The lure of quiet country living, the reputation for affordability of houses good schools and the attract another 5,000 Green BY JACK are forces SHERZER BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY relative who become new permanent between preservation and growth, the very essence of what could be lost makes Lancaster so desirable under waves of new development. Enter Mike As But without careful planning residents. to strike a balance Domin now working in the agency's new Heritage and Long Range Planning Domin has spent the last 20 years protecting min can be a struggle and says. "To try takes a lot of time," it and accommodate losing the character of Lancaster is Do- growth without the very challenging." Domin, 43, grew up in neighboring Chester County lives in Willow Street, a community about and now five 300,000 acres of farmland. gies known He miles south of Lancaster. committed are says he knew At Bloomsburg University, Domin initially studied geology but then switched to environmental planning the sophomore offered his year. "I liked it be- involved not only the natural sciences, but also human element, in working with communities change a positive for the future," says making sure change In Lancaster, three-pronged approach: keeping urban areas close to existing on development living in more is to Domin. positive takes a new development to avoid sprawl, neighborhoods with parks and as insistent trails improving so people are not rural areas, and buying working on ways to residents When Domin came to the planning commission creating "urban growth boundaries." These are areas designated for residential by infrastructure. The in these areas so it idea, Domin says, is to direct doesn't start gobbling up rule of growth the been a battle because for a long time American dream has been land," he says. The county struction of diverse a house on an acre of instead encourages the con- communities offering a combina- tion of apartments, townhouses, single-family to occur, Domin is those growth areas attractive creating parks, thumb, Domin all trails and other says, is to residents. Larger of about 50 acres, with athletic fields ation live, have small two- "tot lots") within community parks and other recre- should be within 10 miles of residents. facilities, we make "Unless the urban areas attractive places to we're not going to be successful with our whole growth strategy," hance the he "Anything says. livability in these we can do urban centers is to en- homes and some commercial development. Recently, Domin and the department celebrated the completion of plans for the hiking/biking trail, ect, that skirts the easy — the it first from a dozen first called the 1.2 miles of an edge of Lancaster stretch to about part of the different urban Conestoga Greenway Proj- trail 50 City. The hope miles, but it's Domin's it helped to create, the Lancaster Farmland Trust, have spent about WINTER 2007 $50 million buying the devel- is to not required agreements landowners, he says. role. About is three years ago, in response to residents' concerns, the department created the Heritage and Long Range Planning in addition to protecting Division. Now, open space, Domin helps and works with towns and nonprofit agencies to preserve streetscapes and raise money to "I save architecturally significant buildings. think my children and my children's children will be able to experience the same kind of beauty in Lancaster County that we have today because of the actions we are taking now," says Domin, the father of two agers. "I feel proud to be part of that." B Since the early 1980s, the county and a nonprofit organization im- just as portant as preserving the farmland outside of them." identify historic properties "We promote higher density or compact developthat's make neighborhood parks (think also part of county's farmland. the to Preserving Lancaster County's historic character and commercial growth clustered around existing urban ment and Now recreational areas. someday have rights to farms. shortly after graduating from Bloomsburg, the depart- ment was and have 60 municipalities know its where they want development The in County and that Lancaster a quarter-mile of make to their farming lifestyle But people's attitudes and perceptions about where the environment. it the not been interested in selling land to builders. to five -acre cause by horse-drawn bug- and shunning the outside world, Domin says the Amish high school that he wanted to do something related to when it was for traveling in they want to live remains key to land preservation. that essence. "It more than 70,000 acres of farmland. up the development rights to to eventually lock is In that goal, the county has been helped County a principal planner with the Lancaster Division, to goal Amish. Well '85. Planning Commission and relatively opment rights The Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania native. He lives in Hanisburg. teen- BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Charged for Work STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS BU's new EET program is graduating electronics engineering technologists who have the real-world experience that industry wants. which turned Engineers design things. Engineering technologists the internship, make Now he helps design programmable power sources things work. The differences actually run a practical, little between the two professions that aircraft manufacturers deeper, but the emphasis on to test aircraft electronics. "1 day-to-day operations is what ested in electronics sets engineering technology apart. Bloomsburg Univerelectronics engineering technology sity's program takes "practical" a step further, emphasizing the hands-on experience is to don't need The who are state officials that this works. Of the nine BU first first job." students who and summer 2006, one nies such as and eight are is working on working for a mark on Blooms- its Lockheed Martin and PPL Susque- with California Instruments in San Diego. "I trip west. came "They offered program work with business- to to help improve the recalls professor James dollars in funding to department Moser, at the time. Learn came from Pennsylvania's Link Initiative. task was hiring develop the curriculum. to find until someone who BU found fit someone with the right India. "It the was kind of difficult Moser says bill," Biswajit Ray. was nurtured Ray's practical bent as a child in Because of the struggling economy there, he says, "All the parents will to me He to combination of academic and industry experience to out here during spring break for an interview," when asked the department of physics economy, The next "If Naylor says of his 2005 really, I help get the idea into development. Half a million Perm compa- we can get them placed right away," Ray says, "then we consider ourselves successful." Among those graduates is Meshoppen, Pa., native Benjamin Naylor, now an associate engineer hanna. EET classes, used his contacts in the electronics industry earned bache- master's degree in electrical engineering at State University electronics background, and engineering technology state's inter- stuff like it." who was head of the graduating class degrees in electronics engineering technology in spring had no es in developing a emphasis on practical training proved lor's coordinator. "They a lot of training to start their fledgling program's and video games and started taking the enjoyed military use had always been burg's drawing board in the late '90s. That's produce engineers EET program I and the U.S. The EET program made that often puts students in capable of contributing in industry right away," says Biswajit Ray, says. "I when really jobs as soon as they graduate. "The goal he that," but into a full-time job." be an engineer or a ogy but was good at tell their kids, doctor.' " Ray Tou have didn't like biol- math, so he chose to become an engineer. Ray taught Biswajit Ray, far left, is coordinator of the EET program. Recent EET at electrical and computer engineering the University of Puerto Rico before taking leave graduates Christopher Root of Danville (top) and Matthew Dunkelberger to gain on-the-job of Mohrsville (bottom) apply what they learned in class at paid thought that teaching engineering just practicians. In the classroom, students use sophisticated software to design circuit boards (center). was not a knowledge good experience," he Continued on next page WINTER 2007 in industry. says. "I by "My goal was the books to come back to As ence." in Atlanta, 14) and for space satellites on with Bloomsburg. In 2000, he and their two children (now ages 10 and behind the big city and southern climate left move EMS Technologies Inc. he designed electronics before signing his wife teaching, but with industry experi- a design engineer for to Pennsylvania, professor Biswajit timely guidance. academic program from scratch. The EET curriculum that Ray created provides the math and technology foundation that students science, need for their culminating experience paid co-op job in industry. Communications, Williamsport, sity of a six-month, are: Berwick; Tobyhanna Inc., — students walking discussing Dayton (Ohio) Research Air Balancing The up and down end when —co-op experience. may be Moser those co-ops, and the Univer- job opportunities. Not only do they get a solid academ- Institute. In addition, a ic when they graduate, students get solid education, but they get experience in solving prob- They lems." placement and provides feedback to make sure the the cost of four years. (Originally, EET program produces graduates who have experiences were required, adding Ray the required notes, "Because of Army Depot; L3 Pa.; very active industry advisory board helps in co-op that industry needs, the skills also get a four-and-a-half-year up The idea of a new program with "strong industry —and on when he was a desire of students to graduate sooner.) He was already interested in he had studied the high field in a school technical program. After his co-op experience PPL Susquehanna in work in Berwick, he continued to there during his last semester of classes, came and then be- a full-time systems associate after his graduation May. Wolfe is involved with maintaining the com- after Forty-five students are enrolled in the and Ray hopes that where 20 students a year are graduating. "A lot of people don't know that we have a program like Bloomsburg University," Even he industrial clients initially had "When we they couldn't quite understand what to begin studying "Now they're for a master's in business administration (probably at Moser BU) so he eventually can become a project manager. EET students at Bloomsburg also gain hands-on they're really interested. reputation, but once they see experience through their professors' research projects. coming back For example, Ray recently completed designs really supportive table generators being tested Defense. "It's good date professionally, for by the me because I can stay up-to- and the students can with actual research," he The EET program is for por- Department of get involved attracting students thanks to modem equipment, individual attention from professors and the university's relatively student/teacher ratios, Ray es are small, so students have software, and more low and Moser more "One faculty guidance," skills quickly, of the things that's and "Our from national Ray and to It's .1 doing," and taking a while to build our what we're doing, they're think local industry has been helpful." get a boost accreditation, a process that is soon now under first students graduated, Ray explains. BU has a head start on one of the requirefaculty members who have both academic and However, industrial experience. "1 think the program has a bright future," says. B advance their according to Moser. amazing and . we were placing co-op students, (Accreditation Board for Engineering Technol- ogy) until the Ray says. more. be convinced spoke to PPL, way. The program couldn't seek accreditation from ments: class- access to labs All those advantages help students knowledge and tuition say. for to first The EET program's reputation may ABET says. says. this at says. power 2007, he plans EET program, the point of the program's merits. fall the number will grow to puter systems that monitor the core at PPL's nuclear plant. In to a five-year one co-op, Ray says workforce at for industry feedback that students were ready to join the backing" attracted Bloomsburg native Jonathan Wolfe electronics, since program two six-month co-op program. The requirement was lowered based on says. freshman. he in engineering," class ends." biggest draw, though, and paid the halls in groups, and debating problems says. "It doesn't Among the employers that have provided co-op opportunities Engineers work independently in small teams as Ray moves from team to team to give In labs, students to where Ray would develop an me is that I hear Tracey M. Dooms is a freelance writer and editor living in State College, Pa. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE & Stage Whether running two or working on Speedway he i NASCAR pit crews, alumnus Ralph Miller credits BU with giving him the knowledge and savvy to succeed says. in whatever he has decided to do. "Bloomsburg STORY BY KEVIN GRAY successful Pennsylvania theaters really opened a lot of doors for "Once they were open, me," ran through them." I alph Miller, a successful businessman and struction NASCAR fan, had just finished conon four homes in Daytona, Fla., in 1987 when he sent a note to Dale Earnhardt Sr. offer- avid ing his favorite driver the use of one of his during Speed Week at Daytona Much to his surprise, Earnhardt called, ar- ranged a meeting and accepted the began another chapter in which he became known as "The homes Speedway. Miller's offer. life, Ralph Miller Thus kisses the bricks during close friends with the racer Intimidator" member for both drivers, making 150 and part of the tory Lane. and Jeff Gordon. don't have the courage to take chances That Miller took a chance and things worked is happen throughout things ask Miller if luck finds own luck and the dead "I him or if his life. But he creates his don't believe in luck at 60, Miller to live by, is all," electronics set-ups says Miller, and as a pit who crew If you and go be working for af- some- life." and Miller certainly has. owner Bucks County Playhouse in At of the ven- New Hope and season this spring. For more than two decades, he's also owned Playhouse in Mountainhome. Continued on next page WINTER 2007 will the longest-running will kick off his 31st serious. worked on the rest of your Words erable usually affable Miller turns believe in kicking what you want, you body not surprising. He's been out beautifully making ter "I to celebrate a victory at Indy. trips to Vic- open doors. championship racing teams of both Earnhardt . L. the Pocono 'I believe in kicking open doors. If you don't have the courage to take chances and go after what you want, you will be working somebody the rest of your life.' for — RALPH MILLER A math major at Bloomsburg in the mid-1960s. Miller was a before the season started, the mem- producer notified the playhouse he was bankrupt and wasn't ber of Madrigal Singers, Men's Glee that Club and the Concert Choir who coming back," appeared in musicals, including owners said "Carousel." money He left school after which eventually included the Bucks and I fell place," says Miller, Pleasant, Pa. "I money would come in love with the found partners who lives in capital, really just Point met with the and believes to buy them he was able the Bucks play- He him the to Ralph Miller on He out. at the Miller Miller recalls. In a scene that, would make turned around steps and giant itself, great theater, Miller at the yelled, bottom of the "You ought to listen me because one day, I'm going to own this place!" to Seven years later, he got his chance. "In 1976, about six weeks first producer McDonald's was eyeing the crowd it work is going for art's sake. staff at both the- well as using computer many locals. orchestration, while presenting When Miller took over the theater, it was predominantly stock house — different would come during the summer season to try out new products. jj^t I saw its history, acting lumi- naries such as Kitty Carlisle, Liza Minnelli, Walter Matthau, Grace stars Kelly stock sitting shows. During a where a playhouse after at night." aters, as says. "But around Bucks County Playhouse. More recently, the theater has hosted the likes of William Shatner ("No- body that there and Robert Redford performed at the realizes what a tremendous is.") and Don who passed away last year. comedic actor he was plenty of product out there, and we began Knotts, doing the years, the Bucks Despite several floods throughout revivals." County Play- The new direction was a hit. Miller more than house doubled the length of the healthy and love the work; they'll playhouse's season and have to carry turned a says. "I him to profit, allowing buy Pocono Playhouse in 1984. lets He —nor both facilities. BLOOMSBURG ground three after Miller me do want took over. "I'm out of there," Miller to eventually give in trust so that 1 just it it doesn't want to sure this wonderful theater stays a theater." b the commitment his solid someone make different levels of success sway on get sold for condos. neither the distance the theaters is decades to about 80 miles separates spray. makes same production looking for product," he champagne ski go back to the lodge property, a prospect that horrified houses were traditional own," Miller notes. He saves money by using the but fast-food "All of these little Ralph Miller celebrates victory with a its Poconos and the not only was he the to turn a profit, when 12-week season there because, work producer did Labor Day, everybody deserts the purchase to threw me out of the lobby," it "You're only going to get a 10- to bargain price of $200,000 because, for free "but the as walked through "Pocono Playhouse could not house's producer and offered to literally first the doors in the 1960s. stand he had County Playhouse much appears today from. to lend five years later, made enough wanted the chance to produce a season." In 1969, he The Bucks County Playhouse the meeting wondering where the saw George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst in 'Lion in Winthere raise the In reality, Miller walked out of County Playhouse. "I ter' could advance rent for the for the summer, they would give me the theater. I told them I could do it." three years to pursue other opportunities, Miller says. "The if I to Kevin Gray in the is a freelance writer based Lehigh Valley. UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Where weres er$n there's a wav. Generations of students have come to UI' Bloomsburg to pursue their dreams, from the y earliest days in current students. others 1839 to our Many have helped who came after them —a tradition of philanthropy that quietly continues to this day. RMftfw* One of the most meaningful, yet least known, ways our alumni and friends have helped us ' ¥ gift to the university Known is by providing a through their wills. as bequests, these gifts have funded scholarships, provided equipment to teach students, helped to renovate buildings and enabled many things to happen at Bloomsburg University. Regardless of how think you have, much money you if you want to help our students and the university, you can. We can work with your attorney or adviser to great make it easy. You will feel knowing that you have provided an opportunity for even more generations of students to come. Contact the Bloomsburg University Foundation for more information, either through the Web site, www.bloomu.edu/giving (which has more information on giving through your will), or by phone After all, at 570-389-4524. where there's a will, there's a way... to help! .:.!,' McPeek gets a boost from friends Keri Bachman, Kristie Gardner and Danielle Burke behind Carver Hail in the fall of 2003. McPeek, a senior elementary education major who was a cheerleader in high school, has cheered for the Huskies, along with Burke, for the past two years. Katie ^Bloomsburg University Husky Notes Quest extended trips bound for and abroad destinations in U.S. Bloomsburg UniversiQuest program ty's extended offers trips BU alumni and friends. For many of these trips, no for experience necessary and is most equipment ed. Varied ical is provid- amounts of phys- stamina are required. Trekking in Patagonia, Chile, Feb. 12 to 25: This adventure in the southern Patagonian Andes of Chile takes participants into one of the natural wonders of South America, the Torres Roy Smith, director, will lead a Quest walking trip across northern England from June 22 to July 4. Del Paine National Park. The leader is Dave Conlan, dbconlan@yahoo com The hikers Costa Rica Mountain Bike trails. . Ride, March 9 to 18: The eight-day mountain bike ride takes cyclists through will go through rock formations on scenic The leader Stone-Briggs, is Alison astone® bloomu.edu. Rock Climbing in nia, March 10 to be in satisfactory physical condition. The leader is in Central California. to learn the but bloomu.edu. climbers on Hiking Joshua Tree lines. March 10 to 14: The Joshua Tree National Park offers hikers more than 585,000 acres of wilderness to explore. into The group Palm Springs, explore the Indian visit will fly Canyons and the internationally famous botanical museum. no prior climbing experience Roy Smith, rsmith® National Park, California, The allow those with still fundamentals challenge advanced The more leader difficult is Brett St. to July 4: Bee's on The walk the Irish the perfect cyclists. North Yorkshire moors. The leader is Roy Smith, rsmith® the will designed for weekend biker. The begin and end in trip the in the Aug. 16 to 23: Crested U.S., will named be the base this trip in the Rockies. landscape and backdrop The group for will bike through vineyard-covered hillsides, along country roads and pastoral scenes. bloomu.edu. wildflower capital of the is combined with glacial region and finishes across the Butte, recently and Belgium The Finger Lakes wineries, small-town charm, provide Biking in Holland, June 2 back roads of Holland Lakes Wine Country, Oct. 6 to 8: the shores of the North Sea, to 13: This the Brett Bike Tour through the Finger begins in the Lake District ers, 12-day tour along is unique Rockies: Colorado Wildflow- bloomu.edu leader Sea to Robin Hood's Bay on Mountain Biking Simpson, bsimpson® The Simpson, bsimpson® bloomu.edu. from renowned climbing location is June 22 old logging roads to single tracks. Simpson, bsimpson® a world- a Spanish-speaking guide trip will leader across northern England, Joshua Tree The Brett The to 17: Ocean, accompanied by vehicle. train or bike. Walking Across England, Joshua De San trip requires participants cross terrain ranging from bloomu.edu. Tree National Park, Califor- and support may between centers by travel is Costa Rica, from Fortuna Carlas to the Pacific towns. Participants the The group Amsterdam, with two- or City, Colo., often three-day stops in three altitude of 7,000 is Roy Smith, and physical requirements, call (570) Lake above an feet, as leader rsmith@bloomu.edu. including costs will bike to The For additional information, for Colorado from Crested Butte The tour will stop at some of the more notable wineries. they 389-2100, check online at www.buquest.org or contact trip leaders at e-mail addresses provided. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Daisy Girton, 90, celebrated in June with other 5 "2 C. %J %J ship, alumni of a one -room school near Anthony Town- where she had taught from 1935 until 1941. 5 ^7/i Mary Beth Lech was re-elected national vice presi/ -L dent, treasurer and board member of the National Contract Management Association. Clyde 5 £l El vJ Robert Fleck O 2006 Distinguished received the E. Lowery, Birdsboro, is vice president of the busi- ness-banking group for Leesport Financial Group. (right), Danville, Ser- Award from the the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors. Owner of Coldwell Banker Fleck 5 ^7#^ David Agency, he has been active in regional and pal for vice / \J state many years and will 2007 chairman of the National Associaof Realtors Smart Growth Advisory Committee 1 1 ville Robinholt, Nescopeck, School District, is retiring from Dan- where he was a school princi- years. real estate associations for 5 ^7^7 Deborah serve as tion Q UO / / Mary Ann Gordish, a speech therapist for Wayne and Wallenpaupack areas, } J^ schools in the 2006. retired in 5 j^ f\ Edward R. Hess joined the Laurel Health System '70 F. Beierschmitt is acting superinten- dent of Southern Columbia Area School Hugh Dempsey Pope John Paul ington, (right) is 5 ^7CJ S Wash- D.C Suzanne Menapace Carmel Area School retired principal of Center Grove School, is vice president District. and general man- ager of ^°^' George Antochy is office, serving in Iraq with the eastern Pennsylvania regional manager for American Education Services. Alan Lonoconus is superintendent of Shikellamy District. Donald Wiest II is executive vice president and chief investment officer for Midwest Banc, Melrose Place, }Q/~\ C3 \J deputy director of Cultural Center in II Harry Warren is Randolf Township School Ecomm's East Lampeter Township near Allentown. He was previously a sales manager. School Bistocchi, superintendent of Union County (N.J.) Vocational-Technical School District, was honored by having a three-story school building dedicated in his name. the / C3 Iosso New Jersey's Army Reserves. Rachael Lohman '79M is District, Catawissa. Thomas ^7Q / Physician Team, Wellsboro. Richard } in Albert J. Manzi (nght), Utah, 111. is president and chief executive officer of Prairie Mountain Publishing, a newspaper management and operating partnership created by The E. W. Scripps Co. and MediaNews from the Mount District. Tom Blackwell retired from the '71 North Perm School District in Thomas Brennan Jr., Hamsburg, director of the Louisiana is 2005. executive assistant Community Development Office in Baton Rouge. Irene Casari retired from the School Frank Jayman School Mount Carmel Area District. retired from the Mount Carmel Area District. Doreen Kushner is principal of Transfiguration Catholic School, Shamokin. John Olaynick works Beach County (Fla.) ^y Nell 5 ^7' } / JmJ as an environmentalist Water Utilities. ' s a third-grade teacher for Palm and grade level coordinator for the Bangor Area School District. Joseph Quinn Jr., Moosic, was named to the Keystone Alums inducted into Hall of Fame College Board of Trustees. A. '73 Ben Wagner, Melanie Wengrenovich Area School District. a librarian at the University at retired from the Mount Carmel The newest members of BU's Athletic Hall of Fame, inducted during Homecoming Weekend 2006, are shown with BU President Jessica Kozloff. They are, left to right, front: Marty Laudato '93, Softball; Janelle Breneman '94, Softball; and Kim Youndt Evans '90, swimming; and, back: Jim Browning '56, football and track; Lance Milner '90, men's tennis; Kozloff; and Todd Cummings '83, wrestling. For complete information about the inductees, visit http://www.bloomu.edu/sports/hallfame/ 2006halloffame.shtml. W I N 23 Husky Notes Snook heads Group. Concurrently, he serves as president and publisher of the Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo. nursing manager and treasurer for Shell Oil Co., Houston, Texas. He has worked for Shell since 1980, spending six years in London, England. association Rick Menniti 9 Q O is treasury operations Ernest Jackson -A. (N.Y.) School District's middle school. is Snook '02M recently Betsy became executive administrator for the Pennsylvania vice principal of Warwick Valley ~| Roseann Murello is assistant School, Long Island, N.Y. principal at Lawrence Nurses Association, based in Harrisburg. High As the executive administrator, Snook manages the of the association and serves as the spokesperson activities 9Q ^ \J^ Robert Krupka, Bethlehem, is and coordinator vice president of background Edward G. Caminos was promoted to vice /4 O'TI 5Q £~ O 9 He was company controller since January 2005 and served as interim chief financial officer. Michael St. Clair is social studies teacher and head coach at West Chester Rustin High School. Wayne D. Brookhart, Danville, is Edward Schicatano ^7 care. Elizabeth Williams Confair is a learning support teacher with the Intermediate Unit 9 in Smethport. Mike Robinson 9 assistant super- Q QO O group '87 of Sinking Spring (right), sales for the Kathleen Ewer Reading is Phillies. retired after 26 years of teaching, including the last 2 1 years at Immanuel Christian School, Hazleton. Maj. David A. Lesko was promoted Bruce M. Smith, U.S. Army Reserves, 424th Military Police Detachment, received the Bronze Star for meritorious service during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (3 vJ Q/ O director of Lt. Col. ?Q/£ and health football intendent of Tamaqua Area School District. «_/ in nursing presi- dent of finance and chief accounting officer for BPZ Energy, Texas. initiatives across Nursing Foundation of Pennsylvania. Snook has a 30-year National Bank. }0 and for professional issues the state. She also serves as chief executive officer of the northern region commercial lending for Harleysville to lieuten- ant colonel in the Air Force Reserves. Army National Guard Maj. Ronald T. Sowal, a dentist from Shamokin, served in southern California in support of (right), assistant U.S. Border Patrol efforts. professor of psychology at Wilkes College, received the Carpenter Outstanding 9 Teacher Award. Q f\ C3 S Brenda DeRenzo is special education coordinator at Parkland Schools in the Allentown area. Roger Nunkester Jr., Berwick, is middle school principal at Southern Columbia Area School District. He was named in the 10th edition of "Who's Who Among America's Teachers," the third time he has been honored. V^/"\ S\J Evelyn Thompson, a National Guard major, L. graduated from at Fort Dix, N.J. She works Command and for an appeals technical analyst and holds an care Classmates from '56 celebrate reunion About 70 alumni and guests attended the 50-year reunion of the Class of 1956 held at the Fenstemaker Alumni House Sept. 15 to 2006. Classmate Bill Bitner, Oldsmar, Fla., was chief organizer for which included a reunion dinner and campus tours. chairman and president of Evergreen Bancorp, is a former alumni board member, past recipient of the Distinguished Service Award and a generous supporter of Bloomsburg University. He and wife Wylla "Bunny" Bitner, also a 1956 graduate, have donated more than S50.000 toward student scholarships. Shown in the accompanying photo are, left to right, Steve Kozloff, BU President Jessica Kozloff, Bill Bitner and Bunny Bitner. the event, Bitner, retired BLOOMSBURG MBA in health management. 9(^"1 A. y Kris Bautsch, Limerick, teaches second grade Spring-Ford School District certificate in 17, General Staff College Independence Blue Cross as at after receiving his teaching December 2005. Laurie Churba, a costume designer for NBC-TVs "Saturday Night Live," was costume assistant on the film "World Trade Center," starring Nicholas Cage. Lisa Peterlin Sanders teaches history, mathematics and science to elementary students at Wakefield Country Day School, Flint Hill, Va. }£J^ y j!J John Gabage, deacon, the Glenside, last was ordained as a transitional becoming a Catholic step toward UNIVERSITY M A G A Z I N E He priest. attends Mary's Seminary and University. St. president Carl C. Risch, a Carlisle attorney, works as an appeals adjudication officer for the U.S. Citizenship and Lancaster, Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, Brett Gibble (ri jht), relationship Lebanon and York ML y CNN \4^y 1 gambling crime News Headline to talk appeared on slot in Florida. Shikellamy School for the i counties. Fla., police officer, about his role in fighting Stephanie Hare Michaels Mohnton, joined Wachovie Corp. as vice manager in the commercial Cumberland, Dauphin, for Berks, Lazarus Kimsal, a Miami, Washington, D.C. ^O^ y %J and senior banking group, responsible is special education supervisor District. Births Lisa Tuthill Aiderson '87 and Julie Crossley Willits '94 and Dian Taylor Alleyne husband, Edward, a daughter, husband, Steve, a son, Tyler husband, Anna Michael, Elise, March 24, 2006 Sharon Belles Aiken '89 and husband, Martin, a daughter, Julia, Feb. 9, 2006 Michael Crane '89 and wife, Pamela, a son, Michael Oct. 20, Jr., Katy May 31, 2006 Weber Abram and Kara Nagurney Feulner '00 and '96, husband, Rob, a daughter, Allison Rose, Sept. 27, 2006 a daughter, Taylor Paige, May 26, 2006 '95 and Beth Christman Fronheiser Steiner '97 Lori Clarke March husband, Curt, a daughter, Meredith Ryan, June Jeni 4, 2005 Vicki Muckenthaler Blevins '95 Melanie Anne, May 19, Clarke Steiner, 2, and 2006 Marlena Zappile '97 and husband. 2006 Kirk Thomas '98, Noah a son, Elizabeth '90 and husband, Eddie, a son, and husband, Adam, a daughter, Maria Nolter Grimes Andy Sophie Elizabeth, April 20, 2006 husband, David, a daughter, Cassidy Aug. Christian, 2006 6, Becky Young Evans '91 and Donovan Conish Dancy Jennifer Rosencrance Anthony, Dec. '95 Elyse, July 13, 8, 2005 2006 Lisa Braglio Jane Mary, June July 31, 2006 husband, Frank, a son, Dominic Jane Salak Spera '91 and Amanda Shepard husband, Anthony, a daughter. 2005 Julia Jane, Sept. 22, Diane Dolan Miller '92/'05M and husband, Mark Miller daughter, Katherine, Jan. 6, '91, a 2006 March Carlos, Flaska '95 Mancini '98 and 28, 2006, born 18,2006 May 1,2006 Suzanne Whitehead Ott '00 and husband, Stephen Ott '01, a daughter, Elizabeth, April James, Aug. 18,2006 Joy Gazzerro Connelly '99 '00, a son, Adam Fosbenner '95 and wife, and husband, Daniel, a daughter. June Lauren, a son, John Douglas, Grace Leah, Oct. 16,2006 Aug. 29. 2006 Melissa Gromis Feathers 2005 19, Aiden Joseph, 2006 Stephanie McPherson Risser '00 and husband, Justin, a daughter, '99, Tara Yanick Kogut '95 and and husband, Stephen, a daughter. Kayla, Aug. 2, 2006 husband, Joe, a son, Ronan husband, Michael Kogut MacyAmylee, March Kelly Hoover '01 2006 Pilling, April 6, Christopher R. son, Aidan Michael, Aug. Corley '93 and wife, Jolly Foster, a daughter, Renn, Sept. 22, 2005 Cathleen Zicari Flynn '93 and husband, Francis, Francis, a son, March 22, Michael '93 Brian, a daughter, Bosack Woods '93 and Helene, April 13,2006 Matthew E. Rhodes Feb. 23, Meghan Friedland Piazza Hugh O'Donnell Christine Spalding husband, Dan Piazza Kerri, a son, March 25, husband, wife, Christine, a son, Adam, May 5, 2006 2006 Savage '95 and James Savage husband, Brian 2006 '95 and West '96, Jason Morgan West, July a son, 9, 2006 '96 and husband, Dipesh, a son, Dylan, Irvin, W98M a son, Christopher, April 21, Mark 2006 2006 11, 3, 2006 '99, and wife, a son, Russel James, March 24, 2006 Wagner Koser 02 and Danielle July 12, 2006 husband, Barton, a son, Maddox, Feb. Michelle Fry Brozusky 00 and husband, Victor Brozusky a daughter, Oct. 4, '00, Meghan Hope, McCauley Robinson William, Aug. '00 and husband, Paul, a daughter, Isabelle May 22, 2006 '02 2006 7, Stefanie Palmer Noll '03 and husband, Steve, a daughter, Sara Susan, '00 and husband, Sean, a son, Cole William, 1,2006 15,2006 Jennifer and husband, Preston, a son, Colin 2006 Kimberly Bloom Duffy and 2006 husband. Brad, a son, Joshua Paul, Oct. WINTER May Lisa, husband, Brian, a son, Charles April 21, Daniel, June Marie, Wilson Phaon, James Matthew Wagner '01 and Aimee Counsman Bucci Aug. 24, 2006 '99, '01 '00, a son. a daughter, Abigail Elizabeth, Karen Stickle Ramsay '95, a son, Logan Gabriel, April 17, Snyder West '99 Maguire and husband, Daniel Maguire Thomas Hugh, Amy Bond Trumbauer '96 and Jennifer Oiler Shoup and husband, '95 and wife, Tara Rothenberger Chauhan '94 and 2006 husband, Mark, a daughter, Brooke Kristin husband, Tim, a daughter, Caitlin and husband. Ian Hoover, Alexa Jordan Lauryn Elisabeth, Jan. 12,2006 Elaine Malcolm, a son, '99 and Pat Lester '95 and wife, Jessica, Christine Rihl and husband, Kim Vetter Jordan 2006 a son, Cole, Aug. 30, 2006 2006 Stephanie Hare Michaels a 18,2006 2006 and husband, Joseph Parlapiano Allison Tyson Viola '92 and 20, 5, Kelly Cornelius Parlapiano '00 in Guatemala Sept. '98, '00 and husband, Joseph, a son, Jordan and husband, Joseph, a son, Tyler 5, 2006 Joe, a son, Gabriel Joseph, '98 and and husband, Ahmon, a son, Micah, 2006 24, Alice O'Brien '00 and husband, husband, Gerald, a daughter, 5, March Musselman Hassel Tyler, Oct. Stephanie Bissaillon Veach '95 '00 and husband. Ken, a son, Nathaniel husband, Sam, a son, Samuel Allen, and husband, Nate, a daughter, 2006 '97 Andre Alleyne May 2, 2006 Johnetta Clarke '04 and Antonius John Newman, a son, Anthony John Newman, June 7, 2006 Husky Notes Mark Edwards Thomas Jf\ A S Alison McPherson A- Middle is a reading specialist at Swift School, Quarryville. specialist for the assistant professor of history at Ouachita is marketing com- Chester County (Pa.) Hospital. Patricia Schall-Ulshafer, Bethlehem, was chosen among 170 C. Neugebauer (right), Ellicott City, Md., a registered professional engineer, was pro- moted Lisa Subers Huffman, Downingtown, munications is Baptist University, Arkansas. to associate at Morris & Ritchie Associates' Laurel, Md., office. Carolyn Wilson Peters, Telford, earned a master's in education degree from Gratz College. educators to received Wal-Mart's State Teacher of the Year Award V^Q for Pennsylvania. Mike Devaney >^0 Robert Galella, Dunmore, is the principal at Tunkhannock Area Middle School. Air Force Capt. Noreen Kern, Tunkhannock, is a combat '95 stress specialist Webb, Danville, earned a master's in degree from SUNY-Binghamton, graduating arship in the geography doctoral }Q/^ S\J at program Iraq. geography summa cum laude. She was awarded a graduate assistantship and South Carolina Dean Frear faculty at is the recycling manager (right), and for Lancaster. Bloomsburg, joined the Wilkes University as assistant professor of business. with the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing in southwest Asia, which conducts operations in Kuwait and Jennifer J. solid waste full tuition schol- the University of at Columbia. Todd Doebler V^f^ Marcie Hickey SS head Softball (right) is the coach new at the University of Vermont. Eleanor "Suzette" Marine is principal of North Dover Elementary School in the Allentown area. (right), Hatfield, is at Perm State. 2004 and 2006, he was Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Midwest Region Assistant Coach of head men's tennis coach In ^^n the Year. Danay Gangewere (right), Bethlehem, was promoted to director of computer services of Northampton Community College. Michael Gaskell is principal of Hammarskjold ' Debbie Johnson was accepted as a candidate in ministry by the Charleston-Atlantic Presbytery. Brian Barchik is a social studies teacher Area School Jul \ M^KfL H ^P^fff^' Middle School, East Brunswick, NJ. '97 Montgomery - ?*' / "- .T^^^*! she photographed the Paramount Chiefs of Sierra ^?^H Leone. The chiefs were rarely photographed in their tribal garb, and Viditz- Ward's images few in existence. She continued are i among the to return to Freetown yif&gf'sjRL Continued on next page jj ffM _J During her latest visit to Sierra Leone, Vera Viditz-Ward documented an archaeological excavation at an African slave fort on Bunce Island. was doing these shoots of mundane things. But in the 'I process, was starting to make connections with the chiefs and I the villagers.' -Vera Viditz-Ward SPRING 2007 war broke in the 1990s, even after civil graph the tMJi'nfl With her camera, Viditz-Ward has chronicled the experiences of African immigrants in Philadelphia and KpM^ has been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution, the J i. 4S3F .'i r*- J^| ' ^r 1 1T1 - U.S. ambassador y^'J-.- if' to Sierra Leone, 11 them on Thomas N. Hull, saw display at the Smithsonian. Critics El Corps member and current selected after fonner Peace have praised Viditz-Ward 's photographs transcending boundaries between art, for sociology and anthropology. She's personally committed to avoiding cliches When a project to help life's events. She's women from now 20 villages in first summer and last Mano involved lives. met with the group during her trip plans to return this year to teach the basics of photography. The project the much Sierra Leone keep a photographic history of their own Viditz-Ward River Union is them sponsored by Women's Peace Network, which has received numerous international grants and awards for efforts to its math empower village women part of the project, Viditz-Ward is seeking dona- tions of cameras. Needed are sturdy, single-lens reflex eras (film, lens and working cam- not digital) with a light meter, such as Nikon FMs, Pentax K1 000s or Canon F1 s. in the after- For infor- mation, contact her at vviditz® bloomu.edu or (570) 389-4851. end of the at the '80s. wants you to photograph a "The internariot or starving children," she explains. "They're not interested in a ritual that may be very important to the people or in the everyday lives of Africans." Last summer, four years Viditz-Ward returned photos and locate of Sierra after the civil Leone to Sierra artists Leonean work war ended, to exhibit her who could mount an exhibit at the U.S. Embassy. She also served as a photographic consultant at an archaeological excavation of an 18th-century slave "In the aftermath of the war, friends of the recent war. As work in Africa tional press she's not teaching, Vera Viditz-Ward spends of her time chronicling in to Images Historic their own terms, down the Associated Press' offer and photographs people on the reason she turned and found some new there's a lot that's missing. there were elders. tion is I fort. found some old artists," she says. "But When I was there in 1987, Now over 50 percent of the popula- under 35 years old." Also missing was the connection between the country's children language intact, and its past. Her fluency in the Krio Viditz-Ward found herself teaching the traditional nursery rhymes to children who had never heard them because of war-time upheavals. "People were astounded pean' speak their language." Eric Foster is when they heard a 'Euro- b co-editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Visitors feel a connection to Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, Stonehenge and the Tower of London, then come back to the U.S. At Home London STORY BY TRACEY M DOOMS with photographs, postcards and plans to return to Great Britain someday. Gary Groenheim he is '91 not only returned, today a dual British and U.S. citizen. Gary Groenheim '91 has come a long way—an entire ocean away — he graduated from since Bloomsburg University. For the past year, Groenheim, 38, has been in charge of all marketing and advertising for London-based CNBC Europe, the leading pan-European business and financial TV channel. London Prior to signing for six years manager for on with CNBC, he lived in while working as a senior marketing Time magazine. He says his decision to pursue opportunities abroad goes back to his participation in an international student exchange "It was at Sheffield Hallam University in summer 1991. my first time in Europe, and it made quite an imwho month pression on me," after the exchange backpacking around the continent. says Groenheim, spent a His choice of a career in the communications grew from a field day spent with an alumnus who worked in magazine publishing. A Husky Ambassador, Groenheim was majoring in business administration without a particular career goal in mind. But with Jim Walter, an alumnus azine in after spending one day who worked at People mag- New York, he learned about different areas within the publishing business. That connection led to work with and now media People, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Time. CNBC Europe, available in . more than 100 million homes, 1,400 banks and financial institutions, and luxury hotel rooms throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Groenheim markets CNBC Europe both to all those He viewers and to advertisers. from advertising oversees everything to broadcast partnerships to communica- tion materials. "Our current audience consists of business leaders, and those in the financial services industry," investors says. "My biggest challenge is ing that reaches this time-poor audience, establishes Continued on next page he creating marketing messag- 'After seven years in dream of living decided to take die it. I starting his studies at Towson time with the channel." was Groenheim plenty of potential viewers and advertisers —and creates a challenge. "Europe is unique made of many says. "Pan-European marketing of a singular message to these varying audiences differs dramatically marketing to from one mass market in the what where University, dad was teaching and to home, I wasn't getting the sity," Groenheim He looked for a school in Penn- Perm "It atmosphere and "It TV channel. says. 2000, he became a senior for Time Inc. London. "It had been a bit of a culture to live in Amsterdam," he says. "From the time ing in London, where BU, to . I . I felt started I work- much more at decided that London was .1 wanted to stay." People led to a job as production and his college semester abroad. intro- site for Europe, streaming of TV channel plus a searchable And he office earlier experience at manager with People and Sports Illustrated in continued to New York. He move up the ladder in cultures — the food, the arts and ing world, but the lure of Europe to increase his was his personal travels and, during the still there. experiences, "Through I'd all these always had a long- worked on worldwide programming from the World Economic Forum's "After seven years in annual meeting to decided I pursue New York, either going to have this dream of living in knowledge through past year, his business trips through- out Europe and Asia. Recently, for example, his job I was he explains. He's been able took him to Barcelona, Spain, where CNBC Europe was the official broadcaster for the 3 GSM mobile Davos, Switzerland. from Baltimore, transferred to really history," ing