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From the President's Desk
If you are planning for a year,

sow

rice;

If you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
If you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
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my husband Steve and I
town was

this

a place

first

drove into Bloomsburg,

months

learned that this town, this university and

match.

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BUs
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remained so

honesty

to

quickly

name my proudest achievements as
logical place to

my proudest achievements are not mine alone;

pause and

But

reflect.

rather, they are the

for

BUs students.

of:

student leaders, especially the

whose

I

a decade.

and the 10-year mark seems a

For example, I'm proud

Our

me

later,

were indeed a good

accomplishments that enhance the college experience

university's

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more than

time to time, someone asks

president,

all

for

1

knew

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where we could be happy.

president of Bloomsburg University six

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efforts will result in

Community Government Association,

new off-campus housing for 408 students

and Democracy Matters, an organization

that registered

this

fall,

more than

1,100 students to vote before the presidential election.
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The

facilities

Andruss

constructed or renovated during the

Library, the

decade, including

last

Student Services Center, Monty's,

Mount Olympus

Apartments and Hartline Science Center.
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Our

outstanding

faculty,

and our wonderful
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most of whom hold the highest degree

staff.

The abundant opportunities students
research, athletics, clubs, fraternities

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The growing support we
more

in their field,

find at

and

BU, such as undergraduate

sororities

from alumni,

receive

and community

families

and

service.

friends leading to

scholarships.

Our university's

latest

achievement

is

one more tangible sign of BUs excellence.

In December, our College of Business received accreditation from the Association
to

Advance

Collegiate Schools of Business. This stunning

the entire university's

commitment

to quality, listing

development recognizes

our library and technology

resources, our facilities

and our strong general education and

programs as important

factors in the accreditation.

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college,

adding a doctorate program and promoting the Bloomsburg

name world-wide,

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still

has

many

aspirations for the university.

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Bill

OJ. Simpson was

Clinton was president.

arrested for the

murder of his wife and her

and Tonya Harding's attack on

rival

friend,

Nancy

Kerrigan rocked the figure skating world. "Life
like a

is

box of chocolates" was the buzz phrase,

thanks to the top film, "Forrest

Gump."

It

was

1994, the year Bloomsburg University welcomed
a

new president who would

lead the university

through a decade of growth and change.

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The State System

September 1994 - The

of

Higher Education Board of Governors

approves the hiring

of

Jessica Kozloff

as president of Bloomsburg University

university

T

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Web

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page, the "Campus-Wide Information

System," goes up at www.bloomu.

house

edu.

It

is

one

of the first 2,000

Web

registered worldwide and the

fire just

19

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Five university

January 1995

an off-campus

appointed to the policies and purposes

before Homecoming.

committee

1994

1,

begins her

first

day as president.

in

was

1994, and Jessica Kozloff had just

fall

It

into the presidents office at

Students were starting a

and

living:

they studied

at

Centennial

at

instructional videos

moved

new

semester of learning

the old library, chose meals

Scranton

Commons,

Gym and watched

on TVs wheeled

buildings and

new

live,

study and play in

new

living/learning communities.

They

access the Internet between classes at Andruss Library,
exercise at the Student Recreation Center,

integrated

media presentations

in

"Hillary Husky" wakes up at Mount

into classrooms.

Fast-forward a decade and the picture changes

tremendously. Students

governor of Pennsylvania.

Fair for the first time.

Bloomsburg University.

off the traditional cafeteria line at

worked out

November 8, 1994 - BU grad Mark
Schweiker 75 is elected lieutenant

a booth

the Education Building atthe

Bloomsburg

leam from

classrooms and have

Olympus Apartments, where she *s one of 246
juniors and seniors who enjoy livmn on the
upper campus. Rather than a traditional
dormitory, Hillary lives in an apartment
with jive other students and has a private

dining choices those students of 10 years ago didn't

bedroom. Shejinds

even dream

TV, phone

of.

Welcome

to

Bloomsburg University 2004-05.

A

it

convenient to have cable

and direct Internet access right

in her bedroom.

decade of thoughtful change under Kozloff s leadership
has created a

new student

experience, using

modern

technology and ideas to enhance more than 165 years

Completed
is

of tradition.

"This

is

'student' has

in

2001, Mount Olympus Apartments

the newest living space

on campus

the university leased the privately

a president for

whom, from day

one,

been the most important word," says Jim

Hollister, assistant vice president for university relations.

Here's a look at a

day

in the

life

Apartments below Schuylkill
91 students, says
residence

of a typical

Tom

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owned

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campus,

Kile

offering

rooms

Kresch, associate director oi

living option

ommunities introduced

in

is

the learning

L996 Students

live in a

residence hall with others in their major or study
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to

life,

Another popular

Bloomsburg University "student."

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President Kozloff

of the

the

September 24, 1994 - BU has

Jessica Kozloff

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of State College

State System of Higher Education.

July

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first in

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October 21, 1994
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American Association

and

Universities.

February

6,

1995

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The new Student

September 1995 - The new
on the upper campus

Recreation Center opens.

is

May 16,

Softball field

1996

-

BU wins the

first

Trophy as the best all-around

completed.

athletic

Dixon

October

PSAC

25,

Memorial

program.

is

1996

Kozloff

is

-

February 1996

Jessica

inaugurated

is

-

NCAA

Division

executive committee, as well as

Bloomsburg

the

University.

on

NCAA All-Division

fire

two years

dug throughout campus as the

II

as the 18th president of

Five Friends

September 1996 - Trenches are

President Kozloff

elected to the

The

lives of the five students killed in the off-

campus house

April 22, 1995

-

dedicated, honoring the

second phase

committee

of the

steam tunnel

upgrade project begins.

diversity.

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Loption, benefiting from group study areas, special

events and, sometimes, classes offered in the residence
hall.

Learning communities in Luzerne, Northumber-

land and Columbia halls include the Education House,

Honors Learning Community, Health Sciences House,
Frederick Douglass Institute Learning

Community and

Presidential Leadership House. Additional learning

communities are

in the works, Kresch says.

Construction will begin this spnng on additions to

Luzerne and Northumberland, creating more userfriendly lobby

areas

and

increasing study/
meeting/class-

room

space.

Currently under
construction are
the

Amy Chronister, CGA

new Honey-

suckle Apartments

president

being built by the
student-run

Community Government Association

adjacent to campus, explains
president.

The

three-

apartments will
leases

offer private

and amenities

Amy Chronister, CGA

and four-bedroom furnished

like

bedrooms, individual

high-speed Internet access.

Students enjoy Internet and cable television access

wherever they

live

completed was
detectors

on campus, Kresch

notes. Recently

installation of integrated

and sprinklers

in

all

smoke

After riding the shuttle

to the

lower campus,

Hillary stops by the Student Services Center
check on

a financial aid question

to

before

a study group in Andruss Library.
There the group takes advantage of a
wireless hot spot to access the Internet via a

heading

to

laptop computer.

student living areas.

Campus bus service has changed considerably since
it

started in 1992.

The on-campus loop now

operates as a continuous shuttle, with a
arriving every seven to 10 minutes, says

new bus
Bill

Fisher,

garage manager and transportation supervisor.

An

in-town loop picks up off-campus students near their

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before.

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2

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April 20, 1997

the
1

first

-

Jan Hutchinson becomes

NCAA women's

coach

,000 total wins. Hutchinson

softball

and

field

Nelson

Field

October 1998

reach

the

coaches

new

-

acquired

of

90 acres of land

Library while the Bookstore Building

in 1995.

is

May 26, 1998 - The new Andruss

remodeled.

November 1998 - President Kozloff
a member of the first delegation of

Library opens.

March 23, 1999 -The QUEST

is

50-foot climbing wall

and chancellors to tour top

Israeli

universities.

apartments. Ridership reached 251,781 in

fall

semester

2003, with almost 200,000 of those rides occurring on

campus

library

is

Funding for Future Opportunities

loop.

Completed

in

a far cry

1998, the

new

105,000-square-foot

from the old building, which had

The Bloomsburg

University Foundation set the

for the future over the past

decade with

— both the

its

comprehensive campaign

space, restricted

comprehensive campaign and

access to current

campaign

journals and just a

president for university relations. Completed

handful of

the

computers linked

$2.5 million more than

only by local area

its

Jim

groundwork

$1 7.5 million

limited seating

ever, according to

university's first

largest fund-raising
Hollister, assistant vice
in

June 2002,

New Challenges, New Opportunities campaign
its

original goal of $1

5

million.

gone toward the Student Services Center and the

Nancy Weyant, coordinator of

Nancy Weyant,

campus

reference services

coordinator of

scholarships, the Alumni Association and special

reference services.

and speakers.

windows from old
Waller Hall, students now find more than 1,000 spaces
for studying. They browse shelves with a variety of
current journals and use more than 220 computers
with Web-based programming, as well as wireless

work

together

have their

own

architecturally impressive. .but
.

as a library,"

Weyant

When

new

the

says.

library

some

"Ours works as
opened,

more
work

don't

that

well

a library."

allowed

its

old

space to be renovated into the Student Services Center.
Finished in 2001, the building offers students access to
financial aid, registrar, counseling

encircling an airy atrium.

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and other

offices, all

inner

have included

programs

Another major fundraising project over the past decade

was

the $3.5 million the Foundation raised toward the

construction of the Andruss Library.

The Foundation has amassed
i

study area where they can connect

across majors. "There are libraries that are

plaza. Non-capital beneficiaries

$11.5rr
million

Group study rooms allow students to
on class projects, and graduate students

Internet access.

raised

Primary capital expenditures from the campaign have

network, says

Entering beneath stained-glass

in

funds invested

opens

on the upper campus.

United States university presidents

House.

the

March 8, 1999- The Un
Store moves into the old Andruss

Construction begins on

intramural athletic fields on the

upper campus, part

hockey.

December 14, 1996 - Archbishop
Desmond Tutu is awarded an
honorary doctorate of humane letters
during the winter commencement
at

to

a portfolio of

for the future.

more than

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classroom

February 2000 - Jessica and Steve

Construction work

begins to convert Centennial

Gym

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Kozloff establish research grants

into a

March

and

provide financial support for the

building, Centennial Hall.

renovation of the old Andruss Library

Student Services Center.

into the

30.

2000

-

The Council

Trustees approves the

January 26. 2001

of

new

-

Mark Schweike

presents a $6.5 million check

Campus Master Plan, which will
campus physical

from the Commonwealth of

guide

Pennsylvania for the renovation

development for 20 years.

Hartline Science Center.

is

November 1999 - President Kozloff
named to the Middle States

March 19, 2000 - Three members
of the TKE fraternity die in an

football

Commission on Higher Education.

off-campus

NCAA Division

December 9, 2000 - The Husky

fire.

team

game to

finishes
II,

second

losing the

in

title

Delta State.

plus students," White says.
That's

why construction

begins this spring on a $3.5
million, 17,000-square-foot

addition that will double the
size of the cardio

and

weight rooms, add a 35foot-high indoor climbing

wall

and provide another

full-size,

air-conditioned

basketball court appropriate
for

With time
to the

to

spare before

class,

championship games.

Hillary heads

Student Recreation Center for a quick

treadmill and free-weight session.

Hillary attends two

classes

in Centennial

Hall; in one, the professor uses integrated
classroom equipment to highlight important

Opened in 1995, the Student Recreation Center
57,000 square

feet of recreational opportunities,

says Jen White, director.

room

features

points via a presentation created back in the
office

on a computer.

A 3,000-square-foot cardio

Cybex equipment,

trainers, stationary bikes,

similar-sized weight

is

treadmills, elliptical

the Rec

Center was

rowers and more, while a

room

When
built in

offers a full line of free

1995, that

weights. Other options include basketball courts

allowed the

(adaptable to volleyball, tennis and indoor soccer), an

university to

indoor track, aerobic dance studio and racquetball

convert the old

Centennial

courts

Attendance
the Rec Center

Gym

at

into classroom

is

faculty space,

and
Eric Milner, assistant vice president
for facilities

as high as

a

20,000

month, including

students, faculty,

Jen White, Student Rec Center director

and

Milner, assistant
vice president for facilities

retirees.

anthropology are

"By no means do

Centennial today.

staff

we

reach

all

management

explains Eric

among

management. Audiology and

the programs based in

8,000-

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19

9

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2

4

September
gathering

18,

is

2001

held

-

A vigil

March

and

20,

2002 - The Council of

Trustees votes to allow the

the

in front of

university police to carry firearms

Student Services Center for the
victims of Sept. 11.

May 5, 2001 - The newly

September

renovated

2001

Centennial Hall

Student Services Center and
William

5,

is



October

The expanded

5,

2001

-Mark

January 2003

Schweiker'75issworn

dedicated.

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in

University

as governor of

Bloomsburg

Indiana University of

Pennsylvania to implement

Pennsylvania.

are dedicated.

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teams up with

first

its

doctoral degree program:

a doctor in clinical audiology.

change has created a new
student experience, using modern technology and
ideas to enhance more than 165 years of tradition.

A decade

of thoughtful

Additional laboratory and faculty office spaces are
also

under construction

at the Hartline

Science Center.

The 40,000-square-foot addition should be completed
this spring. A complete renovation to historic Navy Hall
year and a redesign

starts later this

is

planned

for

and

departments

will

McCormick

for

About

Milner says.

half the classrooms

integrated

In fall

2004,

on campus now have

Wayne Mohr,

total

electrical

State

presentations using sources ranging from videos to
to the Internet.

biggest

past decade hasn't

been the equipment
according to

Mohr. "We've gone

from thinking
Bicber, director of

network and

telecommunication services,

Wayne Mohr,

left,

and

assistant vice president

for technology

ii'

gral, strategic necessity,"

the university

mainframe technology. Today's students expect
receive

read)' Internet access

Wireless access
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available at the Library Studenl

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Other

need

is

new College of
when departments

part of the
in

2001

with

last

its first

of Liberal Arts.

18 months, the university
doctoral program,

new programs

moved

in clinical

to a

audiology.

being developed include majors

in

engineering technology, educational counseling and health,

it

throughout the campus.

a very significant

the

new

more than

need and

between the science branch and the College

something of an

little

the

in

offering a true engineering degree," Matta

Just within the

had no coordinated e-mail system,

only university

from the former College of Arts and Sciences were divided

ol

he says. Ten years ago,

no uniform campus network and



makes us the

The engineering program

as an absolutely
ii

System

1994. "That

Science and Technology, created

technology as

extra to viewing

in

commonwealth for electrical engineering
technologies." The five-year program features two sevenmonth paid apprenticeships.
in

campus

technology over the

Glenn

in

says. "There's a big national

itself,

fall

enrollment had reached 8,305, including 7,524

and electronic engineering technology, a major that

make

in

Matta, interim provost.

About 40 current students are enrolled with majors

didn't exist

The

structure developed during

undergraduates and 781 graduate students

assistant vice

change

students taking

1994, enrollment stood at 7,277 students, including

president for technology. These systems allow faculty to

DVDs

James

many

6,632 undergraduates and 645 graduate students. By

media presentation systems, with new ones

being added constantly, says

new programs and

that time, according to
all

be part of an addition being planned

Hall,

More Programs

Enrollment at Bloomsburg University has surged by 14

advantage of

and the math, computer science

departments. More classroom space for

statistics

Students,

percent during the past 10 years, with

neighboring Ben Franklin Hall to accommodate the
office of technology

More

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Matta says.

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The restored World

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April 12, 2004

Pinery near Schuylkill

Hall is rededicated.

August

President Kozloff

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30,

2004 - The

new

Monty's

October 2004

-

The Association to Advanci

returns from her sabbatical as a

opens. The 16,000-square-foot eatery

Collegiate Schools of Business

presidential consultant for the

and conference center replaces a

International)

American Democracy

3000-square-foot snack bar.

Business

Project.

recommends

for accreditation.

announcement
June 2003 - The Community
Government Association signs an
agreement to purchase the Sesame

May 26, 2004 -BU

College (LCCC) sign an

reaches an

Street Apartments, planning to

agreement

8,305 total students.

demolish them and build new,

LCCC graduates

high-quality student housing.

bachelor's degree

and the

is

made

September 2004 - The

Luzerne County Community

university's enrollment

that allows

all-time high of

to earn a
in

elementary education from

BU while attending their
campus in Nanticoke.

When Bloomsburg University launched its
first Web site, it was one of about 2,000 on
the World

Services Center

and

several

academic buildings and

being introduced to residence
all

academic buildings

will

have wireless

fledgling

let

it

Web and

university's

was one of about 2,000 on

the

first

in

the

in the Pennsylvania State

them

Services operates

all

the

food services, and students can choose

from a variety of

capability,

When the university launched its first Web site

Wide Web.

Aramark Management

is

by summer 2005,

halls;

according to Mohr.

September 1994,

eat at

flexible

any

meal plans with options

facility

that

on campus. Kresch notes

that Kozloff has taken a first-hand interest in the foods

available

on campus. "Our president goes

to

lunch

three out of five days in the dining halls," he says.

System of Higher Education, says Glenn Bieber,
director of

The

network and telecommunication

site didn't offer

much more

than a

with a nice photo of Carver Hall, but
Today, the

site features

it

services.

home

page

was

start.

a

hundreds of pages with

information about every facet of the university.

Hillary catches a shuttle back

to

upper

campus and stops in at her apartment before
walking

to

nearby Monty's

to

have dinner

with several roommates.

With the new Mount Olympus Apartments
bnnging more

traffic to

upper campus, the

university razed the 3,000-square-foot Monty's
built a 16,000-square-foot

offering

multipurpose

and

and conference space, Kresch

areas,

says. Specialties include

chicken and Southwestern cuisine.

Scranton

Commons

also received a

Hillary puts in a few hours studying before

facility

expanded dining, lounge and gathering

rotisserie

complete

renovation in 1999-2000, transforming from

finally closing the books on another

day as a

Bloomsburg University student, unaware
that

many of the advantages she takesfor

granted have only
campus life.

recently

become a part of

traditional cafeteria-style dining to a market-style

approach with an emphasis on fresh foods and plenty
Tracey M.

Dooms

is

a freelance writer and editor

living in

of display cooking right in front of the students. Also
State College, Pa.

new

are the

with

its

Second

4

2

Street Cafe

and

Italian

Kitchen

open-hearth pizza oven.

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in

(AACSB

the College of

The formal

early 2005.

When

Marianna Wood, Shaheen Awan, Swapan Mookerjee and

Nancy Coulmas joined BU's faculty

in

1994, enrollment totaled 7,277.

Enrollment has grown by 1,000 students over the decade, but faculty

members remain dedicated

to teaching

and providing research

opportunities for undergraduates.

Learning
TORY BY JACK SHERZE

One professor may

be studying the

of

effects

smoking on a persons voice while another
teaches

howfinns can

they

have one thing

all

better
in

manage

common: a

assets, but

love of

teaching and helping students grow:

Bloomsburg University has always prided
itself

on the fact that

assistants, instruct

For many

its

professors, not teaching

undergraduate students.

instructors, thai care practice isa

main reason they came

We talked to jam

to the university

faculty

numbers who

arrived at Bloomsburg a aex ode ago. one from

each of the university^ fow colleges. All (out
professors

- as

Bloomsburgs
in

is

fat

the case with most oj

ulty

- have earned top acg\

then fields and are

resean

h.

And,

all

<

onstandy involved

spoke

forged with students.

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bonds the)

in

\ e

Woods students don't just

arianna u. wood, associate
professor of biological and allied
health sciences

first

research

glance, a Christmas tree

would support

wildlife at least as

and some of her students
and

Wood
in biologi-

mammals.

to small

Bloomsburg's dedication to teaching
as well as research

of why she

is

says.

"Even

says.

if

they have a

lecture class that's large, the labs are

small

enough and taught by

professors

says.

previously

to the university

"Students get personal attention,"

Wood

they try to get jobs or go on to

Wood, who

pan

a big

10 years ago.

very helpful to them as

Wood

came

was

was an

who

know

really get to

their students well."

assistant professor at Saint John's

Wood

For the past three years,

and some students have

how to

studies apart, Wood

graduate school,"

allied health sciences are

same

University

Benedict in Minnesota, says

experience sets Bloomsburg's

"That

discovering the two settings are not
the

the)' learn

and College of Saint

sit

in

Giving undergraduates research

science

well as a natural forest.

But so far Marianna D.

and

They can help

work with mathematical models
and statistics to analyze findings.

Atfarm may seem like an area that

cal

in classrooms.

set

up

small sections of rain gutter in
certain areas of the tree farm,

on each end with ink pads

outfitted

and peanut butter

for bait.

The

animals leave their tracks and

through careful monitoring Wood
can gauge animal

activity.

"So even though
like perfectly

good

it

looks to

me

habitat, there

is

something they don't find natural
about

Wood

it,"

phase of study
that

says.

is

"The next

to find out

why

is."

Wood,

39, says she did a lot of

hiking and camping as a child.

Her

interest in nature

"learn

desire to

more about how things

worked"

As

and

led to her career.

civilization

continues to

encroach on the planet's wild
spaces, the research

students

do

is

Wood and

her

key to understanding

what impact humans

are having.

Marianna Wood combines a passion
science. In the field,

for the outdoors with a dedication to

Woods students may

find themselves researching wildlife

habitat, while in the lab, she provides personal attention so students learn

proper scientific procedure.

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Swapan Mookerjee,

professor of

exercise science and athletics

a

swimmer and

boxer

a

in

AsIndia, Swapan Mookerjee had
ways

certain

ol training to

get

results.

But Mookerjee wanted to
the reason behind the results
find out

how

know
- and

athletes can better

prepare themselves.
Shaheen Awan's specialty is the physiological factors that affect people's speech.
His interests have drawn him to organize a study of how smoking affects voices
and create software to provide objective voice measurements. Here, he demonstrates to students

how

to

"Obviously, coaches and athletes

have figured out a

and

conduct an oral examination.

error," says

whose
Shaheei

especially in our kind of health care

audiology and speech pathology

system where people get reim-

ou don t have to be a long-term
smoker to do damage to your
voice.

turns out people

It

smoking an average of 10
a

day can experience noticeable

Studying the

effects of

a persons voice

studies

is

just

smoking
one of the

Shaheen N. Awan and some

that will provide

measurement of the

tive

cigarettes

changes.

on

programs

Bloomsburg's Department of

50 young men who have
smoked a short time.

Bom in England

and

heard of his

Awan

first

he was finishing

field as

says the ability

an undergraduate degree in English

get involved in

research

was soon drawn

the field because of the various
areas

open

to study.

could combine his

is

He saw he

interest in

computer programming

as well,

devising computerized ways to
analyze speech and voice.

to

Awan

saying, 'You

we need to ha
back up our judgments,

better today,'

data to

sound

and

1

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and

department, Mookerjee

his students look at

how

the

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hands-on

idea

Many

times

and help

pursue

it.

a

student to

By writing

the findings together, the

student

gams valuable

luthorship credit.

haw

close

interaction with faculty

members," he

says.

I

doesnl always happen
i

universities

«.is tared

imo

exercise ph\siology though his

h.ii

at

as

the

.i

swimmer and

a

boxer

the Held of

own

experience

in liis native India.

the photo above, he tenches students
calculate ln»d\ lai percentages
null wilu. lis

\V

why

things work, but not

In BU's exercise science
athletics

Swapan Mookerjee

somebody and

We assume we know

will offer a research

"Students

"Instead of just listening to

and

one of Blooms-

burgs strengths.

career path to take.

says he

a doctor

undergraduate students to

and history and wondering what

Awan

was

Like other professors,

raised in

Canada, Awan, 42, says he

Mookerjee, 50,

they work."

voice."

students plan to study

Audiology and Speech Pathology.

how some

an objec-

The smoking study began last
year, with Awan and three students
focusing on 50 young women who
had been smoking for no
more than a few years. Later
this year, he and other

of his students are doing in

trial

there are a lot of topics that have not

been studied.

develop computer

says. "I try to

through

sports medicine specialist. "But

Awan

bursed for their services,"

father

lot

ill

l>\

how

Ill

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weighing

a n.lln lank.

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body responds

lo help separate

the fact from fiction

when

it

comes

to training.

Recently,

Mookerjee and

students looked at whether a \\

shaped "easy
lifters

bar

curl

that

weight

use for bicep exercises really

puts more focus

than a straight

on

the muscle

bar.

"When we measured

Nancy Coulmas brings a
the

variety of business experience to her classrooms,

including stints with a natural gas firm and later as an advertising manager

muscle,

electrical activity in the

we

-

for

New York Newsday.

did not find that," Mookerjee

says.

"There was no significant

When

ancy Coulmas, professor
of accounting

difference."

Mookerjee says he and some
of his students are looking into

18, 19,

Starting

whether strength in the hip, knee
or ankle joints

is

swimming than flexibility
"Coaches and swimmers then
would know what to focus on,
treestyle

instead of spending so

on

flexibility"

much

Mookerjee

time

says.

career,

supposed

The

but says she

Bloomsburg,

to

science or

math

excited to
in

come

to

Bloomsburg

1994 because the graduate

program had just been created

and he looked forward

to

"It's

a privilege to be

working

guide their

who

lives,"

stresses the

says Mookerjee

importance of

collaboration.

"Our students

get

hands-on experience in the
laboratory

and classroom and gym."

As

chair,

Coulmas

recently led
final

working

for

stages of the College of Business'

company

in

accreditation process. Accreditation

by the Association to Advance
Collegiate Schools of Business

Later,

manage

she

moved with

Island, N.Y.,

her family

of excellence held

is

a

by only

three other business colleges in

and helped

the Pennsylvania State System of

Higher Education.

advertising space for

Newsday. Thinking of moving up

"It

chose me," Coulmas says of

me

found

the corporate ladder, she earned

her teaching career.

an accounting degree.

somewhere along the line and
think I'm doing what I'm supposed

"It

I

shifted

when

even though

she took a job as a business school

to be doing,

accounting instructor

weirdo way of getting there."

family
state.

moved

to

after

western

her

Jack Sherzer

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native.

He

currently

Hanisburg.

lives in

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took a

a professional writer

and Pennsylvania

all.

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She discovered she loved

teaching after

12

and

mark

Her career track

student-faculty research

who gradu-

three years ago

firm's auditors.

Long

and

to raise

of startup wells and helping the

to

with young people, to be helping to

the university

good place

a

her department through the

Pennsylvania, figuring out the costs

doing

research and teaching.

BU

to

gree in secondary education/chics.

mind and

a job

a natural gas drilling

do a

to

has returned to earn a second de-

teacher.

teacher changed her

Coulmas found

was

It

ated from

of young adolescents as a student

Mookerjee says he was

had

1994 because she

her youngest daughter,

thought she

initially

a junior high school

But trying to control a group

assistant

exercise physiology laboratory

in

the area.

BUs accounting

it,"

there.'

was impressed by

chairs

it

Coulmas, 57, says she came

New York College at Brockpon and
its

be

Bloomsburg

professor at the State University of

director.

think

graduate from college, Coulmas,

would be
to

"I

liked

I

has a doctorate

with the students - they wanted

who

department,

coming

20 years old and

in accounting.

what I'm

in her family to

"They could spend more time on

Before

to teach at the

my students were

who

now realizes

to be doing."

first

went

says Coulmas,

lot

college-level teaching "is

strength training."

Mookerjee was an

Nancy Coulmas

out,

expected to pursue a corporate

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STORY BY TOM MCGUIRE

In the long history

of

Bloomsburg
been

several periods

when

Conference (PSAC), but

Association

won

The dominance
athletic

10 years

while in the early- to mid-1950s

35 PSAC

and mens bas-

teams stood above the

rest.

But in more than 100 years of
athletics at

Bloomsburg, no period

has seen the sustained and varied
success that occurred over the

From 1994

school consistently has been one of
the

14

most respected

athletically,

not

II

of Bloomsburgs

demonstrated by the
the school captured

titles

two Dixon Trophies,

school

at

Bloomsfirst

signifying

any

Football
that

moved

light.

hockey, the Huskies

won

the last

1 1

years, including

NCAA-record

four straight

an
from

another

fall

titles.

sport

into the national spot-

ships, highlighted

three trips

by the teams

appearance in the 2000 Division
title

II

game, which was televised by

news

seven national championships in

win four

NCAA football champion-

the conference.
in Division

is

NCAA

hockey

field

The Huskies made

to the

ESPN. The

field

three players

level to

NCAA

the top overall athletic program in

The premier school

and

Year award in that stretch. The

straight

burg also seized the PSACs

11

to the present, the

Division

in seven different sports.

last

10 years.

is

to 1999,

Huskies remain the only

program over the past

several conference championships,

ketball

(NCAA)

1996

earned the national Player of the

among all

schools nationwide.

were outstanding. In

the late-1930s, the track teams

the football, baseball

in the

National Collegiate Athletic

the Huskies not only
excelled, they

among other schools

Pennsylvania State Athletic

University athletics,
there have

only

in

team

football

1997 when

the Harlon Hill

Irv Sigler

Award

nations top Division

also

II

made

won

as the
football

player.

Not

to

be outdone, the women's

soccer team competed several

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many forms at BU.
show Irv Sigler '99,

Athletic competition takes

Sports scenes, from

left,

/

fans at the 2000 football championship game,
Tyler

Hunsberger

'00 (top),

Loehwing'05, Brian Sims

logo (top) and Erica Miller

times in the
ships,

NCAA champion-

and twice the women's

basketball

team was one win shy

of reaching the

The

softball

NCAA Final

team

also

straight trips to the

Four.

made 10

NCAA softball

BU swimmers,

'01

'01.

Individually

mer

Jackie

and the championship

women's swim-

Snook won

Erin

championship

in the

Mar)' Gardner.

"It is

a national

to later see these

200

athletes

stroke giving yet another

breasttitle

to

the Huskies, while track athletes

in their
Is

same student-

gave their

go on

sports,

such as Danielle Kramer and

who

most gratifying

to successful careers

chosen

there an

all in

field ol study."

end

in sight for the

championships, capturing one

Michelle Wolyniec earned

dominance of the Huskies?

second-place, two third-place and

All-American honors. In addition,

doesn't appear that

numerous

wrestlers, at the

hockey team recently won

Division

level,

a fourth-place finish.

Numerous

players have earned All-American

honors over the
Erica Miller

years, including

who

set several

the

NCAA

1

NCAA championships.
But the success

and many Bloomsburg records

program can

during her

oil

career.

The mens and women's

tennis

teams have been consistent
competitors in the

onship

field

on the women's

NCAA champi-

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K

2

side.

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also be

the playing

attracted

ol

field.

BUs

athletic

straight

coaching

Mall,

haw

and

to the post

the football

season

(

)ne thing

measured

hall as (.•veiling as the last
ol the

good

I

Held

its

missed being invited

just

"We have

II

is

the next 10 years are
10. fans

luskies will be in for a very

time,

b

talented

helped

the level oi athletics here

Bloomsburg," says

way The

for sure.

some outstanding

who, along with our

L2th national tide

team

student-athletes over the years

with 10 straight trips

on the men's side and nine

have made n to

It

Tom M.i

raise

ai

athletic directoi

I

?uire

Wverstf)

5

is

Bloomsburg

sports information

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Kozloff Ifears
The

average president of a public college or university

who

56-year-old white male

has been leading his institution

for less dian seven years, according to the College

Human

University Professional Association for

As she moves toward her
president

1

a

is

and

Resources.

1th anniversary, BU's 17di

anything but "average."

is

STORY BY KIM BOWER-SPENCE

When Jessica Sledge

Kozloff arrived at

Bloomsburg University 10 years ago,

campus

she found a

with her

own

that resonated

much

of her research

how

to

mold

presi-

and writing

to fully integrate the

same challenges remain
depended on

state appropriations for

40

just

first

1998. Officials

offered just

the college tradition she

was

seeking:

an enrollment made up mostly of

comprehensive

might

$17

students ages 18 to 23, and a faculty

and nurturing

collect

receives

it

Always struggling with

percent.

state funding, the university

Bloomsburg University

capital

initially

$8

mounted

campaign

its

in

thought they

million; eventually

million flowed from private sources.

Effective, efficient

kept the university

management

humming

also

while

other institutions experienced faculty

students.
"1

in focus today.

60 percent of its budget; now

undergraduate student experience.

that valued leaching

The

into opportunities.

Finances. In 1994, the university

The Bloomsburg University

centered on

needed

values.

dent had always been student-focused,
with

challenges she believed Bloomsburg

never had the feeling that

I

was

and

staff cuts, particularly in

"We have

the

last

through

riding in here like a savior to grab us

three years.

out of the jaws of disaster," says Kozloff,

significant fiscal challenges since 9/1

previously vice president for academic

Kozloff says. "Through the economic

and student

fallout, the universitj

lived

."

affairs for

leges of Colorado.
that

"I

the State Col-

came

to a place-

was already very good. What

excited

me was

staff wanted to

that the faculty

make

n

even

better."

Although enrollment dropped
early

In

her

first

convocation spee<

the
t

W

I

N T

990s,

it

in the

rebounded and helped

get

around 7 ,500 applicants

for

1,300 positions

h, in

August 1994, the president outlined

1

resuscitate revenues, Kozlofl says "Nov*

we
Challenges to opportunities

to

persevere and continue investment."

really

and

managed

1

"We also have dramaticall) increased
number ol grants that our facult)

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1

it

2

II

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1

get," Kozloff adds.
scientific

That enables labs to be stocked with

equipment and materials

BU

couldn't other-

wise fund.

Meeting

society's needs.

When

came

Kozloff

BU,

to

the public did not see higher education as an entity that

contributed solutions to society's most vexing problems.
Kozloff wanted to change that image, defining Blooms-

burg

an institution that invests in programs the

as

and community deem
She points

to several

- The College

is

avid Huskies fan, President Jessica Kozloff talks about

accomplishments:

of Science

general,

An

the season with student athletes.

and Technology. "One of

the major challenges for higher education

economy in

state

valuable.

the poor

Improving the undergraduate experience.

own graduate

and our

showing of our high

Kozloff's

studies in political science included envi-

ronmental planning and

how one's surroundings impact

school and college graduates in math and science,"

the sense of place

Kozloff says. "Higher education needs to address

the last 10 years have seen

this issue."

renovation than any other 10-year period in university

To focus

efforts

on math and

science, the university

and Technology, formerly

created the College of Science

part of the 22-department College of Arts
"It's

difficult for

regardless of their specific job,

math
cal

skills.

and

students to do well in this
if

Sciences.

economy

they don't have basic

Meaningful jobs require the kind of analyti-

reasoning one learns in the sciences," Kozloff says.
Faculty in BU's teacher education program

closely with

math and

work

science faculty to train tomor-

row's educators in these fields.

"We have

tunity to help prepare the teachers

who

a great oppor-

will

help stu-

dents, especially in the elementary grades, develop a

comfort

level

and even

- Doctorate
doctoral
ate

a love for

math and

of clinical audiology. Bloomsburg's

program saved one of the

programs

science."
first

nation's best gradu-

in audiology, the president says. Jointly

delivered under the auspices of Indiana University of

Pennsylvania, the only university in the Pennsylvania
State

System of Higher Education authorized

doctorates, the
"It

and

program

resides solely at Bloomsburg.

gives another of those signals that

facilities that

to grant

we have

faculty

meet the very highest standards,"

Kozloff says

- The College

is

by the Association

to

Advance

Collegiate Schools of

no coincidence

to the physical infrastruc-

nothing short of astonishing," the president says,

citing a "laser

beam

focus"

on improving

the teaching

and learning experience.
Kozloff points to the transformation of the old library
to the Student Services Center. "That building to

symbolic of so

many

me

is

things," she says.

This one-stop shop for academic advising, registration, financial aid

needs.

