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and urged them

to

make

South Africa

commencement

Desmond Tutu thanked students

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New

Coming from the

speech, Archbishop Emeritus

for their support in

ending apartheid

a difference in the world.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY
OP PENNSYlVANtA IS A MEMBER OF
THE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

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BOARD OF GOraRNORS

has been awarded a two-year grant from

R Eugene Dixon Jr., Chair; Julia B. Ansill,
Vice Chair: R. Benjamin Wiley, Vice Chair;
Muriel Berman. Christopher J. Cerski,
Coy. Daniel R Elby, Richard A. Fino,
Jeffrey
Glenn Y. Forney, Eugene W. Hickock Jr,
R Joseph Loeper, Kim E. Lyttle, Joseph M.

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Nespoli,
Jere

Rocco A. Ortenzio.Tom Ridge,

W. Schuler, Andrew

H. Shoffner, Patrick

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NASA to

surface of Venus looks

like.

Classrooms

Office Clothing

in

determine what the

by Trina Walker Bloomsburg University has formed partnerships with
2.

The

New South Africa

dozens of employers throughout the

J.

state to

provide opportunities for

students to gain workplace as well as classroom experience.

one vacancy.

Stapleton, Christine J.Toretti,

Unveiling the Face of Venus
by Eric Foster Geography and earth science professor Michael Shepard

STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

CHANCEUOR, STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

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James H. McCormick

BLOOMSBURG

Joseph

Mowad, Chair

J.

R.Adams,

Jennifer

LaRoy G. Davis

'67,

First

Africa,

7

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1

Secretary

14

Ramona H. Alley

U.N. and the role the United States should

Home

Mohr Bloomsburg admitted its largest freshmen class ever
Learn firsthand how students create a home away from home.

this year.
Jr.

Cope 73

J.

Kevin M.

O'Connor

David

Petrosky

J.

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Sister

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY
S.

'71,

Nancy Feher Edv/ards

President

'70, Vice

Carolyn Vernoy Reitz

JohnTrathen

Anita

and the

Mohr As Bloomsburg's longest-serving campus minister.
McGowan, plays an important role in campus ministry

lives

of students.

Kozloff

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Sandra Rupp

Creating Spirit
by Kathleen

Ted Stuban

Doug C.

Making a

Jr.

Robert W. Buehner

Jessica

tribulations, the

by Kathleen

James T.Atherton

PRESIDENT,

its

play in African politics.

Vice Chair

Second Vice Chair

A.William Kelly

David

Learning from Africa: An Interview
by Eric Foster Political science professor George Agbango discusses

COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES

UNIVERSITY'

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Classrooms in Ojfice Clothing

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Finding

Hope

in

the Rustbelt

by Eric Foster Economics professor Liz Patch has published a book that

President

examines the causes and

Secretary

effects

of manufacturing job loss across the

nation, including northeastern Pennsylvania.

'68, Treasurer

Hippenstiel '68, Ex-Officio,

Director of Alumni Affairs

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
Elbern H,Alkire
Victoria

Anthony M.

Jr.,

by Scott Leightman Softball and

Chair

L Mihalik.Vice

The Quiet Champion
field

hockey coach Ian Hutchinson

is

expected to gain her 1,000 career win this spring, making her the

Chair

laniero. Executive

winningest coach of collegiate women's sports in the country.

Director

David HilLTreasurer

EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Joan

T.

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Constructing a Brighter Future

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Creating Scholarships for Veterans

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What's Happening

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Lentczner

EDITOR
Jim Hollister '78

MANAGING EDITOR

Briefs

Eric Foster

COPY EDITOR
Kathleen

Mohr

PHOTOGRAPHERS

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Last Word

by Jessica

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Johnson's Mill Photography

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Archbishop TUtu:

Coming from the

New South Africa
The man who helped end apartheid in
South Africa spoke

to

University students.

"Once we were visiting your military
academy West Point," said Tutu. "The

BY JOAN LENTCZNER

Blootnsburg

PHOTOS BY DAVID ASHBY

And thanked them.

the

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond

Looking out into the crowd of

Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate,

graduates and families, Tutu urged

gave the keynote address at the

to

recipient of an

Bloomsburg

said 'The cap

is

too

too

small.'

No,

big.'"

opportunities to get acquainted

"One of the

at

Bloomsburg

won

says.

University.

vivid recollections

Archbishop Tutu

Africa, the

South Africa," said Tutu, who

is

President Jessica Kozloff had several

two-day visit

South

commemorate

to

[Leah] could have been

with Archbishop Tutu during his

University.

Africa, the democratic
free

and

My wife

she said 'His head

honorary doctorate from

you coming from a new South

"I greet

visit.

nice

them

"make a difference" and "go for it" in
making the world "more gentle, more
compassionate, more caring."

December 1996 commencement
convocation and became the 13th

me a cap

cadets gave

KEITH HAUPT & JOAN HELPER

his

is

I

have of

optimism," she

"Obviously, he has strong values

and

the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his

strong ideals and wants us to do better.

contributions to the pursuit of racial

But,

justice in

man

South Africa.

He thanked the young people of
America "who responded
used to come to
campuses.

this

to

be

sitting

sanctions.

It

is

no matter how willing or unwUhng they

saying an incredible miracle has

happened." South Africa was "on the brink

of the most awful bloodbath.

We were, as

you say
"Our

up a

in this country, really

spectacular victory

is

reas-

problems can be

white together, to discuss their differences,

may be in wanting to

was

young people who believed that this could
be a different kind of world.
"I come from a country where the
world

or dis-

solved by people sitting down, black and

would

out in demonstrations in
call for

down

on campus was

suring. His behef that

And young people who ought

support of our

me most about the

that he's not beaten

"Tutu's presence

I

visit

to be worrying about their grades

is

couraged by man's inhumanit)' to man."

our cause.

country and

what impresses

creek.

your victory,"

He proudly noted

hope," says

Ir\'in

succeed,

is

a sign of

Wright, one of the

founders and co-chair of Bloomsburg's

The world-renowned leader

also

delighted the audience with his

modesty

honorary degree] on

behalf of my people
against

Racial Equity. {See Bloomsburg:

Community Working

and humor.
"I accept [this

University-Communit)' Task Force on

who

have striven

one of the most vicious systems

A

Together)

"Tutu once said that 'It's only by

down and

sitting

talking to each other, that

we

begin to discover each other,'" adds

the world has known," said Tutu. "Truly,

Wright. "His words and actions challenge

the success of one of the graduates in the

when you

us as Americans to admit to the urgent

audience, Lesiba 'Lucky' Mabokela, a

out in that crowd,

South African and recipient of aid from

you

Tutu told

his audience.

the Tutu Foundation

and other sponsors.

are in a

crowd and you stand
it is

are being carried

of others."

really

only because

on the shoulders

necessity of working together to create a

comfortable and safe society that

encourages the inclusion of all people."

Bloomsburg UnWersity Magazine

SPRING

1

997 3

TUTU
spoke with
Tutu
occasions throughout

on

reporters

several

his stay in

northeastern Pennsylvania,
addressing issues ranging from race

was surprised

in

basement

my very first visit to

up

said. "I

In your country, where

now know why.

it is

to be

an

it

specific

which

about

people of color seem to be beating their
heads.

but

I

You

are a wonderful country,

don't think

with those

Tutu

is

you have quite

many residual

dealt

when newspapers

America

—

regularly tout

— Bloomsburg

of Bloomsburg have become leaders

in

lished the

Its

Tutu admitted, there would not have

and

to address

is

and

University

working

the

Town

to bridge those

the tmiversity

and

in turn,

in the

an equal

together on

basis

which we

and share

staff,

can

and

101/EOP and

He is also

in-service program.

State of Hate, the

Wright

Act

understanding.

educational efforts in 1993 with two-

trainiyig participated in

997

citizens,

provided at no

October 1994, 19 graduates of the

a six-day training course

bloomsburg University Magazine

the

annual StreetFest celebration

Communication has always been an important part of the Task
but that

role

During times of tension
have acted as mediators.

cost to the participants. In

in collaboration

Commimity Fonmi on

and ongoing Two-Way Street forums for students
of color and town officials to air concerns and build

co-chair

Force's approach.

day diversity training workshops for 140

the thrust behind other programs as

with town leaders, a

live

Force's work,

its

is

The Task Force has sponsored,

well.

Education and communication are the touchstones of the Task

began

and Central Columbia School
and administrators in an

District teachers

assistant professor of developmental instruction at

Tlie organization

staff,

and fall

business professionals, colleges in the area, churches,

Irvin

director of the

inclusion, espe-

University groups participating

student newspaper staff, university police

health agencies

the university.

1

and gender.

pated, including middle school students, educators,

of Bloomsburg's University-Community Task Force

on Racial Equity.

the workshops.

freshmen. Over 30 community groups have partici-

the resources,''

says Irvin Wright, orie of the founders

SPRING

community have taken

so far include: the president's cabinet, managers, secretarial

food service

celebrated;

all

agreed to serve as volunteer

The forums encourage acceptance of diversity and

Education

in

us out

workshop leaders and,

are working together to create

an open community, one

let

diversity trainers. Since then, approximately 4,300 participants at

problems before they escalate into

we

he

of the criminal justice

divisiveness.

"In Bloomsburg,

qualities, he's glad

of the box, that he did this experiment."

now

the Bloomsburg area; to

diversity

recognizing that people have

in 1994.

overt racism at the university, in the

community where

say,

called for sanctions against

purpose: To address issues of dis-

Town of Bloomsburg and in

4

each other. But, on the whole, he

amnesty provi-

University-Community Task Force on

crimination

and

including the ways people are cruel to

redeeming

of racial incidents, town and university leaders estab-

Racial Equity.

the problems

Tutu answered, "Well, I'm sure he

cially as related to race

series

all

would have some disappointments. He
sees the way people treat each other,

would

Joining forces in 1992, during a time of tensions that stemmed

create a

the amnesty process

information that was very elusive,

chasms.

from a

his visit:

the world

new findings of racial

in wealth, perceptions

system and opportunities

at

A Community Working Together

Bloomsburg:
In an era

else,

South Africa during apartheid,

which can grant amnesty to individuals

looking

we are
He would say?
Would He be happy or would He be sad?"

already discovered that, apart

who

one point during

today with

who murdered so-and-so," he said.

Tutu,

long."

at

God were

to tolerate." Without the

Truth and Reconciliation Committee,

divides in

"If

at

not going to remain

having, what do you think

been a negotiated settlement

chairperson of South Africa's

way for

"Some of it is very gruesome. I myself
wonder how much truth we wiU be able
sion.

hates."

level.' It's

Asked

trials,

has provided us vfith very considerable,

seemed

invisible ceiling against

for investment. "I'm saying 'invest

South Africa while the prices are

that

said, "If

in flames."

from anything

possible for

the sky to be the limit, always

of South

amnesty program. Tutu

"We have

the United States, that African-Americans

were so angry," he

critics

in

you have that kind of retributive justice.
And ashes. South Africa would have gone

Committee and amnesty program.
"I

during apartheid. To

you go the route of the Nuremberg

Truth and ReconcOiation

Africa's

stumps

Africa's

South

relations in the United States to

who make a full public confession of
human rights violations they committed

to

become

initial

The group expects
in the

now becoming more formalized.
community. Task Force members

A year and half ago,

the Task Force began

and organizations in the commuan impartial community dispute resolution group.

a partnership with
nity to establish

is

in the

local leaders

to

begin providing volunteer mediation services

Bloomsburg area as the summer starts.

Unveiling the Face df Venus
BY ERIC FOSTER

PHOTOS BY MARLIN

We

know that the

surface of Venus

is

torturously hot

—

We also know that the planet is veOed by a hea\y atmosphere
\vith clouds

WAGNER

Along with colleague Bruce CampbeU of the Smithsonian,
Shepard

900 degrees Fahrenheit.

of carbon dioxide

R.

of sulfuric

acid.

And ^^"e know it

has ninety times the atmospheric pressure of Earth. The second
planet from the sun has been completely

mapped with

radar

is

creating a mathematical formula using statistics

to better interpret the radar data of Venus so that scientists

can make an educated guess about the texture of the
planet's surface.

Knowing what the

aid in understanding

its

three times by the Magellan

"Planetary geologists try to

understand what makes a

sateUite.

But we

stiU don't

what Venus
Is it

kno^v

planet work. All these planets

really looks Uke.

are just big experiments,"

smooth, Hke a sandy

desert?

planet looks like wiQ

history.

says Shepard.

Rugged and rocky? Or

something

in

For example, Venus'

between?

torturous 900-degree surface

A Bloomsburg Universit)'

temperature has been caused

professor aims to discover a

by a greenhouse

way to

contrast. Mercury,

paint that picture.

Michael Shepard, assistant
professor of geography

effect.

is

closer to the sun, has a

and

surface temperature of only

earth science, has been

350 degrees.

"One

a^varded a $25,500 grant for

big question about

each of two years from the

Venus

National Aeronautics and

runaway greenhouse

is

'What caused

this

effect?'

Another of the unusual

Space Administration

(NASA)

In

which

for a projert titled

things about Venus

"A

is its

Study of the Venusian Surface

mountains. The mountains

Utilizing a Self-Affine

are very reflective of radar,

Paradigm."

leading scientists to speculate

Venus' thick atmosphere

makes

it

impossible to

that they

map

satellite

may

have more immediate

But radar mapping by the

applications

established

the elevation of each part of

covered

frost."

Shepard's research

the planet photographically.

Magellan

may be

with a metallic

He notes

Michael Shepard

Venus to within a kilometer.

on

Earth.

that the better

we

understand planets

we might

The map remains rough because the radar data viewed the

in general, the better

planet in hundred-meter-square sections.

on our planet, global warming for example.
"Some of the techniques I'm using on Venus could be used
by oceanographers to map wind speeds by estimating sea
roughness," says Shepard. "That's very difficult to do today
because to measure wind speeds on the ocean, you have to

"About

ninet)' percent

of the planet

is

covered by plains. But

within those hundred-meter squares, what
says Shepard,

who

Remote sensing

is

we will understand

the problems

face

is

the texture hke?"

teaches remote sensing at the university.

the gathering of information about a planet,

through photographs, infra-red imaging or radar, from a

satellite

have a ship

at that location."

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Today's employers

And

want

experience.

today's students are getting

it.

With the help of internship programs,

and

students gain experience, credits,

sometimes pay, simultaneously.
T^ruf^brte«°

BY TRINA WALKER

PHOTOS BY MARLIN

room
window

Fabrizio's favorite

Tara

small with a single

The room isn't in
own home, but her

it is

There are tours to guide, news
to write,

furniture, she apologizes.

getting

an

art history

Universit)',

internship at the Slifer

LevWsburg.

No

is

major

at

an

House Museum

longer a

rite

Folk Art

lOce Fabrizio, today's
it.

in

of passage for

its

and sometimes

pay, simultaneously.

When Warren Byrum graduates this
spring, he will have

had four summers of

progressively responsible

increasingly an integral part of the

at a

all

disciplines.

For 20 hours a week, Fabrizio
artifacts to

students are

With the help of internship

business majors alone, internships are

education of students in

releases

Symposium

programs, students gain experience, cred-

at

working

fall

Today's employers want experience.

And,

Fabrizio,

and a

to plan for.

unmistakable.

Wlren she bumps into the

Bloomsburg

must be

years old,

mended and preserved.

carefully

furnishings.

care for

WAGNER

more than 100

is

lighting the richly car\'ed walnut

Fabrizio's

R.

selects

be displayed in the various

rooms of the 1 860s mansion, constructed
by a prominent businessman and
abolitionist of the time. Clothing, some

work experiences

major manufacturing firm.

Edward "Mark" Williams will have
management and

trained, hands-on, in

human resource positions.
And Tara Fabrizio wtII have been
exposed to every aspect of operating a

museimi.

bloomsburg Un'wersit/ Magazine

SPRING 1997

7

According to Day, companies choose to
sponsor internships for several reasons.

Some
staff,

use interns to support their existing

others use the internship as a

way to

screen candidates for possible fiiture

openings.

Many companies

interns for input about

look to the

new theories,

trends and technology being taught in
the classroom.

WhUe

interns can offer fresh

perspectives, professor of accounting Dr.

Richard Baker reminds sponsor companies that interns are

"work

in process."

"Employers need to understand that
interns are

still

in the process

of their

course work. These students offer great
insights,

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m

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A

mployers

who

look to

human

current

Bloomsburg University

resource internship. And,

he notes, his internship

for

lets

him

see living

graduates will find a field of

examples of the principles taught in an

seasoned candidates, primed

organizational behavior

for the

work

force through

Interns are required to keep weekly

and write a paper about their
While interns agree the require-

student internships. Nearly 800

journals

Bloomsburg students applied

activities.

their university studies to real

ment

work environments during

the last

of '96). That

it

the

forces

is

overlooked," notes Day.

approach to their education," says JoAnne

"The journal and papers help students
focus on what they are learning and how

Day, director of cooperative education

it

"Students are taking a

and academic

internships.

practical

"They

realize

make

applies to the degree they are earning."

Relating course

work to an

They need to

discuss ahead of time

what the intern wiU need to know and
make sure that knowledge is there."
Students are generally required by their

departments to have completed certain

actual

internship.

The process of searching

an internship then simulates a

"Sometimes the academic portion of
the internship

of a college graduate.

pre-requisites before taking part in an

time consuming, they also

them to consider
importance of what they are doing.

number has

increased every year since 1988.

more

is

agree that

academic year (faU of '95 through the

summer

class.

but a company should not

assume they are getting the equivalent

work

resumes and interviews. The faculty

advisor, student

and sponsor determine

number of hours to be sen'ed and
number of credits to be awarded.

the

Internships vary

according to the

them more marketable to employers,
and they want to integrate what they are

value of their classes. Students doing

field

internships often approach their course

department poHcies,

learning in their classes into the real world."

work more

"Classroom learning
ability to

is

great,

but the

apply what you've learned

what's going to

make

employer" agrees senior management
second internship, Williams

is

convinced

a job in his

when

it

comes

to finding

field.

"Companies

are looking for experience,"

him

a

background

for his

is

also

says Day.

Some

internships are 10 to

20 hours a week for
three credits during
a semester. Others
are full-time for

up

to 12 credits.

Approximately half

president of Internal Audits for Geisinger

of Bloomsburg's

Health System, Kerestus uses interns

internships are

nearly every semester as an adjunct to his

They

example, a course on labor and industrial

often

of study and

product," affirms Kevin Kerestus. As vice

you experience

relations gave

class,

"Interns help us to improve our

staff.

lets

how

valuable to internship sponsors.

continues Williams. "An internship gives
in your field, and also
you apply what you've studied." For

see

enriching the learning of classmates.

This apphcation of learning

in his

that his on-the-job learning will be

advantageous

They

and they have

experiences to share with the

is

a difference to an

major Williams. Currently working

enthusiastically.

the class can be applied,

"Interns offer fresh perspectives.

we may not have
offer scenarios we
because we're so tied up

raise questions

thought

of,

and they

might not see

with day-to-day operations."

done during the

summer, while
the other half
take place either
in a spring
fall

or

semester.
^^ather Bo/ich

8

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B/oomsburg UraVers/ty Mogoz/ne

for

job

search, including telephone contacts, letters,

setting gives students a realization of the

that training in their fields will

real

the

OFFICE CLOTHING
working world

Baker supervises an average of nine
interns each

summer and up

semester for the accounting department.

"An internship
first

enviroimient. This

worked
For

an

the

is

a forty-hour

many it

in

time they've

has turned out to be the

them

do what they

to

BoUch

Heather
much she'd

know how
human

didn't

like

of '94. Three weeks

after Bolich

ship at

began her intern-

TRW Valve Division in

Danville, her supervisor

left

the

company, leaving Bolich alone
to

run the one-person department.

faculty advisor at

Bloomsburg gave

for

stay." Bolich's

my internship.
decision paid

I

graduation, she was offered a
position,

fiall

Byrum was

national

time

knows her own

internship gave

that

talented minority
students. For four

summers, Byrum
at Jefferson

Philadelphia-based

manufacturer. His
fourth summer, he earned academic
credits for his position as a supervisor

on

"When you come
and

by the intern

that they begin actively

recruiting for our graduates."

the plant floor.

four interns, including Williams.
Bolich

program

supports academically-

Smurfit, a

where she has since supervised

selected to

INROADS program, a

worked

Upon

can be.

participate in the

me

decided to

off.

skills

in high school,

"My

the option of staying or choosing another

company

people

While

resources until her internship
fall

Byrum learned throu!
how critical

experience

communication and

It

know if they want to

are training to do."

in the

internship.

work week.

deciding factor in their education.
really helps

and

business appropriate

learning by-products of

office

first

in general
skills

behaviors are just two of

often a student's

is

work experience

Networking

to nine each

in as a

young person

are given a lot of responsibility,

it's

As

this semester's graduates

march

many wOl carry
Those who have

off with their diplomas,

her the insight to help those she supervises.

tough to be a friend to someone and

something

She aims to give interns enough

show a

completed internships hold worldly

responsibility to gain the sense of self-

esteem she acquired in her

"We try to

lot

of authority," says Byrum. "You

learn quickly

how to communicate and

own internship.

deal with people in a

good

learn in a classroom."

give the interns a

overview of everything that goes on
in

human

way that you

can't

enhance the

students' educations, so contacts

made

resources:

increase their chances of successfiil job
searches. Ninety percent of Bloomsburg's

benefits to

interns say they have

wiU help them

The

contract
negotiations.

made

contacts that

in future job placement.

graduates in diverse organizations around

We don't dump

the country

internship program. Interns often

may be due

in part to the

make

monotonous
on them.
They're not on

such a positive impression on a sponsor

the sidelines,

students take

they're actually
in the

game."

Such

overall

that the
at

wisdom and practical knowledge. They
enter the work force prepared, thanks to
and students who
experience.

realize the value

of

I

We dont dump

university's success in placing

meaningless,

tasks

unseen.

a partnership of employers, faculty

Just as experiences gained

from tracking
attendance, to

else

company begins

actively recruiting

Bloomsburg. Baker notes that his

on summer internships
throughout Pennsylvania, New York and

New Jersey and into surrounding states.
"These companies

may not have heard

exposure teaches

of Bloomsburg University before the

interns about the

internship.

meaningless,

monotonous

tasks

on them. They're
not on the

sidelines,

they're actually
in the game.''

But several are so impressed

Bloomsburg University Magazine

SPRING 1997

9

Learning

fram Africa
An interview with George Agbango
BY ERIC FOSTER

U.N.

PHOTO COURTESY OF GEORGE ABANGO

OTHER PHOTOS BY SAM BIDLEMAN

He traveled to

Bloomsburg University doesn't
have a seat

at

Building in

the United Nations

New York City.

Bloomsburg students do
insider's

States,

But

get

doctoral degrees,

an

politics in class

academic credentials to his

with

and mentor

as a teacher

professor of poHtical science.

Bloomsbujg

A native of Ghana, Agbango

Agbango

Ghana National
1979 and served as

First

in

is

president of the

Science (North America

Chapter). In 1995, on a

Deputy Majority Chief Whip.

In 1981, he was Ghana's delegate

his native country,

to the United Nations General

bestowed a chieftaincy

Assembly where he worked

Chief Azoka

II

of Austria and other high-ranking

I

U.N.

people).

In a recent interview,

Annan of Ghana.

Agbango

Agbango learned a hard lesson in political science in
December of 1981, when a military insurrection left his country
with a new government
and left him in the cold. "I feO from
grace to grass. I had to redefine my career," he says of those days.

