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Alumnus Mark Schwcikcr has
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editor's view

My hiatus
I

spent

consisted of a whole two years and three months.

my childhood

and teen years here

chose to go to college here. But

was gone. Outta
I

here.

On

after that,

then, after looking at
I

to tackle the real

It

lasted

mind
The

at "the college

27 months, and

I

had

on

you. That was 22 years ago and, today,

steps in

my personal

in the

Jack Mulka,

same place

Tom and

I

who may

I

came back.

I

I

am

I

test.

.

.just for

enjoying

life

and career path came rushing back

chose to highlight some folks

ended up

and the knowledge

the hill" to the

Then

a blast!

the options,

world and put the small town values

obtained, the lessons learned from wonderful mentors

gathered from four years

all

told myself with great conviction,

to

a while,

more than

ever.

me when we

have followed different routes but

did.

Debbie Kresch, Wayne Whitaker and others featured on

pages 9 to 12 have seen Bloomsburg University from both sides of the desk,
so to speak.


Jack just might be the university's all-time best cheerleader;

seems he

who

it

sometimes

does "bleed maroon and gold." With that type of devotion,

really

better to share our message

and gamer support in the

final

phase of

the capital campaign?

For Tom, wonderful undergraduate memories brought him back



Now the assistant

Bloomsburg 18 years ago.
life,

he helps oversee seven residence

halls

to

director of residence

and two apartment

complexes housing more than 3,100 students. His wife and college
sweetheart, Debbie, helps

program

social activities as a

member

of

the student activities staff


And Wayne. Someone
Bloomsburg was the
freshman, he

he says

it

made

did such good job convincing

perfect place for

is

that

the leap from the Bronx. After graduating,

was only natural

others this

him

him

that, as a college

to join the

admissions

staff to

convince

the place for them, too.

Writer Susan C. Brook mentions that more than 40 graduates

—including me

campus workforce. I believe I speak for all of us when I say
Bloomsburg University was not only a great place to be a student, but it also
are

is

Bloomsburg: The University
Magazine is published each
spring and fall for alumni,

among

the

a great place to help the generations that follow.

And, allow

current students' families
and friends of the university.
A separate biannual publication.

and

Maroon and

campus, he

Gold, highlights

and other alumni
information. For details on
Maroon and Gold, distributed

class notes

to recent graduates,
contributors and subscribers,

contact the Alumni Affairs
Office by phone, 570-389-4058;
fax, 570-389-4060; or e-mail,

alum@bloomu.edu.
For information on
Bloomsburg Magazine,
see next page.

me

mention one more Bloomsburg graduate of note

to

Pennsylvania Gov.

the

I

sat

Mark Schweiker! For our cover

down with

the

first

Commonwealth's highest
likes

graduate of the
office.

working everyday

We
for

story, co-editor

modem

State

Bonnie Martin

System

to

assume

found out, while he doesn't work on
us and for

all

residents of Pennsylvania.

VOLUME

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Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania is a member of
the State System of Higher Education.
STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

BOARD OF GOVERNORS
AS OF January

2002

Charles A, Gomuika, Chair

Enterprising

Kim

entity

R.

Chair

E. Lyltle. Vice

Benjamin Wiley. Vice Chair

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RAISING THE PROFILE

Syed R. Ali-Zaidi
familiarising the Commonwealth's residents with

Angela M. Ambrose

Daniel E Elby

Hampk and Board oj Governors

Chancellor Judy G.

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David P Holveck
Vinceni j. Hughes
Patricia K.

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universities to support them.

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Judy G. Hample

Ramona

helm bolstered

as lucent and

boards and a host of other devices.

CHANCELLOR,
STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

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among customers such

status as a top supplier 0/ electronic osscmhiies, circuit

and one vacancy

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to

read commentary

a gutless match. Once again, "Queen Brani^"

has laid the smack down.

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his term,

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By Mike Feeley

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PROFILE

Judy Hample knows her job won't be easy
As the new chancellor of Pennsylvania's
State

'87

System of Higher Education,

replaced the system's

first

Hample and Gomulka
universities

she's

and only leader

envision a

Pennsylvania system where the individual

—Bloomsburg,

California,

Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg,

fonner Bloomsburg University President

Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven,

James H. McCormick. Her leadership comes
at a time when the System must battle for

Millersville, Mansfield,

every dollar

it

receives from the state

legislature.

Hample

But,

No

is

up

Slippeiy

—would be

promoted based on

their strengths.

where there may be

less

campuses

to the challenge.

stranger to adversity, she arrived in

for the

particularly

experience, most recently as chancellor of

that

Florida's state university system.

Hample

known about

(Pennsylvania's) State

System of Higher Education
time,

for a

very long

and what has always stood out

strong

commitment

to quality

same

is its

undergraduate

it

Bloomsburg

says.

"We plan on continuing

is

educating 98,611 students

campuses



the

at its

demand for quality teachers.
"We can't have all 14 universities noted
for science

we want

most students ever

14

and mathematics," she adds.
to lose the strengths or

collective strengths

Hample became chancellor last August,
McCormick who served in that

at

education.

capacity from 1983

Under her

direction,

and

new

ideas.

that of Charles

Goraulka, chair of the Board of Governors,
the System could see
"I

some major changes.

is

familiar with

of our institutions, but

people in the

my

Commonwealth

is

that

aren't

most

famihar

with the State System," says Hample.
that's

state politics as the

"I

think

one of the challenges."

A name

educates about 233,000 students a year.

10-university system

and replaced

governor-appointed boards
she explains. Hample,

who

the previous chancellor
action, says she

change might be in order,

knew

left

there

at

with

it

each university,

stepped in

when

because of that

was no chance of

saving the university system.

identify the system as a whole,

much

Penn

Park and

State refers to University

cites

reason she resigned as

chancellor of the Flonda system, which

she says, one that allows people to better

its

the State System

was formed. She

Florida lawmakers dismantled the

one or more

guess

when

of Higher Education

think the average citizen in

Pennsylvania

and pamt an accurate

picture as a whole."

replacing

also brings

What

to do, in addition, is take the

Pennsylvania's largest provider of higher

New leadership

those

traditions because there will be a continuing

values of the individual institutions.

the strengths of the System that, this year,

been

produced very high-quality teachers,"

Henderson, Tenn.

on

System,

University, has

"We never want

says she wants to build

among

students.

education," says Hample, a native of

Hample

A system

competition

"Historically, the strengths of the

Pennsylvania with years of higher education

"I've

Shippensburg,

Rock and West Chester

like

other campuses.

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is

wasn't forced out, but the

new

structure

quite a bit different in terms of the

relationship of the chancellor's office
universities," she says.

and the

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Hample earned

"We have

a bachelors degree in

keep

to

speech communication and secondary

quality education

education/French from David Lipscomb

affordable for

University in Nashville, Tenn., and

Pennsylvanians,"

master's

and doctoral degrees in
communication from Ohio State

says from her office at

University.

University Center, adjacent

lecturer

and director of

Dixon

Harrisburg's

to

She began her academic career as a

her home. "One thing

we

intercollegiate

Hample

do

are going to

(to

make

debate in the Department of Speech

contain costs)

Communication

our institutions are

Illinois at

at the

University of

running as

Champaign-Urbana. In 1998,

is

sure

efficiently as

she was hired by the Florida Board of

possible, optimizing the

Regents as vice chancellor for planning,

resources given to us

budgeting and policy analysis. She was

the state."

named

executive vice chancellor in

and chancellor

Hample answers

2000

in 2001.

As chair, Charles Gomulka conducts regular meetings of the State
System Board of Governors.

performance, Hample was

instrumental in securing an increase in

fundmg

two

for the past

years.

was her experience, knowledge of
higher education and educational style that
It

caught the eye of Pennsylvania leaders.
"I'm pleased with the

way Dr Hample

has taken over the position," says

Gomulka, who replaced F Fugene Dixon,
long-time chair of the State System Board
of Governors. "Fvery day I'm

thankful

we made

more

the decision to bring

her on board."

Governors, headed by

Gomulka.

system to measure and track each

state

to the

System's Board of

In Florida, where she spearheaded a

university's

by

She'll

need

to pull

from her experience

and knowledge when she goes before the
state legislature for funding. The State
System

is

its

make

desire to

one

seeking a $477 million state

appropriation to help fund

the university system act as

unit.

He

says a university system

$ I billion

business but, rn
operation, a request that

than the current
rarely receives

is

5 percent more

year's funding.

its full

The System

A Pittsburgh

businessman, Gomulka shares Hample's

many ways,

it

is

not a

can act as

one. The individual universities need
work together for common purposes

to

request from the

purchasing, for example.
state,

and government leaders warn

weakened economy could make

the

that

"We need

for

says
a

tough budget

Even with the increased
is

that university

year.

leaders

the System

to start acting as a system,"

Gomulka, adding
need

request,

not just their

projecting the need for

a tuition hike.

about the System

to think

own campuses

make decisions.
Gomulka says he would

—when they

like to see a

central admission system. Potential

students

would apply

campus

is

seeking.

agrees that universities need to

eliminate duplication of programs

must

to a

that has the educational strengths

a student

He

not to

to the System,

an individual university and be sent

and

specialize in particular fields.

"The problem
that the

is

there

is

14 universities are

teachers colleges," says

that perception
still

state

Gomulka. "The

fact

we are the largest
system in the number of students we're
educating. .but we need to be better
of the matter

is

that

.

organized."

He

also

programs

would

at

like to see doctoral

more System campuses.

Currently only Indiana University of

Pennsylvania offers a doctorate,

Gomulka's service on the Board of
Anthony Ceddia, president of Shippensburg University,
Hample during a break in the Board of Governors meeting.

President Jessica Kozloff, right, and

greet Chancellor Judy

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center,

Governors
as

is

voluntary, but he's putting in

much muscle and

drive as he does as

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maintain student housing on campuses.

president and chief executive officer of
Russell, Rea, Zappala 6s

Holdings

Inc., a

He

Gomulka

Gomulka was appointed to the Board
Governors in 1997 by then-Gov. Tom
Ridge, serving initially on the human
resources committee. He became the

of

"I

know some

I'm anti-faculty
case,"

he

recognizes that

and the son of a

where there

family to

their talents."

and

now

serves

Gomulka
makes

on

its

board of

faculty,

1969

programs seem

logical,

some

a high

demand

"I

among

our faculty

at

and

it.

Hample

is

Hample
if

"We have

who do

for the

number

met

members who

of alumni

Hample. "But the story

their individual institutions

is

"The alumni are among the very best
are

their assigned

duties."

messengers

we have," she adds. "They
who have already

are

the individuals

demonstrated their success and are out in
the

The changes they

field.

They

are leaders in the

community, leaders of the

state, like

Gov.

Mark Schweiker,

easily,

come
both agree. They

know

they will have to

mobilize the collective efforts of the alumni."

envision won't

I

think

it's

a

Bloomsburg graduate.

a matter of us finding

ways

convince the individual
universities, the state

legislature

and alumni.

Mike Feeley

is

assistant city editor oj

The Patiiot-News

The leaders of the State System of Higher Education Board of Governors
Chair Charles Gomulka, left, and Chancellor Judy Hample are involved in
decisions affecting 98,611 students.

about

and not the

collective whole.

carrying loads well



System

promoting our

gets distorted, because the story

dozens and dozens of

beyond

a large

a great job of

institutions," says

"They work hard

faculty

says the alumni can be the

form of advertising

they act as one voice.

the greatest

In the time I've been here, I've

asked for support, such as

funding.
for

very student-

says.

And

says the

lobbying the legislature for adequate

have been very impressed with the

centered,"

including a policy

who may be

greatest

saying they are

fact that

university

that allows private firms to build

to adapt to the

strengths of the 14 universities.

directors.

says his business background

privatization of

is

He

System needs a complete record of alumni

who

Both Gomulka and Hample praise the

and accounting from

Pittsburgh's Point Park College in

we need

one

praises alumni for answering

those calls will continue.

not the

that's totally

Gomulka

their university's call for support.

marketplace and need to compensate
faculty

Gomulka was the first in his
attend college. He graduated with

and

to play a

Higher Education.

people out there think

says. "But I'm also the

on the alumni

are counting

big role in the future of the State System of

be welcomed by the faculty union.

coal miner,

a degree in finance

They

that

"market base," a concept he knows won't

board's chairperson in 2000.

of Johnstown

pay system

rewards faculty on a "merit base" or

Pittsburgh-based

investment bank holding company.

A native

also supports a



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in

Hanisburg, Pa.

to

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B)'

Joe Rado created a motto for himself
as a

young

teacher and coach:

"Form the

habit of doing things that other people
don't

want

to do."

The Reading,

Pa.,

entrepreneur and

parlayed that philosophy into successful
careers

first

in teaching

and coaching, then

and now as president
of World Electronics.

in insurance sales

and

CEO

For Rado,
over business

that

philosophy meant fussing

letters

and mastering the

telephone, for starters, but

end

it

pertains to everything in your

life;

your marnage, your job, your children," he
says. "If

you can form the habit of doing the

things that

nobody

be successful

at

else

wants

and

customers nationwide and

to do, you'll

anything you want to do."

Long

sell

ma

"he's a

going to develop and

Long

believes Rado's outstanding vision,

few

service, degree of

automation and

employee quality

set

him

apart.

And, Long

adds, he transfers his experience as a

tremendously

successful guy," relates David Long, dean of

former coach

Bloomsburg

only as their leader but also as their

University's College of Business.

They met during the 10 years Rado

"I

found him

to

be a charming,

and

to his

employees, acting not

cheerleader.

served on the college's Business Advisory
Board.

As Rado
plant, his

a

through his

strolls

casually dressed



him
"Mr Rado."

smile and greet

loyal friend to the university for many,

many years," Long says.
From Palm Pilots to cell

employees," Rado explains.

"That's

phones,

depend on

the circuit

boards World Electronics manufactures.
"Joe's

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business

is fully

integrated into the

modem

—most young and

employees

comfortably as "Joe" or

electronic devices

is

notes.

business concept, quality products and

other countries.

Simply put,

that's

developing,"

boards worth $41 million for

gregarious, deeply involved person

didn't

there.

"It

that, this year, will build

circuit

1963 Bloomsburg University graduate

economy

For him, "success" means heading

all 7-employee technology company

Kim Bower- Spence

what

respect them,

it's

all

about today

"How you
how you empower them."

Learning "what makes people tick" and
applying his people

skills are the

most

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learned through the

Rado believes. This 1957 graduate of
Berwick High School and former all-state

years,

Rado oversees Sue Hunt

Pennsylvania employs nearly 160,000
high-tech wori^ers.

football player "never studied, never

opened a book," and
"I

was miserable

his grades reflected

at

taking

tests,"

the microscope inspection
area of production.
in

it.

The Keystone State has added nearly

he

5,800 high-tech jobs since 1B95.

"and probably dyslexic."

says,

But Rado's

father, a

plumbing and

heating contractor, insisted

He

education.

Since 1990, PennsyWania's high-tech

on higher

exports rose more than $2.7 million,

enrolled his son in a year

a

64 percent

increase.

of preparatory school as a post-graduate
to

him

prepare

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for college. After digging

www.

summer 1958,
entrance exam for

techinpa.org

ditches for his father in
the son took the

Bloomsburg

State Teachers College

and began studies

in

'

January 1959.

At Bloomsburg, Rado found his niche.

Yvonne M. Davis works in the raw component
stocl< area, where storage facilities resemble a
dry cleaner's revolving hangers.

Excelling at photography, he shot pictures
for

both the newspaper and the yearbook.

He joined

the college's

first

He

golf team.

quickly admits he didn't leam a lot of

-^

"book stuff as an undergraduate. Instead,
he

cites his

involvement with publications,

student government and athletics as the

most valuable experiences harvested from
college

He
by

life.

also learned to help people succeed

identifying their special abilities.

learned to

Rado
first

make

And he

others feel important.

him to
Upper Merion High

carried those skills with

teaching job at

his

School, King of Prussia, Pa., in 1963.

^

There he launched a program called
Occupational Education, where he taught
developmentally disabled students what
they needed to get a job:
application, get
get

home on

how

to

fill

Custom lighting
and design is
evident in engineer
Mike Urban's office
environment.

out an

an interview, make change,

a bus.

him m
was going
had no

But, the district terminated

1965.
at

it

in

"I

was an entrepreneur.

ways

in

which they

concept," he says.

"It

1

was probably a

blessing in disguise."

He spent

that

his father. In the

High School
teacher,

in

summer
fall,

as a laborer for

Lourdes Regional

Shamokin hired him

as

head wrestling coach, head golf

coach and assistant football coach.
Outstanding coaching records from 1963
to

1974 earned him induction

of athletic

honor

at

to the hall

Employee Nicholas
Roccamanta uses
the Auto Optical

Perkiomen School,

where he'd attended prep school.

He

Inspertion machine.

also dedicated himself to graduate

studies in psychology, guidance

and

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learning

and

would

invoices

power

increase his earning

his personal prestige.

"This

thought that

should leam as

I

about people as

And, on

"The customer

my field of choice,

was

his

I

way

so

is

explained. Instead,

explains.

to earning a master's

specific costing

news

The firm

World adopted

The

open

bright,

facility

in Reading

includes a high-tech "clean room"

where

a

system and publicized the

and shows.

in trade magazines

added a manufacturing plant
employing 16, in 1995.

also

in Indiana, Pa.,

going to get angry and

stop doing business with us," he

I

much

Rado

could,"

and stop taking unfair advantage
who needed elevator repairs.

of customers

electronic

manufactured

components can be

free of

dust and

An epoxy

degree from West Chester University

restaurant tables.

in 1970, he gained "the understanding

electronic discharge keeps static

about

why people do

things



an

-just

computer screens and check

Elaine, his college

had four daughters and a
young family grew, so did his

the couple
his

No one

He

teaching in 1974 to

left

racking
"I

Two

fit.

corporate awards.

later,

an

when he had

Rado's office includes a spacious,

The couple visited Elaine's
school chum whose husband was

new company.

contracted

U-shaped cherry desk and leather

a life-changing

He

encounter.

controller for a

is

three times a week.

insurance sales recognition conference in

Hawaii

trainer

work with employees. About half
participate, Rado notes. This former coach
comes in for a cardiovascular workout
to

he and his wife were

traveling through California following

A personal

weekends.

and more about people."

years

door Employees need

explains.

He believes employees also need to be
An in-house fitness center with locker
rooms is open much of the day and on

sell

learned a lot about business during

those years

at the

Rado

to feel safe,

a senior sales representative,

up numerous

for faults.

enters the facility without

an ID badge

insurance for Metropolitan Insurance Co.

and became

with

from

admission by a receptionist or swiping

son.

with teaching and his salary

dissatisfaction

finish

build the boards while technicians monitor

roommate's cousin, in 1964, and by 1975

As

many

destroying circuit boards. Robotic arms

incredible tool."

Rado married

The

dirt.

polished floor looks cleaner than

computer with

Reliable

chairs.

navigates a 19 -inch flat-screen
ease.

Family photos

line a

windowsill nearly the length of the room,

A Joe Rado pauses at his desk.

Elevator Rado, fresh off his sales meeting

while paintings of golf scenes decorate the

and eager

wall behind him.

to apply

what he'd learned,

discovered opponunities for insurance and

pensions

at the

fledgUng business. Despite

his East Coast location,

won

he

the

repertoire.

business and served as Reliable's insurance
executive until 1987.

In the meantime, Reliable purchased an

eight-employee electronics

West Chester,

company

in

Pa., that serviced elevators

throughout the country.

When Reliable

was acquired, it had to sell its interest
what had become World Electronics.

itself

in

"They came

to

me sometime

in the

middle of March 1985 and asked

would be

interested in

who made

the

Though employees balked at
now make

computer and

Braille devices; surveillance

equipment; and black boxes for buses and
trains.

Customers include AT&T, Lucent,

Agere and Emerson, and most business
domestic, with less than

the

three months, he simply listened

to

is

percent of their

started

buy computers, stop typing

My

friends," notes this grandfather of four

A

on

small water fountain gurgles

by the window, flanked by

a

$125 million

sail

the

company

in sales within five years.

Along with business growth came new
facilities.

Morgantown,

After 12 years

World moved

a small

"The Thinker" and a chunk of

about 50 pounds. That's a 400-millionyear-old fossil containing squids, a

gift

from employees, he explains.

A

door in the

end of the

far

office

to his personal "think tank," a small
vvdth leather recliner

go play

and

opens

room

A
—"an escape

television.

directly outdoors

hatch where

million in 1992-93 to $41 million for

and expanded

table

door opens

Business grew with customer

for

and observed employees. Then he
to move.
In March 1986, he instructed
employees

1

going to Canada, Mexico and the

to

It officially

1986 and,

golf.

family

rock about 18 inches across and weighing

profit-and-loss statement.

his in January

my

statue of

2001. Rado hopes to

became

and

around

revolves around

life

of circuits for communication, medical,

the

seeing

social life revolves

up only about 5 percent of the business.
The rest comprises contract manufacturing

confidence. Sales soared from $3.26

company without

"My

personal

elevator electronics repairs

such business basics as a balance sheet or

first

added telephone and

Philippines.

deal at his kitchen table.

He bought

first,

sales

if I

buying World

Electronics," recalls Rado,

In early 1987, he

calculator electronics to the company's

glass

can get outta here quick and

I

golf."

Of his

success, he explains:

"We took

the chance ... I think other companies like

World have
Everything

to
is

do the same

thing.

about money, about

So you make a good product and

selling.
sell it

and have fun doing

it."

1999; a 40,000-square-foot addition was

Kim Bower-Spmce

a freelance journalist

scheduled for completion early

from Berwick,

in

Pa.,

to a

44,000-square-foot plant in Reading in

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this

year

Pa.

is

Clockwise: Mulka stands with
his parents following

commencement

in

1966.

Today, Mulka's office

is

located in the remodeled
Mitchell House.

Each autumn while he

was

Bloomsburg student, Mulka
could be found on the
football field.

a

Some people bloom where

reshman. He bclic\-cd ho w as licadcd

they are

planted. That has been the experience of

John

S.

"Jack"

for university

Mulka

for a career as a public

'66, special assistant

advancement and director of

corporate and major

gifts at

Bloomsburg

University.

He

became

is

a place people

come,

government. His mentors

coach Walter

Blair,

Hoch, dean of instaiction

many

had

stay,"

he

it

a

wonderful place, and they

now

57,

was

a small

town kid

from the coal community of Taylor,

when he

—thought he

a future as a college administrator.

