ijiloornsburg University of Pennsylvania also inside Hard Habits Faculty research WWW.BLOOMU.EDU may to Break help defeat addiction. Page 10 Spirited Careers Alumni draft livelihoods in growing industry. Page 16 Bloomsburg: The University Magazine From the President The Enduring Value of a Bloomsburg Degree AT HOMECOMING, ALUMNI WEEKEND and other events, my conversations with graduates often turn to their careers and the long-lasting benefits of their Bloomsburg University degree. For young alumni, the connection can be a straight extracurricular activities time employment. For those it may not be as obvious to job ... who have been how the line: from college courses and shadowing and internship opportunities in the working world for 20, ... to full- 30 or more years, however, degree they earned so long ago figures into the career they are pursuing today. One way they benefit, of course, is The their earnings power. a bachelor’s degree can expect to earn twice as much U.S. Census Bureau says a person with as a high school graduate during his or her lifetime. But what about the benefits beyond dollars and cents? worker will change careers 42 have held as who, at many as some point five to or her show that the average U.S. seven times, stay at each job an average of 4.6 years and by age 10 separate positions. in his Statistics also life, What is the value of a bachelor’s degree to has forged an entirely new and, someone perhaps, unexpected career path? Quite simply, their degree has taught them in their major, co-curricular activities, how to learn. General education courses and courses such as undergraduate research and service learning, and career discovery, from job shadowing and internships to networking with alumni, have given skill set like no other. a self-assurance that enables them to take a on new challenges, formulate new ideas and succeed. In this issue of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine, you will career changes at midlife and others who, from the start, meet alumni who made pursued majors. Their Bloomsburg University degrees have served fields significant seemingly unrelated to their them exceedingly well. DAVID SOLTZ President, Editor's note: them Their degree has made them more confident, competitive and competent with Bloomsburg University BU President David Soltz regtdarly offers his opinions on issues in higher education and his vision for Bloomsburg University at bupresident.blogspot.com. FEATURES 10 Hard Habits Continuing Kevin Ball in the Break to research tradition at BU, searches for a drug to shield addicts from relapse. 12 Reinvent Yourself Sometimes you just have first, app for 14 your own ideas to put and thanks to Patty Cara an ’85, there’s that. Well Played in game technolog}' and As interest development skyrockets, Eric Preisz '00 is GG Interactive CEO meeting gamer demands head on, and enjoying every moment of it. 16 Spirited Careers Five alums on unrelated career paths choose themselves by stepping out of their to reinvent comfort zones and finding their passion. 20 All the World Loves a Clown Clowning around might not seem serious matter, but Table of Contents Winter 2015 A MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board Chancellor, State System President, Bloomsburg University of Higher Education David L. 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Each sophomore, junior and senior nursing student took the Nightingale Pledge and received a specially designed FOSTER Bloomsburg was one schools ERIC 2 BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA the commonwealth and 100 pin as a reminder to provide quality care. Sophomores shown from left are sisters nationwide chosen to receive a $3,000 grant Yesenia and Yasmeen Mercado, Allison from the American Association Lloyd and of PHOTO: in of three nursing Nursing and the Arnold P. of Gold Colleges Savannah Copson. Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania around THE quad Does what you eat FAST FOOD. FRIED FOOD. Snack food. affect how you learn? A in a task that depended on the hippocampus, study conducted by a Bloomsburg senior and but did not have a similar impairment on her faculty mentor suggests that a high-fat a task that diet including foods in these categories affect your The ability to learn may and remember. the high-fat diet selectively related brain structures intact. Michener of Telford and her mentor, Eric Both projects also suggest that consuming Stouffer, associate professor of psychology, rats fed a high-fat diet likely to learn a (CCP) task than CCP were a high-fat diet less Conditioned Cue Preference rats on a low-fat diet. The in the brains of humans and other vertebrates important in consolidating information from short-term to long-term memory and in spatial navigation. stress, often associated Oxidative with the effects of typical aging. project, Effect of a High-Fat Diet on a Hippocampus-Dependent Conditioned Cue Michener and Stouffer theorize that an impairs the hippocampus, a major in earlier than Michener presented the findings of the this increase in oxidative stress from the high- component much would he expected with research, water served as the rats’ reward. fat diet can contribute to a decline cognitive performance task requires rats to connect environ- mental cues with a rewarding stimulus. In says, that damaged the hippocampus while leaving other learning- researchers, psychology major Paige found that was independent of the hippocampus. This suggested, he Preference Task, along with previous findings aging, is defined as physiological stress caused by damage from free The Conference radicals. research builds on an earlier project Stouffer conducted with another student. In that research, he demonstrated that rats fed a high-fat diet showed impaired at the Society for latent learning in Neuroscience 2014 Washington, D.C. Her research was one of more than 30 projects funded as part of Bloomsburg University’s 2014 Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (URSCA) Awards summer program. • WINTER 20 15 3 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania around THE WANTED: YOUR HELP US bring you the news and OPINION, YOUR IDEAS information you want your mind: by completing the biennial readers survey alumni, students, faculty or staff, in 100 words or at less, to in Bloomsburg: The University Magazine. There are two ways to magazine@bloomu.edu. We look BOLIG LEADS STEM INITIATIVES KIMBERLY LAZAR scholarship BOLIG RILEY, a senior health physics major from is the first BU recipient of the National Academy Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Exelon Nuclear, one of the nation’s leading competitive Education Center. selected, students must have Responsible for a Riley credits BU’s health physics program for his success. 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BU Wall to Wall The LOCAL FIRM DONATES CUSTOM CARPET full report is available at www.bloomu.edu/middlestates • . BLOOMSBURG CARPET INDUSTRIES in recently donated carpeting for the lobby and company produced and donated entryways of Carver Hall. The maroon and entrances carpeting bears the official gold and replaces the custom flooring the for the lobby AACSB in 1994. • university seal BU’S Transfer Partners COLLEGE OF BUSINESS has been reaccredited for the by the Association to Schools of Business, second time Advance Collegiate known as AACSB International. AGREEMENT GUARANTEES Initially accredited in ADMISSION TO BU 2004 and reaccredited in 2010, BU’s College of BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY and agreement that transfer to will help agreement, into in an LCCC graduates Bloomsburg to complete bachelor’s degrees. Business Luzerne County Community College entered is one of 716 business schools 48 countries and territories - less than 5 percent of the world’s business programs - with their Founded To take advantage of the LCCC students must complete is in 1916, AACSB accreditation. AACSB International the longest serving global accrediting a dual admissions intent form before body completing 30 undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degree with a credits, earn an associate’s minimum grade point average BU within one year of LCCC graduation. A full-time student who of 2.0, and enroll at has completed the appropriate associate’s LCCC may be able to a bachelor’s degree at BU within degree program at complete The programs covered under the art, biology, P. Leary, president, and senior vice president standing: for LCCC, and academic Rosana Reyes, dean Ira Blake, provost affairs, of enrollment Fletcher, associate vice president business, chemistry, communications, computer science, criminal justice, earth science, English, geoscience, environmental science, BU management and student development, LCCC; Dana Charles Clark, provost and vice president for academic affairs, LCCC; and Tom degrees in business and accounting. BU; and and dean in first offered bachelor’s degrees business administration in 1934. In fall 2014. 1,855 undergraduates were of enrolled in one of BU’s business majors: extended programs, BU. accounting, business education, infor- geography, geology', history, mathematics four regular semesters. agreement include Thomas for business schools that offer and statistics, modern languages, physics, early childhood education, political science, psychology, social work, sociology and theatre. Learn more at mation and technology management, finance, management or marketing. BU’s College of Business also offers master's degrees in accounting, business administration and business education. • www.pcicollegetmnsfer.com. • WINTER 2015 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania around Grant Re-awarded NURSING STUDENTS BENEFIT 48 DEPARTMENT OF NURSING was BU’S re-awarded the Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT) Grant from the Department of Health and Human U.S. Services, Health Resources, and Services Administration Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship. Bloomsburg University country to receive the BU first one of just 65 schools from across the is AENT award. earned the grant of $638,436 for $691,872 will provide tuition, fees in 2012. This year’s award and textbook stipends to approximately 48 nurse practitioner students over the next two The two awards represent years. Play Time EVENT ENCOURAGES IMAGINATION MICHAEL PATTE, professor of education believes that play in to one that America has “Children’s lives have inside shifted now predominantly is become it To address and child from A life specialist, a child-initiated activity adult-directed. progressively and outside of school," Patte implications