And

and tutoring focuses on student

the university accomplished the $4 million-

plus task without state funding, relying instead

on

its

campaign and $2 million trimmed from

its

oper-

capital

ating budget.

Students also

can choose to

minded

peers.

and work out
dark,

live in

live in

They can study
in a

new

gloomy dining

The

new, safer residence

university

halls,

and

learning communities of like-

new Andruss Library
What was a
Scranton Commons now
in a

Student Rec Center.

facility in

welcomes students and

faculty to a bright, airy space.

added muscle

to the

new

College of

Science and Technology with an addition to Hartline
Science Center. "You have to give the faculty the kind of
facility

of Business' recent accreditation

it's

more new construction and

"What we have done

history.

ture

and community. So

they deserve," reasons Kozloff,

who before com-

ing to Bloomsburg taught college courses in addition to

her administrative duties.

Business. "We've proven through a rigorous external
validation process that

we

are

among the

best,"

she says. "And, of course, for our students and our

alumni, the value of their business degree has just
increased exponentially.

It

will also

be a wonderful

Citizen students
Inviting, practical buildings

and the best programming

foster a student culture centered
tual

on moral and

development, Kozloff believes. Her

intellec-

interest in

recruitment tool."

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BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

'We're

known

as a place that really

models the Division

II

Our athletes

another dimension of student development.

athletics

is

students

first,

philosophy that

BU President Jessica Kozloff.

athletes second,' says

the "whole student" explains her passion for another

Universities, a

recent project.

represents

Project of the

and

American Democracy

Division

American Association of State Colleges

Universities.

The

project involves

involvement.

really

"I'm very concerned about the issue of the responsi-

of citizenship, the growing withdrawal of

and even

in discussions

among

political scientist.

"We have

citizens, to

development and

BU

notes that

citing tens of

promotes charac-

thinking, she believes. She

year.

Association's acquisition

Honeysuckle Apartments

and demolition of the

will

CGA-owned

open

for

fall

2005 on

the

policies to

Academy

as she

handed diplomas

to

back

as

Italy

much

an

feel

as

1

own hon-

China,

Israel,

and Austna on educational mis-

had so many opportunities
I

in

exchange students

studied in Bloomsburg, she accepted her

this university.

as president ol

ethical responsibility to give

can."

Looking ahead
see the university in a position to really enrich,

enhance

who we

are.

can

making

strategic investments in a

start

new academic
ment

site.

"The safety of off-campus housing remains one of

who

have perished in off-campus

fires

during

The

CGA project

really raises the

we

we're in a position where

number

of

That includes selectively adding

programs, more professional develop-

for faculty

and

staff,

plus

more renovation and

construction.

presidency
position.

stepped in and bought an eyesore and problem area
the community.

And

Kozloff stresses that she never intended to use her

her tenure. "Our student government association
in

bar

"1

at

Bloomsburg

as a stepping stone to another

always had the desire to

versity presidency

my last

one.

I

make my

first

uni-

don't believe any orga-

nization can continue to improve unless

has a sense ol

it

continuity That's one of the most important responsi-

off-campus housing."

bilities

of leadership: to provide a stable vision."

When

Beyond Bloomsburg
As president, Kozloff has represented Bloomsburg Uni-

beyond Pennsylvania's borders. Any

versity far

Our ath-

athletes second." She helped

first,

areas," Kozloff relates.

our primary concerns," says Kozloff, remembering

for

who

"I

proud of the Community Govern-

former Sesame Street Apartments.

students

is

students are already civically involved,

She's particularly

same

as a place that

NCAAs organization and

Hungary, Mexico,

thousands of hours of community service

performed each

ment

critical

Project

known

philosophy that athletics

Just last August at the Russian Finance

sions. "I've

The American Democracy

II

orary doctorate. She's also traveled to

their

communities."

ter

students

guide reforms to

Moscow,

this

become engaged

be informed voters, to care about

one

redefine the role of intercollegiate athletics.

in

a responsibility to provide

experiences that help our students

models the Division

another dimension of student development.

people about

important policy issues in our country," says

two terms on the

to

Presidents Council of the National Collegiate

win," she quickly adds. "We're

letes are

political process, the polarization

and the lack of 'civil discourse'

of our country
elections

II

universities.

of the best programs in the division. "Not just because

we

bilities

and

colleges

Athletic Association to Bloomsburg's reputation as

166 campuses

united in finding ways to ignite student interest in civic

Americans from the

Washington-based organization that

more than 400

She attributes her appointment

spring 2004, she took a sabbatical to serve as a

In

presidential consultant to the

are

national

retirement comes, she wants to

know she

leli

the university an even stronger place than she found

[he

real

job of an administrator is to create

it

an atmo-

honor or appointment recognizes the university as well

sphere where faculty can do their work," she continues.

as her, she emphasizes.

"There are

Kozloff currently serves as a

commissioner

ol the

still

opportunities to improve the quality
ai

BU.

group

ol

people to

better place or a better

Education, the accrediting body for several states in

important endeavor."

the Northeast.

And

directors ol the

W

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she

is

a

member

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s

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think

ol a

enlist in this

b

of the board of

American Association of Colleges and

2

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of the educational experience

Middle States Association Commission on Higher

Kim Bower-Spence

is

a freelance ioumalisl from Berwick, Pa



News Notes

Education Leader
Agbango completes term as PBCOHE president

Grant Support
BU Biotech gets a boost from NSF

Bloomsburg

The National Science Foundation awarded BUs department

Agbango served as

of biological and allied health sciences a Course, Curricu-

president of the Pennsylva-

political

science professor George

lum, Laboratory and Instructional Grant to develop

its

nia Black

new

Higher Education (PBCOHE)

and emerging biotechnology program.
Biology's biotechnology option will provide the

last year.

hands-on

to enter the biotechnology job market.

educators held

The $89,322

new wing of the

and research

laboratories

housed

Hartline Science Center. Faculty

in the

at

BU

founded
initiative of K.

time

for the first

in

20 years. The PBCOHE was

George Agbango

members

George Davis, John Hranitz, Kristen Brubaker and Carl Han-

its

executive council meeting

NSF grant will allow the biology department to fully equip
its new biotechnology laboratory, a suite of molecular and
cellular teaching

During his tenure,

the group of Pennsylvania

molecular and cellular laboratory experiences graduates

need

Conference on

Leroy

Irvis,

in

1970 under the

then-speaker of the Pennsylvania

sen spearheaded the grant, with input from biology and

General Assembly. The organization has grown into a strong

chemistry

advocacy group

faculty.

for minority

access to higher education

in

Pennsylvania.

Top Fundraiser
Lindberg heads

Workout Helpers

B U Foundation

Exercise science grad students help establish

Maryann LaCroix Lindberg
sity

Foundation

Inc.'s

is

the

Bloomsburg Univer-

new executive

director

operating

and

fitness

program

chief

officer.

Lindberg has a

broad background in
development, most
recently as vice presi-

dent and managing
partner in First Side
Partners, a Pittsburgh

consulting firm. She's

held senior develop-

ment

positions at

Penn

State, the University of

Maryann LaCroix Lindberg

g uffalo Foundation and

Westminster Choir College, Princeton,

N.J.,

now part

of Rider University.

A graduate of Bucknell University,

Exercise science graduate student Michael Conti leads

Lindberg earned

a master of business administration degree from

the fitness center at

SUNCOM

warm ups

at

Industries, Bloomsburg.

Penn
Bloomsburg exercise science graduate students helped establish a

State

and attained the designation of certified fundfitness

program

at

SUNCOM

Industries'

Bloomsburg

facility.

Graduate

raising executive in 1996.
students Michael Conti and Michael Lagomarsine, both of Blooms-

The Bloomsburg University Foundation

Inc. is a
burg, supervised by faculty

member Tim McConnell,

separate, incorporated organization that exists solely to

program
raise

in

August 2004. Working

at

SUNCOM's

set up the

recreation

room

funds to support Bloomsburg University. Contri-

butions to the

BU

rowing machine and

outfitted with treadmills, a stationary bike,

Foundation support educational
exercise mats, the students spurred 18 individuals to participate

in

endeavors and fund scholarships, student research and
the program. Throughout the year,

academic

facilities.

rotate through the

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BLOOMSBURG

T H

K

SUNCOM

1 1

other

BU graduate

students

program.

UNIVERSITY

M

A G A Z

I

N

K

will

4

Winning
Combination

Cold Water Census

Hutchinson honored

Biology prof counts sub-Antarctic fish

and

for softball

Space
Discovery
Faculty, student help

field

Carl A.

hockey coaching

discover rare asteroid

Han-

sen, assistant

brought a

trio

Jan

coach of BU's

jan Hutchinson

its

Division

ship at

II

field

Field

UMass

and

softball

14,

was

Hutchinson

entists

NCAA

Hutchinson

the

was

The

comprehensive

Hansen

collected a

ceremony

National Conven-

Vegas

ticipating

that discovered a rare

scientist in the

binary asteroid while

National Sci-

working at the Arecibo

sci-

survey of the

B.

facility in

The team, which

included scientists from
Cornell University and

fish in the

They spent 62 days on

the Jet Propulsion Labo-

Palmer, a 300- foot ice -break-

ratory,

imaged the near-

unique

set of tissue

CE26. The primary

samples from 37

study after returning to BU. Us-

DNA and RNA isolated

teroid

is

~3

km

while

only

~100m

cold southern ocean, assisted by seniors Eric Horstick, a

This

is

biotechnology and biochemistry major from Summerdale,

known

and Terrina Dolin,

Hilton.

Puerto

radar
Rico.

eter,

identified molecular

NFCA

scientific

different species of fish to

Association (NFCA) Hall of Fame.

tion at the Las

sea as a par-

were members of a team

Earth asteroid 2002

ing the

during the

Schlieder of Catawissa

at

ing research vessel.

later,

a

physics major Josh

from eight countries participated in the expedition,

first

National Fastpitch Coaches

in

sciences, spent

ence Founda-

board the RVIB Nathaniel

elected to the

She was inducted

in sub-

sub-Antarctic marine environment.

school history.

Less than a month

Shepard and senior

tion-sponsored ICEF1SH 2004 Expedition. Thirty-one

Lowell with a 3-2

in

allied health sciences, spent this

Antarctic waters.

Hockey Champion-

the 12th

and

biological

summer surveying fish populations

victory over Bentley College.
title

Carl Hansen, far right, assistant professor of

hockey team to

consecutive

third

hockey

tegms

On Sunday, Nov.
coached BU's

field

allied health

two months

Hutchinson,

geosci-

ences professor Michael

and

biological

of honors
for

Geography and

professor of

2004

Fall

from these samples, Hansen

changes that allow

fish to live in the

its

as-

diam-

in

"moon"

is

in diameter.

one of the

largest

binary asteroids.

a biology major from Athens, Pa.

And, the year's end held one

more

title for

Association (NFHCA) South Region Division
title

A Clamp on

Hutchinson: the 2004 National Field Hockey Coaches

makes her

eligible for national

II

Coach

of the Year.

The

New fraud

coach of the year honors.

program attracts 60 students

More than 60 students

Focused on Undergrads
Lincoln

Jonathan Lincoln joined
vice president of

in

BU

academic

as assistant

affairs

coln

comes
on

to

Bloomsburg after

the faculty

clair State

University in

1

New Jersey.

Advising Center, Tutorial Center,

Learning Enhancement Center, department

VV

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ROTC and

E

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At

regis-

program, honors program, reaching and

trars office, Act 101

instruction,

Mont-

Bloomsburg he oversees the Academic

Jonathan Lincoln

2

(I

ol

developmental

international education office.

(I

5

Pennsylvania and one of a handful
in

in

in

its

kind

the nation, BU's 18-credit

accounting, criminal justice and

"I

saw

the need for balanced course work for graduates to

obtain certification

in

fraud examination," says Michael Blue,

professor of accounting and the primary architect of the program.

founding chair of the earth and enviat

BU's career concentration

year The only program of

office information systems.

and

and nine years as

ronmental studies department

in

its first

program features course work

dean of undergraduate education. Lin-

years

enrolled

fraud examination during

named assistant VP of Academic Affairs

Corruption

"Fraud examination

is

a very exciting and challenging career



you have a chance to prove someone innocent or uncover a crime

— and
in

the

is

expected to be

among

the top 10 fields for job creation

coming decade.

"We

have students from criminal

justice,

management,

office

information systems, business education, computer information

systems and accounting enrolled

A certified
was

in

the program," adds Blue.

fraud examiner and certified public accountant, Blue

a designated fraud examiner for

US

Navy

for five years.

21

their

dreams

As a Bloomsburg University
Warren

20

years, Robert 'Doc'
helped students realize their

professor for

dreams. Students like Joe Foresman,
left, an English major who dreams of
becoming a writer, and Garrett Metz
who would like to help people in
psychiatric medicine.

Now

history
".

Warren still supports
students through a growing
scholarship endowment. Nine students
in the Sigma lota Omega fraternity
receive his scholarships each year. And
retired,

SIO alumni have, in turn, contributed to
those scholarships to create a lasting
legacy.

Learn more:
Telephone: 570-389-4128

Web: www.bloomu.edu/giving

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at

Perms Grove,

N.J.,

resides at Vintage Knolls Assisted

Danville.

Elfed "Vid" Jones celebrated his 100th birthday
Oct. 16, 2004. After serving as a teacher, coach

principal in the Wilkes-Barre School District, he

was

He

ing principal in Scott Township, Bloomsburg.

and

a supervis-

BU

District,

Athletic Hall of

Bloomsburg. He

Fame. He has

is

a daughter,

a

since 1994,

Gayle Reed, and

several

Old,"

his latest

Voices," a collection ol 12 stories.

book. "A Rush of

will

fund a three-month
Blair will travel

Americans

first

Seminary

cal

He has published

books during his retirement, notably "New Tales

Lilly

summer sabbatical

in

Endowment.

It

2005, during

and wnte. In March 2004, he was one of

to lecture at

Moscow

Presbyterian Theologi-

in Russia.

Mundy was elected

Phyllis Block

an eighth term in the

to

appropnations, children and youth, commerce and education

committees. Her

Bob Dipipi was inducted

10 years as senior

for the past

Pennsylvania House of Representatives. She serves on the

for

"One Divided by Two" and "Gleanings."

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a

his doctor-

Hollow (Texas) Presb)terian

the Preston

$33,000 grant from the

pastor, received a

which

George Sharp published

Monie and

Blair R.

member of the

He earned

Hopkins University and

from Rutgers University.

ate

the

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"Citizen of the Year."

Church, which he has served

two grandchildren.

7

was named

master's degree from Johns

retired as

supervising principal of elementary education in the Central

Columbia School

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

where

of her students. She retired from that

now

school as principal and
Living

Now

Viola Stadler observed her 100th birthday

district

includes Courtdale, Exeter, Exeter

Township, Forty Fort, Jackson Township, Kingston Borough,

into the Northeastern

Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame

Kingston Township, Luzerne, Pringle, Swoyersville, West

Oct. 10, 2004.

West Wyoming and Wyoming

Pittston,

Charles Reh was inducted into the Northern Anthracite

'64

Elsie Straub retired from the
District after

40

Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. He has been

Midd-West School

years of service.

principal in the

and

^C ^y

Harold Swigart

\J /

District after

retired

from the Midd-West School

an education career of 33

his wife

Mahanoy Area School

Joanne

Barry Staples,

live in

District since

1983.

He

Ashland.

a social science professor at

Lackawanna

College, wrote a textbook, "Understanding Sociology,"

years.

a

and con-

ducted research lor an upcoming publication dealing with the

^C %y John Auten
V-JCJ

Jr. retired

from the Shikellamy School

Distnct after 36 years of service.

Rich Benyo and his running partner,
inducted into the Badwater Hall of

Fame

honor recognizes

the

1989

their

feat as

first

He earned

families.

Tom
in

psycho-social effects of anabolic steroids on athletes and their

Crawford, were

Death

Man wood

University

Temple University

at

Mark Yanchek. boys basketball coach at Methacton High
School, won a gold medal in the high jump competition at the
Pennsylvania Senior Games. He will represent Pennsylvania in
the National Senior Games in Pittsburgh

The
do a

Valley.

runners to

a masters degree at

and completed additional graduate work

double-crossing of the Death Valley course.

Marsha Loeper Hubler wrote her first book, "Draw Me
A Woman's Guide it) a Meaningful Prayer Life,"
which was published in January 2003. She and her husband
Closer, Lord:

Richard

live in the rural

area between Selinsgrove

7^7
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and

Middleburg.

ers in the U.S. to

He was

7^C^1 Gerry Fulmer retired after 35 years of service at
Honesdale ligh School. For the past 25 years, he
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He and
Todd

served as the district's athletic director.

former Debra Raught, have one son,

Frank Jablonski

retired

I

from the Shikellamy School

Connie L.Jarrard
School System

retired in

retired

2003 from

the

Newark

Valley

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in

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2004

who were nominated

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$5,000 honorarium. The DisneyHand
for the

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ity in

District after

retired

District alter teachii

st

c

ol

os Angeles. John received a

Dianne Knorr

at

was one

a Pisncvl land readier Award in

teaching.
ol the

serving as assistant superinten-

from the

hools

Janice

foi

the Diocese

ine

Mountain School

interim superintendenl ol

ofScranton

Rupp, luw three children,

and Paul

1

ars

James Marcks was named

Bistocchi, superintendent ol schools

Middle School

yet

1

dent for three years

teaching physical education,

from the Selinsgrove Area School

at

District,

William Houser was named superintendenl

District

35 years of service.

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Midd-West School

alter 54 years ol

Russ Palkendo

win

and 10,000 who applied
in

a teacher

selected from 150,000 teachers

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his wife, the

alter 35 years oi service

District alter

John Hartzog,

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his wife, the forme]

Gromelski, |aime

7^7/1 Walt Woolbaugh, a junior high science teacher in
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Norma
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formerly was director of information technology

retired

a

Quotes

Why the Left is Right," a resource on issues

Ever:

Martin works in Harrisburg and

from the Shikellamy School

Best Liberal

such as marriage, family, character, religion and education.

District after

Diane Bradish Schellhamer

nearly 32 years of service.

John

was named

State University,

William Martin published "The

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Steel Corp.

Hoover

Bill

at

Montana

the world's largest science teacher organization.

Larry Clees was appointed associate dean of infor-

mation technology'

at

of the National Science Teachers Association,

district director

30 years of service.

District after

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from the Selinsgrove Area

retired

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for

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2004.

Schapperle was appointed executive vice president

F.

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in Hawaii.

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is

designated chartered property casualty underwriter.

Frederick Colyer

Sr. retired

from the Midd-West

\j School District after 37 years of service.

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Saundra McBride Myers

Edward Blackburn
May 29, 2004

and

Neidich,

June

Randall

C.

James,

Dr.

May

2004

Aug. 30, 2003

May 15,2004

M. Wakstein, July

5,

Elizabeth Martin

'89 and Isaac

13,

Lee Ann Nepa
Norris, Feb.

Amy J.

Andrew

2004

Murray, Aug.

6,

Coleman Marr '95 and

William V.Cross, July

Dina Pachence '92/"94M and
Robert S. Duffy, Aug.

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2004

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Francis J. Flynn

Jana

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June

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R. Bassetti '93 and

Richard

J.

Grater

'93,

'95 and

Thomas

S.

Wolfe

Ashley Renn, Aug.

Amy

'97 and Dennis

'98 and

2004

7,

'99 and

DeMaranville

March

27,

2004

Thomas

A. Hitchcock, Oct. 4,

Sharon Sargen

'97

and

James

H.

Jr.,

Erik

May 1,2004

James Seip

'97 and

Rebecca Telep

Anna

'97

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15,2003

Robertson, July

Leanne

and

2004

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Lytle '99 and Abel

Christopher Goetter, Oct. 15, 2004

Sanchez, April 10, 2004

Susan Bonifanti

'98

Anne Marie McGinley

Holman, Aug. 28,

2004

Marcus Edwards

and Jeffrey

Rosenbaum '99M
and Amy McCormick '01,

'98 and

Scott

July 10, 2004

'98 and

Tina Joline '96 and Anthony

Julie Guisewhite '98 and Marc

Christopher Kleckner

Walters, July 31, 2004

Novia

Kristel Moffit '96

John Kaschak

and John

Wilhelm

'96 and Crystal

Gerald Wertz,

and Michael

Cherrup, June 12, 2004

Leonard Charnecki

'97

2003

Clarke '97 and Curt

Mike Moore

'98 and Katie
16,

2004

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'99, April 17,

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Hoy

2004

'01, April 24,

Keegan Orzechowski

Andrew Campbell

Little,

Shelly Hamilton '97 and Terrence

Valerie

Chmil, Sept. 20, 2004

Christopher Hamilton,

Kelly

Aug. 14,2004

Joseph

Lisa Threefoot '98 and Mark

July 17, 2004

Cynthia

Hamm '97 and

Matthew Smith '93 and Anna
Bauer '95, May 8, 2004

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June

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2004

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Aug. 14,2004

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Rodney Balazs

Stephen Bilko

Steiner,

'00 and Michael
7,

Porter, July 10,

Suzanne Owens

and

Ayers

Booth, Aug.

'98 and

Aug. 14, 2004

Jr.,

May 1,2004

Jankowski, October

Alyssa

Zoller. Oct. 25,

Gallagher

Jill

Eliza

Crystal Kovaschetz

2003
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'98 and

Hagenbuch

Klessinger, Nov. 23, 2001

Kelly

Christa Steiger '99 and William

11,2004

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'99 and

BenLudwig'99,June26,2004

Alisa Sickora '99 and

Jr.,

2003

Christie Kittle '99 and Charlie

2004

12,

Gardner

Kelly Krohn, Nov.

Kimberly Davis, Oct. 18, 2003

Lori

2003

2004

Jason Claudfelter

Jr.

Partash, Nov. 22,

'92 and

Michael

Margot

Megan Jack

Christopher Baldwin

Malarkey, June 16, 2004

2004

Pamela

Weinhold

Jason Speece

Stephanie Campomizzi

10,

'95 and

MacCollum

and Lee Biese

7,

Whalen, June

2004

Lorie Audenried '92 and

Tom

'95 and David

Aug.

'97 and

Sherri Rothermel

Neece

2004

Taylor, July 24,

Francine Powell

May 1,2004

Zarella,

Fargo,

'89 and Alec

'91

2004

2004

2004

17,2004

Tracy Miller

3,

Derek Miller

Kinder '90 and Gerald J

Leonard,

July

Patricia

Margaret Ovsak

June

Jr. '94 and Dianne

Robert Galella '95 and Suzanne

'88 and

Custer,

2004

Alycia Darcangelo, Feb. 14,

Kandy Blackwell
and

Colette J. Barni '87 and Brian
Hillman.

John Martello

Christy Kehl '94 and Keith Hess,

J. Schlorff '85

E. Kirk,

'93 and

Ahrensfield, April 24,

'80 and Elizabeth

29,

William Pitcavage

John Bewick

2004

25,

Cox

William

Karen

'60,

'72 and Richard

Ed Horvath

L.

'58

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V

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Bank. She
Bill

nearly

Cynthia

tor for the central

is

Cardi

business banking direc-

is

from the Shikellamy School

retired

7 ^7jJ Ken

Bolinsky was hired by the

state of Mississippi

/ C3

Pennsylvania region of Wachovia

a senior vice president, based in Reading.

Unger

36

Hammes

to stan the drama program at the new School of
The two-year residential high school was established
campus of the former Whitworth College in southcen-

the Arts.

District after

years of service.

on the

Mississippi.

tral

Beth Parrish Malikowski earned the designation of project

management

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professional

(PMP) from the

Management

Project

Institute, a not-for-profit professional association for project

at

management. She and her husband Michael

with their three children, Kristen, Megan and

ville

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

reside in Coates-

'79 Wood

Brett.

Cheri Bohler Rinehart was named a 2004 Robert

20

of only

is

one

nurses in the U.S. selected for the three-year fellow-

A registered

ship.

Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow. She
nurse, she

is

vice president of Hospital

and

Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.

Pamela Lyn Dower
Christopher Vorce

'00

Stephanie Hontz
McLaughlin, June

4,

and

and Brian

Kelly Keating '00 and Antonius

Stagliano

May

'00,

Joshua Knisely

19,

'00

2004

and Molly

Shank, July 10, 2004

June

28,

2004

Jennifer Marinari '00 and
Kiley,

Bill

May3. 2003

Suzanne Polyniak

Ensminger, Sept. 25, 2004

Lynn Marie Rankin
Maxim,

'00

and Brian

2004

Oct. 9,

May 22, 2004

'01,

Diane Sommers

'00 and David

Reese, July 10, 2004

Peter Spisszak '00 and Catherine

and David

'01

May

and Allen

2004

15,

Ann Kasper '01 and Chad

Updegrave, April

Dina Kern

'01

2004

17,

and Chris Bohner,

'01

Kathleen Lloyd

Alissa M. Fegley '02 and

Carly

Christopher Perhonitch,

Weese

June

4,

2004

Tara

L

Fetzer '02 and John

Sheesley

Jr.,

Jan. 10,2004

Michele Hlib

June

Osman

DiStefano

Heather

26,

'01

'02,

Jr. '01

22,

May

Slusser,

2004

Phillips '01
5,

and

and Nathan

May

Jennifer Reisch

Andrew

R.

2004

and Timothy

Leah Kiefer

'03,

'02 and

Jeremiah

2003

3,

'02

and Jeffery

2004

19,

Deanna Pensyl

Mark

Chartowich'00,July10, 2004
Christine Betz 01 and William
Lokitis, Sept. 20,

2003

Aiumim: Carnell '01 and

Bachman

'01,

Todd

Aug. 14,2004

'04

and Robert

2004

3,

Brown '04 and
Pawling, May 15, 2004

May 8, 2004

Melissa Ettinger

'04

and Gerald

2003
'01

Tonia M. Ryan '02 and Walter

Amy Hess '04 and John

Wydra

July 31, 2004

and

Bitz

Meagan Roberts '01

and Cory

Jr.,

June

Audra Shadle

Notan, Nov. 22, 2003

Kufro, July 24,

Douglas A. Shoup

Janet

'01

and

Slifer '01 and

E.

26,

Moyer, Sept. 19,2004

2004

'02 and

Nathan

2004

James

June

Autumn Spaide

Rebecca Clark

'01

and Nathan

Klingerman'01,June26,2004
Jessica Lee Sprow

'01

and

May 22, 2004

Kathleen Abrams

'02

Dolan, July 17, 2004

and Jason

Jillian

2004

Murphy

26,

2004

Miltenberger, July 24, 2004

Stacie Hamilton

'03

7,

May

27,

2004

25,

Edwin

2004
Price 04 and Janet

May

Krzanowski,

Megan

Joslyn Sherry

Dec

27,

and Richard

2004

'04M and Ryan Wagner,

Brandon Hensinger 03 and
Lurowist,

and John

Chanikarn Plakburanapong

June

and

Matthew Randolph, Aug.

'04

Nicole Murray
Gibson,

'03 and Michael

'04

2004

Bickhart, Aug. 7,

Jeffrey Vogt,

Sherman,

Stephanie Lemon 04 and Sean
Brady, July 24,

Taylor 02 and Craig A.

Wilson, June 14, 2003

Terence Walton,

Jan.

DeLisle,

Heather Buffington 03 and

and Michael

III,

Justin D.

'02 and

Amanda

Weaver '00

2004

Lindsay M.

Chad Varney

Lyn

12,

Meredith Beiter

Moore

Jessica Hess, April 17. 2004

Verlinghieri 03, Aug 20, 2004

Comp, June

Katie Ziegler '03 and Thomas

Palermo, June 12, 2004

Karen

'03 and

Albert Corazza

Justin Zellers '03 and Julianna

Moser 02

'00 and

May 22, 2004

Zaremba, June 28, 2003

June

Deitrich,

2004

Brandon

'03 and

Jasmine Slingwine

Raymond

Miller

'03,

and

'03 and

Staci Kurczewski

Pagano

'03

03, July 3,

Jeffrey Delese '03

Erica Heffelfinger

and

Castner

Boettger'02,June12, 2004

July 31, 2004

Kylie

Jason

Ann Martin

Charity

Adam

'02 and

Doebler

Kristin

Christopher Kurtz, Oct. 25, 2004
C.

Brett

Jeffrey Groblewski '02 and

2004

Dussinger, July

Matt Russel 00 and Mikki
Martin

Kelly

Erin Koval,

'00 and Kyle

'01

2004

10,

Rachel Craver 02 and
Johnson, Aug. 28, 2004

2004

5,

Jr. '01,

April 17,

Heidi Lyons '00 and Benjamin
Tun,

and Melissa

Dawn Johnston
Snook

2003

'01

Engisch

Kristin

McRae, July

'00 and

'01, Oct. 25,

Chad Casey
Cohen, June

2004

Joseph Jachowicz
Stacy Au

'00

'01

2003

22,

'04

2004

and Anthony

Neiderer,May15,2004

Husky Notes
7

5^11
C3v/

Births

District alter

M

Distnci alter 13 years of service.

| Bette Anderson Grey, a registered respirator) ther-

CJ-A-apist and

certified

joined the staff of the

pulmonaiy function

pulmonary

technologist,

department

rehabilitation

at

Sunbury Community Hospital and Outpatient Center.
Steve Scheib was inducted into the Allen-Rogowicz
Chapter
Iris

Fame.

the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of

ol

Miller Star joined the

staff

as

adopted from Nepal

an administrative assistant

for

Rebecca Lehman '95/'97M

Portington '88 and husband,

and husband, Aleks Radovic, a

Michael Bruce, a son, Connor

daughter, Madeline Jelena

Michael, April

She

is

community.

a special education teacher at the Liberty-Valley School in

and husband, Todd, a son, Brady

daughter, Rebecca Noelle,

Timothy, July

Jan. 16,2004

Paul Clifford '96 and Jennefer

i

is

May

serving a one-year term as vice

NJSCPA in

1984.

and regional commercial leader

National Bank.

He

21,

2004

Clifford '96, a daughter,

2004

Kristel Moffitt Klessinger '96

'89

and husband, Dennis, a son.

Joshua James, Aug.

Gordon

T.

Soda

'90

March

and

Colin Michael,

Elaine

March

2004

9,

and husband, Tim,

'93

Tracy Fisher Alvy

18,

John, June 15, 2004
D.J.

Cahoone

'98 and wife,

Aug. 16,2004

Jennifer

2004

Benware Tregear

'98, a daughter,

Nov.

'94 and

at Harleys\ille

has more than 20 years of financial services

'97 and

Lee Clare Robertson

George Tregear '98 and

a son,

Sean Timothy, March

13, 2004.

Michele, a daughter, Emily Rose,

'93, a son,

Bosack Woods

Anne, June

husband, David, a son, Brodie
'90,

2004

15,

and husband, John, a daughter,
Ellie

2004

12,

Maria Bednarchik Soda

Robert Krupka of Bethlehem was recently appointed vice
president

Boyle

2004

6,

Abigail Jayne, April 30,

Susan Sugra-Buterbaugh

a son, Griffin,

VJ^J president of the New Jersey Society of Certified
Public Accountants. A tax partner at Wiss & Company LLP in
Livingston, he joined the

'89

Lynn Hetzel Budzinski

Diana Newell

$?^/ Kev n Kerrigan

Julie Yarnell Rutledge '95

'88 and husband, Joe, a

Iris

the Danville Area School District.

7

2004

18,

River Village, a

and her husband have
adopted three daughters, two of whom came from Russia:
Cheryl, 10; Tatyana, 14; and Irina, 15.
Tami Hartman Tunnessen 'SIA^M received a "Teacher of
the Year" award from the Region 17 Wal-Mart in Bloomsburg.
care retirement

May

Radovic,

Lisa Calegari Michalochick

Kevin Anthony,
life

2004

7,

and husband, Robert, a son,

Wood

Kyle Edward, Aug. 22, 2004

Bronwyn McClimans-

New Jersey Education

of

Association as a government relations secretary. She previously

worked

Elizabeth,

'95 and husband, Nate, a son,

Maya

Elaine, a daughter,

years of teaching.

Elizabeth Schwartz retired from the Line Mountain School

7 CJ

Vicki Muckenthaler Blevins

Jeffrey Kile '82 and wife,

^ ran F ause y retired from the Selinsgrove Area
School

5,

Jenna

Elizabeth,

2004

husband, Alex, a daughter,

Joseph Jachowicz

Kylen Sonja, June 22, 2004

Stacy Au

'00 and

'01, a daughter, Lily

experience.

Brian Palko,

who

has served with the Navy for more than

21 years, was promoted to captain.
officer for joint logistics

Distribution Center in

Mechanicsburg

7 %y ^y

CJ*J

vv^ith

is

serving as operations

contingency plans

New Cumberland.

his

Elizabeth

He

at the

Defense

Palko resides in

two children, Brian and Amanda.

Minogue published her

fourth book,

"The Prince," a fantasy romance. She published

three historical

romances under the name Elizabeth English:

"The Border Bride" (2001), which
of America s

RITA Award;

won

the

Romance Writers

"Laird of the Mist" (2002)

Nicole Boyd-Hayes
and Daniel Hayes

Theresa, Dec. 11,2002

'94

'94, a son,

and husband,

William Francis

Julie Chasser

Shanna Watson Rosser '00

Kuzma

and husband, David,

Brian, a daughter,

Alexandra Nicole,

'94

May

5,

Brooke Weidner Schiavone

a

daughter, Katherine Elizabeth,

'00 and husband. Brent, a

June

daughter, Kaylee Noel,

23,

2004

2004

Carleen Berger Mulholland

April 21,

'94 and husband, Shane, a son,

Amy Uter '04 and

Matthew Joseph,

July

2004

8,

2004

and "The

husband,

Christopher, twin sons, Conner

and

Colin,

June 1,2004

Linnet" (2004).

was named president of ACA Internaand collection professionals.
Strausser is president of Remit Corp. in Bloomsburg which
specializes in medical, financial and commercial collections.
Harry Strausser

III

tional, a trade association of credit

7%3 /]

Michael A. Galantino

CJ^T Financial Services

advisor)'

Inc.

president of Haverford

is

He

serves

on

the

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committee of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange

Board of Governors.

Kim Kinney Kearney was promoted
services at

to director of clinical

Healthsouth Reading, where she oversees

rehab hospital's

clinical

all

of the

therapy and support services. She and

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V

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her husband Rob
Erin

live in

Shillmgton with their two daughters,

and Kyra.

Linda Schoffstall Walinsky, executive regional director of

McCann

the

School of Business and Technology,

president of the Schuylkill

7 43 £^ John

Chamber

Gasink was promoted

A.

is

er/nutrition consultant.

She resides

husband Steve and two

children,

is

to force protection

with her husband Jeff, son Dominick and daughter Jordan.

Luann Smith

Agency, Richmond, Va.
is

employed

as a certified brain

married to William Stauder, and they

/Q 1
C-5

Richard J. Greco was appointed

retail

investment

43 v3 officer for the Susquehanna Valley Region of Community Banks. He formerly was head of an independent
services practice.

cial

Michael Pucillo

and accounting firm
in

He

is

Newtown Square with

their

2004, the family received the

Community

Service

43

/

Gabriel

'CI'/

He and his wife Rose

reside

first

Pennsylvania Outstanding

Award.

Campana

recently published a textbook

SMART,"

a multicultural tool

accomplishments of people of color and the

Founder of SMART, Students Making All Races Tolerhe teaches in the Williamsport Area School District and

serves

on Williamsport City Council.

Stephen Sunderlin
artistic director at

is

in his

Company

in

second season as the producing

the Millbrook Playhouse in Mill Hall. During

the year, Stephen runs the

to the

709th

He

Airlift

Squadron

43 43

at

rank
a

is

Dover Air

married to the former

is

S -^

Timothy Laubach

joined the

District as director of

Wyomissing School

He

technology services.

merly held a similar post in the Berwick Area School

for-

District.