—

10

SPRING 1997

Bloomsburg University Magazine

talked about

and the United Nations with the subtle pragmatism
of someone who's been there. But when the discussion

Africa

turned to the future of world, even pragmatism couldn't

overshadow hopeful ideahsm.

by

He took
name Anonburi
(meaning one who loves his

chief of KusasUand).

the chieftaincy

U.N. Secretary General Kofi

title

(paramount

Secretary General Kurt Valdheim

such as the current

visit to

he was

personally with then U.N.

officials

at

University,

African Association of Political

elected to

Assembly

real

Today, in addition to his role

George Agbango, associate

was

and
and added

world experience.

view of United Nations

and African

the United

earned master's

^...MMWM

Why should the United States be concerned with

Q

what happens

The United

about Africa,

A

Q

in Africa?

States doesn't have to
it

interests. Its vital interest

part of that world.

the world,

Kofi

its vital

and Africa

is

better off, so are

we

in

America.

But America should also be concerned with Africa because
of the historical

ties.

There are more people of African

descent in America than any other part of the world outside

On a more practical level, Africa has a lot of

of Africa.

natural resources that America

interested in:

is

those are bauxite, manganese, cocoa, coffee,
limiber, gold

and

Many of the American

oil.

depend on materials from
Africa

Q

sisal,

where the land mines

He

is

a

U.N.

insider.

are and, therefore,

He knows

he can

steer

of danger.

Nations' success.

Should the United

uranium,

industries

Africa. Therefore, the stability

of

Q
A

President Clinton.

U.S. vital interests are affected,

troops because prevention
are

some

get involved.
in

did he make?

States be sending troops to places like

Somalia and Rwanda? Are they doing any good there?

Where

Ghali attracted a lot of animosit)' from U.S.
officials, particularly

to this office better prepared than

among

Former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-

What mistakes

Annan comes

pitfalls?

He knows where to cut expenses without hurting
the United Nations. And having Uved the majority of his career
in the United States, he knows how the U.S. political system
works, and he will steer clear of that. He's a good choice. He will
make sure to cut those areas that are not critical to the United
clear

in America's interest.

is

of those

Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

A

is

We are interdependent one way or another.

of the world

If the rest

is

steer clear

be concerned

has to be concerned with

Annan

Will [newly elected U.N. Secretary General] Kofi

1

instances

it is

we should send

better than cure. But there
in

our best

not to

interests

think that U.S. policy toward Africa should be one

which African countries

Military

when

is

are supported to establish a

Command, based on

a certain

High

number of troops

contributed by each country, so they can intervene and solve

There

A

is

a saying,

"He who pays

the piper calls the

tune." Boutros Boutros-Ghali should have

better

—

as a

known better

former vice president of Egypt, he should have

—

that the United States

is

not only a

partner in the welfare of the United Nations, but
it is

also a

known

dominant player among the power-

military problems themselves.

I

think that the United States

should desist from giving the impression that

problems

in the world.

It

it

can solve

all

has to pick and choose those that are

absolutely necessary for direct intervention.

We have to

learn the lessons of U.S. interv^ention in the

Congo

during the 1960s and Somalia in the 1990s.

hierarchy of the
the violence that we see in
Rwanda an example of an

organization.

The United

Is

about 25

States contributes

percent of the U.N. budget and therefore
has an economic veto

—

we're not talk-

ing about a poUtical veto that

it

has on

the Security Council. Therefore, he

instance where an African
coalition of nations

would be the

best

agency to solve the problem rather
than U.S. troops?

should have steered himself so that
even

if

United

he could not say 'yes' to the
States, the

United States would

I

A

think a coalition of African

states that are very distant

from

way that he has let
them down. But he was not able to do
that He came across with arrogance.

be the ones to send the troops.

And

have taken positions and they cannot be

feel

pleased with the

open

at

one point

in time,

I

think his

criticism of the conservative

vraig of this country

about United

and

their attitude

States' obligations to the

United Nations was uncalled

amounts
affairs

to

of a

meddling

for.

That

in the internal

member country.

the source of the problem should

Surrounding countries
considered as neutral.

neighboring countries
territorial interests in

may already

Some of the
may have had

Rwanda.

I

think this

is

a problem that African nations should solve.

What

Q

are the biggest

They

American misconceptions

about Africa?

A

Some Americans

think that Africa

is

one country.

I'll

who may know someone from Kenya.
Such a person would want to know if I've met this feUow
from Kenya in Africa. I'm from Ghana and he's fi-om Kenya, how
run into someone

A

could we have met. Even
lage.

It's

from Ghana, Ghana

if he's

a big country. Africa

is

not a

vil-

a large continent with over 53

is

countries and eight islands.

Unfortunately, what
negative publicity that

many people know about Africa is the
gets: famine, AIDS and corruption.

it

Africa has a lot to offer the rest of the world. Perhaps a day will

come when

developments in Africa

positive

publicity as the negative ones

will

be given equal

The

also provides the

regions.

The

satisfy the lust

energy for heating and cooking

Q

It

those

the countries

forest.

so much food here that
we even pay our farmers not to produce. Would it not be
wonderful if we had such abundance on the global level?

World hunger. Sometimes we have

Rather than just donating surplus food to the underdeveloped
countries,

us help

let

through technical

them

increase thefr agricultural yields

assistance.

read and write,

Africa teach the world?

level

it

increases their horizon

of awareness. The elimination of

illiteracy will

enhance democracy, increase

personal hygiene and promote global

When you look at the rest of the
world, we've

A

become very

and very

ualistic

understanding.

individ-

materialistic.

QWhen

I

think the extended family system in Africa
is

make

in

be self-supportive and halt the destruction

and

What can

of the developed world.

transfer of technology will

in these regions

of the rain

South America and Africa are

tropical rain forests of

being destroyed to

When people can

now gets.

it

are doable.

In the case of the environment, just transfer technology.

what holds the continent

despite the poverty

decadence

I

thought about these

questions,

I

was thinking

How

particularly about China.

together,

concerned do we have to be with China?

and problems. Moral

threatening the social fabric

is

think that China

of the developed world. Africa's humility

I

and

the Soviet

economic

struggles for social,

and pohtical

justice

A

provide an

may replace

Union as our chief
adversary. With Hong Kong

interesting laboratory for the rest

coming under Chinese administration,

of the world to investigate.

China's
that

What

Q

is

the significance of

Right

He

is

man

a

did not have to

fight for justice,

Thomas Moore, Tutu

is

of the world.

Q

1

come out and

man

for

all

in

many

halt the

to a global focus,

what are

environmental degradation. Two, the

United States should collaborate with other countries to

A

eliminate world hunger. Three, the United States can

help eliminate global

illiteracy. If

the United States can do that,

be wonderful.

Q

And

Q

SPRING

all

1

three doable?

997

where

China

if

we

will

don't handle

be another

I

A
But

not a nice giant?

cannot foresee a nice China

communism. From
view, there
overall,

B/oomsburg University Magazine

is

if it

continues to manifest

the Western philosophical point of

nothing nice about communism.

I'm very optimistic that the 21st century will be a

century of redemption. During this period,

humankind

That is why we,

technology to Uberate the world.

have an obligation to prepare the young ones

—

them than we do
the great game that

years ahead of

world. For in

Are

well,

giant that will rise to oppose us.

be concerned about over the next four years?

One,

2

— markets

seasons

the top international issues that our government ought
to

see a situation

China very

but he did. Like
a

Moving from an African focus

1

has almost monopolized

to Japan

Third World countries.

A

will

now China

— second

Archbishop Tutu to the world?
Bishop Tutu

it

economy will grow to the extent
become an economic power.

will

it

stakes as well as the cards.

is

will use

as educators,

— who have more

so they can better serve the

being played,

Nothing goes on

if

we

we

are the

leave the table.

i

3

Learning

from

Ate:

BY ERIC FOSTER

PHOTO BY MARLIN

Ekema "Steve" Aghaw, associate professor of English, is a native
of Cameroon who has taught at Bloomshurg for the past four years.
Here he

about the personal meaning that Archbishop

talks

Desmond

Tutu's visit to

Bloomshurg had for him, as well as

Another Voice

his

perspective of what the world can learn from Africa.

\vho can't

WAGNER

R.

make

it

— have made

us start to realize that support

systems in Africa, the extended family, really play a

vital role.

The communit)', the family, is the primary support system
for the individual. The individual cannot depend upon an
impersonal nation for support in times of

difficulties.

Here, I'm

not just talking about material support. The more significant
For

Q

)'ou,

what's the significance of Archbishop Tutu's

to Bloomsburo;?

N'isit

type of support
the individual

is

is

emotional support, whereby the problem of

the problem of everybody.

community, of family,
I

A\\'hen

Ustened to Bishop Tutu speak during the

com

vital

is

fact that for

once

in

Ustened to an African leader

my life

who

The

Q

I

\vas

addressing a Western audience and

If

the

Thanking them not

Aftica.

A

South

they supported

sit-ins

and

against apartheid that forced the

government to

you take South Africa,

their

independence, people are taking

own

problems.

reality
I

and

solve their

rest

of Africa.

WTiat has happened to the

rest

contribute to the transformation

of Africa after 30 or 40 years of

of South Africa.

independence from coloniahsm

Second, he did not ask for amthing.

Bishop Tutu

leader

who

dignit)'

can

respect

aid.

I

think that

A

What

culture has

depend on

is

have not thought

Because Western

capitalist and materialistic
dominated thought patterns all over the

it

up

for themselves to a large extent. Yes, colonialism

was

evil,

own

However,

—

cultural Sj'Stems.
I

think the effects of Western materialism that we've

breakdown of family, the explosion and decline of
the welfare state where the state takes over the support of people
seen

the

Africa's

was bad,

it

but Africa also benefited from colonialism. The future

must come through an

of their

come through

through an acknowledgment that Africans have messed things

American and European models and

significance

models

should come through a kind of soul searching,

own

become doubtful of the

external

needs, then the

pessimistic.

world, indigenous peoples, particularly in Africa, have lost their
sense of value and have

own

There must be a significant break from the way Africans
education;

many Africans

Africa continues to

have done business. That break should

does Africa have to teach us?

that.

if

without adapting these models to our

WTiat lessons can the world learn from Africa?

about

to

have different cultures altogether.

we need the mental freedom
own
our
resources.

Unfortunately, even

problems.

European and American communities

We don't need as

future

Q

own

its

meet with the people's needs because

and

of that as

to develop

models to solve

Those models have been inadequate

and address a ^\'est^rn audience

without asking for

much

for

— an African

come with

is

unfortunate. Africa has turned outward

an example of what an

is

own

think that South Africa wUl

be a model for the

and

finally see those sanctions partially

African leader should be

ironically

African country to obtain

last

acquired from the outside to define

protests

American

institute sanctions

one of

is it

advantage of other values that they have

necessarily for

any kind of material support but for the
fact that

future of Africa,

optimism or of pessimism?

thanking them for the support they gave
to the political transformation in

idea of

concepts of humanit)' in the 21st century.

mencement ceremony, I was very
proud. My sense of pride came

from the

The

going to come back as one of the most

own

examples from

integrate

them

to suit

reality.

Africans have to do

more than

ability to take the best

some

soul searching. Educators

much

poUticians wiU be instrumental to these kinds of

changes.

Bloomshurg University Magazine

SPRING

1

997

1

Making
BY KATHLEEN MOHR
PHOTOS BY MARLIN R.WAGNER

This

is

a day

young

adults look

forward to for years. They have

talked about

it

wdth family and

friends. ^Vith eager anticipation

been planned
carefully

for

all

summer.

it

has

flurr)'

of

activit)'

Now the

A

brick buildings seeking the elusive

trips are

many

made up and down crowded

stairs v^dth overstuffed

Excited chatter

fills

boxes and

crates.

the haU-svays as a m)Tiad

of unfamiliar faces pass each other.

discreetly ft'om faces.

wave goodbye

as cars slowly pull away.

—

experiment in independence begins

An

on the Bloomsburg

This academic year, Bloomsburg

—

largest

freshmen

class ever

over 1500 students. For most,

first

for

its

it's

experience with living on their

an extended time, hi

their first

their

own

few

months away from home, they will meet
a number of new challenges.

One
face

is

of the biggest challenges
living with

they'll

hundreds of others in a

single building. For most, including Jim

14

SPRING 1997

Residence

semester, ^ve decided

the same.

all

life

this

Bloomsburg University Magazine

time together."

director Linda

Sowash

housing had to be

Now students have options."
confirms

life]

trymg

accommodating
case,

why

together in a quad since

we're spending

[residence

University campus.

welcomed

we Uve

Chapman

wiped

Anxious hands

fi-eshmen have arrived

first

says, "Traditionally, all

Then the moment comes. Hugs and
kisses are exchanged. Tears are

came here and roomed with Jim
Shields, a kid knew from high school.
That was working out really well. Then we
met t\vo kids across the haU, Chad Snyder
and Josh Nordmark, and we became real
good friends with them. So, toward the
don't

this year,

this.

difficult.

Cassidy grew up as an only child and

admits

sharing stuff turned

that, at first,

and her room-

into a problem. But she

mate, Kelly Smaltz,
great friends,

who

found

have become

creative solutions to

dilemma. For example, instead of

their

remaining frustrated

\\'ith

each other's

telephone habits, they estabUshed evening

phone hours. This allows each of them

to

have planned, uninterrupted conversations

with out-of-town friends and

relatives.

She has even discovered some benefits
of sharing. No\v that she has estabhshed

"They're

be more

to

after

although her adjustment to

dormitory life was a Utde more

a problem.

end of the

remain on campus

Pa., v^dll also

Fairless HUls, Pa., this isn't

I

foUows. Vehicles circle

parking spot, doors open and shut,

mass communications

a

"I

chosen destination has been

reached, emotions are running high.

Chapman,

major from

women in her
many wardrobes to choose

close friendships with other

to student needs." In his

doubling up has been a positive

hall,

she has

from

daily. "I

have 10

sisters

wardrobes. They are the

arrangement.

and 10

sisters

I

never had."

"Our room is always hopping," says
Chapman. There's ahvays interaction with
other kids in the hall. It makes for a lively,

transition to dormitor\' hfe, says Jacci

homey atmosphere.

Klingerman, a deaf education major from

It's

really neat to live

with a couple of other people."
In fact, after considering

plan for next semester

is

says,

to a

"Our

to stay, hopefully,

in Elwell [Residence Hall]."
Jillian Cassidy,

cial

ground

rules are ke)'s to

establishing

making

a successfijl

Folsom, Pa. "This person that you've just

moving

house off campus. Chapman

Communication and

an elementary and spe-

education major from PhoenixviUe,

moved in vnxh is a perfect stranger, you
don't know her, and the only way you're
going to get to kno^v her

is

to be

open

with her and talk with her. You have to
certain rules,

and

that's

othenwse

there's

when things go

no

bad."

set

respect

AWAY FROM HOME
Many freshmen

struggle (wth the issue

a strict allowance.

You

of time management. These newcomers

differently.

have learned quickly that prioritizing

you wear your

commitments and budgeting time
necessary

skill at college.

a

is

It

seems

taking

always

like there're

away.

it

You have

to

It's

be a

little

things

She has learned she

agrees.

has to take more responsibility than she

did in high school. "You're supposed to

know when

reminds you. WTien
thought

to

is

so

ftrst

I

much to

do evepithing and

make new

friends. If

during the day

hour there

—

I

got here,

do.

And you want

see everything
I

utilize

it's

and trying

Like salad

and pasta

to

Bloomsburg

add more choices

Top 4 suggestions to future freshmen
class of

you

initiative

—

vsTJling to

and take

help those

who

ask questions

Cassidy says in her experience "none of

them

are hard to approach. They'll take

time to answer questions," even arrange
study groups

new

essential skill

Klingerman,

and saved

money is another

and milestone

who

for some.

conscientiously

in high school, says, "I

worked

thought

had so much put away. I didn't think it
was possible to spend that much money
I

in

two months." She,

Like

Chapman and

many other students, earns extra spending
money by working on campus.
But Chapman claims he still must be
frugal

and

it

takes effort to keep within

the center for

and physical

activity, too. "I

steam and relax and unwind.

where you don't have

stuff as

"One of the

you

was

first

time and making their

it is

making Bloomsburg

home away from home.
a popular

way to

common

build

supportive relationships.

you

new students feel
Town of

their transition easy.

allows flexibility within the

academic schedule,

offers

activity that

demanding

time away from

dorm and takes the focus off work.
"Do something fun that you love. It's a
great way to meet new people, make
new friends."

the

Jeffrey Rott, a
College\'ille, Pa.,

Some

Chapman

interact
It

reflects. "It

with other people

made

so

it

much

of my really good friends

today are people

I

was

That was a great way

first

grouped with.

to get started, get

my foot in the door."
Cassidy finds the whole town coUegeoriented. She says store owners are fiiendly

and they
"I

She recommends finding an

you to

get involved.

easier.

Joining clubs

that bring together people with
is

own

important to create some

sense of community,

interests

much freedom

things that was really key

orientation,"

and
For most students living independently

a

think

things.

Don't bring as much

decisions,

as

the university and the

Bloomsburg make

new

I

important, especially in college,

friends.

Cassidy joined the Equestrian Club.

if necessar)'.

Learning to budget

on

Despite the challenges they face and

Be open to nev/ ideas and

for the

initiative for their learning.

you confidence."

gives

It

relies

conquer, most of these

sure she

and

relaxation

forces

reads the notes, attends class
positive

energy.

Chapman

for your

has found the best

and maintains a

near the dorms. Working out

you

did in high school]."

plan to. Just the necessities.

attitude. Teachers are available

many

offers a facility

college,

in

have to do the v/ork.

still

Take

education and meeting

the

•

regularly

hang-out for

"Not every school

to participate in physical activities [as

required of all freshmen.

make

gives

2000:

Start preparing in high schooL Even

though you have freedoms

of administering certain courses

to

like that

that's

from the

try

is

students.

giving myself time just to blow off some

•

approach

know

look forward to going up everyday and

bars.

and

only way the tmiversity can work out the

KUngerman

to

also hkes getting together

center, a favorite

adjusting to the needs of the

is

taken for granted

is

He

good

It's

looking out for you."

over to the student recreation
all

the food

life,

is

is a God on my side,
my shoulder and the

my soul.

Spirit in

somebody

but he

with some friends and going

more than adequate

(ARAMARK on the

students

my time

students in a single room, which

logistics

for, it is

for survival. Like residence

service

hundreds of

lectures with

group meals with

that although the food isn't

they hoped

•

mass

instant gratification gives

to scheduled large

most agree

smaller high school classes where

to

by "knowing there

compromises being made. However,

tough adjusting from

is

on campus
foods on

parties,

and sense of belonging

Holy

When

demand.

on top of things."

individual attention

finds his strength

used to eating their favorite

•

For some,

he looked into joining some other

and attended some

Jesus looking over

— an hour here and an
stay

Initially

clubs

Meals seem to present another hurdle

campus)

I

my studying at night,

would do

I

but there

No one

everything's due.

more than once

limited choices, grimaces reflect the

time-oriented,

structured person in order to succeed."

Klingerman

and

for freshmen. Students arrive

way

very demanding.

\'er\'

clothes

the time,

all

[before washing]."

According to

Chapman, "In college you're always so
busy. Time is the most valuable commodit)'.

Bloomsburg Christian Fellowship (BCF).

"You learn to Uve

don't eat

offer special student discounts.

was walking downtown one day and

the

owner of the Hallmark store noticed

my Bloomsburg University sweatshirt and
asked

if I

was

a student.

He was just
how

being nice." She remembers

comfortable this

made

her

feel

—

Like

she belonged here.

Freshmen come

to

Bloomsburg from

aU walks of life for a variety of reasons.

freshman from

But they

studying computer and

assert

all

have a

common

goal, to

some independence and prepare

information systems in addition to

themselves for the future

accounting, found support within the

that

might

— whatever

be.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

SPRING 1997

IS

^^

ymt

Sister Anita

McGowcm
and
campus
•

•

mtmstry
BY KATHLEEN

MOHR

PHOTOS BY MARLIN

R.

WAGNER

SISTER ANITA

warm.

It's

positive.

It's

inviting.

Jt's
Professor Stephen Kokoska,

department of mathematics and

computer

sciences, describes

it

as "a

presence on campus." Lisa Thomas, a
junior majoring in special education, says,
"It

me

gave

first

came

when

a comforting feeling

here."

What

is it

I

that quietly

campus ministry
at Bloomsburg University and the enthutouches so many?

siastic spirit

It's

of Sister Anita

McGowan.

Anita came to Bloomsburg

Sister

a challenge.

is

Thomas

characterizes Sister

5:30 between 55

the

students, facult)'

and members of the
community greet her wherever she goes,

informal, buffet-style dinner. This activity

briefly interrupting her enthusiastic

local churches, fraternities, sororities,

conversation and confirming her

community groups. Volunteers sign up
to cook, coming up with some creative,

statement that "campus ministry exists

It is

important to her that people

understand campus ministry

is

just for students.

house

at

empt)'.

It

the

like to see

it

upholstered furniture and lively

clergy, Father

Amy

Today, students have

more

a

recreation center, an

expanded student union. As a

are volunteer cooks Lynn Fry,

Flowers, Sister Anita

Julie

McGowan, Julie Benner

Sardone. Their creation

is

result,

KoUas, offer diverse programs at a variety

play keyboard at Mass. Reinforcing Sister

of locations on campus, trying to include

Anita's feelings,

many different sectors of the university
population. "We try to stay connected in

one

the provost's lecture series, the celebrity

those

to establish

who do

visit are

community,

to

make

friends. But, according to Sister Anita,

That

is still

spirit

there.

It's

very

much

alive."

surrounds the effervescent

nun. Keeping up with her quick pace as
she exuberantly walks

down

College Hill

to.

campus ministry about four years
ago when a student asked him to

Larry McNeil and Reverend Beth Boyer

out

And

off long

Kokoska got involved with

''^yteve

every possible area, whether

the historic turn-of-the century

rooms

shared with

fewer students can be found just hanging

Victorian.

a dramatic contrast to

is

dormitory hallways they return

their

recreational

— apartment-style housing,

new student

left

Father Larry McNeil and friends.

and the house on the hUl was
home away from home.

homey

She and two other full-time

conversation

home. Students who came

this

by wallpaper, wood,

feeling created

the cinder block

friends

"Spirit

environment. For some,

be the Ufeblood of the campus community.

and

coming

guests into a relaxed, comfortable

Shown from

out, feel

were already connected. They were

at

preparations to personally welcoming

was a place

safe, feel at

choices

members of the community, not
She would

Anita bounces from helping the

COOKING UP A COMMUNITY —

hang

at

an

many different groups - students,

353 College Hill was never
to

for

cooks in the kitchen with last-minute

mentor, Father Chet Snyder, campus

campus ministry was happening,

involves

Sister

for

also for

years

and 75 people gather

campus ministry house

homestyle meals. Here a casually dressed

over the place."

all

everyone involved with the university and

first

is

handshakes, smiles and hugs from

response to an invitation from friend and

During her

campus ministry programs

not your stereotypical nun." Friendly

University almost 13 years ago, in

priest at the time.

building

Dollar Dinner Night. Each Tuesday at

Anita as a "bundle of positive energy,

artist series, sitting

it's

athletics,

down in the

Room, walking around from
Anita says. "We try
to walk through the good times and bad
times together." Campus ministry is about

student's

he

life

reflects, "If you

touch

in a positive way, you've

done a good job. It makes everything
you do worthwhile."
Kokoska
arriving

sees

many of today's

else

students

on campus burdened with bag-

Pennsylvania

gage from dysfunctional families. They

office to office," Sister

are looking for change, trying to

community, a sense of belonging.

One of the more popular, community-

connections.