After earning a master's degree in

says.

Mulka,

the late Elton

Hunsinger, dean of students, and John

thinking they will stay a short time. So
find

and got inwiKed

a resident adviser

in student

football

"Bloomsburg

school teacher.

played football for four years,

arrived in

Bloomsburg

as a

Pa.,

student personnel administration, higher
education, at Ohio University in 1967,

Mulka

started his

first

job

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Through jack Mulka's involvement with the
Celebrity Artists Series, he and Kathy have met
top photo. Bishop Desmond Tutu, second from
left, and his wife, Leah, and bottom photo,

she graduated from
Bloomsburg, Kathy Mulka
instantly transformed from
college student to faculty wife.

actress Loretta Swit. Tutu's efforts to resolve

apartheid in South Africa were recognized
with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. Swit,
best known for her role in the TV show,

'M*A*S*H,' told Mulka, 'Of
I've

been,

all

the places

remember Bloomsburg.'

I'll

But he'd barely been there one

University.

when Bloomsburg administrators
recruiting him for a 12-month

for visitation in the residence halls.

semester

a discussion, a debate, that

started

years,"

He

position as director of student activities.
"I

questioned

know two
still

dating

because

my college

(Katherine,
in

it

I

classes of students

May and

now

would still
and I was

sweetheart

his wife). She graduated

immediately went from being

a college student to faculty wife"

two married, he

when

the

recalls.

works

knovra

as "Kathy,"

They have
Bloomsburg

in the admissions office.

two daughters: Meredith,
alumna, and Megan,

who

a

graduated from

Pennsylvania State University

"One reason I'm

able to stay fresh,"

says Jack Mulka, who's

Bloomsburg presidents,

my job
It's

changed

given

me

says.

recalls

turning 2 1 during a

campus

demonstration with fellow students

who

took time out from the protest to sing

"Happy Birthday" to him. At the time,
campus regulations permitted coed
visitation only at Homecoming and
Parents' Weekend.
". .and we had to leave doors open,"
he remembers. "It was policed by the dean
of students' staff, and they maintained the

worked
"is

for eight

because

at different intervals.

opponunities to leam

'two feet

One

on the

imagine going through
arts.

theater or the poetry of dance,"

he

says.

He learned to trust his own instincts
when hosting celebrity guests. Actress
Loretta Swit's agent said the "M*A'*S'*H."

was

star

a

modest

happy

soul,

"They said rent her some old movies

and

she'll

right,'

so

Turkey

be happy.

I

thought, 'This

we put her up

Hill

at

when

at the reception. Well,

Ausprich gave him the

after seeing his success in

improving Bloomsburg's inter-scholastic
programs.

Mulka

recalls, "I

'Dr.

Ausprich, what

arts

you could put

an administrator.

he

said,

'I'll

laughed.
I

know

said,

about the

in a thimble!'

laniero,

her host.

and about
said,

'I

I'll

a.m.

1

when

cities

hotels

former vice

president for advancement,

more trust in the students. "I vividly
remember how students fought

raise a

Mulka helped

$400,000 endowment

The experience changed

his

for the arts.

life.

I

and give

they put

I've

said to myself,

all

been,

Today,

I'll

our guests

said good-bye, she

me up

'When

I

go to

in scroungy

me old videos

This has been wonderful.

But

I

don't understand this.

major

to watch.

Of all

the places

remember Bloomsburg.'

Mulka

crisscrosses the country,

meeting with alumni.

parental-style rules to policies that placed

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I

teach you.'

With Tony

not

be glad to comply with her

wishes.' Well, she outlasted

develop the university's Celebrity

athletics

is

at

"Her agent told us she wouldn't stay
long

him

assignment

The Inn

with a reception to follow (her

'I'm

to

in

inexpensive motels.

former president Harry Ausprich asked

Artist Series.

life

moved

.without being

.

by

of his greatest professional

Mulka has witnessed change at
Bloomsburg as both a student and
agreed with the transformation from

"I can't

without the

Celebrity Artist Series performance).

floor' rule."

challenges occurred in 1986

different fields."

He

was

for

.

The Mulkas both enjoy Bloomsburg
University. Katherine,

he

It

went on

"I tell

them

of our

continuing successes, keep them informed,

even spend time reminiscing," he

says.

He's helping raise the final $1.5 million of
a

$15 million campaign.

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Wayne Whitaker '79 was a high school student
from the Bronx when he first rode a bus to
Bloomsburg. He went home that day, but he
came back

as a university student.

he stayed, making

Bloomsburg

.

.and then

a career in admissions at

University.

Whitaker's job as assistant director of

admissions and coordinator of minority
recruitment involves lots of travel to southeast
Pennsylvania, where he contacts prospective

He

students.

finds recruits close to

like his son, his
all

of

home,

too,

youngest brother and a cousin,

whom enrolled

at

Bloomsburg.

"We've got to walk the walk, not just talk the
talk,"

to

he

me;

"Bloomsburg has been wonderful

says.

supported

it's

me

in

all

sorts of ways."

The university has changed

a lot, particularly

in strengthening support for minority students,

since the days

when he was one

of just 100

students of color, he says.

Whitaker, a psychology graduate

who

also earned a master's degree in instructional

technology,

not alone in this fondness for

is

Bloomsburg University

as a career choice.

work
on campus, and many say their own memories
of student life help them in their work.
Close to 40 alumni currently teach or

Mulka was

the

first

of his family to

attend college, fulfilling the longtime

dream of hard-working parents who
left

school to help support their families.

His story

is

typical of

many Bloomsburg

University students, and he believes
that shared

background helps him

adds

this



big part of

l\/lull
Bloomsburg

career,

including his tenure

Debbie Scanlon Kresch completed her
studies for a bachelor's degree in business

as dean of student

administration/management in August 1984.

development

For the

in

1983.

last

four years, she has

an administrative

understand others.

To Mulka,

Communication
on the phone and in
person has been a

worked

as

assistant in the student

activities office.

common background

to the value students place

on

their

think

"I

Kresch

I

can

says. "I

relate to

students very well,"

have been where they are now."

Kresch, originalh' from PKinouth Meeting, Pa.

education.

"Students in

many

cases couldn't

found the

rural

atmosphere refreshing, but a

Mulka says. "(At the
state universities) they grow and mature.
They go into the professional world and

big contrast to home,

become

sophisticated over the years, pointing to the

afford other schools,"

"It's

successful.

great to see students

I

worked

with become CEOs, lawyers,

appreciate the time
to

evenings.
it's

It's

whatever

It

and energy

1

not just an 8 to 5 position;
it

takes,"

he

says.

tells

Now a

when

home

she

first

arrived in

Buckhom, she
has become more

resident of

students that the area

mall near her

was

makes me
was able
devote on so many weekends and

superintendents of schools.

Bloomsburg.

that didn't exist

when

she

a student.

"I

just

fell

remember

in love with (the area), but

feeling a

little

Debbie's husband,

1

can

isolated, too," she says.

Tom,

class of 1981, says

the pure enjo)Tnent of his student days turned

him from

a

Bloomsburg histon- major

into a

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not only see things from a

graduate student concentrating in higher

says. "I

Ohio
University. He came back to Bloomsburg
as an employee in 1984, after earning his

point of view but from a student point

masters degree.

comes back

education administration

funny" says Kresch. "Every

"Its

once in a while,

campus, and
shining, but

Good

Tom,
life,

my

the

way

the sun

me

He

he

"I

he

the best,"

guess

are

I

says.

still

liked

309

"Pan of it

he

me

are

now

.1

had

a great

and

in

.

says.

As

a student, Zalewski says

deference;

now

that

Bloomsburg. She was

the professors' last name,"
referring to faculty

he

when

Zalewski earned

Columbia University and earned

He

started teaching at

1999. His

fall

position

first

Bloomsburg

job was a

m the Lehigh "Valley, where he

degree in business administration/office

part-time adjunct position at
University.

when

last year, started

had put

one

she landed a temporary

permanent one,

job, then a

in

as a student

as a

understand what students are up against.

in April 1997.

She believes the campus contacts she

and her varied

"If

they

miss class

tell

clerk typist

life

to get to

if

know

the university's Continuous

it

they might have to

snows and they

from Shamokin or Mount Carmel,

know

on

me

when

experiences carry over to her

work as a
with Upward Bound and her

I

the area

and

my

I

class.'

On

"It's nice to know staff and faculty,
and the job gives me an opportunity to

Susan

know

m Bloonisburg.

Brook

is

well,

I

the other hand,

they are on campus, gee,

only a five-minute walk."

C.

are

say 'Don't risk your

Improvement Steering Committee.

students. That's a real plus," she

Kutztown

The associate professor says his history
Bloomsburg student helps him

a master's degree in

instructional technology,

in

clinical

discovered his love of teaching through a

information systems and,

working toward

a

New York

University

she

Bloomsburg five years ago.
Woods, who earned a bachelor's

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says,

from Bloomsburg in

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transferred her associate degree credits

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a

members Richard and

A Shamokin native,

at

a non-traditional

student and mother of a son

service

felt

hard, to get used to saying 'Hello

a master's degree

residence hall experience at

made

he

they are equals.

1988, went on to further graduate work

Penny 'Woods never had

semester

faculty

colleagues,"

Dianne Angelo.

contact."

to

audiology and

graduated from

was strange because many

taught

"It's

close

the guys living there.

We

who

takes

It

Tom Zalewski

teaches.

floor of

fond memories of living

Montour

roommate.

says

Rich, Hello Dianne,' instead of 'Dr'

in a residence hall.

was

office

to,

same department where he now

the

"It

says.

also has

speech pathology,

who

"My

getung used

a former student

member?

as a faculty

'87, assistant professor of

fondness for the

lost his

dorm, on the ground

in a

What happens when

experiences as a

ones, certainly."

associate director of residence

has never

Elwell,"

is

back, and

bustling nature of his career.
is

Ume

can be the

will bring

it

remember

student.

it's

it

staff

of view"

a litde

be walking on the

I'll

guess

I

maybe

of day or

I'll

at

it's

a freelance wnter who

lives

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girls

T.

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Burkhart

when

other

were buying Tiger

Beat or Teen, Brandi

Mankiewicz would
'Queen Brandi'

spend her weekly

scene

is

flanked by the only

— Mark 'The Shark' Shrader,

two

left,

'sharks' on the North American wrestling
and Shark Boy.

allowance on a
do anything except paint her

wrestling magazine at

"I

the local supermarket.
That magazine helped

fuel

Mankiewicz's

youthful fantasies, the fantasies that are

now

part of her everyday reality as the

nails or

put

knew I wanted

layouts.
to

be a writer since

Some

of the half-dozen

was good

"It
I

practice," she says,

Wrestling was just something that

But her experience in publishing dates

back

fascinated me."
started college at California

to

worked

her youth,

when

for a business

her

father, Alfred,

products

that provided printing services.

chain of independent professional

Bloomsburg University

taught her

wrestling magazines in North America.

year She graduated in 1994 and was

Growing up

remaining

for the sole

in the hills of

Pennsylvania's anthracite region,

Mankiewicz could be found helping her

named

after

her freshman

out of

on

the university's outstanding

how

register,

company
Her dad

to spot pages that

or not lined

up

were

properi)'

the press. She learned about halftones,

signatures and t)'pefaces, infoimation she

journalism graduate.

She credits her work

"and

learned the value of deadlines."

University of Pennsylvania, transferring to

managing editor

titles

have circulations totaling 200,000 copies.

I

was bom," Mankiewicz says. "And I knew
I wanted to do something with sports.

Mankiewicz

and

publication, including budgets

curlers in her hair.

at

Spectrum

uses toda\'
In October 1994,

Mankiewicz landed

grandparents on the farm, hanging out

Magazine, produced by Bloomsburg's mass

with her father

communications students, with gi\ing her

her dream job with Kappa Publishing,

many

parent compan)' to numerous wTestling

at the local firehouse or

playing with the neighborhood boys. She'd

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skills necessar}' to edit

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world of pro
wresding
even writing

about

it



is

dominated by men, and
Mankiewicz remains the only
female editor of wrestling
publications.
like a female joining a

"It's

fraternity" says

strange thing.
dues.

Mankiewicz.

You have

You just have

to

to

male

"It's

a

pay your

push and make

sure you're not turned away."

Mankiewicz has paid her dues
over the past seven years while

working

for the

company based in
Ambler At

the Philadelphia suburb of
first,

she says, the enormous wrestlers

would

give her

odd looks when she

walked into the locker rooms.
she
to

fits

right in,

prove

it,

Now

and she has photos

including snapshots of herself

The evening before The Rock debuted in the World Wrestling Federation, he and IVIankiewicz met
WWF Hall of Fame banquet in Manhattan. At that time. The Rock was known as Rocky Maivia.

at the

with The Rock and with the legendary

Hulk Hogan.

A New Jersey promoter who's been
in the business for

Mankiewicz "knows her

good

"She's very

at

stuff."

what she does,"

Wresding Association. "She brings
not the feminine

good

feel for

a perspective
fan.

She

is

it's

side. She's just got a

from outside of being

It's

a

have big egos, Kettner

side.

may be

Mankiewicz's

only coincidental that
out like a

office is laid

wrestling ring with desks

open space

wresders, Dilbert cartoons

and

a thick

schedule of deadlines, with the most

important ones highlighted in orange

marker

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duties, too.

happened
the

a columnist didn't

day, she

show up

took over his writing

She never did find out what

to

him, but his absence was just

push she needed

to

remind her

how

she enjoyed writing. She pens

responses to

letters

from

fans,

'It's

like

and her

a female joining

a male fraternity.

It's

a

strange thing. You have
to

pay your dues. You

in the middle. Lining the

walls near her desk are photographs of

York.

When

work one

and

computers on the sidelines and a huge

New

all slick,

She has the same respect

amateurs.

Mankiewicz seldom poses with wrestlers, but she made
an exception for Hulk Hogan at the Nassau Coliseum in

for

much

a true journalist."

both well-known wresders and

It

and The Wresder,

but Mankiewicz separates herself

from that
for

Inside Wrestling

photos.

a

and

the wresding business.

All wrestlers
says,

copy

edit

glossy publications with plenty of color

says Jim Kettner of the East Coast

different perspective to wrestling

Mankiewicz does more than

and check pages for titles like Pro
Wresding Illustrated, Wresde America,

34 years says

just have to push

make

and

sure you're not

turned away.

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best-known work appears

in the Pro

rising personalities.

Top Rope."

"It is

Part of pro wrestling's allure

elaborate story lines created

is

the

real,"

by "good

who team up

guys" and "bad guys"

known

and

in print.

"Queen

one of the bad guys, constantly

is

picking on the other side in her responses
to fans. In return, those fans
title

add

it is

it

by the bruises on

my legs

to her

I

all

idiosyncrasies. I've always

little

Mankiewicz says she learned

at least 40 hours a
and sometimes tallies as

in the office

many

as 80, counting time spent

wrestling programs

on TV and

watching

traveling to

shows.

Always close
in

be found

a year, she

at the

hanging out
is

farm on weekends or

Cherokee.

Mankiewicz doesn't

example:

A

remember

fan

wondering when World

she bought

Championship Wrestling
to

be on

spells

but the

man

television.

classic

WWF tag-team event
between Mike Rotundo

and Barry Windham,
famous wrestlers in the

magazine, yet

mid-1980s. The match

once you're writing on your

all

follower

who

as far in

life

will

was

You have
only get

his

as the person in

Mankiewicz's view of

all

she's sure

in

what could be described as an occupational hazard, Mankiewicz's friend, wrestler
Devon Storm, picks her up and tosses her when she attempts to photograph

her career

him

obstructed.

In

receives hate mail, her

good

fun.

growing up

ringside.

try to

I've

been

publication. Pro

lot of die stuff

there," she says. "I just

be as creative as possible."

Her job

where she takes photos
October, she spent a

and Hershey
at ringside. Last

week

at the

Wrestling Federation training
Cincinnati, meeting

all

this forever,"

World

camp

the big

Wresding

Illustrated 500,

the best in die business. That's

a tough job, she says, because she

must

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with 7-(oot-tall wrestler Kevin Nash,

who

weighs

ill

at

is

seen

who

365 pounds.

aren't included.

wrestling matches in East Coast cities like

New York

which ranks

explain her decisions to the wrestlers

also involves traveling to

Philadelphia,

the least bit

can see

"I

she says.

plenty of fodder for her columns.

can make fun of a

isn't

myself doing

in

the coal region gave her

because

a

Windam's eye

opponent.

says,

although she occasionally

"I

after

so he couldn't see his

Mankiewicz

And

and

manager rubbed

cigar in

front of him."

responses are

for the tide

Rotundo won, only

good

the qualities of a

matches, she has

one that features that 1984

from a (Pro Wrestling

lost.

Among her

videotape collection of

correctly

Mankiewicz's name.

own, you get

first

program she watched on

Queen Brandi's response:
"I am amazed that you could
correctly copy my last name
Illustrated)

at the

does remember the

contains

numerous grammatical
errors,

first

supermarket, but she

is

television.

letter

the

wrestling magazine

sends an e-mail message

The short

where she

back of her black Jeep

Wrestling World."

going

live

still

she often can

carries her turnout gear in the

"Almighty" and "Ruler of the

this

who

in the fire station,

descriptors like

Take

Pa.,

a fourth-generation volunteer firefighter.

She always

produces a special

to her parents,

Shenandoah Heights,

that

mom and dad.

respect for people from her

week

been

taught to respect people."

from

training camp."

Once

We

own

also very

Mankiewicz spends

Mankiewicz,

to wrestling fans as

Brandi,"

a lot of show, but

"On a human level, we all
make mistakes and have our

me," she says.
eat.

she says. "Everything they do hurts.

can prove

against

each other in the ring, as well as on
television

She went through

workouts with the big boys.

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names and

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really intense,"

with people from

all

she says.

"It

Michael

deals

over the world."

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T.

Burkhart

Courier-Post in

is

Cherry

a reporter (or the
Hill, N.j.

starry-

eyed or giddy over the wrestlers. To her,
they're just regular people.
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never see anyone as different from

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when you meet Mark

How did this

"regular guy"

President George

Schweiker:

end up

in die

predecessor
Office of

A

governor's chair?

The

hteral

answer has been in the news

since last September.

Under

Pennsylvania's

constitution, the lieutenant governor

"L.G." as Schweiker calls

automatically
office

if

it



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promoted

the sitting governor leaves

during the term. For Schweiker,

the step

up

or

the ladder

came when

Tom

W Bush

selected his

Ridge to direct the

Homeland

1975 graduate of Bloomsburg,

will serve the

Ridge's term.

assuming the
places his

.

.

and no more.

office

name

5,

even

promises that

in state
is

.

time

government

the third of the

alumnus of one of the

Higher Education
State's

to

is

the

modem
System of

become

chief executive.

more than

And, he

the Keystone

A graduate

of

Mansfield Normal School, William Alexis
Stone, served as governor from 1899

.but

for a short

as governor.

universities within the State

2001, as

remaining months of

annals. Schweiker

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first

Schweiker was sworn in Oct.
he

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lieutenant governors to spend

to 1903.

Schweiker admits that his
state's

new

role

requires a delicate balance of personal

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time and public commitments, but he

chance

relishes the

•%?

improve the

to

lives

of

Pennsylvania's citizens.

?««':.

"When

presented myself as a

first

I

candidate for (Middletown Township)
supervisor,

few years
time,

never thought

I

it

would

kind of opportunity," he

to this

I

after

held

I

concluded

says.

lead

"A

office for the first

that

like

I

it.

best out of me. At that point,

I

It drew the
saw office-

holding, over and above part-time, as part
of the future."

The main

'-^i

he carries from the

priorities

lieutenant governor's office to that of

governor focus on two

workforce

areas:

development and education.

economy

"As the

upon

who

the state's

slows,

jobs and get

lost

it is

government

incumbent

to take those

them back

into

"We
we need

paycheck-generating jobs," he says.

need

to

be quicker

to provide real

at that.

.and

.

world training

for real

world jobs."
Schweiker points

to the success of

CareerLink, a program sponsored by the

Department of Labor and Industry which
aggressively provides assistance to those

suddenly unemployed.

He

speaks of

relevant job training programs that prepare

employees

potential

for existing

openings

and the creation of new opportunities
"grow

ideas,"

to

such as biotechnolog)'

greenhouses where research

will lead to

medical innovations and improved quality

'^^^

of

life.

The governor

also speaks with great

respect about the important role of teachers.

"Look

number
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my schedule," he says. "Any
my days begin just 'talking

at

of

shop' with teachers. .(finding out) what
.

they think Pennsylvania ought to do to

Jr.

support schools and nurture growth.

have the opportunity as

I

d:ie state's

governor to highlight the nobility of that

^m.

profession, the importance of dial
profession."



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of Schweiker's effort in the early

days on his tenure centered on improxing
the Philadelphia public schools.

breaks your heart to stand in a

"It

grade classroom and
kids won't

make

it

know

first-

that half the

to their senior year,"

he

more than a remark about
academic quality and the achie\-ement of
kids and graduation rates. .You really
hamstring the economy because the skill
says.

"And

it's

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education dictate whether or not someone

way

economy

is

one point on which

universal agreement. That

and we who teach

additional security officers at the

there's

we who

nuclear power

lead

all

have the assignment

on any of those
And when you
hurt
the
economic
counts, you

of creating a sense of

wonder and promise

performance of the

suburban or

can earn their

in a digital

flub

As

state."

a strong supporter of education

across the state

—and someone who once

about Pennsylvania

be introduced as needed.

short tenure as governor, a tenure he

for l
limited to allow

At his swearing-in ceremony

family

last

—enhancing
—and followed up by

Schweil^er believes students' needs differ

and

based on their geographic location.

National Guard troops in airports and

more time with his
and Eric

wife Kathy, sons Brett

But while he

Pennsylvania's safety

security



and daughter Kara.

October, Schweiker mentioned a third
priority

POWER OF

will

state's

says other

Schweiker's goals are ambitious for his

rural."

considered a career as a teacher

THE

measures

He

facilities.

concept that

placing

not your

"to

own

he accepts the

in office,

is

some

extent,

your

life is

as the state's governor."

