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Executive Editor

This

November,

must admit,

I

Bush began

44th president of the United States and,

we'll elect the

seems

it

his

like the

campaigning started as soon as President

second term. The process

for selecting the president of one

of the 14 institutions in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
is

also

time-consuming and rigorous but, thankfully, the

As many of you know, just
L. Soltz.

last

similarities

month we welcomed BUS 18th

end

right there.

president, Dr. David

You've already seen his photo on the cover of this issue of Bloomsburg: The

University Magazine,

At BU, the

and

you'll get to

meet him

in a story beginning

on page

6.

new university president is both complicated and detailed.
process began nearly two years ago when former President Jessica S.

The search

for a

Kozloff announced her retirement date of Dec. 31, 2007, ending a tenure that began

July

1,

1994.

new president involved many people, not only at Bloomsburg
University but also around the commonwealth. PASSHE Policy 1983-13-A outlines
Selecting a

each of the

composed

For example, the policy requires establishing a search committee

steps.

of members of BUs Council of Trustees, faculty,

students, alumni

also requires the selection of a consulting firm to help the

search process

staff,

administration,

and the current or former president of a comparable

university. It

committee through the

and review of applications. The consulting firm of Witt/Kieffer received

well over a hundred applications

on our

behalf;

all

were reviewed by every member

of our presidential search committee.

members

Search committee
to

pre-interviewed 12 candidates and five were invited

campus last September and October

constituency groups.

The top

three

for extensive

two-day interviews with campus

names were presented, unranked,

to the

PASSHE

Board of Governors and Chancellor Judy Hample and, in mid-November, one was
offered

and accepted the

position.

President Soltz joins us at an exhilarating time in Bloomsburg University's history

We await the arrival of spring to see the
sodded and planted
and upgraded

last fall

full

beauty of the

new Academic Quad,

and dedicated during Homecoming Weekend. Renovated

instructional buildings are providing a learning

environment that

ensures our students enter the world fully prepared for tomorrow's careers and
technology. Students' housing needs

our current on-campus residence

.

.

halls

.

and wishes

and with a

...

are being addressed within

future housing project literally

on

upper campus' horizon.
We're proud of the overall experience

And now, we
our new president.
alumni.

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eagerly start a

BU

offers to

our students, faculty

staff

and

new era energized by the enthusiasm and ideas of

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the Presidents

The University Magazine,

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written by

BUs

in the spring

2008 issue

18th president, David

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of Bloomsburg:

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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a
State System of

member of the Pennsylvania
Higher Education

Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors
2007

as of December

Kenneth

Chair

E. Jarin,

Aaron Walton, Vice Chair
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair

Matthew

Baker

E.

Lammando

Marie Conley
Paul

FEATURES

Dlugolecki

S.

Daniel P. Elby

COVER STORY

Ryan Gebely
Michael K.

Hanna

Vincent J. Hughes

Kim E.

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Lyttle

Introducing President Soltz

Joshua O'Brien
Joseph

New President

Peltzer

David

L. Soltz

and his wife Robbie had

Guido M. Pichini
Edward G. Rendell

a detailed mental picture of the type of college

James J Rhoades

college

ChristineJ. Toretti Olson

Gerald

right

Chair

'68,

Ramona H.

Lammando

number

'94, Secretary

Alley

fit,'

to increase the

of undergraduates earning

math and

science

students.
several

The

associate professor has engineered

programs

make numbers add up

to

at all

'60

levels of education.

71

David Klingerman

Sr.

Grads Unscripted

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President,

Mauch believes any plan

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Charles C. Housenick
A. William Kelly

Bloomsburg University

HGTVs 'Design
common - BU alums. Neal

NBC's The Biggest Loser' and

Soltz

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good

degrees must begin with the youngest elementary

D'Amico

Roben Dampman '65
LaRoy G. Davis '67

David

a very

Math Matters
Elizabeth

Barth, Vice Chair

B.

Marie Conley

Joseph J.

was

it

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Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
Robert j. Gibble

F.

from the beginning like

says BU's 18th president.

Chancellor, State System of Higher Education

Judy G. Hample

James

and

seeking. 'Bloomsburg looked

Zahorchak

L.

Steven

town they were

have one thing in

Executive Editor
Liza Benedict

Star'

Gallagher '82 works for 'The Biggest Loser' as

Co-Editors

director of

photography and

Millard '03

was

Lisa

Hunsinger
'I

Eric Foster

Bonnie Martin

Husky Notes

Editor

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Brenda Hartman

Director of Alumni Affairs

In the

It's

Editorial Assistant

a

way

Star.'

and touch

lives.

Communications Assistants

student,

he went on

Deirdre Miller '07

University. In

Mong '08

Emily Watson '07

to

become

my photos and stories to put human
on the numerous and immediate

problems facing the homeless

of Legends

'86, football isn't just a

to teach lessons

want

faces directly

Gary Clark,
their plight,

it

simply ignore

into the

National College Football Hall of Fame.

Agency
Snavely Associates,

Capturing Invisible Lives

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Art Director

BU

art professor

Gary Clark has scoured many

Debbie Shephard

Retired

Designer

problem of homelessness. Through

Curt

Woodcock

and

inspire others to

become

draw

cities to

his photographs, Clark

works

attention to the

to raise

awareness

active in the fight.

Cover Photography
Eric Foster

On

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Pay

It

Forward:

From Bloomsburg

to Tibet

the Cover

David

Soltz

L.

the 18

is

Lh

When Anne-Sophie Ekelund 79

president of Bloomsburg

University of Pennsylvania.

graduated from BU, she

She never dreamed her journeys would take her

Address comments and questions

with her husband, work

to:

to build schools

and

to Tibet

knew

she wanted to

travel.

where she would marry and,

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educational and

all

persons without regard to race, religion, gender,
age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability

or veteran status.

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becomes much more
this problem.'

a coach at Wilkes

2007 he was inducted

today,'

retired art professor.

hear their stories, see their faces, understand

game.

After

helping turn BU's football program around as a

Johnson

Lynette

on 'Design

Company

For Frank Sheptock

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Fellowship

and

Faith

Gillespie

campus
The

new

Maggie

Rev.

Protestant

minister

Gillespie, a

Bloomsburg resident with a
long history of service,

BU's Protestant

became

campus minster

last fall. Originally

from

Chicago, Gillespie

moved

to

Bloomsburg with her family 13
years ago and served at several

area churches before taking the
position at BU.

Mod Quad

As Protestant campus

On-campus park dedicated

minister, Gillespie interacts

often with students.

She leads

Sunday evening worship
services, organizes

Bible studies

weekend

weekly

and coordinates

retreats.

have always loved the

"I

at

Homecoming

Former BU President Jessica Kozloff was one of the speakers who formally dedicated the
Academic Quadrangle during Homecoming 2007. The quad, which extends from the Warren
Student Services Center to the Andruss Library, opened last fall and features lawns, walkways, a
sculpture garden and a fountain, a gift from the Class of 1940. The Academic Quad is the
centerpiece of a decade of expansion and renovation of many BU facil it ies. such as Centennial
Hall, Warren Student Services Center and McCormick Center, and an improvement to the
entrance and parking behind McCormick Center.

university setting," Gillespie

says.

"It is

an exciting

environment.

I

am

interested

in

working with young people

who may

be questioning and

are open to trying
I

hope

to get to

Heading off Hunger
Student

efforts feed local residents

new things.

know these

students well and share

- Donation of unused Flex

In Columbia County, where 11.5 percent of
the population lives

below poverty level,

BU

in

students have stepped

their lives."

sure food

is

up

to the plate to

make

A variety of volunteer efforts coordinated
the

SOLVE

Tim

Pelton,

VISTA volunteer. Student

- The Empty Bowls banquet. Held

campus hunger-awareness event

AmeriCorps/

- Food

efforts resulted in

Rev.

Maggie Gillespie

drives.

Student volunteers place

and more than $10,000 in 2006-07.

campus

hunger

- Souper Bowl

locally:

at the

fall,

collecting

of Caring. Students place

collection jars in pizza
raising several

and hoagie shops,

hundred

dollars.

- End-of-the-semester donations.

gather and repackage leftover food from

campus dining establishments

residence halls each

approximately a ton of food.

students are involved in the following

- Food Recovery. Students work with
campus food service provider Aramark to
.i&'0££?t;.°?

about

food collection boxes in local businesses and

efforts to fight

jk^2

raises

$4,000 each year.

donations of approximately 10 tons of food

BU

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history,

annually for the past five years, the on-

Office provides food to

Bloomsburg Food Cupboard and other

organizations, says

worth of food; over the program's
donations have totaled $44,000.

available for those in need.

through BU's

funds. For

2006-07, unused funds purchased $6,400

end of

says students leaving

each day. Pelton estimates about 8 tons of food

Pelton

campus donate about

thousand pounds of food each spring.

has been recovered that otherwise would have

been thrown away since the program

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started.

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Linking Theatres
BU joins forces with BTE

Catching Predators
Internship leads to Internet sting

BU and
By day, she had
job as a bank

summer

teller.

was

night, she

a

lease

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE) signed

BU's theatre department had identified a need for

improved

It

theatre

facilities,

and BTE was

in

need of a new

wasn't your average

source of income to help sustain the theatre.

summer internship.

worked together in

forensics

the past, including

has been in existence for quite

only believes she's

have

this formal lease

some

Felicia DiPrinzio

career in law

work with

Levittown
ship with

man who struck up

a chat

someone he thought was

room

and

arts

relation-

a 13-year-old

girl.

live professional theatre for

our community

students."

The

arrest of a

BTE Board

Bob

and, in particular,

the Briar Creek Police

Department, near Berwick, led to the

We are thrilled to

we are all very grateful
President

for the university's support," says

Tevis. "This

enforcement. Her

members

agreement confirms the importance of the

accomplished something
also

time.

agreement, and

worthwhile, but

hooked on a

BU and BTE had

faculty

"The relationship between the university and the ensemble

major

from Bala Cynwyd, not

is

BU

serving as directors, actors and designers.

Felicia DiPrinzio, a

computer

a

Krause Theatre in downtown Bloomsburg 87 days a year.

By

bait for

Internet sex predators.

the

agreement that allows the university to use the Alvina

lease, for

five years

$63,000 a

year, will continue for the next

with an annual increase based on the consumer

price index.

For DiPrinzio, the experience concluded the
uncertain path to discovering a meaningful career.

She graduated from high school with a vague
in

math and went on

in mathematics

remained

and

to get a

a job as a

Archaeology
Preserved

interest

bachelor of arts degree

bank

teller,

but
Anthropologists

dissatisfied.

earn access

A chance encounter with Scott Inch, professor
of mathematics, computer science

was the push she needed
forensics

and

to enroll as a

statistics,

computer

A team of

major with a minor in criminal justice.

anthropologists,

Then last summer, she earned an internship with
Briar

Creek

which includes

Police.

DeeAnne Wymer and Robert Harness

While talking about

and

the Briar Creek Police hatched a similar plan. She
a 13-year-old girl

and began cruising

Internet

was very

disturbing," she says of the predators

she encountered online, adding that the Pennsylvania
suspect she communicated with faced

more than 70

DiPrinzio found that the children predators target

easement to

sites for the

next 25 years.

Land owner Robert Harness, 89, created a

special legal

advises parents to "keep a dialog with your kids
they're doing.

Remind them never to

on

give out

personal information to strangers or meet them."

And what she found in the law enforcement
community was positive. "I've seen what it's like on
the other side of the flashing lights," she says. "They're

good people, with

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families, just

Paul Pacheco of SUNY-Geneseo and Jarrod Burks of Ohio
Valley Archaeological Consultants.

doing their job."

The easement

gives

unrestricted access to the property, including ownership

and the

right to bring university

students onto the property for archaeological field schools.

The Harness farm

tend to be bored, lonely and unsupervised. She

really

a legal

contains archaeological

of the excavated artifacts

felony charges after his arrest.

what

Wymer, has earned

easement in the name of the project co-directors, Wymer,

chat rooms.
"It

BU

DeeAnne
an Ohio farm that

professor

a television series that catches

Internet predators in sting operations, DiPrinzio

became

to

Hopewell site

is

well

known for the numerous

Hopewell moundbuilders ceremonial
terraces

and

sites

located

"The generosity of Mr. Harness guarantees
matter

and

on

its

floodplains.

who owns

their students

that,

no

the land in the future, the researchers

can conduct archaeological surveys and

excavations on the property," says

Wymer.

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Star Student
B Ufreshman

receives Dell Scholarship

Guidance and

BU

Growth

student in Pennsylvania and one of only 250 students from

Debbie joins

Sister

Sister

across the country to be

CCM

a scholarship

Maldonado

is

the only

awarded

through the Dell

Scholars Program.

Deborah Bomeman of

the Sisters of Saints Cyril

criminal justice major Jorge

The

and

Dell Scholarship,

funded

through the Michael and Susan

Methodius was appointed

Dell Foundation,

is

awarded

associate director of Catholic
to students

Campus

Ministry, serving

Sister

Debbie Borneman
financial

students with the Rev. Donald Cramer.

Noting that the
focuses

need who

participate

in a college readiness program.

Sisters of Saints Cyril

on education,

with qualifying

and Methodius
Since 2004, the foundation has

Sister

Debbie says she

excited

is

about her role in reaching out to students and helping

provided more than $9 million
in college scholarships.

to

expand CCM's ministry program.
Sister

for

Debbie believes that a college campus

more than

the acquisition of

knowledge

—

Maldonado, a graduate of
is

God?" she

through presence and

asks.

"I

hope

in the TRiO Upward
Bound Program at BU, starting in 2005, his sophomore year
in high school. Upward Bound, open to high school

Bloomsburg High School, was enrolled

it's

for

personal growth, too. "Are they growing in their
relationship with

to help

students from low-income backgrounds, stresses academics

availability."

and

diversity to prepare students to

members

Mr.

Mayor

BU

Recent grad leads town government

Dan Knorr

'07

is

history,

mean he

but that doesn't

lacks experience.

years of service as a council

member. Knorr ran unopposed
for mayor last fall and won
with 914 votes.

two-year term in January,

major in

a double

As a recent
relationship

because

I

after

He began

and

represent both the university students
equally. But

I

also

its

"It's
I

tough

have to

and town members

have a good perspective of both

which cenainly has

With three BU players from Philadelphia and
more from the metro area, the Huskies were almost as

much

of a

home

team as Villanova.
"I

it was
them

think

big for

personally to have

and
come out
and watch them
their family

friends

play in a big-time

ball

BU

sides,

lot

basket-

coach John

Sanow.

and

Green, center, drives on Villanovas Malcolm Grant

Philadelphia.

says

history.

between the university and the town.

Wachovia Center

environment,"

graduate, Knorr understands the important

represent a wide array of individuals,

at

during last falls exhibition game at the Wachovia Center in

his

graduating in December with

political science

first

vs. Villanova

BUs Jason

three

"As young as I am, I had
more experience than an
outsider, since I already had my
feet wet with town council,"
Knorr says, referring to his two

Dan Knorr

the

the

youngest mayor in Bloomsburg

town

become

of their families to attend college.

Huskies play
At 22,

Jorge Maldonado

"It

was

a

of fun for the

players even with
the final score."

Bloomsburg lost
to the Wildcats,

88-41.

advantages."

BLOOMSBURG

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Hockey Finesse

Field

Huskies repeat as

BU

NCAA champs

captured the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic

Association Division

II

field

5-2 win over UMass-Lowell

NCAA title,
six years

for

title

and ninth

last

a

November. The

Bloomsburg, the

fifth

The game was

in the last 12.

in the last
also a bit of

who were beaten by UML in

revenge for the Huskies,

2005

(UML)

head coach Jan Hutchinson, was

the 14th for

the second straight

hockey championship with

the

NCAA title game.

"I'm very excited for this

group of players," says
Hutchinson. "Every team

and

different,

Virtual

Classroom

this

is

group of

players fought hard

throughout the year,

Technology makes class accessible to

Sam

Slike, left,

all

overcoming

curriculum coordinator for BU's education

several losses,

to get here. But, ultimately,

think

was those

losses

of the deaf/hard of hearing program, uses an interactive

I

program

that helped us get to

for his online courses that allows students to

simultaneously watch a sign language interpreter, read
closed captions of Slike s lecture, type in questions

we wanted

and

instructional designer for the Institute for Instructional

Technology, adapted the program to include a videophone

and

instructor.

to

where

be and

that

is

NCAA champions."

review slides of the material. Pamela Bergman, an

for deaf students to

it

communicate back to the interpreter
in the photo with Slike is BU sign

Shown

language interpreter Kristen Fitzgerald-Eggleton.

Offensively,

Blooms-

burg finished the year with
132 goals scored, smashing
the previous record of 108 goals scored.

knew we had

"I

some very good scoring threats coming into
Hutchinson comments.
this

Easing the Transition

good.

It

"I

just never

does go to show that

the season,"

knew we would be

we had a lot

of depth in

that area."

BU, Lehigh Carbon CC forge agreements
Officials

from

BU and

degree at the Morgan Center

Lehigh

campus, where BU faculty

Carbon Community College
formalized

two agreements

will

designed to ease students'

degrees to BU bachelor's degrees.

An elementary education

BU

junior-

in

BU

elementary education.
Also signed

was

who

a dual-

begin their

elementary education courses at

college studies at any

LCCC

LCCC's Morgan Center

campus with plans

complete

in

to

students per year

an associate's degree
at the

in

education

community college

able to earn a

BU

will

bachelor's

be

their

coursework at BU, says

James Matta,

BU's assistant

vice president

and dean of

are enrolled

in

one or two

BU's health physics

program. Scholarship recipients will be selected through a

other criteria established by the NRC.

Students

may

receive up to four years of scholarship support

funding continues to be provided by the

NRC and

the student

maintains the necessary qualifications. Each scholarship
recipient

of

graduate studies and research.

must agree

one year

for

each

to
full

employment with the NRC
or partial year of

Total funding for this scholarship

David

R.

is

for a period

academic support.

program

is

$17,280 per year.

Simpson, associate professor of physics and engineer-

ing technology

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to provide scholarships for

who

competitive process based primarily on academic merit and

if

Tamaqua. Students who receive

received a grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC)

simplifies the transfer process
for students

to offer upper-level

Agency provides scholarship funds

and

admissions agreement that

completion program agreement
allows

all

senior-level courses

from LCCC associate's

transition

teach

IMRC Grant

and coordinator

of BU's health physics program,

serving as program director for the project.

President Soltz
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN

On an unseasonably warm and sunny day

in

mid-November,

the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's Board
of Governors

appointed David

L.

as

Soltz

Bloomsburg

University's 18th president. With his wife Robbie by his side,

the

new

president accepted, saying he

is

'delighted

and

honored with the wonderful opportunity at an excellent
university in an excellent system.'

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

David

and Robbie

were looking

Soltz

for

They wanted

a certain type of situation.

town where

sity

region.

on

had a

community
They wanted a univer-

positive influence

and the

the institution
the

with strong academics that served as the

LA., but

I

town in a rural
With Bloomsburg as our home,

nice to be in a college

it's

area near a major city.

Robbie and

a university located in a traditional

college

lived in

will enjoy the special qualities that

found in a close-knit community and the
cities like

my seventh year as promy academic experience, it was time

demic administration, and I was in

economy. They found

vost,"

in

Bloomsburg.

After a career spent at three different universities in

two Western

states,

he wanted in the
"I

David Soltz knew the

to

characteristics

says.

look for

that

'With

this opportunity, so I'd

dedicated

"I've

he would lead as president.

institution

saw Bloomsburg University's

he

been looking selectively.

my career to comprehensive universities

do the things

this university

and PASSHE do

such as provide access and opportunity

profile as very similar to

and highly valued degrees

lence in education

Central Washington, where he's served as provost and

graduates personally and professionally."

from the beginning
Soltz's

tenure as

looked right

affairs. "It

Soltz calls the similarities "striking"

was a very good fit."
BU's president began in early January,
like

it

following the retirement of Jessica

S. Kozloff,

"a talented leader

the

between Central

size of the student

new buildings,
college that

that benefit

body, the

the academic back-

became

a

comprehensive

university, the high-quality faculty, the dedicated staff

calls

him

who will serve both Bloomsburg and

commonwealth well."
Dr. Joseph Mowad, a member

mixture of old and

ground of a teachers

BU's presi-

dent for 13V2 years. Judy Hample, chancellor of the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education,

Washington and BU. "The

well,

for students, excel-

Central Washington University," he says as he leaves

senior vice president of academic

at a logical

of my career has been in aca-

cultural center while contributing significandy to the
it all

came

Soltz says his presidential aspirations

"Much

big

New York from time to time."

Philadelphia and

point in his career.

area's

can be

ability to visit

the pride the students
universities share,"

he

and alumni

feel

are qualities

and

both

says.

of BU's Council of

Trustees and chair of the presidential search committee,
agrees. "Dr. Soltz

is

uniquely qualified to provide the

necessary leadership to continue Bloomsburg University

moving forward in
Soltz

a very positive direction,"

grew up near Chicago and moved

an undergraduate student, earning

as

he

says.

to California

a bachelor's degree

in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley, in

1968 and

a doctor of biology degree

from the University

of California, Los Angeles, in 1974.

'When I went to
started

UCLA,

grad school at

see myself living in a major

urban

area,"

really didn't

I

he

says.

"Then,

and three kids and stayed

in

LA.

for

30

the Soltzes found the rural

on

to Ellensburg,

life

David

years."

After living for three decades in major California

moved

I

my career and got married. We had two careers

they love

cities,

when they
their home

Wash., in 2001. And,

three acres has provided lots of space for their four

horses and three dogs.

They
expect

to Ellensburg. "I

some might

conducted

research as a biologist, including field research in the desert regions of
"I

spent a

lot

I

'lores,

a senior art studio major from Danville, center,

BU President David L.

during their mid-November

His

priorities at

southern California," the

of time in small towns

and

new president says.
rural areas.

We've

and

to

know the

inviting student leaders to

academic

and

his wife Robbie

campus.

Bloomsburg include learning about the

and the neighboring

faculty, staff

He

and students

be an "advisory voice" in

issues, similar to a task force

Central Washington.

he

initiated at

expects to place a lot of emphasis

on educational exchange agreements, which he
are vitally important.

Continued on next page

WINTER 200

Soltz, right,

visit to the

issues important to the university

community, getting

didn't experience the "culture shock"

when they moved

greets

believes

.

"I've traveled to

to establish

Asia seven times

meaningful academic

exchange programs, including a

One

recent trip to Korea," he says.

of those agreements led to private

financing to support a professor of

From

Chinese.

that seed

grew a

David

and Roberta

L.

David

'Robbie' Soltz

Soltz

L.

tenure track faculty position and,
last year,

Chinese

an academic major in

David

Washington.

at Central

and senior vice president

Soltz served as provost

L.

Washington University before he became Bloomsburg

His wife, Roberta "Robbie" Soltz,

earned a doctor of biology degree

Jan.

7.

As

chief

academic

Ellensburg, Wash., he

officer of the regional

was

for

academic

affairs at Central

University's 18th president on

comprehensive university located

responsible for four colleges, the

in

graduate studies,

library,

from the University of California,

mem-

Irvine

and has been

ber

Central Washington. In

at

Ellensburg, she
Kittitas

a faculty

was

continuing education, international programs, research and grants, as well as student

academic support
Active

chair of the

member

of the Western Art Association's

board of directors. She

number

Committee

of

Academic

Officers for the state of

and as Central Washington University's representa-

was

the state representative on the executive committee of the Northwest Academic Forum.
Soltz also served on the executive

committee of the American Association of State

Cham-

local

Washington's

Higher Education Coordinating Board. For the past four years, he

tive to the State

also coordi-

he served as chair

of organizations related to higher education,

six public baccalaureate institutions

nated the Leadership Ellensburg

program through the

a

of the Inter-institutional

County Board of Health

Advisory Committee and a

in

services.

Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Grant Resource Center and

was an

original

member

ber of Commerce. Robbie Soltz was

on

the primary writer

a

number

of the implementation

High

Demand

From

fund Central Washington

Expan-

sion Program (STEP), designed to
increase recruitment, retention

American Democracy

Project.

Washington

Gov. Christine Gregoire appointed him to the Committee on the Education of Students

National Science Foundation grant

University's Science Talent

for the

of

grants, including a $1 million

to

committee

and

1

996

to

2001 Soltz
,

was dean

University at Los Angeles and, from

1

of natural

988

to

cal sciences at California State University,

1

As provost

or dean,

he

made

and

social sciences at California State

996, he chaired the department of biologi-

Long Beach. He also

of governors of the California Desert Studies

performance in science, technology,

in

Fields.

was

Consortium from 1992

official visits to

10 universities

in

chair of the board
until

2001

China, often negotiat-

engineering and math.

The couple views
Bloomsburg

their

move

ing cooperative

know,

opportunity. "You

a candi-

courses ranging from freshman seminar and general biology for non-majors to graduate

seminars on ecology and evolutionary biology.
Soltz earned a bachelor's degree

date interviews the institution, too,

and

I

about
"I

found

many positive

things

this institution," says Soltz.

like the feel of the

faculty

town, the

enthusiasm and the com-

mitted students

.

.

.

ley,

and a doctoral degree

in

about their education. All of the

is

zoology from the University of California, Berke-

biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His

research focuses on environmental biology and the population biology of fishes
stressful environments, such as high

book, a

temperature and high

symposium volume and numerous

b

Soltz

is

journal articles

the United

a Rotarian and, before moving to Bloomsburg,

Way of

Kittitas

mittee of Kittitas Valley

co-editor of

Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.

salinity.

He has

and environmental

was

a

living in

written one
reports.

member of the

board of

County and the strategic planning and implementation com-

Community

The new president enjoys

Bonnie Martin

in

good students

who are enthusiastic and happy
pieces are in place."

for international education opportunities. He's taught

to

tremendous

as a

agreements

hiking

Hospital.

and

fly

fishing in his leisure time and, with his wife

Robbie, rides and raises quarterhorses. The Soltzes have three young adult children and

two granddaughters.

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

The number
granted

of bachelor's

degrees

the U.S. increased

in

24 percent between 1995 and 2005,

growing number

reflecting the

of

students pursuing a postsecondary

degree, according to the National

Center for Education Statistics. Yet
in

math- and science-related

the

number

of

fields,

degrees granted

actually declined.

A Bloomsburg

University professor

is

working to

change that trend.

Math Matters
STORY BY LYNETTE MONG
Mauch is always searching
new ways to help students suc-

Elizabeth
for

Mauch,

'08

associate professor of

really

mathematics, computer science and

ceed, from the youngest elementary

statistics,

student to the college senior. She

academic help and a positive living

particularly

tion rate

aware of the high

is

attri-

among science and math

students at the college level and

is

will

up on

giving

we hope

emphasis on math,

these students complete their studies.

students before they

To do

this, she's started a

summer

program

for young girls, led BU's
Math and Science Resource Center

and, most recently, helped
a

BU

attain

$600,000 grant from the National

Science Foundation.

The

grant, co-written

research,

is

with James

and

designed "to recruit and

retain students in the sciences

and

math, and to fund low-income students,"
fall, it

Mauch says. Beginning this

will provide

$10,000 per year
students

who

or science

13 scholarships of

for four years to

math
and satisfy low income
are majoring in

requirements. Scholarship recipients
will receive tutoring

Originally

from

through BU's

Student Support Services and

live in

fall

heavy

enter college. Every year,

organizes a

behind."

New York,

her master's and doctorate degrees

"We

from Lehigh University. She came
a certificate in

math content courses

for ele-

mentary education majors. Yet

after

nine years, she says, "Elementary

math is something I've become
increasingly interested
"It

math

interests
at the

elementary

because that

seem

to

Mauch

is

the time

keep them or

says.

interest.

get a lot of

good

college stu-

Emphathem

dents from around this area.
sizing

math and

when

they are younger will help us

retain

them as students when they
Mauch says. To make the

science to

are older,"

experience accessible, scholarships

summer 2008,
camp will be open to boys.
Mauch has no intentions of

are available and, in

the

slowing

in.

me how kids learn

down her efforts

BU students,

to help

present and future.

bringing projects to fruition.

level,

"I like

when we

And I love being involved with

lose them,"

To determine

the best

and Technology Living

methods

Community with

goes to elementary schools to

WINTER 2008

was

when the head of the

Learning

students in similar majors.

to

department assigned her to teach
several

girls

and high school, using
and demonstrations to

in middle
activities

education, but

Mauch

Math and Science
Summer Experience camp for

pique their

surprised

that retaining

to help

a Science

other

Mauch believes

degree from Moravian College and

math secondary

are in the

students begins long before they

Mauch received her undergraduate

Bloomsburg with

Matta, dean of graduate studies

"Through

tutoring, especially placing a

determined to find a way to help

you

every day."

keep students from

the sciences.

if

classroom, working with students

believes the additional

environment

leam what teaching methods

are effective

these students
to succeed."

and helping them

b

of teaching math, she often

work

with current teachers. "You only

Lynette

Mong

'08

is

an

Englislt/creative

writing major from Kennewick, Wash.

'The best moments found on

reality

TV are unscriptable, or beyond die
grasp of most scriptwriters,' writes

Michael Hirschorn, executive vice
president at

VH1,

May 2007 issue.

in Atlantic

Perhaps that explains

the appeal of the genre that's
staple

Monthly's

now a

of network programming.

&>
flnscf
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY
The

critics

of reality television say

it is

rife

And Emmy Awards won in 1993 and 1995

with

wannabe-actors and contrived storylines; however, there
is

another,

much brighter side

to the genre.

Bloomsburg University alums have found,

programming can provide

As two

along with another nomination in 1999,

field,

Now,

expand

as director of photography for

a career or to help build one. Neal Gallagher, director of

Loser," Gallagher

photography on NBC's "The Biggest Loser," gets to

and camera

watch the

hit weight-loss

for his

David Copper-

specials with magician

attest to

the quality of his work.

reality

great opportunities to

work on two

show unfold through his

lens.

is

in charge of 14

assistants.

"The Biggest

camera operators

He works with

the director to

develop the show's look, which includes

how inter-

Meanwhile, designer Lisa H-Millard impressed

views are shot and where cameras are placed. In addi-

producers enough

tion,

tants

on

"Design

to earn a spot as

the second season of

one of

1 1

contes-

HGTVs top-rated series,

he serves as the

liaison

"My job

Star."

is

half management, half

half putting out fires,"

Neal Gallagher:

dealing with people as

This one

Generally,

is

special'

it

show.

takes five

On any day,

had a long

for

cameraman and worked on
took him around the globe.

a freelance

career he finds so personally

and

professionally

rewarding has never been boring, he acknowledges.

10

we work 12-hour days and

cameras shooting as

WNEP-TV in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. He then moved

The

much about

actually shooting the

be anywhere from four

who
home in

to eight

there

much as

10 hours of footage. Multiply that by

you

it

find

takes a lot to

make

a

finale.

crew
is

Another challenge he faces

gets

not

all

live,

five

may
and

one-hour show."

Each season consists of 14 episodes plus a

industry. After graduating

assignments that

photography and
as

shooting days for each episode.

his

from Bloomsburg in 1982, he became a cameraman

become

it is

"It's

makes

career in the broadcast

to

he jokes.

Neal Gallagher,

Dallas, Pa., has

on

between the director and

the show's department heads.

is

live

making sure

of the shots they need. Although the

the

show

Gallagher points out, "we can't go back and

get the shot again."

Gallagher

is

extremely proud of the finished prod-

uct. "I've liked the other reality projects I've

done, but

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Neal Gallagher

'82, facing page,

takes in the scene from behind the camera on 'The Biggest Loser.'

In photo above, Clive Pearse, host of 'Design Star,' offers his perspective to contestant Lisa H-Millard '03.

this

one

is

special,"

he

says.

"I

honestly believe that

area;

our show helps people improve their quality of life.

do

it

We

without judging, making fun of or taking advan-

tage of

I

am of anything else in

also

see

'Behind the

scenes

and

was crazy

on "Design

Star"

tant

on the show's second

"I

relatively brief.

who

season of "Design

work within,"
graduate.

show

be on the show. In the

had

castmates'

first

live.

am

was

challenge, she

and

after

you

like

going to the bath-

are fitted with a microphone," she says.

"You need clearances

to

go into a store

good

as the

to film.

There are

for 1 1 people.

camera

And

lights are

on

while you are trying to sleep in the four hours allotted."

Married to Lee Millard '02
in

Bloomsburg

works

University's

for Atlantic

who coordinates exhibits

Haas

Equipment

Gallery, H-Millard

Specialists, a national

field

on

the

other career opportunities,

own design business, b

the

For a glimpse of Lisa H-Millard on

"Design Star" and samples of her design work, see

www.lisahmillard.com. To learn more about NBC's "The

selected to

Biggest Loser," see www.nbc.com/The_Biggest_Loser.
the other

Vegas penthouse

H-Millard incorporated

into her design of the garage

WINTER 200

the scenes during production.

including launching her

says

"I

I

a great opportunity for H-Millard to see

show will help her

are

my creative abilities."

to design the Las

names

room

Editor's note:

H-Millard's confidence paid off as she

contestants

was

restaurant design firm. She hopes her appearance

where you

tiptoes along the boundaries with-

out crossing them to

where they would

good contes-

a

season.

2003 Bloomsburg

also

what goes on behind

reality television

first

would make

given specific limitations to

type of person

Still,

says. "I

an oppor-

my personality and creative side."

sleep schedules are not

was

me

a great opportunity for people to

Millard's time in front

love the challenge of the show,

H-Millard, a

behind the

give

and commercially.

residentially

was

two bedrooms and two bathrooms

experience after she watched the
that she

working

that this

show would

the

camera, Lisa Hunsinger

she too learned a great deal from her

and decided

on

"You don't think about things

fun!'

a lot of time

of the camera

knew

It

While Gallagher spends

Star"

that being

tunity to test

Lisa H-Millard:

Star."

"Behind the scenes was crazy and fun!" she

knew

my career."

H-Millard has no regrets about

exit,

appearing on "Design

our contestants. I'm more proud of being part

of 'The Biggest Loser' than

however, the judges dismissed her from the show.

Despite her early

all

loft

of the

door

Kevin Gray

is

a freelance writer based

in the

Lehigh Valley.

STORY BY JIM DOYLE

V*

'72

In the

Company of

Frank Sheptock, seen during his college
career, facing page and at left, surprised
many when he chose to play for
Bloomsburg. His accomplishments led
to college footballs highest honor,

induction into the National Football
Foundation's College Football Hall of

Fame, in summer 2007, below.

Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and

Knute Rockne were among
54 pioneers

in

and

for

Sheptock

'86.

who were winless

The Huskies,

the season before

Sheptock arrived on campus,

an

college career, culminating in

Football Hall of Fame's first

class

1951.

in

unbeaten regular season and a

A college

to the Division
finals

coach credited with helping
to rebuild Huskies football

as a player

in

the 1980s

is

hall of

latest class.
high school football

The
had

was

a big decision to

star

make.

trip

me

as

an

also did a great job

The turnaround

in

burg's football fortune

Blooms-

came

slowly.

