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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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When
my husband Steve and I
town was
this
a place
first
drove into Bloomsburg,
months
learned that this town, this university and
match.
We ve
From
BUs
in
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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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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STORY BY
TRACEY M.
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
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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
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campus,
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offering
rooms
Kresch, associate director oi
living option
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in
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the learning
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live in a
residence hall with others in their major or study
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life,
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Bloomsburg University "student."
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of the
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September 24, 1994 - BU has
Jessica Kozloff
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of State College
State System of Higher Education.
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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
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February 1996
Jessica
inaugurated
is
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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
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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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April 20, 1997
the
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first
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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
DIVERSITY TIMELINE
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
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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
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The expanded
5,
2001
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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
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available at the Library Studenl
level
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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April 12, 2004
Pinery near Schuylkill
Hall is rededicated.
August
President Kozloff
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30,
2004 - The
new
Monty's
October 2004
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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
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spoke
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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
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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
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currently
Hanisburg.
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and Pennsylvania
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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
a bigger factor in
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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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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
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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
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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
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it
2
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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
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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
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American Association of Colleges and
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of the educational experience
Middle States Association Commission on Higher
Kim Bower-Spence
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a freelance ioumalisl from Berwick, Pa
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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
20
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SUNCOM
1 1
other
BU graduate
students
program.
UNIVERSITY
M
A G A Z
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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Hopkins University and
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supervising principal of elementary education in the Central
Columbia School
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or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
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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
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Midd-West School
years of service.
principal in the
and
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Harold Swigart
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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.
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and con-
ducted research lor an upcoming publication dealing with the
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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
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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
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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:
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live in the rural
area between Selinsgrove
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Todd
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former Debra Raught, have one son,
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Diane Bradish Schellhamer
nearly 32 years of service.
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district director
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and
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July 17, 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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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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(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
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or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
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of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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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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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
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a
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toward a doctor of audiology degree
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counseling
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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
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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
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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
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Herald
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Starring Marvin Scott,
Ramone Diggs
and Kenneth Gayle
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March
Haas Center
18,
2005,
at
8 p.m.
for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
$25 and $27.50
(570) 389-4409 or
wvvw.bloomu.edu/tickets
Three Mo' Tenors showcases the
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
of exceptional African
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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
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Francis
Vice Chair
Barnes
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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
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Richard Beierschmitt
Marie Conley
Robert
the
Discovery
own Indiana Jones.'
traveled to Egypt to
students dream. Along the way,
she embraced the dream herself.
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LaRoy G. Davis
'67
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David J. Petrosky
Jennifer
Shymansky
President,
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Corporate Charmer
rV Around the world and back again.
Alum Tom Connaghan left BU with a
"1
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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
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Exchanges 14th
and ending
at the
floor.
Co-Editors
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Bonnie Martin
Husky Notes Editor
Doug Hippensiiel '68, '81M
"1
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Irene
/l Success!
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Business, housed in Sutliff Hall,
Johnson
embarked upon
Communications Assistants
Advance
Agency
BU joined
Snavely Associates,
Collegiate Schools of Business.
The journey ended
LTD
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devoted
why
smiles. See page 16 to find out
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to native plants
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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.
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last
the 'cream of the crop' as
of fewer than
is all
a journey toward
accreditation from the Association to
Shannon Killeen '05
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Emily Watson '08
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way or providing equal
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institution
Bloomsburg
to affirmative action
by
educational and employ-
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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
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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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*>ra
|S
»
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."
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is
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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
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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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had
it
to
do over I wouldn't do
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been enormously happy.
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any
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I've
he knew and
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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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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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,
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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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
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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
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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
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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.
7^7 J^ Tom Johnson will serve as president of the
/ %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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diabetes educator status from the National Certifica-
Health System,
Spirit
Suzanne has been employed
Camp
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
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of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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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
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
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of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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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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Specialty Clinic in Wilkes-Barre
Geisinger
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or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
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.
&
'99
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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
Public Accountants as a
Diane Bakowicz Michniewicz '90
William Hrisko '52
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for
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staff
accountant.
