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SPRING 1999
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to Poetry
JoAnne Growney
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comedy wrapped books, business and a love story around e-mail.
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electronic communication has permeated society, and it's changed the way many
of the hottest movies this past winter
lighthearted
do business, including
Editor Kathleen
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completed publishing our fourth issue of
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Bloomsburg together. The production of
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occasional debate about
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proper use. Without question,
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Kim
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Vice Chair
Benjamin Wiley. Vice Chair
Syed R- Ali-Zaidi, Muriel Berman,
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is
done, faculty and staff
interesting hidden talents
and
interests.
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its
is
as
participants.
A SILVER CELEBRATION
OF CARING
In twenty-five years, the nursing department has
Derek '99
Board of Governors' scholars - pg. 6
experienced tremendous growth and change to meet
Kevin M. O'Connor
David
the working
reveal
diverse as
Joseph J Mowad, Chair
A. William Kelly 71. Vice Chair
Robert
When
The Board of Governors' Scholarship Program
COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES
Ramona H.
UNCOVERING HIDDEN
both students' and patients' needs.
Pelrosky
Ted Sluban
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HUSKY CLUB SCORES
Helping athletics has
its
rewards, on
and
off the field.
Jessica Sledge KozlofT
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VICE PRESIDENT,
UNIVERSrTY
ADVANCEMENT
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laniero
GROWING STRONGER
The Student Recreation Center provides the
facilities
and programming for
the serious,
latest
and
not-
so-serious, athlete.
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Kathleen
Faculty emeritus foAnne
Mohr
Growney
bridges
mathematics and her love of poetry.
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Graphic Communications,
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COMMUNICATION
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ADDING UP TO POETRY
Speaking publicly scares many, but not members of
Paskill
Bloomsburg's successful forcnsics team.
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cultural
haven - pg. 16
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Uncovering
e
know them from
They focus on
winning
a
the business at
hand -
some, these
Bloomsburg have
staff at
Eric Foster
interests
have grown to passions - avocations that
finding Love
in a Bug
J
up Donna in a black, 1960
Volkswagen Beetle. The sunroof is open
and the Beatles' "Good Day Sunshine" is
playing on the radio. Until it starts to rain.
Paul picks
They unroll the canvas sunroof to
keep dry and turn the wipers on - the
radio goes out.
work
at the
a love affair
The two
same
-
Studying
time.
thus, in 1966,
- was born.
or two
at
features won't
And
what
is
the graduate students, Paul Cochrane
and
Donna Jillard, soon married. And though
the black Beetle was traded in for a Pontiac,
to
Volkswagens.
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and again
science, collect old
and take them
professor
to
VWs
shows throughout
the Northeast.
They
and go
started
to six or
showing
begin to
cars in
1994
seven shows a year from
April through October.
"We
couldn't
count the number of cars we've
owned," says Donna. "We've gone through
Volvos and
BMWs.
But Volkswagens truly
are the people's car." In addition to the
show
now SUNY Albany
the couple has returned time
Donna Cochrane,
and chair of business education and office
information systems, and Paul Cochrane,
retired professor of mathematics and
computer
and Donna Cochrane
to their official duties.
For others, they're just plain interesting and fun hobbies.
Today,
Paul
thought,
interests outside their
sometimes bring additional perspective and insight
By
human
the history of
field.
game, or job descriptions.
But the teachers and
jobs. For
the classroom, the office, the playing
cars,
both Paul and Donna drive
Volkswagens everyday.
To prepare a car
to
show, Paul does
work - sometimes
rebuilding the entire engine - while Donna
does some cleaning and detailing. Only
the mechanical
serious
bodywork and
farmed
out.
repainting are
Doing Right
At the shows, the assorted Beetles
look better than new. Doors, trunks and
hoods
the
are opened. Mirrors are placed
ground so
5ook *^^^
on
and judges can see
wheel is removed to
visitors
the undercarriage.
show
dl) trie
A
cleanliness of the
wheel
then there are the accessories
well.
And
- vintage
Standing in front of a
to help students
What
determine what
'65
and
collection includes
'67 Beetle convertibles
Karmann-Ghia
and two non-Volkswagens convertible
and
a '61 Austin
But their prize
with
all
TR3
Healy 3000.
Bug"
the amenities. Vintage luggage to
into the spare
tire.
A
A
tool kit that
spare gas can.
A specially designed
fits
Wheel
flower vase for
the dashboard! This past year, the '54
placed
it
first
in every
was awarded
show but
one, where
tool kit isn't strictly
"We stopped many times by the
make repairs on the '54 until we
had the kinks worked out," says Paul. "But
if you get them set up right, they'll run."
for
show.
road to
And
when
class
those expecting "Herbie the
Lovebug" performances are going
to be
is
Steven Hales
containers for intangible thought
An
Hales
is
avid
book
also a skilled bookbinder,
the history of ideas.
And some
in
books since childhood.
from the purchase of
chief bookbinder,
A
monster (or
at least
rebound
two
put
a
hundred books.
dirt
been
carefully
shaved
thin.
And he
take 10 hours of
a
hundred hours.
good
for
an amateur, but pretty
average by professional standards," he
from
decade
air.
means removing tattered covers and
making new ones, wrapped in fine leather
more than
an avocation)
private lessons
to the
and sewing old bindings. He
"I'm
years. In the
book
work. But a complete restoration can take
Frankenstein back together.
since, he's
shadow."
to
in
says Hales, holding
Hales means cleaning
this,
A simple job may
Brown's
Dan Knowlton,
this,"
means tooling those leather covers with
brass and steel punches and gold leaf.
Brown
down
oil
that's
copy of
a tattered
University. Hales tracked
for
own
and
dealers, Hales has
Frankenstein while studying at
more than 500 people
pages in a solution to remove years of
of that
But his passion for repainng them sprang
Knowlton
its
By doing
has to do with books," he says.
The son of antique
who do
a beautifully restored
old. "As a philosopher, I'm interested in
was born. Hales took
can't get out of
"There's not
America
repainng tomes that are often centuries
disappointed, says Donna. "With 36
bug
- books.
collector since college,
horsepower,
this
over, Hales turns
his attention to preserving tangible
been interested
third.
By the way, the
ideas
being
But
a '60
How do we
Where do
right?
is
come from 7
convertible,
a '54 "Oval
is
put on the roof rack.
covers.
still
Steven
understand the
reality?
is
items complete the look.
The Cochranes'
class,
Hales, associate professor of philosophy,
works
intangible.
restored, a '68
^Btp
says modestly.
"I'll
go
a
couple of months
without doing anything. Then
project
and be
at
it
I'll
have a
every night for a week."
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While most of the books Hales
and slipcased the
first
since.
He bound
appreciates a bit of whimsy.
and graduated with honors
three novels in Sue
Grafton's alphabet mystery series. Inset
in the front cover of
each
a
is
In this age of the paperback,
seem
like a lot of
work, but
Haney.
art. "I've
up
had people
say,
paintings?'" says Hales,
in his living
something you have
"It's
Haney
may
to four nights a
is a work
'Why not put
seen a
"I've
lot
surrounded
sport
he shares his
with the community.
he doesn't
his
to the shortstop,
second base, followed by a
first.
and
figures,
his appreciation
"Some people would
Though finicky to grow, these delicatelooking orchid blossoms are among the longest
lasting in the plant world.
still
appreciate
ability,
that way.
It all
even
if
Orchid Passion
Grows from
^
you
comes back
unusual word choice, unless you
that
ball
is
men how
around the baseball
a committed artist
pastel
move a
diamond, Haney
to
- coaching
paint,
"I've
painted and drawn since
"I
went
I
be an
to four
nights a week,
become
was
a
and working into the
to a progressive
wife, Barbara,
up
art
Then one day
"Why
I
didn't just
don't know."
I
The anthropology department
plants since he
morning.
"I've
seen a
lot of sunrises."
I
chair
was
child. "I started
had grandparents who
were gardeners, and
gardens. So
After high school, he gave
life.
a botanist
very young.
art major."
entirely for five years.
David Minderhout may have missed
his calling in
has been growing flowers and other
high school in the '60s that allowed you
to
draws three
starting at about nine
and pencil around the canvas.
kid," says Haney.
paints or
for
When he's
nearly as long as baseball bats.
not showing young
Haney
know
Haney has wielded paintbrushes
Scea
Child hood
an
It's
Tough Flower
orchids.
to what's inside you."
of a successful double play.
to Raise a
fascination in the world's incredible variety of
"Grace," says baseball coach Matt
Haney
Man
Takes a Patient
Anthropology professor David Minderhout finds
at all to their liking,
think you can
work
impressionistic,
still lifes
let that limit
someone's technical
don't
studios
It
own work is
cubism not
1
coached
centers.
for other styles.
but
he's
at private art
including landscapes,
find
to
art
and children
While
Coaching Paint
f
on Canvas
throw
of sunrises."
For the past several years,
and daycare
rifle
about
at
Haney shares his love of
with the young men he coaches,
adults
a quick toss to
week, starting
Just as
room by leather-bound
bouncing grounder
to do."
paints or draws three
nine and working into the morning.
to this
books. "In a way, I'm doing just that."
A
do
not in your control," says
is
Today,
philosopher a well-made book
of
work
letter.
it
in art studio.
try to explain that the drive to
"I
the
wooden
alphabet block revealing the book's
He hasn't stopped creating
He chose Bloomsburg for college
fine paper.
binds are old or serious works, he also
I
loved their
when I was about
parents allowed
me
to
have a
10,
my
little
flower patch," says Minderhout. "They
his
bought him some pens and
got a seed catalog in the winter, and
could pick out
five
I
kinds of seeds to
Playing with Paint
and
plant in the spring."
Pencil
When
That
he's not at the
little
hobby has grown
to
more
baseball coach
Matt Haney can often
than two acres planted with flowers and
be found working
exotic trees at his
field,
his studio.
in
Haney has
been a practicing
in
Buckhorn.
different types
artist
for nearly as long as
he's
home
The garden includes 100
been involved
of roses alone. But spread throughout his
home and nearby greenhouse
with baseball.
bigger surprise
-
is
orchids, nearly
an even
500
in
all.
Attracted by the exotic nature of the
plants,
Minderhout started growing
orchids in 1972 while a graduate student
Georgetown University in Washington,
DC. "When I started, orchids were far
more rare than they are today."
at
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SPRING 1999
Orchids are unusual plants. You
can plant them in shredded bark or even
bowl of broken
a
them
But don't plant
glass.
in soil or they'll die. In the wild,
they grow on other
Parow's passion for physical fitness
Kickboxing
for Balance
didn't
plants, their large
"I
By
Minderhout. "Over watering. People
say
I
I
have a green thumb, but
kill a lot
When
of the plants
I
don't.
try to grow."
I
start.
in
tend to bloom
tropics, so they
from the
November and March and remain
dormant
in the
blossoms
may
summer. While orchid
look delicate, they're
the toughest of flowers.
bloom, you have them
"When
for a
good long
- weeks. Their beauty and
time
have spoiled
And
me
among
they
longevity
for other plants."
the sheer
number
for several lifetimes.
Fran Parow
of different
"Orchids are
believed to be the last evolved of the
determining
how
management
all
more than
and more are
woman's
business
crisp
attire is
the
heart of an athlete
of the time."
six short triathlons
Parow, a certified aerobics
diversity."
David Minderhout has
found his
calling.
Vroom
When
"For me,
numbers, Erik Wynters,
associate professor of mathematics and
computer science, goes for the more physical
thrills of racing motorcycles. He competes in
about a dozen enduro events a year.
to use
my brain,
the physical.
Centennial Gymnasium.
get very tense."
Fran
Parow
workshops
is
I
she find
find
is
I
the
Attitude.
and
I
I
it's
"I
took some
a natural
'I
do
just can't
you have
a lot
lot of
this.'
But most
And when you
more energy
to
do
other things."
Carving at the Kitchen Table
Facts
Ann Diseroad has
people think,
exercise,
movement."
Got the (Tomb)Stone Cold
not possible," says Parow. "A
people can do something.
in kickboxing. For myself,
studied
the history of tombstones for nearly a decade.
She presents her research regularly to the
Association of Gravestone Studies and gives
graveyard tours and talks to community groups.
Library assistant
the time,
"Either putting exercise off or thinking
step aerobics
important, so
punching wasn't
need
biggest obstacle to physical fitness?
wasn't fun anymore," says Parow.
vanety
all
What does
they follow
Parow's quick pace for an intense
felt it
I
I'm just using
If
my brain
"We were doing
but
balance between the mental and
in the
tights,
a stress release
it's
dance studio of
She's
he's not crunching
15 miles of bicycling.
to exercise," says Parow. "I like
Nearly a dozen employees
feel
certainly
to
and aerobic kickboxing
noon
each
a half-mile
swim, 10 kilometer run and 12
time to teach aerobics
anthropologist. Anthropology
human
summer - about
instructor, volunteers her
half-hour workout.
about
started, she didn't
and
competitor. Twice a week,
gather at
to
Parow began running, and
even finished some marathons.
Biking and swimming along
with the triathlons, came next.
Today, she typically competes in
But underneath this
comes to variety, flowers
are no match for humans. "I've always
liked variety. That's probably why I'm an
it
is
Once she
went
started one."
stop.
sweats and
when
workshops and
positions at
25,000
But
aerobics program, so two of us
and
classified.
petite
to
she lived in Indiana, PA,
looking for aerobics. "There wasn't an
the university should be
Clad in sneakers, shorts,
being discovered
human
different staff
flowering plants. There are
different species
a
is
YMCA where
to university employees.
types of orchids can keep any gardener
busy
trade,
the
resources manager responsible for
they do grow, the rewards
can be spectacular. Most orchids are
but she
life,
took charge right from the
Her children grown, Parow went
air.
They can be finicky to grow.
killed the first one I bought," says
sports in high
exercising seriously later in
fleshy roots absorbing moisture directly
from the
grow out of organized
school or college. Instead, she started
far from a block of wood and a knife,
Puhl, associate professor of health,
Never
Ron
physical education
dozens of
and
athletics, creates
wildlife carvings
each year at
his
kitchen table studio.
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A
dot in Upper
was once the door
who ventured
leaders. Some
New York
were dreamers and
faced obstacles,
great success. All
The immigrants
to America.
to this land
Bay, Ellis Island
some achieved
were given a chance.
Today, their descendants are U.S. citizens,
facing their
own
own
struggles, reaching for their
triumphs. These are the leaders of the future.
For the
last
Bloomsburg has helped
body
of students
Until
who
two years
ment
attract a diverse
each year to
program was
largely unstructured, requiring only that
community
work each semester and maintain
requirements. Today, the 60 students in
G.PA.
also take special classes
and
and the university
benefiting from the
new
gives
you
our G.PA.
and
go
He
get involved in
know
I
wouldn't do
mock job
all
of this
service.
if
1
the scholarship qualifications
weren't
who meet
and yearly
requirements. While the program
designed to increase
isn't
and
local
Lambda
need a push into leadership
"A
lot
the only consideration for scholarship
campus
know how
Calvert points out. "But
involved,
students do.
you miss
all
organizations,
to get involved,"
if
you don't
get
kinds of
opportunities."
Because the Board of Governors'
is
racial diversity, race
many
of students are too intimidated
to get involved in
or they don't
tuition for students
at public speaking.
positions but, he says,
I
Board of Governors' scholarships
full
co-president of
also state vice president
is
didn't
in the program."
provide
is
professional business fraternity Calvert
interviews
community
He
president of the Phi Beta
sophomore
"We have to keep up
to
Calvert's
his only outstanding
demonstrates his ease
structure.
goals," says
We
isn't
Bloomsburg's forensics team, where he
are
"The Board of Governors' program
Arrastene Henry.
recipients
in his double major of
and accounting. But
accomplishment.
complete senior scholarly projects. Both
the students
and the
Senior David Calvert will graduate
summa cum laude
finance
program
awarded
first-rate.
specific grade point average (G.PA.)
the
are
incoming freshmen, making
the process competitive
scholarship recipients perform
service
are also taken into account.
Only 15 scholarships
characteristics.
ago, the
community
arts or fine arts,
leadership and high scholastic achieve-
at
demonstrate strong
and academic
leadership
performing
15 years, the Board of
Governors' Scholarship Program
program requires participants
a leadership position for a
awards. Scholarships are also extended to
organization,
first-generation students, regardless of race.
extra
Extraordinary achievement or talent in
and
it
gives
push they need
stay in school.
to
hold
campus
many
students that
to get involved
-
SPRING 199!
"The senior project and community
"The original program was helping
us
attract a diverse
student body, but
service
it
is
our
way
of giving back to the
wasn't helping us keep them," says
community," Quintero notes.
Sydney Howe-Barksdale, director of the
office of social equity and coordinator of
of us get involved in
because
think most
"I
community
service
required by the program, but
it's
we do more than our required hours
we like it. The community and the
the Board of Governors' program.
then
"Students are looking for that other piece
because
-
university really benefit from that."
that support
and
social
network
that
can encourage them and help them make
the
most of
their strengths."
Howe-Barksdale establishes a personal
relationship with each scholar.
Through
regular meetings, special classes
e-mail, the
Senior Board of Governors' scholarship recipients complete scholarly projects
that analyze or address issues affecting
on the Bloomsburg campus.
students
and
For example, one senior,
Board of Governors' scholars
who had
keep in touch with her and keep on track
column
with the program.
that addressed minority issues.
"Sydney
really
fall
let
someone
Howe-Barksdale often works with the
campus
was instrumental
writers.
such subjects
support
networks. Karen Quintero, a junior Board
of Governors' scholar,
it's
organized now,
really gives recipients
up to make them
more competitive
in the work force."
and
done studies about
as personnel policies, cuisine
exercise.
young people who
is
come
in Bloomsburg's
Quintero and
Greek community.
five
others (four of
"I
want
them
to see
how
for a day.
I
Mu
they can be involved,"
Inc., a multicultural sorority.
Armstrong
III is
life,
projects, excel academically.
Some
are
students. Others "maintain
mock
maintain their scholarships.
techniques. "Did
Henry stands out both in the classroom and on the football field. "People say
reflects
me, 'Oh, you're just
a
dumb
fun.
job,
football
to
to
work
challenged
are
Henry.
I'll
do the things
interview over
"I
I
and practiced
and interviewing
learn anything?"
learned a
Now, when I'm ready
them
And I had
lot!
to
look for a
be prepared."
Classes offered through the
program
or time
Also a
that teach critical thinking
management techniques
do prepare these students
senior Julius
future.
But others,
for the
like "History of
Immigration," give them the
opportunity to
"It
was
A
reflect
on
the past.
incredible to learn about the
struggles people
and how
and serve
for other students.
heads up -
Our resumes
their dining etiquette
organizations, Board of
might be
organized now,
anyway."
In a recent
Governors' scholars provide
mentors
well."
competitive in the
dinner, scholars learned
president of
service
it's
I
keep the
to
do
to
The program pushes us
we should do
In addition to involvement in
community
want
G.PA.s well above the requirements to
to
he admits. "But
interviews prepare us for the real thing.
Bloomsburg's Interfratemity Council.
campus
I
a statistic,"
prepared by our sophomore year. Practice
Sigma Upsilon Sorority
leader in Greek
City.
everything in
fit
want
I
"The program, as
Board of Governors' scholars)
founded
to
my grades up,"
hard, because
to get internships.
scholars, in addition to being
Honors Program
tough
force," notes Calvert. "We're
want
ambitiously involved in their organizations
and
and keep
work
"It's
make them more
she explains.
Many
But I'm not going to be
asserts.
really gives recipients the
don't have the
Bloomsburg
to
he
a leader-
opportunity to see a university campus
to
player.'
scholarship and
Quintero s senior project
in
the heads
giving minority students a presence
Charles Lanier (left) and Jamal Stovall gain
perspective on a recent field trip to New York
One wrote and produced
ship day for migrant students.
"The program, as
Getting a View
Another
plays, providing parts for culturally diverse
students. Others have
Multicultural Center to help
own
newspaper
poetry and prose by both famous and
amateur
through the cracks," notes Calvert.
students develop their
in the university
established "Coffee Grounds," a night of
pays attention to
individual students. She won't
an
interest in journalism, established a
far
had
we've
to
go through,
come
since then,"
as
says freshman Stephanie Jones.
scholar
"We've come a long way," agrees
a resident adviser for a
Howe-Barksdale, "but ultimate
residence hall, lead orientation for
Tracking Our Past
inclusiveness
freshmen, or as Karen Quintero has
Members
of the Board of Governors' Scholarship Program and
other Bloomsburg students traveled to New York City to retrace
the steps of yesterday's immigrants as part of an immigrant
working on. The Board of Governors'
experience class taught by Nancy Gentile Ford, associate
professor of history.
move toward
done, incorporate mentoring into a
senior project.
is
something we're
Scholarship Program
is
still
helping us
that goal.
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A small brick building on
Lightstreet Road, classrooms
rented from Bloomsburg Hospital and Columbia-Montour Area
Vocational Technical School, a director and two faculty These
were the humble beginnings of what has grown into one of
Bloomsburg
University's
most successful programs.
This year, the department of nursing observes
anniversary, while the
45 members of
its first
its
25th
graduating
class,
the class of 79, celebrate their 20th.
Yesterday and today...
Top photo: Humble beginnings - the
Next page, lower photo: McCormick
8
original nursing building, previously
v.
writer for
Human
Services
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is
known
as the Boyer Garage
a state-of-the art teaching
facility.
stills
stands as an apartment building on Lightstreet Road.
SPRING 1999
In
Bloomsburgs
allied health sciences,
Bloomsburg focus on nursing and
department of nursing
health sciences. Others agreed.
is
a relatively recent
development. In the
'50s,
Bloomsburg
State
Bloomsburgs
first
nursing director,
1974. Flynn, along with Cole, C. Stuart
Teachers College offered
Edwards, dean of the College of
courses in public health
Professional Studies,
nursing and a bachelors
chair of the chemistry department, began
degree in nursing
to prepare the
education (B.S.N.Ed.),
of nursing.
interested in
working in
the public schools.
Then, in 1965,
Pioneers
the
for the
and the
American Nursing
state licensing
The
first
document
Lauretta Pierce
program
in
hematology/oncology
at
Penn
nursing degree (B.S.N.) would become the
Geisinger, attributes her success in the
the nursing
program
at
by
Bloomsburg.
Gunderman, associate
Bloomsburg
teaches future nurses what she
Annette
(Ritz)
professor of nursing at
University,
learned in the program:
feet
thinking
is
critical,
on-your-
first
nurse specialist in rheumatology
degree for entry into nursing practice.
Public health
and B.S.N.Ed. programs
would be converted and hospital-based
diploma programs would be phased out.
These changes were tied
In the early 70s,
clinical
at
Penn
began
that
to
look
would
and
lead graduates to
At the same time, the
practice nurse.
department,
it
Bloomsburg
at the future
was Bloomsburgs
challenging - even difficult - program that
prepped her for her role as an advanced
State Geisinger, says
to the idea of the
professionalization of nursing.
essential.
Cynthia (Kindler) Matzko, a
it
predicted that a bachelor of science
State
profession to the high expectations set
'85 Proposal,"
also
careers
good jobs.
Commonwealth
required each state college to develop a
10-year plan. James Cole, of the biology
now program
coordinator for
by the
college
board of nursing.
in
September 1975, and
became the
look 20 years into the
Dubbed "The
Herman
students were admitted into
verify prescriptions.
future.
new department
the curriculum for approval
the
(Reed) Snyder, a case manager
Barrett Benson,
In January 1975, Alice
Association produced a
that tried to
way
and
joined Flynn. Together they developed
early nursing class learns to use the Medications Kardex. Even in
today's high-tech world, nurses still refer to the printed Kardex to
Dawn
allied
Gertrude Flynn, was hired in September
primarily for nurses
An
suggested that
160-year history, the
third faculty
member. The
IMI
nursing
department
was established
and
a
home
was needed.
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"The program
surveyed one and three years
needed Flynn's
graduating. Their employers are surveyed
strong personality
as well.
in order to gain
after
"Our department may have one of the
support and be
closest
successful."
Alichnie, current chair of the department
In the
of
fall
1984, McCormick
Center for
Services
Human
opened
webbed
faculties," says Christine
of nursing, "because each of our courses
depends on one another.
When
changes
by the industry must be made,
they must be made rapidly And every
reflected
and became the
change made
much-welcomed,
those in the senior year."
affects initial
courses through
consolidated
facility for
nursing.
Faculty offices and
classrooms are
Reporting for Duty
now housed on
From the very beginning, Bloomsburg's nursing students went out into the field
for hands-on experience as part of their nursing practicum. (Photo circa 1980)
one
third-floor
wing, and
Previously
known
as the
Boyer Garage,
the building located across from the steam
plant
had been used
for
maintenance
The construction
conference
practice
room and
home," Pierce acknowledges.
of office walls, a
areas for basic clinical
completed the transformation into
nursing headquarters. Pierce recalls
we
behind schedule and Dr. Flynn
little
was handy with
tools!"
advantages and disadvantages of that
offices
windows and
real
rained, buckets
from the
were needed
ceiling.
first
were private and had
doors. But
when
the start, a
practitioners employers look
bedside doesn't necessarily
for.
mean
And
Model Students
the
bed anymore. Today, nurses are
care anywhere - home, clinic,
hospital
key
to
Models have always played a part in nursing
education, as this class learns in the nursing
department's first home, the Boyer Garage.
(Photo circa 1980)
industrial setting. Service trends are
strongly
community
oriented.
Gunderman, who joined
Early course offenngs included large
to catch drips
The physical separation
meant dashing across a busy Lightstreet
Road - there wasn't a pedestrian bridge
It
-
From
Bloomsburg meant expertly
trained, hands-on nurses. With heavy
emphasis on clinical experience,
it
from the main campus created challenges.
yet
regardless of the setting.
graduates are the skilled bedside
The faculty soon grew to include
Mary Carl, Marie Parnell, Maureen Hare
and Dorette (Dee) Welk. Welk, now a
senior faculty member, remembers
home. "The
The nursing program has always been
dedicated to the role of the practitioner,
B.S.N, from
pitching in with the painting, "because
were a
miles of campus. "As our reputation grew,
so did clinical opportunities closer to
department trucks and shipping and
receiving.
clinical
undergraduates are within 40
sites for
broken down into
12-credit classes
modules. Today, courses range from three
to eight credits.
regularly, to
Curriculum
is
redesigned
adapt to changing trends in
the health care industry. Graduates are
or getting in a car to attend meetings
knowledge in the
of
new
points out,
to
keep up-to-date."
In the '80s,
placements was also challenging. Students
HIV issues caused
faculty traveled as far as Lancaster,
communicable
disease. Gloves, at
time thought insulting
tearful
one
when worn
every patient, are
students, worried about their long drives,
"We
couldn't say, We'll phase this
would be met with
We
is
Flynn's determined
on!"
to
and a new program at
meant competition for faculty,
hospital schools,
equipment and resources," Welk
to say, 'Today
we wear
in.'
gloves.'"
Welk remarks. Health-care changes
"The area was primarily devoted
the college
had
to
now routine.
treat
charge, "Clinical
swift
changes in measures of protection from
Harrisburg and Chambersburg. Invariably,
would snow on Sunday night and
"Whole new generations of
drugs that weren't available six months
In the beginning, coordinating clinical
it
Using the number
field.
medications as an example, she
ago require both students and instructors
or get to class."
and
the faculty
in 1991, describes the explosion of
says.
Caring
A
is
a Constant
maternal and child health experience has been a
feature of the program from the start. Here, early
nursing students wear a unique mortar board cap
distinguishing them as bachelor's degree
candidates. (Photo circa 1980)
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such
as these precipitate revisions,
not only in instruction
itself,
but also
in instructional materials such as
videos, textbooks
and supplies.
SPRING 1999
Christine Alichnie,
chair of the
department of
nursing, sees a
growing demand
for
community
based
services.
community. As part of
their maternal
and child health course, students make
a home visit to a new mother and her
baby within 24 hours of leaving the
hospital.
Other practicums include
care in nursery schools
promotion in housing
at
and health
for the elderly.
The challenge right now is the speed
which people move through the health-
care system. Nurses have to learn to
What can
address tough questions quickly:
I
do during
the brief time this patient
my care? What
The trend toward managed health
care
in nursing education. Recent
is felt
curriculum changes
this.
For example,
it
at the university reflect
offers
an upper-level
course in leadership and management,
which addresses
issues
patients need?
The
kind of teaching do
What
follow-up
practitioner today
that the person
is
no
ill,
in
required?
is
must keep
less
is
my
in
mind
but the
^A Symbol of
circumstances under which they will
become
well again are very different.
Following the industry's thrust
such as finance,
continued advanced practice, the depart-
organization design. Nurses, because of
ment
their diverse
background
in sociology,
psychology and families, as well as the
sciences,
health
fill
the role of
of nursing instituted a master of
1983 which has graduated 43 students.
The B.S.N, program graduates 55
60
a year for a total of
1
"Because nursing
is
Nursing education
147 since 1979.
not education of
at
encourages commitment, teaches
we have
versatility
be
futuristic in
our curriculum
planning," Alichnie says. Trends
increased
service.
demand
for
show
community-based
For example, early hospital
discharge puts the need out in the
and
flexibility,
move forward
with the changes in health care
something
part of that tradition, nursing
symbolic ceremony This pin
at a
ties
to
nurses everywhere.
itself.
Excellent training for excellent practice
it's
As
Bloomsburg graduates professionally
while
challenging the clinician to
nursing profession.
graduates receive a special pin
Bloomsburg
the individual for today but for the future,
vital part in the
to
Today, there are 23 faculty members.
case manager.
to
Tradition has always played a
science in nursing (M.S.N.) degree in
can understand the whole
continuum and
'Tradition
for
economics, staffing patterns and
The
-
to celebrate.
first
nursing pin was
presented in the United States in 1880
at the
Nightingale School of Nursing
at Bellevue Hospital in
Since then, every
new school
nursing has created
Designed by
class of nurses in
New York City
its
own
its first
of
pin.
graduating
1979, Bloomsburg
University's distinctive nursing pin
features the school colors,
maroon
and gold, and a Nightingale flame,
which
signifies
enlightenment,
new
knowledge and new experience.
On
the torch base, below B.S.N.,
bachelor of science in nursing,
is
the
From Veteran to Student
Annette Gunderman, associate professor of nursing and a member of the first graduating class of nurses at
Bloomsburg, demonstrates ventilation to senior Michael Scholtis in the Simulated Learning Lab.
Latin inscription qualitae dedkat
-
dedicated to quality
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Go
ahead.
Ask George Yankay
Chances are pretty good
Whether
it's
Stadium or the
Field
At
House
home
official
the press
box
Redman
at
scorers' table in the
arena,
football
Yankay
Nelson
usually there.
is
games, he helps the
When basketball season begins,
and time
details like points, fouls
Yankay
a fervent sports fan
is
because the
view,
all
Bloomsburg
work is
says Yankay. "By being a
Husky Club,
I
school for
the
all
feel
watching the teams
play.
people to work with in
involved
my
my way,"
of the
member
raffles,
efforts,
they did
last
nearly $185,000.
I'm helping a high-
In one
Huskies' games, helping
at
one of
all
the enjoyment
I
many
'We
year
the inner workings of
the auction
or offering
staff
"I
do
as
many
events
if it
a university
member and
at
what
and make
secretary for the
for the last 13 years.
it
happen. I'm over-
whelmed by
the
work they
Ted Kocher, an
director of
do."
assistant
development
at
Bloomsburg, also works
Husky Club.
no typical Husky
closely with the
"There are
all
make
effort
golf
how
goes into
don't
know how hard
genuine relationship
gave
raising.
it is
me
People
to pull
everything together."
Girton and her husband Gary, a big
own
sports fan,
Napoli Pizza, a small
and take-out located on East
restaurant
campus. And while she doesn't
know much about lay ups or
Street near
profess to
penalty corners, she
opportunity
don't
it's
many
jumps
at a
volunteer
don't envy. She likes to
money.
raise
"I
have
was amazed
those events
"It really
an education about fund
Club members," says
Kocher, "but they
takes to
it
happen," says Mary.
development
"They get behind each project
MAGAZINE
and
each event.
Husky Club
a
much
-
couldn't
Bedosky
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experienced first-hand
the teams play."
as
weren't for the volunteers," says Joy
annual fund-raising events
she was an
undergraduate. She
outings and saw
way or another, every Husky
Club member scores. Volunteering at
feel
the school for
Husky Club
through an internship
get from watching
class organization."
I
of the
would not have
a
much
and
Girton got a taste
feel
I
when
the club
raised as
great school,
financial concerns.
I'm giving back to
volunteers
and
would have no
of the
throughout
Without
'97
the scholarship fund
Husky Club,
several other fundraisers
and energy she
Husky Club could be
By being a
It
supporting these
There are great
It's
for the
support
Mary Girton
for
an auction and
the year.
from
get
athletics.
money
tournaments,
I'm giving back to the
I
the enthusiasm
exudes
common
their financial
converted to money,
sponsors golf
member
enjoyment
If
in 1974,
is
teams by
scholarships.
Mills, gets
its
programs.
The Husky Club, founded
a
and
coming
for student-athletes."
raising
rewarding. "From
the benefits are
university contribute to the success of
outs.
Like other members, Yankay, a vice
at
denominator
athletic
committed Husky Club member.
president
with Bloomsburg. The one
funds - these enthusiastic friends of the
supports university
he's the
scorekeeper, keeping track of important
know.
he'll
financial support for athletic scholarship
athletic
timekeeper operate the scoreboard.
for the score.
guess I'm unusual in the sense
mind asking someone
for a
for
worthy cause. For both
I
money,
my
if
SPRING 1999
"1
went
to
my
when was
I
These four members agree that one
first
Bloomsburg game
1959
in
of the
says Wingate.
"My
would bring me
Husky Club
father
to the games.
Magee's Main Street Inn, because
it
board members
to
After missing a few years
down
because of college,
dinner
I
started
attending games again in
1980.
I
joined the Husky
1
wanted
It's
sit
informally with senior athletes. "The
is
an opportunity
you
four years later
see
matured into young
to
help out a good school with
good teams.
gives
to get to
know
away from
these youngsters arrive as freshman,
to all the basketball
Club because
unique chance
is
by
the playing field," says Yankay. 'You see
I
games.
a
the student-athlete in a setting
Now bnng my
daughter
highlights each year
the senior send-off dinners sponsored
nine years old,"
something
that process
is
how
adults.
and
they have
Being part of
definitely rewarding."
I
Keeping Score
enjoy,
Husky Club secretary Joy Bedosky and president
Rob Wingate
and
I
encourage others
to get involved."
track the success of a club event.
Wingate's sales ability
husband and me, Bloomsburg University
athletics is
worthwhile, and we're glad
to help."
"We have
sports,
who
lots of athletes,
from
all
are regulars," says Gary.
"The
nice thing about getting to
know
the
coaches and the athletes
that
now
is
I
consider them friends. That's one benefit
of working for the
Husky Club
that can't
be measured."
Rob Wingate, an insurance broker
in
nearby Danville, serves as president of
the
Husky Club advisory board, which
a
member
for
past six years, Wingate, a
all
profits the club generates, help
provide
than
that.
athletics for
other
approximately $340,000 in scholarships
that
were awarded
to
about 230 students
involved with athletics this year.
"Without the financial support of
Husky Club, we wouldn't be able to
offer as many scholarships as we do
now," says Mary Gardner, the university's
director of athletics. "And the countless
the
hours the volunteers donate each year
is
tremendous."
That support goes both ways,
only the
Columbia
University graduate, has been a fan of
Bloomsburg
a
raffle
drawings. Those proceeds, and
oversees fund-raising events.
Although
makes him
natural for the club's 50/50 or
much
longer
according to Mary Girton. "She [Gardner]
is
dedicated to the total student-athlete.
You can
see she genuinely
team member
makes me
feel
wants each
to earn a degree.
Husky Club Regulars
That
Gary and Mary Girton can be found working
behind the scenes at many Husky Club events.
good about helping."
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By David Pearson
As she wipes the sweat from her eyes,
'02 catches her breath and
hopes
one more nice shot
to pull out
to
With a lunge to her right,
she connects on a forehand shot that just
climbers, appropriate equipment and
"We work with people
ranging from total
The Community Government
Association
won
Has she
beginners to serious
the U.S. Open, or the
NCAA championship? Hardly.
This
Bloomsburg University intramural
But don't
event
they've
it
less
Only
when
in before.
they're
They
on the
space for recreational sports.
provide a dramatic increase in available
The
is,
students
who
like to train,
who
compete, but
and possibly
approaching
birthday and has
fast
other universities.
Its
its
become
a
including 6,000 square
David
assists director
tasks.
total
in between," she says.
a great place for people to
come
model
for
facilities,
feet of fitness
equipment and
There's
fitness
to the
Director of the Student Recreation Center
SRC
component. The SRC
These extracurricular
on
varsity
teams
than
its
and a
have access to racquetball, basketball,
teams and groups, such as fencing,
the field of exercise science staff the
SRC.
member of the Huskies'
football team, but when he's not blitzing
quarterbacks, you can find him performing
Scott Dietrich
fitness
is
a
assessments and writing exercise
prescriptions.
"The Rec Center provides a
great opportunity for majors
exercise science
program
experience in our
field,"
from the
to get practical
remarks Dietrich.
facility.
excited about the possibilities
envision
a
"™
of our faeililie:
"1
would
lik
to incorporate athletics
Other unique
and academics
into
our
programs, for example, the university
program without
losing
police-directed Rape Aggression Defense
sight of our focus
on
classes, are also
The
spirit
held
at
the SRC.
providing recreational
and resources of the SRC
have branched out into related
Recently, a fifty-foot climbing wall
opportunities for
our students."
areas.
completed on the upper campus
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holistic
approach for fa*
and the dance ensemble,
practice at the
Undergraduate students interested in
and physical
I
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Pearson.
miscellaneous athletic equipment.
is
recreational programs.
who
and
to practice
bachelor's degree in health
education al West Chester University.
Pearson
in organized sports. Various
volleyball
He earned
for building on Bloomsburg's existing
activities
compete
dance studio and
Bloomsburg, David
athletics al Princeton University.
also services
variety of activities. In addition, students
volleyball, a
(o
a master's degree in athletics administration
provide opportunities for students
aren't
coming
Before
Pearson was assistant events manager for
intramural and student-directed club
sports.
a
more
David Pearson
"It's
to learn
about exercise and get motivation from
offer a full line of cardiovascular
training
and
everyone around them."
fourth
comprehensive
programming and outstanding
One of Bloomsburg's newest facilities,
SRC provides an ideal home base for
the university's recreational sports offerings.
beginners to serious competitive athletes
and everything
aren't varsity-level
Center (SRC) addresses those needs.
is
teaches aerobics
"We work with people ranging from
athletes? Bloomsburg's Student Recreation
The SRC
Graduate assistant Connie Root
Pearson with daily administrative
what's available for those
question
the
helps organize personal training sessions,
a small percentage of students
and strength
everything in between."
give
still
court.
play for university varsity teams.
rooms,
competitive athletes and
important than any other
competed
their all
are expected to be ready for student
use by spring 2000. These fields will
these competitors that this
tell
any
is
which
is
tennis.
(CGA) has funded four new
recreational fields, complete with lights,
squeaks past her opponent. That's the one
it!
open
time for recreational climbing are available.
seal the victory
she needed. She's done
from experienced
area. Instruction
Debra Frantz
was
to serve
students' outdoor adventure needs.
The
wall adjoins the established high ropes
course to provide a recreational challenge
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eclectic collection of tables
Hot
chairs.
coffee
and
an
early arrivals rearrange
and
tea are seized informally in
playfully
mismatched Fiesta ware, while amicable
banter
is
exchanged among old friends and new
guests.
With a
Emporium,
subtle touch, Phillips
located in the former F.W.
Woolworih building on
Main
is
Street,
Bloomsburg,
transformed into the
FIVE AND DIME CUETURAL CENTER.
JoAnne Growney and Helen
Grirfiih
rounded the Five and Dime
Cultural Center, a non-profit organization, in September 1997. Twice
weekly
Emporium,
at Phillips
it
presents educational and cultural
programs such as poetry readings, an
children's
museum, book
discussions,
art
auction to benefit the local
and
a slide-illustrated
introduction to the rich heritage ol Florentine
art.
Growney, a Bloomsburg professor emerita of mathematics and
computer
Griffith,
and director of the
science,
owner of
the
storefront space for a bookstore.
to
run a business,
"
Growney
"1
events.
remembers,
"I
wanted
first
of using
was more
people
to
approached
some
love a bookstore, but
recalls. "1
social aspect of creating a place for
Griffith
cultural center,
emporium, with the idea
I
of the
didn't
want
interested in the
to gather."
promote the
arts
and
cultural
Our purpose was to answer a need that we perceived was here
The rationale for the. name? "I felt it would be nice to
in this region."
tie
it
into the fact that there
had been
a
dime
store here for so
many
Terry Riley, associate professor of English and director of the
Bloomsburg University writing
center, attends events at the cultural
center as frequently as his schedule permits.
keep us separate." he remarks. "But
there's
an opportunity
to
share similar interests."
"Our work
at the Five
meet people
who
lives too often
and Dime events,
are outside
your
circle,
who
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Growney
Author Karen Blomain, a recently
featured reader at the Five
and Dime,
poetry
my
says, "Poetry is enjoying a national
when writing
reflects, "I find
my
mother
is
a great source,
father's death, too, in the
resurgence. People thirst for content, for
mystery associated with
ways of thinking about and sharing
relationships that changed."
their
experiences and hearing from others
on
are
same
the
who
JoAnne,
quest.
who
Without people
like
so generously devotes her
In her junior
it
and the
and senior years of
high school, Growney was inspired by a
flamboyant math teacher
who had
time to bringing writers to Bloomsburg,
attended Vassar. "There were a
such a dialogue would be impossible."
women
Growney modestly
"It's
got to be said that
made
and
sense of the
from
number
of
my class who went on to
credits Gnffith,
my activity has been
possible by Helens generosity."
Before her involvement with the
cultural center, in 1994,
Growney
co-
founded River Poets with Richard Brook,
professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg.
Janet Locke, anthropology department
secretary, serves as the
secretary, treasurer
and
groups
unofficial
With no
historian.
formal organizational structure, they have
established a planning committee that
meets periodically
to schedule readers
and
A Home
for Art
Art students Alex Troychock
events for the second Tuesday of each
month
at
the
emporium.
one of these events
group of individuals -
Participation in
reveals a diverse
(left),
and Cortney Van Jahnke
used Phillips Emporium to stage an art
auction to benefit the Bloomsburg
Alisa Sickora
Children's
Museum.
devoted to exploring ideas. Eighty-year-
all
old Beatrice Ermisch learned of River Poets
through her local newspaper.
could come, so
I
"It
said
you
came," she remembers.