Sheptock was one of 14 freshmen

middle linebacker earned him

who

three first-team All-American

Bloomsburg was

And in summer 2007 he

started for the

petitive

1982 Huskies.

much more com-

than they had been in the

received college football's highest

two previous seasons, but they only

honor when he was inducted

managed

into

a 1-7-1 record.

the National Football Foundation's

hard to take

College Football Hall of Fame.

tock whose

Sheptock explains the appeal of

It

and

He

Sheptock's outstanding play at

a

fame's

a passion for

of recruiting my mom. Obviously,
my parents had a big influence on
my life and my decision."

national semi-

when he was a senior.

selections.

member of the

II

He had a passion for the

game and

individual.

showed steady progress during his

the College

gram.

had

That was

for a player like

Shep-

Mount Carmel teams

lost a total of

nine games in

George Landis' recruiting pitch:

his three years of varsity football.

several Pennsylvania State Athletic

"Coach Landis had

and

Walking

Conference schools were very

an

we

Huskies' season-ending 34-7 loss at

his senior year,

interested in his services. Millersville

and West Chester both seemed

like logical choices.

They were

conference powerhouses, and this
senior
all,

was used

he played

program

to winning. After

for the

winningest

in the history of high

there

was something

intriguing about the recruiting

pitch delivered
at

Bloomsburg

tually the

by

the

new coach

State College.

high school

star,

Even-

Mount

Carmel's Frank Sheptock, defied
logic

and decided on Bloomsburg,

a football

can win

at

'I

believe

Bloomsburg, and

believe that

I

East Stroudsburg, Sheptock

I

can build some of this

decided he'd had enough.

around you.' Here was a person
that

wanted

to try

"I

and rebuild

come

was with

girlfriend Lisa

something and give a group of individuals an opportunity to

off the field after the

in

and make an impact on the pro-

I'm outta here.

work

out.'

prevailed.

my mom and my
and
It's

I

said,

This

is it,

not going to

Obviously, cooler heads

Coach Landis refocused

me by telling me

school football.
Still

a passion

attitude that said

program

that

had

that I had made a
commitment and we would go
through some rough times. That
had a profound effect on me which
continues to this day as a coach and

a father

— overcoming

working through
to

your word.
"That's probably

a

adversity,

things, being true

what I'm most

two previous seasons, including a

proud of concerning my time at
Bloomsburg. I wanted out, but

humiliating 72-0 loss to Millersville

some people

in 1981.

in

combined record

of 1-18 in the

That decision turned out to be a
great

one

for

Bloomsburg

football

that

were important

my life refocused me. We were

able to hold

it

together

things around."

Continued on next page

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and turn

about.

touch?

How many lives can you
How many people can

you help?
Frank Sheptock, second mm left, takes the stage with other inductees
National Football Foundations College Football Hall of Fame.

'When you're allowed to do that
game that you love, you have to

to the

I

in a

ask yourself,

The Huskies

(23), as well as career

did, indeed,

turn things around. In 1983 they

Millersville just

removed from

With

72-0 loss to the

that

Chester in

It

may have been the

real turning

The

point in the Huskies' fortunes.

week before

in a

win

Bloomsburg's sophomore running
back, Vernon Rochester, suffered an
left him paralyzed. At
Redman Stadium the Huskies, in

tribute to their injured

from a 24-5

24 victory over the Golden Rams,
team

that

a

had beaten them 46-0 in

1984 the Huskies clinched

In
the

PSAC Eastern Division title on

Jay Dedea's 50-yard "Hail Mary"
pass to Curtis
final play.

Still

on the game's

Two weeks later

Bloomsburg

lost a

championship game

at

PSAC

at

Hershey.

stepped

favored IUP team 31-9 in the

PSAC

an overflow crowd

Stadium. They followed

with a 38-28 win over

Hampton in

a National Collegiate Athletic Asso-

(NCAA)

losing to North

quarterfinal before

Alabama

in the

national semifinals in Florence, Ala.

Sheptock ended his career

the final

(AFCA)

single

,

game

major college

Rozier,

poll.

He

Mid-Atlantic Conference

first

in his

and former Florida University

AFCA Region 2

in

rusher. Sheptock calls the experience

"phenomenal."

"The memories

it

in

in the
as

coach

'86, a

school

Berwick High School, and

their daughters Nicole, 16,

feel like this is

your day

was given the
the Heisman TroI

same treatment as
phy winners. I feel very fortunate that
the decisions I made as a young man

and

possible.

I

love the game, and

love being around the kids.

perspective,

it

it's

from a

football.

young men how

.

.

of rebuilding

.

is

also

lucky that Frank Shep-

Husky

football,

b

what

Jim Doyle 12 retired after teaching at
Southern Columbia High School for
32 years. He

to

how to be committed

to their families. That's

very lucky as a

When

your classroom, but

live their lives,

feel very,

differ-

day

tock decided 25 years ago to be part
I

teacher's

not about

me in

this type of

Bloomsburg University

anticipates a long coaching
I

make

ent ways to

very lucky

career. "Sure,

is

make you

person and a player."

Kelly, 13.

He

me. The people

College Football Hall of Fame

So many people touched

Berwick where he

with his wife Lisa
at

at the

eventually led to this type of situation.

from his home
nurse

brings back of

what I'm going through now, are

and your weekend.

also

Sheptock commutes to Wilkes

lives

starter

my time at Bloomsburg, in addition

III

(MAC)

football's

Bowden

Emmitt Smith who eventually
became the NFL's all-time leading

ranked

was named coach of the year

Football

and

a few

Heisman

Trophy winners Charlie Ward and
Mike

American Football Coaches

you're teaching

stand for tackles in a career (537),

Fame. He was part of a

that included

to

with school records that

still

20

very, very special to

1-1

1

would

honor when he

In 2006, Wilkes was

All-American selection and finished

single season (159)

him

I

good Lord

into the College Foot-

winningest coach Bobby

had a 74-44 career

you approach

with his third straight first-team

in coaching.

record going into the 2007 season.

of the year.

ciation

Bob Chesney gave him

12th season as the head coach of the

well as the

at

class of

when Demelfi
down Sheptock had his

Colonels, he

I

Sheptock received college

ball Hall of

fact that

over.

University and

Sheptock and the Huskies in 1985.

Redman

were

years later as an assistant at Wilkes

After an unbeaten regular season,

Bloomsburg destroyed the heavily

it

as long as the

was inducted

Lourdes Regional High

Association

Everything came together for

final in front of

with the

his playing days

In 1987,

never

allows

and

director of player personnel

12 th in the nation in Division

seven-point deci-

sion to California in the

it

football's ultimate

head coaching job. Currently

the previous season.

found

Ind.,

School. Joe Demelfi hired

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heart-to-heart talk with Miami's

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deficit for a

think

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to terms

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find something

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The National Law Center on
Homelessness and Poverty reports that

more than

3 million people experience

homelessness each year, including
1.3 million children.

Through

photography and advocacy, retired

BU

Gary Clark makes sure others

Professor

community.

truly see this invisible

Capturing
STORY BY KELLY MONITZ
Gary

F.

Clark cruised around abandoned buildings, small

wooded

patches and under bridges looking for Charlie and Lisa, a Florida

couple stranded, penniless and living on the streets of downtown
Wilkes-Barre.

The couple came
sick relative, but

squabble with no
tickets

to

way home. Lack of $140

—kept them on

the streets as

damp, bone-chilling autumn
Clark, a retired

less advocate,

before.
at

to northeastern Pennsylvania to care for a

found themselves on the wrong side of a family

He

nights.

Bloomsburg University

hoped

to

—

money for two bus
warm October days gave way
art

professor and

home-

connect with the pair he befriended the day

carried a bedroll, a soft, durable place to lay their heads

night until another solution could be found.

The

city

has two homeless shelters

women. But

— one

for

men and

one

for

the couple refused to separate for even a few hours,

Clark says. Nights found them huddled behind a city church and
other areas tucked just out of sight, largely invisible to the
nity

commu-

around them.

Clark, though, has always seen the homeless.

Even

as a boy, he saw them on
wondered about them. As an
adult, Clark walked among them
and mustered the courage to ask

the streets of

Retired

New York City and

BU professor Gary

Clark, far right, connects with

how they became homeless and

the homeless, including Charlie

what

and

their lives are like.

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Wilkes-Barre, applauds Gary Clark's work, because
he has brought awareness about people who fall through the cracks.

Episcopal Church

These men,

women and children

in

didn't hold back,

side of the railroad tracks

He

told Clark that

and was making

lunch.

own awareness and moved him to activism.
An award-winning artist, Clark uses his talents as a

but he remained out on the

photographer to put a

meets in

cities,

on the homeless people he

face

such as

New York and Philadelphia,

in smaller communities near his

Nearly
traits

and

stories

mashuga,

want

direcdy

Bloomsburg home.

Clark began posting their por-

awareness of the problem of home-

inspire others to activism.

plight,

it

stories, see their faces,

becomes much more

says.

Web site,

work locally and abroad and founded

his

presented his

the Northeast

the street

on

and eventually end homelessness.

The heart

of Clark's project, though,

one work with the homeless, a

is

shelters

for signs of makeshift

the large

A number
camped against a bridge support near
complex, but no one stays there now, he says,

A few blocks away,
St.

people started

site.

filing into the

Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen. The Catholic Social

Services program,

which provides lunches

dinners three nights per week,
stops in the

and

Diamond

City.

He hoped

daily

and

to find Charlie

the couple, Clark decided to

woman he met two years

A registered nurse and an alcoholic, Ellen lives in a

wooded patch on

a hilltop just outside the city limits.

Turning a corner, Clark spied an old

It

happened

weak to hold

right

old Welfare office."

through his

ate

Jimmy made
home and she got him help.

his flesh. Smoldering,

a friend's

come

a job.

Jimmy

lives inside

make him

now, but

still

including Ellen.

streets,

But she didn't

inside.

show up

at the

soup

Outside the building, 49-year-old Sandy waved to
Clark, excited to

friend,

Mike,

empty parking lot, and greeted him
hug. Mike had just left his camp on the other

tell

him her news. Her boss

offered her

a permanent position, another step toward the normal
life

a prescription

drug addiction

She started taking pain

One

pills

stole

from her.

following a surgery.

—
— and then she turned

prescription led to another

OxyContin

Vicodin, Percocet,
to the street drug,

heroin, she says.
"I

came out onto

the streets.

I

had a lot of experisaw a murder. I saw

ences out there," Sandy

recalls. "I

someone

There are desperate people

killed for $30.

out there."

Sandy was desperate, too. "I wouldn't eat for days. I
was a skeleton," she says. "I died three times. I went to
jail

15 times."

Her last

stay in the Luzerne

County prison saved her

because she took the help offered, got clean and started
life,

started looking for

ing

at

she says.

On this Sunday,

an apartment of her

Ruth's Place, the local

women's

Sandy had

own while stay-

shelter.

The most important lesson she learned through it
all is that anyone can end up on the streets. "I was a
homemaker. I was a stay-at-home mom. I came from

cutting through an

a

with a

to

18

train tracks,

don't forget that date.

and seared

rebuilding her

look for Ellen, a homeless

he lay along

19, 1999," Jimmy says, sitting inside the
"I

down from the

way to

her to

one of Clark's regular

Lisa there.

Not immediately seeing
ago.

is

afire as

another winter on the streets and hoped to convince

and unsecured doors and windows.

of homeless once

because an apartment building overlooks the

him

has attachments to those on the

A canister of pepper spray goes with

Sunday morning, Clark looked

set

His scarred body and damaged muscles
too

his one-on-

facet that often takes

him on all of his jaunts.
Weaving through a maze-like building complex on
a

and

kitchen this Sunday, either.

him into potentially dangerous situations on the streets.
Some of his subjects are drug and alcohol addicts or
mentally unstable.

own perils, though. Mike
when someone found and

Both Clark and Jimmy feared that she wouldn't survive

fledgling organization aims to unite students from

colleges throughout the region to help those living

its

That day, he woke up as flames

Pennsylvania Alliance Against Homelessness at BU.

The

has

February

passed out from more beer than he could handle.

and thousands

He has also

last

Jimmy, another of Wilkes-Barre's homeless, nearly
when two men doused him with lighter

simply

He calls his project Essential Humanity.
Millions have viewed the

streets

lost his life

clothes

have responded, Clark

unwilling or afraid to

street,

camp. He wasn't hurt; others haven't been

his

over here

ignore this problem."

to

as lucky.

soup kitchen.

understand their

difficult to

on the

"December

on the numerous and immediate problems
"Once you

facing the homeless today," Clark says.

hear their

burned

way

inside.

life

everything

fluid

my photos and stories to put human faces

a

Life
lost

on a photo Weblog, www.fotolog.net/

to raise

and

lessness
"I

five years ago,

and

up

set

his

he wasn't drinking anymore,

sharing their stories with him. Their plight raised his

good Christian

family,"

Sandy

says. "It

can happen

anyone."

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Wolownik, the head of Reach,

Stefanie

center at

St.

Stephen's Episcopal

Barre, agrees. "It could

Church

a drop-in

be any one of us," she

The homeless

tells

the story as part of Gary Clarks

the Northeast Pennsylvania Alliance Against Homeless-

says.

Wolownik works with the homeless every day,
helping some to re-establish themselves and others
meet day-to-day needs from clothing

Charlie Weiss' face

slide presentation, 'Essential Humanity,' offered during

in Wilkes-

ness' third

to

to blankets.

annual conference

who do good are
that's

there

all

what warmed him

last fall.

the time," Jeb says, explaining

to Clark.

This day, Jeb sat across the street from the soup

often find themselves in a deep, deep

hole, she says. They've lost their families, children,

kitchen with his dog, Aries, a Staffordshire bull

home and jobs, and some

Jeb and Aries

don't have the ability,

life. Some
work to rebuild, because they fear they'll
lose it all again, Wolownik says.
"They remember what they used to have," she says.

strength or knowledge needed to rebuild a
don't

want

"Working

to

for

$7.50 an hour

is

hard

if

they used to

to build a fireplace to

The drop-in

still

center, like the

Clark's regular stops.

have their pride."

fall

soup kitchen,

one of

is

who

through the cracks. The drop-in center has also

from blanket and clothing drives

that

hoped they would go

Most of Wilkes-Barre's homeless
where they can

soup kitchen or

not for himself, but

inside again during winter's

coldest months.

eating a

them

meal

and

finally

Lisa, the

found them

the soup kitchen, he told

for them, but had no luck
them back home. He hadn't given up,

he had a bedroll

though, he assured them.

The couple did get home, Wolownik said later. An
someone like Clark, came forward with their fare.

angel,

Although Clark admits he would have given the pair

stay near the city's

get a nourishing

When he

warm meal inside

that

finding help to get

he

organized or inspired others to conduct.

center,

warm through the

inside,

out of worry for his dog, which he rehabilitated. Clark

stranded Florida couple.

Wolownik applauds his work,

because he has brought awareness about people

benefitted

keep them

went

Clark's thoughts returned to Charlie

"They

terrier.

deep in the woods, where Jeb hopes

winter. Last year, Jeb

work for $15 an hour.
"Pride," she says.

live

at the

relax in front of a television at the

the

money if he had

was someone who

he wasn't the angel.

it,

felt

right

about

it.

"I

guess

Sometimes

it

that

drop-in center. Both are within blocks of each other, as

kind of thing happens. Someone gets moved by their

are the areas where the homeless seek meager shelters.

plight

When Clark first came to Wilkes-Barre, a few of the
homeless steered cleared of him, and not because his
street

name, Mashuga,

is

and does something.

"It's

a hit-or-miss thing, but sometimes people

connect," Clark said,

b

Yiddish for "crazy," either.

Jeb didn't approach Clark because he didn't

know if

Kelly Monitz, an award-winning journalist,

who did good.

"People

for the Standard-Speaker in Hazleton, Pa.

he was a do-gooder or someone

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is

a

staff writer

nne-Sophie Ekelund

Bloomsburg

79

enrolled at

State College

with faltering

English, a passion for learning

and

a

sense of amazement at an environment

where

creativity

was

aged.

The

travel

and leam about other

art

strongly encour-

major graduated with a desire to
cultures, never

dream-

ing she'd one day be involved in providing educational opportunities in a country far different

her native homeland

...

from

Sonam Jamyangling and

or her collegiate one.

Coming from a small town in Sweden, "the
move to Pennsylvania was not such a drastic change

Anne-Sophie Ekelund
for

me," Ekelund

says.

"As a foreign

—

my best to contribute to the international atmosphere at BSC at this time
there were about 20 international students on campus
but my new friends also came
student,

1

did

—

from towns in Pennsylvania such

as Berwick, Moosic,

Southampton and Holland."

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From Bloomsburg to Tibet
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN
WITH ANNE-SOPHIE EKELUND

'79

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graduation and was living in

after

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difficult,

to return

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had

I

it all

one day," she

later,

to Tibet to get married,

returned

I

be part of

inaugurating five schools and meet

new relatives."
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known to many as

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Jamyangling,

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of snow-covered mountains and winding rivers.

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mark as one
by

a

of 20 boys sponsored

Danish prince

after arriving in

in the Potala Palace,

requested to

which was

him by an

master painter of thangka, a

India as a refugee in 1959.

Society for School

scroll

painting

on

returned to the Tibetan Autono-

motifs.

could not have asked for

mous Region

a better

Twenty-seven years

later,

he

of the People's

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silk

Copco, IBM and private donors.

Ekelund says she hopes the

she says.

gift,"

As Jamyangling put

Republic of China as part of a

Swedish International Develop-

ment Authority, Volvo, Atlas

with Buddhist

wedding

and Culture

has received funding from the

older

Tibetan children being educated

in long

delegation to observe whether

hours, his health began to deterio-

human rights were being respected.

rate,

On the

Stockholm where they continued

and encouraged with opportunities

teachers with only three years of

work on projects for the society.
To support herself and her husband, Ekelund became a project

formal education taught children

manager

incredibly simple but effective

he saw great poverty

trip,

in the countryside

there

and noticed

that

were no schools. Instead,

as they sat

Back

began

and the couple returned

to

to

for the

through the organization's
will

Swedish furniture

one day
ahead."

'Pay

it

Forward,' which had an

on the ground.

industry, organizing exhibitions

concept," she says. "The phrase

Sweden, Jamyangling

and events abroad.

meant

in

five years of negotiations

Chinese authorities

for

with

permission

including

many orphans,

if

one did something good

individual, the other

attend

someone

good

home village

Swedish Tibetan Society

has done so

of Katsel. Eventually,

for

School

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School and Culture became the

construction teams in the Tibetan

Autonomous Region and

foreign aid organization

allowed to build a school, a plan

grew

to

institutions,

108 educational
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libraries

and

a

special gift to Ekelund.

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to

me

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to as

Tibetan children as possible."

the

Tibetan areas of China's Qinghai

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and Yunnan provinces. Another

on the Swedish Tibetan Society

100 students attend high schools

for School and Culture, see

and

www. txbet-school. org. Anne-Sophie
Ekelund 19 may be contacted at

universities in China's coastal

cities

with the

society's support.

non-profit organization with

members,

the

for

another, instead of paying back that

Today, 13,000 children,

primary schools funded by the

that

efforts

supported

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to build a boarding school in his

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school superintendent in

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BU

at

after

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years.

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1990 and served

as

Vince Gilotti was inducted
Sports Hall of Fame.
first

into the hall of fame

District.

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taught in the

an adviser and coach.

into the

Jim Thorpe

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his professional career as a teacher

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alumni veterans committee.

Bloomsburg University's

director for 13

on

of the Korean

Berwick

Quest sponsors
Quest program

offers

extended

trips

BU students, alumni
and friends. No experience
for

is

BU.

and
became a real estate broker.
Frank Rizzo was honored by McCann School of Business and
Technology for his work as accounting director at the Hazleton
campus. He began teaching more than 33 years ago.

organization's 86-year history.

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later

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elected president of the Kiwanis

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necessary for

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these trips,

and most

equipment

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of

provided.

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stamina are required.

on bike or on foot

trips

but requires a sense
of adventure.

Rock Climbing

at

Rocks, March 8

Smith

to 16:

Located within a

state

park in

the high desert plateau of
central Oregon,

Smith Rocks

has more than 1,400 climbing routes, offering something for

all skill levels.

Participants travel to

Walking Across

destinations in the

Way, two

commonwealth, across

Dingle

and

offered,

the U.S.,

in Africa,

Ireland:

June 17

The

Scenes like this await participants in Quest's photographic tour
of the English Lake District in July.

trips

to

26 and

17 to 26: The Dingle

lead the tour through the

prepared for any road or

English Lake

weather condition.

South and Central America

Sept.

and Europe.

Way, one of Ireland's most

villages

scenic long-distance walking

views of the

Backpack the Grand
Canyon, March 8 to 16:
The journey will begin
on the South Rim, explor-

open

to

trip is

beginning and

inexperienced backpackers,

small

and market towns with
Irish Sea,

In addition to the programs

mounlisted

trails, is

located in the south-

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finishing in the

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town of

County of Kerry

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along the way. The

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distant hills.

day

above, Quest conducts

trips

on most weekends

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and designs customized team-

unique way

to

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to see Iceland's

building

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mountainous landscapes, the

additional information, contact

graphing the Lake

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July

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rural roads. Bikers

must be

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^7 Mary Ann Kaminski Charles retired after more
\J / than 32 years as an elementary and middle school

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Five inducted into
Athletic Hall of Fame

teacher.

She worked mostly

at Wellsville

Joseph Lubeskie, Kulpmont,
Lourdes Regional High School

Members of the 26th BU Athletic Hall of Fame
class

inducted

Graupp

last fall are

Toby Rank

Cuthbert-Jameson

'87, Kelly

Connelly '90 and Kathy Maguire-Stoudt

5

'89, Bill

'92.

Rank played on the men's soccer team for four years and
scored 29 goals (number three all-time in school history)
and assisted on

He

from Our Lady of
40 years as a teacher

retired

after

and coach.

Donna

'80,

14 goals.

Elementary School in

the Dillsburg area.

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retired

from Connecticut's

Public Schools after 35 years.

He

Bristol

high

retired as a

school principal and later returned as a middle school
principal.

He

High School

serves

on

the

board of the National Federation of

and was honored with

Athletics for wrestling

"Dennis Siegmann Day" in the City of Bristol for his service to
also

the school.
is

third in career

points with 71.

He was

a four-

time All-PSAC
East selection

was named

and

The newest inductees into BUs Athletic
Hall of Fame are shown with former
president Jessica Kozloff. They are, left to
right, front: Donna Graupp, Toby Rank and
Kelly Cuthbert-Jameson and, back: Kathy
Maguire-Stoudt, Kozloff and Bill Connelly.
field

hockey and

Softball.

As

a two-year

is

Rank

co-holder of the

school record for
goals in a
(four)

School. Prior to that, he

game (nine).
Graupp played

in a

is

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two-time All-PSAC (Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference)

and had

She totaled 28 goals

three assists. In softball she earned

All-Region honors during her career.

Cuthbert-Jameson was a four-year
lacrosse

member

team and finished her career

leader in goals scored with 156

183 (now second in both

is

member

Kodak

Co.,

1,481 points (graduated in third place).

was named
also

He

first

team All-PSAC East both

years.

He was

B.

Jarman

(right) is president

and

of the National Center for
after a career at

where he was

Eastman

director of technology

He co-founded

the Infotonics

Dennis Moser, a special education teacher at Big Spring
High School, was a finalist for the Pennsylvania Teacher of the
Year Award. He has been teaching for 34 years.
Gregory Roussey was named director of transportation
construction-management services at Buchart-Hom Inc., Basco
Associates of York.

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Stephen A. Andrejack,

Camp

Hill,

earned a

doctoral degree in educational leadership from

State University in

free

throws attempted

with 534.

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Seminary in Van Nuys, Calif, with a graduate

starter for the

women's

Debbie Demko, a Pottstown High School English teacher,
was named to Cambridge Who's Who Among Executive and
Professional Women in Teaching and Education.
Patricia Bedeman Miller is dean of student affairs at

basketball team. She finished her career as the school's

Keystone College.

(now seventh) and
all-time leader in free throws attempted and made (514 and
361 respectively). She remains number two in steals with
284 and is 10th in assists with 225. Maguire-Stoudt was

")^/L John Bigelow (right) was promoted to
/ \3 president of New Jersey American
Water.

named

president in charge of regulatory programs

fourth leading scorer with 1,213 points

first

team All-PSAC East

as a junior.

He had been the company's

enterprise risk

WINTER

200

Penn

August 2007.

certificate in Christian ministry.

East as a junior.

Connelly holds BU's career record for

Maguire-Stoudt was a three-year

State University.

led the Huskies

both his sophomore and senior seasons and

named second team All-PSAC

years.

Technology Center near Rochester, N.Y.

1^7/i
of the men's basketball

BU's fourth all-time leading scorer with

in scoring in

1 1

in career points with

categories).

Connelly was a four-year

team and

and

of the

as the school's all-time

American film studies at Penn
in Quakertown.

Manufacturing Sciences

partnerships.

in her career

Upper Darby High

assistant principal for

He and his wife Mary live

of the field

hockey team, Graupp was a two-time Ail-American and
selection while playing for the Huskies.

was an

5 ^7 ~1 Rev. James Cavallero was appointed pastor of
/ A. Salem United Methodist Church of Danielsville. He

game

and points

member

principal for administrative operations at

to the

All-Region team
as a senior.

5^7/^ John Wolk has completed 37 years in education.
/ \J For the last three years, he has served as assistant

senior vice

and

management.

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Husky Notes

John Wetzel appointed
to Board of Pardons

^^T^T Mary Kropiewnicki (right)
/ / assistant provost for assessment and
is

program review
been employed

at
at

Wilkes University, She has
Wilkes since 1992, most

E.

recently serving as the director of the doctor of

education program.

Ernest Lemoncelli was

certified

by

the Princess Cruises

Alumni

Fla.,

approved or denied.

he

is

have enormous confidence

"I

treasurer of the Delta Pi/Sigma Pi

in John's expertise

Association.

and experi-

ence in corrections," says

Jerry Radocha stepped

down

as

head boys' basketball
Lt.

coach of Whitehall High School in 2007, ending his 25-year
coaching career

is

on whether clemency should be

cases to advise the governor

"commodore"

cruise professional at

A travel agent with Maxima World Travel Services,

Lake Worth,

to the

a five-person panel responsible for reviewing criminal

Academy as an expert
status.

Wetzel '98 was recently appointed

John
Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. The board of pardons

Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll,

who

at the school.

serves as chair of the

board. "The board of pardons

5^7Q Judy Spitzer Sexton
/ C3

will

(right) is director

of Clarke Pennsylvania Auditory/Oral

Center in Bryn Mawr.

an

early interventionist

specialist for

effective in

decisions with

Wetzel was nominated
Pennsylvania

and educational support

Lt.

Gov.

for the post

Catherine Baker Knoll and

Clarke and as a principal of the

Archbishop Ryan School

its

Mr. Wetzel joining our ranks."

A long-time educator of the

deaf and hard of hearing, she previously worked
as

be more

rendering

John

E.

Wetzel

for the Deaf.

approved

Joan Williams was named director of marketing at Ginger
Cove, a life-care retirement community in Annapolis, Md.

by Gov. Edward

Rendell and unanimously

He was sworn

the State Senate.

for

appointment by

in during a private

ceremony

in Harrisburg.

Wetzel, of Chambersburg, serves as warden of the Franklin

County

Prison.

He is currently working

towards a master's

degree in applied psychology from Penn

State.

}^7(~)

Kevin Wixted was appointed division chairman of
drawing, painting and photography at Alfred
University's School of Art and Design.

S

/

}

Q f\
O
\J

State

Diane Lewis, Hellertown, was promoted

to

assistant director of continuing education at

Lehigh Valley campus. Previously assistant

of admissions at BU, she has

worked

at

Penn

Penn

to the director

State for the last

seven years.

5

Jimmi Simpson stars
Broadway show
Actor and alum Jimmi Simpson '98,

Aaron Sorkin's

play, 'The

BU students Nayeem

firm.

left,

discusses his role in

Farnsworth invention,' with,

left to right,

performance. Simpson stars in the Broadway production opposite
plays the

who invented

title

character, Philo T. Farnsworth,

1927 and was later pitted
RCA, played by Azaria, in a legal battle over
Farnsworth's patent. Simpson originated the role of Farnsworth at
the La Jolla Playhouse in California. 'The Farnsworth Invention'
began previews in October. Simpson graduated from BU with a
against the head of

Mary

Ellen Rutledge

was named

Eshelman

a shareholder in

land development and environmental consulting

Mechanicsburg and English professor Ervene Gulley following a

a boy genius

~1

JL. (right)

Rettew, a multidiscipline engineering, planning,

in

Islam of Bangladesh and Andrew Bliss of

Hank Azaria. Simpson

Q
O

television in

She has been the company's

human

resources director since 2003.

Gina Spleen Jaeger

is

a captain with the U.S.

Navy

Medical Service Corps, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,

Washington, D.C.

manager of
5Q ^ Scott Behrent,
O.W
operations with Farm Family Casualty
Pittsfield,

Mass.,

is

casualty

Insurance Co.

He

received an award for academic excellence

from the American

Institute for

Chartered Property Casualty

Underwriter.

degree in theatre arts.

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Kevin Kerrigan

is

in his

first

Colleen McAuliffe

term as treasurer of the

Commerce. He is a partner
accounting firm of Wiss and Co., Livingston.

Livingston (N.J.)
the

Chamber

McMane

Michael

and

is

Chamber

of

Commerce. He

a financial consultant with

Kathleen Moran, Newtown,

is

JT
Q %J
O

5

CEO and owner of

Q

operations for

PPL

Electric Utilities for Luzerne,

financial

markets for Harte-Hanks

He was

Ohio.

Q \J
O
£l

Plasko was inducted into the Tamaqua Area
High School Athletic Hall of Fame. A standout in
Bill

C3 C3

coach

Q AJL Bryan

in high school,

he played

at

Allentown,

is

head

field

hockey

Parkland High School. She was previously

was a member of BU's
hockey team and an academic field hockey

the team's assistant coach. She

championship

C3

and basketball

Q Q Donna Hibshman,

5

previously president of The

Allegiant Group.

5

community sponsored

basketball at BU.

Cincin-

Inc.,

administrator of Bristol Glen,

is

a continuing care retirement

football, baseball

Carbon and Northumberland counties.
Stephen Drees (right) is managing director for

Schuylkill,

nati,

Theresa Loughney

by United Methodist Homes of New Jersey.

^y David J. Bonenberger is regional director of

C3 «_/

vice president for clinical

lives

AIG

5
9

is

operations for Acurian Inc.

Advisor Group.

Anthony J. Varano Jr., Berwyn,
Documents Solutions Group Inc.

chief financial officer for Girl Scouts

is

in the Heart of Pennsylvania.

in

in his third term as vice president

is

of the Livingston (N.J.)
in Livingston

of

Kellenberger

is

field

Ail-American.

plant

controller for Material Sciences Corp., Morrisville.

Births
Carla Williams Karboski '89 and

Tracy Walker Funk

husband, Ron, a daughter, Veronica

husband,

Marie, Dec. 16,2006

May

Pamela Palermo Schoenstein

Michael Gillespie

'91

Bree, a son, Benjamin Michael,

and husband, George, a

daughter, Grace Evelyn,

Oct. 23,

2007

Aug.

9,

Lisa

Rutkowski

Michael, Aug.

Loftus '92 and

7,

2007

2007

Jim Ahern

'93 and

'95, a son,

Jared Everson, June 24, 2007

Cathleen Zicari Flynn

Sherry Goliash Rine 00 and

husband, Chris, sons, Tanner

husband, Wade, twin sons, Gavin

'95 and wife,

2,

2004, and Collin

Jill

Riley

10,2006

Christopher, Aug.

2007

Yendrzeiwski Beddingfield

Sydney,

May

17,

2007

Angela Shoffler Charnosky
and husband, Andrew, twin

and husband, Dipesh, a son, Drue,

June

Sept. 11,2007

Erin High

a son, Michael,

2007

25,

'99 and husband,

2007

April 19,

'95,

2003; Audrey

Jessie,

and Alyssa

May 3, 2007

and husband, Michael, a daughter,
6,

2007

'96

Leigh,

June

Doan

12,

'99 and

2007

Joseph, Sept. 10,2007

husband,

and wife,
III,

Shelly Levan Stokes

Aug. 22, 2007

husband,

Holly Kapuschinsky

Kate, Feb. 24,

Magalengo

Eliza

'97 and husband,

Feb. 23,

2007

and husband. Kirk

husband, Kevin, twins, Reese and
fila,

5,

Marlena Zappile Thomas
'94 and

2007

WINTER 2008

'02 and

and husband, Wes, a son, Zander

'97

'99 and

Carl, a daughter, Jillian

2007

Ayers Booth

Thomas

daughter, Lia Sofie, Sept.

6,

Diane Sommers Reese

'98, a

husband, David, a daughter, Keira
Elizabeth, Sept.

Shawn

Wesley

2006

P.

Patrick,

Rosier

'00, a

Aug. 30, 2007

Laura Seigfried Seward 02 and

10,2007

June

21,

2007

Jasmine Slingwine Corazza

W07M and husband,

May 24, 2007

'97

2007

son,

18,

husband, Jeremy, a daughter, Emily,
'00 and

Charles,

Karen Craig Weingarten

Metzger Lahr

Jordan, Aug. 1,2007

May

Sept. 9, 2007

Kristin

Greta Keller Rosier '02 and

'94 and husband,

'94,

'00, a

daughter, Jenna Lynn, Jan. 15, 2007

Madison, June

husband, Michael, a son, Kordell

Rob Kutchi

and

husband, Carey, a daughter,

Scott, a daughter, Aislin Shae,

CalumSeamus,

'01

Joe Jachowicz

Jaclyn Janowicz Schaeffer '99

Michael Kaleta

'01

2007

Stacy Au Jachowicz
husband,

Stephanie "Niki" Jones Kutchi

a son,

29,

and husband, David, a son, Zachary

Debra, a son, Michael Robert

Carolyn Landis Brzezicki '94

Brooke, July

Sandi Schwartz Weisenfeld

a

daughters, Brook and Addison, June

Cover

Steven, a daughter, Mackenzie,

Colvin '96 and

husband, Charles Colvin

'98,

husband, Rick, a daughter, Audrey

4,

'00,

Consentino

Patty Mullen

Nicole, Nov. 12, 2004;

Jason Schmidt

daughter, Carly Ann, Sept. 10, 2007

Stacey Cardell Consentino

Aug. 1,2007

Marie, Sept.

Kate Mickel Schmidt 00 and

and husband, Michael
'96

9,

2007

Dec. 1,2006

twins, Grace and Andrew,

'93

9,

1

Wade,

husband, Adrian, a son, Jess Allen,

husband, Frank, a son, Ryan

and wife, Amy, daughters, Amanda

March

husband,
'99

Joseph, Aug. 29, 2007

Jeremy "Jerry" Schuebel

May

and Garett Austin,

2005, and a son, Landyn

'99 and husband, Kevin, a daughter,

Kimberly Nagy

'93 and

Jennifer Davis Olds '98 and

Aspen, Oct.

