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On
deadline day for
Voice,
Union
and
an
office in
fills
the soft click of
The
paper. Copies of the front
Kehr
pages of each issue hang on the
this rainy
from Springfield,
yellow cement-block walls, along
a senior
computer
with the "ready reference" of Greek
in with a
characters
around the space
Another wall displays
that serves as
facility
and busi-
ness office for the free weekly news-
and
their pronunciations.
staffers' birth-
days, yet another holds awards.
Staffers
banter back and forth
Wednesday as they work,
editor Dana Trojan,
and managing
with students
keyboards. Back issues are stacked
newsroom, design
and back
Pa., sails
box of fancy doughnuts
to share.
"We do
can't
do
a really big job,
it if
we
and we
don't like the people
we work with," says editor-in-chief
BLOOM SBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
c
iay Night...
have what they need
to get the
start.
newspaper out each Thursday.
One
Kristin
Lester '95, a
succeeded in laying out his
first
Mike's twin brother, Pat, also a 1995
sports page. Barnett, who's
been
graduate,
had
Doylestown;
two
years,
hockey
to play field
Wilkes College, but
when
for
that
fell
a staffer
now at The
Intelligencer,
Andy Sodergren
'97,
with Florida's Cape Coral
Daily Breeze, and
Hank Domin,
through, she came to Bloomsburg
Press Enterprise's award-winning
and joined The Voice
sports editor,
as a sports
who now works as
a designer with the
"Women's position
in sports gets
underestimated," she says as she
,
Mike
Patriot-News;
Press Enterprise senior reporter;
reporter.
m
include: Brenda Martin
in to report that her assistant has
planned
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now at Erie's Times-News; Mike
Feeley '87, city editor of Harrisburg's
of those editors, senior
Bamett from Berwick, breaks
sports editor for
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'82,
Times Herald-
Record, Middletown, N.Y.
Adviser Maty Bemath, an English
points to copies of a newspaper page
professor who's the only permanent
tacked to the wall. The page shows
member
The Voice
of
staff,
pops
in.
For the past two years. The Voice has won a Gold Circle
award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
the picks for
NCAA basketball's
She serves as the paper's publisher
March Madness made by Barnett
and another staff member.
"He said
1
was picking them by
the colors of their jerseys
silly
end,
and other
things," she says. "But in the
it
was
Kristin 124,
This spring, Barnett
in the sports
Mike 106."
is
interning
department of Blooms-
burg's Press Enterprise.
Bamett
won
the annual scholarship the local
Voice Editor Stephanie Baker checks out
daily provides to students
the latest issue of the Thursday weekly.
on
Stephanie Baker, a senior mass
communications major.
discipline
member who
provides
and order while keeping
fun in the working atmosphere.
The managing editors, on the other
hand,
make
SPRING
campus
sure writers and editors
paper. In addition to
arranging
insurance, handling
libel
warranties, ordering
new equipment
and keeping older equipment
—anything
good
repair
to
in
make
easier for the editorial staff to
it
do
their job.
The approach must be working.
For the past two years, The Voice has
won a Gold
Columbia
tion.
The
Circle
award from the
Scholastic Press Associa-
national competition rales
newspapers on coverage,
the scholarship, winners also gel an
college
internship at the newspaper.
writing and editing, graphic presen-
"She's
Baker, of Telford, Pa., sees herself
as the staff
the
who work
in charge of overseeing finances,
Sachetti
doing a great
job," says Jim
73, a former campus news-
paper editor who's
now editor of
the past
and business operations.
Like
many
of the
began working
for
staffers,
The Voice
Baker
after
receiving a letter from the paper's
Press Enterprise.
Over
tation
20
years, Press
Enterprise has given a
number
Bloomsburg University alumni
editor-in-chief at the beginning of
ol
her freshman year. Each year, a
their
Continued on next page
letter
goes to
all
Bemath
mass communications
majors and to people
who worked
on their high school newspapers.
"I met the nicest people there,"
she recalls of her
first
up more
for
more
and more assignments.
Rettig, a senior
from Philadelphia,
has a plan to get The Voice on track
to
This year, as an editor, she
advertising, including
national ads.
Voice meeting.
And, she kept coming back
credits advertising
director Randi Rettig with hustling
being financially
self-sufficient, a
plan she hopes will keep the news-
provided continuing coverage of
paper running smoothly long
negotiations between Pennsylvania's
she's
State
System of Higher Education
and the
faculty union, the Associa-
after
gone.
The newspaper has seen
of changes in
staff,
its
share
philosophy and
it was
The Maroon and Gold. Doug
tion of Pennsylvania State College
procedure. In the 1960s,
and University Faculty (APSCUF),
called
keeping students informed about
Hippenstiel '68, a former editor and
the possibility of a strike. She likes
now the university's director of
that
kind of hands-on print jour-
news
on the world of broadcast
former managing
be the
sent
copy
photo editor Matthew
Pa., a
when Bemath took over
as adviser, staffers
had
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new editor-in-chief after
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be starting out with
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a lot of new people," she says.
Pilz says she'd like to
reporters
add more
and photographers
Voice's staff;
done on computer,
editor, is in line to
Baker graduates. "We're losing a
of seniors, so
is
Miller, a junior history
major from Downingtown, Pa., still selects many
images from negatives spread across a light table.
to a printer for typesetting.
In 1999,
after graduation.
Junior Mila Pilz of Leola,
While much of his work
the staff
affairs, recalls that
did layouts and dummies, and then
nalism, but sees herself, instead,
taking
alumni
Bemath
agrees.
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UndergrclSided: The GadfLy
In
1967, America exploded.
From D.C.
to L.A., race riots scarred cities,
college students led massive anti-war
protests and radical groups such as
Weathermen chalked up charges
politically
The unrest eddied
the
works
of
of
into
The Gadfly
Bloomsburg with
—The
money went,
a
campus
the right to entertain
sex
in
in
where
their
radio station, cars
members
their rooms, either
and
of the opposite
on campus or
off, all
things students take for granted now. Then the
motivated murder.
publication of
Kristin Barnett, sports editor,
The
The issues seem tame now, even quaint
students wanted more say
Free Press
Bloomsburg State College.
ideas
were
incendiary.
"In class
we were
encouraged to grapple
seriously with the great philosophers and
phone on a Wednesday
production night.
It
was
like pulling
the pin on a grenade.
international politics
and the greatest mysteries
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
progressed to computers, but they
copy
delivered the hard
still
Danville
News 10
to
bers.
The
away and
miles
events
waited until 5 a.m. in the Dunkin'
Donuts parking
to
editorial
fall
color
on
ment reviews,
columns
and
call last fall
when
a
cles
wind-
server,
from
we
much on
campus news," Hippenstiel remem-
The
"Yet once
we were
left
not allowed to
the class-
live
the kind
wanted."
and as a senior was given a regular
op-ed piece. His
slot for
first effort criticized
Laurie Creasy
that
lives in
is
sexual
feature arti-
trips
and places
how much the
something valuable away
with The Voice.
team," Trojan says. "I've also learned
Editor Stephanie Baker, standing, gives
some
James
that's
going
even offered to pay
for the printing,
in Danville.
The Gadfly was
He
Slack
behave myself," Slack
literally
a
life
urged him to sleep on
Slack didn't get
a nickel.
"In the morning,
—
it
came
The college banned
to the student
"Here
was
—
I
quit
I'd
be
now," Slack,
screenwriter with credits at CBS,
He
student-faculty Judiciary Committee.
graduated, taught for several years, and
it
was
to
in
be
the column to the editor,
Hippenstiel,
who was
ed about
possible repercussions.
"I
appealed
Civil Liberties
Doug
immediately concernIn
a
for help to the
Union
in
American
Philadelphia.
They
then returned to his
1
with a federal lawsuit." Though the college
smoothed over
termed the ACLU lawyer's advice "second-
remain friends.
The
flyer
980,
it
Still,
leaders agreed to permit distribution of
Slack says, "as
the paper.
done
the ensuing days, he complained
and
to political science
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their differences,
as proud of
was
pulling the article. Slack quit in protest.
writing.
The
and
the memories of those times
distributed by
Gadfly, eventually college
first love,
disappeared. Slack and Hippenstiel
took on the case, threatening the college
hand" and of no use, according to a
Lifetime, says.
Gadfly had several reincarnations, but by
late-night meeting, Hippenstiel told Slack he
In
if
sleep.
told Percey
dispersed entirely on
spent."
bitterly to friends
I
NBC, Showtime and
had no say on how
its
now a
of myself
before deciding.
and Slack was brought up before the
student entertainment, and yet students
He gave
967,
1
ashamed
it
much
money
a major chunk of
about $175,000
effect
distribution of the
paper on campus on November 29,
activity fee.
was
sent to Vietnam. His friends on the faculty
doors and sold the rest for the donation of
when
It
almost certainly meant being drafted and
from students,
absolute veto power over student govern-
thought,
recalls.
I
or death decision: Expulsion
recruited friends to slip copies under student
particularly unfair, Slack
"if
agreed to stop publishing The Gadfly and
born.
solicited articles
expel Slack, offering to drop the effort
done by
waited as the copies were run off one by
one.
But the administration attempted to
Percey. Percey encouraged
Slack to have the piece distributed, and
pointers to her staff.
then-President Harvey Andruss for his
ment decisions
a freelance writer who
Catawissa, Pa.
offers entertain-
their experience
an old linotype operator
Slack wrote for The Maroon and Gold,
much
b
it."
time management, and
professor
Gadfly's first
we
love
I
"You learn to be a part of the
concentrated pretty
editor, recalls.
complain,
I
during longer breaks.
they'll take
Topics the paper covers have
own
as
— including one with
—and
But no matter
issue of The Voice in cyberspace.
of biology," Lyle Slack,
college
newspaper changes, everyone agrees
suspending that
changed, too. "In the 1960s,
It
about local day
to travel
storm knocked out the newspaper's
computer
huge part of my
experience," Bamett says. "As
several opinion
relationship advice
something's
wrong. For instance, she got a
5 a.m.
and world news
impacts students.
Currently,
if
a huge,
piece."
regional, state
Baker's in the hot seat
his
and one op-ed
Wilkes-Barre to be printed by The
Danville has the contract again,
we
was probably 90
We had one
that
not only campus news, but also
and back pages.
"Working on The Voice has been
These days, the newspaper covers
be delivered. By 2000, students
front
of lives
—
my life."
to spill over into
cultural
staff,
sent the paper electronically to
Times-Leader, with
room,
and
percent of the paper.
run
lot for the print
"CGA meetings, new and
retiring faculty
linger. "I'm
since."
I
am
what
I
did then,"
of anything else I've
STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS
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ontoursville.
Sunbury
Susquehanna
Everyday
Selinsgrove.
The
River.
life
to
some, poetry to Jerry
Wemple.
For Wemple,
Jerry
his
home was
five
University,
and
he could go
assistant professor of English at
An
Bloomsburg University, the Central Pennsylvania he
grew up with
is
a "triggering point" for
celebrate the regions joys
altar
boys
pool
halls,
to
and
lay bare
poems
From
coke dealers, from third-floor walkups
Wemple brings
to life the
sun'ounding the Susquehanna as
it
to
people and places
works
its
way
to the
Chesapeake Bay
Wemple
after a
miles from what
mother used
his
is
fell
first
now Bloomsburg
to say
maybe someday
to school there.
Wemple
in love with reading. "If you like to read,
while you figure out that you can write your
own stories,"
he
about his dogs
recalls.
—
in
principal published
has traveled the world and lived in several
childhood home. "Leaving
Susquehanna Valley
Arthur G. Wemple, began
He wrote
first
it
grade,
his
first
poem
—
and the Catholic-nun
in the school's
mimeographed
newsletter.
other states, yet his poetry
the
officially
only child living out in the country,
quickly
that
its faults.
Wemple,
childhood near Bloomsburg in 1960. His
still
grows out of his
made me
see the world
in a very different way,"
In his 20s,
Wemple
but quickly realized
he
flirted
"this isn't
with writing short
stories
me." Instead, he took
same themes and wrote poems, many of which
and
the
says.
the stories of people
who might have
tell
been.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
erry
Wemple
brings his poetry to the people through readings with the River
who meet monthly
oets,
at Phillips
Wemple then
a master of fine arts
that
a
him
and Florida
from the University of Massa-
the attention to detail
and
something
"When you're
While
something
earning his master's,
that's
It
From
book, "You
first
Here," a collection that focuses
that
better to
interference with reality," he says. "You have a
little
more freedom."
Most of Wemple's poetry
The
rich descriptions
Street river
mansions
Memorial Park
is
to burial sites in
— from Front
Northumberland
— spur images and memories
in "Sailor
and Linderman's
Boy
in the
Night" did
stores in the
Checker Bar on
exist,
but not
same poem.
Central Pennsylvania-sounding names, so
eyes.
A woman wipes
A man cleans his glasses.
From
you stand
Coming. Nice to see you
To folks you might remember.
"I
I
The Masons leave the room
to nine. They return in white aprons.
At ten
just
Speak of the purity of the lambskin,
Brotherhood. He's built well and
One
of
them
name because
it fits
tells
made
File past,
bend
low,
a line better
In the morning,
poet Richard Hugo, a major influence on his work,
I
a while
says,
"Something
you have
triggers the
to let that
allegiance switches to the
go on
its
whisper
in the ear of the corpse.
or because he's looking for alliteration. Paraphrasing
Wemple
us as the others
wanted
A shibboleth
a
five feet
the coffin: Thanks for
Will take refreshment in the temple,
Shaffer's
them up."
He might change
stand
for Central
may or may not
be real. "It varies a lot from poem to poem," Wemple
says. "A lot of the named places exist, but some don't."
The bar
we
A few of us smoke
based on his experiences.
and names of places
Pennsylvania readers, but those places
Maundy Thursday
alone.
Into the twilight.
Her
Inside
be away from the place
you're writing about because you don't have this
it's
Outside, on the stone porch,
on
Central Pennsylvania.
"In some ways,
These men only wear suits for two reasons.
No one is getting married today.
news," he says.
he also worked on the
group of poems that would become his
Can See
Funeral in Pennsylvania
Awkward and
reporter, you're always looking for
different,
An April
ability to listen
have served him so well in his poetry.
newspaper
as a
Navy before
degree from Vermont College
A stint as a newspaper reporter
chusetts at Amherst.
taught
downtown Bloomsburg.
served six years in the
earning a bachelor of arts
and
in
lived in both Pennsylvania
Having
boy,
Emporium
poem, but
buy a book,
we go
to the college.
a pair of shorts.
after
own way. Your
We
linger.
Of the
poem."
Rest against the hood
car.
A
thin haze obscures
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The spring sun and nascent landscape.
In the distance, a farmer
"
Jn
some ways,
it's
the place that you're
writing about because you don't lave
tin's
interference with reality.
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walk across new grass
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One common theme
real life
—
in
Wemple's poetry
is
rooted in
being biracial in predominantly white Central
Pennsylvania. His father
Pennsylvania
German
was black and
descent,
his
mother of
making him frequently
the only non-white child at a time
when
racial tensions
about a black urban family wanting to
move
to a
white suburban neighborhood. His interest in teaching
goes back to an instructing position he had in the
Navy He came to university teaching as a means
of making a living as a poet, working at the University
were increasing across the country. Today, the walls of
of Pittsburgh at Johnstown before joining Blooms-
his office testify to his heritage, with images of aboli-
burg's faculty
tionist
Wemple
Frederick Douglass and blues guitarist Robert
especially enjoys teaching poetry, encour-
Johnson, as well as a T-shirt lauding "Black Authors
aging students to try different forms of writing until
A Voice for the People."
they discover what works for them. To those
Wemple
tary"
is
says his
poem
that's "closest to
a
documen-
"Plowing the Mule on These 40 Acres," which
his
"There IS poetry in your
Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas. After Wemple spoke
to find out
another
it
will
"It
has happened,
it
happen."
As an educator, Wemple wrote
get
it
life,"
he
says.
"You just have
out there."
Mabel Woodrow
Wilson Award and the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry
nation doesn't exist in America today. "Plowing the
does happen,
how to
Jerry Wemple's awards include the
university, the poet recalls, a student said that discrimi-
Mule," written in response, notes,
say
own works, drawn from Central Pennsylvania life.
he wrote following the 1998 dragging death of James
at
who
they have nothing poetic to write about, he points to
Award.
"The
He
Civil
is
working on
his
second poetry
collection,
War in Baltimore." B
a lesson plan called
"A Raisin in the Sun: Jim Crow Travels North,"
relating
to Lorraine Hansbery's Pulitzer Prize-winning play
Tracey M.
Dooms
is
a freelance writer and editor
living in
State College, Pa.
Frederick Douglass Learns to Read
My father was born into a hold,
called Baltimore.
Being neither south nor north, but rather west and
He ceased
to be a
man, some say ceased
to be,
east,
and furthermore
To depend; captured, quantified, thus chained like beast.
My mother was a literate soul, sold on this bargain,
This deal between gods and God, the promise of the serpent
United rather than fallen, that became the legacy of this land.
And when the break came, it lingered, still splitting every fragment.
The land that is mine was built upon those brains and backs,
Its history a paradox, both unified and opposed, distorted.
Less than paper, only words, hints among the artifacts,
Glimpses, just shadows of shadows, all that has been reported.
And here am I, a grotesquerie too, a leaning back in wonder,
And here 1 am, a curious curiosity, hoping to not go under.
by Jerry Wemple
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issues of the
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day
in this case the
controversies in major league
baseball
2000
and the hotly contested
presidential election
—
And if the work elicits a
of appreciation,
that's
editorial cartoonist Steve
looking
"It's
me
Wetzel
showcase the
also gives
it
talent at the
who
time," says Wetzel,
began freelancing
newspaper
same
in
1
that's
1978 Bloomsburg
someone
else
an image
that
need any words
An editorial
it
don't
to convey."
cartoon
is
says.
Then he
with work showcased in three
he's
a full-time job
"I
him
to
"I
and
see
make cartooning
— —
yet
it's
been a
at
how the
at
was
it
seemed
I
was out
was just elementary school
age,"
I
mistake
when you were
me
bench and
said
down
as a substitute
to the
I
of the game," he
he wanted to
and draw
and tracing
game
like the first
you would go
if
coach,
lost his
a game.
in the
coldly sent
go
since childhood.
liked drawing
While on the
nicknamed "Rocket,"
out,
and stepdaughter
things out of comic books when
he
a reaction.
says. "Usually,
the married father of
been able
part of
high school that he
cartoon for the school paper that
made,
programs in Central
a son, stepson
hasn't
some
Eastern York (Pa.) High School
temper
not working full-time for the
Though
also in
poked fun
when
Welfare, monitoring county mental
born
sketches the car-
provoke
Pennsylvania Department of Public
retardation
was
that for
basketball team, Wetzel did a
was anything
Pennsylvania.
with some quick notes jotted down,
he
It
coming an up-and-coming cartoon-
news
might need
maybe you
was taken with
got a taste of how a cartoon can
it is."
Wetzel creates his cartoons
easy to
He loved the idea of boiling
down to its elemental image.
reason."
There
having a fascina-
a story
Wetzel says of editorial cartoons.
but a quick "Bam!" experience.
a mid-sized
,000 words to describe and put
into
as the Emeril
"I
1988
University graduate. "To take a
story that
it
really started
I
Lagasse of the editorial page,"
ist
in Harrisburg, Pa.
not something
do," says the
at
national publications
editorial cartoons
The Patriot-News,
"It's
kind of look
For Wetzel, 51, the road to behobby, but
an avenue to have a voice, to
daily
says.
for.
like a
have an opinion and to also
for
sent out electronically.
.
is
in high school, 14 or 15,
tion for editorial cartoons," Wetzel
"You open the paper and. .Bam!
the praise
was
scanned into Wetzel's computer and
"I
chuckle
"I
and
are
wry wink.
presented with a
finally inks the
drawing. Finished drawings are
to the
talk.
to the
'Why
taken
coach and
He just
very
end of the
don't
you just
end of the bench
cartoons?'
Undeterred, Wetzel kept
at
it,
sending cartoons to the York
says.
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cartooning
and
up
tough to break
is
in those early years
good
into,
he racked
rewarding
rejections.
for
about two and a
major
at his fathers urging.
put
to
working with
an accounting
half years, initially as
would be
wanted
When
a
career.
wanted
"I
it
my efforts into
an area where the people
After high school, he attended
York College
program
special education
and Wetzel thought
really
had
I
was
to leam,
Depended on
to leam.
While earning
it."
2001 edition of
in the
"Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year."
He's
his special
had cartoons featured
the school experimented with a
education degree and in his early
the anthology each year since.
journalism major for a semester,
teaching years, Wetzel drew what
baseball cartoon
Wetzel jumped
he
the
at
it.
semester, college officials believed
there wasn't
enough
floundering for a major while
thinking he was wasting the
his
dad was spending
college
So
money
Features,
which
to
It
few
Hanisburg
that
on
the
USS
political cartoons. After
two
years, serving
Hawk aircraft carrier.
When he got out, he enrolled
Wetzel again began drawing
months of sending
Kitty
in
Davenport, the
Western Washington University as a
page
journalism major, but had
published.
misgivings.
wanted
He wasn't sure he
It
to live across the country
from his
family.
And he wasn't sure
"In the
this
back of my mind was
guy who was our instructor
in the
he
same
National Press Club in
Washington D.C.,
club's
feeling that
As
can
for the future,
retire
from
could do
and
paintings
"The nice thing about
profession
is
work is good because he
just feel that
Davenport
to
and recognizes
do you want
journalism
to get into
learned
some
friends
r
r
i
n g
"He sees a stoiy
there
a visual image.
A
is
were going to
is
a
a
Pennsylvania.
this
like
every time
do
it."
for
I
you
says.
do
and
however long
1
a
I
can
want
b
Jack Sherzer
is
a professional writer
and Pennsylvania
metaphor."
which ran
not
a cartoon in
cartoon
work
has been noticed beyond Central
he
Bloomsburg. The university had
s
says.
In recent years, Wetzel's
for?'
When Wetzel moved home,
it's
cartoon, I'm getting better
or five kids and their family car was
the hell
that
knees or a bad back," Wetzel
"1
lucky to have Wetzel.
with cigarette holes. They had four
What
in January
2005.
keep going
he would come in and say
He
in recent
planning a show of
is
and cartoons
sees stories as cartoons, as pictures,'
it,
Wetzel says he
government in
have to stop because you have bad
says.
"Steve's
VW bug," Wetzel says. "Every day
state
about eight years and would love to
in the Patriot
I
its
journalism scholarship.
green blazer that was pockmarked
a
as part of the
annual fundraiser for
years,
here, in this
Davenport says he considers the
Patriot
in the last several
work has been auctioned
began painting landscapes
area, in this climate, the Capital,
that,"
And
countries.
cartoon and paint full-time.
he had a cartoon
was just being
and just
in
Record and he would
show up every day
Patriot's editorial
flowed from there.
"It
York College. He was a beat reporter
for the Daily
editor,
The
political cartoonists in various
about three
material to Dale
and seeing cartoons
about full-time journalism.
for his
Department of Public Welfare job
Navy
active with
is
Cartoonists Rights Network, an
at the
to
1980s
the
edition.
Wetzel
years, his
moved
in the late
on a shelf. Wetzel joined
for
them
for T-shirts.
wasn't until he
2003
The
in
organization that helps oppressed
King
distributed
about 30 papers and even sold
rights to a
to foot his
point cartooning went
some
student newspaper printed
to
bill.
at that
cartoons, similar to
and some were sold
interest to
continue the program. Wetzel was
left
calls "gag"
"The Far Side." The Bloomsburg
Unfortunately, after the one
was featured
in
The Al Gore
in the Patriot,
cartoon,
appeared
lives in
native.
Hanisburg.
He currently
Enterprise Rent-A-Car's
management
training
program put
Erica Keiper Fox '98 on course for a rewarding career two
weeks
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from BU.
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Unwrapped
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN
A
nyone who watches
TV is familiar with
wrapped automobile and
combining hands-on
"We'll pick
the slogan,
you up."
tion
on new meaning
take
for
more than 45 Bloomsburg University alumni. Enterprise Rent-A-Car picked them up for its management
program and helped them unwrap rewarding
all
new hires,
Erica Keiper
ing supervisor, started in the
'98, a recruit-
management
program. She joined Enterprise two weeks
training
after
gradu-
ation from BU.
would have
analyst,"
nity with
Fox
finance and, in college,
I
prompting CollegeGrad.com
says. "I
Dean
had
a great internship opportu-
Witter, but
it
seem
didn't
who
Enterprise from a friend
know anything about cars
fall,
home
Fox remains convinced
on
a Pontiac
mock interviews and
job
fair or,
community outreach
even, with a
early on,
management
assistant in
1 1
months,
manager the next month and then
Typically, the progression
from
a
new
manager takes about 24 months.
assistant
branch manager.
trainee to
branch
also
first
contact,
by phone,
Web posting," Fox says.
"1
at
a
talk
Fox, 27, has been an Enterprise recruiter for three
years,
completing a second round of training
on her education and experiences
manager. Involved in
as a
to build
branch
Community Government
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SPRING
She
projects,
I've done and how they will see success
how our company gives you experience."
about what
became
fairs,
classroom presenta-
supporting the United Way, Enterprise's
management
trainee in the Scranton area, she
Busiest in spring
official charity.
Enterprise holds the key to a long career. Starting as a
a
Grand Am.
a variety of business-related topics.
like those
that
to
Fox's responsibility.
she shares with her husband
"The recruiters are the
later,
for
Bloomsburg
she travels to 10 to 15 colleges for career
meetings,
teach you.'
Nearly six years
to
John, Fox logs about 30,000 miles a year on her
leaves the office for
didn't
by graduates of
Based in Mechanicsburg, a short commute from
the Harrisburg
tions
I
filled
universities in Pennsylvania's
—from York
Wysox, Bradford County—
graduating in December 1997.
told her
Enterprise top
System of Higher Education. Recruitment
joined the company's Bloomsburg branch after
or renting cars, and she said, 'Don't worry. They'll
name
Central Pennsylvania
and
Fox learned about
positions in 2003,
of those openings were
Bloomsburg and other
company car,
like the
career for me."
"I
to
a workforce of
company planned
employer in 2003.
entry-level
State
the
more than 6,000 new
to create
thought
a career as a stock broker or financial
program
learning, classroom-style instruc-
is
"My major was
I
training
and a mentorship program. With
Some
Fox
management
more than 52,000 employees,
careers in the car rental industry.
Like
says Enterprise's
is
The image and slogan
training
Fox
one aspect that makes the company successful,
the image of Enterprise Rent-A-Car's
Association at BU, she also served as treasurer of Alpha
Sigma Alpha
same
sorority,
honing her leadership
come
into play in her career.
skills that
skills,
Jack Taylor started Enterprise Rent-A-Car from
St.
Louis, Mo., car dealership in 1957.
St.
Louis, the
at
Still
the
a
Everybody Start
based in
company has more than 600,000
vehicles
Laurie Zendal
United
States. In recent years, Enterprise
expanded
Bangs '93
manager
"The culture of the company gives us the chance to
own business.
It
gives us
empowerment,
Baltimore area. Unofficially,
management level and autonomy to
make decisions," Fox says. "And, everyone starts at the
same place." b
she sees herself as a mentor
for
co-editor of Bloomsbwg: The
often
University Magazine.
women working for the
company
"When females
is
the area
is
for six Enterprise
Rent-A-Car branches in the
the
goal to get to the
Bonnie Martin
Laurie Zendal
Officially,
to
Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany.
run our
'93
Bangs
5,400 locations, including 5,000 locations in the
want
begin working for Enterprise, they
human
to get into
resources," she says. "But
opportunities aren't only in one area. There's a lot of
movement, and people constantly
promoted throughout
are getting
Enterprise."
Bangs says she wants other women
flexibility the car rental
Enterprise's
company
to see the career
offers
so following
emphasis on career advancement, she
became involved
in a
company-based women's forum
that sponsors twice-a-year
workshops. Since the
workshops began about four years ago, the number of
Baltimore area female branch managers increased from
three to 26.
A marketing major and Theta Tau Omega sister,
Bangs soon
and
family.
will
leam
first-hand about balancing career
She and husband
Peter,
who works
in
Enterprise's retail car sales division, are expecting their
first
child in
March 2004.
Mark Zavacky
'91
"My wife thinks I'm crazy," says Mark Zavacky
wake up without an alarm, I come to work on
Saturday and bring
The
ability to
Zavacky
my three kids.
move up
to Enterprise,
it
It's
'91. "I
a
a blast."
quickly not only drew
has kept him with the
company for more than 12 years. A finance major, he
started as a management trainee in Allentown three
months after graduation from BU and now is group
rental
manager
Easton.
Erica Keiper Fox '98 offers career advice to Jeff Zelinske,
30
He
rental
for northeast Pennsylvania,
oversees six operating areas,
based in
more than
branches and more than 200 employees.
a senior marketing major from Lebanon, Pa., during BlTs
iOth annual Career and Internship Expo last
fall.
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it
Same
the
Place
"At Enterprise, you're always part of a team," he
says. "At
some
branch level,
point, especially at the
you morph into a family. Our employees live
values and culture our company supports."
management trainee in January 2003. By November,
he was assistant manager of the Langhome branch in
suburban Philadelphia, with an eye toward managing
the
a branch.
Burghardt,
Messer
Eric
'95
member
Eric Messer's career took a
As
slightly different turn.
remarketing manager in
Morrisville, N.C.,
he
company
to
who
played lacrosse
Kappa Phi
work
"It's
for right out of school.
you the opportunity
enjoy
BU and was a
at
fraternity, says,
to
a great
They
give
do something interesting and
I'm having a great time."
it.
is
involved in buying and
Christine Zazzarino '92
selling the rental fleet for
"As they
eastern North Carolina.
admits Christine Zazzarino
"We choose
and the options
of Pi
new cars," he
I'm 'green,'
'92, referring to the car
the colors
Then,
say,
rental
company's corporate
the vehicles' rental days are over, Enterprise sells the
color.
"I'll
majority of the vehicles to local dealerships
Enterprise
sometimes
to a
for
explains.
after
or,
rental vehicle.
in
then, after earning a business degree,
moved
till I
retire."
A loss control manager
customer who just wants to buy that
Messer '95 started with Enterprise as an intern
be with
Pennsauken,
N.J.,
Zazzarino earned an associate's degree and worked
full-time before enrolling at
to
Bloomsburg
as a business
A month after her graduation,
Raleigh, N.C., looking for "a Southern lifestyle without
management
sweating to death."
she became a management trainee in Trenton,
Married to the former Lesley
says, "I
Beam
'95,
Messer
chose a career path in remarketing, but
have 10
different
ways
as business expands.
to go. Different
There
is
I
and, seven
could
out there."
Burghardt '02
Adam Burghardt
'02 that a career
was
dM
and
the opportunity
With
his
BU
how
change
Zazzarino's job
"I
wasn't sure
to
Enterprise
I
1"
R
I
showed me
degree in business management/
N G
1
similar to an insurance claims
36
branches in southern
rental
and
"Our team works with
New Jersey, with claims
police departments, but
we have
the
most
Zazzarino looks back on
activities
with Phi Delta
such as supporting
the local
women's
sorority,
shelter,
as "a definite plus."
in
her career,
but also inspired her to pursue a volunteer
opportunity as a claims processor for Arbitration
I
can move up."
marketing, Burghardt joined Enterprise as a
S
what
do when
graduated," he says, "then
fast
is
for the rental fleet.
That involvement not only helped
in order.
wanted
N J.
she joined Enterprise's loss
contact with our customers."
Seven months as a roofer
convinced
later,
manager
offices
Adam
months
control division.
avenues open
always opportunity
major.
all
Forums
of New Jersey.
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VI
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STORY BY ERIC FOSTER
Daniel Tearpock
70 should
known better.
have
Outside the airport in Caracas, Venezuela, around midnight on a
hot,
humid July evening in 1995,
sight.
So he took a "cab," a cab
from the main pickup
"friend"
area.
his ride to the hotel
that
And,
had been parked
as chance
was nowhere
in the
would have
it,
lot,
in
away
the drivers
needed a ride into town and got in the car with them.
knew he'd made a
He was going to get mugged.
Before the engine turned over, Tearpock
He was
mistake.
their
evening
target.
But, appearances can be deceiving.
and corporate
CEO
is
The mild-mannered
a black belt, a Tae
former professional kick boxer.
Kwon Do
He reached
into his carry-on
pulled out a knife (you could carry a small pocket knife
plane in those days) and began toying with
geologist
instructor
it.
and
bag and
on board a
In his broken Spanish,
—mentioned
he talked about his experiences in the fighting ring
officials
from Venezuela's
wailing for
It
him
oil
that
ministry and his Venezuelan wife were
at the hotel.
was enough
to
convince the driver and his friend that Tearpock
was not an easy mark. They dropped him
at
the hotel without
incident.
And it was all true. .with the
who was a bit of pure invention.
.
Tearpock, chairman and
Associates
LLC
its
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of Subsurface Consultants
training companies,
national
oil reserves.
s
CEO
&
(SCA), one of the world's leading international petro-
leum consulting and
country to help
exception of the Venezuelan wife,
oil
company
was
in the
South American
discover and utilize bountiful
The Venezuelan adventure was
a single step in a professional
journey that began in the woods of
Mocanaqua,
"My
Pa.
father
and mothers
families
were coal miners," says Tearpock.
"Our house was 500 yards from the
mines. As a child, 7 or 8 years old,
I
was always
the mines,
ous.
1
woods and
in the
fem
collected the
I
geologist.
wanted
geologist
to
and
fossils
knew I wanted
quartz and
I
in
which was very danger-
be an
and explore other
to
be a
astro-
planets."
When Tearpock graduated in
the midst of a job market
geologists,
slump
for
he took a career detour
and became a computer consultant
—
starting his
Daniel Tearpock, as a graduate student in the 1970s, explores geologic
own firm, Atlantic
Computer Services, two years later.
But he missed geology So,
formations in the woods of Pennsylvania.
after
another two years, he sold the
Tearpock was good. So good that
business and with the proceeds, a
Tenneco asked him
scholarship and his earnings as a
Tae
Kwon Do teacher and profes-
sional kickboxer,
he supported his
wife and two children while earn-
ing a masters degree in geology
Temple University
at
in 1977.
to give a three-
day seminar on exploration and
through the
development mapping techniques.
release that
the materials he
book, "Applied Subsurface Geologi-
geosciences training program.
cal
And
successful, traditional career
this is
where
with
computer and generate prospects,"
it
going to happen.
effective," says
else
can you
It's
just not cost-
Tearpock. "Where
make money but
Tearpock took a job with a
petroleum consulting firm in
Orleans and
later
Tenneco Oil in
moved
New
to
Lafayette, La.,
"I
expected
I'd sit at a
says Tearpock.
But
it
wasn't to be. Instead,
Tenneco was sold
months while
in 1988.
the sale
to continue the
employee
train-
work
on a manual. "They saw it
added
as
value for people's future careers,"
Tearpock supported his family as
says Tearpock.
"I
trained
neco people before the
and finding new
virtually
in old fields.
six
ing program he'd begun and
identifying future drilling prospects
oil
For
was being
negotiated, Tearpock's boss asked
him
petroleum?"
(see sidebar).
Tenneco or other firms in the
industry
half,
his first
have spent decades in a very
the Gulf of Mexico.
about a year and a
Mapping"
had generated.
a typical story
Utah and along the U.S. coast of
"After
to use
Those materials became
studying geothermal energy
was obvious geothermal was not
—
management
week turned into a standing
assignment: Rework the company's
might have ended. Tearpock could
Nevada,
firm's
would allow him
Three days turned into a week. The
From there, he went south to
work for the energy division of
aerospace company Sperry Vickers
possibilities in California,
In the final days before the sale,
Tearpock's boss carried a form
250 Ten-
sale.
I
met
everyone in the company."
BLOOMSBURG
a Tae
Kwon Do instructor and
professional kickboxer while earning
a master's degree.
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
SCA, born on
the second floor of Tearpock's
now has
townhouse,
Three publishers vied
manuscript and,
Indonesia and Canada.
offices in the U.S.,
consulting firm with three other
for the
when it was
ex-Tenneco employees.
"It
"Onshore in certain places
was just
cost as
$100,000
as
little
printed in 1990, Tearpockhad two
a matter of being at the right place
to drill a well,"
important niches to build on.
at the right time."
deep-water Gulf of Mexico,
had
he
a technical niche,"
"and,
had
I
"I
The firm soon moved
says,
Former
rooms
&
ing
a people niche.
Tenneco people."
I
Subsurface Consultants
Associates
LLC was bom on
moved into my first
I said, You know,
company'
now
house. His daughter Nicole,
was
in time with
10
who started the
$60
million.
to
can
You can bankrupt a
for additional
work is money well spent
and increase your
"We've made a lot of money for a
number of companies. For example,
Conoco had a field they were
thinking of selling but,
based on
first,
they had
us do a six-month study to evaluate
any upside
potential.
We
generated
three prospects in the 25-millionbarrel range
most of
they not
and recommended
sell.
One was
integrity
"SCA is looked at as a high-tech,
high-quality company that doesn't
dry,
They
that
drilled three wells.
but two produced more
than 8,000 barrels a day each.
It
was
the highest sustained production in
the company's 43-year history in the
take shortcuts," says Tearpock.
many ways
it
chances of success.
expertise,
cation, collaboration and,
can
pretty quickly drilling dry
to reduce risk
visibility
While the company was
act in
cost
thousand dollars
principles as sound as his geology
The employee handbook emphasizes the importance of communi-
"We
a well. There are places
technical
create a corporate culture
all,
drill
it
$40 million
holes so a couple of hundred
a nice-sized
growing, Tearpock worked to
clients,
nine were former Tenneco folks,"
says Tearpock,
would be
$20 million
to
can
"In the
cost
company
this
fill
Subsurface Consultants grew
quickly.
first
we
We did that in a couple
from the book and
also put
SCA.
"Out of our
if
people in the industry,
now working
on her nursing degree, has
office build-
Fueled by connections with
his first employee. His
daughter, Danielle,
"When
of months."
MBA who runs a business
an
herself,
of an office building.
building, that
the
second floor of Tearpock's town-
into five
he explains.
it
$200,000
to
U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
as a quality
SCA provided
the technical support they needed at
control for the industry."
a critical time."
Daniel Tearpock talks with
Norman
Continued on next page
Gillmeister, chairperson of BU's depart-
ment of geography and
geosciences.
The Detailed Science
Daniel Tearpock has heard
the
industry:
oil
They
his
didn't.
it
hundreds of times from people
Tearpock did
—
at a cost of a year
it
Temple
While
it.
Written with Tearpock's professor at
University, Richard E. Bischke, "Applied Subsurface
royalties
is
the benchmark text
and marketing instrument
"The book
was
the
Tearpock explains.
V.
I
N G
in
the industry.
from the work have just recently paid the cost of
publication, Tearpock says the
P
half of
first
book "was the greatest advertis-
we could
publication of
"In 1959,
have had
its
for
SCA."
kind in 30 years,"
Margaret Bishop wrote a 100-page
nobody had written a book on how
to
use correct subsurface mapping techniques. The knowl-
edge was
"I
was worth
Geological Mapping"
S
and a
text but, since then,
life.
But
ing
in
planned on writing that book some day."
"I
was
all
scattered
able to
pull
it
in
all
different journals
articles.
together with a philosophical
doctrine that defines the proper
do
and
methods
of
how you
should
this kind of work."
Tearpock has expanded on his geologic doctrine with
an updated edition of the
Geological
Mapping with
first
book, "Applied Subsurface
Structural
Methods," and a
new
book, "Quick Look Techniques for Prospect Evaluation,"
which
is
being revised for a second edition this spring.
And, the firm went internaTearpock will never forget
tional.
his first trip to Venezuela in 1993.
He came down to
in the
the hotel lobby
morning and found
it
full
of
military personnel. His passport
was
The
confiscated.
translator
informed him that a coup was in
progress in an attempt to over-
throw the government by current
President
"I'd
Hugo
Chavez.
never been to South
America before,"
"I
recalls
was wondering
if I'd
Tearpock.
ever get
home. But everyone around
was calm
time.
was
By
—
like
it
happens
the afternoon, the
over,
back and
we got
life
me
the
all
coup
Computer software plays an integral role in the quest for oil, helping Tearpock
and his staff create color, three-dimensional images of the Earth's structure.
our passports
went on as usual."
At the time,
SCA only had 20
SCA was up to
and branches in Jakarta, Indonesia,
employees. By 1998,
"Oil country
is
usually
unpleasant," says Tearpock,
who
about 90 employees and contract
and Calgary, Canada.
While he's conducted
personnel with half of the
various locations throughout the
knows first-hand after traveling to
more than 30 nations. "Colombia,
world, Tearpock sees the best
Venezuela, Indonesia, the Middle
opportunities for SCA's growth in
East, the
the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where the
they're remote, third-world
firm has the most experience, in
countries with political problems.
firm's busi-
ness coming from South America,
primarily Venezuela,
working
in that country alone.
Political
to close
its
2002. But
staff
and 18 people
changes prompted
SCA
Venezuelan branch in
Mexico, the Middle East, Southeast
SCA still maintains a
Asia and offshore
of about 100, with offices in
Lafayette
studies at
and
New Orleans, La.;
headquarters in Houston, Texas;
West
Tearpock doesn't let the quest
for oil
dominate
avid writer
1
his
life.
He's an
who has completed
a
and a musician
who's mastered the tech-
nology necessary to create
his
own instrumental CDs.
When he does travel for
fun,
he
steers clear of oil
country altogether.