Ermisch eventually overcame her
"bashfulness," emceeing the popular
Dead
Poets reading and delivering a'flawless
Orphan Annie" by
Her involvement
supportive community of writers
recitation of "Little
James Whitcomb
with
this
Riley.
has encouraged her to write her
"so
my two
kind of
life
grandchildren will
we
life story,
know what
Classr
lived," she says.
Mary tsetn bimmons
one of many Bloomsburg faculty who
participate in programs at the Five and
Dime Cultural Center. Here, she makes
a dramatic presentation at the Dead
English instructor
As
a child
growing up on a family
is
farm in rural Indiana, Pennsylvania,
Growney wrote poetry and
"I
wanted
to
be a
short stories.
writer," she recalls,
Poets Reading.
but
she was never
consumed with a passion
to become one. Her family's life took a
dramatic turn when her father, who had
contracted rheumatic fever as a boy and
suffered from an enlarged heart, died
when Growney was
When Daddy
major
in
didn't
know
Growney intended
I
could do
was milk
white tears.
in
math
better than chemistry, so
switched." She
first
leaning close for comfort,
filling the pail with
major
I
I
liked
continued to write. In 1961, while an
undergraduate
the cow,
to
as
chemistry in college, "but,
also
All
we just
math wasn't regarded
women."
that
a discipline for
nine years old.
Died
mathematics, because
at
Westminster, she
won
prize for fiction in the student literary
journal, The Scrawl, for a short
work
entitled, "Nostalgia."
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"The Phillips name goes back to the early 1800s," says Helen
Phillips Griffith,
owner of Phillips Emporium.
believe that
"I
when my
great-grandmother's [Mary Gross Phillips'] father died in a train accident,
she used some of the
own name,
her
Mary
cafe's
buy
insurance to
man
this building.
owned
the building.
gilded inscription
is
She bought
it
in
signing for her, in the spring of 1886."
Phillips operated a cafe, Phillips Cafe
of the time she
the
life
without any
An
and Bakery, during part
antique porcelain pitcher bearing
displayed behind the counter of
its
present
day namesake.
As a
child, Griffith
moved
close ties to Bloomsburg.
to Arlington, Virginia,
began
"I
to help
but she maintained
my mother with the
business,"
was only a real estate aspect at that time - rentals of
student apartments and Woolworth's, which occupied this [storefront]
recalls Griffith, "It
space for sixty years."
economic impact created by
same day my aunt and her children
were mailed a copy of the contract for me to buy their share of the
building, Woolworth's called and said they had changed their mind and
Griffith personally felt the devastating
the retail chain's departure.
were not going
"On
the
to stay."
Griffith fortuitously
opening
Phillips
become
a
kept a comer of the vacant storefront for herself,
Emporium
in October of 1990. Since then,
community resource
for
it
has
such diverse offerings as cultural and
educational programs, gourmet coffee, live music, Birkenstocks footwear,
writing workshops, biscotti, and Scorned
The atmosphere can be
totally non-retail," says Griffith. "I
Growney married
her bachelors degree.
"I
at
at night,
and
that
I
the time
I
go
didn't plan to
"My
to graduate school," she says.
husband
Charlie Brennan, a department
the year she earned
was going
colleague for
to school
could take a couple of courses." The
couple of courses led to a masters degree
solving
children: Kristen, Todd, Eric,
Growney
and Diann.
doesn't hesitate to acknowledge
thing I've ever done." But as her children
became independent, another
she says,
writing,
"I
A doctoral
to write
more."
28 years of teaching, Growney
from Bloomsburg University in
1997. "One of the things
accomplished
at
I
feel like
Bloomsburg
is
I
what mathematical
8
skills,"
student with
Oklahoma and
he
cold
winds howl
says.
geese go south
Growney
innovative teaching strategy. "She
concerned with math majors'
temperatures fall low
says, "to
toboggans slide
ability to
put their problem-solving
sun hides
down
ice coats
sun glows
hillsides
June waits
groundhogs hibernate
wood-fires flame
techniques and strategies into words."
Growney
snowmen grow
ponds freeze
was
write about the mathematical process,"
June waits
nights long
later a colleague at
raspberries ripen
catbird sings
iris
blooms
practiced the principles
she advocated in the classroom, serving
as poetry editor for
days bright
The Humanistic
streams play
June dreams
holiday picnics catch flies
wheat
thrives
crickets chirp
Mathematics Network, an organization
tomato plants climb
which she says
affirms the idea that
streams dance
class,"
literacy connotes."
humanistic manner, paying attention
to all the
June plays
just the needs of the
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December and June
class
catbird sings
she says. "The debate rages in mathematics
as to
poems, Growney
"mathematics should be taught in a
the
development of the math thinking
"It's
emotive components of language.
Bloomsburg, Jim Pomfret describes her
he
spend more time
worn.
look like somebody's home."
blends the logic of mathematics with the
transition
children were grown,"
started to
and wanted
After
retired
my
"The math thinking
ability.
most rewarding
that "being a parent is the
emerged. "Once
years, agrees, citing the
develop problem-solving
at
she also raised four
this to
uses mathematical situations as a vehicle to
Oklahoma.
this time,
want
aptitude directly correlates with problem-
from Temple University and a Ph.D. from
During
Salsa.
In her mathematical
popular misconception that mathematical
thought while he was doing
the University of
27
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affectionately described as gently
1
left
warm*
brain."
to 10, then
10
to 1. into
prime factors. For example,
line six
has phrases of lengths two syllable and three syllables,
SPRING 1999
"Mathematics
poetry, in the
is like
sense of putting a substantial
meaning on
a
amount
of
hundreds of thousands of dollars put
few symbols," Growney
into the
notes.
During her tenure
Growney served
at
Bloomsburg,
as acting provost
the opening of the
and
first
to
June 1984. She was
director of
Bloomsburg
vacancy
Center (T.A.L.E.). "JoAnne created ways
find out
what the needs were," says
to
Riley.
"She elevated T.A.L.E. to a position of
When John
Fetterman began
Bloomsburg, he charged a quarter
and 15 cents
give
him
a
for
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Beatrice Ermisch
(left) and
JoAnne Growney
have found
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and Dime
Cultural Center.
old,
he
still
emphatically.
where
1
can't
Jean.
creative projects
include a collection of poetry,
published in 1993. She
is
for
for a general
book
of poetry,
chapbooks - smaller
and two
collections of
approximately 25 pages, typically devoted
to a single theme.
Still
it
convention,
Growney
New
fiction
School in
New
York. She has also applied for admission
to
New York University's
Arts program for the
1994
Master of Fine
a
web
address
[http://www.sunlink.net/~growney/]
links visitors to the Five
and Dime
Cultural Center's current calendar of events
of her poems.
he says
full text retrieval
of several
now
Emporium owner
after living
away
home, near downtown.
on.
town
is
28
for
years.
district celebrated
year
by hosting
'99. Initially
proposed by
Nancy and Don Firestone, the
planning effort was chaired by
Steve
Bevans of the Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble, with four committees and
countless volunteers working for two
make
the event a success.
"There's a
Other
of caring about
one of the reasons
says Jean. "Bloomsburg
getting bigger,
It's
getting busier, but
town
FW Woolworth
new
the arrival of the
years to
moving
Dollar General
The downtown
restoration of their historic Fifth Street
is
A
occupies the long-vacant
storefront of the old
Bloomsburg
They've recently completed a
feeling in this
and
building.
returned to Bloomsburg
it still
the
local
developments include
Bloomsburg Public
Library's
expansion and renovation, the
construction of three
new downtown
it's
has the small-
public parking
lots,
and the trend of
popular Main Street restaurants to
feel to it."
The downtown, which
offer diners the seasonal alternative of
is
designated as part of the Bloomsburg
a sidewalk cafe.
Barber John Fetterman springs
has experienced an
Flistoric District,
and provides
"1
fall.
Growney maintains
which
week.
the way, are distant
Griffith),
Perk, the Cloak
Italian Kitchen.
Store
Groner and her husband,
we came back,"
recently completed
an online hypertext poetry and
course through The
in
it,"
Town
Dragon Bookstore, and Balzano's
At 80 years
a
Al's
Sub Shop.
Recent arrivals include Bloomiri
Bagels,
and
Berrigan's
be a sad day."
will
each other. This
refusing to be confined by
now
"When I get to the point
come down here in the
cousins of Phillips
Helen
currently working with three manuscripts:
one
Hardware, Eppleys Pharmacy,
the barber's shave
enjoy every minute' of
Law (who, by
Intersections,
Fetterman
works four days
Jewelry Store, Hess' Tavern, Cole's
Mens Shop, and
him
safety razors, electric shavers,
morning,
Growney s other
years.
in the 1990s, that's
Magee's Main Street Inn, Sneidman's
charges six dollars for a haircut, but
to the annals of the past.
their writing
through the
J.
faithfully for
downtown
by such enduring establishments as
change.
momentarily in a vintage Koken
barber chair-that's served
y
"For a
There are approximately 140
Today, between haircuts, he rests
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back
program manager and former director
hand. Expertly wielding his black
of the
downtown
division of the
Bloomsburg Area Chamber of
Commerce,
a
approximately four'
rale of
businesses on Main Street, anchored
50-cent piece and expect
10 cents to be returned
•
profitable
really good."
for a shave.
His post-Depression patrons would
her creative approaches."
•
afier
Mall,
percent since 1995," notes Clausen.
to
downtown
ply his trade as a barber in
a haircut
prominence on campus through
great
decade
downtown. "Bloomsburg has held
University's
and departments
A
Columbia
and
a vital, diverse
also the
Teaching and Learning Enhancement
of canvassing faculty
in the last 10
Bloomsburg has successfully preserved
vice-president of academic affairs from
July 1983
downtown
years," says Clausen.
says
many
businesses
to his feet,
plastic
another customer
comb and
declares business
silver clippers,
is
belter than
with a mischievous grin.
improvement
getting better at this."
been
he
it's
ever been. "I'm gelling older," he says
have taken advantage of a facade
grant. "There's
at
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must be
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Amy Griffin
is
'cheerfully flipping through her small
crooning
through her headphones. Kelly Bordner
all
is
powdered sugar down
would you
freshman history and
major, Blass
is
new
seriousness as she reads her
semester and
presentation, over a tiny chair-
fellow students as
desk, to teammate Brenda Ey.
"Does that sound
and no
barely 8 a.m.,
hours of
weren't
sleep.
up
late
No, they
interpretation
and
morning
finds
Bloomsburg's top-notch forensics
Morgan
State University in
Baltimore for an individual events
tournament, one of about
dozen they
semester.
a half
will participate in this
And
compete -
the
nervous.
we need
to clean
to fellow
Griffin
team member
Rich Blass,
has a
who
trail
of
and
it off. "It's
speak
to
now shows no
a lot
really
evidence of
donut mishap. His teammates approve.
"We were up
until
who
two practicing
major David
has been participating in
forensics competitions since high school.
The co-president of
the team, he
is
smiling and affable, betraying no signs of
nervousness or lack of sleep. In a world
where public speaking
more than
death, these
is
often feared
young people
are remarkably calm.
Griffin, the team's other co-president,
is
you up!" exclaims
how
pieces," says senior finance
they are ready to
almost.
"Oh,
well." His face
his
He
just start talking
and you leam
Calvert,
informative speeches. This
early Saturday
of fun,
partying
they were practicing prose
at
little
I
this
by
introvert.
I'm fine," he says, shrugging
one has had more than four
team
team
to the
an
A
political science
characterized
"Eventually,
she asks.
It's
is
admits to being a
right?"
"Why
his chin.
take a powdered donut?"
also
jitters,
seemingly
immune
to
pre-speech
having participated in countless
events since joining the team as a
freshman.
"I
beforehand.
had no experience
I
just
knew
it
wasn't dead
bodies!" she says.
"When you go out on
we love
of people say, 'Oh,
the circuit, a lot
Bloomsburg!'
We're just a really positive team. We're not
just out for the awards." All the
Calm Before the Competition
David Calvert, co-president of the
forensics team, has learned to stay
cool before a tournament.
team
SPRING 1999
members
Ey hopes her experience
agree that in addition to the
will benefit
her as
practical skills they've learned, they've
she begins the job interview process after
enjoyed their weekend jaunts to other
graduation.
and the new
colleges
Harry Strine
III,
director of forensics,
echoes these sentiments. "Our goal here
Bloomsburg
better
communicators - not just
and win," he
says.
we
Indeed, the Bloomsburg
members
is
lot.
to
is
a
Morgan
State
participating in multiple events,
from
communication
analysis
father at
it
so
is
and debate.
All
complaining. "Since you love
much, you
Calvert.
"It
find time
somehow," says
sometimes gets pretty
office assistant in
hectic."
came
Bloomsburg
to
Hayden
really great
now
'74. "He's terrific.
program up
He
there."
Hayden
is
at
Morgan
State, a
left
testament to
by
Participants in this event are given a
quote
'nice doggie' until
program, and
it
I
between events, Calvert
He
more
which he says went
"Extemp," in forensics parlance,
events.
Speech Tournament, which students
organized and ran the weekend before.
well.
spend
reviewing current
When competition time
comes,
how
in the
are tired but satisfied. Their
tournament, the
won
team award
first
this semester. Individually,
come away with
first-place
awards, including Griffins
impromptu and communication
spend only 30 minutes preparing
minute speech.
extemp performance. The newcomers
also performed extremely well - Blass
a seven-
took
fifth overall
pizza.
partner
also organizes a novice
in the informative
and Ey took
Adam
place
Nichols.
"Although individual accomplish-
ments
interested students get a chance to
see ourselves excel as a
It
first
duo event with
competition each September where
out forensics in a somewhat
of
analysis
speeches. Calvert took third for his
in the dramatic
competitive atmosphere.
number
a
they draw three topics, choose one and
out tournament logistics to finding
try
it, it
they have
did everything from
on donuts and
do
hard work has earned them second place
category,
The team
to
a lot easier," she says.
coaching other students and figuring
the best deal
a rock."
you become
At the end of the day, the Bloomsburg
they've
is
particularly grueling. Competitors
many hours each week
unruffled. "As
is
teammates
financial
the art of saying
is
you find
familiar with
becomes
talks
has just completed an
crisis in Brazil,
is
She
think
really benefits students."
extemporaneous speech on the
Hatter
"Diplomacy
Bloomsburg experience. "They've always
Strine.
This competition comes on the
They then have seven minutes
and present a speech. Griffin's
quotation.
had
a really strong
first
now
is
preparing an impromptu speech.
to prepare
his
having completed her
Griffin,
event, prose interpretation,
casually about his favorite stock picks with
not just to go out
and win."
Team members
runs a
the assistant director of the forensics
In
eommunicators -
own Mad
Keeping Score
Jennifer Stratton tabulates scores at Bloomsburg's
Mad Hatter Speech Tournament.
"Harry was one of my coaches," says
Carl
it
better
for
coach until 1976,
continues to be a quality program.
to help people
heels of Bloomsburg's
1970
in
Then he became
when he was promoted to the director of
the program. He has a long line of fans.
the lasting impression
"Our goal here
at Bloomsburg is
my surrogate
Bloomsburg. Anything you need,
a one-year appointment.
program
become
an
Professor Strine can help."
the events require hours of preparation,
but no one
as
full-time varsity debate
persuasive and extemporaneous speaking
to
who works
the forensics department in addition to her
Strine
tournament
and
coach. "Everyone loves Mr. Strine," says
Each of the 12 team
at the
behind the
their adviser
is
duties as co-president. "He's
get here."
bunch
of the driving forces
forensics team's success
Griffin,
go out
"We've always been
fortunate with the students
motivated
at
become
to help people
is
One
friends they've met.
less
are very valuable,
we want
to
team because
that brings the greatest sense of
was
accomplishment," says Calvert,
certainly a confidence booster for
who sounds just
senior marketing major Brenda Ey,
disappointed with the second-place
and she decided
to join the
team
at
finish.
the beginning of her last semester.
"I
won
first
place in the
"It's
a lot of fun,
are great.
and
There are such a wide
variety of experiences
team
you can
get."
Amy
Griffin (left), forensics
team co-president,
coach and adviser Harry Strine
competing at Morgan
it all,"
leader,
III
for guidance
State, Baltimore.
relies on the team's
and pointers before
close to
he laments. But as
he never loses sight of
what the team
A Winning Team
the people
"We were very
capturing
first
tournament," she says proudly.
the slightest bit
is
about.
"Our main
we
don't want
become the sole priority of
our team - we want to have fun."
goal
is
to
do
well,
but
that to
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and the lesson
Now know
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Leah Weisbeck,
senior majoring in
a
I'll
to
prepare
Bloomsburg University
math and secondary education. Although
she won't actually student teach until next year, Weisbeck
already has
more on-the-job
experience than
many
training
and hands-on classroom
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Weisbeck
a participant in the
is
Bloomsburg University/ Danville Area
School District Middle School Inclusion
Project,
one of
several innovative
programs
by members of Bloomsburg's
education faculty and funded through
initiated
almost $50,000 in grants from the
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Offices Higher Education Initiatives.
Robert Gates, associate professor of
curriculum and foundations, and assistant
dean
for the
School of Education,
coordinates the project. Others include
Bloomsburg Transition Partners and
Bloomsburg Transition Partners/ Independent
Living, directed
by Cynthia Schloss and
Partners in Leadership Training: Merging
Partners
and Regular Education
Special Education
Administration Programs, administered
by
James Krause. Both Schloss and Krause
are assistant professors in the
department
of exceptionality programs.
Each of these projects enables
faculty
members and
new methods
for
students to explore
to
monitor busing. In other words, they walk
exceptionalities, so the
in teachers' shoes
students
On
all
meet the challenges
day.
Through
by
while offering valuable service to the
wider community.
the grant, the middle school
outside a special education program.
project, as has Scott Mato, the school
to assessment, inclusion,
principal. "This
development
really
need
wanted
school project
third year, the
every day.
through sixth grade,
work with
is
modeled
sixth grade
one developed by Gates several years ago
in cooperation with the Danville School
District's
still
elementary schools. That project
exists
under the direction of Shelly
students
really
Randall, assistant professor, curriculum
and foundations.
to
middle school project
the Danville Area
fall
Middle School
they've lived with teachers
a school, then they
can understand what
means
to be a professional.
are the
ones
day
to
based on
program
Our
isn't theoretical;
real-life experiences.
is
I
it's
think the
a real eye-opener."
Secondary education students
who
it
teachers
who are in the trenches, doing
day. What they offer the
Bloomsburg have no
at
free electives, so
they spend extra time to be involved in
wanted
the project. Elementary education majors
be middle
use their electives, as well as extra time,
to participate. "This says a lot
are
assigned to a teacher or team of teachers
When
undergraduates, students
Bloomsburg students
Bloomsburg education students who
participate in the
school.
it
'We saw a great
need to prepare
after a similar
says. "As
and seen the heartbeat of what happens in
who
middle
comprehensive
don't experience the culture of being in a
be middle school teachers."
to
Now in its
to prepare students
a
introduction to the world of education,"
Mato
middle school teachers," says Gates. "We
a great
is
this
and other topics teachers deal with
certification will cover kindergarten
"Pennsylvania has no certification for
the middle school
management
Elementary education majors, whose
School Project
at
have been enthusiastic supporters of
thematic units, adolescent
saw
The teachers
modules ranging from classroom
cooperative learning, team building,
The Middle
Bloomsburg
special education
always available to education majors
their mentors.
teachers are paid to design 10 teaching
of todays public education system,
work with
students and teachers, an opportunity not
Thursday, the Bloomsburg
students are taught
preparing teachers
and administrators
the Classroom
in
Bloomsburg's education students graduate with plenty of classroom experience, thanks to partnerships
with area schools. Shown from left are Robert Gates, assistant dean for Bloomsburg's School of Education;
Scott Mato, principal of the Danville Middle School; and student teacher Jodi Cramer.
school teachers."
about
their dedication to being good teachers,"
says Gates.
at
After completing a semester at the
for the
middle school, the Bloomsburg students
semester. Every Tuesday, they travel to
Danville where they spend the whole day.
students and teachers; secondary
They prepare lesson
education majors work with the seventh
weeks of
and eighth grades. Grants from Higher
assignments. Gates says, "Student teaching
Education
is
in
plans, teach units,
on team meetings, take lunch or
duty,
sit
in
sit
recess
on parent conferences and
Initiatives target children
return in the spring for the
with
a
new
their
first
eight
16-week student teaching
experience for a lot of education
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students. They're in a
don't
know
new
building.
They
the teachers or the students.
They need some break-in time. Because
our students have had their break-in time,
they're ready to hit the
Out
Gates.
of the seven students
six are
first
now working
and one
teachers
is
as
who
we
in this field.
In the
develop out of
this
expand
are graduating well-
grant to
years,
independent
into the Bloomsburg,
into the Danville Area
her special education classes
at
the university.
The
first
grant funded a program
Schloss sent Bloomsburg special education
majors into Bloomsburg High School to
Successful Transition
work with
After participating in the Transition Partners program,
Cory Stauffer landed part-time employment at the
University Store. Appreciated by fellow workers, he
feels his ability to get along with people and his
dependability are keys to his success.
special
teaching them the
in the
needs students,
skills
necessary to
community and then
finding
work
them
unpaid jobs.
Gates has received an additional
move
two
assessing their vocational interests,
Lewisburg and Warrior Run School
Districts.
for
Bloomsburg High School
called Bloomsburg Transition Partners.
of 1999, the middle school
fall
and
Schloss has developed curricular materials
trained, confident teachers."
project will
Initiatives grants for the past
three years to provide vocational
students with special needs. In addition,
can say Bloomsburg
We
ask, 'what are
middle school
University students have done extensive
work
we
living skills to
"Then when jobs come up in
middle schools,
job you're
that," says
Schloss has received Higher
Education
a middle school concentration," says
Gates.
do
interests?'"
for use in
to
this is the
don't
Cynthia Schloss. "Instead
your
assistance,
teaching in an
"What we hope
We
year of the project,
elementary school.
is
open, so
going to do.'
ground running."
"Our students are getting calls from
middle schools and getting placed," says
participated in the
we have
local business people, representatives
Undergraduates helped high school
High
from the school
Graduate assistants took high school
Chamber
community to work.
developed a community
"So often in rehabilitation services, the
provider has said, Well, these are the jobs
Schloss also
of
Commerce.
Transition Partners quickly
seniors out into the
Transition
Partners
the local
intermediate unit and the Bloomsburg
School next year.
Bloomsburg
district,
juniors find jobs within the high school.
a success. In the
second
became
year, Schloss
task force to discuss the issues that
received another grant for a program
concern special needs students graduating
called Bloomsburg Transition Partners/
from high school and ways in which that
Independent Living, designed to blend
information could be incorporated into the
skills
special education curriculum at the
she received additional funding to
university
The task
force
is
made up
of
life
with vocational training. This year,
continue the program.
Mary Jo Martini and Kim Soper are
assistants working in the
both graduate
transition program. "We're job coaches,"
says Soper.
learn
how
"We help high school
to get a
support once they find work.
make
initial
seniors
job and then supply
We
also
contacts with employers
and
provide the high school students with
transportation to their jobs."
Martini and Soper stress the
importance of the interest assessment
portion of the program.
of jobs
we have
not what land
"It's
available,
it's
what kind
of
interests the students have," says Soper.
Their students have found jobs at the local
police department, a bank, with the
Scouts and
at a local restaurant.
students have
worked
at a
Boy
Other
horse farm, a
supermarket, a retirement community, the
post
Partners
Cynthia Schloss (left), assistant professor of exceptionality programs, and graduate students Karen Joseph
and Mary Jo Martini, work to bridge the gap from high school to work and independent living for special
needs individuals.
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office,
Bloomsburg Town Hall and the
university Assignments range from
cleaning branches off horse
trails
to filing,
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microfilming, food preparation and a
variety of other tasks.
"Our job," says
Martini,
"is to
make
sure our students understand their jobs.
We
see that they have
we
then
what they need,
Partners in
Leadership
Training
Although unpaid, these are not token
upon
to collaborate.
called
learn as they work. For example, they
several areas of need,
leam
that
they don't
if
might get
to
work, they
program
with basic
component
living
offers students assistance
skills.
and received
a
Initiatives grant to
fired."
The independent
of the
come
for
and
Recognizing
friendships
after
skills the
work
at
together
Bloomsburg
James Krause applied
We're looking
at
core content, curriculum
collaborating with regular education
professionals in the department of
emphasize collaboration
curriculum and foundations."
and provide leadership training in
special
education administration.
In addition to Bloomsburg's
to redefine the
need
competencies taught
to prospective special education
administrators, Krause points to an
increasing shortage of people trained in
to cultivate
this field in
students will need
Krause
Pennsylvania and nationally.
putting together a steering
is
committee of superintendents, building
"So often in special education," says
principals, special education personnel
"we work with individuals
from intermediate
until
end of high school, but we don't
continue after
course
to
is
that.
The purpose of this
on
leadership.
members from
who
teaching and
and finding success
to those
there."
also enables Schloss to
summer workshop
for public
how to
who
says Krause.
across Pennsylvania, will
on "what we should be
how we
will
He
should be teaching
it
soon be administrators,"
also sees the
committee
mechanism for promoting career
awareness and for potential recruitment
high
as a
school teachers and service providers
about
and members of
The committee, drawing
create a prospectus
need assistance getting out into society
The grant
units,
business and industry to contribute ideas
expose special education
majors to special needs young adults
teach a
to
focus and course offerings. We're also
they graduate from high school.
Schloss,
the
-
to
Higher Education
They leam how to find
to set up a bank
and even how
work
leadership that mirrors those requirements.
account, where to find recreation,
transportation,
to
design a program in administration and
how
an apartment,
we need
Krause. "So,
with other departments
regular education administrators are being
jobs, emphasizes Schloss. "The students
we want them
together to meet students' needs," says
Increasingly, special education
easing back."
start
administrators that
develop lesson plans and
of
students into the Bloomsburg program.
curricular matenals to teach vocational
and independent
Looking for Leaders
living skills.
Furthermore, Schloss works with
agencies such as the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation
and Mental Health/Mental
Retardation. "The
of our
program
is
James Krause, assistant professor of exceptionality
programs, has created a program to identify and
train the
next generation of special education
administrators.
most unique component
Special education administrators
doing
that we're
vocational assessment," Schloss says.
oversee programs and services for
"Once a
students with exceptionalities in the
we
special
needs student graduates,
can provide the outside agency with
that assessment so they don't
duplicate
it.
have
We've come up with
a
to
unique
public schools. In addition to direct
supervision of programs, they
work with
situational assessment instead of the
curriculum coordinators and teachers
standard evaluation done
to
at a sheltered
workshop. This has been done elsewhere,
but
it is
unique
to this area
and
to
make
"The changing
role of public school
program provides
about a need to redesign Bloomsburg's
Bloomsburg's special education majors
post-graduate program in special
with firsthand experience they would
education administration."
not normally receive in a university
setting.
She says, "Through
this course,
the special education teachers leaving
Bloomsburg
transition
will
know how
program
536
sure programs are in place to
effectively assist students.
administrators," says Krause, "has brought
Pennsylvania rehab."
Schloss'
&Z
school principals, superintendents,
to operate a
in a high school."
According
to Krause,
job requirements
and competencies have changed in
field as special
this
education and regular
education have merged over the years.
"We're telling regular and special educatu
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Learning gains
relevance
How
do teachers
light the fire for
learning in their students? For Karson
Kiesinger, a senior English major,
it
was
the opportunity to present a research
paper
at
the International Meeting of the
Joseph Conrad Society of Amenca
Kiplinge
Bloomsburg named
one of the 100 best
S.
public universities
you
If
at
Colgate University.
S.
Ekema Agbaw,
unforgettable experience for the
the conference after collaborating with her
editor of the award-winning student
of Kurtz in
Norman
With Agbaw's support, she
believe us, listen
Rush's Mating."
to others.
shared her expertise with a group of
life
and works of the
writer Joseph Conrad.
of the 100 best
It
my passion
"The conference reignited
people get excited about ideas helped
see the relevance of the
19th century
late
magazine Spectrum.
for learning," says Kiesinger. "To see
professional scholars interested in the
Bloomsburg has
been named one
managing
of English, encouraged Kiesinger to attend
on "The Reincarnation
don't
Ekema Agbaw and Karson Kiesinger
associate professor
and day out
was an
work
I
do day
me
in
as a student."
public universities
by
Finance
Kiplinger's Personal
A good
Magazine.
Based on
statistics
Kiplinger's
Bloomsburg 89th.
determining the
scores of the
"Making
To say that the development
ranked
had
Criteria for
listing
included
1997 freshman
a
good year
in
1998 would be an
SAT
the percentage of applicants granted
and
all
me
because
witnessed
I've
ways the
the wonderful
foundation helps the university," says
new
record and a 65
percent increase over 1997.
Thanks
and computer
the
to
$900,000
In addition, alumni
m
contnbuted
$818,011 and parents contributed
$116,389. "We see the
from students through
Community
strong participation of
library resources. In addition,
five financial factors
-
firsthand
put the
over $3 million was
Frutchey.
gifts
year,
important to
a donation to help
gifts
Foundation - a
percentage of freshmen returning for
sophomore
and we ended the
contributed to the Bloomsburg University
admission, graduate rates, the
their
foundations
office
understatement. More than $3 million was
class,
in
year with $3,000,125."
Giving tops record
from 1,813
colleges and universities in North
America,
more donations came
year
Government
were considered
1
was
measure of
their
undertake a number of
satisfaction
with the work
major projects that
we're doing," says
the university
total cost, affordability for
alumni and parents as a
Association,
able to
residents, percentage of students
financial
need met with
all
will
forms of
directly benefit
Anthony M.
them,
Ianiero, vice
financial aid, percentage of total aid
that
is
including construction of
work-study or loans, and the
average
amount
recreational fields
a student borrows to
graduate pared the
i
president for university
and a
advancement. "That
3
climbing wall on the upper
list
to its to]
campus and renovation
of
schools.
7,313 donors contributed a piece
to the pie, totalling more than
S3 million in donations for 1998!
listed
among the
also
something
of."
been
Other groups of donors
Students not only
leading public
by U.S.
and for the
universities in the north
News and World
is
we're very proud
the University Store.
Bloomsburg has
financial vote of
confidence
Report,
second consecutive
The Student Guide
contributed to the campaign in a big way,
but also in an important small
year
the
wound down, we were just under $3
include: businesses
and corporations
(including matching
gifts),
employees (including
$389,984;
retirees),
$62,661;
year, listed in
million," says
to
way "As
America's 100
Susan Helwig, director of
development. "Two of our work-study
foundations, $43,800; friends of the
university,
$509,615; organizations
Best College Buys.
students, Michelena Smith
Frutchey contributed the
to
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money needed
put us over the $3 million mark.
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(including the
Stacie
A
few
Community Government
Association), $1,059,666. Altogether, there
were 7,313 donors in 1998.
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"There
Record graduate
numbers
added on
degree enough anymore?
Is a bachelor's
may be
Graduating
Schloss, assistant vice president
students learn
how
competitive the
job market can
be.
Many
are
also finding out
that they'll
need
more than four
many
Patrick Schloss
work
chosen
Today, a master's degree
of
field.
needed
speech therapist or
to practice as a
audiologist.
is
in their
By the year 2000, completion
30 graduate
credits
of a master's degree
-
-
the equivalent
will
professionally.
states.
New
opening up
many
Teachers
to seek master's
career paths are also
for
nurses with specialized
graduate training.
And more
fields,
necessary to practice
is
Graduate programs are an
integral part of the service that the
of our students
students than ever are
turning to Bloomsburg to take these
Politics
Some Bloomsburg
work and have
friends fared
well in the latest
Pennsylvania
Many
families,
elections.
Lieutenant
Governor Mark
programs
S.
in the region, like ours, is
important to them."
The
University
graduates and
so the availability of master's degree
Schweiker
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partnered with
Governor
university has responded to
Tom
Phyllis
student needs by developing
new
graduate
second term.
accounting, nurse anesthetist and nurse
Other alumni
practitioner. Altogether, the university
victors included
19 graduate programs in the
offers
sciences, business
arts,
and education.
remote locations
to
working
to
make them
Phyllis
70,
accessible
'71
Mundy
state
representative
for die
students, offenng entire programs at
Mundy
Ridge to win a
programs, which include exercise science,
professional development throughout
their careers, leading
and technical
Faculty are also taking courses to the
are increasingly required to demonstrate
degrees.
and dean
research. "But in
university provides to the region.
be the
prerequisite for taking the Certified Public
Accountant exam in most
and
health-related
a graduate degree
years of college
to
Turning to
to the curriculum," says Patrick
of graduate studies
quickly
a perception that
graduate programs are a luxury, something
120th
district in the
Wyoming Valley,
professionals.
anditTim u
Holden
i
The Williamsport M.B.A. program
serves over
25 business
of the time
and location of the program,
leaders. "Because
Tim Holden
i
'8<
'80
'80, U.S. representative for the sixth
district,
which includes
Berks,
and parts of Montgomery
upper-level business administrators need
Schuylkill
not leave their positions to obtain the
and Northumberland counties. John
M.B.A. ," says Schloss. "Similarly, practicing
Gordner was re-elected
educators in Bucks County need not
representative for the 109lh district
advanced courses, with graduate school
relocate to
reaching a record enrollment of more
advanced degree and accompanying
than 680 students.
permanent
Bloomsburg
to receive
and Paul Kanjorski
an
term as U.
11th
certification."
won
another
representative for the
S.
district,
as state
both of which include
Bloomsbure.
Kozloff visits Israel
I
President Jessica Kozloff got a
leaders, including
firsthand look at Israeli education,
business and politics during a
visit to
Middle East as part of a delegation of
the
1
American university presidents and
chancellors.
Cosponsored by the
Israel's
Office of
of
its
kind by
a
and Stephen Kozloff with Allen
president of Queens College, Charlotte, NC, at
the Sea of Galilee.
Kozloff and the others
political,
education institutions such as Birzeil
University in Palestine, Tel Aviv
University, the University of Haifa, the
Hebrew
met with
educational and business
and research
projects. Stops included several higher
first
educators.
Jessica
Prime
information about Bloomsburgs
faculty/student exchange
Academic
was the
group of American
Affairs in the U.S., the visit
Israeli
academic programs and pursued
America-Israel Friendship League and
the State of
former
Shimon Peres and Israeli
President Ezer Weizman. She shared
Minister
University and the Technion.
There were also
visits to
Heights, Nazareth
and
the Golan
the Sea of Galilee.
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Bloomsburg
abuse have been
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Governor's
of Trustees. Barth,
Highway
the senior vice
Safety Awards.
president, senior
loan officer and
Recognized in the
H Preston Herrin 9
category "Alcohol
But look soon,
Highway
community
-
were H. Preston Herring,
Safety"
vice president for student
life,
and
underway, which means the
hammers and
will
be in the
hum
pounding of
of bulldozers, the
for his
work
the s
Barth
State
Tom
who
,
term on the Council of Trustees
trustee
The newest
earned his bachelor's degree in
air.
addresses alcohol abuse and implements
prevention, intervention, enforcement
into a
facility is
de
County
District Attorney,
for his assistance
construction could
sta.
checkpoints,
summer.
business administration and economics at
and
Montour
was recognized
University.
and support of sobnety
DUI
patrols
and programs
William
J.
Mowad,
Kelly, vice chair;
Buehner Jr.,
secretary;
chair; A.
Robert W.
Ramona H.
Alley,
David J. Cope, LaRoy G. Davis, Heather
transformation into what could
L.
Derek, Kevin M. O'Connor, David J.
become one of the most active
locations on campus. Architects are
putting the finishing touches on the
new
a master's degree in
Other council members
include Joseph
for youth.
design proposal for the
Lycoming College and
business administration at Bucknell
Nearby, the old library waits lor
its
B.
West Milton (PA)
expires in January 2003.
and town of Bloomsburg. The group
bidding process has be
this
at
Ridge to replace James Atherton Jr.
Barth's
by leaders of the university
educational services. Buehner,
classroom
Steven
office
head
served on council from 1992 to 1998.
as co-chair of
the "Bloomsburg Initiative," a coalition
established
The conversio"
Gymnasium
was honored
division
Bank, was appointed by Governor
university trustee Robert Buehner. Herring
are
of the
;
recognized with the
ears.
Barth
B.
the newest
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university
individuals
Trustee
ftleinr
Petrosky and Ted Stuban.
student
sendees center.
On-campus housing will get a
The new
apartments for approximately 250
boost, but not just yet.
students are just entering the design
phase, so residence
life
®m
folks won't
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From left:
SSHE Chancellor James
McCormick,
Leonard Comerchero,
H.
celebrate the arrival of
new
digs for
a while.
President Jessica
w
However, while these projects
Kozloff,
pen and ink process, the
are back on up™" ^ 01
are in the
tractors
campus
Some mild
allowed a
moved,
i:
The campus may not De
getting
any bigger in terms of acreage, but
we
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are shaping up.
of dirt to be
are growing.
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philanthropy; and Alkire, chair of the
FhPPllI AlAf SIPff CS
Bloomsburg University Foundation
Leonard Comerchero and Elbern
early winter weather
lot
and construction
:
Jr.
-
Intramural and recreat
the upper
and
Elbern H. Alkire
<
board, received the award for
H. Alkire Jr. were recently presented
volunteerism.
with Eberly Awards for their
the
Fund
contributions to Bloomsburg University
State
and the
is
State
System of Higher
Education. Comerchero,
Industries, received the
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award
The award, sponsored by
Advancement of the
for the
System of Higher Education
named
in
Uniontown
of Milco
of
for
education.
Inc.
honor of the Eberly family
for its
support of higher
SPRING 1999
Greek to Her
It's All
Bloomsburg's
and
fraternities
soronties are in a
time of transition,
and
a
new
leader
is
guiding the change.
Gretchen Osterman
is
in her second
semester as the
university's
mented
several
reuniting
Gretchen Osterman
Greek
Life coordinator.
Osterman has imple-
new programs aimed
and strengthening
at
the system.
Spearheaded by the students, a complete
review of the by-laws governing Greek
is
underway That
life
and increased
project,
adviser involvement, are two of her leading
initiatives.
Osterman earned her
master's
degree in student personnel services from
Edinboro University and has a bachelors
degree from Allegheny College.
the University of Pittsburgh, the University
H. Preston Herring, vice president for
of Scranton, Indiana University of
student
Pennsylvania, Shippensburg University,
Howe, mayor
Lafayette College, the University of
are co-chairs of the
Pennsylvania and
Initiative
an
assist to
help tackle the
problem plaguing
college
number one
campuses
University
Bloomsburg received $15,000
support programs
Bloomsburg University has received
Gannon
drinking.
The
to
to
curb underage
program
to battle alcohol abuse.
Others are Pennsylvania State University,
of Bloomsburg,
"We need
to help students
culture in
which binge dnnkmg
'cool'
community outreach and enforcement
it
This
Initiative, a
$36,000
latest
funding
that the
who do
for those
is
it,
community."
in addition to
Bloomsburg
Initiative
received in the past year to fund
last year.
"Most of these projects are directed
toward changing student
not
Herring. "Irresponsible drinking can have
consequences
and the town
is
thing to do," adds
also impacts the entire
university
Initiative.
develop a
but
partnership established between the
pilot
Town
Bloomsburg
tragic
through the Bloomsburg
Ridge to be partners in his
of the
support projects in the areas of education,
one of nine universities selected by
Tom
Herring and Mary Lenzini-
perceived as a
funds, will be used to
throughout the nation. Bloomsburg was
Governor
life.
attitudes," says
community
projects related to underage
dnnkmg and
alcohol abuse.
Long-Time Friends
The university will miss two long-time friends
who have retired after more than three decades
of service each. Dominic "Tony the Baker" Cusatis
retired Oct. 30, 1998, after 39 years of serving
students. Marilyn Muehlhof retired Jan. 1, 1999,
after 33 years of service in the president's office.
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Of writers and
rabbits
To
illustrate a
point in class,
journalism
professor Walter
Brasch mentioned
the fictional
character Uncle
Remus. He was
met by looks of
bewilderment and
Walter Brasch
the question
"Who?" That experience led to four
and a 100,000-word
years of research
biography, Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and
the 'Cornfield Journalist':
The Tale of Joel
BUSTED
Chandler Hanis.
Some
was
Harris (1846-1908)
journalist and, after
a
newspaper
Mark Twain,
popular writer of the
late
how Remus was
most
19th century.
By the 1950s, Uncle Remus
were often labeled
the
racist, partly
stories
because of
depicted in Disney's
imaginative and talented
students experienced the real world a
little
after
ahead of graduation. The
improvisational theater troupe
Theatrical Education
first
BUSTED
Drama) gave
performances during the
semester.
and
about
The
"The Real World." In the
character and answer questions from
the audience. Future
BUSTED
performances are scheduled for
its
Monday, March 22, and Monday,
fall
three-act musical
real-life issues college
MTVs
third act, the student actors stay in
(Bloomsburg University Student
popular 1946 movie, "Song of the South,"
partly because of Harris' extensive use
- alcohol, roommate conflicts,
establishing an identity - is modeled
face
May
drama
3, at
8 p.m. in the Kehr Union
Ballroom.
students
of American Black English.
However, Brasch,
who
has written
two books about American Black English,
says Harris' reproduction of Black English
"is
remarkably accurate. Those
Harns and
who brand
his writings as racist probably
haven't read his works,
and
are
Harns, in his newspaper editorials
and
fiction,
was a strong voice
Ifs all in the timing
unaware
that
for
Jeff Burrell
human
heard a beat he couldn't
photography major. His photo of a
resist,
street
and
it
led to an
drummer was
award
for the junior
selected for inclusion in the
rights."
The book, Brasch s
11th, will be
published in April by Carolina Academic
Press
(Durham, NC).
1998 Best of College Photography Annual. The annual book of photographs
published in connection
with a contest sponsored by
Photographers Magazine
Nikon. Describing
and
how he
captured the provocative
image while
visiting
Manhattan in the
fall
of
1997, Burrell says,'Tm a
drummer
myself.
heard the sound,
When I
I
ran
across the street to get
the picture."
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is
SPRING 199!
1^ calendar of events
Academic Calendar
Spring
Weekend
Thursday, April
April 5, 6 p.m.
Chamber
Husky Club Golf Outing
Singers Spring Concert
Saturday, April 24, 7:30 p.m., Wendy Miller directing.
