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WINTER
New EET program takes
2007
'practical'
a step further, leading to solid job
opportunities for the
class.
It's
Page
first
graduating
16.
a balancing act of preservation
growth in Pennsylvania's
Lancaster County. A BU Mum
vs.
in
the middle.
Page
14.
is right
From the
President's
Desk
not easy being green.'
'It's
KERMIT THE FROG
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Anyone who
reads
my columns on a regular basis knows
I
often start with a
how I feel about the subject at hand. Although
my research led me to quotations about the wonder of nature from
quotation that summarizes
.
Aristotle ("In
all
things of nature, there
something of the marvelous.")
is
understand the meaning of patience.
to writer Hal Borland
("Knowing
Knowing grass, I can
appreciate persistence."), Kermit
words on being
trees,
I
seemed
In this instance, "green" refers to BU's
Academic Quad, the open space extending
from the Warren Student Services Center to the Andruss
Quad, part of BU's Master
construction during
parking
lot will
Plan, has
much
In
invisible
Library.
The Academic
component of campus
When it is completed this fall, a
of the past decade.
campus buildings
and Warren
—
—
Bakeless,
will front
on
McCormick,
a grassy
lawn
(see
for details).
some
respects, the
Academic Quad
abundance of open space
Lightstreet Road, a
current
North
been an
disappear and seven
Waller, Andruss, Centennial, Sutliff
page 2
to offer the wisest
"green."
site
in photos
an old-fashioned
idea.
We see an
archives: the grove along
playground where Kehr Union stands today, a lagoon
of Montour Hall
Hall, to
is
from the campus
name just
and
a few.
a large
lawn
that
at
the
extended from Perm Street to
The campus had 19
acres of
open space and
athletic
new buildings improved students' lives, the amount
The Academic Quad will help us to reclaim it.
grounds in the 1950s but, as
green space dwindled.
The quad will provide outdoor spaces
suitable for large gatherings,
of
such as
commencement, or private conversation and studying. The campus' outdoor
sculpture will be grouped
among the
plantings,
and a
historic fountain, a gift
from
the Class of 1940, will be returned to a place of prominence (archivist Robert
Dunkelberger explains in "Over the Shoulder," beginning on page 30). The quad
also
improve pedestrian
safety, as
parking spaces and
traffic
are
will
moved from the heart
of the campus.
The short-term
steps of being green won't be easy.
and summer months, construction
and
create
temporary obstacles
completed next
fall,
the
vehicles will
for getting
Academic Quad
environment where even Kermit would
Jessica S. Kozloff
During the upcoming spring
move
earth in the center of campus
from place to place. But
when it is
will transform asphalt to greener);
feel at
home.
an
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a
of the Pennsylvania State System of
member
Higher Education
Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors
as of December 2006
Kenneth
Kim E
E. Jarin,
Chair
Vice Chair
Lyttle,
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair
Matthew
Baker
E.
Lammando
Marie Conley
Paul
FEATURES
Dlugoiecki
S.
Daniel P. Elby
Michael K. Hanna
The Original Hot
Page 6
Mom
Vincent J. Hughes
Kyle J. Mullins
What
between friends has become a
started as a joke
Joshua A. O'Brien
club with thousands of members across the country,
Allison Peitz
Guido M.
Pichini
including celebrities like Britney Spears. The Hot
Edward G. Rendell
Moms
JamesJ. Rhoades
aims
Christine J. Toretti Olson
Aaron A. Walton
Gerald
in
Zahorchak
L.
Lahm
Club, founded by Jessica Denay
'96,
motherhood and has been featured
to reinvent
major media, such as the "Today" show,
CNN and
People magazine.
Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
Judy G. Hample
Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
Robert J. Gibble
Steven
Ramona H.
Lammando
When most college students graduate,
Michaels '87/'88M
Dampman '65
Charles C. Housenick '60
affairs,
71
Knepp
Joseph J,
Mowad
Fedor-Michaels
still
keeps her
new director of alumni
is
using her passion for the
and alumni.
Pennsylvania Proud
Page 10
David J Petrosky
President,
a strong tug that
university to connect current students
'07
Steven J.
felt
connected to BU. As the
'67
A. William Kelly
Circle
they look
forward to going off into the world, but Lynda Fedor-
'94, Secretary
Alley
LaRoy G. Davis
Coming Full
Page 8
Chair
Vice Chair
B. Barth,
Marie Conley
Robert
'68,
Bloomsburg University
Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie and Jeffrey
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
Executive Editor
Liza Benedict
have one thing in common, Pennsylvania.
Davis
all
As an
associate professor of history, Davis researches
Co-Editors
Pennsylvania's rich history
Eric Foster
which he captures in
a
Jessica
textbook for high school students.
Bonnie Martin
Husky Notes Editor
to
Live and Learn
Page 12
Brenda Hartman
Denay Lahm's online support group
change the face of motherhood.
Director of Alumni Affairs
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/"88M
Adjusting to college
Editorial Assistant
Learning Communities aim to
Irene Johnson
participate in the
life
can be a
but BU's Living
difficult transition for students,
make
the transition a
little easier.
Students
who
communities are often more motivated and obtain higher GPAs.
Communications Assistants
Lynette
Mong '08
Balancing Green and Growth
Page 14
Emily Watson '07
Agency
Snavely Associates,
LTD
Art Director
'85 understands the delicate balance
has spent the
last
Commission helping
Debbie Shephard
Designer
Curt
Mike Domin
20 years
Charged
Page 16
Eric Foster
for
the Cover
Biswajit
and
Ray
is
County Planning
to find that balance.
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between preservation and growth. He
as the principal planner with the Lancaster
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the coordinator of BU's electrical
electronics engineering technology program.
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the electrical
and
BU
it
takes to succeed in the
to create
an academic program
electronics engineering technology
program began
hands-on experience and paid co-ops.
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ancestry, disability or veteran status.
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News Notes
Academic Quad
improvements are planned
culminates a decade
of preparation
Service Center.
for the facilities in the area,
including a $2.75 million expansion to the
Warren Student
Excavation of the area will begin this spring. Highlights
of the approximately $2 million project include:
•
Reinstalling a fountain, a gift
from the Class of 1940,
in the center of the quad.
Green space
boosts
campus beauty
•
Creating an outdoor cafe at the southwest
comer of
Andruss Library.
When the new Academic Quad opens this fall, a space in
•
campus now overrun with blacktop
and cars will be replaced by lawns, walkways, an outdoor
cafe and a piece of BU history.
The Academic Quad will be the centerpiece of a decade
of expansion and renovation of many BU facilities, such as
Centennial Hall, Warren Student Services Center and
the center of the lower
McCormick
Center,
and an improvement
to the entrance
Relocating sculptures to
•
and
Center to create a natural amphitheatre with a
•
Replacing invasive, non-native
more appropriate
Waller
the construction of Andruss Library represent an investment
spaces
is
lot
all
of the parking spaces lost from the
have already been replaced.
the
When the quad proj-
number of faculty and staff parking
lower campus will increase from 563 to 648.
complete, the
on
stage.
Norway maples with
tree species.
Reitmeyer notes that
ect
$28 million
intimate
Grading the space in front of Warren Student Services
and parking behind McCormick Center. These projects and
of more than
more
attractive settings.
total
in BU's facilities, according to
Colin Reitmeyer, assistant director of
facilities for
planning
and construction. The Academic Quad can be considered an
extension and completion of these projects that also
improves campus safety by removing
from its
traffic
and parking
center.
"For the $8.4 million Centennial Hall renovation and
expansion, the building was redesigned with the facade
facing the interior of
campus in
anticipation of the creation
of a quad," says Reitmeyer. "Similarly, the $5.4 million
expansion to McCormick Center not only adds the teaching
space
we need, but it's been located deliberately to complete
that side of the
Academic Quad." Reitmeyer notes
that
more
Plans for the Academic
Andruss
Quad
include an outdoor cafe near
Library.
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Great Sticks!
BU wins
The BU
13th national field
field
The win was the 24th
hockey
title
hockey team completed an undefeated 2006 season
to capture the Huskies' 13th national title in the past
title
1-0
Pensacola,
NCAA
Division
II
National Sports Festival
in
10th Division
crown
II
of the year for the Huskies, tying a school
a season.
for
It
was
and three
1
3th national
its
and
career with a mark of 86-1
Bloomsburg State College's
won
the
first
field
women's
hockey team, also coached by
national
title in
3-2 victory over Lynchburg College of Virginia,
Fla.
title
NCAA titles.
Hutchinson,
in
also the
head coach Jan Hutchinson.
Bloomsburg's senior class ends
25 years. The
win over Bentley College of Waltham, Mass., was played
as part of the
record for wins
in
school history, a
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Updates available on campus entertainment
Bloomsburg University has
a
new way of keeping
people in touch with cultural events on campus.
Anyone
interested in
knowing about concerts, art
and athletics at
exhibits, the Celebrity Artist Series
BU may sign up
at
The Academic Quad will feature a park-like setting in front of
Andruss Library that will be home to the campus' outdoor
sculpture (top
left
and
right).
The fountain donated by the Class
of 1940 will be reinstalled in the center of the quad.
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to receive periodic e-mail
updates
http://www.bloomu.edu/events. E-mail updates
will arrive every
seven to 14 days.
News Notes
Digging In
American Archeology features BU students
System
Two BU
Leader
BU student appointed
PASSHE board
students participated in an
Ohio archaeology dig that was
featured in the fall 2006 issue of
to
American Archaeology magazine.
The two BU anthropology majors,
Joshua O'Brien, Community
senior Kitawna
Government Association
burg (top
was named
president,
to the Pennsylvania
Board of Governors. He
the second
he
BU student
weeks
two years
in
be named to the board, and
to
he graduates. Students considered
for the position are presidents of the student
association at one of the 14 universities
A
(lower right), spent three and a half
Joshua O'Brien
is
will retain the position until
Harrisburg native, O'Brien
government
the State System.
in
a junior majoring
is
CGA since
his
freshman
He
year.
also participates
in political
in
the
a
participating in excavations at
Hopewell moundbuilder settlement
site in
southern Ohio. The Brown's
Bottom
science and communication studies and has been involved with
science organizations on
and sophomore
Judith Steinhilper of Bloomsburg
State System of Higher Education's
Hoover of Middle-
right)
1 site
co-directed
excavations were
by
BU
anthropology
DeeAnne Wymer and Paul
Pacheco of SUNY-Geneseo.
professor
political
campus and the College Republicans.
Positive Partner
BU adds $121
BU
is
million to local economy
Columbia County's
million to the county's
BU and its
benefit of
report,
largest
employer, contributing $121
economy each year. The economic
13
sister institutions is
outlined in a
"The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education:
Economic Impact on
Commonwealth
the
of Pennsylvania,"
prepared by West Chester University's Center for Social and
Economic Research, College of Business and Public
Other key
-
BU's
$357
-
and
staff
on data from 2003-04:
economic impact
is
more than
generates
Fifty percent of
its
more than
students, visitors, fac-
$ 148 million a year.
BU's approximately 950 employees
new to
Columbia County; 80 percent
live in the
by the commonwealth and
BU yields a
return of $11.25 in total
State sales tax
students, faculty
and
Sixty-six percent of
in
the Harrisburg Diocese that
own
buildings.
staff total
all
faculty
as family and
average of 4.67 hours per
month
annual value of $872,879.
staff
for
volunteer an
an estimated
BU students volunteer an
CCM
its
headquarters, the
College
Hill,
as a
The
Rev.
Don Cramer
home away from home.
$3.5 million per year.
and
He sees
as a place where students are welcomed
Newman House on
and individual income tax paid by
last
service at one of the only three college
have their
dollar invested
BU
Ministry and
himself "a freshman," Cramer looks
programs
Each
arrived at
Campus
forward to building on a tradition of
Northumberland
counties.
Catholic
eager to work with students. Proclaiming
three-county area of Columbia, Montour and
economic impact.
-
The Rev. Don Cramer
fall
appropriated to
-
New priest heads Catholic Campus Ministry
Affairs.
million.
reside in
-
findings based
Spending by the university and
ulty
-
BU
total statewide
Freshman Father
After six years of seminary and five years as an ordained priest,
Cramer holds two bachelor's and two master's degrees. He
joy
and satisfaction
that
I
made
in his
vocation. "Every night,
I
finds
a difference," he says.
average of 3.5 hours each month.
BLOOMSBURG
deep
go to bed knowing
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
The high ropes course on BU's upper campus
is
a convenient site where working professionals learn to
unit,
High Ropes
—
which focuses on self-awareness
strengths
Corporate Institute challenges
MBA students
work together and overcome fears.
and weaknesses.
uncertainty,
It
teaches
learning about your
them
and these personal lessons
to deal
with
transfer into their
professional lives."
Students pursuing a master's degree in business administration aren't often asked to climb
maneuver around an
50
feet into the air
and
obstacle course set high in the trees.
and
chair of the
in the workforce.
management department, has
class to participate in a
pants to climb
up
a telephone pole
requires partici-
and move through
series of obstacles before rappelling to the
Benek-Rivera says.
"We do this in
a
and use
it
skill for
professionals already
get
there," Smith says. "How do
And how can they take that
up
in other day-to-day situations?"
MBA program, contact Blair
MBA program coordinator, at (570) 389-4392 or
astaley@bloomu.edu; for information on BU's Corporate
conjunction with our
or contact
Institute, visit http://www.corporateinstitute.org,
fears,"
first
Roy Smith
at
(570) 389-4323.
Representing Students
Recognizing Excellence
Knepp serves on Council of Trustees
BU Students Named
to
PA Academic Team
Steven Knepp, a senior from
Three recipients of the
Middleburg with a major in
All-Pennsylvania Academic
elementary education,
Team award
is
serving
as the student representative to
BU's Council of Trustees.
several students
who
One
of Plains
last fall.
student Trustee graduated, he was
by
System of Higher Education,
before he
Ed
Rendell.
was appointed by Gov.
While attending BU, Knepp has been
student government and academic organizations.
WINTER 2007
active in
enrolled at
BU
recipients of the
Team award,
committee and by Judy Hample,
State
—
As
All-Pennsylvania Academic
a screening
chancellor of the Pennsylvania
Ryan Geiger
and Angela Peck
applied for
the position after the previous
interviewed
—
of Danville, William Katsak
of
of Halifax
Steven Knepp
the
For information on BU's
Staley,
ground.
"(The course) helps students overcome their
Roy Smith,
people to remember their coping
they deal with the situation?
high ropes course, run by BU's Cor-
The course on BU's campus
"I tell
mechanisms when they
required students in her Professional Development Skills
porate Institute.
Institute Director
unfamiliar settings, a valuable
But, for the past three years, Joan Benek-Rivera, associate
professor
According to Corporate
high ropes course motivates individuals to think clearly in
Ryan Geiger and William Katsak
scholarship to any of the 14 schools
of Higher Education.
college students
in
the Pennsylvania State System
The awards recognize
who have
they are
eligible for a tuition
a group of
community
achieved academic excellence and
demonstrated a commitment to their colleges and communities.
The image of
the ideal mother
has been
personified by
TV characters
June Cleaver,
Carol Brady and
like
Clair Huxtable.
Jessica Denay
Lahm
'96
believes
for a
it's
time
makeover.
HSrMtBH
Jessica
Denay Lahm '96
Hot Moms Club
started the
after the birth of her
STORY BY MARK
"Reinventing motherhood"
goal of Jessica
Lahm
Lahm's Hot
2006
—
in 2000.
all
'96
Those
feeling
in
"The climate
for
Gabriel in 2000.
ambitious, even for a Bloomsburg alum. But that's the
— which had
fighting post-natal frumpiness.
almost 300,000
among her new-mom
Lahm's
washed-up
DIXON
who has built a business around
Moms Club
started as a joke
is
E.
members
in late
October
friends after the birth of her son, Gabriel,
New Jersey suburb were mostly in their mid-20s, but were
nevertheless.
motherhood wasn't what
it is
now," says Lahm,
who now uses the
surname Denay, her middle name. "There was an image and stereotype around mothers."
People told her she didn't look like a mother
poses, but
making her wonder why being
a
— intending
it
as a
mother had such
compliment, she sup-
a negative connotation.
Light bulb.
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son
'You owe
it
centered and balanced,
DENAY LAHM
JESSICA
At
first,
When you're
tiiat's when you can be die best mom.
to your family to recharge yourself.
'96
Lahm and her friends fought back with
laughter and sarcasm.
moms." Then,
They
Mixing with the show-biz crowd took on a personal
called themselves the "hot
Moms Club." Then, Lahm put
the "Hot
up a Web site (www.hotmomsclub.com) and wrote
book "The Hot Mom's Handbook" to promote
—
a
dimension when she met and married her now
ex-husband, Bryan Dattilo,
of
—
the
Our Lives."
Lahm continued
Web site.
three
Then, magazines: People,
it
Good Housekeeping, Woman's
US Weekly, Oxygen,
Day,
Ebony.
"I
told Pierce that
bad news."
—
clothing
Moms, with T-shirts and jeans. (The jeans are snug and
low cut, not those infamously lumpy "mom jeans" once
on "Saturday Night
October 2006, the
Live.") In
makers of Suave shampoo kicked
promotion tying
off a
the company's products to the idea of motherly heat
while also plugging Lahm's
The core of the business
Web site and book.
is the Web site which, says
Lahm, "covers everything mom-related." Each month
has a theme
beauty, style, relationships, parenting,
—
and
products,
health, sex
and
"Moms That
Rock,"
"HotmomPrenuers" and
ence,
"It's
amazing
that
it's
part-timers, "especially
a couple of
An
celebrity
six
people and a couple of
out as just
me
my friends."
According
how would like it, but 1
I
first
job was in Paramus,
phone
"I
wasn't sure
was
came
really did," she recalls. "It
an intense experience." But,
call that
after several years,
the state
had cut the
school's
ing
for
went
into
Manhattan and began teaching
young performers on Broadway and young
sional athletes," says
Pierce Brosnan,
who
while filming "The
Lahm.
Thomas Crown Affair."
famous," she says, "and found that
and
insecurities."
"So
all
many moms
was turning
it's
about eschew-
to self-identity.
it
kids have the
your
when you can be the best mom."
some shrewd marketing going on here,
notes a Philadelphia marketing expert, Anne Buchanan of
Buchanan Public Relations. As a business model, she says,
There's also
the
Hot
Moms Club is an example of how Corporate
America succeeds by cutting its market into thin
'What she has here
is
a
want
slices.
group of intelligent, probably
slightly affluent mothers," says
Buchanan. "What group of
to talk to these
women?"
Moms Club probably
According to Buchanan, a Hot
wouldn't have succeeded before the Internet, but online
marketing permits
Lahm
tively target the smaller
contacts.
She was
Kelly Preston
T-shirts
— and
advertisers
segment of women
to the idea. "I think she's
to effec-
who
respond
onto something," says Buchanan.
advantage of show business
and Cindy Margolis
to
wear "Hot
Mom"
and provide the endorsements which can make
decisive difference in obtaining publicity.
Angie
—
able to convince stars like Celine Dion,
Harmon and
Forrest Whitaker
When actors
showed up
signing party, cameras followed.
And
at a
HMC got a
when Britney Spears donated
affili-
ated charity.
book,
for the original
"Hot
Mom"? A second
"Womb with a View," for expectant mothers, is
due out in April 2007,
same
to
When you're centered and
balanced, that's
What's next
went from
had
mom" really has
a "hot
profes-
actor
I
struggle with feeling guilty doing
family to recharge yourself.
a radio
show
is
in the
works and
other products undoubtedly will follow.
So many mothers. So
Mark
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I
her maternity wear to Have More Compassion, an
and son
"I
that
blurb in Star magazine
Among her clients was
traveled with his wife
—
privately
teaching the poorest of the poor to the rich and the
fears
Lahm, being
martyrdom and holding on
book
budget. She was unemployed.
"I
to
Lahm also had the
high school for troubled teens.
the August
mom interviews.
profitable," says
when it started
news
nothing to do with appearance. Rather,
advertisers wouldn't
moms making a differ-
education major, Lahm's
N.J., at a
There are hot
becoming so
Lahm, who now employs
and
astrology.
great
anything for themselves," she says. "But you owe
Rockin' Hot
line,
had
I
Moms Club into a business," she says. "And
Tonight," the "Today" show,
corporate partners. There's a
fitness
Hot
the
—
about
for
HMC Web site went up. By then,
was generating 200 e-mails per day, and she realized
and keep up with her new venture.
Then, TV: "Entertainment
Then
and here is where
the $ comes in
sponsors and
Brosnans
to teach for the
after the
that she couldn't teach
"Access Hollywood" and others.
satirized
weeks
who played Lucas on "Days
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Full Circle
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN
"What is it about this place?"
a father asked after he toured
BU with his daughter. "I can't
stop thinking about it." Lynda
Fedor-Michaels '87/'8SM says
he's not alone. "It" brought her
to BU as a student more than
two decades ago; it continues
to bind her tightly to the
campus and its people.
Lynda Fedor-Michaels makes no
secret of her genuine
enthusiasm for BU, the hard-to-define quality she
Bloomsburg experience" and what
"Bloomsburg has
this
affairs.
"And,
calls "the
has meant to her
life.
way of developing your potential.
your perspective, values and
alumni
it
skills,"
.
says BU's director of
when you leave, you stay the same
person, but changed for the better."
BU may have
changed Fedor-Michaels but, unlike most
graduates, she never
since
left.
She's
1983 when her future
been connected
sister-in-law,
to the
campus
who had earned a
Moving Forward
Lynda Fedor-Michaels has three main goals as she expands on programs
established by
Doug Hippenstiel during
Engage more alumni
events
in
BU
Alumni Weekend
like
his
26 years
by welcoming
(this
the university to them through
them
BU
from
alumni
1
3 to
affairs:
campus
to the
year from April
visits
her last year before retirement,
in
1
for
5) or bringing
faculty, students and, during
President Jessica Kozloff.
bachelor's degree in elementary
education a few years
Connect current students with alumni through programs
earlier,
encouraged her to check
it
Alumni
out.
the Classroom. "Students need to
in
know who
and see what a Bloomsburg education can do
There was never any doubt that
©
she'd attend college somewhere,
Fedor-Michaels says. Her parents,
for
like
our alumni are
them," she says.
Continue to offer programs and services to benefit alumni and the
alumni association, such as loan consolidation and reduced rates on
who still live in the Wilkes-Barre
home where she grew up, empha-
insurance and travel.
sized the importance of education
"I
grew up in
who
people
found
first.
Bloomsburg," she
at
And
I
says.
Jumping right in to college life,
she was involved in the Community
Government Association and
years before
Council of Trustees.
tive to the
Each experience showed her the
possibilities that lay
ahead and,
although she earned her bachelor's
degree in education, she
when she
in
1987
for four
tunities," says
and
a
staff
mentors
world of oppor-
Frank became a mentor
dents.
lot
on
his perspectives
people from
diversity
working on campus
vice president for student
"She had a huge impact on
December 1996
office. In
woman, one
of those
push you
your
after
campus
first
own
in
women who
So, instead of leaving
was
new students
—now,
this year in
her
new position.
Fedor-Michaels sees not only a
BU
students and alumni,
but also an interconnectedness that
alumni
upon
affairs.
"Current students
need
in education, simultaneously plan-
ning her wedding. She became a
what Bloomsburg did for me.' It's a
people experience. Whether you're
full-time residence hall director in
talking about
June 1988 and, four months
spective students or at the
later
what alumni
and hear the
stories
are doing
about
Bloomsburg with pro-
end of the
experience after they've graduated,
married Frank Michaels.
it's
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They have been
much and had a
"After they graduate,
zero in
on where
we have to
their interests
were, not their class years."
As she connects and reconnects
with
is
BU
alumni, Fedor-Michaels
seeing the "Bloomsburg experi-
ence"
come
full circle.
Her
Catherine "Katie" Fedor,
at
a junior
BU, majoring in nursing. Katie
Fedor 78, the
is
Bonnie Parker-
who
BU near-
sister-in-law
introduced Aunt Lynda to
ly
niece,
is
25 years ago.
b
same connection."
Bonnie Martin
is
co-editor of
Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.
'this is
on Homecoming Weekend, she
the
to so
as director of
become a classroom teacher, she
stayed on to earn a master's degree
to see
introspective.
also the daughter of
she's building
BU to
—
more indepenand
variety of experiences," she explains.
ori-
their families. She's reconnected
young graduates
"Students today are
more
Fedor-Michaels
to greet
definition of "school spirit"
dent, less likely to be joiners
charge of the freshman
similarity in
potential."
more than
has evolved over the years, as well.
exposed
into their
entation program, she often
She was an example of a
strong, capable, independent
to
and
as a mainte-
a few miles from
The
.
been
and
my life.
too.
nance repairman in the dorms."
home
had 120
later,
1,000 students graduated with the
to a
many walks of life. And,
for the last three years, he's
with some of those students
life
and some of
Class of 2006.
"Bloomsburg changed him,
crediting the late Jennie Carpenter,
affairs.
members; 50 years
of them.
who was
director of residence
to era
of 1956, for example,
hall direc-
my job was all about the stu-
tor,
among the
Fedor-Michaels,
from era
the difference can be attributed to
accepted a position in the admissions
faculty
who opened up
and
differ
Lycoming
sheer numbers, she says. The Class
The couple moved
that the classroom wasn't
had
to
remembers. "As residence
knew
accepted her diploma
her future.
"I
moving
remains the same, alumni attitudes
Hall for another four years," she
the Student Education Society. She
served as the student representa-
Although the connection
Resi-
we lived in a tiny
two-bedroom apartment
group of
this
put family
Columbia
into
dence Hall, where
type of connection
that's the
"He moved
second in
for their six children,
importance only to family.
Editor's note:
on alumni
For information
events,
news and
volunteer opportunities, see the
Alumni Online Community
www.bloomualumni.com.
at
BU
Pennsylvania
Jeffrey
Davis, associate profes-
sor of history,
grew up
in the
Iti!
mountains and wide open
spaces of Washington
state.
His
academic research, on the other
hand, looks eastward, focusing on
Colonial
Amenca and one
of the
AN INTERVIEW BY ERIC
13 original colonies, Pennsylvania.
Davis' textbook for high school
students, "The Pennsylvania Jour-
ney,"
was published
last
The word "keystone"
year by
Gibbs Smith. At nearly the same
time,
central stone
all
the other stones in place. Pennsylvania
A
was nicknamed the Keystone
Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.
Bloomsburg: What
more than 200
interested
by
country, Pennsylvania was,
ago
in
*
the economic, social and political
far,
J
most diverse and vibrant
years
State
recognition of its important role in
in Pennsylvania's history?
Davis: In the early history of the
the
of an arch that holds
he was named the associate
editor for Pennsylvania History:
you
refers to the
state
~velopment of the United
and colony. And so much of the
States.
Museum Commission)
ennsylvania Historical and
founding of the country
happened
here.
The
capital of the
United States was Philadelphia for
a while.
If you
match up Pennsyl-
vania against the other colonies,
even in the Colonial period
most
like
ethnically
which
is
what we
and
what
religiously.
I
it
was
are today, a pluralistic society, both
like
And it was a hotbed
about
it.
It
was
of politics
the happening place.
Bloomsburg: Does
Pennsylvania have a towering
historical figure?
Davis: Benjamin Franklin. By
far,
the preeminent historical figure
Bloomsburg: What
aspects of Pennsylvania history
should make Pennsylvanians proud?
Davis: There's a
lot
recognizable. This year
Pennsylvanians can take pride
When you look at William Perm's principles in
in.
founding
rounded.
pretty
and pluralism, remarkable
of humor
comparison
to the other
his 301st birthday.
man.
good self-promoter,
and a
practical,
too.
which would
played in the founding of the United States with the
authority and financial benefit.
times,
and
—
He had
a
good sense
He got himhim political
pragmatic side.
self into positions
and the Declaration of
did
On the other hand, he was a
colonies of the time. Obviously, the role Pennsylvania
signing of the Constitution
Of all
was probably the most well
He was pretty good at everything he
true Renaissance
the colony, they were very idealistic principles of tolerance
in
is
the founding fathers, he
he stands out as
and the most
give
He was a scoundrel
at
a philanderer.
Independence in Philadelphia was the keystone that held
the republic together.
And,
in the 19th century during the
was a key player. With
and petroleum and all the
industrial revolution, Pennsylvania
timber, coal, steel
manufacturing that took place, Pennsylvania was a huge
contributor. Pennsylvania has so
many "firsts" in
building roads, canals and railroads.
areas like
Bloomsburg: How important was he
to the
way our
nation turned out?
Davis:
his
to
He was important
approach
move
to politics
in
and
many ways, especially for
He really helped
his drive.
Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary movement.
In his efforts to get France into the
war on
the side of
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societies
throughout the
state.
The
Underground Railroad came
right
through Pennsylvania, especially
through the areas of Lancaster and
the Maryland-Pennsylvania border.
The Susquehanna River was one of the
Of course, the Mason-
crossing points.
Dixon Line was the border between Pennsyl-
—between North and
—and Pennsylvania was
vania and Maryland
South
a state that
mixed views of the country.
There were abolitionist societies, and there were
reflected the
strongly
promoted
who
There were those
anti-abolitionist societies.
abolition
and those who
were very ambivalent.
Bloomsburg: So was
border
it
a cultural
state as well as a geographical
border
state?
Davis: Absolutely.
Many people
Philadelphia in particular
ties,
of
had strong
both economic and family, to the
had
South. Philadelphia
a strong textile
Many people had moved from the
South or had family who moved to the South. But,
once the Civil War started, Pennsylvania was second
only to New York in its contributions in manpower to
industry.
the war.
was very important. He was a large
enough contributor that things could have been very
the United States, he
different
Once
the
war
started,
Pennsylvanians rose to
the occasion.
Bloomsburg: Coming from Washington state,
without him.
is
there
anything about Pennsylvania culture that surprised you?
Bloomsburg: At the other extreme, who is the
unknown figure who should be better known?
Davis: Andrew Carnegie. He is well known, but
his connection to Pennsylvania
first free
Heinz.
who founded one
African American churches in Philadel-
phia. Milton Hershey,
George Westinghouse, John
steel cable
is
you find out
that's
Philadelphia,
agricultural.
and was involved
city
where
I
community.
grew up,
It
In the 19th century,
Davis:
It
was
a hotbed,
on both
counts. Especially
on
emancipation. There were abolitionist movements and
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there's
it's
not a
is
here,
and
and very
very different. In the
that Pennsylvania has. But
is
topography and
Eric Foster
rural
Little Italy
or
German
terrain,
states
by
how lush and green it is. b
co-editor 0/ Bloomsburg:
University Magazine.
on the East
one of the most beautiful
what was Pennsylva-
and emancipation movements?
that
was a mix. The West doesn't have the
Coast, Pennsylvania
far, its
is
case. There's Pittsburgh
and between them it's very
same experience
.
the West,
Very much an East Coast
There are ethnic communities. Not that you
the steamboat inventor.
Bloomsburg:
state.
and urban. But when you come
not the
with the Brooklyn Bridge, Lee Iacocca, Robert Fulton,
nia's role in the suffrage
coming from
an Eastern
don't have that in the West, but
We have more than our share of industrialists.
John Morgan invented
My impression,
state, industrialized
not as well known.
is
Richard Allen, an African American
of the
Davis:
Pennsylvania
The
Freedom,
new
friends and a new
style of learning
can make the
transition
from
high school
to college an
intimidating
experience. More
than 500 BU
students weather
the transition
more easily by
participating in
living learning
"
communities.
For freshman Terrell Garrett of Philadelphia,
being part of a living learning community has
eased the transition from high school to college.
STORY BY LYNETTE M
he ever set foot on
Before
campus, freshman
Garrett
Terrell
knew he wanted
"One of the major reasons I'm
doing well
is
because
sessions together
to live in the
we have study
and can work, as a
same residence
interact inside
classroom.
O N G
hall
The environment helps
group, with our professors. I'm
ease freshmen into college
never intimidated to ask a professor
allowing upperclassmen to take
ick Douglass Institute Living Learn-
for help
mentoring and leadership
ing Community.
know who I am and what
to
spend his
first
year
at
BU as part of the Freder-
Alumni from
Philadelphia's
all
do
high school
Lankenau High
the spark. "They
eficial
his
said
it
—
was ben-
to help
environment
for student-faculty
them both,"
attention,"
assistant vice president
lives
with other
Frederick Douglass students in
Luzerne Residence Hall. The community, he says, has kept
track during his
first
him on
year of college.
also offer students opportuni-
with their professors
participating in special lectures,
study sessions and
trips.
in the living learning communities
you and
Bloomsburg and
on
roles.
says Jonathan Lincoln,
are willing to help
to
while
"The great thing about students
it
you individualized
Convinced, Garrett came
by
life
will benefit
relationships to grow,
give
says.
LLCs
ties to interact
who
he
they can
me."
"Anytime you can provide an
lit
because you have professors
because they already
and
and outside of the
and dean of
is
that they're motivated, energized
undergraduate education and aca-
and they
demic
says Kathy Kollar-Valovage, adviser
affairs. "It
helps to build a
stronger sense of community,
is
important
at
any
which
university."
Living learning communities, or
LLCs, allow freshmen and returning
students
who
share similar interests
hit the
ground running,"
to the Presidential Leadership Pro-
gram LLC. "They see
living
the benefit of
with like-minded peers."
Each LLC
acts as a close-knit
community within
the university.
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'The great thing about students in the living learning
communities
— Kathy Kollar-Valovage
they hit the ground running.'
according to students. Sophomore
freshmen in the dorm can come
Manheim says the
connections she made in the Presidential Leadership Program LLC
me
Leah
Hilliard of
to college. The
community "became a small family
right off the bat. The upperclass-
helped her adjust
men in the dorm really helped walk
me through my freshmen year."
Sophomore David Flynn of
Bloomsburg decided to work as a
community assistant in the Presidential Leadership
Program LLC
for advice,
and
Gretchen Bomberger, a freshman
from Denver,
Pa., says the
and
LLC was
Diversity
"a
a growing trend
Flynn
"When I was
says.
dorm helped me
the
and
out with PLP
college in general.
Now the
and Health
to
the Education
is
Engagement
fall,
dential Learning
established in
housed
Schuylkill Residence Hall; the
in
Hon-
—an
student use
LLCs
are
show student success
higher in these communi-
because students are living with
and
has
office
are
They have higher GPAs
more
successful in their
programs than similar students who
Jonathan Lincoln, assistant vice
aren't living in these
and dean of undergraduate
education and academic affairs,
says
communities,"
Madelyn Rodriguez, multi-
cultural center director.
Professors
working within the
LLCs make it a priority
to get to
and
indication, assis-
increas-
component
of the
"I
expect we're going to see
these begin to develop even more,"
"I'd like to get to
where we can
coming freshmen
tell all
that they
participate in these
communities
they choose to do so."
Lynette
Mong
'08
is
in-
can
B
who have a similar focus and
motivation.
Resi-
with a full-time
Bloomsburg University community.
the point
people
Columbia
becoming an
ingly important
Lincoln says.
ties
in
Hall. Staffed
established in 2001.
"Statistics
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Community Center was
last fall
both housed in Luzeme, were
rates are
growing number of
assist the
students involved in LLCs, a Living
that
and Frederick Douglass LLCs,
ors
I
tant vice president Lincoln says,
Program LLC was
is
know
something
classroom space for professor and
Northum-
1998 and
a professor
kids. That's
secretary, the center
both
each house fewin
is
takes the time to get to
Honors
Learning
berland Residence Hall. The Presi-
community initiatives with Linda
Sowash, director of residence life.
the
dence
20 students
Kokoska
with classes to teach, and yet he
communities have more than 200
er than
new living learning
about the program.
created
established last
discusses
duce themselves and leam more
To
housed with
Diversity,
at the
really appreciate."
LLC in Columbia
and Gender and
and
lunch with
Honors Program,
Residence Hall; together, the two
participants. Civic
president
of the
still
communi-
oldest, Sciences
Sciences,
to
"You're not just a number," Balz
Bloomsburg, each with a
unique focus. The
went
beginning of the semester to intro-
says. "Dr.
Kollar-Valovage. Currendy, there
ties at
a freshman, the upperclassmen in
Amanda
Stephen Kokoska, interim director
on
campuses nationwide, according
there as a freshman.
reversal,"
several friends
me has been very reassuring."
are seven living learning
like a role
Gender
welcoming
community right away. The support
of knowing people who have gone
through many of the same situations
LLCs are
of the class-
room. Honors freshman
Balz of Walden, N.Y., says she
because of his positive experience
"It's
know students outside
to
can help them
I
out in return."
as
and
that they're motivated, energized
is
an
English/creative writing
from Kennewick, Wash.
major
if
Lancaster
County has towns with names such
as
Bird-in-Hand,
Blue Ball and Paradise and farmsteads where Amish families have
tended
fields
and
livestock for generations.
But there
that could change the county's rural flavor in a
Balancing
Growth and
With
its
acres of
rich in history
no wonder
New York minute.
open farmland dotted with small towns
and
little
changed from Colonial days,
it's
that 5 million people visit Pennsylvania's
Lancaster County annually. The lure of quiet country
living, the reputation for
affordability of
houses
good schools and the
attract
another 5,000
Green
BY JACK
are forces
SHERZER
BLOOMSBURG
UNIVERSITY
relative
who become
new permanent
between preservation and growth,
the very essence of what
could be
lost
makes Lancaster so
desirable
under waves of new development.
Enter Mike
As
But without careful planning
residents.
to strike a balance
Domin
now working in the
agency's
new Heritage and Long Range Planning
Domin has spent the last 20 years protecting
min
can be a struggle and
says.
"To
try
takes a lot of time,"
it
and accommodate
losing the character of Lancaster
is
Do-
growth without
the
very challenging."
Domin, 43, grew up in neighboring Chester County
lives in Willow Street, a community about
and now
five
300,000 acres of farmland.
gies
known
He
miles south of Lancaster.
committed
are
says he
knew
At Bloomsburg University,
Domin
initially
studied
geology but then switched to environmental planning
the
sophomore
offered his
year.
"I
liked
it
be-
involved not only the natural sciences, but also
human element,
in
working with communities
change
a positive
for the future," says
making sure change
In Lancaster,
three-pronged approach: keeping
urban areas
close to existing
on
development
living in
more
is
to
Domin.
positive takes a
new development
to avoid sprawl,
neighborhoods with parks and
as insistent
trails
improving
so people are not
rural areas,
and buying
working on ways
to residents
When Domin came to the planning commission
creating "urban
growth boundaries."
These are areas designated
for residential
by
infrastructure.
The
in these areas so
it
idea,
Domin says,
is
to direct
doesn't start gobbling
up
rule of
growth
the
been
a battle because for a long time
American dream has been
land,"
he
says.
The county
struction of diverse
a
house on an acre of
instead encourages the con-
communities offering a combina-
tion of apartments, townhouses, single-family
to occur,
Domin is
those growth areas attractive
creating parks,
thumb, Domin
all
trails
and other
says, is to
residents. Larger
of about 50 acres, with athletic fields
ation
live,
have small two-
"tot lots")
within
community parks
and other recre-
should be within 10 miles of residents.
facilities,
we make
"Unless
the urban areas attractive places to
we're not going to be successful with our whole
growth
strategy,"
hance the
he
"Anything
says.
livability in these
we can do
urban centers
is
to en-
homes
and some commercial development.
Recently,
Domin and
the department celebrated the
completion of plans for the
hiking/biking
trail,
ect, that skirts the
easy
—
the
it
first
from a dozen
first
called the
1.2 miles of an
edge of Lancaster
stretch to about
part of the
different
urban
Conestoga Greenway Proj-
trail
50
City.
The hope
miles, but
it's
Domin's
it
helped to create, the Lancaster Farmland
Trust, have spent about
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$50 million buying
the devel-
is
to
not
required agreements
landowners, he says.
role.
About
is
three years ago, in
response to residents' concerns, the department created
the Heritage
and Long Range Planning
in addition to protecting
Division.
Now,
open space, Domin helps
and works with towns and
nonprofit agencies to preserve streetscapes and raise
money to
"I
save architecturally significant buildings.
think
my children and my children's children will
be able to experience the same kind of beauty in Lancaster
County
that
we have today because
of the actions
we are taking now," says Domin, the father of two
agers. "I feel proud to be part of that." B
Since the early 1980s, the county and a nonprofit
organization
im-
just as
portant as preserving the farmland outside of them."
identify historic properties
"We promote higher density or compact developthat's
make
neighborhood parks (think
also part of
county's farmland.
the
to
Preserving Lancaster County's historic character
and
commercial growth clustered around existing urban
ment and
Now
recreational areas.
someday have
rights to farms.
shortly after graduating from Bloomsburg, the depart-
ment was
and have
60 municipalities know
its
where they want development
The
in
County and
that Lancaster
a quarter-mile of
make
to their farming lifestyle
But people's attitudes and perceptions about where
the environment.
it
the
not been interested in selling land to builders.
to five -acre
cause
by
horse-drawn bug-
and shunning the outside world, Domin says the
Amish
high school that he wanted to do something related to
when it was
for traveling in
they want to live remains key to land preservation.
that essence.
"It
more than 70,000 acres of farmland.
up the development rights
to
to eventually lock
is
In that goal, the county has been helped
County
a principal planner with the Lancaster
Division,
to
goal
Amish. Well
'85.
Planning Commission and
relatively
opment rights
The
Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania
native.
He
lives in
Hanisburg.
teen-
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Charged for Work
STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS
BU's new EET program is graduating electronics engineering
technologists who have the real-world experience that industry wants.
which turned
Engineers design things. Engineering technologists
the internship,
make
Now he helps design programmable power sources
things work.
The
differences
actually
run a
practical,
little
between the two professions
that aircraft manufacturers
deeper, but the emphasis on
to test aircraft electronics. "1
day-to-day operations
is
what
ested in electronics
sets
engineering technology apart. Bloomsburg Univerelectronics engineering technology
sity's
program
takes "practical" a step further, emphasizing the
hands-on experience
is
to
don't
need
The
who
are
state officials
that this
works.
Of the nine BU
first
first
job."
students
who
and summer 2006, one
nies such as
and
eight are
is
working on
working
for
a
mark on Blooms-
its
Lockheed Martin and PPL Susque-
with California Instruments in San Diego.
"I
trip west.
came
"They offered
program
work with business-
to
to help
improve the
recalls professor James
dollars in funding
to
department
Moser,
at the time.
Learn
came from Pennsylvania's Link
Initiative.
task
was
hiring
develop the curriculum.
to find
until
someone who
BU
found
fit
someone with
the right
India.
"It
the
was kind of difficult
Moser says
bill,"
Biswajit Ray.
was nurtured
Ray's practical bent
as a child in
Because of the struggling economy there, he
says, "All the parents will
to
me
He
to
combination of academic and industry experience
to
out here during spring break for an interview,"
when
asked the department of physics
economy,
The next
"If
Naylor says of his 2005
really,
I
help get the idea into development. Half a million
Perm
compa-
we can get them placed right away," Ray
says, "then we consider ourselves successful."
Among those graduates is Meshoppen, Pa.,
native Benjamin Naylor, now an associate engineer
hanna.
EET classes,
used his contacts in the electronics industry
earned bache-
master's degree in electrical engineering at
State University
electronics background,
and engineering technology
state's
inter-
stuff like
it."
who was head of the
graduating class
degrees in electronics engineering technology
in spring
had no
es in developing a
emphasis on practical training
proved
lor's
coordinator. "They
a lot of training to start their
fledgling program's
and video games and
started taking the
enjoyed
military use
had always been
burg's drawing board in the late '90s. That's
produce engineers
EET program
I
and the U.S.
The EET program made
that often puts students in
capable of contributing in industry right away," says
Biswajit Ray,
says. "I
when
really
jobs as soon as they graduate.
"The goal
he
that,"
but
into a full-time job."
be an engineer or a
ogy but was good
at
tell
their kids,
doctor.'
"
Ray
Tou have
didn't like biol-
math, so he chose to become
an engineer.
Ray taught
Biswajit Ray, far
left, is
coordinator of the
EET program. Recent EET
at
electrical
and computer engineering
the University of Puerto Rico before taking leave
graduates Christopher Root of Danville (top) and Matthew Dunkelberger
to gain on-the-job
of Mohrsville (bottom) apply what they learned in class at paid
thought that teaching engineering just
practicians. In the classroom, students use sophisticated software to
design circuit boards (center).
was not
a
knowledge
good experience," he
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WINTER 2007
in industry.
says.
"I
by
"My goal was
the books
to
come back to
As
ence."
in Atlanta,
14)
and
for space satellites
on with Bloomsburg. In 2000, he and
their
two children (now ages 10 and
behind the big city and southern climate
left
move
EMS Technologies Inc.
he designed electronics
before signing
his wife
teaching, but with industry experi-
a design engineer for
to Pennsylvania,
professor Biswajit
timely guidance.
academic program from scratch.
The EET curriculum that Ray created provides the
math and technology foundation that students
science,
need
for their culminating experience
paid co-op job in industry.
Communications, Williamsport,
sity of
a six-month,
are:
Berwick; Tobyhanna
Inc.,
—
students walking
discussing
Dayton (Ohio) Research
Air Balancing
The
up and down
end when
—co-op
experience.
may be
Moser
those co-ops,
and the Univer-
job opportunities. Not only do they get a solid academ-
Institute. In addition, a
ic
when they graduate, students get solid
education, but they get experience in solving prob-
They
lems."
placement and provides feedback to make sure the
the cost of four years. (Originally,
EET program produces graduates who have
experiences were required, adding
Ray
the required
notes, "Because of
Army Depot; L3
Pa.;
very active industry advisory board helps in co-op
that industry needs,
the skills
also get a four-and-a-half-year
up
The idea of a new program with "strong industry
—and on
when he was a
desire of students to graduate sooner.)
He was
already interested in
he had studied the
high
field in a
school technical program. After his co-op experience
PPL Susquehanna
in
work
in Berwick, he continued to
there during his last semester of classes,
came
and then be-
a full-time systems associate after his graduation
May. Wolfe
is
involved with maintaining the com-
after
Forty-five students are enrolled in the
and Ray hopes
that
where 20 students
a year are graduating.
"A lot of
people don't
know that we have a program like
Bloomsburg
University,"
Even
he
industrial clients initially
had
"When we
they couldn't quite understand what
to
begin studying
"Now they're
for a master's in business administration (probably at
Moser
BU) so he eventually can become a project manager.
EET students at Bloomsburg also gain hands-on
they're really interested.
reputation, but once they see
experience through their professors' research projects.
coming back
For example, Ray recently completed designs
really supportive
table generators being tested
Defense.
"It's
good
date professionally,
for
by
the
me because
I
can stay up-to-
and the students can
with actual research," he
The EET program
is
for por-
Department of
get involved
attracting students thanks to
modem equipment, individual attention from professors
and the
university's relatively
student/teacher ratios, Ray
es are small, so students have
software,
and more
low
and Moser
more
"One
faculty guidance,"
skills quickly,
of the things that's
and
"Our
from national
Ray
and
to
It's
.1
doing,"
and
taking a while to build our
what we're doing,
they're
think local industry has been
helpful."
get a boost
accreditation, a process that
is
soon
now under
first
students graduated, Ray explains.
BU has a head start on one of the requirefaculty members who have both academic and
However,
industrial experience.
"1
think the program has a bright future,"
says.
B
advance their
according to Moser.
amazing
and
.
we were
placing co-op students,
(Accreditation Board for Engineering Technol-
ogy) until the
Ray
says.
more.
be convinced
spoke to PPL,
way. The program couldn't seek accreditation from
ments:
class-
access to labs
All those advantages help students
knowledge and
tuition
say.
for
to
first
The EET program's reputation may
ABET
says.
says.
this at
says.
power
2007, he plans
EET program,
the point
of the program's merits.
fall
the
number will grow to
puter systems that monitor the core at PPL's nuclear
plant. In
to a five-year
one co-op, Ray says
workforce
at
for
industry feedback that students were ready to join the
backing" attracted Bloomsburg native Jonathan Wolfe
electronics, since
program
two six-month co-op
program. The requirement was lowered based on
says.
freshman.
he
in engineering,"
class ends."
biggest draw, though,
and paid
the halls in groups,
and debating problems
says. "It doesn't
Among the employers that
have provided co-op opportunities
Engineers
work independently in small teams as
Ray moves from team to team to give
In labs, students
to
where Ray would develop an
me is that
I
hear
Tracey M.
Dooms
is
a freelance writer and editor
living in
State College, Pa.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
&
Stage
Whether running two
or working on
Speedway
he
i
NASCAR pit crews, alumnus Ralph Miller
credits BU with giving him the
knowledge and savvy to succeed
says.
in
whatever he has decided to do.
"Bloomsburg
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY
successful Pennsylvania theaters
really
opened
a lot of doors for
"Once they were open,
me,"
ran through them."
I
alph Miller, a successful businessman and
struction
NASCAR fan, had just finished conon four homes in Daytona, Fla., in 1987
when he
sent a note to Dale Earnhardt Sr. offer-
avid
ing his favorite driver the use of one of his
during Speed
Week at Daytona
Much to his surprise,
Earnhardt called, ar-
ranged a meeting and accepted the
began another chapter in
which he became
known as "The
homes
Speedway.
Miller's
offer.
life,
Ralph Miller
Thus
kisses the bricks
during
close friends with the racer
Intimidator"
member for both drivers, making 150
and part of the
tory Lane.
and Jeff Gordon.
don't have the courage to take chances
That Miller took a chance and things worked
is
happen throughout
things
ask Miller
if
luck finds
own luck and the
dead
"I
him
or
if
his
life.
But
he creates his
don't believe in luck at
60, Miller
to live by,
is
all,"
electronics set-ups
says Miller,
and
as a pit
who
crew
If
you
and go
be working
for
af-
some-
life."
and
Miller certainly has.
owner
Bucks County Playhouse in
At
of the ven-
New Hope and
season this spring. For more
than two decades, he's also
owned
Playhouse in Mountainhome.
Continued on next page
WINTER 2007
will
the longest-running
will kick off his 31st
serious.
worked on
the rest of your
Words
erable
usually affable Miller turns
believe in kicking
what you want, you
body
not surprising. He's been
out beautifully
making
ter
"I
to celebrate a
victory at Indy.
trips to Vic-
open doors.
championship racing teams of both Earnhardt
.
L.
the
Pocono
'I
believe in kicking open doors. If you don't have the
courage to take chances and go after what you want,
you
will
be working
somebody the rest of your life.'
for
— RALPH MILLER
A math major at Bloomsburg in
the mid-1960s. Miller
was
a
before the season started, the
mem-
producer notified the playhouse
he was bankrupt and wasn't
ber of Madrigal Singers, Men's Glee
that
Club and the Concert Choir who
coming back,"
appeared in musicals, including
owners said
"Carousel."
money
He left school after
which eventually included
the Bucks
and
I fell
place," says Miller,
Pleasant, Pa.