ENERGY

POSITIVE

Gov. Mark Schweiker doesn't hide his love for his alma mater.
"It is

a privilege to be able to advance the Bloomsburg

"Some

University cause here in the Capitol," he says.
exciting

moments have been

assistance from the

my more

of

to return with a pledge of financial

Commonwealth

treasury, to

the opportunity to apply a direct hand

in

know am

given

I

the improvement of

the college experience there."
Schweiker's "direct hand" includes construction of the

Andruss

Library,

renovation of Centennial

Hall,

"new"

the release of

$6.5 million for a major addition to Hartline Science Center and

planning for an upcoming renovation of Navy

"But with
striking,"

all

the change on campus,

Hall.

ambiance

its

is still

Schweiker says, admitting he's always been

awe

in

of

the campus' physical beauty.

As a college freshman,
area

in

"I

was coming from the suburban

Bucks County and going up to this

Bloomsburg.

It

rural

gem

was an eye-opener not only because

physically different environment, but also because

brought to

life

of the upper

campus

at dusk

coming on below... just gorgeous," he

pretty smart

when was 17
I

turning 18 that

I

and the

says. "I felt

chose

Regarding

his educational

it,

after being

experiences at Bloomsburg,

Schweiker says he was "absolutely prepared" for
don't recall one prof or instructor that

high and dry. There

with

a

few weeks."

there for a

"I

was

was

it

by good caring people.

"When you come out
lights are

called
it

whom

I

was

I

a positive energy about

had contact that

I

his life's

felt left
all

work.

me

of the adults

found to be supportive, a

memorable dynamic."
Schweiker says he's sung the university's praises over the
years with at least 50 potential students. "I've never had to pull

my

punches.

place with

(I

tell

some

that last through

them) Bloomsburg

of the best training
life in

And, he's proud his
"I like

is

a wonderful, supportive

and

instruction

and friends

a beautiful setting."

name

is

a permanent part of the university.

walking into the library foyer with our kids and

saying, 'What's that say?

kick out of that."

The Mark

S.

Schweiker Room.'

I

get a

"As someone
'governor,'

I

who

have to

has the

fill

important institutional
does cut

down on

title

some kind

of

the shoes of a very
role.

Sometimes,

who

and don't

for dinner

stay

January 2003, he expects to be back in
the business world with

own, but he

confined to an office but, instead, are out

his

community and remain accessible.
I do question
officeholders who think they've become

at the

in the
It's

home

whenever possible and combines family
outings with pubfic appearances. After

in Pennsylvania value officeholders

don't offer pretence

of governmental royalty That's

my M.O."

For now, he rushes

it

accessibility. That's

troubling to me," he admits.

"We

not

The ffcinorable
Mark S. Schweiker

a balancing act.

can't

more time

look that

far

to call

ahead

moment.

"Right now,

my hands

are full guiding

the ship of state," he says.

Bonnie Martin

is

co-editor oj

Bhomsburg magazine.

Born: Jan. 31, 1953

Hometown:

He's pretty much moved
right to the top of the list.'

Levittown, Bucks County

Spouse: Katherine Schweiker
Family: Married; three children

Term

Expires: January 2003

—Sophomore band member Megan Reppert of Coatesville commenting
on Schweiker's place among prominent Bloomsburg University alumni
fr/ie Patriot- News, Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 6, 2001)

Education: Bishop Egan High School, 1970;
Bachelor of Science, Bloomsburg University,
1975; Master

in

Administration, Rider

1983

University,

Merrill Lynch, McGraw
own management-consulting firm

Employment:

Government
Supervisor,

Offices:

Hill,

Middletown Township

Lower Bucks County, elected 1979;

Bucks County Commissioner, elected 1987;
Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor, elected

1994 and 1998; Pennsylvania Governor, sworn
in Oct. 5,

2001

Accomplishments: Pennsylvania's PRIME
initiative

savings

generating more than $600 million

in

Weed and

Seed, a crime-fighting partnership

between law enforcement and
first

in

government spending; Pennsylvania

citizens

state-sponsored program of

its

and the

kind

Honors: Bloomsburg University, 1990 Alumnus
of the Year; Pennsylvania branch of the Nature

Conservancy for Outstanding Service to
Conservation, 1993; Technology Council of
Central Pennsylvania's Technology Advocate of

the Year, 1996; Citizens Against Government

Waste, Outstanding Achievement Award for
Putting Taxpayers
Gov. Mark Schweiker '75 addresses the

gathering at the Capitol after taking the oath
of office last October.

First,

1997; Pennsylvania

Economy League Commitment
Local

to Excellence in

Government Award, 1998; Pennsylvania

League of

Cities

and

Municipalities'

Outstanding Public Service Award, 1999;

Speech Communication Association of
Pennsylvania, Speaker of the Year, 2000

From

PennsylvaniSf's Official

www.state.pa:us

Web Site,

At 4

on the
coldest day of
a.in.

the year, they're
investigating

a

fire. Later,

making
recommendations

they're

to a judge

about sentencing
or arranging
counseling for a
juvenile offender.
"They" are Bloomsburg University

who make

graduates
their

life.

law enforcement

They may have

a

few

complaints, but they're in for the

long haul. They don't talk about
liking their jobs; to them,

it is

something more.
"You get great satisfaction out of
seeing these things through and
solving cases, bringing people to
justice," says

Bob Mull

'69. "I

spent

30 years with the Pennsylvania
State Police,

doesn't

seem

but looking back,

it

that long."

Though he

retired as a

corporal and a criminal
investigation supervisor. Mull

says his greatest satisfaction
as

came

an investigator
"In 1993,

case.

An

1

was assigned a homicide
woman's house was

elderly

broken into and burglarized, and she was
killed.

We

solved the case and

arrest in three days,"
"It's

says

really not the

Megan DeSamo

amount
'90,

Scranton (Pa.) Police

how you

help the kids."

DeSamo, who recently was promoted
10 years on patrol, takes over where
off. If

they're

unable to

make an arrest, their case goes to an officer
like DeSamo, who interviews the victims
talks to witnesses

"Success stories are few and

but

after

and

does make you

it

make
officer

"And

between,
if

you can

and super/isor

in

an adult probation

he

"Seeing kids 'turn around'

my

is

the

most

job)," she says.

to turn

25

years,

from a

'I'm

six

"He

you

through

called to say,

going to Alcoholics Anon\-mous.

I'm working.'
like that,

it

When you

makes you

hear things

feel

good."

But what about the action, the danger,

and we're tr)nng

them around within

man who'd been

the judicial system.

the hard

—dysfunctional backgrounds,

in there for

get

Recently, Avellino got a thank
call

to succeed,"

"Some have come up

say,

yet

that success.'

Northumberland

that.

"You want people

some pull themselves up,
on the right track. And then
'Boy, I had a little bit to do with

and they

you

Jr. '73,

County, Pa., seconds

way

far

good

a difference."

Peter Avellino

says.

feel

dysfunctional families. They've been

aixests.

satisfying (part of

Police as a criminal investigation supervisor.

of arrests,"

an acting juvenile

"It's

makes

from the Pennsylvania State

made an

Department.

and the suspects,

'69 retired

he remembers.

officer in the

patrol officers leave

Bob Mull

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the shoot-outs



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and glamour

of Hollywood?

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he

says.

And,

at the

end

of a successful
investigation, the
results are

rewarding.

"Those are kind
of nice



the

j

individuals
Bryon Dailey of the

U.S. Postal

have

Inspection Service

j

their

credit restored

Stamping Out Crime

^

and the bad
guys are
arrested."

"We're called the silent semce,"

Bryon Dailey

76

says of the U.S. Postal

Inspection Service.

even

know we

The
only

"I

don't think people

exist."

but

is

the oldest federal law

enforcement agency, established shortly
after the postal service to protect the

sanctity of the mail. In the film, "Butch

Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,"

who were

postal inspectors

Butch's

tail



their favor,

postal inspectors

Postal Inspection Service not

exists,

the odds in

it

was

hot on

usually arrest

people early in the morning or very

the

man

employees

by

to possible anthrax

to catch

him on

contamination. They have the same

firearms, serve

and make

subpoenas and warrants

arrests as the FBI, Alcohol,

Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), but
only they can open sealed mail.
There's very little theft by employees,
even

2 percent stealing mail,
'

if

that's

you have

a large

number." The semce also deals with
c hild

porn ography,
il,

illegal

dnags moving

fraudulent schemes

nvestigations were

— ,.—

and contamination. More

often, Dailey of Springfield, Mass.,

on fraud
where
in

works

cases like identity takeovers,

a ciiminal obtains credit cards

someone

else's

In credit card
.en lose

money

name.
fraj'^'^"'

bu,.

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little

more

.

.if

he'd had

sleep."

caseworker in Reading.

He

later

life

as a

took the

service test for the post office

and

started with the postal service as a clerk

in 1980.

He

jebple don't
lose their

his

eventually

He

become an

talks

career as an

went through the
in a

inspectors get involved at the

lot

first

sign

risk stepping

can come up

says. "But situations
there's

no book

to

go

on

to rely

their training

extensive. Their

first

officers

—and

pnority

is

to

it's

keep

everyone, including themselves, from

being injured.

of times (our involvement)

doesn't include arresting people, just
disciplinary action or

maybe removal.
feel

you did

some good."

"We just

enforcement, paperwork

Sometimes

tactics are
is

the

used

number one

for us, for the family or children or

Mull agrees. "You're the

necessary

is

defense.

several years pass

trial. "If

you don't

have the paperwork, you're

issue

anyone

so

You

can't

you have

incident without
says.

last line

of

depend on someone
to put yourself in a

precarious position and try to resolve the

anybody

No one knows what

"Maybe they should arm us with pens,
officers

rather than guns."

our

defensively Safety

else,

before cases go to

don't start shooting," Avellino

says. "All of

who's there."

Just like other areas of law

here, too.

more

or pursuing a criminal too

minute, and

need

of trouble.

"A

he

traffic

That means law enforcement

Fewer

facilities.

no
him and he never had to

at

state police,

through."

postal," coined after several fatal

shootings at mail

Mull

that's for sure,"

weapon.

out into

inspector.

about the term "going

TV

"You're probably at

fast,"

process to

like

30 years with the

one ever shot
fire

ci\'il

not

says. In

embarrassed on the stand," he
v.aJ

of required

in his

adult probation officer.

"It's

a

They're cases where you
;lhey could deal with the

mounds

"He said

incidents occur now, he says, because
force of over 700,000,

'73 says the

Jr.

paperwork can be overwhelming

way out

the

his underwear," Dailey says.

Dailey began his professional

authority to investigate offenses, carry

Peter Avellino

took off

"We had

he could have gotten away.
to theft

late

a

morning, they arrested the woman, but

ill

from smashed mailboxes

and

case, a inan

woman charged $500,000 on false credit
cards. When inspectors arrived early one

^because in those days,

trains carried the mail.

one

at night. In

getting hurt."

circumstances

might confront in the

field.

A

suspect might be using drugs or alcohol.

from mental

suffer

illness or

The probation

have an

County write

arsenal of firearms.

Northumberland County were armed only
changed

as the

number

For each report, the

much

That

recalls.

officers in

of drug cases

pre-

life,

work

history

The public seldom
and

background. The report also

facing people with automatic weapons.

includes details about the arrest and the

Now

victim's perception of the incident.

must pass

mace and

use of each.
Officers also are expected to

have a

higher level of formal education.

state police,

When

only four or

five

at least

two

Then

there's the

agree that compiling

and completing paperwork

is

their least

"There's a lot of

more than you
says,

see

adding that one

30 cases

And

at

police shows," Mull
officer

may handle
work

is

time-consuming and slow.
"You think of

all

A side
outsiders

the possibiUties that

determine

if

there are any technical

services that can help you,"

Mull

says.

But, the cooperation of co-workers

makes

investigations

smoothly, he adds.

move more

outside,"

and

security checks for the

Federal Office of Personnel

Management.

of law enforcement

seldom see

is

the sadness.

telling parents their

son or daughter died was
"It's

difficult.

a very unpleasant task,

there's

nobody

else to

do

and

it,"

says.

He's

worked on

his share of

child abuse cases, rape cases

other grisly crimes.

to

"It's

and

not fun to

try to

home

go

your family and get back into

normal mode. But you learn

can occur, you think of different avenues,
try to

happen too

doesn't

do them, and then

one dme.

a lot of investigation

on the

speaks of the frustration of

he adds.

it,"

paperwork involved,

on

He

often that the attorney questions

he

favorite task.

says.

Investigations

"It

For Mull,

paperwork. Mull,

he

Today, Bob Mull conducts background

years of college or military service.

DeSamo and Avellino

"Sometimes we're the only

spends part of his time documenting

people in his class had college degrees.

Now applicants must have

clients.

challenge the information, so Avellino

everything.

"Standards are rising," Mull says.

he joined the

sees the one-on-one

The catch? The defense attorney can

training in the

a

to

deal with the unpleasant parts."

DeSarno
v/ith

finds the sex cases

young victims very

disturbing, especially
she's

now

that

married and has children

of her

own.

"It's

sister,

says.

time probation officers put in with their

relationship they have

financial

they carry firearms, pepper

of hats: sociologist,

whatever to these people," Avellino

officers gather as

information as possible regarding

the person's personal

lot

psychologist, doctor, parent, brother,

increased and, suddenly, officers were

handcuffs, and

'Tou wear a

Northumberland

many as 700

sentencing reports for the court each year.

Until 1989, probation officers in

with handcuffs, Avellino

as

disheartening,"

she says.

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Avellino stumbled into

helping clients get counseling for

working

watching them

when his job was

back into addiction

"You think, 'Maybe

again.

everything
is

slip

I

didn't

If

But

the career

isn't as

TV and

glamorous as

it

officers are faced

those mountains of paperwork,

why

did

cut in the mid-1980s,

"It

DeSamo and

Mull, police

work

was something

do throughout high

militias

DeSamo

school,"

says.

"We

don't go

by the adage,

fix it,'"

'If it

ain't

professor of sociology, social

work and

and ethnic and

"It's

terrorism, have their roots in politics.

"It's

their political antecedents,"

members

They
bounce ideas

of a tag-team relay

finish
off

professor Leo Barrile, agrees.

about what makes a good program.

in 1983, Barrile

work

at the university

expanded the number of

criminal justice courses offered.

About

and Slone got the

three years ago, he

they're

constantly improxang

it

more competitive with
The department

and making

offers internships

agencies from the obvious
U.S. Marshals

Semce and

agencies, state

and

institutions,

it

larger programs.

—such

with

as the

other federal

local police, correctional

county courts and victim-

witness assistance programs
obscure, like law offices,



to the

more

summer youth

"Our curriculum

own

ability

motivated.

To that end,

both

men

require lots of

reading and
writing in their

but they

textbooks.

They

of real cases.

regular police

with

work coming

in a strong

second. Graduates also like working with
juveniles. "They're young,

and

I

think they

"They

stick with

the students,"
Barrile says.

just connect," says Barrile.

One

of five

new

courses debuting this

spring focuses on political crimes. Barrile
says

many

crimes have political

antecedents—and
about

terrorism.'

he's

not just talking

Crimes committed by

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same way with

a

good book."

Right now, students in the juvenile

a British case

old

who

from the 1970s

killed



a 10-year-

two younger children. "My

goal as a teacher," Barille says,

lifelong learners

books in

"is to

help

and seek out

their fields. If they stop readi

they stop learning."

for

used as

a reference

point. Students
will

come back and

say,

'Remember

that case?'

Barrile, left, and Neil Slone make constant
improvements to the university's criminal

Leo

justice major.

dependable and

work

field,

^

are

prefer examples

most popular

good movie. You're immersed

students in technical areas, like

Slone learned that parole and probation
the

broadly rooted in the

he adds, but they're looking

who

don't use

is

is

ethical,

classes,

and

like a

you're part of the scene," Slone adds.

students with writing

and women's

In a survey of gi'aduates, Barrile

lives

Agencies often prefer to train

liberal arts."

programs, insurance claims investigations
centers.

it,

become

"We're not a tech progi'am," Slone says.

forensics,

tinkering vAih the curriculum,

still

other's sentences,

a freelance wnter who

is

one another and have similar ideas

their

coursework approved as a major, and

each

was just impressed by
'I want to do

thought,

delinquency class are reading a book about

he says

In conversation, Barrile and Slone are
like

"I
I

turned out to be a good decision."

Laurie Creasy

in

criminal justice major. His colleague,

to

that.' It

religious hate

criminal justice, says of the university's

When he came

those people, and

groups, as well as state-sponsored

Neil Slone, associate

a couple state troopers in

in Catawissa, Pa.

"Students have to be keenly aware of

broke, don't

a half to

always wanted to

I

She earned a bachelor's degree in

Reading, Writing...
and Arresting

knew

Mull

his neighborhood.

for

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was the culmination of a long-held dream.

with

they go into law enforcement?

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position.

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and he applied

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A

Global
Perspective
Campus becomes home
Model

to

UN program

"We're not alone in the world."
That's the lesson

Diana Zoelle,

associate professor of political

hopes high school

science,

away with them after
come to campus later this
month for a regional Model United
students take

they

Nations program.
Zoelle's research in international

human

nghts sparked her interest

in bringing a
to

Model

Bloomsburg

UN

to serve

program

nearby

high school students. The
simulation gives students the

opportunity to research and
represent a foreign country in a

mock

assembly, expressing the

views of the country on a wide
range of international matters.

The Mount Olympus townhouse complex offers premium housing for students.

"Understanding other peoples

IVIovin'
New

on Up

apartments

The end

and

home

result of

to

246 students

is

from students and

community

Bloomsburg University's

$6.8 million project to create additional

campus housmg

drawing rave reviews

"The university

to deal

for
is

combining the

a

the six-person units that feature air

senior accounting major

conditioning and single bedrooms, with

from Mount Carmel,

Students have been moving into the

apartments since

last fall as

sections were

Ed Valovage,

IS

parental

who

assistant director for

new tovmhouses

operations, says the

premium housing

offer

also eases

retired after

will hopefully

Jennifer, a senior

in last

living

on campus,"

Senior Andrea

from

says Valovage.

Ritter,

an elementary

education major from Middleburg, Pa.,
living

comes with

as a

coach

at a

he's

seen

at

institutions across the state. His daughter,

is

also the sense of security

37 years

pnvate university, says the townhouses

There

a bonus.

campus

womes.

encourage students to remain on campus.

on-campus

Deanna Pensyl

compare favorably with those

for students.

"The townhouses

says

it

psychology major, moved

fall.

With the addition of the Mount
Olympus Apartments, Bloomsburg
University

now

houses 46 percent of

full-time undergraduate students

campus, above the

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State

its

on

System average.

world

is

must

realize that

our

better,

but part of the world community"

Pa.

but

as the

not separate or

not only safe and convenient

for their students,

own
of

struggles against

We

Lewisburg resident Thomas Thompson,

completed.

now

country

living.

Parents believe the additional

housing

new era

terrorism.

The new townhouses also give students
sense of "home up here on campus," says

Construction began in October 2000 for

and

and

safety, security

convenience of living on campus with the

independence of apartment

accessibility.

"especially

community

she says.

approximately 3,500 residential students.

the safety of sprinkler systems

with landlords,"

Other students praise the apartments

Located on the upper campus, the

in this

globalization," says Zoelle,

will take care of us,

and you don't have

their parents.

Mount Olympus townhouse complex
home to 246 of Bloomsburg

handicap

their cultures is just as

important as knowing your

Diana Zoelle

SPRING 2002

An Eye
Alumna

Highway

for the

takes top honors for traffic reporting

Traffic.

The bane of commuters everywhere. Pittsburgh

Trisha Pittman, who's

Pittman '99

is

on

made

a career of reporting

the Pittsburgh airwaves

KDKA-TV and radio, and

on

area drivers have an ally in

—and being

the best.

it

weekday mornings from 5

to

9

for

again on the radio only from 3 to 6 in d^e afternoon. Her

Award (AIR) from the March of
50 Finest" in Pittsburgh Magazine.
She earned the kudos by hardnosed-reporting and putting listeners' needs first.
"My listeners don't want to know that there's an accident on the Parkway West," says
Pittman. "They want to know that there's an accident inbound at the Greentree off-ramp
involving three vehicles, one of which is overturned. More than that, they want to
reportage has earned her an Achievement in Radio

Dimes and given her notoriety

Trisha Pittman

know when

it

wall

The monitors show real-time images from more than 50 cameras on
up with calls to police.
"I

have to

know what

they know," says Pittman.

I

"Pittsburgh's

Traffic

all

Management Center

major roads leading

in

outfitted

and out of

with a wall of 19 monitors.

Pittsburgh.

or dispatchers, I'm pleasant, to the point

call the police

Then she

follows

and won't take no

an answer."

The

tenacity

down, your

is

appreciated.

"I

love

when

a fan calls

and

says,

Tou

really

helped

me

out of a jam this morning,' or 'You never

is

the

way she can use her

celebrity for charitable causes, the Cystic Fibrosis

can convince a company that wouldn't part with a dime to contribute a couple hundred.

bottom

line is all

They

let

me

reports are right on.'

But she says the best part
"I

"When

one of

be cleared."

To get the information she needs, Pittman reports from PennDOT's

for

as

Foundation in

particular.

kinda sneaky," she admits, "but the

good."

Business

IVIean

Alumni return

It's

to recruit

Homecoming

It isn't

Weekend

that brings

campus. Instead,

it is

or Alumni
some grads back

to

the annual

Career/Internship Expo.
Recruiters with that

Bloomsburg

connection say they return to the campus
because they are searching for the best
possible interns

and employees. And, they

know where to find them.
"We know the caliber of students
Bloomsburg produces," says Michelena
"Miki" Smith '00,

human resources
Commerce Bank.

representative with

Smith attended the expo with co-worker
David Marcolla

Their employer recruits Bloomsburg
graduates for

David Marcolla '00 represents

its

management development

program headed by Susan Snyder

Gatti '93,

go

to

work on day

Homak

eight or nine

program Marcolla recently completed on
his way to becoming branch manager.

including

Another Bloomsburg alumnus, Cecil James

career expo.

'77, serves as regional vice

president of

Pa., operations.

is

fabulous,

and they

one."

last fall's

Career/Internship Expo.

are ready to

employs

Bloomsburg alumni,

Tim Williams

Scholl '94,

positions, as well as a

'00

and Jessica
who accompanied him to the

Erica Keiper '98, recruiting supervisor
for Enterprise-Rent-A-Car,

Mark Homak '90, systems analyst with
Siemens, says, "We do heavy recruitment
in the Bloomsburg area. The quality of the
students

employer. Commerce Banl<, at

says his department

a

Bucks County,

his

'00.

was looking

for

We

group

rental

have had success with

and wish
Bloom

Bloomsburg students

in the past

to continue to recruit

and

hire

grads year after year."

