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activities galore.

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The University Magazine
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From the President

community, ranging from math
mentoring at local elementary
schools to volunteer clean-up

Town

efforts at

Park, other public

spaces and private residences during "The Big Event" in the spring.

We're also telling our own story
through the university's website,

www.bloomu.edu;

social media,

including Facebook, Twitter and

YouTube;

my blog; and of course,

Bloomsburg: The University

Magazine. In this issue,

we tell the
who

stories of nursing students

volunteer in Third World countries,

Special University

a sorority honored for efforts at
Danville's Ronald McDonald House
and an anthropology major who

turned a class project into research
that

may bring positive changes to a

local

WHAT MAKES A college town
special? Financial experts will

you

it

is

This perception led the Strategic
tell

the economic dividend from

Planning and Resource Council,

known as SPARC,

to

make

"Fostering and developing a strong

the spending of students, their

shopping mall. All of these

projects benefit the community,

some far beyond our campus.
Our students, with their great
enthusiasm, intelligence and

parents and others. Real estate
agents will

tell

you

is

it

the opportu-

nities for lifelong learning.
officials will tell

you

it

is

"Our students, with their great
enthusiasm, intelligence and
compassion, are making good
news on a daily basis."

Local

the vibrant

downtown business district that
barkens back

to

an

earlier day.

They all are right, of course. But
one important factor is missing from
this

list:

As
effort,

our students.

part of our strategic planning

we asked local residents

for

sense of community" one of the four

our

compassion, are making good news

on a

daily basis.

To me,

that is the

their opinions of Bloomsburg

strategic issues in

University and our future direction.

Impact 2015: Building on the Past,

recurring storyline of a special town

We were pleased with residents'
strong positive images of BU as a

Leadingfor the Future. The goal
directs us to redouble our efforts to

and this special university.

whole. But, quite frankly,

disappointed that others

we were
fail to

strategic plan.

Bloomsburg University's story.
One of our allies in this endeavor

tell

see

WHLM-AM/WHLM-FM, locally

the benefits our students provide

is

through class projects, internships,
student teaching and 62,000 hours

owned and operated for the past
decade by Joe and Nancy Reilly.

of volunteer service each year

Students appear on the

(valued at $20.25 per hour), just to

"Morning Buzz" each month

name

about projects that benefit the

a few.

DAVID

L.

President,

SOLTZ

Bloomsburg University

AM station's
to talk

For more from President Soltz,
http://bupresident.blogspot.com

see

FEATURES
10
True Grip
Duane Greenly '72 has journeyed
through the manufacturing world,
turning around companies with his
strong leadership. His inventive

know-how converts

ideas into

patented products.

14
Generous

Spirits

Traveling to Third World countries,

Bloomsburg nursing students are
changing the world and their

lives,

one patient at a time.

18
Mental Exercise
Research by Margie Eckroth-Bucher,
associate professor of nursing, shows
what you can do to fight mental aging.

20
Into the Night
The sun may go down, but the campus
never sleeps. See what evening brings
to

BU.

23
Smart Eats
Sharon Rowley Madalis '92M
keep your waistline trim
when you are on the road.
Dietitian

offers tips to

Table

of

Contents

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A MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE

Winter 2011

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SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education Board
of Governors

Kenneth M. Jarin, Chiiir
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair

Aaron Walton,
Leonard

Vice Chair

B. Altieri III

Matthew

Baker
Marie Conley Lammando
E.

Tom Corbett
Paul

S.

Dlugolecki

Thomas

L.

Gluck

Michael K. Hanna
Vincent J. Hughes

Jamie Lutz
Jonathan B. Mack
Joseph F. McGinn
Jeffrey E. Piccola

Guido M. Pichini

Harold C. Shields

President,

Thomas M.

David

Sweitzer

Christine J. Toretti

Mackenzie Marie Wrobel
Chancellor, State System
of Higher Education
John C. Cavanaugh

Bloomsburg University
Council of Trustees
Robert Dampman '65, Chair
Charles C. Housenick '60, Vice Chair
Marie Conley Lammando '94, Secretary
Ramona H. Alley
Raylene M. Brill '11
LaRoy G. Davis '67
David Klingennan Sr.
Joseph J. Mowad 'OSH

Nancy Vasta '97/'98M
Patrick Wilson

Bloomsburg University

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aroundTHEquad
shopping mall capable of holding 50
but with about 20 empty storefronts. This

Imagine a
stores,
is

^l^Mai l

the case at the Columbia Mall in Buckhorn,

about four miles from BU's campus.

Curious about

^

why the mall is not more occupied,

Thenapy

VICTORIA SCH4.1EDER STUDIES

HOW

SHOPPING CENTER CAN IMPROVE

and geography double major from Numidia, decided to complete
her ethnographic field methods research project at the
shopping center. With cooperation from the mall's
management. Cedar Shopping Centers Inc., Schlieder 's
research spanned four months in early 2010.
So what did Schlieder's research entail? She set
up a table in the middle of the mall with information
Victoria Schlieder, a senior anthropology

explaining the goals of the project. She created an

anonymous survey and provided a drop box. She

uti-

an Internet survey distributed through Facebook.
And she spent about 20 hours in the mall observing
shoppers. Approximately 460 people responded and
lized

most indicated they want this mall to succeed.
"Shoppers are supportive of the mall. They think of

community place," says Schlieder.
Bloomsburg area shoppers aren't the only ones
interested in this research. Last November, Schlieder
presented her project at the American Anthropological
Association's annual meeting in New Orleans. Her
research is categorized in a growing field known as
it

as a

"retail

anthropology." Retail anthropology looks at

ways

in which retailers, product manufacturers
and public spaces either meet, or fail to meet,

the

customers' needs. According to Schlieder, this type
of anthropology shows

how research can help not

only large companies, but also smaller stores that
don't have a lot of resources.

As

anticipated, participants

of stores, and most

would

want

in the mall. Colette Wintersteen,
at

a larger selection

movie theater
marketing manager

like to see a

the Columbia Mall, says the mall

would

mall because of the

According

demand

for

it,"

to Schlieder, the mall

says Wintersteen.

needs

to

become

a

destination for shoppers, not just a place to go to

like to

continue distributing surveys, using responses to

quickly pick up something.

better serve patrons.

"I think to be more successful the mall needs to bring
something that isn't available elsewhere locally.
Maybe a few more high-end stores or restaurants,"
says Schlieder. Personally, she wants to see an
American Eagle or Old Navy in the mall. •

"We have utilized Victoria's research in the advertising
of what types of stores we are trying to get into the
mall. The leasing department can utilize it to show
companies that people want

to see their store in

our

in

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Tops

in Training

MASTER'S PROGRAM ACCREDITED
BU'S CLINICAL ATHLETIC training program

is

one of

23 programs nationwide accredited at the entry-level
master's degree

program from the Commission on

Accreditation of Athletic Training Education

(CAATE).
The program prepares students

to serve as health

care providers in the areas of injury prevention,

and treatment.

recognition

Ij^tiowrr left to right areH-atisha

Kiana

Elliott.

j^ayton. Christina Davis. AmbeTMichael.

Joseph Hazzard, assistant professor of exercise
science

and

athletics

and coordinator of the

athletic

i^kameela

j^nd

Sunkett. India Jones. Tierra Foster

Shantia Potter

all

from Philadelphia.

training program, says accreditation recognizes that

the

program meets

all

nationally recognized standards

for entry-level athletic training education established

by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the
American Academy of Pediatrics, the American
Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine and the
National Athletic Trainers' Association.

CAATE

awards accreditation only after extensive self-study
and on-site visits.
"This accreditation means, first and foremost, that
students enrolled in our program have met the requirements to sit for the National Certification Exam, which is
possible only through accredited programs,"

Since

its

Sweet Fundraiser
BAKE SALE BENEFITS HAITI
VICE VERSA raised $200 through a bake sale, one of
many campus fundraisers to benefit the citizens of Haiti
who continue to suffer from the effects of last year's
massive earthquake. The organization, founded in 2006

promote unity, empowerment and diversity through
and performing arts, capped its fundraising
efforts in December with a dance and fashion show that
to

creative

netted $1,200. •

Hazzard says.

inception three years ago, the Geisinger

Medical Center (CMC) Sports Medicine Department

has provided

clinical

education opportunities for

students in the program.

"This accreditation acknowledges Bloomsburg
University's
tion for

its

commitment

to providing the best educa-

athletic training students," says Dr. Daniel

Feldmann, medical director of the program and chief
of sports medicine at

GMC.

•

Shown

Leadership and Service
EXCEPTIONALITY PROFESSOR HONORED
DARLENE PERNER, professor of exceptionality programs, received the Leo D. Doherty

Memorial Award during the 2010
Northeastern Educational Research
Association

(NERA) conference for her

leadership and service in special education. Perner has participated in numerous organizations including the Council

and national levels and United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO). •
for Exceptional Children at the state

4

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

left to right-

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Ronald MtJ)onald-are soiVrity

memljer&JflnniiSr SenSky. Drunfe'Lisa

Ale'lo. Qnurefville:

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Bernos. tBingerslowH; and Kelly Whalmore. Lanca'^la.r.
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says,

Thanks'

SORORITY HONORED FOR VOLUNTEER SERVICE
BU's Theta Tau Omega was honored by the Ronald
McDonald House, Danville, for 10 years of volunteer
service to the "home away from home" for families of
young patients

at

Geisinger Medical Center.

The

sorority

prepares dinner for the families each week during the

academic year and

initiated the

awards reception, now

in

its

annual volunteer

sixth year. •

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SOCIOLOGY PROF SERVES ON
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SOCIOLOGY professor Christopher
"Kip" Armstrong

is

serving a

two-year term on

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the U.S.

on

Commission

PROGRAM AIMS TO INCREASE GRADUATION RATES
TRiO STUDENT SUPPORT Services (SSS), a program that annually serves
nearly 250 BU students, will receive renewed funding of an estimated
$1.38 million over the next five years from the U.S.
Department of Education.
TRiO Student Support

Civil Rights'

Pennsylvania State

Advisory Committee.

The 15-member
advisory committees
in each state

Funding for Future

and the

District of

Columbia study issues and forward
independent reports which reflect
members' views. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an
independent, bipartisan agency
that monitors federal civil rights

enforcement. •

Seeds of Action
STUDENTS ADD PLANTINGS TO
FERNVILLE PARK

MORE THAN 50 Students from
several BU organizations, includ-

financial

J
1

Services provides academic,

and personal support

to low- income, first-genera-

and disabled students, says Theresa Bloskey, SSS
director. The goal of BU's program, federally funded since
1997, is to increase retention and graduation rates. More
than 80 percent of the students who begin the program remain in SSS
and graduate from BU.
tion

we serve have disabilities, including military
"We always have at least 80 names on a waiting list for
students who want to enroll in TRiO SSS."
TRiO programs began nationwide in the 1960s to provide educational
access to students who are disadvantaged and who, without support, would
most likely not receive a college education. Often high school students who
are part of BU's TRiO Upward Bound program return for their bachelor's
degree and participate in the TRiO SSS program, Bloskey adds. •
"One-third of the students

veterans," she says.

MarCom Winners

Planning Society, Acacia, and

BU MAGAZINE, PUBLICATIONS HONORED
BU'S COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE won a gold award for Bloomsburg:
The University Magazine, a platinum award for the Living and Learning
Community (LLC) booklet and honorable mentions for two other
publications in the Association of Marketing and Communication

nursing students, participated in

Professionals' annual

ing the Political Science Student
Association, H.O.P.

E (Help Our

Planet Earth), Geography and

a global effort to help reduce the

The LLC

MarCom Awards.

booklet, outlining freshman residence hall options based

was among the

carbon footprint as part of the

on majors or

Day of Climate
Action. Students joined Hemlock
Township residents in Fernville
Park to continue work begun by
BU community assistants, planting
more than 30 trees and shrubs.
The worldwide effort became the

platinum award, and Bloomsburg magazine, sent to 55,000 readers
three times each year, was among the 18 percent of entries awarded

International

largest single-day

environmental

event in history. •

Bonus Content
www.bloomu.edu/magazine
Who's

in

the kitchen? Prof looks

at family dining

Video:

Zumba

craze,

BU fundraiser

Survey: Tell us what you think

interests,

15

percent of entries receiving the

the gold. Overall, approximately 5,000 entries were submitted to the

competition. •

Study in Russia
FINANCE UNIVERSITY WELCOMES BU STUDENTS
BU STUDENTS MAY explore economics, business, languages and science
during the three-week Summer School in Moscow program at the Finance
University, Moscow, Russia. The six-credit program runs from June 10 to
July 2 and includes field trips focusing on Russian history, art and culture.
Program fees of $3,300 cover tuition, room and board and field trips;
airfare and visa fees are not included. The application deadline is March 15.
For more information, contact Saleem Khan, professor of economics,
(570) 389-4681 or skhan@bloomu.edu. •
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FullHousel
THE BU WRESTLING team faced off against sixth-ranked
Penn State to open the 2010-2011 season in front of a standingroom-only crowd of 2,374 and a live TV audience. Before the
match, BU President David Soltz, right, and athletic director
Mary Gardner rededicated Nelson Field House, which reopened
for fall 2010 after a $13.4 million renovation. The season opener
ended

6

in a 41-3 victory for the Nittany Lions. •

BLOOMSBL'RG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

LIKE AN EGYPTIAN
MARTY COYNE,
when

Kicking Cancer

BU's head men's and women's tennis coach, faced

the challenges of heat

and culture

he arrived

in

Egypt

last

summer to run a
He also dis-

BU MEN'S AND women's soccer
teams raised awareness and $1,100
in donations for cancer research

tennis program.

participating in the

covered a place in Cairo that

Cancer program

tugged

at his heartstrings.

Coyne spent

13

ing donations, both

teams supported
the cause by warm-

Christian Athletes at the

Wadi Sports Camp, a 25- acre
sports facility for Muslim and

up before their
games in official Red
Card Cancer shirts. Red
Card Cancer shirts and bracelets

The camp,
and

located between Cairo

were on sale to benefit the Johns
Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
Currently in its second year, the
program rose to the national level
through a partnership with Major
League Soccer's DC United and the
United States Youth Soccer
Association. To learn more about
Red Card Cancer, visit http://red-

Alexandria, offers tennis,
basketball, soccer,

and

swimming

volleyball.

"I've

had a relationship

with the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes (FCA) since
I

was

in college," says

Coyne,

who met his wife at an FCA
meeting in the 1980s. "FCA
asked me to take part in their
international

jumped

camp and

at the

,

ing

Coptic athletes between the
19.

Red Card

last fall.

In addition to receiv-

days working with the Fellowship of

ages of 11 and

cardcancer.org/. •

I

chance. Hearing the

camp was

in

Egypt was even more

exciting since I'd never been to that part of the world."

Shaffer

Honored

Coyne's trip took nearly 27 hours, with delays. And, when he arrived, he
discovered fundamental differences between training in the U.S. and

SOPHOMORE MEN'S

Egypt. "Because daytime temperatures are over 100 degrees, the coaching

Bryce Shaffer was

camp was done from 7 to 9:30

Directors of America
(CoSIDA)/ESPN The
Magazine Academic

would
Coyne

Bibles or with anything that

comments. "Even when we made
presentations, we had to be cautious
about the words we used or the
references

we made."

Along with the Pyramids, the
Cave Churches and other attractions,
Coyne and his fellow staffers visited a part of Cairo most tourists never see.
"We went to a place called Garbage City, where more than a million
people live amid the trash dump for the city of Cairo," he says. "Our
staffers got to work with the kids of Garbage City playing games and
interacting with them. To see them living among this trash was heartwrenching when just a few miles away one of the great wonders of the
world, the Pyramids, stands as one of man's greatest achievements."
Coyne expects to return to the Wadi Sports Camp in 2012. "It was a great
experience but, because it is draining both physically and emotionally, I
want to give myself a year between visits," he says. •

to the

Information

'cooled' off to

identify us as Christians,"

soccer player

named

2010 College Sports

a.m. and 6 to 8:30 p.m. when it
80 degrees," says Coyne.
Being in a Muslim country and coaching a camp run by the FCA
brought additional challenges. "We were not permitted to travel with our
part of the

by

All-District 2 College
Shaffer

Division
Shaffer

was recognized

achievements on the

first

team.

for his

field, in

the

classroom and in the community.
all

The Gettysburg native started
16 games last fall for the

Huskies

(5-9-2).

Shaffer tallied a

team-high 10 goals and 20 points,
highlighted by a game-winner in a
3-2 victory over

West Chester and

a

pair of goals in Bloomsburg's 2-0

shutout over Chestnut

performance

this

Hill.

His

season followed

four goals and a team-high six
assists last year as a

freshman. •

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sports
Kocher Succeeds
Hutchinson
SUSAN KOCHER

'87

head

was named
softball coach,

replacing Jan

Hutchinson

who

retired at the

^

end of

the 2010 season.

Kocher has been
BU wins
during 23 years as an assistant coach
and four years playing for Hutchinson.
While Kocher was the pitching

-^^H

coach,

part of 1,104

BU tossed 32 no-hitters, six

of them perfect games. She coached
eight pitchers to Ail-American
status, including

2010 second-team

Ail-American Shavaun Fisher.
A two-time Ail-American and

THE SMILE ON 5-year-old Katherine Scarborough's face said it all. She
loved the

Well

...

little

princess cottage put

maybe knights

in

up by her knights

in shining armor.

maroon jackets wearing baseball

hats.

Make-A-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia and the Susquehanna Valley

make Katherine's dream of a personalized princess cottage come true.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation delivered the two-story playhouse to her
Abington home in advance. The Huskies raked leaves, spread topsoil to
to

level the spot

Kocher is the only pitcher in school
game and
a no-hitter on the same day. She
was inducted into BU's Athletic
Hall of Fame and the Capital Area
Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports
Hall of Fame. •
history to throw a perfect

Seventeen members of BU's baseball team and two coaches joined with
the

three-time All-PSAC selection,

where the playhouse would be positioned and mulched the

area around the playhouse, adding decorations, shrubbery and a stone

Quiteh Honored

path leading to the front door.

"Being involved in community service
as a program.

It is

is

a responsibility that

we have

an essential part of the student-athlete experience,"

Mike Collins.
team involved with Make-A-Wish Foundation after
meeting the Philadelphia chapter's president and CEO Dennis Heron
says head coach

in

Rehobeth Beach, Del. "Dennis is a big baseball fan. We decided to keep in
touch and I offered our services where needed," Collins says.
In addition to the playhouse, Katherine was presented with a few gifts,
including a baseball autographed by the team and coaches. •

BU Hall of Fame

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Franklyn

Quiteh of Tobyhanna was named
first-team Little Ail-American by
the Associated Press and first-team

Collins got his

FIVE ALUMNI and the former assistant athletic director
make up the 29th class of BU's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Honored at last fall's banquet are, left to right, front
row: Jean Buskirk '93, softball; Laura Jones Coen '93,
women's soccer; and Shelley Miller Romano '95, field
hockey and softball; and back row: Burt Reese '03H,
former head tennis coach and assistant men's basketball
coach; Marc Lupinacci '90, men's tennis; Lee Gump '97,
basketball; and BU President David Soltz. •

FRESHMAN TAILBACK

All-American by Daktronics. He
the

first

is

BU player named Little

All-American since 2005 when
and Jamar Brittingham

Jahri Evans

were

selected. •

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True Grip
Duane Greenly

has journeyed through the manufacturing
world, turning around companies with his strong leadership,
inventive know-how and patented products.
by

'72

JACK SHERZER

photographs by ERIC

FOSTER

THE LONG-HANDLED spade depicted on a small

down

plaque in Duane R. Greenly's office looks like someone

of preparation, attention to detail and honesty.

But that sharpening notch
designed to cut through roots while digging is the
feature that sets one of Ames True Temper's newest
products apart from other shovels.

"People who prepare, win," Greenly says. "People
who think they can fly by the seat of the pants will

took a bite out of its

tip.

The patent Greenly received
round point" shovel

is

for the "Root cutting

testament to the hands-on

to following core beliefs

about the importance

ultimately crash. That's something

I

believe in."

Greenly was no stranger to the business world
while growing up. His father was a commercial roofing
contractor

who ran a host of side businesses, including

involvement of a leader who, since his arrival in 2002,
has grown the landscaping product company to a

car washes, laundromats and a trampoline center. If

market leader with almost a half billion dollars in
annual sales. The patent also pays tribute to the

money, they earned

60-year-old scientist and product developer

who takes

and applications he helps create to the next
where they are manufactured, shipped and sold

the designs
level,

to customers.

Coatings for fabrics used in shoes and on boats,
quality

hard-wood doors and specialty rubber mounts

Greenly, his sister or two brothers wanted spending

by helping out.
Larry, went to Bloomsburg,
where Greenly majored in chemistry, completed
student teaching, ran track and met his wife, the
former Susan Basar '72,
"It's not hard to work
a special education
it

He and his brother,

The couple has
and daughter.

major.

a son

hard ifyou

like

what

you're doing.'*

dampen vibrations— different products in different
businesses that Greenly '72 had a hand in creating and
selling in a career spanning more than 30 years.

him to pursue math and science. After Bloomsburg,

With a quiet intensity. Greenly talks about how he
turned around Ames True Temper and two earlier
companies. There's been luck, but success comes

he earned a master's degree in organic chemistry from
Morehead University in Kentucky and his science
background led to his first job with the huge textile

that

Greenly credits his
-

father with convincing

Duane Greenly '72

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"

manufacturer Deering-Milliken & Co. (now Milliken
Co.) at the

&

company's research center in Spartanburg,

Synthetic fabrics were just coming out

S.C.

and

techniques were being perfected to allow the

At Deering, one of
Greeniys successes was figuring out a way to
irradiate the fabric with a plasma light, giving
the fabric and dye opposite electrical charges
so they would bond. The technique was especially useful for keeping dye fi-om bleeding
when the fabric was exposed to moisture,
important for two of its main uses, the lining
of shoes and canvas boat covers.
fabrics to hold dyes.

When it came time to move the process
from the lab to the factory floor. Greenly
went along, transferring from the research
center to a plant in
like the

New England. "I really

manufacturing, and

years into

my career when

went to the plant manager and said, 'If an opening
ever shows up, I would
I

love to have an opportunity'

I

was three

TRUE INNOVATION:
The Planters Buddy is a
seven-in-one garden
planter tool with a rustresistant stainless steel

blade, ergononnic poly
grip

and hang-up

hole.

What I

started realizing

that, as

much as I liked dealing with things,

I

liked dealing with people better." Soon,

he

manager.

MUliken almost six
BF Goodrich as a senior
engineer. One of Goodrich's clients, Kimberly
Clark, was introducing disposable diapers, and
Greenly worked on the elastic that kept the
diaper close to the baby's leg. Again, he found
himself on the same trajectory as at Milliken—
he developed the technique and then continued
at

years before going to

more
Goodrich, he became a

to oversee the actual production. In

than three years

at

troubleshooter, helping solve various production

problems

at different plants.

Then he got

from a headhunter with
for Newell
Rubbermaid as director of quaUty assurance
and manufacturing engineering. When he
an opportunity

a call
to

work

started in 1981, the Freeport,

111.

it

had

when Greenly left 16 years later. During his

time with Newell he helped bring acquisitions
into the corporate family, sharpening his talents

around problem businesses.
Skilled on the operations side. Greenly forced himself
to learn about marketing and customer relations. "If
you want to truly lead, you have to know all aspects of
in turning

12

to

be comfortable with some

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

if you

avoid the aspects you're uncomfortable with, then
you're probably limiting yourself."

Greenly rose to vice president at one of
NeweU's divisions and had every expectation
of moving higher

when he got a call asking

him if he'd like to be

the

boss of a failing door
manufacturer. Morgan

Door in Oshkosh, Wis.,
was being taken over
by a private equity
firm. It was a chance
''Ifyou want to
to bet on himself
and run his own
truly lead, you
business—just as
his dad had done.
But this was no

have to know
of a

all aspects

business.

sure thing. Private

equity partners. Greenly explains, have
short time frames.

They buy a place with

plans to turn it around within two or three
re-sell.

Top management gets

a piece of the ownership pie— a piece that

becomes very valuable if the turnaround is
successful and the company is sold for
millions more than its purchase price.
Greenly turned Morgan Door around in
two years and then was asked to join another
turnaround effort. This time it was a Boston
company, Barry Controls, which made vibration
dampening mounts, such as rubber fittings to
lessen the vibrations transferred from an engine
to a frame.

Once

company around
and saw his ownership
"a very good payday— I'm

again, he turned the

in less than four years

stake

grow into

was so good."
For about six months before leaving Barry,
Greenly and a colleague from Newell

almost embarrassed,

Rubbermaid, Rich

it

Dell,

had been checking out

Ames True Temper for another equity
partnership, Wind Point Partners. Ames
bought

-based

conglomerate had just three divisions;
19

You tend

aspects and uncomfortable with others. But

years and then

is

was running two projects as a department
Greenly stayed

a business.

its

longtime competitor True Temper

and both were stLU nipping at each
The current owner, U.S.
Industries, wanted to sell the dysfunctional
in 1999

other's heels.

setup that

was slowly losing market share to

lower-priced imported goods.

"They were two businesses that were, all of a
sudden, supposed to play nice with each other and
weren't. There was a headquarters in Parkersburg
...

1

WVa., and a head
quarters in

Camp

Numbers teU the story of the success: Wind
company for $160 million and

Point bought the

sold it to another venture capital firm, Castle
Harlan Partners IV, for $390 million. And in
September 2010, Castle Harlan sold the company to
its current owner. Griffon Corp., a New York-based
manufacturing conglomerate, for $542 million.
"He is an excellent operator," says Bill Pruellage,

Duplication every-

Hill.

where, extra

facilities

and infighting,"
Greenly

recalls.

"The company

was just spinning

its

So

on as

wheels."

in 2002,

co-president of Castle Harlan.
TRUE INNOVATION:

DeU came

Total Control

CEO of Ames True Temper

overseeing sales and marketing;

Wheelbarrow

features a closed-loop handle
with a patent-pending grip for

improved

control.

Gone was the Parkersburg
headquarters. The company started joint ventures in
China to remain competitive and took over competing
businesses to grow market share. In 2008, Dell retired
and Greenly became president and CEO.

THE GREENLY PRINCIPLES
R.

Greenly 72, president and CEO of

Ames True

Temper, the largest supplier of landscaping products
the U.S.,

in

fond of saying that "preparation and perspira-

is

tion beats inspiration."

Greenly returned to Bloomsburg University recently to

share what he's learned from 30 years
part of his presentation

—similar

1

.

Commandments

A team

business.

in

to the advice

during in-house training sessions at
his 12

he gives

—he

Ames

As

offered

of Business.

of motivated players is better than a collection

each other, but don't get
and be mindful of unchecked egos.

of superstars. Challenge

to
if

stop negative attitudes, which can spread quickly

unchecked.

most important

U.

Credibility is the

5.

You improve what you measure. Pick key indicators

individual attribute.

to measure and follow so there are no surprises.
Good results are not happenstance preparation.
You need to be able to laugh at yourself and others.
You get what you expect make expectations clear
and expect a lot.
Mistakes of inactivity are much worse than mistakes of

—

activity.

10.

To be a leader, you need to

Two heads are

—

—

make things happen.

better than one. three are better than

two. but 10 are not better than nine.

Go

to the right

people to figure out problems.
11.

new products by rewarding employees who come
up with new ideas, listening to focus groups of
gardeners and professional landscapers

and seeing what
companies can be
brought into the
Ames True Temper
family to

TRUE INNOVATION:
The Autoboss Snow Shovel
Trunk has an adjustable poly
blade, multiple grips

compact

and a

profile.

grow

market share. He's still very hands-on:
he recently received another patent for
a two-handed, ergonomically designed

snow shovel called the Sno-Boss,
designed to do the work of a conventional snow shovel, pusher and snow
sleigh in one tool. Though the recession
slowed business. Greenly takes pride in not laying
off any employees and continuing to give raises.

talents, I just

Negative attitudes equal negative results. Act quickly

9.

very strong performance and grew

Few people have photographic memories.

Positive attitudes equal positive results.

8.

to

"Bring your brains and a tablet.

2.

3.

7.

he contributed

ultimately, as chief executive officer,

He's also proud of the company's line of products
manufactured completely in the U.S. and the "eco
gardener" line made from recycled steel with solid
handles of bamboo, a quick-growing grass that provides
an alternative to wood.
As for the future? Greenly says he enjoys his work
and plans to "keep working as long as I'm still having
fun and the owners want me."
He takes pride in his company's interaction with the
community, hosting a golf tournament that last year
raised $279,000 for area charities. Greenly also encouraged Castle Harlan to chip in $100,000 for a community
garden he wants to create on a field adjacent to the
Camp HiU headquarters— an idea to help various
groups, as well as show off his company's wares.
"It's not hard to work hard if you like what you're
doing. You have to find what you Uke," Greenly says.
"I consider myself very normal; I don't have any special

into turf battles

6.

And,

Today, Greenly continues what he does best, nurturing

about putting the house in

order.

Duane

operations.

earnings significantly."

Greenly, as chief operating officer,
set

"He did a great job

improving productivity and leading our company

If

you can only

work hard." •

bring one thing, bring the tablet."
12.

Yes-men are not men. Argue your
the decision.

point, but

support

Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania
native.

He currently lives in Harrisburg.
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2011

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY NURSING STUDENTS who
shared their medical skills in Third World countries agree the
care they extended was returned tenfold by the impoverished
patients whose lives they touched.

14

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IN

A STATE-RUN

hospital in

4-year-old boy's poverty
death. His single

La Ceiba, Honduras, a
to an early

condemns him

mother cannot afford the six-hour bus
where hospitals may

trip to Tegucigalpa, the capital,

have the technology to diagnose his heart condition. In
America, the boy would likely live a long life. But in

Honduras, without diagnosis and treatment, he will
not survive. That boy opened Jaime Miller's eyes to the
realities of medical care in

Miller

Third World countries.

BU junior Jamie Thomas are no

and fellow

strangers to studying abroad, having completed a

summers ago through
Bloomsburg's Spanish program. But they were not
prepared for what they witnessed during a four-week
six-week program in Spain two

AmeriSpan study abroad program in Honduras that
included two weeks of volunteer work in a hospital.
"I distinctly remember wondering what I'd gotten
myself into," Thomas says of the poverty she saw while
riding the bus from San Pedro Sula, the second largest city

La Ceiba, a port city of 200,000 residents.
"We saw lots of people living in shacks with dirt
floors, no running water and no electricity," Miller adds.
In La Ceiba, Miller and Thomas lived with the director
of the Central American Spanish School and his family
and worked in a state-run hospital 10 minutes away.
in

Honduras,

to

"When I show people pictures of the hospital, they
want to believe me," relates Thomas, who

don't

describes people on
hallways.

Still,

gumeys lining the hospital's

she was impressed by what doctors

there do without technology.

"I'm interested in labor and delivery.

It's

amazing

how they can count contractions with their hands and
feel

heart tones with a stethoscope

— skills that have

gotten lost here with technology."

Both say the experience
"After this experience,

I

will

make them better nurses.

can better relate to an immigrant

or other non-EngUsh speaker who can't communicate about

own health issues," says Thomas of Archbald.
opened my eyes to how others live," says MiUer, a
nontraditional student from Sunbury. "I wish so much
their

"It

Bloomsburg could do what I did
changed my life." continues on next page

that every student at
for just

one

day.

It

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[

GENEROUS SPIRITS

]

'The right spot doing the right things'

Sophomore Elizabeth

"Lizzie" Lee, president of BU's
Nurses Christian Fellowship, saw countless open
wounds and sore backs during a week in Nicaragua,

where many of her patients worked

in the fields cut-

ting crops with machetes for $i a day. "There
lot

were a

of fevers and parasites, too, because the water

sources are so contaminated. At one

work site, we

gave cream to a mother whose baby was covered in
scabies," a contagious skin infection caused

Lee and

15

by mites.

members from her home church, Grace

Lutheran in State College, spent their days distributing
donated medicines to the poor and their nights and
evenings with children in orphanages in Jinotega and

Los Cedros. After dispensing medications, team

members prayed with patients and distributed prayer
shawls made by church members.
While her patients had very Uttle in the way of
material possessions, they were filled with a generous
spirit,

Lee says. "While we were praying for them,

they would be praying for us and our medical team.

Everyone was so grateful for even the smallest thing.
We attended a Lutheran church that had no roof, yet
they served food to our whole group."
Lee has spent her last two spring breaks in
Nicaragua and wiU return this year, looking foi^ard
to once again seeing a special 8-year-old she met at the
orphanage in Jinotega. "It feels like home for me when
I'm in the right spot doing the right things," she says.
IMAGES FROM A WORLD OF SERVICE.