Daniel Tearpock,
left,
and Francisco Pnadas,
president of PDVSA/Intervep, announce an
alliance
between
SCA and Venezuela in 1996
We
He and
his fiancee Lisa
Yu enjoy
visiting a small
Medieval
guy go
a
him
told
but he didn't
nice clothes
10-page science fiction
novella
"We had
'94.
Africa.
former Soviet Union.
.
to Nigeria in
to look scruffy,
listen.
He wore his
and Rolex watch. So
when he got off the plane, he was
mobbed by a crowd and, in the
bustle, got arrested.
"Everyone in the business has
some kind
of story like that to
tell,"
"We live in the
country on earth. It would
says Tearpock.
greatest
be good
to take
families to see
world
lives."
our children and
how the rest of the
B
town south of London,
Eric Foster
England, as well as the U.S.
The University Magazine.
is
co-editor of Blooimburg:
North American Rockies
and the Mayan
Rivera.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
STORY BY KIM BOWER-SPENCE
When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
Douglas debated throughout
in 1858,
Illinois
hundreds of thousands of
people brought their children... and
their dinner... and
absorbed three-hour
speeches. Todays political "debates"
are relegated to television
sound
bites
broadcast on only a few stations as
viewers click between programs.
Enter the Internet, where Jim
Tomlinson, Bloomsburg University
communications studies
professor,
believes exciting political discourse
still
occurs daily
who went online with
own Web site in 1997, perceived
Tomlinson,
his
early that the Internet
was transforming
He took note as
former Sen. Bob Dole hawked his Web
site in 1996. Then Jesse Ventura
political
campaigns.
maneuvered
to Minnesota's governor-
ship with just one storefront office and
a
Web-centered campaign. Cyber-
campaigning roused 18-
to 25-year-
olds to vole at historic levels and
marched Ventura
to victory.
Ventura sparked what Tomlinson
calls the
"McCain phenomenon"
2000. While George
in
W Bush scooped
up cash from old-school supporters,
the Arizona senator
and
presidential
hopeful shot his message straight to
Joe Public via the Web.
Continued on next page
"Number one,
seems
provided the opportunity for
it
grassroots politicking that traditional politicians are just
scared to death
"chats"
—
allowed McCain to
California.
so
Tomlinson observes. Live Internet
of,"
carrying a
$100
visit
"They had
many people
signed
do
up
for
After the senators surprise
online donations flowed
from Maine
"Welcome Jim Tomlinson" appeared on
office
to
He
a lot easier with the
who served on
pay
where volunteers meet
feel
overloaded with information
the
The
for postage or for
to lick
an
it's
may
feel
over-
there."
points, for example, to records of contributors
Web,
to state campaigns. Before the
was
in
person
—
the only
and
way
to get
taking the time to
travel to Harrisburg, wait for the records in a
crat's office
made
at least
the information
the screen each
executive board of Citizens for John McCain.
campaign doesn't need
While voters may
they can access via the Internet, Tomlinson views the
to
in.
Tomlinson,
on campaigning
trend as positive. "Yes," he says, "we
Web visit.
are generally
presidential race.
whelmed. But
and volunteers signed on
"All of these things are
2004
it."
personal greeting in each subsequent
Internet," reasons
who
New Hampshire win,
organize local campaigns. Those registering enjoyed a
time the professor logged
voters,
the topic of the Internet's impact
to
again," he says, "because
it
young
to invigorate
apathetic in elections. Tomlinson hopes to revisit
following the
fee for participants
potential voters
to
more
bureau-
through the information. Today,
cull
anyone can go online through the Pennsylvania Powerport and Department of State and, within minutes,
find
who contributed, and how much,
each candi-
to
campaign.
date's
A member of the AAPC, Tomlinson advised
stamps and
stuff envelopes.
numerous
political
Howard Dean ripped chapters from the Ventura
and McCain campaign books in his initial rise to the
forefront of 2004 Democratic presidential candidates.
the 1980s
and 1990s. He's cut back, now working only
Tomlinson points
Web
to Dean's
log, or "Blog,"
an
was first to use.
him any votes. But it probably
online diary of activities he
"I
don't think
it
gets
helps energize people
his." If
Dean wins
who
are already supporters of
the nomination, Tomlinson says,
Democratic party leaders
slowly to the Internet playing
"Traditional advertising
says Tomlinson,
for the
who
is
not going to go away,"
helped judge Internet
Affairs Pollie
election
run
he personally supports
affiliation.
John Gordner (R-Berwick)
last fall.
polls in
He helped
state Sen.
in his successful special
And he
aided former student
Scott Blacker '98, a Democrat, in
an unsuccessful
attempt to unseat a Bucks County Republican
incumbent in 2002.
Tomlinson
who
credits his maternal grandfather,
shook hands with President Theodore Roosevelt, with
field.
Web sites
American Association of Political Consultants'
(AAPC) Public
for the occasional candidate
whatever the party
know they reacted too
will
campaigns and conducted
Awards. But the Internet
sparking his interest in politics and history As a teen-
Tomlinson himself shook hands with a future
ager,
president
at
when he met an
actor
named Ronald Reagan
the mayor's house in his California
hometown.
was completely amazed," Tomlinson
"I
could look in your eyes and smile and
Former President
Bill
it
recalls.
"He
was genuine."
Clinton possesses similar
charisma, he notes.
"I
babysat for the Reagans, for the youngest
And when Reagan launched his bid
children."
governor in 1966, Tomlinson
time
— campaigned
to see
him
as a
—
just
for
15 years old
youth organizer.
"I
at
the
continue
as a hero.
Jim Tomlinson, who put his own Web site online in
1997, believed from the start that the Internet would
transform
politics.
BLOOiVISBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
'As a teacher, want people to have their own inspiration,
regardless of their ideology, and to have their eyes and ears open.'
I
the University of Delaware.
An invitation to
apply for a
Bloomsburg
position at
prompted him and Sue
up
drive
to
weekend;
for a
they liked the university
area.
He joined
faculty in
1980 and
and
the
recently earned a doctorate
from the
in public policy
University of Delaware.
now indulg-
Tomlinson
es his passion for forensics
by teaching argumentation
and debate. He
also teaches
public speaking; political,
and
organizational
inter-
personal communication;
and computer
applications.
His students get hands-on
One
of the department of communieation studies and the-
Tomlinson garnered a $275,000 grant
from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to bring
atre arts 'tech gurus,'
new computer technology
into the curriculum.
they'll face
leave the university, thanks to a
$275,000 Link-to-Learn
I
want people
to
son garnered
inspiration, regardless of their ideology,
their eyes
and
ears open,"
1970
to enlist in the
left
He
the side
When
also taught English
and
realized
have
major but
for Japan,
where he
and Cambodian
and American
how much he
culture
enjoyed
he and Suzanne returned to the
States,
now
set his sights
on
Tomlinson became National Collegiate Debate Chamin
tions software like
1975 with the topic "Resolved: That Television
has Sacrificed Quality for Entertainment."
He and
a
faculty,
plus
PageMaker and PowerPoint.
rizing students' research into
should take action in
in winter
"My
Iraq.
The
and masters degrees
SPRING
States
was completed
project
for
and
against. "This
was
a
way to
No matter their ideology,
is
make
try to
mentation as relevant and current as
I
policy.
"My primary
stand that politics
Berwick, Pa.
in
at
argu-
could," explains
part of this."
Tomlinson wants his
students to be able to discern between good and bad
Kim Bower-Spence
debate requires hours of research, outlining
After earning bachelors
summa-
whether the United
2003, prior to the U.S. military action, and
interest is
having students under-
how we end up
is
participative citizens
arguments, preparing briefs and practicing."
speech communication, Tomlinson taught briefly
and
communica-
says. "I
—
with good or
want them
active citizens."
to
be good,
b
strongest perfonnances were in debate. Preparing
for
depart-
professor points to a 120-page booklet
bad government," he
partner recorded 75 wins and just 15 losses that
season, debating both sides of the argument.
The
all
wireless laptops for students
Tomlinson. "Their generation
teaching.
Building on his high school experience in forensics,
pion
ment computers, 30
by James Matta, dean
Webcams on
required each student to relate four arguments both
it.
with a toddler and infant in tow, he opted to study
communications and
Bloomsburgs communications
grant, supported
personal digital assistants for
as a history
trained South Vietnamese, Laotian
on
to
Army. He married high
school sweetheart Suzanne and
soldiers.
and
to digitize
The
of graduate studies, provides
he adds.
Tomlinson staned college
quit in
own
have their
they
grant from the state Department of Education Tomlin-
curriculum.
"As a teacher,
when
experience with the technology
is
a freelance journalist from
Six-year-old Kevin,
STORY BY HOWARD
L.
MCKEAN
left,
hidden behind mesh
parents Michelle and
n organized
A
bicycle ride intro-
duced novice
Whalen
cyclist
Michelle
commonly known
to avid cyclist Bill
McCoach. An organized
The McCoaches
and Indian
ride
are the
of Pedal Pennsylvania,
owners
more
across the southeastern Pennsylva-
based in Harleysville,
hands-on proprietor of Bikeworks
married.
And
Bill
from single
to
organized rides,
along with bike
sales,
now provide
a comfortable living for the
McCoach
little
and
ones
family, including the
who
ride
on
a
in the bicycle trailer.
tandem
and
Pa. Bill is the
is
the behind-the-scenes
freedom,
it's
gives
you
BLOOMSBURG
is
a
a sense of
adventurous and
her career would take
when she
graduated from Bloomsburg in
first
several years, her
career could easily be defined as
For the McCoaches, cycling
"It
closer to nature,"
not exacdy the path she envisioned
For the
aspects of the two businesses.
of life.
you
accounting.
person, managing the financial
way
brings
for a family ride.
1983 with a bachelors degree in
PedalP/fe trip organizer;
Michelle
McCoach
shop and touring company was
both
nia countryside transported
Michelle and
Bill
Michelle says. But owning a bike
as "PedalPA,"
Valley Bikeworks,
and 2-year-old Kimberly,
in the bike trailer, join their
it
"typical": supervising a small
team
of auditors looking after the
financial affairs of
companies
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
owned by holding company
Gilead Church in Buckingham, Pa.,
first-hand, they'll also
CAWSL Corp., now Superior
by about
who
200
half of the
invited
meet people
along the tour route as
live
guests. Arriving at the small country
they spend nights in bed and
into the position of controller for
chapel wearing bike togs, Michelle
breakfast inns.
one of those companies, Pressure
donned
Products.
nod
Products
Inc.,
Michelle,
lic
then transitioning
who is a certified pub-
accountant and holds a masters
degree in finance from
University,
after
Josephs
start a family.
For a time,
her only
garter,
to traditional dress for the cer-
emony Husband
added
Bill
and
jacket, white shirt
tie
"Being able to sleep in people's
homes adds
over his
Bikes rolled to the forefront of
the couples professional
years later
when
the
life
unique touch
a
to the
tour and reduces costs," Michelle
suit
observes.
bike shorts for his wedding garb.
Pressure Products
about a decade so that she and
could
Bill
left
St.
and
a veil
three
owner of a
Despite
all
the effort involved
in keeping their business ventures
on
track, Michelle says the
work
provides greater independence
she gave some thought to becoming
Harleysville bike store decided to
than she could have enjoyed in a
an independent accounting consul-
close his shop. Michelle's financial
corporate setting and the ability to
acumen was put
spend more time with
tant.
But the opportunity in 1998 to
open
a retail bike
shop was one she
and her husband could not pass up.
Cycling has been an integral part
of the McCoaches'
chelle
had
riding"
life
together.
when
she met her future
September 1992. But
tion to the sport
their
location
is
wedding
which featured
ride in
their dedica-
best exemplified
three years
later,
a 40-mile ride to Mt.
good use
dren, Kevin, 6,
their chil-
and Kimberly,
2.
and the business and
whether a merger of vocation and
avocation
"just started getting into
husband during an organized
by
Mi-
to
evaluating the viability of the
It
was
feasible.
was. And, both Bikeworks
PedalPA, purchased in 2001
its
previous
and
when
owner retired, continue
to grow. Bikeworks,
which
sells
not
only bikes and accessories but also
scooters
and
staffers
now employs
unicycles,
and nine part-time
three full-time
year-round. As
10 part-timers work
many as
for the
McCoaches' enterprises during
PedalPAs bike tour season, which
summer and
spans spring,
Cycling went from avocation
fall.
to vocation for Bill
And, the couple recently added
"landlord" to their growing
list
of
when they bought
building that is home to Indian
responsibilities
the
Valley Bikeworks
and seven other
and Michelle
grow PedalPA
in a
also decided to
new direction on
training to earn a living
profession provides
very
me with
sometimes miss out on
their first international excursion, a
chosen
year. Cyclists will
The bride and groom both
wore. ..bicycle shorts. ..when
Michelle
a lot
careers."
in their
b
later this
not only experi-
ence the Tuscany countryside
McCoach and
is
of personal satisfaction that others
another continent. They've added
seven-day tour of Italy,
A professional
writer
and corporate
L
location photographer,
Howard
McKean
articles for
regional
Bill
Whalen
exchanged wedding vows.
SPRING
my love
my education and
"To be able to combine
of cycling with
rewarding," she says. "This
businesses.
Bill
and
Michelle McCoach.
has authored
and national
publications.
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43 through 81.
Professional Attire
Clothing drive aids job-seekers
Dialing for
Dollars
Christine A. Gasper, a Beaver
Meadows,
Pa., resident
and
junior business education major,
Family Fund reaches
$66,295
organized a suit and professional
clothing drive to help
women
prepare for job interviews. As
The families
of current
BU
students donated $66,295 to
this year's Family
phonathon.
Fund
A total
donors participated
the
annual fund drive, including
seven
who
contributed online
or by mail. According to Elena
Lockard, phonathon coordinator, the total
figures by
community service
requirement for her Board of
Governor's Scholarship, Gasper
of 1,054
in
part of a
tops last year's
conducted a workshop
at
the
Women's Center of Columbia
and Montour Counties on
interviewing, presenting a
professional appearance
and
completing resumes, cover
letters
and
will
ongmal narration
Masters for the northern
region.
4.
Mark
Kaercher, dance, received a
speaker at the physical
filed in the report.
is
English;
with his awards, silver plate, medal
region of the U.S. are pro-
BU
are
mater, the Lakshmibai National
Schools in the Mid-Atlantic
from each
work-
theatre
and Exercise Science and
University as one of the Best
universities
and dance
Physical Education, Sports Medicine
study ranks Bloomsburg
and
Spring'
applications.
more than $20,000.
BLOOMSBURG
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Education Supporter
Mihalik heads Foundation Board
A belief in the power of education drives Vicki Mihalik of
Millville.
Her
encom-
career
passes a dozen years as a
special education teacher
20 years
and
as director of the
Bloomsburg Area YMCA's
preschool program. As a
volunteer, she's involved in yet
another aspect of education,
hockey players surround coach Jan Hutchinson after
beating UMass Lowell for the national championship.
Husky
serving as chair of the Blooms-
field
burg University Foundation
Board of Directors.
Happens Again!
It
Huskies
field
Mihalik
NCAA
hockey team captures
Vicki Mihalik
Division
tion Board in
invitation of former President
Bloomsburg University scored two goals
surge by
UMass
over the host River
Hockey Championship
The
in
Lowell
Hawks
in
a very exciting
Hutchinson.
"I
first
2003
NCAA
at Cushing Field in Lowell,
NCAA title was the
was
the
half
and then held
the second en route to a 4-1 victory
to claim the
Division
II
Field
1
1th overall
sixth
school history.
in
game," says Bloomsburg head coach Jan
knew UMass
Lowell would play better than
when we
played them at Bloomsburg, and they were very fast and very skilled."
UMass
is
Lowell head coach Shannon Hlebichuk says, "Bloomsburg
a perennial national power.
sure put on them, but there
is
My team
on
a variety of
1992
at
the
Harry Ausprich. She served
committees before becoming chairperson of
20-member board. "Board membership is a chance to
make a difference in peoples lives. We're always looking to
the
and unrestricted funds," she says.
With Foundation support, the university has undertaken
major projects during Mihalik's tenure on the board, includincrease scholarships
Mass.
second straight for the Huskies, the
the last eight years and the
"It
in
became
BU Founda-
II
Championship
off a
first
involved with the
responded well to the pres-
no question that the better team won."
ing construction of the
the
new Andruss
Library and, through
New Challenges, New Opportunities campaign,
the
renovation of the Student Services Center and an increase in
scholarship endowments.
money to support
The Foundation
faculty, staff
and student
also
awards seed
projects through
the university's Margin of Excellence program.
Top Educator
Appointment with AASCU
Alum named state's best journalism
BU president elected to board of directors
teacher
Sam Bidleman 76M
BU
President Jessica
year term
S.
Kozloff was elected to a three-
on the board of directors
of the
American
an English teacher
Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).
School,
The
the
association promotes appreciation
public higher education, representing
colleges, universities
for
more than 430
and systems of higher education
throughout the U.S. and
"It's
and support
always humbling
its territories.
when your
peers select you to
represent them," says Kozloff. "I'm looking forward
to the
opportunity to work with
national level."
at
Bloomsburg High
my colleagues on the
was named
2003 Journalism
Teacher of the Year
by the Pennsylvania
Student Press
Association. Bidle-
man is
the adviser
of Prometheus, the
Sam Bidleman
school's
literal")'
magazine, and former adviser to the award-winning
s^
hool
newspaper, Red and While. His approach: empowering
students and giving them ownership of the project
SPRING
News Notes
Husky Time
Alumni Association
partners with Swiss
watchmaker
Husky pride
is
now available
with Swiss precision.
Bloomsburg 's Alumni
Association has partnered with
Swiss watchmaker Factory 121
to
make Bloomsburg
watches available
logo
for sale
Custom watches can be
online.
created to logging onto the
Robert N.
Dampman
Alumni Association
New Trustee
BU alum
A
retired
on the watch banner at
clicking
the bottom on the page.
joins Council
educator and
Web site at
www.bloomualumni.com and
965
1
graduate of Bloomsburg State
College recently joined BU's
On-Air Personality
Council of Trustees. Robert N.
Dampman
WBUQ dedicated to William Acierno
of Ringtown, Pa.,
retired superintendent of the
WBUQ 91
Bensalem Township School
District,
was appointed
replace Robert
Danville
W. Buehner
whose term
ed
to
.1
FM, Bloomsburg 's student radio
of
WBUQ.
left,
station, dedicat-
recently upgraded studios to William A. Acierno, a
retired faculty
of
expired.
Dampman's appointment runs
until
its
member and
the leading force
in
the creation
Trustee A. William Kelly, president of WVIA-TV,
talked with Acierno about their experiences
in
radio at
the dedication.
Jan. 20, 2009.
Currently a legislative
assistant to state Sen. Robert
Tomlinson and
member
of the
North Schuylkill School Board,
Dampman
served
in
a variety of
capacities during his career
education
in
—
and
district superin-
tendent. Since retiring
December 1994,
campus during
Kozloffs sabbatical
Alumni may choose from
assignments
in
BU's provost
for
academic
and
various school logos,
vice president
affairs is
styles, dial colors
serving as
of inscriptions.
during President Jessica Kozloffs
available
Perkasie
Patrick Schloss,
BU
Kintnersville.
The terms of two current
watch
who joined
the
10 years ago as assistant vice
president and dean for graduate
studies
and
research,
was
Patrick Schloss
named
Steven Barth of Lewisburg,
Pa.,
presidents responsibilities during Kozloffs spring semester
LaRoy Davis
Watches are
two
1998, and
of Feasterville, Pa.,
provost more than two years ago.
sabbatical with the
and
He is
is
sizes,
and each
shipped directly from
A
in
Switzer-
percentage of every
sale benefits Alumni Association
were
in
in
watchmaker
land.
Jan. 20, 2009. Reappointed
appointed
straps,
sabbatical.
Trustees also were extended to
first
watch
and
waterproofing and four styles
interim president this semester
in
he's fulfilled
temporary administrative
and
Scbloss leads
from social studies
teacher and guidance counselor
to principal
Interim President
programming.
fulfilling the
American Association of State Colleges
Universities (see page 32).
a Trustee since 1980.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Ovation
Players production makes it to
Kennedy
Center finals
The Bloomsburg
in America:
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ed
production of "Angels
Players'
Millennium Approaches" was
invit-
be part of the Kennedy Center American
to
College Theatre Festival Region
was held
festival
town,
at
Pa., in January.
festival
Each
year, the regional
New York,
includes shows from
New Jersey,
sylvania,
The
Festival.
II
Muhlenberg College, AllenPenn-
Delaware, Maryland and
Nelson Swarts
the District of Columbia.
m
The
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play, directed
by
Gifted Grad
theatre arts professor
Ross Genzel, featured a student cast of 13 and
several student designers.
campus
Swarts chairs annual fund
was performed on
It
in September.
Nelson Swarts
Students focus on
place prize from the
Consortium
J.
a project, according to
personal digital assistants
Robert Montante, associate
member
(PDAs), such as
cell
phones
and laptop computers,
wireless network.
to a
They
professor of
computer
Timothy Smith,
enables a programmer to
for
presented
split a
and
their research poster lecture
program
into pieces
distribute these pieces
on "Computationally
to all other
Heterogeneous Integrated
network.
PDAs
in the
that
PDAs, but
for
also
Faculty
for
all
For information on the annual
desktop software.
development coordinator,
Service
is
Brazil,
children
Norway and South
make
Africa.
It
centered on establishing a cur-
riculum guide to assist teachers as they include special need
not out to change the
world. She just wants to
in
regular classrooms
in
a method
known as
"differenti-
ated instruction."
Perner's involvement in
a
UNESCO began
in
1990 as a Canadian
difference for special need students
representative to a special session of the organization.
everywhere.
became
A
professor
in
Scientific
Nations Educational,
"I
that
(UNESCO), an international group committed
of children worldwide.
SPRING
is
member at Bloomsburg
University
She
in
998 and,
1
no longer a Canadian representative to UNESCO, her
connection continues to be strong.
Darlene Perner
and Cultural Organization
development
a faculty
while she
the exceptionality
program, Perner co-chaired a meeting
of the United
at
special education experts from the United States, Canada, India,
to
students
Darlene Perner
a
is
Foundation
(570) 389-4405.
member committed
educating
currently
fund, contact Eileen Evert,
Mobile Processing."
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Business Advisory Board.
avail-
able software can only
work
to the education
The meeting
in
and
Paris gathered
am
is
a volunteer
now to
this organization
a very important one," says Perner.
seen where
UNESCO
all
because
I
believe
"My contributions are
children are included and valued. That
strives for."
a
Board and the College of
desktop computers.
Most commercially
in
of other volunteer
member of the BU
works
Pa.,
is
number
capacities.
then wrote software that
from Benton,
math and
science,
Alumni Board, as
of the
a chapter coordinator and
the software not only
junior from Milford, Pa., and
a senior
of Higher Education Inc.,
and Smith connected
2003
Colin Henry, a
System
The advantage of such
Fund for the
of the State
Swarts has served BU as a
Sciences in Colleges, Eastern
Region.
director of the
Advancement
For their project, Henry
Computing
for
BU's annual fund for 2003-04.
The
PDA connection
Two computer science
majors took home the first-
Lewisberry,
as chairperson of
Pa., is serving
Winning Researchers
'63,
is
what
Bloomsburg
University
students are
. .
Learners
More than
a third of
Bloomsburg students are ranked
top 20 percent of their high school
In
class.
freshmen were valedictorians and two were
fall
in the
2003, four
salutatorians.
Citizens
Last year
more than 3,000
students contributed 50,879 hours
of service to the community.
Community
service projects
ranged from helping area children with school work to
providing food for the needy at the Bloomsburg Food
Cupboard.
Leaders
incoming Bloomsburg students participated
government, honors programs or athletics while in
high school. Many participated in more than one of these
Sixty percent of
in student
activities.
Give them a hand.
Contribute to the Bloomsburg
University Foundation
Contributions to the Bloomsburg University
Foundation, Inc. fund scholarships, student research and
academic facilities, such as labs, classrooms and library
holdings.
Learn how.
Telephone: 570-389-4128
Web: vvww.bloomu.edu/giving
^Bloomsburg
University
Foundation
400 East Second
Bloomsburg, Pa.,
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Spring 2004
Mid-Term
Tuesday,
March 2
March
Spring
6,
15,
Aug. 23 to 30
A Couple of Blaguards
Classes Begin
Saturday,
Monday, Aug. 30
Carver
Reading Day
Friday, Oct.
March
Hall,
20, 7:30 p.m.
Kenneth
Gross
S.
Women's Choral Ensemble and
citizens.
Carver Hall Piano Series
8
Auditorium, $5 adults/$2 students
Presbyterian Church, 345 Market
and senior
Street,
3,
7 p.m.
Gross
S.
citizens.
29, 8 a.m.
Finals Begin
Monday,
May 3
Graduate Commencement
Friday,
May 7
May 8
1,
Featuring the Bloomsburg University
Ensemble
Graduate Commencement
Chamber Orchestra
University-Community Orchestra
Saturday,
Dec. 17
Celebrity Artist
Series
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30
the Celebrity Artist Series
Session 3
Ahn Trio
Friday, April
1
,
to Friday,
June
Haas Center
1
at 5:30 p.m.
Pops Concert, Monday,
Proceeds benefit music scholarships.
Bloomsburg.
389-4284
for information.
Student Recitals
Siblings'
and Children's
Tuesday, April 27, 7:30 p.m., Carver
Hall,
Kenneth
S.
Gross Auditorium.
through Sunday,
Jazz Festival
April 25.
Wednesday,
Renaissance Jamboree
Saturday, April 24,
all
day,
April 28, all day,
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Concert Choir
Friday, April 30, 7:30 p.m., First
Parents' and Family Weekend
through Sunday,
Presbyterian Church, 345 Market
Street,
Bloomsburg.
Homecoming Weekend
Friday, Oct. 15,
through Saturday,
Oct. 17.
Monday, June 21
,
to Friday, July 9
Jane Monheit
Sunday, April 25, 3 p.m.
Session 6
Monday, July
1
2, to Friday,
Haas Center
July 30
for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall, $20 and $22.50.
For the
Session 7
Monday, June
21, to Friday, Aug.
20
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1,
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Sept. 19.
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Session 5
Resort, Elysburg.
Union, Ballroom. Tickets required.
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Aug. 20
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20, 6 p.m., Kehr
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Tuesday, June
Pops Concert
Monday, Dec. 13
Session 2
Monday, July
citizens.
Friday, April 23,
21, to Friday, July
Hall.
Knoebels Amusement Resort
Concert Band at 2 p.m. and Jazz
Undergrad Commencement
to Friday, July 9
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Spring Gala
Call (570)
1
Monday, June
Sunday, April 18, 2:30 p.m., Haas
Gross
Finals Begin
Saturday, Dec. 18
Tuesday, June
S.
Sunday, April 25, Knoebels
Summer 2004
Session
Bloomsburg.
Amusement
Saturday, Dec. 18
May 8
First
Special Events
Finals End
Undergrad Commencement
Saturday,
Kenneth
Auditorium, $5 adults/$2 students
and senior
Saturday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.,
Sunday, Dec. 12
Friday,
Finals End
Saturday,
Classes End
Hall,
Chamber Singers
Concert Band
Reading Day
1
Hall.
Thanksgiving Recess begins
Saturday, Dec. 11,10 p.m.
Classes End
7:30 p.m., Haas
Carver Hall, Kenneth
Carver
29 and 30
5,
Wednesday, March
Clipper Erickson
Reading Days
1
Tuesday, Oct. 12
Thursday, April 1,7 p.m.
May
Hall.
Mid-Term
Monday, Nov.
12,6 p.m.
Thursday, April
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Classes Resume
Saturday,
2:30 p.m., Haas
4,
and senior
Monday,
Friday, April
Sunday, April
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Tuesday, Nov. 23, 10 p.m.
Thursday and
University-Community Orchestra
Auditorium, $15 adults/$10 students
Classes Resume
April
to the public.
Beverly Smoker
8 a.m.
10 p.m.
8,
Concerts are free and open
Husky Singers
noon
Weekend Begins
Thursday, April
Electronic Registration
Monday, Sept. 6
Classes Resume
Monday, March
Concerts
Series
Labor Day
Spring Break Begins
Saturday,
2004
Concerts at Carver
Fall
Web Site:
The Last Word
the rent
Service
is
pay for
living.
we
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN,
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF
THE CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
For
my generation, it was practically a given.
Kennedy
President
inspired us to look
beyond ourselves and
no nobler
we
followed his lead, then
with our
told us that there
was
calling than public service. First
we honored
his
memory,
service.
But 40 years have passed since
we heard
the presi-
dents moving words and, over time, we've seen
society as a
whole
retreat
from
civic
engagement. As
BU
Robert Putnam documented in "Bowling Alone:
The Collapse and Revival
fewer people
of American
now participate
Community,"
President Jessica Kozloff talks to the Council of Trustees
about her involvement with the American Association of
and Universities' American Democracy
With Kozloff are Trustees Steven Barth, left, and
State Colleges
in civic organizations,
Project.
fewer volunteer and fewer exercise their right to vote.
A. William Kelly.
In an effort to reverse this trend, the American
Association of State Colleges and Universities initiated
the
American Democracy Project
the
New York Times. am serving as a presidential
in partnership with
this semester,
returning to
1
my roots
the importance of civic
is
universities are
engagement in
a free society
talked about the career preparation
aspect of a university education,
that this
and
making sure our graduates understand
we have
and
there
is
no doubt
a vital role for the university to play. But
believe there
is
I
another key purpose of higher educa-
tion, that of "citizenship preparation."
Democracy
It
The American
Project offers us the opportunity to
ine our duty to foster civic
its
exam-
engagement on the part of
our students.
graduates' civic understanding
formed
last fall
under the leadership of Nancy Gentile
Ford, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts,
is
meeting and sponsoring events. In
fact, after
BU and
State
November, the committee of 20
faculty
and
welcomed 60 students to its ranks.
With their involvement, these students
set
on how
changes in academic, extracurricular and institutional
culture can increase the
number
of students
who
offer a
out to accomplish
—
to
produce graduates
understand and are committed to engaging
Jessica S. Kozloff
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are involved in a year-long dialog focusing
staff
glimpse of what the American Democracy Project has
six other universities
System of Higher Education,
a
well-attended program on election reform in early
Nearly 150 colleges and universities from across
from Pennsylvania's
and
as no surprise that BU already is taking
The American Democracy Project Committee,
ingful actions as citizens in a democracy.
the country, including
these
an approach
comes
action.
believe strongly that colleges
For years,
improve
From
civic actions.
commitment.
as a political scientist.
responsible for
engaged in meaningful
discussions, each university will design
to
I
consultant to this project during a sabbatical leave
from Bloomsburg
are
President
in
who
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your place of employment and
unofficially
smoothly, with
a
it is
at
Bloomsburg University,
measured in increments of time when
little
apparent change.
It is
human nature
life
moves along
life
comfort in
to take
the stability of times like these.
At BU, we've suddenly emerged from one of these calm periods
change.
Little
end abruptly
did
last
I
know when I left for my sabbatical last December that it would
spring when Provost Patrick Schloss accepted the presidency of
South Dakota. The
Northern
State University in
show me
that the call of retirement
administrators, a
I
number
didn't anticipate that
community as
to a time of rapid
of staff
would be
crystal ball
I
so attractive for
members and more than 20
we'd be welcoming so
many
faculty
often wish
some
faculty
and
I
had
didn't
of my senior
members. And,
staff to
BU's
campus
a result of these retirements.
This magazine has changed. Regular readers will note that this column, which
previously appeared on the back page as "The Last Word," has taken a leap forward
and been renamed "From
the Presidents Desk." In
back through BU's history
trip
Roben Dunkelberger.
We've had
in the
its
former location, you will take a
new column, "Over
the Shoulder,"
by
archivist
You'll also find class notes in this issue for the first time.
positive changes
on
the
campus
itself
in the past
months
as
construction continues on the $8.8 million addition to Hartline Science Center and
the
$4 million reincarnated Monty's. Another
cooperative agreement we've forged with
positive
change
is
the two-pronged
Luzeme County Community
College this
—
one facet guarantees BU admission to students in many majors after they earn
LCCC associate degrees and meet other requirements; the other allows education
year
majors to complete
teaching, at
It is,
change
indeed,
is
all
of their
BU bachelor's degree
requirements, except student
LCCC.
human nature to
dread change. But the past year
not only a constant, but also a
at
catalyst to a positive future.
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From canvas-covered horsehair
to
foam
happens
mats
of
many
colors, wrestlers' safety
has
strides over the past
foam shrunk
Much
of the credit
goes to a
repainted.
be trimmed and
A worker is planning
which he and
fix,
company headed by a BU alumnus.
Gilbert
briefly discuss.
While
Resilite supplies
70 percent
mat market and
a
growing share of gymnastic mat
needs,
leading
one section
to
of the wrestling
half-century.
are painted,
in
and needs
the
made tremendous
mats
after the
the thick
it's
this individual attention to
every order
that's
helped keep the
family-owned company on top.
"We have such
a
good reputation
'We
in the market," says Gilbert.
always want to give customers a
product that
A
is
not top notch,
selling
top quality.
I
don't
If
want
it's
to
be
it."
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Gilbert, 43, the
company's
manager and second
general
generation of Resilite leadership, the
business path began
at the heart.
In his junior year at Southern
Columbia High School,
Gilbert
met
from nearby Shikellamy
a junior
High, Debra Tischler,
when
the
two
were part of a student project to
STORY BY JACK SHERZER
design the perfect school.
It
probably never caught your eye. You were too busy watching the
competitors to notice what those wrestlers and gymnasts were
It
competing on. Most
likely
With about $14 million
exclusively in the
it
was
a
mat made by
NCAA championships since
mats have been used
1963 and appeared
at the
Olympics. They are the mats of choice for colleges boasting the top
near Northumberland, Pa. There are
second clue
by
the white cinderblock building
no huge
signs screaming Resilites
mammoth mats
up and
rugs from a giants house as they await refurbishing. Or a
in the new, brightly colored mats, most bearing the names and
presence, just the smallest hint found in
stacked like
rolled
logos of colleges, high schools or athletic associations, being loaded into
used
made
at
the time.
for
Michigan
by
State.
to stay in the area, Gilbert
enrolled at Bloomsburg.
convinced Debra to leave
in
Bloomsburg, as
then
Georgetown
well.
The two married in 1982 after
graduating, with Debra continuing
Bloomsburg
to earn a
a green wrestling
As sometimes
He
University after a semester and enroll
at
Inside the cavernous factory, Paul Gilbert '82 pauses
a
the canvas-
covered horsehair mats widely
tractor trailers.
mat, 42-foot-by-42-foot, being
improvement over
Wanting
this driving
Warren,
1959,
Resilite in
made with rubberized foam,
vast
wrestling programs in the country.
You'd never guess any of
Tischler's father,
perfecting the manufacture of mats
Resilite Sports Products.
in annual sales, Resilite
was
who opened
Continual on next page
masters
Design
line
As
Resilite looks to
expand, Internet sales are one of the areas targeted for growth.
Already the leading manufacturer of wrestling mats with a growing
mats, wall padding and other equipment, the
of
its
business
come from
Redesigned
in
line of
company expects to see about
1
gymnastic
5 percent
online sales this year.
the past year, www.resilite.com
is
an easy-to-navigate
site
with clear
color pictures illustrating the company's hundreds of products and even a feature that
allows customers to design their
own wrestling mat online.
Helping Resilite with the site were several Bloomsburg University graduates.
"My goal
with our
Web site was for customers to
an economics major
be able to purchase almost any of
Resilite's general manager. "The Web site is
becoming a more and more important part of our business."
Bill Sees, 24, who graduated from Bloomsburg last year with a computer science
degree, interned at Resilite during his senior year and wrote the program that allows
customers to design their mats online.
Updating the rest of Resilite's Web site, as well as hosting and maintaining it, is
Kingston, Pa.-based Keynetx. Three of the company's four partners - Scott McCarty,
Mike Miguelez and Joel Upright- are Bloomsburg grads.
McCarty, who graduated with Upright in 1998 and serves on the computer science
our products online," says Paul Gilbert '82,
department's curriculum advisory board, says the biggest challenge
Web site's
programming with
came
in
Elon
Matthew, 16, a sophomore
Bloomsburg High School
at
—
will
follow into the business remains
to
be seen.
As
Resilite
moves forward,
Gilbert says, automation
a
is
continuing goal.
About a year
dovetailing
company
ago, the
spent nearly $100,000 for a
computer system. Miguelez '99 adds
that other challenges involved building features that enable customers to calculate
shipping costs online and allow Resilite's existing system to process orders.
the
at
University in North Carolina, or
Resilite's existing
computerized, automatic cutter to
slice
is
the thick polyester fabric that
sewn around
the padding of
gymnastic mats. In addition to
degree in nursing and Gilbert
challenge of seeing a problem and
entering the business world.
finding a solution."
Gilbert,
who
He
earned a degree
in business administration,
was no
accepted a job with Dillon
Floral Products, a wholesale
and took charge of the company's
Bethlehem,
published Bloomsburgs Press
Warren
which
his
"I've
"I like
the
says other jobs were found for the
1985,
Tischler asked Gilbert to
workers
fabric
from
bottom up, spending time
the
working
in
including
"When
forklift in
each department
we didn't have
so we moved
started
the place,
adding
weigh
that the
at least several
pounds. "Wanting to
He believes
a
example,
I'd
rubber mats
hundred
set a
force
and they have been
future automation will
lite
as the
number of jobs at Residemand for mats grows.
Mike Moyer, executive
so sore
I
could
company. .and
title
is
retired
of president
Gilbert has the responsibility
of running Resilite.
Gilberts'
much more
Whether
two children
the
—
Jennifer, 19,
Top photo: Sylvia Bostian sews covers
for Resilite's gymnastics mats, which are
a growing part of the
Northumberland
business' product line.
left,
.means
—
great product
service
is
"On
and
second
his
customer
Moyer
to none,"
top of that, he
one
is
of the nicest guys out there, one
of those guys
you want
business with."
to
do
b
has worked in each
area of the Resilite plant. Here he helps
37-year Resilite veteran Rich Saul with
a
.
Moyer says
no one compares with Gilbert.
"Paul stands on principle, he has a
mats and equipment
says.
Paul Gilbert,
Gilbert.
to wrestling.
Sponsoring events, donating
Today, Warren Tischler
and
director
of the National Wrestling Coaches
are the "gold standard." But the
like
hardly move."
but retains the
do
important
Association, says Resilite's mats
good
push those guys
come home
pretty flexible
increase the
.
crazy and
is
willing to
in a small business," Gilbert says.
every one of those mats by hand," he
says,
previously cut the
different jobs. That's very
some backbreaking jobs.
I first
who
by hand.
"Our work
Gilbert learned the business
always wanted to be in
business," Gilbert says.
Pa., operations. In
looking after
to
60-plus employees, Gilbert
Resilite's
work at Resilite.
now runs.
the precise cutting
Committed
florist,
His grandfather, Paul Eyerly,
Enterprise newspaper,
faster,
saves material, Gilbert says.
stranger to the corporate world.
uncle
being
custom logo of a wrestling mat.
Jack Sherzer
is
a professional writer
and Pennsylvania
lives in
native.
He
currently
Hanisbwv.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Move
over, chalkboards
and anatomic models.
In Cynthia Surmacz's
classroom,
and
pop
living
culture
examples
give biology a
new spin.
J
STORY BY KIM BOWER-SPENCE
What do The Wave, pop beads and
a mock crime scene have in
common? Students who have taken
one of professor Cynthia Surmacz's
biology classes over the years
know
the answer.
Sunnacz scores high marks with
students for her ability to convey
complex concepts, even though she
delivers
some
of the
challenging exams
most
on campus. "You
always remember what she was
talking about because she gets
you
involved in the learning process.
She's really creative," explains
Bonnie Van der Mark from nearby
Orangeville, a former
Army linguist
returning to college.
A broom may
spinal cord.
represent the
The Wave,
activity for sports fans,
typically an
can
illustrate
a neuron's electrical signal or the
electron transport chain ol
Continued on next page
Cindy Surmacz's students are treated to
a series of gestures, expressions
and the
sketch— all intended
to bring
occasional
abstract concepts to
life.
Cynthia Surmacz spurs students to think for
themselves rather than simply memorize materialnot an easy feat in the sciences.
Till
notes that Sunnacz spurs students to think for
themselves rather than simply memorize material
an easy
feat in the sciences.
matched with
to class,
but
content,
and she helps students
learn
it's
— not
"She brings an enthusiasm
quality of content, rigor of
to
how to think."
Though students
teaching, they
give
may not
brush with her
tests.
Surmacz high marks
always appreciate their
"They think I'm trying
them crazy intentionally," Surmacz
for
first
to drive
chuckles. She's not
looking for simple regurgitation of definitions and
processes
—
at least
some
of which
may be obsolete by
the time they join the workforce. She wants students to
how to teach
how to think critically
understand the process of science,
themselves and
"She's training people to think, and think quickly,
which is what you want in an emergency room,"
observes Van der Mark, who is considering a career
in nursing.
name nerves and
them to imagine they
and then asks: "What
Rather than ask students to simply
muscles, this scientist instructs
are sitting in a
movie
theater,
up the popcorn
and putting it in your mouth?" And, "What muscles
would you use to put your arm around the person next
neural pathways are involved in picking
Surmacz,
who began
research
biologist,
her career as a
is still
active
in
the
lab.
Her
latest project involves studying the effects of
highway deicers on aquatic black worms. The
worms share similar cellular features with humans and
mayactas a biological maker for toxins.
threadlike
mitochondria.
aisle
depicting
Or Surmacz
herself
may run down the
how a neurotransmitter operates.