"I
money would come
in love with the
found partners
who lives in
capital,
really just
Point
met with the
and
believes
to
buy them
he was able
the Bucks
play-
He
him the
to
Ralph Miller
on
He
out.
at the
Miller
Miller recalls. In a scene that,
would make
turned around
steps
and
giant
itself,
great theater, Miller
at the
yelled,
bottom of the
"You ought
to listen
me because one day, I'm going to
own this place!"
to
Seven years
later,
he got
his
chance. "In 1976, about six weeks
first
producer
McDonald's was eyeing the
crowd
it
work
is
going
for art's sake.
staff at
both the-
well as using computer
many locals.
orchestration, while presenting
When Miller took over the
theater,
it
was predominantly
stock house
—
different
would come during the
summer season to try out
new products.
jj^t
I
saw
its
history, acting lumi-
naries such as Kitty Carlisle, Liza
Minnelli, Walter Matthau, Grace
stars
Kelly
stock
sitting
shows.
During
a
where
a playhouse
after
at night."
aters, as
says. "But
around
Bucks County Playhouse.
More
recently, the theater has hosted
the likes of William Shatner ("No-
body
that there
and Robert Redford performed
at the
realizes
what a tremendous
is.") and Don
who passed away last year.
comedic actor he
was plenty of product
out there, and we began
Knotts,
doing
the years, the Bucks
Despite several floods throughout
revivals."
County Play-
The new direction was
a hit. Miller more than
house
doubled the length of the
healthy and love the work; they'll
playhouse's season and
have to carry
turned a
says. "I
him
to
profit,
allowing
buy Pocono
Playhouse in 1984.
lets
He
—nor
both
facilities.
BLOOMSBURG
ground three
after Miller
me
do want
took over. "I'm
out of there," Miller
to eventually give
in trust so that
1
just
it
it
doesn't
want
to
sure this wonderful theater
stays a theater."
b
the
commitment
his
solid
someone
make
different levels of success
sway
on
get sold for condos.
neither the distance
the theaters
is
decades
to
about 80 miles separates
spray.
makes
same production
looking for product," he
champagne
ski
go back to the lodge
property, a prospect that horrified
houses were
traditional
own," Miller notes.
He saves money by using the
but fast-food
"All of these little
Ralph Miller celebrates victory with a
its
Poconos and the
not only was he the
to turn a profit,
when
12-week season there because,
work
producer
did
Labor Day, everybody deserts the
purchase
to
threw me out of the lobby,"
it
"You're only going to get a 10- to
bargain price of $200,000 because,
for free "but the
as
walked through
"Pocono Playhouse could not
house's producer and offered to
literally
first
the doors in the 1960s.
stand
he had
County Playhouse
much
appears today
from.
to lend
five years later,
made enough
wanted
the chance to produce a season."
In 1969, he
The Bucks County Playhouse
the meeting wondering where the
saw George C. Scott and
Colleen Dewhurst in 'Lion in Winthere
raise the
In reality, Miller walked out of
County Playhouse.
"I
ter'
could
advance rent for the
for the
summer, they would give me the
theater. I told them I could do it."
three years to pursue other opportunities,
Miller says. "The
if I
to
Kevin Gray
in the
is
a freelance writer based
Lehigh Valley.
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Where weres er$n
there's a wav.
Generations of students have come
to
UI'
Bloomsburg to pursue their dreams,
from the
y
earliest days in
current students.
others
1839 to our
Many have helped
who came after them
—a
tradition
of philanthropy that quietly continues to
this day.
RMftfw*
One of the most meaningful, yet
least
known, ways our alumni and
friends have helped us
'
¥
gift to the university
Known
is
by providing a
through their wills.
as bequests, these gifts have
funded scholarships, provided equipment
to teach students, helped to renovate
buildings and enabled
many things to
happen at Bloomsburg University.
Regardless of how
think you have,
much money you
if you
want to help our
students and the university, you can.
We can work with your attorney or
adviser to
great
make it easy. You will feel
knowing that you have provided an
opportunity for even more generations
of students to come.
Contact the Bloomsburg University
Foundation for more information,
either through the Web
site,
www.bloomu.edu/giving (which has
more information on giving through
your will), or by phone
After
all,
at
570-389-4524.
where there's a will,
there's a
way... to help!
.:.!,'
McPeek gets a boost from friends Keri Bachman, Kristie
Gardner and Danielle Burke behind Carver Hail in the fall of 2003.
McPeek, a senior elementary education major who was a cheerleader
in high school, has cheered for the Huskies, along with Burke, for the
past two years.
Katie
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University
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Quest extended
trips
bound for
and abroad
destinations in U.S.
Bloomsburg UniversiQuest program
ty's
extended
offers
trips
BU alumni and friends.
For many of these trips, no
for
experience
necessary and
is
most equipment
ed. Varied
ical
is
provid-
amounts of phys-
stamina are required.
Trekking
in
Patagonia,
Chile, Feb. 12 to 25: This
adventure in the southern
Patagonian Andes of Chile
takes participants into one
of the natural
wonders of
South America, the Torres
Roy Smith,
director, will lead a
Quest walking
trip across
northern England from June 22 to July
4.
Del Paine National Park.
The leader is Dave Conlan,
dbconlan@yahoo com
The hikers
Costa Rica Mountain Bike
trails.
.
Ride,
March 9
to 18:
The
eight-day mountain bike
ride takes cyclists
through
will
go through
rock formations on scenic
The
leader
Stone-Briggs,
is
Alison
astone®
bloomu.edu.
Rock Climbing
in
nia,
March 10
to
be in
satisfactory physical
condition.
The leader
is
in Central California.
to learn the
but
bloomu.edu.
climbers on
Hiking Joshua Tree
lines.
March 10
to 14:
The Joshua
Tree National Park offers
hikers
more than 585,000
acres of wilderness to
explore.
into
The group
Palm Springs, explore
the Indian
visit
will fly
Canyons and
the internationally
famous botanical museum.
no
prior climbing experience
Roy Smith, rsmith®
National Park, California,
The
allow those with
still
fundamentals
challenge advanced
The
more
leader
difficult
is
Brett
St.
to July 4:
Bee's
on
The walk
the Irish
the perfect
cyclists.
North Yorkshire moors. The
leader
is
Roy Smith, rsmith®
the
will
designed for
weekend biker. The
begin and end in
trip
the
in
the
Aug. 16 to 23: Crested
U.S., will
named
be the base
this trip in the
Rockies.
landscape and
backdrop
The group
for
will bike
through vineyard-covered
hillsides,
along country
roads and pastoral scenes.
bloomu.edu.
wildflower capital of the
is
combined with
glacial
region and finishes across the
Butte, recently
and Belgium
The Finger Lakes
wineries,
small-town charm, provide
Biking in Holland, June 2
back roads of Holland
Lakes Wine Country, Oct. 6
to 8:
the shores of the North Sea,
to 13: This
the
Brett
Bike Tour through the Finger
begins in the Lake District
ers,
12-day tour along
is
unique
Rockies: Colorado Wildflow-
bloomu.edu
leader
Sea to Robin Hood's Bay on
Mountain Biking
Simpson, bsimpson®
The
Simpson, bsimpson®
bloomu.edu.
from
renowned climbing location
is
June 22
old logging roads to single
tracks.
Simpson, bsimpson®
a world-
a Spanish-speaking guide
trip will
leader
across northern England,
Joshua Tree
The
Brett
The
to 17:
Ocean, accompanied by
vehicle.
train or bike.
Walking Across England,
Joshua
De San
trip requires participants
cross terrain ranging from
bloomu.edu.
Tree National Park, Califor-
and support
may
between centers by
travel
is
Costa Rica, from Fortuna
Carlas to the Pacific
towns. Participants
the
The group
Amsterdam, with two- or
City, Colo., often
three-day stops in three
altitude of
7,000
is
Roy Smith,
and physical
requirements, call (570)
Lake
above an
feet, as
leader
rsmith@bloomu.edu.
including costs
will bike
to
The
For additional information,
for
Colorado
from Crested Butte
The tour will stop at some
of the more notable wineries.
they
389-2100, check online at
www.buquest.org or contact
trip leaders at
e-mail
addresses provided.
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Daisy Girton, 90, celebrated in June with other
5 "2 C.
%J %J
ship,
alumni of a one -room school near Anthony Town-
where she had taught from 1935
until 1941.
5 ^7/i Mary Beth Lech was re-elected national vice presi/ -L dent, treasurer and board member of the National
Contract
Management Association.
Clyde
5 £l El
vJ
Robert Fleck
O
2006 Distinguished
received the
E.
Lowery, Birdsboro,
is
vice president of the busi-
ness-banking group for Leesport Financial Group.
(right), Danville,
Ser-
Award from the the Pennsylvania Association
of Realtors. Owner of Coldwell Banker Fleck
5 ^7#^ David
Agency, he has been active in regional and
pal for
vice
/ \J
state
many years and will
2007 chairman of the National Associaof Realtors Smart Growth Advisory Committee
1 1
ville
Robinholt, Nescopeck,
School
District,
is
retiring
from Dan-
where he was a school
princi-
years.
real estate associations for
5 ^7^7 Deborah
serve as
tion
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Mary Ann Gordish, a speech therapist for
Wayne and Wallenpaupack areas,
} J^
schools in the
2006.
retired in
5 j^ f\ Edward
R.
Hess joined
the Laurel Health
System
'70
F.
Beierschmitt
is
acting superinten-
dent of Southern Columbia Area School
Hugh Dempsey
Pope John Paul
ington,
(right) is
5 ^7CJ
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Wash-
D.C
Suzanne Menapace
Carmel Area School
retired
principal of Center Grove School,
is
vice president
District.
and general man-
ager of
^°^' George
Antochy
is
office,
serving in Iraq with the
eastern Pennsylvania regional
manager for American Education Services.
Alan Lonoconus is superintendent of Shikellamy
District.
Donald Wiest
II is
executive vice president and chief
investment officer for Midwest Banc, Melrose Place,
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deputy director of
Cultural Center in
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Harry Warren
is
Randolf Township School
Ecomm's East Lampeter Township
near Allentown. He was previously a sales manager.
School
Bistocchi, superintendent of Union
County (N.J.)
Vocational-Technical School District, was honored by having a
three-story school building dedicated in his name.
the
/ C3
Iosso
New Jersey's
Army Reserves.
Rachael Lohman '79M is
District, Catawissa.
Thomas
^7Q
/
Physician Team, Wellsboro.
Richard
}
in
Albert J. Manzi (nght), Utah,
111.
is
president and chief executive officer
of Prairie Mountain Publishing, a newspaper
management and operating partnership created
by The E. W. Scripps Co. and MediaNews
from the Mount
District.
Tom Blackwell retired from the
'71
North Perm School
District in
Thomas Brennan Jr., Hamsburg,
director of the Louisiana
is
2005.
executive assistant
Community Development
Office in
Baton Rouge.
Irene Casari retired from the
School
Frank Jayman
School
Mount Carmel Area
District.
retired
from the Mount Carmel Area
District.
Doreen Kushner
is
principal of Transfiguration Catholic
School, Shamokin.
John Olaynick works
Beach County
(Fla.)
^y Nell
5 ^7' }
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as an environmentalist
Water Utilities.
'
s a third-grade teacher
for
Palm
and grade
level
coordinator for the Bangor Area School District.
Joseph Quinn Jr., Moosic, was named
to the
Keystone
Alums inducted into Hall of Fame
College Board of Trustees.
A.
'73
Ben Wagner,
Melanie Wengrenovich
Area School
District.
a librarian at the University at
retired
from the Mount Carmel
The newest members of BU's Athletic Hall of Fame, inducted
during Homecoming Weekend 2006, are shown with BU
President Jessica Kozloff. They are, left to right, front: Marty
Laudato '93, Softball; Janelle Breneman '94, Softball; and Kim
Youndt Evans '90, swimming; and, back: Jim Browning '56,
football and track; Lance Milner '90, men's tennis; Kozloff; and
Todd Cummings '83, wrestling. For complete information about
the inductees, visit http://www.bloomu.edu/sports/hallfame/
2006halloffame.shtml.
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Snook heads
Group. Concurrently, he serves as president and publisher of
the Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.
nursing
manager and treasurer
for Shell Oil Co., Houston, Texas. He has worked for Shell
since 1980, spending six years in London, England.
association
Rick Menniti
9
Q
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is
treasury operations
Ernest Jackson
-A.
(N.Y.) School District's middle school.
is
Snook '02M recently
Betsy
became executive administrator for the Pennsylvania
vice principal of Warwick Valley
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Roseann Murello is assistant
School, Long Island, N.Y.
principal at Lawrence
Nurses Association, based in Harrisburg.
High
As the executive administrator, Snook manages the
of the association and serves as the spokesperson
activities
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and coordinator
vice president of
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and served as interim chief financial officer.
Michael St. Clair is social studies teacher and head
coach at West Chester Rustin High School.
Wayne
D. Brookhart, Danville,
is
Edward Schicatano
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care.
Elizabeth Williams Confair
is
a learning support
teacher with the Intermediate Unit 9 in Smethport.
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sales for the
Kathleen Ewer
Reading
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Phillies.
retired after
26 years of
teaching, including the last 2 1 years at
Immanuel Christian School, Hazleton.
Maj. David A. Lesko was promoted
Bruce M. Smith, U.S. Army Reserves, 424th Military Police Detachment, received the Bronze Star for meritorious service during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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presi-
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Energy, Texas.
initiatives across
Nursing Foundation of Pennsylvania. Snook has a 30-year
National Bank.
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for professional issues
the state. She also serves as chief executive officer of the
northern region commercial lending for Harleysville
to lieuten-
ant colonel in the Air Force Reserves.
Army
National Guard Maj. Ronald T. Sowal, a dentist
from Shamokin, served in southern California in support of
(right), assistant
U.S. Border Patrol efforts.
professor of psychology at Wilkes
College, received the Carpenter Outstanding
9
Teacher Award.
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Brenda DeRenzo
is
special education coordinator at
Parkland Schools in the Allentown
area.
Roger Nunkester Jr., Berwick, is middle school principal at
Southern Columbia Area School District. He was named in the
10th edition of "Who's Who Among America's Teachers," the
third time he has been honored.
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L.
graduated from
at Fort Dix, N.J.
She works
Command and
for
an appeals technical analyst and holds an
care
Classmates from '56 celebrate reunion
About 70 alumni and guests attended the 50-year reunion of the
Class of 1956 held at the Fenstemaker Alumni House Sept. 15 to
2006. Classmate
Bill Bitner,
Oldsmar,
Fla.,
was
chief organizer for
which included a reunion dinner and campus tours.
chairman and president of Evergreen Bancorp, is a
former alumni board member, past recipient of the Distinguished
Service Award and a generous supporter of Bloomsburg University.
He and wife Wylla "Bunny" Bitner, also a 1956 graduate, have
donated more than S50.000 toward student scholarships. Shown in
the accompanying photo are, left to right, Steve Kozloff, BU
President Jessica Kozloff, Bill Bitner and Bunny Bitner.
the event,
Bitner, retired
BLOOMSBURG
MBA in health
management.
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Kris Bautsch, Limerick, teaches second grade
Spring-Ford School District
certificate in
17,
General Staff College
Independence Blue Cross as
at
after receiving his teaching
December 2005.
Laurie Churba, a costume designer for
NBC-TVs "Saturday
Night Live," was costume assistant on the film "World Trade
Center," starring Nicholas Cage.
Lisa Peterlin Sanders teaches history, mathematics and
science to elementary students at Wakefield Country
Day
School,
Flint Hill, Va.
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John Gabage,
deacon, the
Glenside,
last
was ordained as a transitional
becoming a Catholic
step toward
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priest.
attends
Mary's Seminary and University.
St.
president
Carl C. Risch, a Carlisle attorney, works as an appeals
adjudication officer for the U.S. Citizenship and
Lancaster,
Immigration Services, Department of Homeland
Security,
Brett Gibble
(ri jht),
relationship
Lebanon and York
ML
y
CNN
\4^y
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gambling crime
News
Headline
to talk
appeared on
slot
in Florida.
Shikellamy School
for the
i
counties.
Fla., police officer,
about his role in fighting
Stephanie Hare Michaels
Mohnton,
joined Wachovie Corp. as vice
manager in the commercial
Cumberland, Dauphin,
for Berks,
Lazarus Kimsal, a Miami,
Washington, D.C.
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and senior
banking group, responsible
is
special education supervisor
District.
Births
Lisa Tuthill Aiderson '87 and
Julie Crossley Willits '94 and
Dian Taylor Alleyne
husband, Edward, a daughter,
husband, Steve, a son, Tyler
husband,
Anna
Michael,
Elise,
March
24,
2006
Sharon Belles Aiken
'89 and
husband, Martin, a daughter,
Julia, Feb. 9,
2006
Michael Crane
'89 and wife,
Pamela, a son, Michael
Oct. 20,
Jr.,
Katy
May 31, 2006
Weber Abram
and
Kara Nagurney Feulner '00 and
'96,
husband, Rob, a daughter, Allison
Rose, Sept. 27, 2006
a daughter, Taylor Paige,
May 26, 2006
'95 and
Beth Christman Fronheiser
Steiner '97
Lori Clarke
March
husband, Curt, a daughter, Meredith
Ryan,
June
Jeni
4,
2005
Vicki Muckenthaler
Blevins '95
Melanie Anne,
May
19,
Clarke Steiner,
2,
and
2006
Marlena Zappile '97 and husband.
2006
Kirk
Thomas '98,
Noah
a son,
Elizabeth
'90 and husband, Eddie, a son,
and husband, Adam, a daughter,
Maria Nolter Grimes
Andy
Sophie Elizabeth, April 20, 2006
husband, David, a daughter, Cassidy
Aug.
Christian,
2006
6,
Becky Young Evans
'91
and
Donovan Conish
Dancy
Jennifer Rosencrance
Anthony, Dec.
'95
Elyse, July 13,
8,
2005
2006
Lisa Braglio
Jane Mary, June
July 31, 2006
husband, Frank, a son, Dominic
Jane Salak Spera
'91
and
Amanda Shepard
husband, Anthony, a daughter.
2005
Julia Jane, Sept. 22,
Diane Dolan Miller '92/'05M
and husband,
Mark
Miller
daughter, Katherine, Jan.
6,
'91, a
2006
March
Carlos,
Flaska '95
Mancini
'98 and
28, 2006, born
18,2006
May 1,2006
Suzanne Whitehead
Ott '00 and
husband, Stephen Ott
'01, a
daughter, Elizabeth, April
James, Aug. 18,2006
Joy Gazzerro Connelly '99
'00, a son,
Adam Fosbenner '95 and wife,
and husband, Daniel, a daughter.
June
Lauren, a son, John Douglas,
Grace Leah, Oct. 16,2006
Aug. 29. 2006
Melissa Gromis Feathers
2005
19,
Aiden Joseph,
2006
Stephanie McPherson Risser '00
and husband, Justin, a daughter,
'99,
Tara Yanick Kogut '95 and
and husband, Stephen, a daughter.
Kayla, Aug. 2,
2006
husband, Joe, a son, Ronan
husband, Michael Kogut
MacyAmylee, March
Kelly Hoover
'01
2006
Pilling, April 6,
Christopher
R.
son, Aidan Michael, Aug.
Corley '93 and
wife, Jolly Foster, a daughter,
Renn, Sept. 22, 2005
Cathleen Zicari Flynn '93 and
husband,
Francis,
Francis, a son,
March
22,
Michael
'93
Brian, a daughter,
Bosack Woods
'93 and
Helene, April 13,2006
Matthew
E.
Rhodes
Feb. 23,
Meghan
Friedland Piazza
Hugh O'Donnell
Christine Spalding
husband,
Dan Piazza
Kerri,
a son,
March
25,
husband,
wife, Christine, a son,
Adam,
May 5, 2006
2006
Savage
'95 and
James Savage
husband, Brian
2006
'95 and
West '96,
Jason Morgan West, July
a son,
9,
2006
'96
and husband, Dipesh, a son, Dylan,
Irvin,
W98M
a son,
Christopher, April 21,
Mark
2006
2006
11,
3,
2006
'99,
and
wife,
a son, Russel James,
March
24,
2006
Wagner Koser 02 and
Danielle
July 12, 2006
husband, Barton, a son, Maddox,
Feb.
Michelle Fry Brozusky 00
and husband, Victor Brozusky
a daughter,
Oct. 4,
'00,
Meghan Hope,
McCauley Robinson
William, Aug.
'00
and
husband, Paul, a daughter, Isabelle
May 22, 2006
'02
2006
7,
Stefanie Palmer Noll '03 and
husband, Steve, a daughter, Sara
Susan,
'00 and
husband, Sean, a son, Cole William,
1,2006
15,2006
Jennifer
and husband, Preston, a son, Colin
2006
Kimberly Bloom Duffy
and
2006
husband. Brad, a son, Joshua Paul,
Oct.
WINTER
May
Lisa,
husband, Brian, a son, Charles
April 21,
Daniel,
June
Marie,
Wilson Phaon,
James
Matthew Wagner '01 and
Aimee Counsman Bucci
Aug. 24, 2006
'99,
'01
'00, a son.
a daughter, Abigail Elizabeth,
Karen Stickle Ramsay
'95, a
son, Logan Gabriel, April 17,
Snyder West
'99
Maguire
and husband, Daniel Maguire
Thomas Hugh,
Amy Bond Trumbauer '96 and
Jennifer Oiler Shoup
and husband,
'95 and wife,
Tara Rothenberger Chauhan
'94 and
2006
husband, Mark, a daughter, Brooke
Kristin
husband, Tim, a daughter, Caitlin
and husband.
Ian Hoover,
Alexa Jordan
Lauryn Elisabeth, Jan. 12,2006
Elaine
Malcolm, a son,
'99 and
Pat Lester '95 and wife, Jessica,
Christine Rihl
and husband,
Kim Vetter Jordan
2006
a son, Cole, Aug. 30, 2006
2006
Stephanie Hare Michaels
a
18,2006
2006
and husband, Joseph Parlapiano
Allison Tyson Viola '92 and
20,
5,
Kelly Cornelius Parlapiano '00
in
Guatemala Sept.
'98,
'00 and
husband, Joseph, a son, Jordan
and husband, Joseph, a son, Tyler
5,
2006
Joe, a son, Gabriel Joseph,
'98 and
and husband, Ahmon, a son, Micah,
2006
24,
Alice O'Brien '00 and husband,
husband, Gerald, a daughter,
5,
March
Musselman Hassel
Tyler, Oct.
Stephanie Bissaillon Veach
'95
'00
and husband. Ken, a son, Nathaniel
husband, Sam, a son, Samuel Allen,
and husband, Nate, a daughter,
2006
'97
Andre Alleyne
May 2, 2006
Johnetta Clarke '04 and Antonius
John Newman, a son, Anthony John
Newman, June
7,
2006
Husky Notes
Mark Edwards
Thomas
Jf\ A
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Alison McPherson
A- Middle
is
a reading specialist at Swift
School, Quarryville.
specialist for the
assistant professor of history at
Ouachita
is
marketing com-
Chester County (Pa.) Hospital.
Patricia Schall-Ulshafer, Bethlehem,
was chosen among 170
C. Neugebauer
(right), Ellicott City,
Md., a registered professional engineer, was pro-
moted
Lisa Subers Huffman, Downingtown,
munications
is
Baptist University, Arkansas.
to associate at Morris
& Ritchie Associates'
Laurel, Md., office.
Carolyn Wilson Peters, Telford, earned a
master's in education degree from Gratz College.
educators to received Wal-Mart's State Teacher of the Year
Award
V^Q
for Pennsylvania.
Mike Devaney
>^0
Robert Galella, Dunmore, is the principal at
Tunkhannock Area Middle School.
Air Force Capt. Noreen Kern, Tunkhannock, is a combat
'95
stress specialist
Webb,
Danville, earned a master's in
degree from SUNY-Binghamton, graduating
arship in the geography doctoral
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at
program
Iraq.
geography
summa cum laude.
She was awarded a graduate assistantship and
South Carolina
Dean Frear
faculty at
is
the recycling
manager
(right),
and
for Lancaster.
Bloomsburg, joined the
Wilkes University as
assistant professor
of business.
with the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing in
southwest Asia, which conducts operations in Kuwait and
Jennifer J.
solid waste
full tuition
schol-
the University of
at
Columbia.
Todd Doebler
V^f^
Marcie Hickey
SS
head
Softball
(right) is the
coach
new
at the University
of Vermont.
Eleanor "Suzette" Marine
is
principal of
North Dover Elementary School in the
Allentown area.
(right), Hatfield, is
at Perm State.
2004 and 2006, he was Intercollegiate Tennis
Association's Midwest Region Assistant Coach of
head men's tennis coach
In
^^n
the Year.
Danay Gangewere (right), Bethlehem, was
promoted to director of computer services of
Northampton Community College.
Michael Gaskell is principal of Hammarskjold
'
Debbie Johnson was accepted as a candidate
in ministry by the Charleston-Atlantic Presbytery.
Brian Barchik
is
a social studies teacher
Area School
Jul
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Middle School, East Brunswick, NJ.
'97 Montgomery
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with the
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jOk
District.
Alumna receives
Nightingale Award
Joanne Zimmerman Rogers '83/"95M of Elysburg was
named one of the seven Pennsylvania Nightingale
Award recipients. The award honors exceptional nurses
and
is
intended to promote superior nursing care practices
statewide. Rogers
is
a clinical nurse specialist at Geisinger
Medical Center, Danville. The master of ceremonies for the
awards ceremony was Anne Shannon
WGAL News 8.
right, seated:
Going
BU
to great heights to visit
alumna
left, pauses with Ann Edwards Blake
mountain at Taos Ski Valley, N.M. Ann and her husband
Mickey, a son of Taos Ski Valleys founders, Ernie and Rhoda Blake,
own and operate the resort along with other family members. Jessica
and Steve Kozloff visited the Blakes last July.
President Jessica Kozloff,
'64 atop the
Shown
in
Debra Wantz-Bucher
Reese '83 and
'93,
who
anchors for
accompanying photo
Donna Albrecht
Zimmerman
Jessica Kozloff,
BU
are, left to
Jennifer Beck
Reese '83 and standing:
Susan Bennett Fetterman 'OO/WM,
79/'93, Joanne
'8 1/9 7M,
Dawn Reed Snyder
BU President
Rogers '83/'95,
Nursing Department Chair Christine
Alichnie and Roxie Chilson Shrawder '83.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Marriages
Judy
Cott
72 and
Martin Payne,
Aug. 12,2006
'99 and Stephen
2006
Segal, Oct. 28,
Richard Urick
'81
Miscavige, Aug.
5,
and Maria
2006
May 27, 2006
'87
Brenda Brong
Runshaw, Aug.
Jill
2,
and Kenneth
Danielle Greer '02 and Chad
Natalie Kreischer '04 and
Mohr'02,Sept.3,2006
Randy Buccat, June
'02 and David
Jeanine Haubrich
Clingingsmith, Oct. 15,2005
2006
Wascavage
Galaida, Aug.
'99 and Michael
Colleen Horan 02/05M and
Kramm, June
2005
5,
Tami Bauman 00 and Patrick
Eric
2006
3,
Amy Juck '02 and
Corynn Lepley
Schreffler,
June
24,
2006
'04 and Stephen
25,
Megan Maneval
2005
'04 and Skip
Shellenberger, Dec. 17,2004
Chad Moser
Wiehe'00,June24,2006
2006
5,
Kelly Stultz '99 and Joe Angelo,
Sept.
Daniel Fickes '85 and Kaja
Schuppert,
Stacy Pane
Katie Miller '04 and Christopher
Ronk, Oct. 14,2006
Michelle Killian '02 and
'87
Michael Casari
Marcela
Lena Eplee
and
Daniel
Fort
Brandon Long
'00 and
'02,
Strungis
Jr.,
June
3,
Kristi
10,
2006
Gerst '00 and Aaron
'02 and Robert
Angel Potter '04 and Matthew
2006
Pearly, July 7,
Hoffman, June 10, 2006
2006
Megan Phaneuf '04 and Mark
Jackowski'03,June17,2006
Angela Snook
Traci Dutko '90 and Robert
June
McCord
Price, Sept.
17,2005
Heather Sterner '02 and David
Theresa Nicholson
'91
and
17,2005
Brett Davido, Sept.
Angela
Gianforti '00 and Joel
Hocking
Lines,
Diana
'91
Paula Schall
Puiizzi Jr.,
and Joseph
May 27, 2006
Erin Griguts '00 and Lawrence
Sinco,
June
10,
L
Oedemann
'96 and
Carissa Barnum, Oct. 22, 2005
Kristy
Novak, July
Amy Buckwalter '05 and
2006
8,
2006
Brandon
Houseknecht
John Welch
Aug. 28, 2004
Gallant 03 and Mark
Leanne Gould
Charles
Jennifer Powell '04 and Brad
Hudson, July 1,2006
July 15, 2006
'98,
'00 and
Alter, July
1,2006
'03 and Michael
Jaime Cloud
Scatton, July 1,2006
Confer,
Jr.
May
'05 and Ryan
17,
2006
Emily Hess '03 and Michael
Robert Thomas '96 and Janet
Truby, July 8,
2006
Kathleen Walsh '00 and
Cripps, Sept.
Russell
Kessler
'98, Sept. 25,
2005
Duffy, Oct. 15,
Alison Gallopo
Bileci,
and Andrew
'01
Mindy Krum
'05 and Brian
Toutant, July 14, 2006
Meghan
Laura Austin '98 and William
2005
10,2005
Hillegas '03 and
Joshua Maeulen,
Oct. 15,
2005
Thomas McCabe '05 and
Colleen Boran, June 17, 2006
June3, 2006
Valerie Laning '03 and Michael
Erin
McNelis
Lutz
'98,
Aug.
'98 and Brian
6,
2005
Holly
Goldman
Cipollo
'01
'01, Sept.
and Lou
May 20, 2006
Barna,
John Pytko
16,2006
'05 and Jennifer
Ulinitz, April 22,
2006
Jennifer Marshalek '03 and
Brian Myers '98 and Shanna
Sobolesky, Oct.
8,
2005
Julie Kulisz
'01
Nardone. July
8,
and Robert
Thomas Howell, June
Amy Merena '01
'98 and
Leander Tice
2006
and Robert
Jennie Roberts
'05 and William
Jacobson, June 24, 2006
Kelly
Susan Reznick
10,
2006
Moore
'03 and Kyle Buck,
Kimberly
Dec. 17,2005
Veach, July 1,2006
Schwalm
'05 and
Brian Henninger, Feb. 17,
2006
Nikki Pellegrini '03 and Jason
Alicia Bergonia '99 and Joseph
Slachta, Aug. 20,
2005
Stacey Cardell
'99 and
Maggie Nehrbauer '01 and
Steve Bruno, July
14,
Laird
'02,
May
2006
13,
Alanna Burkhart '04 and Robert
Mike
Consentino'98,July13,2002
Carrie Breyer '02 and Robert
Leicht, Oct. 8,
Julie Crocker '02 and Daniel
Walker, June 17, 2006
June
24,
Alison
Jacquelyn Chilcoat
Cerasoli '98
'05
2006
2005
Camargo, July 22, 2005
Julie Cerrito '99 and Anthony
Jessica Trivelpiece
and Brandon Cunningham,
2006
Jason Cudzil
'02,
Wagner '05 and
Adragel
'04 and
Legarda, Aug. 12,2006
July 29, 2006
Melissa Walters
Samantha Floryshak
'05 and
'04 and
Christopher Coble, Aug. 19,2006
Jonathan Kiefer '99 and Sarah-
Annie Dougherty '02 and
Anne
Andrew
Reinhart,
June
25,
2006
Clark,
Mark Monroe, June
3,
2006
May 28, 2005
Stacey Schell
'06 and Tyler Dent,
Rashelle Foust '04 and Bradley
Aug. 24, 2006
Amy Lyba '99 and Vincent
Angela Glunz
Argenio, Aug. 13,2005
Markowitz, April 29, 2006
'02 and Seth
Koser,May6,2006
Alison Klekota '04 and
Christopher Kier
August
WINTER 2007
19,
'03,
2006
27
Husky Notes
Nicole Premuto
Jennifer "Lynn" Smolizer earned a master's degree from
Duquesne University and works
War Museum,
National Civil
J{\(\
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as marketing director for
The
Harrisburg.
Michele Driscoll, Perry
tal
Md.,
Hill,
Jessica Marsicano, Middletown,
is
is
an environmen-
a behavioral support
working
Robyn Rushanan
Schultz, Sheridan
Ronda
MMI
health physicist for Cabrera Services Inc.
specialist for autistic children,
for the
Tri-County
Youth Advocate program in Harrisburg.
Michael McCullen is an admission representative with
Bryant and Stratton College.
Michael Morella was appointed as Deputy G4 Support
Operations Officer, Maintenance Plans and Policies, 8th U.S.
Army. He is serving in Seoul, Korea.
Todd Shinko opened his own insurance agency
^f\
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a senior staff accountant with Brown,
is
Scirrotto, Freeland, joined the faculty of Hazleton's
A
Elizabeth
JL
College, Colorado.
Canada
Diane Magagna '01M, Scott Township, spent a year teaching
Community School in Beirut.
been teaching abroad since 2002.
Tracy Myers received a full-tuition scholarship to Thurgood
Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, for the second conShe's
and is working as a research assistant.
Pamela Pheasant graduated from Shenandoah University,
secutive year
Winchester, Va., with a master's degree in
arts administration.
Brian K. Sims, an associate with Mark E.
teaches at Southwest Early
Air Force Airman 1st Class Steven J.
from basic military training
Patrick Daugherty
is
at
Seltzer, P.C.,
serving in Iraq with the U.S. Marines.
Adria Lynn Kowalski received a master's in psychology
is
master's in school counseling at
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Deanna DeLisle
Marymount
is
is
program coordinator
plays a cheerleader in the
Tim
Allen film "Zoom."
lifetime in
game
the
Litwhiler '38
Danny
is
well
in the
story
known
world of
BU baseball coach Mike Collins,
now his
of
is
reaching a different
talks with
memoir, "Living the
the cabinet Litwhiler donated to BU.
a former outfielder for
BU, Litwhiler went on
with teams such as the Philadelphia
11
Phillies,
World
is
now
where he
He went
Litwhiler
owns Kramm Web
Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown
Series twice,
at
DeSales
executive with
& Russell, Orlando, Fla.
Lee Millard, Berwick, earned a master's degree from the
University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Brian Kasarda earned a master's degree in business associa-
Derek Williams, Northampton,
is
from Wilkes University.
a police officer
with
Whitehall Township.
Anthony Camuccio III is dean
Shamokin Area Middle School.
in
1942 he
set a record for
to the
151
may have
finished his playing career
when
he was 35, but he continued in baseball as a coach and
inventor.
Design.
tion with a concentration in accounting
and
consecutive errorless games as an outfielder.
teaching
Kim Lathbury is an advertising account
VfO
Louis Cardinals.
St.
to play
years in the majors,
a master's in
Colleen Horan '02/\)5M, Bethlehem, teaches
^/^^
and the
also coached,
undergraduate students.
University and
is
Baseball Dream."
seven years in the minor leagues and
nursing degree from the University of
Pennsylvania, where she
gun that he
helped to develop. Behind them
"Invincible."
Sandra Greene earned
Danny Litwhiler.
Litwhiler holds a radar
audience with his
As
Rocco Forgione (nght) portrays one
the football players in the 2006 movie
NY.
Spending a
baseball, but
University.
for the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society in Binghamton,
was
pursuing a
an accountant with Mengel,
& Co.
left,
Kristin Wulterkens, a fifth-grade teacher,
in forensic studies/account-
degree from Millersville University.
appointed an associate editor of the Philadelphia Bar Reporter.
a law degree from Michigan State University.
Coleman graduated
Lackland Air Force Base.
Laura Hilbert earned a master's
ing degree from Villa Julie College.
Megan Costa Vaughan
J(\ T Megan Getz '01M earned a master's in educational
\J JL. administration from the University of Scranton.
Stone magazine in
& Fritz of East Pennsboro Township.
Brooke Pope, Cortland, NY.,
in Mifflinburg.
kindergarten at the American
for Rolling
Wenner Media.
Preparatory School as a sixth-grade teacher.
Metzger, Barr
He holds
working
is
the executive offices of Jann
He
spent eight years as head coach at Florida
and 18 years at Michigan State University
and was inducted into halls of fame at Bloomsburg, Florida
State and Michigan State universities; the American Baseball
Coaches; and American Association of Baseball Coaches.
State University
He also invented the radar gun, known as the "JUGS gun,"
which scouts use to measure the speed of the baseball when
it is released from the pitcher's hand.
BU's baseball
He visited BU
field
was named
last fall
on
his
way
for Litwhiler in 1974.
to Philadelphia for a
of students at
book
signing.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Shannon Killeen was promoted
Jf\ P*
V/O
coordinator
at
promotions
to
Health magazine.
J.C. Lee (right) wrote a play that preat the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Kevin Leonard, Newtown, is a retirement
miered
specialist
with Merrill Lynch.
Kimberlee Pedersen
the Miss Pennsylvania
(right),
title
won
Allentown,
of the Miss United
States contest.
'OS/^M, Coal Township,
Danielle Strausser
teaches seventh-grade reading at North Schuylkill
School
District.
Walsh is
Melissa
a special education teacher with the
Hazleton Area School
Ty Wartman
School
Friends for a quarter-century
District.
teaches social studies at North Schuykill
Friends
District.
who met in
fall
1981 in Luzerne Hall get together nearly
every year. David Wiest '85 says about 30 adults are invited to the
event, originally suggested
get-together are,
Deaths
by
left to right,
Bill
Voros
'85.
Shown
at last year's
kneeling: future Huskies Wesley
Kuczawa, Joey Tona and Sarah Kuczawa; seated: Jim "Skip"
Robison '83, Rich Kuczawa '85, Michele Langan Lutzko, John
'85, Donna Gruber Kuczawa '86, Diane Wisniewski Tona '86,
Ken Ossman '85 and Mary Tona; and, standing: Dave Wiest '85,
Nancy Weis, Joe Ambrose '84, Bill Lutzko '85 and Jim Golden '85.
Polak
Thomas
'60
Bertine Prosser '27
William
Helen Kramer '28
Richard Wolfe '60
Marjorie Vanderslice Rosado '28
Margaret Luchun Armon
Elma Morris Price '30
Lena
Mar/ Gorham Wolever
John
Wood
'31
'61
7/"V/£ Kristopher Armstrong,
Radel Goehring '62
Mae
v/vJ
William Kuhns '62
'31
Eugene Keefer '33
Reedsville, earned a full-
time job as a production assistant after interning
with the "Dr. Phil" show.
Heather Breining '06M
Richard Walter '63
'31
Mary Yeager
"Bill"
R.
Thomas
A. Fetzko '64
is
teaching American government at
Patterson High School in the Baltimore (Md.) School System.
Eldridge '64
Warren
Patrick R. Burke
'06M
(nght), a professional
engineer from Elysburg, was promoted to
Edith Keefer
Hartman '34
Mary Spence
Laura
E.
'34
Devona Krebs Preston '64
Louis J. Ciocca
Schell '35
Jr.
Fay Gehrig Clark '40
Dorothy Moyer
Frank! KocherJr.
E.
'40
for
Ann Seguine Gallagher
Judith
Weaver
Gum
'66
Remley
'67
Burel
regional
'65
'65
'65
manager of northeast/central operations
Aqua Pennsylvania
Lindsey Horn,
the Transitional
Inc.
Sellers ville, is a
Trauma Unit
Michelle Killian
is
a recruiter with
Larry
Betty Sell Boyer '43
Anajane Helt '68
Kate Lange teaches math
Francis J. Verano '68
Brandon Long
Virginia
Lawhead
William
Hummel
Charles
E.
Sr.
'47
Roberts '50
Louise Lohr Wentzel '50
Bernard DePaul
Sr. '51
Eugene "Gene" Adami
Peggy
Nelson
P.
Paul
Drozic
T.
Michael
'52
Fitzsimmons Boltinghouse '52
Ronald
D.
Bushick '52
Kile '52
Mott
Karen Gable
Anne
71
T.
Larry
Vass
at
the Haverford
High School.
a third-grade teacher at the
Leesburg
Elementary School.
Jennifer
74
Shymansky received
a graduate assistantship at
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she
Ognosky
74
75
Appleton
Brian
is
Gina Ormont teaches 10th grade in Baltimore, Md.
Dana Rutkowski teaches fourth grade at Shamokin Area
'70
Flannigan
Clark
May Prye
Solutions Inc.,
Elementary School, Loudon County, Va.
Adams 72
D.
GAP
Reston, Va.
Carolyn Hugo Rider '69
James
nurse in
Lehigh
Valley Hospital.
Walter H.Mohr '42
Fletcher '43
at
Sr.
is
pursuing a
and media studies.
Susan Niehoff Strausser, Shamokin, is a registered nurse
in the labor and delivery department of Geisinger Medical
master's degree in journalism
78
Center, Danville.
Clyde
Adams
'53
Marion Bogardus Flannery '54
Edmund M. Longo
Olive Hunter
'54
Buynak '55
Deanna M. Morgan
'58
78
Suzanne Vastine-Smith
'81
Lynn Slattery Rangitsch '83
Robert
F.
Thomas
Stutzman
V.
'83
Chipley '85
William Staronka '59
Wendy Wolfe
Jeanerte Ide D'Agostino '60
Rachel
Ann
Pinkney '93
Sninski '05
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or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
Fountains at Bloomsburg: Class Gifts to the
One
°ovvn Normal
Hill.
Bloomsburg, Pa
small but significant
feature of the
Campus
new
Academic Quad, scheduled for completion later
this year,
a fountain that
is
once
Not
stood in front of Carver Hall.
only
1940 return
on campus,
common
prominent location
to a
it
er of the days
a
from the Class of
will this gift
will also
when
sight
be a remind-
fountains were
on campus.
Fifteen years after the
of Institute Hall, later
opening
renamed
Carver Hall, the Class of 1882
decided their
burg
State
gift
Blooms-
to the
Normal School would
be a fountain on the lawn south
of the building.
The centerpiece was
called
"The
Three Fishers" and consisted of the statues of three
children,
third
two of whom were drawing
had
a basket of fish
on
Institute Hall, that year's class
as part of the
main entrance
was presented on June
pay
was added
to
chose to give the school
sit
to
in front of the building
campus. The fountain
28, 1904, along with $188.84 to
to
be outdone, the Class of 1908 had the most
grove of trees to the east of Science Hall.
set aside to create a
set in a
A total of $350
park that included a fountain
pool and a couple rustic bridges that crossed a
small stream.
Even when additional fountains were not being
30
first
after
Class of
finally
removed.
fountain had been given a
new sculpture and
fountain,
worn by time and weather, was
taken out in 1934. Six years
later,
the Class of
1940
decided the area in front of Carver Hall again needed a
centerpiece
the
and purchased
Bloomsburg
The
was
a
new bronze
fountain for
State Teachers College.
final area of the
fountain
added, existing ones needed to be maintained. By 1912,
the
one octagonal in shape. But by
more than 40 years as a monument to the
1882, the fountain was in disrepair and was
third basin, this
1923,
The 1904
ambitious project yet, which called for landscaping the
was
its
for the installation.
Not
called a
his head.
In 1904, four years after the tower
another fountain that would
in a net while the
The 1904 fountain consisted
of a raised bronze basin and a heron-like bird
bittern. From a circa 1910 postcard.
campus
to
be graced by a
the courtyard of the Waller Hall
dormitory. In the
fall
of 1950, the flower
center of the courtyard was removed and
cement pool surrounded by
bricks
was
bed in the
a circular
built in
its
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Left:
Female students pose by
the grove fountain in 1945.
Originally just pipes spraying
water into the lagoon, the
fountain
was
installed in
1933 during the Great
Depression, paid for by
savings in the college budget.
Below: The
shown
first
fountain
is
in 1887, although the
child with the basket
seems
The octagonal
to be missing.
base just above the water
contained the carved names
of each of the
members of the
Class of 1882.
place.
The Waller Fountain, a
1949, was dedicated on
traditional Ivy
May
gift
from the Class of
23, 1951, as part of the
Day ceremony
There were once again three fountains on campus,
but
all
would be removed by the mid-1970s. The
first to go when, in February
1940 fountain was the
1955, the fountain and
were taken out
parking spaces.
traffic circle
on Perm
Street
make way for a new entrance and
The fountain was carefully preserved
to
with the hope of one day being used again.
As the
college grew, so did the
need
for additional
dormitory rooms. So, in the spring of 1963, the
fountain, lagoon
and part of the grove were removed
for construction of East Hall,
Hall.
And in January
fountain
—
the last remaining fountain
were taken out
to
make way
the lower campus,
After
now known as Montour
1975, Waller Hall and
Lycoming
more than 92
its
on campus
for the final
dormitory on
Hall.
years, the
Bloomsburg campus
no longer had a fountain. But soon, as part of
Academic Quad, the Class of 1940s fountain will once
again beautify the
campus and
serve as a visual
reminder of Bloomsburg University's heritage.
The second fountain in front
of Carver Hall is shown in
December 1940. Although a gift
from the Class of 1940, class
members
said they were only
restoring a
originally
memorial that had
been given by the
graduates of 1904.
WINTER 2007
Academic Calendar
Celebrity Artist Series
Spring 2007
Events are held
in
Hass Center for
the Arts, Mitrani Hall, or Carver
Mid-Term
Hall,
Monday, March 5
KennethS. Gross Auditorium.
For more information, call the box
Spring Break Begins
office
March 10
Saturday,
the Celebrity Artist
Classes Resume
Monday, March
19,
Thursday, April
8 a.m.
celebrity_list.htm.
Monday,
cardholders pay half of the
ticket's
Resume
April 9,
Now and Forever: CATS
6 p.m.
May 3
Friday,
Mitrani Hall, Reserved, $25;
and 4
Finals
of (Guitar) Strings
Saturday,
March
7 p.m., Gross
3,
Auditorium, Reserved, $15;
May 12
Graduate Commencement
May
Saturday, April 7,
1
p.m.
Kehr Union Ballroom
and Husky Singers
Life:
A Guide for the Perplexed
The
Flying
Saturday,
Karamazov Brothers
March
Ticket Office at (5701
24, 7 p.m.,
Mitrani Hall
Urinetown, The Musical
Chamber Singers:
First
Market
St.,
Bloomsburg
citizens, $8;
Sunday, April
1
5,
2:30 p.m. Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
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Session
III
-
Session
IV
-May 29 to June
Session
V- June 18 to
to July
Friday, April 27,
July 9 to August 17
15
July 6
Session VI -July 9 to July 27
-June 18
Session
VII
Session
VIII -
to July
First
Presbyterian Church, 345
Market
St.,
Bloomsburg
Art are open
Haas
to the public free
charge. The gallery is
open
Mondays through Fridays from
9 a.m.
to
4 p.m. and Saturdays
from
to
4 p.m.
Paintings:
Feb.
Weather permitting
Mark Mahosky
26 to March 23
April 2 to
28
Kenneth
S.
Gross
citizens
and non-BU students, $4;
students, free with ID
Alumni Events
Contact the Alumni Affairs Office
at (570) 389-4058 (800)526-0254
information. Details also are listed
Presented as part of BU's annual
Symphony Ball
Saturday, May 5,
at the alumni online community,
Concerts
6 p.m. Kehr Union
www. bloomualumni com.
Wrestling Alumni Reunion
Friday, Feb. 16,
below are open
of charge unless
Special Events
indicated otherwise.
Siblings'
of
Faculty Recital:
4,
and Children's
Weekend
Kunyoung Kim, piano
Sunday, Feb.
or alum@bloomu.edu for
(570)389-4289
listed
Grad Finale
Wednesday,
Friday to Sunday, April 13 to 15
Renaissance Jamboree
Saturday, April 28
5:30 to 7 p.m.,
Monty's
to
2:30 p.m. Haas
April
11,11 a.m.
6 p.m.
Alumni Weekend
Friday to Sunday, April 13 to 15
Chamber Orchestra:
Spring Concert
Sunday, March 25, 2:30 p.m.
Student Art Exhibit
Hall,
Auditorium, Adults, $6; senior
BU
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
I
Carver
Saturday, April 18 to
Community Orchestra
to the public free
Gallery of
at the Lapin Agile
Bloomsburg University-
The concerts
Exhibits in the
Knoebels Amusement Resort
Ballroom, Reservations required,
Art Exhibits
Bloomsburg Players: Picasso
CGA cardholder, $5
Jazz Festival
17
$8;
Auditorium, Reserved, $15;
27
May 29 to August
non-BU students,
students, $2 with ID
21, 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 22, 3 p.m.
Pops Concert
7 p.m., Gross
BU
Saturday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
J.D.Walter
-June 18
Gross
Wednesday to
Sunday, April 29, Concert Band,
II
S.
Concert Choir: Spring Concert
2 p.m.; Jazz Ensemble, 5:30 p.m.
Session
Carver Hall, Kenneth
Auditorium, Adults, $12; senior
Improvisation: Steve Rudolph
Trio with
Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 22 to 24,
Presbyterian Church, 345
Summer 2007
Mitrani Hall, Reserved, $25;
-May 29 to July 6
389-4340
for information.
CGA cardholder, $12
I
through Fridays from noon to
4 p.m. Call the Program Board
for the Arts,
Commencement
Saturday, May 12
Session
Haas Center
box office Mondays
Thursday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
1
Undergraduate
Tickets for theatrical productions
are available at the
for the Arts
Concert Band: Spring Conceit
Philadelphia
CGA cardholder, $5
Friday,
Theater
Gospel Choir
Classical Guitar Trio of
End
Saturday,
Featuring Kunyoung Kim, piano
8 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 25, 3 p.m.
Tim Farrell/Bradley N. Litwin/
May 7
Weekend
Spring Concert
CGA cardholder, $12
A Festival
May 5
Parents
Friday to Sunday, Nov. 2 to 4
Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
Finals Begin
Monday,
2:30 p.m. Haas
Thursday, Feb. 15, 8 p.m.,
Classes End
Saturday,
1,
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
Haas Center
Reading Days - No Classes
Thursday and
Friday to Saturday, Oct. 19 to 21
Sunday, April
Women's Choral Ensemble
face value for all shows.
Classes
Homecoming Weekend
Community Orchestra Concert
Community
Government Association
10 p.m.
5,
Web site at
http://orgs.bloomu.edu/arts/
Weekend Begins
Spring
at (5701 389-4409 or check
Bloomsburg University-
St.
Matthew Lutheran
123 N. Market
St.,
Church,
Bloomsburg
For
the latest information
on upcoming
events, check the university
Web site:
www. hloomu. edu/today
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INTER
The University Store.
Today's
young
BU
take their
they go.
little
student
professional,
BU
Husky
.at
.
is
tomorrow's
and alums can
pride everywhere
play and
at
work. Take a
to the office to help
things organized
The University
and ready
keep
to go.