says, “and I’m concerned about the and his students collaborated Pop-Up Adventure Playground to BU EARNS MILITARY FRIENDLY SCHOOL DESIGNATION School designation from Victory Media for the universities to bring BU for the first time. Pop-Up open-minded exploration. Each playground “pops up” community environment setting where children can enjoy for a short time this self-structured adults students w ere r their able to educate both children and on the importance of child-initiated play. • and trade schools their efforts to ensure the last fail. in the country in recognition of academic success of military service With more than 200 veterans enrolled years, including 40 in service at BU in the last three 2014, as well as about 100 veterans fall members among faculty and upon the efforts of the builds By hosting the event attended by about 200 area youngsters and BU time members, veterans and spouses. for free. parents. Patte and first The designation is awarded to the top 20 percent of colleges, Adventure Playgrounds are composed of loose materials that encourage in a Salute BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY EARNED the Military Friendly more structured both has for their development as a whole person.” this issue, Patte the largest in the history of the nursing program. • staff, and BU’s recent growth Office of Military and Veterans Resources and the Student Veterans Association. Other services include a student veterans lounge, lectures by experts on veterans’ issues and priority scheduling for student veterans. • Saying Thanks BU’S MOST GENEROUS HONORED BU RECOGNIZED its most generous benefactors with the creation of the Wall of Distinction. at the center of the The wall, located adjacent to the fountain Academic Quad, displays plaques bearing the names of donors w'hose contributions million. The donors, who million in gifts, to the university collectively represent are listed in chronological order: The Mitrani Family Foundation, Drew 76 and Susan Jack J. L. ’65 Mertz ’42, and Cecelia Mistal ’66 Toth, Norman Benner Hudock 75, Robert ’89 6 BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 72 Hostetter, Terry H. 76 and JoAnn Schultz 77 Zeigler, D. F. Watts Greenly, Michael ’59, Thomas Barbara Warren, Fred G. Smith, Community Government Association, Barbara Dilworth, Duane Basar exceed $1 more than $25 L. ’85 R. 72 and Susan and Beth Boguski, Stephan M. and the Degenstein Foundation. • Pettit FOR UP-TO-DATE SCORES AND COVERAGE, GO ONLINE sports ON THE HILL BUHUSKIES.COM By Scott Eddy SPORTS ARE FULL OF CLICHES, some escaped injury when he was thrown from his turret after roadside of which compare an competitive drive to the survival instinct of the battlefield. athlete’s One Bloomshurg football knows the player, redshirt sophomore Eric Schwartz, Schwartz began his collegiate football career nearly a decade ago as a Shippensburg University quarterback. what it he says, “but that’s not the took to succeed on the know how to manage my time field "I way and thought it is I done. I didn’t in the classroom. I know he says, "I person I made for a tree knew I could a route In October 2009, He joined the U.S. Marine in the service, serving as a lance corporal makes you puts things into after a tour of duty in the unit. With the GI Bill to Mediterranean help with tuition, he was deployed for nine months employment of a heavy machine gun time since midget football, Schwartz’s over Millersville University and his first in a win career interception in a Lock Haven. This time around, he recognizes the importance of being a well- balanced student-athlete. Studying exercise science, he a minor in exceptionalities is considering with a career goal of working in special Now 27 years old. he has the benefit of hindsight to share some hard-earned wisdom with teammates. in Kunjak. Province, Afghanistan, as an infantry machine gunner. first season included a forced fumble and fumble recovery education. He spent his days in direct combat on top of a truck, responsible for the tactical home Playing safety for the first he considered before promotion to corporal. Helmand Schwartz returned Sea with an expeditionary victory at began when he followed Corps and spent four years It perspective.” worked trimming company. But, be.” before receiving a football scholarship. get back. shot. the determination to get back on track and be the Swartz’s turnaround when you we were Schwartz was ready to return to college and give football another didn’t correctly.” warehouse and getting shot at even' day,” he remembers. "Losing people could just major After academic struggles forced Schwartz out of school, he in a pipe-fitting exploded. “During the final parts of the deployment appreciate what you have difference firsthand. in football," bombs to provide direct fire in “I tell up. but I the guys not to was able make to serve the mistakes my country and perspective not only on football, but life.” I made,” he says. that gave “I me such messed a • support of his unit. Danger was ever-present for Schwartz and his unit. Twice he Scott Eddy is assistant sports information editor. WINTER 2015 7 TWO OF THE NEWEST Huskies may not The have posted eye-popping statistics on the but their impact field, football with and field is Gage, undeniable. Both the hockey teams partnered Team IMPACT to bring into the fold is is to team jersey on the field and expanding team-based support networks. was given There are more than 5,000 participants na- team’s webpage. tionwide, including children, siblings, parents, “official" a locker With Sarah came up football in team reached the national quarterfinals school history and the short in the Super Region 1 first mind, the for since 2008. But a valiant rally Championship Game at Callaghan Stadium, Athens, WVa., as Concord University held on for a 32-26 victory to move on ter Division (11-2) rallied and appeared (13-0) NCAY to the Bloomsburg to have all from the II semifinals. 21 points down momentum to tie in the third quar- before the Mountain Lions responded to keep their perfect season alive. BU’s Eddie Mateo rushed for 107 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries while quarterback Tim Kelly completed 16 of 36 pass attempts for 239 yards and a score, rushing for another. for 97 yards D.J. McFadden caught five balls and a score while Chad Hoffman had three catches for 68 yards. Senior middle linebacker Justin Shirk earned tronics Super Region All-America. 1 PSAC East and Dak- Defensive Player of the Year and second team The Huskies defense led the nation in turnovers generated in 2014. The Huskies in 8 are now 3-2 in national quarterfinal 2006. • BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA games, last - Sarah, The Huskies 9, winning field hockey team no strangers are back to the community and, to children in need. The September, to giving in particular, football donated more than $1,200 team to the Children’s Miracle Network at Geisinger Medical Center Another National Playoff Run in own and a spot on the student-athletes and coaches. time summer its who is also fighting leukemia. member of the team, Sarah of Bloomsburg As an fifth in Hospital in Danville. hockey “signed” special recruit this past quality of life for children facing life-threat- IN FALL 2014, BU’s game and taking donations go toward Geisinger’s Janet Weis Children’s sidelines at home games. ening and chronic illnesses by establishing the held a “Play for the Cure” selling pink T-shirts Huskies raised $1,000 through the event to several improve the has visited toward pediatric cancer research. The Huskies mission He and become the team’s biggest fan wearing illness. Team IMPACT’S fighting leukemia. the team, along with his parents and siblings, his official two young “recruits” who are battling serious team welcomed 7-year-old football who last spring. • A Season Remember to THE HUSKIES men’s soccer team of its finest seasons last fall, record for victories while reaching the Division II Tournament shutouts, also gave the Huskies Conference (PSAC) competition. posted one matching the school NCAA Bloomsburg reached the PSAC Championship Game for the first time since for the first time since 2011 and received several honors. Four players - junior defender Matt Zima and freshman goalkeeper Jared 1978. One of just 35 teams nationwide to earn a bid to the national tournament, the Huskies finished the season with a 13-6-2 overall record and went first Roma Loboda and junior defender Mike Bamford, second Ott, who tied the school record with eight first team has received multiple Daktronics time the All- Region honorees. In December, Zima was named honorable mention Daktronics All-America and became the first player in Huskies history to receive Daktronics .All-America accolades. Head coach team - were accorded All-PSAC accolades. Zima and 9-2-0 against Pennsylvania State Athletic team, and senior defender Ott, two Daktronics Region selections, the All-Atlantic Paul Payne was named PSAC Coach of the Year. • An All-American TriFecta THREE WOMEN’S cross country runners earned All-American honors as the Huskies finished 14th overall at the championships On rain, NCAA Division II national in Louisville, Ky. a course that was shortened due to heavy Hannah Boudreau. Kate Dodds and Lauren Lehman earned All-American honors by finishing 35th. 39th and 40th respectively. The top 40 are named All-Americans. Boudreau, a freshman, finished up Newest Members Fame of the Hall of Members of the 33rd Athletic Hall of Fame Class were inducted last fall, bringing the number of members to 158. Shown from left are Erica Miller '01, softball; Michael McFarland, athletic director; Roxann Emerick Betz ’01, women’s lacrosse; Glen McNamee ’97, football; Tina Wikoski Bartholomew '95, cross country and track and field; Roger Sanders, former wrestling coach; Julie Bugg ’99, women's soccer; David Soltz, BU REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE Jerrin Toomey, ter the most in a single Champion Scholar game (PSAC) Football prior to the awarded is to the student-athlete with the high- est grade point average at 23 championship finals each of the league’s sites. enjoyed a strong season on the field as well as part of the Huskies secondary, earning an exrole as the season honored of the as the Week PSAC went on Oct. 25. The in 22:04. As a team the Huskies finished 14th with 358 points, equaling their best previous NCAA finish in 2011. PSAC Bloomsburg was also the top school. • three interceptions were game by any Bloomsburg Toomey continues an impressive recent history of Bloomsburg student- athletes earn- ing the honor of Champion Scholar. along. He was East Defensive Athlete