to return to Europe," he says. January in "I value learning about different New York's publishing and advertis- archive of on-air interviews. Originally international accounts Europe's market- campaign across Europe. Groenheim for & Kennedy. He Groenheim says he developed his "great passion" for Europe during new viewer-focused adver- last and accepted an account manager shock home. felt right." After graduation from visited the Groenheim's He's guided the relaunch of the the just risk." Amsterdam Groenheim has numerous ways. He's live worked on to parent of People Inc., Illustrated, a position as seemed have the best combination of European, English-language busi- CNBC.com Web Time and moved freestyle) such a beautiful campus," he incorporating offices of swam backstroke and and found Bloomsburg. to where he had previously marketing manager things, with a great tising Groenheim moved Vista. In draws on the strengths of a decided to take the '91 including Nike, Coca-Cola and Alta State the channel as the leading pan- duced I program and a good swim team (he says, ing in it. alumnus) with a strong business to pumped up CNBC forgo ad agency Wieden recalls. sylvania (his dad's a -GARY GROKNHKIM risk.' and Sports full experience of going away to univer- A successful campaign, he In just one year, my living so close in I Europe or make the decision a psychology professor. "After U.S." ness and financial now is his father going to the same school where countries with different cultures, languages and media outlets," he was either going Europe or make the decided to have to pursue this CNBC as essential, must-see TV, and Marketing a product that reaches I decision to forgo encourages them to spend more across Europe gives New York, BU telecommunications trade show. The after next week, he flew to produce an event New York to for a European advertiser interested in reaching the U.S. market. And the next found him helping month to host the Euro- pean Business Leaders Awards back in London. It's a hectic schedule, but one that appeals to Groenheim. "I really enjoy working for dynamic businesses in a multinational environment," he says, Tracey M. and b Dooms is a freelance writer editor living in State College, Pa. to lead. » to learn to grow BU senior Lauren Lewis talks with a group of students who attended a program sponsored by Bloomsburg University's Women's Resource Center last year. — In just three years since its opening in October 2003, To learn how you can contribute to the university Bloomsburg University's Women's Resource Center has become a significant resource for students, faculty, staff programs that are important to you, contact the and prospective students. www.bloomu.edii/giving, or by phone at 570-389-4524. The Women's Resource Center sponsors biweekly Bloomsburg University Foundation online at You too can make a difference in the lives of young men and women. seminars and a variety of workshops and serves as a men and women on issues ranging from anorexia to domestic clearinghouse for information for alike violence and difficult relationships. Recognizing the value of this vital campus resource, William and Wylla Mae "Bunny" Bitner, both class of 1956, made a contribution to the Bloomsburg University Foundation to enhance the center and its work. Bloomsburg UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, Inc. Husky Notes Quest extended and abroad destinations in U.S. Walking Across England, Bloomsburg Quest University's program extended trips for friends. BU from and to No experience is necessary for many of these trips, and most equipment is June 22 St. Bee's the Irish Sea shores of the North Sea, begins in the Lake District region and finishes across the provided. North Yorkshire moors. The leader stamina are required. bloomu.edu. in on Robin Hood's Bay on the Varied amounts of physical Biking The walk to July 4: across northern England, offers students, alumni bound for trips Holland, June 2 is Roy Smith, rsmith® Mountain Biking the in to 13: This 12 -day tour Rockies: Colorado Wild- along the back roads of flowers, Aug. 16 to 23: Holland and Belgium is designed for the weekend biker. The begin trip will Crested Butte, recently named the wildflower capital of the U.S., will be the base and end in Amsterdam, for this trip in the with two- or three-day Rockies. stops in three towns. from Crested Butte Participants may travel between centers by bike. The leader is train or Brett Colorado The group City, Colo., often altitude of 7,000 will bike to Lake above an feet, cross terrain ranging as they from Simpson, bsimpson® old logging roads to single bloomu.edu. tracks. The leader Hikers follow a path in Ecuador believed to have been used by the Incas. is Brett Simpson, bsimpson® Lost Trail of the Incas, bloomu.edu. Ecuador, Jan. Bike Tour through the Finger Lakes Wine Country, Oct. 6 to 8: The Finger Lakes wineries, combined with the unique glacial landscape and small-town charm, provide the perfect backdrop group for cyclists. will bike The through vineyard-covered hillsides, along country roads and pastoral scenes. will stop at The tour some of the more notable winenes. The leader is 1 to 12, 2008: This trek begins Roy Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu. at the Indian village Oyacachi, high in the Andes, and descends into the Amazon Basin, following a long- abandoned The trail. route, which descends more than 5,000 feet, is believed to have been used by the Incas and pre-Incas trade route as a and by 17th- century Jesuit priests to service their missions. The leader is Roy Smith, rsmith@bloomu edu . For additional infounation, including costs and physical requirements, call (570) 389Riders pass through a wildflower meadow 2100, check online at in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. www.buquest.org or contact trip leaders at e-mail addresses provided. ^/l f\ Byron Krapf serves 5 ^7^7 ^e 8Sy Bellows as pastor of Grace United / / Methodist Church, Lemoyne. ^ Tom \JjLl } /I vice of Elections Foley was appointed chairman of the Dawson County (Ga.) Board and Registrations. He was Stephen T. Young was promoted president with Sovereign Bank. manager of the Lewisburg Ul for William W. is a member county commissioner of the 5 ^7Q ^\ Ed Madalis Sarah Kowalski retired after more than two the Walter Jr decades in educational administration, mainly with Run School District. Ken Saunders, Newtown Township, the Warrior a He now spends his / \J and is is also president and treasurer of improving the education and health of Reilly, pastel at the area. Bucks County, displayed her Howard Gallery of Fine Art, art work New Hope. after working U.S. Navy and for many years as an electronics engineer for the in the private sector. vice president for academic affairs at King's College. who will retain the rank of professor of education, is Whitman Distinguished Professor. Mary Coddington Umlauf retired from the North Schuylkill School District in 2006. Q \J O f\ Stephen J. Bushinski, Brandonville, was admitted Supreme Court. A graduate of Widener University School of Law, he is the assistant chief counsel, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, 5 to practice before the U.S. Commonwealth / Army Reserve, She has been exhibiting through the Doylestown Art League time traveling. the college's John H.A. 9 ^7"0 He Mount Carmel Rebecca Tait in oil a colonel in the a clinical psych specialist with Geisinger is profit dedicated to retired in ^1*7 C\ Nicholas Holodick, Mountain Top, was appointed Holodick, community banking & Nancy Madalis Memorial Trust Fund, a non- children in the 1999 after long career teaching biology and coaching track and cross country teams. to a vice serving in Kuwait. Medical Center, Danville. \J is office. George Antochy, 7 / County Commis- sioners Association of Pennsylvania. 5 £~ He Haas, a retired Lewisburg Area School District teacher, is serving as a Union County and has joined the Times-Dispatch as nalism career in 1979. also elected to the Democratic State Committee. J/C/4 (right) (Va.) managing editor. She previously worked as editor of The Forum in Fargo, N.D. She began her jour- term as to his third Richmond ^r " Edward Krzykwa, a chiropractor for 29 of Pennsylvania. years, j-* completed a course of study in optimum nutritional support for patients with conditions such as bowel syndrome and colitis, irritable arthritis. 5 ^T *2 Kenneth Houck graduated from the Pennsylvania / Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. He'll have his first one-man gallery show in Exton in June. Martin Kleiner, Lebanon, has been named to the board of O directors of the Arabian members. He breeds, Horse Association, which has 46,000 and shows Arabian horses. employed by NEPA Community Federal Credit Union, Stroudsburg. He was Elk of the Year for the Bangor Lodge 1106m 2005-06. Douglas Yocom, president and CEO of Precision Medical Products Inc., Ephrata, was recognized as an outstanding business leader by the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Bloomsburg University Foundation Pete Nell trains is Board of Directors. }^7 /I / A Richard Myron Linn, Bloomsburg, the National Teachers for 2005-06. Honor He Roll's teaches is a member of Outstanding American fifth Elementary in the Bloomsburg School grade at WW. Evans Mundy talks to BU students State Rep. Phyllis Mundy '70, who represents the 120th district District. in Luzerne County, toured BU's campus, spoke with political and met with BU President Jessica Kozloff earlier While on campus, Mundy was given a Bradley science students ^7C ^au ^ Shearn and his wife Arlene received a Top 10 / %J award for 2006 from the Solano Association of Realtors, Vallejo, Calif. They were one of only two teams 5 recognized this year. this semester. Shoemaker Shown print of Carver Hall to display in her Harrisburg office. in the Michaels accompanying photo, left to right, are Lynda Fedor- ^/^M, BUs director of alumni affairs; Mundy; and Jim Hollister '78, BU's assistant vice president for university relations. SPRING Husky Notes '97 grad directs BU's Mountain Top, owner of an investment company, passed the securities law exam. Michael A. Incitti, Faith Ganss Smeck received a Commonwealth work unit/group award vania, Office of the Budget, recogniz- ing outstanding employee achievement. Chief of the state's public welfare client benefit system division, she works in the Human Services Public Health and } 5 Q CJ "1 Daniel Wiest .A. analysis for Comptroller office. Kate new '97 director of BU's is the Upward Bound program. Previously Upward Bound's assistant director, Bauman joined the program in 2005 as Tyco Bauman Jesberg and director of strategic planning is Upward Bound of Pennsyl- academic coordinator. She a fills Electronics, Harrisburg. vacancy created by the retirement of Q^ O^^ Rick DiLiberto was appointed as to a three-year chairman of the Delaware Commission on Heritage and Culture term Stargatt is & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, Del. Vicky Kistler Bureau after is Bauman worked Italian by state Gov. Ruth Ann Minner. He an attorney with Young Conaway acting director for the Allentown Health working 13 years as the bureau's communicable disease manager. admissions at in residence Kevin L. Hulsizer, director of internal audit for Penn State Hazleton, career services at DeSales University before joining BU's Upward Bound staff. Upward Bound is open to high school students from lowincome backgrounds. The program diversity to prepare students to KidsPeace, was one of 35 citizens honored for life at Bauman Delaware Valley College and as director of their families to attend college. '83 Kate Jesberg longtime director Maureen Mulligan. started in school academics and stresses become members Upward Bound the At BU, the first of 1978 and currently serves students from 10 area districts. completing the Lehigh Valley community leadership develop- ment program. Q John J. Miravich received the distinguished service award from the general alumni association of Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. He is a shareholder with Stevens Lee, Read- John Chapin, associate professor of communicate %J tions at Penn State Beaver, received the National Organization for Victim Assistance 2006 Stephen ing, Schafer Award. He 7 JJ* Michael Harrington (right) of Clarence, N.Y., was promoted to chief financial officer of both First Niagara Bank and First Group. He had been the & 7 services for vocalist and County, Oxford Communications, guitarist OU District, P. Orchestra and as a Pa. An was worldwide marketing, reimbursement and national accounts for Small Bones Innovations and prosecuting online predators. Barbara Emerick Wevodau, Juniata Township, has a N.J., to senior vice president of 5 QQ C3 C3 School New Bloomfield. Julie Franchi, Chambersburg, the more Husky Notes online www.bloomualumni.com. at a learning District. Dianne Haduck owns Inc. is support teacher in the Greencastle -Antrim a dance studio in Taylor. Ken Kirsch completed his Find to lieutenant of the Police Crimes Against Children Task Force, specializing in locating with the ensemble Touch Christopher Frederick, Holmdel, near Harrisburg. Ward was promoted general law practice in promoted affairs law. districts. Department in Montgomery 18-year veteran, he works with the district attorney's Internet the Sky. 7Q^^ governments and school Whitemarsh Township media and government Lewis Correale HI is the principal of West Hanover Elementary School in the Central Christopher (right) is director of Symphony Q ^7 Dauphin School firm's senior vice Lambertville, N.J. She also performs as a flutist with the Olney practices municipal also advises local CJ / Niagara Financial president and treasurer. Karin Suttmann where he first novel, "Demon Alcohol and Monstermen." David Lesko was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the The ceremony took place at the Pentagon, where he is serving on active duty. Air Force Reserve. Send information to alum@bloomu.edu or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker Alumni House, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St., Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815 Gwen Sheets Raifsnider is a real estate broker with Coldwell Banker United, Charlotte, N.C Steven M. Williams, Mechanicsburg, joined the of Cohen, Seglias, Pallas, Greenhall partner in Cohen's Harrisburg legal firm & Funnan as a resident office. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 9 Q y^ O f\ David DeGerolamo, was Phillipsburg, N.J., Tiffane Maltba, Leesburg, Va., elected chair of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission. He is director of corporate development for Aqua New Jersey. Karen Duzick Kepner, Shamokin, was guest speaker at the Women's Expo 2007, sponsored by the Brush Valley Foundation for Growth and Wellness. A certified registered nurse practitioner for more than three decades, she owns AltemaMed LCC. Michael Moskovitz for is vice president of health care L. is Evelyn Randy author of the suspense novel Omega ^ S^ representative for the Miller-Keystone Blood Center. Christopher W. O S \J Eileen Dautrich, Births Metzger Scott husband, John Scott '87 '86, daughter, Delaney, June and a 8, and husband, 2006 '90 and wife, Katherine, a daughter, Ruth, as the Carolina Adult Education Teacher of He works at assists the Colleton County with the English as a Second Jennifer Oiler Catawissa, is a program supervisor/special projects administrator for the Central Young Jacobsen Oct. 29, Shoup '94/'98M, Trigg, a son, Clayton '99 and Susquehanna Intermediate Unit, Division of Special Education, where she has worked for 12 years. 2006 Mike Montgomery '99 and wife, Gina Vicario Waring and husband, '90 Katie, a daughter, Bob Waring '91, a daughter, Alexa Cameron, Nicole Zomerfeld George husband, Theresa Weber Beadling '93 and husband, Chris Beadling daughter, Melissa Dave George Owen, June 14, Michael, April May 2006 Colleen Evans Neumayer '93 Mark Neumayer daughter, Blair Victoria, husband, Stanislav Melissa Kane Pagotto '94 and husband, Chris Pagotto '93, 7, a 2006 '94 and husband, Michel Piche, a '97 May 25, 2006 and wife. Shannon, a daughter, Morgan '02 and Yann '99, a daughter, Lilianna Noelle, Dec. 25, 2006 husband, Stephen Carr 01 2005, and a son, Bethany Samson Fluck 2006 daughter, Audrey, 5, Kamus Yann Kristina Melissa Repas 2006 Garett Ryan, July 21, 2006 '93 and husband, James, Dec. and and husband, Ryan, a son, Pearse Godlewsky and husband, '01 '02, a son, Rebecca Gerber McGeehan Shannon, Sept. 20, 2006 George, a son, Carter, Rose Michael, Jan. 22, 2007 Jan. 17,2007 Noelle, Dec. '97, husband, David, a son, Peter David, Dec. 1,2006 son, Brogan of Language program. Heather Sabol Russell Jill John Makara Sept. 7, Chamber Christopher J.J. Horvath was honored -L South the Year for 2005-06. Patricia '92, a executive vice president of the TriCounty Area School District and Hendricks is manager. Bank. S Elizabeth Inc. as financial services Commerce, Pottstown. Jf\ A '94, a Lynch, Athens Township, has rejoined Kilmer Insurance Agency }£\ of A. Wolff, Ridley Park, earned a master's of science Timothy A. Brooks was appointed the emergency management coordinator for Hanover Township, Northampton County, by Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell. He continues to work as a police officer in Bethlehem. Kellyanne Hagenbuch, Easton, is a donor resource 5 C\ banking Brenda Snyder Fiorenza was promoted to community office manager for the Sunbury branch yj is project manager for the Pennsylvaand Abuse Detection System in Camp Hill. Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Inc. She writes under the pen name Ann Kelly. David Waldman, Bristow, Va., was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Army. He is an intelligence officer assigned to the Situation Room in the White House, Washington D.C. Zr with degree in organizational development and leadership from "Dead On," published by iUniverse, }£^/~\ a senior recruiter Thompson nia Medicaid Fraud SNB bank. Kelly Cuthbert Robinson is CreativeSourcing, serving clients along the East Coast. Samson Jason Fluck Jay, Aug. 22, '03 and '03, a son, Alumni share work BU Lisa Schneider Williams '03 and husband, Derek Williams son, Matthew, Dec. 4, '02, a 2006 Jennifer Kleinfelter Deiter '05 and husband, Michael, a son, Blake, Aug. 21, 2006 experiences 2006 alumni led roundtable discussions about their graduate school and work experiences during the recent Multicultural Employer Exchange. About 75 BU juniors and seniors participated in the event sponsored by BU's Career Development Center and Multicultural Center. Alumni presenters included, left to right, Ivonne Mann '98, Lance Collier '06, Maria Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/88M, BU's director and Jeff Beilman '98. Gutierrez Bucher '91, George Breen Billmeyer '01, of Alumni Affairs, 11,2006 SPRING 25 Husky Notes '95 * Jennifer DiMarco earned a master's of business administration degree from sity. St. Joseph's Univer- She works as a compliance consultant to the pharmaceutical industry. 5 /~\ /I Fred Gaffhey is executive director of the Chamber of Commerce in Seneca County, N.Y. y\J 5tf~\^7 Colleen Lupashunski, S / Danville, is a secondary school learning support teacher in the Bloomsburg Area School District. Meredith Marko, formerly of Hazleton, earned a doctoral degree in communication from the University of NebraskaLincoln. She New York at is assistant professor at the State University of Geneseo and specializes in interpersonal and family communication. Krissy Marks, child coordinator with the Williamsport YMCA, is part of a team overseeing the city's programs. She helps plan and manage the recreation summer camps program. Christina Nordmark was inducted into the Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame. She Wilkes-Barre Area School is District's a math Alumnus honored teacher for GAR High School. Brian Regnier, Reading, was promoted to senior manager at for dedication to Beard Miller Co. LLP, a financial services firm. Bucks Beautiful Christopher Beadling '94, Doylestown, vice president of the Bloomsburg University ni Central Bucks Chamber of recognizing his dedication, ism to Bucks Bucks Commerce Laurel Award, commitment and volunteer- Beautiful. Beautiful, a non-profit Bucks Chamber of Commerce, and extend and at Alum- Board of Directors, received the 2006 program of the Central is designed to promote the development of gardens in communities business premises and private homes. Beadling's involvement with Bucks Beautiful began in 1995 he served as a member Fair Committee; of the Bucks Beautiful when Garden he chaired the committee from 2003 to 2006. In the accompanying photo, Beadling accepts the Tri Sigma sisters celebrate in 2006 Bucks Washington, D.C. ent Denise Sezack. A group of Tri Sigma sisters, all Award from 2005 recipi- members of the Class of 1980, gathered in Washington, D.C, for an unofficial reunion weekend last fall. Traveling Beautiful Laurel from Colorado, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, the group shopped, toured the White House and shared memories and photographs. They plan to get together next year to celebrate their 50th birthdays. Alumnae shown in the accompanying photo, from left to right, are: front row Sue Kingeter Puderbach, Mindy McMaster, Jill Laylon Confair and Terry Mizdol Giordano, and back row Marianne Deska Braithwaite, Nancy Whitman Peterson and Annie Silvonek Dempsey. Virginia — — 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 BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Marriages '86 and William Rose Kosak Moore, Oct. 31, Jill Silvi '91 20, 2006 and Troy Roth, Oct. Stephanie Minnaugh '99 and Nicole Buck Stephen 2006 Renz, June 23, 2006 Libhart, July 8, Michael Panisak '99 and Carey Lazevnick Thomas, June '92 and Sean Neil Stoddart '99 and Kristin Dent, June 21, 2006 2006 16, '05 and Angela 16,2006 Kinsley, Sept. Jaclyn DeLeonardis Shannon Dolon 2006 Jesse Chubb '03 and Charles Elsie Dressier '05 and '03 and Ralph Rossi Wert, April Adam 2006 8, April Egli '03 and Aaron Jonathan Evans Trometter, July 22, 2006 Persing, Aug. '05 and Alissa 12,2006 Kelly Stultz '99 and Joseph Brandilyn Fowler '03 and Christine Gasper '05 and Aaron Angelo Matthew Russell Riquel Flowers '95 and Robert Christine Orefice '00 and John Lois Kirchner '03 and Robert Hutchinson, July 15, 2006 Hopkins, July 22, 2006 O'Boyle Robert Skuba '95 and Caroline Jamie Tyson Christina Baird '95 and William Kiessling II. Brownson, May 13, 2006 April 22, 2006 '00 and Steven Miller, July 22, Dan Miller '96 and Leslie Denise Zlobik McAnallen, Sept. 2006 Lienhard, 3, Aimee Alapack '97 Wolfe, Nov. 4, and Paul Traci 2006 Brown Jr., '01 Russell Starke '97 and Lisa Hare, Lisa Sobolesky Aug. 26, 2006 Hendricks Denise Swartz June 24, '97 and Brian Hill, Kim Cherry Madara 2006 Jr., Jamie Hunsinger Matthew Sue Bednar '98 and Jim Conte, Nov. 4, June Katie Getz '98 and Kyle '98 and Christopher Rooney, Aug. 26, 2006 Dominica DiRocco '99 and Steven Guzzi, Sept. 29, 2006 Beaudry, Aug. 2006 D.J. '02 and Chad Moser, April Wiest Mongold, Andrea Weaver '02M and Adria Andrews Jones, Oct. , 2006 at Beard Miller Co. LLP, a financial services firm. a unit coordinator in the 16,2006 Oct. 21,2006 Umbel '04 and Ian Keck, '06, July 22, 2006 Tricia Novinger '06 and James Danielle Wittig '06 and 13, 7, Edward Mariano '04M Stephanie Wood '06 and Benjamin Apfelbaum, 2006 '05 and Oct. 8, 2006 Howard 2006 John Wetzel was elected president of the Pennsylvania County Corrections Association. }QQ / Zr the Charles "Chuck" Kovacs earned certification in the SOX Institute in San Francisco, Sr. '99M, Wysox, has Sarbanes-Oxley Act from Calif. emergency room at UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh. Taryn Reed Troutman, a special education teacher in the Upper Dauphin Area School District, is a member of the Cambridge Who's Who of Teachers. Justin C. Wagner earned the chartered financial analyst CFA Institute. He works as a senior J(\ f\ \J \J Lisa Brennan teaches high school social studies for Baltimore County (Md.) Public Schools. Kathleen Dreisbach, Harrisburg, tant for is an operations consul- Verizon Wireless. Dave Marcolla was named advisory board member Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce of the Eastern investment analyst for Vanguard's Asset Management Services Leadership Program. in Malvern. Gilda's Club, SPRING 2007 2006 Erica Long '06 and Daniel '04 and Ronnie James Merante, 1 '05 and 30, Tennille Allman '06 and Dustin 2006 May Jason Claudfelter, Readirig, was named senior manager designation from the 25, Adley, July Zimmerman Morrison, Sept. 30, 2006 Megan December 2006 '05 and Dustin Patkalitsky, Sept. '04 and Timothy Teresa Mercuri June Paciotti 02 and Roberto 2006 Nicole Albright '06 and Joseph 2006 Mary Schleppy '04 and Timothy James a substance abuse officer. is Nicole July 1,2006 '02 and Winter 7, Jason Hoover, Sept. Whiteman, Aug. 19,2006 Cahoone was promoted Rupp Mark 12,2006 Ashley Henry 1,2006 unit for the Delaws ire Christy Reed '04 and 2006 5, Mitchell, Aug. Stahl, '02, Erin Lindsay Eck '04 and Nathan Daniel to the house arrest County Probation and Parole Department where he has worked since 1999, most recently as ?