She'll
even stretch herself between two students to
how vocal folds work.
know my colleagues think some of the
are a
little
corny," the slim, sandy-haired
Labs tend to be inquiry-based. Take the anatomy
and physiology laboratory crime scene
— complete with
police tape, fiber sample, blood sample, debris
ransom
note.
and
Surmacz could just show students
microscope and
tell
them how
to
use
it.
a
a
Instead, they
analyze die "evidence" and learn microscopy along
demonstrate
"I
to you?"
the way.
things
I
do
Surmacz
Surmacz teaches two
large lectures every semester,
each with a laboratory section.
Till
points out that
admits. But,
Surmacz continually seeks new teaching techniques
do
get students actively involved in learning
things,
cant
Van der Mark notes, "You see things, you
you repeat things several times over. You
acting.
forget."
A toy box in Surmacz's office holds snap beads and
other props to
make
lessons fun
than overwhelming. "A
lot
and
of these
I
interesting rather
developed over the
when I see what (students) struggle with," says
Sunnacz, who notes that she is a visual learner herself.
Margaret Till, who chairs BU's Department of
years
Biological
hundred
on
this
and Allied Health, confirms,
million. In
campus."
"She's
one in a
my opinion, she's the best teacher
The
professor also started the
and
to
inter-
monthly
BioSynthesis newsletter to keep students in the
on department research and activities.
Surmacz provides research opportunities
know
for
one
or two students at a time, both graduate and undergraduate. Health-related projects looked at
menopause and
lipid profiles in
athletics,
and
women.
Swapan Mookerjee,
and
how
exercise affect cholesterol levels
professor of exercise science
has collaborated with Surmacz on research
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
A taste of undergraduate research in exercise
physiology prompted her decision to pursue graduate
school.
"It really
possibilities
Amy Risen,
a
May
Cornell University,
who
graduate
now
is
honed her research
in
I
my life.
changed
made me
It
had never considered
think of
before."
a doctoral program at
Penn
After graduating from
atthe lab bench with
skills
State in
1978 and
meeting husband Scott Rubin, Surmacz earned her
biology professor Cindy Surmacz.
doctorate from Hershey Medical Center. "Four
since 1996.
"It's
been wonderful
nary collaboration," he notes.
have
to
He
interdiscipli-
Surmacz
calls
a
scientist
meticulous researcher, always supportive of students.
More
worms
recently, she's
—
toxicity of
threadlike
employed aquatic black
worms 4 to 5 cm long
—
to study
raise.
They share
humans,
link in aquatic food chains
Bloomsburg University
at
Surmacz never looked back, enjoying the campus
but small enough to
similar biochemical
an important
are
and students can
She's taught
to
have diversity
know students one-on-one."
still
anatomy and physiology every semester
when she was on sabbatical. Motivated
students make the course a favorite for her. "I absolutely
but one,
readily
observe and record changes in pulse and other
love teaching that." She also teaches concepts in
behavioral responses.
biology, a
Amy Risen, who earned a bachelor's degree in
biology
last
toxicology project. "She
saw
that
program
I
wanted
to
fall.
Surmaczs
do more,
who enters a doctoral
friendliness
Surmacz notes
the opposite.
and
While her
literature,
you
it
enthusiastic,
keeps you trying
specialty
to
many
home.
I
also think
human health,
it
interesting
and
she's
a
"It's
exciting."
take
on the
can help them."
I
"I
bathe and
goes to following the
of her colleagues, this professors
Schuylkill Haven, Pa., a
little
home. She grew up
sons, the older of
in
over an hour's drive
"Aha!"
its
and
drive her, like
throughout the laboratory.
Model rockets and
how a neuron works is
American
decorated the family coffee table, and science always
young Cindy.
She started college
scholarship, but
knew
at
after
State
on an engineering
one course
She can identify with students fishing
that,"
The reward comes
over their four years
Penn
it
wasn't for her.
for a major.
she laughs, noting that
it
"Been
took her
first
a chorus of
school superintendent until retiring a few years ago.
issues of Scientific
when
time to see a hydra open
"wows" can be heard
"How a muscle contracts
the university.
or
"It's
a joy to see
their goals."
That joy reverberates in her work.
anydiing she does
Till says,
fall.
students peer
watching students transform
in
at
time
fascinating."
them succeed and meet
there's
Any spare
of her two teen-aged
whom begins college this
moments
tentacles,
she jokes.
eat,"
I
activities
through a microscope the
soudreast of Bloomsburg, where her father served as
done
their
Surmacz admits she engages in few hobbies outside
career didn't take her far from
there,
is
They think drey can
enthusiastic, ambitious.
world.
her work.
fascinated
in the
narrow
to teach general biology.
challenge and that keeps
new things."
Unlike
allied health
She also thrives on teaching freshmen. "They're
Research, Surmacz notes, "keeps
A career close
and
that professors often
broadened her scope
helpfulness, coupled with high expectations, drive
keeps you reading the
for biology
sophomore course
teaching focus as they gain experience, but she's done
students to achieve, she says.
it
cell biology, a
core biology curriculum.
in environmental toxicology at Cornell
University this
freshman course
majors, and
May, worked with Surmacz on the
so she pushed me," notes Risen,
in
in research.
environment here. "We're big enough
"They're great for student projects," she says,
cellular features to
a
1983, even as her Hershey colleagues urged her to stay
environmental contaminants.
and
and
The young
science," she recalls.
missed interaction with students and took a
temporary teaching job
chemical deicers used on roadways and other
cheap and easy to
bench
half years of total
that's
"I
don't think
not extraordinary,''
b
three majors to settle into biology.
Kim Bower-SpaKc
FALL 2004
is
a freelance journalist from Berwick, Pa.
The numbers
are amazing:
190 million Americans hold
1.2 billion credit cards; the average
American household has 17. For many
who are credit card reliant, rewards
and perks make those numbers... and
the numbers on their monthly
statements... easier to swallow.
Just Rewards
STORY BY ERIC LOSE
Last
month
opened a
I
letter from
bank's credit card division
$50
check,
my
1
percent payback
"reward" for spending so
on
much money
months and paying the
the last few
bills
my
and found a
time. Like
MasterCard
it
manna from
arrived the day after
yet another of my son's $300
orthodontia
visits.
Wow,
this
money? I forgot
was
launched
the pain of spending
to kiss the
this
marketing in the
geniuses
who
innovative concept.
late- 1980s
200 million
annually.
credit cards are issued
Each one
is
emblazoned
Drees has built a career on just
Advisory Committee. At the time,
— and moving
he was a young product manage-
such sharp ideas
ment executive at Mellon Bank.
"It was a great opportunity
quickly to capitalize
me
do big-time brand
to
marketing and create
new product
concepts that would enable
MasterCard
he
to
outpace
its rivals,"
says.
MasterCard recruited Drees
was
on them.
Raised in upper Bucks County,
Drees
advertising
and communications
BU. He worked
to
though school and then honed
advertising agencies. His growing
interest in direct
marketing caught
was looking
executive at Manufacturers
next big idea.
Hanover, in suburban Philadelphia.
was
doing creative work
with one or two logos and connects
co-branding: cards sponsored by
the user to benefits designed to
highly recognizable consumer
at
build customer loyalty and entice
brands. Card users earned
corporate setting," he says. The
the holders to charge rather than
discounts, points
pay with
cash.
Each time these
subconscious influences spur you
to
whip out
smile
on
Drees
'83,
in
it
puts a
the face of Stephen
because he had a hand
making
Drees
that plastic,
it
is
happen.
marketing.
"I
and co-branded
was wooed by
executives at MasterCard"
from the brand sponsor in
variation
where
on
company
degree in management and
the affinity concept
to the sponsoring
university, professional association
who
"It
still
a
a percentage of spending
was donated
"I
Manufacturers Hanover, but in a
rebates
or charity.
considered a pioneer in
the field of affinity
and cash
changed the way Americans
his
two Philadelphia-area
the eye of a senior marketing
for the
at
pay his way
winding down and MasterCard
A new concept emerged called
Pa.,
explored his interests in
first
skills at
as the affinity card craze
In North America alone, 150 to
when
he served on a MasterCard
for
fantastic, being paid for spending
and wanted
witnessed his passion for creative
financed his masters
corporate strategy but, "as
finishing
was
sold.
Drees
my degree
I
was a
moved
the
I
was
company
free agent."
to Pittsburgh
his wife Sandra, a
Penn
he had met years
earlier
State
with
alum
through a
BU. He went
paid for their purchases." Drees
fraternity brother at
says.
work developing new consumer
to
products and services for Mellon
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which
Bank, earning a promotion to
Affinity Partners Inc.,
assistant vice president.
specialized in developing strategic
travel-related rewards. In
partnerships and marketing
and 2003,
Then it was on
International in
to
MasterCard
New York, where
Drees brokered deals that launched
The company was
later
Inc.
and
retail
2002
Magazine recognized
Quantum Loyalty Systems
acquired by their largest bank client
one the fastest-growing
as
privately
and Drees was once again a
free
held companies with more than
GM card was the first major card to
agent, but unable to pursue
work
$20 million in
be co-branded, and
in the credit card field
cards in the U.S. and abroad.
is still
The
alliances.
other entertainment,
most
the
new card product ever
successful
due
contracts non-compete clause.
introduced. Every time consumers
Drees started a consulting
money toward
compete period concluded, he
.
joined
GE
Capital in Cincinnati.
and sent MasterCards market share
As vice president and
through the
new product development,
"It
roof.
changed the industry and the
way Americans pay for things," he
says. "We took a basic credit card,
injected
an
it
with perks and created
entirely
became
new breed of card that
he
some companies
ended two years
sold
its
later
when GE
portfolio to First
that
By 1993, Drees was ready
USA/Bank
had
discovered
it
Boston where he helped found
in
join a
is once again on
had an opportunity to
a highly successful
growth company over the past
five years,"
of what
he
says. "I
am very proud
was accomplished
at
Quantum, but the timing is good
for
me
giving
want
to sell
me
my ownership stake,
time to
back, take a
sit
company focused on
to
do
Drees has a few ideas. Although
press time, he says his next
venture will likely be in a marketingrelated endeavor.
"One way or the
developing loyalty marketing
other,"
he
concepts. Drees jumped into
"I
Quantum
something or run something."
Loyalty Systems Inc.,
founded by a creator of the
card, as president of the
consulting practice.
named
company's
CEO
On
I
of
all
operating units in 2001
Quantum
will likely start
the
way home
picked up
after meeting Drees,
my son Maxi from
elementary school and
we stopped
Loyalty Systems
read-a-thon party on Friday.
favoring a bag ofHershcy
and
approved
retain loyal customers.
Money,
is
a
Its
Hollywood Movie
movie
ticket
reward
Maxi was
line
chocolate,
Paramount and Dreamworks.
Today the company
also offers
in
GM MasterCard was a driving force
tickets
on the
smiling at the thought of
and Dad was smiling
at the
thought of saving $12 at the box
1
smiled bigger when
mv
I
earning
reward check,
my
I
was a
next
little
$50
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Eric Lose
is
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doctoral candidate in Cincinnati.
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office.
paid by swiping
MasterCard, because
bit closer to
The
movie
back of the package. In the checkout
including Disney, Warner Bros.,
MGM, Universal,
Maxi was
Bites; I
his selection after noticing
there were free
issued in association with studios
Columbia,
at
the grocery to purchase treats for his
provides reward programs to attract
original product,
says,
something, grow
GM
He was
president and
I
next."
he wasn't ready to unveil specifics
at
A former client asked him to
for a
"I
deep breath and think about what
continue to use today His job
acquired Affinity Partners.
industry."
new challenge. He
that
One, the same bank
the gold standard of the
director of
introduced a process for product
development
the move.
sales.
Drees
and building
practice and,
of a General Motors automobile.
fall,
experience the whirlwind of running
when his non-
used the card, they accumulated
the future purchase
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high school musicians
American independence
like a
mute
fits
a trumpet.
STORY BY LAURIE CREASY
usic
pours into the room, rich as heavy cream
swirled into a five-buck cup
o' joe.
Saxes wail;
muted trumpets growl out an answer. The piano
player tickles the ivories and, back in the
percussion section, the Castanet player puts his
I
entire
body
into the rhythm. Light sparks off the brass
instalments, shooting through the
almost
club.
Clinician
Gunnar
Mossblad, director of
University of Toledo,
some pointers
It's
smoke hanging
dim room. You can
in the air of a
Chicago
—and
toe-tapping, high-stepping jazz
its
in
Mitrani Hall on the Bloonisburg University campus.
jazz studies at the
gives
taste the
to
Today, though, the
smoke
is
outside, wafting
up from
Kappa
Psi
for the
250 middle- and high-school students jamming
and Tau Beta Sigma national honorary music
the
grill
where members of Kappc
societies flip burgers
and hot dogs
in the university's fifth
annual Jazz
high school musicians
after their
performance
at the festival.
Dress
is
eclectic.
Students in brilliant Hawaiian shirts and faded jeans mingle with those
in university sweatshirts,
black pants or
unilorm ol white shirts
with
while others wear the performance
ormance uniform
sf
skirts.
room in Haas Center for the Arts, instrument cases litter the floor where
Gunnar Mossblad, his gleaming tenor sax strapped around his neck, offers tips to
student saxophone players. He shows them how the placement of the mouthpiece affects
In a separate
clinician
the
the sax's sound, demonstrating the placement for classic
band music
moves
—
the sax
just
beneath the upper
down,
resting the
lip
—which produces
a clear,
mouthpiece just inside his lower
smooth
lip.
tone.
Then he
Now the music
turns
dark and edgy, with an urgency that wasn't there before. After he demonstrates the difference
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several limes,
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some
the students' turn. Each student
it's
Stephen Clickard,
associate professor of
suggestion for improvement.
A noontime
Ensemble rocks the
rendition of
music, grew up on a
concert by the University Jazz
The
hall
musical diet of jazz.
with everything from a
Beatles'
"Got to Gel You into
My
Life"
thai glistens with brass siylings to the African-Spanish
heal of a Victor Lopez arrangement to a guitar
fired his
Larry
McKenna
and sax
edge of the auditorium
up
students crowd
Smyser and sax player
perch on chairs
siagc.
close,
at
the
As
Smyser
and McKenna lake them
blues born in the slave
quarters of the South to
fusion jazz of the present,
with demonstrations of
each mutation and
"Nothing
else will
ever so perfectly
capture the
demo-
cratic process in
sound," writes
ja
great VVynlon
»'-
Marsalis. But
what hold docs
Continued
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determination to
create a festival at BU.
version of "Pennies from Heaven." Alter the concert,
professional guitarist Pete
A
passion for the art form
grandparents' and even their great-grandparents'
—have
generations
culture
over students from a teen music
dominated by Eminem,
Park and Limp
Avril Lavigne, Linkin
not to mention Britney Spears?
Bizkit,
Stephen Clickard, associate professor of music
BU, sees
its
"With band or orchestra,
else's
at
lure as the opportunity for self-expression.
they're recreating
someone
music. With jazz, they're creating their
and melodies within
he
certain structures,"
also has a definite beat
and
pulse,
own music
Saxophonist Larry McKenna and guitarist Pete Smyser
show students how it's done at an afternoon show in
says. "Jazz
something
to tap
Mitrani Hall.
your
feet to."
It's
not for the musically timid. "You're exposing
yourself," Clickard adds. "Everybody's listening to you."
The jazz nucleus
drums and
of piano, bass,
guitar
recorded and toured with Maynard Ferguson, Aretha
Franklin and Harry Connickjr.
Clickard has his
approximates the rock group nucleus students see on
Stephen
MTY Clickard theorizes, and jazz can have a swing,
Latin or rock fusion
was
own jazz qualifications. His father
who owned about 5,000
a jazz fan
albums. "Whenever he was home, he played jazz on the
feel.
The festival is Clickard's baby "It was a way to do
community outreach for the university," he says, "and
bring professionals, music educators and students
together." He wanted an event focused on education,
not competition. "They're not judged against each other,
record player," Clickard says.
He and his brother Todd
would play along on inexpensive
recorders.
Clickard gravitated to trumpet and gave
on the high school swim team when a
up.
From
for the
judged against a musical norm."
they're
Sr.,
there
he went on
to
up
his position
regular gig
opened
conducting and composing
Monterey Jazz Orchestra, the regularly featured
big band for actor Clint Eastwood's Mission Ranch, and
With
served as assistant director with the Monterey Jazz Festival
musicians create their own music and
lazz,
All-Star's Jazz
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with n
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beat and pulse, something to tap your feet
to.
Tonight Show's" Johnny Carson
To that end, each band warms up and then plays
20
to
30 minutes, performing three
—
perfect
kilter
tunes.
there are flubbed notes, stumbles
rhythms
—but
to
out-of-
where they
practice
band
the
band
to
festival
and with Newsom.
era,
drew high school bands
2003, a Toronto
to York, Pa. In
meet with the
Grammy Award-wfnning
New York Voices made the 342-mile trip
Bloomsburg.
as Clickard loves jazz,
which he
calls
knows some
of the
instruments as soon as they graduate from high school, a
those
perform in groups
suggestions help keep the festival going."
Mossblad and the other
clinicians
who were part
of
the most-recent jazz festival have heavy-duty
professional performance qualifications
may regret in years to come. Others, even
who are not majoring in music, will continue to
decision they
directors
for this," Clickard says. "Their
and equally
impressive educational credentials. Mossblad, director
of jazz studies at the University of Toledo, for example,
played tenor sax with
Japan and
students at this year's festival will stop playing their
"Our feedback from
need
to Australia,
"America's indigenous art form," he
This year, Clickard added master classes with the
indicates a
to
As much
to a
and work on the
recommendations
clinicians.
band eager
vocal ensemble
improve the performance.
of the clinicians goes with the
separate room,
from Wallenpaupack
not
and
This year, BU's jazz
for
three clinicians listen to each
group and suggest ways
Then one
It's
Ensemble on tours
He studied with jazz great Joe Henderson and
performed with Ed Shaunessey the drummer from "The
Europe.
Doc Severinsen and Tommy
Newsom, best known from their days with "The
Tonight Show Starringjohnny Carson." Other clinicians
like the University Jazz
Ensemble
simply because they love playing their instruments. In
the process, he says, the musicians form friendships
and benefit from the
creative outlet of performance.
favorite tune
For Clickard, music equals magic. 'Your
you back to the same place and
something that moves the soul." b
brings
Laurie Creasy
is
a freelance writer who
Music
time.
lives in
is
Catawissa, Pa.
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For
this 'half war baby,'
service to country
meant
-
Legal Precedent
blazing a path through military
law where no
STORY BY TRACEY
Eileen
Mansfield became
Albertson-Chapman was a seventh-grader
first
woman lawyer
and Ada H. Kepley became the
first
female law school graduate.
in the late
1950s when
she set "military lawyer" as her career goal, having read about such
illustrious attorneys as Daniel Webster.
"At the time,
the nation's
OOOMS
woman had
previously ventured, a century
after Arabella
M.
I
had no idea
military lawyer. .or even
.
that there
many women
was no such thing as
lawyers," she
recalls.
her parents always told her she could be anything she wanted
worked
when a high school guidance
"go home and make babies."
hard, even
should, instead,
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a
woman
After
il
all,
she
counselor told her she
Disregarding the guidance
counselors words, Albertson-
Chapman earned
bachelor's
and
masters degrees from Bloomsburg
and then
University,
pursuit of her
set
dream
out in
career. In
1970 she became one of just two
women Marine
Corps judge
advocates, beginning a long career
of
firsts: first
judge
woman military
to preside at a court martial
in the Naval Service,
first
staff judge
first
advocate,
appellate military judge
woman
woman
woman
and
first
head the Naval
to
clemency and parole system.
Albertson-Chapman
herself
downplays the significance of
these achievements. "Because
was the only woman
Eileen Albertson-Chapman, back row, second from
judge advocates in 1987. Shown
I
Edward Brym, Leo Coughlin and John
for so long,"
did
was
'the
dedication to the military shows
when
she describes her birth
in 1945 as a "half
war baby"
War II had ended
in
Europe but
When she was just a year old,
Albertson family
moved
the
to
Bloomsburg, where she would
until she graduated
from
live
college.
Bloomsburg University was the
Education Center in Quantico, Va.
plan turned out to be unnecessary,
She was one of just two female
home
to
Knowing she wanted
law school, she majored
in history with minors in political
science
and economics, receiving
her bachelor's degree in 1967. She
was
"devastated"
get into the
hoped
when she
didn't
law school she'd
to attend, so she set to
work on her back-up plan
went on
Wythe School
of
to the Marshall
Law at
taste of
of
being one of few women.
"My
class
had
ever,
and
there
she
recalls. "I
who
the
women
most
were three of us,"
was
the only one
other
was
woman left
Through assignments from
Okinawa to North Carolina to
Rhode Island came that string of
"firsts,"
and
Chapman had never lost
sight of
the "military" part of her career
She had attended
Woman
Officer Candidate School in
and was commissioned
a
1966
second
the service, she
the only one until 1974.
including
head the Navy's
graduated."
Meanwhile, Albertson-
goal.
Marine judge advocates (the
military term for lawyer); after the
the
Mary in
College of William and
logical choice for this "townie,"
since she could live at
Corps Development and
Although she found she
Williamsburg, Va., where she got a
while Pacific battles persisted.
to attend
Cassell,
enjoyed teaching, the back-up
since she
bom in Newark, N.J., after World
save money.
and back row, Carl
first.'
Albertson-Chapman's lifelong
even
Glabis;
poses with her fellow
row: Jamer Riley,
Albertson-Chapman, John Ruebens and Anthony Mielczarski.
says the retired colonel, "whatever
I
left,
are, left to right, front
first
first
woman to
disability
woman
system
director of the
Navy's administrative appeals
board system.
It
was everything
she had dreamed of in the seventh
grade
— and more.
Albertson-Chapman eventually
and
lieutenant, with a deferment of
became
a frequent lecturer
her military service until she
panelist
on such
finished her education. After
clemency and parole, and judicial
attending
Woman Officer Basic
School in 1970, she
finally
went
being a teacher and received her
on
master's in education in 1969.
defense counsel in the Marine
active
duty
later that
year as
topics as Naval
conduct. She often wrote on the
topic of professional ethics.
She's
worked
for
both the
prosecution and the defense. At
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was
or so long, wnatever
one time, she
two
says, the
worked together
sides
to reach the best
and the Marine Corps.
"Military
much more
law
is,
in
my mind, so
professionally
practiced," she says. Today,
law
military
more
is
"civilianized,"
way
closer to her ideal. "If you've got
why do
a case against somebody,
you have
to
hide
Among the
The
the volunteer
awards she has
garnered are the Legion of Merit
she has served her alma mater as a
national bar association dedicated
board
and
veterans law and the clients they
serve.
Although she was the
official
executive director, she and
Chapman worked
the job as a
we were
the JAA," she says.
In
retired as JAA
the organizations Robertson O.
named her
Outstanding Alumna of the
and
on the board of the Friends
is
Library Association.
She and her husband
head and received
live
on
18 acres tucked away behind
Interstate
2003 Albertson-Chapman
and the Meritorious Service Medal
Bloomsburg
member of the Bloomsburg
University Alumni Association
of the Bloomsburg University
with two gold
stars.
also
community as a
board member of the Columbia
County United Way In addition,
for the
Advocates Association, the
team. "Everybody said
it?"
Albertson-Chapman
works
executive director of the Judge
to practitioners of military
she adds, noting that the old
is
area.
following year, Albertson-
Chapman became
decision for both the accused
individual
Washington, D.C.,
exit.
80s Berwick-Lime Ridge
They've created an away-
from-it-all setting
with a historic
house (parts of it date
to 1792),
University
in
Year
'My law school
1987 and Distinguished
Alumna
of the Year in 1991, and
had the most women ever, and there
was the only one who graduated.'
class
were three of us.
I
Bloomsburg High School
recognized her as a Graduate of
Distinction in 2003.
career,
Albertson-Chapman remained
single, socializing
with her
colleagues (mostly male)
and
their
Award
woods, a pond, ducks, geese,
cats
service to the principles of military
and koi
a
and veterans law and justice. The
little
couple had found that their
and
temporary
fast-paced military legal system in
Everett
Through most of her
for dedicated
role as lay pastors of
spouses. In the mid-1980s, she
the mission-oriented
became "almost
and Fowlersville United Methodist
another
woman
officer,
who
eventually died of cancer.
tears in
with
like sisters"
With
her eyes, Albertson-
Chapman
tells
the story of how
her friend asked her to take care
Lime Ridge
churches had grown into a more
permanent
for the JAA.
task, leaving less
time
fish,
plus a dog
too interested in the ducks
geese.
It's
a far cry
worked
many years.
for so
Despite
all
those career
to break
ground
simply to
fulfill
for
not a feminist," she says.
could have become
"Everyone
a lawyer
and gone
Chapman.
Corps.
was
married widower
Billy
"As a result of him,
I
have
five
children, 17 grandchildren
1996 the couple
retired,
returning to Bloomsburg from the
Albertson-Chapman returned to the
Bloomsburg area with her husband
when
the pair retired.
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in
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she says her intention was never
grew into
and
from the
which Albertson-Chapman
of her family Eventually, that care
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Twenty-seven floors below Bob Moore's
Reuters
facts.
news
ticker silently streams an
Across the
street,
director
on Times Square,
and head of commodity
Financial Group, scans the newswire for
whether the price of crude
the
latest
NASDAQ board tracks changes in
And in his comer office, Moore,
the financial markets.
managing
a two-story
office
unending parade of the
will creep
up
executive
derivatives for
BMO
Facts that will suggest
facts.
or slide down.
— each with
He gains other clues from his staff of 26 traders
of how much risk he or she can underwrite through
products.
Moore scans
the traders' books, analyzing their results in
terms of delta, gamma, vega, theta and rho
describe, value
a limit
investment
and manage
—
trader jargon that helps
billions of dollars in trades in the energy
commodities markets.
The business
is
complex, with the traders supported by a
staff
of
10 risk analysts and eight accountants.
"Energy trading
is
like a
grown-up kids game," he
Moore worked long and hard to play.
Moore began his career with Sun Oil Co.
says.
It's
a
game
that
member of Sun's 1980
years
in Philadelphia.
financial associate class,
he spent
his
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two
on corporate work before graduating from the program and
spending another year in corporate finance.
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tore
1
up
working on
welcomed me
wanted
to
first
assignment was complex and
Coordinate the loading of a ship
two countries with
— unleaded
residual fuel
too
particular grades of five products
— and
then have
dates to six ports in Chile.
documentary
credit,
all
at three ports
gas, leaded gas, heating oil, jet fuel
was written with
by long days,
it
delivered
by
sleepless
a trader.
various forms: crude
oil,
Along the
semi-refined feed stock,
heating
oil
and
off of
gasoline.
A native
of Corry, a remote
town
Lake Erie in western Pennsylvania, Moore
transferred to Bloomsburg's accounting
COVERED FROM A FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE.'
The
its
getting the job done.
oil trader."
typical.
after his first year
Moore's success grew from an intense focus on
to the
this contract.' After
I
and
and the dream of becoming
diesel, kerosene, jet fuel,
'YOU FIND THE MOLECULES; WE'VE GOT YOU
in
nights
my boss was on vacation,"
the grad school apps.
the challenge
way, he acquired an intimate knowledge of petroleum
until school started
a note that
purchased
that
he was ranked the company's top
coordinator, a feat achieved
thought moving
in
deal
Moore. "He
group and
Moore loved
tankers
fun.
first
on behalf of the company
in operations
shippers in the world," says Moore.
would be
Oil
the cargo.
around the world.
"At that time,
Sun
program from
a public administration
and finance
program
Drake University in 1978. He worked on and
at
off
campus and swam varsity freestyle for three semesters.
"I had a goal to be All-Amencan," says Moore. "The
coach thought I had a great shot at it. But I had a lot of
loans, and I was worried about getting a job. I couldn't
do it with the debt and course load. I walked away
and
specified
The challenge? The contract
from swimming."
Instead,
dean's
list
Moore focused on academics,
and got
a great job offer
hit the
from Sunoco
when
a
letter of
meaning
that
hundreds of pages of
shipping documents
with
all
applicable load
and discharge port
stamps, inspection
certificates, bills of
lading
and
in
invoices,
most
both Spanish and
English,
had
be
to
delivered to a Chilean
bank within 30 days. If
the documents weren't
totally correct, the
was not obligated
"New York
is
bank
to
pay
the
business capital of the
world," says Robert
Moore. "And
it's
a great
people-watching place."
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Bearing the
Burden
Derivatives are
among
the most complex financial products
they serve an important function
he graduated
two
He remembers
John Dennen
in 1980.
in accounting
and Tejbajn
Siani in
"and showed that our
recalls,
"At
he
BM0, we make
consumers
large
of
why
In 1986 he
life.
when
play and
Moore would
often
wake
huge gains
— and
the energy producer
is
—and
would have
airlines,
Moore
prices.
If
in relief
airlines,"
hedge
their jet fuel
demand
which
fixed the price of jet fuel for the airline
hedge
did
significantly last year, are not
we will
reduce the
risk of volatility
from energy
got you covered from a financial perspective."
at
Moore spends
working on
office.
to regions
throughout
the time brushing
his
PDA. "This
oriented. Everything in the
up on
world
the
is
affected
and trading is very quick, very volatile," he
western Europe and the Pacific Rim. He's met with
of it's based
OPEC
on
news and
very current events-
field is
North and South America, west Africa, eastern and
most of the world's
by
energy,
says.
"the hype, then the technical
A lot
and then
the fundamentals."
nations,
When oil traded
large refiners, state-owned oil
for
$40
a barrel in June, for
companies, producers and large and small trading
example, Moore said the price should instead be $30
houses. And, he's served
to $32,
on committees
for
While not trading
markets," he says.
away from
multiple
cell
His wife
Rory, 18;
life,
I
you never
remember
"I can't
the phone.
Moore remains
directly today,
hands-on. "In a traders
forget
about the
the last time
I
was
have a Blackberry, a fax and
phones with
Amanda and
and Samantha,
me all
a '69
a refinery blew up, the cost of gasoline
the gas today By the time
you did need
especially
$750 when he graduated from BU
— although
its
when so much
is
much volatility,
based on something as
unpredictable as public sentiment. That's where firms
like
Moore's
"We
for
been
that gas, the
would be made up."
Businesses and industries that produce and use
energy are unable to plan for that
Mustang Fastback he purchased
would
capacity
14, have learned to live with
made easier by
He even has
accounts for
shoot through the roof," he says. "But you don't need
the time."
Moore's genuine, down-to-earth nature.
first car,
"If
What
and hype.
their children Bobby, 20;
the wired nature of his career, a feat
his
based on the fundamentals.
the cost difference? Psychology
organizations related to the energy industry.
do
come
in.
take the risk, so people can
do what they
b
best."
extensively restored.
Like most Manhattan workers, his
weekday begins
with an hour-long train commute from Connecticut.
FALL 2004
Eric Foster
he says,
from creditors and the
you're an energy producer, you find the molecules; we've
heading to work and checking the London energy
representatives of two-thirds of the
a
the
adds.
you're a glass company,
and metal's
"Most major
for the airline industry.
his staff
"Other
levels.
market from the
him
in
free to concentrate on
5:30 a.m. before hopping in the shower,
Moore's career has taken
energy
a fixed cost of $25 million to extract
lower.
example,
market
"If
at
check Algerian markets
were
looking for relief,"
4:30 a.m. to check the energy markets in
Russia, then
prices
In this
at
always in
is
may face
firm
federal government." But, they admit they didn't
electricity to his
The trading game
oil
The same theory holds
next decade, he worked for a variety of
arsenal.
BM0 Financial Group. "We take on their market
"are looking for hundreds of millions of dollars
a petroleum trader and, over the
adding gas and
for
so they can focus on their core business."
the core business of extracting the energy.
same kind of
that
focus in his professional
firms,
Houston,
Working with firms such as Moore's, the producer can lock
field.
potential for
I
swim my senior year."
Moore displayed
became
New York,
in
fixed price for the crude. Investors absorb the risk of falling prices
transferred to Bloomsburg.
I'm not sure he ever understood
did not
from a
"Coach McLaughlin was the
I
many producers and
North American markets for
energy and metals from our offices
commodity derivatives
For example, an
always there to do whatever he could for
reason
of
his coach, Eli
McLaughlin, as extremely competitive but
final
create business plans and prepare budgets
possibilities
volatility risk
his team.
ski resorts to
Calgary and Chicago," says Bob Moore, executive managing director and head
remembers
also
from producers
uncertain weather.
were endless."
He
existence, but
in
risk
despite volatile prices for their products, changing costs for materials or even
economics. "Siani was very involved
in international organizations,"
farmers and
firms,
economy by shifting
energy producers, manufacturers, construction
to investors. Derivatives allow
influential professors,
our
in
is
co-editor of Bloomsburg:
The University
Magazine.
19
News Notes
Top Profs
Ferland and Kass named outstanding professors
Farewell to a
Warm Friend
Kevin Ferland,
science and
Tony the Baker dies
assistant professor of
statistics,
and Darrin
mathematics, computer
Kass, assistant professor of
management, received the Teaching and Learning Enhance-
Dominic A. "Tony the Baker"
Bloomsburg
for
40
Cusatis,
head baker
at
May at the age of 84.
During many of his
years, died in
years at BU, he partici-
PKT'^Sil
pated in the
±
He was named
t
Bloomsburg
in 1986.
the Battle of
his
thrilled to
Alumni
fall,
sergeant in the
for the
D-Day
to
be enrolled in
the
this professor,
knowledge or confidence
to
I
even give
Much like Ferland, Kass has become a mentor to
One said, "In an environment that fosters learning
learning
becomes
this professor,
Bloomsburg
a realistic adventure.
is
lucky to have a professor as thorough and enjoyable as
gentleman."
graduates nominated outstanding
professors for the award using an on-line nomination
Entrepreneurs with
$750 monetary award, funded
process. Recipients receive a
by the Bloomsburg University Foundation
Free Enterprise win regional competition
Enterprise (SIFE)
in
in
New
based on the
is
projects each
campus group
undertakes throughout the
year and
is
judged by 20
Study Partners
Bloomsburg University and fuzerne County Community College
formalized two agreements last spring.
agreement eases the transfer process
their college studies at
business professionals. This
year, SIFE's projects
ceremonies.
Bloomsburg forges agreements with LCCC
York City last spring. The
competition
plaque
Free
team won the
regional competition
Inc., a
and recognition by BUs President Jessica Kozloff at the May
commencement
Bloomsburg's Students
helped a
A
dual-admissions
for students
fCCC with plans
to
who
begin
complete their
coursework at BU. Under the agreement, when a student
registers for the dual-admissions
program at fCCC, he or she
low-income family purchase a
guaranteed admission to the
house. Other projects focused
earning an associate's degree and completing other course
on helping people plan their
requirements. Sixty credits will transfer from Bloomsburg.
financial futures
orphanage. Berwick Offray supported SIFE's
a Bangladesh
trip to
their participation in the national competition in
New York
Kansas
A
and raising
funds to provide a sanitary
toilet for
Kass, assistant professor of
am now incredibly
from multiple perspectives, created solely by
in
Bloomsburg University
Conscience
Kass
I
Ph.D. program that begins this
a
May and August 2004
Damn
the
I
students.
invasion of
Association.
in
now realize
my students a disservice by not
with a very nice fellowship. Without
this
Students
I
graduate school a chance."
and the
Normandy. Memorial contributions
example,
to apply for graduate school.
would not have
Battal-
ion, Cusatis received
name may be made
me
aged
the Bronze Star
this professors
truly appreciating the subject matter. This professor encour-
An Army veteran of
105th Medical
Bronze Arrowhead Award
Through
World War II and a
staff
Dominic A. Cusatis
subject.
would have been doing
an honorary alumnus
of
The students who nominated Ferland said he pushes
to achieve more than they could imagine.
One student said, "I entered BU wanting a job and to
work with students, but did not care all that much about
pass-
ing out goodies along
the way.
graduate students.
them
Home-
coming parades,
ment Centers Outstanding Teaching Award for 2004.
Ferland and Kass were nominated by undergraduate and
City.
management, was the group's
City
BU
in
and
Darrin
adviser.
parallel
is
major at Bloomsburg after
second agreement allows fCCC graduates to complete a
bachelor's degree by taking
Nanticoke. The program
this fall
is
in
all
courses at the LCCC campus
elementary education started
just the beginning of a long-term relationship that
could bring other Bloomsburg programs to residents
in
the
Wilkes-Barre region.
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She's
Sports Stars
Heard a Rumor
Donovan
writes book on Internet,
Five join Athletic Hall of
Fame
urban legends
Five alumni athletes will
be
inducted into Bloomsburg
University's Athletic Hall
of
Fame
during
home-
coming weekend.
Tony Caravella
'80
posted a wrestling career record of
all-time
12-28-2, sixth on Bloomsburg s
1
He won an Eastern Wrestling League
list.
senior year after finishing second the
a three-time
PSAC champion and
title
two previous
during his
years.
He was
a three-time qualifier for the
NCAA championships.
Craig Diehl
'82, a
standout on the tennis courts, racked up a then-
school record 99 wins against 30 losses (now tied for seventh on the
Pamela Donovan
all-time
Should you believe those "forwards" you receive in
e-mail from friends
and family? Pamela Donovan,
tant professor of sociology, social
justice, investigates
work and
Internet in her book,
via the
"No Way of Knowing: Crime,
Donovan finds that
the Internet."
the Internet helps urban legends spread
Daneen
criminal
the spread of urban legends
Urban Legends, and
assis-
faster,
but
she's
not convinced that technology has created more of them.
list).
He won
four
along with four team
at
favorites:
(Fero) Zaleski '89
for a total of 53 points.
Player of the Year
and
to the hospital
learns that one of his kidneys has been
removed.
Barb
-A woman
is
trying
on
clothes in a
department store when
matter of minutes they discover the child in a women's fitting
in
on all-time
1,032,
fifth
list).
Donovan
both have a
critical
is
true,
such
of the
as the lipstick;
is
Kelly (Knaus) Klamut '86
individual medley.
basketball with
list
was
(now
,357 points
with 91 and sixth
in
career
a four-year standout swimmer,
teams
to
both 1985 and 1986
part of
in
two
the
relay
1983 and a three-time PSAC.
in
This class brings membership
Fame
in
1
03.
The
Hall of
Fame
in
the Bloomsburg Athletic Hall of
dinner will be held Saturday, Oct.
Bloomsburg University sports information
1
6,
office at
for ticket information.
and
an
esoteric element,
Student Trustee
such as
a moral.
Shymansky
is
newest Trustee
Translation
joined the
in
BU
in
is
secondary
education and communication
Spanish for Social Services class translated brochures for the Hunger
studies.
Pennsylvania action programs to promote services available to
She formerly served as
Community Government Associa-
the commonwealth's fatino residents. Hidalgo-DeJesus' Spanish for
tion press secretary. Trustees are
the Health Profession students created ads to inform the Latino
appointed by the governor.
community about health related issues through the Northumberland
FALL 2004
Beach Haven,
pursuing a dual major
Students from associate professor Amarilus Hidalgo-DeJesus'
Clinic Project of Central Pennsylvania.
representative
Council of Trustees
June. Jennifer Shymansky, a
junior from
Migrant
1
She was an All-American as
Spanish classes make info accessible
in
II
BU's all-time leading rebounder with
A new student
in
National
II
element of plausibility, as well as the
the kidney removal;
Found
Division
1987 Division
but
elements of a successful rumor or urban legend: familiar
details,
women's
earning individual All-American honors
570-389-4413
points out that neither story
in
She
on the all-time blocked shot
at Monty's. Call the
different color.
She was All-American and
1988 and a member
(Hall) Fallon '91 finished her career as the school's second
room, dressed in different clothing with her hair cut and dyed
a
soccer midfielder for four seasons
steals with 221.
400
her young daughter disappears. She alerts security and in a
was
National Championship team.
fifth
- A man wakes in a hotel bathtub packed with ice after
bringing home a woman from a bar. On the mirror written in
lipstick is the message "Call 911 now or you will die." He goes
singles titles and three double crowns
Bloomsburg. During her career, she scored 19 goals and 15 assists
all-time leading scorer
A few of Donovan's
PSAC
titles.
Jennifer
Shymansky
21
News Notes
Adding
Success
BU math team ranks
in
top 10 percent
A BU team
ranked
the top
in
1
percent at the Mathematical
Contest
in
Modeling, achieving
the distinction of meritorious
winners.
A total
participated
in
of
599 teams
the international
contest, earning four categories
of distinction: outstanding
winners (top
1
percent),
meritorious winners (next
percent), honorable
(next 27 percent)
1
mention
and successful
participants (last 62 percent).
five
The
outstanding winners
included teams from Harvard and
Peking University.
Among
meritorious winners
the
were MIT,
UC-Berkeley and Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. Honorable
mention teams included
Bloomsburg's Mathematical Modeling team consists
Bucknell, Cornell and Duke.
and Megan Holben. Seated
is
of,
rear from
left:
Michelle Smith, Steven Gentner
team adviser Kevin Ferland.
Civic
Kiplinger Intern
Engagement
Student earns spot with prestigious publisher
Organizations register
Christine Vainer spent her
working
as
summer
hundreds of new voters
an intern with Kiplinger
Washington
Editors, the
media company
that publishes Kiplinger Newsletter,
and
numerous other
newsletters
books each
Varner earned the
year.
by
several
Mifflinville,
Vamer
is
Columbia
County over the past
one of
were Democracy Matters,
a non-partisan student
30 students selected for the program
group aimed
from more than 800 applicants.
students in politics,
Kiplingers,
year.