Campus

make

ministry, he notes,

creates a sense "that they're always there
to help in

make

any way." They work hard to

students

feel like

thev sincerelv care.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

SPRING 1997

17

SISTER ANITA

okay to question.

fhe student assistant for

campus

Protestant

Amos,
her

"As a freshman,
I

back on

a junior, looks

I

was not

a

happy

had been involved

in

home and I didn't know where I was
God here. came to Sister
Anita and she listened to me spQl my
going to find

out ever
Anita's

she

is

I

been helping [campus ministry]
Describing

since."

some of Sister

spontaneous outbursts and why

affectionately referred to at times as

"Crazy Lady," Amos

tells

attending a Protestant

a story

Campus

about

Ministry

board meeting

as the only student

representative.

She was a

little

the meeting,

made

broke the tension.

a sUly face at her

Amos

says,

It's

It's

okay to be angry

about

and

"She knows

it."

Anita believes in a holistic

work with people

experience.

to lessons she

were

much

older than

I

was.

the customer was always right.

used to

bite

my tongue.

It

needs of the individual."

know they are loved where

at. "It's

okay to be confused.

would

was

wonderful experience to learn

care

first

a

deal

It's

enjoyed each other. Both parents

Special family

feels blessed to

today.

are a

She

much

have been given so

campus

that sponsors a

programs, speakers and other

activities to

and friendship at
Bloomsburg. Membership is open to all
Bloomsburg students, faculty and staff.
promote

18

faith

SPRING 1997

Bloomsburg University Magazine

she gives

is

and the

and foremost

first

herself She

is

a smart,

and honest

cares first

and

commitment
is

a

and

gift.

...

to faith

She

believes

lives

and

spirituality

what she believes

what she

lives."

Bloomsburg Christian Fellowship
(BCF), Christian Student FeOowship
(CSF), Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Father Larry McNeil and Sister Anita

(FCA),

McGowan

Fellowship).

are available there for personal

spiritual counseling.

Protestant

Campus

Ministry

provides services fi-om

fiEing in for

KoUas,

variety of worship services, social outreach

to the university

community. "The

to hosting activities at this location.

is

organization on

"marvelous contributions"

made

The Catholic Campus Ministry (CCM)

its

office in

Kehr Union. Here, Lori Stoner Kappel

official

praises Sister Anita for the

located at 353 CoOege HUl. In addition

(PCM)

an

"/"ith admiration. Father Larry

foremost about others. Her deep

in the

mountains created relationships that
is

to

Anita

has heard her sing says she

woman. A person who

Uke swimming, ice-skating

big part of who Sister Anita

The

is

who

sensitive, gentle, sincere

life."

we sang

Sister

sings like an angel.

gift

celebrate

who

is

'90

Reverend Beth Boyer
currently

on

leave.

In addition to these ministries that

cosponsor

activities in

an

effort to

promote understanding and respect for
all people on campus, there are a number
of smaller fellowship groups that try to

meet individual needs
exploration of

faith.

for

On

and satisfaction in planning
campus ministry services. And

could not have done better to teach us

and

ministry

for

she has

had two parents who

"I

as long as

how to

is

Campus

music

how fortunate she was

loved a good time.

life.

finds pleasure

how to

have had a wonderfial famOy - a family

who

of

mother

the family sing. "She didn't

insist

learned growing up. Emotionally, Sister

to

rides, Sister Anita's

what we sang

anyone

Anita remembers

played instruments

essential part

keep from fighting." Today,

I

But most important are the lessons she

and Sunday afternoon picnics

they are

work

had and

activities

intellectual

and music was an

to

me

ever

many family members
long family

was the

like that I'd

Although none claimed to be a musician,

really

with the public because

it

was also during her youth that she

It

I

think that that job helped

experience

good

learned that

I

She

at the university.

nurtured her love for music and singing.

worked with people who

I

she

wants to be "a sign of hope."

learned working at a supermarket her
senior year in high school. "It was a

some of what

give

received back to the people she touches

through her work

that healing comes."

it

care of the physical, spiritual, emotional

People need to

It's

Anita partially attributes her

approach to ministry. "You have to take

and

and hopes she can

okay to be angry, period.

with people."

how you're feeling and knows what you
need when you need

Sister

nervous

and uncomfortable when she glanced
over to Sister who, right in the middle of

Sister

in talking

ability to

church

back

guts. I've

with God.

experience with Sister Anita.

initial

camper.

ministry, Beth

worship and

These include:

Hillel,

Kappa Phi (Women's

LIZ

PATCH

Finding

New Hope

m the
Rust Belt
PHOTO BY MARUN

BY ERIC FOSTER

The

R.

WAGNER

cost of the local Ught

bill

may have

a lot to

do with

the likelihood that an area factor)' will shut down,

closures,

professor of economics.

Patch published her iindings in the book, Plant Closing
in

Manufacturing: Tlie Role of Local

Economic Conditions, which can be found
libraries,

over 100 research

at

including those at Harvard, Princeton and Yale.

Patch investigated the extent to which local economic factors
correlated to plant closings. She

"In Pennsylvania, the cost of electricity

is

regulated," says

Patch. "If the cost of electric energy does contribute to plant

according to a study by Liz Patch, assistant

and Employment Loss

industry:

examined many variables: the

low

we want

to try to

keep the cost of electric energy as

as possible.

"One of the ways

that

we can do

that

is

demand

companies charge for the actual cost of producing
rather than the average cost.
set the price

By allowing

electric utilities to

of electric energy based on the average cost of

production, the incentive to become

more

efficient

cost of electricit)'; labor costs; the percentage of labor force

reduced. If low-cost electric energy reduces the

unionized; the percentage of the population with a high school

lost

degree; the market

whether the

state

demand

is

for the

a "right to

product in the local

work"

state

impedes unionization); and overall tax

area;

(where legislation

For large firms (more than 100 employees) the cost of
electricit}'
•

was most

because of plant closures, regulatory commissions

A

significantly correlated with plant closings.

For small firms (0 to 19 employees) and

medium

firms (20 to

may wish

recent reduction in Pennsylvania's workers' compensation

can only help preserve jobs says Patch. "For small firms in

particular, the cost

Highlights of the research include:

may be

number of jobs

to consider carefully the practice of average-cost pricing."

costs

rates.

that
electricity

closings.

Wage

of labor was a significant determinant in plant

costs have a lot to

do with plant

closure."

Previous studies found no differentiation by region in plant
closure rates. But Patch's investigation found that there were

were greater

in the

northern

99 employees) labor cost was the factor most strongly associated

significant differences. Job losses

with plant closings.

part of the country than in the southern, but only because

•

Local government expenditures on infrastructure and

services (such as roads, police

and

fire

protection) were

Tax

rates, the

percentage of the

and the percentage of work

work

force that

is

unionized,

force with a high school degree were

to officials

who want

to preserve

Southern plant closings accounted for a smaller number of
jobs

lost,

overall

not significant determinants of plant closings.

Her advice

—

a testament to the enduring might of industry in the

northern part of the nation.

associated with fewer closings of small plants.
•

the north has a larger manufacturing industrial base

manufacturing

"Up

but the jobs

lost represented a greater

proportion of

manufacturing employment in the region.
to the

time

I

did this study, researchers had not found

those differences," says Patch.

Bhowsburg

University

Magazine

SPRING 1997

19

SUCCESS ON TWO FIELDS

Jan Hutchinson triumphs as the nations
most successful college coach on two fields
.

an Hutchinson

can't tell

how many wins

you

ofiEhand

she has accumulated

over her storied coaching career.
It's

not that she can't count that

high,

just that the

it's

important to

wins

aren't that

collecting a wall full of
All- American

State Athletic

field

hockey

titles.

higher than the single

Dean Smith, Bobby

of the group, Paterno,

is

fact,

the highest

first

woman

words

are about the players.

done aU
done

that

it,"

much,

been the essence of team sports
coach, she wiH

really.

she said. "They've

tell

you

to me."

instantly,

pointed out to you,

step

it's

When I think about that, it
back and

say,

'Whoa.'"

II

softbaU history and 12th across

percentage. In field hockey, she

among active
three

is

tops

coaches in wins, and

more wins

will

\\'ith

be the wdnningest

aU-time coach in that sport, too.

But being a winner on the
all

that

is

field is

relationships with the players are just as

valued,

if

not more

so.

She points out the camaraderie
the group
"It's

is

among

a large reason for the success.

always been a part of our programs

Hutchinson

our teams are

scheduling.

says.

"We have ver)' close-knit teams

1

997

Bloomsburg University Magazine

not

important to Hutchinson. Her

that

SPRING

is

second across aU divisions in winning

can have a good record with creative

20

to

Already the winningest coach in

only 79 percent.

But ask Hutchinson about the success,

Any

the

Conference

Knight and Joe Paterno. In

kids have

it's

me

makes

—

moment

,000 career collegiate victories.

aU divisions entering the season, she

greats Pat Riley,

The

1

overwhelming.

NCAA trophies, 84

sport winning percentages of coaching

first

achieve,

Division

is

"I haven't

962 wins and put her on the doorstep of a
historical

awards and 20 Pennsylvania

Her combined winning percentage of

and her

PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER

"When

Her women's softbaU and

Bloomsburg

student-athletes have given Hutchinson

her.

teams have traveled across the country,

83.4 percent

Thirt)'-eight seasons of

BY SCOTT LEIGHTMAN

family,"

in

SUCCESS ON TWO FIELDS
both sports and

that's a big

"As far as

my knowledge

key when you are trying to

of the game,

play together in a pressure

from high school,

you can rely
on one another. I just want
them to enjoy what they're

much

doing, and

she has done for

situation, that

if

realize there

I

they do, then

we're going to perform
well

and

be

to

and not be

takes

and now

that

me

for this job.

Hutchinson."

Breneman

is

one

in a

graduate in her 10th

long

season as assistant

touched by Hutchinson

softbaU coach with

of athletes

list

during undergraduate

Hutchinson, explains

time spent playing

Hutchinson's approach.

Bloomsburg.

"The way she
her players

why she

is

is

successful.

better.

you

and coaching days

Bloomsburg, Kocher has

to

been around Hutchinson

She expects you

for 13 years.

to

be the best

seems to

instill

Kocher would

success,

seem

that in you."

a

fill

Those associated with

to be a natural to

head coaching

position elsewhere. She

the programs cannot

explains

remember her

stayed.

ever yelling

or screaming, even

when

it

may have

"For the longest time

seemed appropriate.
"Sometimes

I

is

yell at us,

actually worse," says

"7

haven

senior field hockey player Michelle Martin.

have never heard her yeO, although

thought she would

freshman

year.

after

our only

But she just

sat us

tie

I

down

When she first arrived at Bloomsburg,
instructor, as well as a

two-sport coach. As the programs began

and women's

to rise

athletics grew, she

relinquished her classroom teaching
duties,

but continued to teach on the

"Without going to Bloomsburg,
wouldn't be where

I

am

t

done

that much,

really.

The

have done

it.

JaneUe Breneman '92, former Ailsoftball

didn't feel

I

would

learn so

I

was

many

new things [fi'om Jan]," Kocher said. "I'm
more like a co-coach than an

assistant coach,

and

reason I'm stiU here.
lot

that's the
I

have a

I

whole

lot

of input,

of our decisions are joint ones.

Sure, she has the final say, she

coach.

learned so

feel I've

is

the head

much that

would not have learned somewhere

I

else.

Certainly I've stayed because of Jan and

They've been
the essence

the role she has

There are

let

me

have gone on to coach
level,

play."

many former players who
the high school

at

and even some who have moved on

to the collegiate level. In addition to

field.

I

Stroudsburg University.

kids

I

why she has

treated

and a

of team sports

Breneman and Kocher, Kathy

Frick '90

is

the head field hockey coach at Goucher

today," said

American shortstop, now head
at East

all

my

and asked us what we did wrong and how
we could improve for the next time."
Hutchinson was an

Each year

ready.

wish she would

because the silence

With her

and Bloomsburg's

talents

and somehow she

player,

at

She

be motivated because

you want

at

Combining her playing

deals with

a big reason

doesn't scream at

coach

I

any better coach than Jan

Susan
1987 Bloomsburg

"I

me

couldn't have played for

afraid to

Kocher, a

to

as a

as a

She prepared

weD

real

lose."

do

didn't

thank Jan for everything

friend.

make mis-

was

came

I

I

to learn in softbaU.

player

they're not going

afraid to

when

to

me!'

College, Jean Buskirk '93
Softball

coach

at

was the interim

West Chester

and Hutchinson's current

Rhomsburg

University

Magazine

field

University,

hockey

SPRING 1997

21

SUCCESS ON TWO FIELDS

Staff is

made up

compete again

of former Huskies. In

Bloomsburg's

in three sports in her

field

addition, former assistant coach Tracey

junior and senior high school seasons

programs from

Houk is the head

despite her ailments.

came

Division

But

on

hockey coach

power Ithaca

III

it's

field

not only those

to coach

who

at

However, compUcations with her leg

College.

who

have

moved

appreciate Hutchinson's

"Everyone respects

her. Just

her

BuckneO

triumph on AprU

Her

softball

win

first

in a 4-3 softball

13, 1978,

her second

continued and her playing career ended

game

while a fi-eshman at East Stroudsburg. At

four years not only to win one national

that time, coaching first entered her

influence.

against

hockey and

scratch.

mind

at

Bloomsburg, and

took her only

it

but win two in one school year.
The 1981 field hockey team won the

tide,

as a profession.

presence makes you want to work hard

AIAW Division III

because everyone wants to gain her

and the softbaU team followed with the

respect," said
starter

and

in 1993.
lot

SheUey MQler '95, a

field

"She

is

''Sometimes I

softball

a very

good

role

model.

wish she would

accomplishments

as a

would not have happened were

yell at us,

because

not for

the silence

an accident Hutchinson suffered in high
school. After a full day of diving, she

slipped off a 16-foot diving platform
feU

on the pool

for another three

months and

a

body

cast

months.

That injury forced her

actually worse.''

to miss a full

"I

hadn't wanted to be a coach, but

when

me

they told

anymore, then

I

when

badly. That's

she would have to end her athletic playing

physical education

But the same intensity and

After starting

I

couldn't play

wanted

year of high school and doctors suggested

career.

I

[to

coach] very

decided to major in

and coach."

up the women's

athletic

Academy in northwest

program

brought her back strong enough to

New Jersey, Hutchinson virtually buUt

SPRING 1997

my career. The

each sport, and the

fact that

first

one

in

we won

both in the same year was incredible,"
said. "It

year here and

was only

we had just

my fourth

started a

It was like a fairy tale,
dream for it to happen Like that."
As the countdown to 1,000 wins
continues, the hard work by the coaching
staff and players has paid off not only on

Sloomsburg University Magazine

at Blair

a

the

field,

"I

but in the game of life.

want

sports,

competitive drive Hutchinson has today

22

fall

softbaU program.

and

deck, putting her in

traction for four

exciting times in

Hutchinson

is

in the

in the spring.

combination of winning the

coach
it

titie

look at that as one of the most

"I stiU

A

her for what she has accomplished."
All her

same championship

hockey player of the year

of players look up to her and admire

national

to instill in

them

a love of

honesty and help them grow as

individuals. All those characteristics they

acquire,

I

whatever

hope, will help them succeed
else

they do."

at

Constructing a Brighter Future
PHOTOS BY MARLIN R.WAGNER
I f alls now sheath the steel beams of
III Bloomsburg's new library. The spaces
UJ that will be occupied by windows

which once stood on Second

are clearly visible.

university archives,

Long Porch from Old Waller

I

Although there

is

much

sdU

construction of the library
for

is

to

be done,

scheduled

completion by the end of 1997.

"Commissioning" the building

—

as expected, installing computers,

months

new Harvey A. Andruss

Library

expected to open for service in

library

packed with the

technology.

Computers

latest

will

—

and

Four

levels

encompassing

105,000 square feet

1998.
•

Study seating for more
than 1,000 students

computer

•

Stack space for

more

than 400,000 volumes

be available
•

20 group study rooms
for 6 to 12 students

through the internet.

•

The new library will also feature an
outdoor reading area on the fourth level,

•

500 public-access connections
for personal

Computers

computers

to access the library's

overlooking the western hiUs of the

online catalog and

Bloomsburg

databases,

area.

historic.

name will be

The

retained.

from the current

Old Waller

new

it

wUl

library's original

windows saved

The

levels

Word processing/computer printing

•

Meeting room with

rooms on aO

levels

for audiovisual
•

exterior of the building

win feature an area reminiscent of the

CD-ROM

and the internet
Photocopying rooms on all

•

library (originally fi-om

Hall) will be installed at the

location.

•

Three Tiffany and

four Spence stained-glass

likely

new library

Features of the

CD-ROM databases and other databases

be

wiU

library building

admissions, financial aid and advisement.

new

While the building wUl be new,

new home there,

be used for student services including

•

is

mid

to access the library's online catalog,

also

in the

for the

The

In addition to books, magazines
journals, students will find the

Humanities, wUl find a

The current

and

after that.

now located

basement of Bakeless Center

the

books and other materials

will take several

where

Commons stands today. The

as well.

process of checking that everytliing works

transferring

Scranton

Hall,

Street

•

and

facilities

television access

Intercoms on

all levels

to circulation

and reference desks

for queries

Browsing collection reading area

Steam Line Construction
Installation of new steam lines will
make much of the lower campus look like
a work in progress through the summer
and into the fall. Trenches to install new

steam

lines already

center of

campus

project continues.

line

the

summer of

in

1996, the replacement of

old and leaking steam lines has been
identified as a critical

around

common sight during the

winter for years.
lines

wiU increase the

In addition to steam lines, an eight-foot

diameter

wiU

be the winners Ln the long run. Begun

have been a

lines

and the University Store

heating efficiency of the campus.

construction brings temporary, albeit
significant, inconveniences, students

from leaking steam

Bakeless Center

The new steam

wind through the
work on the

as

While the steam

rising

need on campus for

installed

1

,000 foot-long tunnel

being

is

from the basketball courts

in the

campus to the end of
McCormick Center for Human Services.
The tunnel will allow for easier and safer
center of

maintenance access in future

years.

I

the past 10 years. Rolling banks of steam

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SPRING

1

997

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etterly

fary

Gwaiers

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0lbern

Honorary Alumnus
Four students each year thank

Mary and her

Uncommonly committed to
higher education, Ed's wisdom

husband Ken for the

and guidance are actively

scholarship they have

sought. His varied volunteer

been funding since 1991.

roles at

A

a business partnership

retired teacher and

principal,

Mary

is

in

Bloomsburg began with

the 1970s and today encom-

committed to sharing her suc-

pass strategic planning and con-

cess with others.

tinuous improvement work-

shops for the university's top
leaders. As chairperson

of The Bloomsburg University Foundation, Ed's
convictions are supported with his generous donations

HEROINE

and

his

company's matching

gift

program.

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When

it

comes to

Bloomsburg

Your

University, Maria

help hard-working students excel

gift will

and achieve their highest aspirations.

and husband Russell dish up

more than Clancy Burgers
and fries. Owners of Russell's

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invited to join other alumni,

parents, and friends

and Clancy's Restaurants,
they are generous givers

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between.

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TIME TO GIVE BACK

A

Capt. Francis A. Hants as a Naval officer and today.

Creating Scholarships for Veterans
Forty-seven years

after

graduating from Bloomsburg, alum-

nus Capt. Francis A. Hantz, U.S. NaNy
his

alma mater

(retired),

returned to

to establish a scholarship to help veterans

and

Fleet Air Intelligence Training Center in

Alameda,

one of the Naval

Washington, D.C.

Intelligence Schools in

also participated in the

Calif.,

estabhshment of the Turkish Defense

He earned a master's

same education that has been so helpful to him.
"I've worked hard. But I've also been luck)' and r\'e got a lot of
what I needed out of life," says Hantz '49. "I attribute a lot of that
to Bloomsburg. I learned to speak in front of a group and put

Intelligence School in Ankara, Turkey.

together a presentation here." To help give back to the school that

of Merit (with combat "V"), the Meritorious Servdce Medal,

helped him so much, Hantz donated $11,000 to estabUsh an

the

endowed scholarship to help veterans of the U.S. armed forces
attend Bloomsburg University. In honor of his contribution, a
painted portrait of Capt. Hantz will be displayed in Na^y HaU.
A veteran of World War II, Hantz taught at the Reading
Business Institute in Reading, Pa., and in the Baltimore CoimcO

Medal, a National Order

receive the

School System,
College (as

He

it

after

graduation from Bloomsburg State Teachers

was known

re-entered the U.S.

remained on
career took

active dut)'

him

all

on

over the world. At various times, he was sta-

active duty,

he served as an instructor

management from

School in Monterey,

Calif., in

the U.S. Naval Postgraduate
1969.

Capt. Hantz's personal decorations include the Legion

Na\7 Commendation Medal,

Gallantry

(S.

(S.

the

Army Commendation

Vietnam) and the Cross of

Vietnam).

After retfrement from active Naval service, he

worked

in the

Washington, D.C, area as a consultant in information science.
His clients included Booz. Allen

& Hamilton, Martin Marietta,

Planning Research Corporation, UNISYS, Rockwell International

and other defense

as in '49).

Na\y during the Korean confUct and
until his retirement in 1973. His Navy

tioned in Japan, Turkey and Europe as well as the United States.
Wliile

degree in

at

He

He

contractors.

currently Uves in

Falls, Pa.,

where he devotes time to

favorite hobby, planting a Japanese garden.

residence in Washington,
stories"

He

his

also maintains a

D.C, where he enjoys

"talking sea

with old shipmates.

-

at the Pacific

Bloomsburg University Magazine

Eric Foster

SPRING 1997

25

NEWS

NEWS

BRIEFS

BRIEFS

HSHS
aaaa
HSSffl
aniH

w

Trustees endorse

new apartment
housing concept

The Bloomsburg
Measuring the
content of rock

to

purchase the

diffractometer.

Geography and earth science
students

ment

lead

them

what minerals are

in

minerals are present in the
at their

from the

and connected

grant for the equipment,

which was matched by

to a

rock and soO with x-rays.

approximately 30 geology

crystal lattice structure

majors

of

equal

The

x-rays

Lawrence Tanner, associate

device measures the various

and

degrees of x-ray diffraction,

degrees.

at

Bloomsburg with an

number of earth

majors

who wUl

use the

equipment.

for education

Bloomsburg University

and

The

authorization from the
Office of the Chancellor to

develop specific architectural

for construction of the

apartment complex.

The proposed project would
accommodate 248 students.

She taught in Bloomsburg, Bradford and

led to a graduate's

the upper campus.

designs and cost estimates

ALUMNA LEAVES $400,000 FOR SCHOLARSHIPS
A genuine love

on

science

thereby determining which

earth science, wrote the grant

creating an additional

trustees also requested

different minerals diffract the

by varying

December 1996

meeting the concept of

apartment housing project

university funds. There are

National Science Foundation.

professor of geography

sample. Tanner wrote the

computer, bombards powered

The

rocks and soil samples, thanks
to a $50,000 grant

new x-ray
The armoire-

sized device, shielded with

now have new equip-

available to help

find out

University

Council of Trustees endorsed

Montandon

An earlier draft

of a proposal

on
campus had been

for student apartments

before spending 22 years
the upper

substantial gift to be used for scholarships,

(1947-1968) teaching special education in

according to Susan Helwig, director of

Newark,

submitted to the trustees
development. The settlement of the
estate of Karleen

Hoffman of La

area

^

'^

are very excited

^

•

"needy, deserving students."

"We

Simon,

.

Ms.

spring. After meetings with
until her death in

May.

who handled Hoffman's

financial matters for the

Union Bank

\ of California. "She often talked of the
school and her strong ties to that

)

Hoffrnan thought enough of

part of the country."