First Presbyterian Church, 345 Market Street,
Baseball Golf Outing
University Concert
Band Spring Concert
Saturday, Oct.
Classes
Saturday,
Final
Sunday, April 25, 2:30 p.m., Terry Oxley directing,
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
End
May
8
Exams End
Saturday,
May
Concert Choir Spring Concert
Saturday, May 1, 7:30 p.m., Alan Baker directing.
15
First
Graduate Commencement
Friday,
May
9,
Arnold's Golf Course, Nescopeck, PA.
Husky Club Golf Outing
Thursday, Oct. 14, Frosty Valley Country Club,
Danville, PA.
Presbyterian Church, 345 Market Street,
Bloomsburg.
7 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,
14,
Creek Country Club near
Bloomsburg.
10 p.m., through Monday,
1,
Friday, Sept. 17, Cool
York, PA.
Mitrani Hall.
Knoebel's Grove Pops Concert
Provosts Lecture
Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday, May 15, 2:15 p.m., Bloomsburg
Sunday, May 2, 2 and 5:30 p.m. Featuring the
Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble with Terry Oxley
and Stephen Clickard directing. Annual park concert,
Series
weather permitting.
Anita Hill
Fairgrounds.
Electronic Registration
Tuesday, Aug. 24, through Monday, Aug. 30
Monday, May
Classes Begin
Friday,
Orchestra Pops
3,
6:30 p.m., Columbia Mall,
Harassment
S.
Gross
Bloomsburg.
M. Joycelyn Elders
Student Recital
Labor Day
6.
26, 2 p.m., "Sexual
Auditorium.
Monday, Aug. 30
Monday, Sept.
March
Legal Interpretations," Carver Hall, Kenneth
Tuesday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.. Carver Hall, Kenneth S.
Gross Auditorium. Bloomsburg University Music
Students demonstrate their semester
NO CLASSES
Thursday, April 15, 7:30 p.m., lecture; Friday, April 16,
8:30 a.m., workshop. Both events held in conjunction
with the Health Sciences Symposium, Kehr Union,
Ballroom.
accomplishments.
Celebrity Artist
Series
the Celebrity Artist Series box office
at (570) 389-4409 for more information.
Call
Rhythm and
Special Events
emeritus Stephen Wallace directing.
Husky Club Auction
Jessica Suchy-Pilalis,
Harp
Inn,
more information,
call
Siblings'
(570) 389-4128.
Husky Club Golf Outing
Race Golf and Camping Resort,
Renaissance Jamboree
Benton, PA.
Thursday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m., Carver Hall,
Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets are $15.
Saturday, April 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
in
downtown
Bloomsburg. Information about this street festival
is available through the Chamber of Commerce at
Husky Club Golf Outing
Thursday, May 20, Edgewood
Course, Wilkes-Barre.
(570) 784-2522.
the Pines Golf
Concerts
Alumni Day
concerts are free unless otherwise noted. For
more information, call the music department at
(570) 389-4284.
All
Brass Menagerie
Wednesday,
April 7, 8 p.m., faculty emeritus Stephen
Wallace directing. Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross
Auditorium.
Saturday, June 5, Willow Run Golf Course, Berwick,
PA. For information about this benefit for the
football team, call Jim Monos, (570) 389-4359.
May
1.
For information,
call
(570) 389-4058.
Homecoming
October 9 and
10. For information, call
(570) 389-4346.
Wrestling Golf Outing
Theater
Husky Club Golf Outing
Thursday, June 24, Skippack Golf Course, Skippack,
PA, near Philadelphia.
Women's Choral Ensemble and
Husky Singers
Miller
Saturday,
Golf Classic
Nescopeck, PA.
Sunday, April 11, 2:30 p.m., Mark Jelinek directing,
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
Wendy
John Devlin Memorial Celebrity
Saturday, June 12, Arnold's Golf Course,
University-Community Orchestra
Spring Concert
Saturday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.,
and Children's Weekend
April 23-25. For information, call (570) 389-4346.
Friday, April 30, Mill
Lyric Consort
(570) 389-4128.
Golf Outings
For
Thursday, Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m., Carver Hall,
Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets are $15.
and
Alan Baker directing, Haas Center for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall.
Magee's Main Street
Bloomsburg. For more information, call
Friday, April 23, 6:30 p.m.,
Brass
Monday, June 7, 7:30 p.m., Carver Hall,
Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets are $15.
The
"Seasoned Sounds"
Friday, May 7, 8 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall. A big band concert with faculty
Mike Berrigan Memorial Golf Outing
Saturday, Sept. 4 (tentative). White Deer Golf
Course, Williamsport, PA.
The Hot
1
Baltimore
A
play by Lanford Wilson, directed by Michael
Collins, April 20 to 24, 8 p.m.; April 25, 2 p.m.;
Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets
are $6 for adults, $4 for students and seniors
students with a Community
citizens, free for
Activities Card.
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chats with top graduates before last December's comme
and Sciences, Jennifer Shutkufski, College of Professional
Business, and the president.
ff
tudies,
Kelly Smith. College of Arts
At
to
enthusiasm
their
As
I
on
Bloomsburg
dreams and
for their
my five years
I
began
when I came
these student leaders,
goals.
some
of
that
here
I
like
assistants,
students leam from faculty who've
professional
commitment
like research institutions,
also scholars.
our faculty are
to count. They've
more than 67 books and
journals too numerous
authored chapters in
scholarly publications, written creative
compositions and reviewed more than a
hundred books and
first
rank of incoming
class
to
It
meet student needs. In 1997,
Honors Program was
now provides
articles.
four-
is
one of the highest in the
System of Higher Education and our
graduation rate
is
significantly higher
the national average.
- 80
Our placement
percent of each of the
graduating classes found
than
record
last three years'
full
time,
program
collaborating
via distance education.
investing in Integrated
expanded our
freshman year experience that helps us
Technology.
from graduating high school
and involve them
activities
in leadership
on campus.
This
is
campus
recently, I'm
We're
Media Presentation
with the
latest
and we've
Institute for Instructional
just a glimpse of
what we've
been doing. The mission of Bloomsburg
University has changed
If you've been on
the days of
Bloomsburg
somewhat
since
State Teachers
sure you've noticed our magnificent library
College, but our vision remains the same.
and the new Student Recreation Center.
We
We're in the midst of incredible physical
college
change. Centennial
Gymnasium
be transformed into
will
soon
a high-tech classroom
renovation next year.
State
is
with other Pennsylvania universities to
Program, providing scholarships and a
students succeed. I'm pleased to say our
retention rate
department of nursing
Stations, providing faculty
classes
its
The
opportunities beyond our campus.
instructional technology,
instituted the President's Leadership
building.
Bloomsburg
university has
we
has built a record of being a place where
history,
The
distance education videoconference
provide a graduate nurse practitioner
an integrated
The Commons, designed to feed
about 1,700 students and now serving
more than 3,000, will undergo a major
Throughout our
technology applications that enhance
a major research program. Three years ago,
attract leaders
care
yet, we're creating
classroom, which expands learning
means
continually refine our academic
the University's
five years,
articles in scholarly
And
and the average
a
to teaching. But,
Over the past
they've published
our
made
We
about students.
learning experiences.
year experience in which students complete
where undergraduates
by graduate
have talented students.
thrilled to
like to describe
new
revised.
our faculty teach. Unlike major
are often taught
as a
I
in the top half of their high school class,
programs
them with you.
research universities
enviable.
In 1998, 81 percent of those accepted were
we must
Bloomsburg's trademark has always
been
is
Setting high admissions standards
Looking back, I'm
proud of our achievements and would
-
freshmen was in the top 29 percent.
of service as
University's president. Like
had dreams and
to share
We're
listened to
pride for their accomplishments,
to reflect
school within one year
spend some time with the top
scholars from each college.
Bloomsburg
"high-touch, high-tech" university.
professional positions or entered graduate
December commencement
ceremonies, I had an opportunity
the
monies. Pictured from left:
College of
Ann Salsman,
We
have plans to
still
honor the credo of
on
the
hill,"
a place
dedicated faculty help students realize
their dreams.
Bloomsburg
Being president
is
about the possibility of being the
president of the 20th century
of the 21st!
to add a wing to Hartline Science Center.
The old library will become a student
\
services center, offering a convenient place
aid
academic support
and the
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at
a true privilege. I'm excited
update Navy Hall and Ben Franklin, and
to find
"the friendly
where
Jessica Kozloff
President,
Bloomsburg University
last
and the
first
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Editor's view
Whether you remember
positive changes
as a state teachers' college, state college or university,
it
have always found
Bloomsburg. The
their place
among
the traditions at
and wonderful accomplishments of many
tireless efforts
people are key to those changes.
The
last
year has been a time that
achievement.
New heights were
second
is
to
none
tremendous
in terms of
reached and
new
standards set for future
an
elite
group
generations.
My
he
good
won
friend Charlie Chronister joined
his
last
season
when
500th game as the Huskies' head coach of men's basketball. The
"dean" of our coaching
staff is still
on top of his game with
his
29th season
just underway.
Tony
Ianiero,
my boss
and the
university's vice president for
advancement,
doesn't have just one reason to celebrate. .he has three million. Tony, his
.
development team, and
all
of
you who contributed helped Bloomsburg reach
mark
the $3 million annual fund-raising
for the first
time in university history.
Extramural grant support for academic programs also reached an all-time high,
topping $2.5 million. Jim Matta, director of research and sponsored programs,
worked with
and
faculty
staff to
lift
grants from outside agencies to an
unparalleled level at Bloomsburg.
Ray
and secondary education
Pastore, educational studies
many
faculty
members who
good
benefited from that
professor,
fortune.
He
is
one of
coordinat-
is
ing a program that received $408,500, the largest grant in university
history.
Although Bloomsburg has long enjoyed
producing outstanding teachers,
logically
for
One
now
savvy because of Ray's
Technology
in
work our
professors Jeanette Keith
Humanities. Their
a while but,
upon
efforts will take
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Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania
is
member
a
of
the State System of Higher Education.
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BOARD OF GOVERNORS
F Eugene Dixon
Kim
R.
E. Lyttle,
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Chair
Vice Chair
Benjamin Wiley, Vice Chair
Syed
R. Ali-Zaidi
Muriel Berman
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Cattell
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and
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todays
statistics,
of mathematics, computer science
discusses the rale of higher education in
society.
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Joseph J. Mowad, Chair
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Scholarship and research allow faculty to bring
real-world experience into the classroom.
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it's
Ted Stuban
James H. McCormick, Ex-Officio
often hard work, scholarship also has
And
its
while
moments
of adventure.
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Cue Talent
Anne Shannon's day
seconds.
And
expertise
you
is
measured
in
every few seconds her
must change, although
that she's not really
she'll tell
an expert in
much
of anything.
A
anchor
Harrisburg television station,
for a
Shannon
the job
is
is
reporter
tune into the
knowledge "an inch
affiliate to
get their
fix.
All the while, a
producer
is
talking in
Shannon's earpiece, reminding her about
those precious seconds. Ten seconds
on
deep and a mile wide."
this story, five
"It's
But every second matters in television.
CBS
morning news
and morning
quick to say that the key to
to acquire
words as they scroll and passing
them on seamlessly to the viewers who
the
to
seconds
a lot of practice,
know your
to
and you've got
reading speed," the 1993
She has 10 seconds to welcome viewers,
Bloomsburg University graduate
40 seconds
"The information we're giving
to talk
about an accident on a
major highway leading into the
important and the
gives reports
most beautiful
her head,
it
city. She
on sports and the weather. In
she's editing the
information as
comes across the teleprompter, changing
come
left
commercial.
explains.
may be
package may be the
in the world. But
across as a dimwit,
it's
if
you
not going
to matter."
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m
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Shannon
a rare breed of
is
made
one
anchor
to the
it
Shannon
classmates,
who
chair.
Of
she's
fellow
said she's the only
anchors a broadcast. But that
mean Bloomsburg alumni
doesn't
Shannon
Bloomsburg
mass communications graduates;
aren't in
and video. Whether
two-time
Emmy Award winning editor for
NFL
for
they're a
news photographer, an
Films, a
ABC's "World
News
editor
Tonight," or a
Morning." Off camera,
Bloomsburg graduates
are shaping
what
television viewers see every day.
"At Bloomsburg,
working
we have
for us," says
professor
Dana
several things
mass communications
Ulloth.
"We get highly
we have the
motivated students, and
facilities.
as
good
The production
facilities
here are
or better than, those of any
as,
the
to
she's giving
weather
for a sister radio station
competition every day.
stations in the Harrisburg area, the
largest
a hectic pace.
But
it's
Not
I
could get
my foot in
one
credit shy
that
if I
who was
appearing in a
Jeri
Ryan,
who
plays Seven of Nine, a
favorite character of fans of the sciencefiction
show.
hard news, she says people stories are
the
who
her favorites, such as her piece on a
is
blind and paralyzed Lebanon County
degree from Catholic University in
me
airs
Although Shannon reports on the
from earning a master's
DC.
do a series from the set of
show "Star Trek: Voyager"
on UPN15. There, she
to
Voyager episode. She also interviewed
$4.25 an hour as an assistant producer.
figured
first-
She's also traveled to
"Seinfeld" fame,
right
for someone who walked into the
newsroom four years ago and took a job
working two to three days a week earning
"I
just, well,
interviewed actor Jason Alexander of
bad
door, get access," says Shannon,
most people
the television
which
in the
likes to be.
role,
and do
watch on TV
For her recent feature report on
Hollywood
44th
It's
things
<
gives her a chance to get out
on camera.
news
where Shannon says she
it
9
time skydivers, Shannon took the plunge
for
WHP is one of four
market of the 210
But Shannon says she loves the dual
and
"This
morning show viewers.
Shannon finds herself in tough
Washington,
college in the country."
CBS
and doing voice-over weather reports
country.
producer of a Fox network business show,
anchor numerous two
and news reports
prominent positions behind the scenes in
television
will
seven-minute breaks during
1
"And, they basically told
man who
ran the Marine Corps
Marathon
in
Washington, D.C.
didn't take the job, they
had 100 resumes from people
who
"This job
would."
She worked her way to the
is
assignment desk, then
like filming
a
movie on a really
small scale.
to
weekend producer. When
no other reporter wanted to
get up early to cover then
U.S. Senator Bob Dole's visit
"
to Harrisburg in 1996, she
volunteered to cover
him and
has been reporting ever since.
Shannon is nothing if not motivated.
The 28-year-old Lancaster woman begins
her day around 3:20 a.m.,
when one
three alarm clocks blasts her awake.
can't
be
She
late.
She
laryngitis. "If
no show," she
arrives at the
Harrisburg
at
She
can't call in sick. She's
even worked with
oversleep, there's
of
"I
have
share a
airing 6
5 a.m. to begin gathering
day, she's
my
UPN
think she can
move
growth
stories
from
have been called into
last night's
and rewriting them.
11 p.m. broadcast
on,
I
dedicated to this market.
very clear to her."
checking developments on
The
for
stations
airing a 10 p.m. newscast.
happening in Kosovo and whether any
service. She's
for that,"
manager
news staff and facilities with WHP
and 11 p.m. news shows and
glancing over the wires to see what's
local reserve units
cap to her
WHP and WLYH UPN15.
I
studio in
later.
to tip
says Jerry Trently station
explains.
WHP-TV 21
and writing the news. This
She began morning anchonng
about a year
for
is
think she's
made
also a reporter for the
television stations,
I
I'd like to see
her here, and we've
Shannon
"While
meaning
after
that
two
her
anchoring job ends around 9 a.m.,
for another eight-hour shift
Award-Winning Editor
Bloomsburg graduate
Pete Staman '85 has
won Emmy awards for
his work at NFL films.
many
she's in
days.
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Shannon
around
is
quick
operators, producers,
For his work, Staman has twice
to pass the credit
to her colleagues, the
and
camera
Emmy Awards
editors. They,
"That's exciting,
she says, package the stories presented
oiled machine," the
to the public.
graduate says.
They're the behind-the-camera people,
such
as
who
edits for
short,
the
John
is
NFL
Staman of Pitman, NJ,
Films. Stamans job, in
"Pete"
NFL
to take miles of videotape
season and turn
such as "The Road
to the
it
Superbowl."
That's a massive task, considering
operators shoot
enough
camera
film over the
course of a season to run continuously for
40
days.
It's
owner Steve
what
his boss,
NFL
Films
Sabol, calls "a veritable
flood of film."
but I'm part of a well-
1985 Bloomsburg
"NFL Films has won more
than 90 Emmys over the years. It's not so
much an individual effort as a combined
team
effort."
An employee
from
into features
won
along with other honors.
years,
Staman,
of
like
NFL
Films for 12
Shannon, had
to
He
worked for the company for a month
with no pay just to show he knew what
prove himself to get in the door.
he was doing. At the same time, he was
working
full
time for a Philadelphia
television station as a master control
room operator. He's since worked his way
up the ladder to video editor at the firm,
based in Mount Laurel, NJ.
Along with
edits
NFL work, Staman
music videos
the Black
—
he's
Crows and
done pieces
—and
Slayer
commercials, including recent
for
edits
work
for Nike.
Bloomsburg knowing
"I left
hitting the
books wasn't going
that just
to
be
enough," says Staman. "Some people
under the misconception
are
graduate,
We
that
someone owes them
if
they
a job.
were taught the importance of
practical experience."
A
fnend of Stamans and fellow 1985
graduate,
Pam Whaley is a videotape
ABC News in New
engineer/editor for
York.
Her job
the day.
It's
is
to edit the top story of
high-pressure editing, cutting
down hours
of footage shot across the
world into short segments.
Students take the controls each week when they go on the
with "BloomNews." Every three weeks assignments
change so all students in Broadcast Journalism become
familiar with a variety of television-related jobs. Photos from
top: Craig Panichella '00 directs talent and cameras from the
control room, while Greg Albert operates the audio board.
Anchors Devon McCandless '00 and Bill Sharkazy '00 provide
viewers with up-to-date news. Chris Ballentine '99 and Mike
Clarke '00 man the cameras. Professor Dana Ulloth offers onair live
the-spot instruction and advice.
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many years, you
"After so
the work," says
be devastating,
whole
If
lot
of stuff from the day."
she has one complaint about the job,
how sometimes
It's
about
sanitized picture of important events, such
as the
bombings
"We do
she said.
might
than
look a
it
little
nicer
airs
1 1
from 5
live
6 p.m. (The
to
p.m.). She
show
back up
finds the video to
the live broadcast.
nothing simple
there's
She has
it.
shots from
since not
all
up
to set
live
over the country,
all
New York.
really is."
appear on the
to
repeats at
But
it
to assess the
is
also writes teases for the
about
pretty nicely,"
people would see more,
We make
stop.
it
up war
CEOs
the
show
in Kosovo.
clean
"If
up
and
the broadcasts present a
simply,
top business stories of the day and line
broadcast that
not the pressure or the hours.
it's
Her job, put
get used to
Whaley "The pictures can
and you have to digest a
CEOs
the
are in
She must schedule
production companies, order
time,
satellite
"The production
and do whatever
it
takes.
is
Steven Firmstone, a 1987
Directly behind the
facilities
here are
who
Bloomsburg graduate
as good as, or
works
for
camera
WNEP-TV
16 in
Moosic, PA. The news
better than, those
photographer also drives and
of any college in
the country.
operates the station's satellite
truck, a sort of mobile
"
newsroom
can broadcast
that
from just about anywhere.
Firmstone said the best
Whaley has a long resume that starts
Scranton and Wilkes-Barre television
stations. She packed up and moved to
at
Colorado without a job, eventually
ABC affiliate in
She moved to New York in
Jennifer Regar
is
who ended up
working
for
in
1990.
New York,
Fox News Channel
associate producer.
as
an
She helps put together
the "Cavuto Business Report," dealing with
CEOs
the top
business
Regar, a
Fox
was
in
to air live
New York
"Our focus
layman.
We
the
who went to
with CNBC,
after three years
first
producer/reporter
updates from the floor of
Stock Exchange for
is
to try
and reach
try to talk so
CNBC.
the
everyone can
understand," says Regar. "The days
really fly by,
and you don't have time
to get bored."
"We
Steve Firmstone '87
operates the satellite
changes every day,
it
truck and remote
camera for on-the-
see the best of society
and you
movie on
is like
a really small scale."
mass communications
Some
faculty
to teach
is
television/video profession
—how
to use
the cameras, editing equipment, etc. Just
he
side, the courses
If
said,
on
and other
libel
pitfalls
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ABC's World News
Tonight
CBS in Harrisburg
and we have an
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Anne Shannon
is
both sides are sinking
are informing people
accountability
says. "If
we
we
and
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any indication,
in.
"The biggest concern
life,
TV include:
the theoretical
is
are reporting
for
me
is
that
we
on someone's
can't take that lightly."
•
Mike Feeley
is
a 1987 mass communications graduate
•
of Bloomsburg University
for The Patriot
News
of the places
you can find
Bloomsburg mass
communications
graduates working in
students the practical side of the
as important,
scene reports for
WNEP-TV, Moosic, PA.
see
Ulloth says the goal of Bloomsburg's
of the
1993 graduate
1996
on
of the day.
part of the
team
the
in the country
news
that
virtually every minute.
filming a
another Bloomsburg
graduate
is
the worst," said Firmstone. "This job
landing one with an
Boulder.
part of his job
and
is
assistant city editor
affiliates
CNBC
WNEP-TV
16
in Harrisburg.
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Q: Business leaders
and academic leaders
departments have advisory boards. In oth-
sometimes disagree about whether
ers,
we
students should receive a liberal arts
We
are always talking to people within
education or training in a specific
the various disciplines.
Have you encountered
skill.
Education
these differences
Not
ment
you might think.
homecoming, my depart-
as strongly as
Every year
at
invites recent graduates
back
Bloomsburg
is
work
or
between academic pro-
have become
tune with what business leaders are saying.
ing in very technical
You'd think
fields.
too.
anybody would not appreciate
liberal arts education, these people would
that
not
if
—but they
One
we
to
hear from graduates
be able
to
and
They
well.
over, the general ability
message, both verbal and
written, turns out to
feel that
the other
them
general education courses are serving
work
said, "If
it
don't
shows
sound
business
really
want
to
think.
an extreme example,
many
that although
they
like
to
would be
they really
skills,
We have
1
you
in the business world, a great course
to take is golf." That's
but
of the nice things about the size of
be very
subjects
related to
careful with skills,
MS-DOS and had
student
bend over backwards, but if a
willing to work, it becomes
educate that student. Students
difficult to
are responsible for their education. Faculty
lead the way. Students find college
Q:
not pre-
Do you
A:
students. We're trying to be
One
of the things we've
well here at Bloomsburg
is
done
pretty
structure cur-
We
have significant expectations of our
will
They need
here.
are relatively easy to initiate. Faculty are
really serious
new
course as an experi-
to
go through the
full
it
actually has
want
to give
up and running
quickly,
but
it
also
maintains a conscientious review process
curriculum courses are
meeting our needs. The faculty as a whole
continually looking at curriculum.
Q:
Do you
think this
the
Oh,
We've completed two major
yes.
surveys of our grads
is
typical of
ourselves.
way on
all
Bloomsburg ahead of
what
little
ahead of the game,
are well thought-out
carefully reviewed.
There are
a
and
number
sorts of skills will serve students five or 10
of proposed courses that are being evalu-
years
ated to
later.
make
sure
we
How
Both surveys indicate quite
and
that
it
Q:
Do you
the road to a successful future.
we
are doing a
good job of preparing them
to enter the
job market.
Do you
A: Usually
who
is
also get feedback
we
hear only
Q: Recently,
find that the abilities of enter-
As
Are students prepared for college more or
Steering Committee,
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informally.
if it's
Bloomsburg University
want today?
it
from
an employer.
keep in touch with what business leaders
we do
happy with their
them a long
takes
That solid data indicates
was reaccredited by
is
does Bloomsburg
the State
offer quality
programs.
As you mention, the business world
—one by
System of Higher Education and one by
Q:
at
a sense of the serious-
Are Bloomsburg grads prepared to work?
employers?
change and look
are
We
Q:
come through
As educators, we
them
clearly that graduates are
game?
think we're a
we
A:
processes, so the curriculum changes that
skills.
I
early that
ness of our educational process.
education,
universities, or is
leam
to
about academic work.
review process. That
procedure provides an avenue for getting
things
consci-
be expected of them once they get
riculum change so experimental courses
mental course twice before
more
entious about informing students of what
make
A: Mostly,
a
be improved?
quite frankly. We've really defined our
always changing.
a lot
is
that student percep-
curriculum changes?
tion can
A:
graduates successful are those that
way
see a
Once you have this dialogue, are there
ways you can address needs through
Q:
generally? Ultimately, the qualities that
Q:
skills
isn't
pared them to work with computers more
anticipate
study
habits as they did, say, 10 years
lot harder.
is
Windows. We were
working with MS-DOS. What would have
happened if we had trained our students
must
also feel they
work
to share
weren't working with
transcend specific
We
level of
and they come back
faculty,
that ensures the
are.
For example, 10 years ago we
specifically in
same
more work than they ever expected and
allowed to offer a
well, too.
One person
our
know
A:
be enormously im-
They mostly
portant.
real
it's
this university is that students get to
comments
about the need
is
communicate
to articulate a
in
keep in contact with our graduates,
One
but
experiences after they have graduated.
do.
of the most consistent
find that, over
We
this is true,
writing
any
ago. That's pretty troubling for us. We're
from the department of mathematics,
work-
work
willing to
are
much more
they're less
skills:
don't have
I
skill deficiencies.
nursing students and faculty are in the
essential.
statistics are
basic
don't have the
We
basic
it is
perception that incoming freshmen have
constantly
grams and the professional world
would say
think faculty
hard data to say
outside academia. Most of the alumni
computer science and
I
prepared. Part of
with educators; the same with nursing
hospitals. Links
to
us what their experiences have been
tell
at
A:
and mathematics.
The School of
placing students in other schools to
of opinion?
A:
with outside professionals.
interact
chair of the Middle States Self-Study
you were involved
in Bloomsburg's two-year review process.
FALL 1999
we are doing. I think all of us for
many years have felt very good about
what we do here, because we are conscisay
Outcomes assessment puts a
on what we do so the external
entious.
structure
money
stakeholders can see that the
being spent
spent
Q:
being
at the university is
effectively.
How
does one go about assessing
outcomes?
ways of
A: There are several different
assessing outcomes. For example, teachers,
and CPAs can use national
nurses,
exams
measurements of knowledge.
as
But in other
as
much
doesn't
fields, a test
make
sense. In the case of a theater
major, perhaps a portfolio
is
a
more
appropriate measurement.
We'll also be surveying recent graduates,
although
we have
to
be cautious
because often students don't understand
the impact of their college experiences
have had some time away from
until they
campus. Trying to synopsize what hap-
pens in the education of 7,000 students
But we're working on putting
is difficult.
all
of the information into
that
we have
one package so
a formal report to present to
external stakeholders.
Q:
What do you
think the overall mission
of higher education
is
today? And, do you
think you're succeeding?
A:
The mission of higher education
intellectual
That's
that
my personal
we
think
the
is
development of its students.
opinion.
really believe
I
And
are here to develop minds.
what we
that's exactly
That doesn't sound
like
a focus
it's
I
are doing.
on
preparing for the workplace, but in
reality
you think about students who are
what's their work life
currently enrolled
it is. If
—
going to be
Can you
about
tell
me what Bloomsburg learned
in the Middle States self-
itself
ness,
evaluation?
A:
The
also
self-study
is
actually
an intensive
spnng
process that began in the
of
we
we
are pretty healthy,
anticipated.
We
which
to
were
a
be doing
what
didn't expect to see
major problems, though we did
there
is
For example,
any
know
few things that we would
better.
and we found
a bit of a
that to
be
true.
weakBut
we
found that some problems we thought
we had were just
like
in a rapidly
al ability;
it's
—
changing world?
a
mind
that
it's
hard to
able to function
It's
intellectu-
can tackle
situations.
It's
not
a particular set of skills.
Q:
Even
You mentioned "outcomes assessment."
What does
that
How do
roles in
they
ble
guess these measurements are tangi-
means
we
are
doing what
come
into play.
The stronger
we
a
person
is
a
set of skills
the base of
knowledge and background, the
of demonstrating to external
stakeholders that
the world weren't changing, our
it
tomorrow, so a vastly different
apply to higher education 7
I
if
would be. The person who
programmer today will be a manager
term and "competency-
based education" mean?
A:
we knew
20 years
What makes one
imagine.
problems in a variety of
misperceptions.
1997
and culminated in our reaccreditation in
March of this year. Basically, we learned
that
outcomes assessment was
like in
better off
is.
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Memphis go
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Graceland,
to
of Elvis. Not history professor
Jeanette Keith. She
nearby
visits the
Shelby County Archives, where she
peruses dusty old records, the written
some research
kind, for
One way
she's doing.
seem
or another, most of Keiths travels
research.
A visit with
between
trips to the Library of
family in Tennessee last
to involve
summer was sandwiched
Congress and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill to check out papers for her fourth book.
For Keith, and scholars
laboratories are as
much
And sometimes just
like her, the visits to libraries, archives, or
a part of their lives as
shopping
Real-life scholarship isn't often as exciting as the
cinema
scientists
for groceries.
as ordinary.
who
swashbuckling of
single-handedly defeat the inevitable alien or
discover lost treasure. But these quests into libraries, archives, and
labs have their
classroom
—
own
prizes for professors to bring
back
to the
prizes of knowledge, experience, craft.
WALKING THE WALK
Research and scholarship are a part of every academic
discipline.
Advances have been made in computers, education,
and even history.
science, business, health care,
History, including the old stuff, changes like everything else.
"If
you're not being scholarly,
the field," says Keith,
who
you won't
stay up-to-date in
and grant
tell if someone
Ronald Reagan won
regularly reviews papers
proposals from faculty across the country. "You can
hasn't kept
informed of change.
It's
as
if,
the election."
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Change is universal, and sometimes it
means reversing what we thought was fact.
For example,
when psychology
Connie Schick began teaching
burg
professor
Blooms-
at
in 1973, psychologists believed that
people had to think about something in
order to have an emotional response to
But within the past
it.
research has
five years,
suggested that emotion comes
Before
first.
an individual thinks about something
consciously, that person has already
had
some emotional response
new
to
it.
This
says anthropology professor
Wymer, who
Dee Anne
leads students in field
research each summer.
Wymer's
her,
specialty
is
archaeology. For
walking the walk means carefully
where the digging will be,
by layer, and making
sure that artifacts from one layer aren't
mixed with items from another. Tedious
work and in one way or another, part
plotting a grid
removing
soil layer
—
of every discipline.
In history,
it's
knowledge has far-reaching implications
documents; in biology and the natural
that fuel class discussion.
sciences,
and
who
'Faculty
it's
long hours
in psychology,
"When our
are
talk the talk
research
how
If
you
something, then you have a tendency
want
to
Schick.
to learn
more about
it,"
to
different publishing
companies, and
I've
those books, I've had to bring the
authors
up
to date."
More than enabling
professors to
provide their students with the
developments in a particular
latest
field,
being
active researchers allows professors to
answer the all-important question:
How
do you gather the information?
"Faculty
who
all
are researchers can talk
the talk because they walk the walk,"
back and
of a
forth
how
especially
say,
on
data.
'Now
with Keith. She wanted
"I
two dozen students
own
is
a year ago," says
using her research
graduate school
at
Shippensburg
you
can even submit your proposal, you have
show
you have the background. I
be aware of what
information was already out there."
to
may
more than
who
University of Pennsylvania. "Before
research.
"For a paragraph, you
started
skills in
psychology conferences each
their
to analyze
that listed violations.
Handerhan,
where about 10 of them present
she
early 19th century to today. Handerhan
met with Keith weekly for advice and to
give updates on her finds, which included
to take statistics.'"
year,
when
19th century factory inspection reports
I
Schick and her fellow department
also take
firsthand
sweatshops in the United States from the
the
all
skill
completed an honors independent study
ground doing
—
sudden they
know why I have
to regional
read six different chapters on emotion. In
all
to hit the
History student Alexis Handerhan
learned the
help them understand
measure and analyze the
members
says
review textbooks for four
"I
microscope;
conducted so they gain
is
interaction
Then
"Take learning, for instance.
at the
the statistics.
basic skills," says Schick. "There's this
because they
walk the walk."
like
We
research.
it's
students go to graduate
need
school, they
researchers can
Students from Dee Anne Wymer's archaeology
class dig through a prehistoric village found on
Zehner's farm near Nescopeck, PA.
poring over old
read 50
had
documents or three books," adds Keith.
"This is one of the things you have to
teach. You can have 10 note cards for
one sentence. I'm not teaching the
memorization of facts. I want students
to think and act like historians. I'm
teaching a skill and a craft that I practice
myself. If you don't do the craft yourself,
you lose the skill."
that
to research just to
WATCH OUT FOR THOSE
ABSOLUTE CERTAINTIES
Of course, many students never
conduct a study or write a research paper
again after college. But for these students,
exposure to research and researchers
still
is
invaluable.
THE BRASS RING
Keith has been awarded a National
Faculty in every department are involved in
scholarship. Researching, writing, publishing.
But
this
year the history department has seized
the brass ring twice.
Jeanette Keith
and
Two members,
professor
assistant professor
Woody
Holton have been awarded prestigious
fellowships supported
Endowment
by
for the Humanities.
the achievements "the top of the top.
don't
do
for
The award
just
is
three granted annually nationwide,
and
one of
the
College Teachers and Independent Scholars,
only one awarded to a young professional
scholar.
is
open
to scholars
from institutions
Fellowship.
The
her with an
office at Yale University
Yale fellowship will provide
renowned
and access
to the university's
You
research draft resistance, including economic
causes, in the South during
He
too will use the fellowship to
on a book,
without graduate programs in their
calls
that teaching a full-course load
recognized by their peers."
current academic year.
Humanities Fellowship
which
unless you have incredible determination.
It's
for the
department, and a Yale Agrarian Studies
the National
Department chair William Hudon
Endowment
library. She'll
World War
I.
The Creation of the
purpose
story of
is
U.S. Constitution.
to inject
how
this
common
nation was founded.
with the opportunity to bring the raw material
into the classroom to
and
written
American Antiquarian Society
what our people do."
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for the
The book's
people into the
"Doing primary research provides faculty
Holton has been awarded a fellowship from
the
work
Republics of Hope, Empire oj Despair:
show how history is
Hudon. "That's
rewritten," says
FALL 1999
"Research promotes
critical thinking.
the pursuit of a critical understanding
It's
and
of things
what education
it's
university level
is all
at the
BUILDING
A
BIGGER KIW
about," says
So the professor
and allied
William Hudon, chair of the history
of biological
department. "Beware of any courses that
provide absolute certainty. The
health sciences decided
human
to
about the past are always more
realities
complicated than they appear.
If
they
appear simple, then you don't have
make
a bigger hardy
To accomplish
kiwi.
Davis harvested
this,
DNA before
the kiwi's
all
the plants
were
harvested from their vines this summer.
the information."
"One of the
"You've got to check your precon-
ceptions
door," he adds. "This
at the
requires professional honesty. You're
searching for historical realities and not
searching for information that backs
up
your preconceptions."
Determining what those
and
in the sciences
critically.
him one
of his best
approach. "He
the
sure he agrees with Holton's
tries to
down
break
people, which
"Great," says provost
don't think
I
Wilson Bradshaw,
the highest academic officer
on campus.
"We're interested in students thinking
Bradshaw knows how being
challenged can ignite a passion for
knowledge. As a student, he
he "couldn't believe
it
my
it
recalls that
when my
me
ology teacher told
that
that
actions today.
my
I
psych-
past
THE TRUTH
For scholars,
my interest
a
new
IS
OUT THERE
there's a thrill of
fact is
discovery
uncovered. "You
couldn't sustain your doctoral studies
that," says
and
if
some
basic research."
facet of that process will
identifying
chromosome markers
be
in the kiwi
the available diminutive fruit, about the
so different varieties of plant can be identified
"I thought it'd be nice
were bigger. The small size limits the
commercial viability of the kiwi in the
accurately
size of a large grape.
AND
—even
as seedlings.
"There are dozens of
Some
named
varieties.
them with distinct names
probably the same plant."
of
are
BETTER SCALLOP...
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Many
Working with
of us are familiar
with scallops as those
Group,
yummy little
Pugh
sea creatures
that taste really
good with
the
Waterworks
a non-profit organization,
will
spend the next year
identifying scallops that are
melted butter.
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Massachusetts warehouse.
in bays along the East Coast
When
of the United States that today, most bay
Pugh and
scallops are imported from China.
pollution-resistant scallops, they'll select
Chemistry professor Michael Pugh is
hoping to make it possible for scallops to
hoping
flourish once again in the Atlantic waters.
genes to the native population.
the Russian revolution found a
they could meet for lunch.
Hickey,
his colleagues find the
most
individual shellfish for release into the wild,
they'll
pass their pollution-resistant
whose research has taken him
"I
to
was
wooden
floor.
Her hands were blackened
Russia four times to search for documents
with grime flipping through volumes of
in often crumbling archives.
wills
Hudon, an expert
in Christian
and
mousy
and
Renaissance history, has been through the
they'd
learned
is
with such singular
recalls the
if
come up
moments. Then she
hard-pressed to
courthouse in Cookville,
estates.
been chewed," she says. "But I
how debts were calculated and
people gave more property to their
eldest sons."
"It
was
a
good
says wryly. "This
of the old brick building. She needed a
is
touching something touched by two of the
skeleton key to unlock the cobweb-
covered
attic
room with
the dusty
day.
1
got
enough
material for a page of manuscript," she
Tennessee. She'd spent a day in the tower
leaders of the Russian revolution," says
"The place had a
smell and things looked like
Vatican and Florentine archives and read
But Keith
handwritten note from Trotsky to Lenin
asking
when he saw
handwritten 16th-century documents.
Hudon.
Michael Hickey an expert in Russian
history
One
evolved.
had an
in psychology."
without
the process, do
it
know now
does. But that sparked
whenever
sometimes-harsh weather.
into the scallop population
A former researcher and psychobiology
on
"The goal is to promote this crop as a
viable crop species in Pennsylvania. And in
pollution has cut so deeply
critically."
effect
gooseberry from which
the
should collapse."
professor,
kiwi grower to purchase hardy kiwi
class to battle
between the heroes of history and
common
a larger
plants that can bear Pennsylvania's
northeast," says Davis.
with him over certain topics." But
walls
making
is to
stories to class," says
Truempy, "and allows the
isn't
at
if it
students. "Holton brings excellent
Truempy
a commercial
But he was underwhelmed
Holton, assistant professor of
examples and
grow kiwis
to
the humanities, can
Lucas Truempy has been challenged.
history, considers
to
home. So, he went
realities are,
challenge students to think
Woody
George Davis wanted
his
strategies of
double the number of
chromosomes," explains Davis. "For example,
the fuzzy kiwi has a chromosome count
double that of the smaller Chinese
plant
isn't
often dramatic, this
work. Sometimes, the best day of
being a scholar
is
when
you're finished
with a project.
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The room located to the
In
the center of the room
draperies flank
a
right of
Magee
the entranceway to the
a long oval table surrounded by
is
large picture
window
Center
that overlooks the carefully manicured yard. Beautifully
"natural for classrooms." These
G. Michael Vavrek, Bloomsburg
dean of continuing and
considerations
community
room." His subtle reference reveals his
Magee
the residential features
wishes that
family's
and
integrity of the
be retained. The Frank
entire building
and
built
once the
and
by
1947, was
a Lancaster firm in
home
of the late Harry
his wife, Alice.
The
made when
request,
Dentremont
architect Paul
the
Foundation gave the
L.
activities that
include taking
leadership roles in scouting, United Way,
and Bloomsburg Hospital
projects, notes
with obvious delight that the administra-
Lloyd Wright-inspired structure, designed
by Philadelphia
the decision a
Magee, a longtime supporter of
comfortable space simply as "the living
attention to the
made
logical one.
distance education, refers to the
tion accepted his family's offer after just a
few days of consideration. He
university's choice to
name
feels the
the building
Magee
second
family's
Magee
home
to
Bloomsburg University in 1988,
was
that the building
a public service
be used as
facility.
not easy to persuade members
It's
of one of Bloomsburg's oldest
most generous
and
families to talk about
their bequests to the
community. They
don't believe in "blowing their
own
horn" says Joanne Katerman, daughter
of the venerable couple. But with a bit
of prodding, she
family
what
and
is
the "Magee Center"
three other
members agreed
to talk
arguably their greatest
about
gesture
a
gift to
know
Enterprises, Inc. until his retirement in
be
1993, says that donating the spacious,
real
9,000-square-foot house to the university
in part, for practical reasons.
emphasizes the
in
good
family's desire to
repair
He
keep the
and observes the
generous-sized rooms seemed to be
is
was a generous
satisfied his family
made
decision.
"You see
James A. (Jim) Magee, son of Harry and
Alice and president of Magee Industrial
home
and
sound
the region.
was done,
spacious and welcoming.
plush office seating. Elegant flowered
pictures dot the soft beige walls.
University's
is
it's
lots of cars
parked
there.
being put to good use. This
You
is
one of those things that you think might
good idea and
a
it
turns out to be a
winner," he says.
Vavrek says, "What we've tried to do
maintain the original house as
possible but
A
still
have
it
much
as
be functional."
close look at the center yields
evidence that not only has the dual goal
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What was once the Magee
family indoor
swimming pool,
elaborately decorated with
imported
tile, will
soon be
transformed into a multipurpose, telecommunication-
equipped auditorium, thanks
to the generosity of the
Magee
Foundation. Displaying the
architect's
drawing of the
renovation are John Abell,
Michael Vavrek, Mike Katerman
and Drue Magee.
Jim
Mag ee
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been
realized,
but that a
lot
more
happening there than the serene decor
The room where the Magees used
kick back and enjoy each others
technical support necessary to transmit
and data from Bloomsburg
suggests.
voice, video,
to
just about any location
company now houses
the latest in video-
sessions are able to
on
the planet,
force
work
world. Video cameras, television monitors,
document cameras, microphones, and
the driving
each has been
flower wreaths decorate walls
and the
bathrooms and
recreation room remains intact. A quilt
made by one of the centers instructors
graces its entrance. And framed
room, freezer room, recreation
bedrooms have been reborn
as a
photographs of the rooms as they looked
conference room, art studio, reception
storeroom, 10-station computer
area,
was
rooms were earmarked
the
original tiling in the
room, breakfast nook, and various
communicate with the
practicality
decorated to be people-friendly. Dried-
The dining room, laundry room,
sitting
when
for various activities,
to
and
vice versa.
conferencing equipment. Community,
government, and business groups that
gather there for meetings and
Though
studio-quality lighting comprise the
is
in another era,
when
the
Magees
lived in
li
The fact that every room *|
Ci
in
the house
is
!
them, are hung -near the doorways. These
artful
being used
touches lend a "that was then, this
now" kind
Like Jim Magee, his
is
validation of
many happy
recalls
an idea
Though married
the time the
that looked promising
when
plans
were
lab,
A
classrooms, and offices.
headquarter
the university's extended
Myles Katerman by
home was
Memorial Day
built,
parties,
she vividly
which
hands-on cooking
New Year's
classes. Visiting
groups and caterers also use
it
to
prepare and serve refreshments. The
family picnics, echoes each
Magee
summer
Eve celebrations that her
parents hosted there.