Tara Rothenberger Chauhan

Blydenburgh Ahern

husband,

'95 and

a son, Evan Russell,

Melissa Burns Pritchett'95 and

husband, Mark, a son, Nathan

Lori

10,

Eric,

'00 and

Al, a

daughter, Eve Mary, Aug. 15, 2007

Leslie

Barrows Steese

'04 and

husband, Jonathan Steese '04, a
son,

Connor Adam,

Oct. 2,

2006

Husky Notes

Mark Temons was a
He has

the Year Award.

chairman and coached
Kyle Kern

is

head

varsity basketball

coach

at

Allentown

Muncy high

the Pennsylvania Teacher of

finalist for

taught sciences, served as department

at

Bishop Neumann, Williamsport and

schools.

Central Catholic High School.

Aaron Menapace was named Berks County

Interscholastic

He is
Hamburg

JC\

employed

as the director of interscholastic athletics at

Area School

5

Q y^
O

District.

C Michael
the

ride

raised

Marsha
District,

earned her master's in curriculum

Wilkes University.

at

in

support of the Young

E.

Wilkinson Kouf ^SfOlM. accepted a teaching

position with the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit 16,

teaching deaf and hard of hearing students

and instruction degree from BU in 2007.
Sharon Zuzelski Castano is the internship and mentoring
coordinator

participated in

three-day, 212-mile bicycle

Survival Coalition.

f\ Wendy Blass, an English teacher in the Berwick Area
School

Greg Orth

Gillespie and

y \J Tour de Pink — a
— which
$350,000

Athletic Association Athletic Administrator of the Year.

at

Danville

Middle School.

Denise Teles was awarded the local Wal-Mart Teacher of
works as a math teacher at Emmaus

the Year award. She

High School.

5(^/~i Tammy

Specht, a certified accountant, joined the

S \J Gratz National Bank's Board
Patti

Wylie was

Year Award. She

is

JC\/£ John D.

of Directors.

a literacy coach for pre -kindergarten to sixth

grade in East Lycoming School

y

1 John Andronis

Lisa Stockmal Starcher

loan portfolio manager at

is

Gerald Blancard performed with the

Battle

Creek Symphony

Ninth Symphony. His

recitals

have included appearances in Hawaii, San Francisco and

Coldwater and

for the Pennsylvania State Police

'

is fiscal

director

Bureau of Staff Services.

Suzanne Davis Glowaski earned her

master's in

education degree from Chestnut Hill College and
for the deaf at

Tom Paternostro,

Nate Conroy BU

'06 recently

is

Navy Reserve

a U.S.

students and

BU.

As

petty officer

returned from military service in Iraq.

first

A father of two,

He

is

an agent with Zuber
a board member and past president of
is

is

young alumni.
Conroy was

student,

Community

principal of the Nellie F. Bennett Elementary

School in the Point Pleasant,

N.J., district,

Nate Conroy

Pennsylvania State System of Higher

campus

tours for students

Orientation

very visible

He

and

their parents as

an

Workshop Leader and represented BU in a
way when his image was used on a university

billboard. After earning a bachelor's degree in secondary

Boyertown Area Wrestling Association.

James Karaba

BU

he

led

the

affairs,

Education Board of Governors.

Kurt Davidheiser, Boyertown,
Realty.

as assistant

alumni

Government Association and one of
three student representatives on the

Adolescent Females.

SO

a

president of the

a social studies instructor at the Danville Center for

JC\ "2

managing editor of Contact

representing the university to current

Sharon T. Kerstetter is a family and consumer science

is

the

Recent grad gains
alumni post
returned to

teacher at the Central Columbia School District.

class,

is

clinical trade journal for eyecare professionals.

director of

an interpreter

manager and head of

Creek in Michigan.

Batrie

Scott Frederick, Susquehanna Township,

'92

a project

Team

.A. Capital Bank.

as baritone soloist in Beethoven's

is

Rettew Associates Inc. of Manor Township.

office of

District.

Lens Spectrum, a

Jf\

Snyder

y\J land development operations in the Chambersburg

a finalist for the Pennsylvania Teacher of the

where he had served

education/ history Conroy taught social studies

at

Columbia-

Montour Area Vocational Technical School.
In his position as assistant to alumni affairs director

as assistant principal.

Jeanette Underhill teaches at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic

School in Lewistown.

Lynda

Conroy works with students and recent graduates
show them the benefits of staying connected to BU

Michaels,
to

through the Alumni Association, from career development

^C^k /i Janelle Banack

S

is

-I- teacher for Lititz

a part-time intervention specialist

Elementary School.

Chris Beadling, president of BU's Alumni Association,
also president of the

Doylestown Rotary Club.

Stacey Hohenberg (right) was promoted to
manager of corporate marketing communication
for ICF International. She earned her master's
degree in 2007 from Johns Hopkins University.

26

and networking
rentals.

is

them

He

to

on life insurance and car
become involved and introduces

to discounts

invites

them

to

ways they may give back

to

BU

as a

mentor,

volunteer or donor.
"This
to sit

is

the coolest job in the world,"

around and

something we

talk to

people

who are

Conroy

says. "I get

passionate about

love."

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Marriages
Mark Kessler '87

Justine Boer '00 and Drew

and Heather

Hoshauer, March 20, 2007

Joellen

Frantzen, July 7,

Sept.

McGee '89 and

Melissa Calucci

Paul

2007

Davis, July 18,

Rebecca Savoth

'02 and

Emily Shockey '04 and Dan

Raymond Pastore '01,

2007

Nystrom, July7, 2007

2006

9,

Katie Stott '04 and Gerard

'00 and

Kathleen Yerkes '02 and

Gregory Steber

Patrick

McNamara, July 2007

Wirth, June 14,2007

Eric Deeter '90 and Beth
Christian, July 13,

Treas

Michael Morella

'93 and Angela

Hwa

Ranck, Aug. 11,2007

Hibshman

Gahn, July

3,

June

Jr. '05,

Sarah Campbell

Chad

2007

2,

Belloft 03 and Gretchen

Walker, June 23, 2007

John L Shultz

Jeffrey

'00 and Russell

Angela Martin

2007

Chung, June

Megan Rowe

'94 and Gina

2007

'00 and

Melanie Bennett

Jeanette Anna, July

Callahan

16,

Court Kauffman,

2007

Laura Gawthrop '05 and

Kendra

2007

L.

'03 and

Branchick
June

Philip Martin,

Susie

June

Nelson, Oct. 13,2006

'00, July 7,

Karen

Amanda Edelman

2007

03 and

Matthew Brown, Aug.

Becky Souder '95 and John

Susan Berryman

Trochimowicz, Sept. 23, 2006

Moyer'99,July7,2007

Lisa Mull '96 and Justin Frantz,

Danielle Kadingo

June 23, 2007

Thompson,

'01

05M

Tara Rynhart

'02,

Varner,

June

23,

and Scott

2007

May 27, 2007

and R.C.

Janene Marcus

2007

19,

2007

,

Lauren Mallen '03 and Peter

Spera

May

1 1

Kratz '05 and Justin

E.

Sauder, April 21, 2007

and Steven

'01

Brett

Mitchley, July 7, 2007

2007

9,

Sweeney '00 and Ryan

Charles Hughes '94 and Ruth
2007

'03 and Alan

'00 and Christian

Skultety, July 30,

7,

Amy Fox '05 and

Sun

2007

2,

'05 and David

2007

Spatz, July7,

'03 and

Ashley Scheller

'05 and Brian

McHale,

2007

April 21,

John W. Shank

Deborah Marinko

'97

and

Kristie

Donny Nichani

Meredith Marko

'97

Michael Harrigan,

May 27, 2007

Alicia

Chesney

Majcher,

May

Christopher Pietruszynski,

Heather McCarthy

Aug. 18,2007

Roger Billman

Jeffrey Piazza '01 and Michelle

Tiffany Smith '03 and Geoffrey

McCabe,July6,2007

Worthington, June 30, 2007

Laura Renda

Tarah Sperrazza

'98 and

Schreiber,

'98 and

June

2,

Kimberly Sislo
Ryzner, Aug.

'01

and Sean

March

25,

2007

'00, Sept. 9,

Rebecca Callas

Kathleen Shue, June 30, 2007

Leonard

Kimberly Wilcox

J.

Campbell,

'04 and

'05, Sept. 28,

Kevin

'01

and Aaron

Rickelle Dennell '04 and

Stephen

Davis, July 19,

P.

'03,

Nicole Del Gotto

Harvey '01,

Elise

Genco

'04 and

2,

2006

Berrocal, Aug. 31,

'02 and

Joel

Maura Luciano

Sept

Nov.

4,

2006

Lori Effinger '02 and

Michael Stower, July 14, 2007

Gensil

'03, April 10,

Ronald

2007

Irving,

July

'04 and Patrick

9,

Sitler,

2007

Nicole

Jeffrey Sledjeski

2007

7,

Nicholas Karnes 07 and Amy

Newhouse '04 and

Bowman, March

10,

2007

Justin Boyer, Oct. 14,2006

Karlen Reich '07 and Eric
Scott Neuhard '02M and Mary

Lindsey Sampsell '04 and

Beth Fitzgerald, March 15, 2007

Snyder,

JC\^7 Kimberly Shewack Babbish, West Hazleton,
y / earned the doctor of audiology degree from the
Pennsy vania College of Optometry

in Elkms.
is

teaching French and

Spanish to junior and high school students

WINTER

'06 and Dustin

2007

John

Maginn'01,0ct.8,2004

High School.

Danielle

2007

Belack, Aug. 4, 2007

June

Juan

Jennifer Gaffney '99 and

Kyrston Toomey Strauch

9,

Jennifer Doria '07 and

May 9, 2007

at

Sheppard, June

Ashlie Dell '07 and Dale
'02 and

Michelle Barbera

2006

School of Audiology

Sabo'02,May26,2007

2007

Aaron

'99 and

Jedd

2007

'99 and Michael

Heather Serfass

'06 and

Gardner, June 23, 2007

Debra Rudy

Justin Shipe

Stacey Emery

2007

Rawhouser, June 23, 2007

Phillip Updegraff '01 and

Welles, April 20, 2007

Norakus

'03 and Brian

Jeremy

'99 and

April 28,

Brandon Palmer '06 and

2007

11,2007

Nina Beacher

II,

Gina Ormont '06 and Jonathan

Bobby

Deanna

'98 and

Dawalt

Ashlee Howard

Porrovecchio,

Shane Mull

'03 and

and

2007

5,

Beverly Stoltzfus '05 and James

Phelps 01 and

at

Lake-Lehman

May

}(j)

12,

Q

Chris

Light

'06,

May

19,

2007

2007

Christine Butcher Christman earned her master's

>^0 degree in business administration, human resource

management, from St. Joseph s University.
Sherry Clements joined Geisinger's Children's Miracle

Network

as northeast regiona coordinator.

Lyndell Davis

is

vice-principal at

Hopewell Valley Central

High School.

200

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Husky Notes

7(~Jf| Jennifer Aponick is the supervisor of special

S/

education for Salisbury Township School

Brian Gasper

Thorpe Area School

the Jim

Minishak named vice
president of digital sales
for

Mike Montgomery
development

Adam
in

MSG Media

at

is

District.

Penn Kidder campus of

the principal of the

is

District.

and business

director of marketing

York-based SA Architects.

Nichols opened a marketing and consulting firm

Langhome.
Vishal Petigara joined Archer

& Greiner PC. in

Haddonfield, N.J., as an associate.

rank Minishak '84

was

recently

r:

named

Irv Sigler, BU's only Harlon Hill

coaching varsity football

at

award

recipient, is

Thomas Fitzsimons High School

in Philadelphia.

vice president of

MSG

digital sales at

Deaths

Media, working closely

with the

MSG Interactive
Babcock '52

division to generate rev-

Dorothy Bennetto Tubridy '27

James

enue through advertising

Margaret A. Bacon '29

HarryJ.Weist'56

and sponsorships.

Lydia

As

vice president of

digital sales,

Minishak

Rauch Davis Butler

'31

McHose

Lucile

Herman Swoyer

Ethel

'58

Herbert Scheuren '59

Lois Hirieman Quick '31
is

R.

Ecker '32

Yurgis Socha '59

Ann L

responsible for develop-

Frank Minishak

ing and executing a

MSG's digital
broadband video, wire-

prehensive digital sales strategy for
platforms, including
less

Web sites,

and video on demand

for

all

of

Madison Square Garden,

MSG and

Radio City Music Hall, television networks

FSNY, and the

New York

com-

Knicks and Rangers.

Mary Cole Smith

'32

Arlene Werkheiser

Mary

George

Traub '32

Betterly Maiers '33

Schuylkill
for the

County

member of the

Bar, has

been appointed

as judicial

Honorable Jacqueline Russell of the Court of

Pleas, in Schuylkill

law clerk

Common

County.

Petro

Laurie Chaple Schneider, Pike County,
assistant

is

Sr.

'34

is

the Charlotte Acupuncture

E.

Line '35

Hilderbrandt '36

and

herbalist at

and Wellness Center.

R. Phillips '36

Troy Barrall '38

H. Klotz '41

Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815

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III

'68

K.
E.

Berkheiser

Harry
Peter

Pamell

William

'44

L.

Jr.

Schappell

72

Betty J. VanGorder

72
73

Robert M. Laubach

74

Cleo D. Kinney Pass '45

Bernard Salek

'46

Moyer

Schrader Walker '46

J.

Bertsch '49

E.

Donald

R.

Joseph

E.

Jarman

'50

Smethers '50

Sopko

Leah Wertman

L.

74

Stellfox

74/'88M

Marion Toolan Brieden

76

Catherine Reeve Stresing
'49

Leroy Keller Henry '50
Richard

Terry

70

70M

Neil K. Oberholtzer

Lorraine Utt

'69

Kathryn Endrizzi Walsh '69

Joseph V.Stulb '44-45 (Navy V-1 2)

Anthony Paulmeno

at

Lichtel '68

Robert E. Stroble '69

Dora Taylor Smith '42

Harry

more Husky Notes online
www.bloomualumni.com.

W.

Fairchild '68

James E.Shaughnessy

MaryT. Quigley'38

Phyllis

Find

'67

Wagner

W. John Strong

Beatrice "Bea" Kirchman

Lawrence

E.

Dobb

Judith

Richard

M. Helen Keefer Schnure

a licensed acupuncturist

'65

III

Rapella Turi '6B

Charles

a marketing

with Affinity Advantage Financial.

Todd Trembula

Ernest

Rowena

School in the Massanutten District in Virginia.

'63

Louise Holic DuBois '67

Marian McWilliams Cohen '37

Derek Long, North Salt Lake City, Utah, recently passed the
Utah Bar Exam.
Chris Robinson is the athletic director at Broadway High

Dowman

Frank C.

for

the Pennsylvania State Education Association.

Joanne Sipe Wimmer

Gladys RitterCroman '34

Edward

Angela Heverling received her law degree from
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and now works

'61

Pauline RengTurek '33

Andrew

Pennsylvania Bar and

Nace

Ann

Letha Crispell Schenck '34

Michelle Heffner, a

E.

'50

Fritz '51

76

Theodore Kalkbrenner '82

Wendy J. Whitmoyer '82
Barbara Kuchta Challenger '92

John F Kowaleski
Michael

J.

'93

"Penguin" Buck '94

Kathleen Leshock Bressi '95

Daniel Parrell '51

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

J(\(\ Tanya Bieski earned her master's of science in
\J v/ nursing degree at Salisbury University. She a
is

certified family

nurse practitioner in Berlin, Md. She was

recently published in Nursing

on

Economics

for her thesis

Angela Muchler, an
in

work

Joy Hubshman is marketing manager for the Masonic
an active adult retirement community.

Village at Dallas,

Dave Marcolla,
manager

He

an interventional radiology technologist

is

Lansdale, joined

for the Pennsylvania,

^f\^

Fred Fox graduated with a master's in computer

\J\£d science degree

AT&T as marketing

New Jersey and

from Stevens

Institute of

Technology

Delaware

Ryan Quinn
Pennsylvania

is

the educational services officer for the

Army National Guard

at Ft.

Indiantown

Gap, Annville.

Michael Nguyen '00/'02M passed the Pennsylvania
boards for his physical therapy assistant

license.

He

physical therapy at Central Pennsylvania College

is

state

teaching

Kevin Robatin, a physician's
medicine department
Kelly Smaltz

Conshohocken

is

assistant,

joined the family

Geisinger Medical

at

a sales associate

Peter Spera is a manufactunng manager with Havis- Shields
Equipment Corp, Warminster.

and working

Lancaster Orthopedic Group.

Group

in Sunbury.

Jf\^y Allison Carr received a second national interpreting
\J %J certificate from the Registry of Interpreters for the
Deaf in December 2006.

Benjamin Inners was promoted

with Coldwell Banker's
in

office.

May

2007.

He

is

"1

Ashman

Sheri

\J JL

'01M, Orwigsburg,

is

executive vice

president of marketing at First National

Bank of

Chester County.

Kimberly Boyce
Department

is

a

merchandise buyer with Boscov's

Store, Reading.

Elisabeth Erickson received a master of liberal arts degree

from Temple University in

May

Jessica Martin Fieldhouse

is

2007.
a planner with First Capital

Engineering of York. She has worked as an urban planner for
five years

and most recently was the

Kim Gasper received

city

planner for York.

a master's of science in education

May

degree from Graceland University in

2007.

to captain in the Air

Force

based in Colorado.

Matthew Kenenitz
}/"\

at

in 2007.

lives in Scranton.

markets.

at

2007.
Kristie Phelps

Eric Lansberry works as marketing coordinator for Caesars
Lakeville.

opened Susquehanna

Reading Hospital and Medical Center.

foreign nurse migration.

Pocono Resorts in

audiologist,

Valley Hearing Professionals at Brookpark Station, Lewisburg,

teaches English at

MMI Preparatory

School.

Kendra Branchick Martin, Mechanicsburg, is director of
media relations for Gettysburg College.
Lois O'Boyle was accepted to the graduate program in
marine biology at the University of West Florida.
Angela Runciman is studying comparative literature in the
doctoral program at SUNY Binghamton. She began teaching in
fall 2007 after working as a graduate assistant with recruitment
and admissions.
Heather Vogt, Williamsport, earned a master's degree in
education from Wilkes University. She is a learning support
teacher at Curtin Middle School.

Corporate partners offer benefits to alumni, friends

BU

alumni and friends can benefit from

their university

connection thanks to BU's corporate partners
offer special discounts

who

while giving financial support

and programs.
The proceeds generated from the corporate partners
program benefit the Athletic Scholarship Fund and the
to university students

Celebrity Artist Series, according to

Tom McGuire,

director of sports information, marketing

and promotions.

Corporate partners not only sponsor events, but also
provide additional rewards to those associated with the
university.

For example, several Bloomsburg area restaurants

offer discounts

and some

local hotels give special rates,

McGuire adds. Other corporate sponsors include banks and
credit unions, car dealerships, an amusement park and
television and radio stations.

BU alums can show their support
es

for these local business-

and take advantage of discounts when they return

WINTER

to Bloomsburg for events
Weekend, McGuire says.

"The best aspect
beneficial.

The

is

like

Homecoming and Alumni

these agreements are truly mutually

athletic financial

support boosts available

scholarship dollars to help attract talented students to represent the university.

Those associated with the Celebrity

Artist Series help bring diverse cultural opportunities to

our campus and the surrounding region, as

well," says Jim

Hollister, assistant vice president of university relations.

"For their

efforts, the

partners are recognized for their

support of higher education and get great exposure for their
businesses to our very large constituency," Hollister adds.

For a complete
to their

list

of BU's corporate partners

and

links

Web sites, visit www.bloomu.edu/visitor/motels.

To become involved

in

BU

as a corporate partner, contact

Tom McGuire at (570) 389-4413.

Husky Notes
Jf\ A

Rebecca Callas

is

Gina Ormont Sabo is teaching lOth-grade English in
Md.
Ronald Stump is a high school social studies teacher for

Baltimore,

a probation officer

with the

state of

v/^t New Jersey.
Amy Wilk,

Kristine Tofts (right) has entered first-year

a speech-language pathologist with Geisinger

Health South, Danville, holds a
in speech-language pathology

certificate of clinical

competence

from the American Speech-

£

is

Denver where she
is

a researcher at the University of

Bloomsburg, she was named outstanding

is

pursuing a master's degree.

N J.

Jf\^7 Anthony Borgia, Factoryville, athletic director and
\J / planning assistant room coordinator at Mountain
is

is

a supervisor in the

retirement group at Merrill Lynch.

pathologist at

'OS/WM

and language
Elizabeth/Humility of Mary Health Partners,

Cynthia McMillin
St.

is

a speech

Youngstown, Ohio.

Jason Scott is covering

Silver Springs as a reporter for the

Sentinel, Carlisle.

^f\/L Kristie Anzulavich is a nurse practitioner in the sleep
\J \J disorders center at Evangelical Community Hospital.
Bauman, Plains, a speech pathology graduate student,
is the 2007 recipient of the $ 1 ,000 Von Drach Memorial
Scholarship. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta
Lisa

honor societies.
Kara Anne Boneillo

is

View High School.
Jamie Houseknecht is a research associate with Becton,
Dickinson and Co., a biomedical firm. He works within the
biosensor performance and development department.
Kristen Koveleski was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi National
Honor Society Award of Excellence. Koveleski is pursuing her
doctorate in sport and exercise psychology.
Adriann Schick, Muncy, joined the audit staff of Brown
Schultz Sheridan

& Fritz.

Paul Zipko

employed

EZ

is

Soft, Inc., in

as

He

Malvern.

an automation engineer

is

the son of

for

Dawn and Ken

Zipko 78.

enrolled at Wingate University, where

studying for a master's in education degree.

John Neil Delia Croce '06M

is

enrolled in

Temple

Alumna leads

University's dentistry program.

Justin C. Hill
in

scholarship.

Joseph Yasinskas, Clarks Summit, teaches ninth-grade
English and world history at Scranton Preparatory School.

an eighth-grade learning support

Kevin Leonard, Flemington,

is

Virginia School of

biology senior student and received the Phi

teacher at Haverford Middle School.

she

West

Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, W.Va. While

Kappa Phi Honors Program

Combs

Nicole

Timothy Finnegan

Pi

studies at the

at

Language Hearing Association.

Jf\
\J %J

the

Mar Lin.

Schuylkill Technology Centers in

is

WABC-TV

teaching in the Donegal Area School District

Mount Joy.
Christopher Kuebler joined the police force

in

Upper

E

Saucon Township.

Funk Campbell

ebecca
'83

was recently promot-

-ed to president and

general

manager of WABC-TV,

ABC's flagship

station in the

largest television

Rebecca Funk Campbell
nation,
position, she has overall

management

for the station, including

Internet site

and

its

and

In her

new

responsibility

three digital

"Live with Regis

market in the

New York.

TV channels,

Kelly,"

which

is

produced by WABC-TV.
Campbell had been president and general manager of

WPVI-TV,

the

ABC affiliate

in Philadelphia, since 2003.

She joined the station in 1997 and served as program
director and, later, as vice president of

Cruisin' Seattle

Earlier in

BU alumnus Bill Garson

and his wife Dana of Seattle, Wash.,
hosted an alumni cruise aboard the Dana Lou II in late September.

Among those
Halstead

'84,

'63

attending the event were,

left to right,

front row:

BU Alumni Director Lynda Michaels ^ASSM, Valerie

Frey '93 and Kathy Rogers 71; and back row: Chris Billet '94,

Garson

'63,

former

Kozloff '07H and

30

Pam

BU

Bill

President Jessica Kozloff '07H, Dr. Steve

Nancy Anderson

programming.

her career, Campbell worked

Pittsburgh,

at

KDKA-TV in

WFMZ-TV in Allentown and WGAL-TV in

The Philadelphia Business Journal named her
2007 Women of Distinction award.
She and her husband John are the parents of two
children, Dylan and Taylor Anne.
Lancaster.

a recipient of the

'58.

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as

endar
7

f/lfr,

Noted ceramist and sculptor Toshiko Takaezu

campus

she cast on BU's

Academic Calendar

in 1987,

is

Celebrity Artist Series
Events are held

Haas Center for

in

Spring 2008
the Arts, Mitrani Hall, or Carver Hall,

Spring Break Begins

Kenneth

March 8

Saturday,

more

17,

Gross Auditorium. For

information, call the

box office

at (5701 389-4409 or check the

Classes Resume
Monday, March

S.

Web site at http://

Celebrity Artist

8 a.m.

installed.

visits

the

new Academic Quad where 'Endless Circle,' the
BU art professor Karl Beamer is shown at left.

bell

Friend and

Bloomsburg University-

Alumni Association Board

Community Orchestra

Directors Meeting

Symphony Ball
Saturday, May 3,

Saturday, Feb. 23

6 p.m.

Philadelphia Alumni Mixer

Kehr Union, Ballroom: Reservations
required, (570)

of

389-4289

or

Phantoms

at Philadelphia

Hockey Game

mjelinkek@bloomu.edu

March

(date to be announced)

orgs, bloomu. edu/arts/celebrity_ list,

Day- No

Reading

Thursday and

Friday,

Classes

May and
1

htm.
2

Association cardholders pay half

of the

Classes End

ticket's

face value for all

shows. Programs and dates are

May 3

Saturday,

Community Government

Theater

Harrisburg Alumni Mixer

Tickets for theatrical productions are

Thursday, March 6

available at the

Arts box office

the

noon

to

Carver Hall Chapter Wine

Finals

10

Center

Friday,

Dreams

May 9

Motion: Paul Taylor

Dance Company

Undergraduate Commencement

May

Saturday,

in

10

Saturday, April

5,

times and

tickets, call the

Board ticket

Session
Session

I

-May

Bloomsburg Players:

-

II

III

July

Broadway at Bloomsburg:
19 to June 27
1

-May

Mitrani Hall, $25

Haas

Gallery of Art

are open to the public free of charge.

More

information about shows

is

available at http://departments

Center

tickets, call

Board ticket

Annual BU Jazz Festival Boby

Tickets go on sale

& The Warriors of

Wonderful Sound

show

the Program

389-4340.

office, (570)

March

March 20

Wyoming Valley Alumni Mixer
Thursday, March 27

Alumni

in

Monday to

Week

the Classroom

Friday, April 7 to 11

17.

Alumni Weekend
Friday to Sunday, April

1 1

to 13

Alumni Awards Luncheon
Saturday, April 12

Grad Finale

the alumni online community at

www.bloomualumni.com

Mitrani Hall, $5

16 to

Alumni Events
Visit

noon

Friday, April 25,

Lehigh Valley Alumni Mixer
Thursday,

226

Bloomsburg. For

St.,

Wonderful Sound: Ninth

Zankel

Lysistrata
April

20, Alvina Krause Theatre,

times and

19 to Aug. 8

Art Exhibits
Exhibits in the

Evita

Sunday, April 13,8 p.m.

to Aug. 8

Program

389-4340.

office, (570)

Wednesday to Sunday,
Session

show

8 p.m.

Mitrani Hall, $20

Summer 2008

226

Bloomsburg. For

St.,

March 13

20 to

Feb.

24, Alvina Krause Theatre,

Mitrani Hall, $20

Graduate Commencement

Thursday,

Wednesday to Sunday,

Saturday, Feb. 16, 8 p.m.

May

and Cheese Social

Moonchildren

Voodoo Daddy

End

Saturday,

Bloomsburg Players:

Swing, Daddy-o: Big Bad

May 5

March 7

4 p.m.

Finals Begin

Monday,

Northern Virginia Alumni Mixer
Friday,

Fridays from

subject to change.

Haas Center for

Mondays through

Wednesday and
and

Thursday, April 16

17, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

for further

details or to register. For information,

Alumni Association Board of

Concerts

contact the Alumni Affairs Office at

Directors Meeting

Dylan Vitone

The concerts listed below are open

15701 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 or

Saturday,

Photography, through Feb. 15

to the public free of charge unless

alum@bloomu.edu.

Yoshiko Shimano

indicated otherwise.

Geisinger

Chamber Orchestra:

Florida

Spring Concert

February (dates to be announced)

bloomu. edu/art/gallery. html.

Printmaking, Feb.

25 to March 28

Juried Student Art Exhibition
April 7 to

Sunday, March

25

St.

2,

2:30 p.m.

Matthew Lutheran

123 N. Market

St.,

Church,

BU Alumni

the latest information

Alumni Mixer

events,

Sunday, March 30, 2:30 p.m.

Siblings'

Thursday, Feb. 7

in Charlotte, N.C.

Carver Hall Chapter Dinner

Wolfgang, oboe

and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Kehr Union, Ballroom

WINTER

and Children's

Friday to Sunday, April 11 to 13

Saturday, April 26

Tuesday, Feb. 12

Web site:

Saturday April 19, 3 p.m.

29

Renaissance Jamboree

Alumni Mixer

Mitrani Hall. Featuring Randall

Gospel Choir: Gospelrama

to

Saturday, Feb. 9

Haas Center for the

www. bloomu. edu/today

Weekend

June 27

Weekend

check the university

Arts,

Friday to Sunday,

Special Events

Community Orchestra Concert

on upcoming

Multicultural Alumni

Maryland Alumni Mixer

Bloomsburg

Bloomsburg University-

17

Jesse Bryan/John Cook
Reception

Basketball Alumni Reunion

For

May

Parents and Family Weekend
Friday to Sunday. Sept.

1

2 to 14

performance

Homecoming Weekend

Saturday, Feb. 16

Friday to Sunday, Nov.

1

and 2

Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist

The

original barn, related

outbuildings and a field of

corn and cabbage can be seen
in the foreground in this

1893

photograph. In the background
is

the dormitory complex, later

WaUer

A Look at the Campus' Rural Past

Barns, Hogs, and Crops:

The

remnant of Bloomsburg University's

last

bam, disappeared

agricultural past, the old

as a

pan

for students to

agriculture.

90 years of farming and animal husbandry

years, students

of daily

and

for students

life

in 1869, a dormitory

was

a

had

to

faculty.

be

equipment needed

to plant

1870 where Luzerne Hall

is

This winter photo of the 1894

campus barn, taken about 1950,
shows the Class of 1917

now located. Most

of the crops

bam was built in

now located, and

where

Elwell Residence Hall

and harvest the

first

two
grew

worth of vegetables on
plots of land

Equally

bam to house their horses and to store

farmland east of campus. The

first

more than $1,000

faculty.

literary institute to a

constructed to house students and

the

1913

leam about
During the

normal school

essential

in

from campus 50 years ago, ending nearly

For the school to grow from a

Hall.

went

the dining hall

to

greenhouse to the

and

background

is

left.

In the

Navy Hall and

included onions,

the right are swing sets for

crops grown nearby helped to supplement the food

radishes, lettuce,

students in the Ben franklin

served in the dining

tomatoes, potatoes,

Training School.

is

the

hall.

In 1894, the site of the

bam was needed for an
bam was torn down and a

employees' dormitory The

new one was constructed in the area of the current
Northumberland Hall. The new barn was two stories
tall

with more than 1,500 square

as a stable

The

and

feet available for

for storage of the school

raising of animals gained

the presidents residence.

house be

built near

Two years

later,

that a "piggery"

Buckalew

to

com and cabbage.
Student involvement soon ceased, however, and by
the mid- 1920s the effort produced such a limited

amount

of food that

now

Principal

and slaughter

provide meat for the

"piggery"

and end

The old
but

its

days were numbered

it!

to build a

perform the

razed

in 1938.

Northumberland

member Daniel

rural past

program

when

of

the carpentry shop

With plans

new men's residence hall,
during summer 1958 to clear

primary work involved in growing crops, faculty
Hartline began a biology

college-sponsored agricultural

bam remained in use for the storage

garbage problem. The hogs could eat

S.

all

plumbing and carpentry supplies and lawn machinery,

was completed

to

became a money-losing

work. Farming was completely phased out a year later.

dining hall and to take care of the school's extensive

Although employees continued

it

endeavor. In 1927, President Francis Haas asked the
Trustees to approve the removal of the Buckalew

wagon.

renewed importance

following the 1903 purchase of Buckalew Place,

Judson Welsh suggested

use

to

Hall.

The

in place

by 1955

the

bam was

the

way

last trace

for

of the campus"

was no more.

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The University Store.

Brown. Red. Black. Turquoise. Lavender. Burnt Orange. Lime Green.

Hours:

And Pink. .make

Monday through Thursday:

.

that

colors today as fans

But no matter the
gold

Hot Pink! Traditional styling comes in untraditional

show

their

Husky

color, every T-shirt

and every fan

are true

maroon and

Priced at just $9.99 each, the 100 percent cotton T-shirts with the white

great

add

a certain zip to anyone's collection of

new look as BU ushers in a new era,

sizes small to

Friday: 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Saturday:

at heart!

full-chest design

XXL, with some

For more traditional

hats, T-shirts, sweatshirts

gray and white.

University Store stocks a

and other

And all Husky fans

attire in

Noon

to 5 p.m.

Sunday: Noon to 4 p.m.

BU attire. A

the shirts are available in adult

full

The University Store

400 East Second Street

colors sized for children, too.

tastes, the

7:45 a.m. to 8 p.m.

pride in T-shirts of various hues.

range of BU

the customary maroon, gold,

can find hundreds of giftware items

and BU apparel, as well as gift cards in any amount, at the University
Store, open seven days a week and online at www.bloomu.edu/store.

Bloomshurg, PA 17815
General Information: (570) 389-4175
Customer Service: (570) 389-4180
bustore@bloomu. edu

www.bloomu.edu/store

Paul Taylor has used bodies

choreography,

known

showcased

in

in

motion to

for

its

aspects of

illustrate

life

since 1954. His

extraordinary athleticism and naturalism,

is

PBS's American Masters series program, "Dancemaker."

BU's unique program includes a

new dance, "De

Suenos," meaning

"of dreams," set to music from the Kronos Quartet's CD,

"Nuevo." Also on the program are "Musical Offering"

Kingdom"

(1986) and "Cloven
part of

(1976).

The 2008

tour,

American Masterpieces: Three Centuries

of Artistic Genius,

Endowment

is

supported by the National

for the Arts

and the Pennsylvania

Council on the Arts.

Tckets are $20

k

BU

for adults

and $1

for

students and children ages 12 and

younger. For information,

call

the Haas

Center Box Office at (570) 389-4409.

y»

Paul Taylor

Dance Company
Saturday, April

5,

8 p.m.

Haas Center for the Arts
Mitrani Hall

esplanade photo C

1011040904
Communications

Office of

400 East Second

Street

Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301

Bloomsburg
UNIVERSITY

THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
SPRING 2008
1

<

V

BU alumnus carries his
alma mater to the top.
Mountaintop, that is. Page w.
Team's accolades come after season
of hard work and heartache. Page 18.

Eyewitness

to

Mount St. Helens

eruption studies, explains volcanic
activity.

Page

6.