after intercepting three passes as part of the Huskies’ 41-10 win over Women’s basketball player Nicole Southcott earned the accolades last March. A business management major, Toomey panded heat 1500 meters of the finished in nearly a dead player since 1993. championship November. The Champion Scholar in final moving Tradition Continued of York, was honored as a 2014 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference over the Dodds and Lehman finishing president; and Dione Somerville, vice president for Student Affairs. Champion 18 places race. in 21:59 player Aubrey Bossert Women’s won lacrosse the award in 2012 and 2013 while men’s soccer alumnus Bryce Shaffer received the honor at the 2012 men’s soccer championships and Tim Dorsch claimed the award in men’s swimming during the 2012-13 year. • West Ches- WINTER 2015 9 Hard Habits Break Statistics show as many as 75 percent of people who try cocaine will become addicted to it. Only one in four is able to quit without help. by TURNS OUT the expression “some “Food seeking doesn't entail the same changes habits are hard to break” profound change to the brain. Partly tive very real sense. And true in a is the reasons are evolutionary; was biological. Neuroscientist Kevin Ball professor of psychology, research that may is ’01, associate conducting provide clues on to help people kick a drug or overeating study the effects of chronic stress on addicts’ relapse to cocaine seeking unhealthy eating habits. “After addicts the majority go back to using the drug Ball. “Addiction to drugs, like cocaine, heroin or amphetamines, is so difficult to beat because they cause very big changes to brain structure and chemistry.” While drug addiction and maladaptive food seeking are not the same, “there is a lot of overlap in the brain systems that drive both behaviors,” says Ball. 10 was advantageous food to seek BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA memory also occur after exposure to addictive drugs, Ball explains. Addiction, therefore, is economies, food maladaptive form of learning that makes isn’t scarce anymore.” as a addicts vulnerable to relapse for months, years or a lifetime after treatment. The chemistry of addiction When we do — something pleasurable The role of stress such as eating our favorite foods or having sex — or are exposed to stimuli “We know that chronic stress many diseases from that predict such things, our nerve cells contributes to release the neurotransmitter dopamine, heart disease to cancer,” says which studying the role of chronic stress in is picked up by dopamine recep- After a short time, the reabsorbed by the nerve dopamine is be used cells to again. A similar thing happens with dieting,” says When underlie adap- sometimes conceptualized tors. complete cocaine rehab, within a few months to a year. our DNA. how Funded by a three-year, $263,271 grant from the National Institutes of Health, he is using an animal model to dieters’ relapse to it in in the brain that forms of learning and out calorie-dense foods. In advanced habit. and scarce, it’s it’s ERIC FOSTER relapse because changes in in it ... Ball. “I’m induces lasting brain regions implicated addiction and relapse.” Acute stress can be adaptive, says Cocaine and similar drugs hijack our Ball. dopamine system by blocking the reabsorption of the chemical. The dopamine receptors are stimulated far mechanism, longer than normal, creating an intense cobra sitting on your chair. But chronic not adaptive when fight-or-flight body’s euphoria. is The chemistry of the brain altered and, with repeated exposure, those changes can lent, setting It become more preva- the stage for addiction. appears that many of the physical It if activates your body’s fight-or-flight like you would experience you walked into your stress is office to find a mechanisms are continually “Today we are exposed activated. to stresses that constantly activate our fight-or-flight mechanisms. Stress at home. Stress at Money worries. Information work. overload,” he says. Stress and cocaine both activate the dopamine system, but through mechanisms. And it different turns out that acti- dopamine system by vation of the stress can reactivate an addictive behavior. A possible remedy In his study, Ball is investigating whether a dopamine antagonist drug to block body — will stress on — dopamine receptors a the in reduce the effects of chronic later relapse vulnerability. The study be conducted will in three stages. Self-Administration Phase: Rats • be given the opportunity to will self- administer cocaine or highly palatable food pellets. Extinction Phase: • food pellets will The cocaine or be withdrawn and a source of stress introduced. This stressor can entail being confined to open container a small space. A portion in a bright of the rats will be administered a dopamine antagonist. Reinstatement Phase: The • rats will have the opportunity to respond to cocaine- or food-associated cues. This response is the means for measuring relapse. The question to answer is that Ball is seeking whether the dopamine antagonist, given during the chronic stress introduced at the extinction phase, helps to shield the rats from relapsing into the addictive behavior. And will if it does, perhaps the research one day lead man to a way to shield hu- addicts from relapse. • A Research Tradition THE BEHAVIORAL STUDIES that Kevin Ball is conducting are part of a Cohen, with more than 75 publicaand 39 research grants, was the tions Ball’s latest grant is his second from the National Institutes of Health. continuing tradition at Bloomsburg first University. sor to be awarded grants from the MDMA (colloquially known as National Science Foundation and the ecstasy) National Institutes of Health. of addiction. • A 2001 BU graduate, Ball was tored by Steven Cohen, 2009 after who men- retired in Bloomsburg University profes- A 2011 grant focused on the effects of and neurological foundations 36 years of service. WINTER 2015 11 skills she’d developed at the agency, gathered a creative team. with graphic designers worked “I knew, sourced I the developers, and created the app, TENideas, from concept just under a year.” The interface is do, they find direction more ideas, on a topic that in simple, but requires Once they users to explore the space. erate launch to on ways to gen- from doing research interests them to think- ing playfully to thinking deeply about what they might ask for granted them one wish. “For younger users, the be filled a genie if list may with party ideas or ways to design their resumes,” Cara says. “We also have some users who are They use the app entrepreneurs. to list things they want to invent or apps they want to develop. Lots of my friends are writers Reinvent Yourself By LAURIE today is AS PATTY CARA ’85 emptied her went through nearly 30 years of notes. They held her ideas, some of which wanted to be involved in the app world. I was ready for something new,” she recalls. “And it did coalesce that way in my mind - kind of like a During that was a now-or-never moment,” she She could do what she knew which was safe - or she could branch out. “Because I was a creative director and came up with ideas for a living, I decided I would apply all my ideas to “It my life instead of creating things for clients. I moment who worked because her husband, at the same agency, lost on the same day. But Cara excited, too, about what was next his job her “I 12 felt in “I me I 10 of her to get into the digital BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA own ideas think what surprised began by visualizing it as the equivalent of a task manager. But that is then I realized that a task a recipe for keeping wanted to focus on life manager is way it is. I the ideas, rather than wasn’t she — that voice that whispers that the idea good enough, it will never fly, enough or smart enough or good enough or disciplined enough to make things work? that we’re not strong “I decided not to listen to the internal editor anymore,” she says. “I felt that the internal editor me from doing things that had kept wanted I to accomplish.” • tasks. ‘To dos’ are tasks you're accus- to to doing. An idea is a new way do something.” And what began as a list soon developed into an idea for an iTunes mobile app. She visualized a way to give users become better at genown ideas and, using the the resources to life. wanted down every day. tomed live that philosophy.” Scan,', yes, written first year, ever plagued by the internal editor isn’t While working at the agency, she’d says. and freelancing, direct result of the job loss.” perfect storm.” she’d never put into practice. Just my own busi- app - a game — in the works, a book proposal being shopped around on the TENideas system - so I’m doing all new things for me,” she says. “That change in philosophy and focus was a inspired by ‘85, space, advertising agency vice president, she forward to started launched a mobile app, have a second new philosophy. desk after losing her job as an decided from that “I ness, did consulting a million mobile apps available long-forgotten notes and a and they Need proof that the app works? CREASY one created by Patty Cara artists creative ideas.” look at Cara. Among more than and use the app to capture and act on their erating their TENideas is available on the iTunes App Store in the Productivity section. Laurie Creasy based in is a freelance writer Bloomsburg. Create a legacy. Terrance Jones is the first member of his family to go to college. He’s worked hard at Bloomsburg to earn a bachelor’s degree and pursue a master’s. 