"This will become an endowed

her alma mater to establish her

townsfolk

native, attended

derived from the

used to enhance our

Bloomsburg High School and the National

recruitment

School of Philadelphia prior to receiving a

"Currently, almost 80 percent of our

efforts," said

near the

made

to the

An

increased buffer zone wUl be
left

between the apartments

and nearby homes. Parking
wlU be clustered

The

closer to the

cost per square foot

will decrease
gift

live

significant

original proposal.

scholarship fund with the income

Hoffman, a Bloomsburg

who
site,

changes were

road.
legacy," said Helwig.

last

San Diego

believed in education," said Denise
,

assist

from 1968

in the

proposed

resulted in a donation of

$400,000 to be used to

She resided

"She was an educator and strongly

^Bkl^

JoUa, Calif., a 1930 graduate, has

N.l.

from $96

to

$80

per square foot. There wQl be

Helwig.
four buUdings instead of

degree in elementary education from the

26

eight

scholarship awards go to upperclassmen,

former Bloomsburg State Teachers College.

so this will

She earned a masters

assistance to

at

Bucknell in 1945.

SPRING 1997 %\oom^hurg Urm&n\t/

fill

a

gap we have in providing

incoming freshmen."

— and they Wl be

air-conditioned.

Estimated cost of the apart-

ment complex is

$8.3 million.

N\agazme^

I

NEWS
SEN. RICK
U.S. Senator Rick

Santorum

commencement on

BRIEFS

SANTORUMTO SPEAK AT SPRING COMMENCEMENT
will

be the

the controversial

featured speaker for Bloomsburg s spring

the ceremony,

NEWS

BRIEFS

Saturday,

Santorum

will

May

10.

House Bank and

eliminating a secret slush fiand in the

At

congressional budget.

He won

reelection in 1992 and earned
on the House Ways and Means
Committee and served as the Ranking

be awarded

an honorary doctor of law degree.

a

seat

Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994,

Member

Santorum accepted

Minority

assignments to the

of the Subcommittee

Armed

on

Services

Human

Committee, the

Resources and the

Agricultural

Subcommittee on

Committee, the

Oversight. As

Rule Committee,

chairman of the

the Joint

GOP

Task Force on

Economic

Sadler edits

new

edition of

MacDonald's stories

Committee, the

Welfare Reform,

Committee
on Aging, and the
Commission on
Security and

Santorum authored
landmark welfare

Cooperation in

bachelor's degree in

short stories by 19th century

Europe

political science at

Scottish writer

Penn

MacDonald.

Select

reform

the Helsinki

Santorum
took

first

office in 1990,

when he was

State University,

stories

He earned an
degree at the

a district comprised of

term was notable because of his

first

late

"Gang

MBA

and 41

illustrations

stories include

some of

fairy tale parables

Jurisprudence degree fi-om the Dickinson

known

Law

by

of the period. The

MacDonald's best-known

in Carlisle.

stories,

and lesser
some of which

are suitable for adults

Santorum and his wife, Karen Carver
Santorum of Penn HQls, have three children.

of Seven" which was responsible for closing

artists

University of Pittsburgh and a Doctorate of

School of

efforts

before Congress as the leader of the

collection. Gifts of the

campaign of the

in Pennsylvania's

—

The

George

Child Christ, includes 21

Senator John Heinz.

suburban Pittsburgh communities. His

the complete fairy tales and

he worked on the

elected to Congress

18th district

published a revised edition of
a

during which time

Commission).

Sadler, professor

of English, has recently

legislation.

Santorum earned

(also called

Glenn

and

family reading.
Sadler edited the original

two-volume edition

in 1973

and the mass market paper-

Cochrane serves as

back

in 1980.

faculty

assistant to the president

office

and preparing reports

for the president.

Donna Cochrane has been
named faculty assistant to the

A professor in

other faculty committees. She
also

worked

as a conference

"It

took two years to

complete the edition and

coordinator during the sum-

locate illustrations at the

mer for extended programs
(now continuing and distance

British Library," says Sadler.

president. Cochrane's duties

ment of business education
and office administration for

include representing the

the past nine years,

Cochrane

education) fi-om 1983 to 1993.

summers.

president with internal and

has served full-time in her

external constituency groups,

new position

serving as secretary to the
president's cabinet,

managing

operations in the president's

the depart-

since late August.

on

She currently serves in an
elected position

on the

"The introduction took two
I wanted to make

as interesting
as possible

it

and informative

because

I

don't

have the opportunity

executive board of the

think

the grievance board as a griev-

National Business Education

to write another introduction

ance coordinator as well as on

Association.

for this collection."

Previously, she served

I'll

Bloomsburg University Magazine

SPRING 1997 27

NEWS

NEWS

BRIEFS

BRIEFS

BLOOMSBURG AFFILIATES WITH JOHNS HOPKINS FOR MEDICAL IMAGING
Bloomsburg University

with

affiliating

is

at

Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md.,
to

expand

This

its

medicine technology, diagnostic medical

offerings in medical imaging.

affiliation

is

Bloomsburg. The competencies

include: radiologic technology, nuclear

sonography, radiation therapy

initiated

following the recognition of

technology and cross sectional

Johns Hopkins Hospital by U.S

imaging (MRI and CT).

News and World Report
hospital

Students wiU attend Bloomsburg

as the

best hospital in the country.

The

for

was among the nation's

10 best in almost every specialty
field the

Hospital to complete their clinical

magazine surveyed.

education. Following successful

For Bloomsburg radiology
students, the Johns

Hopkins

receive their bachelor of science degree

from Bloomsburg

ence program that was established
affiliation is

to be in place in the

fall

Bloomsburg

of 1997.

Honorees

University, there are

currently 135 students in the university's

program

allows

students to select two clinical competencies
after

Martin Luther King

coordinator of aUied health sciences at

expected

The Johns Hopkins option

University.

According to James Cole, program

track to the present bachelor of sci

The

com-

pletion of the program, students will

option represents an alternative

in 1979.

two years and a summer, then

matriculate to Johns Hopkins

Hopkins option

completing their required course work

The Johns
be extended to them

Four individuals were recently

for radiographers.
will

presented with Bloomsburg
as

University's

well as quaUfying freshmen.

King

Jr.

The award
Indiana State University in
Terre Haute.
Bertelsen

largely overlooked. This

identifies those capacities

and Chesebro

offers a critical perspective for

addressing, understanding

technologies, rather than

evaluating those capacities."

determinants of human

advertisements - may have

communication

lasting effect

understand

the world.

own

and

vision, children's

of dozens of media researchers

material

and

On the other hand, the

critics for

the book, giving

may be

abilities to

book

"This

ably sound evidence that

Communication Technologies
as Symbolic and Cognitive
Systems, pubhshed by

there

Guilford Publications, Inc.

lifestyles

The co-author of the book is
James W. Chesebro, professor
of communication studies at

Bertelsen.

28

SPRING 1997

offers reason-

is

a degree to

which

communication technologies
affect

our modes of perception,

and

values," says

"Media systems

chil-

comprehend

abstract visual material.

In order to operate
effectively in

our media-satu-

annually

individuals
to

make

is

presented

at a

banquet to

who

King's

have strived

dream

racial justice a reality.

from

left

for

Shown

are this year's

honorees: Margaret Boykin
(staff

award), director of

university police; James

Dalton (faculty award),
professor of psychology;
Isabel Tarr (seated,

community

award); Tessy G. Infante
(student award). Boykin

mentor

is

student organizations. Dalton

has been involved with

Bloomsburg's Task Force on
Racial Equity for

Tarr

is

a

many years.
member of

founding

the Task Force

on

Equity. Infante

is

Racial
a leading

member of Students

Chesebro suggest that children

Alleviating Racial Tension

need to become

skilled in four

modes of communication:
oral, literate,

generating capacities that are

tions

and

telecommunica-

interactive.

a

for several minorit)'

rated society, Bertelsen and

themselves have message

Bloomsburg University Magazine

impaired.

may develop improved

concerns and research.

Analyzing Media:

development

skills to

communication
titled

of tele-

Chesebro draw upon the work

of

dren

book

lot

comprehend
complex written and spoken

insights, Bertelsen

a broad overview of current

recently co-authored a

a

children's

viewing a

Dale A. Bertelsen, professor of
studies,

on

cognitive development. As a
result of

In addition to offering their

on Effect of Technology
on Communication

TV - particularly

that watching

that shape

and

For example, the book notes

information, are active

how we know and

Book Focuses

and

propose that communication
being neutral conduits of

Bertelsen

book

Martin Luther

Humanitarian Award.

and a mentor

to

school children.

Together

elementary

NEWS

NEWS

BRIEFS

BRIEFS

Currently, the Scholars

Program

is

designed to

and Scholars Program

member

at

Bloomsburg

history, has translated

freshmen and sophomore

Dale Springer, associate professor of
science,

geography and earth

wOl become director

the

in the spring of

1993.

"The program

of Bloomsburg's Honors and

Program beginning
summer. Springer suc-

program

of changes as

lot

is

facing a

we make

a

The Honors
Program provides junior and

provides translation of works

seniors with the opportunity

by

this

ceeds Jeanette Keith,

who will

complete a three-year term in

from two

two-year programs into a single,

more

religious writers of the

16th

research with the help of a

century

faculty mentor. Together,

Theatine

the two programs serve

Order

-

the Counter Reformation.

research specialty

integrated, four-year

whose

for us to bring students in

says

program," says Springer.

f

P-

on campus,"
Springer, whose own
in

is

—

an order

The proposed integrated
program would begin in the
fall of 1998. "The integrated
program v«ll make it easier

thinking
4\..

formed a
bridge

between the Renaissance and

after they're

related

The book

Selected Writings.

to undertake graduate-level

Scholars

transition

and

edited Theatine Spirituality:

a year.

served as interim director of

6th

William Hudon, professor of

offerings

approximately 100 students

for 12 years,

1

and enriched course
students.

Springer, a faculty

translates

provide scholarship support

for

Springer to head Honors

Hudon

century religious writings

While the Renaissance

is

often thought of as a time of

progress and Counter

paleontology.

Reformation a time of repres-

the position.

sion, "things aren't as simple

ROCKWOOD EDITS COLLECTION OF LAW AND LITERATURE ESSAYS

as they seem," says

Hudon.

His book portrays the
Peter Lang, for about five years

and did

complexity of the time.

most of the editing during the summer
and

fall

The book is

of 1995.

"The

The book has won acclaim from leading
and literature field.
"Skillfully chosen for their variety and
appeal," says Richard H. Weisberg, professor

volumes of works by

Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.

the most useful and imaginative anthologies
Marion

Petrillo,

Ervene Guile/,

I

have ever seen," says Stanley N. Katz,

Learned
Bruce Rockwood, professor of finance and
business law, has edited a book.
Literature Perspectives.

16 essays

on law and

Law and

The book

includes

literature fi^om a

book and
Rockwood

"The

and

series

spiritual writers.

has been highly

regarded because of

interest in

says

its

church

Rules."

history,"

Hudon.

A specialist in

contributed the essay "Abortion Stories:

and 'Cider House'

religious

and seminaries
and people who have an

In addition to editing the

Uncivil Discourse

more than 80

includes

divinity schools

Societies.

writing the introduction,

It

usefulness in classrooms at

president of the American Council of

and Bruce Rockwood

published by

PauUst Press of New York.

"Bruce Rockwood has assembled one of

left:

Spirituality,"

scholars in the law

at the

From

part of a series,

Classics of Western

history,

Hudon

religious

is

also the

variety of contributors.

Ervene GuUey, professor of English,

author of Marcello Cervini

"You can use Uterature to study the law
and use literary theory to study legal cases,"

contributed "Dressed in a

and

Authority:

says

Rockwood, who has worked

in the field

of law and literature for more than a decade.

Rockwood

has been soliciting

manuscripts for the book, published by

Law

as

Little Brief

Theater in Measure for

Measure" and Marion

Petrillo, assistant

"Law as
Nadine Gordimer's The Late

pro-

Ecclesiastical

Government

in Tridentine Italy, as well

as eleven entries in the

fessor of EngHsh, contributed

Encyclopedia of the

Society:

Reformation.

Bourgeois World."

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Bloomsburg University
welcomed painter Vincent
Hron to the art facult)' last

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fall.

Hron's most recent
paintings (such as "Cat,

'i^'^'i

Duck, Fish" shown here)
depict images

from playgrounds using

saturated color, \'ibrant brush strokes and a
distorted sense of space. "I

ground

series

different levels," says
I

hope the

play-

many

can be appreciated on

Hron. "Kids

like

them.

enjoy pondering the 'sociopsychological'

content,

and formally the subject
last fall,

Harper, his wife and fellow

Omaha,

Roh endows scholarship
for students to participate

offers

coming
Hron and Cindi

endless opportunities." Before

Bloomsburg

^

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in

to

in

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Neb., where both were adjunct art

faculty at local colleges

and

Global Awareness

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to

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Haas Center for the Arts.
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Friday,

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Senior Music

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May

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0,

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educators.Call (717) 389-4092

by a professional string quartet.

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Saturday,

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permitting.

Nadia Salerno
Sonnenberg

>vith

Featuring Frank Osenbach, tenor,

Bloomsburg Town

15

and

Wednesday, March
Mitrani Hall, Haas

25,

1998,8

p.m.,

Center for

Designed for

16.

the Arts.

Parents'

Day

Oct 4.

New York City Opera
Company's
"Daughter of the
Regiment"
Tuesday, April

Town

Haas Center

Bloomsburg

and Debra Bemiller, piano. Assisted

Monday,April 28, 6:30 p.m.,

London

Caesar" and "Aristophanes'

"Birds," Mitrani Hall,

Saturday,

through May

of

Feb. 25-27, 1998. Featuring

"Julius

Computer artwork,April 9 through

I

Company

performances of Shakespeare's

Gary Clark

Stephen

Wallace and Terry Oxiey direrting.

Market

Haas

9, Mitrani Hall,

Center for the Arts.

Studio Band (2:30 p.m.) and

Concert Band

Aquila Theatre

Graduate

14,

1998,8 p.m.,

Mitrina Hall, Haas Center for

the Arts.

Conducted by

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THE LAST

Graduation is a day of pageantry
and

commencement ceremonies were joined,

devote our professional

education, this day

celebration in the

Commencement
to celebrate

Because our graduate and undergraduate

BY JESSICA KOZLOFF

celebration. For those of us

who
lives to

WORD

all

that link the

is

of the academy.

life

gives us

an opportunity

the traditions

modern

these

a joyous

and

rituals

university to

its

medieval past. With the presence of

automobile crash that nearly claimed his
life.

For days, Jeramy s family and his

university firiends

might

die.

and teachers thought he

of our department of

Kehoe-Forutan, his internship coordinator,

the pageantry and ritual was even

and Jim

more

with the details of the monumental task

But commencement

is

more than

stands

for. It is also

Since

a day to acknowledge

becoming president over three
I

many actions

who we

are

that

and what we

show

exactly

are about. Stories

of success and triumph. Stories of team-

work and

love.

None emphasizes

they took in this young

those

more than the one I want to
you in this message. At the
December 1996 graduation I had the

seemed impossible
closest to

When I

realize

to

what

Jeramy and those

him and

to graduate,

Tiffany Marino, to meet with

have demonstrated perseverance and com-

mitment

to their studies

In April 1994, as

I

and

to each other.

was being appointed

president of this university,

I

was

told that

Jeramy Williams, a Bloomsburg student,
lay in a

coma

following a horrific

32 SPRING 1997 Bloomsburg

University

Magazine

Carver Hall.

I

I

invited

the degree

accepted her

Their success story goes on in

PhOadelphia where Jeramy

is

and Tiffany

Multimedia

is

working

as a

his wife.

me

job hunting

Horsham, Pennsylvania.

.

.

.

but only for

There were 500

its

dramatic

stories

None

remarkable

intensity.

of dedication and

sacrifice represented in the

graduates.

is

December

of them could have

occurred without the support of family and
the mentorship of our faculty

learned that Jeramy was about

share with

who

times

him.

attributes

opportunity to recognize two students

at

And Tiffany Marino

This yoimg couple's story

members go beyond the classroom walls every day, and in this case they

man

ago.

man and the

support and assistance they provided.

helped a young

—

Solutions Integrator for Advanta in

Faculty

have had the good fortune to

witness

among others,

deserve our praise for the special interest

the personal achievement of our students.

years ago,

me

LoreUi, his advisor, provided

facing Jeramy. They,

a

undergraduate degree

graduate degree fi-om this imiversity.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu,

day to celebrate what the university

his

he expected to earn two and a half years

geography and earth science, Sandi

impressive.

life's

journey together. Jeramy Marino accepted

But he survived.

Two members

two remarkable young people were

able to share another step in their

and

staff.

Bloomsburg University has always been
a place where dedicated faculty and staff
have empowered students to dream

in

learned that his story was

dreams, to

fulfill

their potential. This

even more remarkable because of the

commitment

young woman who remained at his side
for the past two and a half years, and

part of the university's
Tiffany,

who married him

demonstrated on an exciting December

appreciation for

this past

all

August. In

Tiffany had

done

for

him during his convalescence, Jeramy
took her name when they married.

to students

is

an important

proud

heritage.

As

Jeramy and their fellow graduates

afternoon in Nelson Field House,

our future!

it is

also

.

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EDITOR'S VIEW
Individually, achieving feats
with others, be

it

can be gratifying. Teaming

family, friends or colleagues, to reach

greater heights can provide even

more

satisfaction.

Abbott and Costello, Rodgers and Hammerstein,
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and yes, even Bert and
Ernie have formed great partnerships.

We work

time we produce an edition of Bloomsburg.
is

no more evident than

in

our

athletic

as a

team every

And teamwork

program where our

success has been unparalleled in the State System of Higher

Education over the past few years.
Success, gained not alone but with each other,

on

a trust built over time.

Our

students, faculty

depends
and staff are

building that same kind of trust every day. Because we, too, are
a team and partners. Partners with the people, the

and surrounding
schools.

Many

community

area, the businesses, social agencies

and

of our programs reach out to the young and old,

the healthy and not-so-healthy.
In this issue

we

share just

some of those

partnerships.

Our

Speech, Hearing and Language Clinic and Reading Clinic

provide help to those
obstacles facing

them

who may not be able to overcome
alone. SOLVE extends a hand to

and organizations In need of strong minds and
TIP provides skills to people looking to improve
their employment possibilities.
Giving is all part of good teamwork and no better examples
of giving exist than former professor "Doc" Warren or David
Cope, an alumnus and Trustee, whose commitment to any
cause he chooses is unquestionable. PRIDE and Upward Bound
give students, who might not otherwise consider pursuing a
college degree, an introduction to life on and around campuses.
WhUe we explore our growing partnerships close to home,
alumnus Patrick Bryan is part of a team that does exploration
of another kind at the other end of the world. And, a conversation
individuals

bodies, while

with nursing department chair Christine Alichnie explores the

on health care teams in the future.
good teamwork. And it works! Enjoy.

nurse's role
It's

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and spring semesters. A separate pubhcation, "Maroon and Gold,"
including class notes and alumni news, will be sent twice a year to all alumni
in the fall

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Members of the most recent graduating class will receive two free issues
of "Maroon and Gold." Others may receive the pubhcation by paying a
$10 annual subscription. Checks for subscriptions should be made payable to
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Bloomsburg

Family and Fun Make for
Home For more than three

by Sandra

Clinic has helped bring printed

BLOOMSBLTIG L-xr\-ERSm'

6

OF PENNSIXVAiNX^
A MEMBER OF
THE STATE SYSTEM OF MGHER EDUCATION.

A

Community

word

Good

Reading

decades, the
to

life

Reading

uni\'ersit\''s

for children

and

parents.

Bridge

L<;

by Todd Preston Bloomsburg University's SOLVTi office matches
student aspirations with communit)' needs, giving students valuable

STATE Sl'STEM OF HIGHER EDUCCTTON

BOARD OF
F.

Eugene Dixon

GON-ERiN'ORS

insights into themselves

E LytxIe.Vice Chair: Syed R.
Berman. Christopher J. Cersld.

Vice Chair: Kim
Ali-Zaidi. Muriel

Jeffrey

W.

Coy, Daniel

Elby.

P.

8

Richard A. Fino,

their future careers.

Ridge.JereW.Schuler. Andrew H.Shoffner.
Stapleton. John K.Thornburgh.
J.

Opening the Gates of Communication
by Eric Foster Each year, nearly 1,000 people turn to Bloomsburg's

Glenn Y Forney. Charles A. Gomulka, Eugene W.
Hickokjr.. F Joseph Loeper, Rocco A. Ortenzio.

Tom

and often into

Chair; R. Benjamin Wiley.

Jr..

Speech, Hearing and Language Clinic for serWces ranging from being
2.

Reading Clinic

fitted

Patrick

with hearing aids to overcoming the loss of language due to a

stroke.

Christine J.Toretd.

CHANCELLOR, SKTE JISTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
James H. McCormick

1

2

Joseph

Mowad, Chair

J.

LaRoy G. Davis
A. William Kelly

"67. First Vice

'7

Chair

Ramona

15

H. Alley

James TAtherton Jr

W Buehner

David

J.

Kevin M.

David

J.

changing job market, displaced workers find

a

The program provides

training to help participants land better jobs.

Jennifer R, Adams. Secretary

Robert

Mohr In

opportunities in Bloomsburg's TIP program.

Second Vice Chair

.

1

Today's TIP Leads to Jobs
by Kathleen

BLOOMSBL-RG L'NTN'ERSm' COL-NCH. OF TRUSTEES

Charting the Course from
High School to College
by Jim Hollister and Eric Foster For years, Bloomsburg has hosted the

Jr.

Cope '73

PRIDE and Upward Bound programs

O'Connor

to college. Here, we'll talk to

Petrosky

the programs.

to help at-risk students

make

it

Bloomsburg students who graduated from

Ted Stuban
PRESIDENT, BLOOMSBLTIG L'NR'ERSm'

16

Exploring the Depths

Jessica Sledge Kozloff

by Eric Foster .Alumnus Patrick Bn'an researches the strange and
BLOOMSBURG UfrnTRSTFY ALL'MNI .ASSOCLATION
Nancy Feher Edwards
John

S.

Mulka

'70.

'66. Vice

Sandra Jefferson Rupp

President

16.

Expbring

the

wonderful

Depths

'7
1

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20

Secretary

Anthony M.

home.

is

Generosity

Retired histon' professor Robert Warren has given to

Uni\'ersity students for over 30 years,

both personally and

financially.

FOLT-TI.ATION

Elbem H.AIkire Jr.. Chair

L

ll'a/A:er

Bloomsburg

C. Hippenstiel '68. Ex-OfRcio,

Victoria

Doc's History
by Trina

Director of Alumni Affairs

BLOOMSBLKG L"NI\ERSm'

that call the frozen water of Antarctica

President

John Trathen '68.Treasurer

Doug

life

22

Mihalik.Vice Chair

Director

laniero. Executive

Issues

in

by Kathleen

Health Care

Mohr An

interview with Christine Alichnie,

chairperson of Bloomsburg's nursing department and chair of the

David Hill.Treasurer

Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing, on what issues most affect
EXECLTTAE EDITOR

health care in this countn- today.
Joan

T.

Lentczner

EDITOR

24

Jim Hollister '78
\LA.\.AGING

Common Touch

to the Council of Trustees

EDITOR

by Jim Hollister Alumnus David Cope has devoted his

Eric Foster

as a high school teacher, a principal,

COPY EDrroR
Kathleen

Bringing a

university's

Mohr

22. Issues in Health

and now

as a

life

to education,

member

of the

Council of Trustees.