News Notes

Music

to Their Ears

Program earns accreditation

Work vs.
Good Work

BU's music program earned accreditation from the National

Association of Schools of Music (NASM). BU's program

617 programs accredited

Prof studies personal

"Reviewers visited campus two years ago and again

values in the workplace

spring," says

Stephen

Clickard, chairperson of the

department. "They examined our curriculum and

For Joan

Miller, assistant

listened to our students

professor of nursing, there
difference

is

a

between "work"

and "good work"

— and

interested

and

Joan Miller

that

in

exit our

and

in

rewarding career.
Miller has taught in BU's nursing department for

13 years. During that time, she noticed nursing

last

music

facilities

and

and ensembles perform. They were

the musicianship level of our students as they enter

in

BU's music program, which consists of tracks

music education

liberal arts,

one of

program. Our students did very well."

Enrollment

difference can turn a job into an inspired

is

nationally.

certification K-12, audio/video recording

has grown from 14 majors

in

1997

to

76 majors

and
in

2007. The department has eight full-time faculty and four
adjunct faculty.

students were becoming increasingly jaded toward
their future profession,

prompting her

to

look into

ways of encouraging excellence and moral

among nurses

accountability
Miller

entering the workforce.

soon discovered The

GoodWork Project,

Harvard professor Howard Gardner's multidisciplinary study of good

work

— work

quality, socially responsible

that

is

excellent in

and meaningful.

Although research on business, journalism and law

were already in progress, no studies had been
conducted in the nursing

24

field.

So, Miller interviewed

professional nurses at various stages of their careers

to determine
their values

why they are in the profession, establish
beliefs and leam how they overcome

and

obstacles in the workplace with those values in mind.

She found that the values those nurses developed
early

had the strongest hold on them

this in

mind, Miller determined that

for nurses

life.

With

should be taught early in their education

and reinforced

freshman nursing seminar course

good work
last fall

profession

—

models

— from

and found

one's family or

are essential," Miller says. "Students

enter this profession because they

others and,

when asked about

their desire to

want

to help

values that support

be a good nurse, they say they

wouldn't compromise the integrity they learned

from those mentors."

expertise

into a

mentors often inspired these values in young

nurses. "Role

Journalistic Perspective
Media pros share

later.

Miller incorporated the idea of

that

later in

ethical standards

Journalism professor Walter Brasch moderates a discussion panel
during the Journalism Institute, a day-long event attended by about

150 high school students and their advisers. Panelists included Mike
Lewis,

WNEP-TV anchor; Justin Walden,

national media specialist for

Geisinger Health System; Brandi Mankiewicz '94, associate publisher

of Journal Newspapers; and Joanne Arbogast, managing features
editor for the Daily Item, Sunbury,

and

editor of Inside Pennsylvania

BU graduates participating in the institute were
Andy Heintzelman '85, editor for the News-Item, Shamokin; Sam
magazine. Other

Bidleman

'76,

newspaper adviser

Bloomsburg High School; Pat

at

Trosky '95M, features and entertainment editor of the Citizen's Voice,
Wilkes-Barre; Danielle Lynch '07, reporter for the Daily Local News,

West Chester; Maryjayne Reibsome

'02,

graphics and

Web

designer;

Nicole Clark '07, a graduate student in BU's institute for interactive
technologies; Matt Colosimo '06,

BU

broadcast engineer; and

Jonathan Gass '05, copy editor and page designer for the
News, Harrisburg.

Patriot-

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Sharing Experience
Program brings young profs to BU
A new program offers young professors the opportunity to
develop their professional
teach at BU.

skills

while they

program, designed

for recent graduates of doctorate

programs and graduate students entering the
doctorate study,

welcomes applicants from

under-represented populations

working

work and

live,

The Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars

as faculty

final stages of

historically

who want to

gain experience

members.

The program encourages diversity within the campus
community and exposes students to different cultures and
ideas, according to provost James

Mackin. Frederick

Douglass Teaching Scholars are also introduced
benefits of working at

BU and have

to the

Ivan Turnipseed, assistant professor of business management,

the opportunity to

become involved in campus organizations and initiatives.
The first Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars, Wazi
Apoh,

assistant professor of anthropology,

have created and taught specialty courses, worked with

faculty

members within

campus and served

management, has taught courses
is

as

in

who

and human resources

both

Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars.

fields.

Apoh, who

from Ghana, created two new courses focusing on the

archaeology of Africa and the anthropology of human

"The scholars gain teaching experience and, hopefully,
learn

temporary

their departments. Turnipseed,

specializes in the hospitality industry

left,

first

and Ivan

Turnipseed, assistant professor of business management,

student organizations on

and Wazi Apoh, assistant professor of anthropology, are BU's

rights.

from our

institution," says Jonathan Lincoln, assistant

vice president for academic affairs. "Students can take
specialty courses they wouldn't normally

have the

opportunity to take. Current faculty have the chance to

mentor and leam from the new

faculty

future applicant pool increases. In

program

is

a

win

for

members, and our

my opinion,

this

everyone involved."

Forward Motion
Redman Stadium renovations begin
Renovations are underway at
Stadium,

home

Redman

of the Huskies since 1974.

After gaining approval from the Council of

Trustees

in

late-December 2007, work

moved ahead on the

project that features

a press box with elevator,
artificial turf field,

new

railings,

a

new

visitor bleachers.

ments

will bring

new

rest rooms,

track and field facilities,

parking

lot

Many of the

and new

improve-

the stadium into

compliance with requirements of the

Americans with

Disabilities

The Trustees accepted the

Act (ADA).

bid of

$3.2 million, along with an additional

$250,000 for

lights,

pending approval

from the Federal Aviation Agency. The
FAA's decision

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is

expected

later this year.

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Volcano Watcher
STORY BY MARK

CNN, MSNBC, Fox
News, USA Today and

Carolyn Driedger

75

U.S. glaciers were

all

she

National Geographic
are just a

few of the

media outlets that
have turned to Carolyn
Driedger '75 for an

first

left

Mount St.
Helens and Mount
Rainier from her

vantage point at
the U.S. Geological
Survey's Cascades

DIXON

Pennsylvania in the 1970s to study glaciers.

out west, so

had the opportunity

it

was in Washington and Alaska

to observe these large

that

chunks of ice and

how

bureaucrats respond to them. In Alaska, Driedger and her colleagues in the
U.S. Geological Survey
Glacier

was

(USGS) reported

to officials that Alaska's

Columbia

calving off icebergs at an accelerating rate.

"People laughed," Driedger

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predict that the 30-mile-long
will fully disintegrate within

Columbia Glacier
50

years, to

be

replaced by a water-filled fjord.

But the

spill

wasn't Driedger's turning point.

What changed her life was a visit on May

17, 1980, to

Coldwater Ridge,

an observation point in southwestern Washington from which volcanologists

were monitoring a long-dormant

— though rumbling— volcano

five

miles away.

Volcano Observatory.

on glaciers, was there
know-how. The mountain was covered with glaciers and she
track the effects of its increasing warmth upon them. "The volca-

Driedger, interested in the effect of volcanic action
to share her

hoped
Snow-capped Mount Rainier is a picturesque and potentially dangerous - backdrop to many
communities in Washington state.

SPRING 200

to

nologist

on duty, David Johnston,

Continued on next page

said

it

wasn't safe there and told

me

to

—

After the eruption of

Mount

volcano could do.

addition to the 57 dead,

In

Helens, politicians realized

St.

Mount

St.

what

a

Helens had

destroyed 27 bridges, nearly 200 homes and 185 miles of highway.

Rocks from the landslide and

go

home

for the night,"

lateral blast

covered 230 square miles.

she says.

The next morning, she was driving
back

volcano

to the

when she wit-

nessed the catastrophic landslide

and eruption, which swept away

on Cold-

the observation point

water Ridge, opened a gaping hole

and reduced the
summit elevation by

in the volcano

volcano's

more than 1,300 feet. Johnston,
last words to headquarters

whose

were, "Vancouver, Vancouver, this
is it,"

was

killed.

In retrospect, the disaster
created a "once-in-a-lifetime

opportunity," says Driedger.

Suddenly, politicians realized

what a volcano could

do. In

addition to the 57 dead,

Mount

St.

Helens had destroyed 27 bridges,
nearly

still

Damage

to public

property alone was estimated
$1.1 billion

—

and

at

in a rural, mostly

lateral blast

covered

230 square miles and the volcanic
which were an average
measured more

depth of 150

feet,

than 600

deep in

feet

of the

it

also

Some

Other

disasters

places.

of Columbia's

than 130
of

Mount

feet

the

a flow

composed

A lahar

itself.

of volcanic

rock and ash and water that
descends the slopes of a volcano,
usually along a river valley.

The

— which binds
and
motive
—was
by

water

together

previously

the debris

provides

supplied

on

its

the ice

the summit.

"Removal of snow and
the volcano doesn't

St.

Helens,

Driedger. "A lot of ice

ably vaporized

on

on

as

think,''

says

was prob-

that day, but a

electrical conductivity of ice

different than

lahar

which followed the
killed

impulse and measuring
takes to return,

we can

how long it

determine

More than a dozen major volcanic peaks are sprinkled

around

Oregon, Washington and northern
California, but the closest to a

23,000 people. In the Philip-

1991 Pinatubo eruption

with rock," she

by sending an

the thickness of the ice."

hun-

major population center is Mount
Rainier, only

54 miles from

Seattle

and the nearly 600,000 people

dreds of people while the eruption

who live

killed sigrtificantly fewer people.

Tacoma (194,000) and Puyallup
(33,000)— are closer.

"Around

that time,

(USGS)

real-

there.

Other

cities

we would have mud flows
in an eruption," she says. "So we

one cubic mile of perennial snow

decided that we'd better figure out

and

how much snow and ice we had to

Driedger.

ized that

Driedger and her colleagues per-

formed hundreds of measurements
on Cascades volcanoes, using a portable "ice radar"

and

receives

"As

ice

it

turned out, there

system that sends

an electronic pulse.

is

about

on Mount Rainier," says
"It's as much as on all the

other Cascades volcanoes

deal with."
ice

happen

quickly as you might

del Ruiz

town of Armero,

pines, the lahar

that followed the erup-

not the eruption

re-emphasized

high with a top speed

mudflow,

is

explains. "So,

1985, the eruption

Nevada

"The

valley

remains on

40 miles per hour. The

swamped

damage was

ice

volcano produced a lahar more

killing

force

of the land surrounding

the mountain today."

caused by the lahar, or volcanic

is

much

went down the

in the lahar.

this concept. In

layers,

Much

lot of

Rocks from the land-

forested area.

tion,

exists in

significantly altering the areas environment.

200 homes and 185 miles

of highway.

slide

Volcanic ash

com-

bined." Because of the volcano's

massive ice load and close proximity to large

populations,

siders Rainier the

USGS

con-

most dangerous

volcano in the Northwest. Geologi-

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Wash. Bacon frequendy opposes
Driedger stands

stump
leveled by

beside the
of a tree

a prehistoric lahar.

proposed developments in areas subject to flooding, lahars

and other

hazards. Like Driedger, he

is

used

to

being ignored.

"Development laws
developments

.

.

allow

.

proceed which

to

should be stopped," says Bacon,
"including the big ones near Rainier

cal studies, previously

in the

updated during the past decade

and the mountain

is

now studded

with sensors.
"People won't listen to you

when

we

we had

ized that

at

real-

to beef up the

USGS

the

— and her

know if Mount
wobbles. But

pan

to

much as

only the scien-

of the story.
to Driedger,

USGS

its

presuming

they were approved.

ness.

emergency prepared-

She speaks frequently

pub-

at

meetings, where she has learned

to strike a

can't say

areas.

Don't build any-

thing,'

"

gest

that municipalities avoid put-

is

she says. "So, what

sug-

I

So, as at the start of Driedger's

But she

family

on high ground

Evidence

is

survive lahars.

When

abundant.

Then, as a sort of bonus, she

room on

"It

had

tains,"

she

a great

who chaired

compiled copious

west

but

Driedger proposed an outreach

program

and

to educate officials

the public about volcanic

mic hazards.

In 1995,

and

ied

by

prehistoric lahars. But even

that doesn't alter

seis-

USGS

agreed and appointed her to run

it.

lot

of the

coming

phone

to

calls

were already

me because I was will-

ing to talk to reporters."

SPRING 200

He was always

challenging us to ask

questions and to not just

make

assumptions."

Married in 1992

to volcanologist

Larry Mastin, Driedger and her

husband

so what does

science education major. "Plus, a

the geography

department, was so inspiring.

with their daughter, Clara,

"The attitude
for

is

kind

of,

'It

another hundred years,
it

matter?'

"

she says.

Delivering such messages
challenge, sympathizes

serves

on

commission

is

activist

a local land-use

in Pierce

a

Vancouver, Wash.,

live in

whom

they adopted from China in 1997.
"Clara

is

the

knowledgeable

know," she

most volcanoballet

says.

dancer

I

B

Andrew

Bacon, an environmental

who

won't

great

Frantz,

development will happen.

happen

earth

had

Wendelin

tions exist forbidding development,

of my Bloomsburg days," explains

who had been an

many building

plans, says Driedger. If no regula-

was the only one who had a
background in education because
"I

Driedger,

unearth

side, they frequently

massive tree stumps that were bur-

most

view of the moun-

recalls. "I also

Puyallup Valley, an area of weak

the shelf.

lived

of her college career.

unstable rock

statistics,

the top floor of

where she

Hall,

1980 eruption, the agency had

on

in

tion.

revealed. In the years since the

Rainier's north-

in a Blue Bell, Pa.,

because of its mountain loca-

professors. Dr.

they mostly sat

up

part,

builders excavate foundations in

on

loves the mountains.

still

summer. She chose Bloomsburg,

Columbia

tures

may

which headed west every

and other

the

don't listen

be her biggest challenge.

scored a

on

who

career, officials

ting their hospitals, police stations
critical facilities

be

that they are safe since

Driedger grew

moderate stance on

development in lahar-prone

newer studies and

measurements and sensors

residents will

general public. She organizes semi-

valley floor." Typically, only struc-

had no mechanism of communiwhat

that reaches officials,

emergency professionals and the

"You

colleagues

Rainier so

that's

According

cating

ignorant of the danger, he says,

Cascades Volcano

Observatory

tific

— assigned

Most

event."

lic

monitoring of Cascade volcanoes."

Today, Driedger

today

program

drills that test

USGS

USGS

to Driedger,

has a multi-pronged educational

nars for teachers and participates in

things are quiet," says

Driedger. "Plus,

Thanks

performed

1960s and 70s, have been

which have a great chance of being
wiped out in an eruption or lahar

County,

Mark E. Dixon
Wayne, Pa.

is

ajreelance writer in

Quality academic programs,
reasonable costs and a
friendly environment draw
students to Bloomsburg
from across Pennsylvania.
The same traits also
attract students from
much farther away.

World

View

STORY AND PHOTOS BY ERIC FOSTER

When Sharma arrived at Bloomsburg

Until he stepped onto Bloomsburg's campus,
Darpan
India,

Singhal, a native of Indore in central

had never seen snow. Neither had Amreen

Mosthapha from Bangladesh, Xianrui Meng of China

there were about

50

15 years ago,

international students

on campus

from a dozen counties. In 2007-08, Bloomsburg has

150 international students representing 58 nations.

or Marina Miranda of Brazil.

Despite their varied experiences, international

But Yulia Smotrova, a Russian student in Blooms-

students choose Bloomsburg for

many of the same

burg's master's of business administration program, says

reasons that native Pennsylvanians do: the reputation

one of the things she misses about home

the snow."

of academic programs, the small-town atmosphere

cities

the affordability.

"is

For Singhal and Miranda, growing up in

where the

typical winter temperatures are in the

(Fahrenheit), several inches of cold white stuff

BU's academic quad

is

something new and unique.

For Muscovite Smotrova, several inches

is

a

mere

dusting that hardly counts.

The

facts

on the ground may be the same, but the
campus from different

perspectives students bring to
locations

around the globe

are very different.

These

different perspectives are a valuable addition to the
intellectual

and

cultural climate

Madhav Sharma,

on campus, says

director of international education.

"International students bring the

knowledge and

experience of other cultures from around the world
to

our Pennsylvania students,

When Jessica Laasonen of Finland arrived at BU in

50s

on

who may never have
may interact and

fall

2006, she intended to stay just a year as an exchange

student. But she

found herself smitten with the town,

and her classes.
The latitude that American students have when

the university

choosing classes

is

something Laasonen finds

selected a track

and

that determines

take," she explains. "I

had

what courses you

a course in

Information Systems) here that

I

GIS (Global

would never be

able to

take outside of a technical school in Finland."

Smotrova,

who earned

a dual undergraduate degree

from both Bloomsburg and the Moscow Finance Acad-

emy under the Government

of the Russian Federation,

chose to continue her graduate studies

understand globalization firsthand," says Sharma.

because of the strong reputation of BU's

"In addition to bringing their perspective to the

exciting.

"In Finland, at the university level, you've already

traveled outside the U.S., so they

classroom, international students also spur American

and

at

Bloomsburg

MBA program

and of the American higher education system in

general.

Continued on page 12

students to go abroad by their example. In a regular
semester,

we have 30

to

and during the summer
a hundred."

35 students study abroad
that increases to

more than

Russian student Yulia Smotrova carries the
Slovakian flag during BU's homecoming parade

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"I

had

Britain or

a choice

between Newcastle College

Bloomsburg," she

says.

in Great

"The United States

is

considered to have the best higher education system in
the world.

And Bloomsburg is

Bloomsburg

is

mal exchange programs with

for-

Meng came

to

in January along with three other students

from Shandong University of Technology.
"This
student,

is

a peaceful

and

Bloomsburg completing

his

expected to arrive in

fall

18 to 24 months

at

computer science degree.

two dozen students

2010 from Shandong

Bloomsburg has formal exchange agreements with

ties

China and more than 20 universi-

worldwide. As the number of international stu-

dents

at

Bloomsburg has grown, so has the

says Laasonen, a junior business

man-

"Bloomsburg

feels

very

safe," says

positive

Miranda, a senior

mass communications major whose hometown, Sao

used

to

making it one of the

was

a

little

difficult to get

such a small town."

Although the Bloomsburg community has
offer, international

transportation,

students

still

much to
Food,

face challenges.

customs and manners are

all

different

from home.
"I'm a vegetarian

own food,"

day. Protein

and

and I have

says Singhal.

you have here.

University alone.

eight universities in

people

Street,

agement major from Helsinki. "That doesn't happen in

largest cities in the world. "It

More than 20 students from China currently are
studying on campus, including Meng and his cousin.
That number will continue to grow in the coming
years with a cohort of about

"When I walk into the shops on Main

Paulo, has 19 million residents,

beautiful town," says the

who will spend the next

charm of the

a city as big as Helsinki."

universities in other

countries, particularly China. Xianrui

Bloomsburg

through

attract students, the

community keeps them.

remember me,"

affordable."

also attracting students

While the academic programs

cook

to

"Our food

is

all

of my

not like a salad

We cook with 20 to 30 spices every

comes from nuts

cashews, almonds

like

pistachios."

Miranda misses the beans and
in Brazilian cuisine.

rice that are a staple

And, even when Smotrova can

"word of mouth."

locate the ingredients for a traditional Russian dish, she

"My sister had a friend who came here and said it
was a good school for business," says Mosthapha, who

finds that the

looks forward to a career in the U.S. as a financial

homesickness, the students admit.

manager or marketing manager.

end

"One of the

Miranda chose Bloomsburg based on the recom-

who earned a doctorate
from BU. And Singhal, whose

biggest differences

ica,

degree in audiology

don't have to act

is

a doctor, selected Bloomsburg because he

was

same.

on some

getting used to

the American cheerfulness," says Smotrova. "In

mendation of her cousin,
father

result just doesn't taste the

Subtle cultural differences can bring

you have

to

wear

a smile

happy

if

all

we

we aren't."

International students also discover a less-formal

could complete the well-regarded graduate program

atmosphere in U.S. classrooms. "In India, you

in exercise science in just over a year.

drink in

12

Amer-

the time. In Russia,

class," says Singhal.

"You have

to

can't

wear a

shirt

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and

trousers,

and you stand when the professor walks

Bloomsburg's international students often bring an

"My

extra degree of seriousness to their studies.

taught

me

things,"
fet.

to invest in education,

Smotrova

Get as

says. "I

much as you

who

took

and four
back

to Russia

how to

semester as an undergraduate
"I

will

go

my country and make Russia a
know 1 will be responsible for my

parents, too."
Singhal's experiences in his family's hospital have

given
gate

him

life. I

think about

why we

are

here in this world. Not about daily frustrations and

problems, but

why we

something

humanity.

for

should not waste

are

human.

Life

We should do

goes in seconds and

we

Just as these students devote themselves to their

own cultures and homelands.

There
there

her an opportunity to see her

Moscow has also given
home from a fresh per-

spective.

"When I went back

to Russia the last time,

was the

tourist,"

she says.

tures everywhere.

For me,

it

was

like

I

Like Smotrova,

was

"I

was taking

like a

many international

it

pic-

new country."
students

become informal ambassadors for their home countries. They march in BU's homecoming parade each fall
each spring semester that brings hundreds of guests

from the campus and community. And, through the
tional students

and

education

office, interna-

faculty serve as guest speakers

with

often believe Finland's largest
is

company,

cell

phone

"My countrybut 1 remind them that some

located in Japan.

men are bothered by this,
states have as many people as Finland. Do
we know the names of all the American states?"

American

Smotrova believes physical distance contributes to
Americans' lack of knowledge about the
world. "In Russia, you have neighbors.

Laasonen says one of her most gratifying experiences occurred in Riverside Elementary School in the
Danville School District where she talked to children

Laasonen, for example, says her American friends

SPRING 200

class.

when I helped,

community organizations.

it."

manufacturer Nokia,

This year,

five students.

efforts of the international

studies, they enjoy opportunities to teach their class-

mates about their

were

"Three

and, along with international faculty, host a banquet

a special sense of purpose. "I've seen the

between death and

says.

helped professor Luke Springman from

Smotrova's time away from

says Smotrova,

and help
I

I

were 25 students."

can.

a semester as a graduate student.

better place to live.

But there are signs of change, she
years ago,

languages and cultures with a Russian

not in tangible

become open-minded,"

six classes a

family

think of education as a buf-

"You're here to be a better person, learn

think logically,

When you live in the United States, it's the center of
the world. France seems so far away."

into the room."

about her

home

country and

its

holiday traditions.

In Finland, she says, "everyone

Claus
try,

lives in

knows

that Santa

Lapland, a northern region of the coun-

not the North Pole.
"At Riverside, the children asked

were

real,"

she says.

they don't

fly.' "

Eric Foster

is

"I

told them,

me

if

reindeer

Yes they are, but

b

rest of the

You

feel

it.

co-editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.

13

Stephan

Pettit '89

knew he needed

personal goal to achieve his

first

to set a

professional success.

A Harley-Davidson seemed like a logical choice.
STORY BY JACK SHERZER

Discipline
Ever drop

off

some

old paint cans,

and Drive

company, Clean Earth Systems, often

Since

much of the

cleaning products or batteries dur-

play a role in the disposal of hazard-

ardous waste

ing a household hazardous waste

ous materials such as these.

incinerators,

cleanup drive?

some

Or maybe

toxic waste site

what happens

read about

1989

Starting in 1993, Pettit, a

and wonder

Bloomsburg grad and Husky

din and other

line-

the best

way

is
it

to

same

time. But until recendy, a

the

lot of the materials

dug up and hauled away? Stephan
Pettit and his Tampa, Fla. -based

board!") into one of the
ers of

card-

main

suppli-

hazardous waste containers.

is

in a container that can be burned at

box company

it

that

pack the material

backer, has turned a small corrugated
("Don't call

special

seems obvious

dangerous materials that are being

to the

nation's haz-

burned in

were put in

stor-

age drums. Aside from being night-

mares to

store,

companies were

left

—

He was right.

with contaminated barrels that had
to

be crushed and thrown out in

expensive, hazardous waste landfills

when

came

the time

to destroy

1985 team

the

was pan of

won the

Penn-

sylvania State Athletic Conference
title

and was the

first team
win 12 games.

history to

the contents.

Pettit

that

in school

degree in mass communications,

biggest can hold three tons of mate-

which he thought would help him

—

rial
it

—

up

it is

totally

combustible. Pack

once, and that's

"This

it.

was a replacement

for steel

Pettit

headed back

New Jersey, where

to

sales world.

him

job selling photocopiers

rugated boxes and were running

the sales industry

my daddy did drums and

know,
his

daddy and so

hard

you

sell to

on.

It

was a

really

begin with."

But a desire to

sell

discipline to achieve

the

40-year-old

Pettit since

up in Middletown, N.J.
owned a printing com-

kid growing

His father

pany and spent
printing sales.

his entire career in

passed

Pettit's father

on a love of selling.
Sports also loomed large in Pettit's life. "I owe most of my professional career to sports,"

"There's the
cipline

and

of that

—

if it

comes

I've said

it

dis-

into

many

wasn't for football,

would not be where

I

of

I

am today."

while he was head coach of the

football team, a position

2000. Diana,

he

in

left

who is also vice

presi-

dent of the company, raises Arabian
horses on the couple's ranch outside of Tampa,

which they share

with four horses and two dogs. The
couple often travels to Vail, Colo.,
for

snowboarding.

was

One was

set-

ting a goal for yourself," Pettit says.
"I

always wanted a Harley-Davidson,
I

had

clipped

a picture of the Harley

my sun visor.

on

you

"After

get kicked out of six

row

receptionist as
copier,

for bothering the

you

try to sell a

always helps to have the

it

goal right there where
it.

you can

Something tangible you

are

see

work-

ing toward."
Pettit didn't get his

Harley in the

year he sold copiers, but he got

soon

after

moving

it

Tampa and

to

In his business, Pettit

is

eyeing

the global market. His corrugated

&J. Gallo
Winery, where he worked for three

containers meet

and

used anywhere in the world.

taking a sales job with E.

says.

teamwork and the
all

play in business.

times

he

— one

itself that I

taught very early on.

offices in a

he was a

his

wife of almost five years, Diana,

"There are certain tricks within

tough goals

have been characteristics of the

to take a

the toughest sales jobs to have.

so

— and

He

and

drums but in the beginning nobody
knew what we were selling," Pettit
says. "We came in with these corinto the old school network,

earned a

in the business

his father convinced

He competes in

an ice hockey league and met

Tampa Bay Cougars minor league

Not so with a corrugated box.
While it's built extra strong
the

At Bloomsburg,

sports seriously.

a half years.

strict

manager, take Clean

Nations standards, so they can be

And in his spare

researched the industry while

reconnecting with his love of

still

time,

Earth Systems on
the road for a trade

when

he's not playing sports, he's

a friend told

Pettit,

and Ashley

Skrzypek, regional

United

him about
environmental packaging. He
Then

Stephan
right,

show. Opposite
page: Pettit's passion
for motorcycles

inspired early

After graduating from Middle-

working at Gallo and, just a year

town High School South, Pettit was
recruited by various schools,

bought out

including Princeton and Rutgers.

became owner and president of

Then, he got a
burg.

It

call

from Blooms-

was 1984. Then-head

after

forming the business, he

Starting with a
sales

ing the program and Pettit

ida, Pettit

"I

had been on

other schools, but

Bloomsburg,

I

could

tell

in

New Jersey and Flor-

has guided the company's

now has

Earth Systems

when

houses with sales teams in each,

got to

program and

staff," Pettit says.

"You

they were going to be a

heck of a program."

Gibson Les Paul

about 30 employees

amount and growth rate

for the

company,"

we hit them
is mine." b

of reaching

$10 million

and

to

www.cleanearthsystems.com

work growing

still

more information

a goal

in sales this year.

his business, Pettit

Gibson

about Clean Earth Systems, go

more than

Despite the hard

Pettit says. "If

in 2008, that

takes his

Jack Sherzer

is

a professional writer

and Pennsylvania
lives in

native.

Hanisburg.

business success;

one of his company's
products (top).

have a goal of a certain

dollar

12 ware-

total,

A

guitar.

Editor's note: For
I

him his

next tangible business goal:

"I

warehouse and

growth across the country. Clean

it.

absolutely loved the

SPRING 200

1994 he

recruiting trips to

school, the football

the coaching

was

crew

This interest gave

guitar.

Clean Earth Systems.

coach George Landis was rebuildexcited to be part of

his partner. In

music and once again playing the

He cuirently

The mountaineer George Leigh Mallory said
'If

you cannot understand that there

is

man which responds to the challenge
and goes out to meet
of

life itself

won't see

it,

in 1922,

something

in

of this mountain

that the struggle

the struggle

is

upward and forever upward, then you

why we go.' A BU alum

is

among the few who

understand the challenge of the mountains.

When David Good played
for the

team

Huskies soccer

in the late 70s,

Good,

a

him

member

climbing,
started

Good

30 years

has a

takes a reminder of

new

Wyoming and,

for

moun-

Bloomsburg

Good

for

another

way

caught on to the sport immediately.

"I

doing more rock climbing, and the natural

mountain climbing. You

it

to

began a

some

of

the globe.

says. "If

I'd

ever done

mountain climbing

There's a lot of suffering that
early

is

some-

comes with climbing,

mornings, the cold, being dehy-

drated and hungry. Mentally,

many years after

him

thing you enjoy, you find that out pretty quickly.

between the

by 1996 he was looking

on

the second

is

Good,

"Grand Teton was unlike anything
before,"

of the Eastern College Athletic

is

mountain, Grand Teton, in

Grand Teton

the highest points

to the top.

extension of rock climbing

first

feet,

was an

When a friend introduced him to rock

Good

his

course of adventure that would take

1979, continued to play soccer for

to stay active.

Good climbed

Nelson Field House that
inevitable part of

How much

'How much bigger?

says.

highest peak in

to

Conference tournament championship soccer team in

graduation, but

Good

Mount Olympus

appreciation for

— and he always

he

"

June 1998. At 6,530

practice. Nearly

tains

higher?'

dreaded the run up

later,

University with

are always asking,

it's

very tough. People

more times because they think they can't
do it, rather than not being able to do it physically. It's
amazing what the body can do, but they let their
minds take over.

probably

"But

I

fail

love the challenge of it, to see a

and wonder what's up
to get

up

there,

and then

mountain

figure out

how

there myself."

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tainly

want

a guide,"

major mountain

Good

says, "but

planned on

I

Since he began climbing,

Aneto was the

Good has conquered

mountains in South America, Europe, Africa and
along with the U.S.

Asia,

He has climbed 15 peaks in Colo-

—

Of the famed "Seven Summits" the highest
seven continents
Good has conquered
Mount Elbrus in Russia and Mount Kilimanjaro in

rado alone.

peaks on
two:

first

my own."

—

all

Tanzania. Although he and his wife took a break from

climbing following the birth of their daughter, Eleanor,
in 2004, the appeal of the

ERIIMG
BU Alumni Association event in Adanta, Good

At a

told former

newfound

alumni director Doug Hippenstiel about his

interest in climbing. If Hippenstiel

would

send him a Bloomsburg University banner, Good joked,

he would climb

to the

year,

Good has been

more

of the Seven Summits.

McKinley

—

in June

fourth of the Seven

mits

there, too," Good says.
"When Doug actually sent me such a nice banner, I
thought, well, I better make it up to the top now," Good

Bloomsburg up

laughs. Since then, the reminder of

been with him on every climbing

And as for Everest?

"If I

gua under

my belt, Everest

Bloomsburg has

trip

if

climbed Island Peak in

Nepal so
I've

seen

in the

and has graced

Hood, Uncompahgre, Bierstadt,
Sherman and many other peaks. "A couple of
climbing buddies know that on every mountain

But

doesn't happen, I've

I

can

it,

at least

say

that I've stood

shadow of it."

For Good, the experi-

the tops of Kilimanjaro,

ence of the climb

Antero,

just as powerful as reaching

they've got to get a

banner shot,"

says.

In 2000,

to climb Pico

traveled to Spain with his wife, Janet,

de Aneto in the Pyrenees. At

Aneto was the

first

1

1,168

feet,

major overseas mountain that Good

climbed without the aid of a guide. The couple prepared

for their alpine ascent

training with backpacks that

50 pounds. "When you

by running

regularly

climbing,

you

feet,

night at
one's

around and you're above
the trees, the view
sibly experience in

you

get

is

any other

something you

can't pos-

situation. That's

most beautiful things about climbing

cer-

Lynette

for

me."

one ofthe

B

Mong

'08

is

an English/creative writing major from

Kennewick, Wash., and BU's Student Employee of the Year
for 2007-08.

SPRING 200

at

when no

and

weighed between 40 and

first start

,000

itself is

'When you're

the summit.

camping out
1 1

Good

the highest peak in

and expects Mount Aconcagua,

Sum-

it

Good

Mount

he'll scale.

sponsors' banners,

on summits waving their
thought it would be great to get

up with me,

climb

can get Denali and Aconca-

always had a soft spot for Bloomsburg and, after

they get

—

two

at least

the highest peak in South

may be a possibility.

my

He plans to

America, to become the

seeing pictures of people
I

preparing to climb

known as Denali

also

North America,

summit of his next mountain

with the banner in hand.
"I

mountains hadn't faded. Since

own investment consulting business last

opening his

Many Feet One
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY

For the self-proclaimed "daddy's
girl,"

In

late

December, 'CBS Sports Presents

Championships of the

cross country runner at

featured

member of the 2007

the story of one

women's

NCAA'

cross country team,

West

of the season

is

Virginia University,

BU

accomplishments. "He was

athletic

always

Bethany

my coach and my best

friend," she says.
It

was running and the

support of her teammates that

the heartaches and

helped her through her

Running, she

the victories that were shared by
time
every
There comes
country
when
in

a

cross

race

it.

This

her

fell

down

while trimming a

if

when his condition

improved enough

season of BU s 2007 women's cross

moved

country team.

gram; however, in mid-October, he
clot in his

brought

me up to

you always

finish

and

something bad happens, you

find a

he could be

way around it," she

says. "I

just couldn't imagine being without

my team.

into a rehabilitation pro-

developed a blood

father

believe that

tree.

optimistic

that

father's funeral.

"My

true of exceptional teams, as well.

The hard work began last May
of the team set a

"made

goals to achieve

returned to practice just days after

Want proof? Consider the amazing

when members

The team still
and she

that

had

sense."

grief.

a refuge

Bethany Schwing of Hershey, was

Schwing and her teammates were

is

was

says,

Kevin Schwing, father of junior

when he

Exceptional runners expect the

pain and push through

all.

paralyzed from the neck

pain begins to take hold.

was an

integral part of his daughter's

Schwing. But, for this close-knit team, the
real story

was overwhelming.

the loss

Kevin Schwing, a standout track and

little

sounds

It

like

such a

thing, but with everything in

my life falling apart, they were

lung

and died suddenly.

very normal."

goal to qualify for nationals. Their

dedication to achieving that goal
evident from the

season

first

was

One for the Record Books: BU Women's Cross Country 2007

race of the

at Buffalo State College, says
• First

coach Karen Brandt.

attitude that they

the race

and

were the best in

• First National Collegiate Athletic

that they could beat

anyone," notes Brandt,

East Regional

who has

•

coached the Huskies men's and

women's teams
"You need

that

for

nine seasons.