("JQ Zr C3 13, Wess,Oct.31,2006 Benevides Heilman, Oct. Brian Allison Drake '04 and Ryan 2006 Denise Mullen Kilian, Dec. 22, 2006 Kendra McCabe 10, 2006 Brouse, Sept. 30, 2006 Gina Bakowicz 2006 '05 and Candida 2006 7, Jaclyn Sybesma '05 and John 5, and George Reiner, July Amy Juck '02 and Del 2006 1 Benton '99, April 22, Keri Abbott '98 and Curtis Pickett, July Home, May '01 July 29, 2006 Weller, Oct. 2006 Oct. 21, '02 and '03, Kim Matlack '03M and and George 5, Henry Sladek 2006 '03 and Malanoski Kristi '00 and Richard Aug. 29, Jr., April Zachary Miers 2006 May 6, 2006 Clugston Krepich He is also chair of the associate Delaware Valley , Pa., board of an organization providing Husky Notes He works as Commerce Bank. support to cancer patients. regional manager for Eastern Justine Miller works for Ricoh Corp., product ")f\ N.J., as a regional trainer. Jenn DiMaria, Mechanicsburg, works ~\ \J A. mf^m 1 Montgomery for the Pennsylvania State Bank. Melissa Groeling, Hatfield, is author of the novel "Beauty Marks." Snook Jr., Allen Easton, is assistant director of athletics at Pfeiffer University. lf\^ \J ^ Jamie Aurand is the administrator of Susque-View Home, Lock Haven. He previously was vice presi- dent/operations for Albright Care Services, Lewisburg. L i i • S' Mary Agnes Brown was production stage manager for the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble's 2007 performance of Richard Dresser's "Rounding Third." Danielle at Vlaryann Lindberg, executive director of the BU Foundation shown with members of the Delta Pi/Sigma Pi \lumni Association Chuck Ranck '68, left, and David center, is Jecoteau the Line Kristin Rhoads is a fifth-grade teacher for Loudoun County Public Schools and a graduate student at George Mason University. Jf\ /2 Thomas J. Brogan Jr. has been admitted to practice \J %J law as a member of the Maryland State Bar AssociaHe earned a law degree from Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Rebecca Donahue, Lebanon County, was honored as a top tion. scholarship listing i "'he Delta Pi/Sigma Pi Alumni Association the longe\ity of one of the BU while ensuring Daniel Frederick joined the accounting firm of Meisel, at 'grand reunion" held in Lancaster in October efforts of Ernie the brothers a 2004 Lemoncelli 77. More than 200 brothers attended the event and to & Lewis in Roseland, N.J. Zachary Miers The idea of an alumni group was sparked commitment Public Accountant examination. Tuteur university's oldest social fraternities. through the agent with Century 21 Krall Real Estate. Craig Evans, Willow Grove, passed the Uniform Certified has established a scholarship to help brothers _1_ currently attending 3 a ninth-grade English teacher District. '86. Brothers establish r Wagner Koser is Mountain School made a become more involved with BU and who are now students. is head wrestling coach at Shore Regional High School, West Long Branch, N.J. Chris Smith is an assistant golf professional at Palm-Aire Country Club, Pompano Beach, Fla. He was previously assistant golf professional at The Architects Golf Club, Phillipsburg, N.J. Peter Umlauf is an audio technician at PRG in Las Vegas. Today, the Delta Alumni Association boasts more than 600 members. The scholarship is currently in its second, or i/Sigma Pi uuilding, stage with a three-pronged goal: establish the scholarship with initial funding, reach a Dalance of $10,000 for endowment in less than the maximum five years and become an annual award available to students who are active Delta Pi brothers. For information on establishing a scholarship or contributing to an existing scholarship, contact the Bloomsburg University Foundation at (570) 389-4524. Wrestlers return BU President Jessica Kozloff, second from left, greets former BU and coaches at an on-campus reunion earlier this year. Shown in the accompanying photo, left to right, are Bill Paule '65, Kozloff, Don Poust '63 and Roger Sanders, former wrestling coach. wrestlers BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Jarrett Austin Witt, Bethlehem, was promoted to regional development manager in charge of business recruitment and Stelma Economic Development Corp. retention for the Lehigh Valley named vice ^f\/i Lisa Brown, York, is a marketing coordinator at \J _£. John Hilliard Insurance Agency Inc. president at Christine DeMelfi, Berwick, is vice president of the Columbia-Montour Chamber of Commerce. Maria Engles serves as the Young Lawyers Division Lackawanna coordinator for the Pennsylvania Bar Association. AnnWSIM Marie Stelma Ann Marie Stelma Jill of Pittston was named vice president for continuing Lackawanna College, Scranton. One at of the institution's four vice presidents, Stelma administers all facets of Lackawanna's continuing education department, including training programs designed to meet and industry and the the needs of business GED allied health, She and adult institution's basic education programs. center that will open in the new Susquehanna County fall. Stelma previously served as Lackawanna's academic development specialist at education. Earlier in her career, she instructional specialist for Luzerne worked an Tunkhannock She recently earned a doctoral degree in administration from Marywood District. Ashley Henry Whiteman for the is a speech-language pathologist Cheshire Center in Greensboro, N.C £ Lindsay Galbraith is a stage manager for the American Family Theatre for Youth. She completed a national tour managing "A Christmas Carol." This year, she Jf\ \J \J be stage manager for "The Wizard of Oz" during an Christopher Gass District. development with specialization Exeter extended tour of the southern U.S. County Community College and as a reading specialist for the Area School as at Avis Elementary School in the Jersey Shore Area School will and director of developmental in clinical study with a doctor in Dubois. Township Middle School in Reading. Mary Lou Mrozinski Jensen is a kindergarten teacher also oversees the college's satellite centers in Hazleton, Honesdale and Towanda and a is Michelle Lachawiec teaches mathematics recently education Foltz received her white coat as an audiology doctorate candidate. She human in higher education University, Scranton. is a field technician with the Arizona Transportation Research Center. Matthew Gerst, Danville, is a police officer with the Mahoning Township police. He worked as a part-time officer for the Danville police after graduating from Lackawanna College Police Academy in 2005. Bethany B. Hueholt passed her second-year candidacy exam at the University of Virginia graduate school of chemistry in Charlottesville, Va. Kristina Knight Deaths is group and hospitality the group sales for sales manager in charge of Mandalay Baseball Properties, Wilkes-Barre. Eva Thomas McGuire Alice Machung Verna Warren E. '24 Marlin Diksa '29 Home MaryBeth Reisinger works '57 Sandra Goodhart '29 Marjorie Atiyeh '59 Morgan Pomicter '62 for Personal Fitness, Camp Hill, as a trainer. Dan Sevison is head coach of the Bloomsburg High School wrestling team. Phyllis Newman Albertini MaryAhearn '33 N. Donald Young '63 Teresa Barrett McDonald '65 Reilly '33 Roberta "Bertie" Conrad Nevill '34 Jack Lamont Keller '66 Edna Stevens '35 Joanne Kugler Whetstone Irene '39 BoninWenrich Margaret Fretz '67 Conrad '68 J(\jC VJ\J Meredith Bertecher, Boothwyn, was inducted into Beta department Roy Gunther '44-45 (Navy V-1 2) Jack Kuney '44-45 (Navy V-1 2) Theodore Pstrak Sr. '44-45 (Navy V-1 2) E. '69 Ronald Meixsell Jr. '50 Griffiths '54 Camille Richie Romig Rabuck 73 Sandra Massaro '80 is a victim's advocate for people with and coordinator for the deaf consumer advocate at The Independent Living Resource Center of Northeast Florida, disabilities 74 75 in the gastroenterology Geisinger Medical Center, Danville. Tau Nursing Honor Society, is working as a health occupations instructor at the Columbia Montour Area Vo-Tech School. 71 Sr. at 74 Jacksonville, Fla. Bryan Scruggs is an IT support specialist for Harrah's Entertainment, Chester. Kelly Smetana is a group sales coordinator for Baseball Properties, Wilkes-Barre. SPRING 2007 College of Business Tracy Golder, Bloomsburg, a member of the Theta Sigma Dum 70 Mildred Belford Williams Sr. Rosalind Sanderson Shelly '48 Mary Ann Martz Scala Frank Bosevich William Orner '48 Robert S. Lynn Shaeffer Edith Donald Blackburn '46 Mary Rush Joseph Gamma Sigma, Honor Society. Lynn Freeze '06M works Mandalay V. w W 3 3 en "<_ <" so 3 From the President's Desk 3 "It has p been a great were the words Those -i privilege." that Sandra Day O'Connor wrote two years ago in her letter of resignation from the United States remember thinking how appropriate As I experience the 1 few months of my tenure as president of Bloomsburg last find myself thinking the same now? Simply put, I'm so very grateful have mixed emotions as I l I Those few words carried such emotion. University, at> Supreme Court. that brief statement was. how do you feel with the L .' | our graduating seniors leaving a place Of course, a life with — love so I Steve and I thing. How to wrap up my feelings right for the privilege of serving this university When people ask, contemplate leaving BU. days winding down?" excited about a I usually respond, new chapter in my life, "Well, "I feel just like but very sorry to be much." I are naturally excited about less responsibility moving and more time with each other, to Arizona and enjoying our children and grandchildren. We're looking forward to pursuing personal interests that have been put on hold for and much many years. But there's no doubt we leave with a tear in our eyes. . gratitude in our hearts. What is it that we'll miss about BU? • Interacting with the wonderful folks it is the talented staff who take such pride in this place, whether on campus or alumni who we meet • Watching students grow, both personally and • And, being this university has added value to their all intellectually, over this country; and knowing that lives; a colleague of the talented faculty who take teaching so seriously, even as they continually pursue scholarly and creative endeavors. On a personal level, I know one of the I'll miss getting up each day excited to go to work greatest public universities in this country has gone by that I haven't felt privileged to have can honesty say that not a day I both honored and humbled by the opportunity president of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. been a part of her history I at know that I'll continue as the years go by and this to be to feel outstanding university grows ever stronger. Steve and I may be enjoying life amidst always be Bloomsburg Huskies! Y44 Jessica S. Kozloff the Arizona Diamondbacks — but we'll RLOOMSBURG Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a State System of member of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board of Governors as ofJuly 2007 Kenneth E. Jarin, Kim JL^T HE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Chair E. Lyttle, Vice Chair C-R- "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair Matthew Baker E. Marie Conley Lammando FEATURES Paul S. Dlugolecki Darnel P. Elby A Place Page 6 Ryan Gebely for Pets Michael K. Hanna Vincent j. Hughes 2006 prompted people and High waters in Joseph M. Pelizer companions to start looking for higher Guido M. when their furry Joshua O'Brien Edward Pichini G, Rendell Christine Toretli J. Olson "Annie's Place," the largest Aaron A. Walton Gerald L. Chancellor, State System of Higher Education Judy G. Hample Page 8 Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees Steven B. Ramona shelter for Faith, Family, Football Danny Hale to no stranger is to the produce a winning Division But '94, Secretary H. Alley hard work required it was Lady Luck who football II initially program. brought him to BU as coach 15 years ago. '08 Dampman '65 LaRoyG. Davis their efforts to create emergency Chair Lammando James D'Amico Robert '68, Barth, Vice Chair Marie Conley The animal response team animals in Columbia County Zahorchak Robert J. Gibble C.A.R.T. found BU. and the university combined JamesJ. Rhoades ground. That's On Page 11 '67 Call for BU Charles C. Housenick '60 A. William Kelly David W. Klingerman Joseph J. As 71 Sr. BU Trustee, institution's Mowad expanded Bloomsburg University President, a Dr. Mowad attributes the Joseph growing academic reputation and facilities over the last Jessica Sledge Kozlofl leadership of the university's Executive Editor Jessica Sledge Kozioff. 13 years to the first female president, Liza Benedict The Other Dr. Kozioff Page 13 Co-Editors Eric Foster 20 Bonnie Martin Starting over isn't always easy, especially after Husky Notes Editor years, but for Dr. Steve Kozioff the decision to start Brenda Hartman Dr. Joseph Mowad graduated from the University of Scranton but, as a Trustee, he's devoted to BU. over in Bloomsburg went hand in hand with Director of Alumni Affairs Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/88M supporting his Editorial Assistant next big Irene wife's career. move - to the ready for his home in Arizona. COVER STORY The Kozioff Presidency Page 16 Agency Snavely Associates, LTD Jessica Sledge Kozioff Art Director shares her thoughts Woodcock and her plans Cover Photography Dave Ashby for at least a on president. decade at the helm when she became As she approaches retirement in December, she the institution she's led for 13 years, her path to the presidency for the future. DEPARTMENTS On the Cover President Jessica Kozioff Steve pause hoped Bloomsburg University's 17th Debbie Shephard BU he's Johnson Communications Assistant Emily Walson '08 Curt Now, couples retirement and her husband on the portico of Carver Address comments and questions Page 2 Hall. to: Bloomsburg: The University Magazine News Notes Page 22 Husk)' Notes Page 31 Calendar of Events Page 32 Over the Shoulder Waller Administration Building 400 East Second Street Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301 E-mail address: lbenedict@bloomu.edu Visit Bloomsburg University on the Web at http://www.bloomu.edu. Bloomsburg; The University Magazine is published three times a year for alumni, current students' families and 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, 570-389-4058; fax, 570-389-4060: ore-mail. a!um@bloomu . edu. Bloomsburg University is an AA/EEO institution and is accessible to disabled persons. Bloomsburg University is committed to affirmative action by way of providing equal educational and employment opportunities Tor all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, disability or veteran status. FALL 2007 News Notes Fashioning a Future Grant funds project in Guatemala A recent BU graduate and from the Kathryn two of her childhood Wasserman spent part of the working on friends summer who Nescopeck, Mi '07 of Refugio, a Christian school located outside Guatemala City earned a that provides education, food, bachelor's degree in anthropology in May, traveled to to pursue the project through lives of women in Guatemala. Pfromm 100 Pfromm and Winter decided a project designed to change the Julie Davis' Projects for Peace. Guatemala clothing, medical assistance and outreach to services to junior majoring in Spanish at more than 250 students and their families. 'We decided to do a Bucknell University. Another sewing co-op to get women work with her friend, Danielle Winter, Berwick, a from the Guatemala Rachael Prosseda, friend, Dump Julie Pfromm and Rachael Prosseda "This project is good a example of grassroots development," says Wamer. and majonng in anthropology, documented the experience on film for an involved," says with Faith Wamer, associate the anthropology internship. professor of anthropology at people's lives, they truly The a poster trip came from Winter saw on Bucknell's campus Pfromm. The students worked idea for the Guatemala the surrounding areas BU, to that fit come up with an idea the grant's goal. The project offering a able, had to Students travel from shower valves cross- Mi Refugio homes in at their the Guatemala City garbage Charley Chyko, special do cultural understanding." Drop by Drop BU saves water with than improve economic conditions of promote peace and be sustain- promote peace and be completed in one summer. $10,000 grant opportunity development projects do so much more all building materials. hopes believe that grassroots "I halls and Pfromm that teaching the women to sew will also empower them. "The made from the profits sale of the products will be split. Half will go to renewing the resources needed and the other will half go to the women," Pfromm BU plumbing foreman, had campus residence to scavenge for food, clothing, recyclables from Berwick, a Bloomsburg senior dump says. the valves installed in and apartments during academic breaks over the past year. The valves pay for themselves through water and When students returned for the fall semester, they were on course to use nearly a million fewer gallons of water per month than in special previous years. The savings are due to the installation of shower valves shower head in all fitted like George Shuman air with the water so that same amount the II of water is valves. BU is the it both looks being used," says of Pennsylvania Gardens, the environmental firm in Williamsport, Pa., that supplied the first in just several months. Ed Valovage, assistant director of residence BU, admits that he was skeptical about life for operations at whether students would accept the change. "We've tried water-saving shower heads in the past," he says, "and students just didn't accept them. of BU's residence halls. "The shower valves mix and feels between the shower arm and sewage savings German-engineered educational institution in the United States to install the water-saving devices. "But had no complaints, and the water savings were water a month, and that's before all of the campus halls had the valves installed." Valovage estimates that the shower head valves reduce water usage "The user does not recognize a loss of shower comfort," he we phenomenal," he says. "We've saved 600,000 to 700,000 gallons of in the residence halls by 25 percent - an annual savings of 8 million gallons of water. says, adding that the valves can also save energy used to heat the water. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Forecasts, Weather Graphs and Gauges Den Web site provides information for community Locally collected weather information is Web site created by two BU professors. can be found at http://weather.bloomu.edu. "Bloomsburg seems of weather reporting. I to fall between the cracks in terms know that people in the community Web site could really use a directs now available on a The Weather Den them to other Web that organizes information sites to answer and specific questions," says Patricia Beyer, associate professor of David W. Klingerman James Sr. F. geography and geosciences. D'Amico Beyer maintains the New Trustees Web site, which draws information from the Weather Logging System 8000 (WLS) located on BU's campus. Jeff Brunskfll, assistant professor of Klingerman, D'Amico appointed to council geography and geosciences, maintains the weather David W. Klingerman of Sr. of Bloomsburg and James Mount Carmel were appointed F. monitoring system, which provides information on D'Amico temperature, relative humidity, to BU's Council of Trustees in rainfall and late spring. Vice president of facilities, projects, hotels JDK Management Co., views of the weather. which operates nursing assisted living facilities past 35 years, he has owned and operated in In addition to nursing care and northeast Pennsylvania since 1981. For the owned Klingerman making weather information the community, the available to Web site allows students in meteorology and physical geography courses Farms, which produces soybeans, corn, wheat and beef cattle on more than 800 acres direction, features links to other weather services. and restaurants and oversees land development Klingerman has wind speed and A webcam provides live-action The Weather Den Web site also solar radiation. to gain hands-on experience in monitoring weather. in Columbia County. Klingerman served on the school board for the Bloomsburg Area School District from 1977 to 1992, including two terms as president. War and Rebellion He earned a History major bachelor's degree University and is in economics from Columbia certified as a licensed nursing Klingerman and his wife, the former Donna home Kline, assists have four children Senior Roger Thrash, of and nine grandchildren. Conyngham, worked D'Amico, the Council of Trustees student representative, majoring in with journal administrator. is a senior with Jeff Davis, associate elementary education. While attending BU, he has been Web employed with Quest as a manager. He is professor of history also president of the Student Pennsylvania State Education Association, senator for the Community Government Association and a member international honor society in education. D'Amico is of Kappa Delta active in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid- Pi, the Boy Atlantic Studies, to Scouts, the Association for Supervision of Curriculum and Development prepare a special and the Association summer issue for and associate editor of Childhood Education International. on Flex for Food focused the Seven Years and War Pontiac's Rebellion. Thrash, a transfer Students contribute $6,400 to local facility student, says he was Roger Thrash BU students inspired to attend contributed $6,400 of unused funds from their Flex accounts to the Bloomsburg Food Cupboard at the end of the spring semester. Flex funds are a portion of the students' meal plans that can be used at campus dining outlets like cash from a debit card. Over the previous seven years, students contributed $44,000 to the Bloomsburg Food Cupboard. FALL 2007 after hearing history department chair William speak at commencement several years ago. He expects May 2008 with a bachelor's degree in to graduate in history BU Hudon and minor in anthropology. News Notes New Dean Ermatinger leads College of Liberal Arts Top Teachers Professors win TALE Award James W. Ermatinger became dean of the College of the Two faculty members were Liberal Arts in July. recognized recently for their Previously chair of the outstanding teaching. Frank history department at D'Angelo, assistant professor of early childhood Southeast Missouri State and elementary education, and Janet University, Ermatinger Bodenman, earned a doctorate in history professor of communications at were studies and theatre arts, selected as the 2007 Teaching and ancient Greek and Learning Enhancement (TALE) arts Outstanding Teachers. for potential. and their full we State. and for his "energetic front of our peers." As an Fall of the Roman Empire" of other books, teaching publications and Ermatinger has focused his research on Diocletian's in the ancient world, and classic archaeology. In addition to Southeast Missouri State, Ermatinger inspiring" use of up-to-date and relevant resources who we early childhood of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney State College, Wright State are and was also credited for his when instructing students elementary education professor, D'Angelo on teaching strategies. D'Angelo and Bodenman were nominated by graduating They both received a $750 professional development stipend, sponsored by the number at taught at Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio, the University was nominated teaching style, which gives students "confidence to be seniors. and a San Diego and transport will Frank D'Angelo in Roman history. He earned a master of history at San Diego State University legacy of classic antiquity in revolutionary America, trade meet her expectations.'" and speak up is economic reforms, Roman geography and numismatics, the "Bodenman reminds her students that she raises the D'Angelo a articles, According to one bar because she 'knows degree Author of "The Decline and her ability to challenge students nomination, James W. Ermatinger bachelor of science degree in biology Bodenman was nominated and help them reach Indiana University, Bloomington, focusing on BU University in Dayton, Ohio, Richmond, and Earlham College in Ind. Grant for Nursing Department part of state initiative Foundation, and a plaque to BU's nursing department received a $66,620 recognize their achievements. Pennsylvania Clinical Education Grant as part of a statewide initiative to increase the Life Less Taxing Students help file Clinical issued to 38 recipients in 137 electronic returns number of nurses. Education Grants totaling $3.6 million were 47 counties. The funding is designed to improve faculty coordination and training BU students electronically filed 137 returns and 68 state returns income tax returns — as part of the — services, enable nursing programs to incorporate 69 federal simulation technology into the curriculum and increase BU Student Accounting the number of students Association's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. Students also completed returns and forms that may only be who can enroll in nursing programs. BU's grant, received in conjunction with the paper format, filed in Central Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board, will such as returns for nonresident aliens and local income tax The BU Student Accounting Association's VITA program returns. be used to support a simulated learning lab supervisor offers free position in the nursing department. tax help each year for low- to moderate-income people and area residents age 60 and older tax returns. BU who cannot prepare their own federal income budget to ease the is the official VITA site for accounting and state's nursing shortage. Columbia and Montour counties. Eric Gockley, of Stevens, a senior accounting major, program coordinator, and A. The grants are part 2006-2007 state of a $7.5 million fund set aside in the was VITA Blair Staley, associate professor of MBA coordinator, is faculty adviser. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Return to the Rails Third 'Spirit ofBU' car available Orders are being accepted by BU's Supervisory Roundtable for the third of six train cars in the "Spirit of series, a wood side refrigerator car. benefit student scholarships and the logo BU" at Camp logo. The wood C&O blue and Both the the entire car. side refrigerator car is available at a cost of $50 each, plus $4.95 shipping and handling per Victory, Millville. The metal tagline of Aramark Corp., BU's food service and the Husky New UP yellow wrap around Proceeds wiLL Camp HERO and provider, die cast refrigerator car, produced by Checks, payable to the Supervisory Roundtable, Kim Schmitz, Bloomsburg University Weaver Models, Northumberland, is an "O" gauge, triple track, 1:48 scale model with three-rail trucks and sent to couplers, a complete brake system, fully detailed For more information, underframe and highly detailed styrene body. 4529. The deadline It Pennsylvania, sports 400 E. Second call St., car. may be of Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815. Bob Wislock at (570) 389- for orders is Oct. 15. Professional Practice Presidential Search Group checks hearing at Special Olympics Candidates meet with community, industry leaders Jackie Davie, assistant professor of audiology, and The candidates for BU president visiting the university are with leaders in town and at the four audiology doctoral students meeting campus. Candidates meet with the mayor of Bloomsburg, members of Town Council, the president of the Commerce and leaders Columbia Montour Chamber of of local industries. with university leaders, including current Kozloff, the vice presidents, — Vicky Baker and Lynda Steelman, both of Bloomsburg; Nicole Hella, They BU of Troy, Mich.; N.J. and Stacie VanBodegon, of Wayne, — volunteered to screen athletes' hearing at the Pennsylvania Special Olympics also have sessions Summer Games at Penn State's University Park Campus. The Special President Jessica union representatives and faculty and Olympics Healthy Athletes Healthy Hearing Program is designed to screen the hearing of athletes, provide student leaders. The goal of the presidential search committee, chaired Trustee Joseph Mowad, November. Kozloff will about the search for is to have a retire in new president by BU appointed by December. Updated information BU's next president can be found at www. corrective (hearing aids) and preventive (custom swim where possible and study earplugs) services the prevalence of hearing loss athletes. Davie in Special Olympics and the BU students tested approximately 250 athletes over the weekend. bloomu.edu/president/search. FALL 2007 A Place for Pets STORY BY LYNETTE M ON G The number one reason people don't evacuate their homes during an emergency is because they don't want to leave their pets behind, according to Pennsylvania's State Animal Response Team (SART). Bloomsburg University hopes to help solve that problem in Columbia County. When floodwaters struck Columbia County in summer evacuation 2006, Bloomsburg University opened volunteers to care for them. community. And Annie, BU 9-year-old Shih-Tzu, its was on hand to welcome evacuated citizens and their pets with a Just a few weeks later, doors to the President Jessica Kozloffs BU wag sites of her tail. teamed with the will have food, shelter and The Columbia/Montour branch of C.A.R.T. was created in April the where pets 2005 with recently retired veterinarian Larry Smith serving as coordinator. C.A.R.T. immediately began to organize resources, evacuation sites and when 2006 and Columbia Columbia/Montour County Animal Response Team, or volunteers, C.A.R.T., to establish an official safe haven for evacu- County just over a year later, the organization was put ated pets during future emergencies. largest emergency one of the shelter site in BU is now the Columbia County and universities in the state to first become a C.A.R.T. and is a countywide organization that coordi- trains volunteers to evacuate service animals and livestock in residents are told to leave their flood struck to the test. "We thought we were prepared, but the flood was so extensive. Unfortunately, many resource locations were based in the northern pan of Columbia County designated resource location. nates the household an emergency. homes, county mobilize C.A.R.T., which then sets pets, When officials up designated and inaccessible to us because roads Smith says. "We needed a location were closed," that was large and centrally located." When an emergency situation is declared and people are instructed to evacuate — as many had to do —they during the 2006 flood are often forced to leave their pets or livestock behind. housing President Kozloff and "The Red Cross will find Annie but they can't accept animals," for people, according to Cheryl John, BU's facilities coordinator. So, residents often must choose between the risk of staying in their homes with visit with Ashley Lynn, a senior math scheduling statistics major from Riverside, in the Softball dugout. their pets or leaving their pets to fend for themselves. "When it became evident that there were no provisions for pets, that was when this really emergency took off," Smith adds. safe. Within several days of opening its doors to evacu- situations, C.A.R.T. 's primary role tools and encourages all pet owners to keep their pets vaccinated, according to Smith. many residents brought pets with be prepared them. Kozloff began working with C.A.R.T. to an official emergency animal soon shelter be used pus, for shelters, all located and C.A.R.T. examined the on BU's upper cam- sites, map Positioning System (GPS) to "Part of our job is to educate pet owners on for situations like this," Smith how to b says, make BU after the floodwaters receded. Cheryl John identified three sites to to C.A.R.T. advocates microchips as identification BU had approximately 100 people on campus. And, because BU wasn't a Red Cross evacuation site, ees, is educate owners about precautions to keep their pets using a Global possible evacuation routes to the campus. Editor's note: Annie passed away May 11, 2007, after struggling with the last stages of kidney disease for nearly six months. little dog, she Lynette Mong As President Kozloff said, "For made '08 is a an a huge impact." English/creative writing major from Kenncwick, Wash. A few weeks after the mapping process, both the university official and C.A.R.T approved evacuation dubbed site. Staff and campus as an members in honor of the faculty the shelter "Annie's Place," In case of emergency, volunteers from both BU would immediately begin the appropriate animals, based on-campus sites for to on weather conditions and site avail- "BU volunteers would be involved in organization and maintenance aspects of the says Jean Downing, after the the shelter," director of BU's volunteer office. Faculty, staff or students check pets into the prepare evacuated ability. would organize shelter, feed the site, them and clean up animals return to their homes. C.A.R.T. volunteers would work with the animals themselves. "The C.A.R.T. volunteers are trained animals in distress," The BU sites are would be allowed with Downing adds. equipped animals, including dogs, cats as gerbils, hamsters to deal to accept household and "pocket and guinea pigs, pets," such and owners and larger animals at additional facilities within the county. Funded through the U.S. Department of Agricul- ture, C.A.R.T. is primarily a grassroots organization that depends on donations and volunteers. In non- FALL 2007 out the country began creating programs to account for pets in emergency situations. The PETS Act requires any county or state filing for aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide information on how they will accommodate household pets and service animals. "North Carolina started one of the first programs in 1999 after Hurricane Floyd. They realized they needed something in place at the state and county level," says Larry Smith, Columbia County's Animal Response Team coordinator. According to the Pennsylvania State Animal Response Team Web site, more than 3 million domestic pets and farm animals were lost during Floyd. Since then, almost every state along the East Coast has implemented a similar program. The PETS Act, also known as "No Pets to visit their pets at BU's shelter during designated visiting hours. C.A.R.T. can house livestock Pets Left Behind After the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act was passed in late 2006, counties through- Kozloff s dog Annie, BU's unofficial mascot. C.A.R.T. and IMo Left Behind," a bipartisan initiative that came about mainly as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Smith says it already has created a widespread response. "Out of the 67 counties was in Pennsylvania, 57 currently have C.A.R.T. will be nationwide." Soon these programs in place. Faith, Family, Football STORY BY JIM DOYLE Danny Hale is a man with a '72 Danny Hale walked away from 1988 following deep religious fate as him to much faith. But it as faith that was brought Bloomsburg University his as the most successful Division II a motel in the Danny in the country. Hershey area, which they ran while served for the next four football seasons as an coach to Then fate Gump May at Hershey High School. stepped in. Only a day or two after the couple decided that Hale should return to college coaching, he learned that the head coaching job open at his was Bloomsburg. Hale threw together his resume and decided programs at compiled a 40-13 record. He and his wife Diane bought head football coach of the Huskies, he has built one of college coaching in winning seasons as head coach alma mater, West Chester University, where he assistant where, five to revisit the site of two losses suffered by West Chester teams. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE T T 1 ' I Danny Hale made 1 it clear 11 mat the experience at Bloomsburg was going to be about more than FORMER HUSKIES QUARTERBACK GLEN MCNAMEE "It happened to When George Landis built a be around Husky powerhouse Thanksgiving of 1992," Hale recalls, "one of those days was breathtakingly here. when beautiful The campus and it up the kind- we met struck ness of the people me big time." One dates, of several dozen candi- Hale got the position and program that around had a foot- suffered through a 1-9 record the previous season. His first — linebacker Frank Sheptock, first priority was some in with I think the idea had set that maybe, Bloomsburg, we're at doomed to fail- That Cal win kind of created a ure. an eventual three-time All-American spark which led to a flame which led linebacker and recent inductee into to a fire." the College Football Hall of Fame. the task of turning ball started the process with his very recruit '97 that 0-2 start, in the '80s, he just football.' Hale's first helped rebuild Husky class included Glen football. McNamee have been in serious hurt. fire bum in the continues to football pro- That gram. Starting with that victory over '97, a California, the quarterback from Philipsburg, N.J. "Without Glen McNamee, That Bloomsburg University recruiting class also we would He ended one tie. won Huskies have 113 games against only 33 They have won losses and eight shared or outright Pennsylvania State Ath- up coming in and learning the system in a short period of time and letic defensive coordinator John Devlin performing well as a freshman," winning streak against PSAC oppo- and Hale says. putting together an experienced coaching staff that included offensive coordinator Bill Hart. The next priority recruiting class. was his finished Hale's first season, 1993, with a 5-6 record, winning four of their last five games. But, they started slowly the following season. a McNamee shoulder in the son-opening separated his first quarter of a sea- loss to New Haven and Hale's Huskies have earned five National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) postseason national title game in Husky standout players include run- who won the victory against California University to the nation's best Division three turned — —around. the season "Glen Husky as well as the Sigler, Harlon Hill in tingham, who was third in the ballot- American offensive lineman Jahri who started every game last shoulder was season as a rookie with the that to hurting, but he up and we beat a team we shouldn't have. We went on eight games. If we had lost, win I'm not sure them I could have kept McNamee, now the head coach Dauphin High School, New Orleans Saints. Last season Hale finished in the top 10 of the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year competition tured together." at Central player; ing for that award in 2005; and All- McNamee came back and still II current senior tailback Jamar Brit- Evans, it 1997 trophy awarded played against California. That sucked the national semifinals last season. pensburg. Hale thinks a one-point week II 2000 and ning back Irv of Pennsylvania in on an ABC and was narrated by Keith Jackson. named fea- television special He was the national coach of the year near Harrisburg, agrees with Hale on in 2000; regional the importance of that game. "After four times, including last season; and coach of the year coach of the year in the Coach Danny Hale, and McBryan provide center, assistant coach Brian 10 times PSAC East overall, including eight times as BU's coach. guidance on the sidelines. Continued on next page FALL 2007 playoff berths, reaching the Division didn't play in a 10-7 loss at Ship- program titles 21 -game regular season nents going into the 2007 season. The Huskies first Conference (PSAC) East and have words on the offered encouraging dren. Of charter flights to playoff games. Kozloffs impending retirement, Hale says, "I will at miss her. She and biggest supporters, not only of footathletics as a whole." but on Victories he She has says. "She has to to be flexible." Hale first him to the sidelines, but his motivation goes well beyond and Xs and Os. relationships off of it have character- victories ized Hale's 14 years at Bloomsburg, coach, you have a great impact but there has been adversity, as well. those lives you're dealing with," he Defensive coordinator John Devlin says. "I believe passed away in 1998. Hale's positive and was given years old a way "If only 50/50 chance of survival. With the help of have affected in a I who treated his illness and a those people Hale's coaching has "He made positively affected. that the experience at was going He made large family that lifted his spirits, academics were important. Huskies Tyson not only survived, but he had became he encouraged us Danny Hale Perhaps the most remarkable game was in Hales tenure at the Huskies 59-49 Bloomsburg win deep religious faith was extremely important in getting them through at the Tyson's ordeal. "Knowing 2000 that God's in charge, that national semifinal. Playing home on the home field of the number one-ranked team 3,000 miles from 19 points Bloomsburg trailed by do happen deal with to to it. handle comebacks well .my belief prepared . me other aspects of Hale's an enormous influence not only on my coaching, but in all aspects of my life." So how much longer will Hale men as a head be influencing young football coach? He itself life. may choose take to it one year Bloomsburg. Evans led the quality of life "Our relationship has the service lent," Hale says of Kozloff, of big issues early on. I bye week after his first me on a found couple Kozloff, who game at to Mansfield on a for the Saints. Hale is also Dallas (Pa.) Correctional Institute. that While served two terms faith part of Hale's NCAA Division II President's been Danny — the I'm looking forward to the 15th." and life, so football are a big is his family. praises Diane's role in raising which includes four Roman, Brandie, Tyson and Christina, and nine grandchil- Jim Doyle 12 at Southern It's b retired after teaching Columbia High School for 32 years. He is the radio play-by-play voice for Bloomsburg University their family, football children, WHIM-AM. way onto Redman Stadium and where concerned a fantastic 14-year experience. Huskies as they made the field at a great place is "I truly like town, the people you work with. Council, has led the cheers for the their It's I involved in a prison ministry at the she was a person of her word." on the when he came last fall replaced. at a time. by play- season. "She backed last Hale says he has no timetable. ers or guest speakers; Jahri became BU's president turned 60 by having both knees in Before attend a chapel service led the Huskies' community. by example. He's had truly led BU President Jessica Kozloff wit- who We to get involved in the nessed the historic victory firsthand. been excel- clear that December, celebrating his birthday it." each game, players in school history. full bad things good people, but you That belief manifests after three quarters before staging one of the biggest He it good deeds program where and help others says his family's University of California, Davis, in the in the nation, full- in 2005. clear be about more than to just football. a it Bloomsburg doctors the Huskies' starting on quite a few people." The celebrating begins for the coach and his team after a back before graduating you're a Count Glen McNamee among lymphoma, an when he was aggressive cancer, 11 And was diagnosed with son, Tyson, T-cell lymphoblastic victory. bug got the coaching while serving in the Marines after an injury forced and good the field hard to be a coach's wife level," have an independence about her. her husband Steve were two of our ball, "It's any and men's basketball on BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Each of the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is governed by a Council of Trustees whose members are recommended by the governor and approved by the state Senate. The term of Dr. Joseph Mowad's dedicated service as a BU Trustee has spanned the presidency of Jessica Kozloff. On STORY BY MARK E. DIXON Educators don't often use word "bargain" to praise the audiology. We've added a College an of Science