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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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diplomats meet to iron out their countries' differences,
television newscasts
show two
smiling for the camera.
their efforts, the
It is
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impossible to illustrate the crux of
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The words,
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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
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Jude C. Butch
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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
David P Holveck
head
become
Vincent J. Hughes
creates characters in her
Guido M. Pichini
Edward G. Rendell
focus of her historical romance novels.
that
the
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Pencils
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Plus two vacancies
Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
aspects of filmmaking. After
Campus
at the
Judy G. Hample
Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
his full attention to Flexible
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company he co-founded.
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working as manager
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LaRoyG. Davis
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Shymansky
passes, professor Michael
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of history grows, along with his passion for teaching.
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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
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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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STORY BY DAWN LEAS
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.
'03
,
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
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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.
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"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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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
co-edilorof
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—
Rebecca Funk Campbell grew up
watching Channel 6 and
the place.
Her job
now runs
— to keep
it
the
leader in die nation's fourth-largest
broadcast market.
Focused on Winning
STORY BY MARK
her
From
E.
DIXON
Campbell's job
office
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
—
FALL
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.
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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
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Campus
Projects
Evolution
abound at BU
Bloomsburg's living and learning environment
is
in the
midst of an evolution.
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At the very heart of campus, macadam
is
being replaced
fPl 'f'\
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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
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Births
Geneva Schott Baughman,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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\J ZS State Farm Insurance. He lives in Warren, N.J.
Amelia
Elise, April 22,
2005
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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
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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,"
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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and
Aug. 21, 2004
July 24. 2004
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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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KJ
Fenty Skinner
special education.
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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previously was cost and general accounting manager with
Ciba Vision, controller
with Ernst
at
SGD
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plishment.
& Young.
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'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
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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,
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www.bloomualumni.com.
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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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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
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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,
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rice;
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my husband Steve and I
town was
this
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drove into Bloomsburg,
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learned that this town, this university and
match.
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honesty
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my proudest achievements are not mine alone;
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for
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of:
student leaders, especially the
whose
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a decade.
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accomplishments that enhance the college experience
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new off-campus housing for 408 students
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from alumni,
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friends leading to
scholarships.
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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
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resources, our facilities
and our strong general education and
programs as important
factors in the accreditation.
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TRACEY M.
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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campus,
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offering
rooms
Kresch, associate director oi
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in
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the learning
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live in a
residence hall with others in their major or study
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life,
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Bloomsburg University "student."
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of the
the
September 24, 1994 - BU has
Jessica Kozloff
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of State College
State System of Higher Education.
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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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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
DIVERSITY TIMELINE
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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of
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
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October
The expanded
5,
2001
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January 2003
Schweiker'75issworn
dedicated.
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in
University
as governor of
Bloomsburg
Indiana University of
Pennsylvania to implement
Pennsylvania.
are dedicated.
-
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
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available at the Library Studenl
level
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
I
Matta says.
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The restored World
War Memorial
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April 12, 2004
Pinery near Schuylkill
Hall is rededicated.
August
President Kozloff
-
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.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
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
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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
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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
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native.
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currently
Hanisburg.
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took a
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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
a bigger factor in
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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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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
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athletic directoi
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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
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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
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it
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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
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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
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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
20
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SUNCOM
1 1
other
BU graduate
students
program.
UNIVERSITY
M
A G A Z
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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which
George Sharp published
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He earned
Hopkins University and
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supervising principal of elementary education in the Central
Columbia School
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or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
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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
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Harold Swigart
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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.
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and con-
ducted research lor an upcoming publication dealing with the
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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
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Middleburg.
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Honesdale ligh School. For the past 25 years, he
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Todd
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former Debra Raught, have one son,
Frank Jablonski
retired
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retired
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and Paul
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and 10,000 who applied
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retired
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from the Shikellamy School
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such as marriage, family, character, religion and education.
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Diane Bradish Schellhamer
nearly 32 years of service.
John
was named
State University,
William Martin published "The
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the world's largest science teacher organization.
Larry Clees was appointed associate dean of infor-
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district director
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Frederick Colyer
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and Michael
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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
Sullivan,
June
22,
Robert
2004
Aug. 23, 2003
Brocious,
B L
O O
M
S
B
U R G
'98
March
THE
27,
I'
N
Sara Bare, April
and
Jill
J.