•

going to hurt. This

is

that

of the Year,

United States Track, Field and Cross Country
of the Year,

Karen Brandt

it is

• First trip to

not a

• First

Off the course, the team faced a

September,

NCAA

the

Division

II

Cross Country

Championships

sport for the faint of heart."

different type of pain. In

PSAC Women's Cross Country Coach

Coaches Association East Region Coach

go out and run as hard as you can

really

Association (NCAA)

title

Karen Brandt

kind of confidence to

when you know in advance

Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

(PSAC) championship

"They went out there with the

women's

Honors, senior

runner to receive Ail-American

Amber Hackenberg

Karen Brandt

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—

Heart
Returning to the routine of
practices

and competition, the team

made

way to

its

State Athletic

the Pennsylvania

Conference (PSAC)

meet where three teammates
ished in the top 15

—

fin-

senior Amber

Hackenberg of Mifflinburg, fifth;
sophomore Andrea Kellock of

and Schwing,

Lansdale, ninth;

The

13th.

up

followed

trio

that

performance by finishing in the top

10 in the National Collegiate Athletic

Association

Regional, with

(NCAA)

East

Hackenberg

finish-

ing sixth, Kellock, seventh, and

Schwing, ninth. And, Bloomsburg

capped

off its

amazing season by

24

finishing 15 th out of

in the

NCAA Division II National Cross
Country Championships held

at

Missouri Southern University.

"The

girls

were motivated

for

the team above any individual goals

or leadership roles," Hackenberg
explains.

"I

we would have

a

The PSAC

and

which was run

could do

And

in the

showed me

rain,

mud

j«fl

they proved

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it.

For Coach

the determination she

runners in the

first

saw

for

Bethany Schwing,

race to the

"They were so excited

assistant

coach

— and husband

rewards.

"The awards are definitely not

and

alone," she says. "Jim

together in

just feeling in love with being alive

training

and young and being

Nothing happens with regard

for the

that

at nationals."

coach of the year

awards Brandt amassed, she

SPRING 200

is

team demonstrated

of the team's success, she explains.

mine

recalls.

van

cross country

that great effort can yield great

work

in the

2007 season.

Jim Brandt has been a key architect

"Whenever
weekend
they were singing and laughing and

and happy," she

center, during the

The 2007 Bloomsburg women's

quick to share the honors. Her

in her

unbridled joy they showed at
nationals.

Running was a refuge

many highlights

from the 2007 season, from

As

E99

this."

Brandt, there were

we were

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truly didn't believe that

all

I

building our team and then

our team without the

both of us."

predominantly
sport, the

aspects of

and coaching the

Maybe more important
was that, in what

to their success

is

an individual

Huskies fought through

the pain together,

b

athletes.

to

efforts of

Kevin Gray

is

a freelance writer based

in the Lehigh Valley.

he

chance

offers residents a

something

to try

than the

different

softball, baseball

or

swimming leagues
commonly found in
municipal recreation
programs. So

far,

Myers has

organized and led kayaking,
canoeing, rock climbing and

caving

Educational

trips.

programs examine topics
such as bike maintenance

and animal

He also

tracking.

develops

programs, budgets and
business plans; coordinates

with outside vendors,

landowners and university

and interviews and

staff;

For years, community recreation programs have

been dominated by traditional sports

hires crews to

—baseball,
BU alum,

But with the help of a

one community's program

is

trips.

"I'm the only

person running the entire program,"

Myers

tennis, basketball.

run

says. "I

have to have

enthusiasm and energy.

I

deal with

unseen problems and roadblocks but

giving residents a

have to stay positive and keep the

taste for adventure.

energy flowing for the lads."
"I'm putting together an environ-

icture this:
is

sailing

go on the Susquehanna Sojourn, a

line drops.

weeklong canoe

Nine-

feet, straight

down.

know what's below.

you push yourself through
Aaron Myers

After

sure he

push himself

teach.

"I

and

member of BU's

a deep-

seated one, with roots firmly

planted by his parents. "Ever since

could remember, there have been

20

ideally

wanted

to

and

one-man show."

man

show.

for that

"raw beginners"

them

says.

and now I'm

to

an

to introduce

activity

a love for

and
all

it. "It's

We follow a
'challenge by choice' approach. We
about the right

want

attitude.

to create a safe, comfortable

environment

wanted a
he

a

Blacksburg appears to have picked

foster in

was working with high school

families

on
is

I

college kids before

Now

town of

Blacksburg, Va.

His love for adventure

And,

It's

You set your

for you.

own goals and limits.
there's

good

It's

your

trip;

no competition. Just have

time."

a

b

working with the community,

Now he is outdoors

supervisor for the college

"I

There's also the marketing side of it.

Myers says he loves

Myers was

the adventure field

to re-establish the nature center here.

the right

a career that

college environment,"

where he kayaked and led

Quest program.

internships,

continued education.

he once did on the Youghieny

trips as a

two

wanted

work in

his fellow adventurers, just as

paddling

trip that teaches

combined personal adventures with

ability."

The 28-year-old Harrisburg

River,

would

about the Susquehanna River's

it,"

'03. "It's exhilarat-

native continues to

I

impact on the Chesapeake Bay."

pushing your mental

and physical

and

Eagle Scout says.

ahead of you, the hori-

"You don't

ing. You're

trips," the

"During summers, Dad and

teen

says

and

family outings, hikes, canoe

kayak

down a river. Mere feet
zon

But,

Your kayak

smoothly

mental education program and trying

it's

and young

professionals.

the first-timer

coming out

a trip, the family out to

have a

good time and doing things

in their

Blacksburg gives Aaron a budget
of $30,000 to $40,000.

more about

Blacksburg's recreation program, see

www.blacksburg.gov/recreation.

Becky Lock

is

a writer,

editor

photographer who works and

backyard," Myers says.
I

Editor's note: To learn

With

and
lives

in Pennsylvania.

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STORY BY LAURIE CREASY

Parents often say they'll

Ted Williams

show his

Ted

do anything

'85 attempted a grueling physical ordeal to

10-year-old daughter that anything

Williams '85 always thought taking on a

possible.

who turned 10 in January, has cerebral
many girls her age, she studies the piano,

palsy. Like

would be exciting someday. "Then
someday is now," he says.

does well in school and loves to

...

1

real-

financial adviser for Ameriprise in Lancaster,

R2R2R as

Pa.,

attempted the

tion

and stamina, of course, but he had an additional

a test of his determina-

anything she sets

show my daughter Mariah that
her mind and heart to, she can do,"

he admits.

want her

reason.

Mariah,

is

48-mile Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim run

ized that

The

for their children.

"I

wanted

"I

just

to

to

know she shouldn't let

her physical limitations hold her back."

sing.

She had the lead

in her church's Christmas musical last year
favorite activity is

younger

sister,

Gianna.

But, she's also faced
children. She's

and her

swimming with her mom, dad and
more challenges than most

endured Botox injections and physical

therapy. She can walk, but not well, after several surgeries

and missed the

last

month

of first grade as she

recuperated from operations on both of her

legs.

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Williams and Herr had to run in single

—

edge of the canyon

walk on,

let

the

trails

At one point, Williams looked
"I

thought,

make

along the
difficult to

alone run. They had only their thoughts for

company. Some of those thoughts were
drop.

file

were narrow and

if I

stumble and

bleak.

down into
fall,

a 2,000-foot

me?

will they find

What will I do? Every step,
you're constantly looking down
it's hard to look

Will

I

Will

it?

I

stop?

—

around. With every foot placement, you're stepping on a

rock

that's sliding out.

"In

But

I

my business," he says,
come up with

couldn't

"I

come up with solutions.

a solution to this, except to

keep running."

At one point, the pair spotted three huge bighorn
sheep perched on a rock above the

trail. It

was

like

something straight out of National Geographic, Williams

They chased

says.

In the

the sheep

predawn

his eyes played tricks

there

on a lawn

paper.

and continued

their run.

almost 23 hours into their run,

light

on him.

"I

know I saw a guy sitting
news-

chair, at the top of a hill, reading a

We got closer and closer, and

it

was just

a rock."

Williams swears he heard voices, too, even though no

one was around.
The goal of Ted Williams, left, and his friend Ralph Henwas to complete a 48-mile run of the Grand Canyon in

Then, miraculously, the pair did hear voices
realized they

were returning

—

they

to their starting point just as

just 24 hours. Opposite page: Williams passes an

enormous boulder along a narrow

others were setting out

trail.

downed
"She was laid

up

in

bed

for three

months, and

and gave each other

it

took about a year until she improved her walk," her

She used a wheelchair and walker

father says.
eral

months, but refused

when

to take her

Proud of his daughter's determination, Williams
his

own.

realized

"I

she wanted," he

if I

difficult

to quit.

The

longest he'd ever

one stretch was about two hours.

call

—

Now he was

a brutal task that

impossible. Yet he couldn't go back.

was I going

to

tell

her

I

couldn't

do what

I

some

"How

planned

to

do?" he asks.

He and

morning one day last

Ralph Herr, started
spring.

at

4:30 in the

On the south side

canyon, people were about to

of the

behind. The silence was complete.

SPRING 2008

didn't feel

months

until

he

felt

a sense

avoid people for a while.

hopes
as

it

full

that

has in

"I

just

be around the hustle and busde," he

to

significance of what he did

someday

it

will

make

says.

may not understand
and why, but he

a difference in her

life,

his.

The R2R2R has motivated Williams to take on other
"Anybody who can run the Grand
Canyon can run a marathon," he says, laughing. Then
there's the possibility of hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro,
the fourth highest peak in the world. Or maybe he'll go
physical challenges.

South America or Africa

shamans.

he

"I've just

says. "It's a

to try a vision quest

been reading about

whole other journey."

with

how that works,"

b

start their daily routines.

On the north side in the dead of night, the runners left
civilization far

several

Williams admits that Mariah

to

his friend,

made him

want

today the

too."

it,

than he anticipated and, several hours into the

going to multiply that by 12

might

do

— but Williams

took six to eight weeks, he estimates, before he could

didn't

do anything

R2R2R quickly became more

24-hour run, he wanted
at

got to

It

walk without pain and
lonely run

a challenge of

told her she could

recalls, "I've

Williams admits the

run

by taking on

to further inspire her

a high five

They

and jelly sandwiches

of accomplishment. Unexpectedly, he also found that the

she entered second grade, he adds.

hoped

the rim-to-rim-to-rim run.

a sense of achievement.

for sev-

walker with her

on

celebratory peanut butter

Laurie Creasy, a native ofCatawissa,

master of science degree in

is

working on her

human computer interaction.

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5^7 "1
/ -1-

worked as a counselor
career, was a teacher.

5^ Q Harriet Adams turned 99 January 2008. She
.wO taught 45 years the Bloomsburg School
in

for

and

District

Kay Frances Leonard Baker, Etters, is in her 37th
West Shore School District. She has

year with the

for the last

31 years and, earlier in her

in

5^70

retired in 1974.

Steve

Neumyer

(right) is vice

/ £* president/sales with Associated Paper
?

C C Pm

%J %J

Gergen, a

l

and
more than 30 years as

Inc. in

retired teacher, administrator

naval officer, has served for

sports information director for

Mount Carmel Area schools.

2008.

and

9 C?("J Glen Spaid was inducted
«_J

y High School

into the Central

Hall of Fame.

He earned

12

Conyers, Ga.

He was

installed as president

of the Georgia Sanitary Suppliers Association for

He

their

lives in Loganville

two

with his wife, Kathy,

sons.

Rev. Donald Raffensperger, Elizabethville,

Columbia

marked

letters

and baseball and led the basketball and
county and District 4 championships.

his

40th anniversary as a minister in the Central

in basketball, soccer

Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church

soccer teams to

in 2007.

Russell "Skip"

'68 High

He and his wife, Constance, celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary in December 2007.
Kathy Sandy was appointed secretary of the board of

Rudy was inducted into the Exeter
He was a three-

School Hall of Fame this year.

directors for the Association of Girl Scout Executive Staff, a

national professional development

year starter at defensive end for the Huskies in the '60s.

for

Quest

trips

Bloomsburg University's

Quest program
extended

offers

trips

BU students, alumni
and friends. No experience
for

is

necessary for

many of

these trips,

and most

equipment

is

provided.

Varied amounts of physical

stamina are required.
Participants travel to

destinations in the

com-

monwealth, across the U.S.,

and

South and

in Africa,

Iceland Biking:

unique way

to see Iceland's

tour will take cyclists across
the country's gravel-surfaced
rural roads. Bikers

must be

prepared for any road or

weather condition.

Walking Across

Ireland:

The Dingle Way,

Sept. 17

The Dingle Way,

to 26:

one of Ireland's most scenic
long-distance walking

trails,

Mountain bikers can experience the unique
Quests coast to coast tour.

located in the southwest

and
town of

Photographing the Lake

Tralee in the

1

to 8:

Professional photographer
will lead the

tour through the English
District's

Walking

County of Kerry.

Costa Rica Mountain Biking:

2008,

to Jan. 10,

2009: Cross

160 miles of Costa

Rica's

small

and market towns

with views of the

towering volcanoes, pristine

Irish

mountain lakes and
rivers

distant

hills.

and dense

a

tropical rain

on a mountain bike
consistent 85 degrees.

forests

in

on

customized teambuilding and

the Cotswold:

Romans and Saxons,

June 10

to 20,

2009: Journey

other experiences to meet each
group's needs. For additional
information, contact Quest at

history in a rural region

quest@bloomu.edu, (570)

sculpted by the early Celts,

389-2100 or check online at

Romans and Saxons who

www.buquest.org.

cared for a landscape that

is

quintessentially English.

beaches, raging Whitewater
Sea,

Celts,

through 2,000 years of British

Coast to Coast, Dec 30,

high-altitude cloud forests,
villages

terrain of Costa Rica

of Ireland, starting
finishing in the

Lake

A Northern
A

mountainous landscapes, the

England: Walking and

Dave Ashby

and advocacy organization

staff.

Adventure, July 17 to 27:

is

Districtjuly

Girl Scout

span the globe

Central America

and Europe.

employed

at

In addition to the

programs

listed

above, Quest conducts day trips

on most weekends and designs

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,

5^7^ Barbara Smith Ries

O

/

5^7/t
for

an

assistant librarian at the

Births

lives in Lancaster.

Debbie Stevens Dellegrotti

TI

/

is

Hershey Public Library. She

is

the principal at

Sheckler Elementary School. She taught in Berwick

28 years before moving

to the

Catasauqua Area School

retired in

November 2007 from

the U.S. Air

Force after 31 years of service.

October 2007.

$2,000

A stroke victim herself,

Heart/Stroke

Walk

for the cause.

O

contributions in advancing the technology of clinical laboratory

He

science.

is

system development

a specialist in

at

Lisa

10,2007

Brem

Kaitlyn

and husband, Michael, twins,

March

8,

Anne, Nov. 28, 2007

2007

and husband,

June

Jeffrey,

a daughter, Kelly Nicole,

husband, Justin
'00, a daughter,

Carly

Dec. 14,2007

husband,

to

Kuwait with the

Army

a one-year deploy-

Reserves in support of

Operation Iraqi Freedom. His wife, Laura Adolphson Antochy
'79, teaches kindergarten in Arlington, Texas,

Becky Tait Reilly was
Galleries,

where they

Cahoone

f3*_J

in

Q f\
V

William Dalius Jr.

is

is

a pilot-in-command with

ERAMed,

emergency medical technician

(right)

relations

department as a public

manager.

He

Q/C

Christine Honis Lizbinski
teacher at

is

a

music

Preparatory School.

30 years.
Deborah Luckett Slattery

Society for almost

also serves as a firefighter/

for the

MMI

She has taught music through the Hazleton Philharmonic

Medical Center's LifeFlight 4 from the

Williamsport Regional Airport.

Jan. 25, 2008

2007

C3vJ

7

administrative division.

Chuck Meachum

'03, a

daughter, Delainey McLaren,

'98 and wife,

chief financial officer of the

Federal Bureau of Prisons and assistant director of the

flying Geisinger

'03 and

Brandon Weese

joined Allen Tate Co.'s marketing

and public
relations

C3

4,

Jocelyn Lee,

Pagano Weese

Q "2 Karen Halderman Murray

5

still life

the traditional style of the old world masters.

5

and

Michele, a daughter, Catharine
Grace, Nov.

'00 and

M. Schreibeis

live.

the featured artist at Michelyn

Doylestown, in September 2007. She paints

D.J.

'97

2007

May 2, 2007

husband, Ed, a son, Ryan James,

George Antochy completed

16,

Chi-Chen Ho Schreibeis

publications and patents.

S ment

Jeffrey, a son, Ethan

Amy Lautermilch Wood '96
and husband, Paul Wood '95,

Kara Morton Kearney

/

2006

Cutillo '00 and

Jennifer Hart Eberly '00/'02M

Behring, Glasgow, Del., and has been credited with multiple

5^7Ci Col.

2006, and

April 25,

husband, Randy, a daughter,
'96

Nov. 23, 2007

Dade

Kyle, twin daughters,

Ellison, April 24,

a daughter, Avary Elizabeth,

Charlotte and Gavin,

designation from his employer in recognition of his

2007

Morgan,

Amy Goodyear Chermela

she raised more than

5^7Q Dr. John Mizzer received the Dade Behring Fellow
/

6,

Scott Bird '96 and wife, Sara,

Oct.

Ann Wanner Moser participated in the
in

Lauren Pasini Pursel '98/*99M
and husband,

daughter, Emily Grace, Oct.

District six years ago.

Mary Beth Lech

Marsha Childs Dieffender
'92/"06M and husband, Wayne, a

William Cameron Engine

Co., Lewisburg.

received the outstanding

chemistry teacher award from the Susquehanna Valley Section
of the

American Chemical
High School.

Society.

She

is

a chemistry teacher

at Danville

?Q1

O

was

Ernest Jackson was promoted to principal

-1- Chester

Academy Middle School in

also elected the Section 9

Association of Wrestling of

chairman

for the

is

director of retail

services for Bayhealth Medical Center, including

Q^ Raymond

5

J.

Fagan

is

to the accounting firm of

A certified public

accountant, he has been

more than 25

Previously,

he was president and chief executive

Banks

Inc.

officer of Mutual Inspection
and president of capital region with Community

Inc.

Brian D.

Hamm,

Center Valley, joined Beard Miller Co.

Reading, as a senior accountant in the audit and accounting

department.

22

C3 /

He has worked

years.

SPRING 200

5

QQ

C3C3

is

in his eighth year as director of

athletics for Villanova University.

Carol Fastrich Aranos
marketing

for

is

vice president of

AmeriChoice Federal Credit Union.

and more than seven years of credit union experience.
Diane Gard Brennan, Tucson, Ariz., is serving as
president of the International

in the financial industry for

Coach Federation,

a

worldwide

organization aimed at advancing professional coaching. She

owns

years.

a senior commercial loan officer with

Commerce Bank/Harrisburg in Swatara Township.
Bureau

Q^7 Vince Nicastro

5

She has more than 13 years of sales and marketing experience

Distasio Jr., Mountain Top, was

associated with the firm for

Jeffrey S.

Kent General

hospitals.

O.W admitted as a principal

Snyder and Clemente.

He

United States

New York.

Patricia Carachilo Rossi, Dover, Del.,

and Milford Memorial

at the

Chester, N.Y.

a

coaching business, Brennan Associates, and has co-

book on coaching.
Filomena Costantino Covert, Shavertown, earned a
doctoral degree in mathematics education from Temple
University. She is an adjunct professor for Luzerne County
Community College and Wilkes University and a district
edited a

consultant for the Luzerne Intermediate Unit. She serves

on

the Pennsylvania mathematics advisory committee

has been nominated 15 times for Who's

and

Who Among

American Teachers.

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7

Qy
O

f\

Margaret Marshalick Faust
of nursing at

is an instructor
Penn College of Technology in

Williamsport. She has been affiliated with Evangelical

Community

}£\/~\

Hospital, Lewisburg, since 1989.

Michelle Seibert Appel received the best

/ \3

practitioner paper

award from the Northeast

Association for Institutional Research. She
director for enrollment policy

is

the associate

and planning at the University

of Maryland.

Katie
Peter

McKeown

Nero and the

member of the

Clements, King of Prussia, sang with
Philly

Philly

Pops in December 2007 as a
Festival Chorus. She is an itinerant

Pops

teacher of the hearing impaired with

Montgomery County

Intermediate Unit.

Mark Reinhardt,

school principal, effective July

He

become

associate high

1.

to the

Super Bowl XLII, center, poses

talent statistician for

with Fox sportscasters Troy Aikman, analyst,

left,

and Joe Buck,

play-by-play announcer, last February in Phoenix. Sfida provided

and return distances and other significant
Aikman and Buck shared throughout the game. He's

the yards gained, punt

E. Schriner, formerly of MontoursvOle,

promoted

Statistician

Ed Mida '94M,
currently ninth-grade house principal

in the Hempfield School District, will

Bruce

Super

was

numbers

rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army.

serves in the Military District of Washington, D.C., as a

that

also been statistician for the Philadelphia 76ers

and the

Philadel-

phia Eagles.

joint staff officer after completing a tour in Iraq.

?C\ "1

7

Linda

Tammy Lee Morsch won a Mothers' Day poem contest

Mann Burklow of New Jersey participated

-M- in a 26-mile Marine

Corps marathon

to raise

money

after

her honor, with the help of their grandmother. She

Richard Remington
ment and development

home

Ga.

He

lives

is

vice president of product

for

manage-

a stay-at-

is

mom raising her two boys.

Reed Construction Data, Norcross,

with his wife, Renee Farrell Remington '91, and

their three children in

poem in

her 6-year-old twin sons submitted the winning

for injured military personnel.

Cumming,

Paul Christman was promoted to director

7(^/f

S

Ga.

-L

of financial analysis

and

cost accounting at

Teleflex Medical.

?("J"^ Ricky Bonomo,

y^

Harrisburg,

was honored as one of
Fame and Museum's

the National Wrestling Hall of

distinguished members, Class of 2008.

He

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Kenneth Rossi is supervisor
Blue Mountain School District.

captured three

titles for

BU.

of special education for the

Christopher Helt
St.

Charles

WVIA Public Television for four years.

Gretchen

^CJ^

/ \J

is

director of

program and education

for the Alzheimer's Association's

2007 Pennsylvania

Politics

Mountain School

director of curriculum for

District.

attorney

JC\j£

from Lower Saucon Township, was named
a

College, Philadelphia.

the Blue
(right), a trial

Murchison is director
and family services at Girard

Gillies

of counseling

Gwendolyn Witmer-Belding is

Delaware

Valley Chapter.

Tracy Finken

a senior business services partner at the

Susan Dantona Jolley (right) is director of
donor relations for Wilkes University. She was
vice president of development/major and planned
gifts at

Claire Day, a specialist in dementia education,

is

Way branch of York Traditions Bank.

Rising Star

by Law

Jesse Ergott

S\J

&

Pershing

magazine.

is

executive director of neighborhood

housing for the City of Scranton.

W. Markle Jr.,

Elysburg,

was promoted

to

the rank of major in the Pennsylvania National Guard.

Find

more Husky Notes

online at

www. bloomualumni. com.
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815

member of the guard

A

more than 20 years, he is a veteran
of Operation Iraqi Freedom II and a Bronze Star recipient. He
teaches science at Danville High School.
for

Megan Pesavento Murray, an

English teacher

at

Easton Area High School, achieved national board
cation in

2007 from

certifi-

the National Board for Professional

Teaching Standards.

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Marriages
Peter Sobrinski '84 and Janice
Lee, July 22,

John

E.

2007

Lisa

Brennan

'00 and Robert

Alicia

11,2007

Langmayer, July 28, 2007

Siegfried, Aug.

Gnall '90 and

Stacie Gottstein '00 and

Donna

Robert

L.

Jordan

Kenneth Marx

'02 and

James T.

Chulada

'04,

Stacey Sims

02 and

Jr.

Nicole Reinert 04 and Ryan

Shepherd, June 22, 2007

Mehalick'98,July6,2007

Marc Varano

'90 and Karen

Gina Libertore

Barsh, Aug. 25,

2007

Arnold, Oct. 19,2007

Jessica Mistretta, Aug. 18, 2007

Regan O'Malley

Jennifer Schott '02 and Blake

June

11,2007

Katrina Yashin, Aug.

'05 and Jacob

Veronica Butters
'00 and

Dave

2007

30,

'04 and John Natt

Michael Maziekas

'02 and

Lepley,

June

2007

16,

Emily Eaton 05 and Jeffrey
'95 and Jason

Grace Bognatz

Woelkers, Oct. 14,2006

Higgins

Kirstin Foust '95 and Simon

Eileen Bell

McElrea, June 9,2007

July 19, 2007

Jr.,

'00 and Daniel

Nov. 2, 2007

Nichols

'05, Oct. 6,

2007

Gable, Oct. 15,2007

Crystal J. Hollednak '05 and
'01

and

Garney,

Elliot

Cunningham

Leslie

'03 and Ryan

Gary

J.

Rodgers

July 27, 2007

Jr.,

Perryman, Sept. 22, 2007

Devon Jo Orner '05 and

Andes '96 and

M and

Pamela

A.

Popovitch, Oct. 13,2007

David

Burns, Aug. 18,2007

Robyn Kuhar

Steven Collins

'01

Carver, April 11,

2007

Holly

Robert

B.

Brennan

'01

Nicole Dorzinsky
Antonelli,

June

2,

'03 and

John

Manney, June

Brian

2007

9,

2007

Lacy Phillips '05 and Adam
'96 and Russell

Caiazzo, July 27,

2007

Peter Clement Frederick Jr. '03

and Tara

and Kristen Shomper, July

7,

Wilson, Sept. 15,2007

2007

Amanda Smith
Cheryl Purta '96 and Michael

Kathryn Curry

Jaworski, April 28, 2007

Puskar, Nov. 24,

'01

and

Michelle Giannone

Carl

Storm

'96 and David Cawley,

Elizabeth H. Smith

'01

Micah

Paul A. Cacciamani '97 and

Katie Stockinger

W03M and

Corey Collier

Oct 5,2007

Lauren

E.

Pollock,

Aug. 18,2007

Adams

'98 and Gary

Gorbey, Aug. 25, 2007

'01,

2007

and

Aug. 10, 2007

J.

'05 and

Kishbaugh '07M,

Jared

13,2007

Oct.

Jason Dermes 03/05M

2007

Oct. 27,

Lori

'03 and

Amber Yeagle

'05 and Michael

Spotts, Nov. 22,

2007

Heidi Kalafut 03 and Nicholas

Daley

'03, Sept.

Michelle Breneman

'06 and

Calvin Martin, Sept.

2007

1,2007

William Kaledas

Jr.

8,

03 and
Allison N. Gill 06 and

Jennifer

Jessica Lepley, June 23, 2007

Bean, Dec. 24, 2007

Danielle H. Zeske
and

'01

Christopher

Wayne Vidzicki '02,

Aug

Christina
Mish, July 21, 2007

2007

14,

Christopher Embert '98 and
Maria

Izaguirre, July 21,

2007

Straus,

Shane Tamecki

'98 and Angela

Angstadt, Nov.

2007

2,

May

Husted, July

7,

2007

'02 and Justin

Billie

Jean Nogle

Bloom '07 and George

June

Ritchey,

Andrea Brouse

L.

Carrie Montella '03 and Michael
16,

2007

'03 and

Jennifer M. Davis '07 and
12,

2007

Timothy

Tyler, Sept.

15,2007
Bradley Oravitz, Oct.

Rebecca

Mollie Connors '02 and
Jr. '02

Lawrence Pryzblick

Phillips '03 and

Michael Kalmbach

2007

Newman '07 and

Nicole
'03,

Allyson Arnold '99 and Andrew

5,

Lehman,

Kevin

May 26, 2007

July 21, 2007

Melissa M. DeFinnis

Hackman, June 30, 2006

Jared

Mark Bohr '99 and

L.

Spaide, June

1

'02 and
6,

2007

Keriann Nicole Stark '03 and

Stephanie Stacharowski
and Michael

Jennifer

Hausman

'07

01,

Angel Alvarado, Aug. 16,2007
Piazza, Oct. 20,

Autumn Gibbons '02 and

2007

Matthew Quinn
Leon

'02,

Oct

June
7,

2007

O'Neill IV '99 and Alissa

Amy Pokrywka

Biedermann

Dayna Gulden

Brotman, Dec. 1,2007

22,

2007

Gretchen Angstadt '04 and Kurt
'03,

May 27, 2007

'02 and

Natalie Moriano '04 and

Eronn Culver
'99 and Jeffrey

Santino Ferretti

'03,

Clauss, Oct. 20, 2007

Nov. 11,2006

Mark R. Owens, an
Barnes

attorney,

was

elected a partner at

& Thomburg's Indianapolis office.

Methodist Church, Drums. She previously served churches in
Gilberton, Shamokin, East Stroudsburg

Angela Snader Schadt is vice president and portfolio
manager in Fulton Financial Advisors' investment division.

5fJ^T Stephanie Bombay is a community income devel-

S/

opment

specialist for the

Rev. Drena L. Hubler Miller

SPRING 2008

is

American Cancer
pastor of

St.

Society.

Paul's United

and Willistown.

Sarah Nielson Signorelli is the major gifts officer for
institutional advancement at Saint Joseph's College, West
Hartford, Conn.

}(~J

Q

/ Cjf

Jennifer

Adams is assistant dean at Colgate

University.

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Husky Notes

?(")}(")} Jeffrey Witts, Dickson City,

Mall
Jill

Yazwinsky Dougherty,

at Springfield

High School, Delaware County, received a

is

a regional

Options and Management Services.
baseball coach, he

coach

for

Kirk

A

manager

for

Health

now volunteers as an assistant baseball
fitness center,

Transformation

J(\(\
\J\J

instructional technology

2007. She

is

Lisa Brennan Siegfried earned a master's degree in

from Towson University in
employed as a high school social studies teacher
by the Baltimore County Public School System.

Jf\ "1
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Richard Cardamone, Harrisburg,

Commonwealth

with the

is

a division chief

of Pennsylvania's bureau

of financial management.

& Fitness, in Carlisle.

Christopher

Peter Trentacoste was promoted to university housing
director at Northern

office.

former high school

Mechanicsburg schools.

Ream opened a

Training

to

a ninth-grade reading specialist

$25,000 Milken Family Foundation award for exceptional
talent and accomplishments inside and outside the classroom.

Mike Hancock, Lemoyne,

was promoted

branch manager of Pennstar Bank's Steamtown

Kentucky University.

Reibsome was sworn into the Pennsylvania
November 2007 during a ceremony in the

L.

Bar Association in

Dauphin County Courthouse. He

is

a probation/parole officer

in Charlottesville, Va.

Alums connect in the region, workplace
helped create one.

A wine and cheese social,

event, brought together nearly

Conroy

their first official

100 alumni from the

area.

believes the Carver Hall Chapter will play

an

important role in the future of the Alumni Association.

need more

can serve in that capacity in terms of town-gown
recruiting

"We

local advocates for the university. This chapter

from

local

relations,

high schools and volunteering on

campus," Conroy says. "In the past we've had a core group
of alumni in the area

who

acted as volunteers, but with the

creation of a chapter like this we're opening ourselves
larger

up

to a

group of individuals.

"The Carver Hall Chapter

will provide

an

official

alumni

presence in the community that can advocate and volunteer

BU

President David L. Soltz, center, spends a few

with

BU Trustee Dr. Joseph Mowad,

left,

and Jim

moments
Cleary,

and employee relations for
Geisinger Health System, during an Alumni Association
reception at the Pine Barn Inn, Danville. Nearly 75 alumni and
associate vice president of labor

their guests attended the reception, as well as

BU

and students. Approximately 350 BU grads work

on behalf of the university," Conroy adds.
The Alumni Association is also linking alums
workplace. "There

with

affinity

professional lives.

for the

fraternity, a sports

If

Anew

not host an event for

for

alumni in the

workplace are two ways the Alumni Association

is

helping

university

BU

and each

graduates stay connected with the

The newest chapter of the Alumni Association, the
is focused on bringing together
alums living in Bloomsburg and surrounding areas.
established chapters across the state

and

country for alumni to get together and network, but

we

hadn't done anything to revitalize a chapter for people

within 20 miles," says Nathan Conroy, assistant director
of alumni

affairs.

in the

alumni events

all

for a sorority or

why
who work at a specific

a specific graduation year,

alumni

says.

BU alumni employed by Geisinger Health
System met for a social at the Pine Bam Inn in Danville. With
In February,

about 350 alumni employed by Geisinger and

many living
BU

in the Bloomsburg/Danville area, the event provided

other.

Carver Hall Chapter,

"We had

you host an event

team or

company?" Conroy
alumni chapter and events

a trend of hosting

groups that alumni have created during their

faculty, staff

Geisinger Health System.

is

Lynda Michaels, alumni

affairs director,

recognized the need for a local chapter and,

last fall,

President David Soltz with the opportunity to see the strong

connection between university alumni and the region.

Chapter and workplace events are just two of the many
ways the Alumni Association helps alums stay in touch.
"When you have an alumni event, it doesn't necessarily
have to be at the campus," Conroy says. "No matter where

—

North Carolina, Virginia

the event

is

held

everyone

is

talking about Bloomsburg. That's the kind of

Danville,

unique atmosphere you find

at these events."

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employment manager for the human resources department

Deaths

at

Marguerite Minnich Schumacher '28

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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist

Beautifying Bloomsburg:

The

Outdoor Art on Campus

plan to enrich the Bloomsburg campus

with pieces of art began 15 years
school

moved

1867. The

tain near Carver Hall, a

above town in

to the hill

first

after the

major addition was the foun-

gift

from the Class of 1882.

Other fountains followed, as well as indoor art such as
stained glass

windows, sculptures and

paintings.

In the early 1970s, outdoor art of a less-traditional

nature was

installed in the areas

between many of the

campus' newly constructed buildings.

were a wooden oak totem and a

steel

Among these
fountain

sculpture placed outside the south entrance of the

Bakeless Center in 1972

and

a steel-and-fiberglass

tonal sculpture installed in front of the Haas Center

Although these pieces were purchased
others were completed

on

a

outright,

commissioned

basis.

Competitions leading to commissioned work resulted
in the centerpiece for the Aumiller Plaza on the south

Kehr Union in 1979 and a

Bloomsburg mascot, the husky,
burg area sculptor

E.

Richard

statue of the

in 1983.

Blooms-

Bonham won

the

national competition to create the bronze husky,

sponsored by the Community Government and

Alumni

associations. Installed

on

the Carver Hall

lawn and dedicated on Oct. 22, 1984, the husky
still

stands near the intersection of Perm and

Second

streets.

The death

of longtime art department chairper-

son Percival Roberts in 1984 provided the greatest
impetus

The

for bringing

outdoor

art to the

campus.

following year, the Council of Trustees

established the Percival R. Roberts

Sculpture Garden

III

Memorial

in the mall area south of the

McCormick Center and east of the former Andruss
Library, now the Warren Student Services Center.
Two Elongated Forms
'Two Elongated Forms' by James Myford of
Slippery Rock

is

featured along the

walkway

between Kehr Union and Scranton Commons.