Store offers items with
alums in mind. Consider the alumni
travel
to
mug when you're on your way
work
or take the leather portfolio
with the university seal to your job
interview or your next meeting.
Display your diploma prominently in
your
office
with a
BU
diploma frame
or set off a formal portrait or special
graduation photograph in an 8-by-ll
frame with a "Bloomsburg University"
mat. Wherever today's
professional
is
young
headed, the University
Store has something to take along.
Know an alum,
but
can't decide
what
they need? Gift cards are available in
any amount.
The University Store
offers the
convenience of shopping online for
hundreds of items
store.
For
at
www.bloomu.edu/
a traditional
shopping
experience, the University Store
is
week during the
academic year and Mondays through
Fridays during the summer. Stop by in
open seven days
a
person or online for everything BU.
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The University Store
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Friday: 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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"What Steve Rudolph does
well is swing
warm and gently."
— Cadence Magazine
Bloomsburg University
Celebrity Artist Series presents
Improvisation:
Steve Rudolph Trio
with J.D. Walter
Friday, April 27, at 7 p.m.
Carver
Hall, K.S.
Gross Auditorium
$15
(570) 389-4409
One
of today's
most innovative
vocalists, J.D.
Walter, joins the Steve Rudolph Trio on piano,
bass and drums for an electrifying experience
in
improvised music, building on their
collaboration for the recent CD, "Dedicated
to You." Presented as part of BU's annual
Not
verve
eve Rudolph's
arte
J.D. Wsilt
trio.. .full of
sive technical prowess,
inging
is
but
entirely distinctive."
Jazz Festival and supported by Pennsylvania
Performing Arts on Tour.
Office of
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Leone
while preserving fading images
of a nation's recent past. Page 16.
scenes of daily life
Amid a
in Sierra
multinational crew, an
alumnus hunts for crude
Uzbekistan. Page 6.
oil in
x
From the President's Desk
It's
a small world,
but
I
wouldn't want to paint
it.
STEVEN WRIGHT, COMEDIAN
-
The
signs of our world's interconnectedness are
all
around. Products, from
cameras to vacuum cleaners, come with instruction manuals written in
at least
two languages; computer software and
toll-free
phone numbers
we continue; and political
we pay for everyday goods in the
require us to choose a language before
developments elsewhere determine the prices
United
States. It
is,
At Bloomsburg,
and
indeed, a small world.
we support a variety of programs that
programs
international understanding,
foster global perspectives
that either bring the
students or enable our students to live and study overseas.
to
our
100
campus each year, including a group from the Finance
international students to the
Academy in Moscow,
world here
We welcome nearly
Russia.
We also encourage our students to take advantage of
opportunities to study abroad through official exchange agreements between our
International Education Office
well as other programs.
and
Our most
with four universities in China and
Mackin and
BU
faculty
and
universities in a
dozen
five universities in
countries, as
Ghana, led by Provost James
members including Dr. George Agbango and
two of Bloomsburg's foreign-bom
Some
colleges
recent academic exchange agreements were forged
Dr. Jing Luo,
professors.
of our alumni have international connections of their own. Lynda
Fedor-Michaels, director of Alumni Affairs,
tells
me
that at least
190 alumni
foreign addresses. Others are stationed overseas in the military or retain a
the U.S. while
working long-term
The University Magazine,
abroad: Gary
'80,
an
oil
Groenheim
company
you'll
'91,
geologist
professor Vera Viditz-Ward's
list
home in
in another country. In this issue of Bloomsburg:
meet two of our alumni who have
head of marketing
working
for
CNBC Europe,
in Uzbekistan. You'll also
work documenting
built careers
and Ed Banaszek
leam about
art
the history of West African villages
through photography
My own educational missions to Mexico,
Russia
showed me how, through
we have
in
common. As
interaction,
countries
China,
Israel, Italy, Austria,
become more
tightly
entwined, this generation
of students will gain understanding from a taste of another culture
another language.
\H^
Jessica S. Kozloff
Hungary and
we can build goodwill based on all that
and an
ear for
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a
member of the Pennsylvania State System of
Higher Education
Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors
2007
as oj'February
Kenneth
Kim
E.
Jann. Chair
E. Lyttle, Vice
Chair
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair
Matthew
Baker
E.
Lammando
Marie Conley
Paul
Daniel
FEATURES
Dlugolecki
S.
Elby
P.
Michael K. Hanna
World of Difference
Page 6
Vincent J. Hughes
Kyle J. Mullins
Speaking a
of the local language and recognizing
bit
Joshua A- O'Bnen
the inherent danger in his chosen career have been
Allison Peitz
Guido M.
Pichini
invaluable to geologist
Edward G. Rendell
works with
James j. Rhoades
Christine J. Torelti Olson
Edward Banaszek
a multinational
'80 as
crew exploring
he
for oil
in Uzbekistan.
Aaron A. Walton
Gerald
Zahorchak
L.
My Best Day
Page 8
Chancellor, Slate System of Higher Education
Judy G.
What makes
Hample
Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
Robert J. Gibble
Steven
Banh, Vice Chair
B.
Lammando
Marie Conley
Ramona H.
Robert
'94, Secretary
Alley
With
'OOM
the help of
BU
graduate students, Chappell gained fresh ideas
his
company and
the students
for
came away with
marketing and design experience.
Dampman '65
LaRoyG. Davis
the best day ever? Chris Chappell
created mybestday.net to find out.
Chair
'68,
'67
ACE of Grades
Page 10
Charles C. Housenick '60
71
A. William Kelly
Motivated high school juniors and seniors are
'07
Steven J.
Knepp
Joseph J.
Mowad
learning what college-level courses are really like
DavidJ. Petrosky
President,
while earning credits and saving tuition dollars,
Bloomsburg University
thanks to the Advance College Experience program.
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
Executive Editor
Delicious Endeavor
Page 12
Liza Benedict
Co-Editors
Eric Foster
Renee Remsky
Bonnie Martin
the joy of receiving care packages containing
Husky Notes Editor
homemade
cookies, she has turned that
feeling into
Mama Antes'
Brenda Hartman
Antes '93 not only
remembers
College memories are a main ingredient of
warm
Renee Remsky Antes' online business.
Cookie Express, an online
Director of Alumni Affairs
care package business.
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/'88M
Editorial Assistant
Irene
Page 14
Johnson
Communications Assistants
Lynette
Mong
'08
its
own health
Agency
leadership skills along the
Snavely Associates,
risks.
Students in the
Community Health Nursing
course identify those risks and then create plans to educate residents, developing
Emily Watson '08
way
LTD
COVER STORY
Art Director
Debbie Shephard
Designer
Curt
Healthy Lessons
Each community has
Life through the
Page 16
Woodcock
Cover Photography
Gordon Wenzel/Impressions
For professor Vera Viditz-Ward, the focus returns time and time again
where her camera has documented
for
life
Lens
to Sierra Leone,
two decades.
On the Cover
Vera Viditz-Ward, professor of an and an history,
has spent two decades photographing the people
At
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of Sierra Leone.
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to;
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path that took him
today,
he
is
first
to
media work
in charge of marketing
London
in
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and advertising
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New Dean
Dianne Mark leads Professional Studies
Dianne Mark became dean of BU's
College of Professional Studies
in
early March.
She previously served as
associate dean of the College of
Education and
Human
Services
at Central Michigan University,
Mount
Pleasant, and
faculty
member
was
a
at Central
Michigan and at Drake University,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Dianne Mark
Mark, considered an expert on
the
ways parents can
help their children with homework, earned a
and master's and
bachelor's degree from Michigan State University
doctoral degrees from SUNY-Buffalo.
management development from
Education and
was one
of 13
She completed
female participants
in
Council of Education's National Leadership Forum
She has co-written
Mark Tapsak holds
Assistant professor
to
11
patents, with
more
and urban education and
come.
Industrious Researcher
Patents relate
Mark Tapsak,
to
more than
work
assistant
teach students the
methods needed
to
conduct
successful research. He's an
active researcher
with years
of industrial experience
earned his
1
Ann
fills
in
the American
December 2004.
co-author of the book, "Cultural Journey:
and Young Adults."
the vacancy created by the retirement of former dean
Lee.
medical devices
professor of chemistry, does
who
1th patent
November.
patents are king," says
who spent nine years
as a researcher for medical
that
I
accomplished in
my industry positions.
finally met my goal."
I
Tapsak, whose hobbies
woodworking and
wall off the object with
it
scar-like tissue," says
glucose molecules to pass to
Tapsak. "That solid wall of
the sensor for detection.
cells is
what prevents most
and, thereby, allowing
"The 'membrane
for use
implanted sensors from
with implantable devices,' a
metalworking, was attracted
functioning. For decades,
patent for
to the specific area of
scientists
polymer chemistry because
find
include
"it's
"In the industrial world,
Tapsak,
is
in
on issues related to students of color
Multicultural Literature for Children
Mark
last
articles
a certificate
the Harvard Institutes for Higher
a science
see things.
where you can
It's
easy to relate
ways
have worked to
to
work around
Dexcom, should
have a big impact on the
biomedical industry," says
Tapsak, adding that the
this issue."
Tapsak was part of a
long-term implantable
the chemical structure to
team involved
something mechanical."
an implantable glucose
available,
sensor for people with
more than 100
His patents are related to
in developing
sensor, although not yet
has been tested on
individuals.
Tapsak admits
device companies Medtronic
implantable medical devices,
diabetes. His role
and Dexcom before coming
such as pacemakers and
create the manufacturing
patent probably won't be his
procedures for a polymer
last. "It
membrane that encapsulated
an enzyme used on the
sensor. He also helped
design a membrane having a
24 months
to
Bloomsburg.
a
"I set
personal goal
many years
ago to obtain
at least
one
biosensors.
He explains
among the
chief challenges
that
of producing effective
patent per year. Between
implantable biosensors
September and November
working around the human
of last year,
my ninth,
1
was issued
10th and
1
1th
United States patents
for
body's
is
own immune system.
"With any
into the body,
large intrusion
our
cells will
was
to
three-dimensional structure
that prevents cells
from
forming a solid wall around
typicaUy takes 18 to
for patent
iners to look at
tion,
his 1 1th
and
exam-
an applica-
the discussion
period can take years," he
says. "Right now, I have
more than 20 applications
still
in the pipeline."
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Complex Plans
New apartments
land for the apartments from the Bloomsburg University Foundation.
Initial
plans
575 students
single
BU
the complex to house approximately 525 to
call for
gain approval
in
four-story buildings with apartments featuring
bedrooms and
full
kitchens. Features of the facility,
which
received approval from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors to begin construction of a
new
community
also will include a
fitness room,
were selected based on
student
results of a
comprehensive marketing survey. Studies also have
shown
BU has an unmet on-campus housing demand
apartment complex on upper campus. The Board of Governors
that
of
more
approved commonwealth bond financing for the project, anticipated to
than 700 students.
cost approximately $32 million, and accepted the
gift of
1
5 acres of
"This project should be seen as a positive step for the
BU
and the
university," says
that the
community would
students.
them
It
is
clearly
in
President Jessica Kozloff.
like to
community
"We know
see the university house more
the best interest of our students to provide
safe, affordable housing with the amenities they
want and
with appropriate supervision and co-curricular programming."
Construction
is
expected to start
in
early 2008,
apartments should be ready for students by the
and the
fall
2009 semester.
Degree of Three
Master's in counseling begins this fall
BU will offer a new master of education degree in guidance counseling and student affairs beginning this fall.
The new graduate program, approved by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board of Governors
earlier this year, will include three areas of specialization:
elementary education counseling, secondary education
counseling and student
James Matta,
BU
affairs
administration.
dean of graduate studies and
research, says admission to the program, offered
by the
department of educational studies and secondary
education, will be very competitive.
The new
master's
program, designed to meet the standards of the Council
for Accreditation of
Counseling and Related Educational
Programs, will require the completion of a
Humanitarian Awards
Four honored at MLK banquet
area of specialization.
600 hours
Four individuals were presented with BU's Martin
Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Awards
at the
14th annual
Martin Luther Kingjr. Banquet. The honorees
are,
from
Two
distinct experiences totaling
in supervised practice also will
be provided.
Lending a Hand
BU family gives
Town of Bloomsburg Police Chief Leo
who received the community award; BU
SOLVE director Jean Downing, who received the staff
during the
award; and Sharon Solloway, associate professor of early
friends volunteer for
left,
common core
of 33 credits, plus an additional 21 credits specific to an
of
time
standing:
Sokoloski,
childhood and elementary education,
faculty award. Seated is student
who
received the
honoree Judith Harry, a
senior biology major from Philadelphia. Harry
member of the Gospel
Choir, the
A Club, a
the Student Organization of Latinos.
SPRING 2007
is
a
mentor and
More than 135 alumni and
first
friends volunteered nearly
500 hours
seven months of 2006-07. Each year, alumni and
Homecoming, the Bloomsburg
Fair kiosk,
student
recruitment and high school college nights, alumni and athletic
events, university department-sponsored programs and speaking
engagements. Volunteers contribute additional hours serving on
advisory boards. For information on volunteer opportunities, contact
BU's Alumni Affairs Office at (570) 389-4058 or alum@bloomu.edu.
News Notes
By
Numbers
the
common personality
Study shows
type
Democracy
Matters
BU
By
you would
trade,
expect accounting
student sticks
professor William E.
with politics
Bealing to be a
guy.
Emily Kinkead of Williamsport, a
junior with a dual major
science and marine
is
was awarded
Fraud Examiners'
Democracy Matters since her freshman
in
designation.
is
a student-based, non-partisan
organization that aims to increase
awareness
member
it
has on the
is
also
William
bringing his numbers-
E. Beating
lives
oriented perspective to a
of students.
study with personality. For the past
she came to BU, Kinkead set a personal goal of
becoming part of the campus community; however, she found
that she lost interest
in
few meetings.
organizations after a
appeal to me. Then,
I
was
at Constitution
speakers and got interested
in
Day and saw the
of
the group, so
Democracy Matters, also
coordinator," Kinkead
hopes
I
involved with the local high schools.
Staley
and Charles Russo have administered the Myers-
Briggs
Type Indicator
students.
to
incoming freshmen accounting
The aim of the study is
correlation
went to the
to see
whether there
between students' personality profiles and
success as accounting majors.
is
a
referred to as
She wants
group more
to give high
An article written by the
the research won the
Northeast Decision Sciences Institute award for best paper
in education in 2006.
"It
show them how they
turns out there
personality profile
can start a chapter.
their
members and based on
four faculty
to get the
school students hands-on experience and
he and his
I
meeting and joined. Democracy Matters stuck," says Kinkead.
As president
five years,
accounting department colleagues Richard Baker, A. Blair
"I
joined a bunch of groups, but nothing stuck or they just didn't
"campus
Bloomsburg
at
since 1999,
Matters sponsors speakers and hosts events to increase
the awareness of politics and the impact
But Bealing, a faculty
of the political
process and reform campaign spending. At BU, Democracy
When
Fraud
Certified
Examiner (CFE)
year, she previously served as vice president.
Democracy Matters
he
the
Association of Certified
Emily Kinkead
president of
BU's chapter of Democracy
Matters. Involved
A
in
biology,
new
numbers
is.
specialist in auditing,
political
the
And he
is
a correlation between the
and success in the lower
courses," says Bealing,
who adds that
there
division
is
not enough
data to say that a correlation exists for students in upper
division courses.
Trash to Treasure
The
Winter sale raises $5,375 for United
Way
personality type correlated best with student
success
is
scheme.
The Trash
to Treasure sale held in
the Columbia County United
involved
BU
staff
Columbia County
Enterprise and
first
sale
collaborative effort
Sheriff's
Department,
WHLM-930,
local
was
established
United
in
May 2005
in
spring
Way by selling
campus and
The
2005
to raise
items donated by
surplus university items.
raised $2,400; the second sale a year
to Treasure sale
BU's Upper Campus.
who suspects that the same
many accountants.
fact raises interesting
of
which students choose
does our teaching
Bealing,
set for Saturday,
May
19, at
makers
is
who
to
questions for Bealing.
on
"Is this
in terms
become accounting majors or
style favor a particular
foresees
common to
more
type of student?"
years of studying of
personality types in accounting, says the results might
show
is
personality type
necessarily good? Is there self-selection going
later raised $10,000.
The next Trash
a personality type of realistic decision
shared by most of the accounting faculty, says Bealing,
Press
community volunteers.
students before they leave
The
Way. The
and faculty members, the United Way, the
Trash to Treasure
money for the
mid-January raised $5,375 for
labeled "sensing-judging" in the Myers-Briggs
It's
that self-selection plays a
choosing accounting.
methods be adapted
primary role in students
Or it may suggest
to suit individuaTs
that teaching
with different
personality types.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Power
in
Rawson wins
grant to study
Aging
muscle-building supplement
Rawson, assistant professor
Eric
science and athletics,
is
awarded
He's been
of exercise
an expert on creatine,
clinical applications to treat individuals
how creatine
congestive heart failure, muscular
His study
might help older Americans.
kind for BU.
"I've
the grant
is
in
Men
Older
the
of
first
and
multiple sclerosis, he adds.
Rawson's study
its
always been fascinated by
Rawson. "My
better athlete, but
undergo tests of strength, memory and
it
"We're not
their six-week study
going to be world-class
all
we
he says. "So
why
are
all
are expected to participate
will provide salary
give creatine only to
when
to a
who
group of people
articles
life
ments
as they
aided
in
in
He
older individuals.
the NIH study by
will
be
Mehdi Razzaghi,
professor of mathematics, computer
falls
and other accidents
meat
a
Still,
for Nutrition
in
Mark Tapsak,
assistant professor of chemistry.
Christopher
is
naturally occurring substance found
how creatine
research
science and statistics and
According to Rawson, creatine
researching
five
on creatine, including three that
can lead to slowed reaction times and
that cause injuries.
is
the research.
age. Cognitive impairment due to aging
increased risks of
Rawson
the study over
focus on the effects of creatine supple-
that lost muscle strength
diminishes people's quality of
may help
in
Rawson has published
aging nutritionally?"
Rawson notes
in
support for undergradu-
ate students to aid
muscle mass and combat
particularly
if
several years, and a portion of the NIH grant
going to get older,"
the biggest, strongest and fastest,
it
after
ends to determine
the effects are lasting. About 50 individuals
athletes, but
you can give
They will also be tested
reaction time.
turned into something
more rewarding.
Eric
begin this summer.
creatine over a six-week period and
interest in
creatine started with the goal of building the
lost
will
Participants will take a standard dose of
weightlifting," says
have
with
dystrophy, Huntington's disease and
"Central Adaptations to
is titled
performance. But Rawson's research
than
While
creatine, other researchers are exploring
Women," and
common
trials.
the anti-aging effects of
National Center for Complementary and
increase muscle strength and boost their
world-class athletes.
hundreds of
Alternative Medicine, to fund research into
Creatine Supplementation
focused on a group far more
in
Rawson focuses on
a dietary supplement that athletes use to
is
and effective
a $208,577 grant
from the National Institutes of Health,
director of the Center
and Weight Management at
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, will
food,
products, and creatine
serve as the study physician.
supplements have been found to be safe
older Americans.
Exploring Math and Science
Summer programs planned for female students
Female students in middle school and high school
are interested in
long
summer
math and
science can apply for a
who
week-
experience through BU's College of Science
and Technology.
Students
fall
who will
enter sixth, seventh or eighth grades in
for the
Experience for Young
1
Math and Science Summer
Women;
1th grade in the
fall
students entering ninth,
can apply for the CSI (Crime
Scene Investigation) Summer Experience for Young
Women. Both programs will run Monday to Friday, June 25
to 29,
from 9 a.m.
Both camps
hands-on
Middle school students
secret codes,
activities
will learn
and demonstrations.
about computer forensics,
motion geometry and chromatography; high
school students will learn about computer forensics, secret
2007 can apply
10th or
class presentations,
to
to explore different aspects of science
SPRING 2007
DNA collection and archeological forensics. Both
women
The
in
will
conclude with a panel session featuring
math- and science-related
cost of each
available. Details
program
is
fields.
$175, and scholarships are
and applications may be found
at http://
departments.bloomu.edu/MathCompSciStats/summercamp.
html. For information, contact Elizabeth Mauch, associate
4 p.m.
will provide students
codes,
programs
with the opportunity
and math through
professor of mathematics, computer science and
emauch@bloomu.edu
or (570) 389-4103.
statistics, at
A thousand years ago, a steady stream of
caravans traversed the high upland desert of
Uzbekistan as they made their way along the
Silk Road, the ancient trading route from China
to Western Europe. Although the Silk Road fell
into disuse as a major trade route by the year
1400, it is the site of new activity today as
pack animals share the road with trucks...
and traders are replaced by geologists and
engineers on the hunt for crude oil.
of Difference
STORY BY ERIC FOSTER WITH EDWARD BANASZEK
Edward Banaszek
'80
is
among the new breed
'80
of explorers in
Uzbekistan, a nation bordered by Afghanistan to the south and
Kazakhstan to the north. The senior geologist
Banaszek
and
is
how deep
the
initial
oil
wells
to drill them.
"Once the planning
to the well site
if
for Rosehill Energy,
responsible for determining the location of new
is
finalized
and examine
and
drilling
the rocks as
we
is
drill
plans were correct," says Banaszek.
underway,
them
"If
not,
to
I
go out
determine
we make any
modifications that are necessary."
The well
site is
nearly a 100 miles from the nearest
Outside the
cities,
the land
is
generally
flat,
are
more common than
ity.
But like the traders of a thousand years ago, the
constitute a
cars,
and
Karshi.
no running water or
there's
oil
electric-
workers
son of multicultural melange.
"In the field, translators are as
Banaszek,
city,
dry and remote. Donkeys
imponant
who speaks a little Uzbek and
ing meetings,
word flow goes from
Chinese, and back.
It is
as drilling engineers," says
Russian. "At our daily
English to
a small miracle
when
Uzbek
morn-
to Russian to
instructions are carried
out as originally intended."
Banaszek has nearly three decades of experience in geology
primarily in the
oil
industry. In June 1980, less than
graduation, he joined Exlog, an
his geologic career has taken
at locations
oil field
service
him around
two weeks
after
company. Since then,
the world to live
and work
ranging from Windsor, England, to Myanmar, formerly
known as Burma.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
word flow goes from English
meetings,
small miracle
It is a
when
Uzbek
to
At our
daily
morning
to Russian to Chinese,
and back.
'In the field, translators are as important as drilling engineers.
instiuctions are carried out as originally intended.'
EDWARD BANASZEK '80
work
His
began
in Central Asia
1997 when he
in
part of the
world
is still
Russian; however,
reviewed projects in Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia,
spoken outside the major
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. On location, he got a firsthand look at the oil and gas fields, analyzed the available
companies bring
data and discussed potential opportunities for western
mindset on
companies with government
"Many times
officials.
Uzbekistan, where Banaszek
slightly larger
currently working,
than California and one of only
on
ble land-locked" countries
it's
is
five
meaning
the planet,
is
"douthat
separated by two countries from an ocean. About a
tenth of the land area
river valleys,
making
cultivated in intensely irrigated
is
the country the world's second
But
largest cotton exporter.
and
fertilizers
pesticides have
tainted water supplies, contributing to health
among
densely populated
"It
world
more than
the population,
villages.
should never be forgotten that
is
this part of the
dangerous," Banaszek says. "Driving on the
roads, flying in old Russian jets, wild animals
the desert at night
right person,
all
and not paying the
of these can put your
"And working around
a drilling rig
"Add
gerous," adds Banaszek.
dubious
problems
half of which lives in
drilling
quality, potential language
wandering
right bribe to the
life
is
"The main ingredient that western personnel and
inherently dan-
problems and Uzbek
to this part of the
how to
this is
Gulf of Mexico
is
oil field,"
completely
at
is
a
modem
common in the
falsified to
latest five-year plans. Rosehill's
is
says Banaszek.
odds with the old
is
nonexistent here. Data
many records were
best, since
world
develop an
Soviet methods. Technology that
is
confusing
conform
mantra
Despite the danger of working in
Central Asia, Banaszek loves the chal-
The geology
lenges.
itself is fascinating,
the area being part of the former Tethy
Sea,
which
ago
when the
existed
200
million years
continents were located
in far different positions. But
the greatest rewards
people from
"I
is
one of
working with
over the world.
all
Edward Banaszek studies
have met some of the most
inter-
rock sample at the
(above). Images
esting people in the petroleum indus-
from simple
try,
potential
now working as
problems
rig
hands, and the odds of
Banaszek
chairman of the board of a Houston-
away
Banaszek says he's already been involved in one
underground
the only
—
the uncontrolled release of an
fluid, usually gas,
good thing about
it
from an
oil
well
was no one was
— "and
killed."
The influence of the former Soviet Union, of which
Uzbekistan was a part, continues. "Russians drilled
in the area throughout, the
70s and
left
for oil
the fields in
deplorable condition after better reserves were found in
Siberia," says Banaszek.
"The
common language
in this
in
gist are
manager,
American; one
the other
is
drilling engineer
Rosehill local staff are Uzbek; the
Kazakh; the cementing engineer
crew
is
Edward Banaszek
'80 has
Banaszek says he
can. "To learn a
become
sensitive to the hard-
and work
like
is
a darker side to
Uzbekistan," he says. "Anyone wanting to read about
can go to a
Web site
created by Craig Murray,
difficult
life in
business and politics
site
in
can be found
Uzbekistan
at:
is
oil
trader
is
field
by
Iranians."
not to be the "ugly" Amerilocal language, to live
to talk to others as equals is
a
not that
world of difference," he
says.
remains fascinated by living and working in
it
who was
eye opening." The
www.craigmurray.co.uk.
strives
few words in the
and makes
And he
the British ambassador to Uzbekistan. His account of
Web
from Spam; the pipe
they do, to eat and drink what they eat
and drink, and
with Rosehill Energy. "There
Chinese; the
We buy our pipes from a businessman from
Dubai, and they are trucked to the
The Darlc Side
is
mud engineers are
inspectors are from Azerbaijan; our
Tajik.
is
and geolo-
drilling supervisor is Bulgarian,
Pakistani; the drilling
Uzbekistan. "The people are friendly and very hospitable,"
he
says. "Last June,
one of our
translators got
married and everyone from the company was invited
to attend.
The ceremony was
traditional,
Uzbek and
Muslim, followed by a great party with over 500 guests
toasting the bride
SPRING 2007
and groom." b
on the
show
Uzbekistan
and saying
hello to area children.
November," says Banaszek.
British; the field
a
well site
scouting potential well
our current operation, the project manager
"In
in his
sites in the field
who was a mentor to me and passed
rise dramatically."
blowout in Uzbekistan
man
based company, John C. Thrash, a
oil
opposite page, from top,
roustabouts to the
rig
office,
shepherds
at
to the
believe nothing, verify everything.'
in jeopardy.
equipment of
Uzbek is
cities.
came from a
and
Chris Chappell's inspiration for mybestday.net
Maine vacation that included time spent with
dog and moments sailing alone.
STORY BY EMILY WATSON
Bloomsburg University graduate-level students enrolled
'08
A quote from Aristotle explains the
vision for
www.mybestday.net:
"Happiness
is
the
his wife
meaning and
the purpose of life, the whole aim
and end of human existence."
Managing Multimedia
in the
on the same kind of projects
Projects class
for
21
years.
had worked
Each
year,
they created proposals for a fictitious company, coming
up with
a marketing plan
1991, a
Web site design competition was added.
and other business
details. In
fall 2006, the class put a new spin on an old
when students worked with an actual company
owned by a BU alumnus.
But, in
idea
Chris Chappell '00M of Bloomsburg, founder and
CEO
Karl
of mybestday.net, contacted his former professor
Kapp
for
help with his business. Chappell remem-
bered writing the proposals and believed that working
for a real
"I
company would enhance
remembered
it
the class project.
went through the same rigorous competition.
would be
the
good ideas
a great
way to
that
we had, and
get ideas for
I
I
thought
my business
while working with the Institute for Interactive Technologies (IIT)," says Chappell.
"He came
"and
we
do the
to
me with this business idea," Kapp says,
decided to give
project.
worked on
He
it
to the students
already had the
and
let
them
Web site, so we
a request for proposal to give to students."
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The
idea behind mybestday.net was to discover
the roots of happiness by putting togedier stories
of the best days people have ever experienced.
The idea
for
mybestday.net
"Chris
came into the class to
company with the
started about 10 years ago but, at
discuss the
that time, Chappell thought the
students.
end
result
than a
book rather
The idea was to
would be
Web site.
He was able
to
experience they receive from these
request for proposals."
With
answer
questions and explain what he sees
a
for the
put together stories of the best
company," says Kapp, profes-
Students working in four teams
their lives to discover the roots
met with Kapp each week
of happiness.
possible solutions to problems they
"I
was on vacation
in
Maine in
a
come up with interactive
to
every day was perfect.
tions
ited time,
and
I
had unlim-
I
my two
my wife and my
was with
favorite 'people':
dog," says Chappell. "That's
I
started to think about
makes
a perfect
day
to discuss
encountered. Students were expected
cabin right along the water, and
sugges-
and marketing ideas and were
permitted to change anything about
what
who
to
profession-
Ryan
Johnson
mybestday.net was bom.
It
grew
to
an online
cates to
"This
to
& Johnson, enrolled in
from
efited
will
grow
the local business community.
that
working on
their
company
a real
more pride
ideas that were generated.
just as dedicated
involve
to use.
if it
same
helped
knowing people
ing.
will see
it. It
pushes
me more."
a
"No other
class
much so
has put
me
quickly. There
team dynamics, and
it
Reilly. "It
is,
experience
He
says
hands down, the best
I've
the suggestions
ideas that students did,
to validate
which
what I was think-
But some of them pointed
me in
says Chappell.
Chappell admits mybestday.net
mission, and he enjoys reading every
post that
comes
into the
Web site.
"I'm very passionate about
honestly believe
I'll
it's
do everything
I
this.
a great idea,
can to
success," says Chappell.
had."
he plans
thought of some of the
has become a bit of a personal
really
challenges the individual," says
all
"I
new direction,"
Reilly believes gaining real-world
experience was the best part of the
are
says.
the process will take about a year to
"You have more pride in your work
through so
company," he
rience with a real
weren't a real company," says Reilly.
project.
students
have expe-
Chappell started implementing the
in
a fantastic opportunity, but
would be
when these
for job interviews, they
At the completion of the project,
work.
"It's
I
the assignment
a challenge but believes
project gives students
local tech
helps con-
their involvement. "Chris
go
He knew that
"It
probably use something from
every group, so
degree.
to
economy and add
company to the tech center."
Kapp believes all students ben-
master's in instruction technology
would be
gift certifi-
retailer.
helping to seed the tech-
is
Kapp's class as he pursues his
encompass both the university and
reward
tribute to the local
Reilly '06/'07M, a native
country to interview people on
way home
GSKIZ
students in the class with
another
selected their favorite.
of Yardley currently interning with
the
be located. Chappell
businesses," says Kapp.
A full-time job prevented
on
office will
arranged with
teams presented the proposal
als,
from vacation in 2005 the idea of
Center, where the mybestday.net
nology center and
Chappell from traveling across the
their best day, so
Bloomsburg Regional Technology
completing the assignment, the
more than 30 corporate
for other
people, what leads to happiness."
efforts of the
Innovation Zone (GSKIZ) and the
Web site, except the logo. After
the
when
combines the
project
Greater Susquehanna Keystone
sor of instructional technology.
days people have had throughout
the involvement of a
Bloomsburg area business, the
make
I
and
it
a
b
"Not only do the students get
to present their ideas,"
adds Kapp,
"but the corporate professionals
see the students
STRING 2007
and the learning
Emily Watson '08 from Danville,
majoring in economics.
Pa.,
is
Chances are their classmates and professors don't
have a
clue.
courses,
The Bureau of Labor
Statistics
reports that 68.6 percent of
2005's high school graduates
went on to college the highest
percentage ever recorded.
—
Through BU's ACE program,
regional students can get a head
start,
completing high school
studies and earning college
credits at the same time.
take the tests
They enroll
in
one or more
do the reading, complete the
and earn the
credits. Just don't
BU
projects,
ask to see a
high school diploma.
They
are area high school juniors
enrolled at
and
seniors
Bloomsburg through the Advance College
Experience program (ACE)
— anywhere from 60
to
100 students each semester and as many as 150 during
the
summer.
ACE, begun
in 2003, is the only
program of its type
within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, says James Matta, assistant vice president
of graduate studies
and
research.
and dean
The program enables
high school students to take courses
locations
satellite
on
at
Ashli Yakabovicz says she
BU's campus or at
a space-available basis. Students
was ready
pay
to leave high
when she
school behind
a discounted rate of either 25 or 50 percent of regular
based on the
tuition,
its
class' location,
apply toward a degree
BU
at
or
and
The cred-
all fees.
may be
BU
enrolled at
through the
ACE program in fall 2006.
transferred to
another college or university.
"We wanted
faculty
and
staff
were the pioneers
sending their kids here, a few as early as eighth grade.
thought
if it is
rest of the
Program Board, which plans
to recruit exceptional students," Matta
"Bloomsburg
says.
good
for
them,
it
ought to be good
activities like films,
We
for the
community."
most of her
friends don't
trips.
concerts
She admits that
know she's technically still
a
high school student.
Shikellamy High School in Sunbury has hosted BU's
western
and
civilization, general
psychology and composition
For the former Girl Scout
who served as
treasurer of
Northwest's band and president of the school's biology
came
courses as evening classes. "Students can take classes at
club, the extracurricular involvement
Bloomsburg's campus," says Shikellamy guidance coun-
studying
at the college level
school,
never had to open a book. Then, in chemistry
selor
Fred Coleman, "but a
classes closer to
lot
of parents prefer they take
home."
The Shikellamy School
District limits students to
college-level course each semester,
fees
but pays
all
one
tuition
and
with funds awarded through Pennsylvania's dual-
enrollment grant program. "The students get a
what
be doing
they'll
"They
really
at
feel for
Coleman says.
of learning, and they can
the college level,"
enjoy the challenge
get into their
major courses sooner when they enroll in
college as freshmen."
Fitting
on-campus courses
may require
BU's
a
little
leave
into a high school schedule
creativity, says
registrar's office.
Bonnie Girton from
"Some students go
to
and go back. Some take an evening
high school,
class.
Their
worked out on an individual basis, based on
what they want to take here and their high school requireschedule
is
ments. .how
.
much flexibility they have."
different courses, ranging
classes like
ics
from general education
composition and U.S. history to biology, phys-
and math. "We
are
professor said
chapters for a
test
group tutoring
on
meeting the needs of these
gifted
shinny,
I
"I
to
move
on," recalls Ashli Yakabovicz of
was bored and needed something more
challenging." So, rather than return to Northwest Area
into
Lycoming Residence Hall
full-time at
last
moved
August and enrolled
BU.
Immediately, she found a group of friends, thanks to
her trombone and the Maroon and Gold Marching Band.
She formed other friendships within the
to contribute.
"My mother says I've matured a lot," she adds. "This
opened up so many opportunities I wouldn't have had."
Yakabovicz's positive first-year experience also convinced
her to stay
on at BU
to
pursue a pre-med major.
Matta says introducing outstanding students
another plus of the
great place this
is,
ACE
leadership program for residence hall students;
to
BU is
program. "Students see what a
and we find
that they stay.
like the university
"The
They had an
and want
college," says Girton.
head
to
be a pan of it."
ACE program provides such a wonderful start for
start,
"To be able to enter college with
plus the benefits of a reduction in tuition.
a
and the
a
How
b
The following schools and school
ACE program:
districts
Benton, BeiyAck,
Bloomsburg, Cardinal Brennan, Central Columbia, Columbia
County Christian, Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech, Danville, East
Lycoming, Greater Nanticoke, Jersey Shore, Lewisburg, Line
Mountain, Midd-West, Mifflinburg,
Millville,
Montgomeiy,
Mount Carmel, Muncy, Northwest, Our Lady ojLourdes,
Phoenixville, Selimgrove, Shamolzin,
Shenandoah
Shikellamy, Southern Columbia and
Wanior Run. For details,
see www.bloomu.edu/ace.
BU Jazz Band;
DASL (Developing Ambitious Student Leaders),
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My best friend here is from
Germany, and everybody has new ideas
currently participate in the
Senior High School for 12th grade, Yakabovicz
three
know every person. Bloomsburg is the whole
melting pot of diversity.
Editor's note:
are ready to start their college
Matta says.
was ready
first
involved learning about different cultures. "In Shick-
and they both need and
"I
read the
learned to study through
sessions."
can you go wrong?"
Shickshinny.
I
"In high
Yakabovicz says some of her best experiences have
who are exploring where their interests lie. In
many cases, they have outrun the high school curriculum
students
careers,"
we had to
Friday.
but
naturally,
effort.
experience and became comfortable. They decide they
High school students have enrolled in about two
dozen
I
class, the
took more
Bonnie Martin
is
co-editor oj Bloomsburg:
University Magazine.
The
Valley,
Rente Remsky Antes '93
a cookie store," Antes says. "There
remembers when she was
first-year
student
at
a
is
University living in Elwell Resi-
dence
Hall.
in
Every few months,
New Jersey
is
among
the top 10 states with
the fastest growth
rates for
women-
owned
businesses,
according to the
Center for Women's
Business Research.
good news for
an alumna and her
aunt, who co-own an
That's
online business based
in
Pitman, N.J.
homemade
"Before
cookies from
eating them," she recalls.
was
especially nice that
It
less intimidated to
knowing
aging
that
I
baking
Mama Antes'
14
varieties
of cookies that are primarily
"For the
feel a little
be there alone
me from home."
first
we
only orders
family,"
had family encour-
last
few months, the
got were from
Antes laughs. "In
September,
we
fact, until
only averaged
about 10 orders per month."
Delicious
Endeavor
And, then, there were the
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY
offers
its
marketed online.
"It
freshman
made me
always
Pitman, N.J.
Cookie Express
everyone
it,
my room, piled on my
bed
year.
Antes, the original
"Mama Antes"
facility in
you knew
in
—Kathy
—from
an aunt
her Aunt Ellen.
would be
mind."
Antes operates the business with
she would receive a package of
delicious
something special about receiving
something home -baked with you
Bloomsburg
"stress-
relief
packages" that parents often
send
to their sons
the
and daughters
end of each semester.
"It
at
was 14
That month, however,
Mama
Antes' Cookie Express received a
boost from the Philadelphia-based
Preston
& Steve Morning Show on
radio station
WMMR.
"My husband works for WMMR.
When the show reached number
one in the market, he wanted
to
do
remember that finals
was an awesome time for a little sug-
something
make some
cookies for the guys,"
ar pick-me-up," she adds.
Antes
"Whenever they raved
years ago, but
I
Now a stay-at-home mother,
Antes took generous portions of
those memories,
mixed
in the busi-
ness experience she gained during
her career in
retail financial analysis
and planning, and seasoned
a family
member known
for
it
with
her bak-
Mama Antes'
nice, so
says.
he asked us
about the cookies on the
Web site would go
air,
to
our
from getting
15 hits a day to 1,000."
The orders began
flowing, along
with a return appearance on the
show. Weeks
later,
Renee and Kathy
concocted six original recipes and
the hosts chose one to
become
Cookie Express (www.Mamas
show's
The winner
CookieExpress.com), an online
dubbed
cookie care package business that
Gadzookie!
launched in February 2006.
Nov.
ing
skills.
The
result?
"Those college memories were
definitely
ing the
an inspiration
company into
for develop-
a cookie care
package company as opposed to just
official
cookie.
the Preston
the
& Steve
—was introduced
on-air
15.
"After
our appearance,
I
checked
my e-mail on my phone," Antes recalls.
"We had 24
orders,
and by the
end of the day, we had received 120
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According to Antes, the
most rewarding aspects of
owning her own business
the time
it
are
allows her to spend
with her family, the good that
company
the
able to
is
do
charitable organizations
for
and
the feedback she receives
from
grateful customers.
She
credits her time at
Bloomsburg
was
—where she
a business administra-
tion/marketing major, a
member of the
Concert
Committee and
a sister in
the Phi Delta sorority
—with
make the transifrom her hometown to
helping her
tion
the "real world."
"Although I'm from
the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
which
area,
isn't
too far
from Bloomsburg,
ence
my experi-
at the university
opened
me up to a much bigger
world," she explains.
"It
me grow into
an
helped
independent person."
The
positive professional
influence of Mary Ericksen,
formerly the head of BU's
marketing department, has
inspired Antes, both during
her career as a marketing
analyst for a division of Liz
Claiborne Inc. and
now as
an
entrepreneur. "Professor
Ericksen offered great advice
and was very supportive of
orders.
orders
For about a month,
coming in
we had
constantly."
A key component of the business
is its
commitment
to support-
ing local charitable organizations.
of its Lip Smackin'
Lemon Cookies
me.
I
appreciated that she didn't sugar-
you have
work ex-
goes to the Alex's Lemonade
coat the fact that
Stand Foundation, which funds
tremely hard to achieve what you want."
childhood cancer research.
In
its first
year of operation,
to
Indeed, as business grows for
Mama
Antes' Cookie Express, Antes has
Mama Antes' Cookie Express
Mama Antes' cookies have been
discovered that, at least in the cookie
donates 20 percent of the sale of
enjoyed by soldiers in Iraq and
business, a
the Gadzookie to Philadelphia-
individual customers throughout
very good thing,
based hunger
the United States.
relief organization,
Philabundance, and 20 percent of
the proceeds generated
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by the
sale
little
sugar coating can be a
b
The company
also has established several
Kevin Gray
corporate accounts.
the Lehigh Valley.
is
a freelance writer based
in
STORY BY LYNETTE MONG
Columbia County,
Pa.,
is
home
to nearly 65,000 residents
who live
in
housing units across 485 square miles. Are there health concerns they
On the
course
day of their Community Health Nursing
first
last
August, 30 senior nursing students were
given a syllabus
—and
a county. Throughout the
semester, the students researched
variety of health factors affecting
home
and analyzed
a
Columbia County,
of Bloomsburg University, then used that
information to educate the community
Community Health
28,701
all
Anna
are important, says senior nursing student
Berd of Media,
and they
set
up
Pa.
"We
picked our
share?
own leaders,
a timeline for the rest of the
semester," she says.
"Students and professors met to discuss problem
areas,
but most meetings and aspects of the project
were student-run and organized," adds Candace
itself.
Nursing, a required compo-
Levengood, a senior from Harleysville,
Pa.,
who
nent of the nursing curriculum, introduces students
served as one of three team leaders.
community resources, teaches them how to
and perhaps most
importantly
allows them to act as leaders among
established, the students begin researching the
their peers.
information like behavioral risk factors and health
to
—
interact with the public
—
Past
Lewisburg, with the students in
fall
and
'06
extending the reach of the project to encompass
all
of Columbia County.
The students then use the
data they've collected to determine the community's
greatest health risks
and
groups are formed and a timeline
assigned community. They gather
of Health, but
either as a class or in small groups.
communities include Danville, Sunbury,
Muncy and
as
is
statistical
demographics from the Pennsylvania Department
Every semester, students research a specific
community,
As soon
create a plan to educate
much
interactive.
nity itself
of their research
is
firsthand
"They are involved in the
commu-
from the very beginning, coordinating
interviews with key informants, attending
council meetings, school board meetings
that will give
them more information on
town
—anything
the
com-
munity," says Michelle Ficca, assistant chair of the
nursing department and course faculty member.
residents about those risks.
Because students organize almost every aspect
of the project as a class, leadership and
teamwork
"Within the
we expect all
first
four weeks of the semester,
quantitative data to be gathered.
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'We
what
try to dovetail
the scale of this project
already being
is
is
done
but expand on them.'
Sheila Hartung, assistant professor of nursing
This allows students the time to focus on the
project
itself,"
businesses donated
according to Sheila Hartung, assistant
professor of nursing
and the Community Health
"Their goal then
That
is
their data
when
the real
work begins.
and determining focus
create lesson plans to determine
each
and
community," Ficca adds.
After studying
areas, the students
how they will address
"Based on our research in Columbia County,
determined there was a knowledge
we
deficit related to
heart disease," says Levengood, "so one
team goal was
members about heart health."
fall's class included communicommunity resources and
educate community
for last
cable diseases, safety,
cancer prevention.
publicity.
At a December health
fair
in the
Columbia Mall,
disease prevention, led small
on health and
Commu-
Although the
?
^3
course has always been a
required component of
the nursing program,
has grown considerably,
Hartung
performed health screenings and organized
such as puppet shows
activities,
what
is
done
in each
fair,
American Red Cross,
including local fitness
local police
and
fire
departments, and Bloomsburg University's Drug and
Alcohol Wellness Network,
focus on a specific area's
dovetail
health needs for the
already being
Community Health Nursing
community,
course taught by (opposite
but the scale of this
is
page) Michelle Ficca,
quite large,
known as DAWN.
Local
left,
and Sheila Hartung.
and
a variety of services are
involved.
We don't want to duplicate other programs,
The
says.
project serves as a valuable resource for the
community. Residents not only benefit from the
for children.
Students contacted local vendors and health representatives to participate in the
Each semester, students
says.
"We try to
but expand on them," Hartung
group discussions,
•.
DnBr..'
•
nity Health Nursing
project
the students distributed information
clubs, the
all
the scope of the projects
topic.
Other focus areas
yHi
SQEl'tiH
and students
organized
to analyze the information
is
identify health risks to the
gift
cards to be used as door
prizes,
Nursing course coordinator.
to
each community, but
quite large, and a variety of services are involved.
We don't want to duplicate other programs,
—
in
and information provided
at
communities have used the
the health
statistical
fairs,
services
but some
data collected
by
students for projects and grants, according to Hartung.
Yet for the students, the benefits of the project go far
beyond numbers and
The chance
figures.
to get out of the classroom
community was
the
and
into the
most valuable aspect of the experi-
ence for Berd. "This whole project makes you realize
how much you have grown, even since your sophomore
year. This is much more than a classroom presentation.
You have
to
be professional
at all
times because you are
dealing with real people and real situations."
"I feel
more confident with myself in any
team
after serving as a
plans to
work
leader,"
Levengood
situation
says.
She
in the pediatric intensive care unit at
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh after graduating this
May. "As a nurse, you have to be willing to make yourself
known. You
can't
This project taught
Lynette
Mong
'08
is
Kennewick, Wash.
The Columbia Mall provided
December's health
fair.
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the setting for last
be wishy-washy in
me
an
to take
on
this profession.
that responsibility."
English/creative writing
b
major from
STORY BY ERIC FOSTER
The images of Sierra Leone
are indelible. Scenes of daily
in the capital city of Freetown,
life
women and children
in villages, chiefs in ceremonial garb.
Sierra
Leone are equally
These images of
indelible in the
life
of Vera
in Connecticut
two years
earlier,
She had
to
make
a change.
who created them in a
more than two decades ago.
Much has changed in this West African nation since
Viditz-Ward made her first photographs. A civil war
wracked the country throughout the 1990s, and tens of
John
career that began
early 1960s.
thousands of people were killed in a nation
received a surprise telephone
—
ple
their
More than 2
—were
a third of the population
homes by
slightly
million peo-
displaced from
art history,
con-
nected with Sierra Leone long before joining Bloomsburg
The photographer's journey
began in 1976 when she was a photographer's assistant
for a publishing company, setting up lights, carrying
University's faculty in 1988.
equipment.
fine arts in
And
frustrated.
So she applied to the
F.
Her
Kennedy introduced
program
application interview didn't
—"The
promising
recruiter laughed
was a photographer"
called with
needed
the
one
offer
when I
—but nine months
and one
a photographer
and
She had earned a bachelor of
photography from the University of Hanford
to Africa, there
was an opera
er and me from the
who stuck it out."
said
later
I
she
The Peace Corps
call.
offer only.
art
in the
seem very
"They
teacher in Free-
town, Sierra Leone," says Viditz-Ward.
the fighting.
Viditz-Ward, professor of art and
to
Peace Corps, a childhood ambition since President
Viditz-Ward, the photographer
smaller than South Carolina.
and she longed
do some shooting.
singer, a
Peace Corps.
I
"On
a plane
trumpet play-
was
the only one
She received an intensive course in Krio, the
English-based lingua franca spoken in the Freetown
area
by the descendants of four groups of former
African slaves, and
was assigned
to the ministries of
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education and agriculture. "They sent
me all over the
It was
week for processing,"
says Viditz-Ward, who continues to work with tradi-
country, taking photos of development projects.
six
weeks
tional film
with
a
and chemical darkroom techniques along
digital
In the
back
in the field, then
imaging.
field,
the travel
and work could be physically
grueling. Viditz-Ward lived in villages with families.
Accommodations were
sparse,
and she
the ground, she recalls, but "the people
ibly hospitable.
things.
I
often slept
on
were so incred-
was doing these shoots of mundane
But in the process,
I
was
starting to
make con-
nections with the chiefs and the villagers."
Her term
Ward
in Sierra
Leone expired in 1980. Viditz-
returned to the U.S. and pursued her master of
fine arts in
photography
at
Indiana University Bloom-
ington, earning a degree in 1988.
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latest visit to Sierra
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documented an archaeological
excavation at an African slave
fort
on Bunce
Island.
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shoots of mundane
things. But in the
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process, was starting
to make connections
with the chiefs and
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villagers.'
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in the 1990s, even after civil
graph the
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the
experiences of African immigrants in Philadelphia and
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Madison, the Print Center and the Balch
Institute of
Ethnic Studies, both in Philadelphia, and throughout
Europe and
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people in the
lives of
Africa.
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first
chapter for "The
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them on
Thomas N.
Hull,
saw
display at the Smithsonian.
Critics
El
Corps member and current
selected after fonner Peace
have praised Viditz-Ward 's photographs
transcending boundaries between
art,
for
sociology and
anthropology. She's personally committed to avoiding
cliches
When
a project to help
life's
events. She's
women from
now
20 villages
in
first
summer and
last
Mano
involved
lives.
met with the group during her trip
plans to return this year to teach
the basics of photography. The project
the
much
Sierra
Leone keep a photographic history of their own
Viditz-Ward
River Union
is
them
sponsored by
Women's Peace Network, which
has received numerous international grants and awards
for
efforts to
its
math
empower village women
part of the project,
Viditz-Ward
is
seeking dona-
tions of cameras.
Needed are
sturdy, single-lens reflex
eras
(film,
lens
and working
cam-
not digital) with a
light
meter,
such as Nikon FMs, Pentax
K1 000s or
Canon
F1
s.
in
the after-
For infor-
mation, contact her at vviditz®
bloomu.edu or (570) 389-4851.
end of the
at the
'80s.
wants you to photograph a
"The internariot
or starving
children," she explains. "They're not interested in a
ritual that
may be very important
to the people or in
the everyday lives of Africans."
Last
summer, four years
Viditz-Ward returned
photos and locate
of Sierra
after the civil
Leone
to Sierra
artists
Leonean work
war ended,
to exhibit her
who could mount an exhibit
at the U.S.