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If now as well as in you have already included the Bloomsburg University Foundation as a beneficiary of as a To learn more, please or contact us at www.bloonTiFdn.org Not intended as legal, tax, or investment advice. us know so that member of our Golden your estate plan, please may recognize you Dome Society. © 2015, The Bloomsburg University Foundation, Inc. visit let us at bloomufdn.org 570-389-4128. we ; By LARRY KELLER “ There are so many people playing video games students want to learn how - PREISZ ERIC OF COURTESY PHOTO: 1YLVANIA to create Eric Preisz ’00 them ” games are a positive part Sixty-four percent of parents believe video of their children’s LET'S SAY you have a lives. terrific idea for a video Alumnus Eric Preisz couldn’t agree more. to learn game. But you need a means of meshing the various bells and whistles into a single piece of One software. you hope, that, will be enjoyed by legions of devoted video game players. by Interactive, led CEO GG teaching it all together. GG Interactive, formerly Games, is a multi-faceted known its name game the games. Preisz also believes the complete with instruction, GG job sounded like a much lot of fun. but the better. That’s the job he took. “My office was tests has created video games in a room," Preisz in the [computer] server was recalls. “I freezing." moving on He stav ed company and career development, and when where he worked on 3-D simulations of the actors, sound it his company to a vehicle assembly building at NASA’s hired a Los .Angeles film crew Kennedy Space Station. and shot scenes on Hollywood When stages. for autistic children asked own computer Preisz started his programming business A prototype game "engine,” first second one paid for five years, before not in developing video games, but in producing a The learning variety of areas, including customer service and independent video game developers. The company made aids, and grades. justice course, in Vancouver, Wash., that makes software for isn’t just in developed an adventure game for a criminal as Garage- company based how to create that produced training simulations for soldiers. them,” he says. value games themselves can be valuable classroom Eric Preisz '00, could be the source of the missing element that ties how to create The educational in Orlando, his clients included the U.S. .Army and Air Force and youngsters to perform "simple tasks such as Disney Imagineering. For Disney, his company Torque, that has evolved into several versions. matching," he says. “If the student wasn’t able created two interactive games for visitors as Simply put, a video game engine takes the to solve the puzzle, components of a game, such give graphics, and pulls them all as audio and together in a it would progressively them bigger and bigger At the same time, he began teaching a Regardless of skill levels at video games and Independent game makers are the primary simulations, "the key to this kind of work is buyers of those engines. “Lots of them have tech usability testing," says Preisz, jobs and do this as a hobby," Preisz says. “Others people to try out a new product. “The most important thing to employed by v ideo game makers and want branch out on their own. The of people will try to reality It is hits. to made engines and that a lot make 10 as opposed to is what do often recruits watch what they're doing they're telling you." developed it GG its Interactive Torque game “You have to games and hope one - Eric Preisz ’00 A little ‘Donkey Kong’? Preisz’s career a branch office of GG Interactive to create standards for courses development, committee. to follow, so it the location of - decided on video game invited Preisz to sen e on He learned there was no a curriculum GG created a prototype of four high school courses to be taken over two years, similar to earlier many people work in Florida. “There are so plating video games; students want GG in 2009 in a technical CEO and became taught. in January months, the company has been effort to build a world-class entertainment him from Meanwhile, he has worked on several projects with Microsoft, including one that teaches path was anything but Bloomsburg native played "Donkey Kong" and other games but then he - started with same subject he says contractual stipulations bar predictable. Sure, the the state of Nevada That led him to his department's chair. co-write a book on the elaborating. as its future. When faster - at Full Sail University in Florida and platform for a world-class theme park." Preisz increasingly to education and entertainment Educational value became - basically, make games run involved in the support phase “of a multi-year hits” licenses so affordable that Now the company is looking or better 2011. In recent make 10 game optimization techniques and tools to He even the smallest aspiring video game magnate could buy one. course on video sales position games That's a do-or-die business.” not a business model that emulated. Instead, is to who to make money off a game, but few actually succeed. You have and hope one geodesic sphere. succeeded.” single piece of software. are they exited the ride at Epcot's Spaceship Earth hints until they “I as a youngster, company," says Preisz. who manages projects and products, occasionally writes code and oversees 13 employees ily, it literacy for people in developing countries. “AYe built cartoon-like stories and mini-games that teach people how to use their lost interest. played video games less than everybody at this computer in two cities. Luck- turned out playing video games wasn’t a prerequisite for success in the industry. mouse, email, productivity and other functions,” he tools, says. scheduled to be offered in the Internet, The program at least is 20 languages. “Everybody has a different way to use game technology," Preisz says. “I think I’ve got the coolest job in the world." • After graduation, he had two job offers: one Larry Keller is a freelance writer based in from the maker of a Formula One race car game; Philadelphia. the other from a Washington, D.C.. company WINTER 2015 15 The famous quote attributed to Confucius that you In 2003, Adam like, Bartles and you will was planning on graduate school when, burned out on academia, he decided to return home. On a whim, he sent an unsolicited ap- plication to Appalachian and unwittingly took Brewing Co. in Harrisburg the first step toward a new Fraternity brothers Moyer open talked for together. As Thomas Yozzo and Chris 20 years of businesses and spirits exploded five years on the perfect venture: a It they could the market for hand-crafted beer ago, the friends agreed Matthew Hall worked for a beer distributor while Myrna, told counseling psychology when his wife, him he needed a hobby and gave him a book on winemaking. Fast forward 25 years and friends, loving the wines Anderson and a fellow professor made, convinced the pair to open a winery. Adam success as a salesman for a large Philadelphia beer degree. distributor following graduation. know But as he got the people manufacturing the beer he was start at the appeal for the hands-on side of the busi- ness grew. on different career paths, but they share two key characteristics: the courage to take a risk and desire to forge a career out of BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA still not sure ground why they at small called me in." breweries usually level regardless of experi- ence, and Bartles was no exception. in the All five started "Em New employees to He began packaging area, building cardboard beer cases and helping to run the bottle-labeling machine. as much He made it a point to get involved in of the operation as he could and within two months he made his first batch of beer - a thousand gallons of ABC’s dark Susquehanna An unexpected “I had decided school and had One day maybe I 1 Stout. offer moved home to Elizabethtown. the thought popped into would Bartles realized he wasn't going to graduate like to make my mind that beer,” says 34-year- education to rise in would need some formal the brewing industry and turned to Chicago’s top-rated Siebel Institute, where he completed three weeks of coursework. He then 16 Bartles of his decision to apply to Appalachian Brewery after earning his English was 1967 and Myles Anderson had just earned his doctorate in old life.” earning his business management degree and enjoyed what they enjoy most. distillery. “Choose a job never have to work a day in your selling, the career. says, spent six weeks at an independent. 1 “Our story is we had this idea and worked like craz to make it happen - it's the American Dream.” Chris > - Moyer ’92 apprenticeship included a room the brewery at and breakfast. While in Germany he Brewing Co. applied to Victory in Philadelphia. "I knew I could experience a career with Victory and wouldn’t have to make another move,” says started in 2007 as an assistant Bartles, who on the bottling line. started my education and experience, 1 on the bottom rung. By the end of 2007, was able to operate all the processes. the equipment and run all Then I started training other people," says Bartles, Victory’s director of operations. "Brewing You have a is very much an apprenticeship. head brewer and assistant brewers and you need to work your way through.” As director of operations, Bartles is involved in all aspects of the company, which saw demand beer grow by 30 percent. The company for is opened a modern last year facility in building another brew house Kennett Square. Bartles says he looks forward to developing pany continue “I’ve "I its recently Parkesburg and in During freshman year at Bloomsburg, Chris new beers and helping the comto grow. Hudson bag Thomas Yozzo was using and wanted been following my passion," Bartles says. would turn out." is how things said, From first two went on to become Theta From a sales for Oracle’s business with the From of service. the start, they from and other raw where he Department of retired with older we would end up around a campfire, and we would talk about something with our hands," says Moyer, 44. The friends started thinking about the explosion in mark with the as us, we wanted to get back Yozzo, 45. an agricultural product and the Their first product was vodka. selling spirit in the country to age a is going to be,” adds. it. “It’s the biggest and you don’t need For a small business that has to invest tremendous amount of money, the thought of Yozzo approached police department, they decided their business venture was years On is really impossible," Moyer average, the distillery bottles a bison farms or golf courses - always doing and liquors and, five miles having to put something aside to age for several of one day sharing a business. little roots,” says Moyer in 20 years The men married, took numerous “As the kids got a our can be, the better your product manager family vacations together and started dreaming the 20-year and became purer you get and closer to the source you Defense and Yozzo served as a police officer N.Y., N.Y. that come from farms within "Spirits are Moyer working as Newburgh, y distillery. “That was a goal for to in sociology. there the friends traveled differ- ent paths: of the in 1992, a degree in accounting and Yozzo degree 'c discussion about Moyer’s service, the Moyer with a Clermont, Valley Distillers. materials with in their farm, the barley, rye that V- Yozzo, to create a natural product using National Guard experience and Yozzo’s Coast Guard Thomas local ingredients. In addition to apples "Hey, military?” craft beers never would have guessed this apple orchard Moyer was doing laundry when he spotted the duffle V - In July 2013, they bought the small farm reality Chi fraternity brothers. Both graduated “Despite I Turning