Mrs. Katerman, a trustee of the family
foundation, says she sometimes feels sad
when
she passes by the center, thinking
with the carefree squeals of the children
about her mother's
who
beloved home. But she
participate in Adventures in Science
day camps. And the spectacular
room
that
tiled
once housed an indoor pool
being renovated to serve as a multi-
purpose, telecommunications-equipped
there.
Joanne,
coincided with Jim's birthday, and the
is
programs
recalls
to
sister,
times in the home.
appointed kitchen accommodates
courtyard, once the scene of
made to
well-
auditorium
—
the largest technologically-
sophisticated facility of this type in
central Pennsylvania.
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is
of ambiance.
last
years in her
is
pleased that the
university maintains the property so
meticulously.
One
who was
of the people
home
to the
university, she is gratified that so
many
instrumental in gifting the
area residents benefit from the center.
"People are appreciative.
them
a place to
I
think
it
gives
have outreach meetings.
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I've had friends take courses there. It's
worked out fine," she says.
Drue Magee, daughter of Jim and
Audrey Magee, and also a trustee of the
Magee Foundation, fondly remembers her
grandmother's greenhouse and garden. She
home with beautiful flowers
there. And she is happy about
going
recalls
after visits
topics such as workers' compensation,
OSHA-prescribed
Magee
reincarnated as the
"We
subjects,
from
getting
more
lifestyle
have been possible without the generosity
courses to
Anthony M.
workforce development, in order to
of the Magees.
serve the broadest possible audience,"
president of university advancement,
says Vavrek.
says that
of the courses are non-credit,
public need.
wwm
is
This diversity of programs would not
broad array of
but the eclectic program mix
\MM
our business
advanced, more technical, and more
sophisticated," he says.
try to offer a
Many
Center.
as
and
sales techniques.
the educational opportunities that have
blossomed since the home was
safety training,
From
the
their
its
to the
community. And, although the family
of
1998 through the spring of 1999,
foundation also supports
approximately 2,000 people took
university's athletic
mini-courses and an additional 1,900
and
others used the center for meetings,
undoubtedly the shining
and video-conferencing.
receptions,
home
Magee family demonstrated
continuing commitment to the
university, the
a
fills
summer
by donating
Ianiero, vice
capital
and
many
of the
cultural events
campaigns, the center
fabric of that
is
star in the
enduring loyalty
Pffip
I The
Magee
living
room as
being used so much.
"It's
was then
it
I
was on
the
Bloomsburg University Foundation
Board
It's
at
the time the house
was
in the
gifted.
know
a very nice feeling for us to
it's
hands of people who care about
it
so much," she says.
The
is
fact that
being used
is
every
room
in the
looked promising
when
plans were
to headquarter the university's
programs
"It
community
new
made
extended
It
In particular, the centers offerings
benefit a
very close
Magee
like a
service
good fit to run our
program out of this
encouraged us
to generate
programs," says John Abell, associate
ties to
Rieter
the
education.
The son of Joanne and Myles,
Katerman explains why the center
the notion of
new
grounds are "the
Magee Center in July 1989.
"I remember it well. I felt that
world of opportunity
is
such an important educational resource
Ianiero.
valuable regional resource. Today, courses
for
"We
among
are offered in everything
to
money management
from
floral
to yoga.
design
And
business groups can attend workshops on
Rieter.
see an ongoing
need with the advancements
technology
to further
workforce.
We
He
dignitaries, at the dedication of the
is
programs, the center has become a
Magee
largest in-kind gift
was present, along with Magee family
members, then Bloomsburg University
President Harry Ausprich and other
Magee Center
The company pays half the
tuition costs, as long as the subject
development
the university has ever received."
the opportunity to attend
job-related.
on
its
of the
company, says employees there are given
classes.
established the
program in 1984, says the home and
Automotive Systems. Mike
CEO
who
university's existing
Magee family
dean of continuing and distance
Zeroing-in
Ianiero,
Bloomsburg company with
Katerman, president and
there.
seemed
location.
house
validation of an idea that
in
who
is
a
have a stake in the Magee
that
it
continues a Magee
and Bloomsburg University
need additional education
was
Without exception, the sentiment
those
Centers future
educate our
it
for this university," says
tradition
providing valuable services to the region.
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By Jim Doyle
He knows renowned coaches Bobby Knight and
Chuck Daly personally. He reveres legends like John
Wooden and Dean Smith. But, ultimately, he credits
college
roommate
man
the best
an
assistant
era.
at East
at his
coach
And he was
Stroudsburg and
wedding.
He
has been
for the entire Chronister
the person responsible for
Chronister getting the head coaching job
philosophy professor for his teams' successes.
a
in the
first
place.
roommates graduated
After the
Charlie Chronister, Bloomsburg
coach and
University's men's basketball
one of the
nation's winningest, explains,
"When 1 was an undergraduate
Stroudsburg State College,
to
—
have a good professor
was
all
I
a very
dynamic
fortunate
He
Dr. Powers.
teacher.
the different philosophies
We
studied
and philoso-
phers, but pragmatism grabbed
—
the less reliance
on
I
talk
the better the package,
luck.
Bloomsburg
a
is
very good package."
An
at East
was
about
that
age
is
integral part of Bloomsburg's pack-
Athletic Director
Mary Gardner.
Gardner respects Chronister's coaching
for
reasons beyond his winning percentage.
"Charlie has always
done an excellent job
my
attention at the time. Idealistically, you'd
like to
do
certain things, but that doesn't
always work, so you have to find a
to get
way
Since that time, Chronister and Reese
coaching has served him well for the past
years.
During
have made
that time, his basketball
Bloomsburg have won 505
games. The milestone 500th win came at
home last season on Feb. 13, a 73-67 win
over his alma mater, East Stroudsburg. His
teams
at
teams have reached the
seven times,
won
seven
expects certain
consistent. Charlie's also a real innovative
East
titles,
feels he's just
one
at the right place at the
good
players, capable
assistant coaches, the supportive
people
those things aren't
always in your control. So
it's
the package
He has
thinker on offense and defense.
way
of staying very current
'01
is
Bloomsburg's top returning
scorer for the 99-00 season.
ensuring that
we have
We
they don't
come
to
If
when
on or
know
they
what's going on, they're
Chronister appreciates the fact that
Reese helped bring
never have to worry
about them stepping out of line
When
not going to play."
student athletes
are representing the university
practice, they
they
off
and
that
him
Bloomsburg,
to
he has remained a
vital part of the
Huskies' success story. "Burt and
the court."
throwbacks. We're unusual, but
Continue looking inside the package
and you find Burt Reese. Reese, the assistant athletic director, was Chronister's
we're smart enough to
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a
and getting
have to pay attention.
the kids involved.
Shawn Munford
of their role.
Bloomsburg University
tremendous amount of luck in
like
—and
He
PSAC
has a vehicle
around you
head coach. "He takes a hard
with the kids.
things,
involved in his program that are respectful
right time, recruiting
cess as a
line
part of a successful package. "Not everyone
—being
cites a
of reasons for Chronister's suc-
NCAA tournament
achievements, Chronister
coaching
Reese
a terrific team.
number
and they respond to the things he
expects. Over the years, he's been very
and a PSAC championship. The Huskies,
under Chronister, have been a model of
consistency, with 27 winning seasons in 28
years and an average of 18 wins a season.
While justifiably proud of his teams'
There's a
Twenty-nine -year-old Chronister
soon became the new head coach.
Chronister's pragmatic approach to
28
and coaching jobs. Later, Chronister
became assistant basketball coach at
Gettysburg College, while Reese was the
tennis coach and assistant basketball coach
at Bloomsburg State College. When the
Huskies' head basketball coach, Earl Voss,
quit before the 1971-72 season, Reese was
offered the job. As it turns out, he didn't
want it because of his commitments with
the tennis program. So, he called his former roommate and suggested that he
apply.
done."
it
in
1963, both accepted high school teaching
when we
see
it.
We
know
like
it
a
I
I
are
guess
good thing
here.
We
have
our differences, but they're always com-
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The Huskies, under Charlie Chronister,
have been a model of consistency,
with 27 vinniiu seasons in 28 years
fortable differences. We're best friends,
when you
that helps
get in
some
and
profes-
sional situations."
When
Chronister took over as head
coach, he inhented a
staff that
not only
included Reese but also Michael "Doc"
Herbert, a retired biology professor
was
who
program for 28 years until
he gave it up in 1995. "Doc contnbuted
tremendously to this program and to me
personally. It was a loss when he decided
part of the
to retire."
Considering Chronister's
long tenure,
he's
had few
Ray
full-time assistants.
was an assistant
to 1988 before
becoming head coach
Ricketts
from 1986
Photo courtesy of
The Press Enterprise
at Albright. Bill
Whitney,
who
is
now
the
and head basketball coach
at Paramus High School in New Jersey, followed Ricketts.
Whitney
athletic director
appreciates his
experience
coaching under Chronister. "He gave you
a lot of freedom.
ideas.
He
let
He
listened to your
you grow
as a coach. Charlie's
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been coached by former Huskies
DaRe
of Central
of Bloomsburg
—Tony
Columbia and Lee
consistency has to be a part of
Gump
High School.
is
DaRe has a unique perspective because
he had already completed his freshman
year at Bloomsburg State College
when
a
young, confident coach took over the
mens
DaRe play
seasons, he later
served as
Kevin
Reynolds
'91
a
volunteer
I
pan
he's
of the reason he's
Gump came
think he
always had. I'm sure
to
still
Coaching
now
coaching."
Bloomsburg
University in 1992 after leading
Pittsburgh's Carlynton
High
to a state
championship. He's seventh on the
Gump, who was
list.
a student assistant for
Chronister after four years of playing for
the Huskies, credits the program for
nearby Central
ing
him
a successful
mak-
high school coach.
successful in his
"Everything
own
come from the collegiate level. Sometimes
when I'm in practice, and I'm teaching
right,
DaRe
compares the 1971
Huskies coach with
the
1999
version.
don't see a
whole
of difference.
you look
the kids,
find myself repeating
I
word
word
thing
lot
Chronister told me."
When
programs,
for
that
some-
Coach
Chronister proteges have also
their
mark
made
in the collegiate coaching
Luptowski 73 is the head
American International College
ranks. Artie
coach
Rlnnntchiivi
learned in basketball has
I
"I
at success-
ful athletic
looks like the success
be true to a
part,
Huskies' all-time career scoring
Columbia and
It
may
most
seasons in the mid-
at
think
think that
assistant for three
80s.
rif
I
has the edge
Lee
for Chronister for three successful
with age.
degree, but for the
still
I
it.
The enthusiasm
People might say he's mellowed a
that intensity.
is still
there.
bit
that's
Not only did
basketball program.
there
at
in Springfield,
an assistant
at
MA. Kevin Reynolds '91
Drake University, and
is
University men's basketball will continue
Into the next millennium.
Terry Conrad '83
an
is
not afraid to accept
new ideas." The
assistant coach. Rich Mills,
is
current
University. All
beginning his
three were point
tenth year at Bloomsburg. Mills under-
how
stands
guards, a position
Chronister has maintained a
for
"He
consistently successful program.
always gets the kids geared into
is.
particularly high
How
standards.
wearing that uniform, averaging 18
wins a year, going to tournaments, being
it
feels
successful.
when it's
He
important.
I've
learned so
What he does
and defensively just works.
able
how
he does
The number
ers
who
as his
much
Conrad knows
offensively
because he
wanted someone on the floor
to understand exactly what
he's trying to do and understand what the whole picture
is
-just like he's doing from
why.
unbeliev-
it."
of Chronister's former play-
high school or collegiate
count twenty,
number
In the
Class
tough on his
point guards, and
are involved in coaching basketball
at either the
at last
It's
of wins.
Bloomsburg
area, the District
AA high school basketball
4
champi-
onship teams of the past two seasons have
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"Basically,
—
level,
almost as remarkable
is
He
has always been
gets the kids to play well
from his system.
which
Chronister holds
how
important Bloomsburg basketball
assistant at
Bucknell
Captain Terry
the sideline."
Conrad '83 and
Coach Chronister
Recruiting
of
is
the lifeblood
any successful basketball
program, and
it's
obvious that
.
Chronister and his
on
reflects
season's
staff
have done a great
terrific players.
job of recruiting
PSAC
19
MILESTONES
Chronister
few of them, including
a
L L
last
Eastern Division Player of
end of a
you gave him the ball, something good usually happened. We've had
great individuals like Mike Ellzy '97, the
all-time leading scorer. Jerry Radocha '77
was maybe the best all-around basketball
player we've ever had. Artie Luptowski
and Jon Bardsley '82 were maybe the most
charismatic. You don't accomplish the
the Year, Jeff Benson. "At the
possession,
if
State
East Berlin,
High School:
PA
Bermudian Springs
East Stroudsburg '63
Coaching Experie
things our teams have over the years with-
Head Coach:
out having people that can really play."
Hanover High School, PA
Supportive families backed up most of
1964-67
Overall Record: 59-8
those great players, a situation Chronister
can
relate to.
His mother and
Mildred and Merv,
trip
from
Berlin to
childhood
Charlie's
Bloomsburg
home game, and
make
still
for
they
Assistant Coach:
father,
the two-hour
home
almost every
make
it
some
to
road games as well. Chronister also recog-
made by his wife, Carol,
two daughters, Lee and Caryn.
"You can't survive sanely doing what
you're doing without the support of people who are closest to you. I've been
nizes sacrifices
and
A
Head Coach:
Bloomsburg University
1971 -Present
Overall Record: 505-257 (.661)
PSAC
East Record: 237-117 (.669)
Kozloff.
Home
court
more spacious Nelson
upper campus. And
as well.
Field
styles
House on
have changed
wasn't crazy about hair styles
"I
when John Willis and Jerry Radocha had
hair down to their shoulders. Now,
where's the hair?
Guys
are shaving their
been cosmetic
changes over the years, Chronister doesn't
much change in the athletes' desire to
win. He uses last season's co-captain Tom
Hauer as an example. "Can anyone tell me
that Tom Hauer didn't want to win any
more than Paul Kuhn did? Those were
two of our best competitors. Kuhn was
here when first got here and was one of
see
I
the fiercest competitors
was out of
we
had. Hauer
same mold."
When it comes to the subject of retirement, there is good news for the
followers of Bloomsburg University basketball
the
—Chronister
considering
when
58, adds,
I
"I
relatively
it.
"I
was
is
was
not even
fortunate.
I
29." Chronister,
don't feel that old.
good.
I've
have
a
good
assistant
and
a
good
coach.
offer,
I
feel like I've
and
it's still
got something to
this season.
Although Hauer and Jeff Benson, two key
starters, graduated and had to be
replaced, everyone else returned. Add
three talented players
coming
got the
who
is
My health
always said as long
127-67
vs.
Baptist Bible
STtfl 2-5-77
63-62
vs.
Cheyney
EIH 1-18-83
77-67
vs.
Md.-Balt. Co.
11-19-88 80-76
vs.
Walsh
76-62
vs.
Cheyney
73-67
vs.
E.
EfEl
fun."
That fun should continue
off redshirt
dim 1-13-94
EMU 2-13-99
Stroudsburg
NCAA Tournament Appearances
Yea
years and another solid recruiting class,
Record
•
1973-74
22-6
1980-81
23-7
1981-82
24-7
1982-83
23-10
Bloomsburg University men's basketball
1988-89
27-5
continue into the next millennium.
1994-95
18-9
1995-96
21-7
and the Huskies should once again
heads," says Chronister.
But, while there have
I
point guard, I'm going to continue to
moved when cozy
Gymnasium gave way to the
Centennial
Career Wi
as
have changed in 28
lot of things
seasons.
is
Following the 98-99 season, Charlie Chronister
received a Pennsylvania House of Representatives
resolution, honoring him for his 500 victories.
With him are State Rep. John Gordner, who
presented the citation, and President Jessica
his
fortunate that way."
job
1967-71
Gettysburg College
in East
lenge for the
won
the last
East
title
they have
two seasons.
looks like the success of
It
will
PSAC
chal-
Chronister will
tell
you the reasons
for
that success include a university with a
solid
academic reputation,
campus
a beautiful
both students and
that impresses
E
si
[
i
]
1
parents alike, a supportive administration
and community, and many other
factors
that he fondly calls the
"whole package."
But, his colleagues will
add
a big part of
head coach
that is old-school when it comes to discipline and modern when it comes to
strategy. It is a coach who continues to
that
package of success
is
on
hi
r-
Division
1980-81
23-7
(9-3)
1983-84
19-11
(11-3)
1988-89
27-5
(10-2)
1990-91
19-9
(9-3)
1995-96
21-7
(9-3)
a
use the pragmatic philosophy he learned
in a classroom, not
1
1
997-98
1998-99
9-9
(11-1)
21-8
(11-1)
1
a basketball court.
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when
it
came time
for university
leaders to create a catchy
its
title
—
biggest challenges ever
vate dollars
New
—they had
Challenges,
New
little
first
one of
raising effort. "To continue as
of high quality" explains
an institution
Anthony
Ianiero,
advancement,
raising pri-
vice president for university
trouble.
"Bloomsburg University must seek 'margin
Opportunities: The
Campaign for Bloomsburg
Bloomsburgs
for
University
is
comprehensive fund-
of excellence' dollars to supplement tuition, fees,
To continue
Americas leading public
to
be one of
universities,
—
projects that
we
need the support of our donors, includ-
Private funds allow
to
with additional resources. Individual
contributions give the university
opportunities to create
In recent years, the state appropri-
operating budget has steadily
responsible for contributing a
new
programs,
and most important,
and the brightest students
The generosity of others will
university shape its future and
faculty.
help the
is
projects,
attract the best
and
ation portion of Bloomsburg's total
realize its strategic goals.
"A campaign
like this, in this stage of
percentage of the cost for each capital
the university's development,
and deferred maintenance project
eye-opener for administration,
it
and
staff
resources and what can be achieved
enhance
now
Bloomsburg
accomplished with current
and foundations."
Bloomsburg
fully
Pennsylvania.
ing alumni, individuals, corporations,
declined. In addition,
were once
funded by the Commonwealth of
bridge the gap between what can be
and the appropriation from the
state legislature.
undertakes
is
a real
faculty,
1
staff,
and students,
The answers
as well as alumni,"
says Ianiero.
"Many
fund raising
at
to these
and many other
questions helped identify key projects
are not familiar with
ago, President Jessica Kozloff enlisted the
of interest, which would become
components of the comprehensive
campaign. Once it was determined that
a campaign was feasible, the university
prioritized projects and entered what
development operations call the
help of deans, department chairs, and
"quiet phase."
new
public institutions.
It's
a
venture."
To shape a campaign that would
embrace
all
objectives
faculty
areas of the university,
needed
to
be
its
academic
a variety of preliminary
identified,
qualitative
A
Over two years
Each group suggested
projects for
were
set.
feasibility
to
A
priority
From
phase. Typically, fund-raisers
before
university.
study followed.
With
Its
making
a public
Would
at least half the
that the
funds pledged during
show
Was there interest in a visiting
scholars endowment for the College of
Business? Was a Student Services Center
in
would
excite givers?
"We
believe
what you're doing." As the quiet phase
of Bloomsburg's
a
others
chosen campaign projects are
important. Their support says,
project that
this
want 50
donors support funding a Wellness
Center?
more than 250 guests
entertainment by award-winning
composer and
Many
pianist
of the guests
financial
like the
is
announcement.
the quiet phase, donors help
determine constituent
interest before soliciting support.
campaign's potential success
percent of the campaign goal pledged
to the
of the campaign,
enjoyed a strolling dinner and
Marvin Hamlisch.
had already pledged
support and partially or
funded some of the campaign
gauged by the monies raised during
these,
campaign goals
each crucial
growth of the
purpose was
area.
At an elegant kick-off event in
October, announcing the public phase
campaign drew
to a close,
a
fully
priorities,
conversion of the old library into
Student Services Center. Others had
contributed toward scholarships. The
Community Government
(CGA) funded
University Store and
Recreation
The
Association
the renovation of the
Upper-Campus
Facilities.
university development
along with the deans and
staff,
members
of the
campaign steering committee, continues
to solicit
support from alumni of specific
$6,600,000, or 60 percent, of the $1
colleges for particular
million goal had been raised.
For example, the College of Business
campaign
projects.
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boasts three endeavors: funds for faculty
excellence, visiting scholars,
and student
Other alumni are interested in giving
directly to students
through scholarships.
The Honors Scholarship Endowment
scholarships.
Some alumni
prefer to pledge their
support for capital projects. They want
can
to give to enterprises they
see, touch,
Alumni many times are
projects where they understand
helps the university attract the best and
the brightest students through
40 annual
awards of $1,250 each. In addition, the
Endowment
students are very active. They're outgoing, and they're involved.
into
campus when they
they're likely to stay.
I
think
drawn
bring students with outstanding academic
here,
campus through
year. The University-Wide Scholarship Endowment
the time they graduate."
the need firsthand. Those
who
attended
school here in the past 30 years are
familiar with
campaign
a
new
A
Treasury oj Ideas, the
to raise
library.
funds to help build
That campaign was
successful because so
many alumni had
experienced the need for expanded
library facilities. Similarly,
many alumni
and leadership
abilities to
25 awards of $1,000 each
gives
alumni an opportunity
a scholarship in their
someone they wish
"When
to establish
own name
or
the university sends a
message that these are the kinds of
Bloomsburg,
agree that a Student Services Center,
students that
centralizing offices such as admissions,
other prospective students with strong
financial aid, registrar,
services,
accommodative
academic support services, and
developmental instruction,
is
essential to
abilities give
to
our school
a serious look,
too," says Ianiero.
says, "If there
student satisfaction.
makes Bloomsburg unique,
is
An
and they forge
when
a strong
they're
bond by
additional aspect of the compre-
hensive campaign
This funds a
is
the
number
Annual Fund.
of ongoing programs
such as student research and faculty
one particular
it's
trait that
that our
for
unrestricted gifts continues, regardless of
the university's involvement in other
campaigns.
New Challenges, New Opportunities is
already
making
a difference at
Bloomsburg,
putting the university out there in that
Chris Keller, director of admissions,
providing greater service and increasing
school, they get involved
development. Annual Fund solicitation
to honor.
come
why
when
they leave. They were involved in high
Presidential Leadership
to
that's
people are so loyal to Bloomsburg
or walk through.
helps
They plug
and
get here,
margin of excellence.
"
FALL 1999
Campaign Steering
Committee
To secure a successful future
...
Kozloff
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urg University
dent for University Advancement
IH Ianiero '97 (H)
"I've
witnessed
firsthand the
nsburg University
commitment
to
excellence that
BlooTiisburg
npaign Chair
irbara B.
possesses.
Barbara Hudock
Hudock 75
First Vice President
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Investments
nch
Private Client
Group
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Bloomsburg
University
of Pennsylvania
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and Chemicals,
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you can't beat the System !
Community Government Association
Bloomsburg University
Meet Barbara
Blootnsburg University
college, she
position of
Rodney
B. Keller
in
Hudock.
Barbara
1975 With i degree
graduated
from
Barbara's service on the foundations (xrard has confirmed what she realized
as a student
business education Afia
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began narking for Merrill Lynch and rose 15 her current
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where she manages iwi'
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educated aboui possible h'mtneial choices and, therefore, can make more
Barbara
informed decisions."
Alex M. Kozlowski '65
Ihroughoui her successes
in life,
helped her gel to where she
IBM
university
is
Barbara basal forgotten the university
today She
i.s
a
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one of 450.000 graduates of the
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of
Higher Education universities. Ninety-six percent of State
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major contributor lo the
and has served as a member of the
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intellectual growth while at tbeir university. Contact
any Slate System university today to begin
University Foundation since 1991
out your success
living
story.
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Robert "Doc"
Easi Stroudsburg
'95 (H)
chair,
Barbara
Hudock, was featured
in a
Faculty Emeritus
series ot ads tor the State
Bloomsburg University
System of Pennsylvania.
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Y2K
Fixing these programs was
"The people creating
made
programs in the 60s and
Are we ready?
70s simply never thought
It's
as simple as
two
little
spaces. That
sums up all this fuss over what we have
come to know as the Y2K problem.
In the early years of technology devel-
opment, cost was a major
factor
computer disk storage was
at a
they would
and
premium.
dropped
that price
had
to $400. Today, that space costs
COBOL programs
of
computer
be rewritten by
this time."
specific jobs.
was developed,
After three years of
preparation, Bieber says the university
will
be ready
when
that the
oped on campus over the
past 20 years to perform
services. "It
the ball drops in
Times Square, signaling the
start of
year
for the administrative systems
and Mark
mold
"compiled software" that
is
used by a
computer. In order to change
how
software operates, programmers need
that source
to four digits.
sometimes been
the university
—which works
for a metal part, creating the
Raynes redefined the database from two
Sounds easy enough. But
As the software
staff carefully
archived the source code
like a
made
the "19" in front of the year in dates.
right
university uses were devel-
about a buck. Therefore, a decision was
two spaces carrying
fact that
Bloomsburgs director
2000. Jim Gessner spearheaded the project
to eliminate the
by the
had done things
in the past. All of the various
was expected they would
disk storage (or one million characters) cost
later,
last this long,"
easier
says Glenn Bieber,
For example, in 1963, one megabyte of
$2,000. Eight years
folks
code
—something
lost at
that's
other institutions,
says Gessner.
has more than 1,800 individual computer
programs written in 1.8 million
computer language COBOL.
lines of the
A single
system, such as student scheduling, could
entail
together.
Jim Gessner, right, and Glenn Bieber test software
on the mainframe to ensure Y2K compliance.
notice the
rare.
human
LouAnn
assistant,
resources
if
it
was
the people
When
you
you have one
Tarlecky works with
people every day. But
things.
eat,
She's also collected
life.
Tarlecky went to Russia and Belarus for
last
January as a
You
don't see
down
end-to-end will stretch
—enough
113.6 miles
Bloomsburg
to get
you from
to Lancaster.
litter
member
of
mission sponsored
you use
half a napkin,
dozen churches and commun-
transformed her
Carelift, a
be
Since the mission, Tarlecky has talked
to nearly a
ity
Operation
will
at all."
she met halfway around the globe that
two weeks
code
in Russia, because paper products are so
Journey benefits Russian youth
In her job as a
little
line of
four inches long. Those 1.8 million lines
of code laid
Globe Trotter
of
Set in type that runs 10 characters to
an inch, the average
dozens of individual programs
working
How long are 1.8 million lines
COBOL computer code?
organizations about what she saw.
hundreds of
articles
of children's clothing to send to the
orphanages she
visited.
come back and do
"You just
can't
nothing."
by Josh McDowell
Ministries. She and
500 fellow volunteers distnbuted food,
medicine, clothing, and Christian
What
literature.
she found was
heartrending.
"In
one
district [the equivalent of a
An Annual
county] there were 22 orphanages with an
,
average of
Tarlecky.
200 children
in each," says
"The children's clothes were worn
through and there wasn't always heat.
certainly
we
made me aware
It
of the things that
have in abundance," she
says.
"You
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Treat
Each year, more than 1,200 trick-or-treaters and
their families visit residence halls looking for treats
and delighting students. Approximately 80 costumed guides led small groups of candy seekers
through decorated hallways, while 20 Alpha Sigma
Phi fraternity members helped out as crossing
guards throughout campus. More than 450 rooms
participated in this popular annual event.
FALL
VP Honored
While serving as
Ianiero
Ianiero selected for hall
Anthony
and
Ianiero, vice president for
university advancement,
inducted into The College of
New Jersey
(TCNJ, formerly Trenton State College)
Alumni
Athletic Hall of
Ianiero,
who
assistant director of
from 1976
named
was recently
1977
head coach
to 1978. In
alumni
"I
New
1978, he was
Alumni
to
for
football
Wg',
coach
at
Trenton before
being promoted to
assistant
head
career.
That
is
that is
most
gratifying
for
me
increased capability of being
programmed for up to 10 years.
The recorded bells chime every
personally"
coach and defensive
Bloomsburg
of development in
his seven years as
and was named
both the
team and his defense
sound and a wider variety
The system also has the
of songs.
the part
coordinator in 1977. In
quarter hour, just like the
bells of England's
Westminster Abbey,
as director
1984
and each hour
counted with
vice
is
tolls.
president for university
At 4:30 p.m., one of
advancement in 1995.
two versions of the alma
were nationally ranked,
mater
winning two conference
6:30 p.m., you'll hear
titles
and compiling
The new
provide listeners with higher
quality
Ianiero joined
football
assistant coach,
CDs
persons professional
and baseball
uses digital
of 8-track tape cartridges.
award honors not only what
was achieved on the playing field, but also
what was achieved in a
served as assistant
now
recordings on compact discs, instead
Athletic Hall of Fame," says
a four-year letter winner in both football
he
proved electronic system that chimes
TCNJ's
Ianiero. "This
baseball. Later,
tunes are ringing from the
from the tower
be selected
degree in 1974 and a master's in 1975, was
and
tunes
Carver tower these days. The im-
and from
he was assistant director of
am honored
new
Ringing
affairs
director of alumni affairs,
to 1983,
9 9
Carver Bells
director
college development.
Fame.
earned his undergraduate
assistant
was sports information
19
is
played. At
a couple of extra
a
Tony Ianiero was assistarv
head football coach and
record of 47-19-2.
songs.
Who
selects
which pieces
defensive coordinator at
Trenton State College (now
The College of New Jersey)
from 1977 through 1983.
will,
be
heard? Randall
Presswood, director
of performing
arts facilities.
New
Gear
Chris Hallen stands next
to the Nuclear Magnetic
What's that molecule?
The Y2K
crisis
was
a
boon
Resonance spectrometer,
which was donated
to the university by
Merck & Company, Inc.
to
Bloomsburg in one important way.
Because of
it,
instrument will
and research
in their classes
rainforest plant
cancer.
scientists
if
The
they've
compound
in
the lab.
"This instrument
means
that
we can
Hallen, associate professor of chemistry.
world's largest pharmaceutical companies.
"In the past,
& Company, Inc. in Danville has
we had
Delaware and
to ship
samples to
New York."
The instrument works by bombarding
donated a used Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (NMR) spectrometer, worth
a
almost $100,000 new, to the university.
those you hear over your stereo), and
Merck contributed
it
longer print the proper year on
a federal requirement that the
must meet. But
will
no
equipment
work
and
it
compound
or help
just fine.
What does
powerful magnet cooled by liquid helium
test results,
company
will
a
NMR do?
diagnostic tool that can
physicists exactly
how
It's
tell
a powerful
chemists and
the atoms in a
to
To do the job, the instrument requires a
for practical application in
the classroom, the
sample with radio frequencies (similar
measuring which frequencies are absorbed.
the instrument to the
university because, after 1999,
get
publication quality results," says Chris
one of the
as
tell
duplicated that natural
chemistry and physics
students can use the same equipment
Merck
may discover a
compound that prevents
scientists
are connected to
them determine
the identity of a
molecule. This information
for
determining
if
a
one another
is
important
compound has been
prepared accurately. For example,
liquid nitrogen. After being installed,
week
takes about a
cool
enough
magnet
is
to
for the
ready,
—
it
on your
it
to
you'd better take the
wallet out of your pocket
with
magnet
do the job. Once the
will erase the
when working
magnetic strips
credit cards.
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^1
same day In
Five Stars
Alums inducted
had a
addition, she
record of 71-13 and a career
into hall
career
ERA
of 0.47.
She struck out 485 batters and threw eight
As
a group, they
combined
for six All-
no-hitters, including
An Associated
American awards, 13 All-PSAC honors and
numerous school and conference records.
The group is the 1999 class of the Athletic
Hall of Fame. Those honored this year are
Teachers'
Technology
softball star
Exploring frontiers of education
Keeping up with developments in
chasing after a speeding train on
Bloomsburg has
Technology and
for
Teacher Education. Located on the
McCormick Center
floor of
Services, the center has
A
foot.
To help teachers remain up-to-date with
formed The Center
'87, football
DeDea '88, basketball star
Glenn Noack '86, and wrestling greats and
brothers Anthony "Rocky" '87 and Richard
"Ricky"
the world of computers can be like
the latest technology,
Susan Kocher
standout Jay
is
two-time All-American and a threesoftball,
Kocher
the only pitcher in school history to
throw
first
new and
a no-hitter
and a
career pass attempts, career completions,
total plays-career,
He
perfect
game
in the
Noack
scoring
points.
is
list
third
for
is
changing
at
such a
school
make technology decisions,"
Raymond Pastore, the center's
districts to
says
director.
"The center gives teachers an
opportunity to explore the
latest
technology learning solutions for
He was
first
team
The Technology Center is one
component of the project "Integrating
all-time
ECAC
the
Co-Rookie of
PSAC
two-time Player of the
All-Star,
Year at Bloomsburg University, two-time
and
NABC
East Region
first
All-Star as a senior.
Rocky Bonomo was
American
a two-time All-
finishing fourth
and eighth
at
NCAA championships.
He was also a three-time EWL and PSAC
126 pounds
at the
champion. Rocky
all-time
win
list
is
fourth
on
the Huskies'
with a record of 110-19, a
.853 winning percentage.
Ricky
the classroom."
on the Huskies'
men's basketball with 1,504
the Year as a freshman, two-time
team
difficult for
NCAA
record of 27-10-1 during his career.
ECAC All-Star,
it's
total offense-career.
and the PSAC
national semifinals,
resources for teachers.
"Technology
and
helped the Huskies to the 1985
emerging hardware and software
rapid rate,
Mention
DeDea was also a finalist for
the Harlon Hill Award in 1987, finishing
fifth. He is the school record holder for
All-American,
championship, as well as accumulating a
'92.
time All-PSAC selection in
Human
for
Bonomo
two perfect games.
Press Honorable
Bonomo
is
the Huskies'
most
decorated wrestler in school history. Three
Technology into Teacher Preparation,"
times he was an NCAA, EWL and PSAC
champion at 118 pounds. He put together
which has been funded by
a career record of 116-12-3, third best in
a
$408,500
grant from Pennsylvania's Link-to-Leam
school history. Ricky also
program. Other components of the
and
project include developing an
advanced
technology curriculum for students
prepanng
to
be teachers, creating
technology workshops for working
teachers
and university
faculty,
and
forming partnerships with technology
companies and school
districts.
Created
in partnership with sixteen school
districts,
the project will involve 76
student teachers, 50 university faculty,
80 practicing
teachers,
and 2,000
students in grades kindergarten
through
12.
Ray Pastore demonstrates some of
the latest technology designed
specifically for teaching.
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won
three
PSAC
EWL Wrestler of the Year Awards.
FALL 199'
Stepping into Leadership
Creative Leftovers
Under the
guidance of
Flex feeds the hungry
Roy Smith,
director
Small change. Leftovers. But
of Quest,
Presidential
of students contributed the
Leadership
their
and Board
of Governors
maybe
unused
campus meal accounts
at the
lifesavers.
over from
end of the spring semester.
By doing so, they were able to purchase $2,700
the Bloomsburg and Catawissa food banks. Not
scholarship
recipients
were pocket change
participate
a leadership
retreat. Here,
in
Hundreds
flex dollars left
either.
A
in food for
donations
all
few were close
to
$90, and there were several $20
contributions. This
they learn group
dynamics as they
try to get each
was
second year that the
which
•
v
member of
a team across
1
^xlk*?
'"
a bridge without falling.
^^SS^L^^k
is
the
drive,
organized by the
student government
association,
was
held.
Net Gaines
Huskies go global
The Huskies have gone
No
That's right.
need
fans
to
be in Bloomsburg to
to the football or
mens
away on the
listen
basketball
now
games. The games are
click
global!
longer will Huskies
a
mouse
Internet through
Broadcast.com.
Anyone who wants
to listen to the
games should go
to the
University sports
web page
Bloomsburg
at
www.
bloomu.edu/sports. Click on the
Broadcast.com logo and follow the
instructions. Real Audio, the
program
needed
free
to
hear the games,
takes just 15 minutes to
a standard
you
are in the world.
is
installed,
you
games no matter where
listen to the
"This
and
download with
modem. Once
can
our fans to
is
President elected to higher ed post
Bloomsburg University President
all
games," says Sports
Information Director
Tom
McGuire.
"There are just a handful of Division
Jessica Kozloff has
been elected
II
Commission on Higher Education,
major accrediting organization
games on the web, so we
and
are
one of the
"Another nice feature of our
association with Broadcast.com
McGuire. "Fans
even
if
at their
they attended
it
very excited about this
our
web
site."
will
is
that
be able
convenience,
in person. We're
new
chairing at least one accreditation team
the
a year.
for colleges
aspect of
Jan.- 1,
2000, and she
may be
The purpose of the Commission
is
to
adopt standards for the accreditation of
educational institutions, provide a forum
among 100 nominees,
Kozloff begins her three-year term
each game will be archived for one
game
20
meetings, serving on committees, and
universities in the Mid-Atlantic states.
Selected from
leaders in this area.
to listen to a
Four represent
responsibilities include attending
as
commissioner for the Middle States
institutions nationwide that are airing
year," says
position.
the general public, while the other
are higher education professionals. Their
a great opportunity for
listen to
and professional
Kozloff Chosen
important issues, and
for discussion of
give assurance of institutional integrity to
reelected
to a single additional term.
the public. Accreditation certifies to other
The Middle States Commission is
composed of 24 members. Commissioners,
elected by the 500 colleges and universities who are members of the Middle
States Association of Colleges and
educational institutions and to the public
Universities, are
chosen according
that the institution has
and
is
achieving
Commission
its
also
been evaluated
own
goals.
The
meets periodically with
representatives of state departments of
higher education and federal agencies to
to
geographic distribution, institution type,
exchange ideas and information.
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On the Job
Learning beyond the classroom
Holding down a job can be
of the growing
college.
Each
up
a big part
that takes place during
approximately 1,400
year,
Bloomsburg students
work
find
right
on
campus, earning more than $2.3 million.
"Besides helping students pay for their
campus jobs (workleam about time
management, customer service, and
education, these
study) help students
teamwork," says Pat Stockaiis of the
"They can also use the
financial aid office.
process of applying for a work-study job
to practice the
interviewing
resume-writing and
skills
they need after
graduation."
And
not
all
work-study positions are
on campus. Students who
federal
Lieutenant Governor Honored
exhibition room on the first floor of the Harvey A. Andruss Library has been named for alumnus
Mark Schweiker, Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor. Attending the dedication ceremony were, from
left, Joseph Mowad, chair of the Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees, Schweiker, President
Jessica Kozloff, and James McCormick, Chancellor of the State System of Higher Education.
An
work-study
may
qualify for
also take
work-
Former President Dies
study positions in off-campus, non-profit
organizations such as the
Women's
Bloomsburg
Curtis R. English,
Center.
In addition to the intrinsic rewards of
—pride and gaining new
working hard
knowledge
—
the university also offers an
extrinsic reward.
August 19, 1993,
home
A Montoursville,
PA, native, English
had been president of FLiwassee
awards a scholarship to the top student
College, Madisonville,
to
Jacqueline Stephen, a senior elementary
education major.
TN,
since July
1996, and formerly had served as
1,
which went
June 30, 1994,
in Tennessee.
worker. Last year, 23 students were
for the award,
to
died Saturday, Nov. 13, at his
Each spring, The
Bloomsburg University Foundation
nominated
Bloomsburg
alumnus and interim president from
vice president for finance
and
administration for East Stroudsburg
and Cheyney
universities.
When he came
he knew
to
Bloomsburg,
state policy prevents
an
interim president from becoming a
candidate for the permanent position
of president.
"He was a very
special person to
us," said President Jessica Kozloff.
things about Curt that
immediately for
me
come
to
are his selflessness
and the tremendous gratitude
what he did
for
He
in
"The
mind
1
have
as interim president.
set the stage for the
next chapter
Bloomsburgs history"
English graduated from Bloomsburg
in 1956, earned a masters degree from
the University of
Oklahoma and a
Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University
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Academic
jClayjton Merrill
Haas Gallery of Art.
and reception L
the gallery Monday,
Jan. 28 to Feb. 28,
A
Electronic Rcgist -ation
11,
by
^aint>ings|
Calendar
Tuesday,
HMSi
Exhibits
through Monday,
Tickets are S25.
slide presentation
will
be held
Feb. 28, at
rfh
Pir afor:
Thursday, March 30, 8 p.m., Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
1
in
p,mX
Theater
more information, contact the
heater department at (570) 389-4287.
For
Classes Jegiii
Celebrity Artis
Tuesday, Jan 18
hito the
Series
SpriigJJreai
Saturday, March 4, 10 p.m
Sunday, March 12
,
through
Call
i
A
the Celebrity Artist Series box office
more information.
at (570) 389-4409 for
[Woods
musical by Steven Sondheim, directed
by Ross Genzel, Mitrani
Hall, Feb.
10-12
8:00 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for
the Arts. Alan Baker, musical director,
Spring
ond on City Ope
Weekend
Thursday, April 20, 10 p.m. thro
Monday, April 24, 6 p.m.
,
Concerts
All
concerts are free unless otherwise
notejcTTFi >r
mbre Information,
ca lithe
music department at (570) 389 4284.
Faculty itecital
James Douthit, Sunday, Feb. 27,
2:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall.
idlil
Saturday, March 11, 2 30 p.m.,
Carver Hall, Kenneth
Auditorium.
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spirit of
true.
on
Bloomsburg students accounted
a place
am moved by
commitment
instances of
see here
I
is
generosity runs
the
to others
a daily basis. Recently,
sorority
was the top
spirit of generosity.
and
his family face
son battle cancer.
A
simple request to
the university's Supervisory
inspired a
wave
achieving
much more
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of heart-felt activity,
than anyone
could have dreamed.