Embassy. She also
served as a photographic consultant at an archaeological excavation of
an 18th-century slave
"In the aftermath of the war,
friends
of the recent war.
As
work in Africa
tional press
she's not teaching, Vera Viditz-Ward spends
of her time chronicling
in
to
Images
Historic
their own terms,
down the Associated Press' offer
and photographs people on
the reason she turned
and found some new
there's a lot that's missing.
there were elders.
tion
is
I
fort.
found some old
artists,"
she says. "But
When I was there in
1987,
Now over 50 percent of the popula-
under 35 years
old."
Also missing was the connection between the
country's children
language
intact,
and
its past.
Her fluency in the Krio
Viditz-Ward found herself teaching
the traditional nursery
rhymes
to children
who had
never heard them because of war-time upheavals.
"People were astounded
pean' speak their language."
Eric Foster
is
when
they heard a 'Euro-
b
co-editor of Bloomsburg:
The
University Magazine.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Visitors feel a connection to
Westminster Abbey, Big Ben,
Stonehenge and the Tower of London, then come back to the U.S.
At Home
London
STORY BY TRACEY M
DOOMS
with photographs, postcards and plans
to return to Great Britain someday. Gary
Groenheim
he
is
'91 not only returned, today
a dual British
and U.S.
citizen.
Gary Groenheim '91 has come a long way—an
entire
ocean away
—
he graduated from
since
Bloomsburg University.
For the past year, Groenheim, 38, has been in charge
of all marketing
and advertising
for
London-based
CNBC
Europe, the leading pan-European business and financial
TV channel.
London
Prior to signing
for six years
manager
for
on with CNBC, he
lived in
while working as a senior marketing
Time magazine.
He says his
decision to pursue opportunities abroad
goes back to his participation in an international student
exchange
"It
was
at Sheffield
Hallam University in summer 1991.
my first time in Europe, and it made quite an imwho
month
pression
on me,"
after the
exchange backpacking around the continent.
says Groenheim,
spent a
His choice of a career in the communications
grew from
a
field
day spent with an alumnus who worked in
magazine publishing. A Husky Ambassador, Groenheim
was majoring in business administration without a particular career goal in
mind. But
with Jim Walter, an alumnus
azine in
after
spending one day
who worked at
People mag-
New York, he learned about different areas within
the publishing business. That connection led to
work with
and now
media
People, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Time.
CNBC Europe,
available in
.
more than 100
million homes, 1,400 banks and financial institutions,
and luxury hotel rooms throughout Europe, the Middle
East
and Africa.
Groenheim markets
CNBC Europe both to all those
He
viewers and to advertisers.
from advertising
oversees everything
to broadcast partnerships to
communica-
tion materials.
"Our current audience
consists of business leaders,
and those in the
financial services industry,"
investors
says.
"My biggest
challenge
is
ing that reaches this time-poor audience, establishes
Continued on next page
he
creating marketing messag-
'After seven years in
dream of living
decided to take die
it. I
starting his studies at
Towson
time with the channel."
was
Groenheim
plenty of potential viewers and
advertisers
—and
creates a
challenge. "Europe
is
unique
made
of many
says.
"Pan-European marketing of a
singular message to these varying
audiences
differs dramatically
marketing
to
from
one mass market in the
what
where
University,
dad was teaching and
to
home,
I
wasn't getting the
sity,"
Groenheim
He looked
for a
school in Penn-
Perm
"It
atmosphere and
"It
TV channel.
says.
2000, he became a senior
for
Time
Inc.
London.
"It
had been
a bit of a culture
to live in
Amsterdam," he
says.
"From
the time
ing in London,
where
BU,
to
.
I
.
I felt
started
I
work-
much more
at
decided that London was
.1
wanted
to stay."
People led to a job as production
and
his college semester abroad.
intro-
site for
Europe,
streaming of
TV channel plus a searchable
And he
office
earlier
experience at
manager with People and
Sports Illustrated in
continued to
New York. He
move up
the ladder in
cultures
—
the food, the arts and
ing world, but the lure of Europe
to increase his
was
his personal travels and, during the
still
there.
experiences,
"Through
I'd
all
these
always had a long-
worked on worldwide programming
from the World Economic Forum's
"After seven years in
annual meeting
to
decided
I
pursue
New York,
either going to have
this
dream
of living in
knowledge through
past year, his business trips through-
out Europe and Asia.
Recently, for example, his job
I
was
he explains. He's been able
took him to Barcelona, Spain, where
CNBC Europe was the official
broadcaster for the 3 GSM mobile
Davos, Switzerland.
from Baltimore,
transferred to
really
history,"
ing to return to Europe," he says.
January in
"I
value learning about different
New York's publishing and advertis-
archive of on-air interviews.
Originally
international accounts
Europe's market-
campaign across Europe.
Groenheim
for
& Kennedy. He
Groenheim says he developed his
"great passion" for Europe during
new viewer-focused adver-
last
and accepted
an account manager
shock
home.
felt right."
After graduation from
visited the
Groenheim's
He's guided the relaunch of the
the
just
risk."
Amsterdam
Groenheim has
numerous ways. He's
live
worked on
to
parent of People
Inc.,
Illustrated,
a position as
seemed
have the best combination of
European, English-language busi-
CNBC.com Web
Time
and moved
freestyle)
such a beautiful campus," he
incorporating
offices of
swam backstroke and
and found Bloomsburg.
to
where he had previously
marketing manager
things, with a great
tising
Groenheim moved
Vista. In
draws on the strengths of
a
decided to take the
'91
including Nike, Coca-Cola and Alta
State
the channel as the leading pan-
duced
I
program and a good swim team (he
says,
ing in
it.
alumnus) with a strong business
to
pumped up CNBC
forgo
ad agency Wieden
recalls.
sylvania (his dad's a
-GARY GROKNHKIM
risk.'
and Sports
full
experience of going away to univer-
A successful campaign, he
In just one year,
my
living so close
in
I
Europe or make the decision
a psychology professor. "After
U.S."
ness and financial
now
is
his father
going to the same school where
countries with different cultures,
languages and media outlets," he
was either going
Europe or make the
decided
to have to pursue this
CNBC as essential, must-see TV, and
Marketing a product that reaches
I
decision to forgo
encourages them to spend more
across Europe gives
New York,
BU
telecommunications trade show. The
after
next week, he flew to
produce an event
New York to
for a
European
advertiser interested in reaching the
U.S. market.
And
the next
found him helping
month
to host the Euro-
pean Business Leaders Awards back
in
London.
It's
a hectic schedule,
but one that appeals to Groenheim.
"I
really
enjoy working for dynamic
businesses in a multinational
environment," he says,
Tracey M.
and
b
Dooms is a freelance writer
editor living in State College, Pa.
to lead.
»
to learn
to grow
BU senior Lauren Lewis talks with a
group of students who attended a program
sponsored by Bloomsburg University's
Women's Resource Center last year.
—
In just three years since
its
opening in October 2003,
To learn how you can contribute to the university
Bloomsburg University's Women's Resource Center has
become a significant resource for students, faculty, staff
programs that are important to you, contact the
and prospective students.
www.bloomu.edii/giving, or by phone at 570-389-4524.
The Women's Resource Center sponsors biweekly
Bloomsburg University Foundation online
at
You too can make a difference in the lives of young men
and women.
seminars and a variety of workshops and serves as a
men and women
on issues ranging from anorexia to domestic
clearinghouse for information for
alike
violence
and difficult relationships.
Recognizing the value of this vital campus resource,
William and Wylla Mae "Bunny" Bitner, both class of
1956,
made a contribution to the Bloomsburg University
Foundation to enhance the center and
its
work.
Bloomsburg
UNIVERSITY
FOUNDATION,
Inc.
Husky Notes
Quest extended
and abroad
destinations in U.S.
Walking Across England,
Bloomsburg
Quest
University's
program
extended
trips for
friends.
BU
from
and
to
No experience is
necessary for
many of
these trips,
and most
equipment
is
June 22
St. Bee's
the Irish Sea
shores of the North Sea,
begins in the Lake District
region and finishes across the
provided.
North Yorkshire moors. The
leader
stamina are required.
bloomu.edu.
in
on
Robin Hood's Bay on the
Varied amounts of physical
Biking
The walk
to July 4:
across northern England,
offers
students, alumni
bound for
trips
Holland, June 2
is
Roy Smith, rsmith®
Mountain Biking
the
in
to 13: This 12 -day tour
Rockies: Colorado Wild-
along the back roads of
flowers, Aug. 16 to 23:
Holland and Belgium
is
designed for the weekend
biker.
The
begin
trip will
Crested Butte, recently
named
the wildflower capital
of the U.S., will be the base
and end in Amsterdam,
for this trip in the
with two- or three-day
Rockies.
stops in three towns.
from Crested Butte
Participants
may travel
between centers by
bike.
The leader
is
train or
Brett
Colorado
The group
City, Colo., often
altitude of
7,000
will bike
to
Lake
above an
feet,
cross terrain ranging
as they
from
Simpson, bsimpson®
old logging roads to single
bloomu.edu.
tracks.
The leader
Hikers follow a path in Ecuador believed to have been used
by the Incas.
is
Brett
Simpson, bsimpson®
Lost Trail of the Incas,
bloomu.edu.
Ecuador, Jan.
Bike Tour through the
Finger Lakes Wine Country,
Oct. 6 to 8:
The Finger
Lakes wineries, combined
with the unique
glacial
landscape and small-town
charm, provide the perfect
backdrop
group
for cyclists.
will bike
The
through
vineyard-covered
hillsides,
along country roads and
pastoral scenes.
will stop at
The tour
some
of the
more notable winenes.
The leader
is
1
to 12,
2008: This trek begins
Roy Smith,
rsmith@bloomu.edu.
at
the Indian village Oyacachi,
high in the Andes, and
descends into the
Amazon
Basin, following a long-
abandoned
The
trail.
route,
which descends more than
5,000
feet, is
believed to
have been used by the
Incas
and pre-Incas
trade route
as a
and by 17th-
century Jesuit priests to
service their missions.
The
leader
is
Roy Smith,
rsmith@bloomu edu
.
For additional infounation,
including costs
and physical
requirements, call (570) 389Riders pass through a
wildflower
meadow
2100, check online at
in
Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
www.buquest.org or contact
trip leaders at
e-mail
addresses provided.
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Krapf serves
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as pastor of Grace United
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Methodist Church, Lemoyne.
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vice
of Elections
Foley was appointed
chairman of the Dawson County (Ga.) Board
and
Registrations.
He was
Stephen T. Young was promoted
president with Sovereign Bank.
manager of the Lewisburg
Ul
for
William
W.
is
a
member
county commissioner
of the
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Ed Madalis
Sarah Kowalski
retired after
more than two
the Walter
Jr decades in educational administration, mainly with
Run School District.
Ken Saunders, Newtown Township,
the Warrior
a
He now spends his
/ \J
and
is
is
also president
and
treasurer of
improving the education and health of
Reilly,
pastel at the
area.
Bucks County, displayed her
Howard
Gallery of Fine Art,
art
work
New Hope.
after
working
U.S.
Navy and
for
many years
as
an electronics engineer
for the
in the private sector.
vice president for academic affairs at King's College.
who will retain
the rank of professor of education,
is
Whitman Distinguished Professor.
Mary Coddington Umlauf retired from the North
Schuylkill School District in 2006.
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Stephen J. Bushinski, Brandonville, was admitted
Supreme Court. A graduate of Widener University School of Law, he is the assistant
chief counsel, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs,
5
to practice before the U.S.
Commonwealth
/
Army Reserve,
She has been exhibiting through the Doylestown Art League
time traveling.
the college's John H.A.
9 ^7"0
He
Mount Carmel
Rebecca Tait
in oil
a colonel in the
a clinical psych specialist with Geisinger
is
profit dedicated to
retired in
^1*7 C\ Nicholas Holodick, Mountain Top, was appointed
Holodick,
community banking
& Nancy Madalis Memorial Trust Fund, a non-
children in the
1999 after
long career teaching biology and coaching track and cross
country teams.
to a vice
serving in Kuwait.
Medical Center, Danville.
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is
office.
George Antochy,
7
/
County Commis-
sioners Association of Pennsylvania.
5 £~
He
Haas, a retired Lewisburg Area School
District teacher, is serving as a
Union County and
has joined the
Times-Dispatch as
nalism career in 1979.
also elected to the
Democratic State Committee.
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(right)
(Va.)
managing editor. She previously worked as editor
of The Forum in Fargo, N.D. She began her jour-
term as
to his third
Richmond
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Edward Krzykwa,
a chiropractor for
29
of Pennsylvania.
years,
j-* completed a course of study in optimum nutritional
support for patients with conditions such as
bowel syndrome and
colitis, irritable
arthritis.
5 ^T *2 Kenneth Houck graduated from the Pennsylvania
/
Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. He'll have his first
one-man gallery show in Exton in June.
Martin Kleiner, Lebanon, has been named to the board of
O
directors of the Arabian
members. He breeds,
Horse Association, which has 46,000
and shows Arabian horses.
employed by NEPA Community Federal Credit
Union, Stroudsburg. He was Elk of the Year for the Bangor
Lodge 1106m 2005-06.
Douglas Yocom, president and CEO of Precision Medical
Products Inc., Ephrata, was recognized as an outstanding
business leader by the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame.
He is a member of the Bloomsburg University Foundation
Pete Nell
trains
is
Board of Directors.
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Richard Myron Linn, Bloomsburg,
the National
Teachers for 2005-06.
Honor
He
Roll's
teaches
is
a
member of
Outstanding American
fifth
Elementary in the Bloomsburg School
grade at
WW. Evans
Mundy talks to BU students
State Rep. Phyllis
Mundy '70, who
represents the 120th district
District.
in
Luzerne County, toured BU's campus, spoke with political
and met with BU President Jessica Kozloff earlier
While on campus, Mundy was given a Bradley
science students
^7C
^au ^ Shearn and his wife Arlene received a Top 10
/ %J award for 2006 from the Solano Association
of Realtors, Vallejo, Calif. They were one of only two teams
5
recognized this year.
this semester.
Shoemaker
Shown
print of Carver Hall to display in her Harrisburg office.
in the
Michaels
accompanying photo,
left
to right, are
Lynda Fedor-
^/^M, BUs director of alumni affairs; Mundy; and Jim
Hollister '78, BU's assistant vice president for university relations.
SPRING
Husky Notes
'97 grad directs BU's
Mountain Top, owner of an investment
company, passed the securities law exam.
Michael A.
Incitti,
Faith Ganss
Smeck
received a
Commonwealth
work unit/group award
vania, Office of the Budget,
recogniz-
ing outstanding employee achievement. Chief of the state's
public welfare client benefit system division, she works in the
Human Services
Public Health and
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Daniel Wiest
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analysis for
Comptroller
office.
Kate
new
'97
director of BU's
is
the
Upward
Bound program. Previously
Upward Bound's assistant director,
Bauman joined the program in 2005
as
Tyco
Bauman
Jesberg
and
director of strategic planning
is
Upward Bound
of Pennsyl-
academic coordinator. She
a
fills
Electronics, Harrisburg.
vacancy created by the retirement of
Q^
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Rick DiLiberto was appointed
as
to a three-year
chairman of the Delaware Commission on
Heritage and Culture
term
Stargatt
is
& Taylor, LLP,
Wilmington, Del.
Vicky Kistler
Bureau
after
is
Bauman worked
Italian
by state Gov. Ruth Ann Minner. He
an attorney with Young Conaway
acting director for the Allentown Health
working 13 years as the bureau's communicable
disease manager.
admissions
at
in residence
Kevin
L. Hulsizer, director of internal audit for
Penn
State Hazleton,
career services at DeSales University before joining BU's
Upward Bound staff.
Upward Bound is open to high school students from lowincome backgrounds. The program
diversity to prepare students to
KidsPeace, was one of 35 citizens honored for
life at
Bauman
Delaware Valley College and as director of
their families to attend college.
'83
Kate Jesberg
longtime director Maureen Mulligan.
started in
school
academics and
stresses
become
members
Upward Bound
the
At BU, the
first
of
1978 and currently serves students from 10 area
districts.
completing the Lehigh Valley community leadership develop-
ment program.
Q
John J. Miravich received the distinguished service award
from the general alumni association of Penn State's Dickinson
School of Law. He is a shareholder with Stevens
Lee, Read-
John Chapin, associate professor of communicate %J tions at Penn State Beaver, received the
National Organization for Victim Assistance 2006 Stephen
ing,
Schafer Award.
He
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Michael Harrington (right) of Clarence, N.Y.,
was promoted to chief financial officer of both
First
Niagara Bank and
First
Group. He had been the
&
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services for
vocalist
and
County,
Oxford Communications,
guitarist
OU
District,
P.
Orchestra and as a
Pa.
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was
worldwide
marketing, reimbursement and national accounts for Small
Bones Innovations
and prosecuting online predators.
Barbara Emerick Wevodau, Juniata Township, has a
N.J.,
to senior vice president of
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New Bloomfield.
Julie Franchi, Chambersburg,
the
more Husky Notes online
www.bloomualumni.com.
at
a learning
District.
Dianne Haduck owns
Inc.
is
support teacher in the Greencastle -Antrim
a
dance studio in Taylor.
Ken Kirsch completed his
Find
to lieutenant of the
Police
Crimes Against Children Task Force,
specializing in locating
with the ensemble Touch
Christopher Frederick, Holmdel,
near Harrisburg.
Ward was promoted
general law practice in
promoted
affairs law.
districts.
Department in Montgomery
18-year veteran, he works with the district
attorney's Internet
the Sky.
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governments and school
Whitemarsh Township
media
and government
Lewis Correale HI is the principal of West
Hanover Elementary School in the Central
Christopher
(right) is director of
Symphony
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Dauphin School
firm's senior vice
Lambertville, N.J. She also performs as a flutist
with the Olney
practices municipal
also advises local
CJ /
Niagara Financial
president and treasurer.
Karin Suttmann
where he
first
novel,
"Demon Alcohol and
Monstermen."
David Lesko was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the
The ceremony took place at the Pentagon,
where he is serving on active duty.
Air Force Reserve.
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
Gwen
Sheets Raifsnider
is
a real estate broker with
Coldwell Banker United, Charlotte,
N.C
Steven M. Williams, Mechanicsburg, joined the
of Cohen, Seglias, Pallas, Greenhall
partner in Cohen's Harrisburg
legal firm
& Funnan as a resident
office.
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was
Phillipsburg, N.J.,
Tiffane Maltba, Leesburg, Va.,
elected chair of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge
Commission. He is director of corporate development for
Aqua New Jersey.
Karen Duzick Kepner, Shamokin, was guest speaker at
the Women's Expo 2007, sponsored by the Brush Valley
Foundation for Growth and Wellness. A certified registered
nurse practitioner for more than three decades, she owns
AltemaMed LCC.
Michael Moskovitz
for
is
vice president of health care
L.
is
Evelyn
Randy
author of the suspense novel
Omega
^
S^
representative for the Miller-Keystone Blood Center.
Christopher
W.
O
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Eileen Dautrich,
Births
Metzger Scott
husband,
John Scott
'87
'86,
daughter, Delaney, June
and
a
8,
and husband,
2006
'90 and wife,
Katherine, a daughter, Ruth,
as the
Carolina Adult Education Teacher of
He works at
assists
the Colleton
County
with the English as a Second
Jennifer Oiler
Catawissa,
is
a
program
supervisor/special projects administrator for the Central
Young Jacobsen
Oct. 29,
Shoup '94/'98M,
Trigg, a son, Clayton
'99 and
Susquehanna Intermediate Unit, Division of Special Education,
where she has worked for 12 years.
2006
Mike Montgomery '99 and wife,
Gina Vicario Waring
and husband,
'90
Katie, a daughter,
Bob Waring
'91,
a daughter, Alexa Cameron,
Nicole Zomerfeld George
husband,
Theresa Weber Beadling
'93
and husband, Chris Beadling
daughter, Melissa
Dave George
Owen, June
14,
Michael, April
May 2006
Colleen Evans Neumayer '93
Mark Neumayer
daughter, Blair Victoria,
husband, Stanislav
Melissa Kane Pagotto
'94 and
husband, Chris Pagotto
'93,
7,
a
2006
'94 and
husband, Michel Piche, a
'97
May 25, 2006
and wife.
Shannon, a daughter, Morgan
'02 and
Yann
'99,
a daughter, Lilianna Noelle,
Dec. 25, 2006
husband,
Stephen Carr
01
2005, and a son,
Bethany Samson Fluck
2006
daughter, Audrey,
5,
Kamus Yann
Kristina
Melissa Repas
2006
Garett Ryan, July 21, 2006
'93 and husband,
James, Dec.
and
and husband, Ryan, a son, Pearse
Godlewsky
and husband,
'01
'02, a son,
Rebecca Gerber McGeehan
Shannon, Sept. 20, 2006
George, a son, Carter,
Rose Michael,
Jan. 22, 2007
Jan. 17,2007
Noelle, Dec.
'97,
husband, David, a son, Peter David,
Dec. 1,2006
son, Brogan
of
Language program.
Heather Sabol Russell
Jill
John Makara
Sept. 7,
Chamber
Christopher J.J. Horvath was honored
-L South
the Year for 2005-06.
Patricia
'92, a
executive vice president
of the TriCounty Area
School District and
Hendricks
is
manager.
Bank.
S
Elizabeth
Inc. as financial services
Commerce, Pottstown.
Jf\ A
'94, a
Lynch, Athens Township, has rejoined
Kilmer Insurance Agency
}£\
of
A. Wolff, Ridley Park, earned a master's of science
Timothy A. Brooks was appointed the emergency
management coordinator for Hanover Township,
Northampton County, by Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell.
He continues to work as a police officer in Bethlehem.
Kellyanne Hagenbuch, Easton, is a donor resource
5 C\
banking
Brenda Snyder Fiorenza was promoted to
community office manager for the Sunbury branch
yj
is project manager for the Pennsylvaand Abuse Detection System in Camp Hill.
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Inc. She writes under the
pen name Ann Kelly.
David Waldman, Bristow, Va., was promoted to lieutenant
colonel in the Army. He is an intelligence officer assigned to the
Situation Room in the White House, Washington D.C.
Zr
with
degree in organizational development and leadership from
"Dead On," published by iUniverse,
}£^/~\
a senior recruiter
Thompson
nia Medicaid Fraud
SNB bank.
Kelly Cuthbert Robinson
is
CreativeSourcing, serving clients along the East Coast.
Samson
Jason Fluck
Jay, Aug. 22,
'03 and
'03, a son,
Alumni share work
BU
Lisa Schneider Williams '03 and
husband, Derek Williams
son,
Matthew, Dec.
4,
'02, a
2006
Jennifer Kleinfelter Deiter '05
and husband, Michael, a son, Blake,
Aug. 21, 2006
experiences
2006
alumni led roundtable discussions about
their graduate school
and work experiences during the recent Multicultural Employer
Exchange. About 75 BU juniors and seniors participated in the
event sponsored by BU's Career Development Center and Multicultural Center. Alumni presenters included, left to right, Ivonne
Mann '98, Lance Collier '06, Maria
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/88M, BU's director
and Jeff Beilman '98.
Gutierrez Bucher '91, George
Breen Billmeyer
'01,
of Alumni Affairs,
11,2006
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25
Husky Notes
'95 *
Jennifer
DiMarco earned
a master's of business
administration degree from
sity.
St.
Joseph's Univer-
She works as a compliance consultant to the
pharmaceutical industry.
5 /~\ /I Fred Gaffhey is executive director of the Chamber
of Commerce in Seneca County, N.Y.
y\J
5tf~\^7 Colleen Lupashunski,
S
/
Danville,
is
a
secondary
school learning support teacher in the Bloomsburg
Area School
District.
Meredith Marko, formerly of Hazleton, earned a doctoral
degree in communication from the University of NebraskaLincoln.
She
New York at
is
assistant professor at the State University of
Geneseo and
specializes in interpersonal
and
family communication.
Krissy Marks, child coordinator with the Williamsport
YMCA,
is
part of a
team overseeing the
city's
programs. She helps plan and manage the
recreation
summer
camps program.
Christina
Nordmark was
inducted into the Luzerne
County Sports Hall of Fame. She
Wilkes-Barre Area School
is
District's
a
math
Alumnus honored
teacher for
GAR High School.
Brian Regnier, Reading, was promoted to senior manager at
for dedication to
Beard Miller Co. LLP, a financial services firm.
Bucks Beautiful
Christopher Beadling '94, Doylestown, vice
president of the Bloomsburg University
ni
Central Bucks
Chamber
of
recognizing his dedication,
ism
to
Bucks
Bucks
Commerce Laurel Award,
commitment and volunteer-
Beautiful.
Beautiful, a non-profit
Bucks Chamber of Commerce,
and extend
and
at
Alum-
Board of Directors, received the 2006
program of the Central
is
designed to promote
the development of gardens in
communities
business premises and private homes. Beadling's
involvement with Bucks Beautiful began in 1995
he served
as a
member
Fair Committee;
of the Bucks Beautiful
when
Garden
he chaired the committee from 2003
to 2006.
In the accompanying photo, Beadling accepts the
Tri Sigma sisters celebrate in
2006 Bucks
Washington, D.C.
ent Denise Sezack.
A group
of Tri Sigma sisters,
all
Award from 2005
recipi-
members of the Class of 1980,
gathered in Washington, D.C, for an unofficial reunion weekend
last fall. Traveling
Beautiful Laurel
from Colorado,
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
and North Carolina, the group shopped, toured the White
House and shared memories and photographs. They plan to get
together next year to celebrate their 50th birthdays. Alumnae shown
in the accompanying photo, from left to right, are: front row
Sue
Kingeter Puderbach, Mindy McMaster, Jill Laylon Confair and Terry
Mizdol Giordano, and back row Marianne Deska Braithwaite,
Nancy Whitman Peterson and Annie Silvonek Dempsey.
Virginia
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more Husky Notes online at
www.bloomualumni.com.
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
Find
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Marriages
'86 and William
Rose Kosak
Moore,
Oct. 31,
Jill Silvi '91
20,
2006
and Troy Roth,
Oct.
Stephanie Minnaugh
'99 and
Nicole Buck
Stephen
2006
Renz, June 23, 2006
Libhart, July 8,
Michael Panisak
'99 and
Carey Lazevnick
Thomas, June
'92 and
Sean
Neil Stoddart '99 and
Kristin
Dent, June 21, 2006
2006
16,
'05 and Angela
16,2006
Kinsley, Sept.
Jaclyn DeLeonardis
Shannon Dolon
2006
Jesse Chubb
'03 and Charles
Elsie Dressier '05 and
'03 and
Ralph Rossi
Wert, April
Adam
2006
8,
April Egli '03 and Aaron
Jonathan Evans
Trometter, July 22, 2006
Persing, Aug.
'05 and Alissa
12,2006
Kelly Stultz '99 and Joseph
Brandilyn Fowler '03 and
Christine Gasper '05 and Aaron
Angelo
Matthew
Russell
Riquel Flowers '95 and Robert
Christine Orefice '00 and John
Lois Kirchner '03 and Robert
Hutchinson, July 15, 2006
Hopkins, July 22, 2006
O'Boyle
Robert Skuba '95 and Caroline
Jamie Tyson
Christina Baird '95 and William
Kiessling
II.
Brownson,
May 13, 2006
April 22,
2006
'00 and Steven
Miller, July 22,
Dan Miller '96 and
Leslie
Denise Zlobik
McAnallen, Sept.
2006
Lienhard,
3,
Aimee Alapack '97
Wolfe, Nov.
4,
and Paul
Traci
2006
Brown
Jr.,
'01
Russell Starke '97 and Lisa Hare,
Lisa Sobolesky
Aug. 26, 2006
Hendricks
Denise Swartz
June
24,
'97
and Brian
Hill,
Kim Cherry
Madara
2006
Jr.,
Jamie Hunsinger
Matthew
Sue Bednar '98 and Jim
Conte, Nov.
4,
June
Katie Getz '98 and Kyle
'98 and
Christopher Rooney, Aug. 26, 2006
Dominica DiRocco
'99 and
Steven Guzzi, Sept. 29, 2006
Beaudry, Aug.
2006
D.J.
'02 and
Chad Moser,
April
Wiest
Mongold,
Andrea Weaver '02M and
Adria
Andrews
Jones, Oct.
,
2006
at
Beard Miller Co. LLP, a financial services firm.
a unit coordinator in the
16,2006
Oct.
21,2006
Umbel
'04 and Ian Keck,
'06,
July 22, 2006
Tricia Novinger '06 and James
Danielle Wittig '06 and
13,
7,
Edward
Mariano '04M
Stephanie
Wood '06 and
Benjamin Apfelbaum,
2006
'05 and
Oct. 8,
2006
Howard
2006
John Wetzel was elected president of the Pennsylvania
County Corrections Association.
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the
Charles "Chuck" Kovacs
earned
certification in the
SOX Institute in San Francisco,
Sr.
'99M, Wysox, has
Sarbanes-Oxley Act from
Calif.
emergency
room at UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh.
Taryn Reed Troutman, a special education teacher in the
Upper Dauphin Area School District, is a member of the
Cambridge Who's Who of Teachers.
Justin C. Wagner earned the chartered financial analyst
CFA Institute. He works as a senior
J(\ f\
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Lisa Brennan teaches high school social studies for
Baltimore County (Md.) Public Schools.
Kathleen Dreisbach, Harrisburg,
tant for
is
an operations consul-
Verizon Wireless.
Dave Marcolla was named advisory board member
Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce
of the
Eastern
investment analyst for Vanguard's Asset Management Services
Leadership Program.
in Malvern.
Gilda's Club,
SPRING 2007
2006
Erica Long '06 and Daniel
'04 and Ronnie
James Merante,
1
'05 and
30,
Tennille Allman '06 and Dustin
2006
May
Jason Claudfelter, Readirig, was named senior manager
designation from the
25,
Adley,
July
Zimmerman
Morrison, Sept. 30, 2006
Megan
December 2006
'05 and Dustin
Patkalitsky, Sept.
'04 and Timothy
Teresa Mercuri
June
Paciotti 02 and Roberto
2006
Nicole Albright '06 and Joseph
2006
Mary Schleppy '04 and Timothy
James
a substance abuse officer.
is
Nicole
July 1,2006
'02 and
Winter
7,
Jason Hoover, Sept.
Whiteman, Aug. 19,2006
Cahoone was promoted
Rupp
Mark
12,2006
Ashley Henry
1,2006
unit for the Delaws ire
Christy Reed
'04 and
2006
5,
Mitchell, Aug.
Stahl,
'02,
Erin
Lindsay Eck '04 and Nathan
Daniel
to the house arrest
County Probation and Parole
Department where he has worked since 1999, most recently as
?("JQ
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13,
Wess,Oct.31,2006
Benevides
Heilman, Oct.
Brian
Allison Drake '04 and Ryan
2006
Denise Mullen
Kilian,
Dec. 22, 2006
Kendra McCabe
10,
2006
Brouse, Sept. 30, 2006
Gina Bakowicz
2006
'05 and Candida
2006
7,
Jaclyn Sybesma '05 and John
5,
and George
Reiner, July
Amy Juck '02 and
Del
2006
1
Benton
'99, April 22,
Keri Abbott '98 and Curtis Pickett,
July
Home, May
'01
July 29, 2006
Weller, Oct.
2006
Oct. 21,
'02 and
'03,
Kim Matlack '03M and
and George
5,
Henry Sladek
2006
'03 and
Malanoski
Kristi
'00 and Richard
Aug.
29,
Jr., April
Zachary Miers
2006
May 6, 2006
Clugston
Krepich
He
is
also chair of the associate
Delaware Valley
,
Pa.,
board of
an organization providing
Husky Notes
He works as
Commerce Bank.
support to cancer patients.
regional
manager
for
Eastern
Justine Miller works for Ricoh Corp.,
product
")f\
N.J., as a regional
trainer.
Jenn DiMaria, Mechanicsburg, works
~\
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mf^m
1
Montgomery
for the
Pennsylvania State Bank.
Melissa Groeling, Hatfield,
is
author of the novel
"Beauty Marks."
Snook Jr.,
Allen
Easton,
is
assistant director of athletics at
Pfeiffer University.
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Jamie Aurand is the administrator of Susque-View
Home, Lock Haven. He previously was vice presi-
dent/operations for Albright Care Services, Lewisburg.
L
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Mary Agnes Brown was production
stage
manager
for the
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble's 2007 performance of Richard
Dresser's
"Rounding Third."
Danielle
at
Vlaryann Lindberg, executive director of the
BU
Foundation
shown with members of the Delta Pi/Sigma Pi
\lumni Association Chuck Ranck '68, left, and David
center, is
Jecoteau
the Line
Kristin Rhoads is a fifth-grade teacher for Loudoun
County Public Schools and a graduate student at George
Mason University.
Jf\ /2 Thomas J. Brogan Jr. has been admitted to practice
\J %J law as a member of the Maryland State Bar AssociaHe earned a law degree from Shepard Broad Law Center at
Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Rebecca Donahue, Lebanon County, was honored as a top
tion.
scholarship
listing
i
"'he
Delta Pi/Sigma Pi
Alumni Association
the longe\ity of
one of the
BU
while ensuring
Daniel Frederick joined the accounting firm of Meisel,
at
'grand reunion" held in Lancaster in October
efforts of Ernie
the brothers
a
2004
Lemoncelli 77. More
than 200 brothers attended the event and
to
& Lewis in Roseland, N.J.
Zachary Miers
The idea of an alumni group was sparked
commitment
Public Accountant examination.
Tuteur
university's oldest
social fraternities.
through the
agent with Century 21 Krall Real Estate.
Craig Evans, Willow Grove, passed the Uniform Certified
has established a scholarship to help brothers
_1_ currently attending
3
a ninth-grade English teacher
District.
'86.
Brothers establish
r
Wagner Koser is
Mountain School
made
a
become more involved with BU and
who are now students.
is head wrestling coach at Shore Regional
High School, West Long Branch, N.J.
Chris Smith is an assistant golf professional at Palm-Aire
Country Club, Pompano Beach, Fla. He was previously assistant
golf professional at The Architects Golf Club, Phillipsburg, N.J.
Peter
Umlauf is an audio
technician at
PRG in Las Vegas.
Today, the Delta
Alumni Association boasts more than
600 members.
The scholarship is currently in its second, or
i/Sigma Pi
uuilding, stage with a three-pronged goal: establish
the scholarship with initial funding, reach a
Dalance of $10,000 for
endowment
in less than the
maximum five years and become an annual award
available to students who are active Delta Pi brothers.
For information on establishing a scholarship
or contributing to an existing scholarship,
contact the Bloomsburg University Foundation at
(570) 389-4524.
Wrestlers return
BU
President Jessica Kozloff, second from
left,
greets former
BU
and coaches at an on-campus reunion earlier this year.
Shown in the accompanying photo, left to right, are Bill Paule '65,
Kozloff, Don Poust '63 and Roger Sanders, former wrestling coach.
wrestlers
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Jarrett Austin Witt, Bethlehem, was promoted to regional
development manager in charge of business recruitment and
Stelma
Economic Development Corp.
retention for the Lehigh Valley
named vice
^f\/i Lisa Brown, York, is a marketing coordinator at
\J _£. John Hilliard Insurance Agency Inc.
president at
Christine DeMelfi, Berwick,
is
vice president of the
Columbia-Montour Chamber of Commerce.
Maria Engles serves as the Young Lawyers Division
Lackawanna
coordinator for the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
AnnWSIM
Marie Stelma
Ann Marie Stelma
Jill
of Pittston
was named vice president for continuing
Lackawanna College, Scranton.
One
at
of the institution's four vice presidents, Stelma
administers
all
facets of
Lackawanna's continuing education
department, including training programs designed to meet
and industry and the
the needs of business
GED
allied health,
She
and adult
institution's
basic education programs.
center that will
open
in the
new Susquehanna County
fall.
Stelma previously served as Lackawanna's academic
development
specialist
at
education. Earlier in her career, she
instructional specialist for Luzerne
worked
an
Tunkhannock
She recently earned a doctoral degree in
administration from
Marywood
District.
Ashley Henry Whiteman
for the
is
a speech-language pathologist
Cheshire Center in Greensboro,
N.C
£
Lindsay Galbraith is a stage manager for the
American Family Theatre for Youth. She completed
a national tour managing "A Christmas Carol." This year, she
Jf\
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be stage manager for "The Wizard of Oz" during an
Christopher Gass
District.
development with specialization
Exeter
extended tour of the southern U.S.
County Community
College and as a reading specialist for the
Area School
as
at
Avis Elementary School in the Jersey Shore Area
School
will
and director of developmental
in clinical study with a doctor in Dubois.
Township Middle School in Reading.
Mary Lou Mrozinski Jensen is a kindergarten teacher
also oversees the college's satellite centers in Hazleton,
Honesdale and Towanda and a
is
Michelle Lachawiec teaches mathematics
recently
education
Foltz received her white coat as an audiology doctorate
candidate. She
human
in higher education
University, Scranton.
is
a field technician with the
Arizona
Transportation Research Center.
Matthew Gerst, Danville, is a police officer with the
Mahoning Township police. He worked as a part-time officer
for the Danville police after graduating from Lackawanna
College Police Academy in 2005.
Bethany B. Hueholt passed her second-year candidacy
exam at
the University of Virginia graduate school of chemistry
in Charlottesville, Va.
Kristina Knight
Deaths
is
group and hospitality
the
group
sales for
sales
manager in charge of
Mandalay Baseball
Properties,
Wilkes-Barre.
Eva
Thomas McGuire
Alice
Machung
Verna
Warren
E.
'24
Marlin
Diksa '29
Home
MaryBeth Reisinger works
'57
Sandra Goodhart
'29
Marjorie
Atiyeh '59
Morgan Pomicter
'62
for Personal Fitness,
Camp
Hill,
as a trainer.
Dan Sevison is head coach of the Bloomsburg High School
wrestling team.
Phyllis
Newman Albertini
MaryAhearn
'33
N. Donald
Young '63
Teresa Barrett McDonald '65
Reilly '33
Roberta "Bertie" Conrad Nevill '34
Jack Lamont Keller '66
Edna Stevens '35
Joanne Kugler Whetstone
Irene
'39
BoninWenrich
Margaret
Fretz
'67
Conrad '68
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Meredith Bertecher, Boothwyn, was inducted
into Beta
department
Roy Gunther '44-45 (Navy
V-1 2)
Jack Kuney '44-45 (Navy V-1 2)
Theodore Pstrak
Sr.
'44-45
(Navy V-1 2)
E.
'69
Ronald Meixsell
Jr.
'50
Griffiths '54
Camille Richie
Romig Rabuck 73
Sandra Massaro '80
is
a victim's advocate for people with
and coordinator
for the deaf consumer advocate at
The Independent Living Resource Center of Northeast Florida,
disabilities
74
75
in the gastroenterology
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.
Tau Nursing Honor Society, is working as a health occupations
instructor at the Columbia Montour Area Vo-Tech School.
71
Sr.
at
74
Jacksonville, Fla.
Bryan Scruggs
is
an IT support
specialist for Harrah's
Entertainment, Chester.
Kelly Smetana
is
a
group
sales coordinator for
Baseball Properties, Wilkes-Barre.
SPRING 2007
College of Business
Tracy Golder, Bloomsburg, a member of the Theta Sigma
Dum 70
Mildred Belford
Williams
Sr.
Rosalind Sanderson Shelly
'48
Mary Ann Martz
Scala
Frank Bosevich
William Orner '48
Robert
S.
Lynn Shaeffer
Edith
Donald Blackburn '46
Mary Rush
Joseph
Gamma Sigma,
Honor Society.
Lynn Freeze '06M works
Mandalay
V.
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelbcrget; University Archivist
A Celebration of Spring: May Day at Bloomsburg
May
ed
Day was
a
European holiday
for centuries to
celebrat-
honor the coming
of spring. Bloomsburg began
its
own
five
the terraced
the current
site
lawn stretching
of Luzerne Hall.
east
from Perm Street
Crowds ranged
to
in size
to more than 3,000 spectators.
The Queen of May, always elected by the students,
often perform traditional
the college orchestra and,
later,
the
by
Maroon and
Gold Band.
The
decades.
Most May Day celebrations were held mid-afternoon
on
would
English or American dances accompanied
May Day tradition on May 2, 1910,
with 40 more May Day ceremonies following over the
next
elementary students from the campus' Ben Franklin
Training School
final
event of the ceremony was the
winding of May
Poles.
Some
years, nearly
were hung with brightly colored ribbons
wrapped
in intricate patterns.
It
20 poles
that
were
was an elaborate
from several hundred
ceremony, often involving more than 300 people,
was crowned
weeks before the
first.
Then, female college students and
most
in full costume,
who practiced
for several
event.
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The
ritual
surrounding
May Day became less
formal through the decades.
Grosek and her attendants hold court by the old gym, with the band
at
May Queen Ann
on May 11, 1938
left,
(opposite page). Students from the Ben Franklin Training School and college students stand
ready to wind the brightly colored ribbons attached to
to
May Poles on May
The ceremonies welcomed each spring from 1910
1921, then returned in 1928 after a seven-year
hiatus.
When the May Day celebration resumed, it was
primarily a training school event with a younger
From 1937 until 1963,
War II and, again, in the
female student as the queen.
with breaks during World
mid-1950s when no ceremonies were held,
student was crowned the
Queen
of
a college
May every year.
By the 1960s, times were changing. The lawn
that
had seen so many wonderful pageants was torn up to
allow for the construction of Montour and Schuylkill
residence halls, and the training school would soon be
SPRING 2007
8,
1957 (above).
The final ceremony was held at the east end
campus
of
at the current sites of the Chestnut Street
parking lot and the Andruss Library
Former students from the Ben Franklin Training
School still look back fondly on the May Day
ceremonies. A tradition is gone but for more than
closed.
50 years thousands of college students,
local children
and delighted spectators enjoyed a spectacle
spring they never forgot.
to
Academic Calendar
Special Events
Transfer Orientation
Football
Youth Development Camp,
Thursday, June 21, and Monday,
Summer Session 2007
Session
I
-May 29 to July 6
Session
II
Session
III
- June
1
-July 9
8 to July 27
to
August 17
IV - May 29 to June 1
V - June 8 to July 6
Session
Session
1
Session VI -July 9 to July 27
Session VII- June 18to July 27
Session
Fall
VIII
43rd Annual Reading
June
Aug. 6
Thursday and
Orientation
and
Labor
Day- No
Classes
Day- No
Welcome Weekend
Saturday,
Thursday, Aug. 23, to Sunday,
July 8 to 12
Girls
Day Camp,
July 9 to 12
Boys
Homecoming Weekend
Friday to Sunday, Oct.
1
Parents and Family
Weekend
9 to 21
information. Details also are listed
Friday to Sunday, Nov. 2 to
UK
Elite
Camp, July 22
to
26
Softball
To be announced
Swimming
4
Resident Camp, June
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Summer Camps
Harrisburg
For more information and
Wednesday, June 13
brochures, call (570) 389-4371
Day Camp, July 9
or go to www.buhuskies.com.
Stratford Festival 2007
Friday,
Saturday, July 9 to 14
Wednesday, July
Baseball
Wilkes-Barre
Exams
Monday, July
Husky Day Camp
I,
Husky Day Camp
II,
July 23 to 26
Graduate Commencement
Father-Son
June 29
Aug. 3 to 5
Commencement
to July
Day Camp, June 18
Thursday, July 19
Day Camp, July 16
to
22
Individual
Thursday, Aug. 2
Team Camp,
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Field
I,
to
Weekend
II,
1
Camp, June 29
1
Senior High
July 13 to 15
Team Camp
I,
July 9 to 15
20
Intensive Training
Camp,
July 8 to 14
Girls Basketball
Lehigh Valley
Weekend
to July
Big Brother
Team Camp,
Undergraduate
1
Wrestling
Parent/Child
Weekend Camp,
Berks County
Alumni Summer Picnic,
to Aug.
June 22 to 24
Alumni Summer Picnic,
14
Camp, June 23 to 27
Parent/Child
Boys Basketball
1
Tennis
Camp, July 28
1
Saturday,
1
Rookie Camp, July 9 to 12
July 30 to Aug. 2
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Saturday, Dec. 8
to
1
to 12
Camp, July 21 to 25
1
Classes End
Camp, June 24
to
28
July 20 to 22
Senior High
Team Camp
II,
July 15 to 19
1
New Student Activities
Summer Freshman
Orientation
Saturday to Monday, June 16 to 18
Act 101/EOP Orientation
Sunday and Monday, June 17
and 18
Fall
Camp,
Trick Girls Resident
Hat Trick
Kehr Union
oralum@bloomu.edu
Montoursville
Saturday, Dec.
Induction
at (570) 389-4058, (800) 526-0254
Monday, Nov. 26
Friday, Dec.
Fame
Saturday, Sept. 15, 6 p.m.,
for
28
to
Upper Campus
Athletic Hall of
Alumni Summer Picnic,
to
Field Player
19, BU's
Aug. 26
Classes Resume
1
May
Hat
Monday to
Dec.
and Boys Soccer Plus Camp;
Academy, June 23
Nov. 21 to 23
Monday to
Soccer
Goalkeeper and
No Classes
Final
17
Girls
www. bloomualumni. com.
Thanksgiving Break -
Wednesday to
May
Classes
12
Friday, Oct.
Friday,
Kehr Union
at the alumni online community,
Monday, Sept. 3
Reading
13
July 22 to 25
Trash to Treasure
Contact the Alumni Affairs Office
Monday, Aug. 27
18,
Saturday, Aug. 25
Alumni Events
Classes Begin
Team Camp,
Adull/Non-Traditional
- May 29 to August 17
2007
11 to
Conference
Lackawanna
Wednesday, Aug. 8
Team Camp,
July 15to 19
Team/lndividual/Goalkeepers
Camp, July 29
Husky Training Camp Special,
to Aug. 2
July 8 to 19
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Team/Goalkeepers Camp,
Aug. 5 to 9
Lancaster
Wednesday, Aug. 15
Reunion, Class of 1962
Freshman Preview
Junior High
Hockey
For the
latest
information on upcoming
Saturday, Oct. 20
events, check the university
Web site:
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 19
and 20; Monday through Thursday,
June 25
to
wwv. bloomu. edu/todav
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them. Elvis Presley sang about them.
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graduates hold
on
to
them.
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display and enjoy as they hold on to
those special
college memories.
Consider giftware
or clothing, like
an alumni cap,
T-shirt, sweatshirt,
travel
mug,
license plate frame or decal for a
special graduation
gift.
Or, perhaps, a
BU afghan, stadium
or chair. BU insignia gifts,
diploma frame,
blanket
from
T-shirts, sweatshirts
and caps
to
pennants, glassware and stuffed
animals, are great
gifts for all ages,
including the special high school grad
who will soon become a BU
freshman.
Can't decide? Gift cards are available
in
any amount.
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convenience of shopping online for
hundreds of items
at
www.bloomu.
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shopping
experience, the University Store
is
open seven days a week during the
academic year and Mondays through
Fridays during the summer. Stop
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person or online for everything BU.
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now? Simply put, I'm so very grateful
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for the privilege of serving this university
When people ask,
contemplate leaving BU.
days winding down?"
excited about a
I
usually respond,
new chapter in my life,
"Well,
"I feel just like
but very sorry to be
much."
I
are naturally excited about
less responsibility
moving
and more time with each
other,
to
Arizona and enjoying
our children and
grandchildren. We're looking forward to pursuing personal interests that have been
put on hold for
and much
many years.
But
there's
no doubt we
leave with a tear in our eyes.
.
gratitude in our hearts.
What is it that we'll miss about BU?
•
Interacting with the wonderful folks
it is
the talented staff
who
take such pride in this place, whether
on campus or alumni who we meet
•
Watching students grow, both personally and
•
And, being
this university
has added value to their
all
intellectually,
over this country;
and knowing
that
lives;
a colleague of the talented faculty
who
take teaching so seriously,
even as they continually pursue scholarly and creative endeavors.
On a personal level, I know
one of the
I'll
miss getting up each day excited to go to work
greatest public universities in this country
has gone by that
I
haven't
felt
privileged to have
can honesty say that not a day
I
both honored and humbled by the opportunity
president of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
been a part of her history
I
at
know that I'll continue
as the years
go by and
this
to
be
to feel
outstanding
university grows ever stronger.
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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a
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member of the Pennsylvania
Higher Education
Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors
as ofJuly
2007
Kenneth
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Paul S. Dlugolecki
Darnel P. Elby
A Place
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Ryan Gebely
for Pets
Michael K. Hanna
Vincent j. Hughes
2006 prompted people and
High waters
in
Joseph M. Pelizer
companions
to start looking for higher
Guido M.
when
their furry
Joshua O'Brien
Edward
Pichini
G, Rendell
Christine
Toretli
J.
Olson
"Annie's Place," the largest
Aaron A. Walton
Gerald
L.
Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
Judy G. Hample
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Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
Steven
B.
Ramona
shelter for
Faith, Family, Football
Danny Hale
to
no stranger
is
to the
produce a winning Division
But
'94, Secretary
H. Alley
hard work required
it
was Lady Luck who
football
II
initially
program.
brought him
to
BU
as coach 15 years ago.
'08
Dampman '65
LaRoyG. Davis
their efforts to create
emergency
Chair
Lammando
James D'Amico
Robert
'68,
Barth, Vice Chair
Marie Conley
The animal response team
animals in Columbia County
Zahorchak
Robert J. Gibble
C.A.R.T. found BU.
and the university combined
JamesJ. Rhoades
ground. That's
On
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Call for
BU
Charles C. Housenick '60
A. William Kelly
David
W. Klingerman
Joseph J.
As
71
Sr.
BU Trustee,
institution's
Mowad
expanded
Bloomsburg University
President,
a
Dr.
Mowad attributes the
Joseph
growing academic reputation and
facilities
over the
last
Jessica Sledge Kozlofl
leadership of the university's
Executive Editor
Jessica Sledge Kozioff.
13 years to the
first
female president,
Liza Benedict
The Other Dr. Kozioff
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Co-Editors
Eric Foster
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Bonnie Martin
Starting over isn't always easy, especially after
Husky Notes Editor
years, but for Dr. Steve Kozioff the decision to start
Brenda Hartman
Dr. Joseph
Mowad
graduated from the University
of Scranton but, as a Trustee, he's devoted to BU.
over in Bloomsburg went hand in hand with
Director of Alumni Affairs
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/88M
supporting his
Editorial Assistant
next big
Irene
wife's career.
move -
to the
ready for his
home
in Arizona.
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Woodcock
and her plans
Cover Photography
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for at least a
on
president.
decade
at the
helm when she became
As she approaches retirement
in
December, she
the institution she's led for 13 years, her path to the presidency
for the future.