30

ment

staff

from the

art

department and develop-

office were responsible for acquiring appropriate

artwork for

The

first

this space.

piece placed in the garden

commissioned work, a bronze

known artist

bell

was another

by the

internationally

Toshiko Takaezu,

who had

a long personal and professional

relationship with the Roberts family.

The sculpture garden and
were

officially

Oct.

1,

bell

dedicated on

1989. The quest for

additional sculptures led
the university to art collectors Philip

Berman

the following year.

side of

Faculty and

and Muriel

of Allentown

who,

for a decade, gave

many fine pieces
of art to the
school.

The Bermans began
collecting paintings in

1948,

expanding

later

their

scope to include sculpture.

As

their collection grew,

works

the couple donated

to universities in the

Philadelphia area. In 1989,
the Philip

and Muriel

Berman Museum of Art
was dedicated at Ursinus
College and, five years
a sculpture park

later,

established in their
at the

was

honor

Lehigh Valley

Hospital in Allentown.

The

Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education also

benefited from their
generosity; Muriel

was a member

Berman

of the State

System's Board of Governors
and, throughout the 1980s and 1990s,
universities as well as the

all

14

PASSHE

Dixon Center in Harrisburg

an from the couple's collection.
The Bermans made their first contributions

received

Tonal Sculpture
'Tonal Sculpture' by artist Joe
to the

Haas Center

Moss greets visitors

for the Arts.

to

"Standing Adolescent," was installed in the sculpture

column and marble screen by Sternal; two interrelated
sculptures, the "King and Queen," by Sternal and
Martha Enzmann; and the "Stone Benches" by

garden in

University of Alberta art professor Peter Hide. All were

Bloomsburg in 1989 with three bronze sculptures by
Minnesota

the

artist

fall

Michael

Price.

One of these,

1990. Three other sculptures donated by

Bermans were

also placed in the mall

snake near the Bakeless Center and a
Centennial
artist

area— a steel

steel

totem by

Gym, both created by psychiatrist-tumed-

Ernest Shaw, and a marble bench along the

walkway

at the east

sculpted by
Philip

made

the

artist

end of the McCormick Center,

Thomas

in

1997 and his wife

the last donations of large sculptures to the

university the following year. She donated a marble

STRING 2008

bordered by Bakeless, the Warren

Student Services Center and the mall.

With

the creation of the

dedicated

at

the Class of

Academic Quad,

homecoming last

fall,

six sculptures

1940 fountain were moved from

and

their

previous locations to the garden area in front of

Sternal.

Berman passed away

installed in the area

Andruss Library. The Percival

R. Roberts

Memorial Sculpture Garden

now part of the new

landscaped quad.

is

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Students have a pickup ball game outside Lycoming Hall.

I

-May

Session

II

Session

III

-

Women's

Berks

Camp, July 7

www.bloomualumni.com forfurthe r

Red Bridge Recreation Area;

Women's

details or to register. For information,

Thursday, Aug. 14

July 18 to 20

contact the Alumni Affairs Office at

Finger Lakes

Visit the

Summer 2008
Session

Alumni Summer Picnic,

Alumni Events

Academic Calendar

alumni online community at

19 to June 27

July

19 to Aug. 8
(5701 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 or

Fall

2008

Friday, Sept.

Wine Tour

Field

- No

Intensive

Special Events

May

44th Annual Reading Conference
17

Thursday and

Friday,

May 15 and

1

and

Bloomsburg
Saturday,
1

Thanksgiving Break

No Classes
Friday,

Nov. 26 to 28

Classes Resume
Monday, Dec.

1

Alumni House; Tuesday, June 10

Monday to

benefits Columbia County

Hiawatha Cruise; Thursday, June 12

Way

Math and Science Camps
Summer

Weekend

June 27 to 29

Saturday, Dec. 8 to 13

Experience, sixth- through

eighth-graders

,

Monday to

July 14 to 17, 9 a.m. to

4

p.m.;

emauch@bloomu.edu

03

Athletic Hall of

Saturday, Dec. 13

nth-

Monday to Thursday,

or (570) 389-41

Bloom

at the

Ocean

City,

Beach,

Md.

Fame

Induction

Friday, Oct. 10; reception,

dinner,

6 p.m.;

New Student Activities
Orientation

Saturday to Monday, June 28 to 30

Act 101/EOP Orientation

and 30

Freshman Preview

Monday through Thursday, June 16
to

1

9,

Soccer,

Women's

Soccer, July 6 to 10

7 p.m. Monty's

Monday, Aug. 4

Friday to Sunday, Sept. 12 to 14

1

and 2

Alumni Summer Picnic,

Park;

Swimming
Husky Gold, June 8 to 12

orJune 15to 19
Stroke Development, June 8 to 12
or

June 15to 19

Tennis
Tennis

Camp

I,

Tennis

Camp

II,

Tennis

Camp

III,

June 21

to

25

July 19 to 23

July 26 to 30

Parent/Child

I,

June 20 to 22

Parent/Child ll/Big Brother,

Senior High

Team Camps,

July 6 to 10 and July 13 to 17
Intensive Training

Wednesday, Aug. 6

26

June 27 to 29

Homecoming Weekend
Friday to Sunday, Nov.

McDade

to

Wrestling

Wilkes-Barre
Lions Pavilion;

June 21

Camp,

Summer Camps

July 6 to 12

For more information and brochures,

Junior/Senior High Technique Camp,

Alumni Summer Picnic,

call Kevin

Lehigh Valley

or go to www.buhuskies.com.

Wood at (570) 389-4371

July 13 to 17

Covered Bridge Park; Thursday,

Baseball

and Monday through

Aug. 7
Rookie Day Camp, July 14 to 17

Thursday, June 23 to 26

Bloom

Transfer Orientation

Wednesday and Thursday,

Alumni Summer Picnic,

Lackawanna

Sunday and Monday, June 29

Fall

Women's

Saturday, Aug. 2

Parents and Family Weekend

Summer Freshman

11

High School, July 13 to 16

Saturday, July 14 to 19

12

Undergraduate Commencement

Summer

and CSI

Experience, ninth- through
graders;

for information,

Stratford Festival 2008

Friday, Dec.

United

June 9 to

Soccer

Harrisburg

June 13

and Aug. 3 to 7

Upper Campus;

Alumni Summer Picnic,

Friday to Sunday,

Graduate Commencement

8 a.m. to noon;

Litwhiler Field,

Jesse Bryan/John Cook

Exams

17,

Montoursville

Multicultural Alumni
Final

May

Alumni Summer Picnic,

Classes End
Saturday, Dec. 6

Team Camp, Aug. 3 to 7

Youth Football Day Camp,

early birds, 7 a.m.; adjacent to

City Island; Friday,

Camp,

Football

Trash to Treasure
Friday and Saturday, Oct.

Individual

16

Alumni Summer Picnic,

Reading Days - No Classes

Team and

Goalkeepers Camps, July 27 to 31

Directors Meeting
Saturday,

Classes

1

Wednesday to

Team Camp,

July 27 to 31

Alumni Association Board of

Monday, Aug. 25

Monday, Sept.

Basketball

Hockey

Intensive

12

alum@bloomu.edu.

Classes Begin

Labor Day

Day

to 11

to Aug. 8

1

-May

Basketball Individual

at the

Beach,

Avalon, N.J.
July 9

and 10

Day Camp

I,

Day Camp

II,

July 21 to 24
July 28 to 31

Saturday, Aug. 9

Basketball

For

the latest information

on upcoming

events,

check the university

Alumni Summer Picnic,

Men's Basketball Day Camp,

Adult/Non-Traditional

Philadelphia

June 23 to 27

Web site:

Orientation

Tuesday, Aug. 12

Men's Basketball Team Camp,

www. bloomu. edw'today

Alumni Summer Picnic,

June 27

Saturday, Aug. 23

Welcome Weekend

Lancaster

Thursday to Sunday, Aug. 21 to 24

Long's Park;

to

29

Wednesday, Aug. 13

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will the

whole world be

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this,"

I

promise,

sang Natalie Merchant in the early

1990s as lead singer of the 10,000 Maniacs.

The University

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all

Bloomsburg

gift.

afghan, stadium blanket or chair.
to pennants, glassware

ages, including the special

an alumni cap,

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license plate frame or decal for a special

graduation

and caps

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Or, perhaps, a diploma frame,
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gifts,

from

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Sunday: Noon to 4 p.m.

high school grad

Summer Hours
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Closed on Saturday and Sunday

T-shirts, sweatshirts

stuffed animals, are great gifts for all

who will soon become a BU

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of items at www.bloomu.edu/store. For a traditional

hundreds

shopping experience,

is open seven days a week during the academic year
and Mondays through Fridays during the summer. Stop by in person or

the University Store

Saturday:

Monday through

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The University

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clothing, like

mug,

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on

the height of this year's primary election season, the announcer

During
Bloomsburg's

local radio station

mused on Sen. Barack Obama's

connection to both President George

genetic

W. Bush and Vice President Dick
May 2007 shows that

Cheney. Genealogical research in the news since
the senator

is

a 10th cousin to

our current president and an eighth cousin to his

vice president.

This political campaign has focused the attention of the American public

many issues,

including identity, and

common identifying characteristic

it is

for these three distantly related politicians.

Bloomsburg University connection, on the other hand,

is

30 who met at
I

last spring's

is

a

The

much easier to trace.

There are the family connections that cross generations,
Reinhart

on

apparent that a penchant for politics

like

Ruth Yeager

alumni weekend with her great-nephew,

Brian Collins 77, and his daughter, Victoria Collins '05. There are connections

between alumni
Sharon

who work for the same organization, like Tim Pritchard and
1990 graduates who are being inducted together into

Reilly Zemaitis,

Athletic Hall of Fame

and

are

the

employed by the pharmaceutical company

AstraZenica.

And there

community,

like the collaborative investigative efforts of forensics expert

are connections

assistant professor of anthropology

between our

faculty, staff

and the

Conrad Quintyn and Pennsylvania

larger

and

State Police

Shawn Williams '93 told in this issue's cover story.
There's also a bond grounded in the affection alumni hold for their university.
The English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson said, "I am a part of all that I have met,"
Corp.

and, clearly, Bloomsburg University alumni agree, renewing connections through
the online

community (www.bloomualumni.com) and

at

alumni events.

been continually impressed with the strength of this enduring
alumni give of their time, treasure and
Since beginning

talents to their

my tenure as president,

I

I

have

as I've witnessed

tie

alma mater.

have been building

my own

connections with students and their families, alumni, friends of the university and
residents of this region
first

and

the state.

commencement ceremonies

represent

As

I

have been proud to confer degrees during the

in the

Academic Quadrangle and honored

to

BU in a variety of settings.

president,

I

will

continue to expand

upon Bloomsburg University's legacy of

excellence. That connection will be formalized before colleagues, family, friends

members

of the Bloomsburg University

community on

Friday, Oct. 3 1 with

inauguration as the institution's 18th president. Please join us.

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and

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Matthew

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Robert

Dampman

Marie Conley

Ramona H.

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an innovative way

Vice Chair

Lammando

using cooking

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BU professors create

the tank, but not with diesel.

Fill

Chair

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to shuttle students

from the Scranton

around campus,

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Professor Meredith Re Grimsley brings playing dress

Eric Foster

up

to the college level, helping her students learn

Bonnie Martin

that

Husky Notes Editor

unusual materials can result in unique

Williamsport freshman Charts Ditamore models

artistic creations.

Brenda Hariman

a duct tape ensemble, fashioned by sophomore

Director of Alumni Affairs

Dominique Filiziani of Barnesville, during
Personal Adornment Day 2008.

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Johnson

Victims'Voice

Communications Assistants

Shawn Williams

Lauren Kopich '09
Ashli Yakabovicz '10

blood

Agency
Snavely Associates,

trail

'93 joins forces with faculty

member Conrad Quintyn

to follow the

of murderers. Together, they delve into cases, both cold and recent, to

bnng

closure to victims' families.

LTD

Art Director
Debbie Shephard

To

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Adam

the Rescue

Vorlicek

Stacy Pane Segal's childhood passion for horses has turned into

much more.

Today, the

Cover Photography

1999 grad works

Eric Foster

On

to save

them from

the slaughterhouse.

the Cover

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Shawn M.

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victims' families.

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Council of Trustees
Barth

Change

in Leadership

Cavanaugh becomes third PASSHE chancellor

named

chair;

Najpauer appointed

Steven Barth, Lewisburg, recently

was

appointed to a two-year

term as chair of BU's Council of Trustees. Senior vice president

John

and loan

C. Cavanaugh, former

West Florida

officer at

Community

Bank, Milton, Barth has been a

president of the University of

member of the

in Pensacola,

Council of Trustees

He succeeds former

became chancellor of the

since 1998.

Pennsylvania State System of

chairperson Robert Gibble

Higher Education in July. He
succeeds Judy G. Hample as

vice chairperson Robert

head of the System

Dampman

that

13

sister institutions
1

and

Cavanaugh

superintendent of the Bensalem

John

C.

Cavanaugh

chancellor for academic affairs at the University of
at

Township School

Wilmington. He also held various

Lammando

who

'94, Harrisburg,

and Long, a

stetter

provost for academic programs and planning and

consulting firm.

political

in the State

history, attended St. Joseph's

new student
fall.

representative this

Nicole Najpauer, a senior

College in Philadelphia before earning a bachelor's

from Northampton, replaces

degree in psychology from the University of Delaware

James D'Amico who graduated

in 1975.

He also

is

Trustees also are welcoming a

associate provost for graduate studies.

Systems nearly 25-year

and

employed by Hallowell Bran-

positions at the University of Delaware, including vice

Cavanaugh, the third chancellor

District,

secretary Marie Conley

served as provost and vice

North Carolina

Ringtown, a

Robert Tomlinson and retired

enrolls

10,000 students.

Previously,

'65,

legislative assistant to state Sen.

includes Bloomsburg and her

more than

'68.

Also serving as officers are

holds both a master's degree and a

in

May. An early childhood/

Nicole Najpauer

doctoral degree in psychology from the University of

elementary education major, Najpauer

Notre Dame.

service and consistently on the dean's

is

active

list.

in

community

She was appointed

to

the Trustees by Gov. Ed Rendell.

Legislative Reports
Local lawmaker videotapes tour
with president

State Rep.

David Millard,

right,

who represents Pennsylvania's
109th

district,

tour with

taped a campus

BU President David Soltz

in early June.

The program,

for broadcast

on

slated

the Pennsylvania

Cable Network (PCN), spodights

new academic programs,
achievements,

facility

faculty

renovations

and the perceptions of the
university's 18th president

completion of his
Millard

is

first

upon

semester.

a 1988 graduate of

Bloomsburg University.

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Campaigning for Mom
Chelsea Clinton has 'conversation' with

BU

Chelsea Clinton spoke about issues ranging

from education and health care

to

renewable

energy and the war in Iraq as she represented
her mother, former Democratic presidential

contender Sen. Hillary Clinton,

at

BU during

primary election season. In the hour-long
question-and-answer session, Clinton asked

200-member audience, made up mainly

the

BU students, to decide which issues
your own assessments."
"We should
"first

of

are important, reach out for

think about this election in the context of our

answers and "make

the former

lives," said

Our Voice,

daughter" while standing in front of a banner stating, "Hillblazers:

Our Future."

Among the

topics Clinton, 28, discussed

on her mother's behalf were public

education, college affordability, public service,
Iraq war, foreign policy, renewable energy,

civil

unions, discrimination laws, the

NATO, drug costs,

Social Security,

immigration and national security, universal health care and trade agreements.

Making an

earlier

campaign stop

actors Dule Hill, star of "The

at

BU in support

West Wing" and

of Sen. Barack

"Psych,"

Obama were TV

and Zachary Quinto,

star of

"Heroes" and "24." The pair, touring college campuses nationwide, stressed the
Chelsea Clinton shares her mother's views

importance of registering to vote while answering questions before a standing-room

during a campaign stop in Kehr Union,

audience in Kehr Union.

Fireside Lounge.

Innovation at a Distance
Deaf/hard of hearing faculty receive

Tickets to Learning

BU hosts Honors Program to China

national recognition

BU
Samuel

Slike, curriculum coordinator for BU's

education of the

took

its

summer hosting the annual

turn this

Honors Program

trip for

two students from each of the

deaf/hard of hearing program, and Pamela Berman, instructional

14 institutions in the Pennsylvania State System of

designer for the Institute for Instructional Technology, received a

Higher Education. The students, including

2008

International Distance Learning

Award from the United

States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). Slike and

Berman

received the award, Best Practices for Distance Learning

Programming
use of

—

Wimba

combines

Online Technology

Classroom, a

in

Higher Education, for their

virtual learning

program that

instruction.

They were recognized

for using

Wimba

to offer

courses specifically designed for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Through Wimba, students have access to a sign-language
interpreter

and closed-caption

text,

which accompany the

standard slide presentation and instructor's voice. "We're making
it

major from Perkasie, and Maureen Dameron, a junior
nursing major from Chambersburg, received
scholarships

which covered the

credits, travel

possible for deaf and hard of hearing people to have equal

access to information via the internet," says

Slike.

full

costs of 6 academic

and room and board in China.

The students studied
interactive technologies with traditional styles of

BU

representatives Sarah Beltz, an elementary education

the people, policies

and

preferences of modem China during four weeks at

Shandong University of Technology and Yunnan
Normal University. The group was accompanied by BU
faculty

members Jing Luo, professor of languages and
and Youmin Lu, professor of mathematics,

cultures,

computer science and
Robbie

Soltz, wife of

Daniel Brown, a

BU

statistics,

BU

along with biologist

president David Soltz,

student from Howard, Pa.

and

News Notes

Boots on the Ground
Retired prof to keep on mapping

International Exchange

Nineteenth century technology

BU enters agreement with Cameroonian universities

has a place in the

still

modem world

and Duane Braun, recently

retired

professor of geosciences, has the

BU

Provost James
Mackin and English
professor

Ekema Agbaw

—

I

Yaounde

II.

notebook
his

Buea,

in

hand and

undergraduate

Later,

and

Braun

the help of

field assistants.

he drew the maps using

plastic

Duane Braun

Mylar sheets on top of a

light table.

"The three

Njeuma, rector of the
University of Yaounde I in
Cameroon, left, shakes hands
with BU Provost James Mackin
Dorothy

universities that

we

have committed to

working with

are

L.

"Technology hasn't changed geologic
significantly," says Braun. "It is

ground'

With

an international
exchange agreement between the
two institutions.
to finalize

among the premier
universities in

to begin student

exchanges with

all

Resources

field,

no one would

end up

online, viewable

maps

on Google Earth and

the

Web site, www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/openfile/

ofloc.aspx.

will come away from a visit to
Cameroon with a whole new sense of their place in

Bloomsburg students

Braun

retired

Moving with

the world."

work with
Buea and Yaounde

I

universities expressed interest in enrolling their students
in BU's audiology/speech pathology, exceptionality
institute for interactive technologies

just like in the 19th century."

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural

exchanges to occur in the near future. I'm sure

officials at

mapping
on the

guess that his Surficial Geology (glacial deposits)

of these universities almost immediately, with faculty

According to Mackin,

field

a lot of 'boots

a global positioning system as Braun's only piece of

eventually

"We hope

officials at

stuff,

still

modem technology when he is in the

Cameroon," says
Mackin.

years,

deposits, with a waterproof

with three Cameroonian
universities

25

northeastern Pennsylvania's glacial

this spring

Yaounde

last

charted 9,000 square miles of

formalized exchange

agreements

Over the

proof.

from

BU

at the

end of the spring semester.

his wife to the Pine Tree State,

the Maine Geological Survey to

Maine which

is,

he plans

compared with Pennsylvania,

and miles of wilderness

to

map northern
"just miles

to explore geologically."

and

programs, while

the University of Yaounde

II

focused on BU's

business programs.

Star

Power

Program earns accreditation

In

the

Know

BU's theatre arts program recently earned accreditation from the
National Association of Schools of Theatre. Only 150 programs

Emergency

notification

system

in

place

nationwide are accredited
self-study

BU's faculty, staff and students

campus emergency

now have immediate

information, thanks to a

access to

new system

to be sent quickly via e-mail,

Students sign up as part of the process

phone and

when

text

a two-year process that includes

"The reviewers saw our performance of 'Urinetown' and spent a

that allows
lot of

messages

in

and an on-campus review.

messages.

time with students," says Bruce Candlish, associate professor

of theatre arts. "They

examined our curriculum very

carefully,

registering electroni-

as well."
cally for classes,

and nearly

half of BU's faculty

and

staff

have
In

signed up voluntarily. The system, available only to students, faculty

and

staff

with

be used solely

official
in

Bloomsburg University e-mail addresses,

case of a life-threatening emergency. Plans

the system to be tested each semester.

will

call for

addition to the quality of the student production, reviewers

noted that the lease arrangement to use the Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble's Alvina Krause Theatre, located downtown,

was

a

temporary solution for needed theatre space. The current
renovation of Haas Center for the Arts
Candlish, as

it

will greatly

expand the

is

also helpful, says

size of the

scene and

costume shops.

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the "Spirit of BU" series, a three-bay offset

in

side hopper car. Proceeds will benefit student scholarships

Camp HERO

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at

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Bloomsburg, Pa. 1781

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and

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sent to Kim

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fourth of six train cars

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and handling per

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TALE of Two Teachers
BU

faculty

Two

faculty

Graduate Studies Leader

members win teaching award

Biolo/jist is

members were

BU's newest dean

selected for the

new

2008 Teaching and Learning Enchancement

Lawrence

(TALE) Outstanding Teaching award. Margie

assistant vice president

Eckroth-Bucher, associate professor of nursing,

dean of graduate studies

and Jennifer

and

Stotter, assistant professor of

work and

were recognized

for their outstanding teaching

criminal justice,

undergraduate spring

is

BU's

and

research, filling a

vacancy created by the

sociology, social

at BU's

Fritz

retirement of James Matta.

Most recently chair

commencement

ceremonies. Winners were nominated by

and professor of the

May

department of biological

graduates.

Eckroth-Bucher

was nominated

and

sciences

for her

director of

Margie Eckroth-Bucher
ability to inspire

the professional science

her students to recognize and

understand the needs of patients
According to one nomination

who have

letter,

"She

is

mental health challenges.
the epitome of

Dalhousie University in

was nominated

for her "motivating

and strengths-based"

engage her students

in critical

was

thinking, to

Both faculty

their

FALL 200

BU

director with the National Science

encourage them to

Foundation, Division of Biological Infrastructure.

Foundation, and plaques recognizing

a

Marine Biosciences, and

Institute for

received $750 professional development

achievement.

was

Canada,

a

community and national events."

members

also

program

make

"complete assignments professionally and with pride" and to become

stipends, sponsored by the

Nova Scotia. He

research officer with the National Research Council-

recognized for her ability to

teaching style, which inspires her students to "take a stand,
difference and have a voice." Stotter

Fritz

previously taught at Northern Arizona University and

a listener."

"involved with

Lawrence
at the

University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, Fritz

what a

nurse should be: professional, caring, a teacher, an advocate and

Stotter

program

master's

Fritz, who was bom in New York City and grew
up near Philadelphia, was a Peace Corps volunteer in
the Philippines. He earned a bachelor's degree from

State University of

master's

New York,

Stony Brook, and

and doctoral degrees from Rutgers

University

and completed post-doctoral study

biology

Harvard University.

at

in cell

Reaction
STORY BY KELLY MONITZ

'90

By any definition, Toni Trumbo Bell was a 'nontraditional' student when she
entered college. Her persistence and patience pulled her through and, today,
motivate students in the classroom and research
Trumbo
Toni
Wal-Mart the

Bell couldn't see herself

while

retail giant

rose to
Bell

rest of

her

still

life.

working

She started

a teenager

and quickly

management. But she wanted something

wanted

at

at the

to

school to

become

a high

school biology teacher, but the decision wasn't without
obstacles. Bell

was 23 years

itself

presented

new challenges. Her adviser

than helpful, she says, and she found herself

on her own only to discover
wanted and needed

that all of the biology courses she

were

go back

to

less

trying to schedule classes

else.

to teach.

She decided

College

was

lab.

closed.

Her

first

tion. After

week

in class brought another revela-

spending just a short amount of time with

her 18-year-old classmates, Bell learned that she no

old, divorced, raising a

preschooler and living in government-subsidized

longer wanted to teach at the high school

housing in Kentucky. She needed

figured

to take the College

I

would

get fired

Boards, apply to schools, find financial aid and figure

teaching job," Bell says.

how she would balance a full class
an energetic toddler. And it was April.

teaching was not for me."

out

Bell was, as she

Accepted
Bell

still is,

load, a job

and

which she

applied,

chose the University of Louisville and embarked

on a life path that would bring her to Bloomsburg
University where she has taught chemistry and bio-

knew she

couldn't

rent,

and signed up

I

to school full-

for

which

food stamps,

medical assistance and any other government program
that could help her.

tuition

She received grants to pay

and found another program

for

that paid for

books. She also had help from her son Brandon's
grandparents,

and attended

who watched him while
classes.

started rethinking her course of study, switching to
field

where

she worked

far

fewer

made

since deciding to

go back to school, pursuing a chemistry degree wasn't
easy. "I didn't sleep a lot," Bell says.

work and go

time, so Bell reduced her hours at Wal-Mart,

lowered her

prospects available

Like the other choices she'd

at first, Bell says. "Basically,

my faith in God."

She

was
number of job
after graduation. That's when she

extremely popular, limiting the

another science, chemistry, a

chemistry for the past six years.

put

decided high school

undergrads ventured.

7

The path wasn't easy

"1

Next, she realized that her major, biology,

undeterred and motivated.

to all of the schools to

level. "I

from any high school

rambunctious preschooler.
until nine, after

he went

at

"My son was

couldn't crack a

a

book

to bed."

Bell studied until 1 or

work

I

2 a.m. and got up for

5 a.m. She went to school year-round,

working more hours on breaks. And the cycle went
on for three and a half years until she completed
her degree in 1996.
Weary, Bell wasn't interested in going to graduate
school, as one of her professors encouraged her to do.

Continued on page 8

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a

Lindsay Baglini-Beagle '05 works in the lab at GlaxoSmithKline.

Heart

Research

in

Trumbo

Toni

Bell's

former students credit her mix of patience

and persistence with leading them

to careers

And, for Lindsay Baglini-Beagle

some

her career ambitions

person

DeVore

who

is

'06,

who now works for

always ready

"Toni assisted

me

my

in

he says. "Toni

Shelia Hovi '05

research, helping

was

me

remembers wanting
it

me to

chickenpox vaccines for Merck, says

Bell

different

in

"used

accepted a

ways"

own

F.

Pennell '06,

"She treats

all

full

I

I

did from that class," she says.

scientist.

Wake

scholarship to

and earned a master's degree
biology.

take," says Michael

highly doubt that

in

the research lab

Applying to both

She recently accepted

in

Forest School of Medicine

biochemistry and molecular

a position as a biochemist

for GlaxoSmithKline.

believe one of the key traits passed on from her

I

I

I

medical and graduate schools, Baglini-Beagle eventually

is

to be

"Toni introduced

passionate and carry along a strong work ethic at whatever

for Absorption Systems.

wasn't for Toni,

whether to become a doctor or

her abilities. Hovi,

she understood.

career path

changed

and eventually Baglini-Beagle had to make a decision

to take part in Bell's

and over

if it

That academic collaboration continued

"She was very patient with me," Hovi adds.
"I

'05, Bell's influence

she had to conquer a dreaded

enjoyed biochemistry more than any other chemistry class

would have taken as much as

understand the

with the instrumenta-

was beyond

different analogies, explaining over
until

"I

had taken. However,

born to be an educator."

research project, but thinking

who now makes

Corning, sees her as a

to help a student or colleague.

idea of research as well as training
tion,"

first

class, biochemistry.

didn't anticipate.

Chris

but

...

me

to biochemistry

and the world

research science. Not only had she taught

who now works

of

me how to do the

science, she had such a passion for the science that she

me

of her students like her

love

it,"

made

she says.

children."

C

I mother the students a

lot.

That doesn't mean I eoddle them. I tell them

3

like it

is.

- Toni Trumbo Bell
She wanted to work, but four

different colleges and, after

months

numerous

after

graduating with a

bachelors in chemistry she hadn't

Bloomsburg University.

found a job she wanted and was
still

working

when she

at

Wal-Mart. That's

decided to give grad

school another look.

As

it

Bell

remembers

a sought-after teaching

ized she could teach just about

anything. That

work

resulted in

"I

if

—

do

to see

me.

to

says.

Bell wishes more young people
would consider studying science
and encourages some of her stu-

dismay I'm a

always something to leam," she

all

I

real person."

with questions about
er

started looking for a teaching job

doesn't

2001. Bell applied to 50

on

dents to continue on.

get

Bells students also

October

go into industry, she

not demands, class-

want the students

with her doctorate in 2002, but

at the college level in

to

my stories. love to
tell stories, much to my husband's

They

a paycheck.

She finished graduate school

wants

projects that she

been afforded had she chosen

room participation.

real-

and continues
taking

and having open

dialogues with her students and

encourages,

when her professors

sure

own research,

luxury that she wouldn't have

schools wanted her and tuition

assistant

closely with them,

isn't

them

to

own research, working

she has one now. She believes in
honesty, caring

turned out, graduate

their

her

crafting a

teaching philosophy, but

wasn't an issue, Bell says. Plus, she

became

She encourages her students

do

interviews, chose

and

it's

"It's

hard

wonderful and there

come

to her

says. "I

life. "I

moth-

the rest of

can see myself doing

is

this

my life." b

a lot," she says. "That

mean I coddle them.

I tell

them like it is. A lot of them become like my own kids."

BLOOMSBURG

Kelly Monitz '90,
journalist,

is

a

an award-winning

staff writer for the

Standard-Speaker

in Hazleton, Pa.

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Biofuel

is

of BU's

By

projected to displace 9 percent

consumption and reduce
fossil-fuel- based carbon dioxide
diesel

emissions by 57,000 pounds a year.

Power
Students riding a shuttle bus between the upper and lower campuses
this fall

may detect a

pulling

up

familiar scent in the

to the curb, they

den, unexpected craving

...

air.

In

fact, if it's

may find that they also

bus No. 5

1

experience a sud-

mi
J9kc

for french fries.

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!

j &.

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BU's biofuel bus, the brainchild of Nathaniel Greene, associate professor
of physics

and engineering technology, and Mark Tapsak,

sor of chemistry, has been configured to run

on

campus dining services' used cooking oil. Cleaner
than traditional
places the

assistant profes-

diesel fuel processed
for the

from

as

mKS&

wok

environment

diesel, the financial savings are significant as biofuel re-

60 gallons of fuel the

shuttle

bus consumes in a

typical

Nathaniel Greene

week

Mark Tapsak

during the semester.

The

university also plans to use a biofuel blend for the remainder of

diesel fleet. Biofuel is projected to displace

sumption and reduce

pounds
The

fossil-fuel-based

its

9 percent of BU's diesel con-

carbon dioxide emissions by 57,000

a year.

university

committed $13,000 toward the project from the

Foundation Margin of Excellence Grant, President's Fund
Initiatives

and

President's

Fund

for Staff

Development,

for

BU

<-$%

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b

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Ricky Bonomo,

left,

celebrates his induction

into the National Wrestling Hall of
his twin brother

and fellow

Fame with

wrestler, Rocky.

STORY BY MARION VALANOSKI

Among the names that stand

out in the history of BU wrestling
are Shorty Hitchcock and twins Rocky and Ricky Bonomo. Two
decades after capturing NCAA championships, Ricky Bonomo
continues to collect accolades as one of BU's all-time top grapplers.
icky

Bonomo

describes his recent induction

wrestling team.

The

first

year

we were at Bloomsburg,

I

into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in
IStillwater, Okla. as a

ence

when he compares his

"humbling" experi-

ourselves to the academics

wanted

record with those of

The

previous inductees.

"When you look up
the

at all

the plaques

of coaches and former wrestlers

list

accomplishments, what

we

both red-shirted and used the time to acclimate

I

did pales in

and read

and

off

and

many respects

to

what we

to do."
first

time they were allowed to

Huskies wrestling team, the Bonomos

mats would never be the same.

their

find out

competing against boys

"It

was

work out with the
knew life on the
like

going from

to wrestling against men," says

them," says Bonomo, the most decorated wrestler in

Bonomo, who now runs

Bloomsburg University history and the owner of three

competitors of all ages in suburban Harrisburg.

National Collegiate Athletic Association
Division

I

individual championships.

"I

"Whatever we accomplished

(NCAA)

am

honored

to

my name mentioned in the same breath as Dan
Gable, Wad Schalles, Bobby Weaver and Shamokin

have

Area's

Mai

head coach

'92
at

and twin brother Rocky, who

is

Lock Haven University, planned

the

to

work with their father after graduating from LakeLehman High School despite receiving offers from
several Division

I

wrestling programs, including

Nebraska and Clarion. Through the intercession of
another Huskies standout and former

NCAA

titlist

Floyd "Shorty" Hitchcock, they overcame several

academic obstacles and began their collegiate
lives at

BU.

"In high school

Bonomo says,

aside

and we

"but

we proved ourselves athletically,"
we had to prove ourselves

in

high school was brushed

had to prove ourselves on the mats to our

teammates and the coaches.

"Coach (Roger) Sanders was intimidating.
walked

Paul."

Bonomo

a wrestling school for

into the

room, everyone

knew

going to work. There was no 'dogging'

When he

they were
it

or hiding, and

he had us prepared both physically and mentally
to wrestle."

During Bonomo's

first

season of competition, he and

Rocky both missed AU-American

The next

status

by one match.

three years, however, were nothing short of

outstanding.

"What

I

learned that

first

year was that

I

belong with

Bonomo says. "That year,
from Penn State who went on to win

beat Jim

these individuals,"

I

Martin

the national

championship. And, Rock and

I

developed a we-can-do-

this attitude."

academically in order to compete collegiately on the

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Bonomo's sophomore campaign produced a 34-2
record that included nine pins and

1 1

technical

and, after beating Iowa's Matt Egland, the
three

NCAA titles.

mark and
year,

his

first

falls

by

a career record of 1 16-12-3

and

(PSAC) and the Eastern

Bonomo

national

hand

it

title,

the

mat

for that first

all

and you

wrestling

television lights," Ricky

is

champion.

gunning

to

knock

My third year

I

off the

at

used

why my matches were so close.

"There were times going to tournaments during
senior year that

I

just

wanted

to get out of the car

my

and

who

my best

who was his high

him and

was necessary

move he

perfected

in high school

to wrestling

everything

putting into

to attend college.

and

was passed on

college,"

me and

at his garage-

applies a different

depending upon the age group
with

class he's dealing
still

to

Bonomo says.

comes down

at the

to enjoying

time but

what you

are doing.

134 (pounds) because of making weight, and people
couldn't understand

it

and weight

126 and

did

to

had the

being serious about what you were doing. The

approach

defending

wrestled a lot

if 1

Working with today's wresders

Bonomo recalls.