Participating organizations
A junior mass communications
major from
500 new
registered nearly
voters being in
American Society of Magazine
Editors.
efforts of several
student organizations
internship through a program sponsored
the
The
one of the country's leading
at
involving
and
the Students Organized to
media companies, reports and analyzes
Learn through Volunteer-
economic and
lsm and Employment
political issues
significant presence in
a
White House and
Congressional reporting.
Christine Varner
and has
(SOLVE)
Office.
general election
The
is
sched-
uled for Tuesday, Nov.
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Out of gratitude
for the experiences
and opportunities
gained from her Bloomsburg State Teachers College
education, she created a scholarship for business
education majors in 1997. She also included funds for
the scholarship in her estate.
The
its
If
If
Keller Hosier Scholarship has
now
nearly doubled
value and will assist students for generations to come.
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Husky Notes
Ben Hancock of Tolland, Conn., visited the former Buckhorn School near Bloomsburg, where he
7/1 f |
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taught briefly 40 years ago, and was the guest of honor at a
birthday party attended by former students.
and administrator in Connecticut before
'/£ ^5
John J. Boback,
V-J*_/
Elysburg
is
He was
a principal
retiring in 1980.
a real estate professional
running
from
for Pennsylvania State
Senate from the 27th District.
John
'64
R. "Jack"
Madden was elected to
Alumni Honored
a second
Mass., in May.
He and his wife Judith Whaite Madden
from
'62
Souderton Area School
left,
Henry
have two grown children, Kelly and Reese.
Lowell "Art" Tinner
were honored on Alumni Day
Five grads
three-year term as selectman for Williamstown,
retired as superintendent of the
Year;
District.
B. Haitz
and
civil
president;
nuclear engineering at Perm State University's
'68
is
serving
(Md.) School System. She and husband
have dinner a couple times a year with Randy Hess
'69,
Knapp Todd
Tom Eastep
'68
'69, Julia
ing,
7
Lisbeth Copes retired from the Harford County
Jones Hess
Bradenton,
Wayne
'69,
are,
Fla.,
BU Alumni
John
of the
'81 of
New York City,
presi-
Association; Jessica Kozloff, university
Kwasnoski
B.
Young Alumnus
'67 of
Ludlow, Mass., Distin'63 of
Wyomiss-
Distinguished Service Award.
Edward
1
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They
of Alexandria, Va., Distinguished
guished Service Award; and Joseph A. Rado
on a National Academies'
Board of Radioactive Waste Management Committee.
Materials Research Institute,
'86 of
Service Award; Sheri Lippowitsch
Barry Scheetz, professor of materials,
\J/
III
Joanne M. Cashman 70
dent of the
/^^[7
in April.
Carole Derricottof Allentown, Honorary Alumna;
C. Barrett
is
executive vice president
Leesport Financial Corp.
at
Debbie
Eastep '69 and Joan
/ ^/
Charles Macunas
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and her husband Harry
is
principal of
Haddam-
Killingworth High School, Higganum, Conn.
Charles L. Miller, superintendent of the Hamburg Area
School District from 1991 to 2003, was honored
school's baseball field
was named
for
7 ^7' W
when the
five years playing in the minor leagues.
Pamela Smith was inducted into the Berwick High School
Academic Hall of Fame. She is the general superior of the Sisters
of Ss. Cyril and Methodius and president of Maria Joseph Manor
and The Meadows in Danville.
included
Carol Kishbaugh Bowen, project director
^^
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him. His baseball career
Program,
for
Schuylkill County's Retired Senior Volunteer
is
serving as president of the Pennsylvania Association
of National Senior Service
Corps Project Directors.
Robert Casey was inducted into the Pennsylvania High
School Speech Leagues Hall of Fame.
Barry Feudale, Northumberland County senior judge, was
appointed a visiting senior judge on the Commonwealth Court
7^CCj
Paul J. Dufallo of Hazleton, an attorney with
\J S
Michael J. O'Connor
of Pennsylvania.
& Associates LLC, has more
than 20 years experience in workers' compensation cases.
He
at
of the 153rd Legal Support Squadron,
Fort Dix,
Detachment
N J.
1,
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court appointed
to preside over the 21st statewide
Robert
and his wife Kathleen are parents of a son Colin.
Colin Hannings, a lieutenant colonel in the Army, assumed
command
him
E. Fisher
Hospital, Brookville.
/
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/ AJ
is
president
and
grand jury.
CEO
of Brookville
He and his wife Jill have
Barry Ansel was promoted
three sons.
to executive vice
president of corporate banking at
Lebanon
Valley Farmers Bank.
Thomas
officer
more Husky Notes online
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Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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Bixler
is
executive vice president, chief credit
with Sun Bancorp
Inc.
He is
married to the former Jane
Martin 76.
Ed Edwards, president of the Bloomsburg Area Chamber of
Commerce, received die 2003 Keystone Award for Outstanding
Service by a Chamber of Commerce executive. He is the husband
of Nancy Feher Edwards 70.
Doug McClintock of Doylestown volunteered with Discovery Service Projects in Merida, Mexico, building houses in an
area devastated
by Hurricane
Isadore two years ago.
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Ron Sheehan was
inducted into the Southeastern
Senior Student Affairs Officer Practitioner Award.
Mark Weinberger is vice
Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame.
president of sales
and
marketing for Headline Products. Mark can be reached
'75
M. Robin Hutchinson Hitchcock
is
senior vice president of National
Gail Balliet Vogel
nial Intermediate
is
of Boyertown
Penn Bank.
director of special education for Colo-
Unit 20. She
is
mother of two daughters.
the
Greg Ault
'81
bank human
resources business partner director at Wachovia
David M. Furman
Roseann Murello
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William Dennis is Berks County administrator.
He and wife Susan have four children.
Randall Fegley, a lecturer in history and administrative
assistant for academic affairs at Penn State Berks-Lehigh
Valley, published the book "The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk."
Edward Y. Given Jr. 77/MBA wrote a children's book,
"Molly, The Ten-Toed Tree; Toe Tale One: The Wishing Star."
Carol Batzel Haile published her second
children's
Maureen Marcus Straub joined
and commercial
vice president
her husband Phillip
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is
executive vice
Penn Bank, Boyertown,
audit and loan review.
Inc.
Patricia Crone-Zalinski, director of
at
Bloomsburg
William Patt accepted
Bothell, Wash.
at
lives in
Emmaus with
Kristen Curtis
Russell
Altieri
Blase
is
Black
is
Rebekah Rose, Nov. 13,2003
Michelle Stabler Sheffer
and enforcement
Department of Banking.
Thomas McCormick is executive vice
his wife
'91
and husband, Greg, a daughter.
He
is
a partner at
Wiss
president and
& Slot, Pleasantville, N.J. He,
AC Coin
and two children live
in
Galloway Township,
Christine Shepps Strong, dean of student
N.J.
affairs at
SUNY
Potsdam, received the American College Personnel Association
William Brooks
&
'95 and wife,
Denise, a son, Mitchell William,
March
23,
2004
Karen Yezerski Volpi
Madison Rae, March 1,2003
Leonardo Bruno, Dec.
Amanda
'92, a son,
Ryan
'95
and husband, Stefano, a son,
Andrea Algatt
1 1
2003
,
Shuler '95 and
Matthew, Nov. 28, 2003
Jeremy Shuler
Amy Havard Schumaker '92
daughters, Blake Meredith
and husband, David, a son,
May
2002
Lisa
Rutkowski Loftus
Jack,
'92 and
Dawn, a
'93 and
son, Luca Michael,
12,
'95,
Elizabeth,
2004
and husband,
Brian, a daughter,
Bronte,
Tina Delorey
Ron Brown
March
'98, a
Condron Savage
Todd Monos
16,
Brown
Madison Rae, Feb.
'93 and
twin
Amy Bond Trumbauer '96
Emma
May 9, 2003
Ellen
and Colleen
March
director of special
director of supervision
general counsel at
a daughter.
Nov. 27, 2003
Anne Arundel County (Md.)
She and her husband Mark are parents of Kelli
for Pennsylvania's
Warner '87 and
Warner '89,
Joseph Ciccarone
and Christopher.
Tim
vice president
LLP.
her
education for
Public Schools.
his
New Jersey Society of Certified Public
husband, Mark, a son, Aidan
to vice president for
their four children.
Diane
He and
and Lauren.
Births
wife,
'80
of the
Jim Thorpe
California.
Kevin Kerrigan was appointed
Accountants for 2004-2005.
25,
a position with Biotech (Ceptyr Inc.)
Lutron Electronics. She
husband Steve and
Work Community
University.
Carol Bogaczyk Young was promoted
personnel
Northum-
berland County Area Agency on Aging, received
a certificate of appreciation from the Social
in
from Kennedy Western University in
wife Rita have three children, Scott, Frank
j£/
in the
and
president of National
Advisory Board
MIS
earned a doctoral degree in education
District,
First Federal as a senior
Ted Konas is chief financial officer, EMJAY Display Inc.
Thomas Renaldo is medical director at the Phoebe Home
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Allentown. An attending
physician at the home, he also is in private practice.
Robert Zigment is vice president of finance for Kunzler &
'79
Lawrence
at
secondary sum-
district's
live in Trucksville.
serving as director of internal
Co.
Area School
Company
relationship manager. She
Brian T. Appleton of Mohnton,
C3
dean of students
to
Jeffry S. Nietz of Coaldale, senior high school guidance
Kj^d
Carol Morgan, corporate vice president of Serento Gardens,
assistant
is
was promoted
Penn Bank.
of West Chester
counselor and assistant administrative
book, "A Dream Vacation."
Hazleton, was honored for 25 years of service.
of Athens (Pa.) Borough
bank manager/relation-
High School, Cedarhurst, N.Y and the
mer academy and testing coordinator.
/
illustrated
assistant
senior vice president of National
Corp. Charlotte, N.C.
7
member
M&T Bank in Athens.
Judy Lutz MacNeal
general
is
a
is
is
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Council.
ship manager for
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mweinberger@headlineproducts.com or 732-593-0416.
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and
daughter,
4,
2004
'99 and wife,
husband, Michael, a son,
a daughter, Grace Elizabeth,
Matthew
March
Kevin, Oct.
17,2003
23,
Liz,
2004
Chris Pagotto '93 and Melissa
Stephanie Briggs Wachira
Kane Pagotto
and Charles Wachira
'94,
a daughter,
Madison Grace, March
27,
2004
daughter, Nadia
'99,
Wairimu
'99
a
Thuita,
Aug. 23, 2003
Milt Scholl '95 and wife,
Jen, a daughter, Claire Ashley,
April!
4,
2004
Jennifer Kovaschetz Frye 00
a son, Daniel Robert, Dec.
5,
2003
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J e ff Aeppli of Stevensville, an assistant vice
president at Citizens
Northern Bank, joined
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the bank's commercial lending team.
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Tony Duran
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of Phoenixville,
is
of alternate channel development for
He and
Corp., Philadelphia.
his wife Michelle
Comcast
have twin
Jim Griggs is manager of accounting for Woolrich Inc. He
his wife Mary have two children, Mike and Sarah. They
and
assistant
is
middle/high school
LLC,
S.
Chismar joined Erie Financial Group
Community Banks, as a
a subsidiary of
Sue Barrett Laughead is vice
ville
and Anderson,
Eric Stark
Family
president/controller respon-
Budweiser of Columbia, Green-
at
Cornell University
He
presented workshops at two regional professional conferences
sponsored by the National Academic Advising Association and
the National Association of Social Workers.
S.C.
chief executive officer of the
is
of Music."
ing for the College of Engineering
mortgage originator.
sible for financial operations of
von Trapp in the
er at the
Resurrection in Yardley.
Edward
as Captain
An environmental science and biology teachCarbon County Area Vo-Tech School, Jim Thorpe, he
is married to Lynne Zanolini 70.
Mark Murphy is regional advertising sales manager for the
Bucks County Courier Times.
Rich Robbins is director of academic advising and counselSound
Sharon Taylor is pastor of Lutheran Church of the
CJTjC
wealth College Distinguished Faculty Outreach Award.
Pennsylvania Theatre of Performing Arts' production of "The
principal in the Burgettstown Area School District.
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John Chapin, assistant professor of communications
Perm State Beaver Campus, received a fellowship from the
Amencan Society of Newspaper Editors Institute for Journalism
Excellence. John also received the 2003 Perm State Common-
Drew Coffman starred
Creek Township.
Tracy H. Schooley
his wife Cynthia
at
daughters, Carolyn and Julia.
reside in Pine
He and
have two children.
senior director
Laura Toole
Lower Bucks
director for outreach
is
Northeast Regional Cancer
YMCA.
and education
at the
Institute.
Marriages
Gregory Stahora 73 and Diane
William Pitcavage
Petruska
Alycia Darcangelo, Feb. 14,
Manning 79 and
Phyllis Eileen
Bernard Zaikoski, Feb.
7,
2004
Mary Ann Michalyshin
'81
2004
Jeffrey Schmidt '93 and Julia
Martin, Feb 28,
and
'93 and
Karen Craig
2004
'94 and Kevin
2004
George Gochalla
Weingarten, April
Maria Giovanna Scali '85 and
James McCarthy, June 28, 2003
Kimberly Barker
'94 and Michael
Stephensson, Oct.
3,
Lori
McDonnell
Nixon, Oct.
3,
'85 and Brian
2003
Jason Williams
Tammy
2003
Kerry Reidinger
Bernard Pomidor
2003
'95 and
Michelle Phillippy
Trent Bentzel '85 and Suzette
Herrick, Dec. 9,
4,
Jr. '86
Deborah Seebold, Aug.
III,
Polly Mullen '96 and Thomas
Nov. 1,2003
Batenburg
Pohutsky, Oct. 18,2003
Paul Archambault
Lyn Grovich '97 and Jerry Sands
Katherine Lantrip
Shewack
'97
and Michael
Lagowy
Franko
Greta Lynn Luckenbill '89 and
Joseph Olivacz
Jennifer Kane
McGurnn,
Melissa
April 26,
and Shawn
2003
McCracken
'92
Joshua
'93 and
Dan
Winey, July 26, 2003
Grady Forbes
Sept. 27,
2003
'93
and
Elizabeth
Feb.
Rice,
Annette
Chad
Allison Krutsch '98 and
Jacob
Remaley'OlM, June
2003
21,
Stacy Louise Koehler
'98 and
Jason Weston,
2003
April 26,
Brian Karpinski '98 and
Kristy
Richard McDonald '98 and
Kevin
Wright, Oct.
'95 and
2003
and
21,2004
'95 and
Oscar Urbina, Nov. 14,2003
Amy
'98 and
11,2003
Becky Ann Cady
Oct 11,2003
Genoese
and Jason
2003
and
2004
Poticher, Sept. 20,
Shane Kupsky,
Henry, Dec. 21,2003
Webb
'98
Fitzgerald
Wendy Seesholtz '95M
'93 and Kevin
Betsy Harshbarger
'95,
'97
Ted
'99, Sept. 20,
Stone, July 11, 2003
Cory Michele Cowles
and
Eric Dietz
Nancy Yoder
6,
Kristen Ricci '95 and
Waschko
'97 and Kristin
Anne Marie Glaze
'95 and Cynthia
Mathewson, March
Michele
'97 and
Treas, Oct.
Michael Clark
2003
'98 and
Julie
Nadine Yarmush
'91
Bauman
HeeneyJr., July19. 2003
Chernouskas,May31,2003
Ertel, Oct. 28,
'96 and George
Jarrett Roth '96 and Pamela
Scott Miner '89 and Karen
'95 and
'97 and Bradley
2003
'98
Ann Wolk
and
Kirschner, Nov. 8,
Mollie Blaum Endler
Stephen Tully
William
2003
Michelle Daiute
2004
and Delbert McDermott
Alex Styczen, July 19, 2003
23,
6,
James Babbish
Brogan
'95
'96 and
Walloff
Alyssa Alberts
Kimberly
'95 and
Melissa Corcoran
and
Heather Musselman
Aaron Bartholomew, Feb.
Piazza '96 and Eric
Vasquez, Sept. 27, 2003
'97 and Jeffrey
Sarah Lichtenwalner, Aug.
2003
4,
Stephanie Diane Gallagher
and George Law, Sept.
Meredith Mulka
'97
6,
2003
and Bradley
Sutton,
June
'97
6,
and Sean
Jr. '97
Debra Stone, Sept.
6,
2,
2003
Wyandt '99 and Damon
Kimble, Sept. 20, 2003
Heather Derek
'01,
Aug.
'99 and
2,
Lee
2003
Jerry Bragalone '99M and
Jaimie Geary, Dec. 30, 2003
2003
Michael Kaleta
Charisse
Senior
Peganoff, Feb. 22, 2003
Joyce Hegyi
'97
and
2003
Beth Anne Edwards
'99 and
Benjamin Logsdon, Dec. 30, 2003
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Michael Gigler
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is
manager
senior relationship
in First Union's commercial banking division.
Henry Haitz
is
Group
for the Shipley
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Troop R, Blooming Grove.
He
He and
and Angelo,
is
station
Kaitlin, 15;
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John J. Miravich was
John
and
Equipment Finance,
executive vice president
is
a
is
the
new principal
of Broadford-
Md.
Sandy Haflett Butters, case manager with Guthrie Hospice,
earned certification in hospice and palliative nursing.
Dan Klingerman was inducted into the District 4
ing Christian Academy, Hagerstown,
Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
elected treasurer of the alumni
association of the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania
State University
Braas
chief operating officer at
Richard "Rick" Burkett
com-
his wife, the
former Kathleen Skctek, have three children:
Casey, 12;
partner with Beard Miller Co. in the
subsidiary of Sterling Financial Corp.
in York.
Marshall A. Martin of Selinsgrove was promoted to
at
is
office.
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vice president of human resources
lieutenant in the Pennsylvania State Police.
mander
Reading
president and publisher of the
III is
Bradenton Herald newspaper in Florida.
Bret Hoffrnaster
Steven Morehart
firm's
practices law with the firm of Stevens
&
Jeffrey L. Leberfinger
is
ager of geophysical services
Janet Molluzzo Richie
Lee in Reading.
vice president
is
and general man-
ARM Group Inc., Harrisburg.
at
chief operating officer of the
Greater Hazleton Health Alliance, responsible for operations of
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Arlin Thrush joined the Berwick law firm of Saba,
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Juli
Ann
Martin,
Frey '99 and Andrew
June
Jo Ellen
7,
2003
Lisa Mickalonis '00 and
Endler
Matthew
Adam
Lore Hunt
May
Jodi Keller '00 and Keith Moore,
24,
'01
and Sean Haines,
2003
Jennifer Moscufo
Nov.
Jamie Butler '99 and David
Powers '01, March 27, 2004
Robert Gourley '00M and Alison
Oct.
Smith, July 26, 2003
Amanda Bowman
Korryn Kamarauskas '99 and
Justin
James Bogdan
Kennedy, Feb. 14,2004
'94.
Aug.
9,
2003
Tara Pearson '99 and Jonathan
Desiderio,
June
22,
2003
Cummings
Susan Morrison
Stoneback '01
'00 and Tara
Schwalm, Sept.
Mark
'00 and
David
Hilburt,
Baylor,
Danielle Chilcote '99 and Jason
Bailey, Oct.
18,2003
Darlene Weihbrecht
'99 and
Robert Steinberger, June 28, 2003
Sharon Lynn Brown
'99 and
'00 and Barry
Oct.
Madden
01 and
Noll,
June
14,
18,2003
Lindsay Ashenfelder
'01
Jeffrey Farley,
and Brian
Aug. 29, 2003
June
28,
John Henry Stanley
2003
'03
and
2003
'03
and
Crystal Schultz '00 and Paul
Joel Bachert, Oct. 25, 2003
Colleen Istvanik '03 and
Showers
Shelly Hess '02 and Robert
Stephen Brodbeck, Dec. 20, 2003
Oct.
Jr..
1 1
Chad Dietterick
Hess, Oct.
2003
,
and Amber
'00
2003
4,
March
Kelly Elizabeth Byrne '99 and
Christine Amitia
Matthew
Nicole Cooney '99 and Brent
April 17,
Tomek, Sept. 27, 2003
Sean Flueso
'01
'00 and
2003
and
2004
Bower, Aug.
Kerri
29,
Poinsett 00.
Ann
2,
'01
and Stephanie
'01
Smith, Oct. 18,2003
and William
Pecharo
Grace, Sept. 10,2003
Leshinski, Aug. 30,
ErinDeibler, Nov. 1,2003
Erica Otero '03 and Jason
'02 and Peter
Amber Karpinsky '02 and
Oct.
Bell,
11,2003
Shanna McCloskey 03 and
Russell
2003
J.C.Keefer, Oct. 18,2003
Chad Davis
'03 and
Rebecca
Melissa Long
'02 and Michael
Gebhardt
Matula, Aug.
2003
Jennifer Deschaine '03 and
2,
Toni-Ann Mancuso 02 and
James
2003
Cicci
Hauer, Oct. 25, 2003
Kristy
Stephanie McPherson
William Ruth
Smith, Oct. 4, 2003
18,2003
Michelle Rinehimer 02 and
Justin Risser,
'00 and Crystal
Oct.
Vought, Sept. 20, 2003
Byron McHenry, Oct. 18,2003
Frank Covelusky
III,
Miranda Brooke Chasse 03
and Andrew Soisson
Stephen
Jay Moore,
Jamie Watts
and Mark
Klinger 03 and
Stefanie Palmer 03 and
Erika
2003
Jill
John Eisenhauer
Amanda Mazzante
Deebel, Sept. 20, 2003
Fritz '99
2003
Collister '01 and Nicole
Moores'02,June14,2003
28,
and Jason
Woolever, Nov. 21, 2003
Michael Hall
Cindy
'00 and Lisa
6,
Edmund
2003
Lucas Criswell, Aug. 16, 2003
Crystal
'01
9,
Melinda Sue Wolfe 03 and
11,2003
Elizabeth Bixler '99 and Justin
June
'01
and Michael Hoppes 00,
2003
Amy Williams '02 and
Moore, Aug.
Campbell, Oct. 11,2003
8,
have two children, Cooper
and Zachary.
Juliano
Ditty '99 and
& Associates LLP as an associate attorney. He and his
wife, the former Claudia Cooper,
Yates, Nov. 15,2003
Heather McKellar 02 and Albert
Vandenkooy, April 26, 2003
Kevin OMalley '98
Darryl Sharp, Iowa State University's director of basketball
operations,
was promoted
Karen Perks Barbose, who
'88
been elected
honor society
at
College
Theta Epsilon, the national
to Pi
Randall Stradling was named
pursuing a mas-
degree in occupational therapy
ter's
Misericordia, has
is
8,
and
to the
Saige, 3.
board of Enable, a
nonprofit organization that serves people with
He
disabilities.
is
a vice president of commercial banking group at Sovereign
Bank
for occupational therapy students.
He and his wife
to assistant coach.
Rebecca are the parents of Stephon,
in
Newtown.
Baum is director of marketing for the Pennsylvania
Shelly
'
Retailers Association.
Timothy D. Grunstra was promoted
Schultz Sheridan
& Fritz in Camp
Brown
to principal at
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is
director of marketing
tising for Integrated BioSciences Inc.
and adver-
headquar-
,
tered in Harrisburg.
Hill.
Kenneth Kirsch joined Health Care Direct Inc., Flemington, N.J., as director of research and analysis.
Daniel Whitehead is an associate at Binswanger/Klatskin,
Teterboro, N.J., focusing on industrial leasing in New Jersey
Mark
advocate
Lori
Blasko, a captain in the Army,
at the
is
command judge
Tobyhanna Army Depot.
Donovan is
director of sponsor relations for ArtsQuest,
the Bethlehem-based nonprofit arts organization that presents
Musikfest and Christkindlmarkt Bethlehem.
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Randall E. Black
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cial Services Inc.
Bank, Mansfield.
He
is
president oi
and
(
lives in Liberty
with his wife Connie and
Lori Havrilla Burke
Matt Karchner
University.
is
is
Kansas City Royals in
Sox and Chicago Cubs.
Jody Ocker Morrison was promoted to the rank of major
in the Air Force. Jody is assigned to the 959th Surgical Operaat
Clint M. Rider, a
Tax Services Group
Wis.,
B.
was recognized by The American
for Acuity,
Institute for
Institute of America as
Sheboygan,
CPA who lives in
at Reinsel
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Lancaster.
a partner in the
to the
rank of ser-
Christopher
Aukamp
of
He and his wife have two
was hired as a
Farm Credit in
Lititz,
credit analyst for MidAtlantic
children.
Kimm Miller Jamiel was inducted into the Berks County
Aquatics Hall of Fame in May. She continued to dive after college as a pro at Six Flags
theme parks and
in Las Vegas.
Jerry Marks was inducted into the District 4 Wrestling
Gerrie Salamone Sobities joined the Exeter Township
Network/GMAC
Lititz, is
& Co. LLP Certified Public
Richard Wojciechowsky was promoted
CPCU
an outstanding
course leader.
office of Berkshire
Home Bank as a
geant in the PottsviUe Police Department.
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Lackland Air Force Base, San
Rude, director of staff sales
and the Insurance
They
Accountants, Wyomissing.
Antonio, Texas.
Diane
a daughter.
Carl Kranig of Lancaster joined American
interim baseball coach at Susquehanna
An eighth-round pick of the
Squadron
and her husband Rich have
wholesale production manager.
1989, he played in the major leagues with the Chicago White
tions
nity College. She
vice president of sales at R.M.
Allentown.
Inc.,
ic affairs at
live in Gettysburg.
daughters Rebecca and Nicole.
Squared
Shannon Strasbaugh Harvey is associate dean for academthe Gettysburg campus of Harrisburg Area Commu-
itizens Finan-
First Citizens National
Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Real Estate.
Russell E. Smith graduated with honors from Penn States
'90
Ed Andrewlevich
field
team
at
head coach of the track and
Delaware Valley College. He and his
is
Lori Pellegrini Henry, head of the State
Whitemarsh, was featured in a
commercials. She and husband
and Drew.
Serena Ross earned
Rob
Farm Insurance
Farm TV
series of State
are the parents of sons Jack
a doctor of audiology degree at the
Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Elkins Park. She
tice at
is
in prac-
Pennsylvania
Newport News, Va.
Wister Yuhas was appointed
Board.
He
is
president
to the
Luzerne County Prison
and co-owner of Intrepid Detective
Agency, Hazleton.
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^r\J
Cerminaro was named distinguished citizen
by the Berwick Area Chamber of
of the year
Jennifer
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He and his wife Danielle are parents of a son, Alex.
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.
Find
He was admitted
Bar and accepted a position as corporate attorney for Ferguson
Enterprises Inc. in
wife have three children.
office in
Dickinson School of Law.
group
at
is
a part-time substitute teacher,
and personal
trainer.
band Gregg have two daughters, Morgan,
live in the
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Marilyn Nork of Union
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Tower
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Tedesco '30
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Shonna
Diehl
Brandon
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Maritza Nieves Williams '02
He teaches at Cornell College and
member at Luther College.
faculty
Christopher Knarr
son
Inc. at the firm's
Center,
the
European information technology manager for a global
consumer goods company.
Kurt Trimarchi, a certified public accountant, joined McKonly
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education.
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Jr.
University of Iowa.
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George Henry Reid
Matt Hare earned a doctor of musical arts degree
in double bass performance and pedagogy at the
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Robert
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Glassmire '37
Todd
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Keller Stasheski
Barry R. Letterman
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Cress Shallers '87
Jane Roeder Wetzel 71
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Marian Redmond '84
Szymanski '69
David
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Keith S. Bearde '53
'34
Josephine (Jeanne) Markovich '34
for
Janice Kunes Regis '59
Zeiss '37
R. Kantner '39
James
Consuelo Fenstermaker Noz '24
E.
Hill, as director
of tax services
and a
is
York
a municipal planner for C.S. Davidoffice.
a teacher at the Danville Child
was one of 52
serves as
child care teachers in
22
Development
states to receive
the National Child Care Teacher Award.
Nikol Parmer
is
vice president of sales at Loar
Megan Pesavento
2004" award
at
& Young Inc.
received the "Most Inspiring Teacher of
Easton Area High School.
principal.
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is
defensive coordinator for the
Susquehanna University
Brian McDonnell was appointed
ney
for
football team.
first
assistant district attor-
Berks County
Diane Briggs Sutton received a master's degree
in December 2003.
marketing
Redmond
at
full-service
brokerage firm.
Trala of Malvern
Tracey Halowich
is
director for
by Obadiah
Christian publishing house in Merrill, Wis.
new book, "Hope
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is
Ryan Beck
assistant principal at
& Co.
Like-Lehman
Lives On."
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of Hyattsville, Md..
is
communications
Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Michael
James Ross
in
E.
Press, a
Her entry will
is
curator and director of Renfrew
Museum and
Park, Waynesboro.
Michele
Homay
Schlicher
director with the U.S.
She
lives in
ter Julia, 3.
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senior financial consultant with
Busch.
director of
Turner Investment Partners, Berwyn.
the annual wilting contest sponsored
A
is
the Allentown branch of the
Nancy C. Lineman
at
Katherine Yurchak was one of the top 50 winners
be included a
Ayad Amary
Junior-Senior High School.
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child development center
Department of Defense
in Philadelphia,
Catasauqua with her husband Michael and daugh-
Amy J. Newman is living in Cambridge, Mass., where she
is pursuing an MBA
teaches business at Swampscott High. She
at the University of Massachusetts.
John Tymkiw
is
senior accountant in the Syracuse audit
Lisa Roberts
department of Fagliarone Group CPAs PC.
County
Wendy Jo Zabawa of Bloomsburg joined Coldwell Banker
Fleck Agency Realtors, Bloomsburg, as a residential sales specialist.
membership coordinator
Brian Halterman
his wife
Kristin
the
Union County
Planning Office.
7 1| ^2
is
vice president-investments at
Janney Montgomery Scott in Williamsport. He
live in Bloomsburg.
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Todd
Bieber won
competition
Campus
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JonesKohanski
is
senior accountant at
& Co. LLP in Hazleton.
& Co. PC of
Wood joined
Todd
manager of
is
is
US Navy Reserves,
is
the National Naval Medical
co-assigned to the
USNS
Comfort, a hospital ship docked in Baltimore.
Kendra Branchick
test.
the Drexel Hill office of
at
Center in Bethesda, Md. She
Milton and Bloomsburg as audit services group manager. She
has also passed the certified fraud examiner
2."
Theatre, Lewisburg.
assigned to the surgical unit
Denise Lundeen joined Lewis, Danzig
place in the student film
Island Film Festival with
"One Number
the 20-minute movie,
Angie
first
Marco
at
Christina Bilo, an ensign in the
Joe
for the Sussex
She and her husband Paul have a son, Kevin.
'98
and
is
Chamber of Commerce.
Tovey is a community planner in
(N.J.)
is
assistant director of
communications
with Gettysburg College.
Century 21
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Alliance.
enrolled at the University of Houston
School of Law in August 2003.
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Ammerman is court
reporter with the
Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, where
he's
been
South
a
reporter for three years.
Jesse Ergott is community program officer at the
Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority in Mayfield.
Jessica
Davey Magagna
is
serving with the Peace Corps in
Steve Fisher is a watershed specialist for Susquehanna
County Conservation. He lives in Springville.
Dana Lesh accepted a position in the Neuro Intensive Care
Unit
senior associate at Search
is
Africa.
at
Thomas Jefferson
Hospital, Philadelphia.
Amanda Petritsch of Mahanoy City won first place
Associates, an international school recruitment finn headquar-
opened a branch in Bloomsburg.
Lucas Truempy was named teacher of the month for
for a
research paper presented at the National Social Science
tered in Shavertown. She
Association's annual convention in Las Vegas, studying the
December 2003 by the sophomore class at Arthur L. Johnson
High School in Clark, N.J., where he teaches world cultures
hood educators.
Ryan Raben
and U.S. history
tant in the firm's Flemington, N.J., office.
to 1945.
dissatisfying elements in the
joined
work environments
WithumSmith Brown
of early child-
as a staff accoun-
Brian D. Richards, an accountant for Jackson Hewitt,
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Daymon Adams joined the instructional design
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Army
medal
team
1st Lt.
at
West Branch Technology
Center.
Tim Staub
Brian Almonrode was awarded a Bronze Star
for leading
150 convoys during Operation Enduring
Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom without loss of life.
Nicole Decker graduated from Perm State University's Dickinson School of Law. She
Michael Dietterick
is
is
a
is
Kristin Zeller
is
special events representative with the
Philadelphia Phillies.
more Husky Notes online at
www.blootnualumni.com.
Stephanie Murray was offered a multi-release recording
by iMCartists, the record
InMusiCo Inc.
label subsidiary of
TJ. Sokso had a role in the recent production of Neil
at the
part of Americorps, stationed
with the Catalina Island Conservancy
Find
College Misencordia.
Simon's "Biloxi Blues"
a volunteer with the National Civilian
GIS analyst with Mintax Economic
coordinator of student activities at
contract
is
Community Corps program,
clerking for a judge in Lancaster.
Incentive Specialists, East Brunswick, NJ.
Rich Greene
bought a home in Jim Thorpe in 2003.
Walnut
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counties.
Kathleen Honecker
the
is
education coordinator for
Women's Center for Columbia and Montour
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Tuesday, March
Three Mo' Tenors
Saturday,
2004
5,
noon
CAS-Supported Event:
Dave Valentin and
Classes Resume
Reading Day - No Classes
Friday, Oct.
March
with the Latin
Monday, March 14,8 a.m.
8
Wednesday,
Spring
Mid-Term
Athletic Hall of
Fame Banquet
Saturday, Oct. 16, Kehr Union
Building. Call the
Weekend Begins
Thursday,
Tuesday, Oct. 19
Bloomsburg
University sports information office
at 570-389-441 3 for ticket
March
24,
10 p.m.
p.m.,
Hilton Ruiz
All Stars
April 13, 2005, 7:30
$5 and $7.50. Held
in
conjunction with the Bloomsburg
University Jazz Festival.
Classes Resume
Monday, March
28, 6 p.m.
Reading Days
-
Thursday and
$25
18, 2005, 8 p.m.,
and $27.50.
Spring Break Begins
Fall
March
Friday,
1
No Classes
28
Friday, April
Special Events
Athletic Hall of
Fame Banquet
and 29
Saturday, Oct. 16, Monty's. Call the
information.
Classes End
Thanksgiving Recess
Tuesday, Nov. 23, 10 p.m.
Monday,
29, 8 a.m.
Poinsettia
Pops
Friday, Dec. 10.
Time and place
be announced. For information,
Homecoming Weekend
May 2
Saturday, Oct. 16 and Sunday,
End
Finals
Saturday,
Oct. 17.
May 7
to
Graduate Commencement
call
May 6
Undergraduate Commencement
Classes End
Saturday,
Sunday, Dec. 12
Concert
Celebrity Artist Series
All events are in
Haas Center for
the Arts, Mitrani Hall. For more
St.
Market
office at (5701
the Celebrity Artist Series
Site at
Web
www.bloomu.edu/events
Political Satirist
Mark
Russell
Friday, Dec. 17
Friday, Oct. 15,
I,
Bloomsburg.
University-Community
Orchestra
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.
7:30 p.m., $25
Carols by Candlelight
and $27.50.
Friday
Saturday, Dec. 18
and Saturday, Dec. 3 and
Virsky Ukrainian National
7:30 p.m..
Dance Company
Market
Spring 2005
Thursday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m., $17.50
Electronic Registration
and $20.
"Aida" by Opera Verdi Europa
Classes Begin
Sunday, Feb.
Monday, Jan. 10,8 a.m.
$22.50 and $25.
Martin Luther King Day-
Prague Symphony
No Classes
Friday, Feb. 25,
1
Street,
Sunday, Nov. 14, 2:30 p.m., Haas
Graduate Commencement
Monday, Jan.
Matthew's Lutheran Church,
389-4409 or check
Saturday, Dec. 18
A L
Chamber Orchestra
Sunday, Oct. 24, 2 p.m.,
information, call the series box
4 to 10
theme
'50s and '60s".
Monday, Dec. 13
Undergraduate Commencement
starts
0:30 a.m. The
"Rockin' and Rollin' through the
Finals Begin
Finals End
1
May 7
Saturday, Dec. 11,10 p.m.
Reading Day
Saturday at
is
(570)389-4128.
Jan.
Parade combined with
Bloomsburg High School
Friday,
I-
information office at (570) 389-441
for ticket information.
Finals Begin
Classes Resume
Monday, Nov.
Bloomsburg University sports
Saturday, April 30, 10 p.m.
6,
2005, 2:30 p.m.,
First
4,
Presbyterian Church,
Street, Bloomsburg.
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information
latest
on upcoming
events, check
the university
www. bloom
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
The Kehr Union: A
Campus Hub for 30 Years
When
Kehr Union was
decades ago,
hub
it
for students,
had only
foot
Today's students might think the west side of Kehr Union
built three
bit sparse in this photo taken before an early1990s expansion project added 35,000 square feet
appears a
served as the social
many
power
of
to get
whom
to the facility.
them
The union served the college well but, by the
it needed to grow to meet students' needs. The
to off-campus locations.
Planning for the 50,000-square-foot
in
1966
as enrollment increased,
started in 1971.
tion
5,
began
and construction
Complete enough
ceremony May
facility
bowling
for a formal dedica-
1973, the grand opening
in
honor of Marguerite
dean of women from 1928
for
to
W Kehr, who served
The union,
built
and furnished
activities.
at a total cost of
$1.7 million, was everything the students had hoped
for,
with a games room, four-lane bowling alley and
formal lounge on the ground floor; snack bar, large
multi-purpose room and student health center on the
first floor;
and
offices for student organizations
an informal lounge on the second
floor.
and
was removed
commenced in
as
in
1988 and replaced
the
summer of 1991 and
the grand
reopening and rededication was held Jan. 19, 1993.
1953 and was known
her genuine interest in students and their
alley
with the Hideaway, but the major change was the $7.5
million, 35,000-square-foot addition. Construction
banquet was held in April 1974. The union was
named
1980s,
The west end
of the building gained office space
the lower level, the Fireside
floor
on
and
the
offices for
first.
The
community and student
east
on
Lounge on the ground
activities
end held the expanded health
center
and snack
bar,
now called
on
first floor,
and
a large ballroom
Husky Lounge,
on the second.
The old snack bar area became the main lobby leading
to the Husky Lounge, and the informal lounge on the
the
second
floor
is
now
the
the ballroom lobby.
Students' leisure-time options have multi-
i
plied over the years, but the
union continues
embody the spirit of Bloomsburg, giving all
members of the academic community "a place
to
to leam, to
meet
others, to relax, to play, to
be
alone, to be."
And,
life,
Union remains
"a place
your
In the 1970s, bowling
was a popular activity in Kehr Union. The
was replaced with a nightclub-like meeting
four-lane bowling alley
place
known
as
The Hideaway.
as Jerrold Griffis,
dent of student
own
thing."
said
former vice presi-
30 years ago, Kehr
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staff in
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going on the road to see as
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of our friends as possible. Haven't heard the
latest at
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Haven't seen
some
in a while? We'll
tell
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of our campus' wonderful
growth? We'll bring photos. Got questions?
We have answers.
This magazine
is
one way
to stay in
with you. Electronic communication,
e-mail and
Web sites,
does the job,
touch
like
too. But,
none match the good old-fashioned, lookyou-in-the-eye
new
tools to
visit.
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keep you informed, we're just
going to enhance them wherever
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around tables
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alumni
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locations across BU's campus.
development
that deserve
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your support. And, when we're not out there with you, we're going
more ways
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On
deadline day for
Voice,
Union
and
an
office in
fills
the soft click of
The
paper. Copies of the front
Kehr
pages of each issue hang on the
this rainy
from Springfield,
yellow cement-block walls, along
a senior
computer
with the "ready reference" of Greek
in with a
characters
around the space
Another wall displays
that serves as
facility
and busi-
ness office for the free weekly news-
and
their pronunciations.
staffers' birth-
days, yet another holds awards.
Staffers
banter back and forth
Wednesday as they work,
editor Dana Trojan,
and managing
with students
keyboards. Back issues are stacked
newsroom, design
and back
Pa., sails
box of fancy doughnuts
to share.
"We do
can't
do
a really big job,
it if
we
and we
don't like the people
we work with," says editor-in-chief
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c
iay Night...
have what they need
to get the
start.
newspaper out each Thursday.
One
Kristin
Lester '95, a
succeeded in laying out his
first
Mike's twin brother, Pat, also a 1995
sports page. Barnett, who's
been
graduate,
had
Doylestown;
two
years,
hockey
to play field
Wilkes College, but
when
for
that
fell
a staffer
now at The
Intelligencer,
Andy Sodergren
'97,
with Florida's Cape Coral
Daily Breeze, and
Hank Domin,
through, she came to Bloomsburg
Press Enterprise's award-winning
and joined The Voice
sports editor,
as a sports
who now works as
a designer with the
"Women's position
in sports gets
underestimated," she says as she
,
Mike
Patriot-News;
Press Enterprise senior reporter;
reporter.
m
include: Brenda Martin
in to report that her assistant has
planned
*
They
now at Erie's Times-News; Mike
Feeley '87, city editor of Harrisburg's
of those editors, senior
Bamett from Berwick, breaks
sports editor for
i
'82,
Times Herald-
Record, Middletown, N.Y.
Adviser Maty Bemath, an English
points to copies of a newspaper page
professor who's the only permanent
tacked to the wall. The page shows
member
The Voice
of
staff,
pops
in.