'An experience you can't put into words'

a young child's ankle

Nursing students Katie Raymis ofJim Thorpe and Andrea
Weaver of Landisburg, as well as Jeremi Ronaldo, a senior
exercise science major ft-om Levittown, spent a week in
the slums of Honduras with members of Bloomsburg
Christian Church and World Gospel Outreach.
"Lives were changed— both on our part and those
of the Hondurans," says Raymis.
The 25-member team saw more than 1,000 patients
and addressed dental
.
^,

^o^j
Studeuts get to see the
,

issues, distributed

eyeglasses

and pre-

scribed medications,
"It

privilege and access
thcy'vc bccn granted on

was an experience

you

can't
„

,

.

many IcVCls.

This page. Katie Fredericks treats

Ghana, top. and a mission worker prompts a
young Nicaraguan child to say ah.' Opposite page, left to right, top row:
Andrea Weaver pauses for a moment with a Honduran girl, a Honduran
boy's eyes tell his life story and Katie Raymis helps a patient breathe.
Bottom row: Kayla Efaw plays nutrition games with youngsters and is
featured with a group of volunteers, back row. second from right.
in

Like Raymis, Katie Fredericks
realized

'10

of Bethlehem

how much Americans take for granted while

working at a medical clinic in a fishing village in Ghana.
She traveled to Africa in August 2009 with a team from
Cornerstone Evangelical Church, Easton.
"I

learned

how materially simple life is in Africa. The

Ghana villagers take
material possessions.

pride in their work,

granted," she says. "I definitely plan on returning to Afiica."

put into

^

- Lori Metzger, nursing faculty

.

words, Raymis says.

No cell phones, computers

"The people are extremely loving. They have nothing,

During a six-week work study program

but they are a very giving p)eople."

senior Kayla

Raymis remembers the
day, a

little girl

final patient

with epilepsy

different

and

crying.

didn't feel

I

alone. "I felt so

worthy

she saw one

who told her she felt
broken that

to look

I

started

her in the face

I knew I was going back to America, where
we all have so much."

because

16

more than their

And they don't take anything for

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I

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TY

OF PENNSYLVANIA

Efaw

in Costa Rica,

visited patients in their

homes,

encouraged regular exercise and
played nutrition games with the younger chUdren. The
program included two weeks of lectures and Spanish
shared healthy

classes, a

week

treats,

in hospitals

and clinics and two weeks

Bolson and Ortega, rural towns where she and her
group held a health fair and worked with diabetics.
in

The Cyprus, Texas, native hopes to work in a Houston
where she'll encounter many Spanish-speaking
patients. She beHeves the study abroad program is a
hospital,

terrific

way to learn about another culture.

The experience also made her more self-reliant in a
culture fi-ee of cell phones, iPods and computers. "All
students— no matter what their major— should try it,"
she says. "It's an awesome experience."

to

be the most impoverished, have no way

to get to the

where care is available.
"Not only do students get to see a diiferent culture
and scenarios in which people have so little, they get to
see the privilege and access they've been granted on so
many levels," says Metzger. "In a Third World country,
cities

a nurse's education rivals that of a physician, so

strengthens their confidence.

it

really

And for some, it changes

them as a person."
True

spirit

of nursing

Metzger says she is continually impressed by
who take advantage of the opportunity.

A medical mission to a Third World country is "a

students

unique experience and a wonderful opportunity for
Bloomsburg nursing students to share their knowledge
with people who literally will stand in Une for hours for

"They could be spending spring break

the opportunity for medical care," says Lori Metzger,
assistant professor of nursing

and co-adviser of Nurses

Christian Fellowship.
Metzger,

or earning extra

Shore

money during the summer to spend

on themselves. Instead, they raise between $1,500 and
$2,000 to go on the trips and then give of their time
and themselves.
"It's

who last year made the same trip to Honduras as

at the

very

to serve

selfless. It's in

a true spirit of nursing care

another person." •

Raymis, Weaver and Ronaldo, says it was a real eye-opener.

While most Third World countries
care, the people

offer public health

who live in the rural areas, which tend

Former newspaper editor Sue A. Beard

is

a freelance

writer based in Greencastle, Pa.

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FACULTY PROFILE

MENTAL exercise
MARGIE ECKROTH-BUCHER'S research focuses on ways
keep the brain functioning at its best so Baby Boomers
can enjoy their retirement years in their own homes.

to

THE BASICS ABOUT proper physical
known:

fitness are well

a combina-

tion of eating a nutritious diet

and

exercising regularly helps keep the

body

we age. But what

vibrant as

can be done to keep the brain

fit?

intake of Omega-6 fatty acids,

which may contribute to brain
inflammation and also affect
insulin levels.

regimen of
mental aerobics has been shown to
"Additionally, a daily

and strengthen cognitive

That's the question Margie

increase

Eckroth-Bucher, associate profes-

functions.

sor of nursing,

is

trying to answer

It is

important to remain

intellectually active, increase the

through research that focuses on

complexity of activities over time

the effects of cognitive stimulation

and challenge oneself to learn

on brain health.

new things."

"As a result of brain imaging

and genetic technologies,

scientists

Eckroth-Bucher demonstrated
the importance of mental aerobics

two research studies conducted

can observe physical indicators of

in

brain aging in people as young as

with James Siberski of Misericordia

25,"

she explains. "However, cogni-

tive loss

does not have to be an

inevitable consequence of aging."

Eckroth-Bucher says the sooner

University.

Both used a combination

of paper-and-pencil exercises and

computer software

to

determine the

effectiveness of a cognitive remedia-

program on an aging

an individual

tion

begins to focus on

population. Participating

cognition preserva-

in the study

tion, the better the

uals age 55

outcome.

A good

place to start

is

were individand older with

three levels of cognitive

by

abilities:

no impairment,

minimizing high

mild impairment and

stress levels that

severe impairment.

can wear away

at

V/J^^l

brain fitness and

'f^^l

memory

"The

first

was

a small-

er pilot study," Eckroth-

exists that long-term healthy diets

wanted to
would be any
A impact by using computer stimulation and combining that
with other, more traditional kinds

may prevent

of cognitive stimulation activities."

overall

Bucher

performance.

see

Diet also plays a
part.

"Convincing

scientific

future brain aging

and dementia," she
"It is

18

evidence

notes.

especially important to limit

if

says. "I

there

The computer session used two
software programs that enabled

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

hy

KEVIN GRAY

researchers to train various cogni-

were some overall improvements in

tive functions as participants

the different cognitive scores."

matched colors or shapes, found

Findings from the initial study
were published in the American
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and
Other Dementias. The findings
also were used as the basis of a
memory and recall skills class for
people age 55 and older offered at
Maria Joseph Manor, the continuing care community in Danville
where Eckroth-Bucher conducted
her research studies. Data from a

hidden pairs of items, calculated
math problems and identified
patterns and sequences.

The mental stimulation session
was made up of pencil-and-paper
exercises intended to spark specific

functions, such as:
•

Hidden picture drawings to

encourage visual-spatial
processing.
•

Categorization of items to

stimulate deUberation,
interpretation
•

and reasoning.

Recall of sentence completion to

encourage short-term, working

memory.
• Name-face association activities
to trigger recognition memory.
And, the integration session,
which blended mental stimulation
with routine
•

analyzed.

Anagrams— words or phrases

formed by rearranging the letters
of other words or phrases— to
prompt language stimulation.
•

second larger study conducted
during spring 2009 is still being

activities, including:

Problem solving and reasoning

Eckroth-Bucher finds great
satisfaction in helping persons

meet a wide range of mental health
care needs as a nurse. Still, she
says she is most proud of her work
in educating nursing students.

"For a healthy brain it
important to remain

is

intellectually active..,

and challenge oneself
to learn new things.

tasks to address the factors

involved in

making decisions,

such as determining how to
fire at home.

escape a
•

Attention and concentration

activities,

such as looking up

service providers in a telephone

directory

and determining the

best one to contact.
•

"Real-life" procedural

memory

tasks, like writing checks to

pay bills.

The researchers concluded that
"blending computer-based with
traditional cognitive stimulation
activities

shows promise in preserv-

"Students tend to be somewhat

apprehensive about mental health

nursing and have

little

interest in

providing nursing care to the

Eckroth-Bucher says.
rewarding to help students

elderly,"
"It's

discard the myths and build their

knowledge base and the skills
needed to provide quality nursing
care for these patient populations.

By facilitating this growth in
students, I am able to make a
difference in a larger number of
people's lives than

I

can through

my individual work as a registered
nurse." •

ing cognitive function in elders,"

Eckroth-Bucher says. "The results
were certainly positive, and there

Kevin Gray is a fi'eelance writer
based in the Lehigh Valley.

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IS

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Simpson

BLOOMSBL RG

is

L

director of BU's Quest program. See
NI\ ERSITV OF

PENNSYLVANIA

more of his photos

at xoww.brettsimpsonphotogropby.com.

ALUMNI PROFILE

]

SMART eats

by

BECKY LOCK

away from home

Healthy choices defeat hunger attacks

EMPLOYEES MAY NOT have a choice when it comes to
spending long hours at a desk or traveling for work,
but they can choose to make healthy choices for meals
and snacks, says registered dietitian Sharon Rowley
Madalis '92M.
"Plan ahead and don't skip meals," says Madalis,

who CO- authored the book

Truck Drivers: Stop Your Job

from Killing You! Published

in June 2010, the g^ide

debuts a series that will address the struggles various
professionals endure regarding lifestyle choices.

"One of the strategies

is, if you're

delay Uke time spent traveling, have

snacks on hand," she says. "Fruit

going to have a

some healthy

something that is so
portable and can cut the edge off hunger a little bit."
Other options include a handful of pretzels, a serving of
is

lowfat cheese and granola or cereal bars that aren't high
in calories.

Take care to decide if it's really hunger that's gnawing
Madalis says. "Dehydration can be mistaken for
hunger. Then there's boredom, stress or eating just
because the food's there." Try drinking a beverage,
at you,

preferably water.

Be sure not to skip meals. When you wait too long
between meals or when you skip breakfast, "your blood
sugar starts to drop
''Access the calorie
and you don't feel
information
it can be
good. During sleep,

an eye-opener - and
keep your meal below
500 calories ifyou can.

The
last fuel you had is
you're fasting.

used up," Madalis
says. "The body
operates at slow speed

becomes a calorie hoarder. It
and metabolism slows."
By the same token, don't wait until you are starving
to refuel. "You can really overeat, and the last thing you
will think

about

is nutrition,"

foods.

and has grilled

selections, instead of all fried

"When ordering, be assertive," Madalis

how many calories, fat and salt the items contain.
"Access the calorie information— it can be an eye-opener

—and keep your meal below 500 calories if you can."

she warns.

In choosing a restaurant, look for one that offers
variety

a healthy main dish ifyou
choose sour cream or shredded
cheese as a topping, but not both,
says Sharon Rowley Madalis '92M.
Chili is

suggests.

Above all, she

"you make the choice."

Geisinger Medical Center, Madalis works with individuals

them what she calls a "plan A, plan B, plan C
making healthy dining choices different options

"Ask for alternatives, such as the vegetable of the day
instead of french fries. Tell your waitress not to put

to give

and dressings on the food; ask for
them on the side. Restaurant owners want to cater
to the customer. They want you to come back."
When dining at fast-food restaurants, be aware of

because change

sauces, gravies

says,

In counseling clients through outpatient clinics at

for

...

isn't easy."

•

Becky Lock is a writer, editor and photographer who
works and lives in Pennsylvania.
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23

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

usky notes

Michael 'sNfuifirooms^
BU doesn't offer a major in mushroom fanning but, for Michael Carlino '86,

*

the career

Carlino

was "ahvays
is

the world,"
in the

there and in the back of mv' mind."

fi-om Kennett Square, the "self-proclaimed

mushroom capital of

where he owns Carlino Mushroom Co., a family business started

mid-i940s

b>'

his gi andfather.

He purchased the business from his

own father 12 years ago.
fann encompasses 70,000 squai-e feet of concrete gi eenhouses.
>'eai-s, he has gi'own just bi'own mushrooms, portabella and
crimini. His crop c>'cle is about 12 weeks, which means he works ever>' day.
"It is a year-round, .365-da>' commitment. The mushrooms grow so fast,
Carlino's

For the past three

there

is

only a slight

them picked," sa\'S Carlino.
mushrooms to wholesalers who resell
fruit markets and food service companies. With only

\\'indo\\' to

get

After harx'esting, Carlino sells his

them to grocery

stores,

mushroom farms in the U.S., Carlino Mushroom Co. is one of 28 gTovvei*s
who exclusively gi'ow brown mushrooms. More than half of all mushrooms
are gi own in Pennsj lvania.
112

Carlino didn't always plan to take o\er the famih' business, but he did
possibility' throughout college "Mushroom fanning was familiar
and I had always done it growing up. I decided I didn't want to sta\' awax'
from it," says Carlino, the only member of his famih' still involved in fanning.
Carlino agi'ees most people either love or hate mushrooms. "Me, pei-sonally,
I enjoy them vei-y much."
Editor's note: See u wiv.bloomii.edii/magazine for a link to recipes courtesy of
Mushroom Council and Mus/jroom info.com.

consider the

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MA

Pottsville,

com-

peted in his 49th consecutive

Championship tournament in

Byham celebrated his
League World Series

Little

broadcast for

BU

1972
Patricia

eight times.

50th

and finance at

Rhode Island College, Providence, RI.

WRAK radio in

Veach Johnson received a

top sales honor for July 2010 from

Century 21 Alliance, Exton.

Michael Hessling was inducted into

plishments as first-base coach for

Sandra Pfister Brown, Easton,

his Softball

team and

cian at Honesdale

received a 2010

varsity statisti-

High School.

Award from the

1973

Northampton

Douglas N. Yocom, Douglassville,

County Area

president and

Agency on Aging for providing
and assistance to

ed

community organizations.

CEO of Precision

Medical Products
to

Inc.,

was appoint-

a three-year term to the

Albright College Board of Trustees.

I96S

1974

Joseph Schein received a distin-

Stephen A. Andrejack and wife,

guished service award from Bristol

Stephanie, are proud parents of

Township for his dedication to

Mary Andrejack '10, who earned a

education and athletics at his abna

Woodrow Wilson High

BU, and Theresa,

where he taught and

from Drexel University in 2010.

1966

Andrejack, was

Robert Wetzel was inducted into

The Jerry Wohnan— Northern

bom in May 2010.

Citizens

is

chair of

company of

& Northern Bank.

He was head baseball coach at
North Schuylkill High School for

more than 30 years and won a pair
titles.

1975
Joe Rutecki, Virginia, retired

from the state Government
Accountability

1968

Office in

Sandra Clancy Larson, Vero Beach,
chaired the 2010

Remember, which raises funds

of service.
for

The

insurance agency in

Summit HiU,

to the

Government Accountants

Association of Indian River County.

him as its "member who made a

Joseph S. Kowalski, an administrawith the Milton Area School

was inducted into the

Warrior Run High School Hall of

board
tion

certified

obstetrician/g3aiecologist practice
in

WUkes-Barre.
Kile, Wilkes-Barre, is

senior vice president of provider

honored by the Diocese of Scranton

an educator

counselor designa-

by the American Board of

Professional Counselors.

He also

1982
Kevin L. Miller is chief operating
Keystone National

received the designation of diplo-

officer at First

mat of the American Psychotherapy

Bank, Berwick.

He is a retired U.S.

Public Health Service commander.

Barbara Decker Golden, York,
client service

technology teacher,

manager at

tf"

Benefits,

was honored as

high school teacher of the year by

McConkey
Insurance

1984
Sharon K. Norton, a business and

the

&

was a top

^^^^i

five finalist in a

^^f^ Jl^^

national customer

Ocean City (N.J.) School District.

I98S
Marilyn Mikulca Baran, WilkesBarre,

is

a seventh-grade teacher at

by
St.

Insurance Agents and Brokers.

Jude School, Mountain Top.

Mark W. Ranzan is vice president
Wayne

1979

of commercial lending for

Deborah Snyder Servose, Point

Bank

Township, celebrated her 30th

Richard Robbins

anniversary with Danville Child

parapsychologist and associate

Development's Early Years

dean of the College of Arts and

Learning Academy in 2010. She

Sciences at Bucknell University.

is

in

Monroe County.

the preschool supervisor.

a certified

Pamela Shupp,
vice president of

1981
Mark A.

is

Berks Economic

Kelley, assistant vice

Partnership, earned

president/invest-

the designation of

ments with Janney

Montgomery

Scott,

completed the

six-

certified

economic developer

from the International Economic
Development Council.
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David Lezinsky opened an

Gregory G.

Antoinette Coroniti Bosevich was

and the

He is also a chartered retirement

month Accredited
Wealth Management Advisor

Fame in 2010.

1970

University of Pennsylvania

College of Financial Planning.

planning specialist.

selected

1976

in collaboration

with the Wharton School of the

Gene Walters was awarded the

difference" in the last decade.

1969

Blue Mountain

to

program through

Health System's Board of Directors.

Association of

the Alzheimer-Parkinson

School.

who owns an

December

2010 with 35 years

Walk to

for 25 years of service as

Sverchek,

Mark A.

& Northern Corp. Board

of Directors, the parent

Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

of Schuylkill League division

certification

Janney University

service competition sponsored

Charles H. Updegraff Jr.
the Citizens

Anthracite Chapter of the

at St. Jude

it

1977

who earned a doc-

Their grandson, Michael Alan

District,

the fact that

toral degree in civil engineering

coached from 1965 to 1996.

tor

me the most about working for this company
was a change of pace for me." she says. "I wanted
work for a company that was small and would allow me to work
in a number of departments, not just marketing."
"What attracted

Association.

degree in business education from

Philadelphia-based contemporary
work involves marketing,

2009. Her

advertising and applying for grants.

was elected

Outstanding Senior

Fla.,

in

Wayne County Sports HaU of
Fame in recognition of his accom-

1959

School,

s Celebrity Artist Series.

dance company

was

the

mater,

BU

lannotti joined the

Williamsport.

leadership

to

Rachel lannotti 06 graduated with dreams of establishing herself in a
career. Last fall, her work led her back to her alma
mater as marketing manager for the Jeanne Ruddy
Dance Company, which opened the 25th season of

2010.

He won the county championship
William

William Gearhart is vice president
for administration

County Amateur Golf

Schuylkill

Dancing back

1971

1953
David Linkchorst,

integration for Blue Cross of

Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Synoracki promoted
Daniel

P.

Synoracki '87 recently

was promoted

to

group manager

Rettew's environmental science group. Synoracki,

in

who

has worked for the engineering firm since 1999, has
more than 23 years of experience in project management
and environmental consulting, including natural
resource identification and evaluation, site planning,
stream and wetland encroachment permitting, stream
restoration and wetland mitigation design and construction oversight.
A founding member of the Little Conestoga Watershed Alliance.
Synoracki is a member of the Paradise Sportsman's Association.
Synoracki resides in Lancaster

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Bloomsburg Uni\'ersit\' of Pennsylvania

husky

Helping a brother

Jg

The Delta

Sigma

Pi

Alumni Association (DP5PAA) awarded a
Mark Brajer Randolph. N J., a senior majoring

Pi

SI. 000 scholarship to

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE

in

1986
Frank Sheptock, \Mlkes
football coach,

the Penns\

history,

Pontifical Gregorian University

Weekend.

with a degree

Uni\'ersit>'

was inducted

h ania Sports Hall of

Christopher Beagle

Fame in October. He was inducted

the fraternity's vice president

and representative

He also ser\'es on

1987

directors for

Angela Lenker earned a master's

1989

Joining Brajer at the

the boai-d of

CAMP Rehoboth.

presentation

College. Melrose Park.

She

is

Count>' Boai-d of Commissioners.

1991

"grand reunion" in Lancaster attended by 1 A members: another
"grand reunion" is planned for July
For information, visit www.dpspaa.com and

director of finance

and

administration for the Bucks

Montgomery Early Learning
Center of Pottstown.

1

Pauline Kmiecinski Roberts,

has coordinated the

Wesner Vislockj' is a

Alice

http://orgs.bloomu edu/deltapi/index.html or contact Ernest

Lemoncelli. (570) 230-0456.

Toys for Tots program for the

supen isor and program

Susquehanna Detachment of tlie

coordinator for Catholic Social

Shown

Marine Corps League for six years.

Services in Hazleton.

1988

Lori MercatUi Cimino '91M,
W'ilkes-BaiTe,

Ronald IppoUte is head wrestling

(N.J.)

at

Roger Lowry 78. president

an assistant pro-

fessor of speech-language patholo-

\^ashington To\\Tiship

gA" at

Misericordia Uni\ ei-sit\'.

High School. He teaches

Dana Domkoski Bumside,

special education at the Chestnut

Ridge Middle School, Sewell,

\\Tlkes-Barre,
N.J.

Teaching

The

is

Rev. Gerald ShantiUo

is

is

at

Commons and

Bowen 99

ran her

living

will

first

marathon

w on radio station WQLV's local

Hughes\'ille School District.

competition in the 29th Colgate

Marilyn Nork Stewart,

Countr\'

president of Australia

run the marathon every year that
I

\\

as

\'alle\

last fall and. in the

David B. Cooley

Christopher and

principal of Perm

to benefit the

to

curing

of

life

I

am

know that anything

is

possible."

she says.

Picket Fence."

2000

the new
Wood High

first

School-Green A\'enue campus.

The

1

"

P E N N S Y L\

.\

M

of her dissertation

was

Sixth-Grade Students."

Qnthia Cunningham
is

Sulli\'an,

a certified regis-

tered nurse practitioner with the

Geisinger-Cold Spiings

clinic.

2001
MeUssa Snyder Wolf, Wilkes-Barre,
manager for Pai-enteBeard,
was recognized by Pennsyh ania
senior

1996

Institute of Certified Public
retail

Accountants as a 2010-11 "40 under
40:

English, secondary education/history or secondary education/English.
The SAOO scholarship, renewable up to four years, will begin in 201 -1 2.
The scholarship is funded with proceeds from the novel. "A
Soldier's Psalm: An Odyssey of America's Restless Warriors."
co-written by Magill and his daughter Susan, who graduated from BU
in 1971 and lost her life to cancer in 2004 The novel spans 200 years
of American history and reflects on historical figures, including George
Custer Benedict Arnold and other "restless warriors.
For information on establishing a scholarship, contact the
Bloomsburg University Foundation at (570) 389-4524

title

"The Impact of FastForWord on

1995
Huntingdon,

graduate of Wilkes Uni\'ersity's

doctor of education program.

advertising director for Lancaster

remembrance

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF

High School

physically able to run. in

John F Magill Jr '48 is remembering his daughter with a scholarship
in her honor The A. Susan Magill '71 Memorial Scholarship will be
awarded, based on financial need, to a student majoring in history.

26

named to the

Showdown performing

her original song, "Behind the

is

Benjamin Miller is

In

\"ice

and New

for

with paralysis.

onier to find a cure for paralysis.

Maria Brugger Kane, Shamokin,

a high school counselor for the

Beth Rogowskj', Dan\ille, was the

Inspired by the plight of another BU alumna's family.
Bowen ran in the ING New York City marathon as a
member of Team Reeve. Gian Gervasio. brother of Lucia Gervasio 01.
sustained a spinal cord injury last year in a swimming pool accident.
After learning of the accident. Bowen contacted the Christopher and
Dana Reeve Foundation and was invited to join Team Reeve.
"I

is

Wall of Fame.

Dana Reeve Foundation, which is dedicated
spinal cord injury and improving the quality
people

1999

Zealand Bank,

Wilkes Uni\ ersitA'.

Running with purpose
process, raised

DPSPAA.

1993
Nicole Graziano, Hughesville,

Shenandoah

Jennifer Madia

of

director of

assistant professor of education

assistant pastor at St. Jude's Parish,

accompanying photo, left to right, are Chuck Ranck '68.
and founding brother: Mark Brajer: Nick Burk: and Earl

the

in

vice president

coach

year s

Delta Pi. founded in April 1967. has more than 700 members and
one of BU's oldest fraternities. DPSPAA formed in 2005 to promote
communications between members, support Greek life at BU and
help brothers who are current students through scholarships and
the "Books for Brothers" program that offsets the cost of textbooks.
The group also holds regular get-togethers including last summer s

is

Pre-K Counts teacher at

last

scholarship recipient. Nick Burk. Chalfont. a senior majoring
finance, who serves as Delta Pi s treasurer

is

Da\'id P. Boscola, Souderton,

a

was

DPSPAA
in

degree in education from Gratz

to the

Interfraternity Council.

Realtore in Rehoboth Beach, Del.

Fame in 2007.

Dan\'ille,

and previously served as

sales agent with Pindential Gallo

into the College Football Hall of

Homecoming

Brajer. current

a brother for three years

in 2009.

a real estate

is

during

Delta Pi president, has been

in sacred theolog>' in

2008 and was ordained

into

secondary education and

Mountain Top. He gi-aduated from

New spapei-s Inc. He joined the
compam' in 1996.

1997
Kathy Gemberling Hansel is
\ice president

first

and controller at

Adams Count\- National Bank,
Gettj'sburg.

Members to Watch."

2002

2004

2005

2007

Nathan DiStefano exhibited his

Amanda

Travis T. James was

Jason Skoted

from basic combat training at

named the
Army Contracting Command's

Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C., as

outstanding contract

Wilkes-BaiTe.

art at the 8ist Phillips Mill

New Hope, in 2010.

Exhibition,

R.

Art

Lynn Hummel Jr., DuBois, is

assistant principal of Clearfield

Area High School.

a U.S.

F.

Lawler graduated

Army specialist.

Renee Lojewski works
research scientist

Ryan T. Stango is vice president

at

Munitions and Lethality

as a

the Naval

Aerospace Medical Research
Laboratory in Pensacola,

of operations for Citigroup's

Fla.

global transactions division in

Natalie Pacifico joined Stephen

Columbus, Ohio.

James Associates

Chris

Thompson is head coach

of the Reading Express of the

to

financial services in

Lawrence

Jeremy Thompson, Allentown,
is accounting manager with

baseball coach at Lakeland High

PPL Corp.'s

unregulated power

supply segment.

School.

is

Joseph's University.

Shane Mascho is a middle
school guidance counselor with
the Wellsboro

near Wilkes-Barre.
is

working in

League Soccer, FC-Dallas
Division in Frisco, Texas.

Jessica L.

N.J.,

was

New Jersey

Mock was named

work

Champion

teacher at South Fayette High

Foodstock, a food pantry, and

School,

was named

Pennsylvania Senior High
School Student Government

Student Councils.

North

from

'

percent of fin-

ishers in the

ING

Shaylene Mordan

is

director of

programs and development for

Susquehanna VaUey

Chamber of Commerce.
David R. Watson was commisAnny's

101st

Airborne

Division after graduating from

left

officer candidate school at Fort

Benning, Ga.

geography

from the

Dylan Weaver graduated as an

University of

airman

South Carolina.

training at Lackland Air Force

She works for the federal govin

^1

^

U.S.
Felix Yerace, third

Webb earned a
doctoral degree

ernment

r

sioned a second lieutenant in the

Schuylkill School District.

in

Easton, Md.,

He recently

to Europe.

Jennifer J.

math teacher in

the Greater

chaperoned a group of students
at

Michael Dalton, a high school

Advisor of the Year by the

assistant

secondary principal

2009

Philadelphia Half Marathon.

Pennsylvania Association of
is

&

placed in the top

Christian Temchatin,

Conyngham,

Accountants

Camp Hill.

Consultants,

and Deaf Services in Pittsburgh.

for her involvement with

Township

Certified Public

preter at the Center for Hearing

Felix Yerace, a social studies

her work as a fourth-grade

McGeoy is a senior

Michael A.

accountant with Boyer & Ritter

as a staff inter-

Herald "20 Under 40" showcase

School, Branchville, N.J.

District.

Community Charter School,

Pittsburgh.

for her

teacher at Frankford

Area School

He earned a doctoral

Mountain Top, and works as a
school counselor at Bear Creek

degree from the University of

semifinals in 2010.

honored by the

at St.

ship at Rice Elementary School,

Dignity and Respect

Brian Bingaman, Philadelphia,

coach

Luke Haile 'OS/'o8M is an assisFenoim College

tant professor at

onship win in 2009 and reached

Emily Vesper, Milford,

the strength and conditioning

a

AA champi-

2003
is

head

The program achieved

District 2 Class

completed a counseling intern-

public relations with Major

Association.

Piccini Jr.

Renee Rutski 'o8/'loM

Arsenal, N.J.

Jason Minnick

the Philadelphia area.

American Indoor Football

2008

Contracting Center, Picatinny

in Virginia.

perform

senior executive searches in

banking and

specialist.

He is assigned to the Joint

a transportation

is

designer with Borton-Lawson,

first class

from basic

Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Washington, D.C.

Anthony Gianforti graduated

2010

from basic training at Fort

Heather Delp

Sill,

is

the director of

community relations for

Lawton, Okla.
Justin C. Lee wrote the comedy,

Schuylkill United Way.

"Pookie Goes Grenading," which

was read at the 2010 Bay Area
Playwrights Festival, San

Emily

Osbom is a marketing

associate with Williams

Auto

Group, Sayre.
Francisco, Calif.

Cory Raupers

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is

assistant

varsity wrestling coach with

Zachary Soohy is

a secondary

Grove

Alumni Affairs

librarian in the Spring

Fenstemaker Alumni House
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

School District.

400 E. Second Street

mation science fi-om Clarion

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 17815

University.

He received his

James Madison High School,
Vienna, Va., and teaches in
Fairfax

County Schools.

master's degree in library infor-

Tad K. Schantz is a
accountant

at

senior

Baum, Smith &

Clemens LLP, Lansdale.

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LINEUP
REUNIONS. NETWORKING. AND SPECIAL EVENTS

FRIENDS REUNITE: Gathering at Homecoming were friends and Alpha
Sigma Tau sisters, left to right, front row: Wendy Sorum. friend; Morgan
Buehner Decoteau 86; Wendy Lyden Benedict '86: and Kathy Hurley
Donahue '85; and back row; Susan Kantor Pugliese '86 and Gay Gammel
Truehart.

who

attended

BU from

1982

until 1986.

Hershey Spa. Shown
from left to right: Michelle
Garrity Nolan 89. Sherri Shuman Kreisher '89; Monique Manning
Heffner WHOM. Sue Dougherty 89 and Tina LaGreca 89.

AT THE SPA: BU

friends

during their 21

get-together last

st

meet each year
fall

at the

are.

CLASS OF

I960: Fifty-seven

their 50-year reunion during

members

of the

classmates raised $6,100 toward the goal
389-A524

to help the class

reach

its

part of the celebration,

of establishing

scholarship for future generations. Call the
(570)

Class of 1960 celebrated

Homecoming. As

BU

an endowed

Foundation

at

goal.

MASS COMM PROS: Rich Uliasz 97. video editor for CNBC Business
News and BU Alumni Association Board secretary and director speaks
mass communications alumni panel. Other
were Kim Bell '88, vice president and general manager for Blue
Ridge Communications TV-1 3; Dave Marra 91. senior systems engineer

to

students as part of a

panelists

Inc.; Jessica Heller Taub OA. account manager Hale & Hearty:
Jeremy Powlus '97. director of marketing and information technology
manager Siegel Distributing Co.; and Karin Suttman '85. vice president
of media for Oxford Communications. For information on Alumni in the
Classroom programs, visit The Husky Pack at www.bloomualumni.com.

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CHI ALPHA:

fessor and adviser to

Bill

Aciemo.

Lambda

retired

mass communications

Chi Alpha in the

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Don Calu 75.

970s and

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life, during the group s
Alumni brothers with Aciemo are Tom Leahy 77 and

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MULTICULTURAL ALUMNI NETWORK: Attending

the Multicultural

Alumni Network reception during Homecoming are: Damet BaileyCharlet 92. Will George 96. Dun-Weah Mayson 92. Rhonda Baker
Whitaker '93. Edna Baker Verdieu 03. Gary Gilcrest 95 and Andre Bailey
'9^/ 01 M. Information on alumni networks is available at
vww.bloomualumni.com.

CELEBRATING FOOTBALL: Two Husky

football

teams -

national

from 2000.
below- were honored during Homecoming 2010. Stephan Pettit '89.
Jack Mulka '66 and Erik Evans '95M. vice president for university
advancement, organized the football celebration.
semifinalists from 1985. above,

and national

finalists

I

FAMILY AFFAIR: Families of BU graduates, including the Blackbums.
gather at the Alumni Homecoming Tent Party. Showing off their BU
colors are. left to right. Chris Blackburn 82 and his parents Edward
Blackbum 60 and Saundra McBride Blackbum '58. More than 600 BU
alumni retumed to campus for Homecoming festivities.

PHOTO. TOM MCGUIRE

FUN AND GAMES: Husky Ambassador Kyle Smith, an economics major
Pa., shows a future BU student how to play a dart game

from Nelson.

during Homecoming.