institution of higher learning. But Bloomsburg's return on invest- ment is among BU Call for the top reasons that and Technology. During our tenures, the number of applicants has increased. SAT Mowad is equally fond: the 13-year presidency of Jessica remains low in comparison to simi- Kozloff so highly. lar institutions. — She made Bloomsburg a students," says who is our lives of Mowad, also a senior vice president and the Geisinger Founda- tion, the philanthropic entity. Mowad, who joined ees about the same time the Trustthat Kozloff arrived, can tick off her accomplishments as he says. been almost started a program naming his done tremendous children: "We've things," if "The campus has totally renovated. We new college, a new degree — a doctorate in clinical FALL 2007 Tuition for fathers these mothers scream out, That's — when he came to Geisinger as Now emeritus director of urology, he was educated at the University of Scranton, earned his medical degree from Creighton or more. Omaha and "These kids are going to school Medical School in about a third of that," he completed his residency the child of parents Mowad an associate in the urology department. well, —where annual now $30,000 and my kid!' has practiced in Danville since 1968, says. A native of Scranton, Mowad is of Geisinger Health System in Danville tuition is a urologist which Mowad and his from other schools enhanced the "She's the part about children graduated from better bargain. my eyes at gradua- when I hear Gov. Robert Casey in 1994, Mowad serves as one of its Trustees and why he regards And here's tion Appointed a Trustee by former scores have increased." Dr. Joseph brings tears to who were not at the University of Maryland. Mowad is actively involved in a college educated. After he joined number the Trustees, that background He has contributed to a strong sense of Disease Advisory Committee and affinity for and Bloomsburg's students I that almost chaired the Governor's Renal served on the boards of the First National Bank of Danville and their families. "What of professional associations. liked immediately was Fulton Financial Corp. been 50 percent of Bloomsburg graduates were the first active on He has also the boards of several Montour County groups focused on in their families to graduate from college," says Mowad. "It almost Continued on next page 11 'What I liked immediately was that almost 50 percent of Bloomsburg graduates were the first in their families to graduate - Dr. Joseph from college.' Mowad, Trustee providing recreational opportunities, which feature suites treating drug and alcohol problems of four rooms and around a central providing child welfare services. When Mowad took his seat as a BU Trustee, he recalls, library are some condition. what he and the buildings were in poor The — living area much had limited seating and just a handful of computers linked from different parents of most students experi- only by a local area network (LAN). enced. Even so, Workout facilities were lacking. The outdated cafeteria was a serious safety, not luxury, is his top concern. he recruiting deficit. Residence halls Increasingly, were crowded, pushing many says, parents are expressing a desire be housed students into often-substandard that their children off-campus housing. on campus, and Bloomsburg All that has changed. In 1998, a new was completed, which for 1 ,000 students, offers seating for The 57,000-square-foot Student Recreation Center, opened in 1995, all Joseph Mowad, second from McCormick Center is BU Services with accommodate them. Paralleling more than 200 computers and wireless Internet all. trying to 105,000-square-foot library safely Dr. right, tours the addition to the Kozfoff, the construction for Human President Jessica and Trustee LaRoy ieft, 'Lee' Davis. has been a strong emphasis on academics. In 2003, BU's College of Business was accredited by the Association to And Mowad, means BU that, says now pursues a more Advance College Schools active and of Business (AACSB), a process that consistent quest for philanthropic has since been expanded with a took more than a decade. Also that support, which has been successful 17,000-square-foot addition that year, the university doubled the size of its cardio and expanded due in large part its 30-year-old master's-level audiology the university's to Kozloff, first weight rooms and added a 35-foot program with climbing wall, plus another educate professionals for careers in nary estimates an area the U.S. Bureau of Labor that the university sized basketball court. full- The old 3,000-square-foot Monty's dining hall was replaced by a 16,000- Statistics lists as serving stations and choices of similar makeover in 1999-2000. College of Business and, in 2005, of Honeysuckle Apart- owned by the Community Government Association. In addi- tion, the university leased operates the privately Apartments adjacent and owned to now Kile campus. "We're working very hard to get more housing," that the to get that AACSB Mowad says, adding that says Mowad, noting newest residence halls — was earned only 30 standards capital campaign led in 1998. Prelimi- the time suggested at might $8 million, but the end collect result was much more. fields. Commons got a it to was hard accreditation," On-campus and affiliated housing has grown with the construction, in 2001, of the Mount Olympus Apartments on upper campus ments, "It program one of the country's 30 fastest-growing square-foot version with multiple cuisine. Scranton a doctoral who comprehensive Fundraising expertise only criteria, says isn't the search committee. His after the met about also searching for committed related to the caliber to the Mowad, who team leads is an educator who of faculty, curriculum, students standards and bridging the town- and gown by the educational level achieved Perhaps the biggest challenge for Kozloffs replacement Mowad sees as vitally — and one important — areas in ture once provided is 60 percent of Bloomsburg's funding but vides only about 40 now pro- percent. made up by It's clear which Mowad believes the next president has big shoes to fundraising. Pennsylvania's legisla- is — both Kozloff has excelled. students. difference divide is advancing academic off returns the Trustee fill. Kozl- compliment of a whom she describes as "always there, always participating. and devoted to BU." . b The tuition financial gifts to the university. and Mark E. Dixon is a freelance writer in Wayne, Pa. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE ozloff STORY BY JACK SHERZER Researcher John Gottman has found that romance where partners respect a marriage and strongest in is care for each other in ordinary ways. For Dr. Steve KozlofF, respect and care were at the heart of his willingness to move to Bloomsburg as "first spouse." Dr. Steve Kozloff laughs when asked about his willingness to uproot his successful obstetrics and gynecology and follow practice in Colorado the other doctor in the house to Bloomsburg. knew his wife Jessica was being by headhunters who were offerall across the country. And yes, they Yes, he actively courted ing jobs had talked about her potentially, that is — interest in potentially taking In 1994, Jessica Kozloff for academic and student on something new. was vice president affairs for the State was going Colleges of Colorado. Steve's practice They loved the outdoor life and shared skiing condo with three other families. So. well. a . "When I look back on ever really thought did," Steve Kozloff says, received no some offers it, I don't was going it to to those places, searches. But I would be good Then the call I couldn't and she pulled out of the move that both of us." came about the presidency at Bloomsburg University. This one was different. "When it came 'I like it here,' " to Bloomsburg, I said, think Steve says. Continued on next page FALL 2007 it adding that Jessica never hesitated about a for I far as from places where he had interest in living. "I told her that move know that go as 13 I'd A brother in New Harrisburg, another brother in Jersey and cousins living nearby for Steve, a Pennsylvania native. made the move easier He secured an ob-gyn position with Geisinger Medical Center in Danville where, for the an outpatient is no Still, "You've Steve readily admits, I "Initially, 20 years and left your starting until clinic. easy thing. practice of and three years, he also taught residents last at all security, making a big life change was tough because it a left I my friends," he says. and you're in your mid-50s something new. But it didn't take long adjusted." At the root of that adjustment was Steve's willing- sums up with one word: Respect. Respect for his wife, for her career and an understanding that she had worked with him as he ness to support Jessica, which he and Steve Kozloff take husband and wife. Jessica pursued medicine. "I think you have to treat each other equally and with respect. ier to get It's some positions are eas- 1 can be a physician anywhere, also true that than others Whether working out or accompanying his wife but you can't be a university president anywhere," he says. their first steps together as "Husbands and wives have sions depending on job open about things opportunities. he They have to be like that." Mutual respect has been tionship, to juggle those deci- many university events, presence a constant in their rela- "It BU, although at funny little was be the to the first would say Hey, says. I he says, it did feel a spouse." wasn't Dr. Kozloff,' numero uno. Someone and I would turn around, but they weren't calling me, they were calling her," to medicine." ally dating of time that physician, there are going to be times Steve says he has enjoyed his time at Bloomsburg, where the Kozloffs live on campus in Buckalew Place, enjoyed the students, them," he says. "I Center and doing I says. Steve work at met Jessica when he was doing postgraduate the University of enjoyed mingling with especially enjoyed going to the Rec my workouts." Nevada in 1962. He was actu- her roommate, but the spark was there, and he and Jessica began dating. In 1964, Jessica followed Steve to Philadelphia, where he went the official president's residence since 1926. "I he to a familiar when you marry a when problems will arise," he says. "There was never one time when she complained that I was devoting too much time "She knew ahead at first, "first time become Steve has to medical school began a doctoral program in at Jefferson and she political science at the University of Pennsylvania. After Steve's first year in medical school, they married. Steve says he decided to pursue obstetric medicine because "I one's life," practice, one it offered wanted he and him a "happy practice." to take care of the healthy part of somesays. "I liked the surgery in and the office ob-gyn you can combine everything in specialty." The couple didn't stay in one place for long. After Steve graduated from Jefferson in 1968, they again traveled west, where he did a four-year residency at the University of Colorado. After that, as the Vietnam War continued and doctors were required to serve the miliSteve and Jessica Kozloff pose with earlier this year. tary, the their children Rebecca and Kyle when they were youngsters, left, and ticed couple ob-gyn "When I tion at moved to California, Beak Air Force where Steve prac- Base. got out of the Air Force in 74, the big ques- was where I would practice. I could have gone any- BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE where." The couple liked northern Colorado from and the presence of Colorado Steve's residency, State fulfilled Jessica's desire to be near a university. So it was Greeley, Colo., about Bloomsburg came Denver, until Promises Made...and Kept 50 miles north of calling. van Association of When Jessica wrote about Steve for the spousal tribute he recently received from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, she recalled how some of her friends warned her that marrying a doctor would mean she couldn't have her own career. wrote, "Steve turned ca's friends me within commuting when asked whether he warning her about the but he does remember that his own he that, friends says, were 13 years ago. They plan year. move once again the at end of this Arizona where they to retire to argued, even own a While Jessica may do some consulting, that advice says, he wants to spend time with who lives in and Kyle, in Brentwood, Calif; their Phoenix; son, a father's book supportive spouse, Kyle, a Wharton grad, is was stay-at-home dad while his wife works in the financial field; daughter Rebecca is career. manage family and ally, two down 994, guess it is to love and respect each he always looked at not any better than me, and we tried and be on an equal footing with each "Respect. done well," followed It he me takes time, that's says. work together 20 or 25 years, together. faculty now it was my As living in Hanisburg, Pa. me we had include a graduate school for my first university teaching job The pace practiced. in Once end. down itself, to attend life Go I was the in same became much more rou- an American Council on Educatravel away from again, Steve willingly took over the supervision mom traversed across the country. to a dull roar. academic Colorado, a place innocently of academic administration that required vice president for we was The children loved, and were off to college. life was I was thriving. Steve's practice affairs. answered the phone good. One fateful day in to hear a search firm consultant "just the perfect fit" for Bloomsburg University in me. Would apply I Pennsylvania? I? Could last I? Steve's 25 years. Now for it!" plans private prac- the residency program at a major training hospital in so very proud award from the we make when a few years ago he won the outstanding residents! in Bloomsburg have been an incredible experience. to retire grandchildren await us, We've both been so B a professional writer FALL 2007 to get Our almost 13 years She He has proven After Steve finished medical school and I he loved to teaching nearby. we and return reflect on to the how west where our lucky children and we've been. fortunate to have found professions that enriched our and to have experienced such personal happiness. And lutely is 1 she's why our marriage has the degree. finish didn't listen! With the move to Bloomsburg, Steve transitioned from the lives Jack Sherzer enough again settled your turn. other," Steve other. "We just work well for the first turn to follow her." to never You can imagine the dinner conversation. Should marriage as a any better than she, and I answer: "You've patched you career around mine for the tice true partnership. "I'm not I'd I'm glad primary parent who attended special events or picked up for the presidency of it's "I I their careers for looking for places to begin his practice. Steve active teenagers while their We lived and Jessica to one, well actu- lots of advice. While was commuting an hour each day children. was the lucky became a two words. says, stressing that we began describe an opportunity that career as he have done, his answer comes a great one, now that many ways. so in home for weeks on a successful attor- When asked what advice he would give to couples trying to wrong tion fellowship in 1 ney balancing family and was But another opportunity presented as the currently a our marriage community where Steve their four grandchildren. page out of his with sick children at school. Life investment if down any opportunities that didn't classes, he of Perhaps taking in women who submerged within commuting distance. Then, the real work began. By this time tine. Now, he the book about his ob-gyn residency, Steve says, at 67, he's looking forward to not working. daughter, Rebecca Collins, in Well, I'm here to say right I Scottsdale. my husbands, only to be divorced for a younger, prettier woman. Besides, they house on a golf course in Rio Verde, about 10 miles from had begun I were very tight. Actu- decided to temporarily drop out of graduate I where my 1 960s feminist friends chimed heard every story two wonderful Kozloffs will the text of program. "Your time will come," Steve promised. turned surprised at his decision to uproot a successful practice The but finances is school and took a teaching job at a local high school while he finished his recalls Jessi- of being a pitfalls No, he doesn't remember doctor's wife. We wanted to get married, we were downright poor! That's that didn't distance." (Editor's note: See the entire tribute at right.) Steve chuckles and I doctoral work. to start his prac- down any opportunities include a graduate school for following I needs in mind while choosing where tice. ' BU President Jessica Kozloff's tribute to her husband. Sometimes, we just shouldn't listen to our friends! When was dating Steve, he was in medical school ally, now that I'm glad didn't pointing out how Steve kept her "Well, I'm here to say right listen!" Jessica and Universities spousal tribute. The State Colleges blessed to have the love of a man who I've been abso- never forgot his promise! The Kozloff Presidency STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS How does BU President Jessica Kozloff want to be remembered? "I hope that people say, 'She left this institution she found it,'" stronger than Kozloff says. "I think what every president wants to that's leave behind." BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE FALL 2007 her 13 years as presi- Indent of Bloomsburg University, Jessica Sledge Kozloff has forged a decisive path that has led to rising enrollment, an im- proved physical campus and a growing academic The road that led her here, though, was reputation. anything but direct, as she detoured from her original destination of high school teacher. "1 took that first istrative position was trying to patch reer around she says. "In admin- because I my ca- my husband's," my mind, be- ing in the classroom was the ultimate aspiration. In fact, I felt sorry for administrators." Courtney Robinson '05 interviews Soon, however, Kozloff gained a different perspec- Kozloff for the BU President Jessica Homecoming Parade. She not only found that being an administrator tive. was BU-TV before satisfying, she discovered that she "liked being able to influence decisions that could impact a broader State University), Kozloff moved to group of students." Today, Kozloff s decisions directly impact more than 8,700 students annually. .plus thousands more . will benefit who from her legacy in the years following her retirement at the end of 2007. husband Steve established cal science Colorado where his career. She taught politi- courses at the University of Northern Colo- rado until her pan-time position was eliminated. "I loved teaching and was The path to the presidency absolutely devastated Growing up, Kozloff knew she wanted to work in education. She frequently tagged along with her father, who was superintendent of a small in Texas. "1 when rural school district always saw myself as a teacher," she recalls. Two powerful mentors reinforced her dream: Kozloff s high school drama teacher, who inspired her love of theater and made her realize how much a strong that door was shut," she says. "I tell students that sometimes a very big dis- appointment can turn out to be a very positive ence in life," influ- says Kozloff. faculty-student relationship could mean, She was asked political science faculty a position as an assistant to think With about teaching at the postsecondary level. a bachelor's degree in in political science (and and a college member, who encouraged her education and master's from the University of Nevada-Reno later a doctorate in political science from Colorado to apply for President Kozloff, right, is shown UNC, with Trustee where she had just lost faculty emeritus Robert 'Doc' her teaching job. really Warren. dean of students at "I missed teaching, but soon Center Bill Kelly '71, left, and BUs Student Services named in Warrens honor. is BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Jessica Sledge Kozloi Jessica Sledge Kozloff became president of Bloomsburg University on July was 1994. Before that, she 1, vice president for academic and student affairs for of Colorado, a regional the State Colleges rgsttl system of four campuses serving 26,000 students. Previously, she held several administrative positions at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. Kozloff, 66, has taught under- graduate courses Nevada-Reno, Colorado State University Collins, science in political at the University of fawf Fort in the University of Northern Colorado and Metropolitan State College of Denver and member of the was a graduate faculty at the University of Northern Colorado. An author, lecturer and consultant, she earned a doctorate in political science from Colorado State University. work The Kozloff family poses with Roongo in fall 2005. Seated, left to right, are Kyle Kozloff, his wife Emme and their daughter lily. 