Care

PHOTOGR.APHERS
Marlin R_ Wagner

26

News

3

What's Happening

Briefs

Jim Mastro

Joan Heifer

I

Eric Foster

DESIGNER

32

John Lorish

The

Last Word

b)' Jessica

ART DIRECTOR

Sledge Kozloff, president, Bloomsburg University

Janel A. Fry

EDITORLAL BO.ARD

Nancy Feher Edwards
Lawrence
Joan

T.

'70

B. Fuller

Cover photos
by Jim Mastro

Lentczner

Donna Cochrane

Doug

C. Hippenstiel '68

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GOOD READING

Family and Fun
Make for Good Reading
For children struggling in reading, Bloomsburg University's Reading Clinic offers a helping hand
BY

SANDRA HORNE

/t's Saturday. Chattering children
scamper up the granite
venerable

Navy Hall. A

drizzle faOs to

dampen

Sharon and her husband,
concerned that Jacob

persistent

stigmatized by this remedial assignment.

the enthusi-

parents or the graduate students

The

campus to
their reading skills at Bloomsburg
University's Reading Clinic. The tutorials
are offered on twelve Saturday mornings
each fall and spring semester.
Among the group are Sharon Miller and
her ten-year-old son, Jacob. They depart
coming

to

their

home

in rural

session.

The

just over

drive to

Bloomsburg

an hour. Jacob has

one grade

level

behind

in the

language arts portion of
his school

work, and

fallen

up

do

scenario

repeated

is

itself in

a

common one that has

the lives of hundreds of

otherwise diverse families. Parents grow
increasingly distraught

when

struggling academically.
clinic,

often speaking

a child

is

takes

in

to relief

The shared

and optimism

skill level.

at the prospect

them by

On the average,

one hundred children are enrolled each

more

severe learn-

ing problems are tutored individually

during the week.

The

clinic office

characters

soothing

frustration

of

finding help.

conveys a cordial

from

children's literature

and

jittery nerves.

Giant plastic

crayons dwarf the scale of the room.
Black and white magnetic words chng

haphazardly to the side of a metal cabi-

anonymous composition.
The Reading Chnic was founded by
Gilbert Selders in 1957. With the arrival
of Margaret M. SponseUer as director in
net, inviting

In addition to providing free tutoring
for children

who

are having

difficulties in school, the

Reading

Clinic functions as a clinical

practicum for graduate

evaluator has recom-

students in the master's

mended

program

that he be

and

television populate the bookshelves,

to secretary

Deborah Kocher, who has served the
chnic for 17 years.

free

warmth. Stuffed reproductions of famous

is

They contact the

first

conduct

enter the program, grouping

semester. Chents with

she can for her son.

their school district

placed in a learning

as

assistants

evaluations of the children before they

age, grade

to the

of the lack of available resources gives way

AUenwood

before 8 a.m. every Saturday the clinic

can't leave everything

much as

improve

from

"We

school," says Miller, determined to

their

who

await their arrival.
are

The graduate

Parviii, are

may be permanently

steps of

asm of these youthful commuters,

The children

PHOTOS BY MARUN RWAGNER ANDTHE GLEN EDWARDS STUDIO

in reading.

1964,

it

underwent a

shift in instructional

philosophy and began targeting

its

services to children at risk, those

who

are having

academic

difficulties in school.

support group.

PERSONAL ATTENTION
Graduate student reading
clinician

helps

Suzanne Urick

Corey Brady with
a

difficult

passage.

GOOD READING
beach

means to stimulate critical
Eddy opens a history text revealing

ball as a

thinking.

Reading Conference

a Resource

is

and Beyond

for tlie State

a full-page illustration of the Revolutionary

War, their topic for the day. The beach ball
is

covered with who, what, when, where

and how questions. The ball

room and

the

is

tossed across

the recipient must develop

a relevant question beginning with the

Ed Poostay, director of Bloomsburg University
Reading

word that rests under his or her thumb.
The game becomes more challenging as
the questions become increasingly difficult.
Laughter is pimctuated by periods of

Clinic.

came out with

Pennsylvania

Cyndee

Moy of Catawissa spends three
day home-schoohng her

certification for reading specialists,

to five hours a

Margaret Sponseller helped to put those

twelve-year-old son, Michael

standards together," says

Edward

Poostay, clinic director since 1981.
clinic receives its fiinding

university

been evaluated

J.

The

the Reading Conference.

Poostay

working

first

Jr.

He

has

for individual attention

was a

factor in his mother's decision to

critical

home-

school.

Bloomsburg

later,

when

program

would be

to ask if he

/n

retire,

make

and

whole language techniques.
Planning for

this

event takes months.

ofputting something

makes people feel good at the
the definition of reading.

disciplines''

commitment

was

to

parents

and

the incentive behind the First

Clinicians Shelly Pyle (left)

and Marilyn Hoffman prepare to work with their

addition, Poostay serves as

at

wasfimded by a grant from

the

Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit

interested in apply-

young

clients.

#16, in combination with the Reading Clinic.

Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton,

who appeared at

coordinator of the graduate pro-

professional storytellers

gram

the reading conference, captivated a general

and is responsible
and organizing of the

in reading,

The Reading
assume an
tutoring.

tutorials for

Clinic insists that parents

active role in their children's

Its

philosophy

is

students can

must become independent

and

learners. This

cooperative process can be challenging, but

can be fun.

Sharon and Jacob Miller are among

The children and

this

their parents

are actually being encouraged to play ball

indoors. Clinicians

Eddy have

their

son

at the

Saturday

two

years.

have selected a Compare-Contrast strategy
that

shows students

words
longer

like

how to

use

known

"can" and "her" to pronounce

unknown words

like "scanner."

the Moys, the Reading Clinic has

For

become

a trusted source for other substantive

Laughter erupts from classroom 224.

lot.

Cyndee's husband, Michael, has been

working with

On this particular
day, clinicians Tricia Ulrich and Amy Selfe

Reading

Conference each year.

Blaine

classroom, vocabulary development

conference

she called Poostay

university's prestigious

merry

13 state universities and

Thirty sessions were offered

throughout the two-day conference. Session

children

GETTING READY -

for planning

also

units,

states.

Annual Parent-Child Conference held
Bloomsburg University last May. The

ing for the job.

it

mediate
seven

Poostay's

in reading. Years

Sponseller began to

preparations to

reading specialists and school administrators;

from other

to a

member from the University of
Georgia who promptly recruited him for
doctoral

annual conference drew over 1,100 educators,

Y/e've always tried to bring in people

faculty

its

over two hundred people. Last May, the 33rd

who expands

for additional supervisory

him

Ed Poostay
drew just

end" Poostay says. "I'm looking for someone

enrolled at

course work. She introduced

1965. In 1981, the year
arrived, the conference

together that

met Sponseller while

He

Conference, which she started in

"I love the challenge

as a reading specialist/supervisor

in public schools.

a living

- the Reading

legacy to the university

topics included storytelling literature in the

having difficulty in

processing auditory information. Michael's

need

through the

and proceeds generated from

as

director, the late

Sponseller, left

representing 190 school districts, 16 inter-

intense concentration.

"When

Former clinic
Margaret M.

Aimee Papola and

selected a

comprehension

strategy called Question-Starters, using a

approaches. Each student
least

one strategy

study, vocabulary,

reading.

"Our

is

taught at

in decoding,

goal

is

to

combine our

techniques with their school materials

and incorporate

their parents into

the mix," explains Poostay.

of over 300 children in Carver Hall

Offstage,

oral

Martha Hamilton explained

the

subtle but significant difference between

reading a story

and storytelling. "When

you're reading a story, you've got that hook
as a barrier between

she says.

you and the audience,"

"When you put

the book

down
something

and

tell

that

happened

tale,

the connection with the audience

them a

much more

word-

comprehension or

session

story,

to

whether

it's

you or whether

intimate."

it's

a folkis

so

The free one-day

conference also featured smaller sessions

with age-appropriate

activities for children

and informative
for parents.

resource sessions

A second Parent-

Child Conference

is

scheduled

forNov.8,1997.U

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GOOD READING
"If people speak well of the

conference or the

me

clinic, it's

not

they're talking about. They're

talking about all of the people,
all

of my students,

who have

contributed to

it."

Unpretentious, Poostay defers most
praise, "If

people speak well of the

conference or the

clinic,

me they're

not

it's

talking about. They're talking about aU of

the people,

all

of my students,

contributed to
It's

who

have

it."

almost implausible to imagine

Poostay in another profession, but

INVOLVING FAMILIES -At Bloomsburg University's

Reading

so they can help their children at home. At a session

last spring,

Bates

(left)

works with

Amy

Clinic, parents participate in tutoring sessions

graduate student reading

and Greg Heindel while their mother, Diane, and younger

someone had once

tried to talk

sister, Katie,

observe.

of teaching. At a height of almost 6
inches, his physical stature

tributed to

The Reading

narrow

In Poostay 's

Clinic also offers a

condensed program during the summer.

office, a

small black

"I

and white photograph of a middle-aged
I

Clinicians

meet with

clients twice a

week

for five weeks. Associate professor Chris

Cherrington directs the
Unlike the
sessions, the

fall

summer

and spring Saturday

summer clinic

remains centered on reading
structured

it is

more

The focus

strategies,

means

the students interested in reading.

to

keep

"We

read a lot of poetry," Cherrington says.
"It's

short, easy,

immediate

and the children

success."

The

and clothing

century. Poostay identifies the

MaxweD

pioneer in the

Fernald (1879-1950), a

field

realize

chents, she

of remedial teaching.

In Fernald's book, Remedial Techniques

meet

kid's needs."

Poostay acknowledges that he identifies

who are tutored at the
He tells his graduate students,
"You are not talking to a person who was
a 4.0 [Q.P.A.] student all his life. I know
what it's like to have a 4.0, and I know

of the individual child,
achieve

up

all

children

the school subjects." Poostay

is

is

to

do with

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my ability in most cases."

997

me

into coaching, he said, rather than go into

teaching. 'You

emotion

would probably be more

There

is

no

discernible

in Poostay 's voice, but

remembers

he

clearly

that exchange. "I'm doing

what

I

want

to be doing an^'thing else."

love to do," he says. "I wouldn't

what children need

to succeed

a better plan.

The human touch that Poostay brings
is what impresses Jennifer

to the clinic

who

degree in reading while teaching English

1 .6. It

told

should go

all

Bates,

Uke to have a

who
I

an advocate

cUnic.

it's

else,

would

to their mental age level in

with the children

what

in college

inteDigently adapted to the idiosyncrasies

fi-equently,

instruction to

had a professor

should do something

this

of what Fernald discovered decades ago;

are skilled at adjusting their

con-

unsolicited career advice.

way: "If educational methods were more

advanced course work of the

"They

feet 3

may have

sum-

marized the findings of her research

beUeves, derive a unique benefit from the
clinicians.

some

successful.'"

woman as

in Basic School Subjects, a colleague

informally,

hi lieu of school materials, the clinicians

use children's literature as a

coiffiare

hint of a vintage after the turn of the

Grace

does not

require parental participation.

but

session.

woman occupies a prominent spot on his
buUetin board. Her

him out

clinician Jennifer

is

pursuing a master's

fuU time in the Benton School District.

"He

cares

imiversity

BRINGING STORIES TO

LIFE

about the reputation of the

storytellers Mitch

and the

captivated the attention of

says Bates,

and "he

[graduate] program,"
takes a personal

interest in his students."

-

Professional

Weiss and Martha Hamilton

more than 300

children and parents at the First Annual Parent-

Child Conference held on campus

last

May.

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^'Bloomsburg
University

^g^FOUNDATIgN

A Community Bridge
University office matches

student aspirations with

community needs
BY TODD PRESTON

PHOTOS BY MARLIN R.WAGNER

O^

'ara Shepard always thought she

a teacher.

wanted

to

be

Now she knows for sure.

The sophomore elementary education major

is

one of a growing number ofBloomsburg students

who

contribute their time

and knowledge through

volunteerism. In return, these students gain valuable

the local Habitat for

Humanity chapter or working with

migrant farm worker community. The
life

and

experience, a sense of satisfaction,

the

office also serves as a

central location for students to find part-time jobs or off-campus

often

work-study positions.
like

Shepard, insights into their chosen career.

community service is becoming a more
From grade school
through graduate school, many institutions are requiring some
degree of community service. \n general, the aim of the community
Across the country,

integral part of the learning experience.

A visit to Bloomsburg University's Students Organized to
Learn through Volunteerism and Employment (SOLVE)
led to

Shepard becoming a

tutor.

For the

office

four semesters, she

last

service requirement

is

to develop a

well-rounded experience for

has helped local middle school students improve their grades

the student, and at the same time, bring the worlds of academe

through SOLVE's Students Helping Adolescents Reach

and the

Excellence

"Students are making important
information," says

education
a

is

to

decisions

to get that information.

is

I

It

can give students

also seeing her class
it's

work come

to

life

really neat to see

learned in the classroom happening in the real world."

SOLVE offers university students the opportunity

to participate in nearly 50

on-going volunteer programs, along

with a variety of one-time volunteer opportunities.

SOLVE

students can be found tutoring in local schools, working with
the elderly in nursing homes, building low-income housing with

6 FALL

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together.

Bloomsburg University Maga2ine

an undergraduate degree, she beheves

important to encourage

it,

"What's been exciting to

model

and offer it.
me," says Downing, "is

the Children's

academic

ha\'ing the
initiatives in

phenomenally successful endeavors

Museum and Camp Victory." hi the

year, 2,113

it is

it

opportunity to support some incredible volunteer
this region, including

decision."

through them. "As an education student,

Each semester,

community

ty service as part of

Shepard and her students obviously enjoy spending

time together, Shepard

what

on very Htde

of their future career, providing them with the tools

make a more informed

WhOe

life

SOLVE director Jean Downing, "and experiential

one way

real-life taste

larger

Although Downing doesn't recommend mandating communi-

(SHARE) program.

like

1996-97

Bloomsburg students contributed 13,145

hours of volunteer service to the community through SOLST:. At
the current

minimum wage

of $5.15 an hour, this translates into

more than $67,500 worth of donated manpower. Whatever the
task or the motivation for volunteering, both university and
community benefit from the exchange.
The SOLVE office was established in 1990, with the help of a
federal Community Service Learning grant When the government

§

Ft

BnlH all

1

,

sft^P^^-'^

JT

^P^^H

f

''

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made funds

available, university financial aid director

m%

community service programs under one roof. "Creating SOLVE,"
says Lyons, "was really just a way of bringing together a number
of different efforts we were already doing as a university." The
result,

he hoped, would be a

effective

single oflSce that

would serve

as

an

conduit both to and from the community.

Since 1992, the

SOLVE

office

2

1^2!

Tom

Lyons saw the possibility of consolidating the school's various

Bloomsburg student Mucio Godoy of Philadelphia

led a session

^^^^Br -

about the

importance of education with high-school-aged children of migrant workers.

has been located at the foot of

Town Hall and
who comes onto this

College HUl, across the street from Bloomsburg

within a block of campus. "Every student

campus

is

going to walk past SOLVE," says Lyons, "and every

who comes

into this town is going to see SOLVE."
Downing has directed SOL\T: since 1994, and Lyons serves
on the advisory board, which includes Bloomsburg's mayor.
Downing and secretary Jodie Roth are the only full-time staff

person

members, while graduate students supplement
"Often SOLVE's
to continue

role," sa)'s

something they've been doing in thefr hometowns

and then engaging students
their

academic

Shepard

their efforts.

Downing, "is encouraging the freshmen

is

in

community service through

studies."

a typical example. In her

hometown, she had already

worked with church groups and candy striped

Working with SOLVE was a

natural.

at the local hospital.

Of her volunteer

experiences,

SHARE program,
can't be a bump on a log."

from painting a school to participating in the
Shepard

says, "I've

learned you

Although tutoring
idea of what

personal satisfaction. "I've tutored the same

the

program was

SHARE program, and
was

their tutor again."

Colace, also an avid participant in the

systems major. Although her major has
volunteer work, Colace finds
"I just

opportunities.
children,

I

it

a

SHARE program,

welcome

bearing on her

diversion

from her

it

so

much that I looked for something Uke

it

spending time with the young

to know them
know you," says Colace, "kind of like a brother/

office,

to the course syllabus,
to acquaint

"The teachers are happy with the program, the kids
I

fits

that student's interests. According

"The purposes of [community

you with aspects of community life

your previous

life

experiences, to provide

service] are

different

you with

ence for application of the concepts you learn in

the elderly,

for example, gained

real-life

class,

from
experi-

and to broaden

who chose to
new perspectives on

nursing homes.

While some students reaffirmed
given career, others cited the

because

it

are

think everyone benefits," says Colace.

thefr decision to

community service

"It's

pursue a

as a hfesaver

helped them see what career tracks they

they don't want to follow.
expected," says Dalton.

sister relationship."

learning in a fim way;

on an individual.
community service. Through
Dalton has each student choose a community

requires ten hours of

SOLVE

work with

"You get to work with the same kids and get

while they get to

Psychology professor James Dalton's community psychology
course examines the deep effect service can have

Student response has been profoimd. Those

did volunteer service in high school working with

and I Kked

community

their students.

your vision of the problems and possibilities of community Hfe."

walked in SOLVE's door to check out the

here." Like Shepard, Colace enjoys

students.

littie

on

service placement that best

way they'd come back to

if I

the program through professor James Dalton's
class.

Professors are also discovering the eye-opening effect

The course

year in the

in

psychology major, plays with

Park Village Recreation Program.

giving her a better

Kke to work with

has just completed her freshman year as a computer information

academics.

got involved

she says. Shepard has also gained a sense of

the

Shannon

is

Griffiths, a senior

summer Town

community psychology

really

they said the only

Downing

Griffiths

service has

all

Brenda

children at SOLVE's

young children, her initial reason for joining
the program was quite different. "It was a
way to meet people with similar interests,"

kids
Jean

it is

SUMMER FUN —

now know

never quite what the students

"The students

get to see the hidden

complexities of various settings that they might otherwise miss."

For Sara Shepard, the

real experience that she

gained as a

become much more outgoing. I've learned so much about
myself, other people and the town. I've enjoyed having so many
opportunities to do so many different things T never thought I

volimteer has already subtiy brought out the teacher in her.

\vould be doing."

"I've seen

"I've

so exciting

SHARE;

its

when

I

give

them

the certificates they earn

"It's

from

such a positive experience for everyone," she

says.

my students growing up, and I'm so proud of them."

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GETTING THE WORDS OUT .^peecfi pathology professor Dianne

Angelo practices speech with
year-old. Chris Gable.

six-

Gvemm ^ ales a
Communication
PHOTOS BY MARLIN R.WAGNER

BY ERIC FOSTER

The clients may be infants, or elderly, or any age in between.
They seek services ranging from overcoming stuttering to
overcoming the loss of language due to a stroke. They may need
to be fitted with hearing aids or learn to Hp read. Like a doctor's
office, Bloomsburg University's Speech, Hearing and Language
Clinic operates 12 months a year, five days a week, eight hours a
day.

It

serves nearly

1

,000 people each year.

"Part of our workload

is

service to the

says Richard Angelo, clinic director

calls

it

in a very consistent way. If

me and says I

need

help.

I

is it,"

with service to the

my patient right now,

me has a hearing loss. It's my

due to aging. But
Hearing

loss

it

whether or not they have insurance. Fees are based upon their
ability to pay. "I don't care

how much money you have," says

can occur for dozens of reasons. Exposure to

head trauma, tumors on the

auditory nerves or brainstem, and even drugs used to treat
potentially deadly diseases can reduce hearing. Each audiology

undergoes a battery of tests to determine what

from many causes - including obstruction of the ear drum,

damage to the hair cells that turn
sound vibrations into nerve impulses or tumors on the nerves
that carry sound sensations from the ear to the brain.
Angelo estimates that of the more than 500 audiology cUents

who come to

Angelo. "I'm not going to drop you."
service that the clinic offers

is

both wide-ranging and

complex. The eight faculty and two dozen graduate students
serve these cHents

come from two

-

different disciplines

the clinic each year, only about 20 percent are

referred to other medical professionals.
at the clinic. In

most

cases, the

with hearing aids in one or both

ears. Like eyeglasses, a

aid

diagnose and evaluate hearing problems. Speech pathologists

needs to work properly. "A hearing aid

of language. But
linked

by a

problems both about speaking and the use

two faces of a coin, the disciplines
core - improving communication.

like the

common

are

must be configured to the

hearing

loss," says

The majority are served

treatment involves being

audiology and speech and language pathology. Audiologists

are concerned with

might be natural,

might be a tumor."

dislocated bones in the ear,

Clients are served without regard to their ability to pay or

who

to

type of hearing loss they are experiencing. Hearing loss can stem

just like a hospital."

The

who comes

client at the clinic

one of my patients

go to see

"Every patient

responsibility to find out why," says Angelo. "It

excessive noise, childhood diseases,

and professor of audiology.

"We've taken education and paralleled

community,

community. This

Overcoming the Barrier of Silence

individual's hearing loss
that's

fitted

hearing

and

too loud can cause

Angelo.

who need glasses, "people vidth hearing loss
sometimes slow to seek help because they don't know what
Unlike people

Bloomsburg University Magazine

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COMMUNICATION
they're missing," says Angelo.

become isolated. Its such
have become isolated."

When

a hearing aid

hearing loss of the

"When you

loss,

you

realize

you

have a hearing

a gradual process,

you don't

Rawool and Angelo

than hearing loss alone.

must not only alleviate the
but also suit their lifestyle. Newly

how to

re-introduced to sound, clients also have to learn

out the sounds they want to hsten

to,

spouses

is

"One of the

hearing

loss.

loss,"

between

biggest sources of disagreement

We are involved with studying the sociol-

ogy of the problem."
Hearing aids can be very expensive, costing hundreds or even
thousands of dollars. To help

clients

who

"I

have some

clients

here," says Angelo.

who

is

can often be

fitted

with specialized

Reopening the well of language
when

children have hearing loss that the disciplines of

audiology and speech language pathology work most closely

I've

been

clients.

to

The

great-

Bloomsburg's

about 10 years to have her hearing checked and hearing

if

they do not hear, children wiU have difficulty

acquiring language vidthout outside help. While audiologists
to

maximize the hearing the

child does have, speech

language

ability.

"People bring their child here because someone has noticed a

Shaheen Awan, speech and lan-

communication problem,"

"When something goes wrong v«th my hearing aids, I call,"
says Billig. "They are wonderful here. Some of the professors treat

guage pathology professor. "An evaluation

me like

I'm their mother."

totally

Billig's

hearing loss

overcome with hearing

aids.

is

severe

At the

and can-

clinic,

she has

commonly referred to as lip reading.
Vishakha Rawool, who shares responsibility for the audiologi-

learned speech reading,

cal

component of the

client

who was

tumors on

clinic

with Angelo, worked with another

aware that he was losing his hearing because of

his auditory nerve.

While the

client

could

Rawool provided him with suggestions on how
hearing

loss,

stUl hear,

to cope with total

including practice with speech-reading. She also

informed him of surgical procedures that could help him hear
after the

tumors were removed.

and

language pathologists work to help the child catch up in their

aids adjusted.

not be

is

problems.

work

one of those longtime

grandmother fi"om Catawissa has been coming
clinic for

there

These individuals

Vishakha Rawool

together. For

cost.

have been here as long as

"Twenty years."

Lydia Ruth Billig

when

noise.

hearing aids to alleviate those specific

It is

which are reconditioned and

provided to needy cUents at very low

they're muffled or

background

cannot afford to pur-

chase a hearing aid, the clinic works with the Bloomsburg
JCiwanis to collect used hearing aids

indi-

have difficulty recognizing words

when

a process called aural

"We're also concerned with the family affect of hearing

Some

ing (tinnitus) in their ears. Others

pick

rehabilitation.

says Angelo.

work with

viduals suffer fi-om bothersome ring-

is fitted, it

client,

also

needing help with issues other

clients

uncover hearing as well

as

says

Physical problems affecting speech

which a
clients

head

often,

Awan and the

whose problems

injury, brain

may

may involve the way in
or forming sounds in the

client breathes, the vocal cords,

mouth. More

at the clinic

speech problems."

are

more

graduate students work with

subtle.