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VITAL STATISTICS
Marriages

Births

Howard Angstadt Jr.
Deana McNett
C.

'92

'88

and Heather Johnston, June 28, 2008

Sharyn Torrisi

Howard Angstadt Jr.

and Todd Burke, May 28, 2010

daughter,

Heather Ireland '98/'99M and Richard J. Pipech Jr., April
'98

24,

2010

and Craig Cartvvright, July 2, 2010

Amanda Gudknecht '00 and Jason

Shannon Brosious

'02/'0S

and Stephen Bilko

Bowden

Gina Marie Mattivi

'03

Jillian E. Lipinski '04

C.

M. Zelinske

Lauren Claffey
Nicole R.

and

Sept.

'01,

2010

'02, Oct. 4,

Zamas, Aug.

'04, July

17,

Lindsy Force '05/'07M and John Maxwell

and David

II,

Courtney A. Peters

'05

Patricia Quinter 'OS

and George Ruth, June

Ryan, a son,

'96,

Barbara

and husband,

'01

Andrew Ralston,

Feb. 25, 2010

2010

2010

10,

Rae, February 2009, and a son, Shea Austin,

September 2010

2010
2010

20,

Bradley Rogers

Kimberly Shadle

Dan

Ehrat '06

'05

a daughter, Lucy, July

R. Paden, July 10, 2010

'01
12,

Rhoads Kuntz

James Kuntz

Courtney Gontz

2010

12,

Juh'

and Edward Long Jr., July 7, 2010

'03, a son,

Michael J. Abda '07 and Dana A. Patchcoski, July

Katlyn E. Boiwka '07 and Seth

2010

McHenrj', March

27,

Erika Vandermark Geary '07 and David E. Reichert
Michelle

Sherman '07 and Matthew Duke

Tiffany M. Simon '07 and Richard
Talia Bartko '08 and

Alessa

L.

P.

'02

and husband,

Hadden, May 21, 2010

'07,

Jennifer Franklin '08 and Jason Armstrong, Aug.

Au.D and Taylor Sessions,

Rachel Kukosky '08 and William

Courtney
2009

2010

2,

Nov.
8,

Cassandra McCarty

and Michael Heaps

2009

7,

Jesica

30

B

M. Mowery

LOO M

S

li

L

'10

NN

.S

17,

2010

McGraw Zinser '03 and husband,

Philip, a son,

Luke

Philip, Feb.

5,

Keith, a daughter, Tessa Bea, April

19,

2010

'10,

2009

May 30, 2010

Y LVA N I A

Faith Kehres-Rogers Bell '62

"Bill"

Carolyn Bennett

'64

Goodman '66

McCoy '67

David "Dave" Jones

Nazzareno Ortenzi
Holly Mensch

'62

'64

'68

'68
'71

McAnaU '72
'73

Anthony S. Procopio '73
Robert Eugene Divers '80
GideonJ. Wray'8i

Jenna Vandergroef Sebring '06 and
'06,

a son,

Mark Bradley Bankes '83

Hudsyn

Marv'

Lou Colbum

'84

Mary Beth Stringer Lutz '84

Ronald Stump '06 and wife, Mary Anne, a

May 24, 2010

9,

RobertJ. Eveland'85
Joel E.

Wendi Wert Baker '07 and husband,
a son, Benjamin Metzger, Nov.

2010

Noel C. Krothe

'60

'61

Thomas J. Kubasek

2010

Kristen MUlard Fourspring '04 and husband,

son, Gregory' Ray,

and Stephen J. White, May 22, 2010
P E

Sept.

Rik, Aug. 24, 2010

May 29, 2010

19,

'59

Orband

Wilbur H.

2009

7,

'09, Oct. 10,

Bridy, June

RG UNIVERSITY OF

Lewis

F.

John Wayne Stone Sn

2010

Kennedy Jean,

husband, Seth Sebring

2010

Nov.

Alexandra M. Schmid '09 and Stephen C. Bednarik

Jordann N. Ulceski '09 and Peter J.

Trevor

Larry E. Klouser

and husband,

2010

Newman '07, May 30, 2010

Nicole Sawyer '09 and Clayton Gessner,

'03

'51

'58

Susan Vansickle Bickert

Jaime, a daughter,

Shelia Martin '09 and David Ergott '09, July 24, 2010
'09

Deryl J. Samois '50

June Liddington Gallo

2010

'08, June, 12,

Dalpiaz '08 and James R. Houston

2010

Sarah Kennedy North '03/'o6M and husband,

2009

'08, July 25,

'06, July 24,

Mogavero, June

Edward Stefanowicz

Kristen E. Hunter '08

Edward J. Mitros '50

Marilyn Keefer Carter '59

2010

2010
18,

'49

Beth Hartman Gardner '49

Jacob "Jake" Bluges

Stephen, a daughter, Sadie Rose, July 30, 2010

26,

24,

'47

Weame '48

2010

Stefanie Palmer Noll '03 and husband,

Charles W. Angelo '07M and Lisa A. Mushinsky, July
T.

Leonard R.

'41

'44

Kerr

and husband, Jimmy,

Elijah, a son, Caleb, July 22,

and John Scarinci '07M, July 10, 2010

Joseph Yasinskas '06 and Jennifer Petrovsk>', June

8,

Rebecca Logan Jones

Dawn A. Coe, May 1, 2010
Kasey Pruzinsky '06 and Roger Riddell, May 29, 2010
Daniel B. Meyer '06 and

Jessica Sing '06

Baum

Henrj' A.

and Lindsay ZimbUe, June 5, 2010
'06

Veronica Grohol

Thomas L. Ohl '57

MoUie Conners PryzbUck '02 and husband,
Lawrence Pryzblick '02, a daughter, Olive,

Stefanick, June 30, 2010

and Matthew J. Roulin, June

'39

'42

Carl John "Jack" Persing

Jenn DiMaria Tighe

2010

Benosld

Gillette

George N. Dotzel, Jn

Thompson '01 and husband,
Jeremy Thompson '02, a daughter, Makenna
Alison Zeisloft

2009

1,

Allison Rebarchick '05 and Robert Miller

and Kimberly

Ogden

Florence Traub Matyas

Kim Sweda Gasper '01 and husband, Steve,
a son, Jonathan Stephen, May 27, 2010

Kristin

'05

'39

Mary Hanley McNelis '40

Emily

Sept. 18, 2010

17,

Faith Kehres Bell '35

Jennis Tewksbury

Rogan Sommer, May 25, 2009

Heather Brandt Blake
2010

16,

2010

7,

'34

'34

Louise Durlin Clark

2009

12,

and Thomas J. lacovoni, Aug.

'05

a daughter,

Amy E. Price, May 15, 2010

and Joshua Rood

'05

Combs

'04

Nimmo Merida '98 and husband,

Heidi Mintzer '98/'05M and Clint Smith

Brian G. Walsh Jr. '04 and Emily A. Leombruni, July
Jeffrey

2010

Mae Levan

Vivian Reppert Gladwin '40

and Ryan Thomas Stango

and Michael

Ella, June 18,

Michael, a daughter, Chelsea Margaret,

'99, Oct. 3,

Michael Sheehan '02 and Jodi Young, Aug.

Mildred

Sept. 25, 2010

and Jason "Jake" Reed, May

Jennifer Endruss '02 and Greg

'33

Margaret Munro Smith Dickey

and Jeffrey A. Willoughby, May 29, 2010

'01

Dorothy N. Heller

Olga Pregmon Kundla

Chrissy Mantione Campenni '98 and

Diana

Adam Strzempek '00 and Bilge Ergun, July 3, 2010
Pamela Hudock '01 and Adam Kelchner
Brooke McDonald

wife. Heather, a

2010

9,

Melissa McLaughin '00 and Sean O'Donnell

'01

and

HaUey Lynn, June 8, 2010

husband, Tommy, a dau^ter,

Meisenzahl, Oct.

Raina Lubert '00 and Daniel Evancho, May 29, 2009

Rebecca A. Lynn

Obituaries
'88

2009

Kevin,

Robert

Bauch spies
F.

'88

Purseljr. '90

Edward Stimmler Jr.

'97

Scott D. Fenstermacher '99

Gallagher

Michael

V.

Jeffrey J.

Bubnowski

'01

'07

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CaLEND R
Activities

and Events

Academic Calendar

Celebrity Artist Series

Alumni Events

SPRING 2011

The

Visit

Spring Break Begins
Saturday, March 5

spring 2011 events, listed below,

for details or to register.

be presented in the Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
For more information or to
purchase tickets, call the box
office at (570) 389-4409 or visit

For information, contact the

Resume
Monday, March 14
Classes

Celebrity Artist Series'

will

Classes End

the Celebrity Artist website at

Monday, May 2

www.bloomu.edu/cas.

Finals Begin

Tuesday,

May

End

Saturday,

Graduate
Friday,

May

Undergraduate
Saturday,

May

Session
Session
Session

I

Haas Gallery

more infomiation,

hours and reception times

visit http://departmcnts.

March

4, 7

p.m.

Dance Company

Saturday,

March

26, 8

p.m.

18

Student Art Association Annual

Late

March

to

Show

mid-April

Senior Exit

Show

April 26 to

May

Symphony

Quest Climbing Wall,

Saturday, April 30, 6 to 10 p.m.

April

Caldwell Consistory, 150 Market

a.m. to 2 p.m., free

2, 11

Ball

Bloomsburg
BU Music Department,

(570) 389-4289

Theater
Tickets for theatrical productions

Homecoming Weekend

are available at the box office in

Saturday and Sunday,

Haas Center

Oct. 22

for the Arts,

open

noon to 4 p.m. and remaining
open Wednesdays until 7 p.m.

General Admission: $30

when

Spring Awakening

For show times and tickets,
call the Haas Center Box Office,

Friday, April 8, 8 p.m.
General Admission: $30

and 23

Parents and Family

Weekend

Friday to Sunday, Oct. 28 to 30

classes are in session.

(570) 389-4409.

The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee

Stefon Harris
Friday, April 29, 7:30 p.m.
General Admission: $30

Thursday through Saturday,
Feb. 17 to

March

20,

Alvina Krause Theatre,
226 Center St., Bloomsburg

Concerts
Liz Miller: Installation/Wall Painting

Juried Student Art

p.m

April 2

Contact

bloomu.edu/haasgallery.

March

Bloomsburg

Alumni Awards Luncheon,
to

of Art are open to the public free

Feb. 14 to

of

Mondays through Fridays from

Art Exhibits

gallery

to 3

St.,

Friday,

July 6 to Aug. 12

of charge. For

1

Friday, Feb. 18, 8 p.m.

Hot 8 Brass Band

p.m

information.

Drumline LIVE

Commencement

Exhibitions in the

10 a.m. to 4

Downtown Bloomsburg

7

May 23 to Aug. 12
May 23 to July 1

III -

16,

Saturday, April 23, 10 a.m. to 5

Rioult

II -

Upper Campus

Friday through Sunday,

2011

-

or alum@bloomu.cdu for

April

ticket's

General Admission: $25

SUMMER

Saturday, April

holders pay half of the

General Admission: $30

6

to 3

Government Association card-

7

Commencement

1

Quest Open High Ropes Day

Affairs Office at

(570) 389-4058, (800) 526-0254

BU/Town

change.

May

and Children's Weekend

Friday to Sunday, April

Renaissance Jamboree

Programs and dates are subject
Finals

Alumni

Siblings'

Alumni Weekend

Community

face value for all shows.

3

Special Events

www.bloomualumni.com

Listed events are open to the

public free of charge.

Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert
Sunday, March 20, 2:30 p.m.
St. Matthew Lutheran Church,
123 N. Market St., Bloomsburg
Featuring soprano

in Show Business
Wednesday through Sunday,

Anton

April 13 to

17,

Alvina Krause Theatre,
226 Center St., Bloomsburg

Wendy Miller

7

Symphony Spring Concert
Sunday, April 3, 2:30 p.m.
Haas Center for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall
Performing Gustav Hoist's
The Planets
Gospel Choir (above): Gospelrama

Sunday,

May

1,

5 P-m.

Kehr Union Ballroom

For the latest information on upcoming events, check the university website, vvww.bloomu.edu.

WINTER

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over
the shoulder

A Home for History
^»j;ROBERT

DUNKELBERGER, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST

On the third floor of the Harvey A. Andruss Library,
through an archway of Tiffany stained

glass, is the

Bloomsburg University Archives, the repository
entrusted with preserving and

and political organizations, including the
Communist Party USA, Socialist Workers Party and the
United Mine Workers, and the diary of Hessian officer
Johann Ewald dating from the

radical labor

maintaining the institution's

Revolutionary War.

Among the more unusual

and treasures.
Every yearbook and student

historical records

items in the collection

newspaper ever published,

i

nearly 50,000 images, films,
trophies, architectural blueprints

and maps can be found

is

a large

marble stone, which members of
the Class of 1874 inscribed with
their year of graduation

and

placed adjacent to BU's original

in the archives. Established in

dormitory a year before

the early 1970s, the archives

burned. Long forgotten, the

contains the official records of
offices

and academic depart-

resident Harvey Andruss.

left,

and Director of Development Boyd

ments, personal papers of stu-

Buckingham inspect the Class of
S^Wpne in September 1967.

dents and alumni, and photo

Among the archives' notable collections are materidocumenting alumni careers, including the political
service of Mark Schweiker '75. Schweiker, who served
as Pennsylvania's governor and
als

lieutenant governor, chose his

alma mater's archives as the
repository of photographs, video-

and artifacts
which included

tapes, press releases

from

his tenure,

the rescue of nine coal miners

from Quecreek Mine in July 2002.
But the Schweiker collection is
not the only political compilation.
Special collections available for
women s fashion
research include
from 1905

is

illustrated in this

pen and ink drawing by Ruth Hutton
Ancker 1 8.

32

,

,

stone sunk five feet into the
ground near the old Waller
Hall only to be uncovered in
1967 by workers excavating for

new utility lines prior to the
Commons.

albums, scrapbooks and home-

work assignments dating back more than a century.

it

construction of Scranton

Other one-of-a-kind items document the two
Ruth Hutton Ancker '18. A
fashion illustrator for Wanamaker's department store
distinct careers of artist

who later pursued a career as a freelance illustrator
and educator, Ancker shifted her focus mid-career
from fashion to fine arts, exhibiting her sculptures in
New York, Paris and Rome. The archives is home to
her scrapbooks, photographs, books and research.
Of local interest are 20,000 negatives from the
Bloomsburg Morning Press showing the university
and Columbia County from 1936 to 1958. Also housed
in the archives are the programs, posters, production
books and administrative files of the Bloomsburg
Theatre Ensemble.
The Bloomsburg University Archives and Andruss

Hiore than a thou-

Library Special Collections contain a wealth of material

^^^^ publications

preserving the history

and newsletters or

online collections, see www.bloomu.edu/library/Archives.

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From the President
interesting proposition for a
university,

such as ours, that

is

located on the fringes of

Pennsylvania's anthracite coal

The new biomass boiler
came online in December 2010

region.
that

reduced our coal consumption by
67 percent, but Bloomsburg
remains one of three universities in
the Pennsylvania State System of

Higher Education that use coal as
one of its sources of heat.
This issue of Bloomsburg: The

Green Days

you
an alumna who serves as chief of
harbor programs for the Army
Corps of Engineers' New York
District. You'll also meet members
of our campus community who are
University Magazine introduces

to

WHEN DECLARED Green Days in
I

January 2010, 1 could not foresee that
I was ushering in an era of renewed
environmental awareness

at

Bloomsburg University. In the past 16
months, faculty, staff and students
from organizations and departments
across the campus and members of
the local community have united to
focus on environmental issues.
Groups such as BU's Green Campus
Initiative and H.O.P.E., along with
the SOLVE volunteer office and our
living and learning communities, are
leading the

way with the goal of a

"greener" BU.

Environmental

"Our pursuit of a clean and
sustainable environment

ongoing through (various)
initiatives and practices at BU/'
Grants have helped pay for
upgrades in buildings and infrastructure that save both energy

A $500,000 Energy
Harvest grant from the state

and money.

nothing

faculty

who perform environ-

mental analysis. Our pursuit of a
clean and sustainable environment

ongoing through their

efforts

and

other initiatives and practices at BU.

of a biomass boiler that replaced a
58-year-old coal stoker.

$250,000 grant from Pennsylvania's

in Recyclemania, a friendly recycling

Conservation Works! Program

fall's

and

Protection supported installation
efforts are

Day each spring and have participated

Last

involved in environmental initiatives

is

Department of Environmental

new at BU where we celebrate Earth

competition

is

among residence halls.

successful farmers market

will return in September,

once again

connecting local vendors with our

campus community. Other projects
are in the planning stages.

And a

enabled us to replace aging heating,
ventilation, air conditioning

DAVID

lighting systems in several

President,

and
campus

L.

SOLTZ

Bloomsburg University

buildings.

This spring, the main focus has

been on reduced usage of coal, an

For more from President Soltz, see
http://bupresident. blogspot. com

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A

River

Runs Through

It

BU's Environmental Analysis Group
monitors the Susquehanna River and
the commonwealth's other waterways,
with an eye to keeping them clean

and pure.

14
One. Two. Tree
BU students count the street trees
and

tally their

doUars-and-cents

benefits to property

owners

in the

Town of Bloomsburg.

17

A Greener

Footprint

Students, faculty, staff and the

community step up environmental
efforts.

20
Digging Deep
Lisa Goldfeder Baron '89 balances

an

Army Corps of Engineers project

that

is

equal parts dredging and

environmental cleanup.

DEPARTMENTS

Table

of

Contents
spring 2011

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
IS A MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE
SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education Board
of Governors

Thomas M.

Kenneth M. Jarin, Chair
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair

Chancellor, State System

Aaron Walton,
Leonard

Matthew

Vice Chair

B. Altieri III

E.

Baker

Jennifer Branstetter

Marie Conley

Lammando

Tom Corbett
Paul S. Dlugolecki
Michael K. Hanna
Vincent J. Hughes

Jonathan B. Mack
Joseph F. McGinn

Sweitzer

President,

Ronald J. Tomalis

David

Christine J. Toretti

David Klingerman Sr.
Joseph J. Mowad '08H
Nancy Vasta '97/'98M
Patrick Wilson '91

'60, Vice

Eric Foster

Chair

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it

Rain

A cup, a bowl, a pit

aplastic

wrap

1

and string. With those simple tools, student teacher Ula
Konczewska demonstrated the water cycle to elementary
students at Greenwood Friends School in Millville.
Students poured water into the bowl, placed the empty
cup in the bowl's center, and sealed the top with plastic
wrap and string. Left in the sun, the students later observed,
the water in the bowl will evaporate, then condense on the
plastic wrap, and finally "rain" into the cup.
Konczewska, a native of Poland, earned a bachelor's
BU in 2005 and a master of education degree
in elementary education in May 2011. •
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF
PSYCHOLOGY STUDIES THE EFFECTS OF DRUGS
KEVIN BALL

01,

Approximately

i.i

Ecstasy for the

million

first

Americans used

time in 2009, reports

Drug Abuse

the National Institute on

(NIDA).

Some will return to the drug occa-

sionally or never use

the drug will

become an

it

again. For others,

integral part of their lives,

despite repeated

attempts to break the
cycle.

Kevin Ball

'01,

assistant professor of

psychology, wants to

groups apart.

perform a task to receive the drug; success was accompanied by a light and a tone. In the second phase, the

MDMA,

started out as a "club

drug was removed and, without

drug," Ball says.

eventually stopped

"MDMA is a new one

performing the

with relatively

task.

research.

little

The majority

of users are younger

and,

when you are

younger, there's more

chance a drug will cause long-term changes."
mine,

known as methylenedioxymethampheta-

MDMA is a synthetic drug that produces feelings

and emotional warmth
and distorts time, perception and tactile experiences,
according to NIDA. Funded through a $50,000 competitive
grant from the National Institutes of Health/National
Institute on Drug Abuse, Ball is investigating areas of
the brain that control drug addiction and researching
of increased energy, euphoria

how certain cues

rats learned to

extinction

Ecstasy, or

Formally

and relapse. In the first phase,

know what sets these

— perhaps, a sight, a sound, a location,
— regulate drug taking.

a person or a stressful situation

He hopes the results of his research with rats will transimproved drug treatments for humans.
With the same brain regions as humans, rats are the

late into

ideal research subjects. Ball says. His initial research

took rats through three stages of drug use

— acquisition,

However, the

rats again

sought

the drug in the
third phase

the tone

when

and

light

returned.

The rats'
response mirrors
that of humans

who repeatedly

their "reward," the rats
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•

•

Ball ts tnvesttgattng
areas of the brain that
control drug addiction
and researching how
certain cues—perhaps,
a sight, a sound, a
location,

a person or

a stressful situation—
regulate drug taking.

grapple with drug use, despite attempts to stop on their

own or through rehabilitation. "The vulnerability to
relapse can be a lifelong problem," Ball says.

In another funded study. Ball currently is researching

regions within the brain's prefrontal cortex to "deter-

mine whether there are neurological bases of addiction."
"Each person has a unique response to drugs,"
Ball says. "Each person has a unique response to the
first exposure based on individual biology. Connecting
the behavior to the biology makes the research
interesting to me." •

SPRING

2011

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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

What's different tonight is
that 46 years ago we were
not

free.

free,

Tonight,

we are

but not equal.

We have

learned to survive apart in
small circles.

We must now

learn to live together"

Jackson encouraged the
audience to honor King's

memory with

action,

recalling the civil rights
leader's final birthday spent

planning the Poor People's

Campaign to fight poverty
and working to end the
Vietnam War. "It is not
enough to admire Dr. King,"
he said. "We must follow
him.

him

We are called to follow
intellectually

ically,

Beyond Color

and phys-

not just admire him."

Outlining the issues facing U.S. citizens today,
including poverty, student debt, credit card debt,

today's struggle for economic equality, Jackson told an

unemployment, home foreclosures, a "back-door draft"
and tax cuts for the wealthy, Jackson said he believes
King would be "quite concerned about the disconnect
between the vote and the economic condition."
He encouraged the audience to use the power of the
polls to elect officials who are committed to working
toward parity. "We have the power in our hands to
change the world," he said. "Our mission is to even the

audience of 400 as keynote speaker for BU's 18th annual

playing field for

MESSAGE STRESSES ECONOMIC PARITY
"BEYOND COLOR, beyond culture,
character." This

message

half century ago

when the

his

life's

It is

even

is

the

is

something called

same today

as

it

was

a

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. began

work.

character

— the quality of doing what is right,
— that comes into play in

when it is unpopular

all

Americans." •

Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Banquet.

And it was character that was at the heart of King's
fight for civil rights.

Jackson, the well-known advocate for empowerment,
peace, civil rights, gender equality and economic and
social justice, was among King's inner circle. As a youth

to

field to

4

Representatives from

BU and Harrisburg Area

Community College recently signed an agreement offer-

Southern Christian

ing

Leadership Conference

childhood education-elementary education program.
The agreement is in effect for students who entered

HACC graduates seamless transfer into BU's early

HACC in fall 2010 and will transfer to BU in fall 2012.
As a program-to-program transfer, HACC students

assassinated outside

graduating with an associate degree in early childhood

the Lorraine Motel in

education-elementary education can transfer

Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. Today, Jackson
continues to work for social change as founder and
president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

"We fought

EASES TRANSFER INTO BU EDUCATION MAJOR

organizer for the

and King's assistant, he
was with the civil rights
leader when he was

democratize democracy," he said of the

1960s Civil Rights Movement.

Agreement with HACC

"We leveled

the playing

make democracy real for all of the people.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

all

credits

Bloomsburg University for their bachelor's degree
and be admitted with full junior status provided they
fulfill all academic requirements of Bloomsburg
to

University. All bachelor's degree requirements can be

completed

at the

Dixon University Center, Harrisburg,

or at BU's campus.

Joe Rado Lobby

Staying On

ALUM SUPPORTS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
JOE RADO '63 doesn't take himself too seriously. On a
warm sunny day, he'll come to work at the company he

BLAKE NAMED PROVOST AND SENIOR VP

owns,

WORLD electronics in Reading, dressed in shorts

and a polo

shirt,

ready for an afternoon of golf His voice
mail greeting ends

with the wish:
"...and

have a

little

fun today."

What he does take

a

seriously

r

^^^^ A '^^^k

is

his role as

president and
his

CEO of

company, a manu-

facturer of industrial

IRA BLAKE, BU's interim provost for nearly two years,
was appointed provost and senior vice president for
Academic Affairs earlier this spring.
"We've seen firsthand Dr. Blake's passion for academic excellence," says BU President David Soltz.
"She is a thoughtful leader who considers all viewpoints when making decisions to further our mission
and assure high academic quality."
Since coming to BU in August 2009, Blake has been
involved in the restructuring of general education, the
further development and

implementation of learning

outcomes assessment and

and his obligation to his 117 employees. "For the
past 25 years," he says, "I have been making changes and

the strategic planning

foreseeing the future. Decisions have not been taken lighdy."

ing strong working rela-

controls,

His business philosophy

is

buUt on one tenet: Form the

habit of doing things other people don't

philosophy, he believes, has served
stage of his professional

life: 11

want to do. That

him well in each

years in education, 13

years in insurance and a quarter-century leading
electronics,

WORLD

whose main business is contract manufacturing,

mainly motherboards for controlling electronics. Services

process,

all

while establish-

tionships across campus,
Soltz says.

Previously, Blake served

the Pennsylvania State

System of Higher Education

(PASSHE)

as associate vice

chancellor of academic and

include engineering and prototyping.

student affairs, assistant

Through it all, he's maintained a relationship with
Bloomsburg University that began when he was an undergraduate and the student yearbook photographer and
grew while he was a member of the College of Business
Advisory Board and, most recently, the university's Alumni
Board of Directors. It continues today as a benefactor with
his donation of $250,000 to the Bloomsburg University
Foundation, recognized in the naming of the new lobby in
SutliflfHaU, home of the College of Business. In honor of
his generosity, the building will feature "Joe Rado Lobby"
when renovations are completed in August 2011.
Rado says he supports BU as an opportunity to "give a
little back to the college. Teachers were always first-class
and tliey teach you for what you are, not what they want
you to be. They give you a chance and some people need

vice chancellor of academic

a second chance.

BU MAKES TOP-100 LIST
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY is ranked 88th on

...

and student

and
was

affairs

executive intern in the chancellor's office. She

assistant to the president for public engagement,

interim dean of the College of Education and assistant
to the president for

enrollment management

at

Kutztown University and held faculty positions at
Susquehanna University, Columbia University and
Marymount Manhattan College.
Blake earned a bachelor's degree from George
Washington University, master's degree from San
Francisco State University and a doctoral degree from
Columbia University. •

Dollars and Sense

way they do things. It's the history, the culture,
being friendly with no ulterior motives. For nearly 60
years, I could walk on that campus any time of day and

Kiplinger's Personal Finance's 100 Best Values in Public

be with friends."

and afifordabUity,

"I like

the

"Joe has been most generous in his time and his gifts to
Bloomsburg University," says BU President David Soltz,

"and he continues to be a tremendous supporter of the

We are proud to recognize and thank
him for his dedication to Bloomsburg University with the
Joe Rado Lobby in Sutliff Hall."*
College of Business.

The ranking is based on academics
from more than 500
public four-year colleges and universities. Criteria
includes SAT/ACT scores, student/faculty ratio and
admission, retention and graduation rates. Also considered are in-state and out-of-state costs and financial aid.
Colleges, 2010-2011.

starting with data

For 2010-2011, Kiplinger's top-rated institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill.

is

the

•

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The Next Level

Playful Solution

NEW MASTER'S PROGRAMS TO BEGIN
TWO NEW GRADUATE programs will begin at Bloomsburg

TOY LIBRARY AIDS LEARNING
BU STUDENTS and faculty have a new resource

University in

fall 2011:

Master of Accountancy and Master
of Arts in Public Policy and

brainchild of Mary Katherine Duncan, associate professor

of psychology, the toy library offers hundreds of toys,

The Master of Accounting
program aims to prepare

games and puzzles

individuals to enter the field of

children with different

public accounting, according to

and styles of
Housed in
the Warren Student

The curriculum is designed to satisfy the American
Institute of Certified Public

Accountants 150 credit hour

designed to teach
abilities

learning.

Services Center's

requirement and prepare students to take the certified

SOLVE volunteer

public accountant (CPA) exam.

office,

The one-year program allows students to begin the
coursework in either the spring or fall semester. Students
should be able to successfully complete all four parts of
the

to

BU Toy Library. The

International Affairs.

Richard Baker, chair of BU's accounting department.

CPA exam by the time they earn their master's degrees,

the library

currently
the

is

available to

campus community'

for use in volunteer
work, service learning,

he adds.

internships and

The Public Policy and International Affairs program,
one-of-a-kind in the Pennsylvania State System of
Higher Education, will prepare students to pursue
doctoral degrees or careers in global and domestic

practicums, teaching

policy. Possible careers include public policy analysts

lending library was established in the 1930s during

or expert consultants and professionals working

the Great Depression and, since the 1970s, toy lending

and

and clinical work.
While few toy libraries

Duncan

says the concept

known

exist in the

is

United States,

not new. The

first

toy

Government, as well as
inter-govemmental and non-governmental
organizations, says Diana Zoelle, associateprofessor

more than 30 countries.
Students and faculty can use the toys with

of political science.

groups in projects as diverse as teaching skills to a child

in local, state

federal

to assess and evaluate
and outcomes and have a working

Graduates will be prepared
policy processes

knowledge of research methods, needs assessment
and policy evaluation. They will understand cultural
diversity and the theories, concepts and models of
public policy making.
Contact Baker at rbaker@bloomu.edu or (570) 389-4561
or Zoelle at dzoelle@bloomu.edu or (570) 389-4919. •

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libraries,

as "lekoteks," have been established in

all

age

with autism, learning to conduct forensic interviews
with children who have been abused and helping an
elderly stroke victim regain coordination. In addition,

students enrolled in Duncan's upper-division psychology

courses during

fall

2010 helped create a children's

health reference library, which includes

more than 100

books on physical and psychological conditions that
affect children and their loved ones. •

Bloomsburg: The University Magazine received a gold award in the 24th annual

A TTI^ or*
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MAGAZINE RECEIVES GOLD

6

support and enhance learning - the

j

Mercury Awards competition. The magazine was selected from
more than 760 entries from 21 countries. The Mercury Awards competition was

I

established in 1987 to celebrate excellence in communications. •

International

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Every

A

gift

scholarship from the Carver Fund helps

Bryce Shaffer, an honors student and men's
soccer team starter, balance academics,
athletics

and public

service.

Responsible for funding his

own

education,

an academic, as well as

Shaffer

is

And he

still

volunteers

in

the

BU

athletic, all-star.

Food Recovery

Program, which packages dining services leftovers
for local shelters.

The Henry Carver Fund, named
for

Bloomsburg's

first

president,

dedicated to helping students

is

like

Bryce overcome the challenges they
face today. Gifts of every size have

an immediate impact.

When

he

laid

the bricks for Carver Hall

Henry Carver created the foundation
largest,

in

1866,

for today's

most modern and most comprehensive

public university in northeastern Pennsylvania -

Bloomsburg University.
Today's students are building on that foundation
of excellence.

Help them build their future with

a contribution to the Henry Carver Fund.

Learn more about the Henry Carver Fund at

www.bloomu.eduIhcf

THE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

ANNUAL FUND

J|

vww.bloomu

or call (570)

389-4128.

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FOR UP-TO-DATE SCORES AND
COVERAGE, GO ONLINE

byTOM MCGUIRE

BUHUSKIES.COM
Center, donated

by the family of

Standing

Thomas Pettit, who died in December
2007 when he fell backward onto a

^fall

log while clearing brush.

He led the team in several offensive
that could have

Association),

an annual event at the

with

UT Southwestern Medical Center,
laniero

THESTORYis

one that could have

TV.

A star athlete gets injured but,

with the help of a donated tendon,
able to keep

For Bloomsburg University baseball
player Joey laniero, the story is

all

did not

dream of: say "thank you" directly to

the celebration. "I told

the donor family.

everything," says laniero.

them thanks for
"The tissue

my life, but it
me back to doing everything I

donation did not save

note to the family, although she didn't

got

know which family donated the

wanted to do. Thefr generosity
means a lot to me."

was just given a case

"My recovery has been

great,"

adds. "I had an

Thomas Pettit's son, connected with

ago and the doctors said it was one
of the best recoveries ever" •

While playing baseball for

true.