/^l ^y Louis Biacchi was promoted to vice president of
^r \J worldwide sales for Global Dosimetry Solutions
Cosa Mesa,

Calif.

Shawn Godack is mathematics department chairperson at
Gettysburg Area High School. He has been with the district for
10 years.
Taffi

Ross Johnston passed the

certified

emergency nurse

examination administered by the Board of Certification

Emergency Nursing. She has been on

the staff of

Community Hospital for seven years.
Dan Pszeniczny is assistant coach

of

New York City.

Andy Sanko '93M became

Anthony Klemanski joined

for

Sunbury

men's and women's

cross country at College Misericordia.

award-winning Vital Theatre

principal of Holland Elementary

School in the Council Rock School District July

/

He

Stephanie Orsini.

disabled.
ant,

Zdanavage was promoted

son and daughter. In March

for teachers, "Project

that celebrates the

S.

pilot assigned to the

Inc.,

7 43 ^y

for Big Brothers

finan-

resides in Catawissa.

Havertown.

Stacey

Force Base in Delaware.

president of Pucillo Associates, P.C., a tax

in

manager

^^ \^ of major in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

have two children, Kutty and Kassidy.

7 43 ^C

a case

is

Big Sisters in Elizabethtown.

Kimberly Meinhart-Stauder
is

Olivia.

'Cjfl Brenda Snyder Fiorenza employed with SunJr\J Bank in Sunbury. She lives in Northumberland

43 *_/ specialist for the Defense Distribution Mapping

injury specialist. She

in Royersford with her

Cameron and

serving as

Commerce.

of

in Limerick, Pa., as a wellness center instructor/personal train-

1

,

2004.

the Greenville, Del,

43 43 office of Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors.

7^/1/1

^A

Chris Beadling

marketing director

is

for all

1

offices of Coldwell Banker Hearthside Realtors in

Rebecca Solsman Bonnevier is general manager of the
Wachovia Arena in Wilkes- Barre. She formerly was the
director of sales and marketing at the Century Tel Center in

Bucks County.

Bossier City, La.

He and

John M. Reber is vice president and director of risk management for the Citizens & Northern Bank's branch in Wellsboro.

Brenda Ryan Hossler was inducted into the AllenRogowicz Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports lall of Fame.
The Rev. Martin Nocchi was ordained a priest for the
Archdiocese of Baltimore on June 26, 2004. He is assigned to

7 43 £j

43 ^r

Paul

Hayward was

Sean

valedictorian of the graduate

department in the College of Arts and Sciences

the University of San Francisco.

Hayward

lives in

at

Elliott

is

executive director of the Roxborough

St.

Joseph's Church, Fullerton, Md., as an associate pastor.

Theresa Marie Opeka, Uniondale, was promoted
director of DeWitt Broadcasting radio stations

Dana Smith Mansell published her

first

children's book,

WYCY-FM

and

WPSN-AM

the

Andrea Zeitler Peters was named Bethune Academy's
2004-2005 Teacher of the Year. Andrea has been with Bethune
Academy as network manager/technology teacher since

station.

August 2003.

ship Police Department

consultant. She

is

is

a reportei

Robert W. Roth was appointed
le

and

and

three stations, as well as All

DeWitt'sJeffersonville/Monticello

l

news

to the \\

«

his

ife

NY.

hitemarsh

1

own-

Stephanie reside

in the

name Ann

Kelly,

suspense novel, "Dead On,"

set in

and Cooper.

New Orleans.

Tina Magray Trager

News WDNB-FM,

Honesdale She

all

to

WDNH-1 M

Lansdale area with their three children, Brad} and twins Peyton

Kelly Cuthbert Jameson, using the pen

Doylestown and

in

morning news anchor on

"Stop Bullying Bobby." She lives in Pottsvtlle.

first

YMCA.

their son, Joseph.

1

San Francisco

with his partner, Vanessa Vertm.

has self-published her

Hatboro with

his wife reside in

studying to be a certified nutritional

works part-time

at the

Spring Valley

YMCA

Branson Stone was named superintendent ol the Susque
( ommunit)
St hool District
le and his wife, the forme]
t
son
an\on
and
lammv Baker, haw a
reside in ["hompson

hanna

l

Husky Notes
'95

Dennis Correll '95M

is

director of financial aid at

received the

Hugh

at Lock Haven University. Erik has two children,
and Olivia, 4.
Matt Hutchinson is tourism coordinator for the Williamsport-Lycoming Chamber of Commerce's visitors bureau. He
was also reappointed to the City of Williamsport's Bowman
Field Commission. He resides in Montoursville.
Scott Krutz is an assistant neighborhood sales manager for
Lancaster-based Charter Homes.

development
Derrick, 8,

Gump earned a master's degree in educaF.

McKeegan

awarded

Prize,

to a master's

Lee

a teacher at the Bloomsburg Middle School.

is

'\j£^

S\J

Marywood

A graduate

faculty of College Misericordia.

pressure-sensitive adhesive systems. She serves as chemist in

the development of release liners for

of the company's

all five

business units.

Bruce Thomas, director of food service

at

Geisinger

Medical Center, was elected to a second term on the board

7{ji3 Jennifer Adams

S\J

degree at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

He

is

president of Sir Speedy Printing in Lancaster.

formerly was vice president and chief financial

Darlene Davis Link earned a doctorate

ogy

at

officer.

in clinical psychol-

and

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She

her husband John are parents of a daughter, Kayla. They
in

King of

assistant

dean of the college

May

MBA from

2004.

Kevin Deely teaches ninth and 10th grade English at
He also performed in the world
premiere production of "Tarry Flynn," based on the novel by
Easton (Pa.) High School.

Patrick Kavanagh.

live

Carey

McNeill

E.

is

an optometrist in Wilmington, Del.

A graduate of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Payne Miller was promoted to senior benefits

human

is

Colgate University. She earned an

at

Heidelberg University in

Prussia.

administrator in the

Food

Management.

Service

of

University, she earned a doctor of psychology

Jeff Kahler

He

and his wife Wendy have two children, Jillian and Russ.
Bobbi Jo Knorr moved from medical research and development to release research and development at Adhesives
Research Inc., Glen Rock, manufacturer of high-performance

of directors of the National Society of Health Care

Antoinette Hamidian '96M was appointed to the

He

tional administration at Bucknell University.

candidate specializing in educational administration or supervision.

executive director of alumni and

is

Le e

^

Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Erik J. Evans '95M

7 \\^7
/

resources department of Fulton

with patients

at the

Eye

College of Optometry, she

Institute in Philadelphia

worked

and the

Financial Corp. She joined Fulton in 2002.

Deaths
Newman

Esther

Ehrenkranz '25

Henry Taylor Noble

Lucille

'26

Jessie

Zimmerman Oloughlin

Lucille

Martz DeVoe '29

Thelma
Violet

0.

Furman

'30

Violet Weller

'44

Owens

'30

Erma Reiner Snyder
Stanley

P.

Heimbach

'34

John Dolinsky
George
'51

'51

John

William M. McAloose '52

Nancy Geiger Sacks 71

J.

Tilmont '53

Nancy

Arnie Garinger '55

Judith Boiling Shirey '55

Esther Scott Leppler '38

William
'41

Rowlands

G.Qumn

'55

Joan Yohn Harclerode

'58

Gregory Notestine '87

FredE. Miller

Jr.

'89

Barbara Brennan Snee '89

73

Bowen 74

Thomas

G. Larnard '93

Brandon de Manincor '96

John W. "Jake" Koons

74

Adam

Jr.

L.

Reitz '98

Rebecca Ashton '99

Welsh 74

Michelle Wallace

Bernie Pufnak '43

R.

74

P.

'85

Jeffrey Guth '86

Rachel Duncan-McClellon

James

'57

Burkhardt '84

Mariann Loew Casey '85

Donovan 70

Trego

Randall S.

Gladys Brennan Rohrbaugh '37

S.

L.

'81

'82

Jane Ann Salansky-Onzik

Thomas

J.

'81

James Youngblood

Patti Fastrich

Carter '69

P.

'80

Gayle Radvon '82

'67

Gerhard '68

V.

Rhodomoyer

Joan Bono

Colestock '68

R.

Homens

Joseph A. Cecchetelli '82

Michael Lylo '52

Samuel

Buchanan Brown

'64

Donald Clayton '69

'51

Ernest Victor Lau '36

Valaire

David

Francine Bullet

77

79

Powell

Joycelyn

Hurley C.Baylor '50

Robert H. Conrad '50

T

Monisera '64

Houtz '66

Murphy

Enoch
'61

Sheri

Luton

J.

William Norton

Kegolis '63

Laureen Rees Watts '49

John

'35

R.

Moser

Ralph W. Wire

'34

II

Jerry S.

Dorothy Criswell Johnson '33
'33

Joseph

Keller Burke '49

D.

J.

'58

Joyce Morgan Siegfried

Baker '49

Michael

Anne McGinley Maloney

LesherJr. '58

Mosier

Philip H.

'46

Charles "Pat" Lockard

'30

B.

L.

G.

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was an assistant field hockey coach and lacrosse coach at BU.

Chadd Webster,

a

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received the Air Force

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a pilot with

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second-year doctoral student in macromo-

and engineering at Virginia Tech, recently was
crowned Miss Blue Ridge Mountains, a preliminary contest to
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Virginia Pageant as Miss Denbigh Days Festival.
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lecular science

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toward a doctor of audiology degree

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Kirtland AFB,

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community.

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a security forces apprentice assigned

teaching assistant in Seton Hall University's

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Newport News.

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High School. He resides in Pottsville.

accountant in the firm's audit and accounting department.

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years.

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master's degree in engineering at

the Pennsylvania College

of Optometry. She resides in Pennsauken,

at

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Hickam AFB, Hawaii. In September 2004, she
was selected as the company grade officer of the month.
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Advocates for Nutrition and

District.

a master's degree in audiology in 2002. She

counseling

Freedom

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a physician's assistant at

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Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkclberger, University Archivist

From Andruss

to Kozloff:

Building a Better University
Students have always been the primary focus
of

Bloomsburg University and nowhere

this

more apparent than

is

campus'

in the

physical growth.

This era of change began in
A. Andruss

became

fall

1939 when Harvey

two new

president. At that time,

buildings were nearly complete
State Teachers College

on

the

Bloomsburg

campus: Centennial

Gym and a

junior high school building that soon became
as

Navy

known
Former President Harvey Andruss

Hall.

When enrollment
money was

still

dropped during World War

with two freshmen

II,

available for construction, thanks in

large part to the federal

government. This

toward adapting the school

for

money went

an influx of military

personnel from naval training programs, and resulted
in

visits

behind the former Andruss Library.

mens and women's dormitories and
dining room to a cafeteria.

remodeling the

converting the

In the decade following the war, the primary focus

was on upgrading older
turning the old

gym

buildings,

first

center and then into the

which included

into a student recreation

Husky Lounge, combining a

ries,

another classroom building, a larger commons, a

student union, a parking

facility

and a

field

house on

the upper campus. All of these buildings were needed
to

meet the demands of a student body

that

had

sur-

passed 5,500 students.
But

still

more were

began on the
facility

human services center in March

named

president of

necessary. Construction finally

in

1982, a

honor of James McCormick, former

BU and

former chancellor of the Pennsyl-

snack bar with the college bookstore. Then came
three

new

buildings in the late 1950s: the College

Commons and Northumberland and Sutliff halls.
When the Commons opened, the old dining room
space on the
into the

new

first

floor of Waller Hall

was remodeled

library.

During the 1960s, the number of students
college exploded

and so did the number of buildings.

By the time Andruss
four

more

at the

retired in 1969, the

dormitories, the

first

campus had

library building in

school history, a large auditorium and a

modern

science building.

When the great building boom ended in

Growth

in Student Enrollment

Totals for Fall Semester
(1934 was the first year only 4-year degrees Mere offered)

Year

1934
1944
1954
1964
1974
1984
1994
2004

Undergrad
549
177

767
2478
4893
5764
6632
7524

30

State College





114

588
425
645
781

Total

549
177*

767
2592
5481
6189
7277
8305

1976,
•Does not include 187

Bloomsburg

Grad

military-

personnel.

had two additional dormito-

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

BU's current president, Jessica Kozloff,

Andruss

left,

checks progress during construction of the 'new'

Library.

vania State System of Higher Education. Although the

only other

new

the

Montgomery

ty's

in

tion

completed before 1994 were

facilities

Apartments and the old Mon-

Place

1989, a great deal of remodeling and reconstruc-

work took

facilities for

place to

expand and adapt

Scranton

the items
for the

first

day was July

1,

library

and

1994 and,

and the most

start,

pleted over the

Student

last

on

the way.

Bloomsburg University grew from

years,

state teachers college

facilities

com

10 years are the Rec Center (1995),

1

on

a 55-acre

a

campus with fewer

,000 students to a large university covering 282

more than 8,300. The
campus has grown and enrollment has grown, but
Bloomsburg's emphasis on providing young people
with the best education possible has never waivered,

What John

clear

Andruss Library (1998), the Mouni Olympus

the

65

is

acres with an enrollment of

fittingly,

on students was

new

space.

enlarged.

visible signs of this focus

study and recreation. The four

More

than

were the buildings the students would use everyday
for

pro\ide much-needed classroom and lab

will

1990s the

visiting the site of the

Recreation Center. Her focus

soon

Hall,

Center

a large addition to the Hartline Science

In

on her agenda included going over the plans

new

from the

earl)'

Commons and Kehr Union were

Kozloff s

and

existing

student needs. Hartline, Sutliff and Old

Science were upgraded, while in the

modem classroom building known as Centennial

and

later

ago

is still

dean

1

loch, then director ol public relations

ol instruction, said

true today

through service.

We

more than 50

"We have continued

to

years

grow

have not kept to our ivory towers;

we have endeavored to extend facilities to meet ever)
need. Our usefulness does not end with any one

Apartments (2001) and the new Mont vs. which

period nor end with any one graduating class-ours

opened

a

in iall

2004.

The work has by no means ended.

the Student Services Center and completely updated

\V

1

N

I

1

R

Commons.

>

n

(I

s

Centennial

all."

In recent years,

extensive remodeling converted the old library into

the Scranton

continuing service to

is

Gym

lo read

more about

campus go

to:

the history ol the

Bloomsburg

I

Iniversit)

http./Aibrary.bloomu edu/Archives/l ampushistor)

campushistory.htm

became

a

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Calendar of Events
Spring 2005
Academic

Celebrity Artist Series

Calendar

All events are in

Concert Choir Spring Concert
Friday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.. First

Haas Center for

Presbyterian Church, Market Street,

the Arts, Mitrani Hall. For more

Bloomsburg.
office at (570)

Mid-Term
1

Spring Break Begins

March

Saturday,

389-4409 or check

the Celebrity Artist Series

Tuesday, March

5,

noon

Prague Symphony

Knoebels Amusement Resort

Friday, Feb. 25,

Hall.

Pops Concert

8 p.m.,

Sunday, April 24. Concert Band,

Monday, March 14,8 a.m.

Three Mo' Tenors

2 p.m.; Jazz Ensemble, 5:30 p.m.

Friday,

Weekend Begins
March

Sunday, April 17, 2:30 p.m. Haas

Center for the Arts, Mitrani

$25.50 and $28.

Thursday,

Web

Concert Band Spring Concert

Site at www.bloomu.edu/events.

Classes Resume

Spring

box

information, call the series

Spring 2005

March

Weather

BU Community Orchestra

$25 and $27.50.

24, 10 p.m.

permitting.

8 p.m.,

18,

Pops Concert
CAS-Supported Event: Dave

Resume

Classes

Monday, March

Valentin and Hilton Ruiz with

28, 6 p.m.

Monday,

April 25, 6:30 p.m.,

Columbia Mall, Bloomsburg.

the Latin All Stars

Reading Days - No Classes
Thursday and

Friday, April

28 and 29

Wednesday,

April 13, 7:30 p.m.,

$5 and $7.50. Held

in

conjunction

Classes End

with the Bloomsburg University

Saturday, April 30, 10 p.m.

Jazz Festival.

CAS Piano Recital featuring
James Douthit
Thursday,

Finals Begin

March

3,

7 p.m.,

Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium,

Concerts

May 2

Monday,

Recitals

$3 and $5.
Finals

Chamber Orchestra

End

Saturday,

May 7

Spring Concert

CAS Piano

Sunday, March 20, 2:30 p.m.

Barry Hannigan

Graduate Commencement
St. Paul's

Friday,

May 6

and

Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday,

May

Session

I

Session

II

Session

III

-

Session IV

-

July

1 1

May 31

to July

29

V- June 20

June 17

-June 20

Session

VIII -

Siblings'

3,

Orchestra

Friday, April 22,

2:30 p.m., Haas

Center for the Arts, Mitrani

works

of

Hall,

Beethoven.

to Aug.

1

Women's Choral Ensemble
Thursday, April

information

on upcoming events, check
the university

through Sunday,

April 24.

Alumni Weekend
Saturday, April 23.

to Aug. 19

May 31

latest

and Children's

Weekend

Web

Site:

www.bloomu.edu/today

7,

7:30 p.m., Haas

Center for the Arts, Mitrani

Hall.

9,

7:30 p.m.,

dinner, 6 p.m.

for details.

Renaissance Jamboree
Saturday, April 23,

Chamber Singers Concert
Saturday, April

Awards

Check www.bloomualumni.com

and Husky Singers

For the

Gross Auditorium,

Special Events

p.m.,

to July 8

featuring the
VII

4

Spring Concert

Session VI -July 11 to July 29
Session

2,

BU Community
Sunday, April

Session

Hall, K.S.

Rama

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

to Aug. 19
to

Carver

April 20, 7 p.m.,

$3 and $5.

Saturday, April

to July 8

June 20

-

Wednesday,

Gospel Choir Annual
Gospel

-May 31

Main

Bloomsburg.

Iron Streets,

7

Summer Sessions 2005

Episcopal Church,

Recital featuring

First

all

day,

downtown Bloomsburg.

Presbyterian Church, Market Street,

Homecoming Weekend

Bloomsburg.

Friday, Oct. 28,

through Sunday,

Oct. 30.

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A greater selection of products, an online store and
a complete renovation highlight the past decade for

The University Store.

Need

a

BU

T-shirt or sweatshirt?

The University

Stores bestsellers are available in sizes

XXXL.

Newborn

gifts,

from glassware

to holiday

ornaments and baskets

to blankets, are

popular

to

Insignia

with students and alums.
often order
special

BU diploma

New graduates

families

frames to hold that

document.

While the

friendly staff

is

available to take orders

by mail and, during business hours, by phone

at

(570) 389-4180, purchases through the online
store have increased dramatically since
for

e-commerce

Store offers

opening

in 1999. Today, the University

hundreds of items through www.

bloomu.edu/store, including textbooks for students

Meeting customers' needs means being open

when

Sundays and evenings, and

Bloomsburg
in

taking courses online or off-campus.

they want to shop and providing services

they need. The on-campus store

Fair can

now

is

open

visitors to the

make purchases

the Education Building. Gift cardh

at

the stand

and

off-street

parking across Second Street are coming soon
Also in 1999, the University Store was totally
renovated, with a grand opening in January

2000.

Now

the inspiration for other bookstore

renovations,

makeover
a wall of

BUs

that

facility

received an extreme

by mail, by phone or in
person. The University Store has BU
merchandise and textbooks for you.
Online,

added a dressing room, uncovered

windows overlooking Second

Street

and updated mechanical systems, flooring and
wall treatments.

The University Store

400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
General Information: (570) 389-4175

Customer Service: (570) 389-4180

www.bloomu.edu/store

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and Kenneth Gayle
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2005,

at

8 p.m.

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

$25 and $27.50
(570) 389-4409 or

wvvw.bloomu.edu/tickets
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African American tenors.

It

versatility of

starts

with

classical

opera and features seven musical styles spanning

400

years of music

Three Mo' Tenors

men;

its

all

is

in

about more than just three

a story about the history

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juccess!
What brings

a smile to

the face of David Long,

dean of BU's College
of Business? See Page
16 for the answer.

From the President's Desk
Success

is

not a destination.

a journey,

—ANONYMOUS

The

quotation above

is

desk in Carver

Hall.

edge of a lake.

One

imprinted on a small poster

The poster
doesn't

I

often

it

illustrates

successful in their careers but, they say,

when they were

on

sitting

what education

is all

meet alumni or parents of our current students who confess

that they haven't "used" their college degree.

I

have

my

know if the boat has just landed or is ready to

To me,

carry passengers again.

I

displays a rowboat pulled ashore along the

They have been happy,

didn't take

life

to

about.

me

fulfilled

and

them where they expected

18-year-old college freshmen.

much more than they
down to a more basic

always assure them that they have used their degree

realize.

The value of a

college degree,

question than career preparation.

1 tell

It is life

them, comes

preparation. .and
.

none of us knows where

the path will lead.

The people
journeyed

featured in this issue of Bloomsburg:

off a predictable course. In a literal sense,

The University Magazine have
Sue Tantsits

rows of native plants in her

Fogelsville nursery, not at

degree in education to lead.

Tom Connaghan

a very successful career in the financial

Our
Egypt

those

until she

was

offered

was an English major;

unexpected side

an opportunity too good

to miss.

next chapter, and

we

up

enjoyed

trips.

And

who know Roy Smith of our Quest program aren't surprised

destinations while growing

he's

Wymer never considered conducting research

compass would take him around the world,

life's

76 walks through

where she expected her

field.

faculty also discover the pleasure of life's

Anthropology professor DeeAnne
in

'66

all

in England.

I

although

that his internal

doubt he imagined his exotic

Other journeys lead quite naturally to

extend best wishes to David Long, dean of our College of

Business, as he departs for a well-deserved retirement.
Statistics

show that

least three career

the average person will change jobs six times

changes during his or her

lifetime.

What does

and make

at

a college education

provide for this journey? The ability to consider and analyze, to adjust and adapt,
to prepare

and

to

succeed in the direction our

destination that defines success so

lives take us. After

all, it is

much as it is how well we navigate

not the

the journey

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
a member of the State System of

is

Higher Education
State System of Higher Education

Board of Governors
2005

as of February

Charles A. Gomulka, Chair

Kim E. Lyule,
CR. "Chuck"
Matthew

Pennoni, Vice Chair

Baker

E.

V

Francis

Vice Chair

Barnes

2

Jude C. Butch

Mark

Collins Jr.

Marie A. Conley
Paul

Lammando

The

Dlugolecki

S.

Restless Spirit

Walking the

Regina M. Donato

road

director of

many

straight

and narrow has never been Roy Smiths

Quest and the Corporate

times in

life

Institute

- both literally and

style.

has taken the high

figuratively

Daniel E Elby

Michael K. Hanna

Hand
6 AWhen

David P Holveck
Vincent J. Hughes

in the

alumnus

Game

Eric Pettis graduated with his degree in

Edward G. Rendell

communications, he wasn't kicking around the idea of a business

James j. Rhoades
David M. Sanko

John

But his business savvy led him not only

career.

to the financial service

Thomburgh

K.

industry, but also to majority

Christine J. Toretti Olson

ownership of an outdoor soccer team.

Chancellor, State System of Higher Education

Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees

8 Temple ofWymer and

A.William Kelly 71, Chair

Read about BUS

Robert J. Gibble '68. Vice Chair

DeeAnne Wymer

Professor

Judy G. Hample

Steven

B. Barth, Secretary

Ramona H. Alley

satisfy a

70
Lammando

Richard Beierschmitt

Marie Conley
Robert

the

Discovery

own Indiana Jones.'
traveled to Egypt to

students dream. Along the way,

she embraced the dream herself.

'94

Dampman '65

LaRoy G. Davis

'67

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David J. Petrosky
Jennifer

Shymansky

President,

^

Corporate Charmer
rV Around the world and back again.
Alum Tom Connaghan left BU with a
"1

Mowad

JosephJ.

'06

bachelors degree in liberal

Bloomsburg University

arts.

He gained
way

Jessica Sledge KozlofT

the real-world experience along the

Executive Editor

starting at General Electric

Liza Benedict

Pacific

Exchanges 14th

and ending

at the

floor.

Co-Editors
Eric Foster

COVER STORY

Bonnie Martin

Husky Notes Editor
Doug Hippensiiel '68, '81M

"1

Editorial Assistant
Irene

/l Success!

-Lv/ Ten years ago the College of
Business, housed in Sutliff Hall,

Johnson

embarked upon
Communications Assistants

Advance

Agency

BU joined

Snavely Associates,

Collegiate Schools of Business.

The journey ended

LTD

Art Director

20

Curt Woodcock

Cover Photography
Gordon Wenzel/Impressions

devoted

why

smiles. See page 16 to find out

Address comments and questions

to native plants

livelihood

22

Waller Administration Building

Susan Miraldo Tantsits

E-mail address: lbcncdici@bloomu.edu

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Web at

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and educating people about

and the environment

is

dirty.

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who is

their benefits, gardening

is

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Husky

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site,

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by phone, 570-389-4058;

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to:

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colleges

Living on the Edge

her hands

Dean Da\id Long of the College of Business

Second

500

concerned about digging in and getting

On the Cover

East

December when

to achieve this prestigious accreditation.

Debbie Shephard

Designer

400

last

the 'cream of the crop' as

of fewer than

is all

a journey toward

accreditation from the Association to

Shannon Killeen '05
Mark Vellek '05
Emily Watson '08

committed

way or providing equal
ment opportunities

institution

Bloomsburg

to affirmative action

by

educational and employ-

for all

persons without regard

to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin,
ancestry, disability or veteran status,

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Roy Smith's teenaged soul

couldn't find

what it needed in a small English village, the
young man headed out on his own for excursions,
traveling to the highest mountain peaks and most
fertile river valleys.

him

takes

Smith's sense of adventure

still

to locales others see only through the

pages of National Geographic magazine.

Perched on a knife-edge ridge, Roy Smith looked out over open sky
to his left

Before

and

to his right. If he slipped,

him loomed

it

was a 4,000-foot drop.

the peak of Alpamayo, the last unclimbed

tain in the Peru's Cordillera Blanca, the

moun-

white range.

Smiths partner, tethered to him by a hundred meters of rope, was ahead

and

a bit to the

left,

scaling a vertical wall of icy rock, as cold

and

brittle as

the thin air around them.

They were very near
team had plunged
ascent as well,
taineer

As

and

and guide,

members

fell,

of a Swiss

French and American teams had

who at 26 was already a
was a member of the British team.
failed.

seasoned

Smith,

his partner climbed,

rock. If his partner

open

the spot where, a year earlier,

to their deaths.

Smith remained perched on

that

Smith would leap instantaneously

tried the

moun-

edge of frozen

to his right



into

sky.

They'd end up dangling on opposite sides of the mountain's spine,
bruised but
"It

alive.

goes against

all

of your instincts," says the explorer

Bloomsburg's Quest program and Corporate
didn't

jump,

his

momentum would

Smith never had

became
"I've

will

the

first

to

make

pull

me

and

Institute. "But, if

off the

director of

he

that jump and, in 1966, the British

to plant its flag atop

fell

and

rock and we'd both

I

die."

team

Alpamayo.

learned that you can't do anything really difficult without a team that

support you," says Smith,

who still climbs mountains.

For the past 15 years, he has brought his experience as a leader and his
sense of adventure to thousands of Bloomsburg University students
ticipate in

outdoor

activities

include a day of rock climbing near campus, a
trip

who parmay

through the Quest program. The programs

weekend whitewater

rafting

or several weeks climbing the Ecuadorian Andes.

Hundreds of additional Bloomsburg students have gone through
become team leaders for outdoor programs, and Quest
students have led summer team-building programs for Bucknell and
training exercises to

Susquehanna

PMti

universities.

Continued on next page

SPRING 2005

The Quest program

took to

existed at

it

immediately. Over the next

Bloomsburg before Smith arrived on

several years,

campus

expeditions for the

army He guided

on Kilimanjaro and

the remote area

tor Brett

and associate direcSimpson helps plan and

in 1989,

many

lead

Quest

will

of the excursions. But

Smith ran numerous

Mountains of the

referred to as the

Moon at the

always be synonymous

with Smith. Whether guiding students on treks through the rarified

on

source of the Nile River

the border of

Uganda and Kenya.

Smith was developing a reputa-

air

of the mountains, the closeness of a

tion not just for guiding, but also

and

rainforest or the gentle landscape of

for leadership

the European countryside, Smith

got the attention of a British

brings a lifetime of real world knowl-

edge and experience

Roy Smith stands

mus

to share.

trail

army
colonel who needed someone for

in a hippopota-

during his African

He

ingenuity.

Omo

clandestine operations to counter

River expedition.

Soviet-sponsored

From the Moors of England

activities.

The work involved moving

to the African Savannah
Smiths life journey begins on the

his mother, Frances; his father died

across the national borders while

when he was

avoiding tribesman guards armed

moors of Northern England. The
English moors are comprised of low

electricity,

rolling hills,

misty

prone

The

fog.

hospitable to
grass

- and

soil

little

to

And

an enveloping

makes them

a child,

were one

short.

Instead of sitting in the classroom,

Roy Smith

the teen-ager

was

often

for traits that

through his
ity



library.

The walk

miles

home and

got a

sits,

didn't let school get in the

was very simple

Smith lived outside the

in Rivington.
village

with

over in a ditch. Four-wheel drive

and the

front

it.

winch weren't enough

He soon found himself

surrounded by armed tribesmen.

opportunity to

by words and

sent several

The
men with him on
barter.

set-

chief
a

three-day trek to the nearest village
to find help in

exchange

of the goods he

was

for

some

carrying.

Smith took the experience as

an

omen that his luck might be

running out. In Mogadishu, he sold

wide world, joined

Army and

In

flipped

tled

shipped out

the Rover. For a time,

he and a

partner salvaged Mercedes Benzes

from the chaos of neighboring
a kid, Britain

had

was very

move up

little

middle and upper class.
Only 10 percent of young people
went to university"
Smith was determined to create
his own opportunities. And, in
Afnca, he did. Smith's British army
captain taught him climbing and he

BLOOMSBURG

Belgian Congo.

They would

drive

into the country in old Volkswagens,

loaded with cans of gas. At aban-

classes,"

Smith. "The bulk of the

a very small

of education," Smith jokes.

Land Rover

But fortunately, the matter was

population was working class with

way

Knowing

most of the money he earned to his
mother. On Saturdays he would
buy a book from a second-hand
shop, and on Sundays he would
hunt pheasant and pigeons, which
were then expertly prepared by

recalls

it.

case, his

to free

away His job was to bum
trees, and he sent

a class system. There

to

one

Swahili,

brush and plant

"When I was

intellectual curios-

where he stands, rather than

Life

left

to Afnca.

be a metaphor

and drive. Even today, Smiths office
computer is placed on a high table,

"I

Smith

the British

all

paired with physical restlessness

use

Rivington couldn't contain

his fortune in the

have stayed with Smith

life

often.

how to negotiate was essential.

At 18, Smith decided to seek

Sometimes he would walk to
nearby Horwich where he spent
to the library could

which were used

schoolmaster.

his landlady.

walking the moors.

day reading in the

were owned by the vicar and

job as a forester in Oxford, 200

moors with his mother and watched
Liverpool and Manchester burning
30 miles away as German bombers
flew overhead. By the 1950s, the
village of Rivington had a school with
28 students - though often they

He had

and

just 15,

Smith stood on these

with knives and spears.
training in Arabic

Smith's restlessness. So in 1955, at

the imaginations of

adventuresome young boys.

As

heat.

the only cars in the village

And

but rugged wild

They had no
no telephone, no gas
10.

doned Belgian estates, they'd find
Benzes that had been left behind,
which they gassed up and drove
back into Uganda to sell.
"Eventually,

leave,"

I

ran afoul of the

and had 20 hours
Smith recalls.

authorities

to

Back in London he discovered
that

all

of the slides from his years in

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

"

"

found Bloomsburgs Quest program.
John Walker, Bloomsburg vice presi-

East of the Mississippi
In 1989, 14 years after Roy Smith
had written a letter to Bloomsburg's
John Walker about how to start the
Quest program, Smith was applying
to run it. Walker still had Smiths

dent for advancement, wrote a

original reply

masters degree in organization

management at Yale.
Smith was at Prescott until 1975,
the year that he indirectly helped

to

letter

program

in

hopes of starting some-

recommended
Bloomsburg work with an Outward
Bound school in South Carolina.
He then decided to become an
independent operator. He guided, he
thing similar. Smith

Smith

Quest

briefs his staff in the

on a successfuf
catamaran voyage around Cape
office before leaving

Horn

in January 2005.

wrote, he lectured and toured.
Africa

had been

sick.

never recovered them," he

I

says. "I

left

behind.

loved Africa.

didn't

I

I was going to go.
was a working class

he did two expeditions

"I felt

where
"I

was

there for

me in

Nothing. England.

hedgerows.

What

England?
It's

No wonder people
left to

the British

was 70 below zero. Several
members got frostbite and couldn't
it

40

days. "Those environments are
really shine," says

acutely.

It's

expedition's end.

else

stint

with

Outward Bound, Smith joined
Prescott College in Arizona. The

of it

all. I

It's

were

it

I

and

around."

still

And the

in Colorado.

different

anyplace he'd ever been.
I'd

fam-

do things that
figure let someone

from

never

"I

be living east of the

where things were
everyone went

a

been places

little

home to

wild. Here,

their families

end of the day. I was lonely"
Over time, he got used to the
culture. He kept himself busy
with Quest and speaking engageat

the

ments. Brenda,

now a teacher in
him with

the boys

the next year.

Working with

the uncertainty

don't like to

are a sure thing.

street

His wife Brenda and the boys

Danville, joined

remarkable to be part of

that experience.

The peak was conquered in 1966
and in the next year Smith came to

Smith.

'You engage your senses more

a flier for an Outward
Bound school in Colorado and was
lined up to start teaching there at the

America. After a short

peanut but-

by breaking it with a hammer."
The group traveled 400 miles in

had seen

turn

Mississippi. I'd always

ter

He

walked out on the

start,

strug-

pulled people into the office just to

imagined

arrived at the starting

go," says Smith. "You ate

expedition.

gling. "I

"When we

where we

Alpamayo

program had been

the Quest

Bloomsburg area was

was a harrowing journey across

do.

to join

year at Bloomsburg was a

the Alaskan Brooks range in winter.

decided to go to America."

London, Smith was invited

first

tough period of adjustment. To

ily-oriented culture of the

left

To the Americas
In

first

point

neat and tidy

England. There's nothing
"I

kid.

And

for the

National Geographic Society The

know

The

Smith asking about the Prescott

again gave a

new

college students

direction to his

adventurous ways.

"The students bring energy and

do them.

His second expedition for

creativity to the

program," says

National Geographic was a journey

Smith. "They are so savvy in terms

down

of marketing and technology."

the 600-mile length of

Ethiopia's

Omo Paver.

"We

"They sent

train

them

to

be

leaders.

them

an expedition 10 years ago and the

After

cameraman was speared by the
natives." There were no spearings
on Smith's trip, but they were

instructor level," says Smith. "David

ing, rafting. In a nutshell, Smith's

attacked daily by hippopotamuses

is

specialty

and

col-

lege decided to abolish traditional

sports in favor of outdoor adventure
activities

- hiking, camping,

"They gave
professor,'

months

"

me

the

Smith

title

climb-

'associate

recalls. "Six

In these years, Smith

Bridger,

were

'Where did you get your degree?'

But the

travel

With just

life.

later,

the president asked,

a high school education,

Smith found himself getting a crash
course in college.