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. She completed master's in political science at the where University of Nevada-Reno, she also earned a bachelor's degree in She serves on the Presidents education. Active in organizations on the local, national and international levels, Kozloff is chair of States the Middle Commission on Higher Collegiate Athletic Association Leadership Group of the Higher Presidents Education Center for Alcohol and tinues to serve on task forces for Other Drug Prevention and, the commission. locally, on the Geisinger Health Plan and the She and her husband, Education and just completed a Geisinger Indemnity Insurance Co. Kozloff, are term on the board of directors board of directors and the Geisinger children of the American Association Health System of State Colleges and Universities. learned that I Council. She served on the enjoyed having an impact on students in Even today, her philosophy the old saying that "success is a modification of ity that comes from doing what had While serving Instead, Kozloff says, "Success finding something to love in and do what you to get to do what you what you're doing." comes from always what you do. Follow your love, of course, but sometimes love, you've got to leam to love fellow, dent affairs for in working with both the National much anticipated," she says. as vice president for academic and stu- the State Colleges of Colorado, Kozloff from an executive search firm wanted call to present her as a candidate for university presidencies. "I have an incredibly supportive husband it,' " she says. Because Steve's family Pennsylvania, the chief job at Bloomsburg that who said, is from was appealing 1994, she became the 17th president of and, on July 1, Bloomsburg University. Governors Association and the Education Commission Continued on next page FALL 2007 my mind to the possibilmy administrative further in received a 'Let's try The watershed moment in Kozloffs career came 1985-86 when she served as an American Council on Education I and have four grandchildren. on improving undergraduate education. could go career than love." heart I Stephen two married as well as biking, hiking and golfing. National of the States Dr. the parents of Both Kozloffs enjoy music and theater, "That experience really opened a different environment." you Community Advisory Commission and con- 'Success comes from always finding something to love in what you do.' - BU President Jessica "Students will frequently ask me, become that tell a president?' " 'How does one Kozloff says. "Most presidents know didn't set out to become I Kozloff students, 'Prepare as best a president. you can in I whatever job you do. Be the best you can, and be open to new possibilities.' Accessible but decisive Not only was Kozloffs path to influenced by her early moves career, but her presidential the presidency to support her husband's style is affected by her gender, she says. "I can't speak for all female presidents, but am probably seen as more image of a president," she tional came from the West, because I ture are more open and I think I accessible than the tradisays. "That where the may be style and informal. But a lot of what culI bring to the position Former Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker and chats with is grounded in my life as a mother my experiences as a marriage partner. "While Steve was so busy establishing his practice, made the decision to put hockey game. I learned a lot about patience and decision making from those I unpopular decision, and the reaction is prise," she says. "Sometimes taken off guard "I when 1 stunned sur- think people are a the tough side comes and welcome . who understand sion has to be made." Bloomsburg campus. cers in 2001, the and a major bomb scare Council of Trustees for approval, police were armed at on When she brought the issue offi- many of the 14 institutions in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. "The who listen make the to BU's little out. differing viewpoints before they decision. .but arm university police. Her decision to recommend doing so came in the wake of the 1999 the policy to Sept. 1 1 terrorist attacks have to make an have tried to model myself after leaders of Kozloffs most difficult decisions involved Columbine High School tragedy and, full-time parenting days." Kozloff views her accessible image as a double- edged sword. "There are times when One proud of them and have never regretted making that decision. 1 '75, left, Kozloff at a field my career on hold until the children were ready for school," she says. "I'm so Besides, BU President Jessica a that ultimately a deci- was not popular with a very vocal decision community," she recalls, "but part of the you just have to go ahead and make that decision." Although making unpopular decisions comes with the territory, she says she many issues as she tries to get consensus on as can, a tie-in with the political science theory she learned in college. That theory differentiates interests. vital for police between primary and secondary A primary interest is one that is absolutely the well-being of an organization; arming the was one such issue for her. President Kozloff meets with students in the atrium of the Warren Student Services Center. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE A secondary interest is an objective a person would like to accomplish, but remembers moving absolutely essential. She several years ago the visible to a isn't husky statue when from a prominent location near a way through the heart of the campus. it; the husky stays less it is offers of other years, Kozloff has "When Steve where "I just it is.'" been tempted with and I made the come here, it was with the understanding if it worked that, out, we would stay here," she says. "I 1 would hoped that be able to stay at least 10 years. Plus, I had with the place." When she retires on Dec. is incredibly a jewel." proud to note that all Bloomsburg provosts whom she has retiring president is three former would be themselves. Just as mentors helped further her career, folks decision to fallen in love that they she says. "This "Some higher education positions, but never followed through. them worked with have gone on Lasting legacy Over the past 13 "I tell this job," new brick walk- started a drive to 'Save the Husky,' " she recalls. said, 'Hey, forget The she suggested spot where Bloomsburg. lucky to get all them to "I try not to micromanage." be innovative, try to I do be she says. self-starters," Kozloff is exploring her options for retirement, level. the doctoral at "I'm not ready to completely give up being involved with higher education," she says. still have something to "I think I give." Regardless of what she chooses, the focus of her be different. in professions "Both Steve and and family on the second," she says. Still, "It's life have been involved I where we have had president since Harvey A. Andruss (1939-1969). vacating have called her for information about to ranging from consulting to teaching lives is presidents who work for me is encourage the people have the longest tenure of any Bloomsburg University Already, a few candidates for the position she become she focuses on mentoring others. "What with will 31, 2007, Kozloff will to to put our personal time to put our marriage front burner." the Kozloffs won't be leaving Bloomsburg University entirely behind. Already they have donated $50,000 to help fund an endowment for the Kozloff Undergraduate Research Awards. The Alumni Association is matching any additional contributions endowment, up $25,000 from alumni to to the who gradu- ated during her tenure. Each award will provide a stipend for a student to work with a particular faculty member on a joint creative or scholarly project. "When I try to describe the essence of Bloomsburg University, that close faculty-student relationship comes to mind," Jessica Kozloff says. fortunate during and to help Steve "I have been so my career to have people mentor me me see and I would greater possibilities for myself. like to be remembered here as helping that to happen. "I pass think that's an obligation that on to Tracey M. the next generation." all of us have, to b Dooms is a freelance writer and editor living in State College, Pa. New Orleans Saints offensive guard Jahri Evans returns to BU in May 2007 to get his diploma and pose with the university president. FALL 2007 Husky Notes Quest sponsors trips on bike or on foot Bloomsburg Quest University's program extended offers trips for No friends. BU and students, alumni experience many necessary for is of these trips, and most equipment is provided. Varied amounts of physical stamina are required. 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Located in the gle Peninsula, starting and by 17th-century Jesuit 2008: Iceland cally houses. low-lying peat bogs and have been used by the Incas as a trade route along trails Iceland Biking: Northern Adventure, July 17 to 27, Roy Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu programs above, Quest also weekends and custom-designs teambuilding and other experiences to meet groups' needs. tion, For additional informa- contact Quest at quest@bloomu.edu or (570) 389-2100 or check online at www.buquest.org. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE 5^~| Virtual career center J/^ Three BU departments have teamed up to bring the services of a virtual career center to students and alumni free of charge. The partnership of BU's Alumni Affairs Office, Career Development Center and College of Business allows alumni and students available to use career management CareerBeam provides New York City, has released "Topsy & Sullivan's 2 \_J*3 Don Athletic Hall of won the Poust, Langhome inducted into the Fame. While (right), was Muncy High School at Bloomsburg, he Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) wrestling title at 177 pounds and was a silver medalist twice at National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) tournaments. services through CareerBeam. Described as a virtual career success center, Sickinger, Turvy Loves," an adaptation of Gilbert musical based on W.S. Gilbert's play, "Engaged." alumni free to Bob *J .A. J/£(\ UV/ tools to research companies and industries, look for current and upcoming job openings, create a personal career profile, build a resume and write cover letters. The program's database technology allows the user to research a company and receive information from "job triggers," criteria that indicates a company may be moving into the hiring mode, according to Lynda Fedor-Michaels, director of Alumni Affairs. To use the free service, BU alumni must register at the alumni online community, www.bloomualumni.com. BU's Career Development Center, housed in the Warren Student Services Center, provides career counseling and planning assistance to all students and alumni. Director Carol Bamett says CareerBeam's features "serve as an excellent complement to other BU basketball team captain who coached high school and college squads, was Jack Mascioli, a former inducted into the Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame. He is a retired educator. }/£ ^7 \J / Marcia Bryan teaches part-time at the Little Lambs Nursery School, Dublin. She also works with individuals with developmental disabilities. 1/1 Q vJC3 An Joyce E. Brobst participated in an Oxford University Roundtable on science and religion in March. educator, she presented a paper David Bo wen, Frackville, marketing consultant who is on teaching evolution. a public relations and serves as volunteer coordinator for Chamber of Commerce, Shamokin. He was named the chamber's member of the year. W. John Strong, a retired high school business teacher who the Brush Valley recently teaches part-time at Springhouse Computer School, was honored by the Octorara Community Education Foundation. services already offered to students." Barnett says David G. Martin, dean of the College of Business, first introduced CareerBeam College of Business management is at 1/CC^k Joanne Jackson, BU. The integrating the use of this career tool into the curriculum. "CareerBeam will allow us to reinforce the process of career development to our students and to use this as a device to help our maximum potential," Martin says. may access CareerBeam's services students achieve their Current students through the \J / a teacher at East Hills Middle School in the Bethlehem area, serves on the Allentown School Board. She co-chairs the Allentown Safety Task Force. Michael L. Smith, Newport, a wrestling coach and official, was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Smith is the owner of a sportswear company. Web sites of BU's Career Development Center, www.bloomu.edu/departments/cardev/pages/ CDCmrnf.html, or College of Business, bloomu.edu. Registration Q George 5 "2 *3C3 trilogy, is Sharp has completed the third book in his "Jonathon Nicholas, American Entrepre- neur." Sharp, 92, a teacher in Folcroft years, http://cob. required. and Chester for 34 began writing and publishing in retirement. Q John Magill, Millerstown, and his late daughter Susan Magill Reynolds 71 are co-authors of "A Soldier's Psalm, an Odyssey of America's Restless Warriors, ^/f JLC3 Books 1-IV," Trafford Publishing. Hail to the Chiefs BU President Jessica Kozloff '07H, second from left, is shown with past presidents of the Alumni Board during Alumni Weekend. The past presidents are, left to right, John Scrimgeour '53, Sheri Lippowitsch '81, Mary Anne Majikas Klemkosky '59, Nancy Lychos '52, Sandra Jefferson Rupp '71 and Pat McAndrew '70. FALL 2007 23 Husky Notes 5^7/"\ Al / \J Silveri, Berks BU alumnus Woolrich's County, a high school football and wrestling coach for many years, was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of new president Fame. ames Griggs 5^7 ~I John Thompson spoke / A. Center for Slavic Studies. and senior Hazleton Area at the He is j vice president Columbia Bank and trust officer at First Scott Heffelfinger affirmative action at is Reading Area R° Dert Tabachini Jr. was named for the served the NY. and Northeastern School superintendent District, where he has Ward is a trustee of the Village Corporate and Investment Banking in company / TT P. Keifer Area School is He and previously 7^TQ Hamburg to the Woolrich board of was earlier been Gill (right) is director of purchasing and materials management Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of He is past president of the Tamaqua Area Chamber of Commerce and volunteers for the Sellersville Theater for the Mary Catherine Weisskopf McGarvey, a former for the Tom A. Pennsylvania. teacher. director of the Free Library of Springfield Joe Micko, James Griggs HSBC New York. supenntendent of Danville schools, where he had a principal 2005 and was named finance in M of Larchmont, superintendent of the District. since joining A Williamsport he became vice president of native, / C3 Steven in 1987. directors in 2006. senior vice president, resources and energy, at 5^7/i former CEO Roswell Brayton Jr. and accounting finance four years as assistant superintendent. last Richard J. year, following the death of and presi- Inc. earlier this Griggs has held various positions in human resources and Community College. director of the 7^T "2 / xj was named dent of Woolrich president Trust Co., Bloomsburg. '83 Husky Norristown, is Performing Arts. Township. football player and wrestler, was 7^70 Laurie Johnson Gaylord chairs the Martin County / inducted into the Carbon County Sports Hall of Fame. / School Board in Florida, where she lives with husband, Marc, and their two children. She has a private 7 ^7*2 Emory / %J and Guffrovich, an admissions golf coach at Penn State officer, professor practice as a certified auditor)'- verbal therapist. Duane Lehigh Valley, was L. Wickard Jr. is principal of Upper Perldomen presented with the 2007 Student Appreciation and Middle School in East Greenville. His wife Eileen Callahan Recognition Award. Wickard '80 is a reading specialist and teacher of gifted students at Palisades Middle School in Kintnersville. Their son, Mademann, C Susan Haas and 7^7 / %J teacher Statesville, N.C., is lead Paul Shearn and wife Arlene have been recognized as one RE/MAX teams of California and Hawaii's top 50 for year-to-date productivity for J^7j£ Leo O'Donnell was honored / \J at St. Bemie Miller, Media, retired after John Neumann 7 2007. for 30 years of teaching is director for on the Gasldn Advisory Panel as a Pennsylvania Department of Education appointee. 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 at BU. Q f\ C3 \J at David W. Mcllwaine, president and Award from & Industry. Q O "I CEO of HVAC Distributors Inc., received the Small Business Person Commerce 7 of an associate professor of mathematics the University of Nevada, Reno. is of the Year 30 years with the He education services with the Pennsylvania State Education Association and serves majoring in secondary education/English education residential sales School, Palmerton. Delaware County Intermediate Unit. is Lynda Wiest was named among Nevada's Women Achievement. She programs in Davie County, N.C. of Evan, special educator for alternative school the Lancaster County Chamber of Garry Benfer, Mifflinburg, was promoted to senior -1- vice president, loan administration, for Mifflinburg Bank and Trust. Peggy Kemp Fry was recognized by Wells Fargo Bank, where she works as vice president in marketing for the consumer credit group. Ernest Jackson was head wrestling coach of a youth folkstyle team that placed seventh out of 564 entries in a national tournament at the University of Barbara Hornberger Keihm Northern Iowa. is director of human resources for Wintellect, a Microsoft gold partner technical consulting firm in Atlanta, Ga. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Wendy Woolcock, a speech pathologist for 23 was years, a guest speaker at an annual autism event in the Sunbury area. Christopher Malocu, West Mahanoy Township, from teaching after She is the rural service director for Turning Point, a non- profit organization that provides services to 26 years with Schuylkill Intermediate Unit No. 29. 5 Q AA Michael A. Galantino, Berwyn, C5 '89 Suzanne Killian is assistant director of the Federal Reserve System's board of governors in Washington D.C. This He Inc. private client serves on group for is Boenning director of & Scattergood the marketing board of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. her third position with the Federal Reserve. is Andrew Vincent, Hampton, Va., was Benton Area School District's academic inducted into the 5 Q £* Jeffrey Barr C3 %J He hall of fame. trained fighter pilots before retiring from the Air Force now domestic violence victims. retired and develops satellite-guided weapons and instruments for the military. company for 12 years. Dave "Slim" Laslo, works pilot, was named Insurance, Allentown. retired a principal of Miers He has been with the Navy/Air Force Reserves C-130 Denver, Colo., and owns a for Frontier Airlines in residential cleaning business. 5Q "2 Erik J. Chuss OO for SMS/800 Piscataway, N.J. He's a is Larry Medaglia vice president of business operation Database Service Management at Inc., is the register of wills for Berks County, a position he has held for 12 years. member of the Forks Township Planning Commission. Michelle A. Benner '86 Lorna Locascio Clause, Pen Argyl, earned a master's in human resources from the University of Phoenix Online. is a team director at Turner Investment Partners, Berwyn. Births Donna Hartranft Holt '86 and Christina Murphy Sweeny '95, husband, Matthew, a son, Jett and husband, Charles, a son, Kang, Dec. 14,2006 Ethan Murphy, May 12, 2004, Michele Homay Schlicher '97 Tom Murray '99 and wife, and husband, Mike, a daughter, Christine, a son, Abbie Paige, March March 5, 2007 7, Evan Thomas, 2007 Kathryn "Kate" Valvardi and a daughter, Katelin Ann, Katrina Miller Dvorznak '98 and Stacey Williams Snyder Peters '90 and husband, June husband, David, a daughter, husband, Garrett, a son, Curtis Makenzie Georgia, Jan. John, Feb. 16, 2007 Thomas Peters Joseph F. 8, 2006 '93 Ciccarone and wife, Dawn, a son, Franco, Nov. 9, 2006 Susan Dresher Cunningham '91, a son, Sean Thomas, Nov. 5, 2006 '96 9, and husband, Steve, a son. Carter Vicky Edinger Nguyen Joseph, March and husband, Michael Nicole 2, 2006 Hower Jurgill husband, Edward, a son, '96 and Eric, Nguyen Kayley, 2007 '98 Darlene Weihbrecht Steinberger'99and husband, W02M, a daughter, March 21, '99 and Robert, a son, March 2007 12, Andrew Joseph, 2007 Jean-Marie Manfredonia September 2006 Julie Guisewhite Novia '98 Amy Lynn Zarzaca '94 and husband, Christy Shaffer Lusk '96 and and husband. Marc, a daughter, husband, Tony, a daughter, Alyssa Anthony J. Zarzaca Burkel Tucci '99 and husband, Christopher Lusk Adelaide Charlotte, Rose, Dec. 30, 2005 Anthony Joseph, Nov. 11,2006 '95/"98M, a son, Tadd Timothy, March Jennifer Marinari Kiley '00 and Michael Elgin Oct. 2, '94, a son, '95 and wife, 3, 2007 Danielle Barkasy Gowarty '95 and husband, Edward, a daughter, Sophia Rose, Oct. 5, 2006 Meghan Vernon Mozi '95 and 2006 Angela Gilby Tobey Jane M. Nolan Schleppy Rachel, a daughter, Katelynn, March 2006 29, '96 '98 and husband, Joseph, a son, Daniel husband, a son, Bill, Noah Patrick, July 18, 2005 and husband, Mark, a son, Nolan Joseph, Oct. 17,2006 Stephanie Hontz McLaughlin Stephen, Feb. 24, 2007 Dawn Koons Yingling W03M '00 and husband, Brian, a son, Lesley Yeselavage Hess '97 and and husband, Mark, a son, Brady Jack Ryan, Dec. husband, Tim, a daughter, Caitlyn, Keith, Jan. 23, Nov. 7, 2006 2007 3, 2006 Tracy Draper Kuehner Vanessa Klingensmith husband, Ryan Kuehner '01 and 01, a husband, Patrick, a daughter, Maggie Jara Heyer '97 Chappell '99M and husband, son, Hailey Lynn, April 10,2007 and husband, Joe, a daughter, Christopher Chappell '00M, Kimberly Armstrong Engleman Dennis Murri '95 and wife, Stephanie, a daughter, Sydney Diane, Kelly March 27, 2007 Minahan Sommers '95 and husband, Mike, a son Michael Patrick, Feb. 2, 2007 Jacqueline Elizabeth, a son, Everett, April 23, March Valerie 24, 2007 Chapman Lill Myles Gehrig, Feb. 27, 2007 2007 '02 and husband, Eric, a son, Ethan '99M and James, June Carolyn Wilson Peters '97 and husband, Frank, a son, Brendan Amanda husband, David, a son, Braedon Michael, Oct. 27, 2006 and husband, 2007 Sara Duh Lutcavage Scott, Feb. 8, husband, '99 and Jason Lutcavage a daughter, Molly Grace, Jan. 10,2007 '99, 21, 2006 Eberly Tlumach '04 Dec. 13, 2006 llya, a son, Elijah, Husky Notes Angela DiTommaso is and compliance features inspirational manager for the roofing and building maintenance dhision of Tremco Inc. Michael Dubbs earned a master's of divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. He is a United Methodist pastor in the Mount Union/ biographies Shirley Smeltz Brosius '62 Allenport area. Victor Koons (right), owner the Northeast Pennsylvania at hood Addy of Faith: 365 Women Who About O ^T Anthony "Rocky" Bonomo O/ Made in his fifth season as is a Difference," published head wrestling coach at Lock Haven University. Christine Ford is regulatory affairs specialist for B. Braun last Community Bankers national sales at the year by Howard Books, sion of Simon Medical Inc. Michelle Karas, Dushore, spoke the Life-Changing Stories Awards banquet. 