Because of a stroke, a

tumor, or even reasons unknown, the

has difficulty in turning the ideas in their

mind

client

into speech.

Children, in particular, sometimes experience delayed speech

development without any discernible reason.
Sometimes, the parents' concerns are imfounded. Children
learn

how to

say different sounds at different ages. Typically,

vowels and sounds Kke "m" and "n" are acquired early by children.

Sounds such

as "r"

and "s"

saying "w" for "r",

five is

therapy. That's

normal

are acquired

most

is

a child of four or

not going to

for children at that age," says

child of five or six can only say vowels
their speech

later. "If

likely we're

less intelligible

and

recommend

Awan.

"If a

and a few consonants,

they're going to have a hard

time being understood. Then we're going to look at therapy."
Therapy, which consists of drills to allow the chent to practice
they need to improve, can

weeks,

months or even

those

skills

years.

Graduate students conduct the sessions under the supervision

of faculty

last

members Dianne Angelo, Robert Lowe, Ronald

Champoux and Awan. Therapy for

a child chent offen involves

spending hour-long sessions twice a week working on speaking
a single

word

at a time.

becomes more

The

As the

child progresses, therapy

elaborate.

sessions are tailored to the needs of the chent. In the case of

Chris Gable, a six-year-old boy with autism, that meant offering

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therapy four days a week

when

Leamiiig lliroiig^ senice

classes are in session.

"\^^len Chris started

therapy [three years ago]
the only speech he

had

was babbUng," says

his

that he uses deUberately

and spontaneously. He'D
to drink.

when he wants

Now he's start-

ing to specify soda."

THE FRONTIER -Audiology

Richard Angelo shows client Lydia Rutli
Billig

how

the latest

a

computer

digital

is

abilit)'

used to program

fits,"

Chris' time at the cHnic has

His

first

and

had blown. This past year, he

\sT0te

it

at the

didn't

do that

before."

same time. He

also

at

bubbles the

Adults, such as people

timiors or strokes, also

distracted, outside his

Our goal

who

come
is

abilities to their

able to communicate,"

com-

Audiology students have access to the

latest testing equipment
program the most modem
digital hearing aids. These hearing aids can be programmed to
adapt to the different emdronments
in which the user wiU wear it so it

Awan

are used to

has created computer

programs which help

to analyze

the different aspects of a cUent's
voice.

He has also

created a device

which measures the amount of nasal
source of many

voice disorders.

Angelo has extensive experience

in

Shaheen Awan

to get to a point

where the

maximum,"

Awan.

says

client

"I see the

can

their native tongue.

r

A

Bbom^ntr^s speedx pathology and audiology programs

A speech dime -was established in 1938. In the 40s,

Sloomsbttrg received state cert^icatton in speedi correction.
differed

audiology became an increasing

is

in

my class, and I get to see how well

their voice

real people," says

Rawool.

nothing more exciting than a person's

when they hear their real voice

Particularly those cases

sound

quality

for the first time.

when, within half an hour, people hear

and they say, "That's

my real voice. That's what I

Kke."

M

have ^Ktr roots in a course offered in 1932 calkd "speech

In 1962, a master's degree in speech correction was

same students

For Awan, there
expression

improve the quality of

human

clinic.

they are applying what they learned with

overcome stuttering or learn how to say

Throu^ £?K 1970s,

But technology does not overwhelm the
of the

to the clinic for speech therapy.

sounds that are found in English, but not in

problems."

of these

petent manner."

Gable.

sa\'S

have suffered head trauma, brain

serves adults \\'ho wish to

their speaking voices,

None

that directly monitors the neural activity of patients imdergoiag

someone's had a stroke, they may never have normal

The cUnic

It's

surgery to remove tumors firom the brainstem.

"He is on the road toward being

use their

service.

interoperative monitoring, a process

crvdng.

speech again.

is

When a parent sends a child to have

students will leave here until they are ready to do that in a

qualit)' in a voice, a

name
called Mcki Gable "mom"
spelled out his

WMe the clinicians had to maintain their

composure so Chris wouldn't become

mother %\'as

"Now he

been fuU of milestones for the Gables.

words were, "pop pop" while pointing

for the first time.

"If

He

commitment.

amplification.

says Vicki Gable.

problems. He's relating to people now.

not homework," stresses Angelo. "This

their hearing checked, they expect the best of care.

would have

me what he wants. We very rarely have the temper

able to teU

is

provides the proper level of sound

changes.

hearing aids.

sensory overload and screaming

clinician

also

brought beha\ioral
"Before, he

is

to

communicate has

professor

But "this

a professional

and computers, which

For the Gables, Chris'
increasing

an integral

a cUnic, school or hospital outside the university.

"Now Chris

has a good 15 to 20 words

say 'drink'

clinic is

part of their education. Each graduate student spends several

semesters working with clients before they serve an extemship at

mother Vicki Gable of
Catawissa.

For the graduate students in Bloomsburg's audiology and
speech and language pathology programs, the

Todq^ speedipaAology artd audiology is one offour
con^onents of ^department of communication disorders

and special educatiotu The odter dtree components are
cf Shearing impaired and

special education, education

nterpre ter training for 0ie deaf. TogeAer,

i

rfie

two graduate

programs enroU c^pradmateiy 50 students.

mpottatU component of^ speech correction curricidum

i

utttil

a separate master's program was offered.

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BY MARLIN R.WAGNER

Confidence. Self-esteem. Pride. Former students and
staff

members

agree, these are

some of the most

program

\\ith

an T can do

with," claims

it'

attitude that they

Sandy Washburn. And she

twent)'-five years later, she

the job market But

with rusty teaching
skills?

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her two sons and manage a household.

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A few weeks later, she gathered her

courage, ignored her fear and enrolled in TIP, an intensive

school in Tucson, Arizona, in the 60s. She

1

Washburn ans\vered an ad in
and technolog)' training

skills

for quahfied indi\'iduals.

should know. Washburn had been a teacher

nology

desperate,

Processing at Bloomsburg University.

"Graduates leave TIP

ended

little

valuable benefits of Training for Information

didn't start the

raise

Nervous, and a

the ne'svspaper that offered office

an elementary

her profession to

When her marriage

she would have to re-enter

how could she land a competitr\'e position

skills

and almost no

ofiSce

management or tech-

She needed a dependable income and health

Bloomsburg University Magazine

benefits.

16-week course designed to teach basic language, math and

computer

skills,

while emphasizing goal setting and interpersonal

communication.
Today, ^^'ashbum
tative for

is

employed

as a

customer service represen-

Phoenix-based Telesoft Corporation, a long distance

pro\ider with an office on Bloomsburg's campus. Her success
stor)',

\dsion

and

similar to those told

and

office

effort

by other graduates,

is

a tribute to the

of John OLivo, professor of business education

information svstems.

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In 1983, Peggy Bailey, then director of grants, heard about
federal

money available through

"Sometimes you have

the Job Training Partnership

to

face false leads,

Act (JTPA) tor specific job training programs. She remembered
Olivo developed a government-funded program to teach
processing

alma mater, Michigan

skills at his

word

rejection. Just

keep on networking.

State University,

and approached him about writing a grant proposal

for

Connections happen when you least expect

Bloomsburg.
In January 1984, the

first class

of the program, originally

Technology Occupations, met in

called Training for Office

Dont shut any doors for yourself"

them

to.

Various faculty from the department of business education

students

who

and

$3,275 tuition prohibitive.

The grant allowed Olivo to purchase
equipment, approximately 10 dedicated word processors.
SutlifF Hall classrooms.

office administration

students

shared teaching responsibilities, and

moved from one classroom

whatever space was

to another,

occupying

available.

Olivo developed curriculum, scheduled faculty

Initially,

are eligible

and motivated

"We

don't

to enroll in

want the

cost,

TIP find the

which

includes books, reference materials

and supplies they

keep, to be a hindrance to students

who want

are able to

to come."

Deborah Shoemaker was divorced and trying

to support

two

and screened and accepted students. He
remembers, "The first year was a logistical nightmare,

young sons by waiting

trying to coordinate everything." But his dedication to

owned her own small restaurant when she began looking for
fiiU-time work with regular hours and a steady income, but she

and

facilities,

helping people train for

new jobs

persisted.

Thirteen years and 310 graduates
sophisticated

TIP.

later,

TIP operates a modern

the technologically

office

simulation facOity in

a self-contained building

on Bloomsburg's upper campus, thanks

in part to the university's

on-going support.

Two part-time faculty

and a part-time project coordinator oversee the program, which
is a model for similar programs in other locations. Olivo's role is

now one

of adviser and

facilitator. "I

them what they need, how I can

empower my people. I
They do most of the

ask

help.

work," he says.

Karen Hicks has been project coordinator for the past
years. Besides creating

marketing

strategies, recruiting

and

students, supervising the required internship, following

five

assessing

up on

each gradual, and managing the budget. Hicks works with
regional funding agencies to provide tuition assistance.

Lorene Carswell receives

a congratulatory

hug from her son.

Many

tables at irregular

Shoemaker had done

found her

skills

were job

light industrial

specific

when she discovered
work and had even

hours

and not

easily transferable to

the kind of position she desired. She was frustrated because she

knew what

she didn't want to do, but she wasn't sure what she

wanted her career path

move

to be.

Employment
some direction. Here, she learned of
the Equal Opportunity Center (EOC) where she could receive
job counseling and interest assessment. When she met her EOC
counselor. Shoemaker asked, "What are my possibilities? What am
I suited to do?" Her concerned counselor recommended TIP and
referred her to JTPA where she qualified for ftmding. Shoemaker
was on her way to a successfiil career she had never dreamed of.
As manager of Uniforce Staffing Services, an employment
Eager to

forward, Shoemaker visited the

Security Job Center seeking

placement firm, she closely

identifies

with her applicants. She

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advice she heard at TIP. "Sometimes you have to face

false leads, rejection. Just

happen when you

yourself." Frequendy,

keep on networking. Connections

expect

least

them

Shoemaker

to.

helping place TIP graduates. "Deb

is

Don't shut any doors for

back to the program by

gives

an invaluable resource

who

spreads good wiU about our program," says Hicks.

Shoemaker, Uke Washburn, exudes enthusiasm about the

program.

The

probably the best experience you'U ever have.

"It's

self-esteem

skills,

and confidence you build prepare you

to

handle almost any situation."

When she enrolled

in TIP,

committing herself to

Monday through Thursday from
from 9

noon

to

ment and

and Friday

on a computer.
was bruised, and she was unsure.

for 16 weeks, she couldn't even turn

She admits that her self-esteem

wth many graduates that

She agrees

classes

9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

advice are the

group support, encourage-

most important

benefits. "Sonja

and

made us believe in ourselves."
Westover and HoDy McAnall are TIP's energetic
faculty. Although they chuckle about how differently

John Olivo watches Lorene Carswell address her classmates during
graduation ceremonies.

HoUy's 'Yes, you can!' attitude

Sonja

complementary team

efforts.

"Sonja and FioDy

are so positive

and encoiuraging. They will do anything

students," says

Washburn.

instructs

word

literacy, office

who choose

it,

for their

procedures and the
while McAnall

processing, keyboarding, business

math and

who

me feel good about what I

percent job placement rate

community,
take

Westover teaches computer
legal specialization for those

makes

says,

'I

my new job!'

love

McAnall.

do," reflects

Having the publicly recognized program that boasts an 89

they approach their teaching tasks, students praise
their

a Student at the grocery store

the

as well. Local

on TIP

individuals.

on campus

employers

they

interns or graduates, they are getting well-trained

Although TIP has

priority for use,

first

serves as a

computer training center

programs.

It

offers

its

location

and

for special faculty

And

regional businesses take advantage of

distance education.

who come

the resources by contracting for specific staff instruction.

into this non-traditional classroom with a

wide variety

flexibility

and

ual needs

and learning

patience. Westover says,
st\des.

"We have

each student." Westover and McAnall do

on a one-to-one

to assess individ-

We have to adapt explanations for

basis, trying to

much

of their teaching

maintain a technologically up-to-

date learning setting that approximates a typical office environment
In addition to providing learning leadership, both teachers

cotmsel students through personal crises and
issues.

Those

life

management

"Going

But

situations often present the biggest challenges.

watching students overcome obstacles and succeed
to a graduation

and thank you

is

rewarding.

and having a mother or father come over

for helping their

son or daughter, or bumping into

Gary Suit doesn't use
TIP.

However, he

directiy

feels that

aspects of his training to

the office

all

he borrows

make him

Pa., Suit

has even been called

upon

as office

Suit

for 12 years

when

for a local paper

it

make coffee, a duty
week he or she acts

manufacturing company

outplacement

computer

services.

sldUs.

It's

They both

who were offering

applied, primarily to learn

a decision he doesn't regret.

of the most valuable pieces of information Suit stumbled
the rigorous

program wasn't found

in

any of his

him

options. "Before

right away, that

permanent position

I

took the training,

getting a full-time job at

one of the

have applied for the post

office job

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off. It's

that

he might want to look
all I

at

other

was thinking about was

factories. I

because

it

probably wouldn't

was temporary,

and accepted the part-time

position that has led to better opportunities. "I'm so

1

employee.

went out of business. He and a co-worker

part-time." Instead, he applied for

handle almost any situation."

at

all

II

and

confidence you build prepare you to

to

heard about TIP firom imion representatives

appealed to

self-esteem

effective

from

manager.

had worked

that he might not find a full-time,

skills,

he learned

pieces

books. In an informal conversation, one of his teachers suggested

probably the best experience you

The

more

skills

and

required of each TIP student duriag the

on during

ever have.

a

bits

In his current position as a United States postal clerk in Berwick,

One

'It's

staff

classrooms for the division of continuing and

medical specialization. Both recognize teaching adult students,

of educational and social backgrounds, requires a great deal of

and

benefits the tmiversity

know when

a better match," he says confidentiy.

much better

Charting the Course from High School to College

Upward Bound

Building Friends with

Helps Students Adjust to Campus

PRIDE

Upward Bound program
The
been
a road map

at

Bloomsburg University has

offered guidance

and experience

formed PRIDE program, she knew she wanted

Upward

college.

that helped her choose

Infante

English and theatre major. At crucial points in her

Bound

life,

the right path for her.

Upward Bound provides

tutoring through-

schools in a four-coimty region.
receive coaching

about career

college admissions

and

They also

financial aid.

during an intensive

six- week session

During

guidelines

meet

of classes.

and be a potential

federal

income

first-generation

all

of our students

University, but over the
Jennifer Boicsr

come

to

Bloomsburg

20 years that we've

been on campus, we've probably had about a

third of our students enroll here," says Upward Bound director
Maureen Mulligan. "They feel confident when they arrive. I have
Upward Bound students who come in as freshmen and they help
other freshmen become acclimated to campus."
Boxer came to Bloomsburg's campus for three summers as a
student from Mahanoy Area High School.
"Upward Bound got me to where I knew I wanted to go to
college," says Boxer, who grew up in Gilberton, Pa., a small town
where her high school had a graduating class of 80. "Today, this

from
life

at

Bloomsburg helped her

family," she says. "I

"face going

away

gained some of the best friends of my

through Upward Bound."

jump

right into

campus

life.

In addition to being active in the

Bloomsburg

Players,

Boxer

is

a

campus

theatre group.

The

member of the Concert Choir

and Women's Choral Ensemble.

.

was

initiated in

1992 by

Responsibility In Developing

Mary Harris, associate

and foundations,

the Harrisburg School District.

in conjunction with

The program,

fiinded through

corporate and State System of Higher Education grants, introduces
students, beginning in the sixth grade, to

academic

skills,

ways of boosting

their

motivating them to stay in school and eventually

attend college. Fourteen of the

Freytes, are enrolled at colleges

and

universities

throughout the

country.

Weekly programs

in

Harrisburg, facilitated by local
teachers during the academic
year, are

enhanced by the

summer on-campus portion
pride's

of

efforts including

classroom

activities, field trips,

sports, career planning,

challenges

outdoor

and more. Not only
benefit,

but Bloomsburg students

like

FRIBMDS
(left)

FOUND -Jezebel Freytes

wMi

friends l>bi^aret Boyfcln,

director of university police, and

Tessy

Infiuite,

a PRIDE program

counselor. BaykJn has been a

Infante get real experience

assistants,

mentor

to both Bloomsburg students.

mentors and resident counselors. Professors from

many disciplines share in the career exploration.
"We encourage everyone to stay in school, graduate and
to college," says Harris.
possibility." Freytes,

Boxer has gained the confidence to

set lofty goals. She's

"They gain an understanding

major with a Spanish minor, adds,
the program.

law or run for public

friends, people

I'll

office.

have very strong opinions," she

says.

"I'm a good

PHOTO BY MARLIN R.WAGNER

that

go on

is

a

an elementary education/early childhood

campus before

BY ERiC FOSTER

much

always there for us, fiinny, energetic,

thinking about going to law school, perhaps to practice corporate

"I

always

participating as teaching

When Boxer did come to Bloomsburg as a freshman, she was
ready to

.

do high school students

place feels like home," she says of the campus.

The summers

is

original 18 graduates, including

college student.

"Not

.

more of a friend than a counselor."
PRIDE, an acronym for Personal
professor in curriculum

life

To qualify for the program, students must
exhibit academic potential,

Tessy was like that

Excellence,

possibilities,

the summer, participants experience college

Linda Burgos of Harrisburg. "She

me and taught me the importance of strong friendships.

there for

out the school year to students from 13 high

Tessy

my mom almost everyday, she is my best friend," Freytes

says of her mother,

says Boxer.

to go to

Where was the question. Meeting PRIDE counselor
helped make her decision easier.

"I call

"My decision to come to Bloomsburg had a lot to do with
Upward Bound,"

Five years ago, when Jezebel Freytes got involved in the newly

sophomore

for Jennifer Boxer, a

like

"I

was never on a

The best

part

is I've

college

made more

know forever."

fighter."

BY

JIM

HOLLISTER

PHOTO BY MARLIN

R,

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Bloomsburg alumnus Patrick Bryan thought
he would be doing ocean research in the

Gulf of Mexico

in the fall of 1993. Instead,

he found himself working in what might as
well be another world
BY ERIC FOSTER

PHOTOS BY JIM MASTRO

The young

Unlike the sunny, colorful Gulf, the
Antarctic landscape

rock and

ice

is

black and white -

colored only by bits of blue

sky reflected in the

and by small

ice

- Antarctica.

clusters

of researchers clad in bright red parkas.

scientist's

journey to

Antarctica began as a student at

Bloomsburg.
he

first

A native of Nanticoke, Pa.,

enrolled as a biology student.

in a class in invertebrate zoology

During Antarctic

-

It

was

the

study of animals without
backbones - that he

summers (which are
winter months in

discovered his passion for

marine biology.

Pennsylvania) the

temperature averages

"I wasn't interested at

about minus 30 degrees

all

Centigrade - though

Bryan. "But

it

in those animals," says
I

found that

can drop to minus 70

more than 90 percent of

degrees or colder. In June

the animals in the world

and
is

July,

are invertebrates. They're

the icy continent

really unique,

veiled in perpetual

dark.

From October

And many inverte-

March, the sun never
completely

Patrick Bryan stands

sets.

Entering Antarctica

overlooking

on

McMurdo

a

fill

Station, the

like

stations

on Antarctica.

going through an airlock.
First stop is

New Zealand, where Bryan is

issued his bright red parka

weather

gear.

McMurdo

From

home

and cold

he goes on to

station, the largest of three U.S

research stations
is

there,

on the continent, which

to about 1,000 researchers at a

given time.

brates,

such as

starfish,

and snails, call
ocean
home. The
the
ocean environment gives

jellyfish

is

largest of three U.S. research

achieved in steps,

and they live

in every environment."

to

scientists opportunities to

in a

way not possible on

"In a land environment,

undisturbed

areas," says

observe nature

land.
it's

hard to find

Bryan. "Under the

ocean, you can find pristine areas to study
animals. That's putting marine science

on

the forefront of biology."

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the prolific

young

scientist (he first-authored five

major

In the

fall

of

'93,

papers in peer-reviewed journals as a

graduate student] experted to be doing

An

research in the Gulf of Mexico.

open-

came up on a research team headed to
Antarctica, and Bryan was chosen for the
spot. The trip was followed by a return
journey with McChntock in 1996-97.
The focus of Br\'an's research is chemical
ecolog)' - the study of how animals use
ing

And Antarctica is his

chemicals to sundve.
perfect laboratory'.

While the environment of Antarctica

may seem extreme
adapted to

minus

•ivater at

and

it

to

there

live

humans,

it is

ver,'

1.9 degrees

to sea-Hfe

balmy

salt

Centigrade -

never changes.

"The

communit)'

\v'hole

structured

is

only through biological interactions," says
RED, WHITE

AND

BLUE - Researchers in red parkas stand out in the white landscape of Antarctica,
in the snow and ice. During Antarctic summers, the temperature

colored by blue sky reflected

— though

averages about minus 30 degrees Centigrade

it

Brs'an. "They're

can drop to minus 70 degrees or colder.

For example,

move on

can't

That

Marine
Bn'an

Small research projects at Bloomsburg

single zoolog)' class led to a

course taught

Biolog\'

\vas

became

Wallops Island

at the

\\'ith

was presented

a passion that

conference,

t)'pifies his career.

Klinger remembers Bn'an as the

excellent student desperately interested in

the marine sciences.

more

Bryan's doesn't surprise Klinger at

later

"For

from Pennsylvania, the ocean

whole

in forest

li%^es,

WTien you put them

in the ocean,

it's

chemicals into the

in

Birmingham and was imme-

-svater

that

kill

the

cells

of the intruding creature.

Chemicals sen'e these animals in
other

\s'ays as ^s'ell.

"In general, a lot of

animals in the ocean communicate

through chemical

signals," sa\'s

Bryan.

"Chemicals can help locate food or tell

when

a predator or

mate

is

nearby."

To study these animals, Brs'an enters
their

world by

di\'ing

through the sea

ice

through a hole

and

drilled

into the cold water.

is

and farmlands

so they don't notice

signed on as a

diately recruited into the doctoral track.

something new," says Klinger. "Many of
their

put to use as a researcher.

Army ser\'ice, he

would overgrow them? They release

student,

the U.S. Army.

chemical officer - experience he

Alabama

all.

noticed. After

ROTC

animals

own. They may be

attached to a rock. Ho\\' do they defend

graduate student at the University of

students at a time. Enthusiasm like

them have been

him

used the time to further his expertise

After

than 20 years old, which has about 30

students

He

as a

no%s'

got

fulfilled his obligation to

would

Klinger coordinates the university's

marine science program,

it

graduation, Bryan, an

Bloomsburg biology professor

Thomas

starfish

at a regional scientific

and

many marine

their

themselves from another animal that

larger investigations. His

undergraduate research of brittle

Center in Virginia, and

hooked

not competing against

em'ironment, only with each other."

''For

it.

a moment, you forget you

and you feel

very

like

re in the water,

you're hovering over land!'

exciting. Exotic."

Bryan returned to Wallops Island
for several

summers

tained the aquatics

as a student,

Bryan remain

close.

Bryan returned

to

diver.

KUnger and

This past summer,

Wallops Island -

this

time to teach.