He

STRING 2005

later

earned a

and

met

their sons, Jed

for a

guiding in Ecuador."

I

1

decided to apply

job somewhere."

transcript,

b

and

1978 and '80.
was tough on family

"The boys were growing up.

at the

Conlon (former Community
Government Association president)

they have real experience."

his

bom in

was never home.

years, we've got

"They don't just have a

crocodiles.

wife, Brenda,

two

Eric Foster

is

co-editor of Bloomsburg:

The University Magazine.

STORY BY JACK SHERZER

in the

One of the United Soccer Leagues' newest teams brings
outdoor soccer to Pennsylvania's capital city for a second
season. Eric Pettis '83, majority owner of the Harrisburg
City Islanders, says fans who come out to the games will
find a great community for soccer, built on a talented team,
a party-like atmosphere and last year's record of 10-7-3.

ric

E:

D. Pettis describes himself as "a builder.

That

come

trait

and

.

.a

his unfailing ability to recognize

one-brick-at-a-time kind of guy."

and then

seize

an opportunity have

together to spark not only his career in financial services, but also his desire to

bring professional outdoor soccer to Harrisburg, Pa.
Pettis didn't

two thriving

And

the

plan for a career in business, but recognized the potential and today has

firms,

one

that handles pensions

1983 Bloomsburg University grad

recognized

it

as a sport in

which he could

and the other

excel.

He even

creating the City Islanders, a growing outdoor soccer
"I've

looked for opportunities and

says Pettis, 45, of West

does financial planning.

when

he

played professionally before

team

franchise.

they've looked good,

Hanover Township, near Harrisburg

BLOOMSBURG

that

didn't start out with a love of soccer. But

you

"I like

seize the

moment,"

to build things."

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

'Soccer is a beautiful game, it s nonstop,
no time-outs and it's such a team game.'
- Eric

Pettis

chusetts

moved to the Harrisburg area from Massawhen he was 4 and readily describes himself

as a "wild child." But in 10th grade

needed

him

to

then

and

Pettis'

main

wrestling. His

he realized he

asked his parents

to the private Harrisburg

BU and

to

whole family played

initially liking

hoops

better.

up

to the university in his

Eventually soccer

a beautiful

"It's

sophomore

game,

such a team game,"

it's

about buying a team.

when

ownership attempt came two years ago

first

the indoor soccer franchise, the Harrisburg Heat,

that the

While the $500,000 franchise buy-in

the skids.

bad

fee wasn't a

deal, Pettis says the

at the

he didn't see

won

out,

after transferring

playing and

was

bottom

line

was

now-defunct club was hemorrhaging fans and

how it

Outdoor soccer

soccer and basketball,

and he was Bloomsburgs goal keeper

it's

foot-

who played

Neither football nor wrestling were available
private school, so Pettis took

mid-30s, but he kept coaching and started thinking

was on
were in

Kansas City Chiefs.

for the

owner, Harrisburg City Islanders

His

send

Academy
athletic interests

including his brother Kurt Pettis '80

ball,

for

down and

buckle

Up until
football

Pettis '83, majority

could be turned around.



game more and more

a

many young

kids are

adults have experienced



the ticket, Pettis thought.

"I

think this country

soccer," Pettis says.

is

ready to embrace outdoor

truly believe this

"I

buying a

is like

minor-league baseball franchise 25 years ago."

year.

nonstop, no time-outs and

Pettis says of soccer.

"You can

Pettis'

theme with

City Islanders play off the "island"

atmosphere that includes palm

a friendly, tropical party

and reggae music. Games

have three great players, but you're not going to win

trees

with three great players. You have to have a team."

Skyline Sports Complex, an arena next to the minor

Pettis

graduated from Bloomsburg with a communi-

cations degree, but while he loved writing, he wasn't
thrilled

with the hours reporters are forced to keep. His

on

league baseball stadium

are played in the

Harrisburg's picturesque,

63-acre City Island along the Susquehanna River.
In 2004, the team's

first

season, the City Islanders'

average attendance of 1,700 fans per
tations, says Pettis,

game

who is majority owner,

beat expec-

along with

pension company partners Chris Barker and Chuck
Fox. The

trio's

business plan

even in three years, but

and

father

and

Pettis

a partner ran a

you'll

Financial agency,

began working in the business.

liked the

"I

New England

the team, the city

freedom and, as someone once told me,

earn what you're worth" in the financial services

do well

industry, he says. "Athletes often

in this business

because they can take rejection, back up and

tomorrow. You have to learn
a

commitment

why you lost

to seeing things

fight for

today and have

worked with

partner, but then decided to strike out

on

his

his dad's

own.

1993, he bought Pennsylvania Pension Planners

growing

it

from 90

clients to

Fortune 500 companies.
Planners, he formed
Inc.,

and

Comprehensive Financial Associates
for

both his pension

he kept a hand in soccer. He was head

boys coach

at Harrisburg's

School from 1985 to 1995 and a

Bishop McDevitt High

member

is

planning renovations to the arena,

capacity from around 3,000, with stand-

An avid biker who
Mexico, Canada,

Italy

2006

season.

has pedaled through 31

states,

and England,

coaches

Pettis

still

soccer and says his two daughters and two sons love

He

is realistic

compete with

about soccer's future.

football,

but he believes

It's

not meant to

it is

becoming

recognized as a major sport in America that will keep
attracting fans to games.

When asked if he believes there is a key
successes, Pettis says

it

boils

down

to

factor to his

one key behavior:

respect.

you

respect people,

what your doing, then
says. "That

and you're good

they'll respect

breeds success."

at

doing

you back,"

Pettis

B

of the pro

team, the Lancaster Spartans, in 1989 and 1990. Four

knee surgeries ended his playing days when he was

SPRING 2005

its

may

profit this season. Further helping

ing room, to 5,000 seats for the

"If

others.

All the while,
varsity

many

A year after buying Pension

which handles investments

clients

In

Inc.,

almost 400, including

expanding

breaking

he thinks they

the game.

through to the end."

After his father retired, Pettis

even make a small

calls for at least

Pettis says

in his

Jack Shazer
native.

is

a professional writer and Pennsylvania

He currently

lives in

Hanisburg.

Like the fictional Indiana Jones of George Lucas' film series,

archaeology professor DeeAnne VVymer leaves the class-

room

in search

of remnants of an

Land of the Pharaohs, she

earlier civilization. In

on her

the

expertise as a

?

paleoethnobotanist to decipher clues from Mendes' past.

<

relies

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Professor AA/ymer and the Temple of Discovery
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN

he

TV ad

for a financial services

company

tells

the

story of a person with detailed plans for the future.

was my clients. But I
my own," the voice-over says.

"The dream wasn't mine;

embraced

it

as

if it

were

The same could apply

it

to

DeeAnne Wymer,

BU's anthropology department.

chair of

Wymer searched

for

the Native
state of

American Hopewell culture

Ohio and archaeology

Valley near Bloomsburg. She

is

in her

home

Susquehanna

of the

known for her work

with a mastodon recovered in Ohio a few years ago

and has been featured
zine. But, she says,

in National

Geographic maga-

she never considered work in

and colleague Faith

Wamer discovered

archaeological research opportunities in Egypt, not for

Egypt

herself but, instead, to satisfy student Melissa Davis'

the

dream of a practicum

Redford, professor of Egyptology at Penn State, and

in the

Land of the Pharaohs.

Unlike the imaginary financial planner, however,

something happened

dream

also

A BU
is

became

to

Wymer along the way. The

anthropology professor for 15 years,

from archaeological

SPRING 2005

who

sites.

his wife

Project,

Wymer

interprets plant remains

Her research has focused on

run by Donald

"We

B.

Susan Redford.

Anthropology faculty members
encourage their students

hers.

a paleoethnobotanist

until she

Akhenaten Temple

to

at

become

BU

strongly

active researchers.

believe in keeping students motivated with

hands-on

projects," says

Continued on next page

Wymer. 'We push them

toward experiences abroad and in

the site in baskets

community to teach them what
it means to be a professional in

rubber

the

tires

made from

which

Wymer contacted Donald

delivered to

Wymer in a lab at the

complex where the crew

their heads.

The 2004 excavation

this field."

Samples of plant materials were

on

are balanced

uncovered the

Mendes

at

stayed.

"The

samples arrived in sandwich-sized

level of earth that

Ziploc bags.

It

took two to three days

Redford to pave the way for Davis to

was home

return for her fieldwork experience

Egypt more than 300 years before

analyzed plant materials that came

the first pyramid was built.
Working nearly 30 feet beneath

taken from the floors and hearths of

to the

country the student
high school.

visited after

first

A series of

to the

first

dynasty of

todays surface

meeting with the Egyptologist,

tedious and

whose Santa

with the most basic tools so no

is

Claus-like appearance

familiar to viewers of the

from the

painstaking and

e-mail messages and a face-to-face

is

both

to

It

Documented Research

Mendes, pan of the

resist.

occupied

cities

harbor

its

city

prime,

5,000

Mendes was

research,
ters

with an elaborate trade

trade.

One

when Donald

Redford,

the director or "mudir," rang a

ended 14 hours

dinner. In between, Davis

a village

the

The

and the

from
often

line of

work,

explains.

most unique research projects

Times and CNN, the hook

life

sequenced the

away from

know

in July."

film

is

shows

featured

a

in

that digging

her career

was Wymer's work on

in

a frozen bog for

in itself.

for

more than

of his last meal,

water

1 1

,000

lilies.

To

But to the National Geographic, The London

coverage grew from the laboratory where a micro-

DNA from

stomach

cells, potentially

leading to a real-

Jurassic Park.
into

Hopewell copper provides a detailed look at

who

lived in central

and southern Ohio 2,000

years ago.

Wooden tombs
and seashells from

excavated
Florida.

the early

in

A century

1

later,

900s contained copper from Canada

Wymer was

asked to look at the

copper material.
"Anything that pressed against the copper
explains.

"I

looked at

1

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was

preserved," she

00 items and found bear fur and

The flower seeds revealed that the

Wymer

Young

in

and preserved portions

a researcher, that's exciting

this

female workers
carry dirt

.

defines the field of

elephant's eating habits.

are the third or fourth generation of

pursue

the middle of July. .you never

the days before the Egyptian enterprise

with

kufti hail

their families to

in

Her long-standing research

later

in

way DeeAnne Wymer

the culture of the "moundbuilders"

same name and

"kufti."

by

the

wake-

crew of professional excavators,

known as

\

the short documentary, "Presents

years, contained bacteria

four other students supervised the
field

up

year-old plants."

produced by Matthew Zappile '03/M'04. The

of the

biologist

the three-week session began at

it

spent

I

10 hours each day hunched over

the remains of a prehistoric mastodon which led to intimate knowledge of the Ice

The Redfords'

on ancient urbanism and

film

is

Intestines of the mastodon, preserved

Far from a vacation, each day of

up bell;

areas, typically

into history is anything but boring.

Age

ongoing since 1990, cen-

5:30 a.m.,

2003

a

network located along a branch
of the Nile River.

in

Wymer's research

in the ancient world,
at least

you're going to find,"

archaeology

one of the longest-

with roots going back
years. In

or Tel

opening Christmas presents

"It's like

what

Wymer describes Mendes,
er-Rub'a, as

samples

Project.

was an opportunity Wymer

couldn't

soil

a microscope looking at 5,000-

Wymer and

Akhenaten Temple

.from

peas and coriander.

lentils,

or damaged.

her student to join the Redfords'
latest trip to

.

says. "I

charred wheat and barley seeds,

Discovery Channel, resulted in an
invitation for

site.

houses and storage

must be completed

artifact is lost

one sample," she

to process

dead probably were held

in

bird feathers.

rituals to sanctify the

October.

It

place of the

opened up a world

of

2,000 years ago."
Closer to homo, Wymer's students conduct digs at the

^^

Briggs farm

in

Nescopeck each summer. They've found gun

flints,

stems from tavern pipes and the remains of a 4,000- to 5,000-yearold Native

American

site

under a

historic house.

During her stay in Egypt, DeeAnne

Wymer analyzed barley seeds that had
lain buried for 5,000 years.

"Our undergraduate archaeology program
state and part of that

is

is

one of the best

in

the

the hands-on requirement. Students can't learn

archaeology from a textbook," she says.

10

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Melissa Davis' desire lo conduct research in Egypt before her

graduation prompted a

new area

Wymer. Below is the excavation
three weeks. The grassy areas

May 2004

DeeAnne
Mendes where they worked for

of interest for her professor

site at

in the middle photo are the site

of a former harbor; the bottom

Wymer's research unearthed many

photo shows foundations of

homes from 5,000 years

On the preceding pages,
left,

are a

tomb

of the

same

spices available in the

ago.

grocery store today, such as celery

from

seed, mustard,

painting, the

cumin and

coriander,

step pyramid of Giza, columns

along with the grasses and white

Mendes archaeoand the Cheops
statue in Luxor. The lower
photo shows Wymer with the
funeral boat of Cheops that

clover used in commercial bird food.

at Luxor, the
logical site

was buried behind

She was able

to identify

about 80

percent of the seeds in the lab and,
later,

through her detailed drawings.

Egyptian law does not permit

the great

pyramid of Giza.

archaeological finds to be

from the country, so

be completed on
for further

study

site

at

all

removed

analysis

must

or documented

home.

Wymer

says, "I joined a large staff that

included a photographer, an
geologist, pottery specialist

artist,

and

a biological anthropologist for

human burials."
Security

is tight

the archaeologists
ies.

both

their discover-

Each group of archaeologists

must

hire

inspector
is

to protect

and

an Egyptian

antiquities

who ensures that the group

abiding by the country's laws.

Egyptian military escorts also are
required as a safety precaution
against terrorism, like the

1997

massacre of 58 foreign tourists and
four Egyptians at Luxor, near the
Valley of the Kings,

where many

well-known temples

are located.

In spite of the laws and the

m$&&:

safety measures,

mmi-

extraordinary opportunity for

v>=

strict

Egypt provided an

Wymer
BU

and Davis, who graduated from
following the practicum. "This
stuff of

movie archaeology.

.

is

the

.like

stepping into an 'Indiana Jones' film,"

Wymer says.

"It

was

literally a

whole

new world, a new environment, new
plants, new archaeology."

Wymer had

time to study only a

handful of the samples that arrived
at

her Egyptian

lab,

but the materials

are waiting for her return in

mid-

June. "There's enough," she says,
"for three or four lifetimes."

Bonnie Martin

is

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Bloonisburg: Jlie University Magazine.

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To

Thomas Connaghan

he landed on the 14th

tell it, it's

mostly through sheer luck that

floor of the Pacific

Exchange in downtown

San Francisco as senior executive vice president of sales, marketing and
business development. Luck, combined with ambition and built

upon

his

degree from Bloomsburg State College.

Connaghan's career has taken him from coast to

and around the world in

a line of work

he received his diploma in 1966.

after

GE was largely an
off into

ground

aerospace

It

could be said that Tom

no

the time, but over the next decade

found himself on the forefront of the information

in computers,

was

company at

computer information systems. Connaghan, who had no back-

technology revolution as a
"I

On that Monday morning, he started his

job" as a communications analyst for General Electric in Philadelphia.

first "real

spun

coast, across the Atlantic

he never anticipated, starting the day

member

right at the heart of it.

of the company's marketing team.

Through no

prior planning

on

my part and

technical training," he says.

His role was selling the then-new technology of computer processing to

Connaghan's

life

illustrates

"Imagination at Work," his

other businesses.

punch

He
first

employer's current

to the Pacific

Exchange,

from technology to finance

and from Philadelphia to

PalosVerdesbywayof

until then, information

was

fed into computers

by

CEO Jack Welch that technical knowledge wasn't neces-

learned from

sarily the

slogan. From General Electric

Up

cards.

key

to success in the business world.

and other appliance
"You

can't

GE

rolled out,

Welch looked

but he never even

know everything about medical

at

every toaster

knew how

technology,

jet

to

make

toast.

engines and

It's more about management and harnessing the people,"
Connaghan says. "The common denominator for me was getting the right
team in place, getting it motivated and focused."
He traveled with the company and lived briefly in New York City and
Hemdon, Va., outside Washington, D.C, before moving to California in
1974 to do marketing for the software and systems development company

computers.

Centurex Corp.

London and Luxembourg,

Connaghan envisioned

Since the software
leap

a

successful career, reaching

when he went

ambition and a

through
bit

of luck.

services to banks,

banking four years

it

wasn't a huge

later.

His career really took off at the southern California-based Security Pacific
National Bank. In a short time, he went from being in charge of marketing to
essentially

his destination

company provided

into

handled

running the bank.

securities

and

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He served

as

chairman of a

trust

company

transaction processing for the bank's corporate

that

and

"^¥

Tom

Conriaghan learned from General

CEO Jack Welch that technical

Electric's

^knowledge wasn't necessarily the key to success

in

the business world.
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Connaghan says. "He knew me and trusted me
skills I had building organizations and teams

government customers. He got the job, which

done,"

and the

1,500 employees, because of his foundation in finan-

and bringing people

"1

was

They believed

technology.

the only

guy

at the

bank who knew

when

1990s,

merged with Bank

billion deal that

of

the largest bank-

Connaghan stayed with

ing merger to date.

company as an

was

a half after the merger.

Luxembourg-based

and

Then, an opportunity with a

securities

was one more move

for the

couple

who met

as

They lived

years.

in

London while he worked

in

That means Connaghans job

San Francisco apartment

collecting

and

to the States,

home in Palos Verdes, on

of his priorities.

all

Ann in Manhattan Beach,

over the world

Asia,

South America and the Middle

grew

to

were

filled

went

to

an inch-and-a-half thick.

East.

— Europe,

in

When the pages

with stamps from various countries, he

an American Embassy where they added more

August 1999, when he got a

colleague Philip D. DeFeo,

worlds

CEO

largest stock

call

from former

who had just been named

of the Pacific Exchange,

one of the

"He

effortless.

truly

is

tremendous vision and the personal
that vision. He's

Connaghan
the

an

a

for his career.

Mount Carmel.

reluctant to give

up

control of the

after his stint in the

Connaghan knew little
"College to

economic and the

cultural business of a

owned exchange. He needed people
could trust to run with

it.

membership-

that

There was so

both the

hometown

of

else

about his career aspirations

me was kind of a mission.

just

I

needed

my degree and get back out," he says.

In

Connaghan earned a

bachelor of arts degree in literature in 1966, the year

Bloomsburg awarded

its first liberal arts

"My biggest disappointment

is,

in

degrees.

my industry,

I've

never been associated with anyone from Bloomsburg.
"But,

a challenge, to rebuild

to his

It

except that he didn't want to be a teacher.

out-of-date model.

"He was faced with

laid

was an unusual choice since
Bloomsburg turned out mostly teachers back then and

and, together, they battled resistance from exchange

members who were

go."

1958 graduate of Mount Carmel Catholic

just three years of schooling,

would be performed electronically.
Connaghan to help him do the job

promote

The year was 1963 and

High School, chose Bloomsburg

and options exchanges. DeFeo's

recruited

style to

Bloomsburg education

options trading floors and convert to a system where

He

his success

charmer from the word

believes his

groundwork

Connaghan,

Irish

to get there, get

transactions

in his family.

an entrepreneur. He has

mission was to close the exchanges securities and

all

and

home life, Connaghan never lost sight

Army Reserves because it was close

opportunity to return to the United States arose

chairman and

seem

His passport

blank pages.

An

in

wine

their career heights at the

And, Dempsey adds, Connaghan makes

lives in Silicon Valleys

near Palos Verdes, and Elizabeth in San Francisco.
traveled

life

for golf, traveling,

admires Connaghan because he

While some executives reach
expense of their

Connaghan

all-

winding down and

so firmly rooted in his Catholic faith

the

Thomas Jr. who

to

family.

Coast near Los Angeles, close to their three

Park, oldest daughter

is

Longtime friend and fellow Bloomsburg graduate

is

Menlo

is

to lead a semi-retired

more time

Palos Verdes, with

Hugh Dempsey says he

children:

complete

won't be long before he and Joan leave their

International Investments.

they kept the family

trad-

electronic format.

companies, Cedel International and Prudential

Pacific

left to

convert the options portion of the business to the

executive jobs for two international banking

Knowing they would one day return

its

vice president of corporate affairs for the Pacific

it

students at Bloomsburg and have been married 37

closed

it

business to the all-electronic

Archipelago Exchange in June 2002, says Dale Carlson,

company took him and

his wife, the former Joan Salus '66, overseas.
It

its

Exchange. Now, the only thing

the

executive vice president for a year

the crossover

far,

of the exchange has posted profits since

ing floor and transferred

career shifted again in the early

Security Pacific

America in a $5

together."

in their goal and, so

has been successful. The money-losing equities portion

that

type of business," he says.

Connaghans

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It's

been a long time coining but,

for

David Long, accreditation from

the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
receiving a stamp of approval for

is

like

BU and the business curriculum.

Success
STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS

The recent

accreditation of

Bloomsburg University's

College of Business recognizes a long and rich tradi-

on-site review. In

a tangible demonstration of quality," says

David

who retires as dean of the college in June

K. Long,

having achieved

longtime goal.

this

to prove

it."

Worldwide, just 497 colleges and universities have

accreditation

was

finalized. Jennifer

University of Delaware. Based

AACSB

Collegiate Schools of Business, the highest standard of

waived four required

after

for business schools. "This is the

most

'Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval' in

Long

says. "It places

us

when faculty began to look at what the

would need

to

do

to gain approval.

year after Long's 1996 arrival

on campus,

About

from

had met

its

faculty,

all

this

the project

The exhaustive self-study that
work analyzed how the college

curriculum, students and the educational level

how they stack up

The College of Business'
back

to

administration began offering bachelor's degrees. That
rich history

combines with

colleges,

Long

AACSB

says.

"I

make
among those at other

a quality faculty to

BU's business programs stand out

facts

and

More than

in relation to

figures to

back up

for the College

official five-year

period, the college wrote annual reports

the official

tradition of excellence goes

1934 when the department of business

think that over the years the

,400 undergraduates are enrolled in the

offers specific

common core

students in the college:

and brought



October, the college was ready for

team, which conducted a three-day

Accounting

coursework in addition

of business classes taken

candidacy

mock reviews and recommend

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1

College of Business' six bachelor's degree programs,

the

last

Many top graduate business

schools only admit students from accredited under-

each of which

changes. Finally,

MBA classes, assured of the quality

and economics.

dean and coordinator of accreditation

in teams to conduct

Delaware

Accreditation opens a whole world of graduate

those assessments, explains Dennis Gehris, acting

During the

BU

accreditation,

talented faculty," he says.

requires that colleges seeking

about 30 standards, with

of Business.

the

College of Business has had an extremely dynamic,

achieved by students.

The AACSB

fall at

the likelihood that

graduate programs.

objectives in improving the caliber of

accreditation assess

on

courses Wislock had taken in accounting,

statistics

a

shifted into high gear.

resulted

BU

to receive

opportunities, Gehris says.

At Bloomsburg, the process goes back more than
10 years,

of

among a

pretty select group of schools."

college

Wislock, a 2002

master's degree in business administration last

was going

sought

Bloomsburg's

Tommy Hilfiger Licensing, began studying toward her

gained accreditation by the Association to Advance

business education,"

official:

accredited.

accounting graduate and compliance coordinator for

"We have proved

how good we are, and we will continue

achievement

was

it

was AACSB

For students, the benefits began even before

tion of excellent business education.
"It's

December,

College of Business

— Bloomsburg

is

by

one of the few area

colleges that requires accounting majors to take

accounting course during their very
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to

all

first

an

semester.



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"You get four years of continuous exposure to
accounting, so

by

the time the four years are up,

you're thinking like an accountant," says Richard
Baker, accounting professor. Virtually every course
offers practical experience,

with students developDennis Gehris, acting dean and coordinator of

ing and working in the electronic spreadsheets that
are the

department posts an employment

100 percent, and the worlds four

among the

ing firms are

who

accreditation for the College of Business

backbone of modern accounting. The
rate of

Instruction

almost

ing,

largest account-

prospective employers

combines

Marketing

— The marketing department

Business Education and Office Information

lar that

Systems

to get the classes they

— Graduates

of the business education

curriculum are prepared

it

can be tough

for

is

so popu-

freshmen and sophomores

want before upperclassmen

fill

them, according to William Neese, associate profes-

for teaching positions in

secondary schools and business schools and for

sor of marketing. Marketing students tend to like the

employment

hands-on approach, and

as training

and government.

managers

for business

them

Office information systems

emphasizes end-user computing to support

organizational effectiveness.

education

is

A masters

also available.

in this

department are prepared

to

all

his classes.

winning campaigns

in business

and they leam using

tion in

computer lab and

medium-sized company.

such a

"It's

American Advertising

all

will

go on to the

do

way

the

through producing finished ads," Neese

develop and

enough

for the

everything from conduct research

winning "agency"

a dedicated

example, are divided

Federation's national student competition. "They

operate business computer information systems,

a mainframe computer large

that's what Neese gives
The 44 students in his senior-

into six "agencies," vying against each other to create

— Students

Computer and Information Systems

in

level special topics course, for

office

work and improve employee performance and

says.

district

The

competi-

New York City.

to operate a

different

Although BU's master's in business administration

world

Cannon 78. "We were still using
COBOL and going to the basement of Navy Hall to
use punch cards."
today," says John

program

attracts students

who have just

undergraduate degrees, a majority of

finished their

MBA students are

area businesspeople, plus international students, says

Steven

AACSB

and conceptual think-

and European study abroad.

for internships

recruit heavily

critical

problem solving and analysis with opportunities

coordinator.

Si,

He

credits

Dean Long with spurring major

accreditation opens a

opportunities.

Many top

whole world of graduate

recent improvements to the program.

More than 70 percent of the

graduate business schools only

sors teaching

admit students from accredited undergraduate programs
Finance and Legal Studies

— The

Bloomsburg
years,

finance major

to the

program, says

Si,

provides instruction in corporate finance,

sity

investments and financial institutions, and most

Bloomsburg University

students go on to positions in corporations, small

for

businesses or government. "They usually have a job

before

more

coming

to

profes-

MBA classes arrived at

in the last three to four

adding diversity and fresh ideas

who was at Hong Kong Univer-

Bloomsburg four years
also

makes an

ago.

MBA affordable

students, he says.

Although the College of Business has a long history,

as they leave here," says

Rand Martin, department
The legal studies minor provides a
background especially helpful for students who are

students benefit from a contemporary curriculum that

chair.

continuously reviewed and updated, Long says. For ex-

planning to go to law school.

nies spurred the

Management
management

— More than 400

students

make

the largest major in the college.

ample, national headlines about fraud

in fraud

with the

at

is

major compa-

development of a career concentration

examination within the accounting department,
first

courses offered

last fall.

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Outside the Classroom
Many

Business students the opportunity
to

go beyond class work to gain

>

peers

aging minority students

in all

areas

exams

career opportunities.

of business, says Baker,

who

also

speaking; 10 to 12 local

American Marketing Associ-

advises this group.

to talk to students

Members

about

hands-on experience and help others.

ation:

Among

Habitat for Humanity, conduct food



these organizations are:

volunteer for

addition to

In

drives

Members

experience by helping local organi-

tion's

and gain real-world marketing

while serving the community by

zations, says adviser William

running the Internal Revenue

associate professor of marketing.

Neese,

primary goal

is

to

1

who can

Phi Beta

Sheikh, assistant professor of

of the largest chapters

with members conducting service

and elderly taxpayers, says adviser

for the chief of police

Richard Baker, professor of

Internet ordering

accounting. The group also brings

pizza places

in

guest speakers from public

'

accounting firms, industry and

Business

was

the

first

college at

orientation picnic for freshmen, in

create

and

many

positive

students that

with

Long

faculty,

William Bealing, professor of

for

Members

look forward

is

tackling ethics by designing

game that encourages
those

who

annual statewide business

hold an

to

says.

college could
felt

"We

welcome

received so

the faculty

and the

now a permanent part of our new

student orientation."

The

college continues to assist students through

graduation and finding their

ment

first

job. In fact, the place-

decade

rate for business students over the past

has averaged well over 90 percent.

When Cannon was

preparing to graduate in 1978, he arranged numerous
interviews through the placement center

and was hired

away by Nestle USA. Almost 27 years later,
worked his way up to national training manager
right

worldwide corporation, and
has served

based in

his

the world. Currently

New York City, he gives back to

by serving on

he's

for the

Bloomsburg education

him in markets around

the university

the College of Business Advisory Board.

Also serving on the board

is

who

Douglas Yocom,

earned his bachelor's degree in business education in
1973. Today, he's president and chief executive officer of
Precision Medical Products, in the Lancaster, Pa., area.

Looking back on
really

good

his education,

professors,

me was hard work and just
business college and what
business

he

says, "I

had some

and what they imparted
giving

it

it

offers is

your

to

all. ...

The

well-known

in the

Cannon and Yocom demonstrate

like

are,"

he

says,

is

very nature, business

on interaction

to

produce success, in the

always in

professor Pamela

Wynn

meets with students from
the true value of a

Bloomsburg University business education. "The proof

pudding

its

photos above, management

community"

To Long, the accomplishments of alumni

of the

By

relies

how successful your alumni

Small Business Manage-

ment

(lop)

and John

Olivo,

chair of office information

and business information

b

systems, engages students

Tracey M.

Dooms

is

a freelance writer and editor

State College, Pa.

living in

in

a classroom lecture.

At

left,

a

SPRING 200

Steven

Si,

MBA

coordinator, confers with

5

campus

visitor.

cheating

dare face the

consequences.

August 2003. The

comments from both

it is

management. This semester, one

team
a

to the

BU

the state,

the world of business, says adviser

Accountants: Only two years

old,

in

and learning more about

accounting.

an atmosphere where new students

free to talk

projects

National Association of Black

how the

grew out of discussion about

idea

Domino's and Napoli.

and then

implement and measure the

Recent projects included developing

local

project

plan, design, gather resources,

outcome, explains adviser Farooq

a recruiting PowerPoint presentation

systems for

Teams choose a

(Future

income tax

and setting up

members

Business Leaders): BU has one

assistance program for low-income

Service's local volunteer

extemporaneous

the national competition.

serve as mentors.

Lambda

to

• Students in Free Enterprise:

connect

students with successful business-

people

everything from academic

in

usually earn the right to go on to

offering scholarships, the organiza-

Accounting Association:
get practical experience

competition, challenging their

has a strong track record of encour-

government

organizations give College of

the Bloomsburg chapter already



Native plants were wiped from the landscape by settlers plotting
towns and developers planning subdivisions. Today, many
gardeners like Sue Tantsits '76 are working to reverse that longstanding trend, recognizing the beauty and environmental value
of native plants while reintroducing them to their communities.

Living on the
STORY BY JUDITH

For

many gardeners, May is the month

turn the

soil,

Tantsits

MEHL

to

cast a seed, plan a border,

perhaps add a
landscape.

K.

little

to the

household

And then there's Susan Miraldo

76, whose childhood love of

gardening has grown into environmental passion,

advocacy and education, and a business riding high on

new shift in horticulture

the hot

With her

to native plants.

and fellow gardener Louise Schaefer,
Tantsits has taken the backyard flower bed to the Edge
of the Woods
both a philosophy and the name of the
friend



prospering Fogelsville,

Pa.,

nursery they've built

literally

from the ground up.
Pausing from plant propagation in her greenhouse,
she explains that native plants are those documented
to

have been here before European

settlers arrived.

on the other hand, were transplanted from
other countries or regions, have no natural predators
and spread so rapidly that they displace natives and
Invaders,

disrupt food chains, forever impacting the environment
in a negative

"We

all

way

need

to

garden as

if

we lived on

the edge of

the woods, the last stronghold of naturalized areas

Owning a wildflower nursery is a hands-on endeavor for

the native plant," Tantsits says.

Susan Miraldo Tantsits

alert

gardeners that

and
Her philosophy serves to
what they do in their small piece of

land can reverberate elsewhere.

"We

prime land and planting ornamental
exotics where we should be restoring the land to its
original state," she says. "Once you plant invasive
non-natives in your landscape, it's an easy jump to the
are taking

woods and
For

She speaks most often of plants as part of a commuplants that collectively support the larger picture, but

confesses a special attachment to the sassafras tree,

she

calls a

The

blooms on sturdy stems add

is

used in the Edge of the Woods

a beautiful tree

and

she says. "The sassafras
fall

is

it

logo.

belongs in Pennsylvania,"

a fine tree with wonderful

color that can help restore our landscape.

beauty to the environment yet, when well placed,
they require little maintenance, can adapt to many

place in

conditions and do not require watering,

much of her time in education,

fertilizer

which

misunderstood underdog of the plant world.

sassafras leaf

"It's

Tantsits, the benefits of native plants are nearly

and business partner

nity,

other naturalized areas."

endless. Their fragile

'76, right,

Louise Schaefer.

It

holds a

my heart."

Though she

loves to dirty her hands, Tantsits spends

teaching corporations,

or pesticides. "Native plants provide four seasons of

not-for-profks

pleasure," she says.

lishing or restoring naturalized areas with native plants.

and homeowners about the need

for estab-

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"We

starts

with plants, the water, the

by human activity.
Humans are the biggest influence on what is happening.
Louise and I want to influence corporations and
residents as to what is environmentally appropriate."
Tantsits, who met her husband Stanley Tantsits 75
atmosphere;

all life is

affected

while studying toward a bachelor's degree in education,

gardened while raising their two children. As she
did, she

"The industry has grown by leaps and bounds,"

are out of kilter with the wildlife population,"

she says. "Everything

grew eager

to

educate others to the need for

Beaubaire says, citing the preserve's native plant

sales,

which increased 103 percent between 2000 and 2004.
With plants and the environment as the overriding
themes in her

life,

Tantsits also devoted

much

of her

time to the social and intellectual growth of girls and

young women. As a longtime member of the Girls
Scouts and a leader for 22 years, she says scouting drew
on her Bloomsburg education in teaching. "I've used

my training with the

Girl Scouts, the

Master Gardeners

native plants.

program, where you teach what you leam, and in

Those acquainted with her deep interest in gardening
encouraged her to volunteer for the Penn State
Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program in

environmental education."

1991. The program not only reinforced her personal

landscapes. Recently Tantsits completed a design for

passion for native plants,

an area

on a

it

also springboarded her

While working
part-time at the Wildlands Conservancy in Emmaus,
Pa., she earned a degree in horticulture from Temple
University's Ambler campus.
Within the circle of native plant enthusiasts, Tantsits
is well known. She met many like-minded supporters
in her 10-year stint with the conservancy, where she
worked from 1992 to early 2003.
into planting

professional level.

demand is there," she stresses. "It's
niche, more than a trend or fad. It's a

"Native plant

more than

a

Bowman's

Hill

Wildflower Preserve in

native plants, recognizes her work.

and Schaefer work often with schools,
on the use of courtyards and

at the

of the Woods is expanding with more
more consulting and design work and a
greater selection of native plants, including more variet-

The Edge

propagation,

ies

of ferns, aquatics, shrubs, trees, perennials, wildflow-

ers

and

grasses for

retail sales five

and

Tantsits

all

habitats.

The business

is

open

for

days a week during the growing season,

and Schaefer

are available

by appointment

year-round for design and consultation work.

For Tantsits

New Hope,

for Pennsylvania's

and come

it's all

together.

restore a plant

about the outdoors.

"I

like

There

is

community."

having

great satisfaction in helping

b

Nancy Beaubaire,

communications at Bowman's Hill, says the
recent growth confirms Tantsits beliefs.

director of

Judith K. Mehl

preserve's

Hcnryville, Pa.

