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STORY BY LAURIE CREASY

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
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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

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lot

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.

to

The

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"We

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never have enough writers and
:<;'.:

photographers," the adviser says.

'%&

mm.

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

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

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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

"

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some ways,

it's

the place that you're

writing about because you don't lave
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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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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

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it

don't

to convey."

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says.

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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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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

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after her graduation

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.

ing
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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

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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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nation's best

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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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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

^j^2jt

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."

UNESCO

He

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
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Web: vvww.bloomu.edu/giving

^Bloomsburg
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400 East Second
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Academic
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
box office at 1570} 389-4409 or check
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
1,

K

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P

latest

information on upcoming

events, check the university

www.bloomu. edw'today

Tuesday, June

to Friday,

N G

Aug. 20

2

(I

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4

Haas

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

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
|

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

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mean-

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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

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at

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to

foam

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mats

of

many

colors, wrestlers' safety

has

strides over the past

foam shrunk

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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

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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.

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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
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smiled bigger when

mv

I

earning

reward check,

my

I

was a

next

little

$50

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is

afreelance writer and

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
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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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several limes,

gets

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

o\

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

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

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

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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grew into

and

from the

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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

A
first

two

on corporate work before graduating from the program and

spending another year in corporate finance.
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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

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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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THE

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

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.

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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— 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.

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the future. Tax

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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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\J

/

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

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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

He

Council.

ship manager for

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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

&

the bank's commercial lending team.

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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.

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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;

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

\J

Wendi Achey

|

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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Jeff

^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.

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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

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New York City

credit analyst in the investment

president at the

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is

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Florence Park LaBar '40

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Thomas

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David

William Stephens Strawinski '39

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Monica Manifold Maclntyre 79

Strausser '63

Debra Good Morris

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Eva Wojcik Cox '30

Doris Sears Pheasant '42

LeRoy Folmsbee '64

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Eleanor Twardzik Zale '42

Sandra Thornton Cubbins '64

Robert Gilgannon

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Doris Keller Hosier '48

Marjorie Milani McCormick '67

Franklin

Tower

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Tedesco '30

Winifred Shultz Fox
Myrtle

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Clayton Patterson
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Wagner Swartz

Dorothy Jones Wheeler

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Ward

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David

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Roy

Heidi

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Price '52

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Wasley 70

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Mcllvain '34

Janet Ference Kwiatkoski '55

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Dorothy

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Richards '34

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Matt Spicher

Demo

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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

73M

74

Beth Nevius,

education.

Matthew

Jr.

University of Iowa.

Stacey Belhumer graduated in

.X.

George Henry Reid

Matt Hare earned a doctor of musical arts degree
in double bass performance and pedagogy at the

S \J

an adjunct

^C-J/l

J. Price Jr. '89

Josephine Tomushunis Plesh '92

Susan Magill Reynolds 74

'59

Richendrfer '88

E.

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.

J \\ £^
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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^/
^r /

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.

7 1| ^2
is

vice president-investments at

Janney Montgomery Scott in Williamsport. He
live in Bloomsburg.

vf %J

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

7 flfl

v/v

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

I J

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.

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

Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815

Street Theatre in

Philadelphia.

'02
counties.

Kathleen Honecker
the

is

education coordinator for

Women's Center for Columbia and Montour

A cancer survivor, she served as honorary ambas-

Mount Carmel Relay for Life.
Megan Landis joined Harrisburg-based Pavone

sador for the

tant

as

an

assis-

account executive.

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

.

Web Site:
cdu/todav

2005. 8 p.m., $25.50

and $28.

31

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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