About 40 alumni took part in the
by several campus
organizations including the Academic

career expo, sponsored

Internships office, where 60 fimis

interns.

"We

manager.

attend because

Bloomsburg graduates

we have

recruited for interns

that are cuirently in

our trainee program and management

As

Homak

said,

and employees.
"Bloomsburg opens

doors."

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Heads... and Hands... for Art
Alumni work behind the scenes

at

National Gallery

Ask Douglas Jackson and Lehua Fisher

names

the

and

of the people they

work with



up Smith,
Then youll find da Vinci,
Van Gogh and Picasso.
Jackson and Fisher, art history grads
from the class of '96, work with these
the regulars will turn

could increase the

chance of damage
to the works.

"What

Jones, Miller.

artistic giants first

hand,

literally, at

really

matters are the
physical

and

environmental
conditions. For one

the

very

National Gallery of Art in Vv'ashington,

thing, light

D.C. But for these professionals, every

damaging," says

piece

is

pampered, not just those most

Fisher,

"Nothing

I

work on can be damaged,"

says Fisher, a paper conservation

technician at the

Douglas Jackson and Lehua
approach to art.

the galleries aren't

museum. "You make

sure

staff

paper conservation department

because the loss of sensitivity in touch

both 1996 graduates, take a hands-on

Fisher,

too high.

supports and

Jackson, an art services specialist,
handles,

prevent creases."

Gloves are rarely used by the

often

make

sure light levels in

your hands are always clean, and you

in the

who

checks to

familiar to the public.

is

packs and often travels

installs,

artwork.

with an objects. "Every step has to be

done by an
problem

hang

a

expert,"

solving,

he

says.

such as

300-pound

"A

lot

of

and the people

on the

them

new

"Even

who knows

safe."

it's

it.

about handling the

what

"It's
I

thrilling.

do, the behind-the-

scenes work."

weight can break an object,"

says Jackson,

it

appreciation of

Particularly for

pounds.

own

installing

object," says Jackson.

to

position bronze pieces that weigh 6,000

"Its

a

"For me,

technical challenge. In a recent exhibition

Henry Moore's work, Jackson had

he knows

keep both the object

to

artwork in such a personal way gives

wall?"

Sculpture, in particular, can be a

of

as well as

For both Jackson and Fisher, seeing

it is

how do you

picture

lifts

"We have

Fisher,

strapping.

else,

if I

don't like an object," says

can appreciate

"I

it

something

for

the history or the quality of

workmanship."

A

Century's

Work on CD

Pratt compiles, indexes journal articles for association

A three-year project by

Donald

Pratt, associate professor of

secondary

education and educational studies, placed 100 years of journal
the fingertips of
Pratt,

math and

articles at

science teachers.

former executive secretary for the School Science and Mathematics

Association, indexed articles that appeared in the association's journals

over the past 50 years.

He then added

half-century of journals created

The

resulting

than 12,000

seven-CD

by

his

work

to the

a fellow association

set features a searchable

full-text articles

index of the

database of

CD

set is available to the

libraries that subscribe to the journal, as well as association

Pratt received the association's

Award

at its

indexing project.
Donald Pratt

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

more

published since 1901 by the School Science

and Mathematics Association. The

Service

first

member.

3,000

members.

George G. Mallinson Distinguished

centennial celebration last

fall

in recognition of the

SPRING 2002

Volumes

Knowledge

of

History profs publish three books
Professors

Nancy

Gentile Ford

and Jeanette

Keith have added three books to the worlds

body of history knowledge.
Ford, who focuses on 20th-century political,
ethnic and mihtary history, published "Americans
All! Foreign-Bom Soldiers in World War I" and
"Issues of War and Peace."

Joseph Ziegler

"Americans All" looks

Work

Ready

to

Grad named

state's

at

how

top intern for

acknowledging and respecting

work

at a

Ziegler

began

"Issues of War

his internship

leam

how

to use their

summer

in a

week.

computer software

making

it

Japan during World

Concise History" The two-volume
race

and gender

War

II.

Civil

company,

set incorporates

issues, literature, historical essays

and documents from

then turned his attention to
better for the

in

the problem with her fourth book, "The South, a

Bloomsburg University

work

a collection of essays

her class on the history of the South, so she solved

management (CRM) software

He

is

Keith couldn't find appropriate textbooks for

marketing major learned the customer
relationship

Nancy Gentile Ford

and Peace"

bombs

of atomic

to

a project at the end.

Instead, the

and

about military controversies, including the use

software firm last summer, his supervisors

expected that he would take the

and report on

their religious

cultural traditions.

at software firm

When Joseph

the military

"Americanized" foreign-bom soldiers while

before, during

and

after the

War.

Jeanette Keith

Bentley Systems Inc. of Exton, Pa.

For his drive and work
a

ethic, Ziegler,

December 2001 graduate from

Downingtown,

Pa.,

was named

Putting people before technology

Mention computer software and Karl Kapp,
the

associate professor of instructional technology,

Pennsylvania Association for Internships

and Cooperative Educations 2001 Student
of the Year in a non-technical field.

thinks about people

first,

computers second.

That humanistic approach
"Integrated Learning for

ERP

is

apparent

Success:

A

in,

Learning

At Benriey Systems, a firm that creates

Requirements Planning Approach," which Kapp

computer aided design software, Zeigler was

coauthored with William F Latham and Hester

a

member

of a six-person team responsible

for generating

$13 million in

service

contracts.

Ford-Latham.
ERP, which stands for Enterprise Resource

Planning,

"He had taken

responsibility for reporting

on and presenting an

analysis of our sales

is

a software

system that serves an
Karl

Kapp

organization from order entry, to inventory

management

to final shipping of the product.

opportunities," says his supervisor Erika
Linsalata, director of

marketing

at

Sharing the joy

customer relationship

Walter Brasch, mass communications professor,

Bentley "Each week, he tracked

the opportunities identified in our

CRM

recently published his 14th book, "The Joy of Sax:

America

system and tracked the changes from the
previous week.

He

defined the scope and

requirements for this report and
to

it

historical

proved

team had him include

it

Walter Brasch

Brasch,

leadership," says marketing professor Robert

Watts, his faculty supervisor. "He

and Pennsylvania Press Club,

highly

motivated and willing to go beyond the
of

what

is

who

such as

has been honored most recently by

Newspaper Columnists,

the National Society of

minimum

social issues,

Remus, and the Cornfield

national publications.

for

is

and contemporar)'

appears in 43 newspapers and several on-line and

signs of being a

person that his peers looked to

Clinton Era."

Joy of Sax" grew from his syndicated column that

executive team at Bentley Systems."

shows

Bill

books focus on the fusion of

Joumalisi," published in 2000. In contrast, "The

in the weekly

progress report delivered to the international

"In class, Joseph

the

Brasch's

"Brer Rabbit, Uncle

be so beneficial to our progress that the

project

Dunng

Most of

is

Societ)- of Professional

Joumalists

former president of the Ke)'Stone State

professional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

expected."

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Among
News

U.S.

Double Duty

the Best

touts

Bloomsburg

Addition doubles size of Alunuii House

University quality

Bloomsburg University
once

again, in U.S.

Reports
In

listing of

its

is

featured,

News and World

Americas best

colleges.

annual survey, the national

news magazine

lists

Bloomsburg

alphabetically in the second tier of

Best Universities

—Masters (By Region)

2002. The second

for

tier

includes

ranked 39 through 77.

universities

Best Universities

—Masters ranks

institutions that offer a full range of

undergraduate degrees and some

programs but

master's degree

few,

if

Each category

any, doctoral degrees.

is

subdi\nded by geographic area; north,
south, midwest

and west.

The Fenstemaker Alumni House doubled in size with the completion of a 2,700-square-foot addition.
Featuring a great room named in honor of the late Curtis R. English, former university president, the
addition was dedicated during Homecoming Weekend. Funded by the Alumni Association and
Bloomsburg University Foundation Inc., the $480,000 project includes two accessible restrooms, a kitchen,
coatroom and storage area. The Fenstemaker Alumni House, shown from the parking area, has been
home to the Alumni Association since 1985.

Willing Donors

Giving a Lift
Bloomsburg students

raise funds to purchase special

more

Tradition continues for

van

than three decades

A disabled

Bloomsburg

Long before

resident can once again
travel in the

community,

thanks to the

staff

efforts of

Herrity

who

lives

adjacent to the campus,

on

relies

in the

his

home. For

sponsored by the
trips

service provider

community, the

used a specially equipped
until

it

414

was destroyed

by a hit-and-run driver

Council of Exceptional

year, for at least

visit,

co-

university's

food

Aramark, the

pints of blood.

"With the

in

December 1999.
The university's Student

life.

Community Government Association
(CGA) and Army ROTC, resulted in

22-year-old and his family

van

of

years,

two-day bloodmobile

a wheelchair to get

around

and

faculty

gift

members of the campus
community have donated blood to
the American Red Cross. Last fall's
35

has cerebral palsy and

were giving the

Four times each

university students.
Bill

a national tragedy,

Bloomsburg students,

(size of the)

population and

many

willing to donate blood,
students Rebecca Clark, left, and Melanie Gates, right, help
enter his specially equipped van.

Bill

Herrity

Emmaus,

Clark of

purchase a replacement van for the Herrity

For her

The 1996 Dodge Caravan, equipped
with two lifts, was delivered last fall.

George O'Neill Service Award from the

Junior special education majors Melanie
Gates of Rhinebeck, N.Y., and Rebecca

it

only

logical that the university

be

the primary location for the blood

Children spent a year raising $20,000 to

family

seemed

student

of the students

efforts,

Pa., led the project.

Gates received the

Pennsylvania Federation of the Council
for Exceptional Children,

$1,000 scholarship.

along with a

drive in Bloomsburg," says John

Trathen '68,

who

served as blood

drive coordinator before retiring from
the university's Student Life Office.

Debbie Kresch of the Student
Activities Office currently serves as

blood drive coordinator.

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Celebrity Artist

Calendar

Series

Spring 2002

"Funny

Mid-Term
March

the Arts, Mitrani

Saturday,

Tuesday,

5

Spring Breal< Begins
Saturday,

March

noon

9,

Kenneth

Monday, March

8 a.m.

Weekend Begins

Thursday, March 28, 10 p.m.

Resume

Monday,

April 1,

5 p.m.

Classes End

May 4
Reading Day
Sunday, May 5
Saturday

March 23, 7:30

p.m., Haas Center for

Hall. Tickets are

more information

$25 and $20.

Sunday June

more

information, call (570) 389-4284.

1

Saturday

May

Friday July

University-Community Orchestra

Theatre

2:30 p.m., Haas Center for the

April 7,

Works by Beethoven, Mozart
and Tchaikovsky featuring Matthew Hare, bassist.

1,

First

no

no

,

classes

conducting

his

Hall.

S.

April

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NBC News.

Siblings
April

Student Recital
Kenneth

26

to

children.

1 1

and

12. Featured

chief medical correspondent

Lecture,

Thursday 7:30 p.m.;

and Children's Weekend
28

Tammerlin

7:30 p.m.. Carver

Hall,

A

Gross Auditonum.

folk

duo performance, presented

the Concerts

1

@ Carver Series.

7:30 p.m., Carver

as part of

Wednesday
Kenneth

Concert Choir Spring Concert

July 17,

Tuesday Nov. 26, 10 p.m.

Friday April 26, 7:30 p.m..

Gross Auditorium. Admission, $5. For

Monday
Classes

Church, 345 Market

Resume
Dec.

2,

8 a.m.

End

Saturday Dec.

Presbyterian

10 p.m.

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Knoebel's
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guest

artist,

day
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all

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April 29,

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Sunday, April 28. Concert Band, 2 p.m.;

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Resort Pops

Jazz Ensemble, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday Dec. 14

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Gross Auditorium. Admission, $5. For

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7,

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Ballroom.

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composition, "Third Suite."

April 25,

and

Thanksgiving Recess

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Kenneth

workshop, Friday 8:30 a.m., Kehr Union,

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Thursday
Tuesday Oct.

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Health Sciences Symposium

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the Arts, Mitrani
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Monday Aug.
Labor Day
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Women"

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students, senior citizens

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Classes Begin

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Husky Singers
Thursday, April

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@

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2002

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5,

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Women's Choral Ensemble and

Chamber Singers Spring Concert
Fall

@ Carver Series.

Boilermaker Jazz Band

the Arts, Mitrani

1

Band

6 p.m., Bloomsburg Town Park.

Sunday March 24, 2:30 p.m. Featuring Cheryl
Humes, piano. First Presbyterian Church,
345 Market Street, Bloomsburg.

Sunday

Undergraduate Commencement

July 4,

Part of the Concerts

1

May

band concert.

Chamber Orchestra

Graduate Commencement

Saturday

2:30 p.m. Haas Center for the

2,

River City Brass

Sunday

End

7:30 p.m., Haas Center for the

6,

Thursday

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May

Monday, May

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Oct.

4

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6:30 p.m., Columbia Mall,

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President Jessica
Kozloff, center,

A defining moment.

Each generation

experiences at least one tragedy that brands
itself

way

on our
that

We
two

memory in such

a

never quite the same.

see the passage of time divided into

eras



Defining

we

collective

life is

and

before the event

moments

bring about emotions

and

can't explain

after.

modify our

forever

all

that

Government

was occurring, we

up

quickly set

tuned

President David

televisions

to national

coverage

Association

Conlan,

news

m the Kehr Union

site

throughout the

Harbor on Dec.

moments from
on Pearl
1941. The murders of

defining

The

7,

attack

King Jr. in April 1968

Dr. Martin Ludier

and Sen. Robert E Kennedy two months

The space

later.

shuttle Challenger's

explosion in January 1986, the
City

Oklahoma

bombing in April 1995 and

the

Columbine High School shootings

in

Apnl 1999.
defining

moment came

on Nov. 22, 1963, when our young
John E Kennedy, was

president,

assassinated while riding in a Dallas

motorcade.

I

was

a college student.

The emotions of that day came rushing
to me on Sept. 11, 2001
a defining



back

moment

for this generation. Skies

clear over

were

Bloomsburg on the day of the

terrorist attacks in

New York

City

and

Washington, D.C., and the plane crash in
western Pennsylvania. Students were
settling into their fall routines.

started like so

As

Red

money

Sept.

Cross, toiletries for

New York
So

many

City firefighters.

well as the father of a current student

students turned out for a

bloodmobile

visit at

movie theaters

accommodate

were among those missing

Bloomsburg's

of them.

first week following the
campus was the site of a

service, a

moment

prayer service.

a

our perception of Bloomsburg University

non-denominational

Community Government

made very
comments on behalf of the

A candlelight vigil

that

this

who was

unprecedented

country.

Word

an alumnus, Edgar Emery

threats.

On

that Tuesday,

arrived
'80, as

I

complete search of campus buildings.

Staff

began

two days
and

victims,

attack

by

bomb

In

how

all

after

we

received the threat,

resumed on Monday. Again,
forward.

of these events,

I

was struck by

our students reacted. Dave, Brenna

and Sarah took highly
roles.

was found.

to return to their offices

classes

we moved

honor the

did not

upon our

two

Fortunately, nothing

marking

junior Brenna Mancuso.
to

Oct. 9, exactly four weeks after

decided to close the university to allow
a

the one-week anniversary of the first attack
was organized entirely by students led by

As we gathered

On

the terrorist attack, the university received

Vice President Sarah Taby

student body.

just as

some small measure,

here that altered, in

Association President Dave Conlan and

thoughtful

was,

at the university

and subdued. Then,

change in our world, an event occurred

of

carillon and, as President

Bush requested,

World

students seemed to be adjusting to the

remembrance accompanied by the
chiming of the

The atmosphere
at first, quiet

During the
tragedy, the

at the

Trade Center.

that volunteers couldn't
all

our hearts went out to everyone

cancel classes, believing students were

attacks.

1 1

for the

rescue workers, letters for

directly affected

we

following the

The day

many others.

the events unfolded,

memorial services
and other events

It

memorial

My generation's

community who

day.

collecting
list

the members
of the campus

Web

the news.

easy to

Sarah Taby,

across the campus. Staff

seemed everyone on
campus sprang into action,

It's

and

were among

Ballroom and other locations

updated our university

left,

Vice President

remember exactly where we were and
what we were doing when we first heard

the past 60 years:

and Community

mindful of

participated in

we

perception of the world. And,

safest here. But,

visible leadership

Across the campus, students acted

out of concern for others and with great
presence of
Dr.
to

mind and maturity

Vannevar Bush,

who

is

considered

be the father of hypertext, said

many

years ago, "Fear cannot be banished, but
it

can be calm and without panic;

it

can

be mitigated by reason and evaluation."

The memories

of Sept.

1 1

and Oct. 9

are seared into our consciousness, but they

won't deter us from our important task:
preparing our students

—and

for the challenges ahead.

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Jessica S. Kozloff

terrorist attacks.

President

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exceeding

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the

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and friends

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— and rewarding.
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to he

million or so oj reaching

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confidant that, together.

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realize that ive are within $

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a most welcome

asset.

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scholarships, the

accessibility

number of which

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upward each year,

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received.

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we come

benefits

ofbiew Challenges,

to fulfilling

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remaining campaign

Opportunities are far-reaching and touch

priorities, the greater

will be the

Space remains on the beautiful new donor wall for additional names.
inscribed.

I encourage

paign. To those of you

an

to consider the satisfaction

given, I

UPDATE you will note both

In this
is clear,

you

who have already

and Bloomsburg

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every student.

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closer

collective efforts.

is still

time to have your

name

gained by knowing that you have participated in this cam-

thank you

sincerely.

our remarkable achievements
is

effect

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of our

unmistakable.

and

our needs.

The importance of education

Your generosity and commitment are vital and stand as

inspiration to all.
Sincerely,

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Priorities

Goal

% of Goal

1,000,000

146%
114%

Capital
University Score

Upper Campus Recreation

Facilities

$600,000

Opportunities for Excellence
Sutliff Hall

Refurbishment

$150,000

Magee Center Auditorium

$130,000

College of Business Scholarships

$100,000

Augmentative Communication Center
Center for

New &

EmergingTechnologies

$55,000
$50,000

Wellness Center

$45,000

Physiology Lab Renovation

$38,000

Education Computer Lab

$32,000

101%
100%
200%
100%
101%
112%
104%
100%

Scholarships

Honors Scholarship Endowment
Presidential Leadership

Amanda Smith

(I)

and Carissa

Borick. both

freshmen music education majors, study in the

Endowment

University- Wide Scholarships

1,000,000

$600,000
1,500,000

101%
104%
110%

Student Sen'ices Center for an exam.

MILLION GOAL WITHIN REACH

115

As the conclusion of New
the majority of

campaign

Challenges,

initiatives

New

Opportunities:

have been met or exceeded. Alumni, parents, friends, corporations,

and foundations have been very supportive of the many
successfully,

The Campaign for Bloomsburg University nears,

approximately $1.7 million

is

projects.

However,

complete the campaign

to

needed to meet fully each sub-goal.

Unmet Need:

CAPITAL

$330,000

Student Services Center
Pedestrian Mall

In the Student Services Center lobby, students can find all the

Andrea Kitka

registration forms they need as well as have easy computer access
to

various campus resources.

Rodney Hosier

'05,

'02,

an elementary education

major,

explores sources for identifying internship opportunities.

a

secondary educationearth

and space

sciences major,

and

Cheryl Brown 'oj, an
interpreter training

major, relax in

between classes in the

Amy

Commuter Student

both social

Lounge in the

•^5*^

Ruiz '02

(seated)

and Maritza Williams

work majors, are in

Act loi

the

computer lab discussing a class assignment.

Student Services
Center.

Crumm

Scott

'03 {I)

and Heather Billman
'04

both

(c),

psychology majors,
iir

and Sarah McDaniel
'05,

a

political science

major, told the

photographer that

'the

Student Services
Center

is

a

wonderful place

bang
as

it is

more relaxed than the library.

out

It is appropriately

the Student Services Center,

and the

students are members of the

ROTC program.

coffee is

good!'

to

and study

All

named as

three

'o^,

OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXCELLENCE

Unmet Need:

$700,000

Endowment
&
Campus Climate Endowment
Arts

Sciences

College of Business Funds for Faculty Excellence
College of Business Visiting Scholars

Endowment
Jennifer

College of Business

John

T.

Dean David Long

(I)

and

McCubbins. plant manager. Merck

& Co.

renovated

and

a graduate

Augmentative Communication

advanced classroom

technologically

(I),

works with Jerry Kotarski. an

Danville, discuss the features of the newly

in Sutliff Hall.

Hart

student in communication disorders,

Center

client.

AUirk provided funding

for the project.

John Towey

'04

exjinines Brett
'04.

Smee

These nursing

fnajors are practicing

on each other in the

Centennial Hall
"Wellness Center.

SCHOLARSHIPS
Mathematics, Science,

Christine Casamassima,

&

Unmet Need:
Technology Scholarship Endowment

'02, {center photo)

education major, received the Rita
Scholarship. Joining her are
father,

M.

a

special

Guerrieri Memorial

Arthur Guerrieri

and Edward and Doreen

$110,000

Lipsky.

(r),

Rita's

Larissa

Bench

'02,

an

exercise science

major, received the Veterans

Scholarship.

Dale Krothe

representing

BU veterans,

Memorial

'60,
is

with her

Christopher
Polansky,

The

a

'02,

major, received the

DJ

Cheryl

Hawk

and John

Award.

Motko provided

'02.

an

dementary education
major.

this

award in memory

Bundens

awarded to Stacy

iras

Jeff Smith "Schmitty

Dogg"

Victoria S?nith

Giger Memorial Scholarship

mass communications

is

The

scholarship

provided by Mrs.

Giger's daughter.

of

Barbara B. North,

Cheryl's son, Jeff.


The Jesse A. Bryan Scholarship was awarded
During Parents' Weekend
each fall, scholarship recipients

and donors

are recognized at the

Scholarship

Awards Ceremony.