I

into place."

fall

credits Hitchcock,

tumed-mat room, Bonomo

forget the

"That second year you are a 'marked man' because

everyone

I

but once you shake your opponent's

becomes

crowd and

still

'bear-hug'

was nervous going out on

on the

who passed away in 2002, was a happy-gowho showed me you can have fun while

"Shorty,

lucky guy

"I

me and reassured me

that

all

school history. Brother Rocky, a two-time Aillist

and coming out a winner.

school coach, for pushing

motion

with a record of 110-19.

comprehend

much less what goes into making it

would

everything

Wrestling League (EWL), he remains the third best in

American, comes in fourth on BU's all-time win

can't

support of my teammates, coaches and brother

three wrestler

of the year awards from both the Pennsylvania State
Athletic Conference

level,

I

encouraged

going 28-2 and capturing a third individual crown.

With

Most people

it all.

of the pressure that goes into competing

the tournament

second championship and, in his senior
illustrious collegiate career

all

Division

of

His junior year featured a 28-3

he capped an

walk away from

"I

fun,"

want the younger guys

Bonomo says.

but don't make
if it's

meant

"Let

a job

it

to be.

to

them

work hard but have

get

and the

exposed

to the sport

rest will fall into place

For the bigger and more

experienced wrestlers, the workouts are more intense.

You want

to instill in

at the right time."

Ma/ion Valanoski

them

the importance of peaking

b

is

a freelance spoils writerfrom

Shamokin, Pa.

After

much

success on the mats at the high school and

college levels,

Bonomo now shares

like this one,

his winning moves,

with today's young wrestlers.

Garments created of unique materials take over the runway during
Personal Adornment Day. Shown left to right in accompanying
photos are Matthew Dunbar, a sophomore from Jim Thorpe,
modeling an outfit of found clothing and aluminum cans
assembled by Steve Martz, a sophomore from Catawissa. Modeling
their own creations are, center, Nadeen Roberts, a junior from
Bloomsburg, appearing in digitally printed fabrics, adorned with
wire, beads and hand-dyed cotton, and Danielle Urbanowicz, a
May 2008 graduate from Knoxville, Tenn., wearing an ensemble
fashioned of recycled umbrellas in various sizes.

-__,

Fabric of

Expression
^^^^*-

STORY AND PHOTOS BY ERIC FOSTER

Duct tape. Aluminum
Steel.

cans. Vinyl records.

Not contents you'll find listed on a

but common materials
for garments modeled at Bloomsburg's annual
typical clothing label,

Personal

Adornment Day.
some two dozen student designers have
work on an impromptu runway in the Haas Gallery
students exhibiting their designs, the show is the

the past four Aprils,

Forshown

off their

of An. For the

culmination of weeks of work.

"Some students

are excited,

some

are terrified," says Meredith

Re

Grimsley, associate professor of an and the organizer of Personal

Adornment Day. "But they

all

feedback from the audience.

have the experience of collaborating, getting

It's

closing the circle, creating a professional

experience for them."

A fascination and focus on fabric was something that Grimsley brought
with her

when she came

to

BU in 2003.

Continued on next page
13

'As teachers, we're challenging

them

they bring to the work because

if they care,

to value the personal element

the audience will care.'

- Meredith Re Grimsley

"There's a sense of process

connection that

tactile

I

with other mediums," says
I am using
my mother,

Gail Re, use so there's a personal

connection for

me

there, as well."

A native of Atlanta,

had the exhibitions," says
Beamer,

Grimsley. "With fabric,
materials that I'd seen

"She had the resume and she

and

didn't get

Grimsley

who

most

will retire in

December after teaching at
Bloomsburg for 37 years. "Her
work was floating around
sculpture and installation. I'm
the resident skeptic on

personal voice

component to the art
program here's a space, how
can I have you interact with it as

came

to

initially

BU on a temporary one-

year basis and

was

selected for the

permanent position

here, Karl

Beamer mentioned
done something

that

we

he had

it

into

something that included bringing
in a visiting artist,

which

elevates

the experience for the students."

Fellow faculty

she

jumped

right

member Karl

in love with

art,

who

May with an
and

is

of

BU

in

"Professor

Grimsley loves teaching, loves

what she does, and

Beamer, for one, couldn't be

to

happier to have her as a colleague.

was

do

a lot of things

it

inspired

on

me

my own.

in the studios 24/7."

idea, find the

are going to

that idea.

And

they

have to defend that

Students have focused

from childhood."
is

on

often

her personal medical concerns.

University of Georgia for her
arts.

an

it?

come up with
best way to

to

For Rugg, the focus

degree

now attending the

master's of fine

"They need

Rebecca Ru§g

on childhood disease, family
issues and memories of nature

Rebecca

art studio

spend

hours and hours on

idea.

using

graduated from

they're going to

communicate

that exuberance."

fabric in design," says

Rugg,

the '80s," says

developed

And

all

"I fell

like Personal

Adornment Day in
Grimsley. "So

in with

that's

so valuable that

—

Her exuberance has a way
rubbing off on students.

after a

national search the next year.

"When I came

but she brought

that

a viewer?

"What

personal

content, their

degrees in fine arts at the Univer-

Georgia and taught there as

one of the

says Grimsley.
is their

installations,

an adjunct professor. She

is

difficult things

for students to find,

earned her bachelor's and master's

sity of

That "personal
voice"

1

"I'm diabetic, and I make a lot
work about my fears of things
that could go wrong with my
health," she says. "I was in the
library at

what

1

all

of

hours, researching

was going

to

make,

how

I

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Creative expressions from Meredith Re

Grimsleys

own

portfolio include, left to

'What Do You See,' 'If It Causes You
to Sin' and 'Blood Money.'

right,

was going to make
concept behind

it

it."

communicated her

and the

Kaitlin

Rugg
fears

work

with

to

—

shoe design

Adornment Day

2008

creation for

lighthearted princess theme,

the top.

proud

of,"

2007

the designer's Tribeca" line.

"Stitching details can

plans to graduate in December.

Though she
"It

Rugg found

had

on her work in

all classes.

make

stressed

your

It

While the end product may be

students say a project usually

or

when

with a piece of paper and

a pencil.

"Drawing

is

the foundation of

with sketches and getting the

McAteer learned

"Everyone should

on work

to

make

them

to value

the personal element they bring to

the

work because

if

they care, the

audience will care."

day, students find that people's
familiarity

with fabric and clothing

can make

textiles

effective art
it

an especially

medium. "Everybody

every day," says Rugg.

fast.

She

recalls

shoe she designed from
flat

with a

jeweled upper. "I'm close to the

sample
size

size (size

6

9 for men) so

pair that

I

wore

all

for
I

women,

had a white

the time,"

It's

in

discipline," says Grimsley.

written aspects of their ideas."

The practice
says,

of drawing, she

can increase awareness and

truly see the

not just students interested

working in design or academia

who benefit from art classes,

know how to

draw and should keep a sketchbook to record the visual and

offers the artist the ability to

says McAteer.

Through Personal Adornment

wears

first

the ground up, a

it."

"As teachers," says Grfmsley,
"we're challenging

the

an

work, Grimsley and her

any art

of hands-

class.

aspect of a thing."

starts

experience designing shoes

of

helps you think about every

abstract

any

didn't have

all

she says. "All

she started with Kenneth Cole,

And then a lot

"With

and more focused in

classes,"

took about a month of planning

materials.

that

a positive effect

a dress, a pair of shoes or

is

break the product."

who

art,

the art classes

students should take an art

now an assistant product

thought out," says McAteer.

"I

that you're

says Sandore,

is

"Every part of the design

how much work it takes

something

on

still

required serious planning.

to get

staff full-time in January

and

changing to

the creative outlet, you're less

development manager with a focus

incorporating a lampshade with

learned

Kenneth Cole in

for

months, McAteer joined the

several

had a

But creating the piece

art training

After interning with the firm for

Student Cortney Sandore's

woven into

direct

New York City.

a dress

reminiscent of a straight] acket.

holiday lights

more

to the public in a

way. She's applied her

her entry in the 2007 Personal

Adornment Day

A strong biology major before

McAteer '06 takes her

says

world and "appreci-

ate the beauty that can be vital

to creativity."

And, perhaps,

for students, to

Grfmsley. About half of her

inspire the fashions they create for

students are majoring in other

Personal

subjects,

and Grimsley

Adornment Day. b

finds they

"Your work can be understood

bring a different perspective to

Eric Foster is co-editor of Bloomsburg:

by people."

the class.

Vie University Magazine.

a

The

pieces of the crime investigation puzzle can be as

basic as handwritten notes in a binder or as sophisticated
as

computer

relies

on

analysis

of DNA. Solving the puzzle often

the collaboration of experts united in the goal

of bringing closure to

Victims

families.

^bice

STORY BY JACK SHERZ

was

the

end of January 2008 when

a state road

worker made

a grisly discovery

Italong the side of Interstate 80. Trash bags—each containing body pans of what
appeared

Unlike the gizmos that
help solve crimes in an

hour on TV, many of
Cpl.

Shawn

file,

—

a pen, a

three-ring binder

map

as

be a light-skinned adult

and a

of his territory.

woman

—had been

tossed

on

the side of the

it

Williams'

tools are low-tech

rotary card

to

made its way through rural Monroe and Wayne counties.
"I remember that day when I was sitting in my office in Bloomsburg and 1 heard
'Hey Swiftwater just found some body parts on the interstate,'" recalls Pennsylvania
State Police Cpl. Shawn M. Williams '93, referring to the state police barracks near
highway

the sites of the discovery. "In
like that."

my career,

that is the

first

time

I've

seen anything

Even
Unit,

as Williams,

one of only 19 troopers assigned

departments Criminal Investigation Assessment

to the

made

he had

his

to call:

way

to the scene,

he knew someone

Conrad Quintyn, an

of anthropology

at

Bloomsburg

else

assistant professor

University.

Immediately upon arriving in Bloomsburg in 2005,
to the authorities, who
know if the bones someone found in the
woods are human or animal. "When I heard of body

Quintyn offered his services

often

need

to

parts not being together
specialty,

knew, with Quintyns

I

he may be able

to tell

us what kind of

instrument was used to dismember the body,"

Williams says.
"That was

"I

look

my job, to

find out whether a knife

saw was used, an

used, a

ax, whatever,"

at the surface of the

Quintyn

was
says.

bones, and the striations on

the surface of the bones can give

you an

#~

indication of

whether its a knife or saw."

One
places

thing Quintyn looks for are "false starts," or

where someone

out and

start

Such areas can

and then had

tell

a lot about the tool used;

Such information
arrest,

Unidentified Caucasian Female
if it's

a saw,

Located on Dec. 20, 1976 in White Haven,

an

after

important both before and

is

Quintyn and Williams

kind of tools used in a

narrow

their

'Beth Doe'

back

to

number of teeth per inch can be determined.

the

an

tried to cut

again because the going got too tough.

list

agree.

Knowing

killing helps police

of suspects

and conduct

arrest, if the cutting tool is

when

Carbon County, Pa.

after

the

Vital Statistics

they

And

searches.

recovered in the

Estimated age: Late teens to early 20s

(bom between 1954 and 1960)

suspects possession, connecting the tool to the victim

is

Approximate height and weight: 5 foot 4 inches,

powerful evidence in court.
In this case,

Quintyn

told authorities that a

used and gave them an idea of what
33-year-old
trial

to look for.

man was ultimately arrested and

on homicide

charges.

saw was

is

A
awaiting

When police searched

130 to 150 pounds
Dental: Fillings and some missing teeth

Blood Type:
Distinguishing Characteristics: Medium-length,

the

maris Tobyhanna home, in addition to finding the

natural (not dyed)

woman's hands hidden

circular mole above left eye,

investigators also

in a wall of the

found a saw and

house,

different

kinds of

brown hair. Brown eyes. Small
mole on left cheek.

Scar on left leg just above heel,

saw blades.
length.

5% inches in

No previous fractures. May have been of

Mediterranean heritage.

Almost by Chance
The

zeal Williams

obvious. But both

Cause of death: Strangled, then shot in the neck

and Quintyn bring

came

to their

to their

work

chosen professions

is

Other: Carrying a full-term, white female fetus

al-

most by chance.
Williams, 37,

Updated sketch by Frank Bender, Nov.

came

to

Courtesy of Cpl.

intending to pursue a career in the communications
field.

Already successful spinning records

paid for

much of his college,

Continued on next pa^

IS,

2007

Bloomsburg University

at parties

—

Used with permission
it

—he was thinking

he says

Shawn Williams, Pennsylvania State Police

'Many people don't

realize that

bones are a

living tissue

and from the bones you can determine population
variations, individual variations.'
- Conrad Quintyn,

and had an internship

of a career in television

assistant professor

at a

of anthropology

was

get into the department and, for a while, there

a

Scranton station helping to produce a local program

hiring freeze. Finally in 1997, he took the test for the

about outdoor

second time and, just when he was beginning

life.

But walking through the McCormick Center for

Human Sendees one

day,

Williams was spotted by a

who gave him a

Pennsylvania State Police recruiter,

brochure about the department and a career as a
trooper.
"It

The hook was

you do

to

me

recruiter, the

way

about police work and the things that

—do you

like to

work on your own and make

important decisions and be involved in interesting
investigations

and help people?"

major with a concentration in telecommunications, he
as a dispatcher for the university's

police department. After he graduated, he

an

officer

became

with the university police.

His goal, Williams says, was to be a
and, ultimately, a detective. But

it's

testing. In

become

that's

detective a year after

come

state

trooper

a slow process to

for

the

left

a state police cadet.

that took the test

were only 300 or 400

In a career arc

1999, he

who made

when I
he

it,"

says.

he was made a

full circle,

becoming a trooper and,

in

January 2003, was transferred back to the Bloomsburg
station,

where he worked

as a criminal investigator

with Troop N. In 2005, three years

While Williams remained a mass communications
began working

and

university's police force to

did, there

was just the demeanor of the

he spoke

further interviews

"Out of the 12,000 people

set.

to think

he was out of luck once again, he was called

that

after

becoming

part of the elite Criminal Investigation Assessment

Unit,

he was promoted

"My job is victim

know these people

to corporal.

driven," Williams says.

don't

"I

them being murdered but,
by the time the investigation is over, I know them
better than some of their own family members.
"It's really the victim's voice we are trying to work
for. They don't have a voice and they need a criminal
investigator to

be

prior to

that voice for them."

Williams acknowledges that he and his partner,

Thomas

Cpl.

C.

McAndrew, put

in long hours,

which

can sometimes be tough on his wife, Rebecca Kissinger
Williams "95A)7M, and their four children, ages 3
to 11.

"Rebecca

involved as

is

supportive of what

I

do and

much as me," he says.

And, sometimes, what he sees can be hard
with.

The toughest case

2006 when
Conrad Quintyn,
right,

peers into

the grave or

Beth Doe" as her

body is exhumed
more than three
decades after she

was murdered.

a

for

him occurred

to deal

in January

man shot his wife and their two young

children in a motel before turning the

His wife survived and

gun on

summoned help. The

himself.

father,

who shot himself in the stomach, also survived and is
now on death row after being convicted of killing the
two

children.

"That was a horrendous scene to see two

little

kids,

when you have your own kids. But you
put that aside and work the case and get the

especially

have to

job done," Williams says, adding that he
his faith.
feel

"I

inspired a lot of time,

is

helped by

me well-grounded and
that God is leading me in

think that keeps

I

the right direction through these cases."

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Conrad Quintyn,

left,

explains the

information that can be determined by
analyzing bones, including race, gender

and

age, to students enrolled in

Forensic Anthropology.

Fascination with Bones
when Quintyn was

Like Williams,

what

to

do with

his

life,

and one day helping

on

police catch killers wasn't even

Bom in London,

his horizon.

Quintyn moved

Flonda with his family when he was
It

was

that has fascinated

and find her

killer.

they could obtain

are studied to determine a persons cause of death. His

and

DNA from the fetus could help identify the

child's father.

The body had been wrapped

the

hope

drawing attention

prompt someone
believe

"I can't

says.

the bones

bones are a

living

you can determine

"We

to the old case

come forward.
someone is not missing this

would

to

missing pilots in Vietnam

and from

in plastic before being

The exhumation was widely publicized with

that

had a recognizable

tissue

to

DNA samples—something not done in

experience includes helping the military search for

don't realize that

name to "Beth Doe"
exhume the body so

real

They arranged

1976. Those samples could help identify family members,

preserved.

forensic

anthropology, in which the bones and overall skeleton

"Many people

who work on cold cases,

once more to give a

to try

placed in the coffin and, even after three decades, was well

from the University of

Ann Arbor, and a specialty in

wanted

him ever

His interest led to a doctorate in

biological anthropology

Michigan,

to

high school.

Baylor University in Waco, Texas, that

at

Quintyn found something
since: bones.

in

medic with the Marines

after serving as a

and enrolling

Williams and his partner,

thinking about

the notion of anthropology

thought,

face

She

girl.

and she was pregnant," Williams

why can't

this

be solved?

Let's

give

So

far,

no

But with the

leads.

DNA evidence

and other information being re-examined,

population variations, individual variations. You can

collected

determine the physique of an individual, age, sex,

Williams and his partner, McAndrew, hope to soon

You can determine so
kinds of trauma from the bones, and

race, stature, cause of death.

many different
even some
After

he

diseases,"

coming

to

Bloomsburg from

let

area police

temporary

a

a

last

body buried

New York at

know he was

available to help. State police called

experience

on Quintyn's

October when they wanted
for

30

identify "Beth Doe."

For Quintyn,

too,

it's

about bringing justice for the

victim and helping their families. 'You bring closure to the

says.

faculty position at the State University of

Oswego, Quintyn

it

another shot."

to

exhume

family, that's the

important thing. You're not just an

academic writing a

lot

of articles in journals.

do something worthwhile," he

makes you

feel

good

closure to families."

at

the

says. "This is

end of the

day,

You want

to

one thing

that

you bring

b

years.

"Beth Doe" was found

by

a child playing

on the

Editor's note:

Anyone with information on

the "Beth

Doe"

banks of the Lehigh River on Dec. 20, 1976. Someone

homicide

had tossed three suitcases from the Interstate 80 bridge
between Bloomsburg and Hazleton. The suitcase

Shawn M. Williams

missed the water and landed on the bank, revealing the

Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania native.

woman's dismembered remains

He currently

authorities

were able

shot in the neck and

inside.

to determine she

was 18

to

At the time,

was pregnant,

25 years

old.

is

asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police Cpl.

lives in

at

shawwillia@state.pa.us.

Hanisburg.

Kescue
STORY BY BECKY LOCK

Dogs may be man's

best friend, but equines are

BU grad on their side.

lucky to have one

Pane Segal's childhood love of horses matured into respect,
Stacy
admiration and a true dedication
their health and welfare,
to

all

valuable attributes in her position as equine protection specialist

with the

Humane

"There

ongoing

is

Society of the United States (HSUS).

never a

'typical day' here," Segal says of

projects. Right

now, I'm compiling

operations in the U.S. But,
es.

I

her job.

a database of

all

can be interrupted by a rescue

call

We try to answer e-mail questions, provide information.

scale seizure,
Segal's

named

we may

path

to

about hors-

If it's

a large-

get involved."

advocacy

for

equines started on the back of a horse

Skipper. After graduating from

in communications

have several

"I

horse rescue

and

BU

in

1999 with a bachelor's degree

political science, Segal, 31,

worked

at

Carnegie

Mellon University, near Pittsburgh. Her job involved lobbying federal and
local

lawmakers on defense

issues for the university.

"I

learned

how influ-

ence and power play into decision making and the appropriation process,"

Some of Stacy Pane
earliest

Segal's

memories involve

horses, with hooves or

with rockers.

says the Hazleton native.

"It

In her free time, she'd go
per,

whom she

was an eye-opening experience."
trail

riding at a nearby farm, usually

describes as "difficult, with a few

bad

on Skip-

habits." But, to the

farm owner, the 6-year-old Appaloosa-cross gelding was "bad" and destined for the "meat truck."

Horrified to learn of the plans for Skipper, she researched slaughter-

houses and learned that horses were being slaughtered
sumption.

"I

realized

BLOOM SBURG

I

had probably passed horse

for

trailers

human con-

going to the

New

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most from being with and around
horses is an acute connectedness to nature and the ability to
live absolutely in the moment.'
'I

think the feeling

I

get

- Stacy Pane Segal '99

Holland auction, near Lancaster,

and has been involved in

where every Monday they

sell

high-profile rescues. Last year, for

floored.

example,

horses for slaughter.
I

could not believe

ing could

was

she says.

wonder if her

Segal began to
insights into

I

it,"

governmental lobby-

instill

in

lawmakers an

when

state action in

"One

with groups such as the Equine

duced

had been

intro-

in the U.S. Congress

"From
of

'killer'

convinced him

"I

helped with the

age and care of the horses and to

Prevention Act.

find rescues to take

"The

Humane

Society of the

United States was a leader in lob-

really

rewarding to leam that

Slaughter Prevention Act, which

centers

on education. "Our main

has been pending in the House

focus

the Horses:

and Senate

for Life

says.

few years," she

"They had a government

affairs

and

for a

team working on

state levels to pass

protect animals

and

federal

laws to

fight

laws that

goal

is

is

make good
all

that ensures pets are included in

care, horses

disaster planning so evacuees

or more."

them behind.

Another increases penalties

dog and cock
Segal has

year as a

for

fighting.

worked

for

about a

member of the HSUS

Equine Protection Department

life.

can

"Today,

is.

and the

truly reflect
feeling,

ability to live

back what you

and

that forces

These days, Segal

band, Stephen, and three

30 years

that

Segal has

owned him

Horse Care,"

for

owners and

to "help horse

their horses

I

the other horses

b

much is

The Humane

Society of the United States

as

the

backed by 10.5 mil-

lion Americans.

way since,

is

nation's largest animal protection

organization,

out-

reach and response."
a long

dog,"

have to worry about now."

Editor's note:

of

abuse, neglect and cruelty," Segal

come

puppy

have suc-

up being victims

says of her job. "So

to

more than personal-

are barely

ity quirks. "It's all

cessful relationships so fewer

horses end

"He's like a big

its"

program."
is

him

life.

she says, adding that his "bad hab-

described as "the cornerstone of

The hope

stall.

for almost

four years, after leasing

She's

cats.

same "unruly" Appaloosa

save his

Companions

to

lives in

helped research the society's

Life

be

to

Park, Md., with her hus-

equine cruelty workshops and

the Horses:

are

you

About 40 minutes away, Skipper,

In this role, she's assisted with

to

get

moment. Horses

gelding, has a comfortable

"Complete Guide

I

an acute connectedness

is

Tacoma

him at
With proper

live to

he

at

think the feeling

I

absolutely in the

necessary to

decisions for

stages of his

I am
how effort-

ning or even just grazing,

your time with them."

properly care for a horse and

include a recently passed measure

Leam more

at

www.hsus.org.

a 3-year-old, she rode an imagi-

nary horse around her
as a

first-

visited a
Segal s love of horses

her leisure activities.

is

central to her career

and

I

run-

field,

mentally 'show up' completely for

to help potential, current

is

my horse out in the

time.

aware of your emotions and

"Its

and long-time horse owners un-

would harm them." Those laws

don't have to leave

Companions

program," she says.

derstand what

see

horses

work

Segal's

gentle at

Even now, when

same

to nature

For horse owners,

was ab-

most from being with and around

in. It's

horses get rescued."

bying for the American Horse

and wise and

the

lessly graceful

tri-

the American Horse Slaughter

them

I

remember being struck by how

always just amazed

to relinquish his horses to us,"

Segal says.

"I

beautiful

buyer called from

Wyoming and we

that point on,

big and strong they seemed, but

housed in pens or headed

to slaughter.

les-

old

solutely horse crazy," Segal says.

Illinois,

the horses that were awaiting
sale,

bill that

Texas and

when she was 8 years

just strengthened the bond.

three equine

HSUS found lodging for all

the

horses. Then, while volunteering

of a

sons

slaughterhouses closed due to

interest in protecting the lives of

Protection Network, Segal learned

with her friend Beth. Riding

several

home or,

and second-grader, she

couple of pastured horses

Becky Lock

is

a

writer, editor

photographer who worlds and
in Pcnns\'lvania.

and
lives

.

Husky Notes

5 J^ C* John Nemetz

kJ «_/

(right),

New Jersey, was

honored by the National Wrestling

Hall of

Fame with

award.

Now retired, he taught history and

a lifetime service to wrestling

coached wrestling in Toms River schools
for

more than 20

wrestling

He

years.

also served as a

official.

'58 William

who

Bower,

L.

department

1

at

retired

from the business

Berwick Senior High School

after

marked his 50th wedding anniversary
wife, Kay Hummel Bower.

years of service,

2008 with

5 £^ f\ Carl Janetka marked his 10th

Dining with the family

his daughter, Victoria Collins '05.

trips

for

extended

trips

BU students, alumni and
No experience is

friends.

necessary for
trips,
is

many of these

and most equipment

provided. Varied amounts

of physical stamina are
required. Participants
travel to destinations in

the

commonwealth,

the U.S.,

and in

Mountain Biking Adventure,

Way is

Dec. 30, 2008 to Jan.

the walk completes a circuit
of the Dingle Peninsula,

and finishing in
town of Tralee in the

starting

the

County of Kerry. Accommodations include bed

10, 2009:

of teaching, coaching

and

Kathleen Durkin Janetka

'69,

land was settled by a Celtic

houses, inns and ancient

people more than 2,000 years

churches before finishing

ago and

the North Yorkshire Moors.

today.

artifacts are still visible

The leader

is

Roy Smith,

rsmith@bloomu edu

The leader is Roy Smith,

Walk Across England - Coast
June 22 to July

In addition to the
listed

4,

walk

programs

above, Quest also

conducts day trips on most

weekends and custom-

raging Whitewater rivers and

England through some of

designs teambuilding

mountain

rior,

bikes.

forests

on

The 160-mile

covers the country's inte-

from the bustling

streets

and the pipeline
Pacific

Coast to the canopies of virgin

Brett

The leader

the island's

most

and

other experiences to meet

beautiful

mountains and moorland. The

groups' needs. For additional

walk

infoimation, contact Quest at

will

begin in the Lake

District region of northwest

quest@bloomu.edu or (570)

England, passing through the

389-21 00 or check online at

mountainous and

www.buquest.org.

hilly land-

scape of highland sheep farms

and

villages of stone -walled

Simpson, bsimpson®

THEBfiHOTEL

Cotswold Ring, England

2009:

The Cotswold

Way

18,
is

one of the most scenic walks
to

be found in the British

Its rural

Isles.

character has been

preserved, with quiet lanes,

thatched cottages and rose vine

covered stone walls reminiscent of an age long past.

The

at

rsmith@bloomu.edu.

.

across the breadth of northern

Walking Tour, June 10 to

the southwest of Ireland,

wife,

2009: Participants will

bloomu.edu.

in

38 years

after

He and

altitude cloud forests, towering

long-distance walking

cliffs

1997

administration.

volcanoes, pristine beaches,

is

along low-lying peat bogs

District in

to Coast,

tropical rainforests.

trails

for

ProQuest K-12. He retired from the Upper Dublin School

Participants will cross high-

one of Ireland's most scenic

and mountains. Located

Roy

waves of Quepos on the

Ireland:

and farms, beaches,

is

Costa Rica: Coast to Coast

of San Jose

The Dingle Way, Sept. 17

The Dingle

leader

Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu.

trip

and Europe.
Walking Across

The

houses.

Africa,

South and Central America

to 26:

and breakfast inns and guest

dense tropical rain

across

anniversary in

second career as an education consultant

span the globe

Quest program

offers

his

30

May

have three children and two grandchildren.

Bloomsburg University's

S

\J

Ruth Reinhart '30, left, was the oldest graduate attending a reunion
for alumni from the 1930s and '40s during Alumni Weekend. She
was accompanied by her great-nephew Brian Collins '77, right, and

Quest

his

in

Participants in Quest's
island's

most beautiful

Walk Across England enjoy some
scenery.

of the

5 £l £^ Larty Greenly

(right)

is

vice president

Athletics Hall of Fame

\J *J and past president of South West
Writers, an organization to help aspiring writers

which received the Bravos Award for excellence
and was honored as Albuquerque's Outstanding

to induct five

Arts Organization for 2007.

?/£

Q

Robert

E.

Boose

Theon

executive

(right),

Society,

was awarded

—Jim Garman

Wayne Memonal

—

director of

Health Foundation, was

members

named

'85 and wife, Kelly,

a daughter, Audrey Nicole, April
25,

Garman was Bloomsburg's

Faith,

Girman Morgan

'92

in

Cooper, Sept.

7,

2007

Hayes

Jack Boyd, March

17,

'94,

a son,

2008

Karen Craig Weingarten

May

12,

2008

and husband, Joseph, a son, Ethan
Joseph, March

'96,

a

husband, Curt, a daughter, Abigail

March

Jennifer Adams

Bean

'98 and

husband, Gary, a daughter, Juliana,
April 22,

'01

June

4,

2008

a

'02

Kiszy,

2007

Trisha Leitzel Hoffman '03 and

18,2008

and husband. Tommy, a daughter,

Kelly McCauslin Kuntz '03 and

3,

2008

March

27,

Mackenzie, April

2008

Wertz

PSAC

singles titles

in

1990 and

"98

Williams

'02, a son,

Casey

May 9, 2008

Michael,

Helen Rose, Nov. 16,2007

Kristen Millard Fourspring '04
'98 and

husband, Kevin, twin sons, Jake

and Chase, March

13,

2008

and husband,

Keith, a daughter,

Hannah, Dec. 24, 2007

and

holds the single season records

and

triples,

selection

and two PSAC doubles

sixth in 1991)

1988 and 1989,

all

with

three

sixth in

titles

and was

1988 and 1989, 17th

and doubles (second in both

1991 and eighth in 1991). He

posted a record of 133-42 and holds the school record for

most

singles wins.

Torok earned All-American honors in the
1977 and was part of the 400-free relay team
All-American in 1975 and 1978.
all

PSAC runner-up in both

and the 400-relay and had
in his career.

200-free in
that earned

He was an NCAA-

four years in a total of 1 1 events.

also a three-time

and husband, Gerald, a daughter,

Melissa Wright Wilson

base and caught, holds

He was an All-Conference

Lisa Schneider Williams '03

and husband, Derek

2008

4,

a junior,

seasons at Bloomsburg.

qualifier
husband, Kyle, a daughter, Casey

Crystal Kovaschertz

first

husband, Stacy, a daughter, Sydney
Abigail,

Katie Getz Kilian '98 and

As

Lamy was a three-time All-American. He won four

Logan Joseph,

husband, Mark, a son, Forest, Jan.

March

played

for batting average, hitting .479 in 1990,

10 in 1990.

Chrissy Mantione Campenni '98

Lucia Grace,

who

nationally ranked in singles (33rd in
6,

and

fourth)

sixth).

team-high 18 goals while, as a senior, she

triples (16). Pritchard also

2008

a son, Chris, Nov.

She finished her

48 (now

the career school records for batting average (.443)

and

Murphy '98,

'01, a son,

Conference (PSAC)

NCAA title.

three assists.

Pritchard,

2008

Chris Repshis '02 and wife,

2008

25,

'00

Melissa Berringer Pfistner

Pfistner

Clarke Steiner '97 and

Grace,

Reilly scored a

and husband, Michael John

daughter, Norah Joy

posted

finished second in goals scored with 12 while adding

son, Ryan, Aug. 30, 2007

Jennifer Bedosky Hestor '95
and husband, Brad Hestor

'98, a son,

12,

Kaci Diem Murphy

State Athletic

second in career points with 108 (now

'99 and

a daughter,

May

He

helped the team to an overall mark of 25-9.

career second in career goals with

Lauren Balanzco Gozzard

husband, Frank

2008

2,

2008

Ambrocik Roth

Charlotte Use,

Flaska '95

wrestling championships.

two Pennsylvania

a daughter,

Eric,

senior,

meet mark of 29-1 in his four years and

overall dual

championships and one

and husband,

Amanda Shepard

(NCAA)

conference wrestling

become the first
he was one of four Huskies
to

at the National Collegiate Athletic

McNamara '99,
Keri

of

Reilly was a two-time AU-American in field hockey.

Charles Regis, Nov. 19, 2007

and husband, Kevin, a son, Gannon

Association

an

Reilly

number

She helped Bloomsburg to a four-year record of 82-9-4,

McNamara

husband, Chris Roth
'94

As a

compete

'99 and husband, Brian

Avery, February

Nicole Boyd-Hayes '94 and
husband, Daniel

'99 and

first

1957 and went on

wrestlers to

March 1,2008

Jessica Kehrer

and husband, Shawn, a son.

Lori

Young Jacobsen

and Sharon

brings the total

to 125.

champion

husband, David, a daughter, Cora

2008

Christine

Craig,

Jill

'59,

Keith Torok 79,

'90, baseball;

Zemaitis '90, field hockey

three-time champ.

Joseph Dowd

'91, tennis;

swimming; Tim Pritchard

to the Art

American College of Healthcare Executives

a fellow of the

Lamy

wrestling; Roly

the Pierre Fauchard

and Science of Dentistry Award.
G. Richard Garman, executive

be inducted

class will

during a ceremony in Monty's.

Friday, Oct. 10,

The induction of five graduates

\JC3 director of the Massachusetts Dental
Academy's Outstanding Contributions

27th Athletic Hall of Fame

Torok was

the 200-free

a total of 15 top-six finishes

He set Bloomsburg records in six individual

events and three relay events, one of which stood for

28

years.

For

ticket information, call

(570) 389-4413.

BU's sports information

office at

Husky Notes
?/£("} John McKay retired as principal

U/

Our Lady of

of

Lourdes Regional High School.

Kerry Hoffman,

5^T/~\

a

former

BU swimmer, was

in-

/ \J ducted into the Berks County Aquatic Hall of Fame.
A charter member of the Berks County Chapter of Swimming
and Diving

he worked as an

Officials,

official for

37

years.

5^7~1 James

Gilhooley (right), Dunmore,
was appointed to the Pennsylvania
Professional Standards and Practices Commission
by Gov. Ed Rendell. In June, he offered a presentation at the Association for Childhood Education
International World Conference in Moscow,

/

.A.

Russia.
area,

A long-time

he currendy

School

District,

an

from Lackawanna
for

Trail

nine years.

retired as director of technology

School District

after

more than

/

Sam Mantione

retired in June

2007 from

E.L.

-W Meyers High School in Wilkes-Barre after 35 years.

Daniel

Rang joined Murphy McCormack

as a vice president for business

Business

development and

Group

relation-

ship management.

Maureen Hauck is

'73.consulting

at the

assistant director for business

Small Business Development

standout Stu Marvin

Bloomsburg

as the

78 returned

He became

1975 and equaled

among

He was the

in the business

BU

in

May after teaching

education and business information

systems department for 27 years.