Robert "Doc" Warren, faculty emeritus,
office of
planning and construction,
chaired the annual
AIDS Walk
Columbia and Montour
virus
university
was
example of the Bloomsburg
Since he began teach-
ing history at Bloomsburg in 1964,
Her
the motivation that helped
and community walkers, along
Doc
ically, financially,
by
and emotionally. His
his philosophy that
"much
first
Bloomsburg launched
comprehensive
hope
five
capital
years
—an ambitious
campaign of
lives
We
first
people like Doc
of learning
me
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Table team convince
goal
very attainable. Generosity has
is
that this
always been an important part of
goes on outside of the classroom," taking
Bloomsburgs
opportunities whenever he can to interact
kindness are an integral part of the char-
Its
not unusual to find him
involved in a friendly
mon in the
game
of
backgam-
student union or having a
Sigma
Iota
As we move
into a
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photograph above, Doc and
greeting Presidential Leadership
I
are
and Board
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
President
generous endowment will benefit students
Bloomsburg University
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century, the
very good university into a great one.
years.
In the
new
generosity will help us turn a
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These acts of
acter of the people at this university.
spirit of
Omega
tradition.
(CCFA), exceed
goal.
goal for our
this kind. Yet,
of Governors scholarship recipients. His
$22,000
its
to raise $1 1,000,000 over the next
with Caring Communities for AIDS
their
campaign.
Warren, Cheryl John, and the Supervisory
has consistently helped students academ-
casual conversation at
for
counties.
passion for helping those infected with the
HIV
yet another
with students.
Cheryl John, project manager in the
to
Presidential Leadership Program.
In October,
fund-raiser,
bringing in more than $1,800 in pledges.
is
the challenge he
chosen
Warren
Omega
$12,000
helping their not quite two-year-old
as they are
and the group representing Alpha Phi
and colleagues of custodial staff
member Bobby Coombe raised close to
help defray costs related to
come,
receive financial awards from the Robert
friends
to
for years to
for
approximately 50 percent of the walkers,
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Once available only to computer experts and researchers, this popular method of
electronic communication has permeated society, and it's changed the way many
of the hottest movies this past winter
lighthearted
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participants.
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Derek '99
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experienced tremendous growth and change to meet
Kevin M. O'Connor
David
the working
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diverse as
Joseph J Mowad, Chair
A. William Kelly 71. Vice Chair
Robert
When
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GROWING STRONGER
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know them from
They focus on
winning
a
the business at
hand -
some, these
Bloomsburg have
staff at
Eric Foster
interests
have grown to passions - avocations that
finding Love
in a Bug
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up Donna in a black, 1960
Volkswagen Beetle. The sunroof is open
and the Beatles' "Good Day Sunshine" is
playing on the radio. Until it starts to rain.
Paul picks
They unroll the canvas sunroof to
keep dry and turn the wipers on - the
radio goes out.
work
at the
a love affair
The two
same
-
Studying
time.
thus, in 1966,
- was born.
or two
at
features won't
And
what
is
the graduate students, Paul Cochrane
and
Donna Jillard, soon married. And though
the black Beetle was traded in for a Pontiac,
to
Volkswagens.
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and again
science, collect old
and take them
professor
to
VWs
shows throughout
the Northeast.
They
and go
started
to six or
showing
begin to
cars in
1994
seven shows a year from
April through October.
"We
couldn't
count the number of cars we've
owned," says Donna. "We've gone through
Volvos and
BMWs.
But Volkswagens truly
are the people's car." In addition to the
show
now SUNY Albany
the couple has returned time
Donna Cochrane,
and chair of business education and office
information systems, and Paul Cochrane,
retired professor of mathematics and
computer
and Donna Cochrane
to their official duties.
For others, they're just plain interesting and fun hobbies.
Today,
Paul
thought,
interests outside their
sometimes bring additional perspective and insight
By
human
the history of
field.
game, or job descriptions.
But the teachers and
jobs. For
the classroom, the office, the playing
cars,
both Paul and Donna drive
Volkswagens everyday.
To prepare a car
to
show, Paul does
work - sometimes
rebuilding the entire engine - while Donna
does some cleaning and detailing. Only
the mechanical
serious
bodywork and
farmed
out.
repainting are
Doing Right
At the shows, the assorted Beetles
look better than new. Doors, trunks and
hoods
the
are opened. Mirrors are placed
ground so
5ook *^^^
on
and judges can see
wheel is removed to
visitors
the undercarriage.
show
dl) trie
A
cleanliness of the
wheel
then there are the accessories
well.
And
- vintage
Standing in front of a
to help students
What
determine what
'65
and
collection includes
'67 Beetle convertibles
Karmann-Ghia
and two non-Volkswagens convertible
and
a '61 Austin
But their prize
with
all
TR3
Healy 3000.
Bug"
the amenities. Vintage luggage to
into the spare
tire.
A
A
tool kit that
spare gas can.
A specially designed
fits
Wheel
flower vase for
the dashboard! This past year, the '54
placed
it
first
in every
was awarded
show but
one, where
tool kit isn't strictly
"We stopped many times by the
make repairs on the '54 until we
had the kinks worked out," says Paul. "But
if you get them set up right, they'll run."
for
show.
road to
And
when
class
those expecting "Herbie the
Lovebug" performances are going
to be
is
Steven Hales
containers for intangible thought
An
Hales
is
avid
book
also a skilled bookbinder,
the history of ideas.
And some
in
books since childhood.
from the purchase of
chief bookbinder,
A
monster (or
at least
rebound
two
put
a
hundred books.
dirt
been
carefully
shaved
thin.
And he
take 10 hours of
a
hundred hours.
good
for
an amateur, but pretty
average by professional standards," he
from
decade
air.
means removing tattered covers and
making new ones, wrapped in fine leather
more than
an avocation)
private lessons
to the
and sewing old bindings. He
"I'm
years. In the
book
work. But a complete restoration can take
Frankenstein back together.
since, he's
shadow."
to
in
says Hales, holding
Hales means cleaning
this,
A simple job may
Brown's
Dan Knowlton,
this,"
means tooling those leather covers with
brass and steel punches and gold leaf.
Brown
down
oil
that's
copy of
a tattered
University. Hales tracked
for
own
and
dealers, Hales has
Frankenstein while studying at
more than 500 people
pages in a solution to remove years of
of that
But his passion for repainng them sprang
Knowlton
its
By doing
has to do with books," he says.
The son of antique
who do
a beautifully restored
old. "As a philosopher, I'm interested in
was born. Hales took
can't get out of
"There's not
America
repainng tomes that are often centuries
disappointed, says Donna. "With 36
bug
- books.
collector since college,
horsepower,
this
over, Hales turns
his attention to preserving tangible
been interested
third.
By the way, the
ideas
being
But
a '60
How do we
Where do
right?
is
come from 7
convertible,
a '54 "Oval
is
put on the roof rack.
covers.
still
Steven
understand the
reality?
is
items complete the look.
The Cochranes'
class,
Hales, associate professor of philosophy,
works
intangible.
restored, a '68
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says modestly.
"I'll
go
a
couple of months
without doing anything. Then
project
and be
at
it
I'll
have a
every night for a week."
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While most of the books Hales
and slipcased the
first
since.
He bound
appreciates a bit of whimsy.
and graduated with honors
three novels in Sue
Grafton's alphabet mystery series. Inset
in the front cover of
each
a
is
In this age of the paperback,
seem
like a lot of
work, but
Haney.
art. "I've
up
had people
say,
paintings?'" says Hales,
in his living
something you have
"It's
Haney
may
to four nights a
is a work
'Why not put
seen a
"I've
lot
surrounded
sport
he shares his
with the community.
he doesn't
his
to the shortstop,
second base, followed by a
first.
and
figures,
his appreciation
"Some people would
Though finicky to grow, these delicatelooking orchid blossoms are among the longest
lasting in the plant world.
still
appreciate
ability,
that way.
It all
even
if
Orchid Passion
Grows from
^
you
comes back
unusual word choice, unless you
that
ball
is
men how
around the baseball
a committed artist
pastel
move a
diamond, Haney
to
- coaching
paint,
"I've
painted and drawn since
"I
went
I
be an
to four
nights a week,
become
was
a
and working into the
to a progressive
wife, Barbara,
up
art
Then one day
"Why
I
didn't just
don't know."
I
The anthropology department
plants since he
morning.
"I've
seen a
lot of sunrises."
I
chair
was
child. "I started
had grandparents who
were gardeners, and
gardens. So
After high school, he gave
life.
a botanist
very young.
art major."
entirely for five years.
David Minderhout may have missed
his calling in
has been growing flowers and other
high school in the '60s that allowed you
to
draws three
starting at about nine
and pencil around the canvas.
kid," says Haney.
paints or
for
When he's
nearly as long as baseball bats.
not showing young
Haney
know
Haney has wielded paintbrushes
Scea
Child hood
an
It's
Tough Flower
orchids.
to what's inside you."
of a successful double play.
to Raise a
fascination in the world's incredible variety of
"Grace," says baseball coach Matt
Haney
Man
Takes a Patient
Anthropology professor David Minderhout finds
at all to their liking,
think you can
work
impressionistic,
still lifes
let that limit
someone's technical
don't
studios
It
own work is
cubism not
1
coached
centers.
for other styles.
but
he's
at private art
including landscapes,
find
to
art
and children
While
Coaching Paint
f
on Canvas
throw
of sunrises."
For the past several years,
and daycare
rifle
about
at
Haney shares his love of
with the young men he coaches,
adults
a quick toss to
week, starting
Just as
room by leather-bound
bouncing grounder
to do."
paints or draws three
nine and working into the morning.
to this
books. "In a way, I'm doing just that."
A
do
not in your control," says
is
Today,
philosopher a well-made book
of
work
letter.
it
in art studio.
try to explain that the drive to
"I
the
wooden
alphabet block revealing the book's
He hasn't stopped creating
He chose Bloomsburg for college
fine paper.
binds are old or serious works, he also
I
loved their
when I was about
parents allowed
me
to
have a
10,
my
little
flower patch," says Minderhout. "They
his
bought him some pens and
got a seed catalog in the winter, and
could pick out
five
I
kinds of seeds to
Playing with Paint
and
plant in the spring."
Pencil
When
That
he's not at the
little
hobby has grown
to
more
baseball coach
Matt Haney can often
than two acres planted with flowers and
be found working
exotic trees at his
field,
his studio.
in
Haney has
been a practicing
in
Buckhorn.
different types
artist
for nearly as long as
he's
home
The garden includes 100
been involved
of roses alone. But spread throughout his
home and nearby greenhouse
with baseball.
bigger surprise
-
is
orchids, nearly
an even
500
in
all.
Attracted by the exotic nature of the
plants,
Minderhout started growing
orchids in 1972 while a graduate student
Georgetown University in Washington,
DC. "When I started, orchids were far
more rare than they are today."
at
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SPRING 1999
Orchids are unusual plants. You
can plant them in shredded bark or even
bowl of broken
a
them
But don't plant
glass.
in soil or they'll die. In the wild,
they grow on other
Parow's passion for physical fitness
Kickboxing
for Balance
didn't
plants, their large
"I
By
Minderhout. "Over watering. People
say
I
I
have a green thumb, but
kill a lot
When
of the plants
I
don't.
try to grow."
I
start.
in
tend to bloom
tropics, so they
from the
November and March and remain
dormant
in the
blossoms
may
summer. While orchid
look delicate, they're
the toughest of flowers.
bloom, you have them
"When
for a
good long
- weeks. Their beauty and
time
have spoiled
And
me
among
they
longevity
for other plants."
the sheer
number
for several lifetimes.
Fran Parow
of different
"Orchids are
believed to be the last evolved of the
determining
how
management
all
more than
and more are
woman's
business
crisp
attire is
the
heart of an athlete
of the time."
six short triathlons
Parow, a certified aerobics
diversity."
David Minderhout has
found his
calling.
Vroom
When
"For me,
numbers, Erik Wynters,
associate professor of mathematics and
computer science, goes for the more physical
thrills of racing motorcycles. He competes in
about a dozen enduro events a year.
to use
my brain,
the physical.
Centennial Gymnasium.
get very tense."
Fran
Parow
workshops
is
I
she find
find
is
I
the
Attitude.
and
I
I
it's
"I
took some
a natural
'I
do
just can't
you have
a lot
lot of
this.'
But most
And when you
more energy
to
do
other things."
Carving at the Kitchen Table
Facts
Ann Diseroad has
people think,
exercise,
movement."
Got the (Tomb)Stone Cold
not possible," says Parow. "A
people can do something.
in kickboxing. For myself,
studied
the history of tombstones for nearly a decade.
She presents her research regularly to the
Association of Gravestone Studies and gives
graveyard tours and talks to community groups.
Library assistant
the time,
"Either putting exercise off or thinking
step aerobics
important, so
punching wasn't
need
biggest obstacle to physical fitness?
wasn't fun anymore," says Parow.
vanety
all
What does
they follow
Parow's quick pace for an intense
felt it
I
I'm just using
If
my brain
"We were doing
but
balance between the mental and
in the
tights,
a stress release
it's
dance studio of
She's
he's not crunching
15 miles of bicycling.
to exercise," says Parow. "I like
Nearly a dozen employees
feel
certainly
to
and aerobic kickboxing
noon
each
a half-mile
swim, 10 kilometer run and 12
time to teach aerobics
anthropologist. Anthropology
human
summer - about
instructor, volunteers her
half-hour workout.
about
started, she didn't
and
competitor. Twice a week,
gather at
to
Parow began running, and
even finished some marathons.
Biking and swimming along
with the triathlons, came next.
Today, she typically competes in
But underneath this
comes to variety, flowers
are no match for humans. "I've always
liked variety. That's probably why I'm an
it
is
Once she
went
started one."
stop.
sweats and
when
workshops and
positions at
25,000
But
aerobics program, so two of us
and
classified.
petite
to
she lived in Indiana, PA,
looking for aerobics. "There wasn't an
the university should be
Clad in sneakers, shorts,
being discovered
human
different staff
flowering plants. There are
different species
a
is
YMCA where
to university employees.
types of orchids can keep any gardener
busy
trade,
the
resources manager responsible for
they do grow, the rewards
can be spectacular. Most orchids are
but she
life,
took charge right from the
Her children grown, Parow went
air.
They can be finicky to grow.
killed the first one I bought," says
sports in high
exercising seriously later in
fleshy roots absorbing moisture directly
from the
grow out of organized
school or college. Instead, she started
far from a block of wood and a knife,
Puhl, associate professor of health,
Never
Ron
physical education
dozens of
and
athletics, creates
wildlife carvings
each year at
his
kitchen table studio.
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—
A
dot in Upper
was once the door
who ventured
leaders. Some
New York
were dreamers and
faced obstacles,
great success. All
The immigrants
to America.
to this land
Bay, Ellis Island
some achieved
were given a chance.
Today, their descendants are U.S. citizens,
facing their
own
own
struggles, reaching for their
triumphs. These are the leaders of the future.
For the
last
Bloomsburg has helped
body
of students
Until
who
two years
ment
attract a diverse
each year to
program was
largely unstructured, requiring only that
community
work each semester and maintain
requirements. Today, the 60 students in
G.PA.
also take special classes
and
and the university
benefiting from the
new
gives
you
our G.PA.
and
go
He
get involved in
know
I
wouldn't do
mock job
all
of this
service.
if
1
the scholarship qualifications
weren't
who meet
and yearly
requirements. While the program
designed to increase
isn't
and
local
Lambda
need a push into leadership
"A
lot
the only consideration for scholarship
campus
know how
Calvert points out. "But
involved,
students do.
you miss
all
organizations,
to get involved,"
if
you don't
get
kinds of
opportunities."
Because the Board of Governors'
is
racial diversity, race
many
of students are too intimidated
to get involved in
or they don't
tuition for students
at public speaking.
positions but, he says,
I
Board of Governors' scholarships
full
co-president of
also state vice president
is
didn't
in the program."
provide
is
professional business fraternity Calvert
interviews
community
He
president of the Phi Beta
sophomore
"We have to keep up
to
Calvert's
his only outstanding
demonstrates his ease
structure.
goals," says
We
isn't
Bloomsburg's forensics team, where he
are
"The Board of Governors' program
Arrastene Henry.
recipients
in his double major of
and accounting. But
accomplishment.
complete senior scholarly projects. Both
the students
and the
Senior David Calvert will graduate
summa cum laude
finance
program
awarded
first-rate.
specific grade point average (G.PA.)
the
are
incoming freshmen, making
the process competitive
scholarship recipients perform
service
are also taken into account.
Only 15 scholarships
characteristics.
ago, the
community
arts or fine arts,
leadership and high scholastic achieve-
at
demonstrate strong
and academic
leadership
performing
15 years, the Board of
Governors' Scholarship Program
program requires participants
a leadership position for a
awards. Scholarships are also extended to
organization,
first-generation students, regardless of race.
extra
Extraordinary achievement or talent in
and
it
gives
push they need
stay in school.
to
hold
campus
many
students that
to get involved
-
SPRING 199!
"The senior project and community
"The original program was helping
us
attract a diverse
student body, but
service
it
is
our
way
of giving back to the
wasn't helping us keep them," says
community," Quintero notes.
Sydney Howe-Barksdale, director of the
office of social equity and coordinator of
of us get involved in
because
think most
"I
community
service
required by the program, but
it's
we do more than our required hours
we like it. The community and the
the Board of Governors' program.
then
"Students are looking for that other piece
because
-
university really benefit from that."
that support
and
social
network
that
can encourage them and help them make
the
most of
their strengths."
Howe-Barksdale establishes a personal
relationship with each scholar.
Through
regular meetings, special classes
e-mail, the
Senior Board of Governors' scholarship recipients complete scholarly projects
that analyze or address issues affecting
on the Bloomsburg campus.
students
and
For example, one senior,
Board of Governors' scholars
who had
keep in touch with her and keep on track
column
with the program.
that addressed minority issues.
"Sydney
really
fall
let
someone
Howe-Barksdale often works with the
campus
was instrumental
writers.
such subjects
support
networks. Karen Quintero, a junior Board
of Governors' scholar,
it's
organized now,
really gives recipients
up to make them
more competitive
in the work force."
and
done studies about
as personnel policies, cuisine
exercise.
young people who
is
come
in Bloomsburg's
Quintero and
Greek community.
five
others (four of
"I
want
them
to see
how
for a day.
I
Mu
they can be involved,"
Inc., a multicultural sorority.
Armstrong
III is
life,
projects, excel academically.
Some
are
students. Others "maintain
mock
maintain their scholarships.
techniques. "Did
Henry stands out both in the classroom and on the football field. "People say
reflects
me, 'Oh, you're just
a
dumb
fun.
job,
football
to
to
work
challenged
are
Henry.
I'll
do the things
interview over
"I
I
and practiced
and interviewing
learn anything?"
learned a
Now, when I'm ready
them
And I had
lot!
to
look for a
be prepared."
Classes offered through the
program
or time
Also a
that teach critical thinking
management techniques
do prepare these students
senior Julius
future.
But others,
for the
like "History of
Immigration," give them the
opportunity to
"It
was
A
reflect
on
the past.
incredible to learn about the
struggles people
and how
and serve
for other students.
heads up -
Our resumes
their dining etiquette
organizations, Board of
might be
organized now,
anyway."
In a recent
Governors' scholars provide
mentors
well."
competitive in the
dinner, scholars learned
president of
service
it's
I
keep the
to
do
to
The program pushes us
we should do
In addition to involvement in
community
want
G.PA.s well above the requirements to
to
he admits. "But
interviews prepare us for the real thing.
Bloomsburg's Interfratemity Council.
campus
I
a statistic,"
prepared by our sophomore year. Practice
Sigma Upsilon Sorority
leader in Greek
City.
everything in
fit
want
I
"The program, as
Board of Governors' scholars)
founded
to
my grades up,"
hard, because
to get internships.
scholars, in addition to being
Honors Program
tough
force," notes Calvert. "We're
want
ambitiously involved in their organizations
and
and keep
work
"It's
make them more
she explains.
Many
But I'm not going to be
asserts.
really gives recipients the
don't have the
Bloomsburg
to
he
a leader-
opportunity to see a university campus
to
player.'
scholarship and
Quintero s senior project
in
the heads
giving minority students a presence
Charles Lanier (left) and Jamal Stovall gain
perspective on a recent field trip to New York
One wrote and produced
ship day for migrant students.
"The program, as
Getting a View
Another
plays, providing parts for culturally diverse
students. Others have
Multicultural Center to help
own
newspaper
poetry and prose by both famous and
amateur
through the cracks," notes Calvert.
students develop their
in the university
established "Coffee Grounds," a night of
pays attention to
individual students. She won't
an
interest in journalism, established a
far
had
we've
to
go through,
come
since then,"
as
says freshman Stephanie Jones.
scholar
"We've come a long way," agrees
a resident adviser for a
Howe-Barksdale, "but ultimate
residence hall, lead orientation for
Tracking Our Past
inclusiveness
freshmen, or as Karen Quintero has
Members
of the Board of Governors' Scholarship Program and
other Bloomsburg students traveled to New York City to retrace
the steps of yesterday's immigrants as part of an immigrant
working on. The Board of Governors'
experience class taught by Nancy Gentile Ford, associate
professor of history.
move toward
done, incorporate mentoring into a
senior project.
is
something we're
Scholarship Program
is
still
helping us
that goal.
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A small brick building on
Lightstreet Road, classrooms
rented from Bloomsburg Hospital and Columbia-Montour Area
Vocational Technical School, a director and two faculty These
were the humble beginnings of what has grown into one of
Bloomsburg
University's
most successful programs.
This year, the department of nursing observes
anniversary, while the
45 members of
its first
its
25th
graduating
class,
the class of 79, celebrate their 20th.
Yesterday and today...
Top photo: Humble beginnings - the
Next page, lower photo: McCormick
8
original nursing building, previously
v.
writer for
Human
Services
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is
known
as the Boyer Garage
a state-of-the art teaching
facility.
stills
stands as an apartment building on Lightstreet Road.
SPRING 1999
In
Bloomsburgs
allied health sciences,
Bloomsburg focus on nursing and
department of nursing
health sciences. Others agreed.
is
a relatively recent
development. In the
'50s,
Bloomsburg
State
Bloomsburgs
first
nursing director,
1974. Flynn, along with Cole, C. Stuart
Teachers College offered
Edwards, dean of the College of
courses in public health
Professional Studies,
nursing and a bachelors
chair of the chemistry department, began
degree in nursing
to prepare the
education (B.S.N.Ed.),
of nursing.
interested in
working in
the public schools.
Then, in 1965,
Pioneers
the
for the
and the
American Nursing
state licensing
The
first
document
Lauretta Pierce
program
in
hematology/oncology
at
Penn
nursing degree (B.S.N.) would become the
Geisinger, attributes her success in the
the nursing
program
at
by
Bloomsburg.
Gunderman, associate
Bloomsburg
teaches future nurses what she
Annette
(Ritz)
professor of nursing at
University,
learned in the program:
feet
thinking
is
critical,
on-your-
first
nurse specialist in rheumatology
degree for entry into nursing practice.
Public health
and B.S.N.Ed. programs
would be converted and hospital-based
diploma programs would be phased out.
These changes were tied
In the early 70s,
clinical
at
Penn
began
that
to
look
would
and
lead graduates to
At the same time, the
practice nurse.
department,
it
Bloomsburg
at the future
was Bloomsburgs
challenging - even difficult - program that
prepped her for her role as an advanced
State Geisinger, says
to the idea of the
professionalization of nursing.
essential.
Cynthia (Kindler) Matzko, a
it
predicted that a bachelor of science
State
profession to the high expectations set
'85 Proposal,"
also
careers
good jobs.
Commonwealth
required each state college to develop a
10-year plan. James Cole, of the biology
now program
coordinator for
by the
college
board of nursing.
in
September 1975, and
became the
look 20 years into the
Dubbed "The
Herman
students were admitted into
verify prescriptions.
future.
new department
the curriculum for approval
the
(Reed) Snyder, a case manager
Barrett Benson,
In January 1975, Alice
Association produced a
that tried to
way
and
joined Flynn. Together they developed
early nursing class learns to use the Medications Kardex. Even in
today's high-tech world, nurses still refer to the printed Kardex to
Dawn
allied
Gertrude Flynn, was hired in September
primarily for nurses
An
suggested that
160-year history, the
third faculty
member. The
IMI
nursing
department
was established
and
a
home
was needed.
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"The program
surveyed one and three years
needed Flynn's
graduating. Their employers are surveyed
strong personality
as well.
in order to gain
after
"Our department may have one of the
support and be
closest
successful."
Alichnie, current chair of the department
In the
of
fall
1984, McCormick
Center for
Services
Human
opened
webbed
faculties," says Christine
of nursing, "because each of our courses
depends on one another.
When
changes
by the industry must be made,
they must be made rapidly And every
reflected
and became the
change made
much-welcomed,
those in the senior year."
affects initial
courses through
consolidated
facility for
nursing.
Faculty offices and
classrooms are
Reporting for Duty
now housed on
From the very beginning, Bloomsburg's nursing students went out into the field
for hands-on experience as part of their nursing practicum. (Photo circa 1980)
one
third-floor
wing, and
Previously
known
as the
Boyer Garage,
the building located across from the steam
plant
had been used
for
maintenance
The construction
conference
practice
room and
home," Pierce acknowledges.
of office walls, a
areas for basic clinical
completed the transformation into
nursing headquarters. Pierce recalls
we
behind schedule and Dr. Flynn
little
was handy with
tools!"
advantages and disadvantages of that
offices
windows and
real
rained, buckets
from the
were needed
ceiling.
first
were private and had
doors. But
when
the start, a
practitioners employers look
bedside doesn't necessarily
for.
mean
And
Model Students
the
bed anymore. Today, nurses are
care anywhere - home, clinic,
hospital
key
to
Models have always played a part in nursing
education, as this class learns in the nursing
department's first home, the Boyer Garage.
(Photo circa 1980)
industrial setting. Service trends are
strongly
community
oriented.
Gunderman, who joined
Early course offenngs included large
to catch drips
The physical separation
meant dashing across a busy Lightstreet
Road - there wasn't a pedestrian bridge
It
-
From
Bloomsburg meant expertly
trained, hands-on nurses. With heavy
emphasis on clinical experience,
it
from the main campus created challenges.
yet
regardless of the setting.
graduates are the skilled bedside
The faculty soon grew to include
Mary Carl, Marie Parnell, Maureen Hare
and Dorette (Dee) Welk. Welk, now a
senior faculty member, remembers
home. "The
The nursing program has always been
dedicated to the role of the practitioner,
B.S.N, from
pitching in with the painting, "because
were a
miles of campus. "As our reputation grew,
so did clinical opportunities closer to
department trucks and shipping and
receiving.
clinical
undergraduates are within 40
sites for
broken down into
12-credit classes
modules. Today, courses range from three
to eight credits.
regularly, to
Curriculum
is
redesigned
adapt to changing trends in
the health care industry. Graduates are
or getting in a car to attend meetings
knowledge in the
of
new
points out,
to
keep up-to-date."
In the '80s,
placements was also challenging. Students
HIV issues caused
faculty traveled as far as Lancaster,
communicable
disease. Gloves, at
time thought insulting
tearful
one
when worn
every patient, are
students, worried about their long drives,
"We
couldn't say, We'll phase this
would be met with
We
is
Flynn's determined
on!"
to
and a new program at
meant competition for faculty,
hospital schools,
equipment and resources," Welk
to say, 'Today
we wear
in.'
gloves.'"
Welk remarks. Health-care changes
"The area was primarily devoted
the college
had
to
now routine.
treat
charge, "Clinical
swift
changes in measures of protection from
Harrisburg and Chambersburg. Invariably,
would snow on Sunday night and
"Whole new generations of
drugs that weren't available six months
In the beginning, coordinating clinical
it
Using the number
field.
medications as an example, she
ago require both students and instructors
or get to class."
and
the faculty
in 1991, describes the explosion of
says.
Caring
A
is
a Constant
maternal and child health experience has been a
feature of the program from the start. Here, early
nursing students wear a unique mortar board cap
distinguishing them as bachelor's degree
candidates. (Photo circa 1980)
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such
as these precipitate revisions,
not only in instruction
itself,
but also
in instructional materials such as
videos, textbooks
and supplies.
SPRING 1999
Christine Alichnie,
chair of the
department of
nursing, sees a
growing demand
for
community
based
services.
community. As part of
their maternal
and child health course, students make
a home visit to a new mother and her
baby within 24 hours of leaving the
hospital.
Other practicums include
care in nursery schools
promotion in housing
at
and health
for the elderly.
The challenge right now is the speed
which people move through the health-
care system. Nurses have to learn to
What can
address tough questions quickly:
I
do during
the brief time this patient
my care? What
The trend toward managed health
care
in nursing education. Recent
is felt
curriculum changes
this.
For example,
it
at the university reflect
offers
an upper-level
course in leadership and management,
which addresses
issues
patients need?
The
kind of teaching do
What
follow-up
practitioner today
that the person
is
no
ill,
in
required?
is
must keep
less
is
my
in
mind
but the
^A Symbol of
circumstances under which they will
become
well again are very different.
Following the industry's thrust
such as finance,
continued advanced practice, the depart-
organization design. Nurses, because of
ment
their diverse
background
in sociology,
psychology and families, as well as the
sciences,
health
fill
the role of
of nursing instituted a master of
1983 which has graduated 43 students.
The B.S.N, program graduates 55
60
a year for a total of
1
"Because nursing
is
Nursing education
147 since 1979.
not education of
at
encourages commitment, teaches
we have
versatility
be
futuristic in
our curriculum
planning," Alichnie says. Trends
increased
service.
demand
for
show
community-based
For example, early hospital
discharge puts the need out in the
and
flexibility,
move forward
with the changes in health care
something
part of that tradition, nursing
symbolic ceremony This pin
at a
ties
to
nurses everywhere.
itself.
Excellent training for excellent practice
it's
As
Bloomsburg graduates professionally
while
challenging the clinician to
nursing profession.
graduates receive a special pin
Bloomsburg
the individual for today but for the future,
vital part in the
to
Today, there are 23 faculty members.
case manager.
to
Tradition has always played a
science in nursing (M.S.N.) degree in
can understand the whole
continuum and
'Tradition
for
economics, staffing patterns and
The
-
to celebrate.
first
nursing pin was
presented in the United States in 1880
at the
Nightingale School of Nursing
at Bellevue Hospital in
Since then, every
new school
nursing has created
Designed by
class of nurses in
New York City
its
own
its first
of
pin.
graduating
1979, Bloomsburg
University's distinctive nursing pin
features the school colors,
maroon
and gold, and a Nightingale flame,
which
signifies
enlightenment,
new
knowledge and new experience.
On
the torch base, below B.S.N.,
bachelor of science in nursing,
is
the
From Veteran to Student
Annette Gunderman, associate professor of nursing and a member of the first graduating class of nurses at
Bloomsburg, demonstrates ventilation to senior Michael Scholtis in the Simulated Learning Lab.
Latin inscription qualitae dedkat
-
dedicated to quality
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ahead.
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Whether
it's
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home
official
the press
box
Redman
at
scorers' table in the
arena,
football
Yankay
Nelson
usually there.
is
games, he helps the
When basketball season begins,
and time
details like points, fouls
Yankay
a fervent sports fan
is
because the
view,
all
Bloomsburg
work is
says Yankay. "By being a
Husky Club,
I
school for
the
all
feel
watching the teams
play.
people to work with in
involved
my
my way,"
of the
member
raffles,
efforts,
they did
last
nearly $185,000.
I'm helping a high-
In one
Huskies' games, helping
at
one of
all
the enjoyment
I
many
'We
year
the inner workings of
the auction
or offering
staff
"I
do
as
many
events
if it
a university
member and
at
what
and make
secretary for the
for the last 13 years.
it
happen. I'm over-
whelmed by
the
work they
Ted Kocher, an
director of
do."
assistant
development
at
Bloomsburg, also works
Husky Club.
no typical Husky
closely with the
"There are
all
make
effort
golf
how
goes into
don't
know how hard
genuine relationship
gave
raising.
it is
me
People
to pull
everything together."
Girton and her husband Gary, a big
own
sports fan,
Napoli Pizza, a small
and take-out located on East
restaurant
campus. And while she doesn't
know much about lay ups or
Street near
profess to
penalty corners, she
opportunity
don't
it's
many
jumps
at a
volunteer
don't envy. She likes to
money.
raise
"I
have
was amazed
those events
"It really
an education about fund
Club members," says
Kocher, "but they
takes to
it
happen," says Mary.
development
"They get behind each project
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each event.
Husky Club
a
much
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couldn't
Bedosky
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experienced first-hand
the teams play."
as
weren't for the volunteers," says Joy
annual fund-raising events
she was an
undergraduate. She
outings and saw
way or another, every Husky
Club member scores. Volunteering at
feel
the school for
Husky Club
through an internship
get from watching
class organization."
I
of the
would not have
a
much
and
Girton got a taste
feel
I
when
the club
raised as
great school,
financial concerns.
I'm giving back to
volunteers
and
would have no
of the
throughout
Without
'97
the scholarship fund
Husky Club,
several other fundraisers
and energy she
Husky Club could be
By being a
It
supporting these
There are great
It's
for the
support
Mary Girton
for
an auction and
the year.
from
get
athletics.
money
tournaments,
I'm giving back to the
I
the enthusiasm
exudes
common
their financial
converted to money,
sponsors golf
member
enjoyment
If
in 1974,
is
teams by
scholarships.
Mills, gets
its
programs.
The Husky Club, founded
a
and
coming
for student-athletes."
raising
rewarding. "From
the benefits are
university contribute to the success of
outs.
Like other members, Yankay, a vice
at
denominator
athletic
committed Husky Club member.
president
with Bloomsburg. The one
funds - these enthusiastic friends of the
supports university
he's the
scorekeeper, keeping track of important
know.
he'll
financial support for athletic scholarship
athletic
timekeeper operate the scoreboard.
for the score.
guess I'm unusual in the sense
mind asking someone
for a
for
worthy cause. For both
I
money,
my
if
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went
to
my
when was
I
These four members agree that one
first
Bloomsburg game
1959
in
of the
says Wingate.
"My
would bring me
Husky Club
father
to the games.
Magee's Main Street Inn, because
it
board members
to
After missing a few years
down
because of college,
dinner
I
started
attending games again in
1980.
I
joined the Husky
1
wanted
It's
sit
informally with senior athletes. "The
is
an opportunity
you
four years later
see
matured into young
to
help out a good school with
good teams.
gives
to get to
know
away from
these youngsters arrive as freshman,
to all the basketball
Club because
unique chance
is
by
the playing field," says Yankay. 'You see
I
games.
a
the student-athlete in a setting
Now bnng my
daughter
highlights each year
the senior send-off dinners sponsored
nine years old,"
something
that process
is
how
adults.
and
they have
Being part of
definitely rewarding."
I
Keeping Score
enjoy,
Husky Club secretary Joy Bedosky and president
Rob Wingate
and
I
encourage others
to get involved."
track the success of a club event.
Wingate's sales ability
husband and me, Bloomsburg University
athletics is
worthwhile, and we're glad
to help."
"We have
sports,
who
lots of athletes,
from
all
are regulars," says Gary.
"The
nice thing about getting to
know
the
coaches and the athletes
that
now
is
I
consider them friends. That's one benefit
of working for the
Husky Club
that can't
be measured."
Rob Wingate, an insurance broker
in
nearby Danville, serves as president of
the
Husky Club advisory board, which
a
member
for
past six years, Wingate, a
all
profits the club generates, help
provide
than
that.
athletics for
other
approximately $340,000 in scholarships
that
were awarded
to
about 230 students
involved with athletics this year.
"Without the financial support of
Husky Club, we wouldn't be able to
offer as many scholarships as we do
now," says Mary Gardner, the university's
director of athletics. "And the countless
the
hours the volunteers donate each year
is
tremendous."
That support goes both ways,
only the
Columbia
University graduate, has been a fan of
Bloomsburg
a
raffle
drawings. Those proceeds, and
oversees fund-raising events.
Although
makes him
natural for the club's 50/50 or
much
longer
according to Mary Girton. "She [Gardner]
is
dedicated to the total student-athlete.
You can
see she genuinely
team member
makes me
feel
wants each
to earn a degree.
Husky Club Regulars
That
Gary and Mary Girton can be found working
behind the scenes at many Husky Club events.
good about helping."
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By David Pearson
As she wipes the sweat from her eyes,
'02 catches her breath and
hopes
one more nice shot
to pull out
to
With a lunge to her right,
she connects on a forehand shot that just
climbers, appropriate equipment and
"We work with people
ranging from total
The Community Government
Association
won
Has she
beginners to serious
the U.S. Open, or the
NCAA championship? Hardly.
This
Bloomsburg University intramural
But don't
event
they've
it
less
Only
when
in before.
they're
They
on the
space for recreational sports.
provide a dramatic increase in available
The
is,
students
who
like to train,
who
compete, but
and possibly
approaching
birthday and has
fast
other universities.
Its
its
become
a
including 6,000 square
David
assists director
tasks.
total
in between," she says.
a great place for people to
come
model
for
facilities,
feet of fitness
equipment and
There's
fitness
to the
Director of the Student Recreation Center
SRC
component. The SRC
These extracurricular
on
varsity
teams
than
its
and a
have access to racquetball, basketball,
teams and groups, such as fencing,
the field of exercise science staff the
SRC.
member of the Huskies'
football team, but when he's not blitzing
quarterbacks, you can find him performing
Scott Dietrich
fitness
is
a
assessments and writing exercise
prescriptions.
"The Rec Center provides a
great opportunity for majors
exercise science
program
experience in our
field,"
from the
to get practical
remarks Dietrich.
facility.
excited about the possibilities
envision
a
"™
of our faeililie:
"1
would
lik
to incorporate athletics
Other unique
and academics
into
our
programs, for example, the university
program without
losing
police-directed Rape Aggression Defense
sight of our focus
on
classes, are also
The
spirit
held
at
the SRC.
providing recreational
and resources of the SRC
have branched out into related
Recently, a fifty-foot climbing wall
opportunities for
our students."
areas.
completed on the upper campus
-r
holistic
approach for fa*
and the dance ensemble,
practice at the
Undergraduate students interested in
and physical
I
"I
Pearson.
miscellaneous athletic equipment.
is
recreational programs.
who
and
to practice
bachelor's degree in health
education al West Chester University.
Pearson
in organized sports. Various
volleyball
He earned
for building on Bloomsburg's existing
activities
compete
dance studio and
Bloomsburg, David
athletics al Princeton University.
also services
variety of activities. In addition, students
volleyball, a
(o
a master's degree in athletics administration
provide opportunities for students
aren't
coming
Before
Pearson was assistant events manager for
intramural and student-directed club
sports.
a
more
David Pearson
"It's
to learn
about exercise and get motivation from
offer a full line of cardiovascular
training
and
everyone around them."
fourth
comprehensive
programming and outstanding
One of Bloomsburg's newest facilities,
SRC provides an ideal home base for
the university's recreational sports offerings.
beginners to serious competitive athletes
and everything
aren't varsity-level
Center (SRC) addresses those needs.
is
teaches aerobics
"We work with people ranging from
athletes? Bloomsburg's Student Recreation
The SRC
Graduate assistant Connie Root
Pearson with daily administrative
what's available for those
question
the
helps organize personal training sessions,
a small percentage of students
and strength
everything in between."
give
still
court.
play for university varsity teams.
rooms,
competitive athletes and
important than any other
competed
their all
are expected to be ready for student
use by spring 2000. These fields will
these competitors that this
tell
any
is
which
is
tennis.
(CGA) has funded four new
recreational fields, complete with lights,
squeaks past her opponent. That's the one
it!
open
time for recreational climbing are available.
seal the victory
she needed. She's done
from experienced
area. Instruction
Debra Frantz
was
to serve
students' outdoor adventure needs.
The
wall adjoins the established high ropes
course to provide a recreational challenge
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few
eclectic collection of tables
Hot
chairs.
coffee
and
an
early arrivals rearrange
and
tea are seized informally in
playfully
mismatched Fiesta ware, while amicable
banter
is
exchanged among old friends and new
guests.
With a
Emporium,
subtle touch, Phillips
located in the former F.W.
Woolworih building on
Main
is
Street,
Bloomsburg,
transformed into the
FIVE AND DIME CUETURAL CENTER.
JoAnne Growney and Helen
Grirfiih
rounded the Five and Dime
Cultural Center, a non-profit organization, in September 1997. Twice
weekly
Emporium,
at Phillips
it
presents educational and cultural
programs such as poetry readings, an
children's
museum, book
discussions,
art
auction to benefit the local
and
a slide-illustrated
introduction to the rich heritage ol Florentine
art.
Growney, a Bloomsburg professor emerita of mathematics and
computer
Griffith,
and director of the
science,
owner of
the
storefront space for a bookstore.
to
run a business,
"
Growney
"1
events.
remembers,
"I
wanted
first
of using
was more
people
to
approached
some
love a bookstore, but
recalls. "1
social aspect of creating a place for
Griffith
cultural center,
emporium, with the idea
I
of the
didn't
want
interested in the
to gather."
promote the
arts
and
cultural
Our purpose was to answer a need that we perceived was here
The rationale for the. name? "I felt it would be nice to
in this region."
tie
it
into the fact that there
had been
a
dime
store here for so
many
Terry Riley, associate professor of English and director of the
Bloomsburg University writing
center, attends events at the cultural
center as frequently as his schedule permits.
keep us separate." he remarks. "But
there's
an opportunity
to
share similar interests."
"Our work
at the Five
meet people
who
lives too often
and Dime events,
are outside
your
circle,
who
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Growney
Author Karen Blomain, a recently
featured reader at the Five
and Dime,
poetry
my
says, "Poetry is enjoying a national
when writing
reflects, "I find
my
mother
is
a great source,
father's death, too, in the
resurgence. People thirst for content, for
mystery associated with
ways of thinking about and sharing
relationships that changed."
their
experiences and hearing from others
on
are
same
the
who
JoAnne,
quest.
who
Without people
like
so generously devotes her
In her junior
it
and the
and senior years of
high school, Growney was inspired by a
flamboyant math teacher
who had
time to bringing writers to Bloomsburg,
attended Vassar. "There were a
such a dialogue would be impossible."
women
Growney modestly
"It's
got to be said that
made
and
sense of the
from
number
of
my class who went on to
credits Gnffith,
my activity has been
possible by Helens generosity."
Before her involvement with the
cultural center, in 1994,
Growney
co-
founded River Poets with Richard Brook,
professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg.