Henderson

'01,

a mass communication

to

Eric

major. Irvin

Wright, director of the Act loi program, represented
Jesse Biyan, scholarship donor
director.

and the former program

ANNUAL FUND
THERE

IS

Unmet Need:

$545,336

STILL TIME

To have your name etched in glass

Cumulative

totals of

$1,500

or greater for gifts and pledge

commitments
January

1,

received between

1998 and June 30,

2002, qualify donors to have a
personalized inscription on the
beautiful glass donor wall located
inside the

main entrance

to the

Student Services Center. Pledge

may

installments

December
gifts

extend through

31, 2006.

Matching

from employers can help

donors qualify.
Call the
at

Development Center

570-389-4128 or e-mail

foun@bloomu.edu

either to

commitment

increase your

or to check on the total of your

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contributions.

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made

campaign,

prior to June 30,

gifts

in the

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Anonymous foundation

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2002 and

fulfilled

by December

3

1

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I.

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2006.

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G. Michael Vavrek

McCoy

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Bloomsburg University

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Rodney B. Keller

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FALL 2002

Bloomsburg's

Town

Hall

is

dressed for the bicentennial beneath Carver Hall's approving eye.

STORY BY SUSAN

C.

PHOTOS BY MARLIN

B L O O

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B

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BROOK

WAGNER

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a

It's

can

hometown business
still

district

find almost everything

where shoppers

from mouse

and paper clips to diamond
Where Bloomsburg University students

traps to mortgages
rings.

townsfolk work, shop and dine side-by-side.

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.—...^m:——j~i.

Mapped

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out by founder Ludwig Eyer in

1802, the "only town in Pennsylvania" celebrates
its

bicentennial this year. At

to

have changed

stroll

from

alleys.

during

downtown Bloomsburg seems

glance,

it's still

a place

where shoppers

by narrow
war memorial, a fountain and,

store to store along a tree-lined street intersected

.where the Square

.

first

over the years:

little

summer months,

is

home

to a

a farmer's market.

A closer look reveals a mix of new businesses and old standbys that
introduce Bloomsburg to potential students and welcome alumni.

Bloomsburg's business

district

begins just one block from the

campus, reached by traveling downhill, through die elegant College
area

and across East

heading uphill to

class

Hill

On a weekday morning, a trail of students is

Street.

from downitown apartments. The backpack

is

a

nearly universal accessory

Here
dishing

is

Berrigan's,

still

up hoagies from

at
1 1

vintage green-striped walls

unchanged. The

150

E.

Main

St.

and, after 32 years,

still

The

a.m. to 1 1 :30 p.m. seven days a week.

and wood-grained Formica counters

are

rolls are still ultra-fresh.

Stephanie Severn,

who has worked here 25 years, says alumni are so

fond of the place they detour

off

Route 80

summer vacations.
Main St., Tim Wagner '74

for

sandwiches when passing

through the area on
At 146

E.

runs Wagner's Trophies and

Engravables, selling team shirts and other sports regalia.

And

steps farther, Debra Meckel Baigis '75 has turned

Main

Que

Pasa Boutique, a shop she has

owned since

144

E.

graduation.

a

few

St.

Her

into
store's

natural fiber clothing appeals to faculty; students seek out the silver

jewelry and journals she stocks.

A Neptune, N.J., native, Baigis fell in love with Bloomsburg on
sight. "I

loved the

could walk

at

first

downtown because you could walk everywhere. You

3 a.m. and

feel safe,"

she says.

Continued on next page

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Both Baigis and Wagner admit they've had the
torch-passing experience of greeting the children of
college friends as the next generation \asits or enrolls
at

Bloomsburg University
recently, and here
was, my
my fraternity bringing his daughter

"A gentleman came in
'little

brother' from

to look at the university,"

surprise visit

Wagner

it

'Wagner says of a recent

by Rocky O'Boyle.

more on-campus

thinks

services

and more

takeout food deliveries tend to cut into the student
foot traffic important to

found new ways

and

to

many merchants.

boost

sales, like

sorority logo clothing

Bloomsburg,
deserted

by

stores that

like

Sears,

and

collectibles.

many small towns,

J. C.

But he has

stocking fraternity

has been

Penney and Woolworth's

once were every downtown's mainstays.

The shuttered movie

theater's

Duck into Phillip's
Emporium for a Cocoa

marquee has become

a billboard advertising what's available in other

downtown
on

stores.

main

mix

street offers a

these days.

There's the

It's

eclectic

1 1

.

vvith

The

and sophisticated

company Need an

The Dutch WTieelman, 59

Lock Haven, might be behind the counter She works
at the coffee

a pro-

Main.

An artist's

"I

shops,

Town Perk and

drinks, luscious pastries
free, alcohol-free

music

weekends. The bars are
Hess' Tavern, Harry's

Phillips

stiU

downtown

many unique

the street

afraid to say 'hello.'

It's

no

one's

a very friendly

town," Chapin says.

Next-door

and smoke-

and

when you walk down

coffee

offerings

years' time, the

just like the fact that there are so

shops, and

next to Magee's Main Street Inn.

Emporium, dispense fancy

cultural center while pursuing a

has become her second home.

cooperative shows fine art and crafts at Artspace,

Two

shop and

psychology degree. In two

upscale bicycle?

E.

homemade whipped cream) and Bloomsburg
who hails from

University student Shelly Chapin, 23,

destination shopping.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble,

fessional theater

There's

more

town on Route

Bloomsburg's Main Street.

Deluxe (hot chocolate

The movies themselves have moved

to a multiplex north of

Old and new neon signs dot

6

on

E.

Main

St.,

is

Dollar General Store,

where students shop

for

the necessities.

here-

"Oh, you've got shampoo, paper

Russell's.

supplies,

Michelle Ohl 02 helps a customer at

Becky Ermisch

Bloomin' Bagels.

and

'71 fashions

rents costumes

downtown.

BLOOMSBURG

your big

Stephanie Severn

is

plastics like

a 25-year veteran

of Berrigan's.

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Folks

were here

have been trekking to Bloomsburg for

12,000 to

1

5,000 years, according to

Anthropology and Archaeology Chair

very

DeeAnne Wymer
crates

and

trash cans

products," says

manager Chris

Snyder, listing the items students

most

Wymer and

and cleaning

frequently.

Weekday

buy

afternoons

she says, and
activity

there's

during heat waves as students

seek out electric

So

its

its

where,

collecting

1996 findings are documented

in

Wymer wrote for "Discovehng

Bloomsburg:

The downtown

History," edited by retired English

professorWilliamK.
"I

tried to

in

their

space,

in

the upper levels,

tradition links

promote the

town and gown

Student

Activities.

to provide

parents. "We're

a nice event for everybody,

the students
for

and

is

it

she's

this spring

in 1892.

that

town

Thomas

says.

fountain, conspicuously absent

and summer from

make room

its

proper place on

for the arcing

were a visual knockout when

it

A committee is working to raise
town has put

in

$50,000

to

its

basin

is

being

water sprays

was

installed

first

$35,000 and the

bring back the original

water design.

Homecoming parades

new stores

Thomas' work, and

mindful of the needs of

university students

and

their

bicentennial hoopla.
the

by

the town's

The BU Homecoming Parade,

Bloomsburg Bicentennial Committee and the

tion have

combined

School's

themes.

April,

homecoming celebra200-year march on

for a tripartite

Saturday, Oct. 5, with floats
cal

Main

are a time-honored

Street tradition, embellished this year

Bloomsburg Area High

and costumes on

histori-

Thomas planned her own costume back

and other town,

university

and school

officials

worked months ahead coordinating die details.
The downtown dresses up to make memories
in all seasons: cherry trees, summer plants, autumn
leaves, twinkling

the

downtown

white holiday

VanDyke and Robyn

Fuller create unique jewel-

Goldsinith,

St.

Student Shelly Chapin, making
cofTee at Phillips

the

Emporium, says

Mechanicsburg,

Some

think

BU senior Kate Gardner, 22, of
who rents a downtown apanmeni,

and the claim holds up.

downtown has become her

second home.

lights.

aesthetics are a recmiting tool for the

university Listen to

Main

net sinkers

down

Wymer says.

to bring different things

Market Square. While being repaired,

gets

says.

part of

working hard

restoration of the

downtown

Planning for

E.

a layer from

an example of continuing

is

A focus for the bicentennial celebration is

enlarged to

something fun,"

Thomas

120

in

she says.

society and her department,

people enjoy and places to shop,"

outdoor

fun while promoting non-profit organizations.

VanDyke

600. They

fishing,

we found

find

and with property owners and

Gilliland, the university's director of

ry at

the

5,000

Bloomsburg

From the Chamber's historic
office on Market Street, Thomas co-chairs the
Renaissance Jamboree street fair along with Jimmy

Terry

1

1

cooperation between the town's historical

minds the way things

are ongoing.

makes

summer, they were

The chapter

Baillie.

own mother hen,

its

existing merchants. Enjoyable events that

"It

AD

when

division of the

manager Thomas works with
them

The

2,000 to

clams and mussels.

fishing nets,"

almost do a walk-through for

people, setting

business prospects, helping

downtown

1

and small campsites

fire pits

4,000 to 5,000 years ago,

Kathy Thomas, the downtown

retail

in,

with notches that were used to weigh

Bloomsburg Area Chamber of

the right

in late

"Then

a chapter

Wymer says.

fans.

demeanor?

Commerce has

They had

fished.

near the confluence of the Susquehanna River

unique blend of offerings

cordial

people trickled

and Fishing Creek that shows the area was

A Bicentennial

how does the downtown

maintain

and

always a flurry of

first

years ago, and brought us up to

her students excavated a site

extensively used during that time period. Their

are the busiest time for student trade,

the far distant past,"

in

covered the end of the Ice Age

"I

Continued on next page

in

"Probably one of the main reasons

Bloomsburg is the town, because

how small and clean it was. You
at

any time of day," Gardner

I

chose

its really safe.

feel as safe at

I

liked

3 a.m. as

says.

At Magee's Main Street Inn, today's students

still

enjoy dinners with friends or visiting parents at

warm weather,

Harrys

Grille. In

style at

sidewalk cafe tables, also a feature

Restaurant, 117

W Main

St.,

diners eat Parisian-

just

at Russell's

below the Square.

Crossing the Square, turning right and heading
uphill again. Carver Hall beckons in the distance.

Bargain hunters stop in at the "Sal Val"

Army store, 49

—The

W Main —and manager
St.

Labour says she braces herself each year

Salvation

Janis

empty

first off-

campus apartment.
"In August, they

when

they

first

come back.

We sell a lot of clothing to

and

theme

'70s!

Or sometimes



happen

me because

warm-weather

Two blocks

treat at

^

RusseU's Restaurant.
^

they get

a

Bloomsburg is one

filled.

has a business

still

It's

a

;

that occasional

professional offices.

Shop

Outdoor dining is

ofi:en

of the few towns that

'50s,

they have Hawaiian

it

storefronts don't

concern
can wipe us out of furniture daily

students and, of course, there are theme parties
'60s

seen

enough

rush

for the

of students shopping for furniture for that

"I've

district,

good mix of both," she

farther, the

display an elaborate

windows

of

not just
says.

The Costume

women's gown and

a soldier's

uniform. Shop owner Becky Ermisch '71 has created

parties.

"At the beginning of the semester,

household goods, dishes, they look

it

and rented costumes downtown since the

might be

Students and faculty looking to perk

for books, too....

up

early 1980s.

in-class

looking for bargains

presentations, holiday celebrations or siblings

and unusual

weekends bring her

things,"

Ten years

town

retailer

Labour

as a

down-

but the

has taught

downtown

friends to gather,

is still

a

Ermisch

good place

says.

for

"The nice thing

about being on Main Street and never having

that there's a flow

to stores

trade, she says.

Shopping patterns have changed over time,

she says.

opening and

left

town. .especially on alumni weekend.

We swap stories about

people

come

worry about changes.

people

we know and phone numbers."

All this

appetite,

through.

.is

.

.

closing, so she doesn't

walking and talking has piqued the

and just

a

few steps away
is

at

63

Main

E.

Bloomin' Bagels, a

spot for freshly baked

New York style bagels,
a favorite student

pick-me-up.

A little

extra fuel for the uphill

return

Susan
Chris Snyder, manager

Debra Heckel Baigis 75,

of Dollar General, says

Que Pasa

students prefer to shop on

events with Kathy Thomas,

weekday

manager

afternoons.

right,

owner of

Boutique, discusses bicentennial

Baigis

moved

to

Tim Wagner 74
shirts

sells

and sports

team

regalia.

trip,

C.

b

Brook

freelance writer

is

a

who

h/es

in Bloofnshurg.

downtown

Bloomsburg as a

student. .and stayed.
.

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TechnoPsych

The Nickelback video
playing on the giant screen

STORY BY ERIC FOSTER
in the auditorium
first

clue that this

It's

is

not a typical college lecture course.

a couple minutes

till

nine and students are

still

finding their seats.

Psychology professor Brett Beck, an admitted pop music

head

to

the

is

watch the video. The video ends, students

fan, cranes his

settle into their seats.

And the real show begins.
Beck

starts off the

lecture vvdth a bit of the

history of psychology.

Video

clips of electroshock

therapy from the 1950s
play

on the screen behind

him. The grainy black-andwhite images are graphic.
"It
it

did

was

all

we had. And

work sometimes,"

says Beck, empathizing

with the students'
Psychology professors Eileen Astor-Stetson, Brett Beck

and Connie Schick,

left to right,

tag-team, each lecturing

on

discomfort.

from now,

form an academic

"And 50 years

this is

how folks

their areas of expertise.

will

look

at the

medications

we're using today"



The message
improve



-just

that

psychology the

discipline, is constantly striving to

as easily applies to the teaching of Beck

colleagues, Eileen Astor-Stetson
to helping students

succeed

is

and

and Connie Schick. Their commitment

reflected in the irmovative

way they team-

teach Bloomsburg's General Psychology course and in the

co-authored to help students

make

a successful transition

school to college, "Surviving College:

General Psychology
sources, both technical

This lecture

is livel)'.

is

his

from high

into

Bloomsburg has put the

making

the course a

Anecdotes from Beck, fomrerl)'

re-

good one.

a psychologist in

private practice, segue seamlessly as PowerPoint slides flash

screen to reinforce his ideas.

they've

A Real-World Experience."

a big class. But

and human,

book

on

the

Behind the scenes, the
Astor-Stetson,

out the unique

Psychology professor Eileen Astor-

way that

different

Stetson uses technology to

they teach

the course just as smoothly

from three

of

trio

Beck and Schick map

make draw-

ings that illustrate abstract concepts

Coming

depth perception. 'By making the

like

drawing right

backgrounds,

there, I'm reinforcing the

idea to the students that they should be

they create an academic tag-team,

making the drawing,

too.'

dividing the course so each lectures

on

their areas of expertise.

"General psychology

broad
in

all

for

someone

to

is

By the

just too

be an expert

The

areas," says Astor-Stetson,

whose

specialty

is

start of

that can

"We

profs aren't surprised.

know why

"Students want to

developmental

people do the things they do," says

example, Brett can

Schick.

about

stories

"We

abnormal psychology based on

figure out ourselves
ple.

The professors' passion
material

is

to other courses.

give a lot of tests, so they can

do

first

that, they're learning

and other peo-

couple and

OK in the course.

college tests

By doing

how to take

and prepare

for

them,"

Astor-Stetson adds.

a driving force."

for the

somediing that Melissa

Hurst '02 vividly

recalls

from her

Psychology professor
Brett

freshman General Psych course.
"I

It's

still

are constantly trying to

his experience."

also teaches skills

be applied

do poorly on the

and adolescent psychology "For
tell

The course

her second semes-

Hurst was hooked on psych.

ter.

loved

it. I

came

an unde-

in as

Beck

truly

believes a picture

is

worth the proverbial
clared student.

I

had never taken

psych before and

what I wanted
it

1

didn't

to do. But they

something college kids can

to.

thousand words. He

know

says, 'A lot of people

make

comment that they
remember these im-

relate

ages years after they

A lot of times, it was hilarious

graduate.'

but you were learning,"

Technology Across the Curriculum

Across the university's departments
and, yes, even psychology





business, humanities

in art,

computer technology has come

out of the computer science labs to

become

fully integrated into

the curriculum.
Fifty

classrooms on campus are

now equipped with

integrated media presentation stations, or
in their

IMPS

range of capabilities. Basic systems

in

for short, varying

computer labs

simply project what's on the instructor's computer to a screen at
the front of the class. Advanced systems can feature wireless
controllers, multiple computers,
interface, slide projection,

VCR, telephone conferencing

DVD and

the ability to allow

comparisons by showing four different images at the same time.

The systems are used not only by professors

to illustrate lectures,

but also by their students to give presentations to their peers.
"I

was

"I

specifically

behaviors.

probably the biggest whiner about getting the current

presentation system," says psychology professor Brett Beck.

I

schizophrenia

people

wanted

to

show

individual people with

is

abnormal

someone with

could not act this out. Showing

worth a thousand words of

my

lecture.

comment that they remember these images

A

lot

of

years after

they graduate."
For Beck, the biggest technological revolution in teaching

might be the most commonplace
"It's



e-mail.

a subtle thing, but because of

improved dramatically" says Beck,

it,

internships have

who supervises

12 interns

each semester and 20 during the summer with colleague James
Dalton. "They

need the feedback when

it's

happening.

It's

not

a substitute for a face-to-face meeting, but you can think about

what you want to say
level of

For

many

questions,

it

gives just the right

intimacy"

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Real World Advice

Decades of experience teaching thousands
freshmen has taught psychology

of college

professors Connie Schick, Eileen Astor-Stetson

For

all

three professors, visuals

are important. Their classroom

in

Haas Center

for the Arts

professors

know the

Beck often

screen.

Schick makes the best PowerPoint

and Astor-Stetson

likely to create

is

most

drawings on

find that the pictures,

make

graphs and videos

to learn the material

and

it

easier

recall

the book

most from college

The lessons are

classmen can be very

it.

"All of us are very

up writing the book about succeeding

"'Students

material not just

going to be

When

need

unique because

become

we

in

can leam

The

adds Beck.

While Astor-Stetson disavows
her drawings

it's

ing the drawing right there, I'm

es enable students to

undertake

When freshmen see that a

senior psych major can run a
discussion group, they become mentors and models for
freshmen showing that they can learn this stuff, too.

be making the

drawing, too. Plus, they're kind of

"We've been doing research

them more memorable."

years," Schick says of her

last eight

or nine

Hurst,

level at

class

first

or studying for

with one or two students each
semester.

four different times each week, for

have the opportunity

test.

These extras give students

additional personalized attention

research projects

researchers
to present

fheir research at regional confer-

ences every spring.

For psych majors and nonmajors

alike,

it

General Psych

course.

many people on
your floor who would have it.

three small-group discussions at

also



dorms

There were so

lectures, the professors organize

They

still

semester.

members
also work on

exams before each

University,

helped her establish relation-

Psychology. To supplement the

create practice

Temple

ships with fellow students in her

it

a total of 12 sessions.

who currently is study-

has fond recollections of how the

stories

The student

most

They're either complaining about

of the department, they

the iceberg for General

is

all

ages. "Our book

available at the University Store.

ing psychology on the graduate

colleagues. Along with other

class time is just the tip of

a rite of passage for

"Living in the

level.

together for the

is



seemed everybody had the

funny looking, which makes

But

,

class," says Astor-Stetson.

research projects even at the

undergraduate

2001 the book

about 90 percent of the freshmen

classes

and seminar cours-

are very small,

special

in fall

Bloomsburg students. "We see

commitment to

Most of the department's

way

the only one that has a chapter for parents," she says. "And the

Published by Kendall/Hunt

service extends to upperclassmen.

have a serious purpose. "By mak-

reinforcing the idea to students

think that's the

discuss are not things that students just need as freshmen, but things they'll

this stuff, too."

professors'

And we say 'Do you

the future."

freshmen showing that they

for

through psychological principles,"

test.

of your lives?'"

mentors and models

movies that can be explained

that they should

all

But Schick stresses that the guide can be useful for people of

things

group, they

why we ended

high school the teacher goes over exactly what's

in

it's

can run a discussion

artistic talent,

us to and say,

from other under-

senior psych major

any

come

going to be on the test right before the

friendly to visual learners."

TV and

is

college," says Connie Schick.

in

from professors, but

is

never a shortage of

freshmen making the transition to college

success through procrastination, lack of sleep or simply too much socializing.

freshmen see that a

is

healthy,

For starters, there's a strong temptation for college students to sabotage their

that under-

graduates.

"There

and staying

designed to help students get the

dedicated to the freshmen orientation, which

Schick. "Research

Our
environment is becoming more

things in the news,

is

as academically

socially as well

valuable, says

You're able to associate the
material with something.



particularly helpful for

life.

graduates leam

"I'm a visual learner," says
"I

learning, beating stress

spent with upper-

shows

die spot.

Schick.

Backed by psychological research on

ropes.

particular, the time

integrates video clips into class,

slides

who

A Real-World

Experience."

For freshmen in

system that can project a variety

on

and

Beck a thing or two. So they wrote

Brett

a book, "Surviving College:

upperclassmen

is

equipped with a presentation
of media

and

from both the

about

it.

It

it

or telling

was

a conversa-

tion maker."

b

Eric Foster

co-editor ojBloorrisburg

Magazine.

is

Hunger to Learn

Building a

STORY BY LAURIE CREASY

cooperation between departments, faculty and

By every account, Frederick
Douglass was a magnificent
so hungry to

leam

that

man

students; pushes for academic excellence;

he swapped

food for knowledge, steadfast in his
fight for
slave,

what was

ambassador

and

life

becomes

a

beacon

for all

begun

their

way

influence begins before freshmen enter the
is

given a copy of

Douglass' autobiography to read. At orientation, the

groups to discuss Douglass'
Institute,

and pro-

students listen to a speaker and then divide into

United

in

Blooms-

burg University freshmen. The program promotes

10

Its

to Haiti.

Through the Frederick Douglass
1999, Douglass

as the

make

in the diverse college environment.

university Each incoming student

great honors, finishing his

as a consultant to presidents

States

Bom a

he endured great hardship

and won
life

right.

vides the resources to help students

"Freshmen students

life.

in general have

the history of slavery," says Steven

no

clue about

Ekema Agbaw,

director of the institute. "Douglass' autobiography

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

The Frederick Douglass
University,

summer

1999,

and Bloomsburg

to that. He's

University's

putting

identify with him."

community, a bond

how he

into the larger

picture of American

Jerry

Wemple,

assistant professor of

English, adds. In

Douglass'

life,

initiative

program began

underdog, and they

life,"

his last

speech. The

was approved

Oct. 12, 1999.

on

fronts."