5 is author of "Sister- of a Danville graphic design firm, received the 2006 Silver Addy Award book Brosius' contracts Schuster. American a divi- & The book features biographical and marketing conference sketches of inspira- in Orlando, Fla. Karla Ketwitz, director of laboratory sendees at tional Pardee women, includ- Shirley Smeltz Brosius Hospital, earned certification as a diplomat in laboratory ing Mother Teresa, medicine from the American Society for Clinical Pathology. Dale Evans, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Dole and Beamer, along with related Scripture. Lisa 9 Q QO O Kevin Kem, a project manager with Dun & Brosius has written for a Bradstreet, is the boys' basketball coach at Central Catholic High School in the AUentown area. JC\{\ Still University, Kirksville, She speaks C. Briggs Jr. joined Arro Consulting Inc. as a S \J planner in the firm's Gretchen Wirth Montgomery County With Teenagers and Pennsylvania Magazine. at conferences, retreats and women's ministry and is one of three women ministering as Friends of the Heart. office. from the Evangelical School of Theology, Brosius served Verizon Wireless in worked with 10 years as a director of Christian education. She received the the alumni of the year more than nine years. Kevin Kotch (right) is an associate in the litigation department of Obermayer Rebmann theft of reli- After earning a master's degree in Christian education director, strategic sales, for Maxwell and (right) is regional associate Dallas-Fort Worth. She has company ing, Living Mo. events Gene of secular Angels on Earth, Country Journal, Farm and Ranch Liv- Alice Stauffer earned a master's in health administration degree from A.T. number gious publications, such as Harrisburg's Patriot-News, for She & Hippel LLP. He spoke about loss or customer data at a award from the theology school earlier this year. lives in Millersburg couple has two sons and with her husband five Bill. The grandchildren. meeting of the Phila- delphia Bar Association's business law section. Jf\ '91 Brenda Brewer lacrosse coach at is the W. Susquehanna Ann Brown is deputy warden of operations at the Berks where she has worked since 1992. Regis Kohler (right), associate professor of Prison, radiography at listed in 'Who's .American Education 2007-08." Perm College director, capital asset valuation, for Marshall & Stevens, Philadelphia. Scott Krzywicki is finance director of Asia Pacific Anthony Zarzaca He a national sales representative with }/~\ P* Jacquelyn Giles Dillersberger was named Pleasant Grove Elementary 's Teacher of the Year. Zf O Who in has taught is Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg. Pennsylvania College of Technology, will be Lee Dorf is operations for Albemarle, Richmond, Va. University, Selinsgrove. County /I S A women's at since 1987. She has taught second and third grade at the Florida school for nine years. Kathryn Yurchak, Muncy, has written 'Where Wigwams ^Q\ ^y S %J Bridgette R. Collier is a financial Stood," a consultant for six Lancaster-area branches of Muncy book that tells of the struggles of early setders along Creek. M&T Securities. BLOOM SBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Marriages '88 and David Ferris Hanna Clark, May 27, 2006 Heather Matthews '00 and Michael Yanoff, Oct. 14, 2006 Michelle Taylor '02 and Ryan Amy Souter '04 and Sweigert, June 24, 2006 Sept. 16, 2006 Sarah Delong Lindsay Affeldt Andrew Berkheimer, Sept. 30, 2006 Bulawa Colleen Smith, Sept. Lynn Nesgoda Jessica Bentley Sherri Whipple '90 and Kenneth '95 and DerrekCummings Tiffany Timpko '97 and Megan Bill ie Jo Heintzelman Oct. 28, Acconzo '98 and Dec. '99 and Nicole Badway, Sept. 15,2006 '00 and Donald Angela Bovard Fure, June 24, 2006 '00 and Justin Lindsey Harris DiGiondomenico 02M June 17, 2, '01 III '01 Ulitchney '02 and and Stacy Adams, Daren Moran '01 Wenner, Sept. 23, Heather Blank, Sept. '02 and Kathleen Connors '03 and Mark Sarah Levering May 5, 2007 Conety Laura Keith Perrigo Gnall, Sept. '03 and Timothy 2005 24, Robert 2006 Mack '05 and Joshua Sara Cornish 03 and Teena Edwards 5, '05 and June '05, and Kimberly M and 2006 9, Michael Deiter, Nov. 2006 Kent Strohecker '01 John Jennifer Kleinfelter '05 and Resnick, Aug. 12, 2006 Filardi '02, 2006 '05 and July 8, 2006 III, Michael Hackenberg 05 and 2006 Rebecca Young Matthew Graf Wayne Jennifer Wolfe '02 and Daniels, July 8, and 2006 9, Lauren Sherry Yoder, Nov. 20, 2006 Curnow.Oct.21,2006 Amy Burkat '02 and Wayne Doug Ratchford Whitaker'01,June30,2006 Mikulski, Sept. 30, 2006 Widdick Megan Burrows '04 and Michael Amber 16,2006 Ritz '05 and Francis Novak, July 2006 8, Leslie Starna '05 and John '03 and Maria III, June 2006 17, 2006 Audrey Goodyear Jennifer laniero '00 and Jason Natow, and Joseph 2006 Kime, Oct. 14,2006 Tori Miller 2006 '01 2, Robert Metzger James 2006 Oct. 28, Jeffrey '01 and Thomas May 5, 2007 Sassaman, Sept. West, Joseph Leisse, '02, Brian Brinser, Oct. 28, '02 and Andrew McCarthy, June 24, 2006 Bilbay '06 and William Eisenhower, Oct. 14,2006 Schon, Oct. 21 2006 Shanna Kathryn Ergott '06 and James , 2006 Gudikunst '02 and Hillary Carin Kessler '00 and Stephen Gancar Eric III '95 Fritz '04 and Jeremy Hess, July 22, 2006 Rebilas, Aug. 5, Natalie Moriano '04 and Sara Graybill Santino Ferretti Mathews, 2006 Williams, Oct. 14, 2006 Kari Kauffman '02 and Tim Nye, Jason Lagowy '00 and Angela Sept. 23, 2006 Wolfe Mance 00 and Luke Reynolds Brian Richardson Dyer, July JC\^7 Nancy Vasta S/ Q yO '04 and Lisa is a Stine, April 14, Chris Achuff is defensive line S/ and strength and "Investigating and Improving Athletic Training at the 2007 athletic training Dr. Martin. Achuff, a former Huskies outside Leon Frederick O'Neill medical school IV, Flourtown, attended Philadelphia College of Osteopathic at currently an internal medicine resident at the linebacker, started his coaching career as a student assistant Medicine and atBU. University of Medicine and Denistry of Jeffrey Beilman is a financial adviser for Ingargiola Management Group, Dunmore. Lynn Benfante completed a master's tration degree technologist is at the Pennsylvania S. Supreme Court Helveston Associates, Lancaster. FALL 2007 is in coach to practice law December 2006. a financial planner with and Rodgers is New Jersey. the lead stereotactic biopsy CAT scan and mammography technologist a an outpatient radiology center in Norwalk, Conn. Jeremy Kipp manager of defined benefit services for Vanguard, Malvern. Michelle Heffher, Bethlehem, was admitted is Heather Hintzen Wealth in business adminis- from Drexel University. She conference in Texas. conditioning football coach at University of at 2007 }Q£J Dr. Scott Dietrich presented original research, Philadelphia. Program Coherence," Michael 2006 Katharine Walsh '06 and Scott '02 and Rebecca 1,2006 product development director CIGNA Healthcare, for Tennessee Gray, Dec. 2, Mantione, Sept. 16,2006 Greg Roskos by 2006 Danielle Kramer '06 and Scott '02 and Michael Verba Jf\ Andrew '06 and Sept. 30, Nov. 11,2006 Lauren Morrison Kristen '03, is men's and women's at the University of Mike Montgomery assistant swimming Southern California. received a master's in business administration degree from Millersville University. & Ryan Morgan is principal of School, Bloomsburg. Memorial Elementary Husky Notes Tom Murray is director of counseling and disability services for the Salem, N.C. North Carolina School of the He earned family therapy, counselor education Rinehart completes the University of Florida. national on environmental }f\£~\ Winston- Arts, and and supervision, from a doctoral degree in marriage Stephen Bransfield earned a doctorate from Johns \J\J Hopkins University, where he conducted research He works catalysis. in northern Virginia as a consultant. nursing Kenneth Marx, Port Carbon, Panther Valley School fellowship c Cheri Bohler Rinehart for The Hospital heri Bohler Rinehart 79, vice president sylvania (HAP), has completed a three-year Robert The award included project. ongoing $30,000 grant for a leadership For her project, Rinehart implemented an initiative to department diversion. Partners were the the national insurers, Rinehart's project included a statewide survey of management practices, an audioconference attended by more than 600 hospital representatives and a hospital capacity management summit. hospital capacity A graduate of the Pennsylvania Rural Leadership a founding president of the Pennsylvania Rural Health Association, a member of the member and and the American Trauma Earlier this year, she received the of Emergency this state's a board Society. Outstanding chapter of the American College Physicians. She is Daren Moran, Enola, is an accountant for the Capital Area Intermediate Unit. Wilkes-Barre Vo-Tech School, also is owner of Gelpia'z Restaurant, Kingston. ^f\^ \J\*U Kimberly Armstrong Engleman, Shillington, passed the CPA exam. She is an auditor with Leesport Financial in Reading. Lauren Morrison Richardson, Schwenksville, is a senior quality assurance regulatory specialist for Biorexis Pharmaceuticals, Contribution to Emergency Medicine in Pennsylvania award from the Community in King of Prussia. of Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council Retirement master's degree in counseling psychology. physicians and hospital administrators. the National Rural Health Policy Board Windows nator at Princeton Baltimore, Improvement, Joint Commission, is Pamela Brennan was promoted to corporate communicaOmega Bank after serving as a branch manager. Eric Eichhorst was promoted to sales/marketing coordi- Matthew Resnick is a senior accountant at Resnick Group, Md. Jamee Wilkas graduated from Immaculata University with a Institute RWJ Urgent Matters project, Program, Rinehart a master's of science degree from Villanova University. Jeffrey Piazza, director of admissions and recruitment for the help Pennsylvania hospitals avoid crowding, improve patient flow and reduce emergency for Healthcare Susan Berryman earned in nursing education Pnnceton, NJ. Executive Nurse Fellowship. a business manager for the tions officer for & Healthsystem Association of Penn- Wood Johnson (RWJ) J(\ ~1 \J _£_ is District. the third recipient of J(\^y Elizabeth Healy graduated from Syracuse University v/O College of Law with a While in law school, she juris doctorate in worked for the May 2007. Onondaga County district attorney's office. Tanya McAllister, Manheim Township, was promoted to business development coordinator for Horst Insurance. Amy Snyder is an agent with the Danville office of ERA Classic Realty Inc. award. Jennifer Webb, a doctoral student at the University of Carolina, attended a summer workshop on South teaching about terrorism at the University of Maryland. Find more Husky Notes online at www. bloomualumni. com. 5 f\ A Ken Hemmler is boys' basketball coach \J^t Wayne High School. He Send information to alum@bloomu.edu or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker Alumni House, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St., Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815 the Western Wayne School Heather Ogozaly is at Western a fourth-grade teacher in District. employed by Syracuse University, College of Law, as an assistant extemship coordinator. Christine Snyder works for the Interboro School District in Lansdale. Robert Michael Drum is a manager of Burroughs and Chapin Corp.'s South Beach Resort 28 is in Myrtle Beach. BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Vamer is a licensed real estate agent in Maryland Christine and Virginia, working for Long & Foster Real Estate Inc. ?/~\ F* Lindsy Force earned a \J *_/ master's in education degree curriculum and instruction and a certification in in English from BU. She teaches French and English at specialist at Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester, Vt. is a fitness specialist at Kimberly Wagner joined the accounting firm of Co., working from the company's JonesKohanski Sugarloaf & office. '06 Timothy Brockman is an analytical chemist in quality control for GlaxoSmithKline. is an emergency services nurse at Shamokin Area Hospital. Marlin m ^f\* 7 \J / Melbourne, Australia. is Montoursville, Corporate Headquarters. Tysons Comer, Va. Angela Furca Stephen Major, Elysburg, is a science teacher at Shamokin High School and is pursuing a master's degree at BU. Kimberlee Pedersen is attending a master's program in international policy studies at La Trobe University, Jennifer Petro One Muncy High School. Sarah Delong Graf is employed as a learning Derek Rupert. Capital L. Smith a police officer in \YiTJiamsport. II is Lauren Ferret "07M is director of sports information and communications at Wellesley College. membership development coordinator with the Charleston, S.C., Metro Chamber of Commerce. Raggio leads Deaths statewide office '56 Thelma Gordon Harrison 77 Meade Shuman Mary Heintzelman 78 Leonard Kapochus '57 Ruey Kenworthy Nygren 78 Loren J. Teresa Arcarese '30 Renee Terzopolos Ruth Herman '32 Bower c '59 Gertrude Strein Howells Owen Raggio '69 was named Maryland secretary of the '59 Department of Disabilities Jean Ann Fenstermacher '60 earlier this year. Kenneth Thomas '60 '33 atherine "Cathy" She began her Dorothy Lloyd Lewis Rice '33 Beatrice Bums Comeau Thelma Evans Williams '33 Annetta Rohrbach Shuman Laubach '34 George Freda Sam Cohen E. '61 career as a speech language therapist at a '63 Molnar Pennsylvania Kenneth Musselman '64 '36 Margaret Hogendobler '38 Gladys Bingaman '66 Victor J. Ferrari '39 Wayne Marek '66 for people Sara Dersham Laubach Mary Keesler Sherwood Howard Tomlinson '41 '41 Lawrence Frank Mary Wagner Hoffman Clair Baum '45 Billy '47 Dugan N. J. Patricia Brian K. Theodore Jurasik '47 Phillips 70 Carl 71 Raggio Thomas J. Reed '51 people with 74 74 77 executive served as associate director and then disabilities, Now, the center independent living serving Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland. With the support '81 of state agencies and individuals, Raggio established the Maryland Youth Leadership Forum in 1999. The held each summer various disabilities MD-YLF is for a four-day 2 7 program high school students with which emphasises leadership, independence and personal and career goal Donald Blyler '53 an she founded and served as executive director of Independence Seile Farley '99 DuaneR.Singley'02 '52 later Margaret Robbins Perkins '84 Donna become Bower 72 Melanie Apple Williams Jacques Grimes to Disabilities Council. After a five-year stint as Patrick J. Flaherty '50 Alice Maryland to independent contractor working on projects involving Robin Olson Krzysik Ulrich '50 and McCreary Young 71 Mark McGee 78 E. as a district executive director of the Maryland Developmental Josephine Padula White '49 Paul moved County and Susan McMinn Snyder '49 worked director of United Cerebral Palsy of Prince George's for Wilmer Kester also of Wyoming Valley. Jarosiewicz '69 Monaghan'71 Joseph Doria '49 earning bachelor s and master's degrees from BU. She speech therapist in a Pennsylvania school Kenneth Weaver '68 Marlin Walsh C. Yorks '42 Raggio served as executive director for United Cerebral Palsy Margaret Peter Podwika '42 Stewart '66 Glen H. Book '67 Fern McBride Whitebread '40 Owen after Joy Whiting Musselman Jean Shuman Zehner '39 iristitution with intellectual disabilities Catherine '39 and '61 setting. &? F mnWmmnm experiences with current BU students r tales of success and of lessons learnt 1 the next generation i of Huskies. W--~ BU Alumni in the Classroom Learn more www. bloomualumni. cmA ~r l ^m^m Ki'- '*:$'£i'' s ''\*t>^r ~~* Calendar of Events Academic Calendar Fall Queen Meets the Art Exhibits Exhibits in the 2007 Haas Gallery of Art are open to the public free of Reading Day- No Friday, Oct. Classes More charge. 12 information about shows is available at http:// Thanksgiving Break - departments, bloomu.edu/art/ No Classes gallery.html Wednesday to 23 Friday, Nov. 21 to Saturday, Oct. 20 Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m. Art Alumni Exhibition Parents Oct. 26 Beamer Do Your Parents Know?: 1 Graduate Commencement Homecoming Weekend Grad Finale Mitrani Hall, $20; $10 for parents Tuesday, Nov. 6 BU siblings of Poinsettia Nov. 5 to 30 Dec. 14 students Alumni Weekend Friday to Sunday, April 11 to 13, Pops Friday, Dec. 7, Special Events Mitrani Hall, Free admission Exhibition Commencement Athletic Hall of Swing, Daddy-o: Big Bad Dec. 3 to 15 Saturday, Dec. 15 Induction Saturday, Feb. 16,2008,8 p.m. Kehr Union Photography, Jan. 14 to Mitrani Hall, Classes Begin Feb. 15, Monday, Jan. 14 Jr. Day - Dreams in Motion: Paul Taylor March 28, 5, Football, Huskies vs. Millerville 2008, 8 p.m. 2008 Marauders, Saturday, Oct. 20, Mitrani Hall, $20 Monday, Jan. 21 Juried Student Art Exhibition Spring Break Begins April 1:30 p.m., Broadway at Bloomsburg: Monday, Monday, March 17, April 13, 2008, 1 May 3 $25 $8 for students for adults and senior and $3 citizens. Mitrani Hall, Events are held in Haas Center for Wonderful Sound: Ninth admitted free. Gates open two the Arts, Mitrani Hall, or Carver Annual BU Jazz Festival hours before kickoff. Hall, Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. For more information, call the box office at (5701 Classes End 8 p.m. Bedman Stadium. Tickets are Celebrity Artist Series 8 a.m. Reading Day - No Classes Thursday and Friday, May and 2 Evita 7 to 25, 2008 March 8 Classes Resume Friday to Sunday, Oct. 19 to 21 Dedication of Academic Quad. Dance Company Printmaking, Feb. 25 to Saturday, April No Classes Homecoming Weekend $20 2008 Yoshiko Shimano Martin Luther King Saturday, Fame Saturday, Sept. 15, 6 p.m. Voodoo Daddy Dylan Vitone Spring 2008 Saturday, 2008 7 p.m. Studio Art Senior Exit Undergraduate game Special Event Saturday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Holiday Concert Exhibition class, football Fenstemaker Alumni House lawn and to Brew Mike Super Ceramics, organized by the Museum Friday, to Sept. 21 'n' Saturday, Oct. 20, following Saturday, Dec. 8 1 Chili Mitrani Hall, $25 Classes End Saturday, Dec. 9 and 20 Informal Reunion, Class of 1987 Illusionist Monday to 1 The Producers Art ot the Alumni: Juried Studio Karl $20 Friday and Saturday, Oct. Monday, Nov. 26 Exams 1 Broadway at Bloomsburg: Classes Resume Final Saturday, Sept. Reunion, Class of 1962 Mitrani Hall, Mixed media, Aug. 27 to Tennis Alumni Reunion Friday, Oct. 5, 8 p.m. Monday, Connie Wolfe 1 Classics: East Company Village Opera 389-4409 or check the Celebrity Artist Web site at Bobby Zankel of Wonderful & The Warriors Sound Friday, April 25, BU students with a valid ID are Parents and Family Weekend Friday to Sunday, Nov. 2 to 4 2008, noon Mitrani Hall, $5 h ttp://orgs. bloom u. edu/arts/ Finals Begin celebrity_list.htm. Monday, May 5 Government Association Finals cardholders pay half of the End Saturday, May Community 10 Contact the Alumni Affairs Office ticket's May 9 at (570) 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 face value for all shows. Programs or alum@bloomu. edu for and dates are subject to change. information. Details also are listed Graduate Commencement Friday, Alumni Events www.bloomualumni.com. Marionettes Undergraduate Commencement Saturday, May 10 the latest information on upcoming events, check the university Saturday, Sept. 15, 2 p.m. Alumni and Open 5K Race Gross Auditorium, $15 Saturday, Sept. 8 Web site: Contact: Karen Brandt, cross www. bloomu. edu/today country coach, (570) 389-5123 FALL 2007 For at the alumni online community, Family Entertainment: Cashore Over the Shoulder By Robert Dunkelberga; University Archivist The Search for a Leader: BU Finds a President BU President Jessica Kozloff introduces herself to students on her May Inbecome 1994. on an interim stressing adding, in Mitrani Hall that day and was asked about her if president. she became is students," she answered. Jessica Kozloff talks with students at a reception in her honor on April 22, 1994. that I am student-oriented." In March, the Presidential Search were recommended to the whose names Council of Trustees. After approval by the Trustees, the names were forwarded James McCormick, who was chancellor of the System of Higher Education, and the Board of Governors. on Stephen Dr. Kozloff were guests at a reception in BU's Haas Center for the Arts, attended by more than 500 faculty, staff and students. Friday, July Bloomsburg Although for the 1994, was Kozloff s 1, first day as University's first female president. filled with meetings and the job of moving — new office, the day's events from planning new library to touring the construction site of the Student Recreation Center — work she would served as an face in the years ahead. And, as improvements to the physical campus have continued during her tenure, Kozloffs number one priority has always been the students, who joined her for lunch that first day like those to discuss their concerns. Committee endorsed Kozloff as one of three candidates formally hired Apnl 21, 1994, she and her husband indication of the for the "My strength is my good fortune." into her "The reason are here of the world. I'm filled with a One day after Kozloff was Kozloff spoke at an open forum we on top feeling regarding campus early in 1994 to interview for the position. The first, Jessica Sledge Kozloff, vice president for academic and student affairs for the State Colleges of Colorado, was interviewed on Monday, Feb. 7. to priorities once again her connection to students and "I feel sense of awesome responsibility and a wonderful basis during the search for the university's 17th president. Four candidates were invited in early April to offer the position to Kozloff. She accepted, State Teachers College graduate, agreed to lead the university State 1, The boards executive committee voted to executive director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. Curtis English, a 1956 to July 1993, Bloomsburg University President Harry Ausprich announced that he was leaving Bloomsburg first day, During her interview 13 years ago, Kozloff said she assumed her first presidency would be her last. December with the secondlongest tenure of any Bloomsburg president since the normal school became a college in 1927 and with It was. She will retire in a legacy of growth and achievement that difficult to match. will be BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE The University Store. What's better than a pat on the back? Paws? Positively! A Husky paw on the back of soft hooded sweatshirt! ~— The University Stores bestseller comes in maroon, gold, graphite and black in adult sizes small to 3X and youth sizes small to extra large. At just Paw Hood makes it show your Husky pride, easy to $37.99, the just like a dozen alumni did at Homecoming 2006 when they purchased gold Paw Hood sweatshirts and put them on before posing for photos with one of Roongos biggest fans, BU President Jessica Kozloff. Positively perfect for students, their parents and alumni, Paw Hoods make great holiday In fact, hundreds of giftware items and gift gifts. BU apparel, as well as cards in any amount, are available for holiday or commencement gifts or as an anytime reward for yourself at the University Store, open seven days a week, and online at www.bloomu.edu/store. Shown in Paw Hoods White Haven, left, are students Tim Sones, a junior business administration/finance major from and Corey Lombardo, a senior secondary education and English major from Nescopech. 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. The University Store 400 East Second Street Bloomsburg, PA 17815 General Information: (570) 389-4175 Customer Service: (570) 389-4180 bustore@bloomu. edu www.bloomu.edu/store Thank retiring BU President Jessica 13 wonderful years with your Kozlofffor gift to the Jessica S. and Stephen R. Kozloff Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Drs. Jessica and Steve Kozloff established the 550,000 endowed scholarship to recognize the strong faculty-student relationship that exists at BU and to inspire continued collaboration. This scholarship direcdy to is Dr. Kozloff guided Bloomsburg University as it became the awarded BU students involved in scholarly or creative work. thriving university it is today. Ensure that her commitment to excellence will continue long after her retirement by supporting The Alumni Association is to match, dollar for dollar, who attended offering a $25,000 challenge grant all contributions BU during Dr. Kozloff members of the classes 's tenure. This match gives of 1994 to 2007 the opportunity to double their gifts to this scholarship the Jessica S. and Stephen R. Kozloff Undergraduate Scholarship. made by alumni and to BU. For more information about gift program, please Association Web call site at: this scholarship 800-526-0254 or fund or matching visit the Alumni www.bloomualumni.com. 1011040904 Office of 400 A Communications East Second Street Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301 4^ Bloomsburg UNIVERSITY Non-profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Burlington, VT Permit No. 134