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President Jessica Kozioff
Steve pause
hoped
Bloomsburg University's 17th
Debbie Shephard
BU
he's
Johnson
Communications Assistant
Emily Walson '08
Curt
Now,
couples retirement
and her husband
on the portico of Carver
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FALL 2007
News Notes
Fashioning a Future
Grant funds project
in
Guatemala
A recent BU graduate and
from the Kathryn
two of her childhood
Wasserman
spent part of the
working on
friends
summer
who
Nescopeck,
Mi
'07 of
Refugio, a Christian
school located outside
Guatemala City
earned a
that
provides education, food,
bachelor's degree in
anthropology in May,
traveled to
to
pursue the project through
lives
of women in Guatemala.
Pfromm
100
Pfromm
and Winter decided
a project
designed to change the
Julie
Davis'
Projects for Peace.
Guatemala
clothing, medical assistance
and outreach
to
services to
junior majoring in Spanish at
more than 250 students
and their families.
'We decided to do a
Bucknell University. Another
sewing co-op to get women
work with her friend,
Danielle Winter, Berwick, a
from the Guatemala
Rachael Prosseda,
friend,
Dump
Julie
Pfromm and Rachael Prosseda
"This project
is
good
a
example of grassroots
development," says
Wamer.
and
majonng in anthropology, documented the
experience on film for an
involved," says
with Faith Wamer, associate
the
anthropology internship.
professor of anthropology at
people's lives, they truly
The
a poster
trip
came from
Winter saw on
Bucknell's
campus
Pfromm.
The students worked
idea for the
Guatemala
the surrounding areas
BU,
to
that
fit
come up with an idea
the grant's goal. The
project
offering a
able,
had
to
Students
travel
from
shower valves
cross-
Mi Refugio
homes in
at
their
the Guatemala City garbage
Charley Chyko,
special
do
cultural understanding."
Drop by Drop
BU saves water with
than improve
economic conditions of
promote peace and
be sustain-
promote peace and be
completed in one summer.
$10,000 grant opportunity
development projects do so
much more
all
building materials.
hopes
believe that grassroots
"I
halls
and
Pfromm
that teaching the
women to sew will also
empower them. "The
made from the
profits
sale
of the products will be
split.
Half will go to
renewing the resources
needed and the other
will
half
go to the women,"
Pfromm
BU plumbing foreman, had
campus residence
to scavenge for food,
clothing, recyclables
from Berwick, a Bloomsburg
senior
dump
says.
the valves installed
in
and apartments during academic breaks
over the past year. The valves pay for themselves through water and
When
students returned for the
fall
semester, they were on
course to use nearly a million fewer gallons of water per month
than
in
special
previous years. The savings are due to the installation of
shower valves
shower head
in all
fitted
like
George Shuman
air
with the water so that
same amount
the
II
of
water
is
valves.
BU
is
the
it
both looks
being used," says
of Pennsylvania Gardens, the environmental
firm in Williamsport, Pa., that supplied the
first
in just
several months.
Ed Valovage, assistant director of residence
BU, admits that he
was
skeptical about
life
for operations at
whether students would
accept the change. "We've tried water-saving shower heads
in
the
past," he says, "and students just didn't accept them.
of BU's residence halls.
"The shower valves mix
and feels
between the shower arm and
sewage savings
German-engineered
educational institution
in
the United States
to install the water-saving devices.
"But
had no complaints, and the water savings were
water a month, and
that's before all of the
campus
halls
had the
valves installed."
Valovage estimates that the shower head valves reduce water
usage
"The user does not recognize a loss of shower comfort," he
we
phenomenal," he says. "We've saved 600,000 to 700,000 gallons of
in
the residence halls by 25 percent
- an
annual savings of
8 million gallons of water.
says, adding that the valves can also save energy used to heat
the water.
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Forecasts,
Weather
Graphs and Gauges
Den Web site provides information for
community
Locally collected weather information
is
Web site created by two BU professors.
can be found
at
http://weather.bloomu.edu.
"Bloomsburg seems
of weather reporting.
I
to
fall
between the cracks in terms
know that people in the community
Web site
could really use a
directs
now available on a
The Weather Den
them to other Web
that organizes information
sites to
answer
and
specific
questions," says Patricia Beyer, associate professor of
David W. Klingerman
James
Sr.
F.
geography and geosciences.
D'Amico
Beyer maintains the
New Trustees
Web site, which draws information
from the Weather Logging System 8000 (WLS) located on
BU's campus. Jeff Brunskfll, assistant professor of
Klingerman, D'Amico appointed to council
geography and geosciences, maintains the weather
David W. Klingerman
of
Sr.
of
Bloomsburg and James
Mount Carmel were appointed
F.
monitoring system, which provides information on
D'Amico
temperature, relative humidity,
to BU's Council of Trustees in
rainfall
and
late spring.
Vice president of
facilities,
projects,
hotels
JDK Management
Co.,
views of the weather.
which operates nursing
assisted living facilities
past 35 years, he has
owned and operated
in
In addition to
nursing care and
northeast Pennsylvania since 1981. For the
owned Klingerman
making weather information
the community, the
available to
Web site allows students in
meteorology and physical geography courses
Farms, which produces
soybeans, corn, wheat and beef cattle on more than 800 acres
direction,
features links to other weather services.
and restaurants and oversees land development
Klingerman has
wind speed and
A webcam provides live-action
The Weather Den Web site also
solar radiation.
to gain
hands-on experience in monitoring weather.
in
Columbia County.
Klingerman served on the school board for the Bloomsburg Area
School District from 1977 to 1992, including two terms as president.
War and Rebellion
He earned a
History major
bachelor's degree
University and
is
in
economics from Columbia
certified as a licensed nursing
Klingerman and his wife, the former Donna
home
Kline,
assists
have four children
Senior Roger Thrash, of
and nine grandchildren.
Conyngham, worked
D'Amico, the Council of Trustees student representative,
majoring
in
with journal
administrator.
is
a senior
with Jeff Davis, associate
elementary education. While attending BU, he has been
Web
employed with Quest as a
manager. He
is
professor of history
also president of the
Student Pennsylvania State Education Association, senator for the
Community Government Association and a member
international honor society
in
education. D'Amico
is
of
Kappa Delta
active
in
Pennsylvania History:
A Journal of Mid-
Pi,
the Boy
Atlantic Studies, to
Scouts, the Association for Supervision of Curriculum and Development
prepare a special
and the Association
summer issue
for
and
associate editor of
Childhood Education International.
on
Flex for Food
focused
the Seven Years
and
War
Pontiac's Rebellion.
Thrash, a transfer
Students contribute $6,400 to local facility
student, says he
was
Roger Thrash
BU students
inspired to attend
contributed $6,400 of unused funds from their Flex
accounts to the Bloomsburg Food Cupboard at the end of the spring
semester. Flex funds are a portion of the students' meal plans that
can be used at campus dining outlets
like
cash from a debit card.
Over the previous seven years, students contributed $44,000 to the
Bloomsburg Food Cupboard.
FALL 2007
after
hearing history department chair William
speak
at
commencement several years ago. He expects
May 2008 with a bachelor's degree in
to graduate in
history
BU
Hudon
and minor
in anthropology.
News Notes
New Dean
Ermatinger leads College of
Liberal Arts
Top Teachers
Professors win TALE
Award
James W. Ermatinger became
dean of the College of
the
Two
faculty
members were
Liberal Arts in July.
recognized recently for their
Previously chair of the
outstanding teaching. Frank
history department at
D'Angelo, assistant professor of
early childhood
Southeast Missouri State
and elementary
education, and Janet
University, Ermatinger
Bodenman,
earned a doctorate in history
professor of communications
at
were
studies and theatre arts,
selected as the 2007 Teaching and
ancient Greek and
Learning Enhancement (TALE)
arts
Outstanding Teachers.
for
potential.
and
their full
we
State.
and
for his "energetic
front of our peers."
As an
Fall of the
Roman Empire"
of other books, teaching publications
and
Ermatinger has focused his research on Diocletian's
in the ancient world,
and
classic archaeology.
In addition to Southeast Missouri State, Ermatinger
inspiring"
use of up-to-date and relevant resources
who we
early childhood
of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney State College, Wright State
are
and
was
also credited for his
when
instructing students
elementary education professor, D'Angelo
on teaching strategies.
D'Angelo and Bodenman were nominated by graduating
They both received a $750 professional development
stipend, sponsored by the
number
at
taught at Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio, the University
was nominated
teaching style, which gives students "confidence to be
seniors.
and a
San Diego
and transport
will
Frank D'Angelo
in
Roman history. He earned a master of
history at San Diego State University
legacy of classic antiquity in revolutionary America, trade
meet her expectations.'"
and speak up
is
economic reforms, Roman geography and numismatics, the
"Bodenman reminds
her students that she raises the
D'Angelo
a
articles,
According to one
bar because she 'knows
degree
Author of "The Decline and
her ability to challenge students
nomination,
James W. Ermatinger
bachelor of science degree in biology
Bodenman was nominated
and help them reach
Indiana University,
Bloomington, focusing on
BU
University in Dayton, Ohio,
Richmond,
and Earlham College
in
Ind.
Grant for Nursing
Department part of state
initiative
Foundation, and a plaque to
BU's nursing department received a $66,620
recognize their achievements.
Pennsylvania Clinical Education Grant as part of a
statewide initiative to increase the
Life
Less Taxing
Students help
file
Clinical
issued to 38 recipients in
137 electronic returns
number of nurses.
Education Grants totaling $3.6 million were
47
counties.
The funding is
designed to improve faculty coordination and training
BU students
electronically filed 137
returns and 68 state returns
income tax returns
—
as part of the
—
services, enable
nursing programs to incorporate
69 federal
simulation technology into the curriculum and increase
BU Student Accounting
the
number
of students
Association's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. Students
also completed returns
and forms that may only be
who
can enroll in nursing
programs. BU's grant, received in conjunction with the
paper format,
filed in
Central Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board, will
such as returns for nonresident aliens and
local
income tax
The BU Student Accounting Association's VITA program
returns.
be used
to
support a simulated learning lab supervisor
offers free
position in the nursing department.
tax help each year for low- to moderate-income people and area
residents age 60 and older
tax returns.
BU
who
cannot prepare their
own
federal income
budget to ease the
is
the
official
VITA
site for
accounting and
state's
nursing shortage.
Columbia and Montour
counties. Eric Gockley, of Stevens, a senior accounting major,
program coordinator, and A.
The grants are part
2006-2007 state
of a $7.5 million fund set aside in the
was VITA
Blair Staley, associate professor of
MBA coordinator,
is
faculty adviser.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Return to the Rails
Third
'Spirit
ofBU' car available
Orders are being accepted by BU's Supervisory Roundtable for the third of six train cars in the "Spirit of
series,
a
wood side refrigerator car.
benefit student scholarships
and
the logo
BU"
at
Camp
logo.
The wood
C&O blue and
Both the
the entire car.
side refrigerator car
is
available at a cost of
$50 each, plus $4.95 shipping and handling per
Victory, Millville.
The metal
tagline of Aramark Corp., BU's food service
and the Husky
New UP yellow wrap around
Proceeds wiLL
Camp HERO
and
provider,
die cast refrigerator car,
produced by
Checks, payable to the Supervisory Roundtable,
Kim Schmitz, Bloomsburg University
Weaver Models, Northumberland, is an "O" gauge,
triple track, 1:48 scale model with three-rail trucks and
sent to
couplers, a complete brake system, fully detailed
For more information,
underframe and highly detailed styrene body.
4529. The deadline
It
Pennsylvania,
sports
400
E.
Second
call
St.,
car.
may be
of
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815.
Bob Wislock
at
(570) 389-
for orders is Oct. 15.
Professional Practice
Presidential Search
Group checks hearing
at Special
Olympics
Candidates meet with community, industry leaders
Jackie Davie, assistant professor of audiology, and
The candidates
for
BU president visiting the university are
with leaders in town and
at the
four audiology doctoral students
meeting
campus.
Candidates meet with the mayor of Bloomsburg, members of
Town Council,
the president of the
Commerce and leaders
Columbia Montour Chamber of
of local industries.
with university leaders, including current
Kozloff, the vice presidents,
—
Vicky Baker and
Lynda Steelman, both of Bloomsburg; Nicole Hella,
They
BU
of Troy, Mich.;
N.J.
and Stacie VanBodegon, of Wayne,
—
volunteered to screen athletes' hearing at the
Pennsylvania Special Olympics
also
have sessions
Summer Games
at
Penn State's University Park Campus. The Special
President Jessica
union representatives and
faculty
and
Olympics Healthy Athletes Healthy Hearing Program
is
designed to screen the hearing of athletes, provide
student leaders.
The goal
of the presidential search committee, chaired
Trustee Joseph
Mowad,
November. Kozloff will
about the search
for
is
to
have a
retire in
new president
by
BU
appointed by
December. Updated information
BU's next president can be found
at
www.
corrective (hearing aids)
and preventive (custom
swim
where possible and study
earplugs) services
the prevalence of hearing loss
athletes. Davie
in
Special Olympics
and the BU students tested
approximately 250 athletes over the weekend.
bloomu.edu/president/search.
FALL 2007
A Place for Pets
STORY BY LYNETTE M
ON G
The number one reason people don't evacuate their homes during an
emergency is because they don't want to leave their pets behind, according
to Pennsylvania's State Animal Response Team (SART). Bloomsburg
University hopes to help solve that problem in Columbia County.
When floodwaters struck Columbia County in summer
evacuation
2006, Bloomsburg University opened
volunteers to care for them.
community.
And Annie, BU
9-year-old Shih-Tzu,
its
was on hand
to
welcome
evacuated citizens and their pets with a
Just a few
weeks
later,
doors to the
President Jessica Kozloffs
BU
wag
sites
of her
tail.
teamed with the
will
have food, shelter and
The Columbia/Montour branch of C.A.R.T. was
created in April
the
where pets
2005 with
recently retired veterinarian
Larry Smith serving as coordinator. C.A.R.T. immediately
began
to organize resources, evacuation sites
and when
2006
and
Columbia
Columbia/Montour County Animal Response Team, or
volunteers,
C.A.R.T., to establish an official safe haven for evacu-
County just over a year later, the organization was put
ated pets during future emergencies.
largest
emergency
one of the
shelter site in
BU is now the
Columbia County and
universities in the state to
first
become
a
C.A.R.T.
and
is
a countywide organization that coordi-
trains volunteers to evacuate
service animals
and
livestock in
residents are told to leave their
flood struck
to the test.
"We
thought
we were
prepared, but the flood was
so extensive. Unfortunately,
many resource locations
were based in the northern pan of Columbia County
designated resource location.
nates
the
household
an emergency.
homes, county
mobilize C.A.R.T., which then sets
pets,
When
officials
up designated
and
inaccessible to us because roads
Smith
says.
"We needed a location
were closed,"
that
was
large
and
centrally located."
When an emergency situation is declared and people are instructed to evacuate
—
as
many had
to
do
—they
during the 2006 flood
are often forced to leave
their pets or livestock behind.
housing
President Kozloff and
"The Red Cross will find
Annie
but they can't accept animals,"
for people,
according to Cheryl John, BU's
facilities
coordinator. So, residents often
must choose between
the risk of staying in their
homes with
visit
with
Ashley Lynn, a senior
math
scheduling
statistics
major
from Riverside, in the
Softball dugout.
their pets or
leaving their pets to fend for themselves.
"When it became
evident that there were no
provisions for pets, that
was when
this really
emergency
took
off,"
Smith adds.
safe.
Within several days of opening
its
doors to evacu-
situations, C.A.R.T. 's
primary role
tools
and encourages
all
pet owners to keep their
pets vaccinated, according to Smith.
many residents brought pets with
be prepared
them.
Kozloff began working with C.A.R.T. to
an
official
emergency animal
soon
shelter
be used
pus,
for shelters,
all
located
and C.A.R.T. examined the
on BU's upper cam-
sites,
map
Positioning System (GPS) to
"Part of
our job
is
to
educate pet owners on
for situations like this,"
Smith
how to
b
says,
make BU
after the
floodwaters receded. Cheryl John identified three sites
to
to
C.A.R.T. advocates microchips as identification
BU had approximately 100 people on campus.
And, because BU wasn't a Red Cross evacuation site,
ees,
is
educate owners about precautions to keep their pets
using a Global
possible evacuation
routes to the campus.
Editor's note: Annie passed
away May
11, 2007, after
struggling with the last stages of kidney disease for
nearly six months.
little
dog, she
Lynette
Mong
As President Kozloff said, "For
made
'08
is
a
an
a
huge impact."
English/creative writing
major from
Kenncwick, Wash.
A few weeks after the mapping process, both the
university
official
and C.A.R.T approved
evacuation
dubbed
site.
Staff
and
campus as an
members
in honor of
the
faculty
the shelter "Annie's Place,"
In case of emergency, volunteers from both
BU would immediately begin
the appropriate
animals, based
on-campus
sites for
to
on weather conditions and
site avail-
"BU volunteers would be involved in
organization and maintenance aspects of the
says Jean
Downing,
after the
the
shelter,"
director of BU's volunteer office.
Faculty, staff or students
check pets into the
prepare
evacuated
ability.
would organize
shelter, feed
the
site,
them and clean up
animals return to their homes. C.A.R.T.
volunteers
would work with
the animals themselves.
"The C.A.R.T. volunteers are trained
animals in distress,"
The BU
sites are
would be allowed
with
Downing adds.
equipped
animals, including dogs, cats
as gerbils, hamsters
to deal
to accept
household
and "pocket
and guinea
pigs,
pets,"
such
and owners
and
larger animals at additional facilities
within the county.
Funded through
the U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture, C.A.R.T. is primarily a grassroots organization
that
depends on donations and volunteers. In non-
FALL 2007
out the country began creating programs to account for
pets in emergency situations. The PETS Act requires
any county or state filing for aid through the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide
information on how they will accommodate household
pets and service animals.
"North Carolina started one of the first programs in
1999 after Hurricane Floyd. They realized they needed
something in place at the state and county level,"
says Larry Smith, Columbia County's Animal Response
Team
coordinator.
According to the Pennsylvania State Animal Response
Team Web site, more than 3 million domestic pets and
farm animals were lost during Floyd. Since then, almost
every state along the East Coast has implemented a
similar program.
The PETS Act, also known as "No Pets
to visit their pets at BU's shelter
during designated visiting hours. C.A.R.T. can house
livestock
Pets Left Behind
After the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards
(PETS) Act was passed in late 2006, counties through-
Kozloff s dog Annie, BU's unofficial mascot.
C.A.R.T. and
IMo
Left Behind,"
a bipartisan initiative that came about mainly as a
result of Hurricane Katrina. Smith says it already has
created a widespread response. "Out of the 67 counties
was
in
Pennsylvania, 57 currently have C.A.R.T.
will be nationwide."
Soon these programs
in place.
Faith, Family, Football
STORY BY JIM DOYLE
Danny Hale
is
a
man with
a
'72
Danny Hale walked away from
1988 following
deep religious
fate as
him
to
much
faith.
But
it
as faith that
was
brought
Bloomsburg University
his
as
the
most
successful Division II
a motel in the
Danny
in the country.
Hershey
area,
which they ran while
served for the next four football seasons as an
coach to
Then
fate
Gump May at Hershey High School.
stepped
in.
Only
a
day or two
after the
couple decided that Hale should return to college
coaching, he learned that the head coaching job
open
at
his
was
Bloomsburg. Hale threw together his resume
and decided
programs
at
compiled a 40-13 record. He and his wife Diane bought
head football coach of
the Huskies, he has built one of
college coaching in
winning seasons as head coach
alma mater, West Chester University, where he
assistant
where,
five
to revisit the site of
two
losses suffered
by
West Chester teams.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
T T
1
'
I
Danny Hale made
1
it
clear
11
mat the experience
at
Bloomsburg was going to be about more than
FORMER HUSKIES QUARTERBACK GLEN MCNAMEE
"It
happened
to
When George Landis built a
be around
Husky powerhouse
Thanksgiving of 1992," Hale
recalls,
"one of those days
was breathtakingly
here.
when
beautiful
The campus and
it
up
the kind-
we met struck
ness of the people
me big time."
One
dates,
of several
dozen candi-
Hale got the position and
program
that
around
had
a foot-
suffered
through a 1-9 record the previous
season. His
first
—
linebacker Frank Sheptock,
first
priority
was
some
in with
I
think the idea had set
that
maybe,
Bloomsburg, we're
at
doomed
to
fail-
That Cal win kind of created a
ure.
an eventual three-time All-American
spark which led to a flame which led
linebacker and recent inductee into
to a fire."
the College Football Hall of Fame.
the task of turning
ball
started the process with his very
recruit
'97
that 0-2 start,
in the '80s, he
just football.'
Hale's
first
helped rebuild Husky
class
included Glen
football.
McNamee
have been in serious hurt.
fire
bum in the
continues to
football pro-
That
gram. Starting with that victory over
'97, a
California, the
quarterback from Philipsburg, N.J.
"Without Glen McNamee,
That
Bloomsburg University
recruiting class also
we would
He ended
one
tie.
won
Huskies have
113 games against only 33
They have won
losses
and
eight shared
or outright Pennsylvania State Ath-
up coming in and learning the system in a short period of time and
letic
defensive coordinator John Devlin
performing well as a freshman,"
winning streak against PSAC oppo-
and
Hale says.
putting together an experienced
coaching
staff that
included
offensive coordinator Bill Hart.
The next
priority
recruiting class.
was his
finished Hale's
first
season, 1993, with a 5-6 record,
winning four of their
last five
games.
But, they started slowly the following
season.
a
McNamee
shoulder in the
son-opening
separated his
first
quarter of a sea-
loss to
New Haven and
Hale's Huskies have earned five
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) postseason
national
title
game
in
Husky standout
players include run-
who
won the
victory against California University
to the nation's best Division
three turned
—
—around.
the season
"Glen
Husky
as well as the
Sigler,
Harlon
Hill
in
tingham,
who was third in the ballot-
American
offensive
lineman Jahri
who started every game last
shoulder was
season as a rookie with the
that
to
hurting, but he
up and we beat
a
team
we shouldn't have. We went on
eight games. If we had lost,
win
I'm not sure
them
I
could have kept
McNamee, now
the head coach
Dauphin High School,
New
Orleans Saints.
Last season Hale finished in the
top 10 of the Liberty Mutual Coach
of the Year competition
tured
together."
at Central
player;
ing for that award in 2005; and All-
McNamee came back and
still
II
current senior tailback Jamar Brit-
Evans,
it
1997
trophy awarded
played against California. That
sucked
the
national semifinals last season.
pensburg. Hale thinks a one-point
week
II
2000 and
ning back Irv
of Pennsylvania in
on an ABC
and was
narrated by Keith Jackson.
named
fea-
television special
He was
the national coach of the year
near Harrisburg, agrees with Hale on
in 2000; regional
the importance of that game. "After
four times, including last season; and
coach of the year
coach of the year in the
Coach Danny Hale,
and
McBryan provide
center,
assistant coach Brian
10 times
PSAC East
overall, including eight
times as BU's coach.
guidance on the sidelines.
Continued on next page
FALL 2007
playoff
berths, reaching the Division
didn't play in a 10-7 loss at Ship-
program
titles
21 -game regular season
nents going into the 2007 season.
The Huskies
first
Conference (PSAC) East
and have
words on the
offered encouraging
dren.
Of
charter flights to playoff games.
Kozloffs impending retirement,
Hale says,
"I will
at
miss her. She and
biggest supporters, not only of footathletics as a whole."
but
on
Victories
he
She has
says.
"She has to
to be flexible."
Hale
first
him
to the sidelines,
but his motivation goes well beyond
and Xs and Os.
relationships off of it have character-
victories
ized Hale's 14 years at Bloomsburg,
coach, you have a great impact
but there has been adversity, as well.
those lives you're dealing with," he
Defensive coordinator John Devlin
says. "I believe
passed away in 1998.
Hale's
positive
and was given
years old
a
way
"If
only
50/50
chance of survival. With the help of
have affected in a
I
who treated his illness and a
those people Hale's coaching has
"He made
positively affected.
that the experience at
was going
He made
large family that lifted his spirits,
academics were important.
Huskies
Tyson not only survived, but he
had
became
he encouraged us
Danny Hale
Perhaps the most remarkable
game
was
in
Hales tenure
at
the Huskies 59-49
Bloomsburg
win
deep
religious faith
was extremely
important in getting them through
at the
Tyson's ordeal. "Knowing
2000
that God's in charge, that
national semifinal. Playing
home on the home
field of the number one-ranked team
3,000 miles from
19 points
Bloomsburg
trailed
by
do happen
deal with
to
to
it.
handle
comebacks
well
.my belief prepared
.
me
other aspects of Hale's
an enormous influence not only on
my coaching, but in all aspects of
my life."
So
how much longer will Hale
men as a head
be influencing young
football coach?
He
itself
life.
may choose
take
to
it
one year
Bloomsburg.
Evans led
the quality of life
"Our
relationship has
the service
lent,"
Hale says of Kozloff,
of big issues early on.
I
bye week
after his first
me on a
found
couple
Kozloff,
who
game
at
to
Mansfield on a
for the Saints.
Hale
is
also
Dallas (Pa.) Correctional Institute.
that
While
served two terms
faith
part of Hale's
NCAA Division II President's
been
Danny
—
the
I'm looking forward to the 15th."
and
life,
so
football are a big
is
his family.
praises Diane's role in raising
which includes four
Roman, Brandie, Tyson
and Christina, and nine grandchil-
Jim Doyle 12
at Southern
It's
b
retired after teaching
Columbia High School for
32 years. He
is
the radio play-by-play
voice for Bloomsburg University
their family,
football
children,
WHIM-AM.
way onto
Redman Stadium and
where
concerned
a fantastic 14-year experience.
Huskies as they made
the field at
a great place
is
"I
truly like
town, the people you work with.
Council, has led the cheers for the
their
It's
I
involved in a prison ministry at the
she was a person of her word."
on the
when he came
last fall
replaced.
at a time.
by play-
season. "She backed
last
Hale says he has no timetable.
ers or guest speakers; Jahri
became BU's president
turned 60
by having both knees
in
Before
attend a chapel service led
the Huskies'
community.
by example. He's had
truly led
BU President Jessica Kozloff wit-
who
We
to get involved
in the
nessed the historic victory firsthand.
been excel-
clear that
December, celebrating his birthday
it."
each game, players
in school history.
full
bad things
good people, but you
That belief manifests
after three quarters before
staging one of the biggest
He
it
good deeds program where
and help others
says his family's
University of California, Davis, in the
in the nation,
full-
in 2005.
clear
be about more than
to
just football.
a
it
Bloomsburg
doctors
the Huskies' starting
on
quite a few people."
The celebrating begins for the
coach and his team after a
back before graduating
you're a
Count Glen McNamee among
lymphoma, an
when he was
aggressive cancer,
11
And
was diagnosed with
son, Tyson,
T-cell lymphoblastic
victory.
bug
got the coaching
while serving in the Marines after an
injury forced
and good
the field
hard to be a coach's wife
level,"
have an independence about her.
her husband Steve were two of our
ball,
"It's
any
and men's
basketball
on
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Each of the 14
universities in
the Pennsylvania
State System of
Higher Education
is governed by a
Council of Trustees
whose members are
recommended by
the governor and
approved by the
state Senate. The
term of
Dr.
Joseph
Mowad's dedicated
service as a BU
Trustee has spanned
the presidency of
Jessica Kozloff.
On
STORY BY MARK
E.
DIXON
Educators don't often use
word
"bargain" to praise
the
audiology. We've added a College
an
of Science
institution of higher learning.
But Bloomsburg's return on invest-
ment
is
among
BU
Call for
the top reasons that
and Technology. During
our tenures, the number of applicants has increased.
SAT
Mowad is equally fond:
the 13-year presidency of Jessica
remains low in comparison to simi-
Kozloff so highly.
lar institutions.
—
She made Bloomsburg a
students," says
who is
our
lives of
Mowad,
also a senior vice president
and the Geisinger Founda-
tion, the philanthropic entity.
Mowad, who joined
ees about the
same time
the Trustthat
Kozloff arrived, can tick off her
accomplishments as
he
says.
been almost
started a
program
naming
his
done tremendous
children: "We've
things,"
if
"The campus has
totally renovated.
We
new college, a new degree
—
a doctorate in clinical
FALL 2007
Tuition
for
fathers
these mothers
scream out, That's
—
when he came
to Geisinger as
Now emeritus director of
urology, he
was educated
at the
University of Scranton, earned his
medical degree from Creighton
or more.
Omaha and
"These kids are going to school
Medical School in
about a third of that," he
completed his residency
the child of parents
Mowad
an associate in the urology department.
well,
—where annual
now $30,000
and
my kid!'
has practiced in Danville since
1968,
says.
A native of Scranton, Mowad is
of Geisinger Health System in
Danville
tuition is
a urologist
which
Mowad and his
from other schools
enhanced the
"She's
the part about
children graduated from
better bargain.
my eyes at gradua-
when I hear
Gov. Robert Casey in 1994,
Mowad serves as one of
its Trustees
and why he regards
And here's
tion
Appointed a Trustee by former
scores
have increased."
Dr. Joseph
brings tears to
who were not
at the
University of Maryland.
Mowad is actively involved
in a
college educated. After he joined
number
the Trustees, that background
He has
contributed to a strong sense of
Disease Advisory Committee and
affinity for
and
Bloomsburg's students
I
that almost
chaired the Governor's Renal
served on the boards of the First
National Bank of Danville and
their families.
"What
of professional associations.
liked immediately
was
Fulton Financial Corp.
been
50 percent of
Bloomsburg graduates were the
first
active
on
He has also
the boards of several
Montour County groups focused on
in their families to graduate from
college," says
Mowad.
"It
almost
Continued on next page
11
'What
I
liked immediately
was that almost
50 percent of Bloomsburg graduates were the
first
in their families to graduate
- Dr. Joseph
from
college.'
Mowad, Trustee
providing recreational opportunities,
which
feature suites
treating drug and alcohol problems
of four
rooms
and
around a central
providing child welfare services.
When Mowad took his seat as a
BU
Trustee, he
recalls,
library
are
some
condition.
what he and the
buildings were in poor
The
—
living area
much
had limited seating and
just a handful of computers linked
from
different
parents of most
students experi-
only by a local area network (LAN).
enced. Even so,
Workout facilities were lacking.
The outdated cafeteria was a serious
safety,
not luxury,
is
his top concern.
he
recruiting deficit. Residence halls
Increasingly,
were crowded, pushing many
says, parents are expressing a desire
be
housed
students into often-substandard
that their children
off-campus housing.
on campus, and Bloomsburg
All that has changed. In 1998, a
new
was completed, which
for 1 ,000 students,
offers seating
for
The 57,000-square-foot Student
Recreation Center, opened in 1995,
all
Joseph Mowad, second from
McCormick Center
is
BU
Services with
accommodate them.
Paralleling
more than 200
computers and wireless Internet
all.
trying to
105,000-square-foot library
safely
Dr.
right, tours the addition to the
Kozfoff,
the construction
for
Human
President Jessica
and Trustee LaRoy
ieft,
'Lee' Davis.
has been a strong emphasis on
academics. In 2003, BU's College of
Business was accredited by the Association to
And
Mowad, means BU
that, says
now pursues a more
Advance College Schools
active
and
of Business (AACSB), a process that
consistent quest for philanthropic
has since been expanded with a
took more than a decade. Also that
support, which has been successful
17,000-square-foot addition that
year, the university
doubled the
size of its cardio
and
expanded
due
in large part
its
30-year-old master's-level audiology
the university's
to Kozloff,
first
weight rooms and added a 35-foot
program with
climbing wall, plus another
educate professionals for careers in
nary estimates
an area the U.S. Bureau of Labor
that the university
sized basketball court.
full-
The old
3,000-square-foot Monty's dining
hall
was replaced by a 16,000-
Statistics lists as
serving stations and choices of
similar
makeover
in 1999-2000.
College of Business
and, in 2005, of Honeysuckle Apart-
owned by the Community
Government
Association. In addi-
tion, the university leased
operates the privately
Apartments adjacent
and
owned
to
now
Kile
campus.
"We're working very hard to get
more housing,"
that the
to get that AACSB
Mowad says, adding
that
says
Mowad, noting
newest residence
halls
—
was earned only
30 standards
capital
campaign
led
in 1998. Prelimi-
the time suggested
at
might
$8 million, but the end
collect
result
was
much more.
fields.
Commons got a
it
to
was hard
accreditation,"
On-campus and affiliated housing has grown with the construction, in 2001, of the Mount Olympus Apartments on upper campus
ments,
"It
program
one of the country's
30 fastest-growing
square-foot version with multiple
cuisine. Scranton
a doctoral
who
comprehensive
Fundraising expertise
only
criteria,
says
isn't
the search committee. His
after the
met about
also searching for
committed
related to the caliber
to
the
Mowad, who
team
leads
is
an educator who
of faculty, curriculum, students
standards and bridging the town-
and
gown
by
the educational level achieved
Perhaps the biggest challenge for
Kozloffs replacement
Mowad sees as vitally
— and one
important —
areas in
ture once provided
is
60 percent of
Bloomsburg's funding but
vides only about
40
now pro-
percent.
made up by
It's
clear
which
Mowad believes the next
president has big shoes to
fundraising. Pennsylvania's legisla-
is
— both
Kozloff has excelled.
students.
difference
divide
is
advancing academic
off returns the
Trustee
fill.
Kozl-
compliment of a
whom she describes as
"always there, always participating.
and devoted
to
BU."
.
b
The
tuition
financial gifts to the university.
and
Mark E. Dixon
is
a freelance writer in
Wayne, Pa.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
ozloff
STORY BY JACK SHERZER
Researcher John Gottman has
found that romance
where partners respect
a marriage
and
strongest in
is
care for each other in ordinary
ways. For Dr. Steve KozlofF,
respect
and care were
at the heart
of his willingness to move to
Bloomsburg
as "first spouse."
Dr. Steve Kozloff laughs
when asked about his
willingness to uproot his successful obstetrics
and gynecology
and follow
practice in Colorado
the other doctor in the house to Bloomsburg.
knew his wife Jessica was being
by headhunters who were offerall across the country. And yes, they
Yes, he
actively courted
ing jobs
had talked about her
potentially, that is
—
interest in potentially
taking
In 1994, Jessica Kozloff
for
academic and student
on something new.
was
vice president
affairs for
the State
was going
Colleges of Colorado. Steve's practice
They loved the outdoor life and shared
skiing condo with three other families. So.
well.
a
.
"When I
look back on
ever really thought
did," Steve Kozloff says,
received
no
some
offers
it, I
don't
was going
it
to
to those places,
searches. But
I
would be good
Then
the call
I
couldn't
and she pulled out of the
move
that
both of us."
came about
the presidency at
Bloomsburg University. This one was
different.
"When it came
'I
like
it
here,'
"
to
Bloomsburg,
I
said,
think
Steve says.
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FALL 2007
it
adding that Jessica
never hesitated about a
for
I
far as
from places where he had
interest in living. "I told her that
move
know that
go as
13
I'd
A brother in
New
Harrisburg, another brother in
Jersey and cousins living nearby
for Steve, a Pennsylvania native.
made the move easier
He secured an ob-gyn
position with Geisinger Medical Center in Danville
where, for the
an outpatient
is
no
Still,
"You've
Steve readily admits,
I
"Initially,
20 years and
left
your
starting
until
clinic.
easy thing.
practice of
and
three years, he also taught residents
last
at
all
security,
making
a big
life
change
was tough because
it
a
left
I
my friends," he says.
and you're in your mid-50s
something new. But
it
didn't take long
adjusted."
At the root of that adjustment was
Steve's willing-
sums up with one
word: Respect. Respect for his wife, for her career and
an understanding that she had worked with him as he
ness to support Jessica, which he
and Steve Kozloff take
husband and wife.
Jessica
pursued medicine.
"I
think you have to treat each other equally and
with respect.
ier to get
It's
some positions are eas- 1 can be a physician anywhere,
also true that
than others
Whether working out or accompanying his wife
but you can't be a university president anywhere," he
says.
their first steps together as
"Husbands and wives have
sions depending
on job
open about things
opportunities.
he
They have
to
be
like that."
Mutual respect has been
tionship,
to juggle those deci-
many university events,
presence
a constant in their rela-
"It
BU, although
at
funny
little
was
be the
to
the
first
would say Hey,
says.
I
he
says,
it
did
feel a
spouse."
wasn't
Dr. Kozloff,'
numero uno. Someone
and I would turn around,
but they weren't calling me, they were calling her,"
to medicine."
ally dating
of time that
physician, there are going to be times
Steve says he has enjoyed his time at Bloomsburg,
where the Kozloffs
live
on campus
in
Buckalew
Place,
enjoyed the students,
them," he says.
"I
Center and doing
I
says.
Steve
work at
met Jessica when he was doing postgraduate
the University of
enjoyed mingling with
especially enjoyed going to the
Rec
my workouts."
Nevada
in 1962.
He was
actu-
her roommate, but the spark was there, and
he and Jessica began dating.
In 1964, Jessica followed Steve to Philadelphia,
where he went
the official president's residence since 1926.
"I
he
to
a familiar
when you marry a
when problems
will arise," he says. "There was never one time when
she complained that I was devoting too much time
"She
knew ahead
at first,
"first
time
become
Steve has
to
medical school
began a doctoral program in
at Jefferson
and she
political science at the
University of Pennsylvania. After Steve's
first
year in
medical school, they married.
Steve says he decided to pursue obstetric medicine
because
"I
one's
life,"
practice,
one
it
offered
wanted
he
and
him a "happy practice."
to take care of the healthy part of somesays. "I liked the surgery
in
and
the office
ob-gyn you can combine everything in
specialty."
The couple
didn't stay in
one place
for long. After
Steve graduated from Jefferson in 1968, they again traveled west,
where he did
a four-year residency at the
University of Colorado. After that, as the Vietnam
War
continued and doctors were required to serve the miliSteve
and Jessica Kozloff pose with
earlier this year.
tary, the
their children
Rebecca and Kyle when they were youngsters,
left,
and
ticed
couple
ob-gyn
"When I
tion
at
moved
to California,
Beak Air Force
where Steve prac-
Base.
got out of the Air Force in 74, the big ques-
was where
I
would
practice.
I
could have gone any-
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where." The couple liked northern Colorado from
and the presence of Colorado
Steve's residency,
State
fulfilled Jessica's desire to be near a university.
So
it
was
Greeley, Colo., about
Bloomsburg came
Denver, until
Promises Made...and Kept
50 miles north of
calling.
van Association of
When Jessica wrote about Steve for the spousal tribute he recently received from the American Association
of State Colleges and Universities, she recalled how
some of her friends warned her that marrying a doctor
would mean she couldn't have her own career.
wrote,
"Steve turned
ca's friends
me within commuting
when asked whether he
warning her about the
but he does remember that his
own
he
that,
friends
says,
were
13 years ago.
They plan
year.
move once
again
the
at
end of this
Arizona where they
to retire to
argued, even
own a
While Jessica may do some consulting,
that advice
says,
he wants
to
spend time with
who lives in
and
Kyle, in Brentwood, Calif;
their
Phoenix; son,
a
father's
book
supportive spouse, Kyle, a
Wharton
grad,
is
was
stay-at-home dad while his wife works in the financial
field;
daughter Rebecca
is
career.
manage family and
ally,
two
down
994,
guess
it is
to love
and respect each
he always looked
at
not any better than me, and
we tried
and be on an equal footing with each
"Respect.
done
well,"
followed
It
he
me
takes time, that's
says.
work
together
20 or 25
years,
together.
faculty
now it was my
As
living in
Hanisburg, Pa.
me
we had
include a graduate school for
my first university teaching job
The pace
practiced.
in
Once
end.
down
itself,
to attend
life
Go
I
was
the
in
same
became much more
rou-
an American Council on Educatravel
away from
again, Steve willingly took over the supervision
mom traversed across the country.
to a dull roar.
academic
Colorado, a place
innocently
of
academic administration that required
vice president for
we
was
The
children
loved,
and
were
off to college.
life
was
I
was thriving.
Steve's practice
affairs.
answered the phone
good. One fateful day
in
to hear a search firm consultant
"just the perfect fit" for
Bloomsburg University
in
me. Would
apply
I
Pennsylvania?
I?
Could
last
I?
Steve's
25 years.
Now
for it!"
plans
private prac-
the residency program at a major training hospital
in
so very proud
award from the
we make
when a few years ago he won
the outstanding
residents!
in
Bloomsburg have been an incredible experience.
to retire
grandchildren await us,
We've both been so
B
a professional writer
FALL 2007
to get
Our almost 13 years
She
He has proven
After Steve finished medical school and
I
he loved to teaching
nearby.
we
and return
reflect
on
to the
how
west where our
lucky
children
and
we've been.
fortunate to have found professions that enriched our
and to have experienced such personal happiness. And
lutely
is
1
she's
why our marriage has
the degree.
finish
didn't listen!
With the move to Bloomsburg, Steve transitioned from the
lives
Jack Sherzer
enough
again settled
your turn.
other," Steve
other.
"We just work well
for the first
turn to follow her."
to
never
You can imagine the dinner conversation. Should
marriage as a
any better than she, and
I
answer: "You've patched you career around mine for the
tice
true partnership. "I'm not
I'd
I'm glad
primary parent who attended special events or picked up
for the presidency of
it's
"I
I
their careers for
looking for places to begin his practice. Steve
active teenagers while their
We lived
and Jessica
to one, well actu-
lots of advice.
While was commuting an hour each day
children.
was the
lucky
became a
two words.
says, stressing that
we began
describe an opportunity that
career as he
have done, his answer comes
a great one,
now that
many ways.
so
in
home for weeks on
a successful attor-
When asked what advice he would give to couples
trying to
wrong
tion fellowship in
1
ney balancing family and
was
But another opportunity presented
as the
currently a
our marriage
community where Steve
their four grandchildren.
page out of his
with
sick children at school.
Life
investment
if
down any opportunities that didn't
classes, he
of
Perhaps taking
in
women who submerged
within commuting distance. Then, the real work began. By this time
tine.
Now, he
the book about
his ob-gyn residency,
Steve says, at 67, he's looking forward to not working.
daughter, Rebecca Collins,
in
Well, I'm here to say right
I
Scottsdale.
my
husbands, only to be divorced for a younger, prettier woman. Besides, they
house on a golf course in Rio Verde, about 10 miles
from
had begun
I
were very tight. Actu-
decided to temporarily drop out of graduate
I
where my 1 960s feminist friends chimed
heard every story
two wonderful
Kozloffs will
the text of
program. "Your time will come," Steve promised.
turned
surprised at his decision to uproot a successful practice
The
but finances
is
school and took a teaching job at a local high school while he finished his
recalls Jessi-
of being a
pitfalls
No, he doesn't remember
doctor's wife.
We wanted to get married,
we were downright poor!
That's
that didn't
distance." (Editor's note: See the entire tribute at right.)
Steve chuckles
and
I
doctoral work.
to start his prac-
down any opportunities
include a graduate school for
following
I
needs in mind while choosing where
tice.
'
BU President Jessica Kozloff's tribute to her husband.
Sometimes, we just shouldn't listen to our friends!
When was dating Steve, he was in medical school
ally,
now that I'm glad didn't
pointing out how Steve kept her
"Well, I'm here to say right
listen!" Jessica
and Universities spousal tribute. The
State Colleges
blessed to have the love of a
man who
I've
been abso-
never forgot his promise!
The Kozloff
Presidency
STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS
How does BU President Jessica Kozloff
want to be remembered? "I hope that people
say,
'She
left this institution
she found
it,'"
stronger than
Kozloff says. "I think
what every president wants to
that's
leave behind."
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FALL 2007
her 13 years as presi-
Indent of Bloomsburg
University, Jessica
Sledge Kozloff has forged a
decisive path that has led to
rising enrollment,
an im-
proved physical campus
and
a
growing academic
The road
that
led her here, though,
was
reputation.
anything but direct, as she
detoured from her original
destination of high school
teacher.
"1
took that
first
istrative position
was
trying to patch
reer
around
she says. "In
admin-
because
I
my ca-
my husband's,"
my mind, be-
ing in the classroom was
the ultimate aspiration.
In
fact, I felt
sorry for
administrators."
Courtney Robinson '05 interviews
Soon, however, Kozloff gained a different perspec-
Kozloff for
the
BU
President Jessica
Homecoming Parade.
She not only found that being an administrator
tive.
was
BU-TV before
satisfying,
she discovered that she "liked being able
to influence decisions that could
impact a broader
State University), Kozloff moved to
group of students."
Today, Kozloff s decisions directly impact more than
8,700 students annually. .plus thousands more
.
will benefit
who
from her legacy in the years following her
retirement at the end of 2007.
husband Steve established
cal science
Colorado where
his career.
She taught
politi-
courses at the University of Northern Colo-
rado until her pan-time
position
was
eliminated.
"I
loved teaching and was
The path to the presidency
absolutely devastated
Growing up, Kozloff knew she wanted
to
work in
education. She frequently tagged along with her father,
who was superintendent of a small
in Texas.
"1
when
rural school district
always saw myself as a teacher," she
recalls.
Two powerful mentors reinforced her dream:
Kozloff s high school drama teacher, who inspired her
love of theater and made her realize how much a strong
that
door was shut,"
she says.
"I tell
students that
sometimes a very big
dis-
appointment can turn out
to
be a very positive
ence in
life,"
influ-
says Kozloff.
faculty-student relationship could mean,
She was asked
political science faculty
a position as an assistant
to think
With
about teaching
at
the postsecondary level.
a bachelor's degree in
in political science
(and
and a college
member, who encouraged her
education and master's
from the University of Nevada-Reno
later a doctorate in political science
from Colorado
to apply for
President Kozloff, right,
is
shown
UNC,
with Trustee
where she had just
lost
faculty emeritus Robert 'Doc'
her teaching job.
really
Warren.
dean of students
at
"I
missed teaching, but soon
Center
Bill
Kelly '71,
left,
and
BUs Student Services
named in Warrens honor.
is
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Jessica Sledge Kozloi
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
became
president of Bloomsburg University
on July
was
1994. Before that, she
1,
vice president for academic and
student
affairs for
of Colorado, a
regional
the State Colleges
rgsttl
system of four
campuses
serving 26,000
students. Previously, she held
several administrative positions at
the University of Northern Colorado
in
Greeley.
Kozloff, 66,
has taught under-
graduate courses
Nevada-Reno,
Colorado State University
Collins,
science
in political
at the University of
fawf
Fort
in
the University of Northern
Colorado and Metropolitan State
College of Denver and
member of the
was
a
graduate faculty at
the University of Northern Colorado.
An
author, lecturer
and consultant,
she earned a doctorate
in political
science from Colorado State
University.
work
The Kozloff family poses with Roongo in fall 2005. Seated, left to right, are Kyle Kozloff, his
wife Emme and their daughter lily. Standing, second row, are the Kozloffs' grandsons, Ethan
Collins and Cameron Kozloff. Standing, back row, are Becky Kozloff Collins holding daughter
Libby, her husband Jeff Collins, Roongo and Jessica and Steve Kozloff.
She completed master's
in political
science at the
where
University of Nevada-Reno,
she also earned a bachelor's degree
in
She serves on the Presidents
education.
Active
in
organizations on the
local, national
and
international
levels, Kozloff is chair of
States
the Middle
Commission on Higher
Collegiate Athletic Association
Leadership Group of the Higher
Presidents
Education Center for Alcohol and
tinues to serve on task forces for
Other Drug Prevention and,
the commission.
locally,
on the Geisinger Health Plan and the
She and her husband,
Education and just completed a
Geisinger Indemnity Insurance Co.
Kozloff, are
term on the board of directors
board of directors and the Geisinger
children
of the
American Association
Health System
of
State Colleges and Universities.
learned that
I
Council.
She served on the
enjoyed having an impact on students in
Even today, her philosophy
the old saying that "success
is
a modification of
ity that
comes from doing what
had
While serving
Instead, Kozloff says, "Success
finding something to love in
and do what you
to get to do what you
what you're doing."
comes from always
what you do. Follow your
love, of course,
but sometimes
love, you've got to
leam
to love
fellow,
dent
affairs for
in
working with both the National
much
anticipated," she says.
as vice president for
academic and stu-
the State Colleges of Colorado, Kozloff
from an executive search firm
wanted
call
to present
her as a candidate for university presidencies.
"I
have an incredibly supportive husband
it,'
"
she says. Because Steve's family
Pennsylvania, the chief job at Bloomsburg
that
who said,
is
from
was appealing
1994, she became the 17th president of
and, on July
1,
Bloomsburg
University.
Governors Association and the Education Commission
Continued on next page
FALL 2007
my mind to the possibilmy administrative
further in
received a
'Let's try
The watershed moment in Kozloffs career came
1985-86 when she served as an American Council
on Education
I
and have four grandchildren.
on improving undergraduate education.
could go
career than
love."
heart
I
Stephen
two married
as well as biking, hiking and golfing.
National
of the States
Dr.
the parents of
Both Kozloffs enjoy music and theater,
"That experience really opened
a different environment."
you
Community Advisory
Commission and con-
'Success comes from always finding
something to love in what you do.'
- BU President Jessica
"Students will frequently ask me,
become
that
tell
a president?'
"
'How does one
Kozloff says. "Most presidents
know didn't set out to become
I
Kozloff
students, 'Prepare as best
a president.
you can
in
I
whatever
job you do. Be the best you can, and be open to
new possibilities.'
Accessible but decisive
Not only was Kozloffs path to
influenced by her early moves
career,
but her presidential
the presidency
to
support her husband's
style is affected
by her
gender, she says.
"I
can't
speak
for
all
female presidents, but
am probably seen as more
image of a president," she
tional
came from
the West,
because
I
ture are
more open and
I
think
I
accessible than the tradisays.
"That
where the
may be
style
and
informal. But a lot of what
culI
bring to the position
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker
and
chats with
is grounded in my life as a mother
my experiences as a marriage partner.
"While Steve was so busy establishing his practice,
made
the decision to put
hockey game.
I
learned a lot about patience and decision
making from those
I
unpopular decision, and the reaction
is
prise,"
she says. "Sometimes
taken off guard
"I
when
1
stunned sur-
think people are a
the tough side
comes
and welcome
.
who understand
sion has to be made."
Bloomsburg campus.
cers
in 2001, the
and a major bomb
scare
Council of Trustees for approval, police
were armed
at
on
When she brought the issue
offi-
many of the 14 institutions in the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. "The
who listen
make
the
to BU's
little
out.
differing viewpoints before they
decision. .but
arm university police. Her decision to
recommend doing so came in the wake of the 1999
the policy to
Sept. 1 1 terrorist attacks
have to make an
have tried to model myself after leaders
of Kozloffs most difficult decisions involved
Columbine High School tragedy and,
full-time parenting days."
Kozloff views her accessible image as a double-
edged sword. "There are times when
One
proud
of them and have never regretted making that decision.