SPRING 2005

Swain School in Allentown, named the

Rodale Butterfly Garden and Reflection Area.

my hands in the ground and watching things grow

long-term necessity."

an education and advocacy center

Tantsits

advising administrators

is

a freelance writer whogardeiis in

News Notes

She Did

Again

It

Hutchinson honored with national coaching award

A Familiar Face in the Crowd

Bloomsburg University

field

hockey coach

Jan Hutchinson made a national name

SI recognizes B U senior

herself again

BU

field

hockey

star

for

the collegiate field

hockey arena. During the National

Shark

Field

Hockey Coaches Association annual

Partlon, a secondary education

banquet

and mathematics major from

Langhom, was

in

named

in

January, Hutchinson

the 2004

NFHCA

was

National Division

featured in the
II

Sports Illustrated column,
"Faces in the Crowd," in the

magazines Jan. 24

issue.

This

The

of the Year, a title

award comes

after Hutchinson

Jan Hutchinson

column recognizes students
from across the nation

Coach

she received

three times before.
just

was

one month

inducted into the

National Fastpitch Coaches Association's

who
(NFCA)

Hall of

Fame

for her

work with BU's successful

softball

team.

excel in athletics.
Hutchinson's accolades reflect her work ethic and coaching

ability.

Partlon, a senior midfielder,

Her

field

helped her team to a four-year

NCAA and PSAC championPSAC Rookie of the Year as a freshman and was three times named first team Ail-American
record of 80-6 and three
ships.

She was the

NCAA

hockey team gained the

for the third time in a

unbeatable coach

in

Division

national

II

title in

2004

row and her 483-64-20 record makes her the most

the history of field hockey. This honor parallels her

standing as the most unbeatable coach of

all

time

in

NCAA

Division

II

softball history.

andAIl-PSAC
Partlon finished her last collegiate field hockey season

with 13 goals, leading the team in
final tally

was 25

goals

and 17

assists

with

Her

eight.

Shapes to

Come

assists.

Exercise researcher investigates children's fitness

Career Images
B U offers new master's degree

Exercise science faculty

second from
the ages of 7

BU joins a group

of just 10 colleges

exercise.

and

this

BU's master of science in radiologist assistant program

fall.

designed to help

fill

demand

the

working

for professionals

in radiology, a health care field that uses imaging procedures

such as

CAT scans, MRIs and PET scans

disease

and injury

to diagnose

The new program introduces a new career
radiologist assistant. This

new degree

member Joseph Andreacci,

researching whether children between

and 10 burn
is

also testing

fat

or carbohydrates while they

whether the Sense-Wear Arm-

universities

nationwide offering the radiologist assistant degree program

is

He

left, is

field,

and

band measuring device produces
dren.

Shown during a

treadmill

reliable results

test,

science graduate student Christina

Square, Andreacci and

test

from

left,

with

Ledezma of Kennett

subject Erica Hogue, 9.

treat

the

category will bridge the

gap between radiology technologists and radiologist
physicians.

It

was developed with support from

the

American

College of Radiology, the American Society of Radiologic

Technologists and the American Registry of Radiologic
Technologists.

Approved by the Pennsylvania

State

System of Higher

Educations Board of Governors in January, the program builds

on BU's 25-year-old undergraduate medical imaging program
that enrolls nearly

200

students.

To be

eligible for the

masters

degree program, a prospective student must have a bachelors
degree,

American Registry of Radiologic Technologists

certification in radiologic

full-time

technology and

work experience

at least three

years of

as a technologist.

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are exercise

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,

Islands

Open Up

know you're not going to be
perfect the

Coach one step from

day."

first

Salicki selected

His second professional

officiating at championships

of Data

opportunity came

Scotland

for

the

at

archaeology project

highly regarded Pilot Penn

Mark Raynes

'80, BU's

men's

tournament, a Women's

and women's

assistant tennis

Tennis Association Tour

certification

event in

Anthropology

coach,

one

is

away from becoming an

New Haven,

Conn.

major Joanna
Salicki will

There, he was a line judge

travel to

official for this year's

Open

U.S.

for players

His road to the U.S.

began as a player

at

Scotland this

Molik,

Open

Blooms-

burg where he was a

such as Alicia

who won a bronze
medal for her home country,

tennis championships.

Australia, at the

member

Mark Raynes

the

summer to
work on

Olympics

a research

week before.

Joanna

project.

of the school's

first

Pennsylva-

All that stands

the collegiate level, Raynes

nia State Athletic Conference

(PSAC) championship team
in 1979.

It

was

move
last summer

got his opportunity to

up

there that

to the pros

he met former head coach

when he

Burt Reese.

States Tennis Association

In 1989 Reese asked

Raynes

if

for the

he would consider

"I

less

years serving as an

day,"

Penn

he

says. "I

was

petrified

that first day, but the
officials

than 14

umpire

for the

tournament the very next

State Nittany lions.
little

to the line clinic

and was sent on court

resume umpiring in 2001

After a

went

head

understand that

you're going into that situation for the

first

two remote

puter services department,

and the U.S. Open
fication to

to participate in the North
is

a certi-

be promoted to a

Orkney Population History Project.

USTA Level umpire, which

As her

part of the project to

reconstruct changes
is

in

popula-

the third of five levels of

certified

settlement and landscape

umpires.

"When you do

use over the past 300 years,

tourna-

ments you

get evaluated

conduct archaeologi-

by

cal explorations of

head

officials,"

Raynes

"You get rated on a scale of
to 5. If you rate

4 or

and interview current residents.
1

The project

by Penn State's department of
anthropology.

to the next level.

To

do the U.S. Open you must
be

at

the

sponsored

is

higher,

then you get certified to

move

the islands

says.

A

National

Science Foundation Research
Experience for Undergraduates

USTA Level."

award
at

Lincoln Park, Pa.,

Salicki will travel to

Salicki will

sionals Challenger event.

eventually

for the

A junior from

Salicki

islands off the coast of Scotland

Association of Tennis Profes-

the assistant coach in

working matches

of the

Tennis Tournament, an

He began officiating

He would

site

who works full-time
as a member of BU's comRaynes,

tion,

continued officiating until he

1996.

the

Bfnghamton Professional

Huskies in 1990 and

became

on

Line Clinic

umpiring the Huskies home
matches.

attended a United

between

will

cover Salicki's

time, so they
expenses.

In Print
Faculty publish books

New books

by

BU

James Brown and

assistant

dean

faculty

members Marion Mason, Walter
Howard, Jeanette Keith and
Walter Brasch

hit

the shelves

Marion Mason

in

Walter Howard

Jeanette Keith

James Brown

Walter Brasch

recent months.

Mason, professor

of psychology, collected, edited

introduction for "Taking Sides: Clashing
in

Cognitive Science." Mason's book

is

and wrote the

Views on Controversial Issues
designed to help students

explore issues by reading opposing arguments about fundamental
questions, such as: "Are the mind and the brain the

Howard, associate professor

documentary reader related

A Documentary

History of

same?"

of history, published a

two-volume

to Pennsylvania history, "Anthracite Reds:

Communists

SPRING 2005

in

Northeastern Pennsylvania.'

"Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight," written by Keith, professor of
history,

focuses on opposition to the draft

in

World War

Brown, assistant dean of Liberal Arts, wrote "A
tion to Literary Study" with Scott D. Yarbrough.

guide

to critical

and methods

I.

Practical Introduc-

The book

is

a brief

reading for literature courses, introducing tools, terms

for discussing literature.

And Walter Brasch, professor of journalism, published

his 14th

book, "America's Unpatriotic Acts," a critique of the PATRIOT Act.

News Notes

Living Learning

Space

Northumberland, Luzerne

Outreach
Overseas

halls to get additions

Northumberland and Luzerne Halls

Supervisory Roundtable
are being renovated to provide

money for

raises

education space

in

more

students' living

tsunami victims
environment. The additions
create

new entryways

will also

for the

The Supervisory Roundtable
buildings.

The three-story addition

to

recently raised $1,200 to

"North" Hall will create 3,080 square
contribute to the American

Red
feet of

Cross

support of those

in

new

space and allow

who
installation of

were affected by the tsunami

Members of the Supervisory Roundtable involved in raising
money for tsunami relief include, left to right, Cyndi Fisher,
Gary Melnick, Jeanne Fitzgerald, Kim Schmitz and Jolene Folk.

Southeast Asia. The fundraiser

was just the

latest effort for the

made up

organization

BU

of

Luzerne Hall project will bring an
additional 2,81 2 square feet of space
to the residence hall.

members.

campus

for

According to Supervisory

member Jolene

who works

in

Andruss

the Roundtable

with

training

supervisors. Along

to

BU

for

Museum

programs

have benefited

air conditioned.

Bloomsburg,

in

Camp Hero

and

Millville

at

Camp Victory

and the Toys

in

for Tots

campaign, which collects toys

scholarships.

Recent charitable

be

tions such as the Children's

instructional programs,

for non-profit organizations

establish job performance

workshops and

its

the group regularly raises funds

Folk,

Library,

was formed

The additions

staff
will

Roundtable

an elevator. The

in

for underprivileged children

activities

during the holiday season.

local organiza-

Northumberland Hall

Jazz at Lake Wobegon
BU student wins third place on popular radio show
Music performance major Drew Nugent

playing the

won third place honors and received a $500

family piano

cash prize after performing on "A Prairie

without a single

Home

lesson.

Companion,"

a National Public

Radio show that reaches 4 million

listeners

each week over more than 558 public radio
stations.

Nugent, a freshman

at

Nugent s

signed
to

on

pianist, Joe

the show's second annual teen talent

from Twelve

Benedict,

to Twenty,"

in February

A
St.

that

resident of Blue Bell,

Paul, Minn., with his

before his performance

by Garrison
testants,

Keillor.

Nugent flew

on the show hosted
five other

con-

chosen from nearly 300 applicants,

played for an audience of more than 1,100
people, with

Nugent performing

and an

a child,

Nugent studied the

then surprised his parents

violin

his

the trumpet

Nugent

and has excelled playing jazz

originally

when he began

after the

is

where

experience

Companion,'

I

construction

halls.
is

The

expected

commence this summer.
Architecturally, the additions will

A big fan of jazz performer

on the brass instrument,

"Music

and

to

Drew Nugent

1
I

see

to

pursue a

changed

to

summer

music per-

echo the addition to Centennial

had on

over a ground-floor walkway. The

design element
old

is

drawn from the

Waller Building, which

demolished

in

the 1960s.

orientation.

A Prairie Home
up my

Hall,

featuring slightly flattened arches

my life going. And

never want to give

love, music," says

piec-

as well as the piano.

planned

formance during freshman

original instrumental

composition, "The Original Jelly Roll Story."

As

where

walkway

Louis Armstrong, Nugent became interested in

es

will not interfere

it

walkway between the

history major at BU, but

three,

three-minute jazz piano pieces, "Dr. Jazz,"
"All of Me"

been planned so

and

and jazz began.

mother the day

He and

is

notes that

with the creation of a pedestrian

love for ragtime

to

life,

construction of the additions has

leam from

a local jazz

Kresch, associate director

of residence

him

appeared as one of the winning contestants

contest, "Talent

Tom

mother quickly

up

BU,

Luzerne Hall

first

Nugent.

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Summer/Fall 2005
Academic Calendar

Summer Freshmen/Act 101 EOP

Summer Sessions 2005
Session

I

May 31

-

Session

II

Session

III

Orientation

8

to July

Saturday and Sunday, June

29

-July 11 to Aug. 19

May 31

Session IVSession

to July

-June 20

to

New Student Activities

Fall

1

9 and 20

Wednesday, June

22, to

Session

VIII

-May 31

July 24 to 28, 5 to 8 p.m.

Elite,

Overnight, July

Elite

24 to 28

Soccer

Wednesday,

Coed Day Camp, June 20

V June 20 to July 8
Summer freshmen

UK

24

to

July 24 to 28, 9 a.m. to noon

Elite,

Girls

June 17

-

VII -

UK
UK

Freshman Preview

24

to

June 29
Girls

Session VI -July 11 to July 29
Session

Boys Soccer
Coed Day Camp, June 20

Transfer Orientation

Resident Overnight Camp, July 10 to 14

only

to Aug. 19

Only Day Camp, June 26 to 30

Thursday, June 30

Softball

Monday, Aug. 8
Overnight Camp, June 26 to July

Fall

Adult/Non-Traditional Orientation

2005

Tuesday, Aug. 23

Swimming

Electronic registration
Aug. 23 to 29

Classes Begin

Welcome Weekend

Overnight Camp, June 12 to 16

Thursday, Aug. 25, through Sunday,

Day Camp, July 12

No

Tennis

Classes

Overnight

Camp

Special Events

Overnight

Camp Two,

Parents' and Family Weekend

Overnight

Camp Three,

Monday, Sept. 5

Reading Day - No Classes
Friday, Oct.

to 15

Aug. 28

Monday, Aug. 29

Labor Day-

Friday, Oct. 7,

through Sunday, Oct. 9

14

Homecoming Weekend
Mid-Term

Friday, Oct. 28,

through Sunday, Oct. 30

Tuesday, Oct. 18

One, June

Summer Camps
For information and brochures,

July 30-August 3

Weekend One, June 17 to 19

Father/Son

Weekend Two, June 24 to 26
Team Technique

to 14

Six-Day Training Camp, July

28, 8 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 10

(5701389-4371 or go to http://www.bloomu.
July 17-21

edu/sports/camps/camps05. htm

Day Camp One, June 20

to

24

Resident Overnight, June 26 to 30

Reading Day
1

Finals Begin

Monday, Dec. 12
Finals

End

JV Team Weekend,

1

5 to

Day Camp, June 13

Field

latest

information

on upcoming events, check

to 12

the university

Web Site:

www.bloomu. edw'today

to 17

Individual Overnight, July 10 to

Graduate Commencement

For the

1

Girls Basketball

Team Weekend,

Dec. 16

July

Day Camp Two, Aug. 8

Saturday, Dec. 17

Friday,

to 16

Team Camp,

Boys Basketball

Classes End

Sunday, Dec.

1

call

Senior/Junior High Intensive

Classes Resume

8 to 22

Father/Son

Camp, July 10

Tuesday, Nov. 22, 10 p.m.

1

July 23 to 27

Wrestling

Senior High Intensive

Thanksgiving Recess Begins

Monday, Nov.

1

Pitcher/Catcher Camp, July 6 to 9

14

July 22 to 24

Hockey

Resident Overnight, July 29 to Aug. 4
Resident Overnight, Aug. 7 to

1

Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday, Dec. 17

Football
Resident Overnight, July 17 to 21
Resident Overnight, July 24 to 28

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Husky Notes
7^£ ^C

\J VJ
Paul Kraus

Rick Musser,

^^^I^M

Births
High School
was awarded the Jean and

Marie Spengel Robinson

a teacher at Bernards

in Bemardsville, N.J.

Award



,

for Professional Excellence in Service to

Youth by the Somerset County Youth Services Commission.
He also developed a program that won recognition as a

Robert, Aug. 27,

2004

Edward Hayes

'90

mam

'88 and husband, Keith, a son,

and wife, Gina, a son, Michael

Karen Manfredonia LoBasso

2005

Colin, Jan. 4,

'92 and husband, Tom, a son,

Thomas

Nunzio, Dec. 19,2004

National Service-Learning Leader School.
Tina Scopelliti McCall '92 and husband, Sean, a daughter, Cara

7^£ %y

\J \J

John Brosius

retired in June

2004

after

Elizabeth, Aug. 3,

20 years

He worked

Employees' Retirement Board.

for the

Common-

Patrick,

wealth of Pennsylvania for 30 years.

Jim Worth has
do

teach and

work

at the

where he

will

Hawaii Baptist Academy

7^L f_l

\J

S

Nancy

Aaron White

St.

is

Jim

Ahem '95,

a son,

James

2004

Sandy Stubblefield White

'95 and

'98,

a daughter,

2004

Isabella Jane, Oct. 28,

Kara Morton Kearney

Shaffer '70.

Brian McLernan

8,

'93 and

2004

Rita Elizabeth, April 24,

I

Jim served as assistant director of the Upward Bound program
at Bloomsburg University for the past 10 years. He is married to
the former

June

Danielle Barkasy Gowarty '95 and husband, Edward, a daughter,

relocated to Kapolei, Hawaii,

ministerial

Blydenburgh Ahern

Lori

as executive director of the Pennsylvania State

2004

'97

and husband,

Ed, a daughter, Kelly Reilly,

Nov. 1,2004

literacy

coach

Becky Cady Wright

for the

'97 and husband, Jeff, a daughter, Abigail Hills.

Dec. 13,2004

Thomas/St. John, Virgin Islands, Department

Vicky Edinger Nguyen

of Education.

Matthew

/^7#| John Paciotti head of the men's division, plan/ \J ning and allocation, for Burlington Coat Factory.

Hien, Nov. 15,

'98 and

Michael Nguyen

'00, a son,

2004

is

He has
football

four children, one of whom went to the

championship in Florence,

cheerleading squad.

He

lives in

Ala., as a

2000

national

member of BU's

Collingswood, N.J.

National Guard, retired as the executive officer for

the Air National

Guard

Commendation Medals. He and

his wife Junlin live

in Lebanon, Pa.

Mary Shriver Hannaman earned

^T education and

is

now a full-time

the business department of Rio Salado

She was formerly the administrator

programs

man 72,

for Rio Salado.

live in

Tempe,

a doctorate in

faculty

Community

member in
College.

for adult basic education

officer,

she

is

Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties.

7^7€J
/ \J

Clark Shuster was honored

s

Si

/

KJ jmml

San Fu Gas Co.
Barbara Bean Samide has been named principal of
Harry S. Truman Elementary School in Salisbury She and her
husband Thomas have two children, Edward, a senior at
Joseph's University and Laura, a senior at

Hamburg Area

High School.

20 years as

1,600.

Timothy Jonas, who

retired

as a lieutenant colonel,

Force in Massachusetts.

He is

from the Marine Corps

now works supporting the Air

president and chief operating officer

of C2Kinetics, LLC.

Jack Evans, a major

Randy Watts was voted P1AA Junior High Wrestling Coach
for District

IV and Pennsylvania.

in the

Army Reserve,

recently

\J

returned from two years of active duty with InstallaC_J
tion Troop Command in Fort Drum, NY. He is a human resource
manager for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in Camp

His wife, the former

Hill.

DiAnn Persing '90,

teaches at East

Pennsboro Area High School, Enola. She earned
in curriculum development from

Kelly Lewis,
Representatives,

who

million.

State in

a master's degree

2000.

served four years in the state House of

CEO of the Technology

effective Jan. 1,

to the legislature, Kelly

controller, supervising

$120

Penn

was named president and

Council of Central Pennsylvania,

he was elected

2003-04

for serving

Lower Bucks County Chamber of
leadership, the chamber grew from 1,000

president of the

Commerce. Under his
members to more than

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Taipei, Taiwan, leaving his position as vice president of

of the Year for

Pennsylvania region, which includes Adams, Berks, Cumberland,

She and her husband. Curt Hanna-

Ariz.

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/ %J American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in

St.

Lebanon County

officer for the

her duties as area executive

units stationed at Fort Indiantown

Gap. Recently deployed to Al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar,
he holds two Air Force Meritorious Service Medals and four

/

been named the bank's executive
area. In addition to

Richard Fetterman, a lieutenant colonel in the Air

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Cynthia Hammes-Cardi, senior vice president and
business banking director for Wachovia Bank, has

business banking director for Wachovia's seven-county central

S^/^y

Air Force

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was

the

2005. Before

Monroe County

annual operating budgets exceeding

He holds a juris doctorate and master's in business

administration from

Widener University School of Law.

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Suzanne

Bilski

Nesmith has achieved

tion Board for Diabetes Educators.

by Holy

certified

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Health System,

Spirit

Suzanne has been employed

Camp

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the past 13 years.

Hill, for

She earned a master's degree from Perm State. She and her
husband Paul have two sons, Shane and Josh. They reside in

Camp

Hill.

Simon "Jake" Williams was named Outstanding Former
Head Start Teacher by the Pocono Services for Families and
Children and Monroe County Head Start. After working for State
Farm Insurance for 10 years, he returned to college to complete
a teacher certification program. He is now a history teacher at
Easton High School. He and his wife Kelly have three sons.

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the Geisinger

Foundation as director of annual

giving.

Women in Transition, Lewisburg.

Valley

'90

Christine Bortnick Marcolla was appointed manager of Sovereign Bank's

is

Karen Busocker Sofranko earned a doctor of
education degree at Temple University, where she
an academic adviser. She and her husband Steven live in

Princeton Junction, N.J.

Ring

Class
Stetten '50

my graduation from Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
January of 1950, my sister Carolyn and her husband Lewis presented
me with a choice of graduation gifts. One was a Bloomsburg graduation
Prior to

gold class ring with a handsome garnet stone adorning the
very beautiful! The other offer

was for a new

generous and tempting; but knowing
rapidly approaching

recognizing that

it

grateful for their gift; the coat did keep

But the ringwas so beautiful! -From

and

was

was

top. It

top coat, both offers very

my first

was

teaching assignment

more practical of the

two.

1

"Family Ties... and a

Few Loose Ends"

by

Wayne Von

call to

office,

asking for help in locating a class

ring for a

the university's alumni

1950 graduate.

A kind indi-

was

vidual at the university

able to fur-

of the vendor

—Josten.

At Josten in Dallas, Texas, a helpful

as well.

representative found sketches of the
Stetten '50

1950

my family
Inheld a party to celebrate my 80th
mid-September 2004

Our

eldest son,

Wayne, who

served as the master of ceremonies, began
his

remarks by

from

my book,
"Dad

fact that

citing the

above

citation

placing emphasis

on

the

selected the top coat and,

therefore, never received his class ring."

Our son then introduced his younger
who came into the room carrying

brother

various top coats.

As each coat was

shown,

I

1

thought

would be

free to

choose one. The thought of a birthday
top coat
ever,

was quickly extinguished, how-

when our son and

the other guests

called out in unison, "No,

getting

any of those top

Instead, a family

Dad, you're not

to the

name

"Josten" print-

ed on the top of the equally
small

box

that

I

knew

gift,

since

inside.

It

was

attractive

then,

finally,

the mystery of my birthday
my years as a high school

me

principal allowed

acquainted with

all

to

become

well

the class ring ven-

dors, including Josten.

class ring in the

I

its

was speechless

velvet case

class rings

I

as

I

tears,

I

removed from

one of the most beautiful

had ever

seen. In the midst

of much clapping and

became aware

more than
that

a

few

our four

children and their spouses were calling
out, "Dad, here

is

College class ring

your Bloomsburg

—54

My eyes

I

had

to ask

order, the

basement

years

late,

but

how our children

secured a Bloomsburg State Teachers

company appointed

man

to design

ring,

complete with the

stone.

the

and

The unique

create a

archives.
that

a crafts-

custom

attractive garnet

ring

words Bloomsburg

is

inscribed with

State College,

the year 1950, a replica of Carver Hall,
the
seal

here nevertheless."

coats."

member handed me

a beautifully decorated gift bag.

were drawn

tele-

phone

number

was always

me warm for that winter and ensuing ones

search, they

me, began in early spring with a

told

nish the name, address and telephone

in mid-winter, I wisely selected the coat,

the

The

College 1950 class ring.

Although no rings remained from

birthday.

She

previously served as director of development at Susquehanna

community banking office
in Snyders, Pa. She previously held management positions at
Heritage National Bank and Miner's National Bank.

By Wayne Von

at

Husky dog, and

the Pennsylvania

engraved with the words Virtue,

Liberty,

Independence.

The handsome ring has been a constant companion since that happy September night, thanks to the kindness and
ingenuity of a loving family and the cooperation of the university

modating company.
grateful to

The
the

all

I

and an accom-

will forever

who made

be

this possible.

ring will be a constant reminder of

happy years spent

at

Friendly College on the

Bloomsburg, the
Hill.

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David J. Hein was
promoted to director

of finance at TheTriZetto

Group,Union, NJ. TriZetto pro-

Granting Wishes

vides information technology for
the health insurance payer

ABloomsburg University graduate
became president and

recently

spent 10-plus years

chief executive officer of the

an organization

ity,

at

Allentown with his wife Mara

Humanmany

Habitat for

that helps so

David resides near

industry.

am extremely grateful for having

"I

and

their 6-year old daughter.

Jody Price

is

a transfer of

Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, the

people," says Williams. "The Make-A-

learning delivery specialist for

worlds

Wish Foundation is truly one of the
nation's most respected names in the nonprofit world and among our country's

the Pennsylvania Child Welfare

largest wish-granting organization.

As CEO, David A. Williams
the foundation's national
closely with

staff

'81, leads

and works

74 chapters. He comes

its

and

citizens,

to

I

excited to join this equally great organiza-

from Habitat

tion."

Both organizations were recognized

Humanity Interwhere

in "America's Greatest Brands,

national,

as

he most recently

Trusted Brands."

Volume

3"

dent and chief

ing medical conditions.

operating

Make-A-Wish

David A. Williams

received the Bloomsburg Univer-

Community Martin Luther

sity

grants

the wishes of children with life-threaten-

wishes a

abused and neglected

services to

King Jr. Award in February 2004

tive vice presi-

officer.

and

foster parents to provide social

children and their families. Jody

two of "America's Strongest and Most

The Make -A-Wish Foundation

served as execu-

trains direct service workers,

supervisors, administrators

am deeply honored and

Make-a-Wish
for

The program

Training Program.

grants

Founded

more than

for

in 1980,

1 1

her work with diversity issues

in local high schools. She resides
in Bloomsburg.

Zimmerman has been

Scott

,500

named

year.

principal of the Danville

Elementary School.

He

has been

a teacher in the district for the

Marriages
Ream

Edie M. Gair '88 and

Damian

Scott Blacker '98 and

Beth

Timothy

Talerico, Oct. 23,

2004

Amy Antolik

Garrison, Nov. 20,

Dana Knowles

'95 and Patrick

Catherine Cox '98 and Nicholas

Steven

Guido, Oct. 30, 2004

Moore, June 26, 2004

Melissa Jenks

Daniel Scott Smith '99 and

J. Shull

'89

Michael Oehlert
Lori O'Neill,

Nov.

6,

Elaine Blauer

'91

Granteed, June

5,

and

2004

Parmer, Oct. 23, 2004

and Mark

Christopher

'92 and

July 24, 2004

Kristy Shierant

'02,

JoAnn OToole

'92 and

Aug. 28, 2004

Jr.,

Watson

Sindy Adams,

2004

Thomas Bogovich

Kenneth Raup

Kelly '95 and Kimberly

Wincovitch,

May

15,

Jeffrey Rovinsky

Patuszek
Nicole

'96,

'94 and Lori

Aug. 14,2004

Shortz '94 and Philip

Nitowski, Oct. 23,

Misho Vance
Phillips,

2004

'94 and

James

Cynthia Miniter '96 and

Jennifer Shutkufski '98 and

Andrea Bird

Robert Garcia

Christopher Scala, July 24, 2004

Blanton,

Elizabeth

Donovan

AdamConish, March

Mutchler

'95 and
13,

'96 and

7,

James

2004

Steven Brenenborg

'97

2004

Kathryn Moczydlowski

'97

and Peter Venti

Baker, April 17,

Aimee

2004

2004

Luciano

Jr.,

June

5,

Ronald Shireman

'00 and John

May 15.2004

Clinton Walters,

'99 and

Brandon Soule,

2004

Kim

June

13,

2004

'00 and

Kathryn Gesuale

Gagliardi,

May 29, 2004

Matthew

Suzanne

Liken '99 and William

Beth Miller '00 and John

Wilson, June

Melissa

'97 and

5,

Lanette Gemmill '00 and

'99 and

Arthur Campbell

and Jennie-Corinne Baublitz,
Oct. 2,

Amy Burkel

'98 and

Anthony Tucci

Lara Peterson '97 and Gerald

Aug. 14,2004

Kearney, Oct. 16,2004

July

Ryan O'Hara

2004

Lori

Amy Tate '99 and

Rebecca Mest

Lori

Wayne Vols

Mieszkuc, June 25, 2004

Erin Levering

Crowder, Aug.

'93 and Lisa

Phil

Thomas Rozycki

Kristin Kalanick '93 and

2004

May 29, 2004

'98 and

2004

Riffert '99 and Stacy

Patrick Henderson '96 and

John Husak, Sept.

5,

'95 and

'99 and Joshua

5,

2004

McCabe

Troiano, Dec.

Kajmowicz, Oct. 16,2004

'99 and Rocco

Kristyn Styer, Sept.

Jr. '99

and

18,2004

2004

Ruth Procopio

'97 and

Hopper, Sept. 18,2004

Amy Pastorella '00 and

Sean

Shamany

18,2004

Robert McDonald

Furry

'99 and Robert

Shantille Shearer-Weil 00 and

Matthew

Stohl, Oct. 9,

Heather Sobotor

'00

2004
and Dennis

Bonshock, June 26, 2004

Kathleen Ifkowitz, July 24, 2004

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He and his wife have two

past 10 years.

They reside

sons.

Pequea Elementary School in the Penn Manor School

in Milton.

District,

Millersville.

Janeen Schrann Sutryk was promoted

'92

Shana Meier Tesluk

is

executive director of the

Tyler Health Foundation. The foundation generates

support for Tyler Memorial Hospital in Tunkhannock. She

merly held various positions
her husband John

7^1 ^5
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live in

at

Marywood

University. She

for-

commercial lending,

& Lyons in Vestal, N.Y. She

and

tant

lives in

to principal at

a certified public accoun-

Sayre with her husband Jaime and two

daughters, Kaeli and Emily.

George Baker joined

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to vice president,

at Beneficial

is

and

Tunkhannock.

Frank Amon was promoted

Piaker

Savings Bank.

as

an

the Philadelphia law firm

of Linebarger, Goggan, Blair and Sampson, LLP,

He

associate.

earned his law degree from Villanova

University School of Law.

He earned an MBA at Philadelphia University in 2002.
Thomas R. Crissinger Jr., assistant vice president at

firm,

WNB Bank, recently graduated from the American Bankers

earned a masters degree from Villanova University.

Association Graduate Commercial Lending School in Dallas.

Lori Kane was named executive director of the Schuylkill
Chamber of Commerce. She has served as member services

He has been with
Joe Subacz

is

bank

the

since 1994.

for

& Co. He for-

Kunzler

assistant controller at

merly was controller

Autumn Wolfe joined

Automatic Timing and Controls

Jennifer Ditzler Sugra

is

more Husky Notes online

Camp Hill-based accounting

SCC since

1996.

Milt Scholl coached the Antietam High School Boys' Soccer

Team

PIAA Class A title. Milt was also named PennsylvaA Boys' Coach of the Year by the PSCA.

to the

nia Class

Find

the

& Asbury, LLP, as a senior tax manager. She

director for the

Inc.

in her fifth year as principal of

McKonly

Charlie Taronis earned a master's of education in educa-

at

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tional administration

He

Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
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from Alvernia College in December 2004.

dean of students and

is

1

1th

and 12th grade

social studies

teacher at Cardinal Brennan High School in Fountain Springs,

County

Schuylkill

5Q/C

Cathy Schaeffer received her second

S \J

from the Registry of Interpreters

certification

for the Deaf.

Kristy Reigle Schultz was

named

clinical

coordinator for

cardiovascular technology at

Jennifer Wolfe '00 and Brian

Jennifer Rossi

'01

Hayes, Sept. 18,2004

Lauver, April 24,

2004

Katie Arendash

'01

and

Corey Aucker

and Chad

Lamon,

'02 and Barbara

Stephen Kastroba

Wirtz, Aug.

Lindsay Bellman 01 and

Melissa Berringer

Francis Michael Gregor'01,

and Michael Pfistner'01,

June

26,

2004

Sept.

Sabrina Dockey
Heddings, Oct.

Jennifer DuBois

Brandon
Nov.

5,

'01

and Jeffrey

2004

9,

'01

and

Griffiths '01,

2004

Tara Kozel

'01

and

Nicholas Goretski

Jamie Lewson

and Timothy

'01

and Kenneth

Motichka, Aug. 21, 2004
Lori

Mayes '01

and Edward

Winter, April 17,2004

Kylie

Osman

DeStefano

'01

'02,

and Nathan

May 22, 2004

Lisa

Oct. 30,

'03 and Louis

5,

Melania Lorow

'02

Balzer,

May

15,

Community

College. She has

been an

2004
'03 and David

the Lancaster

2004

2004

4,

DempseyJr.'03, Nov 6,2004

Andrea

Lee Millard 02 and Lisa

Seebold, July 17, 2004

Hunsinger

Lori

18,2004

'03, Sept.

Good Samaritan

'02 and

Aug. 14, 2004

John Walsh,

2004

Kristen Holland '04 and

'02 and

Daniel

Christopher Snyder 03

Jaime

2004

Beth Tracy '02 and Kevin

Weems

Christy Carpenter '03 and

Barkley'04, Sept.

Lifts '04

11,

Melissa Crossley

'03 and

Stephen Landau, June

Nicole Fierravanti

Sean

2004

5,

'03

2004
and

Cyrus Matthews, July 10, 2004

'04.

of Alpha

and

Aug.

7,

Iraq,

Matthew
2004

Timothy Pender, July

10,

Amanda
Keifer,

Jr.,

2004

June 19,2004

Shultz '04 and

Aug. 14,2004

16, 2004. Since

Army

in

1987,

most of his duly assignments
have been in Germany. While

Leonard Wood, he

earned a masters degree in

Tara Miller '04 and Keith
Dunkelberger

1st Infan-

FOB Remagen,

on Aug.

at Fort

Lindsey Mang'fMand

Company, 9th

Engineer Battalion,

joining the

a cap-

Army, took com-

try Division,

Adams

Camella

tain in the

mand

'03 and Timothy Stehle,

Siobhan Mroczka
Oct. 2,

Hospital in Lebanon.

Mark Zimmerman,

Ritter '03 and Dustin

Urso

and Lebanon

cardiovascular invasive

2004

Beth Rhinehart '03 and Barry
Wrench, Sept.

member at

campuses for the past two
years. She formerly was a
specialist at

Michelle Kurtz 02 and Richard

Oct. 9,

Harrisburg Area

adjunct faculty

2004

Lawrence

Jennings, June

14,2004

Alison Necci

'01

Kauwell,May22,2004
Keira Linzer

5,

'03 and Christy

Bryan Hiller

Philip

public policy administration

from the University of Missouri.

He and

his wife, the

former Tanja Hinderer
Stuttgart,

oi

Germany; have two

sons, Aaron

and Justin

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Geisinger

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or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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and Geisinger

Medical Group-Mount Pocono as an associate in audiology.
Kristi

Bowman Taylor recendy earned a doctorate of audi-

ology degree from the School of Audiology

at

the Pennsylvania

College of Optometry in Elkins Park. She continues to

an audiologist

at the

speech and hearing center

at

work as

the Reading

Hospital and Medical Center. She and her husband Jamie reside

7|

in Stevens.

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William Oyster has been named a senior accountant at Boyer
Ritter. He previously was with
Parente Randolph and McKonly
Asbury.
Amy Hunter Wukovitz has earned a doctorate in audiology

S

at

&

Pennsylvania College of Optometry, School of Audiology, in

Elkins Park. She has been a

staff

audiologist at Geisinger

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accepted the position

of public relations manager at

Jenn Di Maria

recently started a

foster care case

worker

at

new job

Kidspeace in

as a

New

Cumberland.

Wyo-

ming Valley Medical Center and Geisinger Medical GroupMount Pocono since 2001. She and her husband Dr. Alex
Wukovitz live in Drums.

1 Heather Bennicoff Kramer

v

Domey Park and
Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown. She previously was an
operation area manager.

&

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Brian Spotts

a

is

UH-47 Chinook helicopter pilot with the

159th Aviation Battalion in

Richard L. Wilson
district judge in

Iraq.