For the past two years. The Voice has won a Gold Circle
award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
the picks for
NCAA basketball's
She serves as the paper's publisher
March Madness made by Barnett
and another staff member.
"He said
1
was picking them by
the colors of their jerseys
silly
end,
and other
things," she says. "But in the
it
was
Kristin 124,
This spring, Barnett
in the sports
Mike 106."
is
interning
department of Blooms-
burg's Press Enterprise.
Bamett
won
the annual scholarship the local
Voice Editor Stephanie Baker checks out
daily provides to students
the latest issue of the Thursday weekly.
on
Stephanie Baker, a senior mass
communications major.
discipline
member who
provides
and order while keeping
fun in the working atmosphere.
The managing editors, on the other
hand,
make
SPRING
campus
sure writers and editors
paper. In addition to
arranging
insurance, handling
libel
warranties, ordering
new equipment
and keeping older equipment
—anything
good
repair
to
in
make
easier for the editorial staff to
it
do
their job.
The approach must be working.
For the past two years, The Voice has
won a Gold
Columbia
tion.
The
Circle
award from the
Scholastic Press Associa-
national competition rales
newspapers on coverage,
the scholarship, winners also gel an
college
internship at the newspaper.
writing and editing, graphic presen-
"She's
Baker, of Telford, Pa., sees herself
as the staff
the
who work
in charge of overseeing finances,
Sachetti
doing a great
job," says Jim
73, a former campus news-
paper editor who's
now editor of
the past
and business operations.
Like
many
of the
began working
for
staffers,
The Voice
Baker
after
receiving a letter from the paper's
Press Enterprise.
Over
tation
20
years, Press
Enterprise has given a
number
Bloomsburg University alumni
editor-in-chief at the beginning of
ol
her freshman year. Each year, a
their
Continued on next page
letter
goes to
all
Bemath
mass communications
majors and to people
who worked
on their high school newspapers.
"I met the nicest people there,"
she recalls of her
first
up more
for
more
and more assignments.
Rettig, a senior
from Philadelphia,
has a plan to get The Voice on track
to
This year, as an editor, she
advertising, including
national ads.
Voice meeting.
And, she kept coming back
credits advertising
director Randi Rettig with hustling
being financially
self-sufficient, a
plan she hopes will keep the news-
provided continuing coverage of
paper running smoothly long
negotiations between Pennsylvania's
she's
State
System of Higher Education
and the
faculty union, the Associa-
after
gone.
The newspaper has seen
of changes in
staff,
its
share
philosophy and
it was
The Maroon and Gold. Doug
tion of Pennsylvania State College
procedure. In the 1960s,
and University Faculty (APSCUF),
called
keeping students informed about
Hippenstiel '68, a former editor and
the possibility of a strike. She likes
now the university's director of
that
kind of hands-on print jour-
news
on the world of broadcast
former managing
be the
sent
copy
photo editor Matthew
Pa., a
when Bemath took over
as adviser, staffers
had
3*
new editor-in-chief after
I'll
**,
lot
be starting out with
.&
<&
a lot of new people," she says.
Pilz says she'd like to
reporters
add more
and photographers
Voice's staff;
done on computer,
editor, is in line to
Baker graduates. "We're losing a
of seniors, so
is
Miller, a junior history
major from Downingtown, Pa., still selects many
images from negatives spread across a light table.
to a printer for typesetting.
In 1999,
after graduation.
Junior Mila Pilz of Leola,
While much of his work
the staff
affairs, recalls that
did layouts and dummies, and then
nalism, but sees herself, instead,
taking
alumni
Bemath
agrees.
to
The
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never have enough writers and
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photographers," the adviser says.
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UndergrclSided: The GadfLy
In
1967, America exploded.
From D.C.
to L.A., race riots scarred cities,
college students led massive anti-war
protests and radical groups such as
Weathermen chalked up charges
politically
The unrest eddied
the
works
of
of
into
The Gadfly
Bloomsburg with
—The
money went,
a
campus
the right to entertain
sex
in
in
where
their
radio station, cars
members
their rooms, either
and
of the opposite
on campus or
off, all
things students take for granted now. Then the
motivated murder.
publication of
Kristin Barnett, sports editor,
The
The issues seem tame now, even quaint
students wanted more say
Free Press
Bloomsburg State College.
ideas
were
incendiary.
"In class
we were
encouraged to grapple
seriously with the great philosophers and
phone on a Wednesday
production night.
It
was
like pulling
the pin on a grenade.
international politics
and the greatest mysteries
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progressed to computers, but they
copy
delivered the hard
still
Danville
News 10
to
bers.
The
away and
miles
events
waited until 5 a.m. in the Dunkin'
Donuts parking
to
editorial
fall
color
on
ment reviews,
columns
and
call last fall
when
a
cles
wind-
server,
from
we
much on
campus news," Hippenstiel remem-
The
"Yet once
we were
left
not allowed to
the class-
live
the kind
wanted."
and as a senior was given a regular
op-ed piece. His
slot for
first effort criticized
Laurie Creasy
that
lives in
is
sexual
feature arti-
trips
and places
how much the
something valuable away
with The Voice.
team," Trojan says. "I've also learned
Editor Stephanie Baker, standing, gives
some
James
that's
going
even offered to pay
for the printing,
in Danville.
The Gadfly was
He
Slack
behave myself," Slack
literally
a
life
urged him to sleep on
Slack didn't get
a nickel.
"In the morning,
—
it
came
The college banned
to the student
"Here
was
—
I
quit
I'd
be
now," Slack,
screenwriter with credits at CBS,
He
student-faculty Judiciary Committee.
graduated, taught for several years, and
it
was
to
in
be
the column to the editor,
Hippenstiel,
who was
ed about
possible repercussions.
"I
appealed
Civil Liberties
Doug
immediately concernIn
a
for help to the
Union
in
American
Philadelphia.
They
then returned to his
1
with a federal lawsuit." Though the college
smoothed over
termed the ACLU lawyer's advice "second-
remain friends.
The
flyer
980,
it
Still,
leaders agreed to permit distribution of
Slack says, "as
the paper.
done
the ensuing days, he complained
and
to political science
SPRING
their differences,
as proud of
was
pulling the article. Slack quit in protest.
writing.
The
and
the memories of those times
distributed by
Gadfly, eventually college
first love,
disappeared. Slack and Hippenstiel
took on the case, threatening the college
hand" and of no use, according to a
Lifetime, says.
Gadfly had several reincarnations, but by
late-night meeting, Hippenstiel told Slack he
In
if
sleep.
told Percey
dispersed entirely on
spent."
bitterly to friends
I
NBC, Showtime and
had no say on how
its
now a
of myself
before deciding.
and Slack was brought up before the
student entertainment, and yet students
He gave
967,
1
ashamed
it
much
money
a major chunk of
about $175,000
effect
distribution of the
paper on campus on November 29,
activity fee.
was
sent to Vietnam. His friends on the faculty
doors and sold the rest for the donation of
when
It
almost certainly meant being drafted and
from students,
absolute veto power over student govern-
thought,
recalls.
I
or death decision: Expulsion
recruited friends to slip copies under student
particularly unfair, Slack
"if
agreed to stop publishing The Gadfly and
born.
solicited articles
expel Slack, offering to drop the effort
done by
waited as the copies were run off one by
one.
But the administration attempted to
Percey. Percey encouraged
Slack to have the piece distributed, and
pointers to her staff.
then-President Harvey Andruss for his
ment decisions
a freelance writer who
Catawissa, Pa.
offers entertain-
their experience
an old linotype operator
Slack wrote for The Maroon and Gold,
much
b
it."
time management, and
professor
Gadfly's first
we
love
I
"You learn to be a part of the
concentrated pretty
editor, recalls.
complain,
I
during longer breaks.
they'll take
Topics the paper covers have
own
as
— including one with
—and
But no matter
issue of The Voice in cyberspace.
of biology," Lyle Slack,
college
newspaper changes, everyone agrees
suspending that
changed, too. "In the 1960s,
It
about local day
to travel
storm knocked out the newspaper's
computer
huge part of my
experience," Bamett says. "As
several opinion
relationship advice
something's
wrong. For instance, she got a
5 a.m.
and world news
impacts students.
Currently,
if
a huge,
piece."
regional, state
Baker's in the hot seat
his
and one op-ed
Wilkes-Barre to be printed by The
Danville has the contract again,
we
was probably 90
We had one
that
not only campus news, but also
and back pages.
"Working on The Voice has been
These days, the newspaper covers
be delivered. By 2000, students
front
of lives
—
my life."
to spill over into
cultural
staff,
sent the paper electronically to
Times-Leader, with
room,
and
percent of the paper.
run
lot for the print
"CGA meetings, new and
retiring faculty
linger. "I'm
since."
I
am
what
I
did then,"
of anything else I've
STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS
M
ontoursville.
Sunbury
Susquehanna
Everyday
Selinsgrove.
The
River.
life
to
some, poetry to Jerry
Wemple.
For Wemple,
Jerry
his
home was
five
University,
and
he could go
assistant professor of English at
An
Bloomsburg University, the Central Pennsylvania he
grew up with
is
a "triggering point" for
celebrate the regions joys
altar
boys
pool
halls,
to
and
lay bare
poems
From
coke dealers, from third-floor walkups
Wemple brings
to life the
sun'ounding the Susquehanna as
it
to
people and places
works
its
way
to the
Chesapeake Bay
Wemple
after a
miles from what
mother used
his
is
fell
first
now Bloomsburg
to say
maybe someday
to school there.
Wemple
in love with reading. "If you like to read,
while you figure out that you can write your
own stories,"
he
about his dogs
recalls.
—
in
principal published
has traveled the world and lived in several
childhood home. "Leaving
Susquehanna Valley
Arthur G. Wemple, began
He wrote
first
it
grade,
his
first
poem
—
and the Catholic-nun
in the school's
mimeographed
newsletter.
other states, yet his poetry
the
officially
only child living out in the country,
quickly
that
its faults.
Wemple,
childhood near Bloomsburg in 1960. His
still
grows out of his
made me
see the world
in a very different way,"
In his 20s,
Wemple
but quickly realized
he
flirted
"this isn't
with writing short
stories
me." Instead, he took
same themes and wrote poems, many of which
and
the
says.
the stories of people
who might have
tell
been.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
erry
Wemple
brings his poetry to the people through readings with the River
who meet monthly
oets,
at Phillips
Wemple then
a master of fine arts
that
a
him
and Florida
from the University of Massa-
the attention to detail
and
something
"When you're
While
something
earning his master's,
that's
It
From
book, "You
first
Here," a collection that focuses
that
better to
interference with reality," he says. "You have a
little
more freedom."
Most of Wemple's poetry
The
rich descriptions
Street river
mansions
Memorial Park
is
to burial sites in
— from Front
Northumberland
— spur images and memories
in "Sailor
and Linderman's
Boy
in the
Night" did
stores in the
Checker Bar on
exist,
but not
same poem.
Central Pennsylvania-sounding names, so
eyes.
A woman wipes
A man cleans his glasses.
From
you stand
Coming. Nice to see you
To folks you might remember.
"I
I
The Masons leave the room
to nine. They return in white aprons.
At ten
just
Speak of the purity of the lambskin,
Brotherhood. He's built well and
One
of
them
name because
it fits
tells
made
File past,
bend
low,
a line better
In the morning,
poet Richard Hugo, a major influence on his work,
I
a while
says,
"Something
you have
triggers the
to let that
allegiance switches to the
go on
its
whisper
in the ear of the corpse.
or because he's looking for alliteration. Paraphrasing
Wemple
us as the others
wanted
A shibboleth
a
five feet
the coffin: Thanks for
Will take refreshment in the temple,
Shaffer's
them up."
He might change
stand
for Central
may or may not
be real. "It varies a lot from poem to poem," Wemple
says. "A lot of the named places exist, but some don't."
The bar
we
A few of us smoke
based on his experiences.
and names of places
Pennsylvania readers, but those places
Maundy Thursday
alone.
Into the twilight.
Her
Inside
be away from the place
you're writing about because you don't have this
it's
Outside, on the stone porch,
on
Central Pennsylvania.
"In some ways,
These men only wear suits for two reasons.
No one is getting married today.
news," he says.
he also worked on the
group of poems that would become his
Can See
Funeral in Pennsylvania
Awkward and
reporter, you're always looking for
different,
An April
ability to listen
have served him so well in his poetry.
newspaper
as a
Navy before
degree from Vermont College
A stint as a newspaper reporter
chusetts at Amherst.
taught
downtown Bloomsburg.
served six years in the
earning a bachelor of arts
and
in
lived in both Pennsylvania
Having
boy,
Emporium
poem, but
buy a book,
we go
to the college.
a pair of shorts.
after
own way. Your
We
linger.
Of the
poem."
Rest against the hood
car.
A
thin haze obscures
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The spring sun and nascent landscape.
In the distance, a farmer
"
Jn
some ways,
it's
the place that you're
writing about because you don't lave
tin's
interference with reality.
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field.
better to 6c
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awayJrom
plows his
tractors steady sputter a reminder.
Pretty girls
walk across new grass
As the mist of our voices
Then
dissipates.
by Jerry Wemple
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away
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-JERRY VVEMPLE
One common theme
real life
—
in
Wemple's poetry
is
rooted in
being biracial in predominantly white Central
Pennsylvania. His father
Pennsylvania
German
was black and
descent,
his
mother of
making him frequently
the only non-white child at a time
when
racial tensions
about a black urban family wanting to
move
to a
white suburban neighborhood. His interest in teaching
goes back to an instructing position he had in the
Navy He came to university teaching as a means
of making a living as a poet, working at the University
were increasing across the country. Today, the walls of
of Pittsburgh at Johnstown before joining Blooms-
his office testify to his heritage, with images of aboli-
burg's faculty
tionist
Wemple
Frederick Douglass and blues guitarist Robert
especially enjoys teaching poetry, encour-
Johnson, as well as a T-shirt lauding "Black Authors
aging students to try different forms of writing until
A Voice for the People."
they discover what works for them. To those
Wemple
tary"
is
says his
poem
that's "closest to
a
documen-
"Plowing the Mule on These 40 Acres," which
his
"There IS poetry in your
Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas. After Wemple spoke
to find out
another
it
will
"It
has happened,
it
happen."
As an educator, Wemple wrote
get
it
life,"
he
says.
"You just have
out there."
Mabel Woodrow
Wilson Award and the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry
nation doesn't exist in America today. "Plowing the
does happen,
how to
Jerry Wemple's awards include the
university, the poet recalls, a student said that discrimi-
Mule," written in response, notes,
say
own works, drawn from Central Pennsylvania life.
he wrote following the 1998 dragging death of James
at
who
they have nothing poetic to write about, he points to
Award.
"The
He
Civil
is
working on
his
second poetry
collection,
War in Baltimore." B
a lesson plan called
"A Raisin in the Sun: Jim Crow Travels North,"
relating
to Lorraine Hansbery's Pulitzer Prize-winning play
Tracey M.
Dooms
is
a freelance writer and editor
living in
State College, Pa.
Frederick Douglass Learns to Read
My father was born into a hold,
called Baltimore.
Being neither south nor north, but rather west and
He ceased
to be a
man, some say ceased
to be,
east,
and furthermore
To depend; captured, quantified, thus chained like beast.
My mother was a literate soul, sold on this bargain,
This deal between gods and God, the promise of the serpent
United rather than fallen, that became the legacy of this land.
And when the break came, it lingered, still splitting every fragment.
The land that is mine was built upon those brains and backs,
Its history a paradox, both unified and opposed, distorted.
Less than paper, only words, hints among the artifacts,
Glimpses, just shadows of shadows, all that has been reported.
And here am I, a grotesquerie too, a leaning back in wonder,
And here 1 am, a curious curiosity, hoping to not go under.
by Jerry Wemple
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one drawing, the baseball
is
partially deflated
and the
stitches are
Inpulling out.
"The All-Scar Game"
its
surface
is
the wording above the sad-looking ball,
marred by cuts bearing the legends "2002
"Steroid Use," "1994
Strike"
All-Star Fiasco,"
and "Overpaid Prima Donnas."
Another drawing depicts an exhausted-looking Al Gore staring
on
menting
same anymore, Doc.
to a doctor, "He's just not the
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.
toon in pencil and
In a single cartoon panel the
issues of the
—
day
in this case the
controversies in major league
baseball
2000
and the hotly contested
presidential election
—
And if the work elicits a
of appreciation,
that's
editorial cartoonist Steve
looking
"It's
me
Wetzel
showcase the
also gives
it
talent at the
who
time," says Wetzel,
began freelancing
newspaper
same
in
1
that's
1978 Bloomsburg
someone
else
an image
that
need any words
An editorial
it
don't
to convey."
cartoon
is
says.
Then he
with work showcased in three
he's
a full-time job
"I
him
to
"I
and
see
make cartooning
— —
yet
it's
been a
at
how the
at
was
it
seemed
I
was out
was just elementary school
age,"
I
mistake
when you were
me
bench and
said
down
as a substitute
to the
I
of the game," he
he wanted to
and draw
and tracing
game
like the first
you would go
if
coach,
lost his
a game.
in the
coldly sent
go
since childhood.
liked drawing
While on the
nicknamed "Rocket,"
out,
and stepdaughter
things out of comic books when
he
a reaction.
says. "Usually,
the married father of
been able
part of
high school that he
cartoon for the school paper that
made,
programs in Central
a son, stepson
hasn't
some
Eastern York (Pa.) High School
temper
not working full-time for the
Though
also in
poked fun
when
Welfare, monitoring county mental
born
sketches the car-
provoke
Pennsylvania Department of Public
retardation
was
that for
basketball team, Wetzel did a
was anything
Pennsylvania.
with some quick notes jotted down,
he
It
coming an up-and-coming cartoon-
news
might need
maybe you
was taken with
got a taste of how a cartoon can
it is."
Wetzel creates his cartoons
easy to
He loved the idea of boiling
down to its elemental image.
reason."
There
having a fascina-
a story
Wetzel says of editorial cartoons.
but a quick "Bam!" experience.
a mid-sized
,000 words to describe and put
into
as the Emeril
"I
1988
University graduate. "To take a
story that
it
really started
I
Lagasse of the editorial page,"
ist
in Harrisburg, Pa.
not something
do," says the
at
national publications
editorial cartoons
The Patriot-News,
"It's
kind of look
For Wetzel, 51, the road to behobby, but
an avenue to have a voice, to
daily
says.
for.
like a
have an opinion and to also
for
sent out electronically.
.
is
in high school, 14 or 15,
tion for editorial cartoons," Wetzel
"You open the paper and. .Bam!
the praise
was
scanned into Wetzel's computer and
"I
chuckle
"I
and
are
wry wink.
presented with a
finally inks the
drawing. Finished drawings are
to the
talk.
to the
'Why
taken
coach and
He just
very
end of the
don't
you just
end of the bench
cartoons?'
Undeterred, Wetzel kept
at
it,
sending cartoons to the York
says.
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cartooning
and
up
tough to break
is
in those early years
good
into,
he racked
rewarding
rejections.
for
about two and a
major
at his fathers urging.
put
to
working with
an accounting
half years, initially as
would be
wanted
When
a
career.
wanted
"I
it
my efforts into
an area where the people
After high school, he attended
York College
program
special education
and Wetzel thought
really
had
I
was
to leam,
Depended on
to leam.
While earning
it."
2001 edition of
in the
"Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year."
He's
his special
had cartoons featured
the school experimented with a
education degree and in his early
the anthology each year since.
journalism major for a semester,
teaching years, Wetzel drew what
baseball cartoon
Wetzel jumped
he
the
at
it.
semester, college officials believed
there wasn't
enough
floundering for a major while
thinking he was wasting the
his
dad was spending
college
So
money
Features,
which
to
It
few
Hanisburg
that
on
the
USS
political cartoons. After
two
years, serving
Hawk aircraft carrier.
When he got out, he enrolled
Wetzel again began drawing
months of sending
Kitty
in
Davenport, the
Western Washington University as a
page
journalism major, but had
published.
misgivings.
wanted
He wasn't sure he
It
to live across the country
from his
family.
And he wasn't sure
"In the
this
back of my mind was
guy who was our instructor
in the
he
same
National Press Club in
Washington D.C.,
club's
feeling that
As
can
for the future,
retire
from
could do
and
paintings
"The nice thing about
profession
is
work is good because he
just feel that
Davenport
to
and recognizes
do you want
journalism
to get into
learned
some
friends
r
r
i
n g
"He sees a stoiy
there
a visual image.
A
is
were going to
is
a
a
Pennsylvania.
this
like
every time
do
it."
for
I
you
says.
do
and
however long
1
a
I
can
want
b
Jack Sherzer
is
a professional writer
and Pennsylvania
metaphor."
which ran
not
a cartoon in
cartoon
work
has been noticed beyond Central
he
Bloomsburg. The university had
s
says.
In recent years, Wetzel's
for?'
When Wetzel moved home,
it's
cartoon, I'm getting better
or five kids and their family car was
the hell
that
knees or a bad back," Wetzel
"1
lucky to have Wetzel.
with cigarette holes. They had four
What
in January
2005.
keep going
he would come in and say
He
in recent
planning a show of
is
and cartoons
sees stories as cartoons, as pictures,'
it,
Wetzel says he
government in
have to stop because you have bad
says.
"Steve's
VW bug," Wetzel says. "Every day
state
about eight years and would love to
in the Patriot
I
its
journalism scholarship.
green blazer that was pockmarked
a
as part of the
annual fundraiser for
years,
here, in this
Davenport says he considers the
Patriot
in the last several
work has been auctioned
began painting landscapes
area, in this climate, the Capital,
that,"
And
countries.
cartoon and paint full-time.
he had a cartoon
was just being
and just
in
Record and he would
show up every day
Patriot's editorial
flowed from there.
"It
York College. He was a beat reporter
for the Daily
editor,
The
political cartoonists in various
about three
material to Dale
and seeing cartoons
about full-time journalism.
for his
Department of Public Welfare job
Navy
active with
is
Cartoonists Rights Network, an
at the
to
1980s
the
edition.
Wetzel
years, his
moved
in the late
on a shelf. Wetzel joined
for
them
for T-shirts.
wasn't until he
2003
The
in
organization that helps oppressed
King
distributed
about 30 papers and even sold
rights to a
to foot his
point cartooning went
some
student newspaper printed
to
bill.
at that
cartoons, similar to
and some were sold
interest to
continue the program. Wetzel was
left
calls "gag"
"The Far Side." The Bloomsburg
Unfortunately, after the one
was featured
in
The Al Gore
in the Patriot,
cartoon,
appeared
lives in
native.
Hanisburg.
He currently
Enterprise Rent-A-Car's
management
training
program put
Erica Keiper Fox '98 on course for a rewarding career two
weeks
BLOOM
SB
after her graduation
from BU.
URG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Unwrapped
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN
A
nyone who watches
TV is familiar with
wrapped automobile and
combining hands-on
"We'll pick
the slogan,
you up."
tion
on new meaning
take
for
more than 45 Bloomsburg University alumni. Enterprise Rent-A-Car picked them up for its management
program and helped them unwrap rewarding
all
new hires,
Erica Keiper
ing supervisor, started in the
'98, a recruit-
management
program. She joined Enterprise two weeks
training
after
gradu-
ation from BU.
would have
analyst,"
nity with
Fox
finance and, in college,
I
prompting CollegeGrad.com
says. "I
Dean
had
a great internship opportu-
Witter, but
it
seem
didn't
who
Enterprise from a friend
know anything about cars
fall,
home
Fox remains convinced
on
a Pontiac
mock interviews and
job
fair or,
community outreach
even, with a
early on,
management
assistant in
1 1
months,
manager the next month and then
Typically, the progression
from
a
new
manager takes about 24 months.
assistant
branch manager.
trainee to
branch
also
first
contact,
by phone,
Web posting," Fox says.
"1
at
a
talk
Fox, 27, has been an Enterprise recruiter for three
years,
completing a second round of training
on her education and experiences
manager. Involved in
as a
to build
branch
Community Government
Continued on next page
SPRING
She
projects,
I've done and how they will see success
how our company gives you experience."
about what
became
fairs,
classroom presenta-
supporting the United Way, Enterprise's
management
trainee in the Scranton area, she
Busiest in spring
official charity.
Enterprise holds the key to a long career. Starting as a
a
Grand Am.
a variety of business-related topics.
like those
that
to
Fox's responsibility.
she shares with her husband
"The recruiters are the
later,
for
Bloomsburg
she travels to 10 to 15 colleges for career
meetings,
teach you.'
Nearly six years
to
John, Fox logs about 30,000 miles a year on her
leaves the office for
didn't
by graduates of
Based in Mechanicsburg, a short commute from
the Harrisburg
tions
I
filled
universities in Pennsylvania's
—from York
Wysox, Bradford County—
graduating in December 1997.
told her
Enterprise top
System of Higher Education. Recruitment
joined the company's Bloomsburg branch after
or renting cars, and she said, 'Don't worry. They'll
name
Central Pennsylvania
and
Fox learned about
positions in 2003,
of those openings were
Bloomsburg and other
company car,
like the
career for me."
"I
to
a workforce of
company planned
employer in 2003.
entry-level
State
the
more than 6,000 new
to create
thought
a career as a stock broker or financial
program
learning, classroom-style instruc-
is
"My major was
I
training
and a mentorship program. With
Some
Fox
management
more than 52,000 employees,
careers in the car rental industry.
Like
says Enterprise's
is
The image and slogan
training
Fox
one aspect that makes the company successful,
the image of Enterprise Rent-A-Car's
Association at BU, she also served as treasurer of Alpha
Sigma Alpha
same
sorority,
honing her leadership
come
into play in her career.
skills that
skills,
Jack Taylor started Enterprise Rent-A-Car from
St.
Louis, Mo., car dealership in 1957.
St.
Louis, the
at
Still
the
a
Everybody Start
based in
company has more than 600,000
vehicles
Laurie Zendal
United
States. In recent years, Enterprise
expanded
Bangs '93
manager
"The culture of the company gives us the chance to
own business.
It
gives us
empowerment,
Baltimore area. Unofficially,
management level and autonomy to
make decisions," Fox says. "And, everyone starts at the
same place." b
she sees herself as a mentor
for
co-editor of Bloomsbwg: The
often
University Magazine.
women working for the
company
"When females
is
the area
is
for six Enterprise
Rent-A-Car branches in the
the
goal to get to the
Bonnie Martin
Laurie Zendal
Officially,
to
Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany.
run our
'93
Bangs
5,400 locations, including 5,000 locations in the
want
begin working for Enterprise, they
human
to get into
resources," she says. "But
opportunities aren't only in one area. There's a lot of
movement, and people constantly
promoted throughout
are getting
Enterprise."
Bangs says she wants other women
flexibility the car rental
Enterprise's
company
to see the career
offers
so following
emphasis on career advancement, she
became involved
in a
company-based women's forum
that sponsors twice-a-year
workshops. Since the
workshops began about four years ago, the number of
Baltimore area female branch managers increased from
three to 26.
A marketing major and Theta Tau Omega sister,
Bangs soon
and
family.
will
leam
first-hand about balancing career
She and husband
Peter,
who works
in
Enterprise's retail car sales division, are expecting their
first
child in
March 2004.
Mark Zavacky
'91
"My wife thinks I'm crazy," says Mark Zavacky
wake up without an alarm, I come to work on
Saturday and bring
The
ability to
Zavacky
my three kids.
move up
to Enterprise,
it
It's
'91. "I
a
a blast."
quickly not only drew
has kept him with the
company for more than 12 years. A finance major, he
started as a management trainee in Allentown three
months after graduation from BU and now is group
rental
manager
Easton.
Erica Keiper Fox '98 offers career advice to Jeff Zelinske,
30
He
rental
for northeast Pennsylvania,
oversees six operating areas,
based in
more than
branches and more than 200 employees.
a senior marketing major from Lebanon, Pa., during BlTs
iOth annual Career and Internship Expo last
fall.
BLOOM SBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
it
Same
the
Place
"At Enterprise, you're always part of a team," he
says. "At
some
branch level,
point, especially at the
you morph into a family. Our employees live
values and culture our company supports."
management trainee in January 2003. By November,
he was assistant manager of the Langhome branch in
suburban Philadelphia, with an eye toward managing
the
a branch.
Burghardt,
Messer
Eric
'95
member
Eric Messer's career took a
As
slightly different turn.
remarketing manager in
Morrisville, N.C.,
he
company
to
who
played lacrosse
Kappa Phi
work
"It's
for right out of school.
you the opportunity
enjoy
BU and was a
at
fraternity, says,
to
a great
They
give
do something interesting and
I'm having a great time."
it.
is
involved in buying and
Christine Zazzarino '92
selling the rental fleet for
"As they
eastern North Carolina.
admits Christine Zazzarino
"We choose
and the options
of Pi
new cars," he
I'm 'green,'
'92, referring to the car
the colors
Then,
say,
rental
company's corporate
the vehicles' rental days are over, Enterprise sells the
color.
"I'll
majority of the vehicles to local dealerships
Enterprise
sometimes
to a
for
explains.
after
or,
rental vehicle.
in
then, after earning a business degree,
moved
till I
retire."
A loss control manager
customer who just wants to buy that
Messer '95 started with Enterprise as an intern
be with
Pennsauken,
N.J.,
Zazzarino earned an associate's degree and worked
full-time before enrolling at
to
Bloomsburg
as a business
A month after her graduation,
Raleigh, N.C., looking for "a Southern lifestyle without
management
sweating to death."
she became a management trainee in Trenton,
Married to the former Lesley
says, "I
Beam
'95,
Messer
chose a career path in remarketing, but
have 10
different
ways
as business expands.
to go. Different
There
is
I
and, seven
could
out there."
Burghardt '02
Adam Burghardt
'02 that a career
was
dM
and
the opportunity
With
his
BU
how
change
Zazzarino's job
"I
wasn't sure
to
Enterprise
I
1"
R
I
showed me
degree in business management/
N G
1
similar to an insurance claims
36
branches in southern
rental
and
"Our team works with
New Jersey, with claims
police departments, but
we have
the
most
Zazzarino looks back on
activities
with Phi Delta
such as supporting
the local
women's
sorority,
shelter,
as "a definite plus."
in
her career,
but also inspired her to pursue a volunteer
opportunity as a claims processor for Arbitration
I
can move up."
marketing, Burghardt joined Enterprise as a
S
what
do when
graduated," he says, "then
fast
is
for the rental fleet.
That involvement not only helped
in order.
wanted
N J.
she joined Enterprise's loss
contact with our customers."
Seven months as a roofer
convinced
later,
manager
offices
Adam
months
control division.
avenues open
always opportunity
major.
all
Forums
of New Jersey.
ing
i
VI
the Earth
STORY BY ERIC FOSTER
Daniel Tearpock
70 should
known better.
have
Outside the airport in Caracas, Venezuela, around midnight on a
hot,
humid July evening in 1995,
sight.
So he took a "cab," a cab
from the main pickup
"friend"
area.
his ride to the hotel
that
And,
had been parked
as chance
was nowhere
in the
would have
it,
lot,
in
away
the drivers
needed a ride into town and got in the car with them.
knew he'd made a
He was going to get mugged.
Before the engine turned over, Tearpock
He was
mistake.
their
evening
target.
But, appearances can be deceiving.
and corporate
CEO
is
The mild-mannered
a black belt, a Tae
former professional kick boxer.
Kwon Do
He reached
into his carry-on
pulled out a knife (you could carry a small pocket knife
plane in those days) and began toying with
geologist
instructor
it.
and
bag and
on board a
In his broken Spanish,
—mentioned
he talked about his experiences in the fighting ring
officials
from Venezuela's
wailing for
It
him
oil
that
ministry and his Venezuelan wife were
at the hotel.
was enough
to
convince the driver and his friend that Tearpock
was not an easy mark. They dropped him
at
the hotel without
incident.
And it was all true. .with the
who was a bit of pure invention.
.
Tearpock, chairman and
Associates
LLC
its
Continued on next page
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R
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t;
of Subsurface Consultants
training companies,
national
oil reserves.
s
CEO
&
(SCA), one of the world's leading international petro-
leum consulting and
country to help
exception of the Venezuelan wife,
oil
company
was
in the
South American
discover and utilize bountiful
The Venezuelan adventure was
a single step in a professional
journey that began in the woods of
Mocanaqua,
"My
Pa.
father
and mothers
families
were coal miners," says Tearpock.
"Our house was 500 yards from the
mines. As a child, 7 or 8 years old,
I
was always
the mines,
ous.
1
woods and
in the
fem
collected the
I
geologist.
wanted
geologist
to
and
fossils
knew I wanted
quartz and
I
in
which was very danger-
be an
and explore other
to
be a
astro-
planets."
When Tearpock graduated in
the midst of a job market
geologists,
slump
for
he took a career detour
and became a computer consultant
—
starting his
Daniel Tearpock, as a graduate student in the 1970s, explores geologic
own firm, Atlantic
Computer Services, two years later.
But he missed geology So,
formations in the woods of Pennsylvania.
after
another two years, he sold the
Tearpock was good. So good that
business and with the proceeds, a
Tenneco asked him
scholarship and his earnings as a
Tae
Kwon Do teacher and profes-
sional kickboxer,
he supported his
wife and two children while earn-
ing a masters degree in geology
Temple University
at
in 1977.
to give a three-
day seminar on exploration and
through the
development mapping techniques.
release that
the materials he
book, "Applied Subsurface Geologi-
geosciences training program.
cal
And
successful, traditional career
this is
where
with
computer and generate prospects,"
it
going to happen.
effective," says
else
can you
It's
just not cost-
Tearpock. "Where
make money but
Tearpock took a job with a
petroleum consulting firm in
Orleans and
later
Tenneco Oil in
moved
New
to
Lafayette, La.,
"I
expected
I'd sit at a
says Tearpock.
But
it
wasn't to be. Instead,
Tenneco was sold
months while
in 1988.
the sale
to continue the
employee
train-
work
on a manual. "They saw it
added
as
value for people's future careers,"
Tearpock supported his family as
says Tearpock.
"I
trained
neco people before the
and finding new
virtually
in old fields.
six
ing program he'd begun and
identifying future drilling prospects
oil
For
was being
negotiated, Tearpock's boss asked
him
petroleum?"
(see sidebar).
Tenneco or other firms in the
industry
half,
his first
have spent decades in a very
the Gulf of Mexico.
about a year and a
Mapping"
had generated.
a typical story
Utah and along the U.S. coast of
"After
to use
Those materials became
studying geothermal energy
was obvious geothermal was not
—
management
week turned into a standing
assignment: Rework the company's
might have ended. Tearpock could
Nevada,
firm's
would allow him
Three days turned into a week. The
From there, he went south to
work for the energy division of
aerospace company Sperry Vickers
possibilities in California,
In the final days before the sale,
Tearpock's boss carried a form
250 Ten-
sale.
I
met
everyone in the company."
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a Tae
Kwon Do instructor and
professional kickboxer while earning
a master's degree.
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
SCA, born on
the second floor of Tearpock's
now has
townhouse,
Three publishers vied
manuscript and,
Indonesia and Canada.
offices in the U.S.,
consulting firm with three other
for the
when it was
ex-Tenneco employees.
"It
"Onshore in certain places
was just
cost as
$100,000
as
little
printed in 1990, Tearpockhad two
a matter of being at the right place
to drill a well,"
important niches to build on.
at the right time."
deep-water Gulf of Mexico,
had
he
a technical niche,"
"and,
had
I
"I
The firm soon moved
says,
Former
rooms
&
ing
a people niche.
Tenneco people."
I
Subsurface Consultants
Associates
LLC was bom on
moved into my first
I said, You know,
company'
now
house. His daughter Nicole,
was
in time with
10
who started the
$60
million.
to
can
You can bankrupt a
for additional
work is money well spent
and increase your
"We've made a lot of money for a
number of companies. For example,
Conoco had a field they were
thinking of selling but,
based on
first,
they had
us do a six-month study to evaluate
any upside
potential.
We
generated
three prospects in the 25-millionbarrel range
most of
they not
and recommended
sell.
One was
integrity
"SCA is looked at as a high-tech,
high-quality company that doesn't
dry,
They
that
drilled three wells.
but two produced more
than 8,000 barrels a day each.
It
was
the highest sustained production in
the company's 43-year history in the
take shortcuts," says Tearpock.
many ways
it
chances of success.
expertise,
cation, collaboration and,
can
pretty quickly drilling dry
to reduce risk
visibility
While the company was
act in
cost
thousand dollars
principles as sound as his geology
The employee handbook emphasizes the importance of communi-
"We
a well. There are places
technical
create a corporate culture
all,
drill
it
$40 million
holes so a couple of hundred
a nice-sized
growing, Tearpock worked to
clients,
nine were former Tenneco folks,"
says Tearpock,
would be
$20 million
to
can
"In the
cost
company
this
fill
Subsurface Consultants grew
quickly.
first
we
We did that in a couple
from the book and
also put
SCA.
"Out of our
if
people in the industry,
now working
on her nursing degree, has
office build-
Fueled by connections with
his first employee. His
daughter, Danielle,
"When
of months."
MBA who runs a business
an
herself,
of an office building.
building, that
the
second floor of Tearpock's town-
into five
he explains.
it
$200,000
to
U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
as a quality
SCA provided
the technical support they needed at
control for the industry."
a critical time."
Daniel Tearpock talks with
Norman
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Gillmeister, chairperson of BU's depart-
ment of geography and
geosciences.
The Detailed Science
Daniel Tearpock has heard
the
industry:
oil
They
his
didn't.
it
hundreds of times from people
Tearpock did
—
at a cost of a year
it
Temple
While
it.
Written with Tearpock's professor at
University, Richard E. Bischke, "Applied Subsurface
royalties
is
the benchmark text
and marketing instrument
"The book
was
the
Tearpock explains.
V.
I
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in
the industry.
from the work have just recently paid the cost of
publication, Tearpock says the
P
half of
first
book "was the greatest advertis-
we could
publication of
"In 1959,
have had
its
for
SCA."
kind in 30 years,"
Margaret Bishop wrote a 100-page
nobody had written a book on how
to
use correct subsurface mapping techniques. The knowl-
edge was
"I
was worth
Geological Mapping"
S
and a
text but, since then,
life.
But
ing
in
planned on writing that book some day."
"I
was
all
scattered
able to
pull
it
in
all
different journals
articles.
together with a philosophical
doctrine that defines the proper
do
and
methods
of
how you
should
this kind of work."
Tearpock has expanded on his geologic doctrine with
an updated edition of the
Geological
Mapping with
first
book, "Applied Subsurface
Structural
Methods," and a
new
book, "Quick Look Techniques for Prospect Evaluation,"
which
is
being revised for a second edition this spring.
And, the firm went internaTearpock will never forget
tional.
his first trip to Venezuela in 1993.
He came down to
in the
the hotel lobby
morning and found
it
full
of
military personnel. His passport
was
The
confiscated.
translator
informed him that a coup was in
progress in an attempt to over-
throw the government by current
President
"I'd
Hugo
Chavez.
never been to South
America before,"
"I
recalls
was wondering
if I'd
Tearpock.
ever get
home. But everyone around
was calm
time.
was
By
—
like
it
happens
the afternoon, the
over,
back and
we got
life
me
the
all
coup
Computer software plays an integral role in the quest for oil, helping Tearpock
and his staff create color, three-dimensional images of the Earth's structure.
our passports
went on as usual."
At the time,
SCA only had 20
SCA was up to
and branches in Jakarta, Indonesia,
employees. By 1998,
"Oil country
is
usually
unpleasant," says Tearpock,
who
about 90 employees and contract
and Calgary, Canada.
While he's conducted
personnel with half of the
various locations throughout the
knows first-hand after traveling to
more than 30 nations. "Colombia,
world, Tearpock sees the best
Venezuela, Indonesia, the Middle
opportunities for SCA's growth in
East, the
the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where the
they're remote, third-world
firm has the most experience, in
countries with political problems.
firm's busi-
ness coming from South America,
primarily Venezuela,
working
in that country alone.
Political
to close
its
2002. But
staff
and 18 people
changes prompted
SCA
Venezuelan branch in
Mexico, the Middle East, Southeast
SCA still maintains a
Asia and offshore
of about 100, with offices in
Lafayette
studies at
and
New Orleans, La.;
headquarters in Houston, Texas;
West
Tearpock doesn't let the quest
for oil
dominate
avid writer
1
his
life.
He's an
who has completed
a
and a musician
who's mastered the tech-
nology necessary to create
his
own instrumental CDs.
When he does travel for
fun,
he
steers clear of oil
country altogether.
Daniel Tearpock,
left,
and Francisco Pnadas,
president of PDVSA/Intervep, announce an
alliance
between
SCA and Venezuela in 1996
We
He and
his fiancee Lisa
Yu enjoy
visiting a small
Medieval
guy go
a
him
told
but he didn't
nice clothes
10-page science fiction
novella
"We had
'94.
Africa.
former Soviet Union.
.
to Nigeria in
to look scruffy,
listen.
He wore his
and Rolex watch. So
when he got off the plane, he was
mobbed by a crowd and, in the
bustle, got arrested.
"Everyone in the business has
some kind
of story like that to
tell,"
"We live in the
country on earth. It would
says Tearpock.
greatest
be good
to take
families to see
world
lives."
our children and
how the rest of the
B
town south of London,
Eric Foster
England, as well as the U.S.
The University Magazine.
is
co-editor of Blooimburg:
North American Rockies
and the Mayan
Rivera.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
STORY BY KIM BOWER-SPENCE
When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
Douglas debated throughout
in 1858,
Illinois
hundreds of thousands of
people brought their children... and
their dinner... and
absorbed three-hour
speeches. Todays political "debates"
are relegated to television
sound
bites
broadcast on only a few stations as
viewers click between programs.