Rutgers University before transferring to Bloomsburg, laniero ruptured
his

ACL/MCL and meniscus,

laniero's doctor suggested the
efficient

most

way to repair the damage was

surgery to transplant a donor tendon.
"I

wasn't nervous about receiving
Walczu

a donated tendon," says laniero.
told
at

"I

my doctor — Dr. Gregory Fanelli

Geisinger Medical Center

ever he thought

BU RECENTLY honored its five AU-Americans from the fall sports season.
They are Katie Walczuk, junior elementary education major from Long
Valley, N.J., women's soccer; Amanda Riley, junior special

— what-

was best was what I

He assured me this was the
safest and best way to go."

wanted.

education/elementary education major from Tannersville, Julia Rush,
senior health sciences major from Quakertown, and Betsy Renn, junior

The tissue came from the Transplant

accounting major from

Services Center at the University of

Hemdon,

all field

sophomore undeclared from Tobyhanna,

hockey; and Franklyn Quiteh,
football. •

Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical

NEW! SUMMER SPORTS CAMPS
Bloomsburg University
this year.

Also planned are

More information

8

will offer

is

summer

camps

available at

he

MRI a few months

baseman. "Later on Brandon,

me through Facebook, we started

too

down to Dallas

He surprised the Pettit family, who
know he was going to attend

was able to do something

number," says the senior second

playing his favorite sport.

flew

many transplant recipients only

tissue since she
is

I

my mother the week before

Thanksgiving for the dinner"

"My mom had sent a thank you
been pulled from a medical drama on

me and wanted to

NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic

been

the end of the story. However, last
at

of 2010, the medical

where the families are honored and
say thank you in person. After
Bloomsburg cleared things with the

for his first season with the Huskies.

November,

fall

know if I could attend this dinner

laniero returned to the baseball field

and

"In the

center contacted

After his successful surgery,

categories

communicating with each other and
have since become good friends.

sports

camps

in

lacrosse and cross country/track for the

first

for football, wrestling, basketball, field hockey, baseball, tennis and

www.BUcamps.com.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

time

swimming.

Payne

Winning Ways

Named

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

President
MEN'S SOCCER coach Paul Payne
was installed as the 63rd president
of the National Soccer

Coaches Association
of America
at its

(NSCAA)

annual meeting

in Baltimore.

He will

serve as president

through the 2012 NSCAA convention in Kansas City.

(NCAA) Division I national championships.
Cleary, women's basketball coach, was selected as the PSAC

Eastern Division Coach of the Year. In his third season, Cleary
posted a record of 22-6, which included a 12-game winning streak,
the third longest in school history.

Division Coach of the Year, Payne
in his 12th season with the
is

Bloomsburg's

season.

time leader in career wins. Before
taking over as the
dent,

He is

NSCAA presi-

Payne served as the organiza-

tion's vice

a

president of education.

member of the

earned the
t'^teary

all-

Division

II

Men's Soccer Committee, chair of
the northeast region and part of
the eight-member national committee overseeing D-II Men's Soccer
and the national championship.
Payne also has published coaching
articles and tips in soccer journals
and Web-based newsletters. •

Cleary and stu-

Collegiate Athletic Association

Athletic Conference Eastern

Huskies and

Bill

were recognized for their winning ways.
Stutzman was named the Eastern Wrestling League (EWL)
Coach of the Year after leading a lineup filled with freshmen and
sophomores to a 14-6 record, including wins over wrestling powers
Northern Iowa and Penn. Bloomsburg finished second at the
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championships
and third at the EWL championships and sent two wrestlers to the National

A former Pennsylvania State

is

coaches John Stutzman and

dent athletes Kelsey Gallagher, Dontahe Jordan and Sean Boylan recently

and won

their first

With a mark of 13-1, the Huskies

PSAC East title for the first time since the 2001-02

The team also earned their first NCAA regional ranking

PSAC playoff game since the 2001-02 season.

A member of Cleary's team, Gallagher was named the PSAC Eastern Division
Athlete of the Year in women's basketball. A junior sociology major from East
Stroudsburg, Gallagher finished second on the team in scoring and

was tied for

sixth in the conference with 16.6 points per game.

She scored a career-high 36 points in a showdown
with nationally ranked MiUersviUe and had seven
other games with 20 or more points. With 1,294
career points, Gallagher
all-time scoring
first

in free

list.

is

seventh on the school's

Conference-wide, she finished

throw percentage with 88.3 percent.

Jordan, of WiUiamsport,

was named the PSAC

East Freshman of the Year in men's basketball. The
first

freshman to lead Bloomsburg's team

in scoring

was 11th in the PSAC with 15.8 points per game.
He scored 20 or more points 11 times, including a careerhigh 28 points in a game against Millersville. He also
was fourth in the PSAC in rebounding with 9.1 per
game. Jordan was named the PSAC East Freshman of

since the 1979-80 season, Jordan

Hall of Fame

Nominations
NOMINATIONS ARE

accepted

at

Bloomsburg
University Athletic Hall of Fame.
To nominate a hall of fame candidate,
complete the form found at
www.BUhuskies.com under
"Traditions." To be eligible, the
nominee must be a college graduate
any time

who earned a degree at least 10 years
ago.

The

the

for the

hall of fame

meets annually

committee

to select

members

|f

Week seven times, including five of the last six

weeks of the season.
Another first-year student, Boylan of SeavUle, N.J.,
was chosen as the PSAC Freshman of the Year in

V

wrestling. Boylan posted

_

a record of 20-13 at the

'^jM.-i.

125-pound weight

class.

^^^t*f»

""^y

(

He finished second at the

PSAC championships and third at the Eastern
He was 13-7

Wrestling League championships.

and ended the season
winning five of his final six bouts. •
overall in dual completion

for the next class. •

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9

The
is

quality of Pennsylvania's water

important for the health of the

commonwealth's

12 million residents,

including 3 million who rely on private
wells for their drinking water.
BU's multi-disciplinary Environmental
Analysis Group has taken to the waterways to monitor ongoing cleanup efforts.

jughit

by

JACK SHERZER

WHEN ANTHRACITE COAL was king and provided the

with limestone to capture the metals in ponds and lower

energy that drove American industry and heated

the water's acidity. But while

homes and buildings, Pennsylvania played
in keeping the

its

a key role

country running.

funds to maintain and
monitor the systems hasn't been easy, and a lot of the

From the
1950s,

late 1700s through the
miners toiled in shafts sunk deep

below the

money was available to

install the facilities, finding the

responsibility has fallen to local conservation

groups and volunteers.
Enter Bloom sburg University science

forests of Lackawanna,

Luzerne, Columbia, Carbon, Schuylkill

professors and their students.

and Northumberland counties as the

For the past few years a multi-disciplinary
group of biology, chemistry, geology and
engineering professors and their students —
known as the Bloomsburg University
Environmental Analysis Group — have
taken to Pennsylvania's waterways to assist
ongoing cleanup efforts.
The group's studies have taken on an

commonwealth

led the nation in coal

production. Water seeping into the

was a constant problem, and
miners dug drainage shafts that emptied
into nearby streams and creeks. Over
tunnels

time the dissolved metals carried in the

water turned once-healthy streams
orange and killed off fish and plant
leaving dead zones in

runoff worked

its

its

way to the Susquehanna

Beginning in the

even greater significance with the advent

life,

wake as the

of deep drilling for natural gas in the area
River.

late 1970s, federal regulations

along the Marcellus Shale. Water quality
cause for concern, since drillers

is

again a

pump thousands of

forced mine operators to minimize the environmental

gallons at high pressure deep into the ground to force

impact of their operations, but

the gas from the rocks, or shale.

it

wasn't until the 1990s

were taken to clean the water responsible
for the so-called "acid mine drainage" flowing from the
honeycomb of abandoned mines. Over the past 20
years, millions in state and federal dollars have gone
toward treatment facilities, which usually divert
streams through specially designed channels lined
that efforts

Though

subject to strict environmental controls

treatment

facilities,

the

drillers are

and have

Bloomsburg group

is

built

providing

invaluable information about current water quality
that can be

used as a reference point

to

ensure

continued gas extraction doesn't begin to harm the
area's natural resources.

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11

"

Regional Source

"We were really doing our own things,"
Rier, associate professor of biology

group's founders. "The idea

was

to

says Steven

and one of the
come up with a

environmental groups while giving students valuable
experiences that go beyond classroom lectures, Venn
says. Students

working with Venn and the other

professors also learn to prepare detailed written reports

group that could be involved in a lot of projects in the
region and be a resource for everyone, from businesses
to nonprofits to government entities. Students also
get hands-on experience that is going to help them

of their results that they present to faculty committees

in their career."

of Environmental Protection.

The group's formation was encouraged by Robert
Marande, dean of the College of Science and
Technology. Marande recognized the value of bringing
together scientists from multiple disciplines to work on

Venn

Also involved in the group are

real issues, Rier says.

and at professional conferences.
"Our students have gone on to environmental consulting companies; others work at the state Department
says. "If you

Many go to grad school,"

can do geochemistry and environ-

mental monitoring, there are jobs out there right now."
Laura Kaldon, a 2i-year-old chemistry major from

West Chester and May
last

2011 graduate, spent 12

weeks

summer collecting and testing water samples on the

Christopher Hallen, professor of chemistry;

north branch of the Susquehanna River. Working

David Simpson, associate professor of physics and
engineering technology; and Cynthia Venn, associate
professor of geography and geosciences.
Eventually, Rier says, the goal is for the group to
have its own facility on campus with dedicated labs for
research. Helping underwrite the cost, the group hopes
to attract additional funding from sources ranging from
governmental agencies

alongside students in other disciplines, such as biology,

and nonprofits

Wayne Lehman,

county natural

-Cynthia Venn, associate professor,

geography and geosciences

the Schuylkill County

Bloomsburg

District, the relationship

is

a

discipline worked.

monitoring,
there are jobs out
there right now.

in the region.

Conservation

she learned in

students from another

environmental

studying various envi-

resource specialist for

skills

how

you can do
geochemistry and

ronmental issues and
For

the classroom while seeing

''If

to busi-

nesses interested in

problems

enabled her to put together the

tremendous

with

The students and
some of the 25 acid

benefit.

professors help the district monitor

mine drainage treatment systems. Finding out how
existing systems are working is vital, especially since
the county

is

planning to build more.

"Their monitoring helps you understand what

is

happening between the limestone drain and the pond;
before, you'd have a kind of black box, with water going
in and coming out, but you wouldn't know why it was
improving,"

Lehman

says.

Professional Experience
who works with Lehman, recalls how monitoring
by her students uncovered a problem with maintenance
at one of the treatment facilities near Hazleton in
Luzerne County. It turned out workers weren't properly
Venn,

flushing the limestone, allowing

it

to get coated

with
Clockwise from upper

aluminum and lose effectiveness, she says.
Hands-on work completed by students in her
geochemistry course provides information for area

12

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

left:

Recent graduate Kevin Nawrocki tests a water

sample from Roaring Creek. Junior Keith Kinek learns to measure water flow
at an artificial stream on BU s upper campus. Recent graduate Kim Ochal
collects a Susquehanna River water sample to test. Students in a freshwater
biology class inspect sediment from Crystal Lake.

ON THE WATERFRONT LINES
To H.W. "Skip Wieder.
"

it

seemed

obvious. Geisinger Health

System, where he was a senior vice president of development,

was

heavily involved in research, including public health issues.

same time, a number of other institutions in the area
were studying issues pertaining to water quality, specifically
the quality of the Susquehanna River and the streams and
At the

creeks that feed into
Geisinger

"At

We were
human

"I

we

established a Center for Health Research.

interested in environmental issues that impacted

Susquehanna River is a
Wieder says. "We had these

of

our region."

colleges and universities working individually on projects
the watershed, but they weren't talking to each other.

in

We

was a real opportunity to bring everyone together."
And so was bom the Susquehanna River Heartland
Environmental Studies

Coalition for

200A. Since

in

it

formed,

and students from Bloomsburg, Bucknell. Lock Haven
and Susquehanna universities, as well as King s and Lycoming
faculty

colleges, have joined forces to study environmental concerns

Susquehanna River Watershed.

related to the

Geisinger. the

Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Trout Unlimited and the
Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds have signed on

ways

studying

mine drainage

to mitigate acid

from the region s long-abandoned anthracite coal mines, the
coalition recently turned

its

attention to the burgeoning natural

gas

drilling

one

of the organization s founders.

operations along the Marcellus Shale, says Wieder.

water are pumped deep

Thousands

into the earth

of gallons of

as part of the fracking

process that forces the gas from the rock. Studying

water

treated

is

environment
time

"At a

and

and what

when

work

budget

"I

work

think

may have on

now able

to

like this will

for a

state

important."

40 students from the universities do

to

completed

future the coalition

And while

at the individual schools, in the

hopes

to

boast

its

own

facility,

the

near

which

will

serve as both a research center and public education center

The

coalition is taking over

Shikellamy State Park

an abandoned marina

Susquehanna

$4 million

to

River.

at

Union and Northumberland counties,

in

located at the confluence of the west
the

Former

renovate the

site,

Gov.

which

and north branches

of

Ed Rendell set aside
will

be called The

Environmental Research and Education Center

at

Shikellamy

Marina. Wieder said.
If

to

all

this

was

also the

"Getting the questions from everyone reassured me,
I

was able to explain

it

to other people."

High Demand
Dave AUard, director of the Department of Environmental
Protection's (DEP) Bureau of Radiation Protection, looks to
Bloomsburg to provide some of his department's interns

— and potential future hires. He speaks frequently to
Bloomsburg classes and serves as an adviser.
He says one of the potential dangers of fracking

year with the center expected to open by

be brought to the surface with the frack water.
He's familiar with the work of students, such as
Kaldon, who monitor water samples near Marcellus

will

Shale drilling to learn
radiation

and

•

Environmental Studies: www.srhces.org
Shikellamy State Park:

if there's

an increase in

establish baseline information.

experience, he says,

is

The

invaluable for their careers.

one student

in the southeast regional office

and I'm looking to get more," Allard says. "Bloomsburg
is a high-quality program and we're real excited
about the students who come out — they get nabbed by
utilities and government laboratories. A lot of them are
recruited before they're even out of school."

Allard works closely with David Simpson, from
BU's physics and engineering technology department.
This spring Simpson and two students took sophisticated radiation readings in Fishing Creek, close to

where it joins the Susquehanna.
One of those students is junior Michael L. Tomashefski,
21,

who is enrolled in

Bloomsburg's Engineering Science

3+2 program. In the 3+2 program, students study science,

mathematics, pre-engineering and liberal arts subjects
for three years at
at

BU, followed by two years studying

Perm

State University.

At this point the Catawissa native isn't sure what path
hands-on experience will be helpful no matter what direction he chooses. "It's definitely something I'U be putting

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Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition

— is

his career will take, but he's positive this semester's

mid-2012. •

•

—

that natural radioactive elements deep in the earth

engineering

goes as planned, construction bids are expected

go out

It

the

do themselves."

become even more

It

time she gave a public presentation of her findings.

"I've got

moving forward, especially with the

summer 30
is

that

and students, can help compensate

research on behalf of the coalition, he says.
lab

how

state budgets are being cut back, colleges

groups

crisis,

Every

affect the drilling

the agencies are not

Wieder says.

definitely important.

second-guessing yourself," she says.
first

a job tailor-made for the group.

universities, faculty

of

lot

is

is

the use of water to help extract the natural gas

as research partners.
In addition to

think the experience

helps boost your self-confidence so that you don't keep

because

thought this

telltale

held at Bucknell University.

it.

health and, of course, the

prominent part

Kaldon tested for heavy metals that
sign of problems from natural gas
drilling. She didn't find any metals, she says, but she
did establish a baseline, wrote a 20-page report, created
a poster and presented her findings to Bloomsburg
faculty and at a symposium on the Susquehanna River
Specifically,

could be a

for

www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/shikellamy.aspx

on resumes and talking about

in interviews,"

he

says. •

Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and
Pennsylvania native. He currently lives in Harrisburg.

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by

HAILI SHETLER

'ii

Sure, they're beautiful.

census shows
Bloomsburg's

But. a student

the

Town

of

street trees also provide

worth
more than $U2,000.

financial benefits

AFTER JOSH PROSCENO 'ii gave a presentation to the
Bloomsburg Town Council about the values of street
two local residents voiced concerns. "There were
two guys on the schedule after me," Prosceno says of the
September 2010 meeting. "They were complaining about
how their views of the Susquehanna River were blocked
by newly planted trees in the Town Park. The council
didn't even vote on the issue."
Rather than dwell on perceptions, Prosceno's presentation offered firm data on the benefits of the Town of
Bloomsburg's street trees, the result of a census he led
trees,

throughout

summer 2010 at the request of Cristina

Mathews, associate professor of English and chair of the
Bloomsburg Shade Tree Commission (STC). Mathews
and Jeffrey Brunskill, assistant professor of geography
and geosciences, helped guide Prosceno, a senior environmental planning major from Bloomsburg, and the
other 15 students.

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Any tree located in a planting strip no more than lO
feet

from the road

is

considered a "street

tree."

The census

Three percent were classified as dead or dying. All of
these factors contribute to higher maintenance costs and

inventoried the characteristics of the town's urban forest,

fluctuations in functional benefits.

which included the distribution and age of various tree
species, the health of the street trees and costs associated
with efforts to maintain and improve the current tree

trees provide total financial benefits to the

population.

values.

Knowing the variety of trees the town does and does
not have helps the STC's planning, Mathews explains. It

$78,158 in energy savings, based

However, the census also showed the town's

street

community of
more than $142,469, including $29,398 in increased property
Using i-Tree, the students calculated an estimated

on the

trees' role in

providing shade and reducing energy usage in the summer,

also assists with tree selection, determining the

heat loss in the winter and the effects of high

age of Bloomsburg's urban forest, detecting the

winds. The group also found

parts of town needing the most attention

and

savings of approximately $14, 320, flooding and

identifying trees that need to be removed.

According to Brunskill, the
inventory "really

fit

in nicely"

air quality

erosion savings of about $18,399 and carbon
dioxide storage savings of an estimated $2,194.

street tree

"We really wanted community support for

with the

department of geography and geosciences'

environmental issues and

street trees. I think the

environmental planning concentration. The

community would take better care of them if they
project provided a good example of a problem
knew what the trees are about," explains Prosceno.
scenario the students may encounter in internAlthough the count was conducted during
ships and future employment, he adds.
summer 2010, the groundwork began in fall
The inventory began in early May 2010
2009 as a class project in a senior-level GIS
and data collection was finished three
"My main drive for course. Students developed an inventory
months later. Working 40 hours per week
infrastructure, tested equipment and
the census was to
to finish the census,

Prosceno created a

created

maps of the town. On

would "bUtz" a part of town

to

identify trees. Information collected

height, general condition, characteristics of

and suggestions

for maintaining or

tree health. Overall, the students

through Pennsylvania Community
Forests, a non-profit

organization.

the community.
— Brock Saylor '12

included the species, diameter at breast

tree site

This data helped secure a $3,500 grant

are beneficial to the
town. The project
showed we care about

Fridays,

Prosceno, Brunskill and student volunteers

created a preliminary street tree inventory.

show how street trees

dictionary of all applicable terms and

improving

completed more than

$1,500

urban forestry

An additional grant for

was given

to the students

by

Bloomsburg University's Office of
Research and Sponsored Programs.
Vincent Cotrone, an urban forester with the Penn

State Cooperative Extension Service, trained the students

Handheld GPS were used to
which was then mapped and analyzed with

700 hours of volunteer work.

prior to the data collection.

To successfully log all the data, Prosceno used i-Tree,
a free software program provided by the United States
Department of Agriculture and used by major cities,
such as New York, Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh to
manage their urban forests. The software ArcGIS 9.3, a
common Geographic Information System (GIS) program
provided by Environmental Systems Research Institute,
was used to map and study the distribution of the trees'

collect data,

locations collected with the global positioning system

"The quality of what the students did is far above
what we could have gotten without their help," says
Mathews. "They were using software, programs and
units the town could not have afforded. The quality of
the work was clear, and showed that students are sharp,
interested people able to learn from relevant experts and
put knowledge together with hard work." •

(GPS)

units.

"Some people just hate trees," admits Brock Saylor of
GUbertsviUe, a junior environmental planning major and
tree census volunteer. "My main drive for the census was
to show how street trees are beneficial to the town. The
project showed we care about the community."
So what did the census reveal about Bloomsburg's
street trees? Results show the overall population of street

much older than the United States Forest Service's
standards. Of 1,312 identified street trees, approximately
trees is

464 were planted in unfavorable

sites

next to power lines

or buildings or in areas too small for the
16

full -sized tree.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

GIS software.
The completed inventory of street trees provides
specific data the Shade Tree Commission needs when
applying for grants, Mathews says. Prior to the students'
involvement, the

STC tried to organize its own census,

she adds, but the lack of manpower and technology
derailed the project before

HaiU Shetler
lor's

'11,

it

began.

Bloomsburg, recently earned a bache-

degree in mass communications/public relations.

She worked as a communications assistant in BU's
marketing and communications office while studying
toward her degree.

Bloomsburg
But

if

University's official school colors, of course, are

current

movement on campus

also have to add another colon

is

any

maroon and

gold.

might

indication, the administration

GREEN.

Efforts of student groups, faculty/staff/administration

tional opportunity to talk about sources of food

committees and key individuals have bolstered

benefits of buying locally," Brunskill says. "In addition,

Bloomsburg's focus on environmental

some

initiatives in

and the

faculty brought their students to talk with the

recent years, says John Hintz, associate professor of

farmers about food production."

geography and geosciences. Hintz arrived on campus
in 2005 to find the annual Earth Day observance and
attempts to raise recycling awareness and compliance,
but few other explicitly green initiatives.
"But there were substantial things going on behind

Beyond GCI, student organizations such as H.O.P.E.
and the Social Justice and Sustainability Living and
Learning Community are promoting environmental
practices and campus sustainability.

the scenes," Hintz recalls, "such as Professor

Greene's
boilers

Ned

work toward converting one of the heating

from coal

to

biomass, incorporating green com-

lot to a

the mainstream and involve

constituencies

president of H.O.P.E., says one of
is

to alert first -year students to

Bloomsburg. "For the past two years,
all freshmen during orientahe says. "We discuss the impact that each of us

their time at

H.O.P.E. has spoken to
tion,"

has on the environment and the ways students can

green open space."

Hintz says Bloomsburg's more recent efforts have

moved into

'11,

the positive environmental effect they can have during

ponents into each of the major building renovations on
campus and the transformation of our campus center

from a parking

Jaron Nielsen

the organization's goals

reduce their footprints while living on campus."

more campus

and the community. The Green Campus
which Hintz co-chairs with geography

The

delivery of this message

because

it

is

will listen to their

Initiative (GCI),

and geosciences colleague Jeff Brunskill, serves as a
"meeting place," helping to organize and facilitate
activities,
•

such

„_,,

as:

Two Climate Change

Teach-ins,

which each drew hun-

dreds of student participants.
•

"Re-energize BU," n day

and panels about
drew nearly 600 stu-

of talks

clean energy alternatives that

•

-

There are teaching,
awareness and civic
aspects to any of these
environmental projects
1

boundaries of money,

Tours of the Bloomsburg Recycling Center, local organic
campus steam plant and a "green" building

— Mark Tapsak, assistant
professor, chemistry

farms, the
at

the community,

hosted

among campus organizations and

GCI and BU's SOLVE volunteer

office

last fall's inau-

campus farmers
market, set up each

gural

''We COUld USC the

farmers market

Friday behind the

Warren Student
Services Center.

eduCattOfial
The

meats, breads, fruits

opportunity tO talk
on
1
about SOUrceS oj Jood

and vegetables from

and the benefits of

market featured

local farms,

with a

portion of the

proceeds benefitting

,

buying locally.

"

_ j^ff Brunskill, assistant professor,
geography and geosciences

the student environ-

mental organization, Help Our Planet Earth (H.O.P.E.).
Plans are under way to bring an expanded farmers

market to campus this fall.
"The market was a place that students would notice
as they were going by, and we could use it as an educa18

BLOOM.SBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

fellow students far
better than they wiii
listen to the faculty

or administration,"
^^^^^^

f^^^

Lawrence, associate
.
y u
professor ofej,
English,

h.o.pe. adviser and
former chair of
^^^^^ Campus
Initiative.

Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
In a collaboration

.

that go
the
^ beyond
y
1
r

dents in February.

particularly effective

comes from other students. "The students

"This

spring, we've had the BU Beyond Coal organization on
campus and an organizer from the Sierra Student
Coalition. They've worked with H.O.P.E. and they've
had tremendous response because H.O.P.E. is a stu-

dent movement."

Meanwhile, the goal of the Social Justice Living and
Learning Community is to create discussion and action
around social and environmental issues. The community accepts 30 freshmen each year who enroll together
in the Environmental Issues and Choices class and a
composition course that explores elements of sustainability. Community members also go on trips and hear

who address these issues.
"We want to increase retention and improve the

speakers

education of the students," says Julie Vandivere, associ-

and director of the LLC. "We
two goals buUd on one another; a more
engaged, excited group of freshmen makes them more
committed to the university and to their own education."
Strides also have been made in the campus recycling
ate professor of English

find that those

A weekly farmers market
held last
left,

program. Vince DiLoretto,

first

September and October

returns to

Members

campus

in

the

assistant director of facility

fall.

Our
Planet Earth) plant trees and
shrubbery in nearby Fernville.
of H.O.P.E. (Help

services, says the university

began recycling in 1982 with
one material, high-grade
white office paper. "Today, we have 16 targeted materials that we recycle," he says, noting the amount of
items recycled increased by 54 percent from 2008 to
2009 and by 22 percent from 2009 to 2010.

Mark Tapsak,
helped Greene

.

assistant professor of chemistry

start the

BU

who

Biofuels Initiative, says

ways to quantify the progress
Bloomsburg has made. "Some of these green initiatives

there are different

can actually save the campus money," he explains.
"That is the most straightforward reward. The less

no less
important. There are teaching, awareness and civic
aspects to any of these projects that go beyond the

tangible benefits are harder to quantify, but

boundaries of money." •

Kevin Gray is a freelance writer based in the
Lehigh Valley.
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BIG
PUBLIC WORKS

projects often

on the
and environmentalists
on the polar opposite. But in what
align business interests

grow beyond

to

scientist

be in charge.

As supervisor and chief of

New York
District of the U.S. Army Corps of

harbor programs of the

Engineers, Baron oversees the $1.6
billion

dredging of the harbor of

New York and New Jersey.

pollution to our

That's

1609

when he arrived in a ship, the

HalfMoon, which drew only
to sail

is

— Lisa Goldfeder Baron '89 —
happens

feet.

8.5 feet.

up his namesake

river as far

as present-day Albany.

says, are

getting bigger. In the past, shippers

limited themselves to

"Panamax"

But we're also looking

at

opportunities to restore the shorelines

and aquatic

habitat through-

out the estuary."

The harbor covers about 430
square miles. However, dredging

which were the maximum

head west through the
on
the West Coast and transport east
via railroad. The expansion of the
Panama Canal, to be completed in
2014, will accommodate far larger

more cost-efficient
cargo movement between East Asia
and the East Coast.
New York, the largest port on the
East Coast and third largest in the
ships and allow

share of container

traffic.

But

large ships that

mouth of the harbor up the Hudson,

East Coast, this could change. Other

New Jersey.

since ancient times. In fact, the

Sumerians and Egyptians

want

to call

mud dump site was closed.

Instead, contaminated sediments

sites is a

New Jersey factory

produced the defoliant Agent
Orange during the Vietnam War.
The manufacturer spilled toxic
that

dioxins directly into the

Lower

Passaic River, where they remain.

The contamination
throughout

also has spread

much of the harbor.

"There are not a large number of
options to clean up the river," says
is

bound to the sediment, so dredging
and capping are really the main
choices for remediation."

Cleanup of the sediments on the
Lower Passaic River and throughout the harbor

is

a major goal in the

region thousands of jobs, and more.

The plan also calls for restoring lost and degraded wetlands,

"Ships are the cheapest

about 4000 B.C. In the case of New

elsewhere, everything that

22

be highly contaminated

Corps' Comprehensive Restoration

left refer-

dates to the mid-i9th centu-

fail-

New York's shipping

bring in cargo.

it

to

and the

in the late

the sediments were

channels, says Baron, could cost the

ences to the dredging of their canals
York,

on the

East Coast ports are deeper and

ure to deepen

Harbor dredging has been done

found

when

Baron. "The contamination

if it is

ever unable to accommodate the

into

That practice ended

nated

Panama Canal. More recently, the

shipping channels that run from the

Brooklyn and past Staten Island

N.J.

larger Suez Canal or land cargo

through the

focused primarily on deepening the

to

mud removed from the
bottom of the harbor was placed at

Instead, they

fit

United States, gets a significant
is

removed.

were processed and placed at
various locations on land. Often
they were used to cap old landfills
and restore brownfield sites.
How bad is the contamination?
Although the harbor is part of an
urban industrialized environment,
the most famous of the contami-

vessels,

Panama Canal can accommodate.

shipping channels are very important.

it is

1990s

proven so tempting that shippers
are using larger vessels than the

ized estuary and, of course, the

the sediment after

by the end of 2013.
Commercial ships, she

dredging. The program has also
been balanced with numerous
ecosystem restoration initiatives.

around the Statue of Liberty," says
Baron, who majored in biology and
marine biology. "It's a highly urban-

DEALING WITH SEDIMENT
The biggest challenge to dredging
the harbor has been where to put

a site off the coast of Sandy Hook,

cost-efficiency of larger vessels has

tions for the entire 25-mile radius

air."

about 40 to 45 feet deep. Baron's
program will bring them to 50 feet

harbor program includes more than

"Basically, we're evaluating solu-

would

Historically,

Today's shipping channels are

size that could

But the

area's 21 million residents

have to be trucked in, adding
congestion to our roadways and

what Henry Hudson encountered in

currently one of the nation's largest

an environmental

the harbor's natural

depth of less than 20

And it was enough to allow Hudson

"yes!" side

projects,

when steam power and iron-hull

construction allowed ship sizes to

by

If the

way to

ships went
is

used

New York, New Jersey and the

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Plan.

fisheries, eelgrass beds,

habitat

and oyster

waterbird

reefs.

"A century ago, locally harvested

"

were a staple

oysters

diets," notes

in residents'

Baron. "But through

scholarship to Indiana University
of Pennsylvania, where she worked

and

overharvesting, poor water quality

as a teaching assistant

and

earned her master's degree.

pollution,

all

of the oyster reefs

have disappeared.
with

We are working

many organizations

to bring

later

There, she advocated for the benefi-

Baron started her professional
career as a biologist at the

Next, Baron went to the New Jersey
Department of Transportation's
Division of Maritime Resources.

Oak

cial

uses of dredged material and

helped form the coalition of agencies

working to clean up and
Lower Passaic River.
"It's one of the most contaminated

back the oysters in the harbor. In
fact, we helped construct five new

Ridge National Laboratory in

that is

Tennessee. The

restore the

pilot oyster reefs last fall."

hundreds of acres of contaminated

facility

monitors

rivers in the United States," says

"The first step in an environmental
cleanup is the investigation. You collect
environmental samples and conduct
biological surveys to determine whether
the receptors are being impacted.

Baron, "with hundreds of polluters

]

and a toxic soup that is one of the
primary sources of contamination
within the harbor."

Among the partners in the
was the Army Corps

Passaic study

— Lisa Goldfeder Baron '89

A CLEAR DIRECTION
It

seems only someone with an

environmental sensibility could lead
the

many facets

of this program.

"Before Bloomsburg and Wallops
Island,

I

didn't

to do," says

know what I wanted

Baron, whose dislike of

needles turned her

away from a

medical career. "But they really

helped shape where

I

am."

Baron says her career direction
became clear when she took
marine biology. That led to marine

ecology,

oceanography and,

eventually, to

evaluate the

"The

do

first

damage

that

to plants

human

and animals.

step in an environ-

mental cleanup

is

the investiga-

"You collect environmental samples and conduct
biological surveys to determine
whether the receptors are being
tion," says Baron.

impacted. If there are impacts, then
a decision has to be

whether they are

summers studying

to clean

made about

significant

enough

Or not. Industry employs scientists with the same skills to argue its

she recalls the influence of biology

cant.

professor,

at

Thomas

also taught at

Klinger,

who

Wallops Island.

"We had morning classes," she
"then we were in the field

recalls,
all

afternoon and in the lab

night.

It

all

was wonderful." Through

the program, she got an internship

teaching marine biology to high
school students during her senior
year. After graduation,

her Wallops

Island experience also led to a full

actions have

had no environmental

impact or the impact

Baron knows

joined a

is

not

in

Hudson-Raritan Estuary
Ecosystem Restoration Study. The
study is designed to create a
healthier environment for fish and
wildlife

and provide cleaner

waters, healthier fisheries,

increased flood protection and
recreational opportunities.