III is

running

for election as magisterial

Mount Carmel. Wilson has been employed at

the State Police Consolidated Dispatch Center in Norristown

Desiree Anderson, a senior accountant

at

and, part-time, by the Northumberland County Department of

JonesKohanski Consultants and Certified Public

Public Safety.

Accountants, has successfully completed the certified
public accountant exam.

Dale Behm,

a captain in the U.S.

Marine Corps,

is

7/ \^y Jennifer Wislock is employed by Tommy Hilfiger
\J^at Licensing in Newark, Del. She is pursuing an MBA

a

helicopter pilot serving in Iraq.

with a concentration in international business

Dolinsky received a juris doctorate degree from
Widener University in 2003. She recently opened her own
Jill

law firm in Saddle Brook,

at the University

of Delaware. She resides in Wilmington, Del.

sf 1 '2

N.J.

Neil Partington has been ordained a minister in the United

Church of Christ. He has been serving the Emmanuel UCC in
Dorrance since 1999. He and his wife Annie have two children,
Noah and Joshua.

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Louisa Luisi
in

is

New Jersey.

a teacher at

than 100 toy bears for distribution

Stacy

Mazloom

Ridgewood High School
more

Recently her students collected
at local hospitals.

has been hired as a special education

teacher for the Schuylkill Intennediate Unit 29. She has been

assigned to

Tamaqua Area High

School.

'04

Deaths

Erin Barrett has

been named

membership coordinator
Sanger '40

Hilda Albertson Heller '23

Raymond

Ruth Haupt Artz '26

June Bramble Blackman

Pearl Schell Carls '29

Joyce

F.

Hay

E.

Howard
'43

J.

Mary Jane

'44

the Williamsport/Lycoming

Trefsger Heisler '55

Chamber

Ray

Genevieve Omichinski Andrek '32

William Horvath '47

Edward McFadden

'61

Blanche Kostenbauder

Leon Grant '50

Warren Oszmanski

'63

'31

Millington '34
Irvin

Murray Hackenburg '50

Scheib '34

Mary Shantz

Clair

Mensinger

of Commerce.
Jason Davis has been
commissioned a second

Robert Ebner '57

Elizabeth Ertel '46

Anne Fowler Hibbard

R. Seitz '58

lieutenant in the Air Force.

Mike Naff accepted

George

R.

with the
Police

Colestock '68

Elizabeth
Virginia

Reece McMillan

'50

Reimensnyder '50

Peggy Miller Spangler '69

Joseph Cecchetelli

Michael Yemola has

'82
j

F.

James Stanulonis

Pearl Fester

Neil

Bowman

M.Richie '38

Manheim Township

Department in

Lancaster.

'34

Jean Smith Pritchard '35
Elvira

a

position as a police officer

Richard C. Heller '66

'50

'35
'38

David Edwards

Karen M. Zimmie '82

'51

William G. Herr '52

M

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S

B U R G

T H E

oined JonesKohanski

Consultants and Certified
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Diane Bakowicz Michniewicz '90

William Hrisko '52

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A Club of Their Own
Byjulianne Bramante '04

Before the days of Title IX, athletic
scholarships for

vised division championships,

women

organized their

petitions.

They

equipment,

didn't

facilities

and

some

to participate in athletics.

own athletic com-

have the

A year before she retired
from the health, physical

athletic

education and athletics

today, but their sad-

faculty in 1958, she

was

worked

succeeded by Wray

who

letter

sweaters

just fine.

served as the club's

At Bloomsburg University, they were

members

organization founded in

intramural

1927

to give

opportunity to compete in
activities.

Designed with the

goal of developing physical, social
ability,

the

B Club promoted a

strong school spirit
as a

means toward

and

and

interest in athletics

physical development.

To become a member of the B Club, a
female student was required to earn an A

and sportsmanship and

sponsor from

official

of the "B" Club, a recreational

women the

mental

women

guidance and confidence

or uniforms that both

women and men have
dle shoes, skirts

1957, gave young

women and tele-

1957

B Club

Students compete in a

Gymnasium on

match

volleyball

alumnae camps, hikes and Homecoming
activities, as

well as decorations for

mens

football

and

games and sponsored Play

director

field

and adviser

hockey and

legiate athletics

for

water

ballet,

Wray

basketball. In 1972, she

and served

intercol-

as the

women's

tennis coach.

A scholarship was established in

students. Social meetings were held

Monday

in 1971. Also the

women's intramural

became coordinator of women's

Day, an annual event for high school

on the

ended

fall

B Club

helped organize women's varsity teams in

games. They were in charge of concession stands at the
basketball

In Centennial

a Thursday evening in 1950.

until the

600 points through sports

participation.

Thursdays were designated as "B" Days

honor of McCammon, with help from the
Bloomsburg Alumni Association, when

Points were given for each

hour spent

when members wore

the

in posture

in individual or

group

tally

sports, varying

girls for

At

to the

each additional point they earned.

their regular

meetings on the second

Thursday of each month, members
planned pep meetings, bonfires, sports
days with other colleges,

fall

and spring

of every month;

their white

sweaters with their "Bs."

"When

according to the kind of activity. Chevron-

shaped sleeve badges were awarded

first

fall

I

of 1963,

Bloomsburg in the

arrived at
1

had no

any organized sport

prior experience in

for

women,"

Carole Gerhard Hostetter '67.
exercise
for the

and gym

B Club.

classes, so

All in

me

"I

was

a
I

participate in

sports

and

women's intramurals or varsity sports and

loved

outstanding character and personal traits.
The scholarship closed in October 2002

up

good

to

due

many

have fun

levels of athletic ability and, in the early

years, included cageball, tennis, volleyball,

baseball, basketball, hockey,

get exercise.

and

Without the B Club,

golf,

1

might not be

enthused about exer-

two

Lucy

badminton,

In 1964,

The B Club had
advisers,

McCammon

swimming

hiking. Later, sports such as archery,
field

hockey, Softball,

modern dance, water ballet and ping
pong were added.

cising today"

just

to insufficient funds.

B Club sports encompassed many

could

and do well

enough

academic achievement, participation in

says

signed

that

all, it

experience and taught

I

B Club disbanded. The Lucy

McCammon Scholarship was awarded to
an undergraduate woman based on

women's

athletics

was

recognized on a collegiate level

burg University. The B Club

ended

at

Blooms-

officially

in 1971.

and Eleanor Wray.

McCammon,
club's official

the

sponsor

from 1927 until
The B Club's

first

members pose

for the official

1927-28 photo.

Julianne Bramante '04 sencd an internship
in

Bloomsburg University's sports information

office

during

fall

2004.

Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist

Sutliff, fourth from left, takes part in the May 12,
1959, dedication ceremony to lay the cornerstone of Sutliff
Hall. Shown from left are state Sen. Jo Hays, Elna H. Nelson,
Trustee C.W. Kreisher, Sutliff, Trustee Bernard Kelly and
President Harvey A. Andruss. Thirteen years later, BU's new
field house was named for Nelson, baseball coach and
director of heath education from 1924 to 1945.

William

A Tribute to
William Sutliff

The

long,

Second

1891 when, following his graduation from the normal

narrow

structure

on

program, he was employed as an assistant

the

Bloomsburg University's

arts

campus is obviously a classroom building. Not so
obvious today is the identity of William Boyd Sutliff,
for whom the College of Business' home was named
45 years ago.
William Sutliff was bom in Stillwater, Columbia
County, Pa., on Jan. 20, 1867, but his professional life
was centered in Bloomsburg, 14 miles south of his
birthplace, where he served as a teacher, administrator
and fnend

to the athletic

Sutliff's first

when he

enrolled at the

BU came

Bloomsburg

in

Apnl 1889

State

Normal

School while teaching in Luzerne County; his
professional association with

from Lafayette College, he returned

to again teach general

master of

arts

first

Bloomsburg began

in

He

mathematics.

Bloomsburg

to

received a

degree from Lafayette in 1900.

When new normal school Principal Charles Fisher
decided in 1921 that the school needed an administrator to oversee academics,

dean of instruction,

was

the logical choice to

continued

to

spend

he created the

now known as

office of the

the provost. Sutliff

the position, although he

fill

a third of his time teaching.

A man of many interests,

program.

contact with

to teach

anthmetic. After a two-year break to earn a bachelor of

Street side of

Sutliff also

enjoyed writing

poetry and helping the Bloomsburg athletic teams.

He

served as faculty manager for the basketball and football

programs from the mid- 1890s

to early- 1900s, creating

season schedules and keeping score
great love

was

at the

games. His

baseball,

and he

continued his duties with that
sport through the spring of 1921.

Following his retirement in

May 1937 at age
across
Hall.

Second

As

70, Sutliff lived

Street

from Carver

a tribute to his

many

years of distinguished service

was decided
to

name

the

classroom building
Sutliff

the

it

November 1957
new $500,000
in

after

him.

was the guest of honor

at

1959 cornerstone dedication

ceremony and was

the last of the

"Old Guard" of faculty members

when he

died June

5,

1962,

at the

age of 95.
wearing a hat and seated third from left, was manager of the 1900 Bloomsburg
Normal School baseball team. Coach Albert Aldinger is seated at the far left.

Sutliff,

State

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herself

Hanna

Michael K.

Minogue English

'83 graduated with

a degree in accounting, but she always

Dlugolecki

S.

Elizabeth

Lammando

Marie A. Conley
Paul

Love in the Lines

drawn

found

works of Chaucer and

to the

Shakespeare. Using that same passion, English

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head

become

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at the

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passes, professor Michael

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'omance

fiction generates

more than $1.4

one-third of all popular fiction
million readers
are married

sold—paperback,

who purchase romance novels

and 63 percent have attended

per year and makes up

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trade

and hard

cover.

each year, 93 percent are

college.

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STORY BY JUDITH

lizabeth

Minogue English

'83 loves

the characters living in her head.

only a problem

t's

when

they won't

leave so she can get

on with the

other aspects of her

life.

her growing legion of readers,

for

the characters have a

way of finding

a path from her brain to paper.

and from paper

their nearest bookstore.

English, a historical
writer,

published her

2001, becoming
series of

for

first

novel in

for

her

medieval romances

set

her

and "The

first fantasy,

into print

on

Linnet"). In 2004,

"The Prince," came

under the pseudonym

of Elizabeth Minogue.

The

stories
interests,

its

—always

ripeness

do

"I

have, even

started writing," she says.

I

been long-fascinated with

14th century and,

when I

the

research-

found a 10-year period where

I

nothing of significance took place

on

my particular stretch of the bor-

der.

and Scotland

evolved logically from her

a time period

a lot of research

before

I

begin

minstrels, the tapestries

background

their lives,

Story ideas

come

her through day-

to

dreams and music; "Laird of the
Mist," for example,

song.

was based on

as the characters in

unearthing a

fossil.

You just have

The

to find

story

it,"

is

there.

she says,

paraphrasing Stephen King in his

book, "On Writing."

She not only wants

border conflict in

regardless of her account-

to explore the

aspects of peoples
to stress

lives. "1

all

wanted

and play with the concept

of the border conflict

—between

world and the next, between

man and woman, between two

—where

countries

always

shifting.

die over

the borders are

People will fight

an imaginary

line,

tell it

to find the

so readers will care

Sometimes she finds

herself going

down an unplanned

road, discover-

ing she took a

section

wrong turn some-

is all

about the characters. She enjoys

and saving

it

for a later

book.

Other times, that unexpected
direction leads to a

winning storyline.

Witness the diversion and the success
of "The Prince." English

first

wrote

a short story with a character she

loved



—but

telling his story

Florian

required a fantasy approach, rather

than an historical novel.
her mentally.

Was he

he crazy? Or was he

seemed

even today."

For English, writing

but to

where. She backtracks, removing that

one problem-filled day

ing major.

a

"A story is found through

doesn't always proceed as intended.

and

English says she wanted

at a time.

%$$$

solving the situations as they appear.

about her characters. Her writing

her books interact and play out

and

how of

my first book on the border

the bloody border feuds only set

this

the

story,

The
the

who and

chose that time, the 1360s, to

between England and Scotland."

("The Border Bride," "Laird of the
Mist"

life

puzzling out the

the dilemmas her characters face,

thrilled

women-in-peril situations.

ed,

romance

known

the border of England

her, bringing to

"I've

.

to the shelves of

MEHL

English says her college Chaucer

and Shakespeare courses
that intrigued her with

Fortunately

K.

line,"

to

He

tortured

obsessed?
right?

be walking

she says.

Continued on next page

Was

"He always

a fine

mental

English's ability to deliver the magic

of a love story

her above the crowd.

sets

as

the romantic tradition of writers

Steve Martini, Dick Francis

expected "The Prince" to be a

who found inspiration in Parisian

Ann

In the end, readers loved

stand-alone book, she

on

ing

book

a sequel.

now work-

is

She advises new

an organization. Make

featuring another character

Through groups

Beylik, a freed

galley slave.

Why does Beylik warrant a book

and

praises.

and leam the business

editors

son for the spin-off plot

need

simple.

"I

"He deserves a

English's books,

even the histon-

encompass the paranormal,

cals,

giving her an edge in the extensive
field

of romance, but

to deliver the
that sets her

it

is

her

ability

following a

muse

in her head

Minogue English

Marion Zimmer

'83

lives

you

can't write

New writers can take heart.
is

sitting

puts

into words. In

it

crafts

still

didn't really

mean

rewriting.

of

reality,

that closely, she says,

The

"I

After

rewrote the beginning

Prince' at least

10 times,"

tries to

considers

it

a

"I

—she

write every day

good day when she

writes 15 pages
in spurts.

—but admits

it

goes

write a lot in the mid-

dle of the night.

Or

older I'm finding

it

I

did.

more

As

I

get

difficult,"

English writes by

hand or types

on an old laptop or home comcity

to

some

was

a

drop

Romance Wnters

Bride"

was

line.

A finalist in

of America

"It's

ent,"

good

Romance Writers

RITA award

for best

she says.

of America's

new author in

2005 RITA

"I

need

"It's

her writ-

to

be precise

that balance brings

book so

the

to

my job is so differ-

my fiction

better."

great being there with them,"

acters.

"When I hit

movie or reading

Technicolor and

keep on

that place,

a book.

when

it's

like

in

difficult is

real life calls."

Contact Elizabeth Minogue English
through her publisher, The Berkley
Publishing Group, or by e-mail at

elizabethminogue@aol. com.

for

It's

my characters just

What's

acting.

stopping them

2001 and "The Linnet" was chosen
as a finalist for the

way

intrusion into

its

an aid

that

and ordered, and

a

won

English

the

she says of time spent with her char-

selected to lead off Jove's

Highland Fling
the

says, despite

actually serves as
ing.

decision.

short stories, "The

Border Bride" emerged.
the

She

me back to

some-

good

find their

to paper.

wnting is
it

who need to

b

best long historical romance.

she says.

puter.

an unfinished

Golden Heart Contest, "The Border

she says.

She

is

love story to start

Turns out

she

feels

her creative world, the consulting job

to imitate

thing new.

her work, rewriting and

sales

accommodate

flexibility to

characters

unfinished with no ending in sight.

first

custom

and

Fortune 500 companies, she

some

on the

home, 1,000-pages and

poem. She simply decided

through a scene as she

A consul-

fortunate that her job allows her

a check."

her
that acts

responds nonchalantly to his

mother's fame as a writer.

for

"Canterbury Tales"

through her novels.

who

from anybody who

Chaucer quite

aspects

all

lives outside Philadelphia

tant for a firm that provides

though his 17,000-line masterpiece

explores the border conflict in

the

with her "very supportive husband"

training in manufacturing

floor at

more

on

own

Bradley: "Never listen to criticism

English's first novel

effort-

She

to her

is

Gary and 10-year-old son Calvin,

that support."

writer, the late

She

Writer Elizabeth

Writers

selling.

But she tempers that advice with

magic of a love story

above the crowd.

She makes writing sound
less,

and

a quote from a well-known fantasy

happy ending."

relaxed playing quiet music

recorder than singing her

side of writing

is

Romance

English

Writers of America, meet agents

about himself? For English, the rea-

liked him," she says.

like the

gone

hasn't

A shy woman,

head.

contacts.

and Jayne

association with such

renowned authors

writers, "Join

Coulter,

Krentz.

The

But she always writes.

bistros.

Next may be a

from "The Prince,"

of people's

Nora Roberts, Catherine

spheric Steel City Coffee House, in

Florian, too, and, although English

Sometimes, she walks three

blocks to write in the atmo-

Jove, publisher of English's

books,

is

Berkley

such

Judith

an imprint of the Putnam

Group

Inc.,

known

K Mehl

is

from Hemyville,

a freelance writer
Pa.

for

significant best-selling authors

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Usually

it's

a film's storyline that captures

Director. Producer. Writer. Cinematographer.
Editor. Theater

the imagination of young moviegoers. But
it

was the action behind the scenes that

mesmerized budding filmmaker Todd
Bieber '03 and fueled his adult vocation.

Film

festival

manager. Business owner.

award winner. Todd G. Bieber

a

busy filmmaker who recently resigned

his

day job as manager of Campus Theatre

is

in

Lewisburg

talents

on

to focus

Flexible

his energies

company he co-founded with Juliana
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all

and

Frame Productions,

a

Brafa.

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,

A native of Central Pennsylvania,
up on a farm
tions.

that has

been

Bieber, 25,

grew

in his family for six genera-

By the time he entered the

picture,

it

was no

longer a working farm, but his family had several pet

penned "The

cats that inspired his first script. Bieber

Todd

Bieber, right, assembles a

Heath Hansum on the

camera boom with actor

set of his short film 'Neck Deep.'

Attack of the Killer Cats" while he was in elementary
school and

still

has that original script today

At 12, he began making shon films with friends,
continuing into high school. "Really bad movies" Bieber
calls the projects that

were written

as they

Through high school, he continued

to

and writing but, when the time came
college

and a

practical career

were filmed.

dabble in film

to think

about

with a steady paycheck,

he decided to go the math-and-science route.

To say

that attending

Bloomsburg runs

in the family

BU was paved by
his parents Glenn 71 and Judith Geise Bieber 70 who
is

an understatement.

met

Bieber's

path to

as students. His father currently

computer

services department,

works

in BU's

and both of his older

sisters are graduates.

At Bloomsburg, he majored in engineering

two years before deciding

to say "cut"

for

and pursue

filmmaker training as a mass communications major.
Bieber spent five years at Bloomsburg, graduating with
a degree in
in physics
"I

mass communications with dual minors

and math.

realized that

I

could actually do

this,"

about taking the plunge into filmmaking.
be the traditional or easy path, but

"The

first

movie

I

really got into

I

he explains

"It

wanted

was

Flexible Frame Productions co-founders Juliana Brafa
and Todd Bieber shoot a scene for 'Neck Deep.'

'Star

may not
to

do

it.

Wars,'

when I was little. I was this big 'Stars Wars' geek,"

Bieber easily admits.

knew was more

Han

was

.

.

I

was

Solo.

It

Without

also the

the scenes

a big fan of director

was

is

interesting

commentary, the

t

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"I like

some

movies
socially

that

I

making

it

hap-

George Lucas, not just

names 1967's "The

He points

which won an Academy Award

Nichols,

movie

a transitional point for me."

hesitation, Bieber

Graduate" as his favorite movie.
film,

first

.

was somebody behind

there

pen.

"It

than just a picture on the screen. .that

on every

level

acting, directing



Mike

its story, its

social

and cinematography.

that mostly entertain,

redeeming

out that the

for director

but that also have

qualities," Bieber says.

Although he recognizes the strong training his

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major

classes at

Bloomsburg gave him

in the

mechanics

of making movies, Bieber credits his liberal arts classes

with making him a better scriptwriter.

He

believes they

helped him gain a clearer understanding of history, the

environment and anthropology.

"If

you

can't

under-

stand the world, you really don't have very interesting
stories to tell,"

he

says.

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add more. He says an idea usually changes completely
before filming

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starts.

step

is

Todd

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When this is done, shooting begins,

Campus

at

Theatre, a venue for

on

followed by

a computer, re-editing

and adding sound and music. Test showings help

independent, classic and foreign films in Lewisburg,

gauge audience reactions and determine

turned into a permanent job

editing

at

Campus Theatre

taught

after graduation.

him about

of filmmaking, including exhibition

About four years

ago, Bieber

The

ing movies together.

15 short
service

films,

His time

and

mak-

started

produced more than

films

empty

never get out of their computer, two short films, "Neck

have seen success on the

film festival circuit.

"One Number

20-minute film that follows the

2," a

won prizes at the

"life"

of a pencil,

Film

Festival, the Cafe Metropolis

Muskegon

Wilkes-Barre, the

Marco Island

the

"Neck Deep"

(Fla.)
is

Film

it

Brafa

were invited

to

because of its positive exposure

"(Our other) projects were

what 'One Number

2'

at

really

and

stepping stones to

and nearly two years ago

to

Flexible



Bieber looks

one makes money, everyone involved, not just he and

is

what we

and

"We

are

don't have any back-

working toward.

spent a

.

but

If

it's

.

(it's)

if it's

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whole

film in

long, he'll script parts that he likes

2

05

fellow filmmakers.

in Central Pennsylvania."
Blair, star

who was attending to promote her

Anonymous." Bieber and

would be

Blair

Brafa decided

perfect for a role in

Normal," and

part. Blair eventually

filming in Lewisburg in July.

cast also includes

set

agreed and

The

"All is

Tom Stechschulte, who

last year's

por-

"The Manchurian

Candidate."

to

submit

their previous films, Bieber

"All is

Normal"

ideas wait to be developed,
"If

become unhappy,

I

and Brafa plan

to film festivals.

And more

expanded and recorded.

I'll

stop (making films), but

don't foresee that happening," Bieber says. "Multiplex

would be

nice,

but

my first goal

happy with and proud

that I'm

is

to

make

to show."

a

b

ideas, says

idea will usually keep expanding in his

short, he'll script the

was meeting

same screen with people from

trayed the president in

movie

head.

week

Normal"

success

One

the

immediately that

learning experience," he says.

Filmmaking starts with writing down

reinforced: they are the

But the major highlight was meeting Linda

another end of the business that has been an interesting

Bieber.

Mike

critic

original

New York City who used union actors and

As with

Brafa, will share in the profits.

is

"My

had $10,000 budgets when ours ('Neck Deep') cost

it.

at their films as collaborative projects. If

ing now, but that

Aisle Seat said,

their first full-length feature, "All is

Frame Productions was formed. This past January, they
went a step further and became an LLC "a real corporation," as Bieber puts

buzz about Bieber and Brafa and

out to sign her for the

As they began producing more work, they decided
a partnership,

L.A.

on

nice to be

film, "Hitters

learn-

.

actors,

become

you

going to have an

The

of

$30 and was shot

how to put stories together, how to work with
how to use everything," Bieber says.

ing

else you're

"If

to include

McGranaghan

of "The Exorcist,"

.

of the tough competition.

viewing "Neck Deep," film

festival

Cinequest.

and Neck Deep' became.

explains

For Bieber, one of the highlights of the Palm Beach

won the Viewers' Voice Award at
another

He

to get their

he points out.

There's plenty of

"It's

to

work hard

your movie, you've got

Festival earlier this year

Festival.

submit the film

the next step.

to

their films. After

in

(Mich.) Film Festival and

the Cinequest Film Festival in California. Bieber

to

additional

real deal."

a five-minute short about class strug-

gles. Earlier this year,

theater,"

is

need

impression of the filmmakers

Harrisburg Artsfest

Film Festival

to see

some kind of buzz or

commercials, music videos and public

2,"

submission

shown because

want people

announcements. Although he admits some ideas

Deep" and "One Number

festival

that today's filmmakers

distribution.

if

needed.

is

Film

the business side

and Brafa

pair has

rehearsals,

planning location shots and creating story boards.

Bieber

editing, capturing the film

An internship

by holding

to gather actors, either

auditions or calling friends. Next

one day;

and then

Freelance writer

admission for

Dawn

Leas

is

the associate director of

Wyoming Seminary Lower School. She

with her family

in

northeastern Pennsylvania.

lives

1

For students in a Michael

Hickey

class, history is the

spatters of blood

on

the pages

of tortured confessions he's
read.

memo he's

the actual

It's

held in his hand, showing the

words of larger-than-life

histori-

Vladimir Lenin and

cal figures

Leon Trotsky

as they

made

everyday plans for lunch.

"The distance of time melts
away, and you realize you're

humans,"

talking about real

says Hickey, professor of history. "It's

one of those moments

that lets students feel there's a
direct

to

human connection

what

they're studying."

Hickey himself made

that

connection thanks to a great
teacher he

Northern

had

as a

Illinois

the late 70s.

freshman

at

University in

Bumped

out of

the freshman speech section he

wanted, he ended up in a
senior-level history class. At

8 a.m. on his very
college,

and met Albert
fessor

first

he walked into

day of
class

Resis, the pro-

who hooked him on

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The teaching appeals to the. i,*
and ended up advising him

history

on

his doctoral dissertation.

Today, Hickey

about his

own



which he

teaching,

enjoys on three

ort of like

stand-up comedy for an hour and a

half,

passionate

is

two

to three times a

week for

1

5 weeks.'

levels:

new courses:

Putting together

iviicnaei

niCKey

sort of like being in school

"It's

again myself."

It's

the magic of

learning about something he

knows

little

about, the "really

way

great fun" of working his

through a stack of books on,

say,

ancient Mesopotamia.


Being on

"The teaching

stage:

appeals to the
sort of like

ham in me.

It's

stand-up comedy for

an hour and a

two

half,

to three

week for 15 weeks." The
professor honed those skills at
times a

the family dinner table growing

up

in

ers

and

tell

a joke in

Chicago with three brotha sister. "If you couldn't

some way, you

didn't get heard."


Helping students

realize their

own

"I

capabilities:

having students

me, working with them

them

to think

more

not to think the
pressuring

and

them

way
to

to get

clearly



think, but

I

be as

logical

as analytical as they can."

One

of Hickey's goals

students

how to

is

really

writing, reading
all

in the

teaching

use

they might already have



enjoy

really

down with

sit

skills



and analyzing

name

of history

Hickey has certainly put those
skills to

use through his research,

which focuses on

wanted

to

conduct a

local study

of labor during the Russian

Revolution of 1917.
trated

He concen-

on Smolensk, one

of the

Illinois

in

University

a master's degree

1984 and doctoral degree

in

1993, he had already decided he

until the last five

the revival

community there.

Now he's adding a postscript chap-

officially

permitted.

ter

He thought he would
research quickly



finish his

until the Soviet

yielding

Northern



of the areas where they were

When he began his graduate

stud-

II

when he's seen

of the Jewish

restncted archives were opened,

where he earned

World War
years,

more and more informa-

on

that rebirth to his nearly

completed book "Sown with

"It

should have been finished

long ago, but every time
to

Smolensk,

I

find that

tion.

"It's become a whole story
demands telling in and of
itself," Hickey says. Then he

material has

that

he

thought the story of the Jews of

made seven research

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Tears:

The Jews of Smolensk."

Union collapsed and previously

the Jewish

their

largest Jewish settlements outside

population of Smolensk, Russia.

ies at

Smolensk would end with

mass murder by the Nazis during

been

I

go back

more

declassified,"

says.

Over the past 20

years,

Hickey

trips to

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Smolensk, each lasting from two

ous times in patterns worthy of the

Hickey knew where he wanted

weeks

lengthy Tolstoy novels he read as a

to be.

two months.

to

"I've

been

very lucky that the university has

kid. "She's definitely

supported some of

sons

financially,"

he

this research

says. He's

enough documents

own little

copied

He

of thousands of pages stored

on

BU

three hats formerly

worn by

who

still

articles in

book

entries
tions.

academic journals, plus

and conference presenta-

His "absolutely honest"

reader and editor

is

this point

"probably

who

someday

myself

knows

as

much about Smolensk as I do."
Before they married, the two

had

"sort of orbited

it's

he

says.

not just coincidence

that the highest points in

are

modest

Hickey came

and

around each

defended
five

call

says.

years, the professor's

had students ask

Bloomsburg

research. "I've

mountains of

question that has

to

the

at

work-

at Morris.

"The year

my dissertation,

made me

good ques-

'Yeah, that's a really
tion.' "

a

think,

Before long, he's in

Smolensk researching the answer.

Northern

Hickey's family has
I

there

jobs in the U.S. for

Russian historians and one was

he

he

at

aspire

students have helped feed his

and the University of

Minnesota

were

Over the

Smolensk

Central Pennsylvania as an assis-

Illinois

be able to

to

a musician,"

hills.

ing as an instructor
at

and a few

"I

tant professor in 1992, after

his wife of

15 years, Susan Stemont,

he performs

in Chicago,

in bars with friends,

Bloomsburg-area benefits.

beauty in the size of the

there's

University

chapters, encyclopedia

When he's

me,

Perhaps

numerous

back

some

to earn

times a year he takes the stage

sky, in the expanses,"

own published works

played semi-professionally for

of his college tuition.

White

his intense

which

a Chicago flatlander at heart. "To

Soviet Union.

Hickey's

he's

30 years and used

considers himself

internal security police of the

are voluminous, with

his

although he

appreciates the area's natural

Sox fan

office are lined

with books, topped on one side

by

Bloomsburg with

cat and,

academic

his

he brought

credentials,

interest in blues guitar,

says.

beauty, Hickey remains a

microfilm. All four walls of his

windowless

lives in

and

wife

Hickey

Along with

rea-

been successful in pub-

I've

lishing articles,"

have his

to

archive with hundreds

one of the

When he saw the

until

its

own ties
know

he didn't

to Russia, although

he was in college that his

mother's parents emigrated from

an area of Poland

was

that formerly

part of the Russian empire.

other" for seven or eight years and,

here,"

although they were never intro-

extensive credentials of William

That family history

duced, their paths crossed numer-

Hudon,

more sensitive to the presence of
the Smolensk Jews, "people who

recalls.

history department chair,

were more or

made him

less invisible"

even

though they made up 10 percent
of the

As

city's

population.

a historian,

tries to

Hickey says he

be honest and open in

understanding the complexity of

human nature.

hard

"It's

torian not to have

for a his-

an appreciation

of both the beauty and the struggle
of the

human experience." Using a

Yiddish term he often heard at

home growing up,
pile up,

to

be

a

I

mensch."

Tracev M.
Research often takes history professor Michael Hickey to remote areas, such as
the Russian village of Liubovichi.

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and

realize

Dooms

"As the years
all

it's

about trying

b
is

a freelance writer

editor living in State College. Pa.

STORY AND PHOTO BY ERIC FOSTER

"en Pahira never gets tired of

name at work.
One of the dozens of BU
students who hold work study
hearing her

J:

jobs in the Columbia Child

Development Program on

Fifth

Bloomsburg, Pahira spends

Street in

her time outside of class caring for
infants

and

At the age

toddlers.

most

of the children are refining

their

"ma ma mas" and "da da

some
"I

das,"

are learning to say "Jen."

love that," says Pahira, a junior

special education

major from

who has worked at the
center for nine months. "When you

Ashland, Pa.

walk

in the door, they recognize

you and run

BU

student Jen Pahira serves lunch to

During the academic

year,

Columbia Child Development Program, up

to

at the

20

at the

own Campus Child Center and about 15
Bloomsburg YMCA, which operates after-school

university's

programs and summer camps. Students work up

20 hours during
full

Sofle Foster,

left,

and 2-year-old

BU

30 work study students

places approximately

at the

I -year-old

Dallas Yost at Columbia Child Development in Bloomsburg.

to you."

the semester and, during the

to

summer,

40-hour work weeks.

teacher in the Philadelphia area. "Students are developing
expertise; theory

comes

to

life

when you're in

the field."

"They're able to develop their teaching style," says
Brinich, director of the Campus Child
"When they graduate and start their professional
they know how they want to present themselves.

Judy Coleman
Center.
career,

They're comfortable talking with parents." Brinich notes

The partnership between day care providers

that students

have transferred from other majors to edu-

and the university is a "win-win-win," says Gail

cation because of their experience at the center

Menapace, administrator of the Columbia Child

few decided, based on

Development Program.

education was not for them.

Some

of the benefits the college students bring to

the day care

program

are practical.

"From

perspective,

we have

12Vi hours to

staff

says Menapace.

The

students

who keep the

State

and

by

ratios of staff to children at the

state regulations,

federal

each day,"

members are
time aided by work study

regular center staff

scheduled through that

levels required

the agency's

work study programs pay a percent

working

For the children
students give

at

parents.

the day care center, the

them more hands

to

hold



BU

resented, including psychology

had pre-med

and

social

students," says Menapace.

valuable thing, to understand what

is

a

work. "We've

"And

that's

normal

Beyond career preparation, Menapace

is

a very

child."

convinced

leam plenty about themselves

as they work with the children. "I've seen the students
become so engaged with a young child. I'm always
tickled seeing a big young man bend over and being

so gentle."

Eric Foster

the college students gain experience, says

Menapace,

of the students working at the day care

b

and, some-

times, backs to climb on.

And

a

centers are studying to be teachers, other majors are rep-

that the college students

or better.

age of the students' wages, making the service more
affordable for

Though many

— and

their experience, that a career in

is

co-editor of Bloomsburg:

The

University Magazine.

who started her career in education as a

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how you can

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Act 101/EOP Advising

For the Act 101/EOP students, the
"personal contact,

up

front" is

provided by director Irvin Wright,
assistant director Camille Belolan,

coordinator of part-time Act 101

programs Wayne Fausnaught and
director of retention

Adnanne

initiatives

and

diversity

They

Flack.

meet one-on-one with each

man entering the program
educationally

fresh-

for

and economically

disadvantaged students.
"Students enter college with

explains.

"We help them

basic skills to the level

dif-

Wright

ferent levels of readiness,"

get their

where they

can compete in the classroom."
Act 101 and

EOP work
many

together to serve as

150 new students each

STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN

difference

With so many
students

possibilities,

may have

it

difficulty

shouldn't be any surprise that college

zeroing

in

on their

life's

path. At

any

is

as

year.

The

program funding.

Pennsylvania's legislature supports

Act 101, the Higher Education

Equal Opportunity Program, to
time, 10 to 12 percent of Bloomsburg's 8,000 students are investi-

academic advisers.

gating their options, with the assistance of

serve state residents

who meet

financial guidelines.

EOP, the

Educational Opportunity Program,
It's all

about connections. Students

with connections

to

an organization,

helps students

Program.

financially for Act

likely to earn their

Most students

Academic advising helps students

their

establish that connection early.

faculty help assure they take courses

try to

bring students in with

a major," says Jonathan Lincoln,

assistant vice president

"When

freshmen enroll with a major, they
are assigned

an adviser within the

But every student
major. Students

isn't set

who come

undeclared often find their
to a

on

a

classes,

Lincoln says.

"We

are encouraging

sonal contact,

up

says. "Research

front,"

more

per-

Lincoln

shows students who

regular contact with advisers

tend to stick with a major and com-

on

time. Faculty get to

plete

way

students on a

special

and make wise

when changing

in

major through the Academic

Advisement Center or the

in the proper order

make

academic department."

are advised within

academic department where

choices

and dean of

undergraduate education.

live

New Act 101/EOP students

Faculty Advising

bachelors degree in four years.

"We

don't qualify

101 or

beyond Pennsylvania's borders.

an academic department or a major
simply are more

who

support program, Act 101/EOP

and can serve

more personal

know
level

as references for grad-

uate schools or future employers."

take placement tests in reading,

writing and mathematics, and

about 90 percent enter

summer. They

BU in the

are advised

by Act

101 personnel through

their first

year as they strengthen

skills

and

earn college credits to enter their

majors while meeting financial aid
requirements. Wright, a faculty

member and

assistant to the

provost and vice president for

academic

affairs for diversity initia-

tives, also instructs

the

1 -credit

University Seminar, focusing

on

academic success.