Enter the Internet, where Jim
Tomlinson, Bloomsburg University
communications studies
professor,
believes exciting political discourse
still
occurs daily
who went online with
own Web site in 1997, perceived
Tomlinson,
his
early that the Internet
was transforming
He took note as
former Sen. Bob Dole hawked his Web
site in 1996. Then Jesse Ventura
political
campaigns.
maneuvered
to Minnesota's governor-
ship with just one storefront office and
a
Web-centered campaign. Cyber-
campaigning roused 18-
to 25-year-
olds to vole at historic levels and
marched Ventura
to victory.
Ventura sparked what Tomlinson
calls the
"McCain phenomenon"
2000. While George
in
W Bush scooped
up cash from old-school supporters,
the Arizona senator
and
presidential
hopeful shot his message straight to
Joe Public via the Web.
Continued on next page
"Number one,
seems
provided the opportunity for
it
grassroots politicking that traditional politicians are just
scared to death
"chats"
—
allowed McCain to
California.
so
Tomlinson observes. Live Internet
of,"
carrying a
$100
visit
"They had
many people
signed
do
up
for
After the senators surprise
online donations flowed
from Maine
"Welcome Jim Tomlinson" appeared on
office
to
He
a lot easier with the
who served on
pay
where volunteers meet
feel
overloaded with information
the
The
for postage or for
to lick
an
it's
may
feel
over-
there."
points, for example, to records of contributors
Web,
to state campaigns. Before the
was
in
person
—
the only
and
way
to get
taking the time to
travel to Harrisburg, wait for the records in a
crat's office
made
at least
the information
the screen each
executive board of Citizens for John McCain.
campaign doesn't need
While voters may
they can access via the Internet, Tomlinson views the
to
in.
Tomlinson,
on campaigning
trend as positive. "Yes," he says, "we
Web visit.
are generally
presidential race.
whelmed. But
and volunteers signed on
"All of these things are
2004
it."
personal greeting in each subsequent
Internet," reasons
who
New Hampshire win,
organize local campaigns. Those registering enjoyed a
time the professor logged
voters,
the topic of the Internet's impact
to
again," he says, "because
it
young
to invigorate
apathetic in elections. Tomlinson hopes to revisit
following the
fee for participants
potential voters
to
more
bureau-
through the information. Today,
cull
anyone can go online through the Pennsylvania Powerport and Department of State and, within minutes,
find
who contributed, and how much,
each candi-
to
campaign.
date's
A member of the AAPC, Tomlinson advised
stamps and
stuff envelopes.
numerous
political
Howard Dean ripped chapters from the Ventura
and McCain campaign books in his initial rise to the
forefront of 2004 Democratic presidential candidates.
the 1980s
and 1990s. He's cut back, now working only
Tomlinson points
Web
to Dean's
log, or "Blog,"
an
was first to use.
him any votes. But it probably
online diary of activities he
"I
don't think
it
gets
helps energize people
his." If
Dean wins
who
are already supporters of
the nomination, Tomlinson says,
Democratic party leaders
slowly to the Internet playing
"Traditional advertising
says Tomlinson,
for the
who
is
not going to go away,"
helped judge Internet
Affairs Pollie
election
run
he personally supports
affiliation.
John Gordner (R-Berwick)
last fall.
polls in
He helped
state Sen.
in his successful special
And he
aided former student
Scott Blacker '98, a Democrat, in
an unsuccessful
attempt to unseat a Bucks County Republican
incumbent in 2002.
Tomlinson
who
credits his maternal grandfather,
shook hands with President Theodore Roosevelt, with
field.
Web sites
American Association of Political Consultants'
(AAPC) Public
for the occasional candidate
whatever the party
know they reacted too
will
campaigns and conducted
Awards. But the Internet
sparking his interest in politics and history As a teen-
Tomlinson himself shook hands with a future
ager,
president
at
when he met an
actor
named Ronald Reagan
the mayor's house in his California
hometown.
was completely amazed," Tomlinson
"I
could look in your eyes and smile and
Former President
Bill
it
recalls.
"He
was genuine."
Clinton possesses similar
charisma, he notes.
"I
babysat for the Reagans, for the youngest
And when Reagan launched his bid
children."
governor in 1966, Tomlinson
time
— campaigned
to see
him
as a
—
just
for
15 years old
youth organizer.
"I
at
the
continue
as a hero.
Jim Tomlinson, who put his own Web site online in
1997, believed from the start that the Internet would
transform
politics.
BLOOiVISBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
'As a teacher, want people to have their own inspiration,
regardless of their ideology, and to have their eyes and ears open.'
I
the University of Delaware.
An invitation to
apply for a
Bloomsburg
position at
prompted him and Sue
up
drive
to
weekend;
for a
they liked the university
area.
He joined
faculty in
1980 and
and
the
recently earned a doctorate
from the
in public policy
University of Delaware.
now indulg-
Tomlinson
es his passion for forensics
by teaching argumentation
and debate. He
also teaches
public speaking; political,
and
organizational
inter-
personal communication;
and computer
applications.
His students get hands-on
One
of the department of communieation studies and the-
Tomlinson garnered a $275,000 grant
from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to bring
atre arts 'tech gurus,'
new computer technology
into the curriculum.
they'll face
leave the university, thanks to a
$275,000 Link-to-Learn
I
want people
to
son garnered
inspiration, regardless of their ideology,
their eyes
and
ears open,"
1970
to enlist in the
left
He
the side
When
also taught English
and
realized
have
major but
for Japan,
where he
and Cambodian
and American
how much he
culture
enjoyed
he and Suzanne returned to the
States,
now
set his sights
on
Tomlinson became National Collegiate Debate Chamin
tions software like
1975 with the topic "Resolved: That Television
has Sacrificed Quality for Entertainment."
He and
a
faculty,
plus
PageMaker and PowerPoint.
rizing students' research into
should take action in
in winter
"My
Iraq.
The
and masters degrees
SPRING
States
was completed
project
for
and
against. "This
was
a
way to
No matter their ideology,
is
make
try to
mentation as relevant and current as
I
policy.
"My primary
stand that politics
Berwick, Pa.
in
at
argu-
could," explains
part of this."
Tomlinson wants his
students to be able to discern between good and bad
Kim Bower-Spence
debate requires hours of research, outlining
After earning bachelors
summa-
whether the United
2003, prior to the U.S. military action, and
interest is
having students under-
how we end up
is
participative citizens
arguments, preparing briefs and practicing."
speech communication, Tomlinson taught briefly
and
communica-
says. "I
—
with good or
want them
active citizens."
to
be good,
b
strongest perfonnances were in debate. Preparing
for
depart-
professor points to a 120-page booklet
bad government," he
partner recorded 75 wins and just 15 losses that
season, debating both sides of the argument.
The
all
wireless laptops for students
Tomlinson. "Their generation
teaching.
Building on his high school experience in forensics,
pion
ment computers, 30
by James Matta, dean
Webcams on
required each student to relate four arguments both
it.
with a toddler and infant in tow, he opted to study
communications and
Bloomsburgs communications
grant, supported
personal digital assistants for
as a history
trained South Vietnamese, Laotian
on
to
Army. He married high
school sweetheart Suzanne and
soldiers.
and
to digitize
The
of graduate studies, provides
he adds.
Tomlinson staned college
quit in
own
have their
they
grant from the state Department of Education Tomlin-
curriculum.
"As a teacher,
when
experience with the technology
is
a freelance journalist from
Six-year-old Kevin,
STORY BY HOWARD
L.
MCKEAN
left,
hidden behind mesh
parents Michelle and
n organized
A
bicycle ride intro-
duced novice
Whalen
cyclist
Michelle
commonly known
to avid cyclist Bill
McCoach. An organized
The McCoaches
and Indian
ride
are the
of Pedal Pennsylvania,
owners
more
across the southeastern Pennsylva-
based in Harleysville,
hands-on proprietor of Bikeworks
married.
And
Bill
from single
to
organized rides,
along with bike
sales,
now provide
a comfortable living for the
McCoach
little
and
ones
family, including the
who
ride
on
a
in the bicycle trailer.
tandem
and
Pa. Bill is the
is
the behind-the-scenes
freedom,
it's
gives
you
BLOOMSBURG
is
a
a sense of
adventurous and
her career would take
when she
graduated from Bloomsburg in
first
several years, her
career could easily be defined as
For the McCoaches, cycling
"It
closer to nature,"
not exacdy the path she envisioned
For the
aspects of the two businesses.
of life.
you
accounting.
person, managing the financial
way
brings
for a family ride.
1983 with a bachelors degree in
PedalP/fe trip organizer;
Michelle
McCoach
shop and touring company was
both
nia countryside transported
Michelle and
Bill
Michelle says. But owning a bike
as "PedalPA,"
Valley Bikeworks,
and 2-year-old Kimberly,
in the bike trailer, join their
it
"typical": supervising a small
team
of auditors looking after the
financial affairs of
companies
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
owned by holding company
Gilead Church in Buckingham, Pa.,
first-hand, they'll also
CAWSL Corp., now Superior
by about
who
200
half of the
invited
meet people
along the tour route as
live
guests. Arriving at the small country
they spend nights in bed and
into the position of controller for
chapel wearing bike togs, Michelle
breakfast inns.
one of those companies, Pressure
donned
Products.
nod
Products
Inc.,
Michelle,
lic
then transitioning
who is a certified pub-
accountant and holds a masters
degree in finance from
University,
after
Josephs
start a family.
For a time,
her only
garter,
to traditional dress for the cer-
emony Husband
added
Bill
and
jacket, white shirt
tie
"Being able to sleep in people's
homes adds
over his
Bikes rolled to the forefront of
the couples professional
years later
when
the
life
unique touch
a
to the
tour and reduces costs," Michelle
suit
observes.
bike shorts for his wedding garb.
Pressure Products
about a decade so that she and
could
Bill
left
St.
and
a veil
three
owner of a
Despite
all
the effort involved
in keeping their business ventures
on
track, Michelle says the
work
provides greater independence
she gave some thought to becoming
Harleysville bike store decided to
than she could have enjoyed in a
an independent accounting consul-
close his shop. Michelle's financial
corporate setting and the ability to
acumen was put
spend more time with
tant.
But the opportunity in 1998 to
open
a retail bike
shop was one she
and her husband could not pass up.
Cycling has been an integral part
of the McCoaches'
chelle
had
riding"
life
together.
when
she met her future
September 1992. But
tion to the sport
their
location
is
wedding
which featured
ride in
their dedica-
best exemplified
three years
later,
a 40-mile ride to Mt.
good use
dren, Kevin, 6,
their chil-
and Kimberly,
2.
and the business and
whether a merger of vocation and
avocation
"just started getting into
husband during an organized
by
Mi-
to
evaluating the viability of the
It
was
feasible.
was. And, both Bikeworks
PedalPA, purchased in 2001
its
previous
and
when
owner retired, continue
to grow. Bikeworks,
which
sells
not
only bikes and accessories but also
scooters
and
staffers
now employs
unicycles,
and nine part-time
three full-time
year-round. As
10 part-timers work
many as
for the
McCoaches' enterprises during
PedalPAs bike tour season, which
summer and
spans spring,
Cycling went from avocation
fall.
to vocation for Bill
And, the couple recently added
"landlord" to their growing
list
of
when they bought
building that is home to Indian
responsibilities
the
Valley Bikeworks
and seven other
and Michelle
grow PedalPA
in a
also decided to
new direction on
training to earn a living
profession provides
very
me with
sometimes miss out on
their first international excursion, a
chosen
year. Cyclists will
The bride and groom both
wore. ..bicycle shorts. ..when
Michelle
a lot
careers."
in their
b
later this
not only experi-
ence the Tuscany countryside
McCoach and
is
of personal satisfaction that others
another continent. They've added
seven-day tour of Italy,
A professional
writer
and corporate
L
location photographer,
Howard
McKean
articles for
regional
Bill
Whalen
exchanged wedding vows.
SPRING
my love
my education and
"To be able to combine
of cycling with
rewarding," she says. "This
businesses.
Bill
and
Michelle McCoach.
has authored
and national
publications.
News Notes
An 'Appalachian
Faculty Honors
Mookerjee honored by sports medicine organization
BU on Top
among
University listed
Grant awarded for
Aaron Copland program
Swapan
Exercise science professor
Mookerjee was recently honored by
nation's best
Faculty from English, music,
the Second International Congress on
A recent Princeton Review
ing together to create and
his
alma
present "An Afternoon with
Institute of Physical Education,
Aaron Copland" on April
Gwalior, India. Mookerjee,
Mary Bemath,
shown
region. Ninety-eight colleges
Jelinek, music; Michael
and statue, was a co-organizer and
Collins, theatre;
invited
education congress
Goa,
in
and
Swapan Mookerjee
India.
Special Initiatives
Bertelsen
named
Fulbright Scholar
Intended not only for
majors, students with
and an
lovers of serious
communication studies and
also students
theatre arts, has been
from the surrounding
activities"
U.S. colleges
and
communities, the crossdisciplinary
University, Ukraine, during the
feature
2003-04 academic
BU among the best
once again. U.S.
News
is
currently lecturing
tier
cultural
lists
alphabetically in the sec-
ond
year.
universities
on the American
BU
Dale Bertelsen
families
lecture at the Kharkov National
Bertelsen
lists
and
a Fulbright Scholar grant to
campus life.
News and World
Reports annual ranking of
also
awarded
active
U.S.
music but
Dale Bertelsen, professor of
.
who are socially oriented
through sports and
Fund
grant to pursue the project.
lum with more than 70
"down-to-earth attitudes.
Sheila
College of Liberal Arts
characterized as
having an academic curricu-
program
and dramatic scenes from
Aaron Copland's
life
along
with dance segments from
and
experience and investigating
his ballets "Rodeo"
media influence
"Appalachian Spring."
in
the Ukraine.
of Best Universities-
The second
tier
includes universities ranked
43 through 81.
Professional Attire
Clothing drive aids job-seekers
Dialing for
Dollars
Christine A. Gasper, a Beaver
Meadows,
Pa., resident
and
junior business education major,
Family Fund reaches
$66,295
organized a suit and professional
clothing drive to help
women
prepare for job interviews. As
The families
of current
BU
students donated $66,295 to
this year's Family
phonathon.
Fund
A total
donors participated
the
annual fund drive, including
seven
who
contributed online
or by mail. According to Elena
Lockard, phonathon coordinator, the total
figures by
community service
requirement for her Board of
Governor's Scholarship, Gasper
of 1,054
in
part of a
tops last year's
conducted a workshop
at
the
Women's Center of Columbia
and Montour Counties on
interviewing, presenting a
professional appearance
and
completing resumes, cover
letters
and
will
ongmal narration
Masters for the northern
region.
4.
Mark
Kaercher, dance, received a
speaker at the physical
filed in the report.
is
English;
with his awards, silver plate, medal
region of the U.S. are pro-
BU
are
mater, the Lakshmibai National
Schools in the Mid-Atlantic
from each
work-
theatre
and Exercise Science and
University as one of the Best
universities
and dance
Physical Education, Sports Medicine
study ranks Bloomsburg
and
Spring'
applications.
more than $20,000.
BLOOMSBURG
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Education Supporter
Mihalik heads Foundation Board
A belief in the power of education drives Vicki Mihalik of
Millville.
Her
encom-
career
passes a dozen years as a
special education teacher
20 years
and
as director of the
Bloomsburg Area YMCA's
preschool program. As a
volunteer, she's involved in yet
another aspect of education,
hockey players surround coach Jan Hutchinson after
beating UMass Lowell for the national championship.
Husky
serving as chair of the Blooms-
field
burg University Foundation
Board of Directors.
Happens Again!
It
Huskies
field
Mihalik
NCAA
hockey team captures
Vicki Mihalik
Division
tion Board in
invitation of former President
Bloomsburg University scored two goals
surge by
UMass
over the host River
Hockey Championship
The
in
Lowell
Hawks
in
a very exciting
Hutchinson.
"I
first
2003
NCAA
at Cushing Field in Lowell,
NCAA title was the
was
the
half
and then held
the second en route to a 4-1 victory
to claim the
Division
II
Field
1
1th overall
sixth
school history.
in
game," says Bloomsburg head coach Jan
knew UMass
Lowell would play better than
when we
played them at Bloomsburg, and they were very fast and very skilled."
UMass
is
Lowell head coach Shannon Hlebichuk says, "Bloomsburg
a perennial national power.
sure put on them, but there
is
My team
on
a variety of
1992
at
the
Harry Ausprich. She served
committees before becoming chairperson of
20-member board. "Board membership is a chance to
make a difference in peoples lives. We're always looking to
the
and unrestricted funds," she says.
With Foundation support, the university has undertaken
major projects during Mihalik's tenure on the board, includincrease scholarships
Mass.
second straight for the Huskies, the
the last eight years and the
"It
in
became
BU Founda-
II
Championship
off a
first
involved with the
responded well to the pres-
no question that the better team won."
ing construction of the
the
new Andruss
Library and, through
New Challenges, New Opportunities campaign,
the
renovation of the Student Services Center and an increase in
scholarship endowments.
money to support
The Foundation
faculty, staff
and student
also
awards seed
projects through
the university's Margin of Excellence program.
Top Educator
Appointment with AASCU
Alum named state's best journalism
BU president elected to board of directors
teacher
Sam Bidleman 76M
BU
President Jessica
year term
S.
Kozloff was elected to a three-
on the board of directors
of the
American
an English teacher
Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).
School,
The
the
association promotes appreciation
public higher education, representing
colleges, universities
for
more than 430
and systems of higher education
throughout the U.S. and
"It's
and support
always humbling
its territories.
when your
peers select you to
represent them," says Kozloff. "I'm looking forward
to the
opportunity to work with
national level."
at
Bloomsburg High
my colleagues on the
was named
2003 Journalism
Teacher of the Year
by the Pennsylvania
Student Press
Association. Bidle-
man is
the adviser
of Prometheus, the
Sam Bidleman
school's
literal")'
magazine, and former adviser to the award-winning
s^
hool
newspaper, Red and While. His approach: empowering
students and giving them ownership of the project
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Husky Time
Alumni Association
partners with Swiss
watchmaker
Husky pride
is
now available
with Swiss precision.
Bloomsburg 's Alumni
Association has partnered with
Swiss watchmaker Factory 121
to
make Bloomsburg
watches available
logo
for sale
Custom watches can be
online.
created to logging onto the
Robert N.
Dampman
Alumni Association
New Trustee
BU alum
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retired
on the watch banner at
clicking
the bottom on the page.
joins Council
educator and
Web site at
www.bloomualumni.com and
965
1
graduate of Bloomsburg State
College recently joined BU's
On-Air Personality
Council of Trustees. Robert N.
Dampman
WBUQ dedicated to William Acierno
of Ringtown, Pa.,
retired superintendent of the
WBUQ 91
Bensalem Township School
District,
was appointed
replace Robert
Danville
W. Buehner
whose term
ed
to
.1
FM, Bloomsburg 's student radio
of
WBUQ.
left,
station, dedicat-
recently upgraded studios to William A. Acierno, a
retired faculty
of
expired.
Dampman's appointment runs
until
its
member and
the leading force
in
the creation
Trustee A. William Kelly, president of WVIA-TV,
talked with Acierno about their experiences
in
radio at
the dedication.
Jan. 20, 2009.
Currently a legislative
assistant to state Sen. Robert
Tomlinson and
member
of the
North Schuylkill School Board,
Dampman
served
in
a variety of
capacities during his career
education
in
—
and
district superin-
tendent. Since retiring
December 1994,
campus during
Kozloffs sabbatical
Alumni may choose from
assignments
in
BU's provost
for
academic
and
various school logos,
vice president
affairs is
styles, dial colors
serving as
of inscriptions.
during President Jessica Kozloffs
available
Perkasie
Patrick Schloss,
BU
Kintnersville.
The terms of two current
watch
who joined
the
10 years ago as assistant vice
president and dean for graduate
studies
and
research,
was
Patrick Schloss
named
Steven Barth of Lewisburg,
Pa.,
presidents responsibilities during Kozloffs spring semester
LaRoy Davis
Watches are
two
1998, and
of Feasterville, Pa.,
provost more than two years ago.
sabbatical with the
and
He is
is
sizes,
and each
shipped directly from
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in
Switzer-
percentage of every
sale benefits Alumni Association
were
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first
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in
he's fulfilled
temporary administrative
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from social studies
teacher and guidance counselor
to principal
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programming.
fulfilling the
American Association of State Colleges
Universities (see page 32).
a Trustee since 1980.
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production of "Angels
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invit-
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was held
festival
town,
at
Pa., in January.
festival
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year, the regional
New York,
includes shows from
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several student designers.
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in September.
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member
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phones
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computer
Timothy Smith,
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not out to change the
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in
regular classrooms
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a method
known as
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UNESCO began
in
1990 as a Canadian
difference for special need students
representative to a special session of the organization.
everywhere.
became
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professor
in
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Nations Educational,
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that
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of children worldwide.
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member at Bloomsburg
University
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in
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no longer a Canadian representative to UNESCO, her
connection continues to be strong.
Darlene Perner
and Cultural Organization
development
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while she
the exceptionality
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special education experts from the United States, Canada, India,
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children are included and valued. That
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desktop computers.
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capacities.
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math and
science,
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the software not only
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of the State
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Sciences in Colleges, Eastern
Region.
director of the
Advancement
For their project, Henry
Computing
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BU's annual fund for 2003-04.
The
PDA connection
Two computer science
majors took home the first-
Lewisberry,
as chairperson of
Pa., is serving
Winning Researchers
'63,
is
what
Bloomsburg
University
students are
. .
Learners
More than
a third of
Bloomsburg students are ranked
top 20 percent of their high school
In
class.
freshmen were valedictorians and two were
fall
in the
2003, four
salutatorians.
Citizens
Last year
more than 3,000
students contributed 50,879 hours
of service to the community.
Community
service projects
ranged from helping area children with school work to
providing food for the needy at the Bloomsburg Food
Cupboard.
Leaders
incoming Bloomsburg students participated
government, honors programs or athletics while in
high school. Many participated in more than one of these
Sixty percent of
in student
activities.
Give them a hand.
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Calendar
Spring 2004
Mid-Term
Tuesday,
March 2
March
Spring
6,
15,
Aug. 23 to 30
A Couple of Blaguards
Classes Begin
Saturday,
Monday, Aug. 30
Carver
Reading Day
Friday, Oct.
March
Hall,
20, 7:30 p.m.
Kenneth
Gross
S.
Women's Choral Ensemble and
citizens.
Carver Hall Piano Series
8
Auditorium, $5 adults/$2 students
Presbyterian Church, 345 Market
and senior
Street,
3,
7 p.m.
Gross
S.
citizens.
29, 8 a.m.
Finals Begin
Monday,
May 3
Graduate Commencement
Friday,
May 7
May 8
1,
Featuring the Bloomsburg University
Ensemble
Graduate Commencement
Chamber Orchestra
University-Community Orchestra
Saturday,
Dec. 17
Celebrity Artist
Series
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30
the Celebrity Artist Series
Session 3
Ahn Trio
Friday, April
1
,
to Friday,
June
Haas Center
1
at 5:30 p.m.
Pops Concert, Monday,
Proceeds benefit music scholarships.
Bloomsburg.
389-4284
for information.
Student Recitals
Siblings'
and Children's
Tuesday, April 27, 7:30 p.m., Carver
Hall,
Kenneth
S.
Gross Auditorium.
through Sunday,
Jazz Festival
April 25.
Wednesday,
Renaissance Jamboree
Saturday, April 24,
all
day,
April 28, all day,
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Concert Choir
Friday, April 30, 7:30 p.m., First
Parents' and Family Weekend
through Sunday,
Presbyterian Church, 345 Market
Street,
Bloomsburg.
Homecoming Weekend
Friday, Oct. 15,
through Saturday,
Oct. 17.
Monday, June 21
,
to Friday, July 9
Jane Monheit
Sunday, April 25, 3 p.m.
Session 6
Monday, July
1
2, to Friday,
Haas Center
July 30
for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall, $20 and $22.50.
For the
Session 7
Monday, June
21, to Friday, Aug.
20
Session 8
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information on upcoming
events, check the university
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Hall.
downtown
Bloomsburg.
16,8 p.m.
for the Arts,
April 26,
6:30 p.m., Columbia Mall,
Sept. 19.
Mitrani Hall, $20 and $22.50.
Session 5
Resort, Elysburg.
Union, Ballroom. Tickets required.
Friday, Sept. 17,
Aug. 20
Session 4
20, 6 p.m., Kehr
Web Site
at www.bloomu.edu/events.
12, to Friday,
March
Weekend
for more information, call the series
Tuesday, June
Pops Concert
Monday, Dec. 13
Session 2
Monday, July
citizens.
Friday, April 23,
21, to Friday, July
Hall.
Knoebels Amusement Resort
Concert Band at 2 p.m. and Jazz
Undergrad Commencement
to Friday, July 9
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Spring Gala
Call (570)
1
Monday, June
Sunday, April 18, 2:30 p.m., Haas
Gross
Finals Begin
Saturday, Dec. 18
Tuesday, June
S.
Sunday, April 25, Knoebels
Summer 2004
Session
Bloomsburg.
Amusement
Saturday, Dec. 18
May 8
First
Special Events
Finals End
Undergrad Commencement
Saturday,
Kenneth
Auditorium, $5 adults/$2 students
and senior
Saturday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.,
Sunday, Dec. 12
Friday,
Finals End
Saturday,
Classes End
Hall,
Chamber Singers
Concert Band
Reading Day
1
Hall.
Thanksgiving Recess begins
Saturday, Dec. 11,10 p.m.
Classes End
7:30 p.m., Haas
Carver Hall, Kenneth
Carver
29 and 30
5,
Wednesday, March
Clipper Erickson
Reading Days
1
Tuesday, Oct. 12
Thursday, April 1,7 p.m.
May
Hall.
Mid-Term
Monday, Nov.
12,6 p.m.
Thursday, April
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Classes Resume
Saturday,
2:30 p.m., Haas
4,
and senior
Monday,
Friday, April
Sunday, April
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Tuesday, Nov. 23, 10 p.m.
Thursday and
University-Community Orchestra
Auditorium, $15 adults/$10 students
Classes Resume
April
to the public.
Beverly Smoker
8 a.m.
10 p.m.
8,
Concerts are free and open
Husky Singers
noon
Weekend Begins
Thursday, April
Electronic Registration
Monday, Sept. 6
Classes Resume
Monday, March
Concerts
Series
Labor Day
Spring Break Begins
Saturday,
2004
Concerts at Carver
Fall
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN,
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF
THE CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
For
my generation, it was practically a given.
Kennedy
President
inspired us to look
beyond ourselves and
no nobler
we
followed his lead, then
with our
told us that there
was
calling than public service. First
we honored
his
memory,
service.
But 40 years have passed since
we heard
the presi-
dents moving words and, over time, we've seen
society as a
whole
retreat
from
civic
engagement. As
BU
Robert Putnam documented in "Bowling Alone:
The Collapse and Revival
fewer people
of American
now participate
Community,"
President Jessica Kozloff talks to the Council of Trustees
about her involvement with the American Association of
and Universities' American Democracy
With Kozloff are Trustees Steven Barth, left, and
State Colleges
in civic organizations,
Project.
fewer volunteer and fewer exercise their right to vote.
A. William Kelly.
In an effort to reverse this trend, the American
Association of State Colleges and Universities initiated
the
American Democracy Project
the
New York Times. am serving as a presidential
in partnership with
this semester,
returning to
1
my roots
the importance of civic
is
universities are
engagement in
a free society
talked about the career preparation
aspect of a university education,
that this
and
making sure our graduates understand
we have
and
there
is
no doubt
a vital role for the university to play. But
believe there
is
I
another key purpose of higher educa-
tion, that of "citizenship preparation."
Democracy
It
The American
Project offers us the opportunity to
ine our duty to foster civic
its
exam-
engagement on the part of
our students.
graduates' civic understanding
formed
last fall
under the leadership of Nancy Gentile
Ford, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts,
is
meeting and sponsoring events. In
fact, after
BU and
State
November, the committee of 20
faculty
and
welcomed 60 students to its ranks.
With their involvement, these students
set
on how
changes in academic, extracurricular and institutional
culture can increase the
number
of students
who
offer a
out to accomplish
—
to
produce graduates
understand and are committed to engaging
Jessica S. Kozloff
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are involved in a year-long dialog focusing
staff
glimpse of what the American Democracy Project has
six other universities
System of Higher Education,
a
well-attended program on election reform in early
Nearly 150 colleges and universities from across
from Pennsylvania's
and
as no surprise that BU already is taking
The American Democracy Project Committee,
ingful actions as citizens in a democracy.
the country, including
these
an approach
comes
action.
believe strongly that colleges
For years,
improve
From
civic actions.
commitment.
as a political scientist.
responsible for
engaged in meaningful
discussions, each university will design
to
I
consultant to this project during a sabbatical leave
from Bloomsburg
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"All
change
a miracle to contemplate; but
is
miracle which
is
taking place every second."
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often
is
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AND NATURALIST
your place of employment and
unofficially
smoothly, with
a
it is
at
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measured in increments of time when
little
apparent change.
It is
human nature
life
moves along
life
comfort in
to take
the stability of times like these.
At BU, we've suddenly emerged from one of these calm periods
change.
Little
end abruptly
did
last
I
know when I left for my sabbatical last December that it would
spring when Provost Patrick Schloss accepted the presidency of
South Dakota. The
Northern
State University in
show me
that the call of retirement
administrators, a
I
number
didn't anticipate that
community as
to a time of rapid
of staff
would be
crystal ball
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so attractive for
members and more than 20
we'd be welcoming so
many
faculty
often wish
some
faculty
and
I
had
didn't
of my senior
members. And,
staff to
BU's
campus
a result of these retirements.
This magazine has changed. Regular readers will note that this column, which
previously appeared on the back page as "The Last Word," has taken a leap forward
and been renamed "From
the Presidents Desk." In
back through BU's history
trip
Roben Dunkelberger.
We've had
in the
its
former location, you will take a
new column, "Over
the Shoulder,"
by
archivist
You'll also find class notes in this issue for the first time.
positive changes
on
the
campus
itself
in the past
months
as
construction continues on the $8.8 million addition to Hartline Science Center and
the
$4 million reincarnated Monty's. Another
cooperative agreement we've forged with
positive
change
is
the two-pronged
Luzeme County Community
College this
—
one facet guarantees BU admission to students in many majors after they earn
LCCC associate degrees and meet other requirements; the other allows education
year
majors to complete
teaching, at
It is,
change
indeed,
is
all
of their
BU bachelor's degree
requirements, except student
LCCC.
human nature to
dread change. But the past year
not only a constant, but also a
at
catalyst to a positive future.
BU proves that
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
is
member
a
of the State System
of Higher Education
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Board of Governors
as ofJuly
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mat market and
a
growing share of gymnastic mat
needs,
leading
one section
to
of the wrestling
half-century.
are painted,
in
and needs
the
made tremendous
mats
after the
the thick
it's
this individual attention to
every order
that's
helped keep the
family-owned company on top.
"We have such
a
good reputation
'We
in the market," says Gilbert.
always want to give customers a
product that
A
is
not top notch,
selling
top quality.
I
don't
If
want
it's
to
be
it."
For
Gilbert, 43, the
company's
manager and second
general
generation of Resilite leadership, the
business path began
at the heart.
In his junior year at Southern
Columbia High School,
Gilbert
met
from nearby Shikellamy
a junior
High, Debra Tischler,
when
the
two
were part of a student project to
STORY BY JACK SHERZER
design the perfect school.
It
probably never caught your eye. You were too busy watching the
competitors to notice what those wrestlers and gymnasts were
It
competing on. Most
likely
With about $14 million
exclusively in the
it
was
a
mat made by
NCAA championships since
mats have been used
1963 and appeared
at the
Olympics. They are the mats of choice for colleges boasting the top
near Northumberland, Pa. There are
second clue
by
the white cinderblock building
no huge
signs screaming Resilites
mammoth mats
up and
rugs from a giants house as they await refurbishing. Or a
in the new, brightly colored mats, most bearing the names and
presence, just the smallest hint found in
stacked like
rolled
logos of colleges, high schools or athletic associations, being loaded into
used
made
at
the time.
for
Michigan
by
State.
to stay in the area, Gilbert
enrolled at Bloomsburg.
convinced Debra to leave
in
Bloomsburg, as
then
Georgetown
well.
The two married in 1982 after
graduating, with Debra continuing
Bloomsburg
to earn a
a green wrestling
As sometimes
He
University after a semester and enroll
at
Inside the cavernous factory, Paul Gilbert '82 pauses
a
the canvas-
covered horsehair mats widely
tractor trailers.
mat, 42-foot-by-42-foot, being
improvement over
Wanting
this driving
Warren,
1959,
Resilite in
made with rubberized foam,
vast
wrestling programs in the country.
You'd never guess any of
Tischler's father,
perfecting the manufacture of mats
Resilite Sports Products.
in annual sales, Resilite
was
who opened
Continual on next page
masters
Design
line
As
Resilite looks to
expand, Internet sales are one of the areas targeted for growth.
Already the leading manufacturer of wrestling mats with a growing
mats, wall padding and other equipment, the
of
its
business
come from
Redesigned
in
line of
company expects to see about
1
gymnastic
5 percent
online sales this year.
the past year, www.resilite.com
is
an easy-to-navigate
site
with clear
color pictures illustrating the company's hundreds of products and even a feature that
allows customers to design their
own wrestling mat online.
Helping Resilite with the site were several Bloomsburg University graduates.
"My goal
with our
Web site was for customers to
an economics major
be able to purchase almost any of
Resilite's general manager. "The Web site is
becoming a more and more important part of our business."
Bill Sees, 24, who graduated from Bloomsburg last year with a computer science
degree, interned at Resilite during his senior year and wrote the program that allows
customers to design their mats online.
Updating the rest of Resilite's Web site, as well as hosting and maintaining it, is
Kingston, Pa.-based Keynetx. Three of the company's four partners - Scott McCarty,
Mike Miguelez and Joel Upright- are Bloomsburg grads.
McCarty, who graduated with Upright in 1998 and serves on the computer science
our products online," says Paul Gilbert '82,
department's curriculum advisory board, says the biggest challenge
Web site's
programming with
came
in
Elon
Matthew, 16, a sophomore
Bloomsburg High School
at
—
will
follow into the business remains
to
be seen.
As
Resilite
moves forward,
Gilbert says, automation
a
is
continuing goal.
About a year
dovetailing
company
ago, the
spent nearly $100,000 for a
computer system. Miguelez '99 adds
that other challenges involved building features that enable customers to calculate
shipping costs online and allow Resilite's existing system to process orders.
the
at
University in North Carolina, or
Resilite's existing
computerized, automatic cutter to
slice
is
the thick polyester fabric that
sewn around
the padding of
gymnastic mats. In addition to
degree in nursing and Gilbert
challenge of seeing a problem and
entering the business world.
finding a solution."
Gilbert,
who
He
earned a degree
in business administration,
was no
accepted a job with Dillon
Floral Products, a wholesale
and took charge of the company's
Bethlehem,
published Bloomsburgs Press
Warren
which
his
"I've
"I like
the
says other jobs were found for the
1985,
Tischler asked Gilbert to
workers
fabric
from
bottom up, spending time
the
working
in
including
"When
forklift in
each department
we didn't have
so we moved
started
the place,
adding
weigh
that the
at least several
pounds. "Wanting to
He believes
a
example,
I'd
rubber mats
hundred
set a
force
and they have been
future automation will
lite
as the
number of jobs at Residemand for mats grows.
Mike Moyer, executive
so sore
I
could
company. .and
title
is
retired
of president
Gilbert has the responsibility
of running Resilite.
Gilberts'
much more
Whether
two children
the
—
Jennifer, 19,
Top photo: Sylvia Bostian sews covers
for Resilite's gymnastics mats, which are
a growing part of the
Northumberland
business' product line.
left,
.means
—
great product
service
is
"On
and
second
his
customer
Moyer
to none,"
top of that, he
one
is
of the nicest guys out there, one
of those guys
you want
business with."
to
do
b
has worked in each
area of the Resilite plant. Here he helps
37-year Resilite veteran Rich Saul with
a
.
Moyer says
no one compares with Gilbert.
"Paul stands on principle, he has a
mats and equipment
says.
Paul Gilbert,
Gilbert.
to wrestling.
Sponsoring events, donating
Today, Warren Tischler
and
director
of the National Wrestling Coaches
are the "gold standard." But the
like
hardly move."
but retains the
do
important
Association, says Resilite's mats
good
push those guys
come home
pretty flexible
increase the
.
crazy and
is
willing to
in a small business," Gilbert says.
every one of those mats by hand," he
says,
previously cut the
different jobs. That's very
some backbreaking jobs.
I first
who
by hand.
"Our work
Gilbert learned the business
always wanted to be in
business," Gilbert says.
Pa., operations. In
looking after
to
60-plus employees, Gilbert
Resilite's
work at Resilite.
now runs.
the precise cutting
Committed
florist,
His grandfather, Paul Eyerly,
Enterprise newspaper,
faster,
saves material, Gilbert says.
stranger to the corporate world.
uncle
being
custom logo of a wrestling mat.
Jack Sherzer
is
a professional writer
and Pennsylvania
lives in
native.
He
currently
Hanisbwv.
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Move
over, chalkboards
and anatomic models.
In Cynthia Surmacz's
classroom,
and
pop
living
culture
examples
give biology a
new spin.
J
STORY BY KIM BOWER-SPENCE
What do The Wave, pop beads and
a mock crime scene have in
common? Students who have taken
one of professor Cynthia Surmacz's
biology classes over the years
know
the answer.
Sunnacz scores high marks with
students for her ability to convey
complex concepts, even though she
delivers
some
of the
challenging exams
most
on campus. "You
always remember what she was
talking about because she gets
you
involved in the learning process.
She's really creative," explains
Bonnie Van der Mark from nearby
Orangeville, a former
Army linguist
returning to college.
A broom may
spinal cord.
represent the
The Wave,
activity for sports fans,
typically an
can
illustrate
a neuron's electrical signal or the
electron transport chain ol
Continued on next page
Cindy Surmacz's students are treated to
a series of gestures, expressions
and the
sketch— all intended
to bring
occasional
abstract concepts to
life.
Cynthia Surmacz spurs students to think for
themselves rather than simply memorize materialnot an easy feat in the sciences.
Till
notes that Sunnacz spurs students to think for
themselves rather than simply memorize material
an easy
feat in the sciences.
matched with
to class,
but
content,
and she helps students
learn
it's
— not
"She brings an enthusiasm
quality of content, rigor of
to
how to think."
Though students
teaching, they
give
may not
brush with her
tests.
Surmacz high marks
always appreciate their
"They think I'm trying
them crazy intentionally," Surmacz
for
first
to drive
chuckles. She's not
looking for simple regurgitation of definitions and
processes
—
at least
some
of which
may be obsolete by
the time they join the workforce. She wants students to
how to teach
how to think critically
understand the process of science,
themselves and
"She's training people to think, and think quickly,
which is what you want in an emergency room,"
observes Van der Mark, who is considering a career
in nursing.
name nerves and
them to imagine they
and then asks: "What
Rather than ask students to simply
muscles, this scientist instructs
are sitting in a
movie
theater,
up the popcorn
and putting it in your mouth?" And, "What muscles
would you use to put your arm around the person next
neural pathways are involved in picking
Surmacz,
who began
research
biologist,
her career as a
is still
active
in
the
lab.
Her
latest project involves studying the effects of
highway deicers on aquatic black worms. The
worms share similar cellular features with humans and
mayactas a biological maker for toxins.
threadlike
mitochondria.
aisle
depicting
Or Surmacz
herself
may run down the
how a neurotransmitter operates.
She'll
even stretch herself between two students to
how vocal folds work.
know my colleagues think some of the
are a
little
corny," the slim, sandy-haired
Labs tend to be inquiry-based. Take the anatomy
and physiology laboratory crime scene
— complete with
police tape, fiber sample, blood sample, debris
ransom
note.
and
Surmacz could just show students
microscope and
tell
them how
to
use
it.
a
a
Instead, they
analyze die "evidence" and learn microscopy along
demonstrate
"I
to you?"
the way.
things
I
do
Surmacz
Surmacz teaches two
large lectures every semester,
each with a laboratory section.
Till
points out that
admits. But,
Surmacz continually seeks new teaching techniques
do
get students actively involved in learning
things,
cant
Van der Mark notes, "You see things, you
you repeat things several times over. You
acting.
forget."
A toy box in Surmacz's office holds snap beads and
other props to
make
lessons fun
than overwhelming. "A
lot
and
of these
I
interesting rather
developed over the
when I see what (students) struggle with," says
Sunnacz, who notes that she is a visual learner herself.
Margaret Till, who chairs BU's Department of
years
Biological
hundred
on
this
and Allied Health, confirms,
million. In
campus."
"She's
one in a
my opinion, she's the best teacher
The
professor also started the
and
to
inter-
monthly
BioSynthesis newsletter to keep students in the
on department research and activities.
Surmacz provides research opportunities
know
for
one
or two students at a time, both graduate and undergraduate. Health-related projects looked at
menopause and
lipid profiles in
athletics,
and
women.
Swapan Mookerjee,
and
how
exercise affect cholesterol levels
professor of exercise science
has collaborated with Surmacz on research
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
A taste of undergraduate research in exercise
physiology prompted her decision to pursue graduate
school.