1
'75, left,
Kozloff at a field
my career on hold until the
children were ready for school," she says. "I'm so
Besides,
BU President Jessica
a
that ultimately a deci-
was not popular with a very vocal
decision
community," she
recalls,
"but
part of the
you just have
to
go
ahead and make that decision."
Although making unpopular decisions comes with
the territory, she says she
many issues as she
tries to get
consensus on as
can, a tie-in with the political
science theory she learned in college. That theory
differentiates
interests.
vital for
police
between primary and secondary
A primary interest is one that is absolutely
the well-being of an organization; arming the
was one such
issue for her.
President Kozloff meets with students in the atrium of
the Warren Student Services Center.
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A secondary interest is an objective a person would
like to
accomplish, but
remembers
moving
absolutely essential. She
several years ago
the
visible to a
isn't
husky
statue
when
from a
prominent location near a
way through
the heart of the campus.
it;
the husky
stays
less
it is
offers of other
years, Kozloff has
"When
Steve
where
"I
just
it is.'"
been tempted with
and I made the
come here, it was with the understanding
if
it
worked
that,
out, we would stay here," she says. "I
1
would
hoped that
be able to stay at least 10 years.
Plus,
I
had
with the place."
When she retires on Dec.
is
incredibly
a jewel."
proud
to note that all
Bloomsburg provosts
whom she has
retiring president is
three former
would be
themselves. Just as mentors helped further her career,
folks
decision to
fallen in love
that they
she says. "This
"Some
higher education positions, but never
followed through.
them
worked with have gone on
Lasting legacy
Over the past 13
"I tell
this job,"
new brick walk-
started a drive to 'Save the Husky,' " she recalls.
said, 'Hey, forget
The
she suggested
spot where
Bloomsburg.
lucky to get
all
them
to
"I try
not to micromanage."
be innovative,
try to
I
do
be
she says.
self-starters,"
Kozloff is exploring her options for retirement,
level.
the doctoral
at
"I'm not ready to completely give
up being
involved with higher education," she says.
still
have something to
"I
think
I
give."
Regardless of what she chooses, the focus of her
be
different.
in professions
"Both Steve and
and family on the
second," she says.
Still,
"It's
life
have been involved
I
where we have had
president since Harvey A. Andruss (1939-1969).
vacating have called her for information about
to
ranging from consulting to teaching
lives
is
presidents
who work for me is encourage
the people
have the longest tenure of any Bloomsburg University
Already, a few candidates for the position she
become
she focuses on mentoring others. "What
with
will
31, 2007, Kozloff will
to
to put
our personal
time to put our marriage
front burner."
the Kozloffs won't be leaving Bloomsburg
University entirely behind. Already they have donated
$50,000
to help
fund an endowment
for the Kozloff
Undergraduate Research Awards. The Alumni Association
is
matching any additional contributions
endowment, up
$25,000 from alumni
to
to the
who gradu-
ated during her tenure. Each award will provide a
stipend for a student to
work with
a particular faculty
member on a joint creative or scholarly project.
"When I try to describe the essence of Bloomsburg
University, that close faculty-student relationship
comes
to
mind," Jessica Kozloff says.
fortunate during
and
to help
Steve
"I
have been so
my career to have people mentor me
me see
and I would
greater possibilities for myself.
like to
be remembered here
as
helping that to happen.
"I
pass
think that's an obligation that
on to
Tracey M.
the next generation."
all
of us have, to
b
Dooms is a freelance writer and editor living in
State College, Pa.
New Orleans Saints offensive guard Jahri Evans returns to
BU in May 2007 to get his diploma and pose with the
university president.
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Husky Notes
Quest sponsors
trips
on bike or on foot
Bloomsburg
Quest
University's
program
extended
offers
trips for
No
friends.
BU
and
students, alumni
experience
many
necessary for
is
of
these trips,
and most
equipment
is
provided.
Varied amounts of
physical stamina are
required. Participants
travel to destinations in
the
commonwealth,
across the U.S.,
and
in
Africa, South and Central
Iceland
America and Europe.
is
the destination of a Quest biking trip from July 17 to 27, 2008.
Finger Lakes Bike and
Wine Tour,
Oct. 6:
The
unique
glacial
the
landscape
and small-town charm of
New York, pro-
Central
vide the perfect backdrop
for cyclists.
The group
hillsides,
country roads and pastoral scenes.
stop at
The tour
some
of the
notable wineries.
will
more
The
is Roy Smith,
rsmith@bloomu edu
leader
.
Costa Rica: Coast to Coast
Mountain Biking Adventure, Dec. 29,
8,
2007
to Jan.
2008: Participants will
cross high-altitude cloud
forests,
towering volca-
noes, pristine beaches,
raging Whitewater rivers
and dense
forests
tropical rain
on mountain
bikes.
will explore the
from the
yon on
foot,
Grand Can-
descending from
the rim into
and the pipeline waves of
This
Quepos on
heartiest of backpackers,
the Pacific Coast
to the canopies of virgin tropical rainforests.
Brett
along
covers the
bustling streets of San Jose
will
bike through vineyard-
covered
trip
country's interior,
Finger Lakes wineries,
combined with
The 160-mile
The leader
is
Simpson, bsimpson®
bloomu.edu.
its
inner reaches.
trip will challenge the
will offer
something
but
for every-
one.
The
son,
bsimpson@bloomu.edu.
leader
is
Walking Across
Brett
Simp-
Ireland:
The
Lost Trail of the Incas, Ecua-
Dingle Way, June 17 to 26,
dor, Jan. 1 to 12, 2008: This
2008: The Dingle
trek begins at the Indian village,
Oyacachi, high in the
Andes, and descends into the
Amazon
Basin, following a
long-abandoned
route descends
5,000
feet
and
trail.
The
more than
is
believed to
of Ireland's
Way is one
most scenic long-
distance walking
farms, beaches,
cliffs
The
leader
is
mis-
Roy
Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu.
Backpack the Grand Canyon,
March 8 to 16, 2008: Hikers
a geologi-
country with a population
density of eight people per
square mile. The bike route
begins and ends in the
capital of Reykjavik, travel-
ing north and west of the
city,
mainly on paved
roads.
in
Accommodations
The
leader
is
Roy
In addition to the
listed
completes a
conducts day trips on most
circuit of the
in the
Din-
and
town of Tralee
County of Kerry
Accommodations include bed
and breakfast inns and guesthouses.
The leader
is
are
farm cottages and guest-
southwest of Ireland, the walk
finishing in the
priests to service their
is
volcanically rich
Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu.
and
and pre-Incas
sions.
and
mountains. Located in the
gle Peninsula, starting
and by 17th-century Jesuit
2008: Iceland
cally
houses.
low-lying peat bogs and
have been used by the Incas
as a trade route
along
trails
Iceland Biking: Northern
Adventure, July 17 to 27,
Roy
Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu
programs
above, Quest also
weekends and custom-designs
teambuilding and other
experiences to meet groups'
needs.
tion,
For additional informa-
contact Quest at
quest@bloomu.edu or
(570)
389-2100 or check
online at www.buquest.org.
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Virtual career center
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Three BU departments have teamed up to bring
the services of a virtual career center to students
and alumni free of charge.
The partnership of BU's Alumni Affairs Office, Career
Development Center and College of Business allows
alumni and students
available
to use career
management
CareerBeam provides
New York City, has released "Topsy
& Sullivan's
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Don
Athletic Hall of
won the
Poust,
Langhome
inducted into the
Fame. While
(right),
was
Muncy High School
at
Bloomsburg, he
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
(PSAC) wrestling
title
at
177 pounds and was a
silver medalist twice at
National Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA) tournaments.
services
through CareerBeam. Described as a virtual
career success center,
Sickinger,
Turvy Loves," an adaptation of Gilbert
musical based on W.S. Gilbert's play, "Engaged."
alumni
free to
Bob
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tools to
research companies and industries, look for current and
upcoming job openings, create a personal career profile,
build a resume and write cover letters.
The program's database technology allows the user
to research a company and receive information from
"job triggers," criteria that indicates a company may
be moving into the hiring mode, according to Lynda
Fedor-Michaels, director of Alumni Affairs.
To use the free service, BU alumni must register at the
alumni online community, www.bloomualumni.com.
BU's Career Development Center, housed in the
Warren Student Services Center, provides career
counseling and planning assistance to all students
and alumni. Director Carol Bamett says CareerBeam's
features "serve as an excellent complement to other
BU basketball team captain
who coached high school and college squads, was
Jack Mascioli, a former
inducted into the Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame.
He
is
a
retired educator.
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Marcia Bryan teaches part-time at the Little Lambs
Nursery School, Dublin. She also works with
individuals with developmental disabilities.
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Joyce E. Brobst participated in an Oxford University Roundtable on science and religion in March.
educator, she presented a paper
David Bo wen,
Frackville,
marketing consultant
who
is
on teaching
evolution.
a public relations
and
serves as volunteer coordinator for
Chamber of Commerce, Shamokin. He was
named the chamber's member of the year.
W. John Strong, a retired high school business teacher who
the Brush Valley
recently
teaches part-time at Springhouse
Computer School, was
honored by the Octorara Community Education Foundation.
services already offered to students."
Barnett says David G. Martin, dean of the College
of Business,
first
introduced CareerBeam
College of Business
management
is
at
1/CC^k Joanne Jackson,
BU. The
integrating the use of this career
tool into the curriculum.
"CareerBeam
will
allow us to reinforce the process of career development
to
our students and
to
use
this as a device to
help our
maximum potential," Martin says.
may access CareerBeam's services
students achieve their
Current students
through the
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a teacher at East Hills
Middle
School in the Bethlehem area, serves on the
Allentown School Board. She co-chairs the Allentown Safety
Task Force.
Michael L. Smith, Newport, a wrestling coach and official,
was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Smith
is the owner of a sportswear company.
Web sites of BU's Career Development
Center, www.bloomu.edu/departments/cardev/pages/
CDCmrnf.html, or College of Business,
bloomu.edu. Registration
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trilogy,
is
Sharp has completed
the third
book
in his
"Jonathon Nicholas, American Entrepre-
neur." Sharp, 92, a teacher in Folcroft
years,
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required.
and Chester
for
34
began writing and publishing in retirement.
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Magill, Millerstown, and his late daughter
Susan Magill Reynolds 71 are co-authors of
"A Soldier's Psalm, an Odyssey of America's Restless Warriors,
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Hail to the Chiefs
BU
President Jessica Kozloff '07H, second from
left, is
shown with
past presidents of the Alumni Board during Alumni Weekend.
The past presidents are, left to right, John Scrimgeour '53, Sheri
Lippowitsch '81, Mary Anne Majikas Klemkosky '59, Nancy Lychos
'52, Sandra Jefferson Rupp '71 and Pat McAndrew '70.
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Silveri, Berks
BU alumnus Woolrich's
County, a high school football and
wrestling coach for
many years, was inducted into
the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of
new president
Fame.
ames Griggs
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John Thompson spoke
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Center for Slavic Studies.
and senior
Hazleton Area
at the
He
is
j
vice president
Columbia Bank and
trust officer at First
Scott Heffelfinger
affirmative action at
is
Reading Area
R° Dert Tabachini Jr. was named
for the
served the
NY. and
Northeastern School
superintendent
District,
where he has
Ward is a trustee of the Village
Corporate and Investment Banking in
company
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Keifer
Area School
is
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and
previously
7^TQ
Hamburg
to the
Woolrich board of
was
earlier
been
Gill (right)
is
director of
purchasing and materials management
Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of
He
is
past president of the
Tamaqua Area Chamber
of
Commerce and
volunteers for the Sellersville Theater for the
Mary Catherine Weisskopf McGarvey,
a former
for the
Tom A.
Pennsylvania.
teacher.
director of the Free Library of Springfield
Joe Micko,
James Griggs
HSBC
New York.
supenntendent of Danville schools, where he had
a principal
2005 and was named
finance in
M
of Larchmont,
superintendent of the
District.
since joining
A Williamsport
he became vice president of
native,
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in 1987.
directors in 2006.
senior vice president, resources and energy, at
5^7/i
former
CEO Roswell Brayton Jr.
and accounting
finance
four years as assistant superintendent.
last
Richard J.
year, following the death of
and
presi-
Inc. earlier this
Griggs has held various positions in
human resources and
Community College.
director of
the
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was named
dent of Woolrich
president
Trust Co., Bloomsburg.
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Norristown,
is
Performing Arts.
Township.
football player
and wrestler, was
7^70 Laurie Johnson Gaylord chairs the Martin County
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inducted into the Carbon County Sports Hall of Fame.
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School Board in Florida, where she
lives
with
husband, Marc, and their two children. She has a private
7 ^7*2 Emory
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and
Guffrovich, an admissions
golf coach at
Penn
State
officer,
professor
practice as a certified auditor)'- verbal therapist.
Duane
Lehigh Valley, was
L.
Wickard Jr.
is
principal of Upper
Perldomen
presented with the 2007 Student Appreciation and
Middle School in East Greenville. His wife Eileen Callahan
Recognition Award.
Wickard
'80
is
a reading specialist
and teacher of gifted
students at Palisades Middle School in Kintnersville. Their son,
Mademann,
C Susan Haas
and
7^7
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teacher
Statesville,
N.C.,
is
lead
Paul Shearn and wife Arlene have been recognized as one
RE/MAX
teams
of California
and Hawaii's top 50
for year-to-date productivity for
J^7j£
Leo O'Donnell was honored
/ \J
at St.
Bemie
Miller, Media, retired after
John Neumann
7
2007.
for
30 years of teaching
is
director for
on the Gasldn Advisory Panel
as a
Pennsylvania Department of Education appointee.
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at
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Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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David
W.
Mcllwaine, president and
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& Industry.
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CEO
of
HVAC
Distributors Inc., received the Small Business Person
Commerce
7
of
an associate professor of mathematics
the University of Nevada, Reno.
is
of the Year
30 years with the
He
education services with the Pennsylvania State Education
Association and serves
majoring in secondary education/English
education
residential sales
School, Palmerton.
Delaware County Intermediate Unit.
is
Lynda Wiest was named among Nevada's Women
Achievement. She
programs in Davie County, N.C.
of
Evan,
special educator for alternative school
the Lancaster
County Chamber of
Garry Benfer, Mifflinburg, was promoted
to senior
-1- vice president, loan administration, for Mifflinburg
Bank and Trust.
Peggy Kemp Fry was recognized by Wells Fargo Bank,
where she works as vice president in marketing for the
consumer credit group.
Ernest Jackson was head wrestling coach of a youth folkstyle team that placed seventh out of 564 entries in a national
tournament
at the University of
Barbara Hornberger Keihm
Northern Iowa.
is
director of human resources
for Wintellect, a Microsoft gold partner technical consulting
firm in Atlanta, Ga.
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Wendy Woolcock,
a speech pathologist for
23
was
years,
a
guest speaker at an annual autism event in the Sunbury area.
Christopher Malocu, West Mahanoy Township,
from teaching
after
She
is
the rural service director for Turning Point, a non-
profit organization that provides services to
26 years with Schuylkill Intermediate
Unit No. 29.
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Michael A. Galantino, Berwyn,
C5
'89 Suzanne
Killian
is
assistant director of the Federal
Reserve System's board of governors in Washington
D.C. This
He
Inc.
private client
serves
on
group
for
is
Boenning
director of
& Scattergood
the marketing board of the Philadelphia
Stock Exchange.
her third position with the Federal Reserve.
is
Andrew Vincent, Hampton, Va., was
Benton Area School
District's
academic
inducted into the
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Jeffrey Barr
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He
hall of fame.
trained fighter pilots before retiring from the Air Force
now
domestic
violence victims.
retired
and
develops satellite-guided weapons and instruments for
the military.
company for 12 years.
Dave "Slim" Laslo,
works
pilot,
was named
Insurance, Allentown.
retired
a principal of Miers
He
has been with the
Navy/Air Force Reserves C-130
Denver, Colo., and owns a
for Frontier Airlines in
residential cleaning business.
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Erik J. Chuss
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for
SMS/800
Piscataway, N.J. He's a
is
Larry Medaglia
vice president of business operation
Database Service Management
at
Inc.,
is
the register of wills for Berks County, a
position he has held for 12 years.
member of the Forks Township
Planning Commission.
Michelle A. Benner
'86
Lorna Locascio Clause, Pen Argyl, earned a master's in
human resources from the University of Phoenix Online.
is
a
team director
at
Turner
Investment Partners, Berwyn.
Births
Donna
Hartranft Holt '86 and
Christina
Murphy Sweeny '95,
husband, Matthew, a son, Jett
and husband, Charles, a son,
Kang, Dec. 14,2006
Ethan Murphy,
May
12,
2004,
Michele Homay Schlicher
'97
Tom Murray '99 and wife,
and husband, Mike, a daughter,
Christine, a son,
Abbie Paige, March
March
5,
2007
7,
Evan Thomas,
2007
Kathryn "Kate" Valvardi
and a daughter, Katelin Ann,
Katrina Miller Dvorznak '98 and
Stacey Williams Snyder
Peters '90 and husband,
June
husband, David, a daughter,
husband, Garrett, a son, Curtis
Makenzie Georgia, Jan.
John, Feb. 16, 2007
Thomas
Peters
Joseph
F.
8,
2006
'93
Ciccarone
and wife, Dawn, a son, Franco,
Nov.
9,
2006
Susan Dresher Cunningham
'91, a son,
Sean Thomas, Nov.
5,
2006
'96
9,
and husband, Steve, a son. Carter
Vicky Edinger Nguyen
Joseph, March
and husband, Michael
Nicole
2,
2006
Hower Jurgill
husband, Edward, a son,
'96 and
Eric,
Nguyen
Kayley,
2007
'98
Darlene Weihbrecht
Steinberger'99and husband,
W02M, a daughter,
March
21,
'99 and
Robert, a son,
March
2007
12,
Andrew Joseph,
2007
Jean-Marie Manfredonia
September 2006
Julie Guisewhite Novia '98
Amy Lynn
Zarzaca '94 and husband,
Christy Shaffer Lusk '96 and
and husband. Marc, a daughter,
husband, Tony, a daughter, Alyssa
Anthony J. Zarzaca
Burkel Tucci '99 and
husband, Christopher Lusk
Adelaide Charlotte,
Rose, Dec. 30, 2005
Anthony Joseph, Nov. 11,2006
'95/"98M, a son, Tadd Timothy,
March
Jennifer Marinari Kiley '00 and
Michael Elgin
Oct. 2,
'94, a son,
'95 and wife,
3,
2007
Danielle Barkasy Gowarty
'95
and husband, Edward, a daughter,
Sophia Rose, Oct.
5,
2006
Meghan Vernon Mozi
'95 and
2006
Angela Gilby Tobey
Jane M. Nolan Schleppy
Rachel, a daughter, Katelynn,
March
2006
29,
'96
'98 and
husband, Joseph, a son, Daniel
husband,
a son,
Bill,
Noah
Patrick,
July 18, 2005
and husband, Mark, a son, Nolan
Joseph, Oct. 17,2006
Stephanie Hontz McLaughlin
Stephen, Feb. 24, 2007
Dawn Koons Yingling W03M
'00 and husband, Brian, a son,
Lesley Yeselavage Hess '97 and
and husband, Mark, a son, Brady
Jack Ryan, Dec.
husband, Tim, a daughter, Caitlyn,
Keith, Jan. 23,
Nov.
7,
2006
2007
3,
2006
Tracy Draper Kuehner
Vanessa Klingensmith
husband,
Ryan Kuehner
'01
and
01, a
husband, Patrick, a daughter,
Maggie Jara Heyer '97
Chappell '99M and husband,
son,
Hailey Lynn, April 10,2007
and husband, Joe, a daughter,
Christopher Chappell '00M,
Kimberly Armstrong Engleman
Dennis Murri
'95 and wife,
Stephanie, a daughter, Sydney
Diane,
Kelly
March
27,
2007
Minahan Sommers
'95
and husband, Mike, a son
Michael
Patrick, Feb. 2,
2007
Jacqueline Elizabeth,
a son, Everett, April 23,
March
Valerie
24,
2007
Chapman
Lill
Myles Gehrig, Feb. 27, 2007
2007
'02 and husband, Eric, a son, Ethan
'99M and
James, June
Carolyn Wilson Peters '97 and
husband, Frank, a son, Brendan
Amanda
husband, David, a son, Braedon
Michael, Oct. 27, 2006
and husband,
2007
Sara Duh Lutcavage
Scott, Feb. 8,
husband,
'99 and
Jason Lutcavage
a daughter, Molly Grace,
Jan. 10,2007
'99,
21,
2006
Eberly Tlumach '04
Dec. 13, 2006
llya,
a son, Elijah,
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Angela DiTommaso
is
and compliance
features inspirational
manager for the roofing and building maintenance dhision of
Tremco Inc.
Michael Dubbs earned a master's of divinity degree from
Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. He is a
United Methodist pastor in the Mount Union/
biographies
Shirley Smeltz
Brosius '62
Allenport area.
Victor Koons
(right),
owner
the Northeast Pennsylvania
at
hood
Addy
of Faith: 365
Women Who
About
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Made
in his fifth season as
is
a Difference,"
published
head wrestling coach at Lock Haven University.
Christine Ford is regulatory affairs specialist for B. Braun
last
Community Bankers national
sales
at the
year by
Howard Books,
sion of Simon
Medical Inc.
Michelle Karas, Dushore, spoke
the
Life-Changing Stories
Awards banquet.
5
is
author of "Sister-
of a Danville
graphic design firm, received the 2006 Silver
Addy Award
book
Brosius'
contracts
Schuster.
American
a divi-
&
The book
features biographical
and marketing conference
sketches of inspira-
in Orlando, Fla.
Karla Ketwitz, director of laboratory sendees
at
tional
Pardee
women,
includ-
Shirley Smeltz Brosius
Hospital, earned certification as a diplomat in laboratory
ing Mother Teresa,
medicine from the American Society for Clinical Pathology.
Dale Evans, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Dole and
Beamer, along with related Scripture.
Lisa
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Kevin Kem,
a project
manager with
Dun &
Brosius has written for a
Bradstreet, is the boys' basketball coach at Central
Catholic High School in the
AUentown
area.
JC\{\
Still
University, Kirksville,
She speaks
C. Briggs Jr. joined Arro Consulting Inc. as a
S \J planner
in the firm's
Gretchen Wirth
Montgomery County
With Teenagers and Pennsylvania Magazine.
at conferences, retreats and women's ministry
and
is
one of three
women ministering as Friends
of the Heart.
office.
from the Evangelical School of Theology, Brosius served
Verizon Wireless in
worked with
10 years as a director of Christian education. She received
the
the alumni of the year
more than nine years.
Kevin Kotch (right) is an associate in the
litigation department of Obermayer Rebmann
theft of
reli-
After earning a master's degree in Christian education
director, strategic sales, for
Maxwell
and
(right) is regional associate
Dallas-Fort Worth. She has
company
ing, Living
Mo.
events
Gene
of secular
Angels on Earth, Country Journal, Farm and Ranch Liv-
Alice Stauffer earned a master's in health administration
degree from A.T.
number
gious publications, such as Harrisburg's Patriot-News,
for
She
& Hippel LLP. He spoke about loss or
customer data
at a
award from the theology school
earlier this year.
lives in Millersburg
couple has two sons and
with her husband
five
Bill.
The
grandchildren.
meeting of the Phila-
delphia Bar Association's business law section.
Jf\
'91
Brenda Brewer
lacrosse coach at
is
the
W.
Susquehanna
Ann Brown is deputy warden of operations at the Berks
where she has worked since 1992.
Regis Kohler (right), associate professor of
Prison,
radiography
at
listed in
'Who's
.American Education 2007-08."
Perm College
director, capital asset valuation,
for Marshall
& Stevens, Philadelphia.
Scott Krzywicki
is
finance director of Asia Pacific
Anthony Zarzaca
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a national sales representative
with
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Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg.
Pennsylvania College of
Technology, will be
Lee Dorf is
operations for Albemarle, Richmond, Va.
University, Selinsgrove.
County
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women's
at
since 1987.
She has taught second and third grade
at the Florida school for
nine years.
Kathryn Yurchak, Muncy, has written 'Where Wigwams
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Bridgette R. Collier
is
a financial
Stood," a
consultant for six Lancaster-area branches of
Muncy
book
that tells of the struggles of early setders along
Creek.
M&T Securities.
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Marriages
'88 and
David Ferris
Hanna
Clark,
May 27, 2006
Heather Matthews
'00 and
Michael Yanoff, Oct. 14, 2006
Michelle Taylor '02 and Ryan
Amy Souter '04 and
Sweigert, June 24, 2006
Sept. 16, 2006
Sarah Delong
Lindsay Affeldt
Andrew
Berkheimer, Sept. 30, 2006
Bulawa
Colleen Smith, Sept.
Lynn Nesgoda
Jessica Bentley
Sherri
Whipple
'90 and Kenneth
'95 and
DerrekCummings
Tiffany
Timpko
'97 and
Megan
Bill ie
Jo Heintzelman
Oct. 28,
Acconzo
'98 and
Dec.
'99 and Nicole
Badway, Sept. 15,2006
'00 and Donald
Angela Bovard
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June
24,
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'00 and Justin
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'01
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and Stacy Adams,
Daren Moran
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23,
Heather Blank, Sept.
'02 and
Kathleen Connors
'03 and
Mark
Sarah Levering
May 5, 2007
Conety
Laura
Keith Perrigo
Gnall, Sept.
'03 and Timothy
2005
24,
Robert
2006
Mack '05 and Joshua
Sara Cornish 03 and
Teena Edwards
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June
'05,
and Kimberly
M and
2006
9,
Michael Deiter, Nov.
2006
Kent Strohecker '01
John
Jennifer Kleinfelter '05 and
Resnick, Aug. 12, 2006
Filardi '02,
2006
'05 and
July 8, 2006
III,
Michael Hackenberg 05 and
2006
Rebecca Young
Matthew
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Wayne
Jennifer Wolfe '02 and
Daniels, July 8,
and
2006
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Lauren
Sherry Yoder, Nov. 20, 2006
Curnow.Oct.21,2006
Amy Burkat '02 and Wayne
Doug Ratchford
Whitaker'01,June30,2006
Mikulski, Sept. 30,
2006
Widdick
Megan Burrows
'04 and Michael
Amber
16,2006
Ritz '05 and Francis
Novak, July
2006
8,
Leslie Starna '05 and John
'03 and Maria
III,
June
2006
17,
2006
Audrey Goodyear
Jennifer laniero '00 and Jason
Natow,
and Joseph
2006
Kime, Oct. 14,2006
Tori Miller
2006
'01
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Robert Metzger
James
2006
Oct. 28,
Jeffrey
'01 and Thomas
May 5, 2007
Sassaman, Sept.
West,
Joseph Leisse,
'02,
Brian Brinser,
Oct. 28,
'02 and
Andrew McCarthy, June
24,
2006
Bilbay '06 and William
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Schon, Oct. 21 2006
Shanna
Kathryn Ergott '06 and James
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2006
Gudikunst '02 and
Hillary
Carin Kessler '00 and
Stephen Gancar
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and Jeremy
Hess, July 22, 2006
Rebilas, Aug. 5,
Natalie Moriano '04 and
Sara Graybill
Santino Ferretti
Mathews,
2006
Williams, Oct. 14, 2006
Kari Kauffman '02 and Tim Nye,
Jason Lagowy
'00 and Angela
Sept. 23,
2006
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Chris Achuff is defensive
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at the
2007
athletic training
Dr.
Martin. Achuff, a former Huskies outside
Leon Frederick O'Neill
medical school
IV, Flourtown, attended
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic
at
currently an internal medicine resident at the
linebacker, started his coaching career as a student assistant
Medicine and
atBU.
University of Medicine and Denistry of
Jeffrey Beilman
is
a financial adviser for Ingargiola
Management Group, Dunmore.
Lynn Benfante completed a master's
tration degree
technologist
is
at
the Pennsylvania
S.
Supreme Court
Helveston
Associates, Lancaster.
FALL 2007
is
in
coach
to practice
law
December 2006.
a financial planner with
and
Rodgers
is
New Jersey.
the lead stereotactic biopsy
CAT scan and mammography technologist
a
an outpatient radiology center in Norwalk, Conn.
Jeremy Kipp
manager of
defined benefit services for Vanguard, Malvern.
Michelle Heffher, Bethlehem, was admitted
is
Heather Hintzen
Wealth
in business adminis-
from Drexel University. She
conference
in Texas.
conditioning football coach at University of
at
2007
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Philadelphia.
Program Coherence,"
Michael
2006
Katharine Walsh '06 and Scott
'02 and Rebecca
1,2006
product development director
CIGNA Healthcare,
for
Tennessee
Gray, Dec. 2,
Mantione, Sept. 16,2006
Greg Roskos
by
2006
Danielle Kramer '06 and Scott
'02 and
Michael Verba
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'06 and
Sept. 30,
Nov. 11,2006
Lauren Morrison
Kristen
'03,
is
men's and women's
at the University of
Mike Montgomery
assistant
swimming
Southern California.
received a master's in business
administration degree from Millersville University.
&
Ryan Morgan
is
principal of
School, Bloomsburg.
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Tom Murray is director of counseling and disability
services for the
Salem, N.C.
North Carolina School of the
He earned
family therapy, counselor education
Rinehart
completes
the University of Florida.
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on environmental
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and supervision, from
a doctoral degree in marriage
Stephen Bransfield earned a doctorate from Johns
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as a consultant.
nursing
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Port Carbon,
Panther Valley School
fellowship
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for
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sylvania (HAP), has completed a three-year Robert
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project.
ongoing
$30,000 grant
for a leadership
For her project, Rinehart implemented an
initiative to
department diversion. Partners were the
the national
insurers,
Rinehart's project included a statewide survey of
management practices, an audioconference attended by more than 600 hospital representatives and a hospital capacity management summit.
hospital capacity
A graduate of the Pennsylvania Rural Leadership
a founding president of the
Pennsylvania Rural Health Association, a
member of the
member
and
and the American Trauma
Earlier this year, she received the
of
Emergency
this
state's
a
board
Society.
Outstanding
chapter of the American College
Physicians. She
is
Daren Moran,
Enola,
is
an accountant
for the Capital
Area
Intermediate Unit.
Wilkes-Barre Vo-Tech School,
also
is
owner of Gelpia'z
Restaurant, Kingston.
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the CPA exam. She is an auditor with Leesport
Financial in Reading.
Lauren Morrison Richardson, Schwenksville,
is
a senior
quality assurance regulatory specialist for Biorexis Pharmaceuticals,
Contribution to Emergency Medicine in Pennsylvania
award from the
Community in
King of
Prussia.
of
Pennsylvania Emergency Health
Services Council
Retirement
master's degree in counseling psychology.
physicians and hospital administrators.
the National Rural Health Policy Board
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Pamela Brennan was promoted to corporate communicaOmega Bank after serving as a branch manager.
Eric Eichhorst was promoted to sales/marketing coordi-
Matthew Resnick is a senior accountant at Resnick Group,
Md.
Jamee Wilkas graduated from Immaculata University with a
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RWJ Urgent Matters project,
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a master's of science degree
from Villanova University.
Jeffrey Piazza, director of admissions and recruitment for the
help Pennsylvania hospitals avoid
crowding, improve patient flow and reduce emergency
for Healthcare
Susan Berryman earned
in nursing education
Pnnceton, NJ.
Executive Nurse Fellowship.
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business manager for the
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juris doctorate in
worked
for the
May 2007.
Onondaga County
district attorney's office.
Tanya McAllister, Manheim Township, was promoted
to
business development coordinator for Horst Insurance.
Amy Snyder is an agent with the
Danville office of ERA
Classic Realty Inc.
award.
Jennifer
Webb,
a doctoral student at the University of
Carolina, attended a
summer workshop on
South
teaching about
terrorism at the University of Maryland.
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Heather Ogozaly
is
at
Western
a fourth-grade teacher in
District.
employed by Syracuse
University,
College of Law, as an assistant extemship coordinator.
Christine Snyder works for the Interboro School District
in Lansdale.
Robert Michael
Drum is a manager of Burroughs and
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in Myrtle Beach.
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Vamer is a licensed real estate agent in Maryland
Christine
and Virginia, working
for
Long
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curriculum and instruction and a certification in
in
English from BU. She teaches French and English at
specialist at
Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester, Vt.
is
a fitness specialist at
Kimberly Wagner joined the accounting firm of
Co., working from the company's
JonesKohanski
Sugarloaf
&
office.
'06 Timothy Brockman
is
an analytical chemist in
quality control for GlaxoSmithKline.
is
an emergency
services nurse at
Shamokin
Area Hospital.
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Montoursville,
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Angela Furca
Stephen Major, Elysburg, is a science teacher at Shamokin
High School and is pursuing a master's degree at BU.
Kimberlee Pedersen is attending a master's program
in international policy studies at La Trobe University,
Jennifer Petro
One
Muncy
High School.
Sarah Delong Graf is employed as a learning
Derek Rupert.
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Lauren Ferret "07M is director of sports information
and communications at Wellesley College.
membership development coordinator
with the Charleston, S.C., Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Raggio leads
Deaths
statewide office
'56
Thelma Gordon Harrison 77
Meade Shuman
Mary Heintzelman 78
Leonard Kapochus '57
Ruey Kenworthy Nygren 78
Loren J.
Teresa Arcarese '30
Renee Terzopolos
Ruth Herman '32
Bower
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'59
Gertrude Strein Howells
Owen Raggio
'69
was named
Maryland
secretary of the
'59
Department of Disabilities
Jean Ann Fenstermacher '60
earlier this year.
Kenneth Thomas '60
'33
atherine "Cathy"
She began her
Dorothy Lloyd Lewis Rice '33
Beatrice
Bums Comeau
Thelma Evans Williams
'33
Annetta Rohrbach
Shuman Laubach
'34
George
Freda
Sam Cohen
E.
'61
career as a speech
language therapist at a
'63
Molnar
Pennsylvania
Kenneth Musselman '64
'36
Margaret Hogendobler '38
Gladys Bingaman '66
Victor J. Ferrari '39
Wayne Marek '66
for people
Sara Dersham Laubach
Mary Keesler Sherwood
Howard Tomlinson
'41
'41
Lawrence
Frank
Mary Wagner Hoffman
Clair
Baum
'45
Billy
'47
Dugan
N.
J.
Patricia
Brian K.
Theodore Jurasik '47
Phillips
70
Carl
71
Raggio
Thomas
J.
Reed
'51
people with
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77
executive
served as associate director and then
disabilities,
Now,
the center
independent living serving Montgomery and Prince
George's counties in Maryland.
With the support
'81
of state agencies
and
individuals,
Raggio established the Maryland Youth Leadership
Forum in
1999. The
held each
summer
various disabilities
MD-YLF is
for
a four-day
2
7
program
high school students with
which emphasises
leadership,
independence and personal and career goal
Donald Blyler '53
an
she founded and served as
executive director of Independence
Seile Farley '99
DuaneR.Singley'02
'52
later
Margaret Robbins Perkins '84
Donna
become
Bower 72
Melanie Apple Williams
Jacques Grimes
to
Disabilities Council. After a five-year stint as
Patrick J. Flaherty '50
Alice
Maryland
to
independent contractor working on projects involving
Robin Olson Krzysik
Ulrich '50
and
McCreary Young 71
Mark McGee 78
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as a
district
executive director of the Maryland Developmental
Josephine Padula White '49
Paul
moved
County and
Susan McMinn Snyder
'49
worked
director of United Cerebral Palsy of Prince George's
for
Wilmer Kester
also
of Wyoming Valley.
Jarosiewicz '69
Monaghan'71
Joseph Doria
'49
earning bachelor s
and master's degrees from BU. She
speech therapist in a Pennsylvania school
Kenneth Weaver '68
Marlin Walsh
C. Yorks '42
Raggio
served as executive director for United Cerebral Palsy
Margaret
Peter Podwika '42
Stewart
'66
Glen H. Book '67
Fern McBride Whitebread '40
Owen
after
Joy Whiting Musselman
Jean Shuman Zehner '39
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with
intellectual disabilities
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and
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Calendar of Events
Academic Calendar
Fall
Queen Meets the
Art Exhibits
Exhibits in the
2007
Haas Gallery of Art
are open to the public free of
Reading
Day- No
Friday, Oct.
Classes
More
charge.
12
information about
shows is available at http://
Thanksgiving Break -
departments, bloomu.edu/art/
No Classes
gallery.html
Wednesday to
23
Friday, Nov. 21 to
Saturday, Oct. 20
Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.
Art Alumni Exhibition
Parents
Oct.
26
Beamer
Do Your Parents Know?:
1
Graduate Commencement
Homecoming
Weekend
Grad Finale
Mitrani Hall, $20; $10 for parents
Tuesday, Nov. 6
BU
siblings of
Poinsettia
Nov. 5 to 30
Dec. 14
students
Alumni Weekend
Friday to Sunday,
April 11 to 13,
Pops
Friday, Dec. 7,
Special Events
Mitrani Hall, Free admission
Exhibition
Commencement
Athletic Hall of
Swing, Daddy-o: Big Bad
Dec. 3 to 15
Saturday, Dec. 15
Induction
Saturday, Feb. 16,2008,8 p.m.
Kehr Union
Photography, Jan. 14 to
Mitrani Hall,
Classes Begin
Feb. 15,
Monday, Jan. 14
Jr.
Day -
Dreams
in
Motion: Paul Taylor
March
28,
5,
Football, Huskies vs. Millerville
2008, 8 p.m.
2008
Marauders, Saturday, Oct. 20,
Mitrani Hall, $20
Monday, Jan. 21
Juried Student Art Exhibition
Spring Break Begins
April
1:30 p.m.,
Broadway at Bloomsburg:
Monday,
Monday, March
17,
April 13, 2008,
1
May 3
$25
$8
for students
for adults
and senior
and $3
citizens.
Mitrani Hall,
Events are held in Haas Center for
Wonderful Sound: Ninth
admitted free. Gates open two
the Arts, Mitrani Hall, or Carver
Annual BU Jazz Festival
hours before kickoff.
Hall,
Kenneth
S.
Gross Auditorium.
For more information, call the box
office at (5701
Classes End
8 p.m.
Bedman Stadium.
Tickets are
Celebrity Artist Series
8 a.m.
Reading Day - No Classes
Thursday and Friday, May and 2
Evita
7 to 25, 2008
March 8
Classes Resume
Friday to Sunday, Oct. 19 to 21
Dedication of Academic Quad.
Dance Company
Printmaking, Feb. 25 to
Saturday, April
No Classes
Homecoming Weekend
$20
2008
Yoshiko Shimano
Martin Luther King
Saturday,
Fame
Saturday, Sept. 15, 6 p.m.
Voodoo Daddy
Dylan Vitone
Spring 2008
Saturday,
2008
7 p.m.
Studio Art Senior Exit
Undergraduate
game
Special Event
Saturday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m.
Holiday Concert
Exhibition class,
football
Fenstemaker Alumni House lawn
and
to
Brew
Mike Super
Ceramics, organized by the
Museum
Friday,
to Sept. 21
'n'
Saturday, Oct. 20, following
Saturday, Dec. 8
1
Chili
Mitrani Hall, $25
Classes End
Saturday, Dec.
9 and 20
Informal Reunion, Class of 1987
Illusionist
Monday to
1
The Producers
Art ot the Alumni: Juried Studio
Karl
$20
Friday and Saturday, Oct.
Monday, Nov. 26
Exams
1
Broadway at Bloomsburg:
Classes Resume
Final
Saturday, Sept.
Reunion, Class of 1962
Mitrani Hall,
Mixed media, Aug. 27
to
Tennis Alumni Reunion
Friday, Oct. 5, 8 p.m.
Monday,
Connie Wolfe
1
Classics: East
Company
Village Opera
389-4409 or check
the Celebrity Artist
Web site at
Bobby Zankel
of Wonderful
& The Warriors
Sound
Friday, April 25,
BU
students with a valid ID are
Parents and Family Weekend
Friday to Sunday, Nov. 2 to
4
2008, noon
Mitrani Hall, $5
h ttp://orgs. bloom u. edu/arts/
Finals Begin
celebrity_list.htm.
Monday, May 5
Government Association
Finals
cardholders pay half of the
End
Saturday,
May
Community
10
Contact the Alumni Affairs Office
ticket's
May 9
at (570) 389-4058, (800) 526-0254
face value for all shows. Programs
or alum@bloomu. edu for
and dates are subject to change.
information. Details also are listed
Graduate Commencement
Friday,
Alumni Events
www.bloomualumni.com.
Marionettes
Undergraduate
Commencement
Saturday, May 10
the latest information
on upcoming
events,
check the university
Saturday, Sept. 15, 2 p.m.
Alumni and Open 5K Race
Gross Auditorium, $15
Saturday, Sept. 8
Web site:
Contact: Karen Brandt, cross
www. bloomu. edu/today
country coach, (570) 389-5123
FALL 2007
For
at the alumni online community,
Family Entertainment: Cashore
Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberga; University Archivist
The Search
for a Leader:
BU Finds a President
BU
President Jessica Kozloff introduces herself to students
on her
May
Inbecome
1994.
on an interim
stressing
adding,
in Mitrani
Hall that day
and was
asked about her
if
president.
she became
is
students," she answered.
Jessica Kozloff talks with
students at a reception in her
honor on April 22, 1994.
that
I
am
student-oriented."
In March, the
Presidential Search
were recommended
to the
whose names
Council of Trustees. After
approval by the Trustees, the names were forwarded
James McCormick, who was chancellor of the
System of Higher Education, and the Board
of Governors.
on
Stephen
Dr.
Kozloff were guests at a reception in BU's Haas Center
for the Arts, attended
by more than 500
faculty, staff
and students.
Friday, July
Bloomsburg
Although
for the
1994, was Kozloff s
1,
first
day as
University's first female president.
filled
with meetings and the job of moving
—
new office, the day's events from planning
new library to touring the construction site
of the Student Recreation Center
—
work she would
served as an
face in the years
ahead. And, as improvements to the physical
campus
have continued during her tenure, Kozloffs number
one
priority has always
been the students,
who joined her for lunch
that
first
day
like those
to discuss
their concerns.
Committee endorsed
Kozloff as one of three candidates
formally hired
Apnl 21, 1994, she and her husband
indication of the
for the
"My strength is
my good fortune."
into her
"The reason
are here
of the world. I'm filled with a
One day after Kozloff was
Kozloff spoke at an
open forum
we
on top
feeling regarding
campus early in
1994 to interview for the position. The first, Jessica
Sledge Kozloff, vice president for academic and
student affairs for the State Colleges of Colorado, was
interviewed on Monday, Feb. 7.
to
priorities
once again her connection to students and
"I feel
sense of awesome responsibility and a wonderful
basis during the
search for the university's 17th president.
Four candidates were invited
in early
April to offer the position to Kozloff. She accepted,
State Teachers College graduate, agreed
to lead the university
State
1,
The boards executive committee voted
to
executive director of the Pennsylvania
Humanities Council. Curtis English, a 1956
to
July
1993, Bloomsburg University President
Harry Ausprich announced that he was leaving
Bloomsburg
first day,
During her interview 13 years ago, Kozloff said
she assumed her
first
presidency would be her
last.
December with the secondlongest tenure of any Bloomsburg president since
the normal school became a college in 1927 and with
It
was. She will
retire in
a legacy of
growth and achievement that
difficult to
match.
will
be
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At just
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your Husky pride,
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$37.99, the
just like a
dozen alumni did
at
Homecoming 2006 when they
purchased gold Paw Hood
sweatshirts
and put them on
before posing for photos with
one of Roongos biggest
fans,
BU President Jessica Kozloff.
Positively perfect for students,
their parents
and alumni, Paw
Hoods make
great holiday
In
fact,
hundreds of giftware
items and
gift
gifts.
BU
apparel, as well as
cards in any amount, are
available for holiday or
commencement
gifts
or as an
anytime reward for yourself at
the University Store,
open
seven days a week, and online
at
www.bloomu.edu/store.
Shown
in
Paw Hoods
White Haven,
left,
are students
Tim
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Thank retiring
BU President Jessica
13 wonderful years with your
Kozlofffor
gift to the Jessica S.
and
Stephen R. Kozloff Undergraduate Research Scholarship.
Drs. Jessica and Steve Kozloff established the
550,000 endowed scholarship to recognize the strong
faculty-student relationship that exists at
BU and to
inspire continued collaboration. This scholarship
direcdy to
is
Dr. Kozloff guided Bloomsburg University as
it
became
the
awarded
BU students involved in scholarly or creative work.
thriving university
it is
today.
Ensure that her commitment to
excellence will continue long after her retirement by supporting
The Alumni Association
is
to match, dollar for dollar,
who
attended
offering a $25,000 challenge grant
all
contributions
BU during Dr. Kozloff
members of the
classes
's
tenure. This
match
gives
of 1994 to 2007 the opportunity to double
their gifts to this scholarship
the Jessica
S.
and Stephen R. Kozloff Undergraduate Scholarship.
made by alumni
and to BU.
For more information about
gift
program, please
Association
Web
call
site at:
this scholarship
800-526-0254 or
fund or matching
visit
the
Alumni
www.bloomualumni.com.
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New EET program takes
2007
'practical'
a step further, leading to solid job
opportunities for the
class.
It's
Page
first
graduating
16.
a balancing act of preservation
growth in Pennsylvania's
Lancaster County. A BU Mum
vs.
in
the middle.
Page
14.
is right
From the
President's
Desk
not easy being green.'
'It's
KERMIT THE FROG
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Anyone who
reads
my columns on a regular basis knows
I
often start with a
how I feel about the subject at hand. Although
my research led me to quotations about the wonder of nature from
quotation that summarizes
.
Aristotle ("In
all
things of nature, there
something of the marvelous.")
is
understand the meaning of patience.
to writer Hal Borland
("Knowing
Knowing grass, I can
appreciate persistence."), Kermit
words on being
trees,
I
seemed
In this instance, "green" refers to BU's
Academic Quad, the open space extending
from the Warren Student Services Center to the Andruss
Quad, part of BU's Master
construction during
parking
lot will
Plan, has
much
In
invisible
Library.
The Academic
component of campus
When it is completed this fall, a
of the past decade.
campus buildings
and Warren
—
—
Bakeless,
will front
on
McCormick,
a grassy
lawn
(see
for details).
some
respects, the
Academic Quad
abundance of open space
Lightstreet Road, a
current
North
been an
disappear and seven
Waller, Andruss, Centennial, Sutliff
page 2
to offer the wisest
"green."
site
in photos
an old-fashioned
idea.
We see an
archives: the grove along
playground where Kehr Union stands today, a lagoon
of Montour Hall
Hall, to
is
from the campus
name just
and
a few.
a large
lawn
that
at
the
extended from Perm Street to
The campus had 19
acres of
open space and
athletic
new buildings improved students' lives, the amount
The Academic Quad will help us to reclaim it.
grounds in the 1950s but, as
green space dwindled.
The quad will provide outdoor spaces
suitable for large gatherings,
of
such as
commencement, or private conversation and studying. The campus' outdoor
sculpture will be grouped
among the
plantings,
and a
historic fountain, a gift
from
the Class of 1940, will be returned to a place of prominence (archivist Robert
Dunkelberger explains in "Over the Shoulder," beginning on page 30). The quad
also
improve pedestrian
safety, as
parking spaces and
traffic
are
will
moved from the heart
of the campus.
The short-term
steps of being green won't be easy.
and summer months, construction
and
create
temporary obstacles
completed next
fall,
the
vehicles will
for getting
Academic Quad
environment where even Kermit would
Jessica S. Kozloff
During the upcoming spring
move
earth in the center of campus
from place to place. But
when it is
will transform asphalt to greener);
feel at
home.
an
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a
of the Pennsylvania State System of
member
Higher Education
Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors
as of December 2006
Kenneth
Kim E
E. Jarin,
Chair
Vice Chair
Lyttle,
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair
Matthew
Baker
E.
Lammando
Marie Conley
Paul
FEATURES
Dlugoiecki
S.
Daniel P. Elby
Michael K. Hanna
The Original Hot
Page 6
Mom
Vincent J. Hughes
Kyle J. Mullins
What
between friends has become a
started as a joke
Joshua A. O'Brien
club with thousands of members across the country,
Allison Peitz
Guido M.
Pichini
including celebrities like Britney Spears. The Hot
Edward G. Rendell
Moms
JamesJ. Rhoades
aims
Christine J. Toretti Olson
Aaron A. Walton
Gerald
in
Zahorchak
L.
Lahm
Club, founded by Jessica Denay
'96,
motherhood and has been featured
to reinvent
major media, such as the "Today" show,
CNN and
People magazine.
Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
Judy G. Hample
Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
Robert J. Gibble
Steven
Ramona H.
Lammando
When most college students graduate,
Michaels '87/'88M
Dampman '65
Charles C. Housenick '60
affairs,
71
Knepp
Joseph J,
Mowad
Fedor-Michaels
still
keeps her
new director of alumni
is
using her passion for the
and alumni.
Pennsylvania Proud
Page 10
David J Petrosky
President,
a strong tug that
university to connect current students
'07
Steven J.
felt
connected to BU. As the
'67
A. William Kelly
Circle
they look
forward to going off into the world, but Lynda Fedor-
'94, Secretary
Alley
LaRoy G. Davis
Coming Full
Page 8
Chair
Vice Chair
B. Barth,
Marie Conley
Robert
'68,
Bloomsburg University
Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie and Jeffrey
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
Executive Editor
Liza Benedict
have one thing in common, Pennsylvania.
Davis
all
As an
associate professor of history, Davis researches
Co-Editors
Pennsylvania's rich history
Eric Foster
which he captures in
a
Jessica
textbook for high school students.
Bonnie Martin
Husky Notes Editor
to
Live and Learn
Page 12
Brenda Hartman
Denay Lahm's online support group
change the face of motherhood.
Director of Alumni Affairs
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/"88M
Adjusting to college
Editorial Assistant
Learning Communities aim to
Irene Johnson
participate in the
life
can be a
but BU's Living
difficult transition for students,
make
the transition a
little easier.
Students
who
communities are often more motivated and obtain higher GPAs.
Communications Assistants
Lynette
Mong '08
Balancing Green and Growth
Page 14
Emily Watson '07
Agency
Snavely Associates,
LTD
Art Director
'85 understands the delicate balance
has spent the
last
Commission helping
Debbie Shephard
Designer
Curt
Mike Domin
20 years
Charged
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Eric Foster
for
the Cover
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and
Ray
is
County Planning
to find that balance.
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Academic Quad
improvements are planned
culminates a decade
of preparation
Service Center.
for the facilities in the area,
including a $2.75 million expansion to the
Warren Student
Excavation of the area will begin this spring. Highlights
of the approximately $2 million project include:
•
Reinstalling a fountain, a gift
from the Class of 1940,
in the center of the quad.
Green space
boosts
campus beauty
•
Creating an outdoor cafe at the southwest
comer of
Andruss Library.