Agbaw

feel really isolated,"

says of many college students. "You can see

an

"They see

The

"They come here, they

becomes an exposure

fits

West Chester

Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education, which

held a series of meetings to establish a partnership.
in

at

where researchers found Douglass had given

was taken to

idea

began

Institute

them

But for students in the learning
is

established quickly

"Everybody Idnd of unknowingly pushes the next
person along," student Syreeta Ryals of Philadelphia
says about her learning communit)' experience. "For

my roommate or neighbor would ask if I had
my work done. If I didn't and they did, it would
encourage me to do what am supposed to."
instance,

I

The idea of a learning community isn't new.

students

past, students

experience

within athletic and student organizations and

all

In the

have developed learning communities

see echoes of the
Betina Entzminger

Americans share, from
Benjamin Franklin
early in the

to the

immigrants

20th century "They

all

who arrived

own education."
While students may not pick up that message right

responsibility for their

away, Preston Herring, vice president for Student Life,
believes reading about Douglass sets the stage

and the

set for that understanding.

sees the learning

such

to

institute

community also

diverse faculty

easier

it is

to

on

who will have

fewer

fitting in to social

become

we are," he

Patrick Schloss

and community

life.

points out, "the

diverse."

invests substantially in the recruitment

lage in Weatherly Pa.;

of each student and,

Ben Franklin's

tion, the

delphia haunts; and

its

draw

Bloomsburg

Phila-

and

will

"The more diverse

the

home

focus

community not only

Bloomsburg, the

Eckley Miners' Vil-

Douglass'

its

attracting culturally diverse students

concerns about

Institute

sites as

only in

He believes, while

recruiting tool.

organizes field trips
to

differs

as a benefit to students, but also as a

learning

In addition, the

Douglass

This community

life.

University Provost Patrick Schloss

learned that

education was the key," he says. "They had to take

mind

fraternities.

academic

investment

when one
is lost.

leaves before gradua-

Data shows that black and

Hispanic students drop out

at

higher rates than the

majority student population.

in

"That loss extends

the Anacostia section
of Washington, D.C.

far

beyond finance and

into the

heart of the university," Schloss says. "Great scholars
Preston Herring

It

could be

also encourages

members to research and write cooperative
papers on similar themes. These
papers have been presented during symposiums at
Bloomsburg and West Chester universities.

He

faculty

The

institute's

newest program, begun in the

fall

community made up of students
from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The
group takes many of the same classes together and
lives together. Of the 34 students who began the
2001

,

is

a learning

program, only two

left

—one because of

Bloomsburg

lost."

sees the retention of

community as
"Historically, we've had

all

but two students in the

a remarkable achievement.

learning

great difficulty in retaining

individuals currently targeted through the project.
Dr.

Agbaw

passionate about this cause and has

is

led the initiative to

do

far

more with

far less

than any-

one envisioned."
For minority students, the campus can seem
daunting,

and

can't

full

of people

comprehend

who don't

their

look

like

they do

backgrounds. Given these

personal problems and another to transfer to a
different university. Neither

was

a minority student.

Continued on next page

11

Students

who become members of the Frederick Douglass

Learning Community fill out a form to indicate their commitment to learning

and

may

their desire to

succeed

benefit from the

conditions,

at the university.

encouragement

—sometimes

The ones who disappear
no one knows, Wemple

literally

are usually the students

"Bloomsburg University

says.

has over 7,000 students. You can get

The community won't

group,

of their peers, are also invited.

many put on emotional camouflage and

simply disappear

to.

let

you do

lost if you

want

In this

that.

harder to hide."

it's

Psychology professor Jim Dakon sees the
learning

who

Less motivated students,

community as

a

way

institute's

for professors to

connect

with students.

—Do
—can be magnified

"Students' concerns about college

here? Will

I fit

in?

belong

I

for students of

Agbaw

when they come into a mostly white
community" says Dalton, who taught the learning
color, especially

also

it

is

other better, students are

able to

college

easier for a

fact,

Schloss hopes

Sophomore Mirella Deleon,
Milton, right, presented research



on a hometown church

St. Paul's

AME—during the Frederick
Douglass Undergraduate Scholar-

its

a

chance for each student

to

members

as best friends, a goal

Herring applauds.

Wemple,
professor of English and

ship Conference. Jerry
assistant

chair of the scholars' committee,

served as project adviser.

"It's

not a large step,"

Herring

says. "It just

requires putting faculty

and students together so
they can have that opportunity"

Agbaw plans on making those
lunch conversation

opportunities

series

herself. "It

experience

gave

all

in

itself. I

hopes

to recruit

and

"It

was

a learning

am very blessed to have been

retain

700 minority

number from

it

as a

way to

Bloomsburg and earn

fall

students,

2000.

ensure that students stay

their degrees



at

^because allowing

any student with the potential of Frederick Douglass
to

stumble and

Laurie Creasy

much as possible," says Agbaw,

Catawissa, Pa.

it

something

ethnicities,"

Those involved with the Frederick Douglass

own college experiences with the learning

make

lot

a chance to interact with

With the first-year results in, the institute's learning
community appears to be an unqualified success.
Only three students had grade-point averages below
2.0. Most earned GPAs between 2.5 and 3.5, and two
were included on the dean's list.
By the 2005-2006 academic year, the university

Institute see

—weekly

"to

me

given this chance."

community smdents over lunch. "We want to give
them an opportunity to interact informally with the
faculty as

of York Haven, Pa., says that

she didn't have in high school.

more

meetings where faculty members and upperclassmen
share their

Heckman

roughly double the

frequent and less formal. This year, he plans to
establish a

Natalie

people of different races and

learning

community wiU provide
gain three faculty

a lot of assistance,"

students were always willing to lend a helping hand."

about

and

needed

being in the learning community taught her a

both of us."
In

I

community member Chontal Delaney of
Philadelphia. "My professors and fellow Bloomsburg

very useful to

the institute

in the

says learning

of class as well as in class,
that's

more comfortable

community

"Being a freshman,
"It

student to talk to me, out

and

System of Higher

When students and faculty members know each

the learning

and needs.

makes

campus learning

Education's Douglass Institute Collaborative.

know each student's
strengths

of the

as interim director of the State

advisory board.

community, he

members

community. He not only leads Bloomsburg's Frederick
Douglass programs, but the English professor also serves

community students and
serves on the institute's
Through

attends the institute's group sessions with

students and other

is

fall

impoverishes us

all.

a freelance writer who

B

lives in

easy to approach the faculty."

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'81 visits

the site of

tier

pet project, Independence Hall.

Name

Quick!

the

historic site that

first

national park or

pops into your mind.

Was it Yellowstone.
Canyon.

.

.or,

National Military Park?

Maggie

L.

.

.or the

Grand

maybe, the Gettysburg

How about the

Walker National Historic

Site

or Sagamore Hill?
If

you

Harris

don't

Moroz

know

tliose, Chesle)'

'81 will forgix'e

sight but, to her, sites

both

your over-

large

and

small are equally important.

"These are truly wonderful places,"
says Moroz. "The world changed because
of the things that

happened

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there."

Moroz

She moved on

gains her perspective from a career with

between her junior and senior years
Based in Fort Washington,

Pa.,

at

Bloomsburg.

Eastern National

is

widi the 30,000
products acquired

a

non-profit organization that provides educational products

and

and

services to national parks

aids the National Park Service with
sales.

Moroz

Today,

is

and the

first

and

income from the

the stories

and lessons

alive

and keep

believe education can bring preservation

make up

parks from the day she was

was a park ranger and her

.

tied in

with the national

bom. Her dad, Chet Harris,
home was rn Estes Park,

first

Rocky

the processes, products

Maine

With

we went to museums and parks. If we saw any park,
we had to stop. I didn't appreciate them as a kid.
"But because of my dad's career, while in

.

met every president

since 1965.

The

.my dad did

and she earned

a degree in

Upon graduation,

visit

another college,

by

tions a year, ranging

other,

from Eastern

Club

Med

trip,

what the parks

she was convinced she
still is. "1

'79

made

won a

the right

love the parks

represent," she says. "I'm just in

and

is

and 20 percent of each

from new products.

works and regimental

and coloring books," she

says. "But visitors

histories,

a six-person office.

formed," she says, sometimes helping to preserve the

litde, tiny

crafts.

parks and those that are more

well-known. Eastern National was founded on the sharing philosophy" she says. "To support the vast

number

we need larger parks

of

to help

provide financial support. There are 64 organizations like
ours,

and some

have their

large, individual parks, like Yellowstone,

own associations."

Although the National Park Service

also

works with

expanded

city

and

Moroz

state parks.

sites in Italy

"Every single park has
"In

many,

is

Eastern

says the organization

Recent

efforts

have

internationally to include the Sagarmatha

National Park in Nepal, the Gulag

people just in product development."

.

Most parks concentrate on the "reason they were

"I

was in the right place at the right time," she says.
came in as product development and publications
coordinator. The organization grew and now there are

battle.

won't find

books about the Revolutionary War"

I

six

year's

An American

Items are geared to each park's theme. "At Gettysburg,
visitors find scholarly

National's primary partner,

Moroz worked her way up through Eastern

"We were very small, just

publica-

guides to biographies and

in the early manufacturing stages.

awe of

these places."

National.

trail

small parks under our care,

internship.

Long before her husband Francis Moroz
choice. After 21 years, she

from

serious research studies,

she had two employment offers

stemming from her

and, sometimes, items created onsite

The organization produces 100

interpreters.

"There are

one from Club Med, springing from her student job in
National,

line includes publications,

surrounding community and indigenous

mass communications.

Kehr Union Travel Center; the

from

the goal of enhancing each visitor's understanding

broad-based books about the aftermath of the

that."

on her way to

sites

west as Nebraska.

posters, prints, children's items, reproductions of

Philadelphia regional office. She discovered Bloomsburg

University while

far

heritage line of furniture, to be sold through retail stores,

one of the National Capital Parks and,

Moroz moved to Doylestown as a teen-ager when
her dad was assigned to the National Park Service's

the

to the president.

services.

Caribbean and as

sales is derived

saw evidence of my dad everywhere. The tour mobile,

the tape.

and

and enjoyment, the product

when I went there recently for a visit with my daughter,
I

to the

museum collections

grew up in Washington, D.C., and every weekend

is

manag-

now report

regional managers

Along the way she gained an intimate knowledge of

Mountain National Park."

I

Founeen

an operations manager. .who reports

"I

and suppon

Colo., a village referred to as the "gateway to

Washington

to field operations, supervising the

Eastern National's products are sold at park

Morozs personal story was

White House

that department.

And, then,

to

Interior, left, is

shown with Chesley Hanis Moroz.

now

Three people

of resources."

"I

Department of the

around the world.

ers in the field.

engaged in the story" Moroz explains.

Gale Norton, secreary of the

each year from

founding in 1947

woman to serve in that capacity

"We keep
visitors

historic sites

president of Eastern National, die

association's fifth president since its

to

purchasing, working

Eastern National that began during an internship

it

its

Museum in Russia and

own treasure," Moroz says.

looks like the original owner just got

up and

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Same Trail

Hiking the

Elfman

Bell '83 didn't

or Chesley Harris

know each

the parks.

anything

at Eastern

National, although they

fits

.anything that

.

we

do."

theme

into the

is

of

into

fits

Those themes

range from wars to women's rights

were involved

and the Victorian era

related organizations, lived near

each other and had

"perfect product," she says,

"anything that

other

Moroz before they

became colleagues

in

A

Loughin '82 and Barbara

Patricia

common friends

the

Bell,

ager who,

at Bloomsburg.

chasing manager,

to turtles.

resources man-

like IVIoroz, hails

Doylestown,

Loughin, pur-

human

was

from

climbing the cor-

porate ladder before joining Eastern

has been with the

National six years ago. The "perks"

organization three

became evident almost immediately

She works

years.

Assigned to conduct a

Bell's

work-related journey to the Cape

Lookout National Seashore

how much she

made

her realize

enjoys the unique aspects of

field audit

her career.

with vendors and
visits

at

trade shows,

Cape Lookout National Seashore,

nearHarkerslsland, N.C.,

and pulled on a

Bell

toy fairs and book

arrived dressed in her corporate blue

expos to

suit

find the

and high heels, not the

Bell '83 followed

left,

like

Sizing up the situation, she

BU to

Teddy

the room, like

Sagamore

Hill

Roosevelt's

Italian

summer home

and the home of Maggie Walker, the

where Eastern National comes

funds often cover salaries and

on maintenance and

facilities

in.

little else,

anywhere

else."

to safeguard themselves, they

minor inconveniences,

that supports

maps.

we do to make

What

like the

and

to

must be

handle

removal of trash cans

Eastern National helps to surmount the third challenge: insufficient funding.

—Moroz

campaign

calls

it

A current focus is a capital



her "pride and joy"

is

to

Proceeds also support the

Boy Scouts and

and fund grants

to

new publications.

funded by an Eastern National

research grant, for example, provided a

new

interpretive

focus for Fort Donelson in Dover, Tenn.

was rumored

Underground

that the

park had been a stop on the

Railroad, the north-south escape route

slaves,

but no one had concrete proof

and appropriate

Two

for different audiences."

generations of the

Harris family

embraced

this goal as a lifelong love

of national parks flowed

from

father to daughter.

and back
retired,

again.

Chet Harris

remains involved with the
parks and the organization
his daughter leads as a

volunteer on the

Grant provided the documentation that not only added

Arrowhead, a newsletter

Underground Railroad Network of

Freedom Program, but added another

facet to Fort

for

employees and

Moroz sees three challenges facing the national parks
and historic sites today: security, visitation and funding.

National's offices.

must be

favor of other

of

Moroz

"It

licr

keeps him in the loop," Moroz

says.

"It's

FALL 2002

of transportation, such as a shuttle

Bonnie Martin

is

Chct Harris,

in her oBice.

very

b

willing to leave their cars behind in

modes

love of national

fatlicr,

who now volunteers

in Eastern

rewarding ha\'ing him here."

inherited

parks from her

retirees,

Donelson's identity

parks' environment, she believes

staff

National Park Service

housed

To protect the

.

Now

Research funded by Eastern National's Robert M. Utley

the fort to the

Institute.

"We enjoy what we do," Moroz says of her colleagues
Eastern National. 'We try to make stories interesting

explains.

efforts of volunteers, includ-

Girls Scouts,

finance research and produce

A recent project

Moroz

of the Liberty Bell,

through the Independence Park

at

returned to the parks in the form

home

National Historical Park,

each

experience really exceptional."

of Eastern National purchase orders,

visitors

I

where explosive devices could be hidden.

budgets and services

benefit of what

Half of the profit

by

"Now

provide educational programs for youth at Independence

we fund is the

traveled

she says.

I

willing to submit to security screenings

putting a strain

"We provide money through donations

It

used to

have experiences wouldn't have

bus system. And,

Government

children's materials, programs, handouts,

ing

'I

Liberty Place in Center

first

for visitors.

visitor's

One

at

at

Every park also needs increased revenue and
that's

at her feet.

thought to myself,

City Philadelphia,'"

exchange student

woman bank president."

African-American

removed

her pantyhose, borrowed sandals

Chesley Harris Moroz.

from an

left

swimming

work

And, she

jacket.

and Barbara Elfman

career paths from

Eastern National, just

flounder
"I

small boat to reach her destination.
Patricia Loughin '82,

off

appropriate attire for boarding a

perfect products.

life

the boat to find baby

stepped

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STORY BY DON AINES
It

wasn't the sideline perspective or the reality of

working

in a

costume

that gave a former

Husky a

greater appreciation of football.

heavy and often uncomfortable

something that

As the

was

'01

hit a

little

Bloomsburg University

closer to

It

was

home.

Husky mascot, Angle Kowalczyk

official

at University of California,

Bloomsburg's run

at

the Division

II

Davis during
national

cham-

pionship in 2000. She remembers the game and
the excitement of the win. .but she doesn't
.

ber

much about

remem-

the victory celebration after the

semifinal game. And, with

Angle Kowalczyk '01

good

says

reason.

enthusiasm

is

the primary qualification for the Husky.
The Huskies scored 29 unanswered points
final

in the

UC Davis on their opponent's
"I was on my way to the middle

quarter to defeat

home

field,

58-48.

of the field to celebrate.
before

I

hit the

She went

I

was

actually

ground," Kowalczyk

face-first into the turf

knocked out

recalls.

and came

to sur-

rounded by cheerleaders, players and team doctors.
"I

took one for the team," she

now have more

UC Davis

was never

up by

fan

who

the blindside

hit.

delivered the cheap shot

identified, but Kowalcz\'k of Coatesville,

Continued on next page

FALL 2002

m

I

respect for football players." Luckily,

she was only shook

The

says. "Obviously,

Pa., says there are

no hard

her a good story to

for the rest of her

tell

something she has in

feelings. Besides,

common with

to

Like Clifford, Stephanie McCauley had previous

gives

experience as a high school mascot, in her case for the

life,

who have

those

donned the Husky head and costume

it

cheer

on

Jersey Shore, Pa., Bulldogs.

"You can get away with anything. You're not a

people

person. You're a mascot," says Paul Clifford '96.

who have

Husky over the

played

who

to get wild.

ball again.

A

m IN
nm K^^l
m L*l

former high school

mascot

for the

West Hazel-

ton, Pa., Wildcats, Clifford

transferred to

Bloomsburg

from Seton Hall
freshman year.

^H

after his

for a year before volunteer-

ing to

become

Paul Clifford '96 proves

He found
be

Husky' as he poses

the

Husky

the experience to

the opponents' flags

University of Connecticut

games

he's director of

outreach for the alumni

especially Millers-

he

Down by

says.

eight points in the final

quarter against that
esis,

he

field

by

its

cheerleading squad.

The Huskies came back
think

nem-

banner and was chased

stole the Millersville

around the

dunng



ville's,"

association.

to tie the

threw the touchdown pass," says

Clifford,

it.

"I

He

now the

McNamee

'97.

Against Kutztown, Clifford led the team onto the
field

during a downpour,

all

Kutztown Golden Bear

and

stole the

suit.

field to get

"That

it

mascot on the

of the

nominees

for the biggest hit of the

and was picked

really well

and

football,

I

for basket-

because the other

wanted

girl

basketball," she

Now in her senior year as a finance and
she's available to

but plans to concentrate on her

in as Husky,

"There used to be two

but someone

suits,

fill

studies.
stole the

head off of one," McCauley says. So, since she was a
bit small for the

remaining

suit,

collar that not only

cushioned

the head but

made

it

her mother

made

a

helped hold up

easier for her to see

Kowalczyk knows

why she

Davis game. "You have
"I

guess

that's

She admits

wanted

to

for the

Ham-

no

through

took the

hit at the

UC

peripheral vision," she says.

why I didn't see

that

guy coming."

that she

be the

Husky long before she
stepped onto Blooms-

campus

student.

as a

Her older

graduated in

1999, and Kowalczyk

remembers

telling

her

family that she wanted
to attend

Bloomsburg

at least

"for

one year"

Like the others

who've portrayed the
Husky, Kowalczyk says

back.

week I was one

mer Award

This time the

banner from him,

Clifford tackled the opponent's

wanted

and be the mascot

but the head of his

costume covered in a yellow rain

five

selected to be

for the following season,

accounting major, McCauley says

sister

director of outreach for the University of Connecticut

Association, referring to Glen

worked out

explains.

burg's

game, but

my friend Glen had more to do with

Alumni

really

used to love stealing

with the mascot of the

where

then. I'm a

the mouth.

liberating.
"I

team mascot

tried out the next year

"It

A place

he rode the bench

kicker,

'once a Husky, always
a

dog

her sophomore year. She was one of two students

who

«*

a

and she was

tried out,

the basketball

years,

he took advantage of the anonymity of the costume

HPfi Hr

was

As a freshman, McCauley was one of about

Bloomsburg's teams.

Like others

"I

dog now," she jokes.

'Real'

—most
—served

huskies

named Roongo

as mascots from the 1930s

enthusiasm

is

the prithrough the 1950s.

game," he

says.

mary

qualification for

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A

responses were for the package

bolder Bloomsburg University Husl
sports logo

making

is

and thousands

debut

this year,

of people played a role in

new

choosing the

its

Students and parents, faculty and

the

Husky

tradition at Bloomsburg.

The only

instructions she got

dunng

tryouts

Nelson Field House were: "Give

Show us what you'd do

it all

you've got.

e-mails with opinions. ..and

one

as the mascot."

Mascot comes from the French, mascotte or

good

fortune.

a person or thing thought to bring

is,

in

itself,

an

interesting tale.

read every

He

many people

figures

took part

looked at

T-shirts,

sweatshirts and other items,

be on a

lot

in particular, will

of items," says Deeter.

"We're going

to put

it

on things not

for students, but for alumni,

Roongo, a full-blooded North Greenland husky,

them weren't being used a

mascot

"One

of

lot" Hollister

of those pieces

Hollister says

Bloomsburg doesn't

was

Dame

or

Penn State. "We're not

money We're

looking for

it

to produce

looking for

it

to produce pride."

our

logo."

The Husky has been the emblem

started the tradition in 1933, according to university

George

sity art professor

who was also

Keller, a univer-

a wild animal trainer,

of

Bloomsburg

a detailed line drawing that from a

exactly

1935 and was succeeded by

in

athletics for neariy

70 years but the old design "was such

distance,

introduced Roongo to the job.

Roongo died

was

it

what

simpler.

It's

difficult to

more

took over in the

fall

of that year

with the

For homecoming 1937, two dogs raced each other
for the job; the winner, Metik,

was informally renamed

it

uniformity

in

logo.

Roongo

III.

A

full-blooded Siberian malamute, also

named Roongo

was tapped

III,

for the

job in 1950

Mary Gardner
in

new Husky

think

"I

is

defined."

forward to phasing
II,

HUSKIES

determine

was," he says. "This

it

Athletic director

Garou, a Labrador husky, in spring 1936. Another dog,

dubbed Roongo

new team

looks

uniforms

logo.

be great to have some

will

the presentation of the

When we

purchase

new uniforms,
new logo,"

we'll certainly factor in the

she says, adding that uniforms for the
18 intercollegiate athletic programs are

and held

for

it

most of the decade. Then

fraternities

purchased on a three- or four-year cycle.

and the children of Bloomsburg University presidents
offered

up

dogs as unofficial mascots, Dunkel-

their

And the new

logo

first

is

more than

just a

picture of a dog.