Janet Locke, anthropology department
secretary, serves as the
secretary, treasurer
and
groups
unofficial
With no
historian.
formal organizational structure, they have
established a planning committee that
meets periodically
to schedule readers
and
A Home
for Art
Art students Alex Troychock
events for the second Tuesday of each
month
at
the
emporium.
one of these events
group of individuals -
Participation in
reveals a diverse
(left),
and Cortney Van Jahnke
used Phillips Emporium to stage an art
auction to benefit the Bloomsburg
Alisa Sickora
Children's
Museum.
devoted to exploring ideas. Eighty-year-
all
old Beatrice Ermisch learned of River Poets
through her local newspaper.
could come, so
I
"It
said
you
came," she remembers.
Ermisch eventually overcame her
"bashfulness," emceeing the popular
Dead
Poets reading and delivering a'flawless
Orphan Annie" by
Her involvement
supportive community of writers
recitation of "Little
James Whitcomb
with
this
Riley.
has encouraged her to write her
"so
my two
kind of
life
grandchildren will
we
life story,
know what
Classr
lived," she says.
Mary tsetn bimmons
one of many Bloomsburg faculty who
participate in programs at the Five and
Dime Cultural Center. Here, she makes
a dramatic presentation at the Dead
English instructor
As
a child
growing up on a family
is
farm in rural Indiana, Pennsylvania,
Growney wrote poetry and
"I
wanted
to
be a
short stories.
writer," she recalls,
Poets Reading.
but
she was never
consumed with a passion
to become one. Her family's life took a
dramatic turn when her father, who had
contracted rheumatic fever as a boy and
suffered from an enlarged heart, died
when Growney was
When Daddy
major
in
didn't
know
Growney intended
I
could do
was milk
white tears.
in
math
better than chemistry, so
switched." She
first
leaning close for comfort,
filling the pail with
major
I
I
liked
continued to write. In 1961, while an
undergraduate
the cow,
to
as
chemistry in college, "but,
also
All
we just
math wasn't regarded
women."
that
a discipline for
nine years old.
Died
mathematics, because
at
Westminster, she
won
prize for fiction in the student literary
journal, The Scrawl, for a short
work
entitled, "Nostalgia."
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"The Phillips name goes back to the early 1800s," says Helen
Phillips Griffith,
owner of Phillips Emporium.
believe that
"I
when my
great-grandmother's [Mary Gross Phillips'] father died in a train accident,
she used some of the
own name,
her
Mary
cafe's
buy
insurance to
man
this building.
owned
the building.
gilded inscription
is
She bought
it
in
signing for her, in the spring of 1886."
Phillips operated a cafe, Phillips Cafe
of the time she
the
life
without any
An
and Bakery, during part
antique porcelain pitcher bearing
displayed behind the counter of
its
present
day namesake.
As a
child, Griffith
moved
close ties to Bloomsburg.
to Arlington, Virginia,
began
"I
to help
but she maintained
my mother with the
business,"
was only a real estate aspect at that time - rentals of
student apartments and Woolworth's, which occupied this [storefront]
recalls Griffith, "It
space for sixty years."
economic impact created by
same day my aunt and her children
were mailed a copy of the contract for me to buy their share of the
building, Woolworth's called and said they had changed their mind and
Griffith personally felt the devastating
the retail chain's departure.
were not going
"On
the
to stay."
Griffith fortuitously
opening
Phillips
become
a
kept a comer of the vacant storefront for herself,
Emporium
in October of 1990. Since then,
community resource
for
it
has
such diverse offerings as cultural and
educational programs, gourmet coffee, live music, Birkenstocks footwear,
writing workshops, biscotti, and Scorned
The atmosphere can be
totally non-retail," says Griffith. "I
Growney married
her bachelors degree.
"I
at
at night,
and
that
I
the time
I
go
didn't plan to
"My
to graduate school," she says.
husband
Charlie Brennan, a department
the year she earned
was going
colleague for
to school
could take a couple of courses." The
couple of courses led to a masters degree
solving
children: Kristen, Todd, Eric,
Growney
and Diann.
doesn't hesitate to acknowledge
thing I've ever done." But as her children
became independent, another
she says,
writing,
"I
A doctoral
to write
more."
28 years of teaching, Growney
from Bloomsburg University in
1997. "One of the things
accomplished
at
I
feel like
Bloomsburg
is
I
what mathematical
8
skills,"
student with
Oklahoma and
he
cold
winds howl
says.
geese go south
Growney
innovative teaching strategy. "She
concerned with math majors'
temperatures fall low
says, "to
toboggans slide
ability to
put their problem-solving
sun hides
down
ice coats
sun glows
hillsides
June waits
groundhogs hibernate
wood-fires flame
techniques and strategies into words."
Growney
snowmen grow
ponds freeze
was
write about the mathematical process,"
June waits
nights long
later a colleague at
raspberries ripen
catbird sings
iris
blooms
practiced the principles
she advocated in the classroom, serving
as poetry editor for
days bright
The Humanistic
streams play
June dreams
holiday picnics catch flies
wheat
thrives
crickets chirp
Mathematics Network, an organization
tomato plants climb
which she says
affirms the idea that
streams dance
class,"
literacy connotes."
humanistic manner, paying attention
to all the
June plays
just the needs of the
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needs of the individual, not
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December and June
class
catbird sings
she says. "The debate rages in mathematics
as to
poems, Growney
"mathematics should be taught in a
the
development of the math thinking
"It's
emotive components of language.
Bloomsburg, Jim Pomfret describes her
he
spend more time
worn.
look like somebody's home."
blends the logic of mathematics with the
transition
children were grown,"
started to
and wanted
After
retired
my
"The math thinking
ability.
most rewarding
that "being a parent is the
emerged. "Once
years, agrees, citing the
develop problem-solving
at
she also raised four
this to
uses mathematical situations as a vehicle to
Oklahoma.
this time,
want
aptitude directly correlates with problem-
from Temple University and a Ph.D. from
During
Salsa.
In her mathematical
popular misconception that mathematical
thought while he was doing
the University of
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affectionately described as gently
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left
warm*
brain."
to 10, then
10
to 1. into
prime factors. For example,
line six
has phrases of lengths two syllable and three syllables,
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"Mathematics
poetry, in the
is like
sense of putting a substantial
meaning on
a
amount
of
hundreds of thousands of dollars put
few symbols," Growney
into the
notes.
During her tenure
Growney served
at
Bloomsburg,
as acting provost
the opening of the
and
first
to
June 1984. She was
director of
Bloomsburg
vacancy
Center (T.A.L.E.). "JoAnne created ways
find out
what the needs were," says
to
Riley.
"She elevated T.A.L.E. to a position of
When John
Fetterman began
Bloomsburg, he charged a quarter
and 15 cents
give
him
a
for
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AIDS have banished
and Dime
Cultural Center.
old,
he
still
emphatically.
where
1
can't
Jean.
creative projects
include a collection of poetry,
published in 1993. She
is
for
for a general
book
of poetry,
chapbooks - smaller
and two
collections of
approximately 25 pages, typically devoted
to a single theme.
Still
it
convention,
Growney
New
fiction
School in
New
York. She has also applied for admission
to
New York University's
Arts program for the
1994
Master of Fine
a
web
address
[http://www.sunlink.net/~growney/]
links visitors to the Five
and Dime
Cultural Center's current calendar of events
of her poems.
he says
full text retrieval
of several
now
Emporium owner
after living
away
home, near downtown.
on.
town
is
28
for
years.
district celebrated
year
by hosting
'99. Initially
proposed by
Nancy and Don Firestone, the
planning effort was chaired by
Steve
Bevans of the Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble, with four committees and
countless volunteers working for two
make
the event a success.
"There's a
Other
of caring about
one of the reasons
says Jean. "Bloomsburg
getting bigger,
It's
getting busier, but
town
FW Woolworth
new
the arrival of the
years to
moving
Dollar General
The downtown
restoration of their historic Fifth Street
is
A
occupies the long-vacant
storefront of the old
Bloomsburg
They've recently completed a
feeling in this
and
building.
returned to Bloomsburg
it still
the
local
developments include
Bloomsburg Public
Library's
expansion and renovation, the
construction of three
new downtown
it's
has the small-
public parking
lots,
and the trend of
popular Main Street restaurants to
feel to it."
The downtown, which
offer diners the seasonal alternative of
is
designated as part of the Bloomsburg
a sidewalk cafe.
Barber John Fetterman springs
has experienced an
Flistoric District,
and provides
"1
fall.
Growney maintains
which
week.
the way, are distant
Griffith),
Perk, the Cloak
Italian Kitchen.
Store
Groner and her husband,
we came back,"
recently completed
an online hypertext poetry and
course through The
in
it,"
Town
Dragon Bookstore, and Balzano's
At 80 years
a
Al's
Sub Shop.
Recent arrivals include Bloomiri
Bagels,
and
Berrigan's
be a sad day."
will
each other. This
refusing to be confined by
now
"When I get to the point
come down here in the
cousins of Phillips
Helen
currently working with three manuscripts:
one
Hardware, Eppleys Pharmacy,
the barber's shave
enjoy every minute' of
Law (who, by
Intersections,
Fetterman
works four days
Jewelry Store, Hess' Tavern, Cole's
Mens Shop, and
him
safety razors, electric shavers,
morning,
Growney s other
years.
in the 1990s, that's
Magee's Main Street Inn, Sneidman's
charges six dollars for a haircut, but
to the annals of the past.
their writing
through the
J.
faithfully for
downtown
by such enduring establishments as
change.
momentarily in a vintage Koken
barber chair-that's served
y
"For a
There are approximately 140
Today, between haircuts, he rests
•
aesthetic revitalization. Kristy Clausen,
back
program manager and former director
hand. Expertly wielding his black
of the
downtown
division of the
Bloomsburg Area Chamber of
Commerce,
a
approximately four'
rale of
businesses on Main Street, anchored
50-cent piece and expect
10 cents to be returned
•
profitable
really good."
for a shave.
His post-Depression patrons would
her creative approaches."
•
afier
Mall,
percent since 1995," notes Clausen.
to
downtown
ply his trade as a barber in
a haircut
prominence on campus through
great
decade
downtown. "Bloomsburg has held
University's
and departments
A
Columbia
and
a vital, diverse
also the
Teaching and Learning Enhancement
of canvassing faculty
in the last 10
Bloomsburg has successfully preserved
vice-president of academic affairs from
July 1983
downtown
years," says Clausen.
says
many
businesses
to his feet,
plastic
another customer
comb and
declares business
silver clippers,
is
belter than
with a mischievous grin.
improvement
getting better at this."
been
he
it's
ever been. "I'm gelling older," he says
have taken advantage of a facade
grant. "There's
at
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must be
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Amy Griffin
is
'cheerfully flipping through her small
crooning
through her headphones. Kelly Bordner
all
is
powdered sugar down
would you
freshman history and
major, Blass
is
new
seriousness as she reads her
semester and
presentation, over a tiny chair-
fellow students as
desk, to teammate Brenda Ey.
"Does that sound
and no
barely 8 a.m.,
hours of
weren't
sleep.
up
late
No, they
interpretation
and
morning
finds
Bloomsburg's top-notch forensics
Morgan
State University in
Baltimore for an individual events
tournament, one of about
dozen they
semester.
a half
will participate in this
And
compete -
the
nervous.
we need
to clean
to fellow
Griffin
team member
Rich Blass,
has a
who
trail
of
and
it off. "It's
speak
to
now shows no
a lot
really
evidence of
donut mishap. His teammates approve.
"We were up
until
who
two practicing
major David
has been participating in
forensics competitions since high school.
The co-president of
the team, he
is
smiling and affable, betraying no signs of
nervousness or lack of sleep. In a world
where public speaking
more than
death, these
is
often feared
young people
are remarkably calm.
Griffin, the team's other co-president,
is
you up!" exclaims
how
pieces," says senior finance
they are ready to
almost.
"Oh,
well." His face
his
He
just start talking
and you leam
Calvert,
informative speeches. This
early Saturday
of fun,
partying
they were practicing prose
at
little
I
this
by
introvert.
I'm fine," he says, shrugging
one has had more than four
team
team
to the
an
A
political science
characterized
"Eventually,
she asks.
It's
is
admits to being a
right?"
"Why
his chin.
take a powdered donut?"
also
jitters,
seemingly
immune
to
pre-speech
having participated in countless
events since joining the team as a
freshman.
"I
beforehand.
had no experience
I
just
knew
it
wasn't dead
bodies!" she says.
"When you go out on
we love
of people say, 'Oh,
the circuit, a lot
Bloomsburg!'
We're just a really positive team. We're not
just out for the awards." All the
Calm Before the Competition
David Calvert, co-president of the
forensics team, has learned to stay
cool before a tournament.
team
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members
Ey hopes her experience
agree that in addition to the
will benefit
her as
practical skills they've learned, they've
she begins the job interview process after
enjoyed their weekend jaunts to other
graduation.
and the new
colleges
Harry Strine
III,
director of forensics,
echoes these sentiments. "Our goal here
Bloomsburg
better
communicators - not just
and win," he
says.
we
Indeed, the Bloomsburg
members
is
lot.
to
is
a
Morgan
State
participating in multiple events,
from
communication
analysis
father at
it
so
is
and debate.
All
complaining. "Since you love
much, you
Calvert.
"It
find time
somehow," says
sometimes gets pretty
office assistant in
hectic."
came
Bloomsburg
to
Hayden
really great
now
'74. "He's terrific.
program up
He
there."
Hayden
is
at
Morgan
State, a
left
testament to
by
Participants in this event are given a
quote
'nice doggie' until
program, and
it
I
between events, Calvert
He
more
which he says went
"Extemp," in forensics parlance,
events.
Speech Tournament, which students
organized and ran the weekend before.
well.
spend
reviewing current
When competition time
comes,
how
in the
are tired but satisfied. Their
tournament, the
won
team award
first
this semester. Individually,
come away with
first-place
awards, including Griffins
impromptu and communication
spend only 30 minutes preparing
minute speech.
extemp performance. The newcomers
also performed extremely well - Blass
a seven-
took
fifth overall
pizza.
partner
also organizes a novice
in the informative
and Ey took
Adam
place
Nichols.
"Although individual accomplish-
ments
interested students get a chance to
see ourselves excel as a
It
first
duo event with
competition each September where
out forensics in a somewhat
of
analysis
speeches. Calvert took third for his
in the dramatic
competitive atmosphere.
number
a
they draw three topics, choose one and
out tournament logistics to finding
try
it, it
they have
did everything from
on donuts and
do
hard work has earned them second place
category,
The team
to
a lot easier," she says.
coaching other students and figuring
the best deal
a rock."
you become
At the end of the day, the Bloomsburg
they've
is
particularly grueling. Competitors
many hours each week
unruffled. "As
is
teammates
financial
the art of saying
is
you find
familiar with
becomes
talks
has just completed an
crisis in Brazil,
is
She
think
really benefits students."
extemporaneous speech on the
Hatter
"Diplomacy
Bloomsburg experience. "They've always
Strine.
This competition comes on the
They then have seven minutes
and present a speech. Griffin's
quotation.
had
a really strong
first
now
is
preparing an impromptu speech.
to prepare
his
having completed her
Griffin,
event, prose interpretation,
casually about his favorite stock picks with
not just to go out
and win."
Team members
runs a
the assistant director of the forensics
In
eommunicators -
own Mad
Keeping Score
Jennifer Stratton tabulates scores at Bloomsburg's
Mad Hatter Speech Tournament.
"Harry was one of my coaches," says
Carl
it
better
for
coach until 1976,
continues to be a quality program.
to help people
heels of Bloomsburg's
1970
in
Then he became
when he was promoted to the director of
the program. He has a long line of fans.
the lasting impression
"Our goal here
at Bloomsburg is
my surrogate
Bloomsburg. Anything you need,
a one-year appointment.
program
become
an
Professor Strine can help."
the events require hours of preparation,
but no one
as
full-time varsity debate
persuasive and extemporaneous speaking
to
who works
the forensics department in addition to her
Strine
tournament
and
coach. "Everyone loves Mr. Strine," says
Each of the 12 team
at the
behind the
their adviser
is
duties as co-president. "He's
get here."
bunch
of the driving forces
forensics team's success
Griffin,
go out
"We've always been
fortunate with the students
motivated
at
become
to help people
is
One
friends they've met.
less
are very valuable,
we want
to
team because
that brings the greatest sense of
was
accomplishment," says Calvert,
certainly a confidence booster for
who sounds just
senior marketing major Brenda Ey,
disappointed with the second-place
and she decided
to join the
team
at
finish.
the beginning of her last semester.
"I
won
first
place in the
"It's
a lot of fun,
are great.
and
There are such a wide
variety of experiences
team
you can
get."
Amy
Griffin (left), forensics
team co-president,
coach and adviser Harry Strine
competing at Morgan
it all,"
leader,
III
for guidance
State, Baltimore.
relies on the team's
and pointers before
close to
he laments. But as
he never loses sight of
what the team
A Winning Team
the people
"We were very
capturing
first
tournament," she says proudly.
the slightest bit
is
about.
"Our main
we
don't want
become the sole priority of
our team - we want to have fun."
goal
is
to
do
well,
but
that to
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Leah Weisbeck,
senior majoring in
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I'll
to
prepare
Bloomsburg University
math and secondary education. Although
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a participant in the
is
Bloomsburg University/ Danville Area
School District Middle School Inclusion
Project,
one of
several innovative
programs
by members of Bloomsburg's
education faculty and funded through
initiated
almost $50,000 in grants from the
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Offices Higher Education Initiatives.
Robert Gates, associate professor of
curriculum and foundations, and assistant
dean
for the
School of Education,
coordinates the project. Others include
Bloomsburg Transition Partners and
Bloomsburg Transition Partners/ Independent
Living, directed
by Cynthia Schloss and
Partners in Leadership Training: Merging
Partners
and Regular Education
Special Education
Administration Programs, administered
by
James Krause. Both Schloss and Krause
are assistant professors in the
department
of exceptionality programs.
Each of these projects enables
faculty
members and
new methods
for
students to explore
to
monitor busing. In other words, they walk
exceptionalities, so the
in teachers' shoes
students
On
all
meet the challenges
day.
Through
by
while offering valuable service to the
wider community.
the grant, the middle school
outside a special education program.
project, as has Scott Mato, the school
to assessment, inclusion,
principal. "This
development
really
need
wanted
school project
third year, the
every day.
through sixth grade,
work with
is
modeled
sixth grade
one developed by Gates several years ago
in cooperation with the Danville School
District's
still
elementary schools. That project
exists
under the direction of Shelly
students
really
Randall, assistant professor, curriculum
and foundations.
to
middle school project
the Danville Area
fall
Middle School
they've lived with teachers
a school, then they
can understand what
means
to be a professional.
are the
ones
day
to
based on
program
Our
isn't theoretical;
real-life experiences.
is
I
it's
think the
a real eye-opener."
Secondary education students
who
it
teachers
who are in the trenches, doing
day. What they offer the
Bloomsburg have no
at
free electives, so
they spend extra time to be involved in
wanted
the project. Elementary education majors
be middle
use their electives, as well as extra time,
to participate. "This says a lot
are
assigned to a teacher or team of teachers
When
undergraduates, students
Bloomsburg students
Bloomsburg education students who
participate in the
school.
it
'We saw a great
need to prepare
after a similar
says. "As
and seen the heartbeat of what happens in
who
middle
comprehensive
don't experience the culture of being in a
be middle school teachers."
to
Now in its
to prepare students
a
introduction to the world of education,"
Mato
middle school teachers," says Gates. "We
a great
is
this
and other topics teachers deal with
certification will cover kindergarten
"Pennsylvania has no certification for
the middle school
management
Elementary education majors, whose
School Project
at
have been enthusiastic supporters of
thematic units, adolescent
saw
The teachers
modules ranging from classroom
cooperative learning, team building,
The Middle
Bloomsburg
special education
always available to education majors
their mentors.
teachers are paid to design 10 teaching
of todays public education system,
work with
students and teachers, an opportunity not
Thursday, the Bloomsburg
students are taught
preparing teachers
and administrators
the Classroom
in
Bloomsburg's education students graduate with plenty of classroom experience, thanks to partnerships
with area schools. Shown from left are Robert Gates, assistant dean for Bloomsburg's School of Education;
Scott Mato, principal of the Danville Middle School; and student teacher Jodi Cramer.
school teachers."
about
their dedication to being good teachers,"
says Gates.
at
After completing a semester at the
for the
middle school, the Bloomsburg students
semester. Every Tuesday, they travel to
Danville where they spend the whole day.
students and teachers; secondary
They prepare lesson
education majors work with the seventh
weeks of
and eighth grades. Grants from Higher
assignments. Gates says, "Student teaching
Education
is
in
plans, teach units,
on team meetings, take lunch or
duty,
sit
in
sit
recess
on parent conferences and
Initiatives target children
return in the spring for the
with
a
new
their
first
eight
16-week student teaching
experience for a lot of education
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building.
They
the teachers or the students.
They need some break-in time. Because
our students have had their break-in time,
they're ready to hit the
Out
Gates.
of the seven students
six are
first
now working
and one
teachers
is
as
who
we
in this field.
In the
develop out of
this
expand
are graduating well-
grant to
years,
independent
into the Bloomsburg,
into the Danville Area
her special education classes
at
the university.
The
first
grant funded a program
Schloss sent Bloomsburg special education
majors into Bloomsburg High School to
Successful Transition
work with
After participating in the Transition Partners program,
Cory Stauffer landed part-time employment at the
University Store. Appreciated by fellow workers, he
feels his ability to get along with people and his
dependability are keys to his success.
special
teaching them the
in the
needs students,
skills
necessary to
community and then
finding
work
them
unpaid jobs.
Gates has received an additional
move
two
assessing their vocational interests,
Lewisburg and Warrior Run School
Districts.
for
Bloomsburg High School
called Bloomsburg Transition Partners.
of 1999, the middle school
fall
and
Schloss has developed curricular materials
trained, confident teachers."
project will
Initiatives grants for the past
three years to provide vocational
students with special needs. In addition,
can say Bloomsburg
We
ask, 'what are
middle school
University students have done extensive
work
we
living skills to
"Then when jobs come up in
middle schools,
job you're
that," says
Schloss has received Higher
Education
a middle school concentration," says
Gates.
do
interests?'"
for use in
to
this is the
don't
Cynthia Schloss. "Instead
your
assistance,
teaching in an
"What we hope
We
year of the project,
elementary school.
is
open, so
going to do.'
ground running."
"Our students are getting calls from
middle schools and getting placed," says
participated in the
we have
local business people, representatives
Undergraduates helped high school
High
from the school
Graduate assistants took high school
Chamber
community to work.
developed a community
"So often in rehabilitation services, the
provider has said, Well, these are the jobs
Schloss also
of
Commerce.
Transition Partners quickly
seniors out into the
Transition
Partners
the local
intermediate unit and the Bloomsburg
School next year.
Bloomsburg
district,
juniors find jobs within the high school.
a success. In the
second
became
year, Schloss
task force to discuss the issues that
received another grant for a program
concern special needs students graduating
called Bloomsburg Transition Partners/
from high school and ways in which that
Independent Living, designed to blend
information could be incorporated into the
skills
special education curriculum at the
she received additional funding to
university
The task
force
is
made up
of
life
with vocational training. This year,
continue the program.
Mary Jo Martini and Kim Soper are
assistants working in the
both graduate
transition program. "We're job coaches,"
says Soper.
learn
how
"We help high school
to get a
support once they find work.
make
initial
seniors
job and then supply
We
also
contacts with employers
and
provide the high school students with
transportation to their jobs."
Martini and Soper stress the
importance of the interest assessment
portion of the program.
of jobs
we have
not what land
"It's
available,
it's
what kind
of
interests the students have," says Soper.
Their students have found jobs at the local
police department, a bank, with the
Scouts and
at a local restaurant.
students have
worked
at a
Boy
Other
horse farm, a
supermarket, a retirement community, the
post
Partners
Cynthia Schloss (left), assistant professor of exceptionality programs, and graduate students Karen Joseph
and Mary Jo Martini, work to bridge the gap from high school to work and independent living for special
needs individuals.
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Bloomsburg Town Hall and the
university Assignments range from
cleaning branches off horse
trails
to filing,
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microfilming, food preparation and a
variety of other tasks.
"Our job," says
Martini,
"is to
make
sure our students understand their jobs.
We
see that they have
we
then
what they need,
Partners in
Leadership
Training
Although unpaid, these are not token
upon
to collaborate.
called
learn as they work. For example, they
several areas of need,
leam
that
they don't
if
might get
to
work, they
program
with basic
component
living
offers students assistance
skills.
and received
a
Initiatives grant to
fired."
The independent
of the
come
for
and
Recognizing
friendships
after
skills the
work
at
together
Bloomsburg
James Krause applied
We're looking
at
core content, curriculum
collaborating with regular education
professionals in the department of
emphasize collaboration
curriculum and foundations."
and provide leadership training in
special
education administration.
In addition to Bloomsburg's
to redefine the
need
competencies taught
to prospective special education
administrators, Krause points to an
increasing shortage of people trained in
to cultivate
this field in
students will need
Krause
Pennsylvania and nationally.
putting together a steering
is
committee of superintendents, building
"So often in special education," says
principals, special education personnel
"we work with individuals
from intermediate
until
end of high school, but we don't
continue after
course
to
is
that.
The purpose of this
on
leadership.
members from
who
teaching and
and finding success
to those
there."
also enables Schloss to
summer workshop
for public
how to
who
says Krause.
across Pennsylvania, will
on "what we should be
how we
will
He
should be teaching
it
soon be administrators,"
also sees the
committee
mechanism for promoting career
awareness and for potential recruitment
high
as a
school teachers and service providers
about
and members of
The committee, drawing
create a prospectus
need assistance getting out into society
The grant
units,
business and industry to contribute ideas
expose special education
majors to special needs young adults
teach a
to
focus and course offerings. We're also
they graduate from high school.
Schloss,
the
-
to
Higher Education
They leam how to find
to set up a bank
and even how
work
leadership that mirrors those requirements.
account, where to find recreation,
transportation,
to
design a program in administration and
how
an apartment,
we need
Krause. "So,
with other departments
regular education administrators are being
jobs, emphasizes Schloss. "The students
we want them
together to meet students' needs," says
Increasingly, special education
easing back."
start
administrators that
develop lesson plans and
of
students into the Bloomsburg program.
curricular matenals to teach vocational
and independent
Looking for Leaders
living skills.
Furthermore, Schloss works with
agencies such as the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation
and Mental Health/Mental
Retardation. "The
of our
program
is
James Krause, assistant professor of exceptionality
programs, has created a program to identify and
train the
next generation of special education
administrators.
most unique component
Special education administrators
doing
that we're
vocational assessment," Schloss says.
oversee programs and services for
"Once a
students with exceptionalities in the
we
special
needs student graduates,
can provide the outside agency with
that assessment so they don't
duplicate
it.
have
We've come up with
a
to
unique
public schools. In addition to direct
supervision of programs, they
work with
situational assessment instead of the
curriculum coordinators and teachers
standard evaluation done
to
at a sheltered
workshop. This has been done elsewhere,
but
it is
unique
to this area
and
to
make
"The changing
role of public school
program provides
about a need to redesign Bloomsburg's
Bloomsburg's special education majors
post-graduate program in special
with firsthand experience they would
education administration."
not normally receive in a university
setting.
She says, "Through
this course,
the special education teachers leaving
Bloomsburg
transition
will
know how
program
536
sure programs are in place to
effectively assist students.
administrators," says Krause, "has brought
Pennsylvania rehab."
Schloss'
&Z
school principals, superintendents,
to operate a
in a high school."
According
to Krause,
job requirements
and competencies have changed in
field as special
this
education and regular
education have merged over the years.
"We're telling regular and special educatu
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Learning gains
relevance
How
do teachers
light the fire for
learning in their students? For Karson
Kiesinger, a senior English major,
it
was
the opportunity to present a research
paper
at
the International Meeting of the
Joseph Conrad Society of Amenca
Kiplinge
Bloomsburg named
one of the 100 best
S.
public universities
you
If
at
Colgate University.
S.
Ekema Agbaw,
unforgettable experience for the
the conference after collaborating with her
editor of the award-winning student
of Kurtz in
Norman
With Agbaw's support, she
believe us, listen
Rush's Mating."
to others.
shared her expertise with a group of
life
and works of the
writer Joseph Conrad.
of the 100 best
It
my passion
"The conference reignited
people get excited about ideas helped
see the relevance of the
19th century
late
magazine Spectrum.
for learning," says Kiesinger. "To see
professional scholars interested in the
Bloomsburg has
been named one
managing
of English, encouraged Kiesinger to attend
on "The Reincarnation
don't
Ekema Agbaw and Karson Kiesinger
associate professor
and day out
was an
work
I
do day
me
in
as a student."
public universities
by
Finance
Kiplinger's Personal
A good
Magazine.
Based on
statistics
Kiplinger's
Bloomsburg 89th.
determining the
scores of the
"Making
To say that the development
ranked
had
Criteria for
listing
included
1997 freshman
a
good year
in
1998 would be an
SAT
the percentage of applicants granted
and
all
me
because
witnessed
I've
ways the
the wonderful
foundation helps the university," says
new
record and a 65
percent increase over 1997.
Thanks
and computer
the
to
$900,000
In addition, alumni
m
contnbuted
$818,011 and parents contributed
$116,389. "We see the
from students through
Community
strong participation of
library resources. In addition,
five financial factors
-
firsthand
put the
over $3 million was
Frutchey.
gifts
year,
important to
a donation to help
gifts
Foundation - a
percentage of freshmen returning for
sophomore
and we ended the
contributed to the Bloomsburg University
admission, graduate rates, the
their
foundations
office
understatement. More than $3 million was
class,
in
year with $3,000,125."
Giving tops record
from 1,813
colleges and universities in North
America,
more donations came
year
Government
were considered
1
was
measure of
their
undertake a number of
satisfaction
with the work
major projects that
we're doing," says
the university
total cost, affordability for
alumni and parents as a
Association,
able to
residents, percentage of students
financial
need met with
all
will
forms of
directly benefit
Anthony M.
them,
Ianiero, vice
financial aid, percentage of total aid
that
is
including construction of
work-study or loans, and the
average
amount
recreational fields
a student borrows to
graduate pared the
i
president for university
and a
advancement. "That
3
climbing wall on the upper
list
to its to]
campus and renovation
of
schools.
7,313 donors contributed a piece
to the pie, totalling more than
S3 million in donations for 1998!
listed
among the
also
something
of."
been
Other groups of donors
Students not only
leading public
by U.S.
and for the
universities in the north
News and World
is
we're very proud
the University Store.
Bloomsburg has
financial vote of
confidence
Report,
second consecutive
The Student Guide
contributed to the campaign in a big way,
but also in an important small
year
the
wound down, we were just under $3
include: businesses
and corporations
(including matching
gifts),
employees (including
$389,984;
retirees),
$62,661;
year, listed in
million," says
to
way "As
America's 100
Susan Helwig, director of
development. "Two of our work-study
foundations, $43,800; friends of the
university,
$509,615; organizations
Best College Buys.
students, Michelena Smith
Frutchey contributed the
to
2 6
and
money needed
put us over the $3 million mark.
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(including the
Stacie
A
few
Community Government
Association), $1,059,666. Altogether, there
were 7,313 donors in 1998.
SPRING 1999
"There
Record graduate
numbers
added on
degree enough anymore?
Is a bachelor's
may be
Graduating
Schloss, assistant vice president
students learn
how
competitive the
job market can
be.
Many
are
also finding out
that they'll
need
more than four
many
Patrick Schloss
work
chosen
Today, a master's degree
of
field.
needed
speech therapist or
to practice as a
audiologist.
is
in their
By the year 2000, completion
30 graduate
credits
of a master's degree
-
-
the equivalent
will
professionally.
states.
New
opening up
many
Teachers
to seek master's
career paths are also
for
nurses with specialized
graduate training.
And more
fields,
necessary to practice
is
Graduate programs are an
integral part of the service that the
of our students
students than ever are
turning to Bloomsburg to take these
Politics
Some Bloomsburg
work and have
friends fared
well in the latest
Pennsylvania
Many
families,
elections.
Lieutenant
Governor Mark
programs
S.
in the region, like ours, is
important to them."
The
University
graduates and
so the availability of master's degree
Schweiker
75
partnered with
Governor
university has responded to
Tom
Phyllis
student needs by developing
new
graduate
second term.
accounting, nurse anesthetist and nurse
Other alumni
practitioner. Altogether, the university
victors included
19 graduate programs in the
offers
sciences, business
arts,
and education.
remote locations
to
working
to
make them
Phyllis
70,
accessible
'71
Mundy
state
representative
for die
students, offenng entire programs at
Mundy
Ridge to win a
programs, which include exercise science,
professional development throughout
their careers, leading
and technical
Faculty are also taking courses to the
are increasingly required to demonstrate
degrees.
and dean
research. "But in
university provides to the region.
be the
prerequisite for taking the Certified Public
Accountant exam in most
and
health-related
a graduate degree
years of college
to
Turning to
to the curriculum," says Patrick
of graduate studies
quickly
a perception that
graduate programs are a luxury, something
120th
district in the
Wyoming Valley,
professionals.
anditTim u
Holden
i
The Williamsport M.B.A. program
serves over
25 business
of the time
and location of the program,
leaders. "Because
Tim Holden
i
'8<
'80
'80, U.S. representative for the sixth
district,
which includes
Berks,
and parts of Montgomery
upper-level business administrators need
Schuylkill
not leave their positions to obtain the
and Northumberland counties. John
M.B.A. ," says Schloss. "Similarly, practicing
Gordner was re-elected
educators in Bucks County need not
representative for the 109lh district
advanced courses, with graduate school
relocate to
reaching a record enrollment of more
advanced degree and accompanying
than 680 students.
permanent
Bloomsburg
to receive
and Paul Kanjorski
an
term as U.
11th
certification."
won
another
representative for the
S.
district,
as state
both of which include
Bloomsbure.
Kozloff visits Israel
I
President Jessica Kozloff got a
leaders, including
firsthand look at Israeli education,
business and politics during a
visit to
Middle East as part of a delegation of
the
1
American university presidents and
chancellors.
Cosponsored by the
Israel's
Office of
of
its
kind by
a
and Stephen Kozloff with Allen
president of Queens College, Charlotte, NC, at
the Sea of Galilee.
Kozloff and the others
political,
education institutions such as Birzeil
University in Palestine, Tel Aviv
University, the University of Haifa, the
Hebrew
met with
educational and business
and research
projects. Stops included several higher
first
educators.
Jessica
Prime
information about Bloomsburgs
faculty/student exchange
Academic
was the
group of American
Affairs in the U.S., the visit
Israeli
academic programs and pursued
America-Israel Friendship League and
the State of
former
Shimon Peres and Israeli
President Ezer Weizman. She shared
Minister
University and the Technion.
There were also
visits to
Heights, Nazareth
and
the Golan
the Sea of Galilee.
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battling alcohol
Bloomsburg
abuse have been
University Council
i
Governor's
of Trustees. Barth,
Highway
the senior vice
Safety Awards.
president, senior
loan officer and
Recognized in the
H Preston Herrin 9
category "Alcohol
But look soon,
Highway
community
-
were H. Preston Herring,
Safety"
vice president for student
life,
and
underway, which means the
hammers and
will
be in the
hum
pounding of
of bulldozers, the
for his
work
the s
Barth
State
Tom
who
,
term on the Council of Trustees
trustee
The newest
earned his bachelor's degree in
air.
addresses alcohol abuse and implements
prevention, intervention, enforcement
into a
facility is
de
County
District Attorney,
for his assistance
construction could
sta.
checkpoints,
summer.
business administration and economics at
and
Montour
was recognized
University.
and support of sobnety
DUI
patrols
and programs
William
J.
Mowad,
Kelly, vice chair;
Buehner Jr.,
secretary;
chair; A.
Robert W.
Ramona H.
Alley,
David J. Cope, LaRoy G. Davis, Heather
transformation into what could
L.
Derek, Kevin M. O'Connor, David J.
become one of the most active
locations on campus. Architects are
putting the finishing touches on the
new
a master's degree in
Other council members
include Joseph
for youth.
design proposal for the
Lycoming College and
business administration at Bucknell
Nearby, the old library waits lor
its
B.
West Milton (PA)
expires in January 2003.
and town of Bloomsburg. The group
bidding process has be
this
at
Ridge to replace James Atherton Jr.
Barth's
by leaders of the university
educational services. Buehner,
classroom
Steven
office
head
served on council from 1992 to 1998.
as co-chair of
the "Bloomsburg Initiative," a coalition
established
The conversio"
Gymnasium
was honored
division
Bank, was appointed by Governor
university trustee Robert Buehner. Herring
are
of the
;
recognized with the
ears.
Barth
B.
the newest
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:L&''ife
{^l(g)iiTl|L
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Steven
university
individuals
Trustee
ftleinr
Petrosky and Ted Stuban.
student
sendees center.
On-campus housing will get a
The new
apartments for approximately 250
boost, but not just yet.
students are just entering the design
phase, so residence
life
®m
folks won't
f^B=S^'* \W"
From left:
SSHE Chancellor James
McCormick,
Leonard Comerchero,
H.
celebrate the arrival of
new
digs for
a while.
President Jessica
w
However, while these projects
Kozloff,
pen and ink process, the
are back on up™" ^ 01
are in the
tractors
campus
Some mild
allowed a
moved,
i:
The campus may not De
getting
any bigger in terms of acreage, but
we
*
are shaping up.
of dirt to be
are growing.
'
philanthropy; and Alkire, chair of the
FhPPllI AlAf SIPff CS
Bloomsburg University Foundation
Leonard Comerchero and Elbern
early winter weather
lot
and construction
:
Jr.
-
Intramural and recreat
the upper
and
Elbern H. Alkire
<
board, received the award for
H. Alkire Jr. were recently presented
volunteerism.
with Eberly Awards for their
the
Fund
contributions to Bloomsburg University
State
and the
is
State
System of Higher
Education. Comerchero,
Industries, received the
SLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
CEO
award
The award, sponsored by
Advancement of the
for the
System of Higher Education
named
in
Uniontown
of Milco
of
for
education.
Inc.
honor of the Eberly family
for its
support of higher
SPRING 1999
Greek to Her
It's All
Bloomsburg's
and
fraternities
soronties are in a
time of transition,
and
a
new
leader
is
guiding the change.
Gretchen Osterman
is
in her second
semester as the
university's
mented
several
reuniting
Gretchen Osterman
Greek
Life coordinator.
Osterman has imple-
new programs aimed
and strengthening
at
the system.
Spearheaded by the students, a complete
review of the by-laws governing Greek
is
underway That
life
and increased
project,
adviser involvement, are two of her leading
initiatives.
Osterman earned her
master's
degree in student personnel services from
Edinboro University and has a bachelors
degree from Allegheny College.
the University of Pittsburgh, the University
H. Preston Herring, vice president for
of Scranton, Indiana University of
student
Pennsylvania, Shippensburg University,
Howe, mayor
Lafayette College, the University of
are co-chairs of the
Pennsylvania and
Initiative
an
assist to
help tackle the
problem plaguing
college
number one
campuses
University
Bloomsburg received $15,000
support programs
Bloomsburg University has received
Gannon
drinking.
The
to
to
curb underage
program
to battle alcohol abuse.
Others are Pennsylvania State University,
of Bloomsburg,
"We need
to help students
culture in
which binge dnnkmg
'cool'
community outreach and enforcement
it
This
Initiative, a
$36,000
latest
funding
that the
who do
for those
is
it,
community."
in addition to
Bloomsburg
Initiative
received in the past year to fund
last year.
"Most of these projects are directed
toward changing student
not
Herring. "Irresponsible drinking can have
consequences
and the town
is
thing to do," adds
also impacts the entire
university
Initiative.
develop a
but
partnership established between the
pilot
Town
Bloomsburg
tragic
through the Bloomsburg
Ridge to be partners in his
of the
support projects in the areas of education,
one of nine universities selected by
Tom
Herring and Mary Lenzini-
perceived as a
funds, will be used to
throughout the nation. Bloomsburg was
Governor
life.
attitudes," says
community
projects related to underage
dnnkmg and
alcohol abuse.
Long-Time Friends
The university will miss two long-time friends
who have retired after more than three decades
of service each. Dominic "Tony the Baker" Cusatis
retired Oct. 30, 1998, after 39 years of serving
students. Marilyn Muehlhof retired Jan. 1, 1999,
after 33 years of service in the president's office.
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Of writers and
rabbits
To
illustrate a
point in class,
journalism
professor Walter
Brasch mentioned
the fictional
character Uncle
Remus. He was
met by looks of
bewilderment and
Walter Brasch
the question
"Who?" That experience led to four
and a 100,000-word
years of research
biography, Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and
the 'Cornfield Journalist':
The Tale of Joel
BUSTED
Chandler Hanis.
Some
was
Harris (1846-1908)
journalist and, after
a
newspaper
Mark Twain,
popular writer of the
late
how Remus was
most
19th century.
By the 1950s, Uncle Remus
were often labeled
the
racist, partly
stories
because of
depicted in Disney's
imaginative and talented
students experienced the real world a
little
after
ahead of graduation. The
improvisational theater troupe
Theatrical Education
first
BUSTED
Drama) gave
performances during the
semester.
and
about
The
"The Real World." In the
character and answer questions from
the audience. Future
BUSTED
performances are scheduled for
its
Monday, March 22, and Monday,
fall
three-act musical
real-life issues college
MTVs
third act, the student actors stay in
(Bloomsburg University Student
popular 1946 movie, "Song of the South,"
partly because of Harris' extensive use
- alcohol, roommate conflicts,
establishing an identity - is modeled
face
May
drama
3, at
8 p.m. in the Kehr Union
Ballroom.
students
of American Black English.
However, Brasch,
who
has written
two books about American Black English,
says Harris' reproduction of Black English
"is
remarkably accurate. Those
Harns and
who brand
his writings as racist probably
haven't read his works,
and
are
Harns, in his newspaper editorials
and
fiction,
was a strong voice
Ifs all in the timing
unaware
that
for
Jeff Burrell
human
heard a beat he couldn't
photography major. His photo of a
resist,
street
and
it
led to an
drummer was
award
for the junior
selected for inclusion in the
rights."
The book, Brasch s
11th, will be
published in April by Carolina Academic
Press
(Durham, NC).
1998 Best of College Photography Annual. The annual book of photographs
published in connection
with a contest sponsored by
Photographers Magazine
Nikon. Describing
and
how he
captured the provocative
image while
visiting
Manhattan in the
fall
of
1997, Burrell says,'Tm a
drummer
myself.
heard the sound,
When I
I
ran
across the street to get
the picture."
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SPRING 199!
1^ calendar of events
Academic Calendar
Spring
Weekend
Thursday, April
April 5, 6 p.m.