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Act 101/EOP students
enter

BU with

a

may

the experience of getting a degree,

major in mind, but

"some

are unrealistic

goals,"

Wright

says.

not the specific major, that leads to

employment," Hibbert

about their

"We may work

focus

with students for a second year

is

to help

them

"Our

says.

find

something

they are excited about."

as they look at another major,"

Students are encouraged to

Second-year students are advised

choose a major by the time they've

by

earned 45

faculty in the

department of

developmental instruction.

As students move

will

into majors,

Wright remains interested in

progress. So interested that, in

years at

BU,

he's

commencement
important for

major doesn't dictate your career,
and a career doesn't dictate their major.'

'A

their

28

me

to

be

at

BU
the

"It is

graduation

Academic Advisement

Center.

Lenhart, Hibbert and director

make

Paul Quick

struggled so hard for a degree.

students enroll in courses that allow

he

I

It's

celebrate their achievement,"

says.

them

sure undeclared

to eventually

move

staff jumps into

undeclared students have
ties,

into a

action

when

difficul-

first

step to

fields of possible

may also

fulfill

general

of the Academic Advisement

Center and the admissions and

communications

offices will result

new publications about majors
careers.

"We help them

select a major.

through their
says,

"and

we

interests,"
tell

them

that a

a

career doesn't dictate their major."

Todays students often believe

making

a lifelong career

commitment when they choose
major. "This

is

a

such an intense

group. They are afraid they will

make

the

wrong

personal problems and

special needs.

"It

could be a problem

in the residence hall, financial,

major

and

connection

and can help

students deal with academic
difficulties,

talk

Hibbert

doesn't dictate your career,

they are

Connections
All advising establishes a
to the university

Hibbert and Lenhart continue as

In/in

effort

and

the students' advisers until they

-

fair last

encourages them to take intro-

education requirements.

in the classroom.'

majors

opportunities and graduate school

freshmen and transfer students, the

ductory courses in

compete

first

requirements. And, a combined

in

interest that

the level where they can

More

than 200 undeclared students

meet with them. After interviewing

staff

get... to

tant vice president Lincoln.

attended BU's

both Hibbert and Lenhart say

students often take the

We help them

two new

meeting students'

mally with faculty to investigate job

Hibbert serve about 500 students

levels of readiness.

for

faculty adviser.

Center

'Students enter college with different

recently introduced

methods

spring where they could talk infor-

Advisers Pat Lenhart and Meredith
at

an adviser within

new department.

major under the guidance of a

While the Academic Advisement

Academic Advisement Center

At that time, they

advising needs, according to assis-

because some of these students

how

their

to

New Initiatives

- Meredith Hibbert, academic adviser

missed only three
ceremonies.

credits.

be assigned

family. .the adviser can refer a
.

student for counseling,

accommoda-

tive services or tutoring,"

Lincoln

says. "Building relationships

is

important part of college, and
important

two or

know

for a

is

student to have one,

three faculty

them."

an
it

members who

b

decision,"

Lenhart says.

Bonnie Martin

"Their parents got a specific

degree for a job. But now,

it's

is

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Campbell's job

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Funk Campbell

eral

can

owned Channel 6

On the

literally see

directly across City

affiliate.

CBS

maintain

two network com-

affiliate in

are at stake

and
minutes

down

ABC



sets

WPVI. Channel 6 has

harder to do

a lot

years ago, Channel 3

was such

Philadelphia Daily

so. Just

led

is

a couple of

a distant competitor

News

columnist Ellen Gray

observed, "KYW's entire anchor team could have

the February

without

many

people noticing." In

2005 sweeps, however, channels 3 and
second place

— and hungrier

illustrating the

tough nature of

10 were almost

tied for

than ever to be

first

opportunities to bring in



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2

o

ties.

"That's the

In an era in

s

more

new

viewers.

up from

brand and I'm just a steward of it."
television is defined by cable and
news broadcasts might seem like an

which

satellite, "free" local

anachronism. Viewers have dozens of channel choices
with

CNN and newcomers like Fox for national and

world news. But none of those have

market

for local

really

news, weather, sports and

Philadelphia, the audience for

Continued on next page

o

are

ing portraits of WPVI's six most-prominent personali-

'

the business.

minds

her desk a miniature billboard plastered with the smil-

represented in

the ratings here for decades but, in recent years,

air

great

"See these faces?" says Campbell, picking
is

Philadelphia by Channel 6,

on the

each parent com-



focused on defending broadcast turf and exploring

the road.

in Campbell's office.

stripped

at

pany

and competition

At each station

is fierce.

the

just a few

Campbell's team

its

petitors. Millions of dollars

10,

Both are also constantly playing on the bank of TV

that, as

WPVI

gap between

and

country's fourth-largest

having to work

the

ratings

KYW-Channel

is

to

is

— and grow —

offices

NBC televi-

media market,

since

Avenue,

and

ofWCAU-Channel
Philadelphia's

manager of Disney-

2003, Campbell's task

opposite corner,

are the studios

3, the

to stop

them. As president and gen-

the competition.

sion

is

window, Rebecca

Fox

affiliate

cracked the
traffic.

In

WTXF's

10 p.m. news

only about

is

Rebecca Funk Campbell goes

which watches

half that

over reports with

Channel

p.m. broadcast

6's 1 1

Campbell has no on-air
ambitions.
a

have a voice

"I

French horn," she

fact that didn't

WPV1

traffic

manager Stacy Silver, an '88 BU
mass communications alumna.
As WPVTs traffic manager, Silver

like

logs every on-air minute.

says, a

keep her from

pursuing communications,

even as a teen-ager.
In high school, she'd been a

member

com-

of the

She married John Campbell, director of photogra-

munications club, which did the daily announcements

TV stations.

on one of the

state's first closed-circuit

Her

of professional broadcasting was, ironi-

first taste

cally,

with PBS. Former adjunct professor

who is president and CEO
Pittston, Pa.,

of Channel

she remembers

around a
"1

is

I

What

together," says Campbell.

of

it.

Putting

it all

Campbell was

a small

"I'd

how things came

loved the production part

town

father

girl

minister,

siblings attending college at the

considered Temple," she says, "until

it

was

a

good value and

university gave her a job. For
resident assistant at

"Department of Sunshine

still sits

it

was

Bloomsburg

was

Hall

a senior,

Campbell interned

of Pittsburgh

Miller was," she recalls.

"He was

anyone

assistant

knew who Dennis

programming jobs with

Campbell went on

stations in

to

Allentown and

She joined Channel 6 as vice president

programming

in 1997, replacing a retiring 37-year

veteran. Six years later, she

general manager.

show.

2

fault.

But the

field

is

sta-

became president and

says

It's

stressful,

because

ultimately the producer's

tends to be attractive to those with

problem-solving personalities

who enjoy seeing tangi-

ble results for their work.

In

fact,

it

was

eerily like

her broadcasting class

was once

part of a

team

that

filmed a toothpaste commercial. Another time, the
to transcribe

"General Hospital," convert

After graduation in 1983,

small-market

a ringleader sort of function:

else involved in a

group was assigned

and

unbelievably bright."

of

it's

anything that goes wrong

at

hysterical

to those

WFMZ that allow you to leam while you're

assignments. At BU, she

"No one outside

go

at opportunities to

tions like

Producers coordinate writers, actors, set designers and

on her desk:

Night Live."

Lancaster, Pa.

With Your Animal Doctor,' " she
Now, I tell kids to

great experience.

Campbell. Instead,

& Rainbows: Hopes

She was a production

was

TV production is not particularly glamorous,

where

KDKA-Channel
on
"Punchline," a local teen show hosted by comedian
Dennis Miller who later went on to join "Saturday
As

jump

"It

doing your job."
a

restored, spirits lifted, enthusiasm renewed."

in Pittsburgh.

Charles

WFMZ (in Allentown), we did 'Talk With Your

laughs.

time.

found

I

years, she

Montour Residence

the girls gave her a plaque that

political science professor

At small stations, though, the production needs

Doctor' and Talk

also because the

two

with

affairs

Jackson would prove productive.

"At

and she

same

in the middle of Philadelphia." She chose

because

political science,

turned out to be for non-news programming.

from a family not

was a

mind, she double-

that in

expecting that the long hours talking government and

together. That's me."

awash with money. Her

had two

"I

my greatest asset. When you
prioritize."

majored in communications and
world

fascinated with

"It's

you

news producer. With

answering phones and looking

was just

lot to do,

Dylan and

children,

mom, I know how to juggle

At Bloomsburg, Campbell foresaw a career as a

in

lot.

think

1990 and has two

things," she says.

have a

and chair of BU's Council of Trustees,

assigned students to help during a fund drive.

for Fox, in

Taylor Anne. "I'm a

Bill Kelly,

44-WVTA

phy

it

an episode of

to a script

and then

act

it

out word-for-word.
"I

helped direct

that," recalls

behind-the-scenes stuff

up with
That

is

ideas

and implementing

what was fun

In 1987,



Campbell.

putting

for

8's

"It

together,

things.

was

all

coming

That was me.

me."

Campbell was invited

duce WGAL-Channel

it

"PM

to Lancaster to pro-

Magazine," a syndicated

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

kids to

'I tell

jump

stations that allow

go to small-market

at opportunities to

you to

learn while you're doing your job.'

- Rebecca Funk Campbell

program with

feature

By the

local hosts.

To which, of course, Channels 3 and 10 would

early '90s, she

was head of all non-news programming, which included

Much of the competition among the

both the purchase of syndicated shows and production

seem

of local programs.

"We did

show

a live 12:30 p.m. talk

every day," says

you had

worked together

to get

it

a

group of people

from concept

who

New Channel

silly.

when

stir locally

women.

It's

son, unattractive.

get to put

it

together

and

share that with everyone."
Fifty years ago, she notes, nearly all television pro-

gramming was produced
three

split

ways



locally in this fashion.

local, national

Now,

and syndicated

left

"AM
Day

program

director, she

made

defend

to

Gardner

Performing Arts

Jersey

principles of production were the same, but

and Delaware.

ing the region in the

it

respects.

to cover-

That means

news trucks covering

Second,

stories.

two

same "ma and pa" way

common in smaller markets.
in lots of

is

also

stories.

might

soon

for instance,

after

her

arrival.

for

a

its

news

Channel 6

people.

— was

there

watching on

30-something meteorologist

running tnathlons, has been on-air

calls

for

is

office after

people

than

Campbell

"a joy to

being gently admonished (and)

Campbell

also likes to talk about

Philadelphia Zoo, the station

.her

is

new

feel

better

else."

projects. In

helping the zoo create

on-site interpretive program. Then, later this year,

zoo researchers
tag along

She added up the budget and

.

partnership with the

latest ventures, a

an

she was

for.

you had been praised by somebody

if

one of WPVI s

Day parade

work

so good that you can walk out of her

skills are

do both.

when

has

p.m. anchor, Jim

1 1

Pa., teen-ager

easily

tries to

responsibility for the Thanksgiving

Tamaqua,

a

WPVI

with a vigorous branding

a 29-year veteran at

Gardner
people

lots of municipal-level

Channel 6

Campbell was shocked,

handed

that

lots of

of

almost a decade.

means covering major events

that, in a city the size of Philadelphia,

crowd out smaller

New

committed

That's a challenge in



Even Cecily Tynan,

cable.

known

audiences, budgets and

says Campbell, the station

First,

integrity

likes to point out that

when she was

and the $185 million National Constitution Center.

serves 18 counties in Pennsylvania,

its

effon that emphasizes the experience of

$265 million Kimmel Center

WPVI

was

interview

move ahead

In this environment, says Campbell,

chosen

Campbell

events.

— an

Channel 10 in the November 2004 sweeps.

Auto Show; the Philadelphia



Sharon Reed

in.

an interview about the

credited with helping that station

Bike Race; and special events such as the opening of the

The

herself available for

interviewed by Philadelphia's Channel 3

Philadelphia," a daily talk show; the Thanksgiving

everything else was larger

compari-

experience, but not to her old station. Instead, she

found herself producing

for the

in

Then there was the former Channel 10 anchor who
town in a huff for Cleveland, where she did a story

then

parade; Fourth of July coverage (huge in Philadel-

phia); the Philadelphia

women are,

about anistic "mass nudity" by joining

it's

— and

one way to separate minor from major stations is how
much programming is produced locally.
And Channel 6 produces a lot. When Campbell
arrived as

was

Local bloggers raged over Lane's supposed

own

Then you

that she

"the ugly duckling" in Miami, a city of "incredible"

implication that Philadelphia

it.

can

she modestly turned aside

a rewarding thing because everyone brought his or her

thoughts to

stations

3 anchor Alycia Lane

compliments on her looks by remarking

all

to on-the-air.

pretty

caused a

Campbell. "You'd come up with an idea for a program
or a segment, then

reply,

"Me, too!"

report

on

on

will allow

trips to

Channel

6's

Action

News

Kenya and Mexico, where

efforts to preserve wildlife habitats.

it

It's

to

will

a lot to

discovered that the station was spending nearly

pull together, but gives the station another feature to

$1 million on the event.

distinguish

"It's

rare that stations will invest the staff

resources to

do big community events,"

"But this area has so

many of them



and

,

says Campbell.

the

Kimmel

opening with Elton John and the Constitution Center
with (retiring Supreme Court Justice) Sandra

O'Connor

many

of

— and people

them

commitment.

live

made

that

We are truly part of the community here."

FALL 2005

the

too-common mix

of

fires

"My dad always
do and

it

and

told

me

find

something you love

to

won't seem like a job," says Campbell. "And

that's

what

Marl;

£.

I

did."

b

Day

in this area are able to 'attend'

because Channel 6 has

itself in

traffic accidents.

Dixon

is

a freelance writer

in

Wayne, Pa.

News Notes
Remembering

When

Study looks at older people's

mental abilities

Margie Eckroth-Bucher, assistant professor
of nursing, led a
earlier this year

1

2-week research

project

Margie Eckroth-Bucher

designed to study the

effects of certain activities on older people's mental abilities.

Assisted by recent

BU

nursing graduate Karen Kratz of Sinking Spring

and several gerontology professionals, Eckroth-Bucher conducted the
research study, "Preserving Cognition and Preventing Excess Disability

through Cognitive Remediation Programming," at Maria Joseph Manor,
Danville.

The research looked

at the effects of specific activities

participants' ability to think, reason,

Eckroth says the study results

how

make

may

on

decisions and remember.

help researchers understand

Gov.

Ed

Rendell,

left,

attended the opening of the Bloomsburg

Area Regional Technology Center. He's shown here with
Karl Kapp, center, and Timothy Phillips from Bloomsburg
University's Institute for Interactive Technologies.

best to treat people with

memory problems and decreased

thinking ability

Open

for

Business

Gov. Rendell opens Regional Tech Center

Homecoming Hoopla
BU inducts Hall of Fame class

The Bloomsburg Regional Technology Center, the

result of a

partnership formed by Bloomsburg University and other community

BU's 24th Athletic Hall of Fame class will be inducted Sat-

Homecoming Weekend. The
graduates brings to 109 the number

urday, Oct. 29, as the part of

induction of these six

of members in the Athletic Hall of Fame.

- Stanley
Huskies

who earned

a total of

and

1 1

on Bloomsburg's
third)

in

finished her career second

all-time scoring

list

for

women's basket-

Miller '90, a softball pitcher

compiled a record of 55-8, striking out 429 batters
at

BU.

-Jeff Carruthers 79, a two-time All-American and

PSAC champion in the high jump

for

Bloomsburg.

The

'87, a

professionals

in

is

standout football player

who

finished his career as the school's second all-time leading

Bloomsburg's Market Street, complete with upgraded heating,

Services, represented by

in Monty's,

upper campus.

office at (570)

389-4413

Call BU's sports information

for ticket information.

BLOOMSBURG

BU

five years.

of the

KC Distance Learning

instructional technology

alumnus Mark

also will occupy

Burke '99M,

is

the center's

space

in

the center to help companies with technology and

first

tenant. BU's

IIT

e-learning needs.

The Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone allows
companies

to

grow while saving on

priority consideration for state grants

also provides support for the commercialization of

and

state taxes
loans.

It

new technology

concepts through relationships with BU, Bucknell and Susquehanna
universities

held Saturday, Oct. 29,

infrastructure.

played an active

(IIT)

and guiding the development

role in securing the funding

technology center over the past

and receiving

Fame dinner will be

and telecommunications wiring

BU's Institute for Instructional Technologies

- Millard Ludwig '48, an outstanding soccer player
who graduated in 1948 after interrupting his studies to
serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Ludwig is
being inducted posthumously.

It

features modern office space within a historic mansion along

start-up technology

of

designed to accommodate the needs of

technology-intensive areas, such as architecture,

rusher with 2,709 yards rushing.

The Hall

May ceremony

Susquehanna Keystone

center, part of the Greater

Innovation Zone,

office

- Tom Martin

for business at a

Rep. David Millard.

ventilation, electrical

456V3 innings pitched during four seasons

two-time

opened

attended by Gov. Ed Rendell, state Sen. John Gordner and state

graphic design, software development and distance education.

with 1,661 points.

- Gina Lindenmuth

who

letters in football,

field.

- Michelle Simons '92, who
(now

are:

Elinsky '60, a three-sport standout for the

wrestling and track

ball

They

organizations, officially

Space

is

and Geisinger Medical Center.
currently available

in

the tech center. For information,

contact the Columbia Alliance for Economic Growth at
(570) 784-2661 or

www.ColumbiaMontourChamber.com.

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'Spirit

of BU'

on track
for scholarships

The Supervisory Roundtable
is

offering the "Spirit of BU," the first in a series of five train

cars, to

support student scholarships

grams of Camp HERO,
children held

The

metal, die-cast train car

Northumberland,

model with

at

BU and

the pro-

camp for deaf and hard of hearing
each summer at Camp Victory in Millville.
a

is

produced by Weaver Models,

an "O" gauge,

triple track,

1:48 scale

a complete brake system, fully detailed

under

frame and highly detailed styrene body
Cars are available

at

a cost of

shipping and handling per
Supervisory Roundtable,

car.

Academic Leader
James Mackin named

provost and academic

Checks, payable to the

may be

VP

$50 each, plus $4.95
James

sent to Jolene Folk,

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400

E.

Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815. For more information,

Second
call

E.

Mackin

BU's

is

new

provost and vice president of
St.,

academic

Tom

Mackin

Patacconi at (570) 389-4042.

created

affairs.
fills

the vacancy

when former

provost

Patrick Schloss accepted the

presidency of Northern State

Teaching

University

Counts

in

2004.

in

South Dakota

James Matta,

assistant vice president

Davis, Whitworth

named outstanding

and research, served as

professors

interim provost during

James Mackin
The Teaching and Learning

named

English, as the recipients of

Both

affairs

award funded by the Bloomsburg

University Foundation and a plaque and

were introduced by President

Jessica Kozloff at the spring undergraduate commencement. Davis

lauded by students for her love of teaching and
the class. Whitworth

and

to help student

special assistant to the president for educaPrairie

View A&M,

Prairie

Laura Davis and Stephen whitworth

professors received a $750 cash

ways

officer

Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and associate dean of undergraduate academic

faculty.

tions of students

responsible for the

View, Texas; vice president for academic affairs at Stillman College,

Graduating students

in

was

and academic development at

tional

Teaching Award for 2005.

students

at

the provost's absence.
Previously, he

TALE Outstanding

was

was

academic support functions and served as chief academic
in

nominated the

two years as associate provost

with 5,800 students. At Clayton, he

and

Stephen Whitworth,

the

for the past

Clayton College and State University, a baccalaureate institution

Laura Davis, finance

legal studies,

2004-05.

Mackin served

Enhancement Center (TALE)

and

and

dean of graduate studies

ability to

was

ability to involve

praised for his high expecta-

rephrase explanations

comprehension.

in

a variety of

and director of the marine sciences research center

Stony Brook. He also taught chemistry courses at Clayton,

View A&M,

Stillman and

SUNY

SUNY

Stony Brook.

Mackin earned bachelor's and master's degrees

in

oceanography

from the University of Michigan and a doctoral degree
cal sciences

at

Prairie

from the University of Chicago.

in

geophysi-

News Notes
Honoring a
Friend
Student Services Center

named for
As

'Doc'

Warren

a history professor, frater-

nity adviser

and long-time
Robert Warren poses outside the building that

"Doc" Warren

financial supporter, Robert

was named in

his honor.

made an indelible impact on BU. That

has

impact was recognized with the rededication

ber of SIO; founding SIO brother Joseph

and renaming of the Robert D. Warren

Deardorff '68; incoming

Student Services Center during Alumni

Government Association President

Weekend

Nathan Conroy; and history department

in April.

The center was named
Warrens

and commitment

service

most recent

well as his

chairperson William

in recognition of

gift

to

BU, as

Warren,

alumnus

of a $ 1 million

through the Bloomsburg University

trust

at

BU

Community

V Hudon.

who received honorary

status in 1995, taught history

from 1964

to

1983 and continues
he

Foundation, one of the largest individual

to advise SIO, the social fraternity

donations on record for BU.

began more than 40 years ago. In 2000,

The April ceremony was attended by dozmany of them former brothers

ens of friends,

Omega

of the Sigma Iota

he

advises.

(SIO) fraternity that

Warren was lauded by

BU

Robert J. Gibble '68,

in 2002, he received an Eberly

from the Pennsylvania

State

Award

System of

Higher Educations Fund for Advance-

Presi-

dent Jessica Kozloff; Trustees A.William Kelly

71 and

he received the University Medallion, and

who is a mem-

ment in honor of his

contributions to

Encyclopedia
of Life
Luo

the university

edits

book on

Championship
Season
Jan Hutchinson

Jing Luo, associate
professor of languages

and

tallies

cultures, is editor

and contributor

win

1,000th

two-volume

China

to a

two-volume book
The road to an
an end

in

Huskies

Salem,

Va.,

lost 2-0 to

when

One
the

II

ended

teams

to

The books contain 240
articles written by 80

NCAA
compete

contributors.

for

season with a record

of 45-10.
Earlier in this spring's

champion-

the customary water dousing.

Steven Gentner,

2004 BU

are

are

Jan Hutchinson talks with her team after the 1,000th win in her
Softball coaching career. The team congratulated Hutchinson with

May

graduates:

who

earned a bachelors
1

,000th victory

in

her softball

reached a milestone of her own.

have had a

lot

of great players

degree in math, and

and some great assistants,

coaching career.

Jennifer Kessler,

While coaching her team against
"It is

a bit

overwhelming

know that have
I

regional championships

two

professors,

ship run, coach Jan Hutchinson

fock Haven at the Mid-Atlantic

While

most contributors

late-May, the Huskies

their

Life in

the People's Republic."

(Ga.)

Softball Championship.

of eight

title in

titled,

— An

Encyclopedia of

the

Kennesaw

State University at the
Division

"China Today

NCAA title came to

to

stayed around

including

deserve a

Susan Kocher,
lot

who

who

earned a bachelor's

of the credit for

degree in geology

in

long

enough

to

win that many

Shippensburg, she tallied the

games," says Hutchinson.

these wins."

"We

BLOOMSBURG

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Campus
Projects

Evolution

abound at BU

Bloomsburg's living and learning environment

is

in the

midst of an evolution.
'

At the very heart of campus, macadam

is

being replaced

fPl 'f'\

,

'%

j

by swaths of grass and a pedestrian walkway. The walkway
project runs from Laubach Drive near the Warren Student
Services Center, continues downhill

land and Luzerne halls and ends

between Northumber-

Schuyler Drive by the

at

Kehr Union. The pedestrian ramp and basketball court
between Navy and Ben Franklin

way

halls will give

to

open

space traversed by walkways constructed of attractive
pavers.
in

The walkway

project

is

Student Recreation Center

scheduled to be complete

The addition of 15,000 square

November.

New entrances to Northumberland and Luzerne Halls
will

complement the new landscape. The new

entryway to North Hall adds 3,080 square

and allows

for the addition of

an

elevator.

Center

is

feet to the

Student Recreation

expected to be complete in spring 2006. The

Community

three-story

$2.3 million project, funded through the

of space

Government Association (CGA) and student

feet

The Luzerne

spring 2005.

The new space adds

fees,

began

in

a multipurpose court to

project adds 2,812 square feet to the building. Well under-

the centers four existing courts, doubles the size of the

way at press

weight and exercise rooms and gives the building a more

in

time, both are anticipated to be complete

November.

prominent entrance.

Renovations to Navy Hall,
exceptionality programs

home

of BU's department of

and graduate reading program,

scheduled to be finished by the end of
oak-walled offices
tained. Faculty

at the

and

fall

semester.

are

The

buildings entrance have been re-

staff will

move

Hall during the break between

fall

into the renovated

Navy

and spring semesters.

Honeysuckle Apartments
Honeysuckle Apartments, the

new complex

the

Community

Government Association (.CGA) constructed adjacent
to

campus, has opened

for its first

semester at nearly

occupancy.

full

The four-building complex contains 104 apartments that
up to 407 students. Most apartments have four

can house

bedrooms and two bathrooms;

Hartline Science Center Addition

and
Students are ha\ing their

first

Hartline Science Center this

added 50,000 square
original building.

classes in the

fall.

feet to the

new

addition to

three baths.

a few feature three

ing a washer and dryer, and has a

own

also has

71,000 square

lounge areas and a meeting room.

feet in the

The addition contains 17 teaching and

full

kitchen.

The complex

950-square-foot fitness center, two large

The $8.8 million addition

its

bedrooms

Each comes completely furnished, includ-

CGA purchased the

property two years ago, and

research labs as well as offices for the dean of the College of

construction of the new apartments began in the

Science and Technology.

of 2004.

summer

Notes

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Sma

Births

Geneva Schott Baughman,

CJ
J

a guest at the

Retirement Village, was recently honored

Berwick

at

her

Donna

Hartranft Holt '86 and husband, Matthew, a daughter,

first

Jacey Liana, March

60 paintings. She took her first paintthe age of 70 after retiring from teaching in Berwick

2005

8,

art exhibition of

formal

ing class

at

Paula Jo Lawson Hornberger
Joyanne

and Maryland.

'89 and husband, Lance, a daughter,

2004

Elizabeth, Dec. 29,

Cindi Weiss-Goldner '89 and husband, Andy, a daughter, Sophia
">

O "7 Walton

B. Hill sent

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still

age and

I

Good

luck to

all

an e-mail on Feb.

3:

"90 years of

teaching and working and enjoying

it.

my classmates and all grads from BU."

May,

May 2004

Thomas Barna

'90 and wife, Susan, a son,

Michael Gerard

Joe "Bells" Colone was inducted into the Luzerne
County Sports Hall of Fame in May He retired in
1986 after 32 years as a math teacher at Woodbury (N.J.) High
School where he coached three sports. He and his wife Jenny

'54

have been married 54 years and have

five children

and

five

'90 and wife, Ardra, a son, Nathanial Harrison,

'91

Jennifer Dresher Hadler

Emma

March

Grace,

24,

James "Jay" Thomas

and husband,

J _/

Ed Romance

Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

who

Bemot,

into the

lives in

Morton, spent 35 years as a teacher and

administrator in the Ridley School District.

Richard, Oct. 4,

Eric, a

daughter,

2005
'91

Megan

and wife, Sheree, a daughter,

2005

Dana Rapson Shultz '92 and

C* CJ Mike Bernot was inducted

Frederick,

2004

April 5,

Louise, April 18,

grandchildren.

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John "Jack"

Nov. 23, 2004

husband, Rob, a son, Alexander

2004

Andrea Easley Perkins

'93 and husband, Timothy, a daughter,

16,2005

Julia Nicole, Jan.

Matthew Rhoads

'94 and wife, Christine, a daughter, Autumn,

Sept. 25, 2003

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John Seamon, executive director of the Helping
Hands Society, received the distinguished citizen-

Jacquelyn Giles Dillersberger

'95 and husband, Andy, a daughter,

2005

Lucia Corrine, Feb. 3,

ship award from the Hazleton Elks Lodge.

Carl L. Stanitski

is

professor of orthopaedic surgery at the

He and
Snyder '58, director of the
management at the University of Bangkok

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

Kathy Baird FitzPatrick
Julia Elizabeth, April 5,

his wife recently visited with Jim

Jennifer Chesla

doctoral program in

Chesla,

March

'95

Moran

Meghan Vernon Mozi

visiting professors at the Children's Hospital.

Meghan,

U

I

'

Virginia Hesel evaluated schools for accreditation
in Kuwait,

their ministries of

Uganda and Qatar under

education and the

the auspices of

New England Association

a daughter,

'95 and husband, Rruce, a son, Griffin

'95 and husband, Patrick, a daughter, Alyssa

2004

April 3,

Melissa Redmond Trala

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Eric,

2004

4,

while they were traveling to Singapore to deliver lectures as

">

and her husband,

2005

Gianna Marie, Feb.

'95

Cherub Bickert Wiesner
Audrey May, Jan.

25,

and husband, Thomas, a daughter,

2005

18,

'96 and husband, Sean, a daughter,

2005

of Schools and Colleges. She also traveled to the United Arab

Emirates with an
ter of

and

NEASC associate and worked with the

minis-

education on a proposed education project for public

private schools.

Ginny

lives in

Cape May,

Jill

Kinckner Emery

Pearson,

May

5,

Angela Gilby Tobey

N.J.

'97

and husband, Jimmy, a son, Christopher

2005
'98 and

Joseph Tobey

'97, a daughter,

RachaelKay, Feb. 19,2004

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Tom Kaczmarek retired seven years ago

\J _/

ing chemistry' at South Williamsport

for

33

years.

after teach-

High School

His wife, the former Pat Zelner '67, retired

last

They are parents of Kristine
Kaczmarek Hopkins ^91/95^., and Kevin, a graduate of
Penn State and Lock Haven University, and grandparents of
Connor, 5; Kayla, 3; and twins Christian David and Campbell
year after 27 years of teaching.

Elizabeth,

Dawn Koons Yingling
Belle, Jan. 8,

'98 and husband, Mark, a daughter,

Lori

Aschettino Fetterman '99 and Trevor Fetterman

Tyler

Andrew.

Megan

April 21

Glenn Rupert was inducted into the National and Connecticut Wrestling Hall of Fame April 23. During his 20 years as
head coach, Glenn helped the Waterford (Conn.) wrestling
program achieve a 201-124-3 record and 33 state champions.

'99, a son,

2005

.

Kindt Hippenstiel '99 and

daughter, Alyssa Kathryn, April 14,

Nicole Miller Jeandell

bom in early April.

Camryn

2005

'01

Rob Hippenstiel

'98, a

2005

and husband, Jason, a daughter,

Makayla Mae, Jan. 19,2005

Andrea Engleman
Christine

Kristin

Mane,

'02

and

Sept. 30,

Metzger Lahr

Phillip

Giacobbi, a daughter, Olivia

2004

'02 and husband, Carey, a son,

September 2003

Joslyn Sherry Neiderer '04 and husband, Anthony, a daughter,
">

SZ C\ Jim Bonacci retired April 30 after 36 years with
\J ZS State Farm Insurance. He lives in Warren, N.J.

Amelia

Elise, April 22,

2005

BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY

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David Price
School

is

superintendent of the East Lycoming Area

District, Hughesville.

"7/"\ Richard Beierschmitt, superintendent of the Mount
/ \J Carmel Area School District, retired in August.
Thomas Bistocchi is superintendent of the Union County

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(NJ.) Vocational-Technical Schools.

Debbie Runyan

retired after teaching physical

in the Shippensburg Area School District for

35

education

She

years.

moving to North Dakota, she was one of three senior editors at
The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., and the first woman to
serve as editor of the Herald and Review, Decatur, 111.
George Bierman of Merrill Lynch's Williamsport office has
achieved the designation of wealth management adviser. He
joined Merrill Lynch in 1984 as a financial adviser.
The Rev. Barbara Caruana is associate pastor of St. Peter's
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster, where she previously
served as

vicar.

qualified four times for national competition at the Senior

Olympics: horseshoes,

1*70^ Terry Musser and his wife Lois Boheler Musser '77
I Ojoined Keller Williams Real Estate, Royersford. Terry

and bowling.

Softball, basketball

"7"!

Gayle Thorpe Baar opened the library in Bemice
/ JL Chatman Freeman Elementary, Irving, Texas. In

1

February, Freeman's

PTA presented Gayle with

the Texas PTA's

highest honor, the Extended Service Award.

Thomas W.

Scholvin

retired as superintendent of the

Octorara Area School District
adjunct professor
at

Immaculata

at

at the

end of 2004-05.

and

his parents.

Call First in

Muhlenberg Township. He has owned

jimt

Wayne Palmer of Williamsport teaches digital photography
and editing classes at the Penn College of Technology and is a

University. His retirement plans include visiting

"7"} Dennis Holub joined Century 21
I

Drexel University.

A former

BU, he currently teaches graduate courses

his three children, four grandchildren

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was a top Century 2 1 agent before moving to ReMax. He
started, and eventually purchased, a Coldwell Banker franchise
in Coflegeville. Lois, who was a financial accounting manager,
also earned a real estate license and holds an MBA from

a ceramic

tile

owned and

business for the past 25 years. For five years he

managed an antique automobile restoration and
business, The Tin Tunnel, in Sinking Spring.

street

Armstrong graduates
with Wings of Gold

rod
'or Julius

F

Mary Rupp earned a masters degree in instructional
at Marywood University in 2004. Four days after
graduation, her first grandchild, Elliott Mya Rupp, was born to
technology

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Armstrong
assigned

III,

Squad-

to Training

ron Thirty-Five, the

her son, Randy, and his wife, Jen.

"Stinging Stingrays,"

"7"2
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bank accounting manager at
Fulton Financial Corp. He formerly was vice president
and assistant controller at Waypoint Bank.
Doug McClintock spent a week in Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
as a volunteer with Discovery Services Projects. This was
Doug's third mission trip to Honduras and his 10th trip
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overall.

Larry Fry of Lancaster

the long road to

is

becoming
pleted

a naval

was com-

aviator

when he

pinned on the

Wings of Gold dur-

This year's project involved constructing a two-story

ing a ceremony

block building to be used as a family care center.

onboard Naval Air

?"7/| Steve Boughter has
/

T

the Pennsylvania Fish

and

his wife have

worked

for

and Boat Commission

for

13 years.

He

two children.

Mary Kazar Major,

a first-grade teacher at

by the Wal-Mart SuperCenter

in

named

Queen

of Peace

teacher of the year

Coal Township. She and

her husband Brian Major '72, a teacher

at

Senior High, are the parents of two sons. They

live in

Elysburg.

"7^ Nancy Mowrer Ressler earned a certificate in educaI

J

tional technology integration

from Penn

State.

She

is

County School
computer teacher.

in her 30th year of teaching in the Mifflin
District,

where she

is

Armstrong, a Philadelphia native and 2000

an elemental-)'

Embry

/ /

of

Moran Bellows became

the

first

The Forum, Fargo-Moorhead, N.D.,

female editor
in

May

Before

gradu-

Riddle Aeronautical University and then completed

more than 80 weeks of pilot
flying, night familiarization

graduate of the
Fla.;

training in aircraft familiariza-

Navy

fonnation

and radio instruments. He

flight training

Enid, Okla.

He

is

a

Officer Candidate School, Pensacola,

the Aviation Preflight Indoctrination School;

primary

program

also attended

at

and the

Vance Air Force Base,

advanced training

at

Naval

Air Station Corpus Christi.