She moved to Lopatcong
Township, N.J., last August with
her family — husband, Robert,

who works for candy maker Mars

Oak

—
13, and Olivia, 9
and was promoted to her current
position in December 2010.
children, Jacob,

signifi-

this because,

after several years at

Baron

large-scale projects, including the

Chocolate North America, and

up the site."

Wallops Island,
Va., in a program sponsored by
Bloomsburg and a consortium of
other schools. Two decades later,

marine science

The Corps hired
2007 to manage several

of Engineers.

Superfund sites and it was there
that Baron learned ecological risk
assessment — basically, how to
activities

still

Ridge, she

New Jersey engineering

"I

don't get out in the field as

much

as

I

did in the past," says

Baron. "Now,

spend most of my

I

time in meetings with the Corps'

firm which did exactly that. She

partners and

found herself working on behalf of
major polluters, including the firm
responsible for the Agent Orange in
the Lower Passaic and the harbor.

environmental constituencies. Our

"Many

said

'dark side,'

"

I

worked

she

for the

main goal

all

is to

the different

work with hundreds

of our stakeholders to ensure

we

achieve our vision of a world-class

harbor estuary." •

recalls. "I really

didn't enjoy trying to
polluter's liability."

minimize the

Mark
in

E. Dixon
Wayne, Pa.

is

a freelance writer

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23

"

i960

1974

Carl Stanitski and his wife,

J.

BU grads

Gregory Kashella, a certified

Deborah, were named honorary
members of the Polish

public accountant,

Orthopaedic and Traumatologic

Give a

Society in recognition of their

Respect to the

work over the past

Undervalued

part of Corbett's leadership

Pennsylvania Gov.

Tom

-JOHN WETZEL

Corbett's executive

98 and PATRICK

team

team includes two BU grads

HENDERSON

96.

Wetzel, selected as secretary of correc-

published

began his career as a prison guard
1989 and. most recently, served as

tions,

15 years

with

Little

More

warden
Former

their Polish colleagues in the U.S.

Compilation Engagement, in the

and throughout Poland. They are

2010 edition of the Pennsylvania

professors emeriti at the Medical

CPA Journal.

2007.

of Mountain View High School,
a

was inducted into

where she coached girls' and boys'
volleyball.

Hamburg Athletic Hall of
Fame for her achievements in

She received the North

the

athletics

Atlantic Conference

Coach of the

Year Award in 1986. She

and coaching.

As secretary

management and
Henderson

ored as a distinguished alumnus

retired educator,

is

County Prison.

Gov. Ed Rendell appointed

him

is

of corrections.

Wetzel

is in

charge

also

to

in

of the overall

operation of Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections.
serving as Pennsylvania's first energy executive, a

senior adviser charged with coordinating the overall state energy
Since 1999. Henderson has been executive director of the Senate

Janice Machell Price was hon-

Ruth Ann Shelhamer Price,

of the Franklin

the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons

fall

University of South Carolina.

1963

in

policy.

Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. In the newly created
position, he is responsible for ensuring policy is in the best interest of
Pennsylvania's energy and environmental needs.
Replacing Henderson as executive director of the Senate Environmental
Resources and Energy Committee is another BU grad. Adam Pankake 06.
He previously held the same post with the Senate Urban Affairs and
Housing Committee. He joined the Senate in 2007.

a Pennsylvania Interscholastic
Athletic Association

1969
Gail

25-year honoree

Bower Landers, an early

the

childhood educator at

Pennsylvania

Princess Coronation Pageant and

was

Deborah Dell Watson '76M was
promoted

si
to senior
vice president

and chief operating

delegation of 50

Bayhealth Medical
Africa.

Center in Delaware.

She has worked

1970

years and

40 years with the

Antietam School

is

a fellow of the

American College of Healthcare
District, includ-

tary school principal.

owner

1977

the top 100 business people of the

year by Pennsylvania Business

1981
was elected

to a three-year

term

representing the northcentral
region on the Pennsylvania

She

is

is

the aca-

programs

Richard Fetterman retired

from the military

in

administrator of

Columbia

after

1979

the Massachusetts Air National

Guard and the Pennsylvania Air
Guard at Fort Indiantown
Gap, where he was military
National

commander of the 2U Engineering
Squadron from 1997

to 2003.

development

is

a business

officer

with the U.S.

Bank's Small Business

Administration division, serving

Idaho and western Montana from

associate director

of university relations at East

the office in Boise.

a

senior manager in ParenteBeard's
tax services ofBce, Williamsport.

Pennsylvania Department of

was

elected secretary of the Maternal

and Family Health Services
Executive Board.

1986
Scott Bohner, PottsviUe,

is

co-owner of Home Instead, which

senior citizens.

dissertation, "Student Perceptions

Marie Connolly

ofFacebook, an Online Social

Sister Seton

Networking Site, at a Non-Residential,

'86M,

Community Branch

mission integration throughout

College in

Northeastern Pennsylvania:

A

is

executive director of

the Maria Joseph Continuing Care

Community,

1982

1980
Denmark Olar Middle School,

is

district

nurse administrator for the

Danville.

She

is

also a

board-certified chaplain.

ing and computer applications at

1973

1985
Kathleen Finsterbusch,

provides in-home care services for

Phenomenological Study.

Rich Donahue teaches keyboard-

James Wehr, Montoursville,

Brenda Friday,

successfully defended her doctoral

Michael Valenti

serving with the U.S. Air Force,

Evangelical

i^^^H Commimity

Montour Home Health.

Stroudsburg University,

He retired

2004

Wilkes University's

graduate education division.

from the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in 2010.

in

finance of

JM^

Health's northeast district,

demic coordinator of technology

1972

IL

^

Hospital, Lewisburg.

Loreen Derr Comstock '8l/'8lM

clinical services for

James Chiavacci '77M

president of

Home, was recognized as one of

Directors.

and 20 years as an elemen-

Installation

"Bill" Williams,

Homecare Association Board of

Executives.

ing 20 years as a sixth-grade
teacher

in

health care administration for 30

Kerry C. Hoffman, Reading,
retired after

William

Central, State College.

officer for

who met with early child-

hood educators in South

1983
James Stopper is chief financial
officer and vice

of Chester C. Chidboy Funeral

part of a national

teachers

Queen's BaU.

PIAA District II Gold Card.

1976

College of

Technology,

(PIAA)

and a recipient of

Denmark,

1988

Randy Yoh, Heidelberg
Township,

is

principal certified

public accountant at Groves

&

Yoh, formerly Richard W. Groves,

S.C.

Myerstown.

Dawn Chandler Hall,
Bloomsburg,

marketing manag-

Rebecca Koppenhaver Wine, a

er of Little

K-3 learning support teacher in the

Baseball

Blue Mountain School

District,

is

sponsorship and

League

and

Softball, Soutii Williamsport.

participated in the Greater
Pottsville

Winter Carnival Senior

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John Reber is executive vice

presi-

dent director of risk

1995

Promoted

management

Lisa BeUcka Keranen, associate

BRENDA SCHREFFLER NICHOLS

Citizens

for

&

?i

Colorado, Denver,

Millville,

published the book,

Scientific

the Northeast Association for

guished service award in 2010.

1991
is

is

vice president

the firm

in

1993.

Quigley returns to PennFuture
JOHN QUIGLEY

81 returned to Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future
(PennFuture) as a strategic adviser and consultant.
Previously government relations manager for

chair of Rebuilding Together

^

^^Lt^ |H

PennFuture, an environmental advocacy organization.

Dayton, dedicated to rehabbing

^^^A

Quigley served as secretary of the Pennsylvania

Power and Light Co. He is also

homes at no cost to low-income

Dana Domkoski Bumside
'9i/'93M

1996
Craig Jackson

and treasurer of Dayton (Ohio)

Institutional Research's distin-

She joined

'82, is an audit principal for Parente
Randolph, where he's worked since 1990.

Character.

Michelle Seibert Appel received

In this position,

Her husband, Andrew Nichols

with her husband.

1990

senior vice

departments to ensure accuracy of all financial and tax
information and related reports and compliance with
corporate policies and governmental requirements.

University of

owns Fran's Dairy Bar,

to

Nichols directs the corporate accounting and technology

studies at the

Roschele Wagner Snyder co-

was promoted

Williamsport. earlier this year

director of graduate

WeUsboro.

'85

president/chief financial officer of Larson Design Group.

professor and

Northern Bank,

CFO

to

homeowners.

^
^^V^^ H
^KMt
for

director of teaching

commons and assistant professor

Elizabeth Payne Miller,

of education at Wilkes University.

benefits supervisor with Fulton

Lititz, is

DCNR

career

in

a
in

Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
(DCNR) from April 2009 to January 201 1 after working

several capacities, including chief of

nonprofit, public

staff,

Quigley s

and private sectors includes eight years

as mayor of Hazleton.

Financial Corp.

Richelle
is

Erb Kegarise, Manheim,

controller for Landis

Homes,

Lancaster.

Kimberly Conserette

Russell Canevari

is

head coach of

Thomas Speicher, video produc-

the Montrose Area School District

tion developer at Pennsylvania

football

College of Technology, presented
Degrees That Work:

A

Free Career

Exploration Resource at the state

The

marketing manager
for

David J. Manbeck, manager for
Boyer & Ritter CPA,

controller of Upper

Camp Hill, was

Augusta

Township, Northumberland.

recognized by the

Deborah Lonabaugh ShufT, an

Pennsylvania

was named

to the

Robert C. Hershey Jr., Spring

Institute,

&

Co.

Institute of Certified

& Reath,

board of trustees of the Alice Paul

accountant with

dedicated to educating

New Jersey
who authored the Equal
Rights Amendment and founded

Public Accountants as one of its

"40

is

Fellerman

&

Ciarimboli,

Kingston.

a master's of busi-

Women's

Party.

ness administration

1999
is

a regional

Retirement Services, Los Angeles,

Jonathan Kiefer
for

in

Albee

festival

appeared this spring in a two-month run of
Arena Stage. Mead Center for American
Theater, Washington. D.C. The production was part of
the theater's Edward Albee Festival.
His credits include the off-Broadway production of
Thornton Wilder s Our Town. TV s Law and Order and
Law and Order SUV and a regional theater production
of Three Penny Opera.
01

He holds

from Wilkes University and a law

Calif.

26

an associate attorney

new A&E television series.

Hagerstown, Md.

n

is

Breakout Kings.

of St. Ann's Catholic Church,

Zoo

Kutzer, Hanover

Township,

suffragist

sales director with Great -West

at the

2001
Mark A.

appearing in a

The Rev. Martin Nocchi is pastor

Home

for wireless voice

and data products.

at

Jirnmi Simpson

Michael Fennessy

At

region, responsible

Members Under 40" for 2010.

1994

JAMES MCMENAMIN

14-state

the public about the

the National

McMenamin appears

AT&T's

northeastern

1993
City, is principal

David MarcoUa is senior product

Services Rehabilitation, Scranton.

Tony Phillips serves as deputy

Philadelphia,

the firm of MaiUie, Falconiero

account-

program.

attorney with Biddle

School to Career Connection.

is

ing supervisor with Allied

Department of Education conference, Integrated Learning:

2000

1998

1997

degree ft-om

Thomas Jefferson

School of Law, San Diego.

Heidi Ruckno is communication
specialist for the Greater

is

the librarian

Catasauqua High School,

Scranton

Chamber of Commerce.

where he previously was a busi-

2002

ness teacher.

Amber Latsha is an advocate with
The Arc of Delaware County,

at the

BLOOMSBURG UNIVER.SITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

responsible for adult, educational

and

social-recreation advocacy.

2003

Honored with Alumni Awards

Five

as chair

of the

BU

adviser to former

ulty

years and

for several

was

The Daily
Review.

Holly Hicks, a

certified public

was promoted

accountant,

fac

in the Pennsylvania

supervisor with Haefele Flanagan,

BU Foundation

Moorestown,

opportunities

in

2005

Awards were:
Agretto. in his 3Mh year as an educator has

Receiving Distinguished Service

-RICHARD AGRETTO

'77:

served as the Bethlehem Area School

District's

director of special education since 1993.

He has

vol-

since 1980 and

build a facility for children

physical

and

managed the probecame

intellectual disabilities to play baseball.

-BEVERLY DONCHEZ BRADLEY

:

effort to

and young adults with

the 2010 Special Olympics Pennsylvania Hall of
'71

He was inducted

Fame

last

into

May.

Following a 30-year career as a

Program

Children's Literacy

non-profit that has as

its

and community through

Cops

n'

literacy.

"

n'

Kids Reading

distribution events

community reading

celebrations.
"40:

Authority, the third-largest public
University.

housing agency in the country.

2006

Megan Sallavanti, earned a mas-

Jennifer Bosset graduated from

ter's in

supporter of

pathology from

HaU University School of
Law and was admitted to practice

law in

Misericordia

New Jersey, New York and

University in
2010.

May

She is

employed as a
at Riverside

Rehabilitation Center.

basic military training at Lackland

Air Force Base, Texas.

Lyndsey Snyder is staff accountant

Room
Krista L. Rompolski

and

director at the

consistent participant

in

is

at

wellness

Chiampou,

Travis,

Besaw &

Kershner, Amherst.

Boyertown Area

YMCA, where she oversees fitness

Coopers and Lybrand. Tilson s

BU and

speech and language

Seton

WiUard CUvik graduated from

more than 35 years, honored her with the Commitment
Award recognizing quality service, individual initiative and teamwork. She retired from the firm, now
PricewaterhouseCoopers. in 1991. An active

for

Marion Rose is asset manager for
The Philadelphia Housing

speech therapist

The award-winning

and organized book

-DOROTHY DERR TILSON

He holds a master's in engi-

Washington

brewer at

2 OO 8

the U.S. Department of

the State of New Jersey.

Kids

program has distributed more than 390.000 free

employer

D.C.

assistant

one of the city's first microbreweries.

program ana

the Lehigh Valley a

in

mission "connecting kids

books, established the Cops

a

the United States District Court for

business educator Bradley helped establish and
currently serves as president of the

lyst for

is

1990. Agretto recently

Northampton County, leading the

of

Eric Hostelley

neering management from George

president of the board of directors for the Miracle

League

2001-2007.

Yards Brewing Co., Philadelphia,

Homeland Security, Washington,

unteered with the Northampton County Special

Olympics Program
gram from 1983 to

Guard from

N.J.

Matt Hall is an

China.

& Sunday

He served

r /W- Army National

to

Board and. as a volunteer develops exchange pro-

grams and study abroad

news sections and the
HomeLife pages of

daily

Township accounting firm.

President Jessica Kozloff.

Pomfret currently serves on the

Brian Bishop is copy editor of the

senior

manager of FarenteBeard, a Spring

mathematics, computer science and

department

statistics

is

^aai 2004

named honorary alumnus of the year,
BU s mathematics faculty in 1972. He served

Pomfret.
joined

2007

Jacob Kutz, Reading,

RETIRED MATHEMATICS PROFESSOR JAMES POMFRET AND
FOUR ALUMNI RECENTLY RECEIVED AWARDS FROM BU S
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

centers,

group exercise classes and

personal training.

alumni

taught English, geography

activities. Tilson earlier

Latin: worked in the Philadelphia Ordnance
Gage Laboratory during World War and helped
her husband in pursuits related to the performing

and

II:

arts.

She has been involved with Planetary

affiliated

Citizens, a United Nations-

organization that promotes world peace, since 1974.

Also honored

was BRIAN KOVATCH

'96.

who

received the Maroon

and Gold Excellence Award, formerly known as the Young Alumnus
the Year Award. Kovatch leads the Pennsylvania Territory

Team

for Cisco, providing technical direction

of

Commercial

and

LEGACY SCHOLARSHIPS: The BU Alumni

business guidance to regional sales and engineer-

awarded

Directors

Association Board of

15 scholarships of $750 each to current students

revenue. His awards include the 2008 Channels

whose parents are alumni. Scholarship winners, who were selected
by random drawing, and alumni board members shown in the

Systems Engineer

accompanying photo

ing

teams and responsible

for

of the Year

$80 million

Award

United States Channels Segment.
Gilbertsville.

YMCA

he

is

a

A

in

annual

for Cisco's

secretary: Tarra

resident of

member of the Boyertown

District

soccer and

back rowTrista Musser

Amy Chronister Scott

Technology Advisory Board and coaches basketball,

softball.

left
1

to right, front

row: Rich Uliasz

and Lauren Kreglow

14.

president:

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Online at

www.bloomualumni.com

'13

05.

and Tom Cimaglia

board

member at

board president: Lynne Rishel Homiak

Salmon

HUSKY NOTES

'1

'14.

'97.

board

scholarship

winners: and Lynda Fedor Michaels '87/'88M. alumni director: and

Area

Board of Directors and the Tunkhannock Area

School

are.

Combs

'14.

scholarship winners:

large:

Greg Bowden

01.

board treasurer Meredith
scholarship winner: Kerri Donald Sears "92. board vice

and Anthony Roslevich

'13.

'83.

scholarship winner

Send information to: alum@bloomu.edu or Alumni Affairs
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husky

VITAL STATISTICS

Marriages

Births

Mark German '94 and Hilarie Powers, July 24, 2010
Youmans '96 and Kenneth Weaver Jr., July 17,

Catherine "Katie" Callahan '92 and

Jennifer

Jason
Jill

P.

Seese '97 and Stephanie Youngs, Oct.

Dolinsky '99 and Robert Shayka Jr., May

2010

2009

17,

Obituaries

husband,
Gigi,

Viola

Adam Ruderman, a daughter,

October 2010

Sharon Loeffler '00 and Joseph Panzica, May

Susanne Kane

Nathan Laidacker

'01

and Daphne Dixson, May

Denise DeSantis '02 and
Tiffany Panetta '02

Tracy Zengro

Katie Getz Kilian '98 and husband, Kyle, a

2010

17,

daughter, Kendall Jordyn, Sept.

and Daniel Smith, Oct.

Gina Mattivi

'03

'03

2010

10,

Schofield, April

and John

P.

and Ryan Stango,

Clint

'04

17,

April 23, 2010

III,

and John Roberts, Aug.

Christine DeMelfi '04 and Matthew

Lindsey Zeisloft '04/'o6M and Andrew

Lenore Barr

2010

14,

Karen

B. Fetter '05

and Darren

9,

Eric Hostelley '05 and

Jonathon Novick

Mark

C.

'05

Trautman

Rebecca Yeselski

Karen Barrett

June

and Tiara

Kelly

Dunlap

'08

'07

Katherine Huff '08 and Kyle Noss

P.

Sydney

Faith, Nov.

1,

Aug.

9,

15,

Valerie

2010

Curtis

Hakes Fessler

'05,

'03

and husband,

a daughter, Alice, Feb.

Kendra Branchick Martin

12,

9,

2010

T.

'63

George A. Blasick
William

19,

2011

Gerald J.

'64

"Bill" Derricott '66

"Bill"

Mack

John Dargis

'67

Large '68
'68

'69

2010

Oct.

9,

Kevin Leonard

2010

Kenneth, Jan.

Aug.

19,

a son,

'05,

17,

2011

Noah Anthony,

Palmeter '09 and Bradley E. Grey

'74

2010

husband, Brian Boyce '08M, a son,

Susan Davenport Crisman

2010

Evan

Mary Cordaro McCarthy '75

10,

Charlie, Feb.

12,

2011

Susan Palin

Amy Puntar Shingler '05 and

17,

2010

husband, Jeremy Shingler

6,

Troy William, July

Aug.

7,

2010

'10,

7,

'05,

William

V.

'75

'75

Parker

John M. Welgoss

'83

2010

'83

Richard Thomas Coombs

Tara Freeland

'10

and Ben Smith

'10,

daughter, Bridget Ann, Dec. 23, 2010

a

Ruth Gensel Fedder

McGuire

John M. Berry

'09

'10

Codey D. McDonald

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

'87

'92

Diane Ringawa Magagna
Caitlin

May 22, 2010

'75

a son,

2010

Todd M. Wolinsky '09 and Glenyse E. Diltz, June 12, 2010
Michael J. Medvec '10 and Sarah C. Brown, Sept. 10, 2010
Ashley Shellenberger '10 and Jonathan Busada

'72

'74

Clara G. Baldoni

'09,

Nicole Scerbo '09 and Kris Svensson '09, Nov.

Benjamin RusUoski Jr
Jack R. Long

2010

'70

'71

Sara Hagemeyer Boyce 'os/'o8M and

18,

July

Joseph Schultz

John D. Parker
2010

'70

Margaret Boyer Pursell '70

Bekki Callas Leonard '04 and husband,
2010

July 10, 2010
'10,

McHale Kent

and husband,

2010

15,

MUler, Sept.

Phil, a son, Kellan

'03

Linda Heller Telesky

Melissa Miller '09M and Aaron Yoder, July 31, 2010

Georgia

Molvene "Molly" Keiner Knudsen

Robert D.Judd Sn

2010

'08, July 10,

Emily Hubbard '09 and Jesse Strubert

2010

'59

Ann A. Chance '60

Jacqueline

2010

7,

'06, April 24,

Balliet,

'51

',51

Woodrow Rhoads '59

Meghan Frieland Piazza '01 and husband,
Dan Piazza '00, a daughter, JUlian Kathleen,

April Williams '08 and John Yarem, July 24, 2010

Casey Epler '09 and Matthew

Hartzell Jr

2010

William

2010

31,

19,

and Thomas Holdinsky, May

Kelly A. Weikert '08 and Greg

Howard R.

Jan. 10, 2011

Krista L. Johnston '08 and Michael Seldomridge, July
Stacie Riley '08

2011

'45

'05

and Robert Hess Jr.,

and Brock Gaboon

5,

2010

5,

Mitchell, June

Nicole Deitrick '07 and Brock Belles, June

Ashley Leymeister

Parker, Jan.

Eric, a daughter, Eleni Katherine,

Sept. 18, 2010

and Shawn Daugherty, Aug.

'06

II

Noah

Robert L. Watts

Alissa Jo Eaton 'o6/'09M and Charlie Lukasavage, July

Donald Shipe

Kevin, a son,

Lauren Blanzaco Gozzard '00 and husband,
2010

10,

and Kristy Renninger, May

and Jamie Longazel

Melissa Wright Wilson '98 and husband,

Max G. Cooley '50
Nancy Crumb Eves '50

2010

and Rachel Nielsen, July

'05

'05

'06

III,

Eleanore Althoff Lapinski 43

Mary Lou Fenstemaker John

Lena Fisher Shaffer

Amy Gray, July 10, 2010

Katie Leibig '05 and John Muscalus

'40

Rogan Summer Mintzer, May 25, 2009

2010

24,

July

II,

Gavin

Mary Trump Buckley 43

a daughter,

Oliver, a daughter,

Chilcoat, Oct. 23, 2010

Lindsy Force '05/'07M and John Maxwell

'96,

Kimberly Barto Crisp '00 and husband,
2010

2010

Hill,

and Darren Chippi, Aug.

'05

B. Hill '37

John Yeager

Ritter, Oct. 16,

'06, Oct. 16,

Walton

'33

'34

2010

6,

Paul G. Fazio '04 and Cheryl A. Emershaw, Sept.

Jamie Frey '04 and Jim Keller

Smith

2010

Sept. 4, 2010

Keith M. Ayers '04 and Emily Foresman, Nov.

Bogdon

2010

Heidi Mintzer '98/'05M and

2010

11,

Mazzolla, July

Erin Peters '03M and Alexander Kovach

Nicole

10,

'33

Thomas H. Jenkins 40
S. Violet Reilly

Brett Cappel '03 and Elizabeth McCuUoch, Oct. 22, 2010

Andrea M. Kitka

Elwood Hartman

Adam Koser '00, Nov. 20, 2010

and Dan

'02

'31

Naus Munson

Alda Giannini Strazdus

2010

1,

and Joseph Semuta, July 2, 2010

'01

'29

Irene

Dara Rose Pachence '99 and Gregory James Schmick, Nov. 13, 2010
Rob Walton '96 and wife, Barbara, a
Heather Lynn Hollick '00 and David Walter Pfleegor II, Sept. 4, 2010 daughter, Grace Katherine, Feb. 2, 2011

Stadler '24

Florence Fawcett Fowler

2010

30,

M.

Mary Storosko Sweeney

'10

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REUNIONS, NETWORKING, AND SPECIAL EVENTS

ANNUAL GET-TOGETHER:

NEPA NETWORK:

Eric Schaeffer '91, Eric Miller 01 and Alan
Dakey 73. left to right, attend the recent BU Alumni Association s
NEPA Network Mixer at the Backyard Ale House in Scranton. Miller,
who was the quarterback of the Huskies national championship
runner-up football team in 2000. is co-owner of the establishment.
For information on the NEPA Network for alumni living in Northeast
Pennsylvania, go to vmw.bloomualumni.com or contact Alumni

The founding sisters of Phi Sigma
Sigma, all members of the Class of 1990, hold a family get-together
every year Shown left to right, are front row: Jill Winger Jacobs and
Joann DiFrancesco Reesen and back row: Angela Bistline Reighard,
Marganne Nye Hoffman and Stacey Cochran Millheim.

Affairs at (800) 526-025^.

HOOPSTERS REUNITE: Women's

basketball

alumnae attending a

recent courtside reception and cheering as the Huskies took on West

Chester are.

left to right:

Kelly Heierbacher

Greenholt 83. Kathy McGuire-Stoudt

Bulka Caulfield

ALL

THE FAMILY:

Debbie Bentz Metz 90, left, says BU was well
Shown, left to right, are Metz:
her cousin. Ann Bentz Weinsteiger '85; nieces Sarah Bergenstock and
Mandi Baer members of the Class of 2014; and cousin Susan Bentz
McDonald '97 with her husband. Derrick McDonald
IN

represented

Colegrove

'94,

'94,

Michelle

'92.

Tennyson '91 Diane AlfonsI
Debra Artz Barry 73. Careen
.

Simons Dubosky '93, Lesley Seitzinger
and Jamie Kauczka Esgro 06.

Kelly Burkhart 06

at a recent family gathering.

ALUMNI RECRUITERS: Alumni

KELLER WEDDING:BU was

recruiters for the

wedding

retuming to campus as employment
annual Career and Intemship Expo are, left to
right: Austin John 04 and Sara Johansen 07, both with Travelers
Insurance; Bonnie Gregory 03 and Julie Kaszuba 00, both with Lehigh
Valley Health Network; and Kate Johnson 07, Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
1

7th

well-represented at an Oct. 16, 2010,
Boone's Dam. Bloomsburg. Shown, left to
right, are Garrett Lowe 05, Jeremy Frey '12, groom Jim Keller 06,
bride Jamie Frey Keller 04, Katie Leibig Muscalus '05/'10M, Andrea
Falcone Gritman 03 and Jeff Gritman 04/ 05M.
at the

Barn

at

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over
the shoulder
!

L

J

Safeguarding Mother Earth
^j^ROBERT DUNKELBERGER, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Bloomsburg State College students ushered in the
first

Earth Day, April

22, 1970,

with a symbolic

rejection of humanity's love for the automobile

and

primary source of air pollution: they
bludgeoned, then buried, a 1965 Ford Falcon, minus
its

role as a

to the construction of a solar collector.

maintenance

Bloomsburg's

and donated it to
the college, which used it to

staff built the collector

David Brooks. Velma Avery, Dave

Keefer and Shelby Treon,

left to

served on the 1970 Earth Day
Art Committee,

generate hot water for the

right,

the engine, in vacant land

former laundry,
as

Simon

Hall.

now known

It

was

between the current

estimated the collector would

Andruss Library and

pay for

Student Recreation Center.

Ten years later, local
groups were working with
those on campus to promote
the ideals of Earth Day. The
Fishing Creek Green

The event contributed
one of the more dramatic
moments of Earth Day at

Bloomsburg since the
national observance began
more than 40 years ago. That

itself in five years.

Alliance sponsored a clean-up

day on April 21, 1990, to
remove garbage along a
20-mile stretch from Benton

Earth Day in April 1970,
coordinated by a group of

first

students with concerns

south to the creek's conflu-

about local air and water

ence with the Susquehanna

pollution,

was

part of Environmental

Awareness Week.

the

overpopulation, air

The club

a

teach-in with lectures

and water pollution
and nuclear power.
The films, Bulldozed
America and Who

Hartline Science Center.

Anniversary celebrations in 1995 and 2000 continued
to raise awareness of environmental issues. The 25th
annual Earth Day observance adjacent to Lycoming

first

celebrations have
appeared

in

occurred to mark

five-

and

the April 22,

Maroon & Gold,

10-year anniversaries. In
1980, for example,

Day Committee composed of students and

an Earth

faculty

planned events that began with an overnight sleep-out
on the site of the current Student Recreation Center.
Earth Day continued with an ecumenical sunrise

and closed with a
House on the upper
campus. Students, faculty and staff were encouraged to
hike, bike or jog to campus, instead of driving.
The Community Government Association provided
$1,300 in financial support, nearly half of which went
service, a concert

and

aimed at decreasing the
warming. Members raised $800 selling
T-shirts and used the money to buy bushes and shrubs
that were planted by the greenhouse next to the
Federation's "Cool It" project

effects of global

were shown.
Since the

1970, issue of the

participated in the National Wildlife

Killed Lake Erie?

observance in 1970,
the largest Earth Day

earth,

members of the campus

on radioactive and
solid waste disposal,

ways humans were abusing the planet included

This cartoon, depicting the polluted

River. Participants, including

community, filled more than 700 bags with trash.
On campus, one of the event sponsors was the
Biology Club, which focused on issues that were not
part of the original Earth Day, such as acid rain, the
greenhouse effect, ozone depletion and deforestation.

Events designed to educate and increase awareness of

tree planting,

sunset service west of Nelson Field

Hall included the sale of plants and tie-dyed T-shirts,
music from the bands Social and The Need and
information on how students could help preserve the
health of the planet and society. Frontiers, the
university's outdoor club, sponsored the event.
Help Our Planet Earth (H.O.P.E.) organized Earth
Day in 2000, with a primary focus on energy conservation.
The event, held again on the Lycoming lawn, featured a
large recyclable "hut," a police car that ran on alternative
fuel and music.
In this decade, Earth Day continues in the tradition
of engagement, with recreational activities, speakers,
panel discussions and tours of environmental projects
in action, all designed to remind us, once again, to
handle Mother Earth with care. •

SPRING

2011

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CaLEND^R
Activities
Academic Calendar

New

SUMMER

Activities

2011

May 23 to Aug. 12
- May 23 to July 1

-

Session

I

Session

II

Session

III -

and Events
Summer Experience,

Sunday, June 26

Summer Freshman

sixth-

New York

Tuesday, July 5

Mets

ninth- through iith-graders;

vs.

Philadelphia Phillies

Act 101/EOP Orientation

through eighth-graders,

and CSI Summer Experience,

Orientation

July 6 to Aug. 12

FALL 2011

Math and Science Camps

Roger Sanders-Era
Alumni Wrestling Reunion

Student

Saturday, July 16

Tuesday, July 5

Pepsi Porch,

Freshman Previews
Monday through Wednesday,
July 11 to 13, and Wednesday
Through Friday, July 20 to 22

Bloom

Citi Field,

New York

Monday to Thursday,
June 27 to 30; for information,
jpolhill@bloomu.edu
or (570) 389-4508.

Classes Begin

Fall

Monday, Aug. 29
Labor Day, No Classes
Monday, Sept. 5

Transfer Orientation

Reading Day

Wednesday and Thursday,

Friday, Oct. 14

Aug. 3 and 4

Thanksgiving Recess Begins

Tuesday, Nov.
Classes

22, 10

p.m.

@ the

Beach

Saturday, Aug.
Seacrets,

6,

Ocean

7 to 9 p.m.

City,

Md.

Fame

Induction

Friday, Oct. 21

Kehr Union

Pre-registration required

Carver Hall Chapter

Homecoming Weekend

Annual Yard Sale
Saturday, Aug. 13

Friday to Sunday, Oct. 7 to 9
Class of 1961 50-Year Reunion

Fenstermaker Alumni House

Alumni Tent Party

Non-Traditional/ ACE Orientation

Saturday, Aug. 27

Weekend

Class of 1956 55-Year Reunion

Parents and Family

Saturday, Oct.

Friday to Sunday, Oct. 28 to 30

1

Resume

Monday, Nov.

28, 8 a.m.

Alumni Events
Classes End

Visit

Saturday, Dec. 10

www.bloomualumni.com for

details

Capital

Network Football

Tailgate

Finals Begin

Monday, Dec.

Fenstemaker Alumni House

Alumni

field

End

Friday, Dec. 16
Capital Netv/ork

Graduate

Commencement

Summer

Friday, Dec. 16

Alumni

Picnic

Thursday, June 16
West Shore Elks Picnic Pavilion

Undergraduate Commencement

Cariisle Pike,

Camp Hill

hockey, football, soccer,

swimming,

Special Events

tennis, wrestling,

basketball and,

Affairs office at

(570) 389-4058, (800) 526-0254
or alum@bloomu.edu.