Richard Pohle retired after teaching science at Honesdale
High School, Wayne Highlands School District, for the past
33 years. He was science department chair for 20 years and
coached golf for 10 years. He and wife, Susan Burkavage
Pohle 74, have two children attending BU.
Tim Wagner received the Bloomsburg YMCA Vanguard
in

2008.

also

winning 28 national USMS championships.

its

aquatics program.

He
Swimming

Ocean Rescue and

Community Pool system. He coached
Lauderdale swim team and Fort Lauderdale

the Fort Lauderdale

All-American award winner in

Marvin

He was

a two-time

athlete of the year

awarded the Robert

male senior

worked 24 years for
and Recreation

Hall of Fame Complex, Fort Lauderdale

that effort in 1977. In 1978,

winner of the school's underclassman

B.

Redman Award

athlete in 1978.

swimmer inducted into the university's
Fame in 1990. Marvin still holds the

first

Athletic Hall of

-L

Stu Marvin

the

the top performers in five races to gain

as the school's top

/4 Janice Keil retired from

coordinated the operation of the International

All-American recognition in each race.

award and was

9^7
/

Department and directed

Pennsylvania State Athletic

university's first triple

finished

Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma.

the City of Fort Lauderdale's (Fla.) Parks

1-time Ail-American performer and

titles.

The company, a provider of

After graduating from BU, Marvin

mens and women's swim teams.
As a swimmer at BU, Marvin was an
five

.

for corrosion protection of

fabricated steel products, has plants in Ohio, Colorado, Texas,

as

head coach

for the

Conference

1

United States Masters Swimming (USMS) records as well

Former Huskies swimming

won

May

and coatings

BU swimmer returns as coach

Former

1

Stock Market on

hot-dip galvanizing

of North American

presided over the closing bell of the

Award for community service

Center, Bucknell University.

to

NASDAQ

Inc.,

three decades as

an educator and administrator.

1^7^

"74, chief executive officer

Galvanizing and Coatings

where he was superintendent

Renee Zimmerman Kay
for Chichester

Ronald Evans

Keystone College.

assistant professor at

retired in June

NASDAQ bell

Evans rings

educator in the Scranton

is

Robert Jurbala

C^ffl^l

the Fort

Ocean Rescue Competition team and worked with Fort
Lauderdale Aquatics.
"At this point in

my life, my passion for swimming has
my loyalty to the university has never

never been deeper and

been

stronger," says Marvin.

talent to the

"I

hope

to attract great

young

program, boost the confidence in each athlete

and work towards improving our position in die conference

and returning

the

program

to national

prominence."

school record in the 100-free and has established 12

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY

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A G A Z

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F.

Marriages
Michael W. Williams

'88

and

Kuntz'03,Nov.24,2007

Kelly Garner '95 and Craig
Exley, April

1,2008

Michael Ogurkis

Rhoads 02 and Jim

Kristin

Michele Richards, Sept. 1,2007

'97 and Lorine

Angelo, Sept. 29, 2007

Erin Stevens '02 and Keith Leal,

Sara Dietterick
Jarinko,

Henry Larsen

Rachel Cianchetta
Michael Rich, Aug.

Saylor, Oct.

'00 and

April 28,

March

Keith Sharp

Kristina

Steven Stracka

'01

and

Lents,

Talia Coppola
Whitlock,

May

'01

5,

Jenn DiMaria
Tighe, April 26,

Leonard

and James

2008

Michael Fedorco

'01

Adam

Oct. 13,

'01

2007

Melissa Knapick

'04 and

Mathew

13,2007

Kline, Oct.

Kristen Millard '04 and Keith

and

'04 and

Ryan

Laura Gavio 01 and

Angela Moll

Michael Barletta

Sirak

Melissa Derr '02 and Michael

Amy Reap '04 and John

Angstadt, June 23, 2007

June

Kramer, Sept.

8,

'02 and Robert

2,

June

30,

W06M and

Evan Witmer

Louis Gasper

Deviney,Aug.4,2007

Watson

retired

beeswax products business

'04 and Sarah

from teaching

She

is

after

31 years

president of her

in Sanford, Fla.

own

She and husband,

Greg, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 2007.

5^"7

/

C

Patricia

Strunk Crissman, Camarillo,

«_/ senior business analyst with

Amgen

Calif., is a

Inc.

Joseph Scopelliti, Berwick, is community relations manager
for PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick.
Brady Stroh is director of the Center for Geospatial Information Services at Penn State Harrisburg.

FALL 200

s

Aug. 31, 2007

Harold Kern

Jr.,

Oct. 20,

Joshua Rogers,

2007

Mary Duke 07Au.D and

Megan Meyers '07

April 26,

Catlin, July 28,

Remaley

and Travis

2007

Justin Dietz, Dec. 28, 2007

Deitterick, July 28,

2008

and James

2007

Christine Miller 07 and
Alejandro Maeso, March 31, 2007

2007

05 and Jeremy

Shingler'05, Sept. 21, 2007
Jill

2007

Serfass, Aug. 25,

Piermattei '05 and

Amber

4,

Amber Cherry '07

Christopher Czock

Amy Puntar

Lisa Phillips 02 and

Ingrid Karnes

Lawlor,

Timothy Valentine, June 30, 2007

as a secondary school educator.

Michael Wysolmerski,

Aug

'05 and Justin

Jennifer Marshall '05 and

Mark

2007

2007

Allison Ridge

2007

'07,

Aug. 24, 2007

Bethany Brensinger 07 and

Smith, June 30, 2007

Thomas

'05,

Nicholas Smith, Aug. 18,2007

'05 and Bryan

Gina Marino

2007

Briana Bashore '07M and

2008

Brandi Michael '05 and

Fourspring, July 28, 2007

'06,

Bonatz

Brandy McHenry 05 and

2007

3,

14,

2008

5,

Jennifer Smith '06 and Brent

2007

June

'04,

'06 and Brooke

Seltzer, Dec. 22,

Shannon Killeen 05 and Ken
Ferguson

'06 and Kaitlin

Alicia Marinos '06 and Timothy

Brian Buttari, July 7, 2007

Ashley Lux

2007

29,

'05, Sept. 28,

Unger, Nov.

Voorhees, Oct. 20, 2007

Andrea Flowers

2007

Adria Kowalski '04 and Kasey

and

Jacquelyn Muller

Vanessa Garrapy

Jr.,

Rebecca Callas 04 and Kevin

and Richard

2008

'01

Truman

June

Welliver, Jan.

Travis Pena, Nov. 3,

'03 and

Ryan

Aug. 25, 2007

Jason Kehoe

Natalie Hutchinson '05 and

2007

Kristin Barnett '04 and Pete

Nov. 24, 2007

'05 and

Cara Gulden '05M and

Douglas Wilcox

01,

Graziano

Bruce Shafer

2007

11,

Jeremy Eck

2007

Kristin

2007

Mensch'06,June16,2007

Klotz,

'03 and

Ty

'06 and

4,

'06 and

Ashley Dreese

'05/"06M and Jake Ramsey,
Oct. 7,

2008

Eric Kolva '03 and Carrie Laabs,

'00 and

Trisha Calderone

Kevin

Jeffrey Gritman "04/05M

Shawn

13,2007

Melissa Zavada

'03, April 26,

Nov. 17,2007

Bethany Finkenbinder

'03 and

Andrea Falcone

Ketchem, Sept. 29, 2007

Melissa Shelly

'03 and Calvin

May 26, 2007

Rogers

Gwen

'00 and

III

'05 and

Wartman'05,July28,2007

Erica Eltringham '05 and

Dec 29, 2007

'04,

Ashley Behrer

Frank Rabena, Dec. 29, 2007

Melissa Walsh

'05 and Jason

June9, 2007

Thomas Schaeffer '02,

III

Martin,

'00 and

Wagaman '05 and Jason

McCauslin, Dec. 1,2007

Cherie Wallace '02 and Frank

Janel Beaver

Donna Kaniewski

Kara

05M

Scholl

Desiree Hockenbery 00 and
2007

Bartkus '05M and

Christopher Strobl

July 22, 2006

Greg Bisignano, June

9,

Amanda

Amanda Smith

'07 and

Kishbaugh

Oct 13,2007

Erica

'05 and William

'05,

Jared

Young 07 and Kirby

Blass'07,Dec.29,2007

Engleman, Nov. 10,2007

5'"7'/C David

/

E.

Coffman

is

president of the South Central

\J Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified

Public Accountants.

Barbara A. Wanchisen, Nanticoke, is director for the
board on behavioral, cognitive and sensory sciences of the
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Education.

5^7 ^7 Matthew Connell,

/ /

Brodheadsville,

Northampton Community

College's

is

dean of

Monroe campus.

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Linda Ebbrell Lapp, Bloomsburg,

president of the local

is

Ivy Club for 2008-09.

Rich Robbins

is

associate

dean of arts and sciences

at

Bucknell University.

Wendy

Spease Stafford, Stevens, earned a doctor of

audiology degree from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry,
Elkins Park. She has her

5

own practice

in the Cocalico area.

Q £l Conrad Haenny was named

teacher of the year

C3 \J at Woodglen School in Lebanon Township, New
Jersey. After 17 years in accounting

and

finance,

he

now

teaches sixth-grade mathematics.

Julia Reichel Hertz, a registered nurse, was

named

clinical

manager for Lighthouse Hospice in New Jersey.
Richard F. King, treasurer and finance coordinator for
Schlouch Inc., received the 2008 Debra Hahn Memorial
Award from the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA). He is a certified public accountant.
Victor Koons, owner of a Danville graphic design company, received a 2007 Silver Addy award from the Northeast
Pennsylvania Advertising Club and American Advertising
care

Teammates
Several

members

cruise into their 50s

of 1976-79 men's soccer team celebrated their

50th birthdays with a Caribbean cruise. Shown in matching shirts
with the logo 'BSC/50" are,

left

to right:

Glenn Chestnut

'80,

Mark

Steele '80,

Toby Rank

'80,

George

Fedele '80 and Steve Buch '80.

They were joined on the cruise by wives Lois Hertzog Fedele '80,
Metz Rank '79, Robbie Buch, Gaye Steele and Debra Farrell

Federation.

Julie

Chestnut

'80,

who

Glenn Noack was inducted

submitted the photo.
ketball Hall of

Fame. He

is

into the Lehigh Valley Bas-

principal at the George D. Steckel

Elementary School.

5^0
/ C3
Homesale

Don Zimmerman, Muhlenberg Township,
real estate license

He is

Services.

earned a

and joined Coldwell Banker Landis

also

owner

EZ Packaging

of

Mark West
SenowA Inc.

Solutions.

}

J^7(\
/ S auxiliary and facility operations at the University of
David Harr

associate vice president for

is

Q ^T Ann

C3 /
named

is

president and chief financial officer of

Pavkovic Grove has been president of her

technical writing firm for six years

own

and was recendy

president of a group of technical writers.

Notre Dame.
Joel E. Terschak,
officer for

St.

Louis, Mo.,

is

chief administrative

Bunge North America. He and

wife, Krista,

have

six children.

5

O C\
oU

Sam Malandra is

executive vice president of sales

and marketing

CRM manager.

'81 Roanne
promoted

for

Heisner Tombasco, Allentown, was

Corp., where she's

^

^

Q
O.W

for

26

PPL

years.

Dr. Larry Maturani joined Clarion Hospital as an
internal

medicine

Cheryl Roberts
Financial

to director of logistical services for

worked

Group

is

specialist.

the marketing

manager

at

Harbor Lights

of the Lehigh Valley.

Alumni Association honors
Dr.

5

QA
Or!

U.S.

9

Stephanie Jonas-Sullivan was transferred

Wiesbaden, Germany,
Army.

QC
O

Marie Tanzos

for a three-year tour

with the

Beil, Nazareth, is the supervisor for

Sandra O'Brien Brettler was elected
with the national board of directors
coordinator

at

Penn

State

She

right, a

who

BU Trustee and

Geisinger Medical

chaired BU's presidential search committee,

was named an honorary alumnus

at the

Alumni Association's

annual meeting during Alumni Weekend. Also recognized were

*_/ J.C. Penney's online catalog department.

tion of Neuroscience Nurses.

Joseph Mowad,

Center physician

to

trio

is

to a three-year

for the

the

CFC
term

American Associa-

gamma

Brenda Shaffer Conger '78, center, who received the 2007
Distinguished Service Award, and Gary Groenheim '90, recipient of
the 2007 Young Alumnus of the Year award. Conger is president of

knife nurse

Hershey Medical Center.

BLOOMS

International,

an advocacy group

for persons with cardiofa-

ciocutaneous syndrome, including her son, and their families.

Groenheim,

who was

and advertising

BU

for

unable to attend,

London-based

is

CNBC

in charge of marketing

Europe.

Shown

at left is

President David Soltz.

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

5

QQ

Stephen Bujno owns a pottery studio

(3 C3

in Adamsville,

Deaths

Lancaster County.

who works

Eileen Finn Colarusso,

for the

Archdiocese of

Baltimore as coordinator of deaf ministry, signed for the deaf

Ruth Allen Smith '26

and hard of hearing when Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass
at Nationals Stadium in Washington, D.C

Ethel

Kimmel

Jacqueline
Tri- Valley

School

Deibert, an elementary teacher in the

District,

"Recipes and Memories of

George

Lavere A. Dieffenbach Hoyt '30

Barry H.

S

L.

Ocker was promoted
is

to lieutenant colonel in the

Nurse

associate director for the Air Force

Corps and program manager

for

Manpower and

Organization,

Office of the Surgeon General, Boiling Air Force Base.

Tina Trager, a

AlbinaZadra Davis

5fJ/\ Paul J. Lewis

is

Joseph Rebarchakjr.
Penn Bank.

'31

Peter

'31

Pokego '65

P.

Irene Sitler Frantz '66
'31

Joseph

P.

Kenneth
Earl

a senior accountant with

High

is

Bangs '33

E.

O'Neill

D.

Jr.

'69

Schnure '69

Stover '69

Gregg

Strausser '33

Maudmae Edwards

Eldridge '34

Drue W. Folk

Carl David

^ Christopher Hunt, Wind Gap,

/

is

Mary
diver,

Pilates studio in Shillington.

Hatfield,

is

72

Diane

Dildine '43

K.

Blessing

75

a senior vice president in

Kramer

Karen Startzel Merchlinski

Susan

Kobilis Nesbitt

Clifton S.

Skow

Brent G.

Heywood 77

D. Keith

Sneddon 78

'46

'47

John W.Williams

75

Maria Russoniello Lewis

Ellen Kohrherr '45

Nellie A.

73

"Moe" Leighow 74

chief financial

Moravian Hall Square.
Miller, former Cirque du Soleil acrobat/high

own

Morris

Julian A. Zinzarella '44

officer for

Robert Mindick,

'42

Magill '43

F.

72

Minnie Krotzer Watson

Snyder '42

Kathryn Keener

Andrew

Sr.

72

Hoover

R.

David London

'41

\~ Township

George G. Kinney is director of planning for Palmer
in Northampton County.
Kevin Reynolds was named men's basketball coach at
Slippery Rock University.

William

'36

Gladys Rinard Ruesch
Col.

Kendall '70

Judy Kline Boris

Helen Hestor Merrill '35

northern region manager for Mid

T.

Regina Degatis Lubrecht '70

Howard W. Brochyus

has opened her

John M. Castetter '64

'31

"1

Kimm

'61

Ditton '63

L.

Irma Lawton Eyer '32

Lt.

S^

'58

Deppen

Edith Boyer Miller '31

Donald

S\J Corporate Services, East Lampeter Township.

9£J

'58

Oswald

Renn

E.

Charles

Marion Hazeltine Meixell

June

Zr

Drumm

Elizabeth

Peter Evancho

J.

certified nutritional consultant, is coordina-

tor for Activate Phoenixville Area.

9£\

'30

Welsh

R.

'57

Fahringer '58

E.

Kenneth

Mahantongo Elementary School."

Myron

U.S. Air Force. She

'29

Penman

G.

has co-authored a second book,

Q f\ Karen
Jody

Mabel

Charles

Helen Cott Berger '30

Wells Fuller, South Auburn, was promoted
to district manager of the northern region for First
CJ
Liberty Bank and Trust.

9

John Forgach
'29

Moore Moorhead

Dr.

William

F.

Johnson

Louis Marinangeli

'50

76

7B

79

79

commercial lending with Sovereign Bank.

Doug

Pape, Wilkes-Barre,

is

Gene

Luzerne County's chief

a certified public accountant,

is

president

of the Central Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public

Accountants

for

2008-09.

He

is

a partner with

Stanton, Echard &r Ronan, State College.

'93
1

Barbara Rone Davis is director of curriculum
Tulpehocken Area School District in

Day

'51

Patti Tuckett

'51

Deborah Tobin Olive '80

Kathleen Boychuck '52

Thomas

C.

Jones

Ruth

'52

T.

Yeager '80

Glenn A. Faulkner '85

Mildred Pliscott Furgele '53

Vincent G. Solarek '94

Judith Fry McCarthy '54

Travis

also secretary of the Mid-Atlantic
(right), director of

Catizone '80

L.

Hoopengardner

'07

for

Berks County.
Claire

Search

Ukasin Vukevich

clerk/manager.

Timothy Ronan,

D.

Region of the University

Continuing Education Association.

programs and

education for the Philadelphia Alzheimer's Association,

was a BU Alumni

in the

JC\

Classroom

presenter in Apnl.

Kurt Davidheiser, Barto,
with Herb Real Estate Inc.

is

a real estate agent

for more than 20 months in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Kuwait and Qatar.
Michael Zigner, Allentown, is director of industry

deployed

Community College. He

Stacey Belhumer earned a master's degree in education

and a

certification in

media technology from

Montclair State University.

Kevin Watts, Maryland, a major in the U.S. Army, was
honored for completing 25 years of military service. He was

partnerships at Lehigh Carbon

A

/1

Dennis Murri has been a language arts teacher at Ridgefield
(N.J.) High School since 1995. He has been an assistant
wrestling coach at the school for 14 years, earning regional and
district honors for coaching in 1998, and also coaches track.
Park

^
7 %J

Jf\
is

Wade

Becker,

Etters, is a partner

with the auditing

and accounting department of the Beard

Miller Co.

Husky Notes
Matthew Gross earned

a master's degree in business

administration/accounting from DeSales University.

He and

Smith Gross '95, live in Doylestown.
Robert "Bobby" James Jr. (right) was ap-

wife, Shelly

m

A

pointed defensive coordinator for the Bulldog
football

program

He

Carolina.

at

also

is

Wingate University in North
pro liaison for the program.

Dale Kline, Philadelphia, co-owner of Atlantic
States Realty, is president of the

A.k

board of direc-

Roxborough Development Corp.

tors of the

JC\/£ Matt Hare (nght) a faculty member
Zr\3 at the University of California at
is

at Irvine, Laguna Hills,
and San Clemente high schools.
Jodi Piekarski Loughlin '96M has earned a
doctoral degree in adult education from Penn
State Harrisburg. She is a teacher and reading
curriculum coordinator at the Shenandoah Valley

Irvine

and

Trabuco

School

a

stnng coach

Hills

'Spice'

HGTVs 'Spice Up My Kitchen'
left.

^C\^7 Cheryl Knapp Fallon presented the
exhibition of her photography at the

House Museum, Lewisburg,

in

first

at the

Limer-

to participate in a three-day

walk

to

Summit
raise money for

member of the

been appointed

as judicial

Sacramento,

law clerk

at

Lehigh

chair of Gilda's

Chambers

Northampton
the Northampton

of

psychotherapy practice in

Calif.

Karen Malinowski graduated with honors from

Law with a juris

works with the Maryland's attorney
staff

the Uni-

doctorate. She

general's office

and

speech language pathologist with Care Resources

as a

Inc.

^€\C\ Christopher Chappell is an organizational develop\J\J ment specialist with the Geisinger Health System.

Ogur is

Shawn
Danville,

Omega

is

also associate

board

Valley, a local chapter of the

In April,

and active in local
Dave was a BU Alumni

in

a planning consultant at the

Water Department.

Rosier

(right), a

systems analyst and

was

a

BU Alumni in the

Classroom

Pamela Brennan Burns, Selinsgrove, is community
office manager for First National Bank, formerly

Bank.

Sherry Arbogast Glosek,
School

a special education teacher, is as

elementary school principal for the Shamokin Area

District.

Matt Kaminski, Worcester, was promoted to director of
first-year initiatives and judicial affairs at Montgomery County

Community

College.

clothing business.

Brian K. Sims opened his

own law office

in Philadelphia.

}/~V^ Pamela Pheasant, Harrisburg, is employed with
VJ ^J the Pennsylvania Department of State as a human
resource analyst, specializing in position classification and
labor relations. She earned a master's degree in arts administration

28

for

Kathleen Lloyd-Kurtz, Hazleton, launched an online

Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.

versity of Baltimore School of

Commerce.

of

Philadelphia

assistant

a solo

Club Delaware

manager

Delaware market of ATT,

national cancer support organization,

^f\ ~\
\J JL.

Vanessa Klingensmith is central regional coordinator for
the Children's Miracle Network at Janet Weis Children's Hospital,

senior marketing

for Tri- Valley

District.

Susan Goetz opened

is

presenter in April.

Hauser Gibbs is principal
Borough Elementary Schools in

5fj))("j) Lori

yS

Lansdale,

EpicCare trainer with Geisinger Health Systems,

Pennsylvania Bar

County Court of Common Pleas.
Michael Kogut is head football coach
High School.

Area School

and

the Classroom presenter.

fall.

?f^Q Jessica Grim Galle, a senior accountant, has joined
>^0 Baum, Smith and Clemens of Lansdale.
Association, has

in

right,

May and June.

New Jersey and

the Pennsylvania,

Stacy

Michelle Heffner, a

in

where he has worked since 2007. He

chiropractic practice in Blue Ridge

breast-cancer research this

The episode aired

Dave Marcolla,

Flegel Rouzer, Waynesboro, a breast cancer sur-

opened a

and plans

home

solo

May.

an optometrist, opened a practice

Paist,

Mindy

kitchen at their

Packwood

ick Professional Building.

vivor,

new

Also shown in the Zavackis'

Easton are the show's hosts, Lauren Lake, second from
Jeff Devlin.

Jason

team recently remodeled the kitchen
left, and husband, Tim,

of Cathy Carr Zavacki '99, second from

District.

7/

added to kitchen

from Shenandoah University Conservatory.

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Ryan Kudasik '05M,

Gettysburg,

is

an instructional

designer in the e-learning department of JPL Productions.

Lauren McGill, an

actress with Hazletoris Pennsylvania

Theatre of Performing Arts, directed the production of "Barefoot in the Park."

Jf\jC

Trisha Grace

is

museum coordinator for the Ship-

\J\J pensburg Historical Society.
James "Jay" Graham is the owner of Jay's Crab Shack in
Ocean City, NJ.
Jennifer Wootsick is a geospatial analyst at the Center for
Geospatial Information Services, Penn State Hairisburg. She
was recently appointed operations manager for the Pennsylvania

GIS Conference.

5/~\^T Robert

At the head of the
Jill

Dougherty '98M, a teacher

\J /

class

at Springfield (Pa.)

High School,

award from Milken Family Foundation
Chairman Lowell Milken. The award, presented at the 2008 Milken

receives a $25,000

Family Foundation National Education Conference in Los Angeles,
recognizes exceptional talent and accomplishments inside

Calif.,

and outside the classroom.

J(\ ^5 Chaza Fares Abdul, office manager of The Medical
\JkJ House, Adas, earned a master's degree in business
administration through the University of Phoenix.

Christy Carpenter Barkley was

by

the

named

teacher of the year

at

BU

linebacker, joined the

Ashley Geiser, Montoursville, was named wellness director
RiverWoods Senior Living Community.
Danielle Lynch received a

first-place

award from the

Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) for

newspaper series she co-authored for the Daily Local News,
West Chester.
Jennifer Malukas is a pediatric intensive care nurse with
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey.
Valerie Malukas '07M is a fifth-grade learning support
teacher with the Harford County School District, Bel Air, Md.
Ashley Miller is a mathematics teacher for the Shamokin
a

Area School

Merrimack Elementary School, Hampton, Va. She

teaches

Biernat, a former

Reading Express indoor football team.

District.

Jason Yeager

is

a

computer software developer

Teena Edwards Curnow was promoted to supervisor with
Smith Elliott Reams and Co.

the accounting firm of

Christina Bilo Felten joined Midwives
of Allentown. She
tion of Licensed

is

a

member of the

& Associates Inc.

Pennsylvania Associa-

Midwives and the American College of Nurse

Midwives.

Bethany Samson Fluck was promoted to human resource
Devereux Pocono Center.
Andrea Falcone Gritman, Norristown, is a field sales

Scientech, Berwick.

5/"\Q Amanda Dabashinsky, Schuylkill Haven, who

\JO recently earned
student teaching

at

a degree in special education,

D.H.H. Lengel Middle School in

Stefanie Pitcavage, Ashland, received a Dixon Scholarship

Brian Wagner, Schuylkill Haven, was commissioned as
a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.

Services, Schuylkill

Christopher Smith

Cooper

Hill

is

an

Haven, as a

Country Club, Flemington,

A.

is

real estate agent.

N J.

Woman,"
this

a

the author

World War

II

and

certification as a

commumca-

at Palisades

second-

Middle School. Evan's

grandfather, Basil Steele '34, graduated from

late great-

Bloomsburg

Normal School and was an elementary school teacher in what
is

is

now the

Lake Lehman School

District.

director of "The Other

comedic drama

that

was performed

year at the Hershey Area Playhouse.

Jamie Frey

is

the marketing

for the Pennsylvania region of

Jeffrey

and event planning manager

ActionCoach.

Gritman '04A)5M, Norristown,

is

the senior

e-learning designer for LeanForward.

Jf\

C

\J\J

Erin

as a

Duane "Butch" Wickard 79, pnncipal of Upper Perkiomen
Middle School, and Eileen Callahan Wickard '80, gifted

tions at Pierce College, Philadelphia.

Jennifer Feldser

working

ary English teacher, following in the footsteps of his parents,

support teacher

supervisor of

is

.

assistant professional at the

Jf\A^ Elise Genco Berrocal
\J

Evan Duane Wickard earned
Landis

He

public affairs officer at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.

associate for Richardson Electronics.

Mindy Putak Harrison joined Coldwell Banker

is

Pottsville.

from the Widener University School of Law.

director at

HomeSale

for

grade.

fifth

Dumin is director of admissions for John W.

Hallahan Girls Catholic High School in Philadelphia.

more Husky Notes online at
www.btoomualumni.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

Bill

Jones,

first

chairperson of BU's special education department, spent

decades touching the

lives of

hundreds

of students and, with his wife

Joan,

building a family of special education teachers that includes four of their six
children, two daughters-in-law

To honor

Bill

Department

and a granddaughter.

and Joan's commitment

of Exceptionality

to special education, their family

programs established the Jones Center

Education Excellence. The dream of the Jones Center

is to

and BU's

for Special

ensure

that all individuals with exceptionalities receive appropriate

education and support services.

Learn how you can support the Jones Center or pay tribute to the

mentors who inspired your career

at

www.bloomu.edu/giving

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Mdar of Events
Human Services,

BU!s Academic Quadrangle is bordered by, left to right, McCormick Center for
Waller Administration Building, Andruss Library and Centennial Hall.

Academic Calendar
Fall

Art Exhibits
Exhibitions are

open

free of charge.

Due

to the public

Celebrity Artist Series

Bloomsburg University-

All events in the 2008-09 Celebrity

Community Orchestra

2008

Reading Days - No Classes
and Saturday,

Friday

Oct. 10 to

of the Haas Center for the Arts,
1

Thanksgiving Break

No Classes
Wednesday to

Friday, Nov.

to the renovation

26 to 28

exhibits will

be offered in alternate

updated information,

1

S.

and

lobby,

visit

4777 Old Berwick Road, Bloomsburg

box office,

Gombert The Real

Me

human face

at (570) 389-4409 or

the

visit

Web site at www.

Celebrity Artist

2:30 p.m.

9,

Central Columbia High School

Auditorium

Gross Auditorium. For more

Alumni Events
Contact the Alumni Affairs Office at

bloomu. edu/today/celebrity.php.

(5701 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 or

Community Government Association

alum@bloomu.edu

cardholders pay half of the

Details are also available at

ticket's

Through Sept. 19
face value for all shows. Programs

Kehr Union, Multicultural Center

www.bloomualumni.com.

Alumni and Open 5K Race

Pamela Marks: Works on Paper

Saturday, Dec. 8 to

1

Graduate Commencement

Paintings and drawings

Reception: Wednesday, Oct.

12

Parents Weekend:

Saturday, Sept.

Forbidden Broadway

Contact: Karen Brandt, cross country

Saturday, Sept. 13, 6:30 and

coach, at kbrandt@bloomu.edu

Oct. 6 to 31
1

6,

Undergraduate Commencement

11 a.m. to

2 p.m.

Kehr Union, Multicultural Center

Athletic Hall of

Presidential Inauguration Event:

Saturday, Dec. 13

Toshiko Takaezu: Works from the
Spring 2009

Permanent Collection

Jean-Michel Cousteau
Wednesday,

$20

Homecoming Weekend:

November, Dates to be announced

Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats

Andruss Library

Sunday, Nov.

Day -

2,

information.

A Taste of Bloomsburg

8 p.m., $20

Kerry Stuart Coppin:

Broadway State of Mind:

Saturday, Nov.

Monday, Jan. 19

Photography

Adam Pascal

Homecoming

Jan. 20 to Feb. 13, 2009

Saturday, Nov. 15, 8 p.m.,

Reception: Monday, Feb. 2,

Saturday, Feb. 28

11 a.m. to

Classes Resume
Monday, March

9,

Location to be announced

8 a.m.

Anne Mondro and Donovan
Widmer: Sculpture

Classes End
Saturday, April 25

Finals

27

End

Saturday,

March 2

to 27,

2009

Student Art Exhibition
2009

Grad Finale

Saturday, Dec.

6,

7:30 p.m., $20

Broadway Review:

Five

Guys

Quest Reunion
Saturday, April 4, 2009

Named Moe
Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009, 8 p.m., $20

Day Romance:

Simone on Simone
Friday, Feb. 13,

Saturday,

1

Special Events

2009, 8 p.m., $20

Ahn Trio

March

Friday, April 3,

Inauguration of President

Friday, Oct. 31,

Nelson

2009, 7:30 p.m., $20

Field

10 a.m.

House

Homecoming Weekend
Saturday to Sunday, Nov.
Football, Huskies vs.

on upcoming

events, check the university

www. bloomu. edu/today

Listed events are
free

Web site:

open

to the public

3:30 p.m.,

f^

and senior citizens. BUS'
Fall

Conceit

Sunday, Oct. 26, 2:30 p.m.

Matthew Lutheran

123 N. Market

to 2

Redman Stadium.

are $8 for adults and $3

of charge.

Chamber Orchestra:

St.

1

West Chester

Golden Rams, Saturday, Nov.

Concerts
the latest information

Weekend

David Soltz

14, 2009,

Simply Sinatra: Steve Lippia

May 2

Parents and Family

Friday to Sunday, Sept. 12 to 14

8 p.m., $20

Undergraduate Commencement

For

game

Fenstemaker Alumni House Lawn

Tuesday, Nov. 11,11 a.m. to 6 p.m

Dates and location to be announced

Graduate Commencement

Saturday,

preceding

Holiday Show: Chestnut

Valentine's

April

May 2

May

,

Brass Company

Classical:

Friday,

$20

1

football

Location to be announced

Finals Begin
April

2 p.m.

Campus

Call BU's sports information office,

No Classes

Spring Break Begins

Fame Dinner

10,6 p.m.

(570) 389-4413, for ticket

Ceramics

Monday, Jan.1
Jr.

Friday, Oct.

Monty's, Upper

Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.,

Classes Begin

Martin Luther King

12:30 p.m.

5,

9 p.m., $20

Monday,

for information.

and dates are subject to change.

Exams

Friday, Dec.

presented in Carver Hall, Kenneth

temporarily located in the Carver Hall

Carl

Saturday, Dec. 6

Monday to

Sunday, Nov.

be

information about shows

Renditions of the

Final

will

information, call the

www. bloomu. edu/today/arts.php.

Classes End

season

venues on campus. For more

Classes Resume
Monday, Dec.

Artist Series

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Church,

Bloomsburg

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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist

Bloomsburg: Simulated Conventions on Campus

Politicking in

Presidential candidates and their family
members

traversed Pennsylvania in search of

votes in spring 2008, including former

daughter Chelsea Clinton,

who spoke

first

in

Kehr Union's Fireside Lounge, and her dad, former
President

Bill

Clinton,

who

Bloomsburg

led a rally at

Middle School.
But

this

was not

the

first visit

to

Bloomsburg from

a

former or future president or presidential candidate.

For many years, notable
at

politicians

spoke on campus

simulated political conventions organized to help

students leam

The

May

first

how the

was held

nominating process works.

in the Carver Hall auditorium in

1928, with three more conventions in 1940,

1948 and 1952.

When the simulated conventions
returned in 1968, nationally
politicians

were invited

known

to provide the

keynote address or distinguished
lecture.

Gerald Ford, a Michigan

congressman

38th president, gave

the opening address for the

Republican convention in Centennial
student delegates'

candidate of choice was
Future President Gerald R. Ford
delivers the keynote address at

the simulated Republican

Convention in Centennial

on March

16, 1968.

Gym

1972

it

New York

was Mr.

Bill,

the time

on "Saturday Night

the

much-abused

Bloomsburg students

McGovern

Hunter

S.

clay

puppet featured

selected candidates creatively.

Thompson and Mr.

Family" in 1972 and talk

Bill,

TV show

show host David

Letterman and entertainer Frank Sinatra, both in

who

convention, with South Dakota Sen.

1984, the year of the

George McGovern nominated

ran as an independent candidate for president four

for

president. McGovern returned the
by twice appearing on the Bloomsburg campus.
In 1976 he gave a preliminary address in Haas

Auditorium, with the convention two weeks

nominating Arizona Rep. Morris Udall.
then-Georgia Gov.

Jimmy

in 1980,

first

Carter placed third,

behind Udall and journalist Hunter

McGovern returned

later

On the

S.

Thompson.

once again as

final

convention. Anderson,

years earlier, presented the distinguished lecture that
year;

Colorado Sen. Gar)' Hart was chosen as the

candidate to face incumbent President Ronald Reagan.

Although the conventions gradually became more
boisterous

and

were entertaining

chaotic, they

as well

as educational, with candidates nominated, platfonns

created

and well-known

political figures

their vision for the country.

a

presenting

For a brief period every

campus came

with debate and

distinguished lecturer, while student delegates to the

four years, the

mock Republican convention nominated

thousands of college and high school students were

Illinois

John Anderson. Coming in a strong second

in

at

Live."

nominees included Archie Bunker from the
"All in the

was a Democratic

favor

ballot,

presidential candidate George

Rep.

1980

receives a

from convention chairman Pierce Atwater on March 25, 1976.

In addition to

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.
In

T-shirt

who would later serve

as the nation's

Gym. The

The 1972 Democratic

given a

real-life

alive

education in the

political process.

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