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McCHntock, describes him
catch.

facilities at

Bloomsburg's biolog}' department, and

became an experienced

"The water

Bryan's doctoral adviser, James

main-

Bloomsburg University Magazine

"He

He ^vas

as a

"man'elous

a stellar graduate student."

sees the big picture. He's got

insights," says

McChntock, who

in\ited Bryan to

good

also has

work with him on

post-

suit that

is

so cold, you have to

wear a

keeps you completely dry and a

couple inches of thermal undenvear under
the dn' suit," says Br\'an, ^v'ho has dived

under Antarctic
to

an hour for a

doctoral research. "Quite frankly, he's

wearing

been very productive."

you

is

so

ice

nearly 100 times for

single dive.

"The

up

sttjtf you're

warm, you're sweating. Unless

get into the water quick,

you overheat"

STORY

"The

ice itself is

amazingly beautiful

to look

at-

the bizarre, surreal setting!'
Scientists

contain

have found animals that

fi-om the extra harmful

The

dives are anxious.

first

three-foot hole

is

the only

A small,

way out

if

something goes wrong. But the water
is

crystal clear,

visibility,

with up to 800

feet

and anxiety gives way

of

wonderment.
"You

forget about the anxiety.

behavior to protect themselves from

Andreas

He both

observes the animals in

and

collects

specimens to

sea snail (pteropod) produces a chemical

world where the

that

in the tropics, there's only

about 50

feet

of

and you

hovering over land.

feel like

Some

you're

people almost

ice,

color

A type of small shrimp

(amphipod)

and Hfe abounds.

"When you start to look at the ice from
below, its amazing how blue it looks," says
Bryan. "Once you get to the bottom,

explored a continuation of the San
fault

under the

Pacific

using the world's deepest
ship, the

Sea

Cliff.

Ocean

manned

diving

But someday, he'U

"Once people

actually get to the

- even people who say I'm
never going back - they find their way

Antarctic

back," says Bryan.

"It's

very rare that

people go once and never go back."

their advantage.

"I know a few people who dove
down there and they were upset that it

the snails

ruined diving for them. The

trait and uses it to
The shrimp grab hold of
and use them as a shield to

avoid being eaten themselves.

have a feeling of vertigo."

Below the

That

has discovered this

"For a moment, you forget you're
in the water,

isolated before.

chemical makes the snail distasteful to
fish.

visibility."

had not been

there are other

return to the fi-ozen South Pole.

lab.

don't think there's anywhere else in the
visibUit)' is as clear. E\'en

And

oceans to explore. Already, Bryan has

For example, he has discovered that a

I

next year. He'll search for a university

Much of Bryan's research focuses on
how these animals use chemicals and

be analyzed in the

and

compounds as

"They produce their o\vn antibiotics."
Bryan won't return to Antarctica this
teaching position.

their habitat,

start to see all these things,

you start to

has marketed these

One

a natural sunscreen in Australia.

attack.

to

advanced

UV^ radiation

caused by the ozone hole over the pole.
scientist

"Many primitive organisms don't have
immune systems," says Bryan.

compounds that protect them

He

has also studied

how these

ocean

animals protect themselves firom infection.

bizarre, surreal setting.

to dive

anywhere

ice itself is

- the
They don't want

amazingly beautiful to look

at

else."

it's

not what anyone would expect. The bot-

tom is amazingly rich with animals. Some
of them are really brUhant, bright colors."
The animals are

often gigantic

to their counterparts that

compared

roam more

temperate water. Sea spiders are 15 inches
across instead of the size of a fhimib. Sea

whose diameter

stars,

is

normally mea-

sured in inches, can be measured in

feet.

Beauty is only an added benefit to the
dives.

The

"This

is

real

purpose

is

research.

one of the marine habitats

where people can discover new
says Bryan.

things,"

The knowledge gained

finds

appHcations in unexpected ways. Fish that

Hve there have a protein in their blood
that,

hke

antifreeze, keeps ice crystals

ft-om forming in the bloodstream.

The

and the gene
the protein has been

protein has been isolated,

which

creates

inserted into plants to
finiits

make

frost resistant

THE GATEWAY- A tfiree-foot
study the ocean

life

hole drilled through the sea Ice

Is

the

gxuwsf

Patrick Bryan uses to

of Antarctica.

and vegetables.

Bloomsbupg University Magazine

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DOC

Almost

HISTORY

daily during the school

year, retired histor)' professor

Dr. Robert
in

"Doc" Warren drops

on Bloomsburg

University's

student union. Over lunch and a

backgammon, he

catches

game of

up on the

of the fraternit)' he adNises,

acti\'ities

to resolve

tries

any problems and lends the

listening ear that has

earned him the

title

of friend, confidant and mentor.

For more than 30 years, Warren has
been giNdng - both personally and
financially

- to Bloomsburg

Universit)'.

His generosity has touched countless Hves.
Since he began teaching histon' at

Bloomsburg

in 1964,

Warren has opened

home

to students, offered financial

assistance

and established scholarships

his

to

help students in need.

His "hobby" of placing the stock market
is

one way "Warren explains

give.

his abilit\' to

When he's not traveling or \isiting

the campus, Warren monitors the stock

market on CNBC.

He modestly acknowl-

edges that his "hobby" has turned out to

be

as lucrative as

it is

pleasing.

DOC'S HISTORY
BY TRINA WALKER

IS

PHOTOS BY MARLIN R.WAGNER

For more than 30 years, Warren has been giving to Bloomsburg University.
20 FALL 997
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Bloomsburg University Magazine

A

1

GENEROSITY

IS

And

Warren makes annual
contributions to the university and has
provided for

in his wOl.

it

He has

He feels that one of his

classroom."

so,

greatest contributions to the imiversity

has been his service as an adviser to Sigma

also

College in South CaroHna, and

Omega fraternity.
summer of 1964, a group of
young men wanting to start a fraternity

Appalachian State University in North

approached Warren to help organize the

Carolina.

group and serve

established scholarships at

two of his

Iota

alma maters: Spartanburg Methodist

But the financial

gifts

In the

he makes are

tion

only a part of Warren's contributions.

Tim

Iota

brother and close friend, says without

"Doc has made

"It's

setting

them

the fact that

I

"I

guess

it

to school.

I

ties

I

went

made

couldn't have

it

who

is

"He

me

through grad

of all by persuading

me

my graduate exams,
me get a

many times, that

to

many

Warren

commonplace

that he himself forgets

has forgotten

to

more

most people do

week on the

in

I've

him

telephone," says

had a major decision

my life, I've called Doc." Poff

teaches in the health

department

at

and

physical education

Lock Haven University and

"Doc always took the time

to

to get to

know

he has done than

"The

from alumni," notes

fraternity

is

his family."

At a recent surprise birthday party,

more than 20 SIO alumni and

their

spouses said thank you to Warren.

Now

corporate executives, bankers and school
teachers,
success.

are

many credit Warren with their

These dear and personal friends

what Warren means when he

"giving

is

a

two-way

street."

says

To Warren,

these friendships are the valuable return

on his

and setting them on

investments.

the right path!'

Some he

never even met.

students personally and to keep in touch

He often opened the doors to his own
home to house students. "There has been
a whole string of people who have Hved
here, rent free, when I felt they needed it.
Some for a semester, some for longer,"

with them.

Warren comments.

years.

stressed the

importance

of looking beyond yourself and helping
others," notes

to donations

made at least ten people millionaires just by being there when they needed him

Warren admits he has helped
more students than he can count. Some

"Doc has always

and he

''Doc has

in a lifetime," asserts Casey.

he has helped anonymously.

open

Casey.

talk to

I

at social events.

many of which are

fraternity brothers,

my

my adviser

and has been

attends

it

him
about them. "Doc

that

Warren 20

my adult life.

He

of their meetings and puts in a

has established several scholarships for

Bloomsburg alumnus who

"Whenever

make

of course. His acts of

just a matter

generosity are so

has proved to be as

"Doc was

at age 75,

fraternity's adviser.

"He's a valuable adviser to SIO,

coaches the university wrestling team.

graduate assistantship."

is

life

a

usually once a
Poff.

to go,

then by making contacts to help

Casey says Warren has helped so

remains the

Bloomsburg. Warren's

friends with

throughout

are today if not for Warren.

permanent

first

Bloomsburg, paving

than 13 years ago, Warren,

the Kehr Union

in

years ago as a history major.

adviser then

then by paying for

people so

is

he and others would not be

first

activi-

valuable as his monetary contributions.

Wilmington, Del, believes that

personally put

at

on

perspective

became

a high school

later

"cameo" appearance
development

Carl Poff

Casey,
guidance counselor in

school,

of the fraternity he advises

on the

over lunch and a game of backgammon.

back."

where they

Retired history professor

all

without the help of others. I'm just giving

some of it

KEEPING IN TOUCH -

goes back to

was helped when

and

(SIO), the

the

Dr. Robert "Doc" Warren catches up

true that I've helped people,"

improvement
became Sigma

way for other similar groups.
Though he retired from teaching more

at least ten

right path."

Warren concedes.
away

him and

they needed

on the

Omega

social fraternity at

people millionaires - just by being there

when

The organiza-

as adviser.

as the "social

organization,"

Casey, a former student, fraternity

exaggeration,

began

Sue Helwig, director of

with

I

try to follow his

my own students."

Warren taught
and

example

at

In return, he has

Bloomsburg

for 19

a half years, serving as chairperson of

the history department for almost 12

His years of distinctive service

earned him the
Yet,

title

of faculty emeritus.

Warren's philosophy

Warren has invested

is

that

"much

time,

his personal interests in

money and

Bloomsburg.

made Hfelong

friends

and created a legacy for the future.
Though Warren may have forgotten

some of the personal
through the

remember
this

help he has given

years, others will long

the Hfetime contributions of

noble professor.

H

of learning goes on outside of the

Bloomsburg University Magazine

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I'^f^iff'-y

,;gwM*y'?y^'wg

Issues in Health Care
An Interview with Christine Alichnie
BY KATHLEEN

MOHR

PHOTO BY MARLIN R.WAGNER

Almost 800 undergraduates are

in

of Health Sciences
University.

Most

at

Bloomsburg

care because there are gaps in

Timeliness in treatment

is

important.

When someone calls in a crisis or

are receiving up-to-date,

hands-on experience

managed

regard to health assessment and care.

enrolled in programs in the School

emergency, there

in cooperative

may not be time to

A practitioner who

educational ventures with regional health

give a detailed history.

care providers.

has seen the same individual for a long

As

and

time would

chair of the department of nursing

assistant

On the other hand, managed care has

Sciences, Christine Alichnie, Ph.D., R.N.,

must monitor

these

know the background,
call may not

whereas a practitioner on

dean of the School of Health

absorbed some of the extravagance that

programs and remain

informed of local, regional and national

occurred in the '60s and '70s when,

changes in health care. She was recently

regardless of whether or not

elected chair of the Pennsylvania State

battery of tests,

The fourth issue is the relationship

Board of Nursing, whose primary purpose
is

to ensure safe

services

and competent nursing

by monitoring nursing

practices,

reviewing regulations and responding to
shifts in

public health care.

issues

and the

impact they have on nursing education.

five

most

in^rtant heahh caie issues aie today?
The

issue of cost

containment

at

the risk of decreasing the quality of health
care

is

a major one.

The second

is

in

all fields

of health care practitioners

and the

restrictions that each individual

may place on

support.

Another

issue relates to tele-health care,

And the fifth issue actually deals vidth

cost of delivery

ajfifected

and
and develop-

takes dollars

e

With managed care organizations
you have a group of physicians or
practitioners working together in a

established.

really

last

wiU be.

knowledge has proliferated
twenty years. As technology

escalates in complexity, the

was
is

Scientific

over the

heaMi caie delivery?

between patient and private practitioner

information

It

technology into practice, the higher the

patients via telephone, fax, computer,

state lines?

Technology.

cents for scientific research

for health care are higher.

communicating with home-bound

What happens when

^^

rights as consumers. Their expectations

more aware of their

rotation. In the past, a relationship

provided across

^Vhat is the siug^ bluest &ctor

ment of technological advances. And,
of course, the more it costs to put the

educated. They're

or health care professionals

etc.

\^

education,

\^ How has the move toward managed

life

future.

practice or disciplinary actions.

care

treatments, such as transplants or

cost

contributing to escal^ing healdi care

and

perform advanced technological

some

because of the issues related

to individual jurisdictions

Technological advances raise ethical

ability to

Health care

or not we have lost something along the
way will need to be evaluated in the near

the increase in technology.

financial questions that relate to the

it.

costs escalated out of control, so

on their background and expertise? There
is a push for a national licensure versus

the consumer groups. They're better

^y

you needed a

the greatest benefit fi-om individuals based

jurisdiction

\^ Miat do you tiimk the

receive

received

containment became necessary. Whether

state licensure

In an interview, Alichnie talked about

contemporary health care

among practitioners. How can we

you

The private practitioner

understood each family as a

unit.

need for more

equipment, education and training
increases. In turn, educational costs also

increase.

o

Cost-efifective

mergers are taking

place thioug^ut the health care industry.

What is the future for smaller providers?

This relationship needs to be reconsidered

\^

iO^
Imib

iLi

Vi^i

JM

^^

Well,

I

don't have a crystal

ball.

There are concerns in the health care

may not
may

arena that the smaller enterprise

be in existence in the future. Or they
be

satellites

of the conglomerate or the

major mergers. You can see that happening

urban

in the

settings

where there

emergency care centers on the

Too many federal

regulations dictating to inventors

The polio

creators can hinder progress.

vaccine might not have been developed,

had

federal regulations

So you need

if

tied Salk's hands.

to have a blending of both in

health care practitioners, hospitals and
institutions established in the

United

who

can deal with societal issues and

more complex psychological aspects of
aire, the baccalaureate and higher degrees

and

order for us to benefit from the excellent

are

outskirts of

from the suburbs

the city so people

private entrepreneurship.

States.

are increasing across the nation. But there

wUl always be a need

o

for technical nurses

monitoring the patient.

at the bedside,

Can you describe the role of the

nurse in the delivery of health care today?

or the rural areas can receive assessment

and urgent

care before being referred or

transported to a major medical center.

Perhaps

that's

^29 What do you see as key elements to

what will happen to the

smaller hospitals.

They may become an

Private practitioners,

I

it

will

be

hard for them to maintain individual
practices

and

managed

care environments because of

be able to get into

the cost containment

reimbursement.
are developing

and the elements of
practices,

think that

which are

a mini form of managed care.

—

Some people

you can have

a paradox, but

is

both. Active participation

providers

Many private practitioners

group

^^

Balancing quality of care and cost

not override quality of care.

believe, will

always exist in rural areas. But

still

total patient care.

containment, so cost containment does

iatermediate unit.

among all the

the business managers, the

consumers, the insurers

—

is essential.

Without input from each, there will not be

e

family practitioner or internist in a

dollars for research, to

fund

institutions

such as the National Institute of Health
that

do research on leading causes of

iUnesses

and treatment

modalities,

and to

of those
is

tasks.

So the

role of a nurse today

probably one of an expert clinician as

well as

an advocate and consultant

other health care providers.

to

They provide

them through the mazes of the

health care delivery system. Nurses are also

the leaders

The need for specialized
As gatekeeper, the

Yes.

managed

o

and the managers on the

floor

So there

from a

How has nursing education been

affected by health care changes?

care system refers individuals to

specialized practitioners only if necessary.
is

a

shift in

providing health care

specialist to a generalist format.

There needs to be a balance between the
generalists

and the

shift

^^

The emphasis on health care and
managed care actually relates more to
community-based education. Because

hospitalization time has decreased,

outpatient education has increased.

specialists.

There also needs to be a

initiate national health policies.

and

accountable for their tasks and ftdiiUment

who actually coordinate patient care.
care has decreased.

effort.

licensed practitioners are responsible

o

^j^

There needs to be a joint

delegated to

a source of reference for individuals to

of healdi care?

'

is

unlicensed assistant persoimel. Yet,

help get

What is an appropriate ide fijr tiie
federal govenunent to pl^ in ifae ddiyerjr

The federal government is able to provide

Now, much of the

traditional patient care

a balance.

Have the dianges in health caie
changed the need for practitioners?

o

^1^ In my day, a nurse's major role was
one of clinician. Registered nurses did

health care reforms?

between

Today, nurses need to be flexible enough

who are episodic, acute care
who really

to

nation. In a series of reports, the govern-

deal with holistic aspects of chronic care.

to

ment

Those patients take more time to

Now our students need a great deal more

The national government should
set the

also

agenda for the health care of a

established certain goals

objectives for the care
citizens.

and

of United States

There are benchmark outcomes

that they

measure to determine whether

or not health care providers are

those goals and missions.

With

fulfilling

these

reports, there are indicators that are

reviewed to establish a trend

line.

Thus,

funding for research or technology meets

demands of the citizens.
Having said that, the only way things

the needs or care

can improve or develop

is

through

physicians

providers versus practitioners

more

care,

more

education,

see,

more mainte-

go from pre-admission, which

a

is

clinic-based type of practice, to acute care,

home care, which is community-based.

in assessment

skills,

in

understanding the

nance. Mid-level providers such as nurse

pathophysiological processes of a disease

practitioners are appropriate to care for

in order to plan care. Baccalaureate

those individuals

who

are healthy. Health

education has had to change for that

We have many more community-

promotion and health maiatenance are

reason.

appropriate levels of client care for

based education courses and practices,

advanced prepared nurses. So there
shift in

is

a

nursing education.

Diploma education

is

decreasing.

Because of the complexity of the care and
the need for

more

because of the need. In addition, today's
nurses have to be proficient in health care

economics and

healtli care

management

principles.

diverse practitioners

ity

Magazine

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DAVID COPE

David Cope Brings Common Touch
TO Council of Trustees
BY

Imagine

1 1

JIM

HOLLISTER

PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER

elderly, well-established,

conservative,

men and v^omen in powdered
in high

involvement - although

back chairs on a lofted

and students. This
makes all the decisions

to the university's

council of trustees increased his
a four-

it's

hour drive from home.

bench, overlooking an audience of

Gubernatorial approval

faculty, staff

tribunal

to Bloom," says Cope. His

appointment

wigs wearing long black robes. They
sit

have always had a deep com-

"I

mitment

common-thinking

required for a

at

on the

member to

is

gain a

the university, and none will be

seat

questioned.

the state-owned universities.

OK. Maybe

it

to reahty years ago than today
says

David Cope 73, who

his third year as

one of

1 1

is

made

are

to

the governor by legislators from

closer

is

body of one of

Recommendations

really wasn't ever

that way. But the picture

ruling

districts

throughout the

Commonwealth. Cope, who
returned to Bloomsburg with

starting

members

the

of Bloomsburg University's

blessing of

Council of Trustees.

Tom Ridge, believes the system works.

"We have

"While

a very diverse board.

incumbent Governor

politics play a part in

Business people, educators and

these appointments,

other professionals, coming from

person

wide

who bring expertise

interests

lot

to the board," says Cope. "This

university

board

is

is

Cope has always been committed

to education.

he knew what subject he would teach -

knew that Bloomsburg was

He

decided to

and has been there

Cope

social studies.

And he

first

directed 22 senior plays

and

even married a fellow teacher, Karen, and found himself
his

move

to a

His desire to regain the "wow" he got from seeing students

him back to

the classroom. "AH

I

ever wanted to

in a small town," says the Berwick native.

Cope's interest in Bloomsburg University has never flagged.
Since his

first

day on the job, symbols of the

university seal

24 FALL 1997

institution, the

and a photo of campus landmark Carver

have decorated his classroom.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

means a

endow

a university,

successful in the eyes

on

stiU serve
is

the wide range of topics presented to

a great

and

him and

Hall,

his

recalls lively discussion.

understanding of finances.

Mr. Buehner.

I

refer

On the other hand,

come from public education and see students
and come here. We may have a better idea on
issues Uke drug and alcohol education because we've seen some
of those problems more up close than others."
Recommending the appointment of and evaluating imiversity
I

leave high school

notoriety.

do

a

very

presidents are the tasks for which trustees probably gain the

principal's role for five years.

succeed drew

cites

colleagues at quarterly meetings

Mr. Davis and

directed his 15th produrtion of the

team teaching American Cultures with her before

was teach

also

does not have a

Common people can get on this type of board and make

specifically to colleagues like

15 musicals at the high school.

He

it

an impact"

"We have people with

teaching job in

since.

Summer Theatre. He has

important.

Cope

the only place he wanted to go to col-

graduation, he accepted his

This past summer.
TitusviUe

of money to

maybe not

who

council of trustees. That

be a teacher when he was in the second grade. By fourth grade,

TitusviUe, Pa.,

me,

of many people, can

very diversified, and the

reflects that."

lege. After

like

However, the

guidelines established

most

university's ability to function within the

by the

State

System and the

Commonwealth falls squarely on the trustees' shoulders.
Trustees make recommendations to the president on standards
of admission and disciphne, as well as changes in room and
board,

fees,

appointees

and budget expenditures. Another expectation of the
is

helping the president develop strong relations

COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES
between the institution and the public, including representing
the university at official

"We shouldn't
says Cope. "That
activist

Commonwealth

deal with the daily running of the university,"
is

the president's role. However,

board. We're very vocal.

we

role

is

I

We both come
my education, my
worked all through my college years. It

are compatriots in this.

families that struggled.

didn't

come

easy.

I

"Our sole
university
We
do not
focusing the
on the future.

endorse the past or endorse stagnation but force the

ment.

"We have to

is

prepare

We

trustee

focus

-

is

to give perspective.

focus

"We need
affordable.

on things

We force the administration to

that are important."

to provide the absolute best education that

Mr. Stuban [trustee and former

member

is

what we have

to

be about. Too often

employment agencies."
While he may don a black robe for a graduation ceremony or
even a powdered wig for one of his stage productions, when it
comes

is

of the

for a lifestyle. If we teach students

how to study, they gain this great basic knowledge base. And they
know how to search [information] out and work with it. And they
cooperate with others. That

role of the

the driving force behind his involve-

them

we're seen as

own little narrow focuses. The

paid half of

top-notch, education."

university to look to the future. Education can be very parochial.

tend to have our

I

We have to have affordable, but absolutely the

His interest in students

rest."

simplifies the expectations of the trustees.

Cope

think Ted and

I

from

parents paid half and

are an

We don't always agree, and we

We need to keep this institution two steps

don't rubber-stamp.

ahead of the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives] speaks to this constantly,

and

functions.

he just wants to be David Cope - husband,

to being a trustee,

father, teacher

and ordinary

guy.

Council of Trustees
What do you get when you put a
a former
in the

legislator

and

LaRoy

the

media

School.

all

same room? At Bloomsburg

University the answer

is

is

a social studies

is

He is from Feasterville.

18th year on the council, he

In his

a

is

former chair and currently serves as

the Council

of Trustees. The university's ruling

body

G. Davis

teacher at Bensalem Township High

a student,

doctor, lawyer, educators,

council first vice chair.

appointed by the Governor

A. William Kelly

is

the president

of Pennsylvania and makes decisions

ofWVIA-TV and WVIA-FM,

that affect the lives of more than

northeastern Pennsylvania's public

8,000 students, faculty and staff at
Bloomsburg.

It

is

community, and the

1 1

and

television

a diverse university

radio stations. Kelly

from Kingston,

members of

second vice

chair,

and

the current council reflect that:

second year.

Jennifer R. Adams, a senior
management major at Bloomsburg

vice president of the

is

the group's student representative

and serves as

practice.

in

left

Standing from

office

is

from Berwick and

to

left

Petrosky, James H.

her family's medical

She

Seated from

right: Ted

Stuban, Joseph

Education),

to

right:

T.

Atherton

Jr. is

McCormick (Chancellor of the

LaRoy G.

in his sixth

He is a

former

is

in his 16th year

David J. Petrosky

is

is

an attorney with

the firm of James, Mihalik,

Buehner and Leipold

Buehner, a former chair,

in his 18th year

is

resides in Titusville

and

is

in Bloomsburg.

on the

council.

a social studies teacher

M. O'Connor is

on the

in his

is

from

director of

Plains.