When the new Academic Quad opens this fall, a space in
•
campus now overrun with blacktop
and cars will be replaced by lawns, walkways, an outdoor
cafe and a piece of BU history.
The Academic Quad will be the centerpiece of a decade
of expansion and renovation of many BU facilities, such as
Centennial Hall, Warren Student Services Center and
the center of the lower
McCormick
Center,
and an improvement
to the entrance
Relocating sculptures to
•
and
Center to create a natural amphitheatre with a
•
Replacing invasive, non-native
more appropriate
Waller
the construction of Andruss Library represent an investment
spaces
is
lot
all
of the parking spaces lost from the
have already been replaced.
the
When the quad proj-
number of faculty and staff parking
lower campus will increase from 563 to 648.
complete, the
on
stage.
Norway maples with
tree species.
Reitmeyer notes that
ect
$28 million
intimate
Grading the space in front of Warren Student Services
and parking behind McCormick Center. These projects and
of more than
more
attractive settings.
total
in BU's facilities, according to
Colin Reitmeyer, assistant director of
facilities for
planning
and construction. The Academic Quad can be considered an
extension and completion of these projects that also
improves campus safety by removing
from its
traffic
and parking
center.
"For the $8.4 million Centennial Hall renovation and
expansion, the building was redesigned with the facade
facing the interior of
campus in
anticipation of the creation
of a quad," says Reitmeyer. "Similarly, the $5.4 million
expansion to McCormick Center not only adds the teaching
space
we need, but it's been located deliberately to complete
that side of the
Academic Quad." Reitmeyer notes
that
more
Plans for the Academic
Andruss
Quad
include an outdoor cafe near
Library.
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BU wins
The BU
13th national field
field
The win was the 24th
hockey
title
hockey team completed an undefeated 2006 season
to capture the Huskies' 13th national title in the past
title
1-0
Pensacola,
NCAA
Division
II
National Sports Festival
in
10th Division
crown
II
of the year for the Huskies, tying a school
a season.
for
It
was
and three
1
3th national
its
and
career with a mark of 86-1
Bloomsburg State College's
won
the
first
field
women's
hockey team, also coached by
national
title in
3-2 victory over Lynchburg College of Virginia,
Fla.
title
NCAA titles.
Hutchinson,
in
also the
head coach Jan Hutchinson.
Bloomsburg's senior class ends
25 years. The
win over Bentley College of Waltham, Mass., was played
as part of the
record for wins
in
school history, a
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Bloomsburg University has
a
new way of keeping
people in touch with cultural events on campus.
Anyone
interested in
knowing about concerts, art
and athletics at
exhibits, the Celebrity Artist Series
BU may sign up
at
The Academic Quad will feature a park-like setting in front of
Andruss Library that will be home to the campus' outdoor
sculpture (top
left
and
right).
The fountain donated by the Class
of 1940 will be reinstalled in the center of the quad.
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to receive periodic e-mail
updates
http://www.bloomu.edu/events. E-mail updates
will arrive every
seven to 14 days.
News Notes
Digging In
American Archeology features BU students
System
Two BU
Leader
BU student appointed
PASSHE board
students participated in an
Ohio archaeology dig that was
featured in the fall 2006 issue of
to
American Archaeology magazine.
The two BU anthropology majors,
Joshua O'Brien, Community
senior Kitawna
Government Association
burg (top
was named
president,
to the Pennsylvania
Board of Governors. He
the second
he
BU student
weeks
two years
in
be named to the board, and
to
he graduates. Students considered
for the position are presidents of the student
association at one of the 14 universities
A
(lower right), spent three and a half
Joshua O'Brien
is
will retain the position until
Harrisburg native, O'Brien
government
the State System.
in
a junior majoring
is
CGA since
his
freshman
He
year.
also participates
in political
in
the
a
participating in excavations at
Hopewell moundbuilder settlement
site in
southern Ohio. The Brown's
Bottom
science and communication studies and has been involved with
science organizations on
and sophomore
Judith Steinhilper of Bloomsburg
State System of Higher Education's
Hoover of Middle-
right)
1 site
co-directed
excavations were
by
BU
anthropology
DeeAnne Wymer and Paul
Pacheco of SUNY-Geneseo.
professor
political
campus and the College Republicans.
Positive Partner
BU adds $121
BU
is
million to local economy
Columbia County's
million to the county's
BU and its
benefit of
report,
largest
employer, contributing $121
economy each year. The economic
13
sister institutions is
outlined in a
"The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education:
Economic Impact on
Commonwealth
the
of Pennsylvania,"
prepared by West Chester University's Center for Social and
Economic Research, College of Business and Public
Other key
-
BU's
$357
-
and
staff
on data from 2003-04:
economic impact
is
more than
generates
Fifty percent of
its
more than
students, visitors, fac-
$ 148 million a year.
BU's approximately 950 employees
new to
Columbia County; 80 percent
live in the
by the commonwealth and
BU yields a
return of $11.25 in total
State sales tax
students, faculty
and
Sixty-six percent of
in
the Harrisburg Diocese that
own
buildings.
staff total
all
faculty
as family and
average of 4.67 hours per
month
annual value of $872,879.
staff
for
volunteer an
an estimated
BU students volunteer an
CCM
its
headquarters, the
College
Hill,
as a
The
Rev.
Don Cramer
home away from home.
$3.5 million per year.
and
He sees
as a place where students are welcomed
Newman House on
and individual income tax paid by
last
service at one of the only three college
have their
dollar invested
BU
Ministry and
himself "a freshman," Cramer looks
programs
Each
arrived at
Campus
forward to building on a tradition of
Northumberland
counties.
Catholic
eager to work with students. Proclaiming
three-county area of Columbia, Montour and
economic impact.
-
The Rev. Don Cramer
fall
appropriated to
-
New priest heads Catholic Campus Ministry
Affairs.
million.
reside in
-
findings based
Spending by the university and
ulty
-
BU
total statewide
Freshman Father
After six years of seminary and five years as an ordained priest,
Cramer holds two bachelor's and two master's degrees. He
joy
and satisfaction
that
I
made
in his
vocation. "Every night,
I
finds
a difference," he says.
average of 3.5 hours each month.
BLOOMSBURG
deep
go to bed knowing
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
The high ropes course on BU's upper campus
is
a convenient site where working professionals learn to
unit,
High Ropes
—
which focuses on self-awareness
strengths
Corporate Institute challenges
MBA students
work together and overcome fears.
and weaknesses.
uncertainty,
It
teaches
learning about your
them
and these personal lessons
to deal
with
transfer into their
professional lives."
Students pursuing a master's degree in business administration aren't often asked to climb
maneuver around an
50
feet into the air
and
obstacle course set high in the trees.
and
chair of the
in the workforce.
management department, has
class to participate in a
pants to climb
up
a telephone pole
requires partici-
and move through
series of obstacles before rappelling to the
Benek-Rivera says.
"We do this in
a
and use
it
skill for
professionals already
get
there," Smith says. "How do
And how can they take that
up
in other day-to-day situations?"
MBA program, contact Blair
MBA program coordinator, at (570) 389-4392 or
astaley@bloomu.edu; for information on BU's Corporate
conjunction with our
or contact
Institute, visit http://www.corporateinstitute.org,
fears,"
first
Roy Smith
at
(570) 389-4323.
Representing Students
Recognizing Excellence
Knepp serves on Council of Trustees
BU Students Named
to
PA Academic Team
Steven Knepp, a senior from
Three recipients of the
Middleburg with a major in
All-Pennsylvania Academic
elementary education,
Team award
is
serving
as the student representative to
BU's Council of Trustees.
several students
who
One
of Plains
last fall.
student Trustee graduated, he was
by
System of Higher Education,
before he
Ed
Rendell.
was appointed by Gov.
While attending BU, Knepp has been
student government and academic organizations.
WINTER 2007
active in
enrolled at
BU
recipients of the
Team award,
committee and by Judy Hample,
State
—
As
All-Pennsylvania Academic
a screening
chancellor of the Pennsylvania
Ryan Geiger
and Angela Peck
applied for
the position after the previous
interviewed
—
of Danville, William Katsak
of
of Halifax
Steven Knepp
the
For information on BU's
Staley,
ground.
"(The course) helps students overcome their
Roy Smith,
people to remember their coping
they deal with the situation?
high ropes course, run by BU's Cor-
The course on BU's campus
"I tell
mechanisms when they
required students in her Professional Development Skills
porate Institute.
Institute Director
unfamiliar settings, a valuable
But, for the past three years, Joan Benek-Rivera, associate
professor
According to Corporate
high ropes course motivates individuals to think clearly in
Ryan Geiger and William Katsak
scholarship to any of the 14 schools
of Higher Education.
college students
in
the Pennsylvania State System
The awards recognize
who have
they are
eligible for a tuition
a group of
community
achieved academic excellence and
demonstrated a commitment to their colleges and communities.
The image of
the ideal mother
has been
personified by
TV characters
June Cleaver,
Carol Brady and
like
Clair Huxtable.
Jessica Denay
Lahm
'96
believes
for a
it's
time
makeover.
HSrMtBH
Jessica
Denay Lahm '96
Hot Moms Club
started the
after the birth of her
STORY BY MARK
"Reinventing motherhood"
goal of Jessica
Lahm
Lahm's Hot
2006
—
in 2000.
all
'96
Those
feeling
in
"The climate
for
Gabriel in 2000.
ambitious, even for a Bloomsburg alum. But that's the
— which had
fighting post-natal frumpiness.
almost 300,000
among her new-mom
Lahm's
washed-up
DIXON
who has built a business around
Moms Club
started as a joke
is
E.
members
in late
October
friends after the birth of her son, Gabriel,
New Jersey suburb were mostly in their mid-20s, but were
nevertheless.
motherhood wasn't what
it is
now," says Lahm,
who now uses the
surname Denay, her middle name. "There was an image and stereotype around mothers."
People told her she didn't look like a mother
poses, but
making her wonder why being
a
— intending
it
as a
mother had such
compliment, she sup-
a negative connotation.
Light bulb.
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son
'You owe
it
centered and balanced,
DENAY LAHM
JESSICA
At
first,
When you're
tiiat's when you can be die best mom.
to your family to recharge yourself.
'96
Lahm and her friends fought back with
laughter and sarcasm.
moms." Then,
They
Mixing with the show-biz crowd took on a personal
called themselves the "hot
Moms Club." Then, Lahm put
the "Hot
up a Web site (www.hotmomsclub.com) and wrote
book "The Hot Mom's Handbook" to promote
—
a
dimension when she met and married her now
ex-husband, Bryan Dattilo,
of
—
the
Our Lives."
Lahm continued
Web site.
three
Then, magazines: People,
it
Good Housekeeping, Woman's
US Weekly, Oxygen,
Day,
Ebony.
"I
told Pierce that
bad news."
—
clothing
Moms, with T-shirts and jeans. (The jeans are snug and
low cut, not those infamously lumpy "mom jeans" once
on "Saturday Night
October 2006, the
Live.") In
makers of Suave shampoo kicked
promotion tying
off a
the company's products to the idea of motherly heat
while also plugging Lahm's
The core of the business
Web site and book.
is the Web site which, says
Lahm, "covers everything mom-related." Each month
has a theme
beauty, style, relationships, parenting,
—
and
products,
health, sex
and
"Moms That
Rock,"
"HotmomPrenuers" and
ence,
"It's
amazing
that
it's
part-timers, "especially
a couple of
An
celebrity
six
people and a couple of
out as just
me
my friends."
According
how would like it, but 1
I
first
job was in Paramus,
phone
"I
wasn't sure
was
came
really did," she recalls. "It
an intense experience." But,
call that
after several years,
the state
had cut the
school's
ing
for
went
into
Manhattan and began teaching
young performers on Broadway and young
sional athletes," says
Pierce Brosnan,
who
while filming "The
Lahm.
Thomas Crown Affair."
famous," she says, "and found that
and
insecurities."
"So
all
many moms
was turning
it's
about eschew-
to self-identity.
it
kids have the
your
when you can be the best mom."
some shrewd marketing going on here,
notes a Philadelphia marketing expert, Anne Buchanan of
Buchanan Public Relations. As a business model, she says,
There's also
the
Hot
Moms Club is an example of how Corporate
America succeeds by cutting its market into thin
'What she has here
is
a
want
slices.
group of intelligent, probably
slightly affluent mothers," says
Buchanan. "What group of
to talk to these
women?"
Moms Club probably
According to Buchanan, a Hot
wouldn't have succeeded before the Internet, but online
marketing permits
Lahm
tively target the smaller
contacts.
She was
Kelly Preston
T-shirts
— and
advertisers
segment of women
to the idea. "I think she's
to effec-
who
respond
onto something," says Buchanan.
advantage of show business
and Cindy Margolis
to
wear "Hot
Mom"
and provide the endorsements which can make
decisive difference in obtaining publicity.
Angie
—
able to convince stars like Celine Dion,
Harmon and
Forrest Whitaker
When actors
showed up
signing party, cameras followed.
And
at a
HMC got a
when Britney Spears donated
affili-
ated charity.
book,
for the original
"Hot
Mom"? A second
"Womb with a View," for expectant mothers, is
due out in April 2007,
same
to
When you're centered and
balanced, that's
What's next
went from
had
mom" really has
a "hot
profes-
actor
I
struggle with feeling guilty doing
family to recharge yourself.
a radio
show
is
in the
works and
other products undoubtedly will follow.
So many mothers. So
Mark
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I
her maternity wear to Have More Compassion, an
and son
"I
that
blurb in Star magazine
Among her clients was
traveled with his wife
—
privately
teaching the poorest of the poor to the rich and the
fears
Lahm, being
martyrdom and holding on
book
budget. She was unemployed.
"I
to
Lahm also had the
high school for troubled teens.
the August
mom interviews.
profitable," says
when it started
news
nothing to do with appearance. Rather,
advertisers wouldn't
moms making a differ-
education major, Lahm's
N.J., at a
There are hot
becoming so
Lahm, who now employs
and
astrology.
great
anything for themselves," she says. "But you owe
Rockin' Hot
line,
had
I
Moms Club into a business," she says. "And
Tonight," the "Today" show,
corporate partners. There's a
fitness
Hot
the
—
about
for
HMC Web site went up. By then,
was generating 200 e-mails per day, and she realized
and keep up with her new venture.
Then, TV: "Entertainment
Then
and here is where
the $ comes in
sponsors and
Brosnans
to teach for the
after the
that she couldn't teach
"Access Hollywood" and others.
satirized
weeks
who played Lucas on "Days
E.
Dixon
is
little
time,
a freelance writer
in
b
Wayne, Pa.
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Conning
Full Circle
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN
"What is it about this place?"
a father asked after he toured
BU with his daughter. "I can't
stop thinking about it." Lynda
Fedor-Michaels '87/'8SM says
he's not alone. "It" brought her
to BU as a student more than
two decades ago; it continues
to bind her tightly to the
campus and its people.
Lynda Fedor-Michaels makes no
secret of her genuine
enthusiasm for BU, the hard-to-define quality she
Bloomsburg experience" and what
"Bloomsburg has
this
affairs.
"And,
calls "the
has meant to her
life.
way of developing your potential.
your perspective, values and
alumni
it
skills,"
.
says BU's director of
when you leave, you stay the same
person, but changed for the better."
BU may have
changed Fedor-Michaels but, unlike most
graduates, she never
since
left.
She's
1983 when her future
been connected
sister-in-law,
to the
campus
who had earned a
Moving Forward
Lynda Fedor-Michaels has three main goals as she expands on programs
established by
Doug Hippenstiel during
Engage more alumni
events
in
BU
Alumni Weekend
like
his
26 years
by welcoming
(this
the university to them through
them
BU
from
alumni
1
3 to
affairs:
campus
to the
year from April
visits
her last year before retirement,
in
1
for
5) or bringing
faculty, students and, during
President Jessica Kozloff.
bachelor's degree in elementary
education a few years
Connect current students with alumni through programs
earlier,
encouraged her to check
it
Alumni
out.
the Classroom. "Students need to
in
know who
and see what a Bloomsburg education can do
There was never any doubt that
©
she'd attend college somewhere,
Fedor-Michaels says. Her parents,
for
like
our alumni are
them," she says.
Continue to offer programs and services to benefit alumni and the
alumni association, such as loan consolidation and reduced rates on
who still live in the Wilkes-Barre
home where she grew up, empha-
insurance and travel.
sized the importance of education
"I
grew up in
who
people
found
first.
Bloomsburg," she
at
And
I
says.
Jumping right in to college life,
she was involved in the Community
Government Association and
years before
Council of Trustees.
tive to the
Each experience showed her the
possibilities that lay
ahead and,
although she earned her bachelor's
degree in education, she
when she
in
1987
for four
tunities," says
and
a
staff
mentors
world of oppor-
Frank became a mentor
dents.
lot
on
his perspectives
people from
diversity
working on campus
vice president for student
"She had a huge impact on
December 1996
office. In
woman, one
of those
push you
your
after
campus
first
own
in
women who
So, instead of leaving
was
new students
—now,
this year in
her
new position.
Fedor-Michaels sees not only a
BU
students and alumni,
but also an interconnectedness that
alumni
upon
affairs.
"Current students
need
in education, simultaneously plan-
ning her wedding. She became a
what Bloomsburg did for me.' It's a
people experience. Whether you're
full-time residence hall director in
talking about
June 1988 and, four months
spective students or at the
later
what alumni
and hear the
stories
are doing
about
Bloomsburg with pro-
end of the
experience after they've graduated,
married Frank Michaels.
it's
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They have been
much and had a
"After they graduate,
zero in
on where
we have to
their interests
were, not their class years."
As she connects and reconnects
with
is
BU
alumni, Fedor-Michaels
seeing the "Bloomsburg experi-
ence"
come
full circle.
Her
Catherine "Katie" Fedor,
at
a junior
BU, majoring in nursing. Katie
Fedor 78, the
is
Bonnie Parker-
who
BU near-
sister-in-law
introduced Aunt Lynda to
ly
niece,
is
25 years ago.
b
same connection."
Bonnie Martin
is
co-editor of
Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.
'this is
on Homecoming Weekend, she
the
to so
as director of
become a classroom teacher, she
stayed on to earn a master's degree
to see
introspective.
also the daughter of
she's building
BU to
—
more indepenand
variety of experiences," she explains.
ori-
their families. She's reconnected
young graduates
"Students today are
more
Fedor-Michaels
to greet
definition of "school spirit"
dent, less likely to be joiners
charge of the freshman
similarity in
potential."
more than
has evolved over the years, as well.
exposed
into their
entation program, she often
She was an example of a
strong, capable, independent
to
and
as a mainte-
a few miles from
The
.
been
and
my life.
too.
nance repairman in the dorms."
home
had 120
later,
1,000 students graduated with the
to a
many walks of life. And,
for the last three years, he's
with some of those students
life
and some of
Class of 2006.
"Bloomsburg changed him,
crediting the late Jennie Carpenter,
affairs.
members; 50 years
of them.
who was
director of residence
to era
of 1956, for example,
hall direc-
my job was all about the stu-
tor,
among the
Fedor-Michaels,
from era
the difference can be attributed to
accepted a position in the admissions
faculty
who opened up
and
differ
Lycoming
sheer numbers, she says. The Class
The couple moved
that the classroom wasn't
had
to
remembers. "As residence
knew
accepted her diploma
her future.
"I
moving
remains the same, alumni attitudes
Hall for another four years," she
the Student Education Society. She
served as the student representa-
Although the connection
Resi-
we lived in a tiny
two-bedroom apartment
group of
this
put family
Columbia
into
dence Hall, where
type of connection
that's the
"He moved
second in
for their six children,
importance only to family.
Editor's note:
on alumni
For information
events,
news and
volunteer opportunities, see the
Alumni Online Community
www.bloomualumni.com.
at
BU
Pennsylvania
Jeffrey
Davis, associate profes-
sor of history,
grew up
in the
Iti!
mountains and wide open
spaces of Washington
state.
His
academic research, on the other
hand, looks eastward, focusing on
Colonial
Amenca and one
of the
AN INTERVIEW BY ERIC
13 original colonies, Pennsylvania.
Davis' textbook for high school
students, "The Pennsylvania Jour-
ney,"
was published
last
The word "keystone"
year by
Gibbs Smith. At nearly the same
time,
central stone
all
the other stones in place. Pennsylvania
A
was nicknamed the Keystone
Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.
Bloomsburg: What
more than 200
interested
by
country, Pennsylvania was,
ago
in
*
the economic, social and political
far,
J
most diverse and vibrant
years
State
recognition of its important role in
in Pennsylvania's history?
Davis: In the early history of the
the
of an arch that holds
he was named the associate
editor for Pennsylvania History:
you
refers to the
state
~velopment of the United
and colony. And so much of the
States.
Museum Commission)
ennsylvania Historical and
founding of the country
happened
here.
The
capital of the
United States was Philadelphia for
a while.
If you
match up Pennsyl-
vania against the other colonies,
even in the Colonial period
most
like
ethnically
which
is
what we
and
what
religiously.
I
it
was
are today, a pluralistic society, both
like
And it was a hotbed
about
it.
It
was
of politics
the happening place.
Bloomsburg: Does
Pennsylvania have a towering
historical figure?
Davis: Benjamin Franklin. By
far,
the preeminent historical figure
Bloomsburg: What
aspects of Pennsylvania history
should make Pennsylvanians proud?
Davis: There's a
lot
recognizable. This year
Pennsylvanians can take pride
When you look at William Perm's principles in
in.
founding
rounded.
pretty
and pluralism, remarkable
of humor
comparison
to the other
his 301st birthday.
man.
good self-promoter,
and a
practical,
too.
which would
played in the founding of the United States with the
authority and financial benefit.
times,
and
—
He had
a
good sense
He got himhim political
pragmatic side.
self into positions
and the Declaration of
did
On the other hand, he was a
colonies of the time. Obviously, the role Pennsylvania
signing of the Constitution
Of all
was probably the most well
He was pretty good at everything he
true Renaissance
the colony, they were very idealistic principles of tolerance
in
is
the founding fathers, he
he stands out as
and the most
give
He was a scoundrel
at
a philanderer.
Independence in Philadelphia was the keystone that held
the republic together.
And,
in the 19th century during the
was a key player. With
and petroleum and all the
industrial revolution, Pennsylvania
timber, coal, steel
manufacturing that took place, Pennsylvania was a huge
contributor. Pennsylvania has so
many "firsts" in
building roads, canals and railroads.
areas like
Bloomsburg: How important was he
to the
way our
nation turned out?
Davis:
his
to
He was important
approach
move
to politics
in
and
many ways, especially for
He really helped
his drive.
Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary movement.
In his efforts to get France into the
war on
the side of
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societies
throughout the
state.
The
Underground Railroad came
right
through Pennsylvania, especially
through the areas of Lancaster and
the Maryland-Pennsylvania border.
The Susquehanna River was one of the
Of course, the Mason-
crossing points.
Dixon Line was the border between Pennsyl-
—between North and
—and Pennsylvania was
vania and Maryland
South
a state that
mixed views of the country.
There were abolitionist societies, and there were
reflected the
strongly
promoted
who
There were those
anti-abolitionist societies.
abolition
and those who
were very ambivalent.
Bloomsburg: So was
border
it
a cultural
state as well as a geographical
border
state?
Davis: Absolutely.
Many people
Philadelphia in particular
ties,
of
had strong
both economic and family, to the
had
South. Philadelphia
a strong textile
Many people had moved from the
South or had family who moved to the South. But,
once the Civil War started, Pennsylvania was second
only to New York in its contributions in manpower to
industry.
the war.
was very important. He was a large
enough contributor that things could have been very
the United States, he
different
Once
the
war
started,
Pennsylvanians rose to
the occasion.
Bloomsburg: Coming from Washington state,
without him.
is
there
anything about Pennsylvania culture that surprised you?
Bloomsburg: At the other extreme, who is the
unknown figure who should be better known?
Davis: Andrew Carnegie. He is well known, but
his connection to Pennsylvania
first free
Heinz.
who founded one
African American churches in Philadel-
phia. Milton Hershey,
George Westinghouse, John
steel cable
is
you find out
that's
Philadelphia,
agricultural.
and was involved
city
where
I
community.
grew up,
It
In the 19th century,
Davis:
It
was
a hotbed,
on both
counts. Especially
on
emancipation. There were abolitionist movements and
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there's
it's
not a
is
here,
and
and very
very different. In the
that Pennsylvania has. But
is
topography and
Eric Foster
rural
Little Italy
or
German
terrain,
states
by
how lush and green it is. b
co-editor 0/ Bloomsburg:
University Magazine.
on the East
one of the most beautiful
what was Pennsylva-
and emancipation movements?
that
was a mix. The West doesn't have the
Coast, Pennsylvania
far, its
is
case. There's Pittsburgh
and between them it's very
same experience
.
the West,
Very much an East Coast
There are ethnic communities. Not that you
the steamboat inventor.
Bloomsburg:
state.
and urban. But when you come
not the
with the Brooklyn Bridge, Lee Iacocca, Robert Fulton,
nia's role in the suffrage
coming from
an Eastern
don't have that in the West, but
We have more than our share of industrialists.
John Morgan invented
My impression,
state, industrialized
not as well known.
is
Richard Allen, an African American
of the
Davis:
Pennsylvania
The
Freedom,
new
friends and a new
style of learning
can make the
transition
from
high school
to college an
intimidating
experience. More
than 500 BU
students weather
the transition
more easily by
participating in
living learning
"
communities.
For freshman Terrell Garrett of Philadelphia,
being part of a living learning community has
eased the transition from high school to college.
STORY BY LYNETTE M
he ever set foot on
Before
campus, freshman
Garrett
Terrell
knew he wanted
"One of the major reasons I'm
doing well
is
because
sessions together
to live in the
we have study
and can work, as a
same residence
interact inside
classroom.
O N G
hall
The environment helps
group, with our professors. I'm
ease freshmen into college
never intimidated to ask a professor
allowing upperclassmen to take
ick Douglass Institute Living Learn-
for help
mentoring and leadership
ing Community.
know who I am and what
to
spend his
first
year
at
BU as part of the Freder-
Alumni from
Philadelphia's
all
do
high school
Lankenau High
the spark. "They
eficial
his
said
it
—
was ben-
to help
environment
for student-faculty
them both,"
attention,"
assistant vice president
lives
with other
Frederick Douglass students in
Luzerne Residence Hall. The community, he says, has kept
track during his
first
him on
year of college.
also offer students opportuni-
with their professors
participating in special lectures,
study sessions and
trips.
in the living learning communities
you and
Bloomsburg and
on
roles.
says Jonathan Lincoln,
are willing to help
to
while
"The great thing about students
it
you individualized
Convinced, Garrett came
by
life
will benefit
relationships to grow,
give
says.
LLCs
ties to interact
who
he
they can
me."
"Anytime you can provide an
lit
because you have professors
because they already
and
and outside of the
and dean of
is
that they're motivated, energized
undergraduate education and aca-
and they
demic
says Kathy Kollar-Valovage, adviser
affairs. "It
helps to build a
stronger sense of community,
is
important
at
any
which
university."
Living learning communities, or
LLCs, allow freshmen and returning
students
who
share similar interests
hit the
ground running,"
to the Presidential Leadership Pro-
gram LLC. "They see
living
the benefit of
with like-minded peers."
Each LLC
acts as a close-knit
community within
the university.
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'The great thing about students in the living learning
communities
— Kathy Kollar-Valovage
they hit the ground running.'
according to students. Sophomore
freshmen in the dorm can come
Manheim says the
connections she made in the Presidential Leadership Program LLC
me
Leah
Hilliard of
to college. The
community "became a small family
right off the bat. The upperclass-
helped her adjust
men in the dorm really helped walk
me through my freshmen year."
Sophomore David Flynn of
Bloomsburg decided to work as a
community assistant in the Presidential Leadership
Program LLC
for advice,
and
Gretchen Bomberger, a freshman
from Denver,
Pa., says the
and
LLC was
Diversity
"a
a growing trend
Flynn
"When I was
says.
dorm helped me
the
and
out with PLP
college in general.
Now the
and Health
to
the Education
is
Engagement
fall,
dential Learning
established in
housed
Schuylkill Residence Hall; the
in
Hon-
—an
student use
LLCs
are
show student success
higher in these communi-
because students are living with
and
has
office
are
They have higher GPAs
more
successful in their
programs than similar students who
Jonathan Lincoln, assistant vice
aren't living in these
and dean of undergraduate
education and academic affairs,
says
communities,"
Madelyn Rodriguez, multi-
cultural center director.
Professors
working within the
LLCs make it a priority
to get to
and
indication, assis-
increas-
component
of the
"I
expect we're going to see
these begin to develop even more,"
"I'd like to get to
where we can
coming freshmen
tell all
that they
participate in these
communities
they choose to do so."
Lynette
Mong
'08
is
in-
can
B
who have a similar focus and
motivation.
Resi-
with a full-time
Bloomsburg University community.
the point
people
Columbia
becoming an
ingly important
Lincoln says.
ties
in
Hall. Staffed
established in 2001.
"Statistics
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Community Center was
last fall
both housed in Luzeme, were
rates are
growing number of
assist the
students involved in LLCs, a Living
that
and Frederick Douglass LLCs,
ors
I
tant vice president Lincoln says,
Program LLC was
is
know
something
classroom space for professor and
Northum-
1998 and
a professor
kids. That's
secretary, the center
both
each house fewin
is
takes the time to get to
Honors
Learning
berland Residence Hall. The Presi-
community initiatives with Linda
Sowash, director of residence life.
the
dence
20 students
Kokoska
with classes to teach, and yet he
communities have more than 200
er than
new living learning
about the program.
created
established last
discusses
duce themselves and leam more
To
housed with
Diversity,
at the
really appreciate."
LLC in Columbia
and Gender and
and
lunch with
Honors Program,
Residence Hall; together, the two
participants. Civic
president
of the
still
communi-
oldest, Sciences
Sciences,
to
"You're not just a number," Balz
Bloomsburg, each with a
unique focus. The
went
beginning of the semester to intro-
says. "Dr.
Kollar-Valovage. Currendy, there
ties at
a freshman, the upperclassmen in
Amanda
Stephen Kokoska, interim director
on
campuses nationwide, according
there as a freshman.
reversal,"
several friends
me has been very reassuring."
are seven living learning
like a role
Gender
welcoming
community right away. The support
of knowing people who have gone
through many of the same situations
LLCs are
of the class-
room. Honors freshman
Balz of Walden, N.Y., says she
because of his positive experience
"It's
know students outside
to
can help them
I
out in return."
as
and
that they're motivated, energized
is
an
English/creative writing
from Kennewick, Wash.
major
if
Lancaster
County has towns with names such
as
Bird-in-Hand,
Blue Ball and Paradise and farmsteads where Amish families have
tended
fields
and
livestock for generations.
But there
that could change the county's rural flavor in a
Balancing
Growth and
With
its
acres of
rich in history
no wonder
New York minute.
open farmland dotted with small towns
and
little
changed from Colonial days,
it's
that 5 million people visit Pennsylvania's
Lancaster County annually. The lure of quiet country
living, the reputation for
affordability of
houses
good schools and the
attract
another 5,000
Green
BY JACK
are forces
SHERZER
BLOOMSBURG
UNIVERSITY
relative
who become
new permanent
between preservation and growth,
the very essence of what
could be
lost
makes Lancaster so
desirable
under waves of new development.
Enter Mike
As
But without careful planning
residents.
to strike a balance
Domin
now working in the
agency's
new Heritage and Long Range Planning
Domin has spent the last 20 years protecting
min
can be a struggle and
says.
"To
try
takes a lot of time,"
it
and accommodate
losing the character of Lancaster
is
Do-
growth without
the
very challenging."
Domin, 43, grew up in neighboring Chester County
lives in Willow Street, a community about
and now
five
300,000 acres of farmland.
gies
known
He
miles south of Lancaster.
committed
are
says he
knew
At Bloomsburg University,
Domin
initially
studied
geology but then switched to environmental planning
the
sophomore
offered his
year.
"I
liked
it
be-
involved not only the natural sciences, but also
human element,
in
working with communities
change
a positive
for the future," says
making sure change
In Lancaster,
three-pronged approach: keeping
urban areas
close to existing
on
development
living in
more
is
to
Domin.
positive takes a
new development
to avoid sprawl,
neighborhoods with parks and
as insistent
trails
improving
so people are not
rural areas,
and buying
working on ways
to residents
When Domin came to the planning commission
creating "urban
growth boundaries."
These are areas designated
for residential
by
infrastructure.
The
in these areas so
it
idea,
Domin says,
is
to direct
doesn't start gobbling
up
rule of
growth
the
been
a battle because for a long time
American dream has been
land,"
he
says.
The county
struction of diverse
a
house on an acre of
instead encourages the con-
communities offering a combina-
tion of apartments, townhouses, single-family
to occur,
Domin is
those growth areas attractive
creating parks,
thumb, Domin
all
trails
and other
says, is to
residents. Larger
of about 50 acres, with athletic fields
ation
live,
have small two-
"tot lots")
within
community parks
and other recre-
should be within 10 miles of residents.
facilities,
we make
"Unless
the urban areas attractive places to
we're not going to be successful with our whole
growth
strategy,"
hance the
he
"Anything
says.
livability in these
we can do
urban centers
is
to en-
homes
and some commercial development.
Recently,
Domin and
the department celebrated the
completion of plans for the
hiking/biking
trail,
ect, that skirts the
easy
—
the
it
first
from a dozen
first
called the
1.2 miles of an
edge of Lancaster
stretch to about
part of the
different
urban
Conestoga Greenway Proj-
trail
50
City.
The hope
miles, but
it's
Domin's
it
helped to create, the Lancaster Farmland
Trust, have spent about
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$50 million buying
the devel-
is
to
not
required agreements
landowners, he says.
role.
About
is
three years ago, in
response to residents' concerns, the department created
the Heritage
and Long Range Planning
in addition to protecting
Division.
Now,
open space, Domin helps
and works with towns and
nonprofit agencies to preserve streetscapes and raise
money to
"I
save architecturally significant buildings.
think
my children and my children's children will
be able to experience the same kind of beauty in Lancaster
County
that
we have today because
of the actions
we are taking now," says Domin, the father of two
agers. "I feel proud to be part of that." B
Since the early 1980s, the county and a nonprofit
organization
im-
just as
portant as preserving the farmland outside of them."
identify historic properties
"We promote higher density or compact developthat's
make
neighborhood parks (think
also part of
county's farmland.
the
to
Preserving Lancaster County's historic character
and
commercial growth clustered around existing urban
ment and
Now
recreational areas.
someday have
rights to farms.
shortly after graduating from Bloomsburg, the depart-
ment was
and have
60 municipalities know
its
where they want development
The
in
County and
that Lancaster
a quarter-mile of
make
to their farming lifestyle
But people's attitudes and perceptions about where
the environment.
it
the
not been interested in selling land to builders.
to five -acre
cause
by
horse-drawn bug-
and shunning the outside world, Domin says the
Amish
high school that he wanted to do something related to
when it was
for traveling in
they want to live remains key to land preservation.
that essence.
"It
more than 70,000 acres of farmland.
up the development rights
to
to eventually lock
is
In that goal, the county has been helped
County
a principal planner with the Lancaster
Division,
to
goal
Amish. Well
'85.
Planning Commission and
relatively
opment rights
The
Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania
native.
He
lives in
Hanisburg.
teen-
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Charged for Work
STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS
BU's new EET program is graduating electronics engineering
technologists who have the real-world experience that industry wants.
which turned
Engineers design things. Engineering technologists
the internship,
make
Now he helps design programmable power sources
things work.
The
differences
actually
run a
practical,
little
between the two professions
that aircraft manufacturers
deeper, but the emphasis on
to test aircraft electronics. "1
day-to-day operations
is
what
ested in electronics
sets
engineering technology apart. Bloomsburg Univerelectronics engineering technology
sity's
program
takes "practical" a step further, emphasizing the
hands-on experience
is
to
don't
need
The
who
are
state officials
that this
works.
Of the nine BU
first
first
job."
students
who
and summer 2006, one
nies such as
and
eight are
is
working on
working
for
a
mark on Blooms-
its
Lockheed Martin and PPL Susque-
with California Instruments in San Diego.
"I
trip west.
came
"They offered
program
work with business-
to
to help
improve the
recalls professor James
dollars in funding
to
department
Moser,
at the time.
Learn
came from Pennsylvania's Link
Initiative.
task
was
hiring
develop the curriculum.
to find
until
someone who
BU
found
fit
someone with
the right
India.
"It
the
was kind of difficult
Moser says
bill,"
Biswajit Ray.
was nurtured
Ray's practical bent
as a child in
Because of the struggling economy there, he
says, "All the parents will
to
me
He
to
combination of academic and industry experience
to
out here during spring break for an interview,"
when
asked the department of physics
economy,
The next
"If
Naylor says of his 2005
really,
I
help get the idea into development. Half a million
Perm
compa-
we can get them placed right away," Ray
says, "then we consider ourselves successful."
Among those graduates is Meshoppen, Pa.,
native Benjamin Naylor, now an associate engineer
hanna.
EET classes,
used his contacts in the electronics industry
earned bache-
master's degree in electrical engineering at
State University
electronics background,
and engineering technology
state's
inter-
stuff like
it."
who was head of the
graduating class
degrees in electronics engineering technology
in spring
had no
es in developing a
emphasis on practical training
proved
lor's
coordinator. "They
a lot of training to start their
fledgling program's
and video games and
started taking the
enjoyed
military use
had always been
burg's drawing board in the late '90s. That's
produce engineers
EET program
I
and the U.S.
The EET program made
that often puts students in
capable of contributing in industry right away," says
Biswajit Ray,
says. "I
when
really
jobs as soon as they graduate.
"The goal
he
that,"
but
into a full-time job."
be an engineer or a
ogy but was good
at
tell
their kids,
doctor.'
"
Ray
Tou have
didn't like biol-
math, so he chose to become
an engineer.
Ray taught
Biswajit Ray, far
left, is
coordinator of the
EET program. Recent EET
at
electrical
and computer engineering
the University of Puerto Rico before taking leave
graduates Christopher Root of Danville (top) and Matthew Dunkelberger
to gain on-the-job
of Mohrsville (bottom) apply what they learned in class at paid
thought that teaching engineering just
practicians. In the classroom, students use sophisticated software to
design circuit boards (center).
was not
a
knowledge
good experience," he
Continued on next page
WINTER 2007
in industry.
says.
"I
by
"My goal was
the books
to
come back to
As
ence."
in Atlanta,
14)
and
for space satellites
on with Bloomsburg. In 2000, he and
their
two children (now ages 10 and
behind the big city and southern climate
left
move
EMS Technologies Inc.
he designed electronics
before signing
his wife
teaching, but with industry experi-
a design engineer for
to Pennsylvania,
professor Biswajit
timely guidance.
academic program from scratch.
The EET curriculum that Ray created provides the
math and technology foundation that students
science,
need
for their culminating experience
paid co-op job in industry.
Communications, Williamsport,
sity of
a six-month,
are:
Berwick; Tobyhanna
Inc.,
—
students walking
discussing
Dayton (Ohio) Research
Air Balancing
The
up and down
end when
—co-op
experience.
may be
Moser
those co-ops,
and the Univer-
job opportunities. Not only do they get a solid academ-
Institute. In addition, a
ic
when they graduate, students get solid
education, but they get experience in solving prob-
They
lems."
placement and provides feedback to make sure the
the cost of four years. (Originally,
EET program produces graduates who have
experiences were required, adding
Ray
the required
notes, "Because of
Army Depot; L3
Pa.;
very active industry advisory board helps in co-op
that industry needs,
the skills
also get a four-and-a-half-year
up
The idea of a new program with "strong industry
—and on
when he was a
desire of students to graduate sooner.)
He was
already interested in
he had studied the
high
field in a
school technical program. After his co-op experience
PPL Susquehanna
in
work
in Berwick, he continued to
there during his last semester of classes,
came
and then be-
a full-time systems associate after his graduation
May. Wolfe
is
involved with maintaining the com-
after
Forty-five students are enrolled in the
and Ray hopes
that
where 20 students
a year are graduating.
"A lot of
people don't
know that we have a program like
Bloomsburg
University,"
Even
he
industrial clients initially
had
"When we
they couldn't quite understand what
to
begin studying
"Now they're
for a master's in business administration (probably at
Moser
BU) so he eventually can become a project manager.
EET students at Bloomsburg also gain hands-on
they're really interested.
reputation, but once they see
experience through their professors' research projects.
coming back
For example, Ray recently completed designs
really supportive
table generators being tested
Defense.
"It's
good
date professionally,
for
by
the
me because
I
can stay up-to-
and the students can
with actual research," he
The EET program
is
for por-
Department of
get involved
attracting students thanks to
modem equipment, individual attention from professors
and the
university's relatively
student/teacher ratios, Ray
es are small, so students have
software,
and more
low
and Moser
more
"One
faculty guidance,"
skills quickly,
of the things that's
and
"Our
from national
Ray
and
to
It's
.1
doing,"
and
taking a while to build our
what we're doing,
they're
think local industry has been
helpful."
get a boost
accreditation, a process that
is
soon
now under
first
students graduated, Ray explains.
BU has a head start on one of the requirefaculty members who have both academic and
However,
industrial experience.
"1
think the program has a bright future,"
says.
B
advance their
according to Moser.
amazing
and
.
we were
placing co-op students,
(Accreditation Board for Engineering Technol-
ogy) until the
Ray
says.
more.
be convinced
spoke to PPL,
way. The program couldn't seek accreditation from
ments:
class-
access to labs
All those advantages help students
knowledge and
tuition
say.
for
to
first
The EET program's reputation may
ABET
says.
says.
this at
says.
power
2007, he plans
EET program,
the point
of the program's merits.
fall
the
number will grow to
puter systems that monitor the core at PPL's nuclear
plant. In
to a five-year
one co-op, Ray says
workforce
at
for
industry feedback that students were ready to join the
backing" attracted Bloomsburg native Jonathan Wolfe
electronics, since
program
two six-month co-op
program. The requirement was lowered based on
says.
freshman.
he
in engineering,"
class ends."
biggest draw, though,
and paid
the halls in groups,
and debating problems
says. "It doesn't
Among the employers that
have provided co-op opportunities
Engineers
work independently in small teams as
Ray moves from team to team to give
In labs, students
to
where Ray would develop an
me is that
I
hear
Tracey M.
Dooms
is
a freelance writer and editor
living in
State College, Pa.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
&
Stage
Whether running two
or working on
Speedway
he
i
NASCAR pit crews, alumnus Ralph Miller
credits BU with giving him the
knowledge and savvy to succeed
says.
in
whatever he has decided to do.
"Bloomsburg
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY
successful Pennsylvania theaters
really
opened
a lot of doors for
"Once they were open,
me,"
ran through them."
I
alph Miller, a successful businessman and
struction
NASCAR fan, had just finished conon four homes in Daytona, Fla., in 1987
when he
sent a note to Dale Earnhardt Sr. offer-
avid
ing his favorite driver the use of one of his
during Speed
Week at Daytona
Much to his surprise,
Earnhardt called, ar-
ranged a meeting and accepted the
began another chapter in
which he became
known as "The
homes
Speedway.
Miller's
offer.
life,
Ralph Miller
Thus
kisses the bricks
during
close friends with the racer
Intimidator"
member for both drivers, making 150
and part of the
tory Lane.
and Jeff Gordon.
don't have the courage to take chances
That Miller took a chance and things worked
is
happen throughout
things
ask Miller
if
luck finds
own luck and the
dead
"I
him
or
if
his
life.
But
he creates his
don't believe in luck at
60, Miller
to live by,
is
all,"
electronics set-ups
says Miller,
and
as a pit
who
crew
If
you
and go
be working
for
af-
some-
life."
and
Miller certainly has.
owner
Bucks County Playhouse in
At
of the ven-
New Hope and
season this spring. For more
than two decades, he's also
owned
Playhouse in Mountainhome.
Continued on next page
WINTER 2007
will
the longest-running
will kick off his 31st
serious.
worked on
the rest of your
Words
erable
usually affable Miller turns
believe in kicking
what you want, you
body
not surprising. He's been
out beautifully
making
ter
"I
to celebrate a
victory at Indy.
trips to Vic-
open doors.
championship racing teams of both Earnhardt
.
L.
the
Pocono
'I
believe in kicking open doors. If you don't have the
courage to take chances and go after what you want,
you
will
be working
somebody the rest of your life.'
for
— RALPH MILLER
A math major at Bloomsburg in
the mid-1960s. Miller
was
a
before the season started, the
mem-
producer notified the playhouse
he was bankrupt and wasn't
ber of Madrigal Singers, Men's Glee
that
Club and the Concert Choir who
coming back,"
appeared in musicals, including
owners said
"Carousel."
money
He left school after
which eventually included
the Bucks
and
I fell
place," says Miller,
Pleasant, Pa.
"I
money would come
in love with the
found partners
who lives in
capital,
really just
Point
met with the
and
believes
to
buy them
he was able
the Bucks
play-
He
him the
to
Ralph Miller
on
He
out.
at the
Miller
Miller recalls. In a scene that,
would make
turned around
steps
and
giant
itself,
great theater, Miller
at the
yelled,
bottom of the
"You ought
to listen
me because one day, I'm going to
own this place!"
to
Seven years
later,
he got
his
chance. "In 1976, about six weeks
first
producer
McDonald's was eyeing the
crowd
it
work
is
going
for art's sake.
staff at
both the-
well as using computer
many locals.
orchestration, while presenting
When Miller took over the
theater,
it
was predominantly
stock house
—
different
would come during the
summer season to try out
new products.
jj^t
I
saw
its
history, acting lumi-
naries such as Kitty Carlisle, Liza
Minnelli, Walter Matthau, Grace
stars
Kelly
stock
sitting
shows.
During
a
where
a playhouse
after
at night."
aters, as
says. "But
around
Bucks County Playhouse.
More
recently, the theater has hosted
the likes of William Shatner ("No-
body
that there
and Robert Redford performed
at the
realizes
what a tremendous
is.") and Don
who passed away last year.
comedic actor he
was plenty of product
out there, and we began
Knotts,
doing
the years, the Bucks
Despite several floods throughout
revivals."
County Play-
The new direction was
a hit. Miller more than
house
doubled the length of the
healthy and love the work; they'll
playhouse's season and
have to carry
turned a
says. "I
him
to
profit,
allowing
buy Pocono
Playhouse in 1984.
lets
He
—nor
both
facilities.
BLOOMSBURG
ground three
after Miller
me
do want
took over. "I'm
out of there," Miller
to eventually give
in trust so that
1
just
it
it
doesn't
want
to
sure this wonderful theater
stays a theater."
b
the
commitment
his
solid
someone
make
different levels of success
sway
on
get sold for condos.
neither the distance
the theaters
is
decades
to
about 80 miles separates
spray.
makes
same production
looking for product," he
champagne
ski
go back to the lodge
property, a prospect that horrified
houses were
traditional
own," Miller notes.
He saves money by using the
but fast-food
"All of these little
Ralph Miller celebrates victory with a
its
Poconos and the
not only was he the
to turn a profit,
when
12-week season there because,
work
producer
did
Labor Day, everybody deserts the
purchase
to
threw me out of the lobby,"
it
"You're only going to get a 10- to
bargain price of $200,000 because,
for free "but the
as
walked through
"Pocono Playhouse could not
house's producer and offered to
literally
first
the doors in the 1960s.
stand
he had
County Playhouse
much
appears today
from.
to lend
five years later,
made enough
wanted
the chance to produce a season."
In 1969, he
The Bucks County Playhouse
the meeting wondering where the
saw George C. Scott and
Colleen Dewhurst in 'Lion in Winthere
raise the
In reality, Miller walked out of
County Playhouse.
"I
ter'
could
advance rent for the
for the
summer, they would give me the
theater. I told them I could do it."
three years to pursue other opportunities,
Miller says. "The
if I
to
Kevin Gray
in the
is
a freelance writer based
Lehigh Valley.
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Where weres er$n
there's a wav.
Generations of students have come
to
UI'
Bloomsburg to pursue their dreams,
from the
y
earliest days in
current students.
others
1839 to our
Many have helped
who came after them
—a
tradition
of philanthropy that quietly continues to
this day.
RMftfw*
One of the most meaningful, yet
least
known, ways our alumni and
friends have helped us
'
¥
gift to the university
Known
is
by providing a
through their wills.
as bequests, these gifts have
funded scholarships, provided equipment
to teach students, helped to renovate
buildings and enabled
many things to
happen at Bloomsburg University.
Regardless of how
think you have,
much money you
if you
want to help our
students and the university, you can.
We can work with your attorney or
adviser to
great
make it easy. You will feel
knowing that you have provided an
opportunity for even more generations
of students to come.
Contact the Bloomsburg University
Foundation for more information,
either through the Web
site,
www.bloomu.edu/giving (which has
more information on giving through
your will), or by phone
After
all,
at
570-389-4524.
where there's a will,
there's a
way... to help!
.:.!,'
McPeek gets a boost from friends Keri Bachman, Kristie
Gardner and Danielle Burke behind Carver Hail in the fall of 2003.
McPeek, a senior elementary education major who was a cheerleader
in high school, has cheered for the Huskies, along with Burke, for the
past two years.
Katie
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University
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Quest extended
trips
bound for
and abroad
destinations in U.S.
Bloomsburg UniversiQuest program
ty's
extended
offers
trips
BU alumni and friends.
For many of these trips, no
for
experience
necessary and
is
most equipment
ed. Varied
ical
is
provid-
amounts of phys-
stamina are required.
Trekking
in
Patagonia,
Chile, Feb. 12 to 25: This
adventure in the southern
Patagonian Andes of Chile
takes participants into one
of the natural
wonders of
South America, the Torres
Roy Smith,
director, will lead a
Quest walking
trip across
northern England from June 22 to July
4.
Del Paine National Park.
The leader is Dave Conlan,
dbconlan@yahoo com
The hikers
Costa Rica Mountain Bike
trails.
.
Ride,
March 9
to 18:
The
eight-day mountain bike
ride takes cyclists
through
will
go through
rock formations on scenic
The
leader
Stone-Briggs,
is
Alison
astone®
bloomu.edu.
Rock Climbing
in
nia,
March 10
to
be in
satisfactory physical
condition.
The leader
is
in Central California.
to learn the
but
bloomu.edu.
climbers on
Hiking Joshua Tree
lines.
March 10
to 14:
The Joshua
Tree National Park offers
hikers
more than 585,000
acres of wilderness to
explore.
into
The group
Palm Springs, explore
the Indian
visit
will fly
Canyons and
the internationally
famous botanical museum.
no
prior climbing experience
Roy Smith, rsmith®
National Park, California,
The
allow those with
still
fundamentals
challenge advanced
The
more
leader
difficult
is
Brett
St.
to July 4:
Bee's
on
The walk
the Irish
the perfect
cyclists.