BU offers summer camps in
the following sports: baseball,

on these and additional

For information, contact the
12

Summer Camps

Saturday, Oct. 15

events or to register to attend.

Finals

Athletic Hall of

Reading. Literacy and Learning

Conference (formerly the Reading

and

Conference)

registration info

Thursday and
May 12 and 13

lacrosse.

For dates,

Friday,

visit

www.bucamps.com.

For information:
http://orgs.bloomu.edu/Uc,

dhartman@bloomu.edu

Carver Hall Chapter
Finger Lakes Wine Tour

Trash

to

Treasure

Saturday,

Saturday, June 18

May 21, 9 a.m.

to

noon;

Kehr Union,
Multicultural Center and

early birds, 8 a.m.;

Lehigh Valley Alumni Day

Fireside Lounge; benefits

at Iron Pigs

Sunday, June 26,
Tickets required

For the

latest information

1:35

p.m.

Columbia County United Way.
Call (570) 784-3134.

on upcoming events, check the university website, www.bloomu.edu.

BLOOM.S BURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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and contact
information for each camp,

or (570) 389-4092

Saturday, Dec. 17

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cross country, track and field

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From the Provost
The second phase of hard work
begins this fall— the translation of
the general education goals into
specific student learning outcomes.

A second team of faculty and staff
will review

proposed courses and

co-curricular learning experiences,

such as internships, leadership roles

and

service learning, for their

viability in providing learning

opportunities that support student

achievement. In addition, each

proposal must incorporate assess-

Modeling General

ment, identifying

outcomes. The

Education
THE PAST YEAR

has Seen

"The goal is to enhance

University community, including

educational opportunities

steps in university-wide

initiatives to

address our

new general educa-

program is scheduled to begin
for incoming freshmen in fall 2012.
The campus is still buzzing with
energy and a collective commitment
to ensuring Bloomsburg University
tion

signifi-

cant changes for the Bloomsburg

first

how to determine

student achievement of the learning

new

for all students."

strategic plan, Impact 201$: Building

on the Past, Leadingfor the Future.
Collaborative energy and commit-

readiness and effective citizenship

ment abound as innovative ideas
are implemented, faculty and

in the 2ist century.

administrators create inter-

Bloomsburg University continues

disciplinary learning opportunities

to offer students a

and others

identify

ways

to

secure

a fiscal future that is less affected

we experienced in

One of the new strategic plan's
main goals focuses on our core
purpose: to enhance educational
all

students.

A

We strive for continuous improvement

in achieving our mission and
meeting the evolving needs of

today's students.

personal and professional success.

work

led

to approval of a transformative

general education model.

the last two years.

opportunities for

meaningful

provides the best education possible.

education that prepares them for
In spring 2011, their

by the kinds of budgetary
uncertainties

principal objective

The team's
was to ensure

The

IRA

BLAKE

model identifies goals vital to a
comprehensive university experi-

Provost and Senior Vice President for

ence that supports the acquisition

Academics, Bloomsburg University

K.

of knowledge, skills and personal

BU President David

fundamental to a
deeper understanding of and

Editor's note:

appreciation for the world,

winter 2012 issue of Bloomsburg:

team made up of faculty and staff
laid the groundwork, conducting
a comprehensive review of our
general education program in light

characteristics

of the evolving nature of career

part in

possibilities
it.

and the

its

individual's

Soltz's

column

will return in the

The University Magazine. Until then,
see http://bupresident.blogspot.com.

FEATURES
10 Driller Instinct
Ed

Breiner

'77 figures

the angles and

top— from rescuing
miners to leading a company through
the economic downturn.
conies out on

14 Market Sense
Wall Street comes to

new Financial

Hall's

BU via Sutliff
Services Lab.

15 Lea n on Me
Students "lean" on each other to
learn theory's practical application.

17 A step Above
Two recent graduates prove campus
involvement

is

a competitive advantage

for first-time jobseekers.

18 Paying Dividends
Dean Michael Tidwell says it's time
for BU's already strong program to
become one of the Northeast's foremost business education schools.

20
BU's

Professional Polish

new Zeigler

Institute for

Professional Development integrates

an alumni couple's philosophy into
the curriculum.

23 Building for Business
The name and the building footprint
are

all

that remains of the I950s-style

SutUffHall.

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IS A MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE

Fall 2011

SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education Board
of Governors

Guido M. Pichini, Chair
Marie Conley Lammando,
Vice Chair

Aaron Walton,
Leonard

Matthew

Vice Chair

B. Aitieri III
E.

Baker

Tom Corbett
Sarah C. Darling
Michael K. Hanna
Ronald G. Henry
Vincent J. Hughes
Kenneth M.Jarin
Bonnie L. Keener
Jonathan B. Mack
Joseph F. McGinn
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni

Jeffrey E. Piccola

President,

Harold C. Shields

David

Robert

S.

Taylor

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Bloomsburg University of Pennsyh ania

fres
perspective^

Caring for Japan

When Japan was devastated by an earthquake,
tsunami and nuclear power accident, business
management major Anh Tran from Vietnam did
something to help. Teaming with her fellow international students and the SOLVE and Residence
Life offices, she organized a fund drive. Through
collection cans and at tables where they created
origami for donors, the international students
raised

HI.

more than $900

00 MS 1:1

Ki;

for the

LM\ ERSr

Red Cross.

•

Bloomsburg Unh^ersity of Pennsyh^ania

aroundTHEquad
Passion for Patents
MARK TAPSAK, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY,
RECEIVES PATENT FOR GLUCOSE DEVICE

The

United States Patent and Trademark

Office received nearly 520,000 patent appli-

cations in 2010, but fewer than half were

One of those successful patents
Mark Tapsak, associate professor

granted.

went

to

of

chemistn,', the 24th since his career began.

The expert

in

polymer chemistn.- received

his latest

patent for an implantable glucose-monitoring device
that continuously checks diabetics' blood-sugar levels
for

one

year.

Designed

to help diabetics

maintain a

consistent glucose level, the device supplements, but

does not replace, the traditional finger-prick

The implanted monitor,
average-sized

Uke receiver

slightly smaller

USB thumb-drive,

in a pocket or

sticks.

than an

connects to a beeper-

purse to provide continuous

updates via radio frequencies relayed from inside
the patient. Tapsak began

work on

the project with

engineers and other experts while employed by

DexCom,
WTiile

a

San Diego-based company.

number 24 sounds

impressive, Tapsak insists

remains his most special. "A first patent
first love," he says.
Issued in just one \ ear, rather than the t\'pical three

his first patent
is

almost Uke a

to five, his first patent

devised a method to use ultrasonic imagins; dur-

The expert tn polymer
chemistry received his
latest patent for an
implantable glucosemonitoring device that
continuously checks
diabetics' blood -sugar
levels for one year.

research and development company. Medtronic,

which he

The

compam" where I had

m\" first

After a few years, he became the 12th employee of

ing the insertion of
a catheter.

calls "a big

taste of developing technolog\'."

a

new company, DexCom, where he helped

create

process allows

medical devices, as well as streamline products to

doctors to see the

make them more

tubing without

Although Medtronic and DexCom provided the
foundation for all of his patents, Tapsak was drawn
to teaching. "As a teaching assistant, I found teaching

exposing the
patient or doctor
to radiation

which

occurred during

an alternative
process, fluoroscopy. "There was nothing to compare
it to," he says.
Tapsak's career started with a biotechnology

to

be

ver\'

Tapsak,

consistent.

rewarding.

who

It

was

a natural transition," says

taught as an adjunct facultA'

while working in the business

Tapsak has been

at

\N

member

orld.

BU since 2004 and is now

applying for patents on his own. Perhaps number 25
is

on the horizon.

•

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5

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

aroundjHn

J

mlad
Student Affairs
NEW VP NAMED
DiONE SOMERVILLE, former dean
of students at Iowa State University,
joined

BU this summer as vice
president for

Student Affairs.
Somerville

served as dean of
students at Iowa
State University
for

more than four

years, leading the

Academic Success Center, Greek
Affairs, Recreation Services,

Student Assistance, Multicultural

a

^
JJ

Jeremy Rhen, a senior
management major
from Pottstown

i^jjy member

and""""

of Phi Beta

Lambda, deans the
window of downtown
Bloomsburg's Salvation

Army Thrift

Store during

The Big Event.

thanks to the

is

Town of Bloomsburg,"

by BU's Community Government

"a great opportunity to express our

says

Anikka

schools and

Town

Elyria, Ohio; director of student

and

activities at

a

Brill,

immediate past

BU students tackled clean-up
projects at local businesses, churches, homes, the Women's Center, YMCA,
president of CGA. During

Lorain County Community College,
services at the

Ohio

Cleveland; and director of student

CLEAN UP BLOOMSBURG
MORE THAN 900 Students took part in the second annual Big Event,
service project. Sponsored

was director of

College of Podiatric Medicine,

900

Association (CGA), The Big Event

Previously, she

enrollment services/registrar at

affairs

i9
community

Student Affairs and Judicial Affairs.

The Big Event,

Park. Fourteen local businesses donated food, equipment

Ursuline College,

Pepper Pike, Ohio. She earned a
bachelor's degree from Ohio
Northern University, master's
degree from Bowling Green State
University and doctoral degree from
the University of Pennsylvania.
Jeff Long, assistant vice president

for Student Affairs, led the division

and materials. •

as interim vice president for the

past two years since the death of

Student Trustee

former vice president Preston

NEW COUNCIL APPOINTMENT
MARCUS FULLER JOINS BU's Council of Trustees this fall as its student

Herring. •

member. The junior business management and psychology
dual major from Harrisburg replaces Raylene Brill, who
graduated in May.
"(As Trustee)
students, faculty

be able to act as a liaison between the
and university community, and I can

I'll

bring issues to the forefront that

^gjjj^^^ ^fl

may otherwise be

overlooked," Fuller says.
In addition to the Trustees, Fuller

Kappa Alpha

Psi, secretary

Men of Intelligence,

is

vice president of

of the Intrafratemity Council, a

member of the

and Desire mentorship program and a
participant in the Campus Crusade for Christ/Impact program. He works
in the Kehr Union and is co-director at a summer camp. •

6

Notability

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Record Setter
EMPTY BOWLS RAISES $5,000
FOR FOOD CUPBOARD
THIS SPRING'S Empty Bowls
Banquet

set a record, raising

more

than $5,000 to benefit the
Bloomsburg Food Cupboard. Diners
enjoyed soups from area restaurants

during the ninth annual banquet,

sponsored by the

SOLVE volunteer

More than 125 BU students
participated in Empty Bowls. •
office.

Wimba Wins
AWARD

TEAM GETS DISTANCE
A FOUR-MEMBER team headed by
Sam Slike, who recently retired as
professor of exceptionality pro-

grams, received
the platinum

award

for distance

education during
the

IMS

Global

Learning
Consortium (IMS
Beach,

Calif.

GLC) in Long
The award, the orga-

nization's highest, recognized the

team's success using

known

Wimba, now

as Blackboard Collaborate,

for online courses in education

of the deaf/hard of hearing and

speech pathology. The presentaWork:
tion was titled Wimba

Global Awareness

Improving Access for High-Needs

AN ANONYMOUS $100,000 gift to the Bloomsburg University Foundation

Career Education.

will further international education

@

A total of 30 finalist teams from
competed for the awards.
Also attending the consortium
was John Cavanaugh, chancellor
of the Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education. •
15 countries

and the mission of the Global
Awareness Society International (GASI). GASI, a non-profit academic
and professional organization based at BU, promotes peace by fostering understanding and mutual respect through multicultural and
global education.

The anonymous gift establishes the Dr. and Mrs. Chang Shub Roh
and Family Global Awareness Scholarship Fund which will encourage
BU students to prepare abstracts and make presentations at GASI's
annual conferences, held

Yes to

Noh

faculty

at locations

member, serves as GASI's

Pomfret, a retired faculty

FOR FIRST TIME

Foundation Board of Directors. •

credits

from Bloomsburg
17th year, the

University. In

its

Noh Training

Project (NTP)

intensive, three-week

is

an

in the dance, chant and
instruments of classical Japanese
Noh drama, one of the oldest con-

performed theatre forms
Bloomsburg Theatre

in the world.

Ensemble, established in 1978,

is

current

BU

by vice chair James

member of the BU

Capitol Research
SENIOR PRESENTS POSTER IN D.C.
A SENIOR GEOLOGY and planetary geoscience major presented his research,
and GIS to Map Subzones within
Marsh near Wallops Island, Va.," in Washington, D.C,
last spring. Research by Brian Gulp, a resident of Danville
and native of Grand Island, N.Y., was among 74 presentations chosen from more than 700 reviewed for the Council
of Undergraduate Research "Posters on the Hill" event. BU
faculty members Cynthia Venn and Michael Shepard of
the geography and geosciences department were
co-authors of Gulp's research, which also was featured
during BU's Research Day in late April. •
"Integration of Quickbird Satellite Imagery

summer

program

tinually

worldwide. Roh, a retired

chair, assisted

member and

COLLEGE CREDITS AVAILABLE
PARTICIPANTS IN THIS Summer's
Noh Training Project at Bloomsburg
Theatre Ensemble could, for the
first time, earn three academic

BENEFITS STUDENTS

a

resident professional acting company

housed in downtown Bloomsburg's
Alvina Krause Theatre. •

a Salt

FALL

2011

7

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aroundruE uad

NBEA Leader

Brown Returns
FORMER ADMINISTRATOR IS
NEW LIBERAL ARTS DEAN
A FORMER INTERIM dean returned to BU this summer

OLIVO ELECTED PRESIDENT
JOHN OLIVO, chair of business

as dean of BU's College of Liberal Arts. James Brown,

previously dean of Arts and Sciences

technology management, was elected
president of the National Business

and professor of English

Education Association (NBEA).

Mansfield

at

BU for five years as

University, served

assistant dean, associate

NBEA is a professional organization

dean and

interim dean of BU's College of Liberal
Arts.

education and information and

He also headed BU's

teacher edu-

for individuals

and groups involved in
and disseminating

teaching, administering, researching

information for and about business. •

cation unit from 2008 to 2009, coordi-

nating the National Council for

(NCATE)

Accreditation of Teacher Education

reaccred-

itation efforts.

Earlier in his career.

Brown was

a professor of

English at Charleston Southern University, where he
also directed the honors program.

He earned

a bache-

lor's

degree from Slippery Rock University and mas-

ter's

and doctoral degrees from Ohio

Man of Faith
NEW PRIEST JOINS CCM
THE REV. TIM MARCOE began his ministry as Catholic
Campus

Ministry's

dean

for the past

two

priest in June.

Bom in

Tim graduated from

Millersville University in 2001 with a

State University.

bachelor's degree in meteorology

Julie Kontos, professor of psychology, served as the

College's interim

new

Allentown, Father

studied for the priesthood at

years. •

Vincent Seminary, Latrobe.

ordained

and

St.

He was

at St. Patrick Cathedral,

Harrisburg.

First

and Goal

Finding his calling as a student leader
in Millersville's Catholic

EVANS MAKES LEADERSHIP GIFT

role at

THE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION'S
and Goal," a
$2 million endowed
scholarship campaign
"First

to benefit
is

gift

thanks in

of $500,000 from

Jahri Evans
Campaign

the 'First

with the

and Goal'

are. left to right,

Gerald Frey

71.

BU

campus through spiritual and social activities.
Father Tim says he wants to create a comfortable
place of worship for students and plans to continue the

work of his

predecessor, the Rev. Jeff Thorns.*

more than halfway

part to a leadership

off

'07,

guard

New Orleans

Way withMCGUIRE
Words
COSIDA HONORS
TOM MCGUIRE, BU's

won first place in

(CoSIDA) annual writing contest.
McGuire won in the coach/administrator category for his story on
Huskies athletic trainers Allen
and Roxie Larsen, featured in the

Jahri Evans 07 and Steph Pettit

raised through the
"First

and Goal" campaign

will

make an

additional

$80,000 to $100,000 in scholarship funds available
each year. The leadership committee is led by co-chairs
Gerald Frey

The

and Steph Pettit '89.
Redman Stadium will be named

field at

of Huskies coach

campaign

Danny Hale at

8

the conclusion of the

"First and

the

Bloomsburg University Foundation

Goal" campaign, see www.bloomufdn.org.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

2010 issue of Bloomsburg: The

University Magazine. McGuire's

honor

in spring 2012. •

For information on

and the

fall

'71

in

sports information director,

District 2 in the College Sports

Information Directors of America

and former
Ail-American. Funds
Saints

President

David Soltz, Coach Danny Hale,

Ministry, he sees his

BU football,

to its goal,

Kicking

Campus

BU as bridging the gap between church and

award was presented

at the

CoSIDA Convention

in Florida. •

To reread the winning story, see
www.bloomu.edu/magazine.

ON THE HILL

FOR UP-TO-DATE SCORES AND
COVERAGE, GO ONLINE

bjTOM MCGUIRE

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Fame Career

Hall of

BU ATHLETIC DIRECTOR MARY GARDNER RETIRES AFTER 23 YEARS

MARY GARDNER, a pioneer in women's intercollegiate athletics, retired in June after 23

years leading the Huskies athletic program.

One of the first female athletic

directors in

the country responsible for both the men's

and women's athletics programs, Gardner
was appointed Bloomsburg University's
athletic director in July 1988 after six months
as interim director. Her duties included
overseeing the daily activities of the university's

20 varsity teams, including budget,

personnel,

National Collegiate

facilities,

(NCAA) and

Athletic Association

Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

(PSAC) compliance, and summer camps.
Calling her years at

BU "rewarding, both

personally and professionally," Gardner says
she'll

miss the daily contact with student

athletes, coaches

have been

and support

staff.

"There

many changes throughout my

tenure as athletic director. All have been positive for the university

Many challenges lie

and

athletics in general.

ahead, but

I

am confident

our

staff,

will

meet those challenges head-on and conmost competitive

with the administration's support,

tinue to be one of the

schools in the Pennsylvania State Athletic

Conference.

It

has been an honor to be a part

of Bloomsburg University for the past 37 years."
Prior to heading the athletic department, Gardner

was an

final stage of a project to

In recognition of her achievements, she

assistant professor in BU's exercise science

department and served as associate director of athletics.
She initiated and served as head coach of the women's

(NACDA) athletic director of the year for the

Association of Collegiate

coach, registering a four-year record of 20-12-9.

of the year.

Gardner coached 44 Ail-Americans, several of whom
individual national

During the past

six years,

Gardner had oversight

northeast region in 2001. In 2003, the National

Women Athletics Administrators
(NACWAA) honored her as Division II athletic director
The Hatboro

degrees

titles.

for

the university's $18 million athletic facilities renovations,

including All Sports Stadium, the tennis complex,

Redman Stadium and the Nelson Field House.
Currently, the Danny Litwhiler baseball field is in the

was named

the National Association of Collegiate Directors of
Athletics

swimming and diving program for 14 seasons, posting
an overall record of 88-28, and led the men's program
for one season. She also was BU's first field hockey

won

update bleachers, dugouts,

fencing and walkways.

at

native earned bachelor's

and master's

East Stroudsburg University, where she

was the school's first three-time national champion in
swimming and a varsity letter winner in both field
hockey and swimming. She is a member of both the
Hatboro-Horsham and East Stroudsburg University
halls of fame. •

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9

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=H|t

sports

A Banner Season

BLOOMSBURG HOSTS
IN

10

CHAMPIONSHIPS

ONE YEAR

"NCAA manuals cover every
aspect of operation at one of their

championships," says McGuire.

"They leave nothing to chance,

right

down to the time for the national
anthem. We've hosted so many
times we know much of what's in
manual without reading it."
Sometimes, BU juggles multiple
championships. That happened
the

last

March when

the

PSAC Women's

the Huskies hosted

Basketball

championship on Friday and
Saturday and the EWL Division I
national qualifying tournament on
Sunday.

And that doesn't count a

women's basketball quarterfinal
game on Tuesday and a home
lacrosse game on Wednesday.
It's

HAVE hosted
THE HUSKIESpostseason
matcha

variety of

tions, athletic training

Athletic Association

"When we learn that BU will be
we print tickets, assign

(NCAA)

the host,
field

NCAA foot-

student-workers, get the pre-game

ball playoffs to Eastern Wrestling

music together and make sure
officials have a locker room, among

League (EWL) championships and

a laundry

hockey

final four

lots of Softball.

and

This past year,

all

or part of 10 championships were

Preparation
that's

student-athletes, says

Tom

McGuire, director of sports

operations.

on the visiting
team and the sports information
their counterparts

staff"

infor-

mation, but the length of time available for preparation varies from

event to event. Sites for sports like

and swimming championships are known a
year ahead and Pennsylvania State
Athletic Conference

game

(PSAC) playoff

locations generally are set a

few months

in advance. In other

sports, however, hosting is deter-

mined by a team's record in conference play and may allow as few as

10

creates programs, builds

Web

pages for fans, writes press releases

and makes arrangements for
coverage by sports reporters from
newspapers, TV and radio.
Hosting an

tennis, wrestling, track

NCAA playoff is
NCAA

more complicated. The
office requires

each school willing

run the game or tournament to
complete forms covering details
including where teams and officials will stay— not in the same
hotel— seating capacity and the
to

restrooms' proximity to the

field.

48 hours for preparation. That's

Wood is responsible for submitting

when three

those forms by deadline.

staffs— athletic opera-

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

much fun

SOFTBALL PLAYER LACY MAURO
of Jersey Shore was named firstteam All -American by
the National Fastpitch

Athletic trainers coordinate with

is key to putting on
memorable for the

too

Mauro Honored

of items," says

Kevin Wood, director of athletic

contested at Bloomsburg.

an event

list

It's

watching the Huskies win. •

information— get to work.

ups on the upper campus,

from the National Collegiate

and sports

a lot of work, but there are

no complaints.

Coaches Association
(NFCA). The catcher
capped her college
career with a brilliant
senior season, leading Bloomsburg
in hitting, with a mark of .404,
homers (10), RBIs (35) and hits
(59). She was tied for the team lead
in doubles with 11 and was second
runs scored with 33. Mauro also
led the Huskies with 18 multi-hit
games and had 10 multi-RBI
in

games.

Mauro

also

was named the

2011

Pennsylvania State Athletic

Conference (PSAC) Central
Division Athlete of the Year, the
first-team

All-PSAC Central two

years in a row, first-team All-Atlantic

Region by Daktronics and firstteam All-Region by the NFCA. •

Academic
Champions
COLLEGE SPORTS INFORMATION
Directors (CoSIDA) recognized

^H^H

three

BU student-

athletes for their

work

^^y^l
l^^^l

in the

B

3

competition.

^

fl

tennis player Laura

classroom and in

Women's

Dingman's
earned second-

Sullivan,
Ferry,

team All-District 2
honors in the at-large
category; she also

was named

Pennsylvania State

Live Coverage
THE HUSKIES GAME at Indiana
broadcast Thursday, Sept.

IWl^J*^JHH

University of Penns\ Ivania will be

15, at

CBS

Sports Netvs^ork (fonnerly

CBS

District 2

College Sports),

and simulcast on wvsw.ncaa.org. Alumni Affairs "watch" parties
are planned across Pennsylvania.
Bloomsburg's football team last appeared on national T\' during
the 2006 season when ESPN2 broadcast the Huskies in the NCAA
II

Coplay, for softball

To be

the

Baseball Recognition

this spring.

Hunter,

was

named PSAC

4-1

East Freshman of the

with a team-best 3.10

which he struck out seven and walked two.
Hunter also tossed a three-hit shutout against Kutztown University
which helped the Huskies move into playoff contention on the season's
final weekend. Hunter had three complete games on the season and
opponents hit just .254 off him. In PSAC East-only games Hunter was
Millersville University in

Inductees Announced

year's inductees are

Splain

'92,

Petersen

to 142.

This

Tracy Price

swimming; Mike

'92,

tennis; Rich Kozicki

swimming; Lori Shelly '91, softball; and Denise Miller Warner '99,
field hockey and softball.
'76,

The Hall of Fame dinner will be

ERA.

held in the Kehr Union Ballroom.

Collins, in his sixth season,

was chosen PSAC Eastern Division Coach

of the Year. In 2011, he guided the Huskies to their first PSAC playoff
berth in 13 years after posting an 11-13 mark in PSAC East action, includ-

BU finished with
PSAC championship tournament. •

ing wins in six of the their final eight division games.

and went

•

THE INDUCTION OF the 30th BU
Athletic Hall of Fame class on
number of honorees

Among his wins was a four-hit shutout
of nationally ranked, PSAC East champ

23-21 record

PSAC Top 10 team.

Friday, Oct. 21, will bring the total

ERA for the

season.

4-0 with a 0.97

CoSIDA

Hall of Fame

BU FRESHMAN PITCHER Kyle Hunter of Lehighton and head baseball
coach Mike Collins were honored by the Pennsylvania State Athletic
I^^^^B i^^^^I^^ Conference (PSAC) for their accomplishments

Year,

eligible for the

A GPA of at least 3.5 is required for

isci:. bloomu.edu/magazinc.

J

and Joey

awards, a student-athlete must
have an overall GPA of at least 3.30.

national semi-finals against North^^ est Missouri State.

^

to

Bloomsburg, for baseball.

laniero,

Locations of alumni "watch" parties will be posted, as available, at

i^^^^ I

All-

CoSIDA

honors also went
Shavaun Fisher,

syndicated to regional sports networks and local television stations

Division

Athletic Conference

(PSAC) Spring 10
team. Second team

8 p.m. as part of the six-game 2011

NCAA Division II Football Game of the Week package. The game will
be featured on

to the

2-2 in the

a

Call the

BU sports information

office at (570) 389-4413 for ticket

information. •

For more information on

this year's

inductees, see www.buhuskies.com.

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ALUMNI PROFILE

]

Driller
Instinct
whole world watched
last fall as 33 Chilean miners were pulled from far
below the earth's surface. BU alumnus Ed Breiner '77
had a special interest in the rescue. He leads the
company that manufactured the life-saving drill.
It's

no exaggeration

by

to say the

JACK SHERZER
were considering another drilling option for
main rescue. They projected the rescue would succeed
by Christmas, but Breiner knew there was a faster way.
He was right. The Schramm rig first thought of as "Plan
B" ended up breaking through to the miners and making
the rescue possible by mid-October.
authorities

Initiative.

the

Reacting to news that 33 miners in Chile are trapped
and copper mine and need to be rescued.

in a gold

Running a $125 million drilling rig company as the
economy falls off a cliff. Figuring out the way forward
in the

shaky world that follows.

For Edward J. Breiner, president and
Chester-based

CEO of West

experience in the U.S. and across the world have taught
it

doesn't pay to wait for events to overtake you.

"Take

initiative,

don't wait for

someone to tell you

what to do— if you see a snake, kill it," says Breiner, 55,
who graduated from Bloomsburg in 1977 with a bachelor's

degree in accounting. "In

my career I've never had

someone tell me to stop doing something.
tell

me to start

Initiative.

Schramm Inc., decades of business

had them
doing something, so take initiative and the
I've

world will follow."

As the head of one of the leading manufacturers of
drilling equipment— drilling rigs used all over the world
ground" for anything from minerals
and water to natural gas and oil— Breiner directed his
employees to work on rescue plans as soon as he heard
about the Aug. 5, 2010, Chilean mine collapse that trapped
33 men nearly a half mile under ground. And he started
"to put holes in the

out of the economy. By the fourth quarter of 2008, Breiner

was suddenly looking at $20 million in canceled orders.
"It was clear something was wrong. This was a liquidity
crisis;

it

wasn't like other business recessions.

I

knew we

had to act fast."

IngersoU Rand days
Working in manufacturing came naturally to Breiner.
He grew up in Easton, and his father worked for
IngersoU Rand as a machinist. Though his father had
only finished the 10th grade, he essentially became an
industrial engineer without the formal education, the

go-to

man to solve equipment problems,

Breiner recalls.

In high school and through college, Breiner

worked

for the company in departments ranging from boiler-

without being asked.

Immediately after the coUapse, a

It was the same "kill the snake" attitude that kept
Schramm from going under when the bottom dropped

Schramm rig made

the initial borehole that located the miners, but Chilean

making to inventory control.
Breiner initially enrolled in Shippensburg State
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13

College, but followed his wife-to-be,

the former Julie Miller, to Bloomsburg,

where they graduated together in
1977.

Married for 32 years, they have

three

grown children, two sons and

a daughter.
After graduation, Breiner joined
Ingersoll

Rand as an accountant in

New Jersey before getting the opportunity that

would change the direction

of his life— an opening at the company's drill rig

manufacturing plant in

Garland, Texas. While there, he

earned his

MBA from the University

of Dallas and became certified in pro-

duction and inventory management.
Just as significantly, he

worked in

various jobs, from managing inventory
control to troubleshooting problems.

Accounting taught Breiner discipline

and collaboration with employees at
IngersoU Rand and other companies
nurtured his interest in working with
people.

He also learned about dealing

with change as the company closed
four manufacturing divisions else-

where and brought the work to his plant. "I loved it:
bringing order to chaos. We had fun, and we had people
that worked well together," he says.
He also saw firsthand how technology was making
manufacturing more efficient and reducing the number
of workers needed.
president

He returned to Pennsylvania as vice

and branch manager for equipment sales

Ingersoll Rand's offices in Lewisberry, but

that the

at

he could see

company was continuing to make changes.
Rand sold every division

"This was the industry

I

grew up in and knew best,

and Schramm is a great business," he says. "Seventy
percent of its revenue comes from overseas and you get
to meet people from all over the globe. It was just good
fortune that I had the opportunity to structure a leveraged buyout of a company and become an owner."
Breiner initially became vice president of marketing
and, after demonstrating leadership to the satisfaction of

Richard

Schramm and the company's board of directors,

Eventually, he notes, IngersoU

was named chief operating officer a year after he joined

he'd been involved with, including the drill division in Texas.

the company.

Joining

Schramm

Inc.

Then, in 2000, Richard
about taking over the

Schramm approached Breiner

drill rig

company his family

founded in 1900. The fourth generation to run the
company, Schramm was 65 years old, had no children
and was looking for someone who could take the firm
into the future.

Schramm says he met Breiner at Ingersoll Rand,
him at trade shows and industry committees
and was struck by his natural leadership qualities and
overall knowledge of the business.

talked with

"When he gets in a group of people who have a task
to perform,
sibilities.

he comes up with ideas and takes on respon-

He's just a clear leader," says

Schramm, now the

company's chairman and consultant on various projects.
For Breiner, it was the right opportunity at the
right time.

14

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

The timing of the deal also was right. The commodities
market was taking
off, and money the
"Take initiative and

the world willfollow, "

^^P^^^ borrowed

buy Richard
Schramm's majority
stock position was paid off in 18 months. Bookings for
new equipment were flowing in and the company, under
Breiner's direction, started expanding into drilling rigs
for energy exploration. That business, which includes
rigs used for natural gas in Pennsylvania's MarceUus
Shale and Canada's tar sands, accounts for about 40
percent of the company's revenue today.
to

-Ed Breiner '77

When the Great Recession hit, Breiner's careful business planning pulled

Schramm through.

drilling business is cyclical, he'd

Realizing the

planned for a 30 percent

was different and required the quick
action of initial layoffs and careful money management.
slowdown. But

this

own temperature is used for heating and cooling.

"We had no debt going into 2009 and we had no debt
coming out of 2009, but we borrowed in between," he
says, recalling a point when the company was burning

earth's

through $8 million a month with few orders coming in.
The long lead time needed for constructing the huge

within a

drilling rigs

While

he's built his career

on taking the initiative,

Breiner says he also believes in taking

company to

all

sorts of jobs

learn the ropes. "In the middle of

my career, I spent a lot of time moving laterally in an

means materials and parts are ordered

organization.

I

took a

lot

of jobs that weren't promotions;

months in advance. Work continues, even when cancellations come in. "We did make money in 2009," he says. "I
was determined we could but we didn't make much."
Now commodities are on an upswing, and so is
Schramm. Looking ahead, Breiner has been studying

"The end result was I became a generalist. I
recommend anytime you have the opportunity to learn
something new, to go someplace different, take it." •

carbon sequestration, the process of placing the carbon

Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania

The firm is also
beginning to buUd rigs for geothermal use, in which the

native.

they were side positions to learn something else," he
says.

...

given off as pollution into the ground.

He currently lives in Harrisburg.

The Chilean Mining Accident

When

the walls of a

mine

Copiapo, Chile, caved

Aug.