3,
'00 and
2004
Cornelius 00 and
Parlapiano
'00,
2004
I
V
1
R
S
Deanna
Jennifer Boland '00 and
2004
Jessica Rappa '98 and Douglas
Shimp
'00 and Gianna
2004
Stephen Batory
Aug. 14,2004
July 17, 2003
2004
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
'96
'98 and
Hagenbuch
Klessinger, Nov. 23, 2001
Kelly
Christa Steiger '99 and William
11,2004
Sept.
'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
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or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
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of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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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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r N
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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
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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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lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve,
first
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second-year doctoral student in macromo-
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Virginia Pageant as Miss Denbigh Days Festival.
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toward a doctor of audiology degree
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Delaware County.
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more Husky Notes
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East Stroudsburg University.
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June 2004.
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community.
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December 2003 and
completed training as a combat videographer
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a security forces apprentice assigned
teaching assistant in Seton Hall University's
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Hampton
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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the Pennsylvania College
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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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South Williamsport.
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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
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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
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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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Ramone Diggs
and Kenneth Gayle
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March
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18,
2005,
at
8 p.m.
for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
$25 and $27.50
(570) 389-4409 or
wvvw.bloomu.edu/tickets
Three Mo' Tenors showcases the
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
of exceptional African
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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
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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
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"
"
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
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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."
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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
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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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had
it
to
do over I wouldn't do
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been enormously happy.
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life."
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any
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I've
he knew and
much to be
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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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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.
BLOOMSBURG
chil-
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
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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
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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.
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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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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,
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Suzanne has been employed
Camp
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of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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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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of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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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
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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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Specialty Clinic in Wilkes-Barre
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.
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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
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Consultants and Certified
Public Accountants as a
Diane Bakowicz Michniewicz '90
William Hrisko '52
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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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diplomats meet to iron out their countries' differences,
television newscasts
show two
smiling for the camera.
their efforts, the
It is
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dignitaries shaking
impossible to illustrate the crux of
impassioned words they use
to defuse potentially
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stake their homelands' destinies
wrote, the pen
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mightier than the sword. Fortunately for the future of our shared
is
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and educate, but
readers, writers
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The words,
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they'll say,
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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
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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
David P Holveck
head
become
Vincent J. Hughes
creates characters in her
Guido M. Pichini
Edward G. Rendell
focus of her historical romance novels.
that
the
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Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
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Campus
at the
Judy G. Hample
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LaRoyG. Davis
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passes, professor Michael
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million readers
are married
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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.
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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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STORY BY DAWN LEAS
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.
'03
,
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
The next
starts.
step
is
Todd
Hftri fate."
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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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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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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
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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
co-edilorof
Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.
more
Wright, director, Act 101/EOP
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mO M
S
B U R G
—
Rebecca Funk Campbell grew up
watching Channel 6 and
the place.
Her job
now runs
— to keep
it
the
leader in die nation's fourth-largest
broadcast market.
Focused on Winning
STORY BY MARK
her
From
E.
DIXON
Campbell's job
office
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
—
FALL
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
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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.
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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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All Aboard!
'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
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Campus
Projects
Evolution
abound at BU
Bloomsburg's living and learning environment
is
in the
midst of an evolution.
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At the very heart of campus, macadam
is
being replaced
fPl 'f'\
,
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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
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Births
Geneva Schott Baughman,
CJ
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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
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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
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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
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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,
">
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\J ZS State Farm Insurance. He lives in Warren, N.J.
Amelia
Elise, April 22,
2005
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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
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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,"
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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
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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
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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
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'01
and
Aug. 21, 2004
July 24. 2004
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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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KJ
Fenty Skinner
special education.
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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
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June
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'04,
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14,
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a senior account
executive with StoudtAdvisors, an employee benefits
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Buffington
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practicing medicine in Elysburg.
from the University of Health Sciences
in
Kansas City and completed his residency in family practice
at
Community
Abram
2005
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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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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
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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
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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.
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plishment.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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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
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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,
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downtown parade route to Redman
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Enjoy
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to
and doughnuts from
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A Showing
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30:
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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^
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IBlo
UNIVERSITY
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Communications
400
Second
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Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301
for young children.
Reserved, $10/CGA, $5
All shows are presented
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