A

council.

the executive director of the Northeastern

Educational Intermediate Unit and

Robert W. Buehnerjr., a Danville resident,

He is

as chair.

R.Adams.

he

senior

on the council and serves

County Intermediate Unit 18 and

chair,

is

Penn State

resides in Danville.

third year

Kevin

year on the council.

Mowad, M.D.,

J.

J.

State System of Higher

the Luzerne

in his

is

Geisinger Health System Foundation

and

is

Wilkes-Barre.

David J. Cope

H. Alley,

Cope, David

J.

Davis, James T. Atherton Jr, Jennifer

guidance counselor at Bishop Hoban High School. Currently, he
lives in

Mowad, Ramona

Jr, A. William Kelly.

Kevin M. O'Connor, David

a former council chair in her 14th year.

James

J.

President Jessica Kozloff, Robert W. Buehner

council secretary.

Ramona H. Alley is an
manager

Joseph

is

serves as council

is

from Moscow. He

is

in his

second year on the council.

Ted Stuban

is

a retired auctioneer and former member of the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives, having served eight terms.

He is from Berwick and in

his second year

on the

council.

at Titusville Area Senior High.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

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NEWS

NEWS

BRIEFS

BRIEFS
College of Business

ACCOUNTING PROFESSOR SHOOTS FOR ACCURACY

new minors

offers four

now have

Students

the option

of choosing from four

new

minors in the CoUege of
Business.

During the spring semester,
Wilson Bradshaw, provost and
vice president for

academic

approved

affairs,

new minors

in accounting,

computer and

t

information
systems,

management,
and marketing.

The Bloomsburg

University curriculum

Dick Baker can be described
shooter"

An

-

as a "straight

a parking lot

on

a hot

margms of ^^cto^y

literally.

accounting professor. Baker competes

in

committee recommended the

summer day. The

bench

rest

approval of the

shooting

Each minor

narrow that even the deflection of

are so

credits
in

bench

rest rifle shooting, a sport in

the difference between winning

which

and not can

won

often

enough

to

become

a

member

grass field can be a

"The

trick

air currents

is

to shoot

through the same

each time," says Baker. "Or

compensate. At 300 yards on a ^\'indy day,

Bench rest rifle shooters fire their
weapons from a bench to a target 100, 200

you can be

mined not by

who
est

The

contest

is

deter-

hitting the buUseye, but

shoots their five bullets into the small-

to

enhance

upon

it

boils

down

right
to

beheve that you're going to win. Once the

shot

is

fired, there is
it.

on the

wall in his ofiSce.

One looks

graduation. Students

nothing you can do to

The next shot

is

a

whole new

now.

"We

are very pleased to

offer these four

to students

were

like

it

fact,

outside the CoUege of

of his youth plinldng cans and hunting
entered shooting

first

competition in 1977. In 1978, he
first

won

national championship. In 1979, he set

(the record has since

to

won enough

be mducted into

been broken). By 1989,
national competitions

tlie

Hall of Fame.

To become a champion, a shooter must
learn to compensate for

and

two

light deflection, also

variables:

wind

caUed mirage.

Light deflection can easily be observed over

26 FALL

1

997

Bloomsburg University Magazine

It's

a trait that Baker says apphes to

accounting as

give

amount
be an accountant. You give

additional

skills

and experience

well. "It takes a fair

to

broaden

their career options,"

Da^dd Long, dean of the
CoUege of Business.
The new minors join a
says

people advice; you'd better be

Though Baker competes

right."

often today

less

because of his involvement \sath the Boy

general business
his

the world record in 300-yard competition

he had

We wanted to

adventure."

of confidence to

fired into the target.

A Milton native who spent the summers
groimdhogs, Baker

new minors

both within and

students opportunities to gain

has been pierced by a single shot. In
five bullets

to

their job readiness

Business.

Baker keeps several old targets hanging

both business

can declare the new minors

any competition," says Baker. "You have

change

grouping.

to

and non-business majors

talking feet."

"Confidence, that's what
in

by

of course work and

wiQ be open

of the Bench Rest Rifle Hall of Fame.

or 300 yards away.

minors.

critical factor.

be measured in thousandths of an inch.
He's

from heat over a

light

new

consists of 18

Scouts as an assistant Scout Master, his
accurac}'

is still

impro\'ing, as

is

the level of

competition.

"When

I

win, I'm shooting

groups now."

He

much

stresses that the

petitors use have

changed very

past 20 years. "As

much

as

little

smaller

in the
it's

competitors pushing each other to higher
levels."

1994. There are

1

10 sttidents

in the general business minor.

guns com-

amthing,

minor \\'hich

has been in existence since

NEWS

B R

r

NEWS

E F S

important," says Jim Dutt,

Francis B.

commerce

chairperson of computer and

to speak at winter

information systems.

commencement

in

the

new

lab

Electronic

A new computer laboratory,

activities

designed specifically to meet

machine

the computer information

systems and

The

Electronic

The

Commerce

and

The

Dutt,

computer information

faculty,

student

lab features 10

IBM

professional workstations as
well as several PCs.

will use the lab

among

The

each semester.

was created with

lab

"Computer mediated
business is becoming extremely

Truhe of Cambridge Technology
Partners.

funding support from IBM.

began

his

in 1951 as a

member

of

counsel at

McNees,

&

Nurick
Attorneys

at

became

a

of the firm.

member

LAW

State

System of Higher Education and

Widener University signed a new partnership agreement

tliat

provides special

who want

rank and Law School Admissions

and

satisfying

and

students wUl receive

Campus of the Widener

approximately $300,000 in

renewable scholarships to

The agreement, which
Bloomsburg

assist

with tuition

Titled

University students,

of the

of the Harrisburg

Widener

made
Eugene Dixon

qualified graduates of

to

Jr.,

chairman of

percent of the annual tuition fee for selected

tlieir

bachelor's degree

and

then the usual seven, through a 3

Admission Program. Admission

-I-

3 Early

criteria for

the programs include attaining a required

students.

Up

to 56

Dixon Scholars may be

University School of

Law

has campuses hi Wilmington, Del, and
Harrisburg.

elder

Haas

(1927-1939), progress was

made

in the teacher education

program, including the

left

new

degree

Bloomsburg

to return

education and certification
in the

department of public

instruction for Pennsylvania.

Haas

selected each year.

The Widener

Under the

of the bureau of teacher

The partnership wOl

a Juris Doctor degree in six years, rather

president, Dr. Francis B. Haas.

He

Governors, these scholarships wUl offset 30

students to earn

law

to his post as superintendent

through an Express Admission Program.

System

later received his

F.

the State System's Board of

also allow State

1999.

program, in business education.

Pennsylvania by

the State System's 14 universities

December of

addition of a

contributions

University School of

Law for

costs.

"Dixon Scholars"

in recognition

assures admission
to

from

Haas is the son of former
Bloomsburg University

attend the Harrisburg

includes

retired

Pennsylvania.

Additionally, eligible

University School of Law.

He

1995 and became a

degree at the University of

fitness.

to

he

degree at Bucknell University

Widener

University School of Law admission

and

later

Haas earned a bachelor's

requirements relating to character

admission and scholarships for State

System students

class

Test (LSAT) score,

and

School board, where he wUl
serve until

During the summer, representatives of the

Law in
Pa.,

managing partner

his firm in

PARTNERSHIP WITH WIDENER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF

13.

Haas

Harrisburg,

subsidiaries.

Williams, and alumnus William R.

commencement

ceremony on Saturday, Dec.

Wallace

Approximately 60 students

goods, transfer funds and

share information

Amie

the internet.

soft-

the business world today to

Jinn

on

Jr.

wiU be the featured speaker

legal career

marketing goods, firom books

ware currently being used in

systems

includes

field also

Attorney Francis B. Haas

undergraduate

sums of

sharing inventory

to mortgages,

work with

the latest hardware

and

money or

Jr.

for Bloomsburg's winter

to corporations

information electronically.

allows students to

sell

MAC

last spring.

Lab, located in Sutliff Hall,

Harold Frey

includes

such as using a

transferring large

management

information systems programs,

opened

commerce

card to get cash from a

the needs of students in

left are:

Haas

Students practice
electronic age in

Shown from

BRIEFS

Jr.,

along with his

father, will

have served in

public education for the
entire 20th century.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

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NEWS

NEWS

BRIEFS

BRIEFS

COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING HELPS UNIVERSITY MANAGE CHANGE
Mathematics and computer science
professor Clint Oxenrider pro\'ided the

on

training

initial

physical plant

CAD for Bloomsburg's

staff.

Since that time, a computerized
entire

tlie

map

of

campus, including buildings and
has been created, and most

utilit)' lines,

building floor plans are also on the computer

Draftsman Gary Hilderbrandt

and

facility'

(sho\\Ti at

planner Colin Reitmeyer

now \\'ork to

(right)

keep the computerized

drawings up to date as changes are made
across campus. They've also scamied

maps into tlie computer.
The plans serve much more than

many

old

who

Maintenance workers and contractors

purposes. Buried

need floor plans of buildings on campus get
fast service at

Bloomsburg. The plans are

on

available with a couple of keystrokes

computers in the
construction
projects

The

office,

and keep

imiversit)^'s

planning and

imiversit)''s

helping to speed

158-\'ear-old

(CAD)

to dra^v

years ago,

utUitv' lines criss-cross

computer terminal, building

Maps of campus,

floor

sho^sdng any

none

first

at all,

"We

impromptu speaking

di\'ision.

The- 27th annual

utilities,

or

"That saves the

architects," says Reitmeyer.
universit)'

the State System of Higher Education to

up

adopt computerized drafting.

have to pay to compile

at Ball

Muncie,

Ind.,

At the national tournament,
Bloomsburg's team placed

can be printed.

and

State Universit}',

in April.

provide construction drawings to

contractors

universin^ in

in the

tournament was held

a

combination of imderground

the

the

Gephart finished

9th out of 239 competitors

From

at will.

for projects seven

Championship Tournament

national championship

planning and construction

becommg

archival

campus. Buildings have been

costs doxsTi.

maps

as a national semifinalist at

the Forensic Association's

renovated time and again over the years.

began using computer-aided drafting

office

and
communication major, placed

political science

last spring.

plans, in large or small scale, can be printed

up

nationally for speaking

Ryan Gephart, a senior

s)'stem.

left)

Gephart ranked 9th

money and speeds

project start times. Other universities
this information."

14th overall. Over the past 20
years,

Bloomsburg's forensic

team has had

several national

quarterfinahsts, but

the

Gephart

is

first semifinalist.

Kozloff honored

by two universities
Electronic loan transfers

up

mean fewer

Without the electronic

lines for

students
have fewer

lines to wait in to sign for

financial aid checks this year,

thanks to a

new program

implemented by the

recently received

1996, the universit)'

implemented an electronic
which allows

students using the system to

make only two

trips a semester

to the business office to pick

997

may

was

have to make four to six trips

affiliated \\'ith prior to

coming

a semester to the business
office, since

two

honors from universities she
to Bloomsbtrrg.

Universit)' of

each individual

The

Nevada- Reno,

where she received her

aidprogram requires

university's

During the summer of

transfer system,

recei\ing financial aid

federal

business office.

1

President Jessica Kozloff

transfer system, students

Many students \vill

28 FALL

financial aid refund checks.

and master's

the student to personally sign

bachelor's

each check awarded.

degrees, featured her in their

The
system

alumni magazine. She was

electronic transfer
is

growing

popularity.

Louann

in

Louann Laidacker

commencement

According to

Laidacker, fiscal

assistant in the business office,
last fall,

in^^ted to deUver the

3,098 loans were

processed electronically, while
this fall
\vill

more than 4,200 loans

be processed

electronically.

Uni-\'ersit}'

also

August

address at the

of Northern

Colorado in Greeley, where
she began her college teaching
career.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

I

NEWS
Jones receives international

recognition for

NEWS

BRIEFS

work

BRIEFS

STUDENTS MAKE REAL FIND WHILE PRACTICING ARCHAEOLOGY

in

early childhood education
tlie

Sheila

Dove

professor of
disorders

surface was dated at 4,250 years old

Jones, associate

while a slightly deeper piece was dated at

communication

5,250 years old. At about two feet under-

and

special

ground, samples were dated

education, was recognized

work

internationally for her

old
in

fall,

stiU, at

at 8,530 years

8,720 years old.

sample of what appeared to be
from a wooden post, found 2 feet, four
inches below the surface, was dated at
Lastly, a

the field of early childhood
intervention. Last

and deeper

she was

awarded the International

8,820 years old.

Division for

"The dates are exactly what I predicted.
nice and surprising to be that close," says

Early

It's

Childhood

Wymer. "There

of the

dates this early that

Council for

meaning

that

are very few radiocarbon

eire in good context,
you know how deeply they

Exceptional

were found in the soU column. This

Children's

beautiful stratography.

DIGGING FOR KNOWLEDGE -

President's

Kate Mehl

Award

for

many years

commitment,
caring.

confers with

at the Streater dig site.

Merit for International
for her

(right)

of

service

Her most

DEC

archaeology course during the

at

Bloomsburg

as an

fall,

found below the more recent

university's

summer

while

still

layers

site

has

were

undisturbed, and the older materials were

Dee Anne Wymer

Mehl took the

high school student.This

and

Student

The

a

really perfect, a

textbook

materials.

It's

site."

she started studies

anthropology major.

recent project,

Thirteen Bloomsburg

"Preparing Early Childhood

students

made

a

Professionals for Family
significant archaeological

Centered and Inclusive

discovery in the

Environments," focuses on

summer of 1996 when

preparing future educators to

work

effectively

that have

they excavated

with families

a suspected former

young children with

Native American

disabOities. Students enrolled

in a class related to the

trading center along the

^'^ohS;

program

Susquehanna River near

are spending time in family

the university.

homes

as well as schools

day care

centers.

The

and

Ihc project was part of an anthropology

three-year
field

project

was funded through a

$20,000 grant from the
Pennsylvania Department of
Education.

Her next

school

class.

Hundreds of objects were

is

a five-

year study of the effectiveness

of the Danville

Head

Start

Waggoner

are also involved in

that study.

The study is funded

charcoal from campfires, to the remains of

house posts.

And

anthropology professor Dee Anne

intersects

K

Wymer

Wymer has

taught

the field school for

estimated that the deepest layers they

many summers.

uncovered showed signs of human

Previous field

more than

schools have been

8,000 years ago.

Radiocarbon dating of samples of wood,
completed

this past

Wymer was

right,

summer, revealed

of charcoal found

that

humans were indeed

present in the area 8,000 years ago.
State

field

near the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds.

the objects were old.

by grants fi'om the university

and Pennsylvania's

was in a farm

where Fishing Creek

settlement

and John

site

with the Susquehanna River

Program. Psychology faculty
Eileen Astor- Stetson

dig

uncovered, ranging from spearpoints, to

Judging from the spearpoints and tools,
project

The

of Streater's Nursery, located

at

A piece

about one foot below

held at the Great
Circle site in Ohio,

one of the most
important

sites in

North America.

System of Higher Education.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

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NEWS

NEWS

BRIEFS

UNIVERSITY

NAMED BEST BUY

IN

BRIEFS
Professor practices

RECENT BOOK

economics of giving
Bob Obutelewicz,

assistant

professor of economics,

turned a personal
gift for

loss into a

future students.

Recognizing the importance
of student
scholarships,

Obutelewicz

saw an
oppormnit)to help the

university after the death of

Bloomsburg has been included in
America's 100 Best College Buys: 1997To be considered for

and

universities

had

to

this

and
1998.

100 institutions rated as a best buy. The

book, colleges

meet

pubhcation points out that Bloomsburg

several ven,'

based on results from

specific requirements

and universities
examined, Bloomsbvug was one of only
private, coDeges

Uni%'ersit\' is a

teaching institution

his parents. In their memor\',

he established The Joseph and

Savannah Obutelewicz

Memorial Scholarship. The

whose
scholarship

"academic programs have kept pace with

the annual national sun^ey conducted by

fall

Institutional Research

Out of

and

a senior

1,784 tsvo-year and four-year, public

educational opportunities for today's world."

awarded each

for the spring semester to

the times, offering current, relevant

E\'aluation, Inc.

is

with the top grade

point average in economics.

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WHAT'S HAPPENING
Conna Craig

Art Exhibits
Exhibits are

Art.

in

the Haas Gallery of

Hours are Monday through

Friday, 9 a.nn.

to 4 p.m. For

Bloomsburg University Chamber

Wednesday, Nov.

Orchestra, Mark Jelinek, conductor

president of the Institute for

Featuring

more

Dn John Couch,

piano.

2.

1

Craig

is

Children, a non-profit group that

advocates "assignment adoption."

Music by Mozart.

information, contact the art

department at (717) 389-4646.

Catherine Angel
Photocollage, Oct. 8 to Nov.

Reception, Monday, Nov.

3,

3.

Semester

Derrici< Bell

Student Recital

Thursday, Feb.

Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m.,

fessor and well-known scholar. Bell

Kenneth

noon.

Carver

Concerts

S.

Gross Auditorium,

a position at Harvard University

left

to protest the school's failure to hire

Hall.

and tenure

Vera Viditz- Ward
Photography, Nov.

1

to Dec.

Reception, Wednesday, Nov.

Concerts are free unless otherwise
For more information,

specified.

call

2.

(717)389-4284.
1

9,

Homecoming Pops
Concert
Hall,

office at (717)

Haas Center for the Arts.

Concert Choir, Women's Choral

Call the Celebrity Artist Series

box

389-4201 for more

Ensemble, and Husky Singers, Alan

Baker and

Wendy

performances are

Mitrani Hall, Haas

at

8 p.m.

Center for the

Arts.

Saturday, Nov.

1

,

2:30 p.m.

Featuring area Suzuki Violinists,

Kenneth

Carver

S.

Gross Auditorium,

Hall.

Church,

p.m.). First Presbyterian

Baker, directing. Women's Choral

Ensemble, Wendy

Miller, directing.

Annual concert of
classical

traditional,

and popular holiday music.

Husky Club

Fail

Concert

Sunday, Nov.

Carlota Santana
Spanish Dance

Hall,

Golf Outing

Concert
Saturday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m.,

Thursday, Oct.

9,

Country Club,

Danville. Call (717)

Frosty Valley

Kehr

Union Ballroom. Bloomsburg

389-4128 for information.
University-Community Orchestra

Singers,
18.

Special Events

and the University Chamber

Grease
Oa.

Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m.

(repeated Sunday, Dec. 7 at 2:30

Poinsettia Pops

Suzuki Recital

Saturday,

"The Joy of

Miller directing.

information.

All

faculty of

Bloomsburg. Concert Choir,Alan

Sunday, Oct. 19, 2:30 p.m., Mitrani

Celebrity
Artist Series

women

color

Christmas" Concert
Friday,

noon.

I998.A law pro-

12,

1

6,

Mark Jelinek and Wendy

Miller directing. Light refreshments,

2:30 p.m., Mitrani

Haas Center for the Arts.

Bloomsburg University-Community

a carol sing-a-long, and a

visit

from

Santa Claus.A family-oriented

Athletic Hall of

Fame Banquet
Friday,

for

Oct.

more

1

7.

Call

1-800-526-0254

information.

evening at a nominal cost. Also, a

Company "Fiesta

Orchestra, Mark Jelinek, conductor.

music scholarship event. For

Homecoming

Flamenco"

Featuring Benton native Michael

ticket information, contact the

Saturday, Oct. 18.

Saturday, Nov. 8.

Caesar
performed by Aquila
Theatre Company

Milnarik,tuba. Music by LoPresti,

Development Center

Vaughan Williams, Kamen, and Clark.

717-389-4128.

at

Theatre

Julius

Friday, Feb. 27,

Classics

Concert

Sunday, Nov. 23, 2:30 p.m., Kehr

1998

On Thursday, Feb. 26, a

Holiday

special

performance of Aristophanes'
"Birds" will be given for

Bloomsburg

University students and area schools.

Union Ballroom.
year to

First

welcome the

Singers, Wendy Miller,

Nadia Salerno
Sonnenberg

Wednesday, March 25, 1998.

S.

in

Carver

Hall,

Gross Auditorium.

Lectures are free and open to the

announced. For more information,
(717) 389-4199.

A Midsummer
Night's

Dream

By William Shakespeare, Oct.

10,

11,17, 18,8 p.m.; Oct. 5 and 12,

Cincinnati
vy^ith

Kenneth

public.Times and places are to be

call

director.

Symphony Orchestra

performances are

concert of the
holiday season.

Featuring the Bloomsburg University

Chamber

Tickets are required. All

Provosfs
Lecture Series

Chamber

Morris Dees

Orchestra Concert

Monday, Oct. 20.The founder of the

Sunday, Nov. 23, 7 p.m., Mitrani
Hall,

Haas Center for the Arts.

2 p.m.

Southern Poverty Law Center, Dees
has written three books
rights

and

racially

on

civil

motivated

Square Peg

Bali

By Justin Robert!, Nov.
p.m.;

1

9-20,

Nov. 23, 2 p.m.

crimes.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

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THE LAST

Shown from
Kozloff.

left:

Volunteer co-coordinator of Children's

Museum Sandra

Evans,

WORD

SOLVE

director Jean Downing, volunteer Ginger Hess, President Jessica

and student Andrea Bogetti.

Many

of the stories in this

expertise to help their fellow

BY JESSICA SLEDGE KOZLOFF

edition of Bloomsburg

beings.

PRESIDENT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

and

that

staff

community. In

strive to

knowledge

human

provide students

know how to

with the wisdom to

have focused on the ways
students, faculty

We also

apply

to help others. Students

wisdom

in a variety of ways

-

estimated the annual university's

gain that

community service contributions at
34,980 hours! Our students spend

indirectly

explains

thousands of hours during the year in

experience of internships and cooperative

students and our

schools, libraries, child care centers

to the

area businesses. Students have surveyed

participate in service to the

the photo above, Sandra Evans, volunteer

co-coordinator of the Children's

Museum,

how Bloomsburg University
SOLVE office contributed
museum's second annual Summer

Art and Science Center. The occasion was
a reception honoring Jean

SOLVE

Downing,

director, for providing space for

the construction of dinosaurs and other

museum. Nine

flood-affected

Columbia County

cooked chicken

at

and

mentoring programs

for "at-risk" students,

the office during the spring semester.

only in Bloomsburg and surrounding

Other students worked as volunteers and

communities, but throughout the

contributed to fund raising for the Art

many of their hometowns.

had

their

summer enriched because

of

these efforts.
I

am proud of the many hours that

Bloomsburg University students devote to
community service. You may be surprised
to

know that the SOLVE

32 FALL 1997

office

has

Bloomsburg University Magazine

through volunteer

I

university students developed projects in

and Science Center. The children of
Bloomsburg and our surrounding area

education, and by helping people directly
service.

am proud of the many hours that

run recreation/

and constructed dinosaurs and caves for
the Children's Museum. They work not

exhibits for the traveling

Bloomsburg University students
devote to

community service.

state in

Bloomsburg University has been
"the friendly college

Students also contribute to the

on the

hiU."

our students come off the

service projects give students a chance to

true significance to the words,

practice their chosen profession.

resource." I'm very

But more importantly, serving others
teaches students the true purpose of

-

to acquire the skills

and

all

real

most

and

presence

is

so

called

However,

much more when

community through services offered to
on our campus. In many cases,

our

the public

education

professors'

residents,

the Mental Health

Association's barbecue,

by hearing of their

experiences, during the hands-on

hill

and

give

"community

proud of them, and

appreciative of the outstanding faculty

staff

them.

who

encourage and mentor

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