5,

2010,

in

in

Brothers.

on

began

Edward Breiner

The crew
a

drilling

rescue hole

heard predictions that 33 trapped miners

dubbed as "Plan B"

might not be freed

while efforts using

Christmas.

until

Without being asked or asking, he

team

another

West Chester-based
Schramm Inc. to look for ways to make
the rescue happen sooner
Schramm rigs can be found around
the world. Although one wasn't being
used at the cave-in's site, the crew from
directed his

a nearby mining

Schramm
drillings.

rig to

at

company brought in
make the initial test

Breiner says

rigs are especially

good

holes that were needed

for the kinds of

—the

initial

holes to find the miners and send water

and

nutrition to

large

sent

enough

down

by-one.

them and the

later hole

for the thin rescue capsule

to bring the

Schramm

men

back one-

drilling rigs,

ration, the bits of earth

needed

rescue, a

hole

is

by geologists. For a mine

drill bit

that can carve out a

just what's needed.

As Breiner and

his

team looked

at

Edward Rendell contacted the Chilean
government and offered assistance,

some

was lowered

that

work

we needed

us

to

The 28-inch

Breiner says.

out,"

that they said, 'You tell us

into the hole.

'There were things

what the machine was designed for so
we had to get with the engineers to make
sure

it

of the

could handle

we

reasons

it.

Frankly that's one

sent a technician to

Chile for six

weeks.

machine so

it

We

could pull

had

to adjust the

more

weight."

Finally after 33 days of drilling

—one

to

make

a hole a foot wide and the

second

to get

it

needed

for the

pass

was

to the full

28 inches

rescue capsule

done. Four days

later, all

—the job
min-

of the

ers were rescued.

knew

Francis
of

want

didn't

way

To

CEO

McGuire. president and

P.

Major

to get in the

Drilling

the Canadian

Group

International,

company which, along

ideas being discussed at

Schramm. The Chilean government was
interested, and a Schramm T130XD rig
was brought to the site by Geotec Boyles

it's

an example

Schramm's
"In

put

in

of Breiner

and

like this,

try to

Schramm guys
"

thing about

fit

it

in

very well, and the

it

over"

customer support and overknowledge of the business are the

attention to
all

reasons his company does business
with

Schramm and why

Breiner serves

on his company's board of directors.

"Why

When

we

like

Schramm

you"re out

in

is really

service.

the middle of Africa,

in

the middle of a jungle, your machine

is

down and

important

it's

to get

costing $10,000 a day

your part

Ik

in

this is a field that

it's

48

to

hours. Ed understands that totally

He

has a

high service component."
In the wake of the Chilean rescue.
Schramm has offered its expertise to

companies about responding
mine rescues. Breiner says the
Chinese, who have a history of coal mine

train other
to

accidents, have purchased

"It

you always

your most-seasoned people. The

Chileans organized

that team,

to taking

McGuire says Breiners expertise,

specifically for

strengths.

cases

what you want

we're part of this team,' as

understands

Breiner did not go to Chile. He

and

to do,

opposed

diameter rescue hole was larger than

with others, drilled to find the miners,

the options, then-Pennsylvania Gov.

including

involved, designing

the rescue capsule

he had good people there, he says,

for

sampling are sent up through the hollow stem so they can be bagged for
later analysis

NASA was

already

being used by other companies in Chile,
were perfect.
The process, called "reverse circulation drilling," uses high-pressure air
and a hollow stem drill bit, Breiner
says. When used for mineral explo-

swing. Even

in full

a

some Schramm

drilling

system were also

use

in

wasn't a no-brainer

drilling job,"

Schramm

rigs

rescue operations.
it

was

a tough

Breiner says of the Chilean

rescue. "The interesting part

was

all

the

collaboration that took place."

very well as part of

For more on Schramm, see

McGuire says. "The good

Schramm and

its

people

is

www.bloomu.edu/magazine.

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ACADEMIC INNOVATION

]

MARKET

SENSE
the-minute information.

"Our students

have an

will

how real markets work and how their business
opportunity to see

and investment decisions impact
the performance of their funds
and, ultimately, their organizations,"
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"These practical
enhance the global
competitiveness of our students
and our College."
says.

skills will

hub
and econom-

In addition to serving as a
for real-time financial
ic

information, the

FSL will help
move for-

the College of Business

ward

in

two

strategic areas: stu-

dent professional development and

community outreach, says Michael
Tidwell, dean.

"The FSL will provide a learning
environment where students can
develop

skills that will lead to suc-

cessful careers," Tidwell says.

"They

will create projects to solve real-

world problems and learn

how to

demonstrate the value and benefit
they bring to potential employers."

The

lab

on the

first floor

of

THERE WAS A TIME when only

associate professor of finance.

Sutliff Hall also will provide a

those with the extreme personal

designated space for learning and

wealth of the Vanderbilts or

"The lab will integrate business
theory and practice by providing

Rockefellers paid close attention to

access to current global financial

in the lab will give faculty the tools

the world's financial markets.

information and resources."

Today,

it's

a different story as

Slated to launch with the

economic trends influence each
family's pocketbook and each

reopening of Sutliff Hall, the FSL

business' ledger sheet. Sutliff Hall's

cial topics,

new

strategies, portfolio

Financial Services Laboratory

(FSL) will bridge theory, practice

and research

for students in BU's

College of Business.
"In today's global competitive

will focus

on business and finanincluding investment

oriented opportunities.

"We

are accredited by the

Business must serve as a resource
to the surrounding business

wall with market information and

and

access to financial

16

while opening the door to student-

tickers, digital signage, a trading

stock quotes,

Geyfman,

to help local business leaders

develop their financial literacy

Association to Advance Collegiate

more comprehensive
curriculum enriched by hands-on
learning," says Victoria

service; the technology

management,
financial markets and economic
conditions and trends. Real-time

environment, business schools
strive for a

community

LCD TVs with

news coverage
will help students research and
make decisions based on up-to-

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Schools of Business," Tidwell
says.

"Any accredited College of

community through
service learning,

consulting,

and internship

and job placement. FSL
us do just that." •

will help

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By

IT

FACULTY INNOVATION

]

KEVIN GRAY

LEAN

BEGINS WITH an assembly-line environment where
and

the workers (aka college students) learn the ins

outs of a business process while putting together the

hands, faces, casings and internal mechanisms of

Seven hours later, they walk away with an
understanding of a concept used by businesses around
the world to improve various areas of their operations.
clocks.

Lean Manufacturing.
"Any business or supply chain does things

in excess

of absolute necessity," explains Christian Grandzol,
associate professor of management. "This

means

A

a

customer may pay more, wait longer or tolerate lower
quality than necessary."
The "Lean" manufacturing theory, he says, focuses

on continuous improvement, pursuit of perfection and
elimination of waste. Grandzol believes knowledge of
Lean methodology is valuable to college graduates
entering manufacturing and other fields.
The clock-making exercise has been an
experiential component of Bloomsburg
University's curriculum since 2008
when Grandzol and fellow management
professors Stephen Markell and Pamela

on me

methodology,

"Lean/'

is

known simply as

helping BU students gain

an understanding of concepts used
by businesses around the world to
improve their operations.

Business students

where a

faculty

clocks to

under the direction of faculty members
Stephen Markell. Christian Grandzol and
Pamela Wynn. left to right.

Wynn traveled to Worcester Polytechnic
Institute (WPI),

make simple

learn the theory of Lean Manufacturing

group

received a National Science Foundation

grant to improve collegiate Lean curricula.

The WPI group was assessing schools for
Time Wise Management Systems' Lean
simulation program and members believed
Bloomsburg was a good match.
In BU's simulation conducted outside of

once a semester, students— primarily
from the management department's
Supply Chain Operations course— assemble working clocks while implementing
Lean throughout four assembly rounds.
Grandzol says the simulation is effective
class

because of its experiential component— it
allows students to participate in an actual Lean

transformation.

The students

offer ideas for

Students are
clock

initially

Although, as Grandzol points out, most Bloomsburg

improve-

ments, witness the effects of their decisions and work
with their peers to improve the process.
assigned various roles, such as

hand assembler, material handler or inspector.

graduates won't work for manufacturers and don't

how a methodology with "manufacturing"
name will apply to them, "by the end of the
simulation, students recognize how Lean can be applied
realize, at first,

in

its

"In ensuing rounds, the students can choose to reas-

in service industries, accounting, information systems,

sign individuals to value-adding positions," Grandzol

product design, health care

how to deploy scarce and expensive
such as human resources, is a critical

...

nearly any business." •

says. "Deciding

resources,

management

skill."

Kevin Gray is a fi'eelance writer based
Lehigh

in the

Valley.

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.

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FOR BLOOMSBURG FOOTBALL
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level

unprecedented

in

history. And, just as important, this

been achieved while staying true

school

success has

to our values off

the field.

First

and Goal: A Scholarship Campaign

Bloomsburg Football

will

for

improve on this winning

formula by establishing a $2 million endowed
football scholarship.

We want to

continue "doing

it

right" by preparing

our players for new levels of success on the
field, in their

careers and

in

their lives as sons,

husbands, fathers, volunteers and members

of

their communities.

We're more than halfway to our $2 million goal.

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A Step above

STUDENT PROFILE

By HAILI

SHETLER

]

'ii

more competitive job market, college students should actively
participate in campus organizations to enhance their professional qualifications and make contacts in their fields. This involvement was exactly
what Lee Herbert '11 and Megan Miller '11 pursued and promoted at BU.
In today's

AS THE PRESIDENT of the Financial Management
Association (FMA), Herbert led an organization
dedicated to helping students decide

a career in

if

finance sparked their interest. Throughout the academic
year, speakers from financial sectors— like a presenter
from Wells Fargo and a mutual fund manager from
Vanguard— introduced students to their careers and

companies.

BU's

FMA is a "superior chapter," Herbert says, a

designation held by only a few universities. "This status

shows the

level of commitment

members display.

It

and

requires a specific

fortitude our

number of

speakers, financial institution tours and a selection of

other tasks that best

fits

our organization."

Opportunities spawned by

FMA include a recently

working with the Greater
Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone. This program
fosters local job growth by helping entrepreneurs, newly
formed startup companies and mature companies identify
and capitalize on new ideas and opportunities.
established internship

"A goal of FMA is to provide opportunities for students
to further themselves.

Any student motivated and willing

to learn about the finance industry

is

supported," says

Herbert.
Miller, president of the

Student Association for Fraud

Examination (SAFE) for 2010-2011 (see story on page

21),

brought speakers to campus to share expertise, including

FBI agents and professional law enforcement

officers.

SAFE is not only a campus group, it is a student
chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

(ACFE), according to Michael Shapeero, professor of

Accounting Association, is proud of her initiative to
encourage SAFE members to be more active. The gold
and maroon membership policy awards points based
on the number of meetings and activities a member
attends. Gold member status on a resume shows job
recruiters a student

While interviewing for positions

ACFE announced a program to
start student chapters and selected BU as one of two
universities to pilot the program. The BU chapter,

tiatives,

founded by Shapeero and Albert Fundaburk, assistant

tive. If you

professor of business education and information and

two,

accounting. In 2005, the

was the ACFE's first student
was recognized by the university in 2006.

was involved and dedicated to the

organization, she says.

says she

was

internships and extracurricular activities.

"There are so

it

last fall, Miller

consistently asked about three things: ini-

many accounting majors. It's competimember of an organization or

are an active

gives

you an edge." •

technology management,
chapter.

It

Miller,

who also served as president of the

Bloomsburg, earned a bachelor's
degree in mass communications/public relations.
Haili Shetler

'11,

FALL 2011

19

"IT'S

NOT JUST

ABOUT DELIVERING
EDUCATION. IT'S
GIVING STUDENTS
^RAC T I C AL^Smi^S
TO BUILD A CAREE
IN THE BUSINESS

WORLD AND DO

IT

AT A HIGH LEVEL."
—Michael Tidwell, Dean, College of Business

"We have alumni who are partners in some of the

THERE'S A STACK of college magazines, brochures and
pamphlets underneath Michael Tidwell's desk in his

largest accounting firms in the world," Tidwell says.

temporary office

need to reconnect, so we can show our students and others

Waller Administration Building,

in the

each laying claim to being one of the top business schools

The organized clutter not only signifies the move he is
preparing to make as he leads Bloomsburg University's
College of Business into a newly renovated,

modem edu-

and research center, it's a daily reminder of where
the young dean wants the college to be by 2015.
cation

"We know we have a high-quality program, but we
to start letting

who became dean

There

is

in July 2010 after serving as assistant

known universities in

no reason why we should keep

it

initiative,

will launch its third graduate

the College of Business

program

this

fall.

The new

master's degree program in accounting adds value to

two Centers of Excellence, according to Tidwell.
"Graduate programs are very important, because it's
becoming increasingly difficult to get ahead in this world
with just a bachelor's degree," Tidwell says. "Students

everyone else know," says Tidwell,

dean of Clayton State University's School of Business.
"Our education is as competitive, if not better, than that
of some of the best

we have a top accounting program. Here is the proof"

Building on another

in the country.

need

that

"We

see this.

It's

a secret."

It's

giving

the students practical skills to build a career in the busi-

ness world and do

it

at a

high

level."

A top-notch business program that transforms the
lives of its

the country.

not just about delivering education.

"It's

students goes beyond the classroom, he says.

the networks you have. At the Ivy League universities,

you automatically
know the professional network
for example,

PAYING
dividends
JAIME NORTH

when Michael Tidwell arrived at BU a year
ago, Sutliff Hall

renovation.

The

was undergoing a complete
structure,

College of Business,
that's

isn't

because you're sitting in class
next to future presidents of

companies, future executives of
large firms

and the sons and

daughters of highly successful
entrepreneurs."

These
will

intuitive connections

be made

at

BU,

too,

Tidwell

do a better
job connecting our alumni to
our students. We have alumni
says. "We're going to

who are executives of Fortune
500 companies, executives of
banks listed on the New York
Stock Exchange and executives

home of the

the only thing

in

been under construction.

some

of the largest accounting

firms in the world."
Getting his vision in place

Tidwell's vision is simple

much like a

and straightforward,

He

may

appear second nature to Tidwell because the Southern

accounting program; enhancing the curriculum with

CaUfomia native was groomed to be a business leader.
Bom into a family of entrepreneurs, Tidwell leamed firsthand the traits of success fi'om his father, who was a bank
executive before opening two grocery stores.
"I easily developed an appreciation of business,"
Tidwell says. "I have an entrepreneurial spirit at heart,
and I see the job of a dean as being an entrepreneur. It's
not about pushing paperwork but pushing that vision
forward, much like an entrepreneur would."
Every evening before Tidwell leaves Waller, he looks
across the Academic Quad where the "new" Sutliff Hall
is taking shape. It's as if his vision is coming more into

professional development, specifically the Zeigler

focus each day.

succinct business plan.

says the time

is

one of the foremost business education
schools in the Northeast, a program that produces
graduates with the knowledge, skills and ability to be
highly successful in business. And it should be comright to create

pleted within five years, Tidwell says, citing the theory

of his former dean.

Key

to Tidwell's execution plan is the creation of

four Centers of Excellence, each with specific initiatives
to propel the College of Business to higher levels of

performance. Actions include building an even stronger

Institute for Professional

Development

(see story

on

"If you're

going to one of the best in the Northeast,

(page 20); extending the reach of the international

then you will be one of the best in the country," Tidwell

educationprogram; and continuing to develop advanced
degree opportunities.

says.

Jaime North

is

"With the strong faculty we have here, we can

certainly

make that happen."

•

Web writer and editor at Bloomsburg University.
FALL

2011

21

Terry 76

andJoAnn Schultz Zeigler 77 believe

a

new approach to business

education will better prepare students for careers they'll enjoy, equipped

employers seek. From their conviction grew the
^»j;bonnie martin
Zeigler Institute for Professional Development.

with the all-around

skills

YOU SELECT YOUR MAJOR,

earn

stage to receive your diploma.

obtain that

first

at least

With

120 credits and walk across the

great confidence, you interview

and

company and realize,
career you worked so hard

professional position, settle in to a

before you receive your

first

paycheck, that this

something you just don't ... like.
Bloomsburg University's Zeigler Institute for Professional Development
(ZIPD) is being established this fall to make sure this doesn't happen for the
300 to 400 students who earn a degree from the College of Business each year.
Terry '76, president and CEO of Datacap Systems Inc., Chalfont, and his
wife JoAnn Schultz Zeigler '77 have long believed college students should
receive more guidance to make sure they pursue a career that's a good fit.
Students need to learn about careers early on, they say, to see where their
true interests lie and how areas from marketing to management, accounting to finance, work together. That's the idea behind ZIPD.
to achieve

22

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

is

"

The Zeiglers believe so strongly in the concept
made the largest philanthropic gift in

.

networking opportunities with alumni and executives, and

The end

they recently

portfolio development.

the history of the Bloomsburg University Foundation -

who are well prepared to enter a business career.

$1.67

be graduates

million— to finance the Zeigler Institute for

'When graduates look for a job,

Professional Development within BU's College of

Business.

they shouldfind something they

"When graduates look for a job, they should
find something they really like to do," Terry Zeigler
says,

result will

really like to do. If they do it
well the money willfollow.

based on his experiences during 28 years as a

business owner. "If they do

it

well, the

money

will follow.

"(We need

to)

— Terry Zeigler '76

give students an idea about

opportunities and expectations so they can choose an

Benek-Rivera

education and career path suitable to their skills and
interests.

is

most excited about another compo-

nent: etiquette training. Students will learn, for example,

The primary objective of the institute is to

the difference between "business professional"

"business casual" attire and

present students with a broad view of job opportunities

them for
and teach them how to

employment interviews, networking events, business

in various business disciplines, educate

in

real -world career applications

luncheons and other professional situations.

look for jobs that

fulfill

"They

their individual requirements."

will learn 'business casual'

with a collar and, for an interview,

ZIPD
The

wear a

institute is a "systematic

approach

to

suit."

it

means
is

a shirt

always better to

she says. "Everyone needs to

make a good first impression."
ZIPD will mean changes to another

prepare stu-

dents, across all four years, for success in the business

Communications and

world," says Joan Benek-Rivera, chair of

course, Business

BU's management department and a

Report Writing, says Maggie O'Connor,

member of the ZIPD
start this fall

task force.

associate professor of business education

"It will

and information and technology management. The class,
open to students who have earned at least 50 credits, is a

with the freshman

Introduction to Business, where students
will learn

about the primary areas in

business: marketing, finance, accounting

business major's only required research

and manage-

Starting this

fall,

the research will be

class.

more tightly

focused on a trend or issue related to the student's major.

ment."

ZIPD will build the personal and
ties

and

how to conduct themselves

professional quali-

students need to succeed and help

them understand

The benefit? Students will not only enhance their "soft"
research and writing skills, they also will have an area of

the interconnectedness of the major elements of the

expertise to discuss while networking or interviewing for

business enterprise, adds Michael Tidwell, dean of BU's

an internship or employment.
O'Connor believes the elements of ZIPD will help
students connect faster with a major. "They will be

College of Business.

The curriculum will include an

executive speaker series,

resume and interviewing seminars.

CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE

LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

It could be said Megan Miller '11 followed the model of the Zeigler
Development (ZIPD) throughout her four years at BU although it didn't yet exist. President of the
Accounting Association and the Student Association for Fraud Examination. Miller pursued leadership
opportunities on her own. That's one of the reasons accounting professor Mike Shapeero recommended her
as the undergraduate member of the College of Business Strategic Planning Committee for 201 0-201 1
The goal of the strategic planning committee, Miller says, is to make sure students get the best

—

Institute for Professional
Miller

education possible, including the professional polish that

ZIPD

will provide

sional attire, interviewing
"It

was

makes

important benefits for students, especially

and resume

in

recruiters take notice.

She believes

the areas of business etiquette, profes-

writing.

a great experience, hearing what goes on behind the scenes and the College of Business'

plans for the next five to 10 years, she says of serving on the strategic planning committee.
"

it

to

my resume

Based on her job search

last fall. Miller

says leadership

experience and extracurricular involvement. Hired

in

is

one

of the traits recruiters are seeking,

mid-November

ParenteBeard's Wilkes-Barre office this month after studying for the
Editor's note:

"I

added

as another leadership opportunity, because every company has a strategic plan.
201

0.

she

will

along with internship

begin her accounting career with

CPA exam during

the

summer

Learn more about Megan Miller on page 17.

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23

groomed very early on to grow in maturity. They will
quickly get on board with their major," she says. "(ZIPD)
is

a structured process to build a competitive advantage

"We knew we needed something like this and had
says.

it

its

market niche, enjoy-

ing 28 years of continued growth and financial success.

Datacap Systems develops and markets electronic payinterfaces that enable cash register and business
system providers to add electronic payments to their

ment

so they are prepared for a career.

started to incorporate

become the leading supplier in

into the curriculum,"

O'Connor

"The Zeiglers had the vision and the passion

to

make a difference."

systems. JoAnn Zeigler and the couple's sons, Justin '06

and Jared, a graduate of Lebanon Valley

College,

work

Datacap Systems. Daughter Jenelle Zeigler Ross, also
a Lebanon Valley graduate, is a biologist with Merck and
Co. working on drug safety protocol.
for

Zeigler says leading a small

company provides a

from big business. "In my world,
people have to be able to execute a wide variety of tasks

different perspective

and be willing to work across department

lines.

Students with a good, well-rounded understanding of

how business
value to a

units interact dramatically increase their

company like Datacap. Increasing students'

personal value to a future employer must be the university's

primary goal."

BU
BU

President David io[{z.

meets with Terry Zeigler 76.
center and JoAnn Schultz
Zeigler 77.

In addition to the professional development program,

a two-room conference suite in the newly renovated
Sutliff Hall

space

President David Soltz

has been named for the Zeiglers. "But the

is ancillary,"

Tidwell says. "The institute

is

successful business owners."

awarded annually
financial need.

The Zeiglers

named to the BU
was in his 20s when he and two partners

Zeigler, recently

of Directors,

Foundation Board

a

with

had the

vision

available within a general business setting.

a student's future success."

is

and the passion
to make a difference.

college with

critical to

to talented business students

''The Zeiglers

Terry Zeigler, a native of Pottstown, remembers entering

no idea of what career opportunities were
During
summers, he worked on a construction crew building
houses and operated machinery at a die-casting plant.
"In those task-oriented jobs, you knew exactly what's
expected and the specific pay rate for what you
produce," he says. "But, what does a career look like
within the other business segments that develop,
administrate, market and support that actual process
of building houses or molding parts? What are those
supporting jobs, what do you actually do each day and
what is the earning potential? It can be hard to grasp.
With a shift from a production economy to an
intellectual asset economy, creating that visibility

ZIPD
endowed scholarship

Terry and JoAnn Zeigler's investment in
"natural sequence" to their

ZIPD means."

be

grateful for the Zeiglers'

"The Zeigler Institute for Professional Development
wiU give our students a distinct advantage," Soltz says.
"They will not only pursue careers that are a good fit for
them personally, but they will acquire the well-rounded
perspective necessary to become valued employees and

about the program. The space reminds students what

will

is

dedication to educating tomorrow's business leaders.

left,

—

Maggie O'Connor, associate professor of business education
and information and technology management

"This

is all

about improving the educational process,"

Zeigler says of ZIPD.

ment

"JoAnn and I don't see our involve-

as merely a donation, but as an investment in help-

ing students to prepare for

economy.

life

in

an

intellectual asset

We want to be able to look back in the coming

years and see that the program has merit and justifies
the investment." •

Editor's note:

Learn more about the Zeiglers and the Zeigler

Institute for Professional Development in the

Bloomsburg

University Foundation's 2010-2011 annual report.

started Datacap Systems. Blending individual expertise
in operations, business

24

and engineering, the firm has

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Bonnie Martin is editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.

[

NEW FACILITIES

SUTLIFF HALL, home

.

]

of the College of Business, is reopening after

more than

a year of renovations.

and an impressive fagade, the $9.5 million project doubles the size of
By haili shetler 'n
a completed total of 52,000 square feet.

After adding a third floor

the original building for

"The current program needs for the

before major renovations or

began employment as an assistant

College of Business, as well as the

replacements are needed,"
Reitmeyer explains. "However, the

to teach arithmetic. Later, Sutliff

needs of academic programs and
infrastructure can make buildings

degrees from Lafayette College. In

vation and expansion project," says

Colin Reitmeyer, assistant director

become obsolete

of facilities.

periods of time. Sutliff Hall

The newly renovated Sutliff
Hall will accommodate classrooms,
laboratories and offices for the

overdue for major changes."

aged condition and worn-out systems

within the building, drove the reno-

College of Business, the instructional

technology department, previously
in

McCormick

Center,

and the

economics department, previously

The two-story
lobby will feature an open staircase
and a Wall of Fame to honor

in

much

received bachelor's and master's

1921,

he was appointed

to a

newly

created position at Bloomsburg,

shorter

dean of instruction, today known as

was

the provost.
Sutliff was the 92-year-old guest

Built in the late 1950s, Sutliff Hall
is named for William Sutliff^, who
was bom in Stillwater in 1867.

of honor at the dedication of the

While teaching in Luzerne County,
he enrolled at Bloomsburg State
Normal School and, after graduation.

1959. Dedication of the

original building's cornerstone in

Hall

is

new Sutliff

planned for spring. •

in Bakeless Center.

A YEAR LATER
who graduated from BU's College of
2010 were employed or attending graduate school a year after receiving
their diplomas. The majors offered in 2009-2010. the number of graduates per
major and the percentage of graduates at work or continuing their education are:
Eighty-nine percent of the 345 students

Business

successful alumni.

Adjacent to the lobby, the
Financial Services Laboratory

is

in

# of Graduates

Major

% Working/Furthering Education

a Wall Street- inspired learning

Accounting

65

91.1

space equipped with the latest

Business Education

12

83.3

3

66.7

financial software, real-time

Business

Systems

Info

Computer

Info

Systems

tickers, digital signage, a trading

Finance

wall with market information and

Info/Technology

stock quotes and

LCD TVs with

access to financial news.

The

Management
Management
Marketing

Management

8

100

38

83.9

2

119
Info

Systems

100

84

1

100

97

96.6

renovation creates a facility that

meets the needs of today's students,
including technologically

advanced classrooms, and new
mechanical and electrical systems.
"Classroom buildings typically
have a lifecycle of 30 to 35 years

of 87.9 percent of last year's 1 .508 graduates from all four colleges were
permanently employed, teaching or continuing their education a year after graduation. In addition to the College of Business' 89.2 percent, the placement rates were
College of Education. 31 1 graduates. 79.3 percent: Liberal Arts, 497 graduates, 86.1
percent; and Science and Technology 355 graduates, 96.2 percent.

A total

-Source:

BU

Career Development Center s Post-Graduation Activities Report

See each step of Sutliff Hall's renovation at ioww.hloomu.edu/magazine.

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lloomsburg Universi

'Pennsylvania

notes
Edited For Success
"THE ONLY TIME

I've

Deen," Rich Uliasz
speechless. All

I

been

'97

really star struck is

when I met Paula

says of the Food Network

star. "I

was

could do was just shake her hand."

This says a lot for the seasoned CNBC business news video ediwho has worked with celebrities including TV reporter Geraldo

tor

Rivera, media personality and businesswoman Martha Stewart
and former tennis gi-eat and talk show host John McEnroe.
After choosing BU because of its size and location, Uliasz
gravitated towards mass communications, specifically video
production. Wlien it was time to choose an internsliip, his adviser
presented two options: Uliasz could accept an opportunity with
CNBC or with the newly ci-eated Food Network. The self-proclaimed
"news junkie" chose CNBC, a decision that led to full-time employment beginning a month before graduation.
In addition to working with celebrities, Uliasz has edited major
interviews with Tim Geithner, U.S. Secretary of the Ti-easury, and
Ben Bemanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve. "I am proud ot
of
these interviews because millions of people pay attention, and I

£

.

know they passed through my hands," he says.
Uliasz, who also was an editor for curling events during the
2006 Winter Olympic Games, currently works on Fast Money
and Mad Money with im Cramer.
"I never guessed in a thousand years I'd have the opportunity to
do what I've done. You go down a path you think is best and hope
it works out. I'm lucky it's going extremely well," says Uliasz.

Editors note: To learn

26

11

1.00

Msn

u

more about

Rich Uliasz, see

m; univkksity or

im:

nnsv

www.btoomu edu/magazine./

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mm.
w

3

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Susan Ursprung, Lancaster,

1961

1973

William Stevenson, a tax accountant,

penned a children's book,

Ricky's

Dream

Trip through the Solar

System, about a
solar system

boy

who tours the

on a rocket ship with

Dan Brunish and
shop he owns

the sandwich

Pottstown were

in

featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer

grandfather

story. Brunish's

established the shop during the

his grandfather.

Great Depression.

1965

1975

Rocco "Rocky" Forte was

Lynne Mikylychak

inducted posthumously into the

husband,

and

won

WITF/WGAL Great

Award

Dan

Beitler

Beitler

'74.

and

are

Hillsborough High School

proud grandparents of Alexa
Susanne

tion of his contribution as a

28, 2010.

Beitler,

bom on March

won the

National Association of

Intercollegiate Athletics

(NAIA)

national championship.

branch and

is

retail

Donna Stefanowicz Yanuzzi,
Pittston,

NASA Goddard Space

ming coach

at

FNB Commercial
affiliate

1978
Berret, associate

1983

P

professor of busi-

Lisa Marie Dellinger Smithgall,

Alvemia

Tennessee, vice president for

University, is co-

Women's and

ness

the

at

2011 Centennial Conference

author of the book. Planning in

Men's Swimming Coach of the

Reverse:

During his

career, he's

A

Viable

Approach

Children's Services

to

Athletic Conference

and one Atlantic

awards

States

Swim

Conference award.

Sweitzer,

owner of the
was

*
Anne Shaloka Wilson is superin-

East Tennessee State University.

tendent of Sudbury Public Schools

Her dissertation was titled

in Massachusetts.

Perceptions of maternal stress

single private

and neonatal patient outcomes in a
Cheryl Newton Potteiger

professor and pres-

County Tennis Hall of Fame. At

superintendent of Bellefonte Area

ident of the General

BU, he

Meade

Collegiate singles

and the

Alliance, earned a

doctorate in nursing science ft-om

inducted into the Lancaster

Society of

Mountain

1979

Temple University

the 1974 Eastern

for

States Health

Organizational Leadership.

1980

won

^_

^

Central Penn Tennis Service,

the author of a

Bank

of First National

V

Anthony Waskie, a

is

for

Leasing, an

of Pennsylvania.

Dickinson College

was named

since 1994,

Thomas

f/

senior vice president,

with West Milton State Bank.

Paul Richards Jr., men's swim-

Flight Center.

Philadelphia,

is

and marketing manager

sales

also received seven Capital

Mark Goldman, Baltimore, is a
senior human resource director
specialist at

Young, Lewisburg,

lending administration manager

p,c

Year.

1968

a Difference

Beth Bachman

wrestling coach and athletic

1965

T.

Susan Huhn Light is director
management and regulatory compliance at Lock
Haven Hospital.

of quality

in 1999.

vice president,

Athletic Hall of Fame in recogni-

He was captain of the
Husky wrestling team that

Make

Teachers

MMI

Preparatory School.

assistant administrator, she

the

high school alma mater,

A former teacher

School District.

Stephen

director.

is

superintendent of Donegal

room versus open

room neonatal intensive care unit

is

environment.

School District.

championship

1975 Pennsylvania State

book, Philadelphia and the Civil

Athletic Conference

War: Arsenal of the Union.

doubles

1971

1976

Gayle Thorpe Baar was awarded

Ralph

Michelle

(PSAC)

Yocum

Walker is the

2011

Outstanding

title.

Professional

a grant

from the Carrollton

Farmers Branch Education

P.

Educator for the

Ferrie

is

superintendent

District, Floral Park, N.Y.

Lt. Col.

1977
Kathy Geiger

Library, Irving, Texas.

retired after 34 years in education.

She taught

Billger,

in the

Boyertown,

Nancy Fruehan Bohr and Gail

districts

Stank Kolenda, both Class of

elementary principal and teacher

39 years while Bohr and her

husband, Dennis Bohr

were vacationing

and spent 22 years as an

Owen J.

District,

Roberts School

Onslow

Sheriff's Office,

Jacksonville, N.C.

Kathy Sokoloski, Christopher
Sokoloski. Pea

and Peg Flynn Hayward
right,

1981
Frank Berleth
tion at

Havward

Kathy McDonald Sokoloski,

in

left,

'84,

former resident assistants

Columbia

Hall, reunited over

dinner in Paris. Sokoloski and her
is

director of educa-

McCann School of Business

and Technology's Hazleton
Campus.

Pottstown.

A licensed nursing home

husband, Leo, were visiting their
son, Christopher, center, a junior

math major who studied in Europe
this spring.

administrator, he has been an

'70,

in Arizona.

County

deten-

Boyertown

Area and Red Lion Area school

in the

T. Zabicki, U.S.

(retired), is a

tion officer with the

1972
after nearly

Walter

Marine Corps

and electronic books for the La
Villita Elementary School

were reunited

District.

of Sewanhaka Central High School

Foundation to fund Color Nooks

1972,

Williamsport Area School

H

Maria Herrity
Flannery

is

adjunct instructor since 2006.

tive director of

1982

operations for the

Richard A. DiLiberto Jr., Newark,

St.