business dreams into - left, Jennifer Moyer and Chris Moyer ;* family-owned brewery near Munich. His unpaid * s^From month and says. makes 1,000 alternates between making fruit-based and grain-based liquors. Moyer’s wife, the former Jennifer Theiss in the business and the men ’92, also works say they would love to have their children get involved. now or never. WINTER 2015 17 If there’s a men say it's message what they’ve done, the in your dream. "People are to follow really intrigued with the notion that I knew each other business. We’ve had ‘You motivated me this idea pen - do to and worked it’s number a Tom and 26 years and started for X.’ of people Our story crazy to like the American Dream,” is make this us tell ings. it hap- “You need to step out of your comfort zone,” for it.” While at Bloomsburg, Matthew Hall worked for an area beer distributor and, after graduating in 2007 with a degree in business management, he took a sales job with a large Philadelphia beer wholesaler. Hall had started making his own beer during college, and his interest in brewing grew “I as he would visited breweries as part of his job. talk to the lot of competition for open- Like Bartles, he took a beer-making course spending time in Chicago and Even ’62, was hired by the Yards Brewing Co. position in the packaging department. money than he made in little to foreshadow the success to come. with his parents in sales in College and both dean of students and a vice president at Gonzaga University in Philadelphia, starting in 2010 at an entry-level less former Myrna Bassett .Anderson became dean of students at York Within two weeks of returning home, Hall, 29, after his wife, the gave him a book on winemaking and he began experimenting, there was Germany. move From home brewer to master brewer was a at Siebel Institute, we had Moyer says. Yozzo adds. "Try something new and go Hall began applying to breweries, but soon realized there He made and had to Bucks County, but faculty at Walla Walla (Wash.) in 1977. The position allowed his teaching roots two-and-a-half years, he’s been a brewer. for “I can’t imagine myself doing anything else,” beer, enjoy it this happen.’ my shift I and think, T was I can pour a a part of making many industries and to Community him to return to found the Institute Enology and Viticulture at the college in 2000. This college community program provides students with hands-on experience in the pro- duction of grapes, winemaking and wine sales. At the community' college, he met Gordy also love seeing other people en- joy the product. There are not Spokane and College as a counselor and psychology professor he loved what he was doing. For the past Hall says. “At the end of in Regis College in Denver before joining the Venneri and the two started making wine in where people are excited about what you’re the Anderson’s backyard, much to the delight doing.” of their friends. This was at the time that the guys working there, the wine industry in Walla Walla was budding. “We brewers and the bottling guys, and they were very excited and very happy about what they had fun and gave our wine away to friends and A command performance acquaintances. were doing,” Hall says. "There was an overall The world of winemaking wasn’t even when Myles Anderson Then people encouraged to ’62 excitement with the growth of the craft beer passing thought industry - they had a product they could stand graduated from Bloomsburg with a degree go commercial so they could buy Anderson says. "At first of. I thought that was the ultimate connection of labor and love.” 18 BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA elementary education and psychology, then stayed at we planned it,” to do just in a small business behind and be proud us a BU for another three years to teach. and not have more than 1,000 cases a year - That has changed. all enough to pay for our hobby.” The winery, Walla in 1995. The first the operation bottles first year. Today, the W alla Vintners, opened were sold turned a profit winery in Meagan, and much seventh around 6,000 sells cases of various red wines a year and family business 1997 and in its community' college full-time until he says the key quality and the customer. The Andersons wine for their 50-year reunion at Bloomsburg in 2012. not just in the wine who he retired pleasure business,” he says. “We make stay in touch with our customers in basis is known soil for growing grapes - a fact that has resulted it now there industry. When Anderson's was the eighth are 900 we and provide beautiful wines they would else.” • for its wines, Anderson says Washington has incredible booming wine sure on a regular normally not be able to get anywhere Although California to to never stop paying attention to the business, we’re really in the relationship and and June 2014. in is Anderson. Though the established, “We know that w'e’re a business that’s very expensive continued to direct the wine program at the Walla; is w'ere delighted to donate the their son-in-law; Judah, are very winery opened, this far," says w ell wine a is still - the Andersons’ daughter. challenging to operate,” says .Anderson, 74, in a would go winery success a part of the winery. “It’s had no idea when w e started that we r “I in Walla in the state, Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and principal partner with Message Prose, a communications and public relations firm in Harrisburg. with 175 Walla Walla alone. Family Enterprise For John Braganini, the art and business of crafting wine is a family tradition. “We grew up thinking of wine as food," says Braganini 75, president of Great Lakes Insurance Agency Inc. and a member of BU’s College of Business Advisory Board. Today Braganini, along with members, founded part is other family six owner of St. Julian Winery, in Ontario, Canada, in 1921 by his grandfather, Mariano Meconi, and relocated to Michigan in the 1930s. Named for the patron saint of the founder’s birthplace in Italy, Julian It is St. Michigan’s oldest and largest winery. produces more than 50 varieties of wine and ships 150,000 cases annually, as well as another 100,000 cases of beverages, such as non- champagne. alcoholic About 90 percent of the wine Michigan, but it is is sold in also available in other areas of the Midwest. Braganini says sales are increasing 4 to 6 percent a year, but "it’s getting harder to get on the shelves. You have to either get bigger or smaller.” In response, St. Julian Winery is pursuing a direct-to-customer model through But quantity has not come of quality. wines in St. sales their website, mmstjulian.com. at the Julian’s consistently expense produces - both sweet and dry - that win awards Michigan and throughout the United Braganini is grigio while typically variety States. particularly fond of his pinot St. Julian’s grown made in Albarino, a white grape in Spain, is the first of that Michigan. • WINTER 2015 19 World Loves a Clown All the WILLIE COLON by ON AUG. 4. 2014, ‘86 Pastor Mike Dubbs walked out of his house Pines, N.C., eager to clown mission. his alter-ego. regalia — Southern embark on He was decked Dubbsy, black in in full his first out as hobo clown felt hat, thrift store shirt and pants, hideous brown vest with a 99-cent price tag, red suspenders, mis- matched rental bowling shoes to help spread a little — ready laughter, love and healing to another continent. At the Raleigh-Durham Airport, he was the only clown in town. At JFK in New York City, he came upon two other clowns who were going his way. And at the Jorge Chavez Airport in Lima. Peru, 20 BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Dubbsy and corner and his clown friends turned a “There was nothing but clowns!” he recalls. “It It was like a clown explosion.” sounds spectacularly consider this: from your front door in character,” he “They want committed people who are willing to say, ‘Here’s what I’m explains. ... silly, Nutrition was the theme sion to Iquitos, Peru. Organized by the Gesundheit! Institute, a West Virginiafacility, ” • • • hut of this year’s two-week clown mis- based alternative health care doing. I’m a clown.’ “Eclectic” pretty much sums up Mike Dubbs’ resume and life adventures. This Bloomsburg native and Tau Kappa Epsilon brother graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business and He has been a the mission brought together 130 clown office administration. volunteers from 16 countries to address professional photographer and a town- the high incidence of malnutrition in ship manager, and says he misses the 10 years he volunteered as the football the region. As for flying to Peru as “One requirement is Dubbsy? that you travel game announcer at Redman Stadium. “I game and subs got a good seat for every I could see hope in their faces. had never seen such poverty and such joy in the same place.” and I He he’d brought along because the children and study workshops it and yelling “El for the volunteers and to a village down the Amazon “And when they found out me to pastor, they asked mental health who speaks a I local Spanish. little “I was makeup." One of his biggest take-aways was the small ignored for years, he began down the it’s path that led to his current position as pastor at stuff. “I worried about Community Congregational colorful," clown outfit visit, learned not to be so my costume he says. not in as long as “The joy is in in anger and other negative emotions and Meanwhile, the path that led to its Dubbs would in college. “I dress as a gorilla or a clown or a kissing handit and take balloons to hospitals and people’s homes,” he morphed clowning for says. That Based on his experience, Mike Dubbs understands “If momentary distraction from whatever problems we might have,” he says. “I see that at the hospital. And like to imagine that when the kids in Peru are having a hard day, they think about the clowns and who told Gesundheit! Institute And in how accurate my Willie Colon is a freelance writer based Philadelphia. Humor provides a momentary distraction from whatever problems we might have” Institute has Dr. Patch Adams led a group of volunteer clowns to the former Adams promotes an Dubbs about the Soviet Union. — alternative health care and the pos- model that connects individual health to the health of going international with his community and the world. Robin Williams famously portrayed him of the family, • • • in the Peru was an incredible experience, says, “ when founder clowning. Dubbs smile." • the is.” The Gesundheit! was a clown friend from the hospital sibility pretty well already. organized clown missions since 198S, that one thing often leads to it it nothing else, humor provides a kids’ parties. volunteers at a local hospital. another, it.” - Mike Dubbs ’86 into full-on Today he clowns several times a month as part of a group of clown way it, origins in a job had while he was the humor get us to the point of Duncan asks. “We’re looking and folks like Patch Adams are “But can thriving?” Southern Pines. clowning had eventually helps us deal with sadness, experiences, she says. in Church more I probably that old cliche: Don’t sweat says. Humor also still dressed as a clown, just without the face happier live longer, they’re helping us understand says Dubbs, - it,” productive at work, they earn more.” into River. was a a correlational evidence talk to patients clinic,” “We have it Duncan growing body of and measure it people tend to These events provided Dubbs, a self-taught juggler and clown, a unique chance to improve his clowning by visiting schools, nursing homes and prisons and taking a trip at a “At this point there’s not a lot of says. participants alike. he professor. But we’re getting there. science, so we’re trying to define The two weeks were packed with like Balzano’s,” Mary Katherine remembers having a hard time unfurling the Bloomsburg banner Loho! El Lobo! (The Wolf! The Wolf!).” After finally heeding a calling he'd yet, says Duncan, Bloomsburg psychology also kept running up to from places Not quite but the opening day wel- come parade was extra special. “That was the highlight as the kids’ faces lit when they saw the clowns,” he recalls. “They knew we were there for them. 1998 hit movie. Patch Adams. There are six to 10 clown trips every and they’re meant to create joyful atmospheres that enhance the well- year, up being of individuals and groups. But there hard evidence that humor is heals? WINTER 2015 21 Beth and Mike Bogus FROM SMALL-TOWN BOY in rural 1997 above a tattoo parlor, Eastern has grown Wayne County to from a start-up president of a workers’ compensation insurance quartered in Lancaster, employs 24S insurance professionals. Eastern — the education he went public on the received, the friendships he a difference in his career small-town feel says Boguski ing in 16 states with eight regional offices that specialist head- made and continued alumni involvement was looking and his '85. “I it life. was an excellent and an expanded business school. And was affordable. I funded it my college education with a student loan and a summer job as a including internships, job shadowing and capstone experiences provided through BU’s Professional U program. The gift will also with ongoing efforts for BU’s Science, assist continues to serve as the president of Eastern. Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Just as important as the academic at Bloomsburg. “I was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and involved in (STEM) Magnet School immersion program learned the importance of interpersonal skills and developing relationships. I still BU Foundation’s annual fund. As a first-generation college graduate, intramural and inter-fraternity council sports. I — as well as the Henry Carver Fund, students the — a two-year for local high school Boguski BU feels a strong students. “My connection to today’s parents and grandparents have lifelong Bloomsburg University friends did not have the opportunity to attend college. and continue an annual birthday celebration I at trip much more than a good Bloomsburg. He found the academic preparation that provided a foundation for his career start — a journey that led him to the as Eastern, in 1997. Since opening with several Zeta Psi fraternity brothers. Bloomsburg University is a special place with special people.” up of Eastern Alliance Insurance Group, known 22 a larger publicly high-impact experiential opportunities, Boguski found lifeguard.” fit 2006 and then Directors and, with his wife, Beth, committed $1 million to the Foundation to support traded company, in January 2014. Boguski formed in business and Bloomsburg had a great reputation in preparation were the friendships Boguski fit," planned on majoring NASDAQ merged with ProAssurance, his — have made for a university with a rural, and company operat- Michael Boguski says Bloomsburg University “I to a public in BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA As an alumnus, he serves on the Bloomsburg University Foundation Board of was blessed and very fortunate Bloomsburg University'. Even percent of the students are Beth and I to attend today, nearly first generation. see an important mission in supporting these students.” • 40 Albert Fisher CPA and ’60s Larry W. Greenly ’65 won and a gold of Southern Nevada, for the Arts. Previously, J. Fisher Accounting Behr served Terry Guers ’77/78M as chairman of the Fine Arts retired after Department from Bloomsburg enabled him to in Moonbeam achieve success in the accounting Pamela, reside on Chincoteague and education world. He made Island, a promise to himself when he Cottage Collection, a gallery/shop. Kutztown, Fleetwood and John C. Olaynick 71 retired from the Palm Beach County (Fla.) Water Utilities as an environmental analyst. He resides in West Palm Beach where he is a flight 1992, Children’s for his nonfiction Black Fighter Pilot. His book Young Adult Book the 2014 NM/AZ Book Awards. Dale Hunsinger '65, principal in scholarship. 70s of Homestead-Wakefield Elementary Air, Md„ was named Harford County Principal of the Blair Year for 2013. Louis H. and Katherine by the Berks County Intermediate Unit, Va„ and own the Island while serving schools in the Brandywine Heights districts. In he became an employee of the Kutztown Area School District from which he retired June in 2014 after 22 years. Guers in Muhlenberg Township lives in instructor. Reading S. Zbinden Ann Donovan Motsko 72 Community Service Award. The award John Vanderbeck 77 was promoted to chief executive Virginia received the Ben Franklin Robert Boose ’6$ was Ministry and Leadership at Austin awarded honorary (Texas) Presbyterian Theological fellowship in the Seminary, Austin. American College June with 20 years of service as senior pastor of Preston Hollow ty Foundation’s distinction recognizes exceptional Presbyterian Church the winner’s choosing. contributions to dentistry and the Texas. dental profession by individuals was honored by who do gift to of Dentists. This for 14 years the area. Monie 70 was named the Distinguished Professor of Pastoral not hold a dental degree was employed his wife, graduated that he would endow a also the Best He and He pathologist in Berks County. at Girard College Philadelphia. in 36 years as a speech-language Scholarship, Fisher says graduating certificate in book, Eugene Bullard: World's First School, Bel Commission the national 2014 Book Awards won the Albert championship tournaments 2000 and 2010. Virginia Las Vegas, created NCAA led the Yellow Jackets to is commissioner to the emeritus at the College in medal Robert Behr 71 ’69, professor Upon He retired in in Dallas, his retirement, endow Monie but have significantly advanced Distinguished Chair of Homiletics the profession of oral health. at Austin Seminary. accompanied by a $1,000 grant Communities, based in West Point. from the Wayne County Communi- and is Ben Franklin Fund designated to the charity of John Mondschein 78 retired after teaching business and coaching track and field for 36 years at Parkland High School (PHS), Al- he a $2.5 million the Blair R. is officer of ACTS Retirement-Life Arthur Luptovvski 73 is an lentown. He was inducted into the advance scout with the Detroit PHS Pistons of the National Basketball and He was previously the American Internationa] College head basketball coach where he inducted into the Whitehall High Association. Gifts athletic hall of field fame as a track coach and was previously School athletic hall of fame as a member of the 1973 football team. from Daniel Tearpock 70 THE LATE DANIEL TEARPOCK 70, noted geologist, bequeathed a collection of Native American arrowheads to the university that tline Science Center. Tearpock, also gave $50,000 displayed in Har- is who died Feb. 9, 2014, to the university' in his will. In 1988, Tearpock founded Subsurface Consultants & Associates which grew into an international consulting and training firm with multiple branch offices. He was a well-known figure and gas in the oil industry and remained committed to his profession as a successful oil finder, to educating and mentoring the next generation of talent in the geosciences and to serving his community. In recent years, Tearpock received multiple honors and awards commemorating his professional achievements, including the American Association of Professional Geologists (AAPG) Division of Professional Affairs’ Heritage Award, the AAPG Honorary Member Award and nomination to the Advisory Board of Bloomsburg University’s College of Science and Technology. WINTER 2015 23 George Antochy 79 retired John Keegan from technology company based public ’84, a certified Media. Knox holds an in accountant, tion after 32 years. His last position officer at was as manager, client planning and design, responsible for the Center of New Jersey. 