"It really
possibilities
Amy Risen,
a
May
Cornell University,
who
graduate
now
is
honed her research
in
I
my life.
changed
made me
It
had never considered
think of
before."
a doctoral program at
Penn
After graduating from
atthe lab bench with
skills
State in
1978 and
meeting husband Scott Rubin, Surmacz earned her
biology professor Cindy Surmacz.
doctorate from Hershey Medical Center. "Four
since 1996.
"It's
been wonderful
nary collaboration," he notes.
have
to
He
interdiscipli-
Surmacz
calls
a
scientist
meticulous researcher, always supportive of students.
More
worms
recently, she's
—
toxicity of
threadlike
employed aquatic black
worms 4 to 5 cm long
—
to study
raise.
They share
humans,
link in aquatic food chains
Bloomsburg University
at
Surmacz never looked back, enjoying the campus
but small enough to
similar biochemical
an important
are
and students can
She's taught
to
have diversity
know students one-on-one."
still
anatomy and physiology every semester
when she was on sabbatical. Motivated
students make the course a favorite for her. "I absolutely
but one,
readily
observe and record changes in pulse and other
love teaching that." She also teaches concepts in
behavioral responses.
biology, a
Amy Risen, who earned a bachelor's degree in
biology
last
toxicology project. "She
saw
that
program
I
wanted
to
fall.
Surmaczs
do more,
who enters a doctoral
friendliness
Surmacz notes
the opposite.
and
While her
literature,
you
it
enthusiastic,
keeps you trying
specialty
to
many
home.
I
also think
human health,
it
interesting
and
she's
a
"It's
exciting."
take
on the
can help them."
I
"I
bathe and
goes to following the
of her colleagues, this professors
Schuylkill Haven, Pa., a
little
home. She grew up
sons, the older of
in
over an hour's drive
"Aha!"
its
and
drive her, like
throughout the laboratory.
Model rockets and
how a neuron works is
American
decorated the family coffee table, and science always
young Cindy.
She started college
scholarship, but
knew
at
after
State
on an engineering
one course
She can identify with students fishing
that,"
The reward comes
over their four years
Penn
it
wasn't for her.
for a major.
she laughs, noting that
it
"Been
took her
first
a chorus of
school superintendent until retiring a few years ago.
issues of Scientific
when
time to see a hydra open
"wows" can be heard
"How a muscle contracts
the university.
or
"It's
a joy to see
their goals."
That joy reverberates in her work.
anydiing she does
Till says,
fall.
students peer
watching students transform
in
at
time
fascinating."
them succeed and meet
there's
Any spare
of her two teen-aged
whom begins college this
moments
tentacles,
she jokes.
eat,"
I
activities
through a microscope the
soudreast of Bloomsburg, where her father served as
done
their
Surmacz admits she engages in few hobbies outside
career didn't take her far from
there,
is
They think drey can
enthusiastic, ambitious.
world.
her work.
fascinated
in the
narrow
to teach general biology.
challenge and that keeps
new things."
Unlike
allied health
She also thrives on teaching freshmen. "They're
Research, Surmacz notes, "keeps
A career close
and
that professors often
broadened her scope
helpfulness, coupled with high expectations, drive
keeps you reading the
for biology
sophomore course
teaching focus as they gain experience, but she's done
students to achieve, she says.
it
cell biology, a
core biology curriculum.
in environmental toxicology at Cornell
University this
freshman course
majors, and
May, worked with Surmacz on the
so she pushed me," notes Risen,
in
in research.
environment here. "We're big enough
"They're great for student projects," she says,
cellular features to
a
1983, even as her Hershey colleagues urged her to stay
environmental contaminants.
and
and
The young
science," she recalls.
missed interaction with students and took a
temporary teaching job
chemical deicers used on roadways and other
cheap and easy to
bench
half years of total
that's
"I
don't think
not extraordinary,''
b
three majors to settle into biology.
Kim Bower-SpaKc
FALL 2004
is
a freelance journalist from Berwick, Pa.
The numbers
are amazing:
190 million Americans hold
1.2 billion credit cards; the average
American household has 17. For many
who are credit card reliant, rewards
and perks make those numbers... and
the numbers on their monthly
statements... easier to swallow.
Just Rewards
STORY BY ERIC LOSE
Last
month
opened a
I
letter from
bank's credit card division
$50
check,
my
1
percent payback
"reward" for spending so
on
much money
months and paying the
the last few
bills
my
and found a
time. Like
MasterCard
it
manna from
arrived the day after
yet another of my son's $300
orthodontia
visits.
Wow,
this
money? I forgot
was
launched
the pain of spending
to kiss the
this
marketing in the
geniuses
who
innovative concept.
late- 1980s
200 million
annually.
credit cards are issued
Each one
is
emblazoned
Drees has built a career on just
Advisory Committee. At the time,
— and moving
he was a young product manage-
such sharp ideas
ment executive at Mellon Bank.
"It was a great opportunity
quickly to capitalize
me
do big-time brand
to
marketing and create
new product
concepts that would enable
MasterCard
he
to
outpace
its rivals,"
says.
MasterCard recruited Drees
was
on them.
Raised in upper Bucks County,
Drees
advertising
and communications
BU. He worked
to
though school and then honed
advertising agencies. His growing
interest in direct
marketing caught
was looking
executive at Manufacturers
next big idea.
Hanover, in suburban Philadelphia.
was
doing creative work
with one or two logos and connects
co-branding: cards sponsored by
the user to benefits designed to
highly recognizable consumer
at
build customer loyalty and entice
brands. Card users earned
corporate setting," he says. The
the holders to charge rather than
discounts, points
pay with
cash.
Each time these
subconscious influences spur you
to
whip out
smile
on
Drees
'83,
in
it
puts a
the face of Stephen
because he had a hand
making
Drees
that plastic,
it
is
happen.
marketing.
"I
and co-branded
was wooed by
executives at MasterCard"
from the brand sponsor in
variation
where
on
company
degree in management and
the affinity concept
to the sponsoring
university, professional association
who
"It
still
a
a percentage of spending
was donated
"I
Manufacturers Hanover, but in a
rebates
or charity.
considered a pioneer in
the field of affinity
and cash
changed the way Americans
his
two Philadelphia-area
the eye of a senior marketing
for the
at
pay his way
winding down and MasterCard
A new concept emerged called
Pa.,
explored his interests in
first
skills at
as the affinity card craze
In North America alone, 150 to
when
he served on a MasterCard
for
fantastic, being paid for spending
and wanted
witnessed his passion for creative
financed his masters
corporate strategy but, "as
finishing
was
sold.
Drees
my degree
I
was a
moved
the
I
was
company
free agent."
to Pittsburgh
his wife Sandra, a
Penn
he had met years
earlier
State
with
alum
through a
BU. He went
paid for their purchases." Drees
fraternity brother at
says.
work developing new consumer
to
products and services for Mellon
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
which
Bank, earning a promotion to
Affinity Partners Inc.,
assistant vice president.
specialized in developing strategic
travel-related rewards. In
partnerships and marketing
and 2003,
Then it was on
International in
to
MasterCard
New York, where
Drees brokered deals that launched
The company was
later
Inc.
and
retail
2002
Magazine recognized
Quantum Loyalty Systems
acquired by their largest bank client
one the fastest-growing
as
privately
and Drees was once again a
free
held companies with more than
GM card was the first major card to
agent, but unable to pursue
work
$20 million in
be co-branded, and
in the credit card field
cards in the U.S. and abroad.
is still
The
alliances.
other entertainment,
most
the
new card product ever
successful
due
contracts non-compete clause.
introduced. Every time consumers
Drees started a consulting
money toward
compete period concluded, he
.
joined
GE
Capital in Cincinnati.
and sent MasterCards market share
As vice president and
through the
new product development,
"It
roof.
changed the industry and the
way Americans pay for things," he
says. "We took a basic credit card,
injected
an
it
with perks and created
entirely
became
new breed of card that
he
some companies
ended two years
sold
its
later
when GE
portfolio to First
that
By 1993, Drees was ready
USA/Bank
had
discovered
it
Boston where he helped found
in
join a
is once again on
had an opportunity to
a highly successful
growth company over the past
five years,"
of what
he
says. "I
am very proud
was accomplished
at
Quantum, but the timing is good
for
me
giving
want
to sell
me
my ownership stake,
time to
back, take a
sit
company focused on
to
do
Drees has a few ideas. Although
press time, he says his next
venture will likely be in a marketingrelated endeavor.
"One way or the
developing loyalty marketing
other,"
he
concepts. Drees jumped into
"I
Quantum
something or run something."
Loyalty Systems Inc.,
founded by a creator of the
card, as president of the
consulting practice.
named
company's
CEO
On
I
of
all
operating units in 2001
Quantum
will likely start
the
way home
picked up
after meeting Drees,
my son Maxi from
elementary school and
we stopped
Loyalty Systems
read-a-thon party on Friday.
favoring a bag ofHershcy
and
approved
retain loyal customers.
Money,
is
a
Its
Hollywood Movie
movie
ticket
reward
Maxi was
line
chocolate,
Paramount and Dreamworks.
Today the company
also offers
in
GM MasterCard was a driving force
tickets
on the
smiling at the thought of
and Dad was smiling
at the
thought of saving $12 at the box
1
smiled bigger when
mv
I
earning
reward check,
my
I
was a
next
little
$50
b
Stephen Drees' marketing career.
Eric Lose
is
afreelance writer and
doctoral candidate in Cincinnati.
FALL 2004
office.
paid by swiping
MasterCard, because
bit closer to
The
movie
back of the package. In the checkout
including Disney, Warner Bros.,
MGM, Universal,
Maxi was
Bites; I
his selection after noticing
there were free
issued in association with studios
Columbia,
at
the grocery to purchase treats for his
provides reward programs to attract
original product,
says,
something, grow
GM
He was
president and
I
next."
he wasn't ready to unveil specifics
at
A former client asked him to
for a
"I
deep breath and think about what
continue to use today His job
acquired Affinity Partners.
industry."
new challenge. He
that
One, the same bank
the gold standard of the
director of
introduced a process for product
development
the move.
sales.
Drees
and building
practice and,
of a General Motors automobile.
fall,
experience the whirlwind of running
when his non-
used the card, they accumulated
the future purchase
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to his
r
te"
i
Look up the
the American
I
A//
a
is
and
it
and
definition of
spirit,
it
tethered to 'America '-
American democracy and American individualism.
mood, an
fits
you'll find
some
attitude, a reflection of
high school musicians
American independence
like a
mute
fits
a trumpet.
STORY BY LAURIE CREASY
usic
pours into the room, rich as heavy cream
swirled into a five-buck cup
o' joe.
Saxes wail;
muted trumpets growl out an answer. The piano
player tickles the ivories and, back in the
percussion section, the Castanet player puts his
I
entire
body
into the rhythm. Light sparks off the brass
instalments, shooting through the
almost
club.
Clinician
Gunnar
Mossblad, director of
University of Toledo,
some pointers
It's
smoke hanging
dim room. You can
in the air of a
Chicago
—and
toe-tapping, high-stepping jazz
its
in
Mitrani Hall on the Bloonisburg University campus.
jazz studies at the
gives
taste the
to
Today, though, the
smoke
is
outside, wafting
up from
Kappa
Psi
for the
250 middle- and high-school students jamming
and Tau Beta Sigma national honorary music
the
grill
where members of Kappc
societies flip burgers
and hot dogs
in the university's fifth
annual Jazz
high school musicians
after their
performance
at the festival.
Dress
is
eclectic.
Students in brilliant Hawaiian shirts and faded jeans mingle with those
in university sweatshirts,
black pants or
unilorm ol white shirts
with
while others wear the performance
ormance uniform
sf
skirts.
room in Haas Center for the Arts, instrument cases litter the floor where
Gunnar Mossblad, his gleaming tenor sax strapped around his neck, offers tips to
student saxophone players. He shows them how the placement of the mouthpiece affects
In a separate
clinician
the
the sax's sound, demonstrating the placement for classic
band music
moves
—
the sax
just
beneath the upper
down,
resting the
lip
—which produces
a clear,
mouthpiece just inside his lower
smooth
lip.
tone.
Then he
Now the music
turns
dark and edgy, with an urgency that wasn't there before. After he demonstrates the difference
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some
the students' turn. Each student
it's
Stephen Clickard,
associate professor of
suggestion for improvement.
A noontime
Ensemble rocks the
rendition of
music, grew up on a
concert by the University Jazz
The
hall
musical diet of jazz.
with everything from a
Beatles'
"Got to Gel You into
My
Life"
thai glistens with brass siylings to the African-Spanish
heal of a Victor Lopez arrangement to a guitar
fired his
Larry
McKenna
and sax
edge of the auditorium
up
students crowd
Smyser and sax player
perch on chairs
siagc.
close,
at
the
As
Smyser
and McKenna lake them
blues born in the slave
quarters of the South to
fusion jazz of the present,
with demonstrations of
each mutation and
"Nothing
else will
ever so perfectly
capture the
demo-
cratic process in
sound," writes
ja
great VVynlon
»'-
Marsalis. But
what hold docs
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determination to
create a festival at BU.
version of "Pennies from Heaven." Alter the concert,
professional guitarist Pete
A
passion for the art form
grandparents' and even their great-grandparents'
—have
generations
culture
over students from a teen music
dominated by Eminem,
Park and Limp
Avril Lavigne, Linkin
not to mention Britney Spears?
Bizkit,
Stephen Clickard, associate professor of music
BU, sees
its
"With band or orchestra,
else's
at
lure as the opportunity for self-expression.
they're recreating
someone
music. With jazz, they're creating their
and melodies within
he
certain structures,"
also has a definite beat
and
pulse,
own music
Saxophonist Larry McKenna and guitarist Pete Smyser
show students how it's done at an afternoon show in
says. "Jazz
something
to tap
Mitrani Hall.
your
feet to."
It's
not for the musically timid. "You're exposing
yourself," Clickard adds. "Everybody's listening to you."
The jazz nucleus
drums and
of piano, bass,
guitar
recorded and toured with Maynard Ferguson, Aretha
Franklin and Harry Connickjr.
Clickard has his
approximates the rock group nucleus students see on
Stephen
MTY Clickard theorizes, and jazz can have a swing,
Latin or rock fusion
was
own jazz qualifications. His father
who owned about 5,000
a jazz fan
albums. "Whenever he was home, he played jazz on the
feel.
The festival is Clickard's baby "It was a way to do
community outreach for the university," he says, "and
bring professionals, music educators and students
together." He wanted an event focused on education,
not competition. "They're not judged against each other,
record player," Clickard says.
He and his brother Todd
would play along on inexpensive
recorders.
Clickard gravitated to trumpet and gave
on the high school swim team when a
up.
From
for the
judged against a musical norm."
they're
Sr.,
there
he went on
to
up
his position
regular gig
opened
conducting and composing
Monterey Jazz Orchestra, the regularly featured
big band for actor Clint Eastwood's Mission Ranch, and
With
served as assistant director with the Monterey Jazz Festival
musicians create their own music and
lazz,
All-Star's Jazz
m e lod ie s
with n
i
structur e s. J a zz h a s a d e finit e
c e rta n
i
f
beat and pulse, something to tap your feet
to.
Tonight Show's" Johnny Carson
To that end, each band warms up and then plays
20
to
30 minutes, performing three
—
perfect
kilter
tunes.
there are flubbed notes, stumbles
rhythms
—but
to
out-of-
where they
practice
band
the
band
to
festival
and with Newsom.
era,
drew high school bands
2003, a Toronto
to York, Pa. In
meet with the
Grammy Award-wfnning
New York Voices made the 342-mile trip
Bloomsburg.
as Clickard loves jazz,
which he
calls
knows some
of the
instruments as soon as they graduate from high school, a
those
perform in groups
suggestions help keep the festival going."
Mossblad and the other
clinicians
who were part
of
the most-recent jazz festival have heavy-duty
professional performance qualifications
may regret in years to come. Others, even
who are not majoring in music, will continue to
decision they
directors
for this," Clickard says. "Their
and equally
impressive educational credentials. Mossblad, director
of jazz studies at the University of Toledo, for example,
played tenor sax with
Japan and
students at this year's festival will stop playing their
"Our feedback from
need
to Australia,
"America's indigenous art form," he
This year, Clickard added master classes with the
indicates a
to
As much
to a
and work on the
recommendations
clinicians.
band eager
vocal ensemble
improve the performance.
of the clinicians goes with the
separate room,
from Wallenpaupack
not
and
This year, BU's jazz
for
three clinicians listen to each
group and suggest ways
Then one
It's
Ensemble on tours
He studied with jazz great Joe Henderson and
performed with Ed Shaunessey the drummer from "The
Europe.
Doc Severinsen and Tommy
Newsom, best known from their days with "The
Tonight Show Starringjohnny Carson." Other clinicians
like the University Jazz
Ensemble
simply because they love playing their instruments. In
the process, he says, the musicians form friendships
and benefit from the
creative outlet of performance.
favorite tune
For Clickard, music equals magic. 'Your
you back to the same place and
something that moves the soul." b
brings
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is
a freelance writer who
Music
time.
lives in
is
Catawissa, Pa.
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For
this 'half war baby,'
service to country
meant
-
Legal Precedent
blazing a path through military
law where no
STORY BY TRACEY
Eileen
Mansfield became
Albertson-Chapman was a seventh-grader
first
woman lawyer
and Ada H. Kepley became the
first
female law school graduate.
in the late
1950s when
she set "military lawyer" as her career goal, having read about such
illustrious attorneys as Daniel Webster.
"At the time,
the nation's
OOOMS
woman had
previously ventured, a century
after Arabella
M.
I
had no idea
military lawyer. .or even
.
that there
many women
was no such thing as
lawyers," she
recalls.
her parents always told her she could be anything she wanted
worked
when a high school guidance
"go home and make babies."
hard, even
should, instead,
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a
woman
After
il
all,
she
counselor told her she
Disregarding the guidance
counselors words, Albertson-
Chapman earned
bachelor's
and
masters degrees from Bloomsburg
and then
University,
pursuit of her
set
dream
out in
career. In
1970 she became one of just two
women Marine
Corps judge
advocates, beginning a long career
of
firsts: first
judge
woman military
to preside at a court martial
in the Naval Service,
first
staff judge
first
advocate,
appellate military judge
woman
woman
woman
and
first
head the Naval
to
clemency and parole system.
Albertson-Chapman
herself
downplays the significance of
these achievements. "Because
was the only woman
Eileen Albertson-Chapman, back row, second from
judge advocates in 1987. Shown
I
Edward Brym, Leo Coughlin and John
for so long,"
did
was
'the
dedication to the military shows
when
she describes her birth
in 1945 as a "half
war baby"
War II had ended
in
Europe but
When she was just a year old,
Albertson family
moved
the
to
Bloomsburg, where she would
until she graduated
from
live
college.
Bloomsburg University was the
Education Center in Quantico, Va.
plan turned out to be unnecessary,
She was one of just two female
home
to
Knowing she wanted
law school, she majored
in history with minors in political
science
and economics, receiving
her bachelor's degree in 1967. She
was
"devastated"
get into the
hoped
when she
didn't
law school she'd
to attend, so she set to
work on her back-up plan
went on
Wythe School
of
to the Marshall
Law at
taste of
of
being one of few women.
"My
class
had
ever,
and
there
she
recalls. "I
who
the
women
most
were three of us,"
was
the only one
other
was
woman left
Through assignments from
Okinawa to North Carolina to
Rhode Island came that string of
"firsts,"
and
Chapman had never lost
sight of
the "military" part of her career
She had attended
Woman
Officer Candidate School in
and was commissioned
a
1966
second
the service, she
the only one until 1974.
including
head the Navy's
graduated."
Meanwhile, Albertson-
goal.
Marine judge advocates (the
military term for lawyer); after the
the
Mary in
College of William and
logical choice for this "townie,"
since she could live at
Corps Development and
Although she found she
Williamsburg, Va., where she got a
while Pacific battles persisted.
to attend
Cassell,
enjoyed teaching, the back-up
since she
bom in Newark, N.J., after World
save money.
and back row, Carl
first.'
Albertson-Chapman's lifelong
even
Glabis;
poses with her fellow
row: Jamer Riley,
Albertson-Chapman, John Ruebens and Anthony Mielczarski.
says the retired colonel, "whatever
I
left,
are, left to right, front
first
first
woman to
disability
woman
system
director of the
Navy's administrative appeals
board system.
It
was everything
she had dreamed of in the seventh
grade
— and more.
Albertson-Chapman eventually
and
lieutenant, with a deferment of
became
a frequent lecturer
her military service until she
panelist
on such
finished her education. After
clemency and parole, and judicial
attending
Woman Officer Basic
School in 1970, she
finally
went
being a teacher and received her
on
master's in education in 1969.
defense counsel in the Marine
active
duty
later that
year as
topics as Naval
conduct. She often wrote on the
topic of professional ethics.
She's
worked
for
both the
prosecution and the defense. At
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was
or so long, wnatever
one time, she
two
says, the
worked together
sides
to reach the best
and the Marine Corps.
"Military
much more
law
is,
in
my mind, so
professionally
practiced," she says. Today,
law
military
more
is
"civilianized,"
way
closer to her ideal. "If you've got
why do
a case against somebody,
you have
to
hide
Among the
The
the volunteer
awards she has
garnered are the Legion of Merit
she has served her alma mater as a
national bar association dedicated
board
and
veterans law and the clients they
serve.
Although she was the
official
executive director, she and
Chapman worked
the job as a
we were
the JAA," she says.
In
retired as JAA
the organizations Robertson O.
named her
Outstanding Alumna of the
and
on the board of the Friends
is
Library Association.
She and her husband
head and received
live
on
18 acres tucked away behind
Interstate
2003 Albertson-Chapman
and the Meritorious Service Medal
Bloomsburg
member of the Bloomsburg
University Alumni Association
of the Bloomsburg University
with two gold
stars.
also
community as a
board member of the Columbia
County United Way In addition,
for the
Advocates Association, the
team. "Everybody said
it?"
Albertson-Chapman
works
executive director of the Judge
to practitioners of military
she adds, noting that the old
is
area.
following year, Albertson-
Chapman became
decision for both the accused
individual
Washington, D.C.,
exit.
80s Berwick-Lime Ridge
They've created an away-
from-it-all setting
with a historic
house (parts of it date
to 1792),
University
in
Year
'My law school
1987 and Distinguished
Alumna
of the Year in 1991, and
had the most women ever, and there
was the only one who graduated.'
class
were three of us.
I
Bloomsburg High School
recognized her as a Graduate of
Distinction in 2003.
career,
Albertson-Chapman remained
single, socializing
with her
colleagues (mostly male)
and
their
Award
woods, a pond, ducks, geese,
cats
service to the principles of military
and koi
a
and veterans law and justice. The
little
couple had found that their
and
temporary
fast-paced military legal system in
Everett
Through most of her
for dedicated
role as lay pastors of
spouses. In the mid-1980s, she
the mission-oriented
became "almost
and Fowlersville United Methodist
another
woman
officer,
who
eventually died of cancer.
tears in
with
like sisters"
With
her eyes, Albertson-
Chapman
tells
the story of how
her friend asked her to take care
Lime Ridge
churches had grown into a more
permanent
for the JAA.
task, leaving less
time
fish,
plus a dog
too interested in the ducks
geese.
It's
a far cry
worked
many years.
for so
Despite
all
those career
to break
ground
simply to
fulfill
for
not a feminist," she says.
could have become
"Everyone
a lawyer
and gone
Chapman.
Corps.
was
married widower
Billy
"As a result of him,
I
have
five
children, 17 grandchildren
1996 the couple
retired,
returning to Bloomsburg from the
Albertson-Chapman returned to the
Bloomsburg area with her husband
when
the pair retired.
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she says her intention was never
grew into
and
from the
which Albertson-Chapman
of her family Eventually, that care
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IN
YOUR CAR, HAVE A HOT BATH.
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ALL TAKES
ENERGY AND MOST OF THAT COMES FROM PETROLEUM OR NATURAL GAS.
ROBERT MOORE
JR. '80, EXECUTIVE
DERIVATIVES AT
BMO
ENERGY TO FIND
ITS
MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR COMMODITY
MAKE
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STORY BY ERIC FOSTER
Twenty-seven floors below Bob Moore's
Reuters
facts.
news
ticker silently streams an
Across the
street,
director
on Times Square,
and head of commodity
Financial Group, scans the newswire for
whether the price of crude
the
latest
NASDAQ board tracks changes in
And in his comer office, Moore,
the financial markets.
managing
a two-story
office
unending parade of the
will creep
up
executive
derivatives for
BMO
Facts that will suggest
facts.
or slide down.
— each with
He gains other clues from his staff of 26 traders
of how much risk he or she can underwrite through
products.
Moore scans
the traders' books, analyzing their results in
terms of delta, gamma, vega, theta and rho
describe, value
a limit
investment
and manage
—
trader jargon that helps
billions of dollars in trades in the energy
commodities markets.
The business
is
complex, with the traders supported by a
staff
of
10 risk analysts and eight accountants.
"Energy trading
is
like a
grown-up kids game," he
Moore worked long and hard to play.
Moore began his career with Sun Oil Co.
says.
It's
a
game
that
member of Sun's 1980
years
in Philadelphia.
financial associate class,
he spent
his
A
first
two
on corporate work before graduating from the program and
spending another year in corporate finance.
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But, he
became
restless and,
while waiting to enter
graduate school, applied for a job within
Sun
coordinating petroleum product and crude
Sun Oil was one
months
ships around for nine
"The
oil
recalls
of the major
three days,
be an
"I
I
had,
left
said, 'start
tore
1
up
working on
welcomed me
wanted
to
first
assignment was complex and
Coordinate the loading of a ship
two countries with
— unleaded
residual fuel
too
particular grades of five products
— and
then have
dates to six ports in Chile.
documentary
credit,
all
at three ports
gas, leaded gas, heating oil, jet fuel
was written with
by long days,
it
delivered
by
sleepless
a trader.
various forms: crude
oil,
Along the
semi-refined feed stock,
heating
oil
and
off of
gasoline.
A native
of Corry, a remote
town
Lake Erie in western Pennsylvania, Moore
transferred to Bloomsburg's accounting
COVERED FROM A FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE.'
The
its
getting the job done.
oil trader."
typical.
after his first year
Moore's success grew from an intense focus on
to the
this contract.' After
I
and
and the dream of becoming
diesel, kerosene, jet fuel,
'YOU FIND THE MOLECULES; WE'VE GOT YOU
in
nights
my boss was on vacation,"
the grad school apps.
the challenge
way, he acquired an intimate knowledge of petroleum
until school started
a note that
purchased
that
he was ranked the company's top
coordinator, a feat achieved
thought moving
in
deal
Moore. "He
group and
Moore loved
tankers
fun.
first
on behalf of the company
in operations
shippers in the world," says Moore.
would be
Oil
the cargo.
around the world.
"At that time,
Sun
program from
a public administration
and finance
program
Drake University in 1978. He worked on and
at
off
campus and swam varsity freestyle for three semesters.
"I had a goal to be All-Amencan," says Moore. "The
coach thought I had a great shot at it. But I had a lot of
loans, and I was worried about getting a job. I couldn't
do it with the debt and course load. I walked away
and
specified
The challenge? The contract
from swimming."
Instead,
dean's
list
Moore focused on academics,
and got
a great job offer
hit the
from Sunoco
when
a
letter of
meaning
that
hundreds of pages of
shipping documents
with
all
applicable load
and discharge port
stamps, inspection
certificates, bills of
lading
and
in
invoices,
most
both Spanish and
English,
had
be
to
delivered to a Chilean
bank within 30 days. If
the documents weren't
totally correct, the
was not obligated
"New York
is
bank
to
pay
the
business capital of the
world," says Robert
Moore. "And
it's
a great
people-watching place."
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Bearing the
Burden
Derivatives are
among
the most complex financial products
they serve an important function
he graduated
two
He remembers
John Dennen
in 1980.
in accounting
and Tejbajn
Siani in
"and showed that our
recalls,
"At
he
BM0, we make
consumers
large
of
why
In 1986 he
life.
when
play and
Moore would
often
wake
huge gains
— and
the energy producer
is
—and
would have
airlines,
Moore
prices.
If
in relief
airlines,"
hedge
their jet fuel
demand
which
fixed the price of jet fuel for the airline
hedge
did
significantly last year, are not
we will
reduce the
risk of volatility
from energy
got you covered from a financial perspective."
at
Moore spends
working on
office.
to regions
throughout
the time brushing
his
PDA. "This
oriented. Everything in the
up on
world
the
is
affected
and trading is very quick, very volatile," he
western Europe and the Pacific Rim. He's met with
of it's based
OPEC
on
news and
very current events-
field is
North and South America, west Africa, eastern and
most of the world's
by
energy,
says.
"the hype, then the technical
A lot
and then
the fundamentals."
nations,
When oil traded
large refiners, state-owned oil
for
$40
a barrel in June, for
companies, producers and large and small trading
example, Moore said the price should instead be $30
houses. And, he's served
to $32,
on committees
for
While not trading
markets," he says.
away from
multiple
cell
His wife
Rory, 18;
life,
I
you never
remember
"I can't
the phone.
Moore remains
directly today,
hands-on. "In a traders
forget
about the
the last time
I
was
have a Blackberry, a fax and
phones with
Amanda and
and Samantha,
me all
a '69
a refinery blew up, the cost of gasoline
the gas today By the time
you did need
especially
$750 when he graduated from BU
— although
its
when so much
is
much volatility,
based on something as
unpredictable as public sentiment. That's where firms
like
Moore's
"We
for
been
that gas, the
would be made up."
Businesses and industries that produce and use
energy are unable to plan for that
Mustang Fastback he purchased
would
capacity
14, have learned to live with
made easier by
He even has
accounts for
shoot through the roof," he says. "But you don't need
the time."
Moore's genuine, down-to-earth nature.
first car,
"If
What
and hype.
their children Bobby, 20;
the wired nature of his career, a feat
his
based on the fundamentals.
the cost difference? Psychology
organizations related to the energy industry.
do
come
in.
take the risk, so people can
do what they
b
best."
extensively restored.
Like most Manhattan workers, his
weekday begins
with an hour-long train commute from Connecticut.
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Eric Foster
he says,
from creditors and the
you're an energy producer, you find the molecules; we've
heading to work and checking the London energy
representatives of two-thirds of the
a
the
adds.
you're a glass company,
and metal's
"Most major
for the airline industry.
his staff
"Other
levels.
market from the
him
in
free to concentrate on
5:30 a.m. before hopping in the shower,
Moore's career has taken
energy
a fixed cost of $25 million to extract
lower.
example,
market
"If
at
check Algerian markets
were
looking for relief,"
4:30 a.m. to check the energy markets in
Russia, then
prices
In this
at
always in
is
may face
firm
federal government." But, they admit they didn't
electricity to his
The trading game
oil
The same theory holds
next decade, he worked for a variety of
arsenal.
BM0 Financial Group. "We take on their market
"are looking for hundreds of millions of dollars
a petroleum trader and, over the
adding gas and
for
so they can focus on their core business."
the core business of extracting the energy.
same kind of
that
focus in his professional
firms,
Houston,
Working with firms such as Moore's, the producer can lock
field.
potential for
I
swim my senior year."
Moore displayed
became
New York,
in
fixed price for the crude. Investors absorb the risk of falling prices
transferred to Bloomsburg.
I'm not sure he ever understood
did not
from a
"Coach McLaughlin was the
I
many producers and
North American markets for
energy and metals from our offices
commodity derivatives
For example, an
always there to do whatever he could for
reason
of
his coach, Eli
McLaughlin, as extremely competitive but
final
create business plans and prepare budgets
possibilities
volatility risk
his team.
ski resorts to
Calgary and Chicago," says Bob Moore, executive managing director and head
remembers
also
from producers
uncertain weather.
were endless."
He
existence, but
in
risk
despite volatile prices for their products, changing costs for materials or even
economics. "Siani was very involved
in international organizations,"
farmers and
firms,
economy by shifting
energy producers, manufacturers, construction
to investors. Derivatives allow
influential professors,
our
in
is
co-editor of Bloomsburg:
The University
Magazine.
19
News Notes
Top Profs
Ferland and Kass named outstanding professors
Farewell to a
Warm Friend
Kevin Ferland,
science and
Tony the Baker dies
assistant professor of
statistics,
and Darrin
mathematics, computer
Kass, assistant professor of
management, received the Teaching and Learning Enhance-
Dominic A. "Tony the Baker"
Bloomsburg
for
40
Cusatis,
head baker
at
May at the age of 84.
During many of his
years, died in
years at BU, he partici-
PKT'^Sil
pated in the
±
He was named
t
Bloomsburg
in 1986.
the Battle of
his
thrilled to
Alumni
fall,
sergeant in the
for the
D-Day
to
be enrolled in
the
this professor,
knowledge or confidence
to
I
even give
Much like Ferland, Kass has become a mentor to
One said, "In an environment that fosters learning
learning
becomes
this professor,
Bloomsburg
a realistic adventure.
is
lucky to have a professor as thorough and enjoyable as
gentleman."
graduates nominated outstanding
professors for the award using an on-line nomination
Entrepreneurs with
$750 monetary award, funded
process. Recipients receive a
by the Bloomsburg University Foundation
Free Enterprise win regional competition
Enterprise (SIFE)
in
in
New
based on the
is
projects each
campus group
undertakes throughout the
year and
is
judged by 20
Study Partners
Bloomsburg University and fuzerne County Community College
formalized two agreements last spring.
agreement eases the transfer process
their college studies at
business professionals. This
year, SIFE's projects
ceremonies.
Bloomsburg forges agreements with LCCC
York City last spring. The
competition
plaque
Free
team won the
regional competition
Inc., a
and recognition by BUs President Jessica Kozloff at the May
commencement
Bloomsburg's Students
helped a
A
dual-admissions
for students
fCCC with plans
to
who
begin
complete their
coursework at BU. Under the agreement, when a student
registers for the dual-admissions
program at fCCC, he or she
low-income family purchase a
guaranteed admission to the
house. Other projects focused
earning an associate's degree and completing other course
on helping people plan their
requirements. Sixty credits will transfer from Bloomsburg.
financial futures
orphanage. Berwick Offray supported SIFE's
a Bangladesh
trip to
their participation in the national competition in
New York
Kansas
A
and raising
funds to provide a sanitary
toilet for
Kass, assistant professor of
am now incredibly
from multiple perspectives, created solely by
in
Bloomsburg University
Conscience
Kass
I
Ph.D. program that begins this
a
May and August 2004
Damn
the
I
students.
invasion of
Association.
in
now realize
my students a disservice by not
with a very nice fellowship. Without
this
Students
I
graduate school a chance."
and the
Normandy. Memorial contributions
example,
to apply for graduate school.
would not have
Battal-
ion, Cusatis received
name may be made
me
aged
the Bronze Star
this professors
truly appreciating the subject matter. This professor encour-
An Army veteran of
105th Medical
Bronze Arrowhead Award
Through
World War II and a
staff
Dominic A. Cusatis
subject.
would have been doing
an honorary alumnus
of
The students who nominated Ferland said he pushes
to achieve more than they could imagine.
One student said, "I entered BU wanting a job and to
work with students, but did not care all that much about
pass-
ing out goodies along
the way.
graduate students.
them
Home-
coming parades,
ment Centers Outstanding Teaching Award for 2004.
Ferland and Kass were nominated by undergraduate and
City.
management, was the group's
City
BU
in
and
Darrin
adviser.
parallel
is
major at Bloomsburg after
second agreement allows fCCC graduates to complete a
bachelor's degree by taking
Nanticoke. The program
this fall
is
in
all
courses at the LCCC campus
elementary education started
just the beginning of a long-term relationship that
could bring other Bloomsburg programs to residents
in
the
Wilkes-Barre region.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
She's
Sports Stars
Heard a Rumor
Donovan
writes book on Internet,
Five join Athletic Hall of
Fame
urban legends
Five alumni athletes will
be
inducted into Bloomsburg
University's Athletic Hall
of
Fame
during
home-
coming weekend.
Tony Caravella
'80
posted a wrestling career record of
all-time
12-28-2, sixth on Bloomsburg s
1
He won an Eastern Wrestling League
list.
senior year after finishing second the
a three-time
PSAC champion and
title
two previous
during his
years.
He was
a three-time qualifier for the
NCAA championships.
Craig Diehl
'82, a
standout on the tennis courts, racked up a then-
school record 99 wins against 30 losses (now tied for seventh on the
Pamela Donovan
all-time
Should you believe those "forwards" you receive in
e-mail from friends
and family? Pamela Donovan,
tant professor of sociology, social
justice, investigates
work and
Internet in her book,
via the
"No Way of Knowing: Crime,
Donovan finds that
the Internet."
the Internet helps urban legends spread
Daneen
criminal
the spread of urban legends
Urban Legends, and
assis-
faster,
but
she's
not convinced that technology has created more of them.
list).
He won
four
along with four team
at
favorites:
(Fero) Zaleski '89
for a total of 53 points.
Player of the Year
and
to the hospital
learns that one of his kidneys has been
removed.
Barb
-A woman
is
trying
on
clothes in a
department store when
matter of minutes they discover the child in a women's fitting
in
on all-time
1,032,
fifth
list).
Donovan
both have a
critical
is
true,
such
of the
as the lipstick;
is
Kelly (Knaus) Klamut '86
individual medley.
basketball with
list
was
(now
,357 points
with 91 and sixth
in
career
a four-year standout swimmer,
teams
to
both 1985 and 1986
part of
in
two
the
relay
1983 and a three-time PSAC.
in
This class brings membership
Fame
in
1
03.
The
Hall of
Fame
in
the Bloomsburg Athletic Hall of
dinner will be held Saturday, Oct.
Bloomsburg University sports information
1
6,
office at
for ticket information.
and
an
esoteric element,
Student Trustee
such as
a moral.
Shymansky
is
newest Trustee
Translation
joined the
in
BU
in
is
secondary
education and communication
Spanish for Social Services class translated brochures for the Hunger
studies.
Pennsylvania action programs to promote services available to
She formerly served as
Community Government Associa-
the commonwealth's fatino residents. Hidalgo-DeJesus' Spanish for
tion press secretary. Trustees are
the Health Profession students created ads to inform the Latino
appointed by the governor.
community about health related issues through the Northumberland
FALL 2004
Beach Haven,
pursuing a dual major
Students from associate professor Amarilus Hidalgo-DeJesus'
Clinic Project of Central Pennsylvania.
representative
Council of Trustees
June. Jennifer Shymansky, a
junior from
Migrant
1
She was an All-American as
Spanish classes make info accessible
in
II
BU's all-time leading rebounder with
A new student
in
National
II
element of plausibility, as well as the
the kidney removal;
Found
Division
1987 Division
but
elements of a successful rumor or urban legend: familiar
details,
women's
earning individual All-American honors
570-389-4413
points out that neither story
in
She
on the all-time blocked shot
at Monty's. Call the
different color.
She was All-American and
1988 and a member
(Hall) Fallon '91 finished her career as the school's second
room, dressed in different clothing with her hair cut and dyed
a
soccer midfielder for four seasons
steals with 221.
400
her young daughter disappears. She alerts security and in a
was
National Championship team.
fifth
- A man wakes in a hotel bathtub packed with ice after
bringing home a woman from a bar. On the mirror written in
lipstick is the message "Call 911 now or you will die." He goes
singles titles and three double crowns
Bloomsburg. During her career, she scored 19 goals and 15 assists
all-time leading scorer
A few of Donovan's
PSAC
titles.
Jennifer
Shymansky
21
News Notes
Adding
Success
BU math team ranks
in
top 10 percent
A BU team
ranked
the top
in
1
percent at the Mathematical
Contest
in
Modeling, achieving
the distinction of meritorious
winners.
A total
participated
in
of
599 teams
the international
contest, earning four categories
of distinction: outstanding
winners (top
1
percent),
meritorious winners (next
percent), honorable
(next 27 percent)
1
mention
and successful
participants (last 62 percent).
five
The
outstanding winners
included teams from Harvard and
Peking University.
Among
meritorious winners
the
were MIT,
UC-Berkeley and Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. Honorable
mention teams included
Bloomsburg's Mathematical Modeling team consists
Bucknell, Cornell and Duke.
and Megan Holben. Seated
is
of,
rear from
left:
Michelle Smith, Steven Gentner
team adviser Kevin Ferland.
Civic
Kiplinger Intern
Engagement
Student earns spot with prestigious publisher
Organizations register
Christine Vainer spent her
working
as
summer
hundreds of new voters
an intern with Kiplinger
Washington
Editors, the
media company
that publishes Kiplinger Newsletter,
and
numerous other
newsletters
books each
Varner earned the
year.
by
several
Mifflinville,
Vamer
is
Columbia
County over the past
one of
were Democracy Matters,
a non-partisan student
30 students selected for the program
group aimed
from more than 800 applicants.
students in politics,
Kiplingers,
year.
Participating organizations
A junior mass communications
major from
500 new
registered nearly
voters being in
American Society of Magazine
Editors.
efforts of several
student organizations
internship through a program sponsored
the
The
one of the country's leading
at
involving
and
the Students Organized to
media companies, reports and analyzes
Learn through Volunteer-
economic and
lsm and Employment
political issues
significant presence in
a
White House and
Congressional reporting.
Christine Varner
and has
(SOLVE)
Office.
general election
The
is
sched-
uled for Tuesday, Nov.
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the opportunity to help themselves.
— Doris Keller Hosier
'48
Doris Keller Hosier understood that scholarships make
a lasting difference in students' lives.
Out of gratitude
for the experiences
and opportunities
gained from her Bloomsburg State Teachers College
education, she created a scholarship for business
education majors in 1997. She also included funds for
the scholarship in her estate.