Armstrong
'""/*"/ Peggy

BU

earned a masters degree in aeronautical science from

tion, basic instruments, precision aerobatics,

Bloomsburg Area

Corpus

Christi last February.

ate,

Primary School in Shamokin, was

t

Station

taught Spanish for Keystone

National High School for three years and

he

is

is

currently stationed in Norfolk, Va., where

flying the C-9.

Motes

iisky

Bill

gift

V Brown

volunteer instructor of computer literacy for the James
Library

He contributed

Restoration

to Katrin Eismann's

book, "Photoshop

'80 opened
and Joanne also own

a

shop in Drums

Faith Ganss Smeck, a supervisor of welfare systems

office,

Zs

Lawrence J. Mussoline is superintendent of Wilson School
He and his wife, the former Tina Kosoloski '79, have

District.

Sheri A. Lippowitsch of Manhattan is an assistant
JL vice president, loans and grants, and an officer of the
Empire State Development Corporation, New York states
economic development agency. Sheri has been with ESDC
a

daughter Maria.

named

Jerry Wertz has been
Papers Inc.

He and

CEO

president and

"I

since 1998.

Joseph Mayo, professor of psychology at Gordon College,
won the 2005 two-year college teaching
excellence award from the Society for the Teaching of

of Data

Barnesville, Ga.,

his wife Barbara live in Montoursville.

Psychology

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Cheryl Gaffney Latorre

is

Mount Carmel Area School

superintendent of the
Distnct,

ously served as assistant superintendent. She

is

where she

previ-

McCabe

chief operating officer for

is

Harrisburg, a software rntegrahon

Q *3 Sharon Emick

Gallagher, partner and co-founder
Communications Partners, Philadelphia, was
named one of Pennsylvania's Top 50 Women in Business
1

\3-Jof Sage

married to

Steven Latorre '85
Scott

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the Diocese of Harrisburg.

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Bill

and Human Services comptroller
was honored by Pennsylvania's Office of the Budget for
sustained superior performance. She and her husband Dean
have three daughters, Amanda, Diane and Doreen.

& Retouching."

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/

Heimbach Saras

Shop, Bloomsburg.

Gift

analyses in the Public Health

Brenda Zboray Klinger 79M shared the 2004
Gabriel Award from the Catholic Academy for
Communication Arts Professionals. She is an on-air host for
"Catholic Prospective," a 30-mmute program produced by
")

Saras and Joanne

Caramba

IMR Limited,

earlier this year. Pennsylvania's Lt.

company

Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll,

Community and Economic Development Dennis

Secretary of

Marriages
Richard Blazaskie

'83 and

Jacqueline Kosar, June 12, 2004
'85 and William

Stacey Foust

Patrick Splitt '95 and Mario

Kristen Marchegiani '98 and

Lagrimas

Brian Jardine, July 10,

'98, Oct. 22,

2004

Kerry Collins '96 and Keith

Kaci Diem

Murphy

2004

'99 and

Jessica Bachart

'01

and Frank

Kristin Gettel '01 and Kyle

2004

Pautienus, Aug. 14,2004

DeVos, Sept. 25, 2004

Robert Steffy

Hildreth,

Michael Oehlert

Christina Holly '96 and Keith

Valarie Rubinic '%% and Vernon

Kelly Grubbs

'01

Tomkins

Camhi, Oct.

Jerrom, Oct.

2004

'89 and

Lori O'Neill

Laurie Churba

'91

and Christian

Kohn, Feb. 26, 2005

Pedis, Aug. 7,

Christine Girman '92 and

Shawn

Morgan, September 2004

Sharon O'Malley
Roginski,

'92

and Kevin

June 19.2004

Marilyn Nork

'93 and Terence

III

'93 and

Megan

Ciganek, Nov. 13,2004

Lisa Lynch

Mark

C.

Jesberg

'94 and Jeffrey Havel

Bauman

'95

'97. July 31

Jason Dupler
Shiftier, Oct. 30,

'95

.

and Kate

2004

and Rebecca

2004

Gretchen Gillies

'95 and fewis

'96 and Shelene

2004
'96 and

Suzanne Sokoloski
Dennis Dugan, Aug.

7,

7.

2,

Kevin Kearney

McLain

Campbell, Sept. 25, 2004

Carrie

'00, Oct.

18,2003

Zechman

'99 and

'01

Christine Kranz

Sept. 4,

2004

Hunsecker, Oct.

Markle

Heather Fleck

'00 and Stephen

Kristal

Wentz, July

2004

Murren'04, Dec.

Lisa Kasarda

April 29,

III,

'97 and

2005

Brian

'99

Betsy Roberge

'97

and Thomas

10,

Michelle Fry

'00 and Victor

Brozusky

Aug.

'00,

Bohner, Feb. 21,2004

Mia Scarantino

Michael Barvitskie

Luber, Oct. 30,

Sarah Bashore
Meiss

III,

'98

Sept. 25,

and Paul D

2004

Dawn Cacciamani

'01

Nichole Chervanik, March

2004

Sarisky, Aug.

'98 and

Christopher Kelly, Aug.

Gilby '98 and

7,

Karrie Beeler

2004

Joseph

'01

Jaclyn Bivaletz
Tyson, July

2,

March

and
6,

2004

12,

'01,

2005
'01

and

Michelle Mindick. Oct. 15, 2004

2003

and Justin

Jacqueline Prothero

'01

Jeremy

2004

Bealla, July 10,

Ryan Smith

14,2004
'01

and Luke

31,

Kerry-John O'Brien

Heim, Nov. 20, 2004
'97 and Steven

'01

Michael Jadico

'00 and B.J.

Concetta Paradis

and Michael

2004

Michelle Molsky 01 and

2002

3,

and Angela

'01

9,

Heidi Wasilchak '96M and
Fiorelli

and Peter

Allen Stuart '99 and Christine

Matthew Winslow,

2004

Aug.

Thomas

Gasper

Stewart, Sept. 18,2004

Jess Seburn

Donald James

2004

2,

2004

'98, Oct. 16,

'01

and

and Rhyan

Eisenhaver, Aug. 28, 2004

and Marc

Tara Bertasavage 02 and

2004

Matthew

Durlin

'03.

Murchison, Nov. 28, 2004

Angela

Christopher Ruggerio '95 and

Tobey'97, Sept. 16,2000

Juliana Dube, Sept. 11,2004

Valerie Leahey '98 and William

Emily Huegel 02 and Kyle

Leonard, Nov. 13,2004

Kocher'02,Dec.4,2004

Michelle Bradley
Robert

Pettitt '01

BLOOMSBURG THE

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'01

and

Aug. 21, 2004

July 24. 2004

N

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1

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A G A

7.

1

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Yablonsky and representatives of five
Ihonored recipients

state

business journals

a reception in April.

at

David Himlin is station commander at the Pennsylvania State
Tunkhannock barracks. He has been a state trooper for
more than 20 years. He and his family live in Swoyersville.
Steve Lindenmuth was featured in the Williamsport
Hyde"
Community Theater Leagues production of "Jekyll
Police

&

in June.

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Q A Debra

KJ

Fenty Skinner

special education.

1i

is

in her 21st year of teaching

She and her husband William

cel-

They live
15 and 9.

ebrated their 20th wedding anniversary this summer.
in Denver, N.C., with their three children, ages 16,

Somers

Lisa Diehl

is

an account vice president

at

UBS

in Bethlehem.

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This year's alumni award recipients are shown with President

Q CT James
\jj

Jessica KozlofT,

Fickenscher became chief

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Norristown,

in May.

previously worked for Aventis Berhing where, most
was senior vice president, chief financial officer.

He

recently,

left,

and Sheri Lippowitsch

'81, president

of the Alumni Association, right. Honorees are,

financial officer of

Paul Clifford

'96,

left to right,

young alumnus of the year; Robert

Dunkelberger, university archivist, honorary alumnus;

he

Doris Krzywicki Smith '56, distinguished service award; and

Ed Edwards

Susan Dobbs Onorato became administrator for
Shamong Township in Burlington County, N.J., in May.
resident of Shamong for more than nine years, she serves as

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'73, distinguished service

the chief township executive

and

is

award.

responsible for

all

adminis-

trative functions.

John

Pace, a major in the Air Force Reserve, has been

Commendation Medal

decorated with the Air Force

participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
officer

with the 913th

Airlift

He

is

for

an executive

Wing at Willow Grove Air

Reserve Station.

Stephanie Knapp 02 and

Nathan Kreischer 03 and

Michael Zenzel, Dec. 18,2004

Megan

Kristin

Knoop

Shawn

'02 and

Kemmerer'01, June

28,

2003

Andrew Heimark

Sept.

July 17, 2004

Lori

Metzger '02 and Carey

Lahr, Oct.

12,2002

2004

2,

4,

Aug. 28, 2004

Patricia

Winschuh

'03 and

Nicole Raff erty '02 and Jeff

Michael Kissel, Aug. 20, 2004

Keiner'02,Aug.21,2004

Angela Carter 04 and

Rebecca Bentz

Donald Haas

Miller'01, Aug.

'03 and
7,

Denise Cannella

2004

Nicole Jones '04 and Joshua

'03 and

Laidacker, Feb. 5,

Jonathan Ebersole
March
Kelly

5,

and Eric

Michael Boyer

Oct

7,

2004

Chille 03 and Scott

Crum'03, March 1,2005

Marcee
Nathan

L.

Ciavarella '03 and

Schultz, Oct. 8,

Christine

2004

Weed

Candace Kohl 03 and
Martzall

'03,

Tiffany

Powell

'04 and Nathan

Reidinger, Aug. 27,

Peggy Romanic
Fetchko,

June

5,

'04,

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2004

May

14,

I

is

a senior account

executive with StoudtAdvisors, an employee benefits

Q Q Doug

Buffington

(3C3 He graduated

is

practicing medicine in Elysburg.

from the University of Health Sciences

in

Kansas City and completed his residency in family practice

at

Community

Abram

2005

"^Jeffrey Rojohn of Mechamcsburg

Brian Seely is principal of Millville High School. He formerly
was assistant principal at Bloomsburg High School and taught
math in East Stroudsburg. He and his wife Chris have two sons.
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and Gregory

a masters degree

brokerage and consulting firm in Lancaster County.

2004

'04

Laura Valentine 04 and

Campbell

Hooper 03

and Jeffrey

'04

'04,

Dec. 18,2004

'03 and
'99,

Sneidman

He earned

and a doctorate at Wake Forest University.
George H. Wagner II is president and CEO of Avogadro
Environmental Corp. The company tackles projects involving
the environment, health and safety issues.
Theresa Anthony Yocum was promoted to \ice president
and Stroudsburg regional manager for North Penn Bank.

2005

Rebecca Oberholtzer

'04.

2005

Chernago

Amanda

David

has been promoted to associate professor

of psychology at Wilkes University.

2004

and environmental

chief financial officer.

Edward Schicatano

'02,

Westbrook 03 and Joseph

Pittek,

Julie Salnicky has joined the engineering

consulting firm of Skelly and Loy as vice president of finance

and

Christine Piripavel '03

and

Tina Landis '02 and Kyle Nice,

Kristin

Geary, Oct.

General Osteopathic Hospital, Hanisburg.

Sharon Close Heck and her husband Randy have two
children, Madison, 9, and Emily, 3. They were married in 1992.

Travis

Aug. 14,2004

United Rehabilitation Services in Hazleton, was honored as executive of the year by the Kiwanis Club of Hazleton.

Claudia Cooper Thrush became BUs
director of finance

Cindi Weiss-Goldner

is

and Co. She and her family
}

chemistry editor

Old

live in

at

WH.

Freeman

been

science department chairman, he has

a chemistry teacher at LaSalle for the past 12 years.

Patricia

Wilmot Fulmer is vice

1998.

office staff since

'Q^ Thomas
'

South Dakota

He

State University

sota Waterfowl Association.

R.

Cooper earned

president, marketing services

Daniel G.
Inc.,

Owens is

a doc-

degree in wildlife biology from

toral

is

employed by the Minne-

A resident of Waconia,

has two daughters, Aspen, 10, and Autumn,

manager, with Susquehanna Bank PA, formed by the merger
of several

services in

member of BU's business

Bridge, N.J.

1\ f\ Thomas Barna was promoted to assistant principal
Zs \J of academic affairs at LaSalle College High School,

Wyndmoor. Formerly

and business

June. She has been a

Minn., he

9.

chief accounting officer with Lodgian

owner and operator

of

84 hotels in 31

and Canada.

states

including First Susquehanna Bank and

affiliates,

She joined Susquehanna Bancshares in 2000 and most

Trust.

recently served as vice president, marketing manager, for First

Susquehanna. She

is

married to John Fulmer '89.

Jennifer Williams Kluck
strative assistant in

is

an admini-

BU President Jessica

Kozloff s office.

Thomas Moser,
.

corrections counselor

at the State Correctional Institution at

Coal Township, was chosen employee of the
quarter for the
facility

sons

first

since 1998.

three

He

months of 2005. He's worked

lives in Natalie

at the

with his wife Brenda and

Tommy and Anthony.

'{"V"^ Jim Brogna was promoted to assistant vice president of
Zs £* advancement at Allied Services Foundation in Scranton.
His wife, the former Laura Biscontini '92, is a substitute
elementary teacher in the Crestwood School District. They reside
in Mountaintop with their two daughters, Talia and Gianna.
Timothy A. Brooks was promoted to major in the
Pennsylvania

Army National

to Afghanistan

for the

from 2003

to

Guard. Following a deployment

2004

as the

Dorothy Tilson

Cunningham

than 60 years after graduation, alumna
Dorothy Tilson '40 often makes the three-hour

company commander

He is married

to the

former Judith

'92

Angela Taylor

trip

"For

every alumni

'92/'95M joined the

resources staff of Evangelical

Community

human

comes

Hospital, Lewisburg,

director of

to every event

we have

alumni
at

affairs.

"She always

New York City,

two

to

A New York City resident, Tilson's career with the

Kerry Abell Landon, a teacher
for the past 1 1 years, received the

at Dallas

2004

Elementary School

Presidential

Award

for

Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

Jenny Righter was honored by

the

Commonwealth

of

Pennsylvania, Office of the Budget, with a citation for outstandis

an audit manager

for

PennDOTs

Debbra Savage joined Rosenn, Jenkins

& Greenwald in

Wilkes-Barre. She earned her juris doctorate from

Widener

University School of Law, Harrisburg.

Shana Meier Tesluk is executive

former Coopers and Lybrand spanned more than 30 years.
Since her retirement, she has been involved with
UN-affiliated organizations that promote world peace.

As

part of her involvement, she attends regular briefings

at the

United Nations in

New York. Among the topics

UN Millennium Project,

covered by the briefings: the

comptroller's office.

which
tion

outlines a plan to reduce poverty, increase educa-

and gender

equality, control disease

and reduce

the

debt of poor countries by 2015.

director of the Tyler Health

Foundation, which generates support for Tyler Memorial
Hospital,

come back for practically
weekend and every homecoming," says
a decade, she's

three a year."

as a training manager.

ing accomplishment. She

New York City to BU.

from

at least

Doug Hippenstiel,

Hummel

President Jessica Kozloff and

More

Force Headquarters in the Directorate of Logistics

as a maintenance officer.

BU

Three hours and 65 years

213th Area Support Group in Allentown, he transferred

to the Joint

'40, right, joins

her husband Dr. Steve Kozloff at a recent alumni gathering.

Tunkhannock. She and her husband John

live in

Tilson, also active as a

life

Republican Senatorial Inner

George

Tunkhannock.

member of the

National

Circle, attended President

W Bush's inauguration

also attends periodic briefings

earlier this year.

She

from senators in Washing-

ton D.C.

LOOMSBURG

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S

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MAGAZINE

M

He

previously was cost and general accounting manager with

Ciba Vision, controller
with Ernst

at

SGD

Glass Inc. and financial auditor

plishment.

& Young.

O

1f\

'94

Paul Verdino
with the

is

Police.

He earned a

masters

his wife

Nancy have

four children.

They

Chris Roth and Keri Ambrocik Roth '99 reside in

ZsKj Hanover with their two children.

a forensic scientist in criminalistics

New Jersey State

He and

reside in Coal Township.

moving

Prior to

to

Hanover, they lived in Columbus, Ga., and Fort Carson, Colo.,

on

Army

degree in criminal science from John Jay College of the City

while

University of New York.

education teacher in the Spring Grove Area School

duty with the U.S.

active

Chris, a special
District,

working on his masters degree at McDaniel College.
Keri worked as an educational interpreter in the Muscogee
is

")f\ C* Kerri Ventriglia received her masters degree in

SS

J human

resource

management from Rutgers

University in October 2004. She
for

works

in

human

County

resources

(Ga.) School District before taking time off to raise

their children.

ARAMARK.

'{""\/T Paul Clifford, associate vice chancellor

alumni

for

Z7\J relations at East Carolina University, is serving a threeon the Commission on Alumni Relations for the
Council of Advancement and Support of Education. He was
named the 2005 BU Alumni Associations Young Alumnus of
the Year. Paul is married to the former Jennefer Boyle '96, and
they are the parents of Aidan, Avery and Abigail.
Andrew Knouse joined Mid-Penn Engineering Corp.,
year term

Lewisburg, as a survey technician.
field analysis for

southeastern

He

">C\ C\ Lynda Colligon earned a doctor of audiology degree
^7 Zs at Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Lynda is

employed by Princeton Otolaryngology Associates.
Patricia Kazmerski earned a masters degree at DeSales

MBA from DeSales.
an information technology specialist in integrated
supply chain data management and application development.

University in January. She also holds an

She

Brian Mullen was promoted to a taxation auditing manager
with the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, Harrisburg.

Kurt Sprenkel, a teacher in the Midd-West School

previously conducted

geographic information systems in

the

in the Central Services

Office,

V"\ f\ John Christmas

\J \j

Pennsylvania's

Office of the Budget with a citation for outstanding

District

was named conservation educator of the year by
Snyder County Conservation District.

since 1999,

New Jersey and southeastern Virginia.

Wilson, an accountant
'97 Steven
Comptroller
was honored by

is

accom

in

is

a district

manager

for

ADP Auto-

matic Data Processing, payroll and payroll tax

Richmond,

Va.

John has completed

in triathlons

marathons

in the past year,

including a 4:03

Deaths

filing

and four

Richmond

Marathon in 2004.

Amanda Gudknecht
Martha Harris VanScoten

'26

'42

Katherine Ruck

William

Troutman

F.

graduated from Philadelphia

'66

University's physician assistant
Cleo Hess Hontz '27
Atilla

Schoen Lewis

Jean
'28

Hortense Evans Hagenbuch '29
Elizabeth Myrick

Jones '30

Mary Yabroski Saylor

'31

Sidler

John Zarski '66

Snyder '43

Elwood Wagner '43

program with

Barbara Dagle Beaver

Joanne Spaid Simington

'44

Lois Hartley

Sara Gaugler Tyson '44

Mary

Lewis Kohn '48

Gary Kurisko

Ellen

Smith

70

70

served as her

Golden Caffas

a master of

science degree.

72

Amanda

class' vice

president.

Heather Kramer

73

public

is

manager at Domey
Park and Wildwater Kingdom
relations

Frances Evans Parker '33

Edna Lamoreaux

Tobias '33

Leonard A. Balchunas '34
Ivan

John Krepick

'34

Charles Boyer

73

Diane Yost Maturani

'49

Jr.

Luther Butt '49

Deborah Belles Garrison

Charles A. Savage '49

Robert

Ann Papania Bergstresser

'50

J.

in Allentown.

David Marcolla was
promoted

74

Dennis Myers

William H. Young '34

Leonard Fellon '50

Bernice Branson Gennaria '38

Dayne Hartman

'50

Joel Troup

Clyde E.KIinger '38

Jack

Mordan

'50

Regina Alesczyk Vaughn

Pauline

74

Grebb'74

manager

Vollman'78M

to retail

for

market

Commerce

Bank, overseeing the eastern

L.

Margaret Deppen '39

Glenn Rarich '39

L.

Jean Allen Doughty
John

I.

'52

'52

Wagner

Michael Durso

Frank M. Van Devender '39

Theodore

Lorraine Snyder Jones '40

Constance Bauer '54

Paul Paulhamus '40

Joan DeOrio Wilson

John Betz

'42

Fred

Mark

Roll '53

M. Templin

'58

Eric

S.

house

'82

Maria Soback '02

is

offices.

located in King

and he bought

a

in Lansdale.

Lazaro Mayor was

promoted

Demko

Susan Hutchinson

region,

including nine branch

of Prussia,

'81

Nordbye

79

His office

Blackman '85

Robin Hoban
'56

Montgomery County

Kevin Curran '80

Gregory Gale

'53

Carol Fritz Tyree '39

79

to international

'90

'91

revenue agent

Revenue

for the Internal

Service.

He works

out of the IRS office in Miami

and trawls extensively

usky Nfotes
Michael Morella graduated from the parachute rigger course
August 2004 and the combined

in

course in February 2005.
Service

He

took

logistics

Company, 602d Aviation Support

Division,

Camp Stanley,

captains career

command

of Headquarters

Battalion,

Republic of Korea, in

'01 Brian

Infantry

Stargatt

& Taylor. She received her juris doctorate from the

Dickinson School of Law, Penn

Madison and

Piatt received a

Lila Self

2d

May

Brian Sims is an attorney associated with the law offices of
Mark E Seltzer, Philadelphia.
Maggie Whiteman was admitted to the Delaware State
Bar March 2 after passing the bar examination in July 2004
and completing the required five months practice. Maggie is
a bankruptcy associate with the law firm of Young Conaway

Graduate Fellowship

The fellowship

at the

May 2004.

State, in

V"\"} Andrea Engleman joined U-Haul International as a

\J Z* storage marketing analyst. Andrea resides in Phoenix,

Alliance as a sales agent.

with her fiance and her daughter.
Rocco Forgione was reassigned to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
Pioneers. He has been with the Pioneers since 2003. Last season
he played in 16 games with 50 tackles (19 unassisted) and four
interceptions for 48 yards. Offensively, he had 43 receptions
for 522 yards and 16 touchdowns. He also had one rushing
touchdown. In 2003, he played in six games for the Pioneers.
In those games, he had 14 receptions for 142 yards and three

Madelyn-Jo. They reside in Holmes.

touchdowns.

University of Kansas.

is

year award that provides students with
tuition,

an annual stipend and

a fourfull

a professional

development program. Brian earned a masters
degree in geology from
starts

work on

KU

and

earlier this year

his doctoral degree this

fall.

Matt Goslee joined the Drexel Hill office of Century 21
He and his wife Kelly have a daughter,

Ariz.,

On defense, he had nine

Ian Hutchison joined Pavone

Jason Jacobs is a supervisor responsible for audits, reviews
and compilations at Walz, Deihm, Geisenberger, Bucklen

account executive.

Tennis PC.

with Bethany Village.

&

Jessica Martin

a planner for the city of York.

is

Rowan.
James McMenamin was in

She has

a

1st Lt.

June

Ryan Quinn,

the cast of the play, "BFE," at

New York City from May

19

to

a medical service corps officer in

cun-ently deployed to Iraq with the

Nikke Taris

named head football coach for Warrior
He is a special education teacher at Columbia

Scott Shaffer was
School.

previously was a marketing coordinator

the Pennsylvania

12.

Run High

tackles (two unassisted).

Harrisburg, as an assistant

Army National Guard, was mobilized with
Company C (MED) 228th Forward Support Battalion and is

2-year-old daughter,

the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in

He

Inc.,

at

is

head coach of the

2nd Brigade Combat Team.
girls'

basketball

team

Cardinal Brennan High School, Fountain Springs. She

working toward

a masters degree at

is

BU.

Montour Vo-Tech.

V"\0 Jill Benson, a kindergarten teacher in Glyndon
\J^J Elementary School, Reisterstown, Md., was named

BU grad heads

Baltimore County Rookie of the Year in
of her

Eureka College
J.

78

David Arnold

recently

became

the

26th president of Eureka College, the
500-student
Eureka,
j.

David Arnold

III,

liberal arts

that

is

at St.

his

Lawrence

promoted
vost at

St.

to

}/"\

Arnold,

St.

dean

\J

Joseph, Mo.,

academic career teaching psychology

University, Canton,

}/"\

N.Y, where he was

for faculty affairs.

John Fisher

and grants

is

a registered nurse in Cleveland

Clinic Heart Center.

former president Ronald Reagan.

Missouri Western State University,

Arnold began

the completion

Berwick branch.

Ju Ju Jan Angko Noftz

the alma mater of

May at

year of teaching.

Debbi Dobson earned an MBA at Bloomsburg University in
December 2004.
Christopher Kier was promoted to assistant treasurer at First
Columbia Bank & Trust Co. He serves as manager of the bank's

school in

Previously vice president for academic and student
affairs at

first

He

College, Rochester, N.Y.,

and

as

and

Certified Public Accountants in Hazleton.

Cf Jeremiah Washington '05M

V/_/

basketball coach at

is

the

new boys'

Montgomery Senior High

School.

dean

earned his masters and doctorate in social

psychology from the University of

Crystal Domalakes hasjoined JonesKohanski Con-

l" sultants

also served as pro-

officer at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

who

A

New Hampshire, com-

pleted postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Educational

Management at Harvard University.
He and his wife Katherine have two grown
Jason and Amy, and a teen-age son, Andrew.

children,

OOMSBURG

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

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87

1

Reading Day - No Classes
Friday, Oct.

Finals

14

End

T.S.

May

Saturday,

Monk

BU Jazz

13

Special Events

Festival,

Parents and Family

Graduate Commencement

Mid-Term
Tuesday, Oct.

Friday,

1

May

Friday, April 7,

Friday to Sunday, Oct. 7 to 9

7:30 p.m. Reserved, $10;

12

CGA cardholder, $5
Thanksgiving Recess Begins

28, 8 a.m.

the public free of charge. Carols

Celebrity Artist Series
All events are in

Haas Center

Saturday, Oec. 10

or the Arts, MitraniHall. For

Reading Day

more

Sunday, Dec.

office at (5701

1

information, call the

Web

Site at www.bloomu.edu/tickets.

Monday, Dec. 12

Community Government
Finals End

Association cardholders pay
1

half of tickets face value for

Graduate Commencement
Friday, Dec.

all

16

by Candlelight admission

is

by

shows.

Football, Huskies vs.

office.

Faculty Recital

Wendy

Sunday, Sept. 18,2:30 p.m.
First

Presbyterian Church,

Market

Bloomsburg

Street,

1

4,

10 a.m. and

2:30 p.m. Haas Center for the

cardholder,

CGA

Reserved, $20;

Saturday, Dec. 17

$10

Sunday, Oct. 23, 2:30 p.m.
Location: To

The Rhythmics

Spring 2006

Parents and Family
Saturday, Oct.

Chamber Orchestra Concert

8,

Weekend,

8 p.m.

Be Announced

Reserved, $25;
to

1

CGA

$3

for students,

$2

BU

ID are admitted free. There

is

a $2

parking donation. Gates open

two

hours before kickoff. There are no

advance sales

for

College of Business Celebration
Saturday, Oct. 29, 11:30 a.m.
p.m., Sutliff Hall. Celebrating

Haas Center

Department of Business

1

$12

Education/Business Information

Mitrani Hall

Systems, the College of Business'

Enchantment Theatre

Fall

Company presents

Sunday, Nov. 13,2:30 p.m.

Pinocchio

Haas Center

Orchestra Concert
accreditation by the Association
to

Mid-Term

Advance Collegiate Schools

for the Arts,

and the

of Business

Monday, March 6

7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 4,

Reserved, $8 per child

Spring Break Begins

March

11,

Chamber Singers

CGA cardholder, $4
First

Poinsettia

20, 8 a.m.

Friday,

Weekend Begins

Dec.

Pops
2,

Presbyterian Church,

Market

7 p.m.

Classes Resume

Reserved, $25;

V

A

I.

1.

First

Neil Simon's Prisoner of

Market

March

2

4,

Saturday,

CGA cardholder, $12

5

Presbyterian Church,
Street,

For the

latest

on upcoming

information
events, check

Bloomsburg

the university

Web Site:

Honors Recital

2006, 7:30 p.m.

Reserved, $25;

May 8

and Saturday,

Dec. 9 and 10, 7:30 p.m.

LA. Theatre Works presents

Second Avenue,

May 6

Finals Begin

Monday,

cardholder, $12

5

7:30 p.m.

Carols by Candlelight

CGA
Friday

Reading Days - No Classes

4,

Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006, 8 p.m.

April 17, 6 p.m.

Classes End

Bloomsburg

Jazz Ensemble
Sunday, Dec.

Rent

May 4 and

Street,

Free admission

Thursday, April 13, 10 p.m.

Friday,

of Business.

Saturday, Nov. 19, 5 p.m.
free);

Thursday and

of the College

(accompanying adult admitted

noon

Classes Resume
Monday, March

overall

Mitrani Hall

accomplishments

Saturday,

any games.

the 75th anniversary of the

for the Arts,

free.

students with a valid student

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

Tuesday, Jan. 17

Monday,

ages 8

and under 8 admitted

to

Classes Begin

Spring

for senior

citizens, $1 for children

1

cardholder,

Saturday,

Redman

Homecoming Pops

Electronic Registration
Jan.

to 30.

Stadium. Tickets are $5 for adults,

to 12

Young Persons Concert

28

West

Chester Golden Rams, Saturday,
Oct. 29, 1:30 p.m.,

Miller

Arts, Mitrani Hall

Commencement

Homecoming Weekend

at the Mitrani Hall box

Saturday, Sept. 17, 8 p.m.

Undergraduate

389441 3 for

ticket information.

Friday to Sunday, Oct.

Tuesday, Oct.

Koresh Dance Company

BU sports information

office at (5701

ticket only; free tickets available

box

389-4409 or check

the Celebrity Artist Series

Finals Begin

Saturday, Dec.

Call the

Concerts
Concerts listed below are open to

Classes End

Fame Banquet

Saturday, Oct. 29, in Monty's.

Saturday,

Classes Resume
Monday, Nov.

Athletic Hall of

Undergraduate

Commencement
May 13

Tuesday, Nov. 22, 10 p.m.

Weekend

2006,

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006,

www. bloomu. edu/today

7:30 p.m. Haas Center for the
Arts, Mitrani Hall

31

Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist

The Fenstemaker House:
A Home for Alumni
Howard

Bloomsburg University's Alumni Association
moved into

its

place to put

down

in

funds.

1898, were

More than

doomed from

the start

by

in Waller Hall,

drawn

christened the

quickly, signing the sales

Howard E Fenstemaker Alumni House

seven decades.

member in
home until
new Waller Administration

1963

Waller Hall remained the associations

Then in 1979 former president James
McCormick decided Carver Hall was a more appropriate location because it was familiar to all alumni.
Office space was created and the beautiful Alumni
Room was dedicated in 1982.

He

graduated from the Bloomsburg

Normal School

alumni could meet.

to the

Road

the market

Fenstemaker's association with Bloomsburg spanned

an

year-

State

moved

was put on

during a December 1986 dedication ceremony

books, photographs and memorabilia were kept and

the offices

the Lightstreet

agreement on April 11, 1985. The building was

a lack of

where

later,

of Dorothy John Dillon

and the association moved

ago, but finding a

three decades passed before

Alumni Room opened

home

roots took a long time.

Plans for a building to house the association,

up

Fenstemaker

Less than three years

home in the Fenstemaker

Alumni House 20 years

F.

in

1912 and returned

retirement.

He was very

serving as editor of the

an alumnus,

active as

Alumni Quarterly from 1926

1971 and association president from 1962

Building.

as a faculty

1926, teaching foreign languages until his

to

to 1973. In

recognition of his work, he received the alumni distin-

guished service award in 1964 and was awarded the
university's first

honorary degree in 1983.

The Fenstemaker Alumni House was enlarged

in

2001 with the addition
of the Curtis R. English

Room. Today,

Great

the facility provides

space for Alumni
Affairs

ment

and develop-

staff offices,

meetings and social

And,

events.

the Dillon

family remains a living

presence in the trees
that continue to flourish

on

the grounds

and

the fresh flowers

Bloomsburg

florist

Ralph Dillon delivers
every

Monday

family's

The Howard

E.

Fenstemaker Alumni House

is

shown

in a

to his

former home.

1985 photo.

BLOOMSBURG

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

The University Store.
'ur

)ne weekend each

fall,

Homecoming Headquarters.

the University

Store transforms into BU's

Homecoming

Headquarters, the place to greet old

meet new ones and stock up on

friends,

Huskies

Need

gear.

BU

a

polo shirt or Carver Hall

afghan? Perhaps you're looking for a

BU cap or a sweatshirt to keep you
warm as you watch the Huskies beat
West Chester's Golden Rams. BU mugs,
glassware and hand-painted holiday

ornaments by Murdock Country
Creations, available in

more

than a dozen varieties
i

13.99 each),
great

gifts.

in sizes
to

(inset,

make
And T-shirts

Newborn

XXXL could

be

just the thing for

your

favorite future

Huskies and other
fans.

The University

has hundreds of items and

gift

BU

Store

cards in

any amount.
Stop by for refreshments Saturday,

you make your way from
downtown parade route to Redman

Oct. 29, as

the

Stadium
Enjoy

for the 1:30 p.m. kickoff

free coffee

10 a.m.

to

and doughnuts from

2 p.m.

Homecoming
Weekend Hours

Special

A Showing

their

BU pride,

Lehman Hock

Friday, Oct. 28: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Linda

Saturday, Oct. 29: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Bauman '95/VOM,

Sunday, Oct.

30:

Noon

lejt to right,

are Terry

o[BU's planning and

Conrad

'83,

BU basketball coach;

institutional research office;

assistant director of residence

life.

to 4 p.m.

Regular Hours
Monday through Thursday:
Friday: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Noon to 5 p.m.
Sunday: Noon to 4 p.m.
Saturday:

'88,

The University Store
7:45 a.m. to 8 p.m.

400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
General Information: (570) 389-4175
Customer Service: (570) 389-4180

www.bloomu.edu/store

and Mark

Rent is riveting.

Celebrity Artist
- Detroit News

energy and assurance. Rent roars
across the stage like an urban brush fire." -Washington Post

Series 2005-06

"Bristling with

Koresh Dance Company
Sept. 17, 2005* 8 p.m.

Reserved, S20/CGA, $10

The Rhythmics
Oct. 8,

2005* 8 p.m.

Reserved, $25/CG A, $12

Pinocchio
Nov.

4,

Child,

2005* 7 p.m.

$8/Accompanying

adult,free/CGA,$4

Poinsettia
Dec.

2,

Pops

2005* 7 p.m.

Free admission

Rent
Feb. 14, 2006* 8 p.m.

Reserved, $25/CGA, $12

LA. Theatre Works:
Prisoner of Second Avenui

March

4,

2006* 7:30 p.m.

Reserved, $25/CGA
cardholder, $12
T.S.

Monk

April 7, 2006 • 7:30 p.m.

Bloomsburg University Celebrity Artist Series presents RENT
"How do you measure
Bohemians struggling

a year in a life?" Jonathan Larson's rock opera "Rent" tells the story of a group
of

New York's gritty East Village. In its first year on the New York stage, "Rent"
New York Drama Critics Circle Award, four Tonys and six Drama
The national touring company brings "Rent" to BU as part of the 2005-06 Celebrity
Artist
to live in

captured the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the

Desk awards.
Series. This

show contains mature themes and strong language and is not suitable

A

4^
Bloomsburg
IBlo
UNIVERSITY
Office of

Communications

400

Second

East

Street

Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301

for young children.

Reserved, $10/CGA, $5

All shows are presented
in

Haas Center for the Arts,

Mitrani Hall.

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Non-profit Org.
U.S. Postage

PAID
Ithaca,

NY

Permit No. 476