60,000 administrative computers speaking with accountants Allison Straub nationwide about software and assistant professor of nursing at technology. Keegan Misericordia University. in from the June 2009 U.S. after Army The the chief financial Holy Family University and Surgery Plastic He is certified Six also Reserve 30 years global of service. is a chartered and analysis professional she was a certified ’90 is a Path program coordina- to Success is worked at BBBS since 1994, recently as a school-based Chambersburg YMCA. Christian mentoring coordinator. most assistant director Bryan Noaker '90 retired as principal of the Milton Area Rodney Zechman Cameron Smith School the Revolution.3 Ironman-distance District. '84 competed in triathlon in Sandusky, Ohio. Lake ’80s in and 26.2-mile marathon run on the boards of Juniata Valley finishers, Financial Corp. and Juniata Division for Valley Bank. Berry and the chief second men first in his He is married Wood ’86. executive officer and president of Solar Renewable Energy and in for 23 years since 2004. He at has more than reside in Selinsgrove. Ann DiBernado Clements ’92 received the 2014 Rosalie Kaleda Scholarship for advanced practice registered nurses. Clements, a Dale Sinnott ’89 retired from the U.S. Air age group, 50 to 54. Force concluding more than 25 years of active military former Sandi duty. Sinnott’s last assignment was as the chief of the Director of Op’85 and served as principal wound, ostomy and continence erations promoted Zechman age 40 and older, Jane Runey Knox High for the district also oversees security for in the Master’s to the He worked School. more than 200 Achieve Energy Solutions, and owns Berry Group Management. vice 20 years of bank experience. He and his fiance, Jennifer Riordan, 10 hours, 48 minutes, he crossed the line seventh of a director is of The Northumberland National the bank. Erie, 112-mile bicycle ride ’88 president of branch administration Bank. Completing the 2.4-mile swim is Luann Naugle Smith tor with Big Brothers/Big Sisters since 2011. professional. Arlington Texas Independent is is the executive director of the was the kindergarten teacher with the ’83 Maloney ’86M Carla Shearer Christian '88 information technology retired after 25 years of teaching. Douglas Berry Belt. management accountant, corporate financial planning and last 18 years, a of Lancaster County. Smith has certified treasury professional, Laura Adolphson Antochy 79 For the Sigma Green is an associate with K2 Enterprises, used throughout the FAA. Antochy retired is ’90s MBA from the Federal Aviation Administra- was Deployment Requirements certified nurse at the Williamsport Regional Medical Center, will use the funds toward her education to become a certified registered nurse practitioner through Bloomsburg University. Branch, Defense Intelligence Agen- to chief operating officer Healthcare Administrative cy, at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Sinnott resides in Alexandria, Partners, a medical data and Va., Angela Taylor Hummel ’92 has attained the Senior Professional and has three children. Duane Carey honored DUANE CAREY ’91 was named Carey joined the chamber GovConnects, the chamber’s Howard County (Md.) Chamber immediately after starting his of Commerce’s Business Person business. of the Year during the chamber’s years on the board of directors, member annual Signature Event. Carey including one year as chair; organization that fights child president at & IMPACT is Marketing Public Relations, which started founding He business-to-government has served eight is Carey has a member of the Young Professionals Network of Howard member 10 years ago in his basement and County; and a now serves leadership team that launched clients in six states. of the board for Shari’s Promise, sexual abuse, and as the initiative. also served as a an member of Howard Hospital Foundation Board of Directors. Bob Marquette top CEO BOB MARQUETTE Marquette has been involved 70, president/CEO of Members 1st Federal Credit Union, was chosen as CEO of the Year among credit unions with more than $250 24 with the credit union movement since 1973, working 28 of those years with Members 1st Federal Credit Union, headquartered in A member Credit Union Association, he serves on the boards of Capital Region Economic Development Corp. and the Ronald House Charities, McDonald and the advisory boards of the Children’s Miracle million in assets by the National Mechanicsburg. Association of Federal Credit of the Regulatory Review Network and the Arc of Cumber- Unions (NAFCU). Committee of the Pennsylvania land and Perry counties. BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania husky Human Resources certification. Hummel is the vice president of in human resources at Evangelical Communin' Hospital. Lewisburg. Bonnie Munn Heintzelman ’95 an instructor of nursing Urban ’92 is head of the Ulthera Business Unit, responsible for all of the company’s commerthe cial activities in sales, including U.S., He joined Ulthera October 2009 as the organization's first sales leader and has 21 years of commercial experience in the US. pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Urban earned his MBA Loyola College in Baltimore. of Nursing, He Steven Fahs ’94 is of .Ally Bank. He internal auditor is a certified and certified Insti- Accoun- director of the Bureau to May 2011 w'hen he assumed additional responsibilities for multiple facilities. of Audits with the Pennsy Ivania Medical Center School Thomas Jefferson Shawn Simchock Office of the Budget. ’02 has entered University School of Nursing and into priestly formation for the the Central Susquehanna Licensed diocese of Scranton at Practical ’00s Nurse Career Center. sales McLaughlin ’95 Baltimore. Kyle Sahd ’01 A certified financial planner, she was employed same capacity at is Nicholas Seier manager in the Cole Taylor an ordained Jeremy Thompson ’02 is director of power priest. at ’01. CBIZ a CPA. accounting at Public is MHM. He Service Enterprise provides financial, asset Mortgage. securitization and '95 in is manager and senior loan Mortgage Netw ork Inc. previously' Mary’s St. Seminary and University officer at Gregory Orth senior vice is December 2006 a council tants. review's president and chief internal auditor is Pennsylvania tute of Certified Public Leslie KufFel in ’98 Pennsylv ania College of marketing and commercial strategy. at member of the Technology. She previously taught at Geisinger Patrick John Kaschak is at on Group, specializing in due diligence warehouse collateral derivativ e accounting. diversified PSEG is a energy company New Jersey lines of credit to the financial headquartered of THincBOX, a business services community, including and one of the 10 largest electric dev elopment company, and an private equity firms, companies US. authorized licensee of Sandler and venture is president hedge funds in in the , capital firms. Jeffrey AVhitenight ’95M was promoted to senior vice president, Corporate and Community' Matthew Funk ’04 is a senior associate with Quantum Financial Management in Allentown. Funk, Relations at Seton Hill University, a certified financial planner, financial officer of Harleysville responsible for loan operations was chosen 10-y ear veteran of the financial Savings Financial Corp. and Har- and branch administration, at Columbia Bank and Trust Co. Magazine's 40 Under 40. Selected from a nomination pool of more wife, Jackie, than 225 candidates, the 2014 in New' Tripoli. auditor of investments and Training in Lancaster. Kristofer Smith derivatives. M. Shane Michalak leysville Savings '94 is chief Bank. Michalak First previously serv ed as vice president, controller and treasurer. A CPA for over 18 years. Michalak Michael Devaney '98 is ’01. director of for Pittsburgh on overseeing operations in York, visibility, diversity of Certified Public Accountants, Adams and Northumberland impact on the region. Pennsylvania Institute of Certified counties. Devaney' recently serv ed Public Accountants and Financial as the senior district manager Waste Management in Philadel- Managers is a Institute Society' of Philadelphia. He and his wife, LaYonne. have three children, Jordan. 9; and Braeden, 7. 11; M. Seth, phia He has a master’s degree public administration from He lives a with his and their son. Levi, honorees were chosen based chief operating officer of Rabbit Transit, member of the .American services industry. is their passion, Matthew Sterenczak commitment, and overall James Aurand ’02M in Penn State University. is is the Easttown Middle School, Berwyn. Prior to joining for ’04 assistant principal of Tredyffiin T E, Sterenczak served as acting assistant principal acting administrator at Susque-View for Middle School East Home Nursing and Rehabilitation acting principal of Evergreen Center. He previously' served facility administrator from as and as Elementary' School in the Perkiomen Valley School District. Of Mice and McMenamin JAMES McMENAMIN appeared as Whit Of Mice and Men in Broadway’s Longacre Theatre. The play, adapted from a novella ‘01 in by John Steinbeck, starred James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, and was screened internationally by National Theatre Live. McMenamin’s acting credits include TY’s The Good Wife, Law and Order SVU and Law and Order; and New York theatre productions of Ashville. The Bad Guys, Suicide Inc., Middletown, Our Town and Xaked. as yvell as Armed and regional theatre and Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. WINTER 2 0 1 s 25 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania huskynotes Sterenczak received his master’s Brittany Delaney Brooks '09 degree in educational leadership a speech language pathologist and principal’s certification He Lehigh University. is from enrolled the doctoral program in in educational leadership at Lehigh. Trevor Saylor ’05 principal at is assistant Bermudian Springs Elementary School in at Jersey in the April Harris-Snyder ’12M a children’s is therapist at Philhaven, Shore Hospital. Brooks began her career Mount leading marketing efforts at career coordinator at Lackawanna degree College. Harris-Snyder works with in professional clinical counseling/psychology from all treating and preventing LaSalle University co-curricular experience at the col- departments to improve the promote positive community communication/swallowing lege, disorders and voice and cognitive standards and assist in enforcing difficulties. the student code of conduct. She and her husband, Matthew, have Browne ’09 is three sons, Harrison, Everett and a student in Henry Snyder. the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Michael Hower 13 Knoebels Amusement Resort. St. Elysburg. goal of becoming a physician. planner for Juniata County'. associate director of the Center for Anthony Smith '09 signed for the 2015 American Indoor Football women’s basketball coach Engagement, Service, and Learn- season as a linebacker with the Justin ing at Shippensburg University. ASI Panthers tant in the assurance practice at He his collegiate career, James D’Amico ’08/T0M is the previously served as residence Augustine, Trinidad, with the in Smith played with the Wichita Wild of the Student Activities. Champions Professional Indoor Football League for ’08 is two seasons. Erdman T2, & Young, a staff accoun- the assistant at Saint Francis University. Oxenrider Lydia Shedden 13 Erdman met associate at Cargill Wyalusing, a BU. Stebila ball ’10s is previously spent one year as an Philadelphia, Stebila while student teaching during his an international an associate completed the Steamtown Marathon in October 2014 with Mike Stebila ’97. Ernst student adviser at Ohio University, where he is an immigration specialist and advises about 800 international students on immigration is Kayla Oxenrider 13 Reading. Following director and assistant director of Ryan Geiger the Gretna. Groff received her master's York Springs. Mary Frances Hynoski Helwig’06M is associate dean of students and Philadelphia area, diagnosing, Sherrol is Brittany Groff 'll is coach is at last a teacher semester at assistant coach at Albright College. beef processing is an operations facility. and basketStephanie Winters 14 Selinsgrove Area High School. is a full-time special education teacher with the Danville Area Middle School. compliance, academic concerns Michael Hamlin TO and cross-cultural adjustment. basketball coach with Mansfield is an assistant University. Nardone acquires East Bay Correction MARIO NARDONE ’99, acquired a wealth management and investment advisory firm now known as East Bay Financial Services. East Bay is a Registered Investment Advi- sor which provides portfolio and financial advice management GER\LD incorrectly identified in the Husky Notes Magazine’s Fall 2014 issue. Strauss advisory services to financial professionals. Nardone’s career began with Vanguard in Valley Forge before before he relocated to Charleston, S.C., to serve as chief investment officer and chief compliance Financial Concepts. officer at He earned Morris the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2003 and serves Society' 26 BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA section of Bloomsburg: The University to individuals, families and nonprofits, plus consulting and co- mutual funds STRAUSS was H. as president of CFA South Carolina. is professor emeritus of English at Bloomsburg University, where he was on the 1961 to 1993 as assistant faculty from and served many years department regret the error. chair. We 4 VITAL STATISTICS Obituaries Marriages Alan M. Parker '82 and and Bryan Kauffman, Nov. 2, 2014 Shari Sanger ’02 and Eric Marderness, Oct. 6, 2013 Jen Barkume ’95 Amanda Babb 2013 Julie Fullerton, Dec. 31, and Omar Porrata, ’04 Carol McCloughan Stephanie Gates ’04 and Nathaniel Harrison Aug. '03. 