"More and more,

berger adds.

The

universities are

putting out logo packages," says Hol-

human mascot was Mike "Wasielczyk '82,

who debuted at

the

homecoming parade

Oct. 6, 1979.

lister.

That includes wording, lettering

different fonts
"In this case,

For "Wasielczyk, that came about by happenstance.
Wasielczyk,

who now works

for

UPS

in

mation technology group, knew a student

its

infor-

who want-

The

man was married with children

Continued on next page

and variations on the

one

size

does not

in

logo.

fit all."

university contracted with a

design firm that eventually produced four
logo packages for consideration.
In

ed the job, but the

just

as well."

have the licensing concerns of a Notre

the university identi-

all

and determined that a couple

explains.

archivist Robert Dunkelberger.

Web

line of gifts

for the University Store.

"The Husky head,

,030

1

the process through presentations to

"We

How the Husky became the cherished

of Bloomsburg University

and a

according to Eric Deeter, the store's

rela-

various groups on and off campus.

fiers

emblem

outlets

"little
in

meaning

witch,"

I

of them," Hollister says.

three times that

gradually being

merchandise manager

personally received over

"I

at

media

Hollister, director of

and marketing.

tions

is

That includes key tags, glassware,

eight-month redesign process, according

Jim

media

and clothing

duhng the

solicited for their opinions

to

the role.

site,

donors and townspeople were

staff,

Art professor and wild animal trainer George Keller started

The new package

incorporated into the university

look.

we

eventually adopted."

the feedback he received, Hollister

says, "Close to

64 percent

of the

Changes

in the Husky's

appearance transform the

mascot from human-sized
even referred

to a variation that lasted just

head

The Voice

to larger-than-hfe.

he

The

off.

would be soaked

lining

says.

one season

Like the Cowardly Lion suit Bert Lahr wore in "The

as the 'Golden Weasel.'

Wizard of OZ," the

tail

of the

and backed out because of those commitments.

ed in mid-air by attaching

Wasielczyk volunteered to take his place and was

of fishing

measured

for the first

seamstress at a

Husky costume, made by

downtown men's

never did anything

"I

out,"

he

says.

1

The

lion did

point total after each

"with

was

pretty

much

showman

touchdown or

to

match the

field goal,

but

"It

was

fortunate for

me

the team didn't score too

the

UC Davis game, she did more

than 250 reps.
their antipathy

Bloomsburg on the mascot. Wasielczyk
against

recalls

KuLztown when he spent the second

one
half

team van because the crowd was so intimidating.

During
sport,

his reign as Husky, basketball

was

the big

Wasielczyk remembers. Doing formations with

cheerleaders

demanding, more so

was

if

you're wearing a fur coat

pretty hot in that suit.

into the locker

20

my legs."

have the head

to

fall off.

life

of a mascot

is

more than games and

local

and McCauley

recall

elementary school students, a big

many of the

kids. Wasielczyk's experiences

politics

when he and

the student
a rally

For

all

the Huskies, their days

in the suit are fondly
it

remembered,

was sometimes hard

"Angie, you're the

out there.

for

Angie Kowalczyk

friends to understand.

Husky You sweat yourself

How is that fun?" Kowalczyk recalls one

friend asking.
"I

was able

to create so

Kowalczyk.

"It

Don Aines

a

many memories," says

was an awesome experience." b

and leading cheers can be physically
and

headgear in a hot, crowded gym.
"It

The

although

Opposing crowds sometimes focus

in a

line

to protest a tuition hike.

to celebrate

touchdowns during her two seasons cheering on

game

tucked between

government president led

Kowalczyk says she did push-ups

for

a length

even strayed into university

he laughs.

Huskies. During that

was suspend-

climbing to the top of a cheerlead-

parades. Wasielczyk, Kowalczyk

thrill for

each score.

often,"

recalls

pyramid in one game, only

meeting with

Wasielczyk decided he'd do a lap around the track
after

suit

head with

A cheerleader handed it back and the show went on.

and the Nittany Lion

push-ups

Husky

to the

During one basketball game, the

my proverbial tail

McCauley
er

in

The Philadelphian drew on

the legendary Phillie Phanatic
for inspiration.

I

guess the

line.

it

broke and Wasielczyk spent the remainder of the game

a

clothing store.

like that.

an introverted person, but

me came

in perspiration,"

room

is

stajj reporter vAth

The Record Herald,

Waynesboro, Pa.
I

would usually go

at intermission

and take the

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STORY BY MIKE FEELEY

There
and

are times

your

right,

when you
your

career,

and you're

off

reach a crossroads.

on an

entirely different course.

For many, these intersections come
For others,

college.

Gerald
nock,

S. "Jerry"

when

it's

Frey

that first child

came

it

in

Go left
Go

heads in one direction.

life,

1980

end of

at the

comes

along. For

Tunkhan-

inside a bar in

where he

Pa.,

would drink beer and
chitchat with a friendof-a-friend

making

it

who was

big in the

New York world of
high finance.
That's

when he was

given the choice. Stay in
his current job with a

Downtown Tunkhannock

is

view

sees from his

construction firm, transfer to

Minnesota and

would

pretty

a safe course.

New York to
Frey

But

much

life

Or take a risk, drop
try a new career.

realizes,

town

marked contrast to the

a

office

window.

take

everything and

without a doubt, that he

for a man who still

small

of Philadelphia Frey

made

move

the right

prefers flannel shirts to suits

to metropolis,

was one

it

to

and

call.
ties,

of those pakn-sweating,

life-changing

calls.

of Change
"I said,

22 years

1 think

later "So,

Today

Frey, a

I'll
I

go

to

New York,'" Frey recalls now,

picked up everything and

1971 Bloomsburg graduate,

I

is

^^m^^

went."

managing

director, chief investment officer of growth investing for

Delaware Investments in Philadelphia. That's a fancy way
say he handles people's

combine
Frey

is

all

money

the mutual funds

responsible for

$6

Lots of money

to

When you

and pension plans he

oversees,

billion.

That means Frey 56, can

easily earn or lose

in a day than most people will see in a

lifetime.

more money
Wall Street

analysts tout his funds as solid investments even in these uncertain financial times,

and he was the subject of a 2000 book

CorWxnmd on mxi page

riuw

Flyirni
called

"High Flying Adventures

m

As tell-all books

the Stock Market."

Still,

he has maintained

that small-town

heart.

to top the

friends say,

sweetheart, he
friends

still

P-

and

does

financial decisions

who now teaches and
Wallenpaupack

(Pa.)

coaches in the

Area School

"He took chances

in

life

.

was an

took that opportunity and ran with

He proves

that

one

if

life is full

of op-

you grab

the right

at the right time,

998, but

was

who knows?"

one of die most down-to-

earth people

met

I

and coach
(Pa.)

in the

Area School

If Prey's life
it

'68, a teacher

college in

seems pretty setded,

in

at Dela-

the media spotlight. His

funds have been the subject of articles through-

more than a

down

year, author

of the fickle stock

Molly Baker followed his

market

"When someone

in

2000,

when

"

Frey says.
it

.

writes a book about

never really depicts

all

his peers, Frey says.

It

It

was

and

flying high

of

what

I

do."

was based on

just

about everyone

"It

was

won't go

down

as one of the great novels of

all

fun."

worked as a

reporter with the Wall Street

Joumal and

the book's preface, she points to the passion investors have for their job.

In

money for the

will be.

the stock market

impact humanity. .but

will

it

Wall Street.

Baker, a freelance author, has

started

made money for

to do," Baker writes in the book's epilogue.

his shareholders,

"He beat

he beat the indexes, and he made

firm."

not a bad ending.

All in all,

didn't finish

He

eventually gradu-

think he was kind of crazy

times," Lichtel recalls.
to

at

remember

"I

once to move
he liked

ated with a degree in economics.

he decided

time

dropping out a few

times to work.

"I

out

in

the competition, he

He

Frey's first

layman than

for the

"He had done what he had set out

District.

1964 and

until 1971,

came

NBC News.

Mechanicsburg

wasn't always that way.

wasn't

It

his

cunous about how accurate

not 'War and Peace,'

time that

in coUege" says

Richard "Rich" Lichtel

team

interesting expenence," recalls Frey

dabbling

"It's

"He's

access to himself

his

different. For

The book was written more
1

and

full

what

.

you, you're

portunities

was

going

Frey agreed to give an author

every decision during the normal ups and
"It

District.

daily

and the success of

out his career, but this

isn't

the Stock Market" offers readers a

in

his staff so readers could get a taste of

ware Investments goes through

own way,"

tltings his

one about Jerry Frey

glimpse into the world of high finance.

I

^^

first.

"Jerry

it.

"^^"-^^^^^

puts family and

says Stan Kucharsld '68, a friend

Adventures

.._____

K^

Married to his hometown

go, the

of shocking reads. Instead, "High-Flying

list

Alabama because

to

their football team.

dropped out

So he

two weeks and

for

came back.

drop out of college

"I

and CEO of Kem Capital
Management in New York City
"And if he wanted to utilize it, he
president

certainly couldn't in that part of

think he was confused at

first

the country"

about what he wanted to do and

what he wanted
"Jerry is his

So

to be," Lichtel says.

own person. And

that's

bets

describe him."

in

The longest was about

Frey agrees he was confused
tiis

worked
his

future after college.

Frey stayed,

in the construction field tn

hometown

of Tunkhannock for

years before meeting

was with Chase
York.

He

Bob Kem, who

Investors in

New

The two met through a mutual

know each other
over beers at that local bar when
friend

For Jerry Frey's funds, a

1

percent

change in the market can be the
difference of

$60 milhon.

and got

to

Kem would come to visit.
this

It

was

at

bar where they talked about

work and Frey's future.
had potential I knew he
wasn't utiliztng," says Kem, now
sports,

"Jerry

at fus

on how long Frey would last
New York. A week. Two weeks.

probably one of the best ways to

about

when an opening came

Kem asked Frey to join him.
Friends, Kem among them, took

firm,

with

first

a

month. But

Kem at

Chase, where he was vice president

from 1980

to

around 1986, and

then with Morgan Grenfell Capital

Management

In

New York where, as

senior director, he

ogy

stocks.

managed

technol-

He began his current job

with Delaware Investments in 1996.

"New York is a fairly intimidating
Kem, who is from

place," says

and Kves in north-

FactoryviUe, Pa.,

eastern Pennsylvania.

"Our roots

are very similar

him

I

told

that

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once you make the
I

tors

both worlds."
Frey agrees that he needed some
sort of kick to get
"I

him going.

would probably

I

met

"I

myself

Blooms-

have very fond

there, I've
it's

known for decades.

what you put

into

when you

deal in

"move

the decimal points

you
and

think small." Thinking small would

be a challenge

"At

million.

the magnitude of the

first,

absolute

it.

$60

translates to a loss of

amount

of moiiey you're

Because now I work wath people
who have graduated from Perm,

working with overwhelms you,"

Duke, other colleges people view

you

as

more

Frey says.

prestigious than Blooms-

Frey says.

Even while working

in

Tunkhan-

further his education in finance.

At Delaware Investments, Frey

funds

But a

1

percent

of 23 people

and oversees

Growth Opportunities

like the

Fund, the Select Growth Fund and

lost

staff

he receives from his

doctor,

and

their children

Jonah, 9; and Alec,
Frey's

had

Sam,

a

13;

5.

a strong

run in

many

of his funds, even in the recent
volatile stock

billion

market. His $1.4

Delaware Trend Fund,

for

There's not

much about the
However, since

dislikes.

boom

of the 1990s,
getting into the

stock market via 4010<) plans at

2002, while the

about -2.3 percent.

Growth Fund
able,

hasn't

been

as profit-

with a return of -0.92 percent

in the last year, also as of

March 3 1

for the

opportunity'
I

tell

him,

"fou did

Looking

back

at that

22 years
can chuckle
a litde now.

the

thought of
Wall Street analysts

Minnesota
in the

refer to the funds

mid-

Frey manages as
dle of winter

solid investments.

makes him

Kem believes if a
been

become much more

he might

or dabbling

public.

That's not just because there's a

book about him. He

says he found

that experience fan.

But

cable channel

numbers, as

ways

is

there's

CNBC televising
news

all

day,

as Investors

Business Daily that chart

"It's

His $ 1 billion Delaware Select

says,

transfer hadn't

home

and newspapers such

average for similar funds has been

him and Jerry

with stocks themselves, his job has

at

stock and business

as of March 31,

to

Kem says. "When

it,"

laugh heartily

work, IRAs

than

percent in the past year,

was up

'Thanks

And

example, has a return rate of more
1 1

and out-

side sources.

when everyone was

Kelly,

it

certainly did

the work.'"

provides

staff

friends.

created the opportunity but,

"I

basically,

he

—can

now

as they are

remain your best

ago, Frey

search expertise include the technol-

He lives



petitors

The biggest portion of his day is
managing the flow of information

the market

sectors.

an unusual business where com-

is

crossroads

team" leader where his areas of re-

Mawr with his wife,

million,

the

back in 1980. He says his

him with research and information,
but he makes the call on funds.

job Frey

ogy and health care

$60

told

move on any

more. He's considered the "growth

in Br)Ti

right call

day is not uncommon."

Frey says his

after college.

nock, he went to night school to

staff

you had

'^particular

Frey worked hard

someone just

you'd probably have a heart attack.

burg, but I'm right there with them,"

has a

that

"If

and happy Jerry made

success

most considering,

to

in his funds, a loss of 1 percent

from the school. The people

"But

Frey says

the kinds of numbers he does,
just

classify

as a great underachiever at

burg," he says.
feelings

have been seeing the past few

years.

Kem says he's proud of Frey's

kind of market inves-

That's the

transition, like

you could have the best of

did,

all

fund

well.

a business that in

some

a lot like baseball. They're

putting your batting average

still

"Everyone goes through a point
in their career or
at

certain decisions you've
says. "People

York?

I

would say

investment environment and

over the same time.

more of a rock show."

that

the better decisions

Tlic

ages have been about -8.3 percent

made," Frey

who do well have

made some pretty good decisions
along the way Minnesota or New

Mifee Feeley

less of a

when you look

I

was one of

made."

b

up

has

become

life

how you've been impacted by

and the scauiny mean

2002. However, similar funds' aver-

at that

constmction firm in Tunkhannock.

every day," he says. "Television
this

in Frey's future,

be working

is

assistant city editor for

PaUiot-Nm's

in

Hanisburg.

white-glove

25

News Notes
Academic Lottery
the Cards

In

Lauren Madak

receives full scholarship to University

of Chicago

ID system controls

access, enables future

Lauren Madak of Newtown,

conveniences

been awarded

is

greater sense of security

and convenience

is in

staff with the

new

and anthropology

undertook a research project comparing

American and

preparation.

for

graduate Research Award.

and campus volunteers

new

"A scholarship of this
magnitude

staff last spring

ID cards.

Her research was

supported by a Kozloff Under-

photographed students,

and

British systems of

andiropology and professional

one-

Staff of the Residence Life

faculty

at

Cambridge University in England and

card system.

Office

and anthro-

pology spent a semester studying

cards for students, faculty

and

who graduated in May with

bachelor's degrees in history

studying toward a master's degree in

history

the

Madak,

has

Chicago where she

to the University of

A

Pa.,

a full-tuition scholarship

at

one of the

elite

institutions of higher learning in

The event

introduced the one-card

the world

is like

system, designed to control

academic

lottery,"

building access and increase

depanment chairperson WiDiam
V Hudon, "except that a lottery

convenience.

The

new

requires intelligence,

Lauren Madak discusses her research

residence halls and high-

commit-

ment and incredible work."
The University of Chicago

at

Bloomsburg's annual student poster sessions.

usage buildings and serve as

ship

the meal card for resident
In

says history

requires luck, whereas this

ID cards initially

provide controlled entn/ to

students.

winning the

is

valued

at nearly

scholar-

$30,000.

the future, the

card will enable a variety of

Researcher at the

on-campus services and
financial conveniences.

Hehn

Matta named dean forgraduate studies and

research

According to Jim McCor-

mack, assistant director of

A nationally known scholar in

the Residence Life Office,

the study of insects

staff

members

James Matta,
specimens

system eight years ago.
"The

new

entomology
assistant vice

president and dean for graduate studies and research.

started

investigating a one-card

is

a researcher

housed

at

whose

collection of beetle

the Smithsonian Institution,

served two years as Bloomsburg's interim dean for

card immediately

makes campus

the field of

—recendy was named

graduate studies.

security

He

directed the office of research

stronger and eventually will

sponsored programs starting in 1992, increasing

increase convenience for

the university's grant funding from $1.4 million to

students, faculty and staff,"

$2.8 million during

McCormack
everything

says.

is in

As dean

"When

enroll nearly

make

purchases, check out library

research

James Matta

Matta

is

responsible for

800

students,

and grant

and

all

university-sponsored

acti\'ities.

"Dr Matta has extraordinary academic

books, carry out banking
transactions and complete

decade.

for graduate studies,

overseeing Bloomsburg's 18 graduate programs, which

place, the

card will allow users to

tire

and

and

he's a leader in his discipline, as

student-related processes

Patrick Schloss, provost

without carrying cash."

ial spirit

that will serve

Malta's

and

shown by his

vice president of

credentials,

record of research and publication," says

academic

affairs.

our graduate and off-campus programs

"He

also has

an entrepreneur-

well."

academic research has been supported by grants and contracts totaling more than

$300,000. In addition to his

many publications on water insects, he has been
manne algae, viruses and in vitro fertilization.

a co-author of

studies in such diverse areas as

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Outreach Leader

Best in the Nation
Jeanette Keith wins

Vavrek named vice president

award for top history article

for university relations

A Bloomsburg professor took the title
scholarly article

on American

History professor Jeanette Keith

Stephenson Award

her

for

for last years best

article,

won the 2002

"The

Politics of

Draft Resistance, 1917-1918: Class, Race,

which appeared

in the Rural South."

Michael Vavrek was named vice

G.

history.

president for Bloonnsburg's university

Binkley-

relations division.

Southern

in the

In

this position,

he

oversees the university's government

and Conscription

relations,

March 2001

development, alumni, communi-

cations and continuing education functions.

edition of the Journal of American History

Each year, the Brnkley-Stephenson Award recognizes

Vavrek joined BU

summer

the top article from the Journal of American History

sessions.

in

1

989 as dean

He previously

of

extended programs and

held continuing education

positions at East Tennessee State University,

Western Michigan

State University and the University of Miami.

He served

Progranuning

Petite
:

in

the

Army from 1967

Vavrek,

Student creates applications for Palm Pilots

who

is

into

programming on a small

scale.

Working

with adviser Steve Kokoska, professor of mathematics,

computer science and
statistical

replicate

programs

statistics,

for

Palm

programs available

The programs
demonstrated

O'Brien

Pilots
for

is

at the

a

member

Way

of the board of directors of the

and founding president

Bloomsburg Telecommunications Consortium
and Region. He has been the

for

for the

Columbia County

university's representative to the

to

graphing calculators.

for pocket-sized platforms

in

of captain.

Central Pennsylvania Forum for the Future since 1991.

creating

and pocket PCs

is

Columbia County United

Senior computer science major Shaun O'Brien of

Macungie

1970 with tours of duty

also serves as executive director of the Bloomsburg

University Foundation,
f

to

Germany and Vietnam. He attained the rank

were

Compaq Higher Education Forum

Quality in the Classroom
Students select outstanding teacher

The Bloomsburg University Foundaand Compaq, which provided a pocket PC,

became a

in Houston, Texas.

Before he

tion

teacher, John

Grandzol

had 20 years of real-life

supported the project.

experience helping the
U.S.

Navy adopt

quality

total

management.

"Total quality"

is

not only

how students describe
his teaching style,
is

John Grandzol uses
examples m class.

the

component

it

also

that

earned the associate

real-life

professor of

management

Award from Bloomsburg's Teaching
and Learning Enhancement Center The award is supported
the Outstanding Teacher

by the Bloomsburg University Foundation.
Grandzol was nominated by students

and bachelor's degrees

last

May

who earned master's

In their nominations, students

say they appreciate his high expectations, classroom etiquette,

teaching format and stmcture and varied uses of technolog)'.
But, they say, he's

no pushover

"His classes are designed to follow the traditional format
of three hours of studying for one hour of class to receive

an A," writes one student.
In addition to running a tight classroom, Grandzol

Computer science student Shaun O'Brien,

left,

meets with

continues his research in

total quality

adviser Steve Kokoska.

subject of his doctoral dissertation.

FALL 2002

management, the

News Notes

Making the "Gold" Standard
Melinda

Adding to Success

Senior chemistry

Math department 7'eceives

major Melinda

grantfor calculus conference

Hill

of Blooms-

burg recently

Pennsylvania's public school

a prestigious

students are being challenged

award

with

new

math

tests to assess their

skills,

University

The
focuses

Mauch

Elizabeth

helping them

uni\'ersity

is

the grade.

studies

holding a conference on Oct.

on preparing students

fifth,

who

begins doctoral

make

for the

eighth

1 1

that

mathematics portion

of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment

given to students in

won

for science.

Hill,

and Bloomsburg

is

wins science accolades

Hill

and 11th

grades.

in

chemistry at
Virginia Tech in

test,

January,

was

More

awarded

a Barry

than 200 teachers are expected to attend the conference,

M. Goldwater

funded by a $13,542 grant from the Calculus Consortium

Scholarship for

for

Higher Education.
"This

is

the next generauon of standardized

tests. It

assistant professor of

mathematics, computer science and
to the students to help

them acquire

statistics.

these

shown with her

Nationally,

m order to receive credit," says Elizabeth

Mauch, conference organizer and

Hill, left, is

adviser Cindy Kepler.

asks students to reply to open-ended questions with
ex-planations

Melinda

2002-2003.

"We owe

skills.

it

This

conference will do just that."

maximum

309 science, mathematics

and board, up to

and engineering students

of $7,500 per year

were selected

working on a research project

for the

a

Hill is

one- and two-year Goldwater

that investigates synthesizing

scholarships that cover

compounds

tuition, fees,

books and room

to

make

Light

Emitting Diodes.

New Approach
Reading program now part ofpracticum
Graduate assistants work closely with undergraduate education majors
burg's

new approach

tutoring

to

program designed

gling readers in

first

m Blooms-

America Reads, a
to help strug-

through sixth grades.