The
its
If
If
Keller Hosier Scholarship has
now
nearly doubled
value and will assist students for generations to come.
you are thinking of supporting Bloomsburg University now or
we want to hear from you.
you would
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Life-time
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the future. Tax
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based on an
trust.
Two people, both aged 60, can receive a 5.4
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life.
For additional information,
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Husky Notes
Ben Hancock of Tolland, Conn., visited the former Buckhorn School near Bloomsburg, where he
7/1 f |
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taught briefly 40 years ago, and was the guest of honor at a
birthday party attended by former students.
and administrator in Connecticut before
'/£ ^5
John J. Boback,
V-J*_/
Elysburg
is
He was
a principal
retiring in 1980.
a real estate professional
running
from
for Pennsylvania State
Senate from the 27th District.
John
'64
R. "Jack"
Madden was elected to
Alumni Honored
a second
Mass., in May.
He and his wife Judith Whaite Madden
from
'62
Souderton Area School
left,
Henry
have two grown children, Kelly and Reese.
Lowell "Art" Tinner
were honored on Alumni Day
Five grads
three-year term as selectman for Williamstown,
retired as superintendent of the
Year;
District.
B. Haitz
and
civil
president;
nuclear engineering at Perm State University's
'68
is
serving
(Md.) School System. She and husband
have dinner a couple times a year with Randy Hess
'69,
Knapp Todd
Tom Eastep
'68
'69, Julia
ing,
7
Lisbeth Copes retired from the Harford County
Jones Hess
Bradenton,
Wayne
'69,
are,
Fla.,
BU Alumni
John
of the
'81 of
New York City,
presi-
Association; Jessica Kozloff, university
Kwasnoski
B.
Young Alumnus
'67 of
Ludlow, Mass., Distin'63 of
Wyomiss-
Distinguished Service Award.
Edward
1
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They
of Alexandria, Va., Distinguished
guished Service Award; and Joseph A. Rado
on a National Academies'
Board of Radioactive Waste Management Committee.
Materials Research Institute,
'86 of
Service Award; Sheri Lippowitsch
Barry Scheetz, professor of materials,
\J/
III
Joanne M. Cashman 70
dent of the
/^^[7
in April.
Carole Derricottof Allentown, Honorary Alumna;
C. Barrett
is
executive vice president
Leesport Financial Corp.
at
Debbie
Eastep '69 and Joan
/ ^/
Charles Macunas
|
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and her husband Harry
is
principal of
Haddam-
Killingworth High School, Higganum, Conn.
Charles L. Miller, superintendent of the Hamburg Area
School District from 1991 to 2003, was honored
school's baseball field
was named
for
7 ^7' W
when the
five years playing in the minor leagues.
Pamela Smith was inducted into the Berwick High School
Academic Hall of Fame. She is the general superior of the Sisters
of Ss. Cyril and Methodius and president of Maria Joseph Manor
and The Meadows in Danville.
included
Carol Kishbaugh Bowen, project director
^^
/
him. His baseball career
Program,
for
Schuylkill County's Retired Senior Volunteer
is
serving as president of the Pennsylvania Association
of National Senior Service
Corps Project Directors.
Robert Casey was inducted into the Pennsylvania High
School Speech Leagues Hall of Fame.
Barry Feudale, Northumberland County senior judge, was
appointed a visiting senior judge on the Commonwealth Court
7^CCj
Paul J. Dufallo of Hazleton, an attorney with
\J S
Michael J. O'Connor
of Pennsylvania.
& Associates LLC, has more
than 20 years experience in workers' compensation cases.
He
at
of the 153rd Legal Support Squadron,
Fort Dix,
Detachment
N J.
1,
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court appointed
to preside over the 21st statewide
Robert
and his wife Kathleen are parents of a son Colin.
Colin Hannings, a lieutenant colonel in the Army, assumed
command
him
E. Fisher
Hospital, Brookville.
/
'
/ ./
/ AJ
is
president
and
grand jury.
CEO
of Brookville
He and his wife Jill have
Barry Ansel was promoted
three sons.
to executive vice
president of corporate banking at
Lebanon
Valley Farmers Bank.
Thomas
officer
more Husky Notes online
www.bloomualumni.com.
Find
at
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
Bixler
is
executive vice president, chief credit
with Sun Bancorp
Inc.
He is
married to the former Jane
Martin 76.
Ed Edwards, president of the Bloomsburg Area Chamber of
Commerce, received die 2003 Keystone Award for Outstanding
Service by a Chamber of Commerce executive. He is the husband
of Nancy Feher Edwards 70.
Doug McClintock of Doylestown volunteered with Discovery Service Projects in Merida, Mexico, building houses in an
area devastated
by Hurricane
Isadore two years ago.
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Ron Sheehan was
inducted into the Southeastern
Senior Student Affairs Officer Practitioner Award.
Mark Weinberger is vice
Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame.
president of sales
and
marketing for Headline Products. Mark can be reached
'75
M. Robin Hutchinson Hitchcock
is
senior vice president of National
Gail Balliet Vogel
nial Intermediate
is
of Boyertown
Penn Bank.
director of special education for Colo-
Unit 20. She
is
mother of two daughters.
the
Greg Ault
'81
bank human
resources business partner director at Wachovia
David M. Furman
Roseann Murello
^7^7
/ /
William Dennis is Berks County administrator.
He and wife Susan have four children.
Randall Fegley, a lecturer in history and administrative
assistant for academic affairs at Penn State Berks-Lehigh
Valley, published the book "The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk."
Edward Y. Given Jr. 77/MBA wrote a children's book,
"Molly, The Ten-Toed Tree; Toe Tale One: The Wishing Star."
Carol Batzel Haile published her second
children's
Maureen Marcus Straub joined
and commercial
vice president
her husband Phillip
7 ^7%J
/
is
executive vice
Penn Bank, Boyertown,
audit and loan review.
Inc.
Patricia Crone-Zalinski, director of
at
Bloomsburg
William Patt accepted
Bothell, Wash.
at
lives in
Emmaus with
Kristen Curtis
Russell
Altieri
Blase
is
Black
is
Rebekah Rose, Nov. 13,2003
Michelle Stabler Sheffer
and enforcement
Department of Banking.
Thomas McCormick is executive vice
his wife
'91
and husband, Greg, a daughter.
He
is
a partner at
Wiss
president and
& Slot, Pleasantville, N.J. He,
AC Coin
and two children live
in
Galloway Township,
Christine Shepps Strong, dean of student
N.J.
affairs at
SUNY
Potsdam, received the American College Personnel Association
William Brooks
&
'95 and wife,
Denise, a son, Mitchell William,
March
23,
2004
Karen Yezerski Volpi
Madison Rae, March 1,2003
Leonardo Bruno, Dec.
Amanda
'92, a son,
Ryan
'95
and husband, Stefano, a son,
Andrea Algatt
1 1
2003
,
Shuler '95 and
Matthew, Nov. 28, 2003
Jeremy Shuler
Amy Havard Schumaker '92
daughters, Blake Meredith
and husband, David, a son,
May
2002
Lisa
Rutkowski Loftus
Jack,
'92 and
Dawn, a
'93 and
son, Luca Michael,
12,
'95,
Elizabeth,
2004
and husband,
Brian, a daughter,
Bronte,
Tina Delorey
Ron Brown
March
'98, a
Condron Savage
Todd Monos
16,
Brown
Madison Rae, Feb.
'93 and
twin
Amy Bond Trumbauer '96
Emma
May 9, 2003
Ellen
and Colleen
March
director of special
director of supervision
general counsel at
a daughter.
Nov. 27, 2003
Anne Arundel County (Md.)
She and her husband Mark are parents of Kelli
for Pennsylvania's
Warner '87 and
Warner '89,
Joseph Ciccarone
and Christopher.
Tim
vice president
LLP.
her
education for
Public Schools.
his
New Jersey Society of Certified Public
husband, Mark, a son, Aidan
to vice president for
their four children.
Diane
He and
and Lauren.
Births
wife,
'80
of the
Jim Thorpe
California.
Kevin Kerrigan was appointed
Accountants for 2004-2005.
25,
a position with Biotech (Ceptyr Inc.)
Lutron Electronics. She
husband Steve and
Work Community
University.
Carol Bogaczyk Young was promoted
personnel
Northum-
berland County Area Agency on Aging, received
a certificate of appreciation from the Social
in
from Kennedy Western University in
wife Rita have three children, Scott, Frank
j£/
in the
and
president of National
Advisory Board
MIS
earned a doctoral degree in education
District,
First Federal as a senior
Ted Konas is chief financial officer, EMJAY Display Inc.
Thomas Renaldo is medical director at the Phoebe Home
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Allentown. An attending
physician at the home, he also is in private practice.
Robert Zigment is vice president of finance for Kunzler &
'79
Lawrence
at
secondary sum-
district's
live in Trucksville.
serving as director of internal
Co.
Area School
Company
relationship manager. She
Brian T. Appleton of Mohnton,
C3
dean of students
to
Jeffry S. Nietz of Coaldale, senior high school guidance
Kj^d
Carol Morgan, corporate vice president of Serento Gardens,
assistant
is
was promoted
Penn Bank.
of West Chester
counselor and assistant administrative
book, "A Dream Vacation."
Hazleton, was honored for 25 years of service.
of Athens (Pa.) Borough
bank manager/relation-
High School, Cedarhurst, N.Y and the
mer academy and testing coordinator.
/
illustrated
assistant
senior vice president of National
Corp. Charlotte, N.C.
7
member
M&T Bank in Athens.
Judy Lutz MacNeal
general
is
a
is
is
He
Council.
ship manager for
7 ^//C
at
mweinberger@headlineproducts.com or 732-593-0416.
2004
'96
and
daughter,
4,
2004
'99 and wife,
husband, Michael, a son,
a daughter, Grace Elizabeth,
Matthew
March
Kevin, Oct.
17,2003
23,
Liz,
2004
Chris Pagotto '93 and Melissa
Stephanie Briggs Wachira
Kane Pagotto
and Charles Wachira
'94,
a daughter,
Madison Grace, March
27,
2004
daughter, Nadia
'99,
Wairimu
'99
a
Thuita,
Aug. 23, 2003
Milt Scholl '95 and wife,
Jen, a daughter, Claire Ashley,
April!
4,
2004
Jennifer Kovaschetz Frye 00
a son, Daniel Robert, Dec.
5,
2003
Husky Notes
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CJ*_J
J e ff Aeppli of Stevensville, an assistant vice
president at Citizens
Northern Bank, joined
&
the bank's commercial lending team.
7 CJ^^
Tony Duran
CJ*-J
of Phoenixville,
is
of alternate channel development for
He and
Corp., Philadelphia.
his wife Michelle
Comcast
have twin
Jim Griggs is manager of accounting for Woolrich Inc. He
his wife Mary have two children, Mike and Sarah. They
and
assistant
is
middle/high school
LLC,
S.
Chismar joined Erie Financial Group
Community Banks, as a
a subsidiary of
Sue Barrett Laughead is vice
ville
and Anderson,
Eric Stark
Family
president/controller respon-
Budweiser of Columbia, Green-
at
Cornell University
He
presented workshops at two regional professional conferences
sponsored by the National Academic Advising Association and
the National Association of Social Workers.
S.C.
chief executive officer of the
is
of Music."
ing for the College of Engineering
mortgage originator.
sible for financial operations of
von Trapp in the
er at the
Resurrection in Yardley.
Edward
as Captain
An environmental science and biology teachCarbon County Area Vo-Tech School, Jim Thorpe, he
is married to Lynne Zanolini 70.
Mark Murphy is regional advertising sales manager for the
Bucks County Courier Times.
Rich Robbins is director of academic advising and counselSound
Sharon Taylor is pastor of Lutheran Church of the
CJTjC
wealth College Distinguished Faculty Outreach Award.
Pennsylvania Theatre of Performing Arts' production of "The
principal in the Burgettstown Area School District.
7 ^j/f
John Chapin, assistant professor of communications
Perm State Beaver Campus, received a fellowship from the
Amencan Society of Newspaper Editors Institute for Journalism
Excellence. John also received the 2003 Perm State Common-
Drew Coffman starred
Creek Township.
Tracy H. Schooley
his wife Cynthia
at
daughters, Carolyn and Julia.
reside in Pine
He and
have two children.
senior director
Laura Toole
Lower Bucks
director for outreach
is
Northeast Regional Cancer
YMCA.
and education
at the
Institute.
Marriages
Gregory Stahora 73 and Diane
William Pitcavage
Petruska
Alycia Darcangelo, Feb. 14,
Manning 79 and
Phyllis Eileen
Bernard Zaikoski, Feb.
7,
2004
Mary Ann Michalyshin
'81
2004
Jeffrey Schmidt '93 and Julia
Martin, Feb 28,
and
'93 and
Karen Craig
2004
'94 and Kevin
2004
George Gochalla
Weingarten, April
Maria Giovanna Scali '85 and
James McCarthy, June 28, 2003
Kimberly Barker
'94 and Michael
Stephensson, Oct.
3,
Lori
McDonnell
Nixon, Oct.
3,
'85 and Brian
2003
Jason Williams
Tammy
2003
Kerry Reidinger
Bernard Pomidor
2003
'95 and
Michelle Phillippy
Trent Bentzel '85 and Suzette
Herrick, Dec. 9,
4,
Jr. '86
Deborah Seebold, Aug.
III,
Polly Mullen '96 and Thomas
Nov. 1,2003
Batenburg
Pohutsky, Oct. 18,2003
Paul Archambault
Lyn Grovich '97 and Jerry Sands
Katherine Lantrip
Shewack
'97
and Michael
Lagowy
Franko
Greta Lynn Luckenbill '89 and
Joseph Olivacz
Jennifer Kane
McGurnn,
Melissa
April 26,
and Shawn
2003
McCracken
'92
Joshua
'93 and
Dan
Winey, July 26, 2003
Grady Forbes
Sept. 27,
2003
'93
and
Elizabeth
Feb.
Rice,
Annette
Chad
Allison Krutsch '98 and
Jacob
Remaley'OlM, June
2003
21,
Stacy Louise Koehler
'98 and
Jason Weston,
2003
April 26,
Brian Karpinski '98 and
Kristy
Richard McDonald '98 and
Kevin
Wright, Oct.
'95 and
2003
and
21,2004
'95 and
Oscar Urbina, Nov. 14,2003
Amy
'98 and
11,2003
Becky Ann Cady
Oct 11,2003
Genoese
and Jason
2003
and
2004
Poticher, Sept. 20,
Shane Kupsky,
Henry, Dec. 21,2003
Webb
'98
Fitzgerald
Wendy Seesholtz '95M
'93 and Kevin
Betsy Harshbarger
'95,
'97
Ted
'99, Sept. 20,
Stone, July 11, 2003
Cory Michele Cowles
and
Eric Dietz
Nancy Yoder
6,
Kristen Ricci '95 and
Waschko
'97 and Kristin
Anne Marie Glaze
'95 and Cynthia
Mathewson, March
Michele
'97 and
Treas, Oct.
Michael Clark
2003
'98 and
Julie
Nadine Yarmush
'91
Bauman
HeeneyJr., July19. 2003
Chernouskas,May31,2003
Ertel, Oct. 28,
'96 and George
Jarrett Roth '96 and Pamela
Scott Miner '89 and Karen
'95 and
'97 and Bradley
2003
'98
Ann Wolk
and
Kirschner, Nov. 8,
Mollie Blaum Endler
Stephen Tully
William
2003
Michelle Daiute
2004
and Delbert McDermott
Alex Styczen, July 19, 2003
23,
6,
James Babbish
Brogan
'95
'96 and
Walloff
Alyssa Alberts
Kimberly
'95 and
Melissa Corcoran
and
Heather Musselman
Aaron Bartholomew, Feb.
Piazza '96 and Eric
Vasquez, Sept. 27, 2003
'97 and Jeffrey
Sarah Lichtenwalner, Aug.
2003
4,
Stephanie Diane Gallagher
and George Law, Sept.
Meredith Mulka
'97
6,
2003
and Bradley
Sutton,
June
'97
6,
and Sean
Jr. '97
Debra Stone, Sept.
6,
2,
2003
Wyandt '99 and Damon
Kimble, Sept. 20, 2003
Heather Derek
'01,
Aug.
'99 and
2,
Lee
2003
Jerry Bragalone '99M and
Jaimie Geary, Dec. 30, 2003
2003
Michael Kaleta
Charisse
Senior
Peganoff, Feb. 22, 2003
Joyce Hegyi
'97
and
2003
Beth Anne Edwards
'99 and
Benjamin Logsdon, Dec. 30, 2003
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Michael Gigler
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is
manager
senior relationship
in First Union's commercial banking division.
Henry Haitz
is
Group
for the Shipley
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Troop R, Blooming Grove.
He
He and
and Angelo,
is
station
Kaitlin, 15;
7.
John J. Miravich was
John
and
Equipment Finance,
executive vice president
is
a
is
the
new principal
of Broadford-
Md.
Sandy Haflett Butters, case manager with Guthrie Hospice,
earned certification in hospice and palliative nursing.
Dan Klingerman was inducted into the District 4
ing Christian Academy, Hagerstown,
Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
elected treasurer of the alumni
association of the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania
State University
Braas
chief operating officer at
Richard "Rick" Burkett
com-
his wife, the
former Kathleen Skctek, have three children:
Casey, 12;
partner with Beard Miller Co. in the
subsidiary of Sterling Financial Corp.
in York.
Marshall A. Martin of Selinsgrove was promoted to
at
is
office.
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vice president of human resources
lieutenant in the Pennsylvania State Police.
mander
Reading
president and publisher of the
III is
Bradenton Herald newspaper in Florida.
Bret Hoffrnaster
Steven Morehart
firm's
practices law with the firm of Stevens
&
Jeffrey L. Leberfinger
is
ager of geophysical services
Janet Molluzzo Richie
Lee in Reading.
vice president
is
and general man-
ARM Group Inc., Harrisburg.
at
chief operating officer of the
Greater Hazleton Health Alliance, responsible for operations of
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Arlin Thrush joined the Berwick law firm of Saba,
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Juli
Ann
Martin,
Frey '99 and Andrew
June
Jo Ellen
7,
2003
Lisa Mickalonis '00 and
Endler
Matthew
Adam
Lore Hunt
May
Jodi Keller '00 and Keith Moore,
24,
'01
and Sean Haines,
2003
Jennifer Moscufo
Nov.
Jamie Butler '99 and David
Powers '01, March 27, 2004
Robert Gourley '00M and Alison
Oct.
Smith, July 26, 2003
Amanda Bowman
Korryn Kamarauskas '99 and
Justin
James Bogdan
Kennedy, Feb. 14,2004
'94.
Aug.
9,
2003
Tara Pearson '99 and Jonathan
Desiderio,
June
22,
2003
Cummings
Susan Morrison
Stoneback '01
'00 and Tara
Schwalm, Sept.
Mark
'00 and
David
Hilburt,
Baylor,
Danielle Chilcote '99 and Jason
Bailey, Oct.
18,2003
Darlene Weihbrecht
'99 and
Robert Steinberger, June 28, 2003
Sharon Lynn Brown
'99 and
'00 and Barry
Oct.
Madden
01 and
Noll,
June
14,
18,2003
Lindsay Ashenfelder
'01
Jeffrey Farley,
and Brian
Aug. 29, 2003
June
28,
John Henry Stanley
2003
'03
and
2003
'03
and
Crystal Schultz '00 and Paul
Joel Bachert, Oct. 25, 2003
Colleen Istvanik '03 and
Showers
Shelly Hess '02 and Robert
Stephen Brodbeck, Dec. 20, 2003
Oct.
Jr..
1 1
Chad Dietterick
Hess, Oct.
2003
,
and Amber
'00
2003
4,
March
Kelly Elizabeth Byrne '99 and
Christine Amitia
Matthew
Nicole Cooney '99 and Brent
April 17,
Tomek, Sept. 27, 2003
Sean Flueso
'01
'00 and
2003
and
2004
Bower, Aug.
Kerri
29,
Poinsett 00.
Ann
2,
'01
and Stephanie
'01
Smith, Oct. 18,2003
and William
Pecharo
Grace, Sept. 10,2003
Leshinski, Aug. 30,
ErinDeibler, Nov. 1,2003
Erica Otero '03 and Jason
'02 and Peter
Amber Karpinsky '02 and
Oct.
Bell,
11,2003
Shanna McCloskey 03 and
Russell
2003
J.C.Keefer, Oct. 18,2003
Chad Davis
'03 and
Rebecca
Melissa Long
'02 and Michael
Gebhardt
Matula, Aug.
2003
Jennifer Deschaine '03 and
2,
Toni-Ann Mancuso 02 and
James
2003
Cicci
Hauer, Oct. 25, 2003
Kristy
Stephanie McPherson
William Ruth
Smith, Oct. 4, 2003
18,2003
Michelle Rinehimer 02 and
Justin Risser,
'00 and Crystal
Oct.
Vought, Sept. 20, 2003
Byron McHenry, Oct. 18,2003
Frank Covelusky
III,
Miranda Brooke Chasse 03
and Andrew Soisson
Stephen
Jay Moore,
Jamie Watts
and Mark
Klinger 03 and
Stefanie Palmer 03 and
Erika
2003
Jill
John Eisenhauer
Amanda Mazzante
Deebel, Sept. 20, 2003
Fritz '99
2003
Collister '01 and Nicole
Moores'02,June14,2003
28,
and Jason
Woolever, Nov. 21, 2003
Michael Hall
Cindy
'00 and Lisa
6,
Edmund
2003
Lucas Criswell, Aug. 16, 2003
Crystal
'01
9,
Melinda Sue Wolfe 03 and
11,2003
Elizabeth Bixler '99 and Justin
June
'01
and Michael Hoppes 00,
2003
Amy Williams '02 and
Moore, Aug.
Campbell, Oct. 11,2003
8,
have two children, Cooper
and Zachary.
Juliano
Ditty '99 and
& Associates LLP as an associate attorney. He and his
wife, the former Claudia Cooper,
Yates, Nov. 15,2003
Heather McKellar 02 and Albert
Vandenkooy, April 26, 2003
Kevin OMalley '98
Darryl Sharp, Iowa State University's director of basketball
operations,
was promoted
Karen Perks Barbose, who
'88
been elected
honor society
at
College
Theta Epsilon, the national
to Pi
Randall Stradling was named
pursuing a mas-
degree in occupational therapy
ter's
Misericordia, has
is
8,
and
to the
Saige, 3.
board of Enable, a
nonprofit organization that serves people with
He
disabilities.
is
a vice president of commercial banking group at Sovereign
Bank
for occupational therapy students.
He and his wife
to assistant coach.
Rebecca are the parents of Stephon,
in
Newtown.
Baum is director of marketing for the Pennsylvania
Shelly
'
Retailers Association.
Timothy D. Grunstra was promoted
Schultz Sheridan
& Fritz in Camp
Brown
to principal at
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SL
is
director of marketing
tising for Integrated BioSciences Inc.
and adver-
headquar-
,
tered in Harrisburg.
Hill.
Kenneth Kirsch joined Health Care Direct Inc., Flemington, N.J., as director of research and analysis.
Daniel Whitehead is an associate at Binswanger/Klatskin,
Teterboro, N.J., focusing on industrial leasing in New Jersey
Mark
advocate
Lori
Blasko, a captain in the Army,
at the
is
command judge
Tobyhanna Army Depot.
Donovan is
director of sponsor relations for ArtsQuest,
the Bethlehem-based nonprofit arts organization that presents
Musikfest and Christkindlmarkt Bethlehem.
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Randall E. Black
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cial Services Inc.
Bank, Mansfield.
He
is
president oi
and
(
lives in Liberty
with his wife Connie and
Lori Havrilla Burke
Matt Karchner
University.
is
is
Kansas City Royals in
Sox and Chicago Cubs.
Jody Ocker Morrison was promoted to the rank of major
in the Air Force. Jody is assigned to the 959th Surgical Operaat
Clint M. Rider, a
Tax Services Group
Wis.,
B.
was recognized by The American
for Acuity,
Institute for
Institute of America as
Sheboygan,
CPA who lives in
at Reinsel
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Lancaster.
a partner in the
to the
rank of ser-
Christopher
Aukamp
of
He and his wife have two
was hired as a
Farm Credit in
Lititz,
credit analyst for MidAtlantic
children.
Kimm Miller Jamiel was inducted into the Berks County
Aquatics Hall of Fame in May. She continued to dive after college as a pro at Six Flags
theme parks and
in Las Vegas.
Jerry Marks was inducted into the District 4 Wrestling
Gerrie Salamone Sobities joined the Exeter Township
Network/GMAC
Lititz, is
& Co. LLP Certified Public
Richard Wojciechowsky was promoted
CPCU
an outstanding
course leader.
office of Berkshire
Home Bank as a
geant in the PottsviUe Police Department.
7
Lackland Air Force Base, San
Rude, director of staff sales
and the Insurance
They
Accountants, Wyomissing.
Antonio, Texas.
Diane
a daughter.
Carl Kranig of Lancaster joined American
interim baseball coach at Susquehanna
An eighth-round pick of the
Squadron
and her husband Rich have
wholesale production manager.
1989, he played in the major leagues with the Chicago White
tions
nity College. She
vice president of sales at R.M.
Allentown.
Inc.,
ic affairs at
live in Gettysburg.
daughters Rebecca and Nicole.
Squared
Shannon Strasbaugh Harvey is associate dean for academthe Gettysburg campus of Harrisburg Area Commu-
itizens Finan-
First Citizens National
Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Real Estate.
Russell E. Smith graduated with honors from Penn States
'90
Ed Andrewlevich
field
team
at
head coach of the track and
Delaware Valley College. He and his
is
Lori Pellegrini Henry, head of the State
Whitemarsh, was featured in a
commercials. She and husband
and Drew.
Serena Ross earned
Rob
Farm Insurance
Farm TV
series of State
are the parents of sons Jack
a doctor of audiology degree at the
Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Elkins Park. She
tice at
is
in prac-
Pennsylvania
Newport News, Va.
Wister Yuhas was appointed
Board.
He
is
president
to the
Luzerne County Prison
and co-owner of Intrepid Detective
Agency, Hazleton.
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^r\J
Cerminaro was named distinguished citizen
by the Berwick Area Chamber of
of the year
Jennifer
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He and his wife Danielle are parents of a son, Alex.
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.
Find
He was admitted
Bar and accepted a position as corporate attorney for Ferguson
Enterprises Inc. in
wife have three children.
office in
Dickinson School of Law.
group
at
is
a part-time substitute teacher,
and personal
trainer.
band Gregg have two daughters, Morgan,
live in the
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Gettysburg area.
Marilyn Nork of Union
City, N.J., is vice
Dresden Bank of Germany in
New York City
credit analyst in the investment
president at the
She
is
a financial
banking division of Dresden-
Kleinwirt-Wasserstein Capital Markets Credit Department.
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Frank Klem
William
'23
Josephine Wesley Cope
Pauline Bucher
'25
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Ruth Davis Curtis '29
Caroline
E.
James
Dorothy Delbo Fierro '60
Florence Park LaBar '40
Teresa Rakus Rutkoski
'40
Lash '42
Margaret McCulla
F.
76
Kathleen Marie Pinto
'61
78
Robert M. Wilt
Margaret Bittner Barski '62
Thomas
75
Tirjan
L Hess 76
David
William Stephens Strawinski '39
Martha McHenry Wenner
Petrullo '23
Deborah Roth
D. Troy '59
Monica Manifold Maclntyre 79
Strausser '63
Debra Good Morris
79
Eva Wojcik Cox '30
Doris Sears Pheasant '42
LeRoy Folmsbee '64
Heidi Schmalfuhs
Merced
Grace Reichard Gardner '30
Eleanor Twardzik Zale '42
Sandra Thornton Cubbins '64
Robert Gilgannon
'81
Doris Keller Hosier '48
Marjorie Milani McCormick '67
Franklin
Tower
'81
Virginia
Tedesco '30
Winifred Shultz Fox
Myrtle
'31
Clayton Patterson
'32
Wagner Swartz
Dorothy Jones Wheeler
Mae Mantz
Elbert
Ward
'32
Kreiss '33
W. Ashworth
Ella Crispell
Jr.
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J. Gilbert '49
John
McNelis
G.
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Herr '33
Larue Gass
Janet
E.
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'49
Cobleigh '34
Alfred
David
F.
Williams '68
Marilyn Niewiadomski
Roy
Heidi
E.
Williams '69
Linda Baker
Price '52
Susan
Wasley 70
Fredric Betz '55
Phillips
Mcllvain '34
Janet Ference Kwiatkoski '55
Maryellen Gaughan
Dorothy
Phillips
Richards '34
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Matt Spicher
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is
Charles Mahlon
Bruce
B.
Morgan
Lorna Jane Johnson
Inventor)' covering the west
for
Ultrasound
and midwest regions
Siemens Medical Solutions USA.
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clair State
May from Mont-
University with a master's degree in
Fidler lives in France, where he
is
& Asbury, Camp
Shonna
Diehl
Brandon
'90
Sapack
'93
Chillis '01
Maritza Nieves Williams '02
He teaches at Cornell College and
member at Luther College.
faculty
Christopher Knarr
son
Inc. at the firm's
Center,
the
European information technology manager for a global
consumer goods company.
Kurt Trimarchi, a certified public accountant, joined McKonly
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Beth Nevius,
education.
Matthew
Jr.
University of Iowa.
Stacey Belhumer graduated in
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George Henry Reid
Matt Hare earned a doctor of musical arts degree
in double bass performance and pedagogy at the
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an adjunct
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Josephine Tomushunis Plesh '92
Susan Magill Reynolds 74
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Jane Joseph Thomas 75
program manager
sales
Orner '58
Buck '87
Scott G. Millheim '90
73
Kathy Wilson Williams
'57
Scott '85
Lamm
Robert
72
Dorothy
Glassmire '37
Todd
71
Keller Stasheski
Barry R. Letterman
C.
Cress Shallers '87
Jane Roeder Wetzel 71
VWesner '53
E.
'80
Marian Redmond '84
Szymanski '69
David
'52
Keith S. Bearde '53
'34
Josephine (Jeanne) Markovich '34
for
Janice Kunes Regis '59
Zeiss '37
R. Kantner '39
James
Consuelo Fenstermaker Noz '24
E.
Hill, as director
of tax services
and a
is
York
a municipal planner for C.S. Davidoffice.
a teacher at the Danville Child
was one of 52
serves as
child care teachers in
22
Development
states to receive
the National Child Care Teacher Award.
Nikol Parmer
is
vice president of sales at Loar
Megan Pesavento
2004" award
at
& Young Inc.
received the "Most Inspiring Teacher of
Easton Area High School.
principal.
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Bob James
is
defensive coordinator for the
Susquehanna University
Brian McDonnell was appointed
ney
for
football team.
first
assistant district attor-
Berks County
Diane Briggs Sutton received a master's degree
in December 2003.
marketing
Redmond
at
full-service
brokerage firm.
Trala of Malvern
Tracey Halowich
is
director for
by Obadiah
Christian publishing house in Merrill, Wis.
new book, "Hope
I.
2
is
Ryan Beck
assistant principal at
& Co.
Like-Lehman
Lives On."
(I
4
of Hyattsville, Md..
is
communications
Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Michael
James Ross
in
E.
Press, a
Her entry will
is
curator and director of Renfrew
Museum and
Park, Waynesboro.
Michele
Homay
Schlicher
director with the U.S.
She
lives in
ter Julia, 3.
I.
senior financial consultant with
Busch.
director of
Turner Investment Partners, Berwyn.
the annual wilting contest sponsored
A
is
the Allentown branch of the
Nancy C. Lineman
at
Katherine Yurchak was one of the top 50 winners
be included a
Ayad Amary
Junior-Senior High School.
Edinboro University
Melissa
/Cj^/
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is
child development center
Department of Defense
in Philadelphia,
Catasauqua with her husband Michael and daugh-
Amy J. Newman is living in Cambridge, Mass., where she
is pursuing an MBA
teaches business at Swampscott High. She
at the University of Massachusetts.
John Tymkiw
is
senior accountant in the Syracuse audit
Lisa Roberts
department of Fagliarone Group CPAs PC.
County
Wendy Jo Zabawa of Bloomsburg joined Coldwell Banker
Fleck Agency Realtors, Bloomsburg, as a residential sales specialist.
membership coordinator
Brian Halterman
his wife
Kristin
the
Union County
Planning Office.
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is
vice president-investments at
Janney Montgomery Scott in Williamsport. He
live in Bloomsburg.
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Todd
Bieber won
competition
Campus
Desiree M. Anderson
'99
JonesKohanski
is
senior accountant at
& Co. LLP in Hazleton.
& Co. PC of
Wood joined
Todd
manager of
is
is
US Navy Reserves,
is
the National Naval Medical
co-assigned to the
USNS
Comfort, a hospital ship docked in Baltimore.
Kendra Branchick
test.
the Drexel Hill office of
at
Center in Bethesda, Md. She
Milton and Bloomsburg as audit services group manager. She
has also passed the certified fraud examiner
2."
Theatre, Lewisburg.
assigned to the surgical unit
Denise Lundeen joined Lewis, Danzig
place in the student film
Island Film Festival with
"One Number
the 20-minute movie,
Angie
first
Marco
at
Christina Bilo, an ensign in the
Joe
for the Sussex
She and her husband Paul have a son, Kevin.
'98
and
is
Chamber of Commerce.
Tovey is a community planner in
(N.J.)
is
assistant director of
communications
with Gettysburg College.
Century 21
James A. Brando
Alliance.
enrolled at the University of Houston
School of Law in August 2003.
Matthew Cope
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Kevin
Ammerman is court
reporter with the
Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, where
he's
been
South
a
reporter for three years.
Jesse Ergott is community program officer at the
Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority in Mayfield.
Jessica
Davey Magagna
is
serving with the Peace Corps in
Steve Fisher is a watershed specialist for Susquehanna
County Conservation. He lives in Springville.
Dana Lesh accepted a position in the Neuro Intensive Care
Unit
senior associate at Search
is
Africa.
at
Thomas Jefferson
Hospital, Philadelphia.
Amanda Petritsch of Mahanoy City won first place
Associates, an international school recruitment finn headquar-
opened a branch in Bloomsburg.
Lucas Truempy was named teacher of the month for
for a
research paper presented at the National Social Science
tered in Shavertown. She
Association's annual convention in Las Vegas, studying the
December 2003 by the sophomore class at Arthur L. Johnson
High School in Clark, N.J., where he teaches world cultures
hood educators.
Ryan Raben
and U.S. history
tant in the firm's Flemington, N.J., office.
to 1945.
dissatisfying elements in the
joined
work environments
WithumSmith Brown
of early child-
as a staff accoun-
Brian D. Richards, an accountant for Jackson Hewitt,
71
Daymon Adams joined the instructional design
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V/ -i.
Army
medal
team
1st Lt.
at
West Branch Technology
Center.
Tim Staub
Brian Almonrode was awarded a Bronze Star
for leading
150 convoys during Operation Enduring
Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom without loss of life.
Nicole Decker graduated from Perm State University's Dickinson School of Law. She
Michael Dietterick
is
is
a
is
Kristin Zeller
is
special events representative with the
Philadelphia Phillies.
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Stephanie Murray was offered a multi-release recording
by iMCartists, the record
InMusiCo Inc.
label subsidiary of
TJ. Sokso had a role in the recent production of Neil
at the
part of Americorps, stationed
with the Catalina Island Conservancy
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Simon's "Biloxi Blues"
a volunteer with the National Civilian
GIS analyst with Mintax Economic
coordinator of student activities at
contract
is
Community Corps program,
clerking for a judge in Lancaster.
Incentive Specialists, East Brunswick, NJ.
Rich Greene
bought a home in Jim Thorpe in 2003.
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BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Academic
Mid-Term
Calendar
Tuesday, March
Three Mo' Tenors
Saturday,
2004
5,
noon
CAS-Supported Event:
Dave Valentin and
Classes Resume
Reading Day - No Classes
Friday, Oct.
March
with the Latin
Monday, March 14,8 a.m.
8
Wednesday,
Spring
Mid-Term
Athletic Hall of
Fame Banquet
Saturday, Oct. 16, Kehr Union
Building. Call the
Weekend Begins
Thursday,
Tuesday, Oct. 19
Bloomsburg
University sports information office
at 570-389-441 3 for ticket
March
24,
10 p.m.
p.m.,
Hilton Ruiz
All Stars
April 13, 2005, 7:30
$5 and $7.50. Held
in
conjunction with the Bloomsburg
University Jazz Festival.
Classes Resume
Monday, March
28, 6 p.m.
Reading Days
-
Thursday and
$25
18, 2005, 8 p.m.,
and $27.50.
Spring Break Begins
Fall
March
Friday,
1
No Classes
28
Friday, April
Special Events
Athletic Hall of
Fame Banquet
and 29
Saturday, Oct. 16, Monty's. Call the
information.
Classes End
Thanksgiving Recess
Tuesday, Nov. 23, 10 p.m.
Monday,
29, 8 a.m.
Poinsettia
Pops
Friday, Dec. 10.
Time and place
be announced. For information,
Homecoming Weekend
May 2
Saturday, Oct. 16 and Sunday,
End
Finals
Saturday,
Oct. 17.
May 7
to
Graduate Commencement
call
May 6
Undergraduate Commencement
Classes End
Saturday,
Sunday, Dec. 12
Concert
Celebrity Artist Series
All events are in
Haas Center for
the Arts, Mitrani Hall. For more
St.
Market
office at (5701
the Celebrity Artist Series
Site at
Web
www.bloomu.edu/events
Political Satirist
Mark
Russell
Friday, Dec. 17
Friday, Oct. 15,
I,
Bloomsburg.
University-Community
Orchestra
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.
7:30 p.m., $25
Carols by Candlelight
and $27.50.
Friday
Saturday, Dec. 18
and Saturday, Dec. 3 and
Virsky Ukrainian National
7:30 p.m..
Dance Company
Market
Spring 2005
Thursday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m., $17.50
Electronic Registration
and $20.
"Aida" by Opera Verdi Europa
Classes Begin
Sunday, Feb.
Monday, Jan. 10,8 a.m.
$22.50 and $25.
Martin Luther King Day-
Prague Symphony
No Classes
Friday, Feb. 25,
1
Street,
Sunday, Nov. 14, 2:30 p.m., Haas
Graduate Commencement
Monday, Jan.
Matthew's Lutheran Church,
389-4409 or check
Saturday, Dec. 18
A L
Chamber Orchestra
Sunday, Oct. 24, 2 p.m.,
information, call the series box
4 to 10
theme
'50s and '60s".
Monday, Dec. 13
Undergraduate Commencement
starts
0:30 a.m. The
"Rockin' and Rollin' through the
Finals Begin
Finals End
1
May 7
Saturday, Dec. 11,10 p.m.
Reading Day
Saturday at
is
(570)389-4128.
Jan.
Parade combined with
Bloomsburg High School
Friday,
I-
information office at (570) 389-441
for ticket information.
Finals Begin
Classes Resume
Monday, Nov.
Bloomsburg University sports
Saturday, April 30, 10 p.m.
6,
2005, 2:30 p.m.,
First
4,
Presbyterian Church,
Street, Bloomsburg.
For the
information
latest
on upcoming
events, check
the university
www. bloom
1 1
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Web Site:
cdu/todav
2005. 8 p.m., $25.50
and $28.
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
The Kehr Union: A
Campus Hub for 30 Years
When
Kehr Union was
decades ago,
hub
it
for students,
had only
foot
Today's students might think the west side of Kehr Union
built three
bit sparse in this photo taken before an early1990s expansion project added 35,000 square feet
appears a
served as the social
many
power
of
to get
whom
to the facility.
them
The union served the college well but, by the
it needed to grow to meet students' needs. The
to off-campus locations.
Planning for the 50,000-square-foot
in
1966
as enrollment increased,
started in 1971.
tion
5,
began
and construction
Complete enough
ceremony May
facility
bowling
for a formal dedica-
1973, the grand opening
in
honor of Marguerite
dean of women from 1928
for
to
W Kehr, who served
The union,
built
and furnished
activities.
at a total cost of
$1.7 million, was everything the students had hoped
for,
with a games room, four-lane bowling alley and
formal lounge on the ground floor; snack bar, large
multi-purpose room and student health center on the
first floor;
and
offices for student organizations
an informal lounge on the second
floor.
and
was removed
commenced in
as
in
1988 and replaced
the
summer of 1991 and
the grand
reopening and rededication was held Jan. 19, 1993.
1953 and was known
her genuine interest in students and their
alley
with the Hideaway, but the major change was the $7.5
million, 35,000-square-foot addition. Construction
banquet was held in April 1974. The union was
named
1980s,
The west end
of the building gained office space
the lower level, the Fireside
floor
on
and
the
offices for
first.
The
community and student
east
on
Lounge on the ground
activities
end held the expanded health
center
and snack
bar,
now called
on
first floor,
and
a large ballroom
Husky Lounge,
on the second.
The old snack bar area became the main lobby leading
to the Husky Lounge, and the informal lounge on the
the
second
floor
is
now
the
the ballroom lobby.
Students' leisure-time options have multi-
i
plied over the years, but the
union continues
embody the spirit of Bloomsburg, giving all
members of the academic community "a place
to
to leam, to
meet
others, to relax, to play, to
be
alone, to be."
And,
life,
Union remains
"a place
your
In the 1970s, bowling
was a popular activity in Kehr Union. The
was replaced with a nightclub-like meeting
four-lane bowling alley
place
known
as
The Hideaway.
as Jerrold Griffis,
dent of student
own
thing."
said
former vice presi-
30 years ago, Kehr
where you can do
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