2014 8. ’05 Debra Christoffel 2011 4. and Charles Snyder, June 21, 2014 Sarah Lepley '05 and Brian May Driscoll, N. Hill '06 and Ann Anthony Hill, June 21, 2014 '53 May Keffer '06 and Jessica Sparkes, Mary Sabatelle Archer 73 ’55 Andrew Higgins ’56 ’06 and Erika Sorgule, June Meredith Michael ’07 and Thad Neidrick, July Alyssa Madeira '08 and Tom DiSalvatore Philip 74 Damiter John McCauley 77 2014 5, 2014 Barbara Jr. ’05, Brian Mitterling ’08 and Jeana Robertson, Sept. 7, 2013 A. Louise 2014 ’61 Sharon Kintzer Adam Lynsi Ulsamer ’08 and Jordan Yohn, July 10, 2014 ’61 Judith Jill ’65 Reardon ’96 Shuminski Donovan ’97 Elizabeth Rutski ’65 Audrey McClure ’84 Dorothy Smith Loyack ’84 ’61 Knapp Thomas George Pekala ’82 ’83 Abraham Simon '61 Christine Harnish Haehnel ’63 Harry Phillips ’08 and Veronica Bruce, July 19, 2014 Jo Kirchhoff Richard Kowker ’82 Thomas Hunsinger Joseph Kleczynski Sept. 8, Holly Charles Housenick ’60 2013 4, 4, ’59 Faye Lee Aumiller Rager 2014 77 Cheryl Kleckner Laura Niehoff Belber Matthew Lavinia 72 Kathleen Roarty Charles Ronald Perry ’59 ’06 and Brooke Colgan, on Aug. 22, Mark Kamenetz 72 Nicholas Kindt 2010 10, Thomas Justin 72 Lucille Matter Jolin Douglas Erickson John Kosoloski Ashley Childs ’06 and Kleanthis Daras, Oct. Charles Hess 71 '51 '52 Carl Hinger ’54 2014 31, ’69 George Geise ’52 John Trisko '68 Jean Cleaver Stank 70 Francis Bidelspach Kanyuck ’68 Pamela Evans Martin Anne Magera Rishe Richard Keyser ’50 Calvin Arithe Sorber '04 and Benjamin Kline, June Hilkert ’45 '49 Carson Whitesell 2014 April 12, ’67 Samuel Hand David Hildenbrand ’67 Frosini ’45 Louise Garard Frontera '49 Jessica Dunmoyer ’03 and Paul McGinnis Megan Brewington Fegely ’37 Enzo Raub Tonya Kehler ’05 ’07 ’66 Steffanie Barnhart ’09 and Nathaniel Kimble. Oct. 12, 2013 Births Holly Bergin '09 and Brian Pitcavage 09, March 22, 2014 Bridget Bond '09 and Gene Ryerson 2014 09. Aug. 23, Gregory Chomyn Kelly Bressi ’09 and James Lesko Jena Oley 09 and James Nestico '12. ’09. May 31. 2014 Erika Strawn Kuntz '99 and husband, Matt, a daughter, Adelyn Hope, June 21 201 , Aug. 23, 2014 Jennifer Jones ’10 and John Haefner, June 21, 2014 Nicholas Katharine Wennell '10 and Phillip Haberek Mary Ziegler Lisa Baier ’10 and Bryan ’11 Gushen, July ’09. Oct. 12, 2013 James ’02, William, Aug. 23, Lisa Laboskie ’11 '11 and Matthew Ridner June ’08. 23, 2012 and Matthew Dooley, June 21, 2014 Ashley M. Furman ’12 and Ezra S. Papincak Kelly Aug. '12. July 20, 2013 ’12 and Andrew McAteer Alaina Strouse '12 and Megan Gurecki ’13 Adam Johnson, ’12, May May 17, 31, 2014 2014 and James Jefferson, June 28, 2014 ’14 and Nicholas Ross ’14, July 19, 3, 2014 ’04 and husband, Carl, a daughter, Lillian Moon, 2014 2, 2014 Jackson William, May 19, '01, a son, 2014 Stefanie Patches Sanders ’04 and husband, Keith, a son, Sawyer William, 2014 Elizabeth Patches Nati ’05 and husband, Joe, a son, Brandon James, 11,2014 Ashley Childs Daras to: a son, Mason Michael, Aug. 27, 2014 Rachelle Simon Rohner ’04 and husband. Bradley Rohner April Send information wife, Erin, 2014 Brennan Durante July 17, Amy Thomas and Arithe Sorber Kline ’04 and husband, Benjamin, a son, Charles Lee, June Amanda Speck Lillian Jessica Dunmoyer McGinnis ’03 and husband, Paul, a son, Nicholas and Kyle Whitford ’10 June 27, 2014 Janelle Grexon Seier ’01 and wife, Krystel, a daughter, Eleanour Alexandria, Aug. 25, 2014 Michael Kohan 2014 12, ’96 and wife, Heather, a daughter, Aibhlinn Marie, Dec. 16, 2012 ’06 and husband. Kleanthis, a daughter, Ellie Brooke, Aug. 30, 2013 magazine@bloomu.edu Brittany Costa Fritz ’10 and husband, Dereck Fritz ’10, a daughter, Bloomsburg: The University Magazine Emalyn Lee, May Waller Administration Building Janelle Grexon Ridner 400 East Second Street Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301 May 24, 30. 2014 ’11 and husband, Matthew Ridner ’08, a son, Brayden, 2014 WINTER 2015 27 up the line SHOE BIZ: Vincent Ottomanelli Salvatore Ferragamo '88, CEO and regional director of — The Americas, spoke to two dozen BU art and marketing students at the flagship store Trip. reunions, networking and special events in New York City during a Husky Road The company visit was offered through BU’s Professional U initiative. TOGETHER AGAIN: Shown at Lambda Alpha Mu's reunion last fall, from left, are seated: Diane Danzer Gill 78, Roseann Finn Luther 77, Gill Moore 79, Ann Kapuschinsky Diane Abruzzesse Fink 77, Sharon Gettel 78, Melanie Deb Artz Barry 73, Darlene Clarke Amsler 78, Roslevich '80 and Sharon Sweinhart Jankauskas 79: and standing: Kathy Eckenroth 79, Karen Moran Mulrooney '80, Brenda Myers Monick Kushnerick Herman ’82, '80, '81, Cathie Readdy Wienchek Rebecca Koppenhaver Kline Pamela Kirk Kraske '83, Karen Reinert Wilkinson 78, Cindy NawTocki Dmochowski Diana Wells Schaffer HAPPY EVER AFTER: '63. married on May 31, and Nancy McFerran Rupert Stackhouse Rosenbaum The couple left, '62, Lisa Stackhouse Bankus May 2013 and were 2014, at Eldersburg, Md. Joining in the celebration were, standing from 28 Gar)- ‘63 seated, reunited at their 50-year class reunion in Don Rosenbaum Stackhouse Good '65, Joanne Shafer '62, '90, Mary Ellen Goodbrod Donald Denick Pileski '64 resides in Forest, Va. BLOOMSBL RG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA '63, Joan and Don Poust '63. '81. '80, Pam Hazen Nancy Figard '83 and '81, WITH THANKS: Stanley and Beverly Oberrender of Bloomsburg presented a sculpture to BU’s nursing department to honor five students following a collision near campus — now graduates — who came to the rescue when their car burst into flames in August 2013. Shown from President David Soltz. Others PREVIEW DAY: District: Steve Carr left, Cheryl Latorre Brian Case ’97, ’87, '80, superintendent, Danville Area School manager of academic relations, PPL Corp.; CPA, manager of audit and accounting, Kreisher and Miller, left are the sculpture artist Jef McGreevy, Stanley Thomas Machovec ’14 and BU who assisted were Nicole Slagle 14, Jacob Ribecky 14 and David Arnold. and Beverly Oberrender, students involved rescue James Gould T4 and in the FRIENDS FROM ’89: Alumni from the Class of 1989, who have been getting together every year since graduation, posed for a from talked to freshmen about the value of internships and job shadowing during Welcome Week. mini-reunion at Lake Hopatcong, N.J. From left selfie during their 25th are Tina LaGreca, Sue Dougherty, Michelle Garrity Nolan, Monique Manning Heffner and Sherri Shuman Kreisher. HOMECOMING VOLUNTEERS: Alumni and friends of BU who WELCOME BACK: Among hundreds of alumni attending the Homecoming volunteered Tent Party included, from Ellzy last fall were, from left, 10 and Stephanie Devaughn Tiana 10. Patillo ’09, Asia Burnett '09, Felicia Nori Lewis, at the BU left, BU Alumni Association’s Homecoming Tent Party Diane Steckel; Mark Steckel Foundation; Barbara Willders '93; Juli '83; Miller '92; and Mary Braccilli ’90. WINTER 2015 29 over THE shoulder Dancing for a Good Cause by ROBERT DUNKELBERGER, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST FROM 27 COUPLES at its start, two dancers remained on floor after 86 hours and one minute to win Bloomsburg’s the first Subsequent marathons were typically held in late January or early February and organized around a particular theme. theme was the United dance marathon, originally organized as a fundraiser for the In 1976, for example, the American Cancer Bicentennial and the marathon was limited to 50 hours in Society'. Breaking the world record of 84.5 hours established by the Guinness Book of World Records, the exhausted couple, Manny Santayana and received $300 and gifts from Sherry Warmkessel, local merchants, while the Can- cer Society’s local chapter received approximately $6,000. The marathon was expected to that began in Kehr Union on end on Sunday, Jan. 26. but Jan. 24, 1975, continued on for two more days. Rules designated each dancer’s body must be moving the The at all times, floor, with only their hands and feet touching and couples had definition of dancing to dance 50 minutes of every hour. was loose, since the contestants States duration, one for each state, to avoid serious injuries. Contestants began the marathon dressed answered historical trivia questions prizes based on money raised and in costumes. They and were number eligible for of hours danced. Dancers received longer breaks than the year before and could take a shower after 30 hours. Originally an independent event, the a service project marathon became sponsored by the Program Board. By 1978, 33 contestants completed 50 hours of dancing in front of an estimated 1,500 spectators Room and in Kehr Union’s Multipurpose more than $9,000 for the American Diabetes sometimes played cards or threw a Frisbee. Local bands played music and Scranton Commons and local businesses provided Association. In addition to the endurance contests, the food and beverages. marathons began 30 BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA raised to include one or two 12-hour mini- ^ A i \ air- Rt- in One half of the winning couple, from WBRE-TV Centennial following the