Chamber
Husky Club Golf Outing
Singers Spring Concert
Saturday, April 24, 7:30 p.m., Wendy Miller directing.
First Presbyterian Church, 345 Market Street,
Baseball Golf Outing
University Concert
Band Spring Concert
Saturday, Oct.
Classes
Saturday,
Final
Sunday, April 25, 2:30 p.m., Terry Oxley directing,
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
End
May
8
Exams End
Saturday,
May
Concert Choir Spring Concert
Saturday, May 1, 7:30 p.m., Alan Baker directing.
15
First
Graduate Commencement
Friday,
May
9,
Arnold's Golf Course, Nescopeck, PA.
Husky Club Golf Outing
Thursday, Oct. 14, Frosty Valley Country Club,
Danville, PA.
Presbyterian Church, 345 Market Street,
Bloomsburg.
7 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,
14,
Creek Country Club near
Bloomsburg.
10 p.m., through Monday,
1,
Friday, Sept. 17, Cool
York, PA.
Mitrani Hall.
Knoebel's Grove Pops Concert
Provosts Lecture
Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday, May 15, 2:15 p.m., Bloomsburg
Sunday, May 2, 2 and 5:30 p.m. Featuring the
Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble with Terry Oxley
and Stephen Clickard directing. Annual park concert,
Series
weather permitting.
Anita Hill
Fairgrounds.
Electronic Registration
Tuesday, Aug. 24, through Monday, Aug. 30
Monday, May
Classes Begin
Friday,
Orchestra Pops
3,
6:30 p.m., Columbia Mall,
Harassment
S.
Gross
Bloomsburg.
M. Joycelyn Elders
Student Recital
Labor Day
6.
26, 2 p.m., "Sexual
Auditorium.
Monday, Aug. 30
Monday, Sept.
March
Legal Interpretations," Carver Hall, Kenneth
Tuesday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.. Carver Hall, Kenneth S.
Gross Auditorium. Bloomsburg University Music
Students demonstrate their semester
NO CLASSES
Thursday, April 15, 7:30 p.m., lecture; Friday, April 16,
8:30 a.m., workshop. Both events held in conjunction
with the Health Sciences Symposium, Kehr Union,
Ballroom.
accomplishments.
Celebrity Artist
Series
the Celebrity Artist Series box office
at (570) 389-4409 for more information.
Call
Rhythm and
Special Events
emeritus Stephen Wallace directing.
Husky Club Auction
Jessica Suchy-Pilalis,
Harp
Inn,
more information,
call
Siblings'
(570) 389-4128.
Husky Club Golf Outing
Race Golf and Camping Resort,
Renaissance Jamboree
Benton, PA.
Thursday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m., Carver Hall,
Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets are $15.
Saturday, April 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
in
downtown
Bloomsburg. Information about this street festival
is available through the Chamber of Commerce at
Husky Club Golf Outing
Thursday, May 20, Edgewood
Course, Wilkes-Barre.
(570) 784-2522.
the Pines Golf
Concerts
Alumni Day
concerts are free unless otherwise noted. For
more information, call the music department at
(570) 389-4284.
All
Brass Menagerie
Wednesday,
April 7, 8 p.m., faculty emeritus Stephen
Wallace directing. Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross
Auditorium.
Saturday, June 5, Willow Run Golf Course, Berwick,
PA. For information about this benefit for the
football team, call Jim Monos, (570) 389-4359.
May
1.
For information,
call
(570) 389-4058.
Homecoming
October 9 and
10. For information, call
(570) 389-4346.
Wrestling Golf Outing
Theater
Husky Club Golf Outing
Thursday, June 24, Skippack Golf Course, Skippack,
PA, near Philadelphia.
Women's Choral Ensemble and
Husky Singers
Miller
Saturday,
Golf Classic
Nescopeck, PA.
Sunday, April 11, 2:30 p.m., Mark Jelinek directing,
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
Wendy
John Devlin Memorial Celebrity
Saturday, June 12, Arnold's Golf Course,
University-Community Orchestra
Spring Concert
Saturday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.,
and Children's Weekend
April 23-25. For information, call (570) 389-4346.
Friday, April 30, Mill
Lyric Consort
(570) 389-4128.
Golf Outings
For
Thursday, Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m., Carver Hall,
Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets are $15.
and
Alan Baker directing, Haas Center for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall.
Magee's Main Street
Bloomsburg. For more information, call
Friday, April 23, 6:30 p.m.,
Brass
Monday, June 7, 7:30 p.m., Carver Hall,
Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets are $15.
The
"Seasoned Sounds"
Friday, May 7, 8 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall. A big band concert with faculty
Mike Berrigan Memorial Golf Outing
Saturday, Sept. 4 (tentative). White Deer Golf
Course, Williamsport, PA.
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on
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dreams and
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my five years
I
began
when I came
these student leaders,
goals.
some
of
that
here
I
like
assistants,
students leam from faculty who've
professional
commitment
like research institutions,
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our faculty are
to count. They've
more than 67 books and
journals too numerous
authored chapters in
scholarly publications, written creative
compositions and reviewed more than a
hundred books and
first
rank of incoming
class
to
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meet student needs. In 1997,
Honors Program was
now provides
articles.
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is
one of the highest in the
System of Higher Education and our
graduation rate
is
significantly higher
the national average.
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Our placement
percent of each of the
graduating classes found
than
record
last three years'
full
time,
program
collaborating
via distance education.
investing in Integrated
expanded our
freshman year experience that helps us
Technology.
from graduating high school
and involve them
activities
in leadership
on campus.
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is
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recently, I'm
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latest
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just a glimpse of
what we've
been doing. The mission of Bloomsburg
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If you've been on
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somewhat
since
State Teachers
sure you've noticed our magnificent library
College, but our vision remains the same.
and the new Student Recreation Center.
We
We're in the midst of incredible physical
college
change. Centennial
Gymnasium
be transformed into
will
soon
a high-tech classroom
renovation next year.
State
is
with other Pennsylvania universities to
Program, providing scholarships and a
students succeed. I'm pleased to say our
retention rate
department of nursing
Stations, providing faculty
classes
its
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opportunities beyond our campus.
instructional technology,
instituted the President's Leadership
building.
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university has
we
has built a record of being a place where
history,
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distance education videoconference
provide a graduate nurse practitioner
an integrated
The Commons, designed to feed
about 1,700 students and now serving
more than 3,000, will undergo a major
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technology applications that enhance
a major research program. Three years ago,
attract leaders
care
yet, we're creating
classroom, which expands learning
means
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to teaching. But,
Over the past
they've published
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programs
them with you.
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enviable.
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we must
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been
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Bloomsburg
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the
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Ann Salsman,
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have plans to
still
honor the credo of
on
the
hill,"
a place
dedicated faculty help students realize
their dreams.
Bloomsburg
Being president
is
about the possibility of being the
president of the 20th century
of the 21st!
to add a wing to Hartline Science Center.
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have always found
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their place
among
the traditions at
and wonderful accomplishments of many
tireless efforts
people are key to those changes.
The
last
year has been a time that
achievement.
New heights were
second
is
to
none
tremendous
in terms of
reached and
new
standards set for future
an
elite
group
generations.
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he
good
won
friend Charlie Chronister joined
his
last
season
when
500th game as the Huskies' head coach of men's basketball. The
"dean" of our coaching
staff is still
on top of his game with
his
29th season
just underway.
Tony
Ianiero,
my boss
and the
university's vice president for
advancement,
doesn't have just one reason to celebrate. .he has three million. Tony, his
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development team, and
all
of
you who contributed helped Bloomsburg reach
mark
the $3 million annual fund-raising
for the first
time in university history.
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Cue Talent
Anne Shannon's day
seconds.
And
expertise
you
is
measured
in
every few seconds her
must change, although
that she's not really
she'll tell
an expert in
much
of anything.
A
anchor
Harrisburg television station,
for a
Shannon
the job
is
is
reporter
tune into the
knowledge "an inch
affiliate to
get their
fix.
All the while, a
producer
is
talking in
Shannon's earpiece, reminding her about
those precious seconds. Ten seconds
on
deep and a mile wide."
this story, five
"It's
But every second matters in television.
CBS
morning news
and morning
quick to say that the key to
to acquire
words as they scroll and passing
them on seamlessly to the viewers who
the
to
seconds
a lot of practice,
know your
to
and you've got
reading speed," the 1993
She has 10 seconds to welcome viewers,
Bloomsburg University graduate
40 seconds
"The information we're giving
to talk
about an accident on a
major highway leading into the
important and the
gives reports
most beautiful
her head,
it
city. She
on sports and the weather. In
she's editing the
information as
comes across the teleprompter, changing
come
left
commercial.
explains.
may be
package may be the
in the world. But
across as a dimwit,
it's
if
you
not going
to matter."
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Shannon
a rare breed of
is
made
one
anchor
to the
it
Shannon
classmates,
who
chair.
Of
she's
fellow
said she's the only
anchors a broadcast. But that
mean Bloomsburg alumni
doesn't
Shannon
Bloomsburg
mass communications graduates;
aren't in
and video. Whether
two-time
Emmy Award winning editor for
NFL
for
they're a
news photographer, an
Films, a
ABC's "World
News
editor
Tonight," or a
Morning." Off camera,
Bloomsburg graduates
are shaping
what
television viewers see every day.
"At Bloomsburg,
working
we have
for us," says
professor
Dana
several things
mass communications
Ulloth.
"We get highly
we have the
motivated students, and
facilities.
as
good
The production
facilities
here are
or better than, those of any
as,
the
to
she's giving
weather
for a sister radio station
competition every day.
stations in the Harrisburg area, the
largest
a hectic pace.
But
it's
Not
I
could get
my foot in
one
credit shy
that
if I
who was
appearing in a
Jeri
Ryan,
who
plays Seven of Nine, a
favorite character of fans of the sciencefiction
show.
hard news, she says people stories are
the
who
her favorites, such as her piece on a
is
blind and paralyzed Lebanon County
degree from Catholic University in
me
airs
Although Shannon reports on the
from earning a master's
DC.
do a series from the set of
show "Star Trek: Voyager"
on UPN15. There, she
to
Voyager episode. She also interviewed
$4.25 an hour as an assistant producer.
figured
first-
She's also traveled to
"Seinfeld" fame,
right
for someone who walked into the
newsroom four years ago and took a job
working two to three days a week earning
"I
just, well,
interviewed actor Jason Alexander of
bad
door, get access," says Shannon,
most people
the television
which
in the
likes to be.
role,
and do
watch on TV
For her recent feature report on
Hollywood
44th
It's
things
<
gives her a chance to get out
on camera.
news
where Shannon says she
it
9
time skydivers, Shannon took the plunge
for
WHP is one of four
market of the 210
But Shannon says she loves the dual
and
"This
morning show viewers.
Shannon finds herself in tough
Washington,
college in the country."
CBS
and doing voice-over weather reports
country.
producer of a Fox network business show,
anchor numerous two
and news reports
prominent positions behind the scenes in
television
will
seven-minute breaks during
1
"And, they basically told
man who
ran the Marine Corps
Marathon
in
Washington, D.C.
didn't take the job, they
had 100 resumes from people
who
"This job
would."
She worked her way to the
is
assignment desk, then
like filming
a
movie on a really
small scale.
to
weekend producer. When
no other reporter wanted to
get up early to cover then
U.S. Senator Bob Dole's visit
"
to Harrisburg in 1996, she
volunteered to cover
him and
has been reporting ever since.
Shannon is nothing if not motivated.
The 28-year-old Lancaster woman begins
her day around 3:20 a.m.,
when one
three alarm clocks blasts her awake.
can't
be
She
late.
She
laryngitis. "If
no show," she
arrives at the
Harrisburg
at
She
can't call in sick. She's
even worked with
oversleep, there's
of
"I
have
share a
airing 6
5 a.m. to begin gathering
day, she's
my
UPN
think she can
move
growth
stories
from
have been called into
last night's
and rewriting them.
11 p.m. broadcast
on,
I
dedicated to this market.
very clear to her."
checking developments on
The
for
stations
airing a 10 p.m. newscast.
happening in Kosovo and whether any
service. She's
for that,"
manager
news staff and facilities with WHP
and 11 p.m. news shows and
glancing over the wires to see what's
local reserve units
cap to her
WHP and WLYH UPN15.
I
studio in
later.
to tip
says Jerry Trently station
explains.
WHP-TV 21
and writing the news. This
She began morning anchonng
about a year
for
is
think she's
made
also a reporter for the
television stations,
I
I'd like to see
her here, and we've
Shannon
"While
meaning
after
that
two
her
anchoring job ends around 9 a.m.,
for another eight-hour shift
Award-Winning Editor
Bloomsburg graduate
Pete Staman '85 has
won Emmy awards for
his work at NFL films.
many
she's in
days.
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Shannon
around
is
quick
operators, producers,
For his work, Staman has twice
to pass the credit
to her colleagues, the
and
camera
Emmy Awards
editors. They,
"That's exciting,
she says, package the stories presented
oiled machine," the
to the public.
graduate says.
They're the behind-the-camera people,
such
as
who
edits for
short,
the
John
is
NFL
Staman of Pitman, NJ,
Films. Stamans job, in
"Pete"
NFL
to take miles of videotape
season and turn
such as "The Road
to the
it
Superbowl."
That's a massive task, considering
operators shoot
enough
camera
film over the
course of a season to run continuously for
40
days.
It's
owner Steve
what
his boss,
NFL
Films
Sabol, calls "a veritable
flood of film."
but I'm part of a well-
1985 Bloomsburg
"NFL Films has won more
than 90 Emmys over the years. It's not so
much an individual effort as a combined
team
effort."
An employee
from
into features
won
along with other honors.
years,
Staman,
of
like
NFL
Films for 12
Shannon, had
to
He
worked for the company for a month
with no pay just to show he knew what
prove himself to get in the door.
he was doing. At the same time, he was
working
full
time for a Philadelphia
television station as a master control
room operator. He's since worked his way
up the ladder to video editor at the firm,
based in Mount Laurel, NJ.
Along with
edits
NFL work, Staman
music videos
the Black
—
he's
Crows and
done pieces
—and
Slayer
commercials, including recent
for
edits
work
for Nike.
Bloomsburg knowing
"I left
hitting the
books wasn't going
that just
to
be
enough," says Staman. "Some people
under the misconception
are
graduate,
We
that
someone owes them
if
they
a job.
were taught the importance of
practical experience."
A
fnend of Stamans and fellow 1985
graduate,
Pam Whaley is a videotape
ABC News in New
engineer/editor for
York.
Her job
the day.
It's
is
to edit the top story of
high-pressure editing, cutting
down hours
of footage shot across the
world into short segments.
Students take the controls each week when they go on the
with "BloomNews." Every three weeks assignments
change so all students in Broadcast Journalism become
familiar with a variety of television-related jobs. Photos from
top: Craig Panichella '00 directs talent and cameras from the
control room, while Greg Albert operates the audio board.
Anchors Devon McCandless '00 and Bill Sharkazy '00 provide
viewers with up-to-date news. Chris Ballentine '99 and Mike
Clarke '00 man the cameras. Professor Dana Ulloth offers onair live
the-spot instruction and advice.
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many years, you
"After so
the work," says
be devastating,
whole
If
lot
of stuff from the day."
she has one complaint about the job,
how sometimes
It's
about
sanitized picture of important events, such
as the
bombings
"We do
she said.
might
than
look a
it
little
nicer
airs
1 1
from 5
live
6 p.m. (The
to
p.m.). She
show
back up
finds the video to
the live broadcast.
nothing simple
there's
She has
it.
shots from
since not
all
up
to set
live
over the country,
all
New York.
really is."
appear on the
to
repeats at
But
it
to assess the
is
also writes teases for the
about
pretty nicely,"
people would see more,
We make
stop.
it
up war
CEOs
the
show
in Kosovo.
clean
"If
up
and
the broadcasts present a
simply,
top business stories of the day and line
broadcast that
not the pressure or the hours.
it's
Her job, put
get used to
Whaley "The pictures can
and you have to digest a
CEOs
the
are in
She must schedule
production companies, order
time,
satellite
"The production
and do whatever
it
takes.
is
Steven Firmstone, a 1987
Directly behind the
facilities
here are
who
Bloomsburg graduate
as good as, or
works
for
camera
WNEP-TV
16 in
Moosic, PA. The news
better than, those
photographer also drives and
of any college in
the country.
operates the station's satellite
truck, a sort of mobile
"
newsroom
can broadcast
that
from just about anywhere.
Firmstone said the best
Whaley has a long resume that starts
Scranton and Wilkes-Barre television
stations. She packed up and moved to
at
Colorado without a job, eventually
ABC affiliate in
She moved to New York in
Jennifer Regar
is
who ended up
working
for
in
1990.
New York,
Fox News Channel
associate producer.
as
an
She helps put together
the "Cavuto Business Report," dealing with
CEOs
the top
business
Regar, a
Fox
was
in
to air live
New York
"Our focus
layman.
We
the
who went to
with CNBC,
after three years
first
producer/reporter
updates from the floor of
Stock Exchange for
is
to try
and reach
try to talk so
CNBC.
the
everyone can
understand," says Regar. "The days
really fly by,
and you don't have time
to get bored."
"We
Steve Firmstone '87
operates the satellite
changes every day,
it
truck and remote
camera for on-the-
see the best of society
and you
movie on
is like
a really small scale."
mass communications
Some
faculty
to teach
is
television/video profession
—how
to use
the cameras, editing equipment, etc. Just
he
side, the courses
If
said,
on
and other
libel
pitfalls
•
NFL Films
ABC's World News
Tonight
CBS in Harrisburg
and we have an
•
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responsibility," she
•
Nike
•
ABC
•
Fox News Channel
•
field.
Anne Shannon
is
both sides are sinking
are informing people
accountability
says. "If
we
we
and
•
any indication,
in.
"The biggest concern
life,
TV include:
the theoretical
is
are reporting
for
me
is
that
we
on someone's
can't take that lightly."
•
Mike Feeley
is
a 1987 mass communications graduate
•
of Bloomsburg University
for The Patriot
News
of the places
you can find
Bloomsburg mass
communications
graduates working in
students the practical side of the
as important,
scene reports for
WNEP-TV, Moosic, PA.
see
Ulloth says the goal of Bloomsburg's
of the
1993 graduate
1996
on
of the day.
part of the
team
the
in the country
news
that
virtually every minute.
filming a
another Bloomsburg
graduate
is
the worst," said Firmstone. "This job
landing one with an
Boulder.
part of his job
and
is
assistant city editor
affiliates
CNBC
WNEP-TV
16
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Q: Business leaders
and academic leaders
departments have advisory boards. In oth-
sometimes disagree about whether
ers,
we
students should receive a liberal arts
We
are always talking to people within
education or training in a specific
the various disciplines.
Have you encountered
skill.
Education
these differences
Not
ment
you might think.
homecoming, my depart-
as strongly as
Every year
at
invites recent graduates
back
Bloomsburg
is
work
or
between academic pro-
have become
tune with what business leaders are saying.
ing in very technical
You'd think
fields.
too.
anybody would not appreciate
liberal arts education, these people would
that
not
if
—but they
One
we
to
hear from graduates
be able
to
and
They
well.
over, the general ability
message, both verbal and
written, turns out to
feel that
the other
them
general education courses are serving
work
said, "If
it
don't
shows
sound
business
really
want
to
think.
an extreme example,
many
that although
they
like
to
would be
they really
skills,
We have
1
you
in the business world, a great course
to take is golf." That's
but
of the nice things about the size of
be very
subjects
related to
careful with skills,
MS-DOS and had
student
bend over backwards, but if a
willing to work, it becomes
educate that student. Students
difficult to
are responsible for their education. Faculty
lead the way. Students find college
Q:
not pre-
Do you
A:
students. We're trying to be
One
of the things we've
well here at Bloomsburg
is
done
pretty
structure cur-
We
have significant expectations of our
will
They need
here.
are relatively easy to initiate. Faculty are
really serious
new
course as an experi-
to
go through the
full
it
actually has
want
to give
up and running
quickly,
but
it
also
maintains a conscientious review process
curriculum courses are
meeting our needs. The faculty as a whole
continually looking at curriculum.
Q:
Do you
think this
the
Oh,
We've completed two major
yes.
surveys of our grads
is
typical of
ourselves.
way on
all
Bloomsburg ahead of
what
little
ahead of the game,
are well thought-out
carefully reviewed.
There are
a
and
number
sorts of skills will serve students five or 10
of proposed courses that are being evalu-
years
ated to
later.
make
sure
we
How
Both surveys indicate quite
and
that
it
Q:
Do you
the road to a successful future.
we
are doing a
good job of preparing them
to enter the
job market.
Do you
A: Usually
who
is
also get feedback
we
hear only
Q: Recently,
find that the abilities of enter-
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want today?
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from
an employer.
keep in touch with what business leaders
we do
happy with their
them a long
takes
That solid data indicates
was reaccredited by
is
does Bloomsburg
the State
offer quality
programs.
As you mention, the business world
—one by
System of Higher Education and one by
Q:
at
a sense of the serious-
Are Bloomsburg grads prepared to work?
employers?
change and look
are
We
Q:
come through
As educators, we
them
clearly that graduates are
game?
think we're a
we
A:
processes, so the curriculum changes that
skills.
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early that
ness of our educational process.
education,
universities, or is
leam
to
about academic work.
review process. That
procedure provides an avenue for getting
things
consci-
be expected of them once they get
riculum change so experimental courses
mental course twice before
more
entious about informing students of what
make
A: Mostly,
a
be improved?
quite frankly. We've really defined our
always changing.
a lot
is
that student percep-
curriculum changes?
tion can
A:
graduates successful are those that
way
see a
Once you have this dialogue, are there
ways you can address needs through
Q:
generally? Ultimately, the qualities that
Q:
skills
isn't
pared them to work with computers more
anticipate
study
habits as they did, say, 10 years
lot harder.
is
Windows. We were
working with MS-DOS. What would have
happened if we had trained our students
must
also feel they
work
to share
weren't working with
transcend specific
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level of
and they come back
faculty,
that ensures the
are.
For example, 10 years ago we
specifically in
same
more work than they ever expected and
allowed to offer a
well, too.
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our
know
A:
be enormously im-
They mostly
portant.
real
it's
this university is that students get to
comments
about the need
is
communicate
to articulate a
in
keep in contact with our graduates,
One
but
experiences after they have graduated.
do.
of the most consistent
find that, over
We
this is true,
writing
any
ago. That's pretty troubling for us. We're
from the department of mathematics,
work-
work
willing to
are
much more
they're less
skills:
don't have
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skill deficiencies.
nursing students and faculty are in the
essential.
statistics are
basic
don't have the
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basic
it is
perception that incoming freshmen have
constantly
grams and the professional world
would say
think faculty
hard data to say
outside academia. Most of the alumni
computer science and
I
prepared. Part of
with educators; the same with nursing
hospitals. Links
to
us what their experiences have been
tell
at
A:
and mathematics.
The School of
placing students in other schools to
of opinion?
A:
with outside professionals.
interact
chair of the Middle States Self-Study
you were involved
in Bloomsburg's two-year review process.
FALL 1999
we are doing. I think all of us for
many years have felt very good about
what we do here, because we are conscisay
Outcomes assessment puts a
on what we do so the external
entious.
structure
money
stakeholders can see that the
being spent
spent
Q:
being
at the university is
effectively.
How
does one go about assessing
outcomes?
ways of
A: There are several different
assessing outcomes. For example, teachers,
and CPAs can use national
nurses,
exams
measurements of knowledge.
as
But in other
as
much
doesn't
fields, a test
make
sense. In the case of a theater
major, perhaps a portfolio
is
a
more
appropriate measurement.
We'll also be surveying recent graduates,
although
we have
to
be cautious
because often students don't understand
the impact of their college experiences
have had some time away from
until they
campus. Trying to synopsize what hap-
pens in the education of 7,000 students
But we're working on putting
is difficult.
all
of the information into
that
we have
one package so
a formal report to present to
external stakeholders.
Q:
What do you
think the overall mission
of higher education
is
today? And, do you
think you're succeeding?
A:
The mission of higher education
intellectual
That's
that
my personal
we
think
the
is
development of its students.
opinion.
really believe
I
And
are here to develop minds.
what we
that's exactly
That doesn't sound
like
a focus
it's
I
are doing.
on
preparing for the workplace, but in
reality
you think about students who are
what's their work life
currently enrolled
it is. If
—
going to be
Can you
about
tell
me what Bloomsburg learned
in the Middle States self-
itself
ness,
evaluation?
A:
The
also
self-study
is
actually
an intensive
spnng
process that began in the
of
we
we
are pretty healthy,
anticipated.
We
which
to
were
a
be doing
what
didn't expect to see
major problems, though we did
there
is
For example,
any
know
few things that we would
better.
and we found
a bit of a
that to
be
true.
weakBut
we
found that some problems we thought
we had were just
like
in a rapidly
al ability;
it's
—
changing world?
a
mind
that
it's
hard to
able to function
It's
intellectu-
can tackle
situations.
It's
not
a particular set of skills.
Q:
Even
You mentioned "outcomes assessment."
What does
that
How do
roles in
they
ble
guess these measurements are tangi-
means
we
are
doing what
come
into play.
The stronger
we
a
person
is
a
set of skills
the base of
knowledge and background, the
of demonstrating to external
stakeholders that
the world weren't changing, our
it
tomorrow, so a vastly different
apply to higher education 7
I
if
would be. The person who
programmer today will be a manager
term and "competency-
based education" mean?
A:
we knew
20 years
What makes one
imagine.
problems in a variety of
misperceptions.
1997
and culminated in our reaccreditation in
March of this year. Basically, we learned
that
outcomes assessment was
like in
better off
is.
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Graceland,
to
of Elvis. Not history professor
Jeanette Keith. She
nearby
visits the
Shelby County Archives, where she
peruses dusty old records, the written
some research
kind, for
One way
she's doing.
seem
or another, most of Keiths travels
research.
A visit with
between
trips to the Library of
family in Tennessee last
to involve
summer was sandwiched
Congress and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill to check out papers for her fourth book.
For Keith, and scholars
laboratories are as
much
And sometimes just
like her, the visits to libraries, archives, or
a part of their lives as
shopping
Real-life scholarship isn't often as exciting as the
cinema
scientists
for groceries.
as ordinary.
who
swashbuckling of
single-handedly defeat the inevitable alien or
discover lost treasure. But these quests into libraries, archives, and
labs have their
classroom
—
own
prizes for professors to bring
back
to the
prizes of knowledge, experience, craft.
WALKING THE WALK
Research and scholarship are a part of every academic
discipline.
Advances have been made in computers, education,
and even history.
science, business, health care,
History, including the old stuff, changes like everything else.
"If
you're not being scholarly,
the field," says Keith,
who
you won't
stay up-to-date in
and grant
tell if someone
Ronald Reagan won
regularly reviews papers
proposals from faculty across the country. "You can
hasn't kept
informed of change.
It's
as
if,
the election."
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Change is universal, and sometimes it
means reversing what we thought was fact.
For example,
when psychology
Connie Schick began teaching
burg
professor
Blooms-
at
in 1973, psychologists believed that
people had to think about something in
order to have an emotional response to
But within the past
it.
research has
five years,
suggested that emotion comes
Before
first.
an individual thinks about something
consciously, that person has already
had
some emotional response
new
to
it.
This
says anthropology professor
Wymer, who
Dee Anne
leads students in field
research each summer.
Wymer's
her,
specialty
is
archaeology. For
walking the walk means carefully
where the digging will be,
by layer, and making
sure that artifacts from one layer aren't
mixed with items from another. Tedious
work and in one way or another, part
plotting a grid
removing
soil layer
—
of every discipline.
In history,
it's
knowledge has far-reaching implications
documents; in biology and the natural
that fuel class discussion.
sciences,
and
who
'Faculty
it's
long hours
in psychology,
"When our
are
talk the talk
research
how
If
you
something, then you have a tendency
want
to
Schick.
to learn
more about
it,"
to
different publishing
companies, and
I've
those books, I've had to bring the
authors
up
to date."
More than enabling
professors to
provide their students with the
developments in a particular
latest
field,
being
active researchers allows professors to
answer the all-important question:
How
do you gather the information?
"Faculty
who
all
are researchers can talk
the talk because they walk the walk,"
back and
of a
forth
how
especially
say,
on
data.
'Now
with Keith. She wanted
"I
two dozen students
own
is
a year ago," says
using her research
graduate school
at
Shippensburg
you
can even submit your proposal, you have
show
you have the background. I
be aware of what
information was already out there."
to
may
more than
who
University of Pennsylvania. "Before
research.
"For a paragraph, you
started
skills in
psychology conferences each
their
to analyze
that listed violations.
Handerhan,
where about 10 of them present
she
early 19th century to today. Handerhan
met with Keith weekly for advice and to
give updates on her finds, which included
to take statistics.'"
year,
when
19th century factory inspection reports
I
Schick and her fellow department
also take
firsthand
sweatshops in the United States from the
the
all
skill
completed an honors independent study
ground doing
—
sudden they
know why I have
to regional
read six different chapters on emotion. In
all
to hit the
History student Alexis Handerhan
learned the
help them understand
measure and analyze the
members
says
review textbooks for four
"I
microscope;
conducted so they gain
is
interaction
Then
"Take learning, for instance.
at the
the statistics.
basic skills," says Schick. "There's this
because they
walk the walk."
like
We
research.
it's
students go to graduate
need
school, they
researchers can
Students from Dee Anne Wymer's archaeology
class dig through a prehistoric village found on
Zehner's farm near Nescopeck, PA.
poring over old
read 50
had
documents or three books," adds Keith.
"This is one of the things you have to
teach. You can have 10 note cards for
one sentence. I'm not teaching the
memorization of facts. I want students
to think and act like historians. I'm
teaching a skill and a craft that I practice
myself. If you don't do the craft yourself,
you lose the skill."
that
to research just to
WATCH OUT FOR THOSE
ABSOLUTE CERTAINTIES
Of course, many students never
conduct a study or write a research paper
again after college. But for these students,
exposure to research and researchers
still
is
invaluable.
THE BRASS RING
Keith has been awarded a National
Faculty in every department are involved in
scholarship. Researching, writing, publishing.
But
this
year the history department has seized
the brass ring twice.
Jeanette Keith
and
Two members,
professor
assistant professor
Woody
Holton have been awarded prestigious
fellowships supported
Endowment
by
for the Humanities.
the achievements "the top of the top.
don't
do
for
The award
just
is
three granted annually nationwide,
and
one of
the
College Teachers and Independent Scholars,
only one awarded to a young professional
scholar.
is
open
to scholars
from institutions
Fellowship.
The
her with an
office at Yale University
Yale fellowship will provide
renowned
and access
to the university's
You
research draft resistance, including economic
causes, in the South during
He
too will use the fellowship to
on a book,
without graduate programs in their
calls
that teaching a full-course load
recognized by their peers."
current academic year.
Humanities Fellowship
which
unless you have incredible determination.
It's
for the
department, and a Yale Agrarian Studies
the National
Department chair William Hudon
Endowment
library. She'll
World War
I.
The Creation of the
purpose
story of
is
U.S. Constitution.
to inject
how
this
common
nation was founded.
with the opportunity to bring the raw material
into the classroom to
and
written
American Antiquarian Society
what our people do."
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The book's
people into the
"Doing primary research provides faculty
Holton has been awarded a fellowship from
the
work
Republics of Hope, Empire oj Despair:
show how history is
Hudon. "That's
rewritten," says
FALL 1999
"Research promotes
critical thinking.
the pursuit of a critical understanding
It's
and
of things
what education
it's
university level
is all
at the
BUILDING
A
BIGGER KIW
about," says
So the professor
and allied
William Hudon, chair of the history
of biological
department. "Beware of any courses that
provide absolute certainty. The
health sciences decided
human
to
about the past are always more
realities
complicated than they appear.
If
they
appear simple, then you don't have
make
a bigger hardy
To accomplish
kiwi.
Davis harvested
this,
DNA before
the kiwi's
all
the plants
were
harvested from their vines this summer.
the information."
"One of the
"You've got to check your precon-
ceptions
door," he adds. "This
at the
requires professional honesty. You're
searching for historical realities and not
searching for information that backs
up
your preconceptions."
Determining what those
and
in the sciences
critically.
him one
of his best
approach. "He
the
sure he agrees with Holton's
tries to
down
break
people, which
"Great," says provost
don't think
I
Wilson Bradshaw,
the highest academic officer
on campus.
"We're interested in students thinking
Bradshaw knows how being
challenged can ignite a passion for
knowledge. As a student, he
he "couldn't believe
it
my
it
recalls that
when my
me
ology teacher told
that
that
actions today.
my
I
psych-
past
THE TRUTH
For scholars,
my interest
a
new
IS
OUT THERE
there's a thrill of
fact is
discovery
uncovered. "You
couldn't sustain your doctoral studies
that," says
and
if
some
basic research."
facet of that process will
identifying
chromosome markers
be
in the kiwi
the available diminutive fruit, about the
so different varieties of plant can be identified
"I thought it'd be nice
were bigger. The small size limits the
commercial viability of the kiwi in the
accurately
size of a large grape.
AND
—even
as seedlings.
"There are dozens of
Some
named
varieties.
them with distinct names
probably the same plant."
of
are
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Working with
of us are familiar
with scallops as those
Group,
yummy little
Pugh
sea creatures
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good with
the
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a non-profit organization,
will
spend the next year
identifying scallops that are
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of the United States that today, most bay
Pugh and
scallops are imported from China.
pollution-resistant scallops, they'll select
Chemistry professor Michael Pugh is
hoping to make it possible for scallops to
hoping
flourish once again in the Atlantic waters.
genes to the native population.
the Russian revolution found a
they could meet for lunch.
Hickey,
his colleagues find the
most
individual shellfish for release into the wild,
they'll
pass their pollution-resistant
whose research has taken him
"I
to
was
wooden
floor.
Her hands were blackened
Russia four times to search for documents
with grime flipping through volumes of
in often crumbling archives.
wills
Hudon, an expert
in Christian
and
mousy
and
Renaissance history, has been through the
they'd
learned
is
with such singular
recalls the
if
come up
moments. Then she
hard-pressed to
courthouse in Cookville,
estates.
been chewed," she says. "But I
how debts were calculated and
people gave more property to their
eldest sons."
"It
was
a
good
says wryly. "This
of the old brick building. She needed a
is
touching something touched by two of the
skeleton key to unlock the cobweb-
covered
attic
room with
the dusty
day.
1
got
enough
material for a page of manuscript," she
Tennessee. She'd spent a day in the tower
leaders of the Russian revolution," says
"The place had a
smell and things looked like
Vatican and Florentine archives and read
But Keith
handwritten note from Trotsky to Lenin
asking
when he saw
handwritten 16th-century documents.
Hudon.
Michael Hickey an expert in Russian
history
One
evolved.
had an
in psychology."
without
the process, do
it
know now
does. But that sparked
whenever
sometimes-harsh weather.
into the scallop population
A former researcher and psychobiology
on
"The goal is to promote this crop as a
viable crop species in Pennsylvania. And in
pollution has cut so deeply
critically."
effect
gooseberry from which
the
should collapse."
professor,
kiwi grower to purchase hardy kiwi
class to battle
between the heroes of history and
common
a larger
plants that can bear Pennsylvania's
northeast," says Davis.
with him over certain topics." But
walls
making
is to
stories to class," says
Truempy, "and allows the
isn't
at
if it
students. "Holton brings excellent
Truempy
a commercial
But he was underwhelmed
Holton, assistant professor of
examples and
grow kiwis
to
the humanities, can
Lucas Truempy has been challenged.
history, considers
to
home. So, he went
realities are,
challenge students to think
Woody
George Davis wanted
his
strategies of
double the number of
chromosomes," explains Davis. "For example,
the fuzzy kiwi has a chromosome count
double that of the smaller Chinese
plant
isn't
often dramatic, this
work. Sometimes, the best day of
being a scholar
is
when
you're finished
with a project.
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The room located to the
In
the center of the room
draperies flank
a
right of
Magee
the entranceway to the
a long oval table surrounded by
is
large picture
window
Center
that overlooks the carefully manicured yard. Beautifully
"natural for classrooms." These
G. Michael Vavrek, Bloomsburg
dean of continuing and
considerations
community
room." His subtle reference reveals his
Magee
the residential features
wishes that
family's
and
integrity of the
be retained. The Frank
entire building
and
built
once the
and
by
1947, was
a Lancaster firm in
home
of the late Harry
his wife, Alice.
The
made when
request,
Dentremont
architect Paul
the
Foundation gave the
L.
activities that
include taking
leadership roles in scouting, United Way,
and Bloomsburg Hospital
projects, notes
with obvious delight that the administra-
Lloyd Wright-inspired structure, designed
by Philadelphia
the decision a
Magee, a longtime supporter of
comfortable space simply as "the living
attention to the
made
logical one.
distance education, refers to the
tion accepted his family's offer after just a
few days of consideration. He
university's choice to
name
feels the
the building
Magee
second
family's
Magee
home
to
Bloomsburg University in 1988,
was
that the building
a public service
be used as
facility.
not easy to persuade members
It's
of one of Bloomsburg's oldest
most generous
and
families to talk about
their bequests to the
community. They
don't believe in "blowing their
own
horn" says Joanne Katerman, daughter
of the venerable couple. But with a bit
of prodding, she
family
what
and
is
the "Magee Center"
three other
members agreed
to talk
arguably their greatest
about
gesture
a
gift to
know
Enterprises, Inc. until his retirement in
be
1993, says that donating the spacious,
real
9,000-square-foot house to the university
in part, for practical reasons.
emphasizes the
in
good
family's desire to
repair
He
keep the
and observes the
generous-sized rooms seemed to be
is
was a generous
satisfied his family
made
decision.
"You see
James A. (Jim) Magee, son of Harry and
Alice and president of Magee Industrial
home
and
sound
the region.
was done,
spacious and welcoming.
plush office seating. Elegant flowered
pictures dot the soft beige walls.
University's
is
it's
lots of cars
parked
there.
being put to good use. This
You
is
one of those things that you think might
good idea and
a
it
turns out to be a
winner," he says.
Vavrek says, "What we've tried to do
maintain the original house as
possible but
A
still
have
it
much
as
be functional."
close look at the center yields
evidence that not only has the dual goal
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is
framed
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What was once the Magee
family indoor
swimming pool,
elaborately decorated with
imported
tile, will
soon be
transformed into a multipurpose, telecommunication-
equipped auditorium, thanks
to the generosity of the
Magee
Foundation. Displaying the
architect's
drawing of the
renovation are John Abell,
Michael Vavrek, Mike Katerman
and Drue Magee.
Jim
Mag ee
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been
realized,
but that a
lot
more
happening there than the serene decor
The room where the Magees used
kick back and enjoy each others
technical support necessary to transmit
and data from Bloomsburg
suggests.
voice, video,
to
just about any location
company now houses
the latest in video-
sessions are able to
on
the planet,
force
work
world. Video cameras, television monitors,
document cameras, microphones, and
the driving
each has been
flower wreaths decorate walls
and the
bathrooms and
recreation room remains intact. A quilt
made by one of the centers instructors
graces its entrance. And framed
room, freezer room, recreation
bedrooms have been reborn
as a
photographs of the rooms as they looked
conference room, art studio, reception
storeroom, 10-station computer
area,
was
rooms were earmarked
the
original tiling in the
room, breakfast nook, and various
communicate with the
practicality
decorated to be people-friendly. Dried-
The dining room, laundry room,
sitting
when
for various activities,
to
and
vice versa.
conferencing equipment. Community,
government, and business groups that
gather there for meetings and
Though
studio-quality lighting comprise the
is
in another era,
when
the
Magees
lived in
li
The fact that every room *|
Ci
in
the house
is
!
them, are hung -near the doorways. These
artful
being used
touches lend a "that was then, this
now" kind
Like Jim Magee, his
is
validation of
many happy
recalls
an idea
Though married
the time the
that looked promising
when
plans
were
lab,
A
classrooms, and offices.
headquarter
the university's extended
Myles Katerman by
home was
Memorial Day
built,
parties,
she vividly
which
hands-on cooking
New Year's
classes. Visiting
groups and caterers also use
it
to
prepare and serve refreshments. The
family picnics, echoes each
Magee
summer
Eve celebrations that her
parents hosted there.
Mrs. Katerman, a trustee of the family
foundation, says she sometimes feels sad
when
she passes by the center, thinking
with the carefree squeals of the children
about her mother's
who
beloved home. But she
participate in Adventures in Science
day camps. And the spectacular
room
that
tiled
once housed an indoor pool
being renovated to serve as a multi-
purpose, telecommunications-equipped
there.
Joanne,
coincided with Jim's birthday, and the
is
programs
recalls
to
sister,
times in the home.
appointed kitchen accommodates
courtyard, once the scene of
made to
well-
auditorium
—
the largest technologically-
sophisticated facility of this type in
central Pennsylvania.
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is
of ambiance.
last
years in her
is
pleased that the
university maintains the property so
meticulously.
One
who was
of the people
home
to the
university, she is gratified that so
many
instrumental in gifting the
area residents benefit from the center.
"People are appreciative.
them
a place to
I
think
it
gives
have outreach meetings.
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I've had friends take courses there. It's
worked out fine," she says.
Drue Magee, daughter of Jim and
Audrey Magee, and also a trustee of the
Magee Foundation, fondly remembers her
grandmother's greenhouse and garden. She
home with beautiful flowers
there. And she is happy about
going
recalls
after visits
topics such as workers' compensation,
OSHA-prescribed
Magee
reincarnated as the
"We
subjects,
from
getting
more
lifestyle
have been possible without the generosity
courses to
Anthony M.
workforce development, in order to
of the Magees.
serve the broadest possible audience,"
president of university advancement,
says Vavrek.
says that
of the courses are non-credit,
public need.
wwm
is
This diversity of programs would not
broad array of
but the eclectic program mix
\MM
our business
advanced, more technical, and more
sophisticated," he says.
try to offer a
Many
Center.
as
and
sales techniques.
the educational opportunities that have
blossomed since the home was
safety training,
From
the
their
its
to the
community. And, although the family
of
1998 through the spring of 1999,
foundation also supports
approximately 2,000 people took
university's athletic
mini-courses and an additional 1,900
and
others used the center for meetings,
undoubtedly the shining
and video-conferencing.
receptions,
home
Magee family demonstrated
continuing commitment to the
university, the
a
fills
summer
by donating
Ianiero, vice
capital
and
many
of the
cultural events
campaigns, the center
fabric of that
is
star in the
enduring loyalty
Pffip
I The
Magee
living
room as
being used so much.