Previously a volunteer program,

America Reads

now is part of a

3 -credit

practicum supervised by Charles Starkey,
assistant professor of early

childhood and

elementary education.
Chris Cherrington, director of the

graduate reading program, says the
cooperative effon between the School of

Education and the Reading Center

Graduate assistant Stephanie Ruel ol Bloomsbury,

increases the program's value to students,

elementary education major from Muncy,

mostly juniors, by offering a practical

materials for America Reads.

Pa.,

N.J., left,

work

and Carolyn Johnson, an

together last spring on classroom

application of the concepts they learn in

the classroom.

says.

"This program helps prepare education

majors

for student teaching,"

Cherrington

"They

know they are

primarily

responsible for providing high-quality
literacy instiiaction that

must

correlate

with

state standards,

and the graduand

ate assistants are there to help
offer guidance."

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Speaking of Technology

Playing Fair

$200,000 £rrant brings high-tech

Philosophy prof pays debt to Bert and Ernie

Scott

Lowe knows

of four has

seen many

$201,000 Pennsylvania

episodes of "Sesame Street" and reckoned he needed to repay
the puppets and their life-sized friends for the role they played
his children's early education.

The

result, "Fair Play

Bert and Ernie,"

was

drive;

he wrote a scholarly paper.

and Social Obligation: Paying

My

Debt to

presented at a philosophy conference

Slovenia and published

in

Public Affairs Quarterly.

in

The philosopher

argues that supporting community resources one uses, such as
PBS, a neighborhood watch or a town playground,

is

bring PowerPoint to

speaking

used in nearly

somebody," Lowe says.

"If

owe

you don't back the services you value,

you're taking advantage of the other people

all

who

voluntarily give

up something to support these efforts."

is

presenta-

tions in business as well as

James Tomlinson

most other professional
says grant writer

James Tomlinson,

society and think you don't

of

classes.

"Today PowerPoint

fields,"

in

all

the university's public

more than

just a matter of simple fairness.

"You just can't be a loner

mm

i.

Link-to-Leam grant to
in

But he did more than pick up the

phone during the annual pledge

public speaking

The communication studies program is using a

Bert and Ernie. ..well.

The philosophy professor and father

tools to

profes-

sor of communication
studies

and

theatre arts.

Students are learning to use

same

the

tools in class that

they will use in their professional careers."

The grant funded

"This will ensure that our

a

technology classroom and
a

computer

lab outfitted

with the software and

equipment

specific to the

needs of communication
studies students.

The

technology classroom
provides a wireless laptop

computer

for every student

and enables students

to

project PowerPoint presen-

from

tations

The grant

their laptop.

also supports

faculty training in

hand-

held computing.
Five

hundred students,

many of the
commu-

including

department's 180

nication studies majors,
will

use the

ogy in

new technol-

their public

speaking courses each
year.

The

university

is

contributmg $70,000

toward project

costs.

This year, Pennsylvania

awarded a

total

of $4.

million to 23 public and
private universities

and

colleges through the Link-

to-Leam program.

Philosophy professor Scott Lowe has a good friend in Ernie

ALL 2002

News Notes

Sold

ot\

Success
AMA earns three awards

Stamp of

at national

conference

Approval
Bloomsburg University's

NCATE reaccredits

ciiapter of tile

Colle/je

of Professional

American

Marl
Studies
earned national recognition
at the association's collegiate

Bloomsburg University's
conference

commitment

last spring.

to high-

Students

won

national

quality teacher education

awards

was reaffirmed when

for outstanding

the

communication and

National Council for
outstanding membership

Accreditation of Teacher
activities,

Education (NCATE) reac-

Kristin lanicro

while adviser

William Neese, associate

credited the College of
professor of marketing,

Jet Setter

Professional Studies.

The continuing

was

recognized with one of the

Kristin laniero kicks off sports info career

two outstanding adviser

accreditation certifies that
honors.

Bloomsburg's School of
Education, part of the
College of Professional
Studies,

meets NCATE's

Long-time sports fan and 2001 mass communications

pads but, just the same,
team, the

stnngent performance-

laniero

major newspapers and

of areas involving teacher

news

preparation and related

press credentials

university performance.

team depth charts and photo

institutions that

produce

in April. In her position, she fias regular contact with

staff

television networks, writes Jets

releases, organizes press conferences, authorizes

game

two-thirds of the nation's

and makes sure player bios and

day, she also

statistics,

libraries are up-to-date.

On

manages the press box, supervising a

of 20.

laniero got a

head

start

on her sports information career

new teachers each year.

As an undergraduate, she worked

Recognized by the U.S.

ty's

Department of Education

with the Jets that turned into a

in

Bloomsburg Universi-

sports information office before landing an internship
ftill-time

spot

on

their team.

as the professional accrediting

body

for schools,

departments and colleges
of education,

NCATE

William Neese

Husky Greats

The chapter also received
one

Five join athletic hall offame

current best practice

Five alumni will

and

research. Bloomsburg's

next

NCATE accreditation

visit is

scheduled for

spnng 2006.

of

1 1

community service

project grants from the Sheth

revises its standards every
five years to reflect

year as

the group's adviser

began a sports information career wdth the

standards cover a variety

525

and shoulder

she's part of a professional football

team

accredits

a helmet

recently

his first

New York Jets.

onented standards. The

NCATE

don

graduate Kristin laniero doesn't

Neese

completed

become

sity Athletic Hall of

Friday, Oct. 6,

Inductees

Snyder

star

Bloomsburg Univer-

Fame when the 2 1st class is inducted
Homecoming Weekend.

during

are: Softball

'84, track

and basketball

part of the

and

great

and

field

field star Jim

Davis

star Laurie

'72, baseball

Don Butler '53, women's swimming

Beth Roeder-Zimmerman

ball standout Line Welles '75.

graduates brings the

hockey

number

'88

and football and baseThe induction of these

of members in the Blooms-

Foundation and the

AMA

Foundation. Bloomsburg's
project aims to generate

awareness

of a

program

offered by Allied Services, a
nonprofit

government agency

that provides housing for low-

income

citizens,

age 55 and

older with disabilities.

burg Athletic Hall of Fame to 93.

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

^

^*s-;!

Academic

Spring

Weekend Begins

Thursday

Calendar

April 17,

10 p.m.

Philadanco

Celebrity
Artist Series

Tickets are

Classes Resume

FaU 2002

MondayApril21,6p.m.

Saturday

Haas Center for the Arts,

box office at

call the series

Reading Day

(570! 389-4409 or check the

Sunday May 4

Thanksgiving Recess

Final

Tuesday, Nov. 26

Web

Celebrity Artist Series

Exams Begin
Monday May 5

Begins

Art Exhibits

Mitrani Hall. For information,

May 3

Friday, Oct. 11

no classes

2003, 8 p.m.

3,

$20 and $25.

Performances are presented
in

Classes End

Reading Day

May

Saturday

site

at www.bloomu.edu/

All exhibits are displayed

Haas Center for

in the

Arts,

hours are Monday through
Friday

tickets/CAS/CAS.htm.

the

Art Gallery. Galieny

9 a.m.

to

4 p.m.

For information, contact

Classes Resume

Graduate Commencement

Monday, Dec. 2

Friday

May 9

Classes End

Finals

End

May

Saturday

Reading Day

Undergrad

Sunday, Dec. 8

Commencement
Saturday May 10

Paintings by

Deborah Henson-Conant,
Electric Harpist

Sunday Nov

Friday, Dec.

Special Events

13

Saturday

ers,

Homecoming Weekend

Saturday Dec. 14
Friday Oct. 4, to

Undergraduate

Sunday

Oct. 6

Commencement
Saturday, Dec. 14

Spring 2003

$35

at the
is

in

reception,

and Mary

Nov 16,8
$30

Tickets are

Exams End

p.m.

for subscrib-

door This performance

in

It

Artist Series subscription

tickets

For information, call

London

(570)389-4128.

Butterfly"

Saturday Feb.

7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25

Jan. 7 to 14

Friday Oct. 25, to

Classes Begin

Oct.

8 a.m.

Martin Luther King

Monday

Jr.

Day

Jan. 20

8,

2003,

2 p.m.

and Paintings by

Marina Mangubi
Jan. 27 to March

2,

2003.

TBA

May 2,

2003.

May 2,

11 :30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

and $28.

Hungarian National

University-Community

Philharmonic

Orchestra Concert

Sunday March

Sunday Nov

3 p.m. Tickets are $25

Haas Center

no classes

11 :30 a.m. to

Gallery reception, Thursday

Parents and Family

13,

Gallery

5.

Thursday Nov 21,

Sculpture by Craig Kraft

Weekend

MondayJan.

Nov. 11 to Dec.
reception,

April 3 to

Electronic Registration

27

by

Oct. 31,

Grace Lynn

Gallery reception,

City Opera's

"Madame

Sunday

and

must be purchased

individually

Installation

Prints

the Celebrity

Husky Club Golf Outing
Valley Country Club, Danville.

2 p.m.

not

is

Thursday

Oct. 10, Frosty

Thursday

11 :30 a.m. to

Billie

advance and $38

a one-time event.

included

Bruce Erikson
Oct. 7 to 31. Gallery

8 p.m.

10,

$18 and $22.

Tickets are

Peter, Paul

Final

8 p.m.

5,

$25 and $28.

10

Final

Graduate Commencement

(5701 389-4646.

Saturday Oct.
Tickets are

Saturday, Dec. 7

Exams Begin
Monday Dec. 9

the art department at

"State Fair"

17, 2:30 p.m.,
for the Arts,

2,

2003,

and $28,

Mitrani Hall. Admission

Monday Classes Meet
is

free.

For the

Friday Jan. 24

Poinsettia

Mid-Term

Pops Concert,

featuring the University-

Tuesday March 4

Community Orchestra and

Spring Break Begins

Chamber Singers

Saturday March

Friday Dec.

8,

noon

Classes Resume

Monday March

6,

latest

information on

upcoming evmts, check

Web site:

the university

^vww.bloomu.edii/today

7:30 p.m.,

Kehr Union, Ballroom. Doors

open at

7:1

5 p.m. Tickets

17, 8 a.m.

required. For information,
call (570)

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389-41 28.

31

Last Word

The

History

a pact between the dead,

is

the living and the yet unborn.

— EDMUND

BURKE, ENGLISH STATESMAN

AND ORATOR

President Jessica Kozloff, standing at

Students from Professor Nancy Gentile Ford's fiistory

demonstrated

classes

last

how two

spring

generations

the other from

May 2002
who

honoring 16 alumni

Bloomsburg

flagpole

Normal

State

a nurse

who

War

1919

Pauline Steinman; and standing: Kozloff, John Lawrence, Fred
Ackerman, Chris Conroy, Keith Long and Nathan Pesavento.

With

shape of

Plans were

m The Great War.

remembers the following alumni:

and

the

from

Carver Hall. Their

'12 from Forest City

hloward

Krumm

John Ray Kunkle

'1

1

Memonal

from Catawissa

of

Hawley Olmstead, 1 908-1

1

,

1

900, from Freeland

Walter Page, 191 5-17, from Mount Pleasant Mills
Mer/I

Phillips,

1909-1

1,

from Muncy Valley

Thomas
Karl

Bloomsburg

West, 1904-09 (elementar/ model

school),

to

make way

David Williams, Class of 1900 and a resident

graduate student during 1900-01, from Scranton

the flagpole rusted

They asked

monument could be
and pledged

to raise

to $8,000.

mood of the
at

our

as

times prompts
past. Or,

perhaps

that the Class of 2002's gift in

the victims of September

1 1

will

was
all

I.

of us to
is

it

the

remembrance of

withstand the

test

"If
it

last

less

than two weeks before

May:

we allow this monument to further deteriorate,
the memory of the dead it seeks to

would besmirch

honor. Their names and their sacnfice have been
gotten save for this testament to their youth and
It is

with that in mind that

we must take

ment vied

with

doing

and

pass their lessons to future generations, allowing

for space

the boulder.
rial

was

all

The memo-

geography and geosciences Professor Sandi

we not

I'm so very proud of these
a

campus landmark

.

.

young people

we
them

master plan. Dr. Kehoe-Forutan,
Jessica S. Kozloff

President

for saving

.and for honoring the pact

between the present, the past and the

historical

Korean War veteran Dale Krothe '60 and members of

By

only honor the long dead, but

to live the lives they never could."

but forgotten.

resurfaced years

that,

for-

spirit.

the necessary

steps to revitalize this long-forgotten memorial.

Kehoe-Forutan and others researched campus
sites for the facilities

promi-

rightful

take place, the

and playground equip-

It

later as

for

A diseased tree was

the remaining trees

from Danville

the

original location

look more closely

hope

graduating

Schuylkill Residence

felled,

Straub, 1911-15, from Herndon

Turner '06 from

removed

its

needed $6,000

John Lawrence spoke

other alumni died in

Hall.

Earl Robbins '15 from Eyers Grove

Max

restored in

other wars. SLx trees were

from Taylor

its

of time. Regardless, I'd like to share the words student

Pinery

Time passed, and

William JVlontgomery '15 from Orangeville

George Neuberger, Class

efforts

and impressive War

ful

'15 from Danville

the memorial to the

move could

Alumni Board whether

Perhaps the

formed the very respect-

John Hodder, 1915-17, from Will
move

The Alumni Board was convinced,

along Perm Street near

Harry Andres '06 from Bloomsburg

Reese Davis

a bronze plaque to

the memorial, located

Hemdon

Committee worked

histoiy students rediscovered the Pinery

The 1919 War Memorial Pinery

'13

to

in order to restore

nence, but before the

the

Adams

made

Alumni House

The classes of 1922
and 1924 added a stone

Gabriel

Association's Veterans

to save the Pinery

their class gift, a

trees planted in the

Alumni

the

of their generation

they remembered the 15 servicemen

died

the

I.

School's Class of

the ultimate sacrifice.

star,

shown with

They are, left to right,
Adams, Beth Pennebacker and

they share the goal of

died in World

surrounded by 16

a six-pointed

and

^but

left, is

the Pinery.

is

—one from May 1919 and

May to honor those

gathered that

who made



who rededicated

kneeling: Keith Munley, Jessica

of undergraduates can reach out to each other. Life

very different for the groups

students

future.

^

a.ign

NEW.

.

Opportumtm

PDATE

The Campaign for
Bloomsburg University

A MESSAGE FROM THE CAMPAIGN CHAIR
!W Challenges,

New

Opportunities:

The Campaign Tor Bloomsburg Uni vers ity/.r amph:,

Kceeded all expectations— $ ij ,44^.64^! !

alumni, parents fy'nuth

When

juc ycm^

p/j goal was already surpassed, with

II

men

that the goal

campaign seemed

was

redefined to

The

inevitable.

only did

we reach our

goal,

we surpassed it— Ima/isc

teceSi

uj

the generusity of

hi/iim^wi ,nul iintjurations that support Bloomsburv

i»ihli,\i_-f<

this i.uiiq'uix^ti i/t.^uii

Not

ui^u. irjc in initial

$1

1

ruilUon goal appeared

many alumni and friends coming forth

$15

results

million — another enormous challenge.

I'l I'i

m.un iniiiiiiinint^.

ujjiu) iyyv^

in support uf Bloomsburg University.

It

was

In retrospect however, the success of this

of this challenge are now ensuring Bloomsburgs future by enhancing educational

pportunities for the next generation.

Those who supported
university,

and its

The positive

Center.

'i>i&'w

effects

Challenges,

New

Opportunities have allowed

the continued

Bloomsburg students are already enjoying the convenience and

students.

of the services located in this facility are far-reaching

and

growth and success of both the

benefits

of the Student Services

touch every student during their years

at Bloomsburg.

The number of scholarships
The

education.

New
the

continues to grow, opening the door for more students to enjoy

university strives to

Challenges,

New

make higher

education affordable

Opportunities has helped

to

make

this

and attractive

to

a Bloomsburg University

motivated

and

qualified students.

goal a reality by assisting more students

and by

building

permanent scholarship endowment.

My sincere thanks to everyone who made a commitment to support New Challenges, New Opportunities. In this
UPDATE you will note all of the wonderful programs and initiatives that have been made possible because of this campaign.
The

generosity of our contributors has not only created

but has provided a fine example for us

and enhanced

opportunities for current

all.

Sincerely,

S^^^VJv_
Barbara Hudock

115

MILLION GOAL EXCEEDED

New

Challenges,

New

Opportunities:

The Campaign for

Bloomsburg University concluded on June 30, 2002. Thanks
to

alumni, parents, friends, employees, corporations and

foundations, a total of $17,443,645 was raised.

amount includes
value of

life

campaign

Campaign

gifts,

insurance and deferred gifts.

initiatives

The majority of

were either met or exceeded.

priorities fully

funded are highlighted

beginning on the next page.

^ff^

This

pledges, gifts in-kind, and face

and future Bloomsburg

students,

CAPITAL

Total Raised: $4,294,448

Beyond the classroom-learning environment,
every university provides areas where students

Campus

'er

'creation

spend their out-of-class time.

Facilities

'Offer

Donors of $10,000 or more:

ARAMARK,



increased

Student Services Center, Roongo's Cafe

opportunities
for students

to participate

n intramural
athletic events.

Student Services Center

—Accommodates

the needs of

students and their families by consolidating admissions,

student

life

and academic support

services in

one

—Gives

sraaents convenient access to books,

area.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Total Raised: $4,741,483

Everyone should have the opportunity to

improve their chances

University Store

school supplies, and an array of merchandise.

through higher

for success

Presidential Leadership
Scholarship



Endowment

Recognizes students with leadership

education. Scholarships help the university attract

and retain the

best,

most qualified students, by

potential and promotes

community

involvement.

easing their financial burdens.

Donors of $10,000 or more:
Bloomshurg Hospital— Baby Bloomer Scholarships

Geralds. Frey

'ji,

Bryn Mawr,

PA—John

Honors Scholarship

—Engages

Devlin

Endowment

Memorial Scholarship
Estate of Wilhelmina

Mathematics,

BU

Wrestling

Lipfert,

Science,

and

Team—Floyd

Estate of Mary E.

Alumni

I.

students in serious research

Canal

Winchester,

OH—

Technology Scholarship

"Shorty" Hitchcock Scholarship

McNinch '2^-Mary

E.

through enrichment courses,
while working closely

with

faculty.

McNinch

Scholarship

>v

University-Wide
Scholarship

Endoivment



Recognizes

Mathematics, Science



Endowment

& Technology Scholarship

Assists with recruitment of students into

these areas of study.

students in

many

disciplines

for their

academic
achievement.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
^^Dimprehenswe campaign.

New

Challenge

^'- .-

Opportunities,

is

a

roi/sing success, exceeding

our $i

^

million goal by

more than $7 mi! I ion.
I

:

if

.

thank more than

1

7,000

Bloomshurg University through donations at all

from your

levels?

and

Perhaps by showing

also funded much-needed improvements to classrooms

and staff are

students, faculty

benefiting

and labs

and student

Andruss Library. Students

tell

support services they need. Donations

in our business building, Sutliff Hall: the

Hartline

Science

Magee Center, home to the university's continuing education office. And, funds raised through New
New Opportunities tnore than doubled our scholarship endowment, allowing us to provide more scholarship

and the

Challenges,

opportunities for

On

how

visible benefit is the Student Sc-rvtces Center that opened last fall in the former

they like the convenience this facility offers, pulling together the academic

Center;

businesses that demonstrated support of

generosity.

The most

me

indiiidiials, organizations

a greater number of students.

behalf of our students, I personally thank all of you who feel so positively about the educational opportunities we offer

at Bloomsburg

— alumni, parents, friends, faculty and

staff, businesses

and corporations. Your

University to continue providing superior educational experiences for current

and future

generosity allows

Bloomsburg

students.

Jessica S. Kozloff

President

OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXCELLENCE

Total Raised: $927,659
Alternative Communication

More than buildings, the academic world is
founded upon the sharing of ideas and information.

nd Evaluation
Treatment Centers



Serves individuals with
severe

Wellness Center—

provides a

Offers quality health

hands-on learning

education for children and
adults that

is

environment

provided by

nursing majors

who

communication

disorders and

for students.

use

the latest presentation

technologies and

teaching exhibits.

Physiology

Lab Renovation



Facilitates the collection

—Accommodates

Sutliff Hall Refurbishment

Education Computer Lab

—Enables

teacher education

majors, both undergraduate and graduate, to integrate the

and

analysis of computerized data.

instructional

methods that introduce students

the

modern

to the latest

business practices.

most current technology into teaching and learning.
Center for

New and EnMygtng

Technologies

Campus Climate
Endowment



Promotes an

for

inclusive,

and hardware

advanced srudents, faculty

become innovative?

provides culturally

technology leaders

inclusive programs.

,

in their schools.

— Provides an added

incentive for qualified students to choose
University.

Otters instruction

and area educators.to help them

campus climate that

College of Business Scholarships



materials, software

Bloomsburg

Alagee Center Auditorium

—Embraces

distance education

technology and community outreach programs.

ANNUAL FUND

Total Raised: $6,371,317

& OTHER GIFTS

Total Raised: $1,108,738

These contributions provide
for

flexible

Donors of $10,000 or more:

funding

BU Community

programs that enhance the educational mission

of the university, such as the Bloomsburg

University

Alumni

Government Association

Class of 2002
Estate of Mildred hwitt '42, Cridersville,

OH

Association, athletics,

scholarships, special programs, speakers,

and more.

a*Aj4--.

* IVi^Sitl

CAMPAIGN STEERING COMMITTEE
Elbern H. Alkire, Jr. '93(H)

Jessica S. Kozloff

R. Robert

Air Products and

President

Retired,

Bloomsburg University

Chemicals,

Joseph J.

Mowad, M.D.

Chair, Council of Trustees

Community Member

Executive Director

Columbia Bank and Trust Co.

hic.

Ada Ruth Anthony

G. Michael Vavrek

McCoy

First

Bloomsburg University

Bloomsburg University Foundation
A.J.

Barbara B. Hudock

'73

Campaign Chair
Hudock, Moyer &

Madden

'o^

President,

Carl

Community Government

F.

Stuehrk

Retired.

Associates

Robert "Doc" Warren '95(H)

Rodney B. Keller

Faculty Emeritus

PPL

William H. Selden, Jr. '43

Bloomsburg University

Campaign Treasurer
Retired, Pennsylvania

of Education

AT&T

Association

Department

Alex M. Kozlowski '63

IBM

For more information, please contact us

at:

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