Joseph Medical

Group, Towson, Md.

1984
Mark

execu-

Del., received the

Eyer, Boiling Springs,

is

vice

president of operations at Daily

Express Trucking

Inc., Carlisle.

2010 H.James

Conaway Jr. Award for exemplary
pro bono service to the community

Cameron Smith

and the Delaware Bar Association.

Jefferson University, Philadelphia.

is

administrator for

a research

Thomas

He donated the $1,000 award to his
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Alumnus named
MICHAEL

R.

GILLESPIE

a

CFO

95. chief

of

was
Pennsylvania CFO

Christopher

recently honored as a Central

Hospitality Trust of Harrisburg,

of the Year The Central Penn
Business Journal award program, given for the
first time this year honors financial executives
who contribute to the success of the region's economic growth and stability.
Gillespie was selected for the Growth Specialist
Award based on his career achievements, the
Impact of his contributions to his company and
leadership in other areas. When Gillespie began
with Hersha six years ago. the company had 27 hotels, total assets of
$256 million and a market capitalization of roughly SI 00 million. Today
the company boasts 77 hotels, total assets of SI. 5 billion and a market
capitalization In excess of SI billion.
Top executives from Adams. Cumberland. Dauphin. Lancaster.
Lebanon. Perry and York counties are eligible for the CFO of the
Year Award.

1992

1985
Michael Boguski
tive officer

is

chief execu-

and president of

Eastern Insurance Holdings

Jennifer

1996

1994

Year

accounting officer for Hersha

'92

"pgM,

Chile Pepper Magazine's

Chile

Lancaster.

Dan

Fickes and his company.

Ocean One Productions.

1995
Elbem "Ed"

Jr.

retired

manage-

'95H, a

ment consultant
and former
Bloomsburg

^^fl
K^^H

f^^l
Trustee,

Alkire

J.

Todd Troxell '96M is senior

\ ice

president, lending

and loan

administration, for the

Northumberland National Bank.

1997

Universit\-

was honored by

Michael J. Day

his

is

head basket-

alma mater, Lafayette College,

ball coach at

for distinguished service, receiv-

School in the Wilkes-Barre Area

ing the college's premier award

School District.

He has

serv ed

CoughlLn High

on

1998

BU's College of Business

Foundation Board.

\\

on an

ser\ es as a director

on the

Bloomsburg Public Libran' Board.

Mary Martino
of Jim Thorpe,

in the

Petrecca, formerh
is

the

owner of

category of inten ie^v discussion

myhometownpa.com. a

program. The \%"inning produc-

based Internet marketing company

The yea- Look of Classical

Christian-

S\Tnphony Orchestra.

1993

1987

officer

Scott

Sondra Wozniak Tumbach '87M
a financial consultant wixh First

Columbia Financial Services, a
Columbia Bank

BloomsburK.

Beamer is chief financial
and din
director finance for

PPG Industries

H

Inc..

Europe.

BU

Ljim M. Benfante is a sales executive for \'anguard in Malvern.

t
Todd M.

Homa,

Exton,

is

Scott Blacker

an enter-

prise anal>

st

w ith

He li\"es

Sailer

is

a partner in

and Mandio,
Bucks Count>. He

s~^iH
^1

degree from

Temple University

Law in 2000 and

in G€ne\'a,

is

a

member

of the

Pennsylvania and Bucks County

for

Relationships, Philadelphia.

firm, Blacker

Inc.

received his law

He

director of devel-

Coundl

QVC

"*

2001.

is

for the

also principal in the

the law firm of Begley Carlin

School of

opment

electronic retailer

joined the firm as an associate in

Middle East and
-Africa.

Scott

^^^^H
ll^^H

based in Lancaster Counr\'.

Music, created w^th the Boston

Co.,

the Florida

Institute.

librarian, is a director of the

Sciences/New England

and Trust

Fla., participated in

Supreme Court Justice Teaching

Advisory Board and the

Academy of Tele\"ision Arts and

division of First

Middle School, Jacksonville,

Golden

Central Cokimbia High School

Enun\ from the National

is

a

history teacher at J.E.B. Stuart

Award for sauces.

Association for 2011-12. She also

is

Shannon StaufTer Mann,

Penns> h-ania School Librarians

Inc..

tion

Fla.,

owns Hot Pepper Dudes, a hot
sauce company w hich earned

fo volunteers.

Dammer Bates

Tampa,

T. Billet,

He is

Web design

Communications.

1999
Dr.

Matthew Corse, optometrist

and co-owner of Comprehensive
Eye Associates, Dingmans Ferrv;
was named a fellow of the
.American Academy of Optometr\'.
He also is a captain in the U.S. Air
Force, serving as chief of optometn- services for the 105th Medical

Group, 105th

-Air

Wing,

New York

National Guard.

bar associations.

S\\itzerland, with his wife, Trao,;

1988

and their three children.

\Mlliam J. Kuzo was elected to the

V
Il^^l
"
4

^1

board of directors

Kathryn

ofUNB Corp. and

Park,

owned
subsidiary. The

Jersey 2011

its \\

holh'

was

selected as a

Fi\"e

New

Star Real Estate

.\gent, Birchler Realtors.

Union National

Bank of Moimt Carmel. He was
also

L. Kelchner, Seaside

N.J.,

named chief executi\'e ofiGcer.

Michael Stepa. Lumberton,

N.J.. is

\ice president of Medical

Equipment Finance. Conestoga

Equipment Finance Corp.

28

BLOOMSBLRG LMVERSITY OF

P E N N S Y L V.\ N

I .A

Sugra-Buterbaugh promoted

at

SUSAN SUGRA-BUTERBAUGH

WPMT

89 was promoted to

general sales manager at WPMT F0X43 in York,
where she leads a 10-member advertising sales
team. She joined FOX 43 s staff as an account executive in 2003 and moved to local sales manager in
2008. Sugra-Buterbaugh began her career at
Lancaster Newspapers in 1989 and worked for
Comcast and WGAL-TV before joining FOX 43.

Matthew W. Krapf received
the Lawrence

Jamie Willour earned a master's

2005

Tyson

degree from Lock Haven

Jacob "Jake" MUler traveled

University and

continuing graduate studies in

through Turkey as part of an

assistant at Geisinger Medical

geo-environmental studies

internship

Memorial Scholarship and

at

Mount

St.

is

Jill

2000
Derek

T.

at

Parisi

He

is

a fourth-grade teacher

Abington Avenue School,

Newark,

Melleby wrote the

book, Make College Count.
is

program this summer.

Mary's College.

a physician

Center, Danville.

2008
Patrick S. Brennan 'o8/'09M,

Shamokin,

N.J.

is

teaching secondary

Khuldoon

social studies in the Ibn

2006

the director of the College

is

National School, Bahrain, during

Transition Initiative, a ministry

Rudy Inaba is a nutrition and

of the Center for Parent/Youth

exercise counselor for

2011-12.

Age

Understanding and the Coalition

Management Medicine Group,

Laura Laboskie

for Christian Outreach.

Las Vegas.

nurse

2001

Donald

at

a registered

is

Geisinger Medical

Center, Danville.

Laura Shultz

is

F.

therapist with

a school

MARATHON MEN:

Shipe, a physical

left,

Lycoming

Patricia

Machuzick

is

Physical Therapy, Montoursville,

language pathologist with Spruce

Intermediate Unit in Easton.

presented

Manor Nursing and

2002
Virginia,

Association in

He spoke on

a sales support executive for

New Orleans.

Dynamic Posturography System
Improve Balance

in

is

Jennifer

tions

2003

team

for the

Southern

Nevada Water Authority/Las
Vegas Valley Water

a mental health

is

also

a dance instructor at Fabrege

Four alumni began terms on the

•

Township's

new

recreation director.
filling

the position of her late

husband.
former

board

Bill

Derricott

'66, a

BU Alumni Association

Beth K. Alleman, York,

is

a social

Penn-Mar Human

Services,

is

Pennsylvania Press Club for the
series. Live from Boot

which she wrote as

Camp,

a reporter

for the Daily Local News,

Chester. She

is

now

West

a political

ParenteBeard's Lancaster

office.

'95,

program developer

Jefferson,

•

in

ERNEST JACKSON 81,
Chester Academy

Chester, N.Y., principal

of
•

DONATO NIEMAN

7A, Kendall Park. N.J.,

2011-12 are

Greg Bowden

president; Kerri

'01,

D.C., vice president;

'92,

Ted Hodgins

Washington,
'89,

Schwenksville, treasurer; Rich Uliasz
tary;

and

Lynne Rishel Homiak

'83,

'97,

secre-

member at large;

Amy Chronister Scott '05, Camp Hill, also

member at large.
Completing terms on the board
'94,

president; Richard Lloyd

Lambert Pennella '07M
teaches in the East Lycoming

Schwenksville,

Donald Sears

Christopher Beadling

manager

in the audit practice of

CARRIE DUNN

Alumni serving on the executive board for
Danielle Lynch received a

County Times.
Steven Heintzebnan

98. Hubbardsville. N.Y..

Montgomery Township administrator

reporter at the Delaware

director.

ADAMS

Philadelphia

second-place award from the

Whitehall

R.

with the Drug Information Association

Carole Derricott

South

JENNIFER

District.

Shrewsbury.

is

BU Alumni

assistant dean of students at Colgate University

2007
the

2004
'04H

Lewisburg.

Association Board of Directors in July. They are:

worker and program instructor at

Dance and Tumble.

Follies

Village,

a

VaUey

New members join Alumni

•

therapist at Children's Service

Center of Wilkes-Barre. She

Lutheran

City.

Shymansky is part of the

corporate and visual communica-

Indiantown Gap, Annville.

is

Dickson

is

Buffalo

Board

Fort

at

for Giant Foods,

at

and a

History of Recurrent Near Falls.

an

Pennsylvania

National Guard

Erica Zions

to

speech therapist

an Adult with

Multisensory Dysequilibrium

Ryan Quinn *02/'03M

Jenna Partner 'o8/'ioM

a

is

customer operations manager

Service Business Unit.

Army

top 3 percent.

Wyomissing.

Michael L. McHenry

Computerized

Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise

officer in the

Rehabilitation,

the Pittsburgh

in

Marathon. Stamey finished in the
top 2 percent and Stockley in the

American Physical Therapy

John Amoriello '02/'03M,
is

at the national

Combines Section Meeting of the

graduates, ran

a speech-

psychologist at Colonial

Jake Stamey.
and Jimmy Stockley both 2008

in June

were

Doylestown, past board
'62,

Somerset,

N.J.;

and

Jessica

Joanne Dubbs PUeski

School District, Hughesville.

member may serve up to three two-year terms.

'64,

Bloomsburg. The

BU

Alumni Association has 24 members. Each

She recently received national
board

certification as

an early

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2011

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2009

2011

Kayla Henry
at

is

a registered nurse

Lancaster General Hospital.

Brian R. Pitcavage

is

Bussanich was

take part

accepted into the

Symposium.

M. Walton is a middle

school teacher at Salome (Ariz.)

the health care field returned to cannpus to

Panelists were:

Dr Kathy Baylor

'83.

1

physician.

Bloomsburg

School for the Deaf: Joseph Agostinelli

04.

Spain's Ministry of Education.

technician. Pro Rehabilitation Services;

As an auxUiar de conversacion

orthodontist:

Dr Douglas Thran 77.
Rhode Island

(conversation assistant), she

Hospital;

Dr Matthew Thran

Peggy Snyder

'84.

'84.

wellness and exercise

anesthesiologist,

speech pathologist, BU's audiology and

is

sharing her knowledge of English

coaches basketball and

and North American culture with

'83,

infusion nurse

case manager. Vitaline Infusion Pharmacy Services: and Dr Frederick

Maue

76, psychiatrist.

students in kindergarten through

2010

12th grade during 2011-12.

Fritz graduated

New

from basic

to the

Foundation

Three alumni recently joined the Bloomsburg University Foundation

combat training at Fort Jackson,

Haili Shetleris

Columbia, S.C.

associate develop-

and CEO

of

Datacap Systems

ment

and CEO

of

Quandel Enterprises; and Michael Gillespie

officer

Board

with

of Directors.

The new members are Terry Zeigler 76, president
Inc.;

Noble "Bud" Quandel

Scott Heilman, former co-captain

the Bloomsburg

accounting officer of Hersha Hospitality Trust. Board

of BU's rugby club, volunteered

University

are responsible for assuring the

with a rugby club from Nashville,

Foundation.

financially

Tenn., to
for

Delaware

'81. audiologist,

speech pathology department: Annette Shalongo

softball.

Health Sciences

Culture Assistants program by

Middle School, where she also

Dereck

in

a panel discussion during the 201

in

Family Care Associates: Kathleen Riley

Language and

Oaks.

visit

Alumni who work

North American

a staff

accountant at Comcast Cable,

Jennifer

Follow-up
Samantha

buUd houses

distributed

for Habitat

BU Foundation

president

'69,
'95,

chief

members

and
sound and ensuring donor funds are received and
in

is

effective

an appropriate manner

Learn more in the Bloomsburg University Foundation's

Humanity.

2010-2OU annual report

Matthew Perry is a therapeutic
staff support

worker with

NHS

Rebecca Koppenhaver Kline

Human Services, State College,
and a graduate student
psychology

at

Argosy

Correction
'80.

a Line Mountain School District
in forensic

University.

Lianna Personeus was named

educator was misidentified in
the Husky Notes section of
Bloomsburg: The University
Magazine's spring issue. She did

Watson named finance veep
JAMES

H.

WATSON

management

Winter Camival pageant.

1161.

She teaches

Fla.,

Chapter

at Saint

Cloud

Middle School.

Amanda Scheno,
audiologist for

'loAu.D.,

is

an

HearUSA in the

president of finance for

company's

and extemal
and asset

facilities

functions.

housing organization. During 10 years with
Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia, he was
involved with developing multiple risk sharing programs and responsible
for financial and compliance reporting. Earlier in his career, he worked as

an auditor and consultant with KPMG.
A licensed CPA. Watson earned an
University. Philadelphia.

He

is

MBA

member of the

in

finance from Saint Joseph's

Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs.

TMG Health is a national provider of strategic business process
outsourcing solutions to the government-sponsored health care market.

Scranton area.

Andrew Sibley is a research
chemist with Keystone Industries,

Cherry

to vice

Watson has more than 20 years experience in the
health care industry. He previously was chief financial
officer and chief operating officer for a heath care and

Council for Exceptional
Children, Osceola,

was promoted

Health, overseeing finance, accounting

reporting, as well as the

not participate in the Pottsville

Outstanding Educator by the

'89

TMG

Minishak promoted
FRANK MINISHAK

Hill, N.J.

'84

at

About Group

was appointed

vice president of national sales

About Group, managing the firm's national
advertising sales team. He was vice president of
for the

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VITAL STATISTICS
Marriages

Obituaries

Births

Tracy Cavanaugh

and Michael Downey

'95

Holly Aton '97 and Craig Mclntyre, Oct.

Trevor Woodward

'97

9,

Rosemary Roos-Whitney '91 and husband,
Adam, a daughter, Laura-Rae, Oct. 2, 2009

2010

and Brandi Boruta, Aug.

Stephanie Jepko Menapace '94 and

2010

21,

husband, Aaron Menapace

Jamie Beitz

'99

and Dan Allbeck, March

19,

Jennifer Seely '99 and Jason Beery, March
Ellen

Noah

2011

13,

Patrick,

Aug.

13,

Gertrude Harris Walters

'88, a son,

2010

Ann Nickerson '01 and Michael Cramer, Sept. 12, 2010

Maura Dunleavy

'02

10,

Florence Miskiewicz Rzemien 44

Garrett Patrick, April 26, 2011

Garrity Elijah, April 24,

and Spencer Raynor-Smith,

Oct.

9,

2010

Maureen Gilroy '04 and Ronald Mills, Oct. 23, 2010
Michelle

O'DonneU

'04

and Nate Seymour, Nov.

6,

2010

Sept. 25, 2010

Amber Snyder '05 and Jeffrey Fine, Jan. 22, 2011
Heather

Bowman '06 and Jesse Goshert, June u, 2011

Marlena ZappUe Thomas
Kirk Thomas

'98, a

'97

and husband,

daughter, Kara Helena

Dawn GUes Vinton '98 and husband,
Edward, a daughter, Avery, May 2011

a daughter,

Devon

Victoria, Nov. 3, 2010

Megan

'07

and James Buchman

Mitchell '08 and

Andre Wagner, May 2, 2010

Sheila Martin '09 and David Ergott '09, July 24, 2010

'51

Alton

Williams

E.

S.

Zerby

'02

and

'51

'52

'53

John D. Angus

'55

Walter Stanek

'55

Desmond Epler '56

Walter A. Prokopchak

Thomas J.

Fleck

Patricia Pollock

Pamela DiGiacomo Eisenhart

'57

'59

Krum '59

Willard D. Ziegler Jr

'59

husband, Ryan, a daughter, Carly Joyce,

William E. Algatt '60

March

Mahlon Fritz Sr. '61
Mary "Libby" Hamer Markle '62

24,

20U

Angela Snook-Pearly

Kropa

George

Jacqueline

Wagner '98 and wife, Jennifer,

Ashley Kreischer '06 and Jeffrey Border '03/'07M, June 3, 20U
Kristy

Evans

P.

Patricia Kringe Kotzer

Justin C.

Howard Williard III,

Donald H. King '50
Michael

20U

Anne Sabatelle '04M and Patrick Conflitte, June 19, 2010
Tiffany Bender 'oS and

Murray '46

E. Marjorie Stover

2010

'34

'42

Frank J. McAloose 42

Christopher Knarr '96 and wife, Tia, a son,
Nicholas J. Seier '01 and Krystel R. Hubble, Oct.

Edith E. Bartha

'02

and husband,

Robert, a son, Aiden Michael, Feb.

Joseph A.
13,

Petrilla '62

2011

Gerald E. Malinowski

'63

Barthalmus

'65

Lisa Hunsinger Millard '03 and husband,

George

Lee Millard

Paul M. Krukas

'02, a

daughter, Xira Loren,

T.

'65

Donald "Duggie" Dugan '66/'8oM

May 13, 20U

Joanne Polega O'Connor

Maura Luciano

Irving '04 and husband,

Patrick, a daughter,

April

19,

Maggie Catherine,

2011

Stephen

F

Alice Galbreath Roach '69
Russell Anstead Jr. '70

Drake Baltzley '05 and husband,

Chris, a son.

Gage Ronald, Jan.

S,

2011

Amdt '70

Denise Marcinkevich EUis '70
Jean Cleaver Stank '70

Travis Karabin Boyer '05 and Stephanie

Louise M. Nicholson

Symons, a daughter, Emerson

Joseph Schultz Jr.

April

10,

Slick,

F.

2010

Erin Dumin-Brosious '05 and husband,
Jeremy, a daughter, Courtney Olivia,

'71

'71

Louise Ranck Stroup

Lawrence

Lynne Bauman Greenly '75
Maryann Bailey Conley '79
Susan Motyka Haddick

Lambert PenneUa '07M and

husband, Jeff, a daughter, Quinn Florence,
Jan.

7,

2011

MeUnda

Bonnie G. Tyrrell

Fitzgerald Sweigart '08 and
'07, a son,

'86

'86

Michelle Yarmes '88

Michele Tatvim Farmer

husband, Richard Sweigart
Calen Richard, April

'72

R. Sipe '74

Kathleen Traynor Stover '84

Dec. 10, 2010

Jessica

'68

Foltz '69

Karen Waschak
Valerie

'31

Barbara Straub Hartman 42

Scott Bird '96 and wife, Sara, a son,

2011

Audrey Moore Cohen '29
M. Elizabeth Van Buskirk Booth
Frank J. Golder '31

'92

Bryan J. Melltnger '92
Michael E. Miller
Lucille

'94

Mull Snyder

'94

22, 2011

Gayle Fogelsonger Clark '95M

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LINEUP
REUNIONS, NETWORKING. AND SPECIAL EVENTS

PICNICKING: Jesse and Stephanie Bombay Teitelbaum. both Class of
1997. enjoyed a Harrisburg area alumni picnic. Summer events for BU
graduates included trips to the Philadelphia Phillies and other baseball

games. Bloom@theBeach

WRESTLERS REUNITE: Shown
Conner

at a recent

wrestling reunion are.

row: retired coach Roger Sanders. Todd

right, front

'85

and John Gibas'

87:

Cummings

second row: Gibbes Johnson

in

Ocean

City.

Md..

and regional

picnics.

left to

'83. Phil

'82.

Hamer '85. Ed Fiorvanti '82 and Randy Watts
'75; and back rows, combined: BU assistant coach Scott Owen. Lon
Edmonds Ik. Frank Barbrie '98. Bob Asby '59. Woody Fry '83: Don

Andrew

Poust

Cappelli '80. Mike

'63.

Ernie Jackson

'81.

Dan Burkholder

current wrestler Frank Hickman.

BU

'75.

Dave McCollum

'77.

wrestling coach John Stutzman,

Kevin O'Melia '97 and Don Reese

ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA:

Cheering on the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs

during Alumni Day were Alpha Sigma Alpha sisters,

VALUE OF NETWORKING: Former

Pennsylvania Gov Mark Schweiker

spoke on the value of 'The Husky Network' at an
event organized by the BU Alumni Association s Lehigh Valley Network.
Shown, left to right, are: Michael Keller '08. Diane Prywara Tracey 08.
Joe Hilgar '75, Schweiker. Sharon Young Hilgar '75 and Ray Smith '72.
'75,

fourth from

left,

Ann Bilhelmer Case

REMEMBER WHEN: Russ

32

NIckerson. Harold Velie and

CAPITAL AREA RECEPTION: Denise Haluska Aylward '95. Jason
KIrsh '96 and Brian Mullen '99. left to right, were among more than

who

100 attendees at a reception for Harrisburg area alumni hosted by

reunion by local student Dean Laubaugh.

the

BU Alumni

Association's Capital Area Network.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

left to right.

Lynn Bilheimer Purvis '85. Connie Franks
Carol Sargent Facchiano '86 and Marianne Nastasiak Heslin '88.
Joining them was future Husky Chelsea Franks.
'83.

Tom

'85.

Kilroy

received officer training under the Navy V-12 program at

Bloomsburg. back row,
ing the

World War

II

left to right,

were joined

at their

who was

annual

Interested

In

meet-

veterans and hearing about their experiences.

CaLENDaR
Activities

Academic Calendar

and Events
Alumni Events

Celebrity Artist Series

Concerts

FALL 2011

Celebrity Artist Series events are

Listed events are open to the

Reading Day

presented in the Haas Center for
the Arts, Mitrani Hall, and

Friday, Oct. 14

Thanksgiving Recess Begins

Tuesday, Nov. 22, 10 p.m.
Classes

28, 8 a.m.

Classes End

389-4409 or

at

visit

and dates are

subject to change.

Winner of Season
Saturday, Oct. 29
Mitrani Hall

12

End

COACH

Graduate Commencennent

Story of Marquette basketball

coach Al McGuire starring

Friday, Dec. 16

Undergraduate Commencement

K.S.

It 's

Classes Begin

All

Done With Mirrors

Monday, Jan. 23

One-man show featuring Emmy
winner Anthony Zerbe

Spring Break Begins

Saturday, Nov.

Monday, March

K.

12,

Resume
Saturday, March

S.

12,

8 p.m.

8 a.m.

Classes End

May 4

Finals Begin

End

Friday,

Graduate
Friday,

11

Nutcracker

May

Undergraduate
Saturday,

May

Commencement

Bloomsburg

St.,

p.m.

8, 7:30

after all

game parties
home football games

Fenstemaker Alumni House

Saturday, Oct.

University-Community Orchestra

Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7 and 8

Sunday, Nov.
Mitrani Hall

See back cover or call 800-526-0254

13,

2:30 p.m.

Wind Ensemble
Wednesday, Nov.

Homecoming Alumni Events
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7 and 8
16,

7 p.m.

See back cover or

www.bloomualumni.com

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 7 p.m.

Fenstemaker Alumni House

Dec. 2 and

Auditorium

3,

7:30 p.m.

First Presbyterian

Church,

345 Market St., Bloomsburg
Free tickets required; available

Symphony

at the

(570)

Mitrani box

office,

389-4409

Tailgate Party

Precedes Huskies vs. West
Chester (2 p.m. kickoff
Saturday, Oct. 22
at West Chester

Special Events
Homecoming Weekend
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7 and 8

Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Football,

Mitrani Hall

Guitar

The Color Purple

Monday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m.
K.S. Gross Auditorium

Ensemble

Huskies

National Broadway Tour

Redman Stadium.
for adults

and $5

senior citizens.

and

Complexions
Featuring

8 p.m.

Ballet

Desmond Richardson,

seen on So You Think You Can

Dance
Saturday,

March

31, 2012,

8 p.m.

Mitrani Hall

For the latest information

on upcoming events, check
the university website.

wwv7.bloomu.edu.

Grace Kelly with Phil Woods
Jazz saxophone

phenom appears

with jazz legend
Friday, April

13,

a valid

Exhibitions in the Haas Gallery

Athletic Hall of

of Art are open to the public free

Friday, Oct. 21

p.m

8,

3:30 p.m.,

Tickets are $10

for students

BU

and

students with

Fame

free.

Induction

of charge. For details, visit

Kehr Union Ballroom

departments.hloomu.edu/art/

Call BU's Sports Information

haas.html.

Office, (570) 389-4413, for ticket

information.

Wendy Kawabata.

sculpture

Sept. 19 to Oct. 14

Parents and Family

Weekend

Friday to Sunday, Oct. 28 to 30

Eunkang Koh, drawings

Senior Grad Finale

Oct. 28 to Nov. 30

Tuesday, Nov. 15
Kehr Union Ballroom

Senior Exit

Dec. 6 to 17
2012, 7:30

Cheyney

ID are admitted

Art Exhibits

Women's History months
18, 2012,

vs.

Wolves, Saturday, Oct.

12

celebrating Black History

Tailgate

Saturday, Oct. 15

Friday and Saturday,
Virtuosi

Network Football

Jazz Ensemble

Mitrani Hall

Thursday, Feb.
Mitrani Hall

1

Fenstemaker Alumni House

Carols by Candlelight

Philadelphia

8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Class of 1956 55-Year Reunion

Percussion Ensemble

Tuesday, Nov.

Friday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m.

Orchestra

11

Market

K.S. Gross

Leading players from the

Commencement

17,

12,

5th Quarter

Capital

Chamber Orchestra

May

Saturday, Nov.

Post-football

Mitrani Hall

Monday, May 7
Finals

Saturday, Sept.

The

Tchaikovsky Russian
Ballet Theatre

The Philadelphia

alum@bloomu.edu.

Sunday, Oct. 30, 2:30 p.m.
St. Matthew Lutheran Church,

Gross Auditorium

Classes

17,

Affairs at (570) 389-4058

Class of 1961 50-Year Reunion

Gross Auditorium

SPRING 2012

Alumni

or (800) 526-0254, or

Chamber Orchestra

Mitrani Hall

Cotter Smith
Friday, Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 17

wvjw.bloomualumni.com for

Alumni Association
Board Meetings

Choral Festival

123 N.

Friday, Dec. 16

Friday,

Fall

Visit

details or to register. Contact

Fenstemaker Alumni House

4,

Last Comic Standing

Finals Begin

Monday, Dec.

venues are Haas Center for the
Arts, Mitrani Hall, and Carver
Hall, Kenneth S. Gross
Auditorium.

Sunday, Oct. 16, 2:30 pm.
K.S. Gross Auditorium

Comedian. Josh Blue

Saturday, Dec. 10

Finals

(570)

Campus

www.bloomu.edu/cas. Programs

Resume

Monday, Nov.

Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross
Auditorium. Call the box office

public free of charge.

Show

Husky Leadership Summit
Saturday,

March

Monty's, Upper

3,

2012

Campus
FALL 2011

33

over
the shoulder

Strike

Upthe Band

^jROBERT DUNKELBERGER, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST

has long been
Music
of the history of

Bloomsburg

a part

University,

beginning with orchestra concerts
and student recitals in the i8oos
and outdoor performances to
accompany May Day dances in
1910.

A marching band first

appeared on the scene Jan. 8, 1931,
its 30 members performed
two marches at the Rotary-Kiwanis

when

College Night. Faculty

member

Howard Fenstemaker served

as

the band's director.

During spring 1931, the band
energized the atmosphere at basketball games with upbeat music
and dapper uniforms of white
duck trousers and dark maroon
sweaters. That fall, they continued practicing under Russell
34

and

drum

Llewellyn, music director of the

of official uniforms

Berwick School District, and provided accompaniment for college
songs at an assembly on Oct. 23.

major

The next day, the 35-member
band went to the College Field,
located at the site of today's Navy
and Columbia halls, for a home
football game with the California
State Teachers College. The allmale band played during lulls in
the action and serenaded the
crowd at halftime. The game
ended in a 0-0 tie, but newspaper
accounts praised the band saying
it "furnished some real entertainment," "made a fine showing" and
was a "very worthwhile addition

time

field at

to college life."

halftime to entertain fans with

The band continued to grow
and develop with the introduction

their repertoire of contemporary,

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

in 1932, female

a

members

in

1937, majorettes in 1939, a flag

squad

in 1946

show

and

a formal half-

at football

games

in

1948. In addition to playing for

sporting events, the band has
performed concerts and marched
in local parades under nine
directors: Fenstemaker, Llewellyn,

Charles Henrie, Nelson Miller,

Stephen Wallace, Valerie Rheude,
Terry Oxley, Stephen Clickard and
current director Gifford Howarth.

This

fall,

the

Maroon and Gold

Band's instrumentalists, silk flags

and twirlers once again take to the
Redman Stadium during

popular and march favorites. •

THE UNIVERSITY

STORE

PICTURE YOURSELF I N

Redman Stadium

on Game Day:
•

The University

The smell of hotdogs and french fries from the
concession stand.

Semester Hours

•

The sound of the Maroon and Gold Band warming up.
The cheers of the crowd as the Huskies take the field.

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

•

And the convenience of the University Store tent,

•

Store:

where

you'll find

everything

Huskies fans during football season, the holiday
season and year-round!
for

where you shop for Huskies apparel and giftware as
you make your way to the stands for kickoff.

Monday through Thursday:
Friday: 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday: Noon

to 4:30 p.m.

THE UNIVERSITY STORE
You'll find staff from the University Store

the tent at each

home football game this

under

with a
variety of apparel and giftware. You'll find an even
greater selection of merchandise at the University
Store on campus, open seven days a week, or online
at bloomustore.com.

fall

Choose from caps, T-shirts and

400 East Second Street

Bloomsburg. PA 17815
General Information:
(570)

389-4175

Customer
(570)

Service:

389-4180

sweatshirts, glassware, pennants, stuffed animals

and more.

Gift cards are available, too.

BUSTORE@BLOOMU.EDU

UNIVERSITY
Store

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U.S.

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PAID

t PERMIT

#12

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UNIVERSITY

HOMECOMING

2011

MORE INFORMATION AT
WWW.BLOOMUALUMNI.COM

Friday and Saturday. Oct. 7 and 8

ROONGO'S ROCK

N'

ROLL TENT PARTY

With thanks to presenting sponsor. Liberty Mutual
Saturday, noon to 2:30 p.m.
Fenstemaker Alumni House
•

Refreshments, including traditional "brew"

•

Guitar Hero competition with great prizes

•

Culinary delights at minimal cost

•

Featured reunions at designated areas:
Classes of 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001

Greek Alumni

Friday, 7 to 9 p.m.

Find details and RSVP at www.bloomualumni.com.
Alumni registering online by Oct. 2 will be entered to
win a Wii with Guitar Hero; alumni who sign up for the
Guitar Hero competition by Oct. 2 will be entered twice.

Fenstemaker Alumni House

Questions? Call 800-526-0254.

Class of 1961 50-Year Reunion

Reception

Reunion
Saturday, cocktails

Dinner, 7 p.m.
Monty's, Upper

and beverages, 6:30 p.m.;

Campus

$35 per person includes appetizers,
adult beverages and dinner

For

details, call

800-526-0254

Field Hockey
Huskies vs. West Chester Golden

Saturday,

Sports Stadium
Football

Huskies
Alumni Coffee House
Saturday, 9:30 to

11

a.m.

Rams

noon

vs.

Cheyney Wolves

Saturday, 3:30 p.m.

Redman Stadium

Fenstemaker Alumni House
Multicultural

Homecoming Parade
Saturday,

11

a.m.

Downtown Bloomsburg

Alumni Networking Reception

Saturday, 6 p.m.

Fenstemaker Alumni House
Complimentary appetizers, RSVP by Oct. 2

*.