"It's
was then
it
I
was on
the
Bloomsburg University Foundation
Board
It's
at
the time the house
was
in the
gifted.
know
a very nice feeling for us to
it's
hands of people who care about
it
so much," she says.
The
is
fact that
being used
is
every
room
in the
looked promising
when
plans were
to headquarter the university's
programs
"It
community
new
made
extended
It
In particular, the centers offerings
benefit a
very close
Magee
like a
service
good fit to run our
program out of this
encouraged us
to generate
programs," says John Abell, associate
ties to
Rieter
the
education.
The son of Joanne and Myles,
Katerman explains why the center
the notion of
new
grounds are "the
Magee Center in July 1989.
"I remember it well. I felt that
world of opportunity
is
such an important educational resource
Ianiero.
valuable regional resource. Today, courses
for
"We
among
are offered in everything
to
money management
from
floral
to yoga.
design
And
business groups can attend workshops on
Rieter.
see an ongoing
need with the advancements
technology
to further
workforce.
We
He
dignitaries, at the dedication of the
is
programs, the center has become a
Magee
largest in-kind gift
was present, along with Magee family
members, then Bloomsburg University
President Harry Ausprich and other
Magee Center
The company pays half the
tuition costs, as long as the subject
development
the university has ever received."
the opportunity to attend
job-related.
on
its
of the
company, says employees there are given
classes.
established the
program in 1984, says the home and
Automotive Systems. Mike
CEO
who
university's existing
Magee family
dean of continuing and distance
Zeroing-in
Ianiero,
Bloomsburg company with
Katerman, president and
there.
seemed
location.
house
validation of an idea that
in
who
is
a
have a stake in the Magee
that
it
continues a Magee
and Bloomsburg University
need additional education
was
Without exception, the sentiment
those
Centers future
educate our
it
for this university," says
tradition
providing valuable services to the region.
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By Jim Doyle
He knows renowned coaches Bobby Knight and
Chuck Daly personally. He reveres legends like John
Wooden and Dean Smith. But, ultimately, he credits
college
roommate
man
the best
an
assistant
era.
at East
at his
coach
And he was
Stroudsburg and
wedding.
He
has been
for the entire Chronister
the person responsible for
Chronister getting the head coaching job
philosophy professor for his teams' successes.
a
in the
first
place.
roommates graduated
After the
Charlie Chronister, Bloomsburg
coach and
University's men's basketball
one of the
nation's winningest, explains,
"When 1 was an undergraduate
Stroudsburg State College,
to
—
have a good professor
was
all
I
a very
dynamic
fortunate
He
Dr. Powers.
teacher.
the different philosophies
We
studied
and philoso-
phers, but pragmatism grabbed
—
the less reliance
on
I
talk
the better the package,
luck.
Bloomsburg
a
is
very good package."
An
at East
was
about
that
age
is
integral part of Bloomsburg's pack-
Athletic Director
Mary Gardner.
Gardner respects Chronister's coaching
for
reasons beyond his winning percentage.
"Charlie has always
done an excellent job
my
attention at the time. Idealistically, you'd
like to
do
certain things, but that doesn't
always work, so you have to find a
to get
way
Since that time, Chronister and Reese
coaching has served him well for the past
years.
During
have made
that time, his basketball
Bloomsburg have won 505
games. The milestone 500th win came at
home last season on Feb. 13, a 73-67 win
over his alma mater, East Stroudsburg. His
teams
at
teams have reached the
seven times,
won
seven
expects certain
consistent. Charlie's also a real innovative
East
titles,
feels he's just
one
at the right place at the
good
players, capable
assistant coaches, the supportive
people
those things aren't
always in your control. So
it's
the package
He has
thinker on offense and defense.
way
of staying very current
'01
is
Bloomsburg's top returning
scorer for the 99-00 season.
ensuring that
we have
We
they don't
come
to
If
when
on or
know
they
what's going on, they're
Chronister appreciates the fact that
Reese helped bring
never have to worry
about them stepping out of line
When
not going to play."
student athletes
are representing the university
practice, they
they
off
and
that
him
Bloomsburg,
to
he has remained a
vital part of the
Huskies' success story. "Burt and
the court."
throwbacks. We're unusual, but
Continue looking inside the package
and you find Burt Reese. Reese, the assistant athletic director, was Chronister's
we're smart enough to
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and getting
have to pay attention.
the kids involved.
Shawn Munford
of their role.
Bloomsburg University
tremendous amount of luck in
like
—and
He
PSAC
has a vehicle
around you
head coach. "He takes a hard
with the kids.
things,
involved in his program that are respectful
right time, recruiting
cess as a
line
part of a successful package. "Not everyone
—being
cites a
of reasons for Chronister's suc-
NCAA tournament
achievements, Chronister
coaching
Reese
a terrific team.
number
and they respond to the things he
expects. Over the years, he's been very
and a PSAC championship. The Huskies,
under Chronister, have been a model of
consistency, with 27 winning seasons in 28
years and an average of 18 wins a season.
While justifiably proud of his teams'
There's a
Twenty-nine -year-old Chronister
soon became the new head coach.
Chronister's pragmatic approach to
28
and coaching jobs. Later, Chronister
became assistant basketball coach at
Gettysburg College, while Reese was the
tennis coach and assistant basketball coach
at Bloomsburg State College. When the
Huskies' head basketball coach, Earl Voss,
quit before the 1971-72 season, Reese was
offered the job. As it turns out, he didn't
want it because of his commitments with
the tennis program. So, he called his former roommate and suggested that he
apply.
done."
it
in
1963, both accepted high school teaching
when we
see
it.
We
know
like
it
a
I
I
are
guess
good thing
here.
We
have
our differences, but they're always com-
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The Huskies, under Charlie Chronister,
have been a model of consistency,
with 27 vinniiu seasons in 28 years
fortable differences. We're best friends,
when you
that helps
get in
some
and
profes-
sional situations."
When
Chronister took over as head
coach, he inhented a
staff that
not only
included Reese but also Michael "Doc"
Herbert, a retired biology professor
was
who
program for 28 years until
he gave it up in 1995. "Doc contnbuted
tremendously to this program and to me
personally. It was a loss when he decided
part of the
to retire."
Considering Chronister's
long tenure,
he's
had few
Ray
full-time assistants.
was an assistant
to 1988 before
becoming head coach
Ricketts
from 1986
Photo courtesy of
The Press Enterprise
at Albright. Bill
Whitney,
who
is
now
the
and head basketball coach
at Paramus High School in New Jersey, followed Ricketts.
Whitney
athletic director
appreciates his
experience
coaching under Chronister. "He gave you
a lot of freedom.
ideas.
He
let
He
listened to your
you grow
as a coach. Charlie's
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been coached by former Huskies
DaRe
of Central
of Bloomsburg
—Tony
Columbia and Lee
consistency has to be a part of
Gump
High School.
is
DaRe has a unique perspective because
he had already completed his freshman
year at Bloomsburg State College
when
a
young, confident coach took over the
mens
DaRe play
seasons, he later
served as
Kevin
Reynolds
'91
a
volunteer
I
pan
he's
of the reason he's
Gump came
think he
always had. I'm sure
to
still
Coaching
now
coaching."
Bloomsburg
University in 1992 after leading
Pittsburgh's Carlynton
High
to a state
championship. He's seventh on the
Gump, who was
list.
a student assistant for
Chronister after four years of playing for
the Huskies, credits the program for
nearby Central
ing
him
a successful
mak-
high school coach.
successful in his
"Everything
own
come from the collegiate level. Sometimes
when I'm in practice, and I'm teaching
right,
DaRe
compares the 1971
Huskies coach with
the
1999
version.
don't see a
whole
of difference.
you look
the kids,
find myself repeating
I
word
word
thing
lot
Chronister told me."
When
programs,
for
that
some-
Coach
Chronister proteges have also
their
mark
made
in the collegiate coaching
Luptowski 73 is the head
American International College
ranks. Artie
coach
Rlnnntchiivi
learned in basketball has
I
"I
at success-
ful athletic
looks like the success
be true to a
part,
Huskies' all-time career scoring
Columbia and
It
may
most
seasons in the mid-
at
think
think that
assistant for three
80s.
rif
I
has the edge
Lee
for Chronister for three successful
with age.
degree, but for the
still
I
it.
The enthusiasm
People might say he's mellowed a
that intensity.
is still
there.
bit
that's
Not only did
basketball program.
there
at
in Springfield,
an assistant
at
MA. Kevin Reynolds '91
Drake University, and
is
University men's basketball will continue
Into the next millennium.
Terry Conrad '83
an
is
not afraid to accept
new ideas." The
assistant coach. Rich Mills,
is
current
University. All
beginning his
three were point
tenth year at Bloomsburg. Mills under-
how
stands
guards, a position
Chronister has maintained a
for
"He
consistently successful program.
always gets the kids geared into
is.
particularly high
How
standards.
wearing that uniform, averaging 18
wins a year, going to tournaments, being
it
feels
successful.
when it's
He
important.
I've
learned so
What he does
and defensively just works.
able
how
he does
The number
ers
who
as his
much
Conrad knows
offensively
because he
wanted someone on the floor
to understand exactly what
he's trying to do and understand what the whole picture
is
-just like he's doing from
why.
unbeliev-
it."
of Chronister's former play-
high school or collegiate
count twenty,
number
In the
Class
tough on his
point guards, and
are involved in coaching basketball
at either the
at last
It's
of wins.
Bloomsburg
area, the District
AA high school basketball
4
champi-
onship teams of the past two seasons have
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"Basically,
—
level,
almost as remarkable
is
He
has always been
gets the kids to play well
from his system.
which
Chronister holds
how
important Bloomsburg basketball
assistant at
Bucknell
Captain Terry
the sideline."
Conrad '83 and
Coach Chronister
Recruiting
of
is
the lifeblood
any successful basketball
program, and
it's
obvious that
.
Chronister and his
on
reflects
season's
staff
have done a great
terrific players.
job of recruiting
PSAC
19
MILESTONES
Chronister
few of them, including
a
L L
last
Eastern Division Player of
end of a
you gave him the ball, something good usually happened. We've had
great individuals like Mike Ellzy '97, the
all-time leading scorer. Jerry Radocha '77
was maybe the best all-around basketball
player we've ever had. Artie Luptowski
and Jon Bardsley '82 were maybe the most
charismatic. You don't accomplish the
the Year, Jeff Benson. "At the
possession,
if
State
East Berlin,
High School:
PA
Bermudian Springs
East Stroudsburg '63
Coaching Experie
things our teams have over the years with-
Head Coach:
out having people that can really play."
Hanover High School, PA
Supportive families backed up most of
1964-67
Overall Record: 59-8
those great players, a situation Chronister
can
relate to.
His mother and
Mildred and Merv,
trip
from
Berlin to
childhood
Charlie's
Bloomsburg
home game, and
make
still
for
they
Assistant Coach:
father,
the two-hour
home
almost every
make
it
some
to
road games as well. Chronister also recog-
made by his wife, Carol,
two daughters, Lee and Caryn.
"You can't survive sanely doing what
you're doing without the support of people who are closest to you. I've been
nizes sacrifices
and
A
Head Coach:
Bloomsburg University
1971 -Present
Overall Record: 505-257 (.661)
PSAC
East Record: 237-117 (.669)
Kozloff.
Home
court
more spacious Nelson
upper campus. And
as well.
Field
styles
House on
have changed
wasn't crazy about hair styles
"I
when John Willis and Jerry Radocha had
hair down to their shoulders. Now,
where's the hair?
Guys
are shaving their
been cosmetic
changes over the years, Chronister doesn't
much change in the athletes' desire to
win. He uses last season's co-captain Tom
Hauer as an example. "Can anyone tell me
that Tom Hauer didn't want to win any
more than Paul Kuhn did? Those were
two of our best competitors. Kuhn was
here when first got here and was one of
see
I
the fiercest competitors
was out of
we
had. Hauer
same mold."
When it comes to the subject of retirement, there is good news for the
followers of Bloomsburg University basketball
the
—Chronister
considering
when
58, adds,
I
"I
relatively
it.
"I
was
is
was
not even
fortunate.
I
29." Chronister,
don't feel that old.
good.
I've
have
a
good
assistant
and
a
good
coach.
offer,
I
feel like I've
and
it's still
got something to
this season.
Although Hauer and Jeff Benson, two key
starters, graduated and had to be
replaced, everyone else returned. Add
three talented players
coming
got the
who
is
My health
always said as long
127-67
vs.
Baptist Bible
STtfl 2-5-77
63-62
vs.
Cheyney
EIH 1-18-83
77-67
vs.
Md.-Balt. Co.
11-19-88 80-76
vs.
Walsh
76-62
vs.
Cheyney
73-67
vs.
E.
EfEl
fun."
That fun should continue
off redshirt
dim 1-13-94
EMU 2-13-99
Stroudsburg
NCAA Tournament Appearances
Yea
years and another solid recruiting class,
Record
•
1973-74
22-6
1980-81
23-7
1981-82
24-7
1982-83
23-10
Bloomsburg University men's basketball
1988-89
27-5
continue into the next millennium.
1994-95
18-9
1995-96
21-7
and the Huskies should once again
heads," says Chronister.
But, while there have
I
point guard, I'm going to continue to
moved when cozy
Gymnasium gave way to the
Centennial
Career Wi
as
have changed in 28
lot of things
seasons.
is
Following the 98-99 season, Charlie Chronister
received a Pennsylvania House of Representatives
resolution, honoring him for his 500 victories.
With him are State Rep. John Gordner, who
presented the citation, and President Jessica
his
fortunate that way."
job
1967-71
Gettysburg College
in East
lenge for the
won
the last
East
title
they have
two seasons.
looks like the success of
It
will
PSAC
chal-
Chronister will
tell
you the reasons
for
that success include a university with a
solid
academic reputation,
campus
a beautiful
both students and
that impresses
E
si
[
i
]
1
parents alike, a supportive administration
and community, and many other
factors
that he fondly calls the
"whole package."
But, his colleagues will
add
a big part of
head coach
that is old-school when it comes to discipline and modern when it comes to
strategy. It is a coach who continues to
that
package of success
is
on
hi
r-
Division
1980-81
23-7
(9-3)
1983-84
19-11
(11-3)
1988-89
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(9-3)
a
use the pragmatic philosophy he learned
in a classroom, not
1
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997-98
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Fast forward to the year 2002.
Opportunities
You walk
campus
3SEEJHS&3
the
Student
the
to
and
enter
Center.
Services
Next, before checking out the
renovated
recently
Store,
you
and watch
in a technology-rich classroom
a
multimedia presentation by a
renowned expert from MIT
or Harvard or Yale.
talk
University
NEW Challenges,
sit
visiting scholar, a
for
middle of
You explore the Center
Technology and Teacher Education and
with two students
who
say they chose
Bloomsburg because of the scholarships
they received. These and other experiences
are possible only because
history
of meeting
creating
new
Bloomsburg has
new
opportunities.
challenges
a
by
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NEW Opportunities
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Sachetti '71
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when
it
came time
for university
leaders to create a catchy
its
title
—
biggest challenges ever
vate dollars
New
—they had
Challenges,
New
little
first
one of
raising effort. "To continue as
of high quality" explains
an institution
Anthony
Ianiero,
advancement,
raising pri-
vice president for university
trouble.
"Bloomsburg University must seek 'margin
Opportunities: The
Campaign for Bloomsburg
Bloomsburgs
for
University
is
comprehensive fund-
of excellence' dollars to supplement tuition, fees,
To continue
Americas leading public
to
be one of
universities,
—
projects that
we
need the support of our donors, includ-
Private funds allow
to
with additional resources. Individual
contributions give the university
opportunities to create
In recent years, the state appropri-
operating budget has steadily
responsible for contributing a
new
programs,
and most important,
and the brightest students
The generosity of others will
university shape its future and
faculty.
help the
is
projects,
attract the best
and
ation portion of Bloomsburg's total
realize its strategic goals.
"A campaign
like this, in this stage of
percentage of the cost for each capital
the university's development,
and deferred maintenance project
eye-opener for administration,
it
and
staff
resources and what can be achieved
enhance
now
Bloomsburg
accomplished with current
and foundations."
Bloomsburg
fully
Pennsylvania.
ing alumni, individuals, corporations,
declined. In addition,
were once
funded by the Commonwealth of
bridge the gap between what can be
and the appropriation from the
state legislature.
undertakes
is
a real
faculty,
1
staff,
and students,
The answers
as well as alumni,"
says Ianiero.
"Many
fund raising
at
to these
and many other
questions helped identify key projects
are not familiar with
ago, President Jessica Kozloff enlisted the
of interest, which would become
components of the comprehensive
campaign. Once it was determined that
a campaign was feasible, the university
prioritized projects and entered what
development operations call the
help of deans, department chairs, and
"quiet phase."
new
public institutions.
It's
a
venture."
To shape a campaign that would
embrace
all
objectives
faculty
areas of the university,
needed
to
be
its
academic
a variety of preliminary
identified,
qualitative
A
Over two years
Each group suggested
projects for
were
set.
feasibility
to
A
priority
From
phase. Typically, fund-raisers
before
university.
study followed.
With
Its
making
a public
Would
at least half the
that the
funds pledged during
show
Was there interest in a visiting
scholars endowment for the College of
Business? Was a Student Services Center
in
would
excite givers?
"We
believe
what you're doing." As the quiet phase
of Bloomsburg's
a
others
chosen campaign projects are
important. Their support says,
project that
this
want 50
donors support funding a Wellness
Center?
more than 250 guests
entertainment by award-winning
composer and
Many
pianist
of the guests
financial
like the
is
announcement.
the quiet phase, donors help
determine constituent
interest before soliciting support.
campaign's potential success
percent of the campaign goal pledged
to the
of the campaign,
enjoyed a strolling dinner and
Marvin Hamlisch.
had already pledged
support and partially or
funded some of the campaign
gauged by the monies raised during
these,
campaign goals
each crucial
growth of the
purpose was
area.
At an elegant kick-off event in
October, announcing the public phase
campaign drew
to a close,
a
fully
priorities,
conversion of the old library into
Student Services Center. Others had
contributed toward scholarships. The
Community Government
(CGA) funded
University Store and
Recreation
The
Association
the renovation of the
Upper-Campus
Facilities.
university development
along with the deans and
staff,
members
of the
campaign steering committee, continues
to solicit
support from alumni of specific
$6,600,000, or 60 percent, of the $1
colleges for particular
million goal had been raised.
For example, the College of Business
campaign
projects.
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boasts three endeavors: funds for faculty
excellence, visiting scholars,
and student
Other alumni are interested in giving
directly to students
through scholarships.
The Honors Scholarship Endowment
scholarships.
Some alumni
prefer to pledge their
support for capital projects. They want
can
to give to enterprises they
see, touch,
Alumni many times are
projects where they understand
helps the university attract the best and
the brightest students through
40 annual
awards of $1,250 each. In addition, the
Endowment
students are very active. They're outgoing, and they're involved.
into
campus when they
they're likely to stay.
I
think
drawn
bring students with outstanding academic
here,
campus through
year. The University-Wide Scholarship Endowment
the time they graduate."
the need firsthand. Those
who
attended
school here in the past 30 years are
familiar with
campaign
a
new
A
Treasury oj Ideas, the
to raise
library.
funds to help build
That campaign was
successful because so
many alumni had
experienced the need for expanded
library facilities. Similarly,
many alumni
and leadership
abilities to
25 awards of $1,000 each
gives
alumni an opportunity
a scholarship in their
someone they wish
"When
to establish
own name
or
the university sends a
message that these are the kinds of
Bloomsburg,
agree that a Student Services Center,
students that
centralizing offices such as admissions,
other prospective students with strong
financial aid, registrar,
services,
accommodative
academic support services, and
developmental instruction,
is
essential to
abilities give
to
our school
a serious look,
too," says Ianiero.
says, "If there
student satisfaction.
makes Bloomsburg unique,
is
An
and they forge
when
a strong
they're
bond by
additional aspect of the compre-
hensive campaign
This funds a
is
the
number
Annual Fund.
of ongoing programs
such as student research and faculty
one particular
it's
trait that
that our
for
unrestricted gifts continues, regardless of
the university's involvement in other
campaigns.
New Challenges, New Opportunities is
already
making
a difference at
Bloomsburg,
putting the university out there in that
Chris Keller, director of admissions,
providing greater service and increasing
school, they get involved
development. Annual Fund solicitation
to honor.
come
why
when
they leave. They were involved in high
Presidential Leadership
to
that's
people are so loyal to Bloomsburg
or walk through.
helps
They plug
and
get here,
margin of excellence.
"
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Campaign Steering
Committee
To secure a successful future
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Kozloff
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dent for University Advancement
IH Ianiero '97 (H)
"I've
witnessed
firsthand the
nsburg University
commitment
to
excellence that
BlooTiisburg
npaign Chair
irbara B.
possesses.
Barbara Hudock
Hudock 75
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Group
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Bloomsburg
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Bloomsburg University
Meet Barbara
Blootnsburg University
college, she
position of
Rodney
B. Keller
in
Hudock.
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1975 With i degree
graduated
from
Barbara's service on the foundations (xrard has confirmed what she realized
as a student
business education Afia
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began narking for Merrill Lynch and rose 15 her current
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commttmeni on behalf of
member."
educated aboui possible h'mtneial choices and, therefore, can make more
Barbara
informed decisions."
Alex M. Kozlowski '65
Ihroughoui her successes
in life,
helped her gel to where she
IBM
university
is
Barbara basal forgotten the university
today She
i.s
a
is
one of 450.000 graduates of the
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of
Higher Education universities. Ninety-six percent of State
thai
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major contributor lo the
and has served as a member of the
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tbeir
intellectual growth while at tbeir university. Contact
any Slate System university today to begin
University Foundation since 1991
out your success
living
story.
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Robert "Doc"
Easi Stroudsburg
'95 (H)
chair,
Barbara
Hudock, was featured
in a
Faculty Emeritus
series ot ads tor the State
Bloomsburg University
System of Pennsylvania.
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Y2K
Fixing these programs was
"The people creating
made
programs in the 60s and
Are we ready?
70s simply never thought
It's
as simple as
two
little
spaces. That
sums up all this fuss over what we have
come to know as the Y2K problem.
In the early years of technology devel-
opment, cost was a major
factor
computer disk storage was
at a
they would
and
premium.
dropped
that price
had
to $400. Today, that space costs
COBOL programs
of
computer
be rewritten by
this time."
specific jobs.
was developed,
After three years of
preparation, Bieber says the university
will
be ready
when
that the
oped on campus over the
past 20 years to perform
services. "It
the ball drops in
Times Square, signaling the
start of
year
for the administrative systems
and Mark
mold
"compiled software" that
is
used by a
computer. In order to change
how
software operates, programmers need
that source
to four digits.
sometimes been
the university
—which works
for a metal part, creating the
Raynes redefined the database from two
Sounds easy enough. But
As the software
staff carefully
archived the source code
like a
made
the "19" in front of the year in dates.
right
university uses were devel-
about a buck. Therefore, a decision was
two spaces carrying
fact that
Bloomsburgs director
2000. Jim Gessner spearheaded the project
to eliminate the
by the
had done things
in the past. All of the various
was expected they would
disk storage (or one million characters) cost
later,
last this long,"
easier
says Glenn Bieber,
For example, in 1963, one megabyte of
$2,000. Eight years
folks
code
—something
lost at
that's
other institutions,
says Gessner.
has more than 1,800 individual computer
programs written in 1.8 million
computer language COBOL.
lines of the
A single
system, such as student scheduling, could
entail
together.
Jim Gessner, right, and Glenn Bieber test software
on the mainframe to ensure Y2K compliance.
notice the
rare.
human
LouAnn
assistant,
resources
if
it
was
the people
When
you
you have one
Tarlecky works with
people every day. But
things.
eat,
She's also collected
life.
Tarlecky went to Russia and Belarus for
last
January as a
You
don't see
down
end-to-end will stretch
—enough
113.6 miles
Bloomsburg
to get
you from
to Lancaster.
litter
member
of
mission sponsored
you use
half a napkin,
dozen churches and commun-
transformed her
Carelift, a
be
Since the mission, Tarlecky has talked
to nearly a
ity
Operation
will
at all."
she met halfway around the globe that
two weeks
code
in Russia, because paper products are so
Journey benefits Russian youth
In her job as a
little
line of
four inches long. Those 1.8 million lines
of code laid
Globe Trotter
of
Set in type that runs 10 characters to
an inch, the average
dozens of individual programs
working
How long are 1.8 million lines
COBOL computer code?
organizations about what she saw.
hundreds of
articles
of children's clothing to send to the
orphanages she
visited.
come back and do
"You just
can't
nothing."
by Josh McDowell
Ministries. She and
500 fellow volunteers distnbuted food,
medicine, clothing, and Christian
What
literature.
she found was
heartrending.
"In
one
district [the equivalent of a
An Annual
county] there were 22 orphanages with an
,
average of
Tarlecky.
200 children
in each," says
"The children's clothes were worn
through and there wasn't always heat.
certainly
we
made me aware
It
of the things that
have in abundance," she
says.
"You
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Each year, more than 1,200 trick-or-treaters and
their families visit residence halls looking for treats
and delighting students. Approximately 80 costumed guides led small groups of candy seekers
through decorated hallways, while 20 Alpha Sigma
Phi fraternity members helped out as crossing
guards throughout campus. More than 450 rooms
participated in this popular annual event.
FALL
VP Honored
While serving as
Ianiero
Ianiero selected for hall
Anthony
and
Ianiero, vice president for
university advancement,
inducted into The College of
New Jersey
(TCNJ, formerly Trenton State College)
Alumni
Athletic Hall of
Ianiero,
who
assistant director of
from 1976
named
was recently
1977
head coach
to 1978. In
alumni
"I
New
1978, he was
Alumni
to
for
football
Wg',
coach
at
Trenton before
being promoted to
assistant
head
career.
That
is
that is
most
gratifying
for
me
increased capability of being
programmed for up to 10 years.
The recorded bells chime every
personally"
coach and defensive
Bloomsburg
of development in
his seven years as
and was named
both the
team and his defense
sound and a wider variety
The system also has the
of songs.
the part
coordinator in 1977. In
quarter hour, just like the
bells of England's
Westminster Abbey,
as director
1984
and each hour
counted with
vice
is
tolls.
president for university
At 4:30 p.m., one of
advancement in 1995.
two versions of the alma
were nationally ranked,
mater
winning two conference
6:30 p.m., you'll hear
titles
and compiling
The new
provide listeners with higher
quality
Ianiero joined
football
assistant coach,
CDs
persons professional
and baseball
uses digital
of 8-track tape cartridges.
award honors not only what
was achieved on the playing field, but also
what was achieved in a
served as assistant
now
recordings on compact discs, instead
Athletic Hall of Fame," says
a four-year letter winner in both football
he
proved electronic system that chimes
TCNJ's
Ianiero. "This
baseball. Later,
tunes are ringing from the
from the tower
be selected
degree in 1974 and a master's in 1975, was
and
tunes
Carver tower these days. The im-
and from
he was assistant director of
am honored
new
Ringing
affairs
director of alumni affairs,
to 1983,
9 9
Carver Bells
director
college development.
Fame.
earned his undergraduate
assistant
was sports information
19
is
played. At
a couple of extra
a
Tony Ianiero was assistarv
head football coach and
record of 47-19-2.
songs.
Who
selects
which pieces
defensive coordinator at
Trenton State College (now
The College of New Jersey)
from 1977 through 1983.
will,
be
heard? Randall
Presswood, director
of performing
arts facilities.
New
Gear
Chris Hallen stands next
to the Nuclear Magnetic
What's that molecule?
The Y2K
crisis
was
a
boon
Resonance spectrometer,
which was donated
to the university by
Merck & Company, Inc.
to
Bloomsburg in one important way.
Because of
it,
instrument will
and research
in their classes
rainforest plant
cancer.
scientists
if
The
they've
compound
in
the lab.
"This instrument
means
that
we can
Hallen, associate professor of chemistry.
world's largest pharmaceutical companies.
"In the past,
& Company, Inc. in Danville has
we had
Delaware and
to ship
samples to
New York."
The instrument works by bombarding
donated a used Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (NMR) spectrometer, worth
a
almost $100,000 new, to the university.
those you hear over your stereo), and
Merck contributed
it
longer print the proper year on
a federal requirement that the
must meet. But
will
no
equipment
work
and
it
compound
or help
just fine.
What does
powerful magnet cooled by liquid helium
test results,
company
will
a
NMR do?
diagnostic tool that can
physicists exactly
how
It's
tell
a powerful
chemists and
the atoms in a
to
To do the job, the instrument requires a
for practical application in
the classroom, the
sample with radio frequencies (similar
measuring which frequencies are absorbed.
the instrument to the
university because, after 1999,
get
publication quality results," says Chris
one of the
as
tell
duplicated that natural
chemistry and physics
students can use the same equipment
Merck
may discover a
compound that prevents
scientists
are connected to
them determine
the identity of a
molecule. This information
for
determining
if
a
one another
is
important
compound has been
prepared accurately. For example,
liquid nitrogen. After being installed,
week
takes about a
cool
enough
magnet
is
to
for the
ready,
—
it
on your
it
to
you'd better take the
wallet out of your pocket
with
magnet
do the job. Once the
will erase the
when working
magnetic strips
credit cards.
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same day In
Five Stars
Alums inducted
had a
addition, she
record of 71-13 and a career
into hall
career
ERA
of 0.47.
She struck out 485 batters and threw eight
As
a group, they
combined
for six All-
no-hitters, including
An Associated
American awards, 13 All-PSAC honors and
numerous school and conference records.
The group is the 1999 class of the Athletic
Hall of Fame. Those honored this year are
Teachers'
Technology
softball star
Exploring frontiers of education
Keeping up with developments in
chasing after a speeding train on
Bloomsburg has
Technology and
for
Teacher Education. Located on the
McCormick Center
floor of
Services, the center has
A
foot.
To help teachers remain up-to-date with
formed The Center
'87, football
DeDea '88, basketball star
Glenn Noack '86, and wrestling greats and
brothers Anthony "Rocky" '87 and Richard
"Ricky"
the world of computers can be like
the latest technology,
Susan Kocher
standout Jay
is
two-time All-American and a threesoftball,
Kocher
the only pitcher in school history to
throw
first
new and
a no-hitter
and a
career pass attempts, career completions,
total plays-career,
He
perfect
game
in the
Noack
scoring
points.
is
list
third
for
is
changing
at
such a
school
make technology decisions,"
Raymond Pastore, the center's
districts to
says
director.
"The center gives teachers an
opportunity to explore the
latest
technology learning solutions for
He was
first
team
The Technology Center is one
component of the project "Integrating
all-time
ECAC
the
Co-Rookie of
PSAC
two-time Player of the
All-Star,
Year at Bloomsburg University, two-time
and
NABC
East Region
first
All-Star as a senior.
Rocky Bonomo was
American
a two-time All-
finishing fourth
and eighth
at
NCAA championships.
He was also a three-time EWL and PSAC
126 pounds
at the
champion. Rocky
all-time
win
list
is
fourth
on
the Huskies'
with a record of 110-19, a
.853 winning percentage.
Ricky
the classroom."
on the Huskies'
men's basketball with 1,504
the Year as a freshman, two-time
team
difficult for
NCAA
record of 27-10-1 during his career.
ECAC All-Star,
it's
total offense-career.
and the PSAC
national semifinals,
resources for teachers.
"Technology
and
helped the Huskies to the 1985
emerging hardware and software
rapid rate,
Mention
DeDea was also a finalist for
the Harlon Hill Award in 1987, finishing
fifth. He is the school record holder for
All-American,
championship, as well as accumulating a
'92.
time All-PSAC selection in
Human
for
Bonomo
two perfect games.
Press Honorable
Bonomo
is
the Huskies'
most
decorated wrestler in school history. Three
Technology into Teacher Preparation,"
times he was an NCAA, EWL and PSAC
champion at 118 pounds. He put together
which has been funded by
a career record of 116-12-3, third best in
a
$408,500
grant from Pennsylvania's Link-to-Leam
school history. Ricky also
program. Other components of the
and
project include developing an
advanced
technology curriculum for students
prepanng
to
be teachers, creating
technology workshops for working
teachers
and university
faculty,
and
forming partnerships with technology
companies and school
districts.
Created
in partnership with sixteen school
districts,
the project will involve 76
student teachers, 50 university faculty,
80 practicing
teachers,
and 2,000
students in grades kindergarten
through
12.
Ray Pastore demonstrates some of
the latest technology designed
specifically for teaching.
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won
three
PSAC
EWL Wrestler of the Year Awards.
FALL 199'
Stepping into Leadership
Creative Leftovers
Under the
guidance of
Flex feeds the hungry
Roy Smith,
director
Small change. Leftovers. But
of Quest,
Presidential
of students contributed the
Leadership
their
and Board
of Governors
maybe
unused
campus meal accounts
at the
lifesavers.
over from
end of the spring semester.
By doing so, they were able to purchase $2,700
the Bloomsburg and Catawissa food banks. Not
scholarship
recipients
were pocket change
participate
a leadership
retreat. Here,
in
Hundreds
flex dollars left
either.
A
in food for
donations
all
few were close
to
$90, and there were several $20
contributions. This
they learn group
dynamics as they
try to get each
was
second year that the
which
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member of
a team across
1
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a bridge without falling.
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is
the
drive,
organized by the
student government
association,
was
held.
Net Gaines
Huskies go global
The Huskies have gone
No
That's right.
need
fans
to
be in Bloomsburg to
to the football or
mens
away on the
listen
basketball
now
games. The games are
click
global!
longer will Huskies
a
mouse
Internet through
Broadcast.com.
Anyone who wants
to listen to the
games should go
to the
University sports
web page
Bloomsburg
at
www.
bloomu.edu/sports. Click on the
Broadcast.com logo and follow the
instructions. Real Audio, the
program
needed
free
to
hear the games,
takes just 15 minutes to
a standard
you
are in the world.
is
installed,
you
games no matter where
listen to the
"This
and
download with
modem. Once
can
our fans to
is
President elected to higher ed post
Bloomsburg University President
all
games," says Sports
Information Director
Tom
McGuire.
"There are just a handful of Division
Jessica Kozloff has
been elected
II
Commission on Higher Education,
major accrediting organization
games on the web, so we
and
are
one of the
"Another nice feature of our
association with Broadcast.com
McGuire. "Fans
even
if
at their
they attended
it
very excited about this
our
web
site."
will
is
that
be able
convenience,
in person. We're
new
chairing at least one accreditation team
the
a year.
for colleges
aspect of
Jan.- 1,
2000, and she
may be
The purpose of the Commission
is
to
adopt standards for the accreditation of
educational institutions, provide a forum
among 100 nominees,
Kozloff begins her three-year term
each game will be archived for one
game
20
meetings, serving on committees, and
universities in the Mid-Atlantic states.
Selected from
leaders in this area.
to listen to a
Four represent
responsibilities include attending
as
commissioner for the Middle States
institutions nationwide that are airing
year," says
position.
the general public, while the other
are higher education professionals. Their
a great opportunity for
listen to
and professional
Kozloff Chosen
important issues, and
for discussion of
give assurance of institutional integrity to
reelected
to a single additional term.
the public. Accreditation certifies to other
The Middle States Commission is
composed of 24 members. Commissioners,
elected by the 500 colleges and universities who are members of the Middle
States Association of Colleges and
educational institutions and to the public
Universities, are
chosen according
that the institution has
and
is
achieving
Commission
its
also
been evaluated
own
goals.
The
meets periodically with
representatives of state departments of
higher education and federal agencies to
to
geographic distribution, institution type,
exchange ideas and information.
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On the Job
Learning beyond the classroom
Holding down a job can be
of the growing
college.
Each
up
a big part
that takes place during
approximately 1,400
year,
Bloomsburg students
work
find
right
on
campus, earning more than $2.3 million.
"Besides helping students pay for their
campus jobs (workleam about time
management, customer service, and
education, these
study) help students
teamwork," says Pat Stockaiis of the
"They can also use the
financial aid office.
process of applying for a work-study job
to practice the
interviewing
resume-writing and
skills
they need after
graduation."
And
not
all
work-study positions are
on campus. Students who
federal
Lieutenant Governor Honored
exhibition room on the first floor of the Harvey A. Andruss Library has been named for alumnus
Mark Schweiker, Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor. Attending the dedication ceremony were, from
left, Joseph Mowad, chair of the Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees, Schweiker, President
Jessica Kozloff, and James McCormick, Chancellor of the State System of Higher Education.
An
work-study
may
qualify for
also take
work-
Former President Dies
study positions in off-campus, non-profit
organizations such as the
Women's
Bloomsburg
Curtis R. English,
Center.
In addition to the intrinsic rewards of
—pride and gaining new
working hard
knowledge
—
the university also offers an
extrinsic reward.
August 19, 1993,
home
A Montoursville,
PA, native, English
had been president of FLiwassee
awards a scholarship to the top student
College, Madisonville,
to
Jacqueline Stephen, a senior elementary
education major.
TN,
since July
1996, and formerly had served as
1,
which went
June 30, 1994,
in Tennessee.
worker. Last year, 23 students were
for the award,
to
died Saturday, Nov. 13, at his
Each spring, The
Bloomsburg University Foundation
nominated
Bloomsburg
alumnus and interim president from
vice president for finance
and
administration for East Stroudsburg
and Cheyney
universities.
When he came
he knew
to
Bloomsburg,
state policy prevents
an
interim president from becoming a
candidate for the permanent position
of president.
"He was a very
special person to
us," said President Jessica Kozloff.
things about Curt that
immediately for
me
come
to
are his selflessness
and the tremendous gratitude
what he did
for
He
in
"The
mind
1
have
as interim president.
set the stage for the
next chapter
Bloomsburgs history"
English graduated from Bloomsburg
in 1956, earned a masters degree from
the University of
Oklahoma and a
Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University
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Academic
jClayjton Merrill
Haas Gallery of Art.
and reception L
the gallery Monday,
Jan. 28 to Feb. 28,
A
Electronic Rcgist -ation
11,
by
^aint>ings|
Calendar
Tuesday,
HMSi
Exhibits
through Monday,
Tickets are S25.
slide presentation
will
be held
Feb. 28, at
rfh
Pir afor:
Thursday, March 30, 8 p.m., Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
1
in
p,mX
Theater
more information, contact the
heater department at (570) 389-4287.
For
Classes Jegiii
Celebrity Artis
Tuesday, Jan 18
hito the
Series
SpriigJJreai
Saturday, March 4, 10 p.m
Sunday, March 12
,
through
Call
i
A
the Celebrity Artist Series box office
more information.
at (570) 389-4409 for
[Woods
musical by Steven Sondheim, directed
by Ross Genzel, Mitrani
Hall, Feb.
10-12
8:00 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for
the Arts. Alan Baker, musical director,
Spring
ond on City Ope
Weekend
Thursday, April 20, 10 p.m. thro
Monday, April 24, 6 p.m.
,
Concerts
All
concerts are free unless otherwise
notejcTTFi >r
mbre Information,
ca lithe
music department at (570) 389 4284.
Faculty itecital
James Douthit, Sunday, Feb. 27,
2:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall.
idlil
Saturday, March 11, 2 30 p.m.,
Carver Hall, Kenneth
Auditorium.
S.
Gross
Unh ersity
F cull y Tiio
Sunday, March 19, 2:30 p.m.. First
Presbyterian Church, Market Street,
Bloomsburg
Chambe- Or
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hes:ra
Sunday, March 26, 2:30 p.m., F rst
Presbyterian Church, Market Street,
loomsbu
Bloomsburg.
Events
Sveni
Mamn liuth(
ther King
Friday, Feb.
1 1,
Jr.
Etenqu ^
6 p.m. Kehr Union
Ballroom
SanKofaj Confereiice
Saturday, Feb. 19, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m
followed by a dance. For more
information,
call
(570) 389-4510.
t
a,
The Magic Flute
and Terry Oxley, orchestra conductor.
Saturday, Feb 19, 8 p.m., Haas Center
Tickets are 56 for adults, S4 for students
for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Tickets
and senior
are $25.
y/.s.
Community
.
citizens, free
with
Activities Card.
WORD
*HE LAST
i
k
Bloomsburg University
where the
deep and
many
I
spirit of
true.
on
Bloomsburg students accounted
a place
am moved by
commitment
instances of
see here
I
is
generosity runs
the
to others
a daily basis. Recently,
sorority
was the top
spirit of generosity.
and
his family face
son battle cancer.
A
simple request to
the university's Supervisory
inspired a
wave
achieving
much more
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Table
of heart-felt activity,
than anyone
could have dreamed.
Robert "Doc" Warren, faculty emeritus,
office of
planning and construction,
chaired the annual
AIDS Walk
Columbia and Montour
virus
university
was
example of the Bloomsburg
Since he began teach-
ing history at Bloomsburg in 1964,
Her
the motivation that helped
and community walkers, along
Doc
ically, financially,
by
and emotionally. His
his philosophy that
"much
first
Bloomsburg launched
comprehensive
hope
five
capital
years
—an ambitious
campaign of
lives
We
first
people like Doc
of learning
me
Round
Table team convince
goal
very attainable. Generosity has
is
that this
always been an important part of
goes on outside of the classroom," taking
Bloomsburgs
opportunities whenever he can to interact
kindness are an integral part of the char-
Its
not unusual to find him
involved in a friendly
mon in the
game
of
backgam-
student union or having a
Sigma
Iota
As we move
into a
\
photograph above, Doc and
greeting Presidential Leadership
I
are
and Board
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
President
generous endowment will benefit students
Bloomsburg University
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century, the
very good university into a great one.
years.
In the
new
generosity will help us turn a
(SIO), the fraternity he has advised for
35
These acts of
acter of the people at this university.
spirit of
Omega
tradition.
(CCFA), exceed
goal.
goal for our
this kind. Yet,
of Governors scholarship recipients. His
$22,000
its
to raise $1 1,000,000 over the next
with Caring Communities for AIDS
their
campaign.
Warren, Cheryl John, and the Supervisory
has consistently helped students academ-
casual conversation at
for
counties.
passion for helping those infected with the
HIV
yet another
with students.
Cheryl John, project manager in the
to
Presidential Leadership Program.
In October,
fund-raiser,
bringing in more than $1,800 in pledges.
is
the challenge he
chosen
Warren
Omega
$12,000
helping their not quite two-year-old
as they are
and the group representing Alpha Phi
and colleagues of custodial staff
member Bobby Coombe raised close to
help defray costs related to
come,
receive financial awards from the Robert
friends
to
for years to
for
approximately 50 percent of the walkers,
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