North Yorkshire moors. The
leader
is
Roy Smith, rsmith®
the
will
designed for
weekend biker. The
begin and end in
trip
the
in
the
Aug. 16 to 23: Crested
U.S., will
named
be the base
this trip in the
Rockies.
landscape and
backdrop
The group
for
will bike
through vineyard-covered
hillsides,
along country
roads and pastoral scenes.
bloomu.edu.
wildflower capital of the
is
combined with
glacial
region and finishes across the
Butte, recently
and Belgium
The Finger Lakes
wineries,
small-town charm, provide
Biking in Holland, June 2
back roads of Holland
Lakes Wine Country, Oct. 6
to 8:
the shores of the North Sea,
to 13: This
the
Brett
Bike Tour through the Finger
begins in the Lake District
ers,
12-day tour along
is
unique
Rockies: Colorado Wildflow-
bloomu.edu
leader
Sea to Robin Hood's Bay on
Mountain Biking
Simpson, bsimpson®
The
Simpson, bsimpson®
bloomu.edu.
from
renowned climbing location
is
June 22
old logging roads to single
tracks.
Simpson, bsimpson®
a world-
a Spanish-speaking guide
trip will
leader
across northern England,
Joshua Tree
The
Brett
The
to 17:
Ocean, accompanied by
vehicle.
train or bike.
Walking Across England,
Joshua
De San
trip requires participants
cross terrain ranging from
bloomu.edu.
Tree National Park, Califor-
and support
may
between centers by
travel
is
Costa Rica, from Fortuna
Carlas to the Pacific
towns. Participants
the
The group
Amsterdam, with two- or
City, Colo., often
three-day stops in three
altitude of
7,000
is
Roy Smith,
and physical
requirements, call (570)
Lake
above an
feet, as
leader
rsmith@bloomu.edu.
including costs
will bike
to
The
For additional information,
for
Colorado
from Crested Butte
The tour will stop at some
of the more notable wineries.
they
389-2100, check online at
www.buquest.org or contact
trip leaders at
addresses provided.
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Daisy Girton, 90, celebrated in June with other
5 "2 C.
%J %J
ship,
alumni of a one -room school near Anthony Town-
where she had taught from 1935
until 1941.
5 ^7/i Mary Beth Lech was re-elected national vice presi/ -L dent, treasurer and board member of the National
Contract
Management Association.
Clyde
5 £l El
vJ
Robert Fleck
O
2006 Distinguished
received the
E.
Lowery, Birdsboro,
is
vice president of the busi-
ness-banking group for Leesport Financial Group.
(right), Danville,
Ser-
Award from the the Pennsylvania Association
of Realtors. Owner of Coldwell Banker Fleck
5 ^7#^ David
Agency, he has been active in regional and
pal for
vice
/ \J
state
many years and will
2007 chairman of the National Associaof Realtors Smart Growth Advisory Committee
1 1
ville
Robinholt, Nescopeck,
School
District,
is
retiring
from Dan-
where he was a school
princi-
years.
real estate associations for
5 ^7^7 Deborah
serve as
tion
Q
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Mary Ann Gordish, a speech therapist for
Wayne and Wallenpaupack areas,
} J^
schools in the
2006.
retired in
5 j^ f\ Edward
R.
Hess joined
the Laurel Health
System
'70
F.
Beierschmitt
is
acting superinten-
dent of Southern Columbia Area School
Hugh Dempsey
Pope John Paul
ington,
(right) is
5 ^7CJ
S
Wash-
D.C
Suzanne Menapace
Carmel Area School
retired
principal of Center Grove School,
is
vice president
District.
and general man-
ager of
^°^' George
Antochy
is
office,
serving in Iraq with the
eastern Pennsylvania regional
manager for American Education Services.
Alan Lonoconus is superintendent of Shikellamy
District.
Donald Wiest
II is
executive vice president and chief
investment officer for Midwest Banc, Melrose Place,
}Q/~\
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deputy director of
Cultural Center in
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Harry Warren
is
Randolf Township School
Ecomm's East Lampeter Township
near Allentown. He was previously a sales manager.
School
Bistocchi, superintendent of Union
County (N.J.)
Vocational-Technical School District, was honored by having a
three-story school building dedicated in his name.
the
/ C3
Iosso
New Jersey's
Army Reserves.
Rachael Lohman '79M is
District, Catawissa.
Thomas
^7Q
/
Physician Team, Wellsboro.
Richard
}
in
Albert J. Manzi (nght), Utah,
111.
is
president and chief executive officer
of Prairie Mountain Publishing, a newspaper
management and operating partnership created
by The E. W. Scripps Co. and MediaNews
from the Mount
District.
Tom Blackwell retired from the
'71
North Perm School
District in
Thomas Brennan Jr., Hamsburg,
director of the Louisiana
is
2005.
executive assistant
Community Development
Office in
Baton Rouge.
Irene Casari retired from the
School
Frank Jayman
School
Mount Carmel Area
District.
retired
from the Mount Carmel Area
District.
Doreen Kushner
is
principal of Transfiguration Catholic
School, Shamokin.
John Olaynick works
Beach County
(Fla.)
^y Nell
5 ^7' }
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as an environmentalist
Water Utilities.
'
s a third-grade teacher
for
Palm
and grade
level
coordinator for the Bangor Area School District.
Joseph Quinn Jr., Moosic, was named
to the
Keystone
Alums inducted into Hall of Fame
College Board of Trustees.
A.
'73
Ben Wagner,
Melanie Wengrenovich
Area School
District.
a librarian at the University at
retired
from the Mount Carmel
The newest members of BU's Athletic Hall of Fame, inducted
during Homecoming Weekend 2006, are shown with BU
President Jessica Kozloff. They are, left to right, front: Marty
Laudato '93, Softball; Janelle Breneman '94, Softball; and Kim
Youndt Evans '90, swimming; and, back: Jim Browning '56,
football and track; Lance Milner '90, men's tennis; Kozloff; and
Todd Cummings '83, wrestling. For complete information about
the inductees, visit http://www.bloomu.edu/sports/hallfame/
2006halloffame.shtml.
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Snook heads
Group. Concurrently, he serves as president and publisher of
the Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.
nursing
manager and treasurer
for Shell Oil Co., Houston, Texas. He has worked for Shell
since 1980, spending six years in London, England.
association
Rick Menniti
9
Q
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is
treasury operations
Ernest Jackson
-A.
(N.Y.) School District's middle school.
is
Snook '02M recently
Betsy
became executive administrator for the Pennsylvania
vice principal of Warwick Valley
~|
Roseann Murello is assistant
School, Long Island, N.Y.
principal at Lawrence
Nurses Association, based in Harrisburg.
High
As the executive administrator, Snook manages the
of the association and serves as the spokesperson
activities
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is
and coordinator
vice president of
background
Edward G. Caminos was promoted to vice
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and served as interim chief financial officer.
Michael St. Clair is social studies teacher and head
coach at West Chester Rustin High School.
Wayne
D. Brookhart, Danville,
is
Edward Schicatano
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care.
Elizabeth Williams Confair
is
a learning support
teacher with the Intermediate Unit 9 in Smethport.
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sales for the
Kathleen Ewer
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Phillies.
retired after
26 years of
teaching, including the last 2 1 years at
Immanuel Christian School, Hazleton.
Maj. David A. Lesko was promoted
Bruce M. Smith, U.S. Army Reserves, 424th Military Police Detachment, received the Bronze Star for meritorious service during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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presi-
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Energy, Texas.
initiatives across
Nursing Foundation of Pennsylvania. Snook has a 30-year
National Bank.
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and
for professional issues
the state. She also serves as chief executive officer of the
northern region commercial lending for Harleysville
to lieuten-
ant colonel in the Air Force Reserves.
Army
National Guard Maj. Ronald T. Sowal, a dentist
from Shamokin, served in southern California in support of
(right), assistant
U.S. Border Patrol efforts.
professor of psychology at Wilkes
College, received the Carpenter Outstanding
9
Teacher Award.
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Brenda DeRenzo
is
special education coordinator at
Parkland Schools in the Allentown
area.
Roger Nunkester Jr., Berwick, is middle school principal at
Southern Columbia Area School District. He was named in the
10th edition of "Who's Who Among America's Teachers," the
third time he has been honored.
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L.
graduated from
at Fort Dix, N.J.
She works
Command and
for
an appeals technical analyst and holds an
care
Classmates from '56 celebrate reunion
About 70 alumni and guests attended the 50-year reunion of the
Class of 1956 held at the Fenstemaker Alumni House Sept. 15 to
2006. Classmate
Bill Bitner,
Oldsmar,
Fla.,
was
chief organizer for
which included a reunion dinner and campus tours.
chairman and president of Evergreen Bancorp, is a
former alumni board member, past recipient of the Distinguished
Service Award and a generous supporter of Bloomsburg University.
He and wife Wylla "Bunny" Bitner, also a 1956 graduate, have
donated more than S50.000 toward student scholarships. Shown in
the accompanying photo are, left to right, Steve Kozloff, BU
President Jessica Kozloff, Bill Bitner and Bunny Bitner.
the event,
Bitner, retired
BLOOMSBURG
MBA in health
management.
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Kris Bautsch, Limerick, teaches second grade
Spring-Ford School District
certificate in
17,
General Staff College
Independence Blue Cross as
at
after receiving his teaching
December 2005.
Laurie Churba, a costume designer for
NBC-TVs "Saturday
Night Live," was costume assistant on the film "World Trade
Center," starring Nicholas Cage.
Lisa Peterlin Sanders teaches history, mathematics and
science to elementary students at Wakefield Country
Day
School,
Flint Hill, Va.
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John Gabage,
deacon, the
Glenside,
last
was ordained as a transitional
becoming a Catholic
step toward
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priest.
attends
Mary's Seminary and University.
St.
president
Carl C. Risch, a Carlisle attorney, works as an appeals
adjudication officer for the U.S. Citizenship and
Lancaster,
Immigration Services, Department of Homeland
Security,
Brett Gibble
(ri jht),
relationship
Lebanon and York
ML
y
CNN
\4^y
1
gambling crime
News
Headline
to talk
appeared on
slot
in Florida.
Shikellamy School
for the
i
counties.
Fla., police officer,
about his role in fighting
Stephanie Hare Michaels
Mohnton,
joined Wachovie Corp. as vice
manager in the commercial
Cumberland, Dauphin,
for Berks,
Lazarus Kimsal, a Miami,
Washington, D.C.
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and senior
banking group, responsible
is
special education supervisor
District.
Births
Lisa Tuthill Aiderson '87 and
Julie Crossley Willits '94 and
Dian Taylor Alleyne
husband, Edward, a daughter,
husband, Steve, a son, Tyler
husband,
Anna
Michael,
Elise,
March
24,
2006
Sharon Belles Aiken
'89 and
husband, Martin, a daughter,
Julia, Feb. 9,
2006
Michael Crane
'89 and wife,
Pamela, a son, Michael
Oct. 20,
Jr.,
Katy
May 31, 2006
Weber Abram
and
Kara Nagurney Feulner '00 and
'96,
husband, Rob, a daughter, Allison
Rose, Sept. 27, 2006
a daughter, Taylor Paige,
May 26, 2006
'95 and
Beth Christman Fronheiser
Steiner '97
Lori Clarke
March
husband, Curt, a daughter, Meredith
Ryan,
June
Jeni
4,
2005
Vicki Muckenthaler
Blevins '95
Melanie Anne,
May
19,
Clarke Steiner,
2,
and
2006
Marlena Zappile '97 and husband.
2006
Kirk
Thomas '98,
Noah
a son,
Elizabeth
'90 and husband, Eddie, a son,
and husband, Adam, a daughter,
Maria Nolter Grimes
Andy
Sophie Elizabeth, April 20, 2006
husband, David, a daughter, Cassidy
Aug.
Christian,
2006
6,
Becky Young Evans
'91
and
Donovan Conish
Dancy
Jennifer Rosencrance
Anthony, Dec.
'95
Elyse, July 13,
8,
2005
2006
Lisa Braglio
Jane Mary, June
July 31, 2006
husband, Frank, a son, Dominic
Jane Salak Spera
'91
and
Amanda Shepard
husband, Anthony, a daughter.
2005
Julia Jane, Sept. 22,
Diane Dolan Miller '92/'05M
and husband,
Mark
Miller
daughter, Katherine, Jan.
6,
'91, a
2006
March
Carlos,
Flaska '95
Mancini
'98 and
28, 2006, born
18,2006
May 1,2006
Suzanne Whitehead
Ott '00 and
husband, Stephen Ott
'01, a
daughter, Elizabeth, April
James, Aug. 18,2006
Joy Gazzerro Connelly '99
'00, a son,
Adam Fosbenner '95 and wife,
and husband, Daniel, a daughter.
June
Lauren, a son, John Douglas,
Grace Leah, Oct. 16,2006
Aug. 29. 2006
Melissa Gromis Feathers
2005
19,
Aiden Joseph,
2006
Stephanie McPherson Risser '00
and husband, Justin, a daughter,
'99,
Tara Yanick Kogut '95 and
and husband, Stephen, a daughter.
Kayla, Aug. 2,
2006
husband, Joe, a son, Ronan
husband, Michael Kogut
MacyAmylee, March
Kelly Hoover
'01
2006
Pilling, April 6,
Christopher
R.
son, Aidan Michael, Aug.
Corley '93 and
wife, Jolly Foster, a daughter,
Renn, Sept. 22, 2005
Cathleen Zicari Flynn '93 and
husband,
Francis,
Francis, a son,
March
22,
Michael
'93
Brian, a daughter,
Bosack Woods
'93 and
Helene, April 13,2006
Matthew
E.
Rhodes
Feb. 23,
Meghan
Friedland Piazza
Hugh O'Donnell
Christine Spalding
husband,
Dan Piazza
Kerri,
a son,
March
25,
husband,
wife, Christine, a son,
Adam,
May 5, 2006
2006
Savage
'95 and
James Savage
husband, Brian
2006
'95 and
West '96,
Jason Morgan West, July
a son,
9,
2006
'96
and husband, Dipesh, a son, Dylan,
Irvin,
W98M
a son,
Christopher, April 21,
Mark
2006
2006
11,
3,
2006
'99,
and
wife,
a son, Russel James,
March
24,
2006
Wagner Koser 02 and
Danielle
July 12, 2006
husband, Barton, a son, Maddox,
Feb.
Michelle Fry Brozusky 00
and husband, Victor Brozusky
a daughter,
Oct. 4,
'00,
Meghan Hope,
McCauley Robinson
William, Aug.
'00
and
husband, Paul, a daughter, Isabelle
May 22, 2006
'02
2006
7,
Stefanie Palmer Noll '03 and
husband, Steve, a daughter, Sara
Susan,
'00 and
husband, Sean, a son, Cole William,
1,2006
15,2006
Jennifer
and husband, Preston, a son, Colin
2006
Kimberly Bloom Duffy
and
2006
husband. Brad, a son, Joshua Paul,
Oct.
WINTER
May
Lisa,
husband, Brian, a son, Charles
April 21,
Daniel,
June
Marie,
Wilson Phaon,
James
Matthew Wagner '01 and
Aimee Counsman Bucci
Aug. 24, 2006
'99,
'01
'00, a son.
a daughter, Abigail Elizabeth,
Karen Stickle Ramsay
'95, a
son, Logan Gabriel, April 17,
Snyder West
'99
Maguire
and husband, Daniel Maguire
Thomas Hugh,
Amy Bond Trumbauer '96 and
Jennifer Oiler Shoup
and husband,
'95 and wife,
Tara Rothenberger Chauhan
'94 and
2006
husband, Mark, a daughter, Brooke
Kristin
husband, Tim, a daughter, Caitlin
and husband.
Ian Hoover,
Alexa Jordan
Lauryn Elisabeth, Jan. 12,2006
Elaine
Malcolm, a son,
'99 and
Pat Lester '95 and wife, Jessica,
Christine Rihl
and husband,
Kim Vetter Jordan
2006
a son, Cole, Aug. 30, 2006
2006
Stephanie Hare Michaels
a
18,2006
2006
and husband, Joseph Parlapiano
Allison Tyson Viola '92 and
20,
5,
Kelly Cornelius Parlapiano '00
in
Guatemala Sept.
'98,
'00 and
husband, Joseph, a son, Jordan
and husband, Joseph, a son, Tyler
5,
2006
Joe, a son, Gabriel Joseph,
'98 and
and husband, Ahmon, a son, Micah,
2006
24,
Alice O'Brien '00 and husband,
husband, Gerald, a daughter,
5,
March
Musselman Hassel
Tyler, Oct.
Stephanie Bissaillon Veach
'95
'00
and husband. Ken, a son, Nathaniel
husband, Sam, a son, Samuel Allen,
and husband, Nate, a daughter,
2006
'97
Andre Alleyne
May 2, 2006
Johnetta Clarke '04 and Antonius
John Newman, a son, Anthony John
Newman, June
7,
2006
Husky Notes
Mark Edwards
Thomas
Jf\ A
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Alison McPherson
A- Middle
is
a reading specialist at Swift
School, Quarryville.
specialist for the
assistant professor of history at
Ouachita
is
marketing com-
Chester County (Pa.) Hospital.
Patricia Schall-Ulshafer, Bethlehem,
was chosen among 170
C. Neugebauer
(right), Ellicott City,
Md., a registered professional engineer, was pro-
moted
Lisa Subers Huffman, Downingtown,
munications
is
Baptist University, Arkansas.
to associate at Morris
& Ritchie Associates'
Laurel, Md., office.
Carolyn Wilson Peters, Telford, earned a
master's in education degree from Gratz College.
educators to received Wal-Mart's State Teacher of the Year
Award
V^Q
for Pennsylvania.
Mike Devaney
>^0
Robert Galella, Dunmore, is the principal at
Tunkhannock Area Middle School.
Air Force Capt. Noreen Kern, Tunkhannock, is a combat
'95
stress specialist
Webb,
Danville, earned a master's in
degree from SUNY-Binghamton, graduating
arship in the geography doctoral
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S\J
at
program
Iraq.
geography
summa cum laude.
She was awarded a graduate assistantship and
South Carolina
Dean Frear
faculty at
is
the recycling
manager
(right),
and
for Lancaster.
Bloomsburg, joined the
Wilkes University as
assistant professor
of business.
with the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing in
southwest Asia, which conducts operations in Kuwait and
Jennifer J.
solid waste
full tuition
schol-
the University of
at
Columbia.
Todd Doebler
V^f^
Marcie Hickey
SS
head
Softball
(right) is the
coach
new
at the University
of Vermont.
Eleanor "Suzette" Marine
is
principal of
North Dover Elementary School in the
Allentown area.
(right), Hatfield, is
at Perm State.
2004 and 2006, he was Intercollegiate Tennis
Association's Midwest Region Assistant Coach of
head men's tennis coach
In
^^n
the Year.
Danay Gangewere (right), Bethlehem, was
promoted to director of computer services of
Northampton Community College.
Michael Gaskell is principal of Hammarskjold
'
Debbie Johnson was accepted as a candidate
in ministry by the Charleston-Atlantic Presbytery.
Brian Barchik
is
a social studies teacher
Area School
Jul
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Middle School, East Brunswick, NJ.
'97 Montgomery
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MS
*
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fl
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with the
'
jOk
District.
Alumna receives
Nightingale Award
Joanne Zimmerman Rogers '83/"95M of Elysburg was
named one of the seven Pennsylvania Nightingale
Award recipients. The award honors exceptional nurses
and
is
intended to promote superior nursing care practices
statewide. Rogers
is
a clinical nurse specialist at Geisinger
Medical Center, Danville. The master of ceremonies for the
awards ceremony was Anne Shannon
WGAL News 8.
right, seated:
Going
BU
to great heights to visit
alumna
left, pauses with Ann Edwards Blake
mountain at Taos Ski Valley, N.M. Ann and her husband
Mickey, a son of Taos Ski Valleys founders, Ernie and Rhoda Blake,
own and operate the resort along with other family members. Jessica
and Steve Kozloff visited the Blakes last July.
President Jessica Kozloff,
'64 atop the
Shown
in
Debra Wantz-Bucher
Reese '83 and
'93,
who
anchors for
accompanying photo
Donna Albrecht
Zimmerman
Jessica Kozloff,
BU
are, left to
Jennifer Beck
Reese '83 and standing:
Susan Bennett Fetterman 'OO/WM,
79/'93, Joanne
'8 1/9 7M,
Dawn Reed Snyder
BU President
Rogers '83/'95,
Nursing Department Chair Christine
Alichnie and Roxie Chilson Shrawder '83.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Marriages
Judy
Cott
72 and
Martin Payne,
Aug. 12,2006
'99 and Stephen
2006
Segal, Oct. 28,
Richard Urick
'81
Miscavige, Aug.
5,
and Maria
2006
May 27, 2006
'87
Brenda Brong
Runshaw, Aug.
Jill
2,
and Kenneth
Danielle Greer '02 and Chad
Natalie Kreischer '04 and
Mohr'02,Sept.3,2006
Randy Buccat, June
'02 and David
Jeanine Haubrich
Clingingsmith, Oct. 15,2005
2006
Wascavage
Galaida, Aug.
'99 and Michael
Colleen Horan 02/05M and
Kramm, June
2005
5,
Tami Bauman 00 and Patrick
Eric
2006
3,
Amy Juck '02 and
Corynn Lepley
Schreffler,
June
24,
2006
'04 and Stephen
25,
Megan Maneval
2005
'04 and Skip
Shellenberger, Dec. 17,2004
Chad Moser
Wiehe'00,June24,2006
2006
5,
Kelly Stultz '99 and Joe Angelo,
Sept.
Daniel Fickes '85 and Kaja
Schuppert,
Stacy Pane
Katie Miller '04 and Christopher
Ronk, Oct. 14,2006
Michelle Killian '02 and
'87
Michael Casari
Marcela
Lena Eplee
and
Daniel
Fort
Brandon Long
'00 and
'02,
Strungis
Jr.,
June
3,
Kristi
10,
2006
Gerst '00 and Aaron
'02 and Robert
Angel Potter '04 and Matthew
2006
Pearly, July 7,
Hoffman, June 10, 2006
2006
Megan Phaneuf '04 and Mark
Jackowski'03,June17,2006
Angela Snook
Traci Dutko '90 and Robert
June
McCord
Price, Sept.
17,2005
Heather Sterner '02 and David
Theresa Nicholson
'91
and
17,2005
Brett Davido, Sept.
Angela
Gianforti '00 and Joel
Hocking
Lines,
Diana
'91
Paula Schall
Puiizzi Jr.,
and Joseph
May 27, 2006
Erin Griguts '00 and Lawrence
Sinco,
June
10,
L
Oedemann
'96 and
Carissa Barnum, Oct. 22, 2005
Kristy
Novak, July
Amy Buckwalter '05 and
2006
8,
2006
Brandon
Houseknecht
John Welch
Aug. 28, 2004
Gallant 03 and Mark
Leanne Gould
Charles
Jennifer Powell '04 and Brad
Hudson, July 1,2006
July 15, 2006
'98,
'00 and
Alter, July
1,2006
'03 and Michael
Jaime Cloud
Scatton, July 1,2006
Confer,
Jr.
May
'05 and Ryan
17,
2006
Emily Hess '03 and Michael
Robert Thomas '96 and Janet
Truby, July 8,
2006
Kathleen Walsh '00 and
Cripps, Sept.
Russell
Kessler
'98, Sept. 25,
2005
Duffy, Oct. 15,
Alison Gallopo
Bileci,
and Andrew
'01
Mindy Krum
'05 and Brian
Toutant, July 14, 2006
Meghan
Laura Austin '98 and William
2005
10,2005
Hillegas '03 and
Joshua Maeulen,
Oct. 15,
2005
Thomas McCabe '05 and
Colleen Boran, June 17, 2006
June3, 2006
Valerie Laning '03 and Michael
Erin
McNelis
Lutz
'98,
Aug.
'98 and Brian
6,
2005
Holly
Goldman
Cipollo
'01
'01, Sept.
and Lou
May 20, 2006
Barna,
John Pytko
16,2006
'05 and Jennifer
Ulinitz, April 22,
2006
Jennifer Marshalek '03 and
Brian Myers '98 and Shanna
Sobolesky, Oct.
8,
2005
Julie Kulisz
'01
Nardone. July
8,
and Robert
Thomas Howell, June
Amy Merena '01
'98 and
Leander Tice
2006
and Robert
Jennie Roberts
'05 and William
Jacobson, June 24, 2006
Kelly
Susan Reznick
10,
2006
Moore
'03 and Kyle Buck,
Kimberly
Dec. 17,2005
Veach, July 1,2006
Schwalm
'05 and
Brian Henninger, Feb. 17,
2006
Nikki Pellegrini '03 and Jason
Alicia Bergonia '99 and Joseph
Slachta, Aug. 20,
2005
Stacey Cardell
'99 and
Maggie Nehrbauer '01 and
Steve Bruno, July
14,
Laird
'02,
May
2006
13,
Alanna Burkhart '04 and Robert
Mike
Consentino'98,July13,2002
Carrie Breyer '02 and Robert
Leicht, Oct. 8,
Julie Crocker '02 and Daniel
Walker, June 17, 2006
June
24,
Alison
Jacquelyn Chilcoat
Cerasoli '98
'05
2006
2005
Camargo, July 22, 2005
Julie Cerrito '99 and Anthony
Jessica Trivelpiece
and Brandon Cunningham,
2006
Jason Cudzil
'02,
Wagner '05 and
Adragel
'04 and
Legarda, Aug. 12,2006
July 29, 2006
Melissa Walters
Samantha Floryshak
'05 and
'04 and
Christopher Coble, Aug. 19,2006
Jonathan Kiefer '99 and Sarah-
Annie Dougherty '02 and
Anne
Andrew
Reinhart,
June
25,
2006
Clark,
Mark Monroe, June
3,
2006
May 28, 2005
Stacey Schell
'06 and Tyler Dent,
Rashelle Foust '04 and Bradley
Aug. 24, 2006
Amy Lyba '99 and Vincent
Angela Glunz
Argenio, Aug. 13,2005
Markowitz, April 29, 2006
'02 and Seth
Koser,May6,2006
Alison Klekota '04 and
Christopher Kier
August
WINTER 2007
19,
'03,
2006
27
Husky Notes
Nicole Premuto
Jennifer "Lynn" Smolizer earned a master's degree from
Duquesne University and works
War Museum,
National Civil
J{\(\
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as marketing director for
The
Harrisburg.
Michele Driscoll, Perry
tal
Md.,
Hill,
Jessica Marsicano, Middletown,
is
is
an environmen-
a behavioral support
working
Robyn Rushanan
Schultz, Sheridan
Ronda
MMI
health physicist for Cabrera Services Inc.
specialist for autistic children,
for the
Tri-County
Youth Advocate program in Harrisburg.
Michael McCullen is an admission representative with
Bryant and Stratton College.
Michael Morella was appointed as Deputy G4 Support
Operations Officer, Maintenance Plans and Policies, 8th U.S.
Army. He is serving in Seoul, Korea.
Todd Shinko opened his own insurance agency
^f\
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a senior staff accountant with Brown,
is
Scirrotto, Freeland, joined the faculty of Hazleton's
A
Elizabeth
JL
College, Colorado.
Canada
Diane Magagna '01M, Scott Township, spent a year teaching
Community School in Beirut.
been teaching abroad since 2002.
Tracy Myers received a full-tuition scholarship to Thurgood
Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, for the second conShe's
and is working as a research assistant.
Pamela Pheasant graduated from Shenandoah University,
secutive year
Winchester, Va., with a master's degree in
arts administration.
Brian K. Sims, an associate with Mark E.
teaches at Southwest Early
Air Force Airman 1st Class Steven J.
from basic military training
Patrick Daugherty
is
at
Seltzer, P.C.,
serving in Iraq with the U.S. Marines.
Adria Lynn Kowalski received a master's in psychology
is
master's in school counseling at
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Deanna DeLisle
Marymount
is
is
program coordinator
plays a cheerleader in the
Tim
Allen film "Zoom."
lifetime in
game
the
Litwhiler '38
Danny
is
well
in the
story
known
world of
BU baseball coach Mike Collins,
now his
of
is
reaching a different
talks with
memoir, "Living the
the cabinet Litwhiler donated to BU.
a former outfielder for
BU, Litwhiler went on
with teams such as the Philadelphia
11
Phillies,
World
is
now
where he
He went
Litwhiler
owns Kramm Web
Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown
Series twice,
at
DeSales
executive with
& Russell, Orlando, Fla.
Lee Millard, Berwick, earned a master's degree from the
University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Brian Kasarda earned a master's degree in business associa-
Derek Williams, Northampton,
is
from Wilkes University.
a police officer
with
Whitehall Township.
Anthony Camuccio III is dean
Shamokin Area Middle School.
in
1942 he
set a record for
to the
151
may have
finished his playing career
when
he was 35, but he continued in baseball as a coach and
inventor.
Design.
tion with a concentration in accounting
and
consecutive errorless games as an outfielder.
teaching
Kim Lathbury is an advertising account
VfO
Louis Cardinals.
St.
to play
years in the majors,
a master's in
Colleen Horan '02/\)5M, Bethlehem, teaches
^/^^
and the
also coached,
undergraduate students.
University and
is
Baseball Dream."
seven years in the minor leagues and
nursing degree from the University of
Pennsylvania, where she
gun that he
helped to develop. Behind them
"Invincible."
Sandra Greene earned
Danny Litwhiler.
Litwhiler holds a radar
audience with his
As
Rocco Forgione (nght) portrays one
the football players in the 2006 movie
NY.
Spending a
baseball, but
University.
for the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society in Binghamton,
was
pursuing a
an accountant with Mengel,
& Co.
left,
Kristin Wulterkens, a fifth-grade teacher,
in forensic studies/account-
degree from Millersville University.
appointed an associate editor of the Philadelphia Bar Reporter.
a law degree from Michigan State University.
Coleman graduated
Lackland Air Force Base.
Laura Hilbert earned a master's
ing degree from Villa Julie College.
Megan Costa Vaughan
J(\ T Megan Getz '01M earned a master's in educational
\J JL. administration from the University of Scranton.
Stone magazine in
& Fritz of East Pennsboro Township.
Brooke Pope, Cortland, NY.,
in Mifflinburg.
kindergarten at the American
for Rolling
Wenner Media.
Preparatory School as a sixth-grade teacher.
Metzger, Barr
He holds
working
is
the executive offices of Jann
He
spent eight years as head coach at Florida
and 18 years at Michigan State University
and was inducted into halls of fame at Bloomsburg, Florida
State and Michigan State universities; the American Baseball
Coaches; and American Association of Baseball Coaches.
State University
He also invented the radar gun, known as the "JUGS gun,"
which scouts use to measure the speed of the baseball when
it is released from the pitcher's hand.
BU's baseball
He visited BU
field
was named
last fall
on
his
way
for Litwhiler in 1974.
to Philadelphia for a
of students at
book
signing.
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Shannon Killeen was promoted
Jf\ P*
V/O
coordinator
at
promotions
to
Health magazine.
J.C. Lee (right) wrote a play that preat the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Kevin Leonard, Newtown, is a retirement
miered
specialist
with Merrill Lynch.
Kimberlee Pedersen
the Miss Pennsylvania
(right),
title
won
Allentown,
of the Miss United
States contest.
'OS/^M, Coal Township,
Danielle Strausser
teaches seventh-grade reading at North Schuylkill
School
District.
Walsh is
Melissa
a special education teacher with the
Hazleton Area School
Ty Wartman
School
Friends for a quarter-century
District.
teaches social studies at North Schuykill
Friends
District.
who met in
fall
1981 in Luzerne Hall get together nearly
every year. David Wiest '85 says about 30 adults are invited to the
event, originally suggested
get-together are,
Deaths
by
left to right,
Bill
Voros
'85.
Shown
at last year's
kneeling: future Huskies Wesley
Kuczawa, Joey Tona and Sarah Kuczawa; seated: Jim "Skip"
Robison '83, Rich Kuczawa '85, Michele Langan Lutzko, John
'85, Donna Gruber Kuczawa '86, Diane Wisniewski Tona '86,
Ken Ossman '85 and Mary Tona; and, standing: Dave Wiest '85,
Nancy Weis, Joe Ambrose '84, Bill Lutzko '85 and Jim Golden '85.
Polak
Thomas
'60
Bertine Prosser '27
William
Helen Kramer '28
Richard Wolfe '60
Marjorie Vanderslice Rosado '28
Margaret Luchun Armon
Elma Morris Price '30
Lena
Mar/ Gorham Wolever
John
Wood
'31
'61
7/"V/£ Kristopher Armstrong,
Radel Goehring '62
Mae
v/vJ
William Kuhns '62
'31
Eugene Keefer '33
Reedsville, earned a full-
time job as a production assistant after interning
with the "Dr. Phil" show.
Heather Breining '06M
Richard Walter '63
'31
Mary Yeager
"Bill"
R.
Thomas
A. Fetzko '64
is
teaching American government at
Patterson High School in the Baltimore (Md.) School System.
Eldridge '64
Warren
Patrick R. Burke
'06M
(nght), a professional
engineer from Elysburg, was promoted to
Edith Keefer
Hartman '34
Mary Spence
Laura
E.
'34
Devona Krebs Preston '64
Louis J. Ciocca
Schell '35
Jr.
Fay Gehrig Clark '40
Dorothy Moyer
Frank! KocherJr.
E.
'40
for
Ann Seguine Gallagher
Judith
Weaver
Gum
'66
Remley
'67
Burel
regional
'65
'65
'65
manager of northeast/central operations
Aqua Pennsylvania
Lindsey Horn,
the Transitional
Inc.
Sellers ville, is a
Trauma Unit
Michelle Killian
is
a recruiter with
Larry
Betty Sell Boyer '43
Anajane Helt '68
Kate Lange teaches math
Francis J. Verano '68
Brandon Long
Virginia
Lawhead
William
Hummel
Charles
E.
Sr.
'47
Roberts '50
Louise Lohr Wentzel '50
Bernard DePaul
Sr. '51
Eugene "Gene" Adami
Peggy
Nelson
P.
Paul
Drozic
T.
Michael
'52
Fitzsimmons Boltinghouse '52
Ronald
D.
Bushick '52
Kile '52
Mott
Karen Gable
Anne
71
T.
Larry
Vass
at
the Haverford
High School.
a third-grade teacher at the
Leesburg
Elementary School.
Jennifer
74
Shymansky received
a graduate assistantship at
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she
Ognosky
74
75
Appleton
Brian
is
Gina Ormont teaches 10th grade in Baltimore, Md.
Dana Rutkowski teaches fourth grade at Shamokin Area
'70
Flannigan
Clark
May Prye
Solutions Inc.,
Elementary School, Loudon County, Va.
Adams 72
D.
GAP
Reston, Va.
Carolyn Hugo Rider '69
James
nurse in
Lehigh
Valley Hospital.
Walter H.Mohr '42
Fletcher '43
at
Sr.
is
pursuing a
and media studies.
Susan Niehoff Strausser, Shamokin, is a registered nurse
in the labor and delivery department of Geisinger Medical
master's degree in journalism
78
Center, Danville.
Clyde
Adams
'53
Marion Bogardus Flannery '54
Edmund M. Longo
Olive Hunter
'54
Buynak '55
Deanna M. Morgan
'58
78
Suzanne Vastine-Smith
'81
Lynn Slattery Rangitsch '83
Robert
F.
Thomas
Stutzman
V.
'83
Chipley '85
William Staronka '59
Wendy Wolfe
Jeanerte Ide D'Agostino '60
Rachel
Ann
Pinkney '93
Sninski '05
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or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
Fountains at Bloomsburg: Class Gifts to the
One
°ovvn Normal
Hill.
Bloomsburg, Pa
small but significant
feature of the
Campus
new
Academic Quad, scheduled for completion later
this year,
a fountain that
is
once
Not
stood in front of Carver Hall.
only
1940 return
on campus,
common
prominent location
to a
it
er of the days
a
from the Class of
will this gift
will also
when
sight
be a remind-
fountains were
on campus.
Fifteen years after the
of Institute Hall, later
opening
renamed
Carver Hall, the Class of 1882
decided their
burg
State
gift
Blooms-
to the
Normal School would
be a fountain on the lawn south
of the building.
The centerpiece was
called
"The
Three Fishers" and consisted of the statues of three
children,
third
two of whom were drawing
had
a basket of fish
on
Institute Hall, that year's class
as part of the
main entrance
was presented on June
pay
was added
to
chose to give the school
sit
to
in front of the building
campus. The fountain
28, 1904, along with $188.84 to
to
be outdone, the Class of 1908 had the most
grove of trees to the east of Science Hall.
set aside to create a
set in a
A total of $350
park that included a fountain
pool and a couple rustic bridges that crossed a
small stream.
Even when additional fountains were not being
30
first
after
Class of
finally
removed.
fountain had been given a
new sculpture and
fountain,
worn by time and weather, was
taken out in 1934. Six years
later,
the Class of
1940
decided the area in front of Carver Hall again needed a
centerpiece
the
and purchased
Bloomsburg
The
was
a
new bronze
fountain for
State Teachers College.
final area of the
fountain
added, existing ones needed to be maintained. By 1912,
the
one octagonal in shape. But by
more than 40 years as a monument to the
1882, the fountain was in disrepair and was
third basin, this
1923,
The 1904
ambitious project yet, which called for landscaping the
was
its
for the installation.
Not
called a
his head.
In 1904, four years after the tower
another fountain that would
in a net while the
The 1904 fountain consisted
of a raised bronze basin and a heron-like bird
bittern. From a circa 1910 postcard.
campus
to
be graced by a
the courtyard of the Waller Hall
dormitory. In the
fall
of 1950, the flower
center of the courtyard was removed and
cement pool surrounded by
bricks
was
bed in the
a circular
built in
its
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Left:
Female students pose by
the grove fountain in 1945.
Originally just pipes spraying
water into the lagoon, the
fountain
was
installed in
1933 during the Great
Depression, paid for by
savings in the college budget.
Below: The
shown
first
fountain
is
in 1887, although the
child with the basket
seems
The octagonal
to be missing.
base just above the water
contained the carved names
of each of the
members of the
Class of 1882.
place.
The Waller Fountain, a
1949, was dedicated on
traditional Ivy
May
gift
from the Class of
23, 1951, as part of the
Day ceremony
There were once again three fountains on campus,
but
all
would be removed by the mid-1970s. The
first to go when, in February
1940 fountain was the
1955, the fountain and
were taken out
parking spaces.
traffic circle
on Perm
Street
make way for a new entrance and
The fountain was carefully preserved
to
with the hope of one day being used again.
As the
college grew, so did the
need
for additional
dormitory rooms. So, in the spring of 1963, the
fountain, lagoon
and part of the grove were removed
for construction of East Hall,
Hall.
And in January
fountain
—
the last remaining fountain
were taken out
to
make way
the lower campus,
After
now known as Montour
1975, Waller Hall and
Lycoming
more than 92
its
on campus
for the final
dormitory on
Hall.
years, the
Bloomsburg campus
no longer had a fountain. But soon, as part of
Academic Quad, the Class of 1940s fountain will once
again beautify the
campus and
serve as a visual
reminder of Bloomsburg University's heritage.
The second fountain in front
of Carver Hall is shown in
December 1940. Although a gift
from the Class of 1940, class
members
said they were only
restoring a
originally
memorial that had
been given by the
graduates of 1904.
WINTER 2007
Academic Calendar
Celebrity Artist Series
Spring 2007
Events are held
in
Hass Center for
the Arts, Mitrani Hall, or Carver
Mid-Term
Hall,
Monday, March 5
KennethS. Gross Auditorium.
For more information, call the box
Spring Break Begins
office
March 10
Saturday,
the Celebrity Artist
Classes Resume
Monday, March
19,
Thursday, April
8 a.m.
celebrity_list.htm.
Monday,
cardholders pay half of the
ticket's
Resume
April 9,
Now and Forever: CATS
6 p.m.
May 3
Friday,
Mitrani Hall, Reserved, $25;
and 4
Finals
of (Guitar) Strings
Saturday,
March
7 p.m., Gross
3,
Auditorium, Reserved, $15;
May 12
Graduate Commencement
May
Saturday, April 7,
1
p.m.
Kehr Union Ballroom
and Husky Singers
Life:
A Guide for the Perplexed
The
Flying
Saturday,
Karamazov Brothers
March
Ticket Office at (5701
24, 7 p.m.,
Mitrani Hall
Urinetown, The Musical
Chamber Singers:
First
Market
St.,
Bloomsburg
citizens, $8;
Sunday, April
1
5,
2:30 p.m. Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
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Session
III
-
Session
IV
-May 29 to June
Session
V- June 18 to
to July
Friday, April 27,
July 9 to August 17
15
July 6
Session VI -July 9 to July 27
-June 18
Session
VII
Session
VIII -
to July
First
Presbyterian Church, 345
Market
St.,
Bloomsburg
Art are open
Haas
to the public free
charge. The gallery is
open
Mondays through Fridays from
9 a.m.
to
4 p.m. and Saturdays
from
to
4 p.m.
Paintings:
Feb.
Weather permitting
Mark Mahosky
26 to March 23
April 2 to
28
Kenneth
S.
Gross
citizens
and non-BU students, $4;
students, free with ID
Alumni Events
Contact the Alumni Affairs Office
at (570) 389-4058 (800)526-0254
information. Details also are listed
Presented as part of BU's annual
Symphony Ball
Saturday, May 5,
at the alumni online community,
Concerts
6 p.m. Kehr Union
www. bloomualumni com.
Wrestling Alumni Reunion
Friday, Feb. 16,
below are open
of charge unless
Special Events
indicated otherwise.
Siblings'
of
Faculty Recital:
4,
and Children's
Weekend
Kunyoung Kim, piano
Sunday, Feb.
or alum@bloomu.edu for
(570)389-4289
listed
Grad Finale
Wednesday,
Friday to Sunday, April 13 to 15
Renaissance Jamboree
Saturday, April 28
5:30 to 7 p.m.,
Monty's
to
2:30 p.m. Haas
April
11,11 a.m.
6 p.m.
Alumni Weekend
Friday to Sunday, April 13 to 15
Chamber Orchestra:
Spring Concert
Sunday, March 25, 2:30 p.m.
Student Art Exhibit
Hall,
Auditorium, Adults, $6; senior
BU
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
I
Carver
Saturday, April 18 to
Community Orchestra
to the public free
Gallery of
at the Lapin Agile
Bloomsburg University-
The concerts
Exhibits in the
Knoebels Amusement Resort
Ballroom, Reservations required,
Art Exhibits
Bloomsburg Players: Picasso
CGA cardholder, $5
Jazz Festival
17
$8;
Auditorium, Reserved, $15;
27
May 29 to August
non-BU students,
students, $2 with ID
21, 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 22, 3 p.m.
Pops Concert
7 p.m., Gross
BU
Saturday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
J.D.Walter
-June 18
Gross
Wednesday to
Sunday, April 29, Concert Band,
II
S.
Concert Choir: Spring Concert
2 p.m.; Jazz Ensemble, 5:30 p.m.
Session
Carver Hall, Kenneth
Auditorium, Adults, $12; senior
Improvisation: Steve Rudolph
Trio with
Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 22 to 24,
Presbyterian Church, 345
Summer 2007
Mitrani Hall, Reserved, $25;
-May 29 to July 6
389-4340
for information.
CGA cardholder, $12
I
through Fridays from noon to
4 p.m. Call the Program Board
for the Arts,
Commencement
Saturday, May 12
Session
Haas Center
box office Mondays
Thursday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
1
Undergraduate
Tickets for theatrical productions
are available at the
for the Arts
Concert Band: Spring Conceit
Philadelphia
CGA cardholder, $5
Friday,
Theater
Gospel Choir
Classical Guitar Trio of
End
Saturday,
Featuring Kunyoung Kim, piano
8 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 25, 3 p.m.
Tim Farrell/Bradley N. Litwin/
May 7
Weekend
Spring Concert
CGA cardholder, $12
A Festival
May 5
Parents
Friday to Sunday, Nov. 2 to 4
Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
Finals Begin
Monday,
2:30 p.m. Haas
Thursday, Feb. 15, 8 p.m.,
Classes End
Saturday,
1,
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
Haas Center
Reading Days - No Classes
Thursday and
Friday to Saturday, Oct. 19 to 21
Sunday, April
Women's Choral Ensemble
face value for all shows.
Classes
Homecoming Weekend
Community Orchestra Concert
Community
Government Association
10 p.m.
5,
Web site at
http://orgs.bloomu.edu/arts/
Weekend Begins
Spring
at (5701 389-4409 or check
Bloomsburg University-
St.
Matthew Lutheran
123 N. Market
St.,
Church,
Bloomsburg
For
the latest information
on upcoming
events, check the university
Web site:
www. hloomu. edu/today
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INTER
The University Store.
Today's
young
BU
take their
they go.
little
student
professional,
BU
Husky
.at
.
is
tomorrow's
and alums can
pride everywhere
play and
at
work. Take a
to the office to help
things organized
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and ready
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to go.
Store offers items with
alums in mind. Consider the alumni
travel
to
mug when you're on your way
work
or take the leather portfolio
with the university seal to your job
interview or your next meeting.
Display your diploma prominently in
your
office
with a
BU
diploma frame
or set off a formal portrait or special
graduation photograph in an 8-by-ll
frame with a "Bloomsburg University"
mat. Wherever today's
professional
is
young
headed, the University
Store has something to take along.
Know an alum,
but
can't decide
what
they need? Gift cards are available in
any amount.
The University Store
offers the
convenience of shopping online for
hundreds of items
store.
For
at
www.bloomu.edu/
a traditional
shopping
experience, the University Store
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week during the
academic year and Mondays through
Fridays during the summer. Stop by in
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person or online for everything BU.
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"What Steve Rudolph does
well is swing
warm and gently."
— Cadence Magazine
Bloomsburg University
Celebrity Artist Series presents
Improvisation:
Steve Rudolph Trio
with J.D. Walter
Friday, April 27, at 7 p.m.
Carver
Hall, K.S.
Gross Auditorium
$15
(570) 389-4409
One
of today's
most innovative
vocalists, J.D.
Walter, joins the Steve Rudolph Trio on piano,
bass and drums for an electrifying experience
in
improvised music, building on their
collaboration for the recent CD, "Dedicated
to You." Presented as part of BU's annual
Not
verve
eve Rudolph's
arte
J.D. Wsilt
trio.. .full of
sive technical prowess,
inging
is
but
entirely distinctive."
Jazz Festival and supported by Pennsylvania
Performing Arts on Tour.
Office of
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Leone
while preserving fading images
of a nation's recent past. Page 16.
scenes of daily life
Amid a
in Sierra
multinational crew, an
alumnus hunts for crude
Uzbekistan. Page 6.
oil in
x
From the President's Desk
It's
a small world,
but
I
wouldn't want to paint
it.
STEVEN WRIGHT, COMEDIAN
-
The
signs of our world's interconnectedness are
all
around. Products, from
cameras to vacuum cleaners, come with instruction manuals written in
at least
two languages; computer software and
toll-free
phone numbers
we continue; and political
we pay for everyday goods in the
require us to choose a language before
developments elsewhere determine the prices
United
States. It
is,
At Bloomsburg,
and
indeed, a small world.
we support a variety of programs that
programs
international understanding,
foster global perspectives
that either bring the
students or enable our students to live and study overseas.
to
our
100
campus each year, including a group from the Finance
international students to the
Academy in Moscow,
world here
We welcome nearly
Russia.
We also encourage our students to take advantage of
opportunities to study abroad through official exchange agreements between our
International Education Office
well as other programs.
and
Our most
with four universities in China and
Mackin and
BU
faculty
and
universities in a
dozen
five universities in
countries, as
Ghana, led by Provost James
members including Dr. George Agbango and
two of Bloomsburg's foreign-bom
Some
colleges
recent academic exchange agreements were forged
Dr. Jing Luo,
professors.
of our alumni have international connections of their own. Lynda
Fedor-Michaels, director of Alumni Affairs,
tells
me
that at least
190 alumni
foreign addresses. Others are stationed overseas in the military or retain a
the U.S. while
working long-term
The University Magazine,
abroad: Gary
'80,
an
oil
Groenheim
company
you'll
'91,
geologist
professor Vera Viditz-Ward's
list
home in
in another country. In this issue of Bloomsburg:
meet two of our alumni who have
head of marketing
working
for
CNBC Europe,
in Uzbekistan. You'll also
work documenting
built careers
and Ed Banaszek
leam about
art
the history of West African villages
through photography
My own educational missions to Mexico,
Russia
showed me how, through
we have
in
common. As
interaction,
countries
China,
Israel, Italy, Austria,
become more
tightly
entwined, this generation
of students will gain understanding from a taste of another culture
another language.
\H^
Jessica S. Kozloff
Hungary and
we can build goodwill based on all that
and an
ear for
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a
member of the Pennsylvania State System of
Higher Education
Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors
2007
as oj'February
Kenneth
Kim
E.
Jann. Chair
E. Lyttle, Vice
Chair
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair
Matthew
Baker
E.
Lammando
Marie Conley
Paul
Daniel
FEATURES
Dlugolecki
S.
Elby
P.
Michael K. Hanna
World of Difference
Page 6
Vincent J. Hughes
Kyle J. Mullins
Speaking a
of the local language and recognizing
bit
Joshua A- O'Bnen
the inherent danger in his chosen career have been
Allison Peitz
Guido M.
Pichini
invaluable to geologist
Edward G. Rendell
works with
James j. Rhoades
Christine J. Torelti Olson
Edward Banaszek
a multinational
'80 as
crew exploring
he
for oil
in Uzbekistan.
Aaron A. Walton
Gerald
Zahorchak
L.
My Best Day
Page 8
Chancellor, Slate System of Higher Education
Judy G.
What makes
Hample
Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
Robert J. Gibble
Steven
Banh, Vice Chair
B.
Lammando
Marie Conley
Ramona H.
Robert
'94, Secretary
Alley
With
'OOM
the help of
BU
graduate students, Chappell gained fresh ideas
his
company and
the students
for
came away with
marketing and design experience.
Dampman '65
LaRoyG. Davis
the best day ever? Chris Chappell
created mybestday.net to find out.
Chair
'68,
'67
ACE of Grades
Page 10
Charles C. Housenick '60
71
A. William Kelly
Motivated high school juniors and seniors are
'07
Steven J.
Knepp
Joseph J.
Mowad
learning what college-level courses are really like
DavidJ. Petrosky
President,
while earning credits and saving tuition dollars,
Bloomsburg University
thanks to the Advance College Experience program.
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
Executive Editor
Delicious Endeavor
Page 12
Liza Benedict
Co-Editors
Eric Foster
Renee Remsky
Bonnie Martin
the joy of receiving care packages containing
Husky Notes Editor
homemade
cookies, she has turned that
feeling into
Mama Antes'
Brenda Hartman
Antes '93 not only
remembers
College memories are a main ingredient of
warm
Renee Remsky Antes' online business.
Cookie Express, an online
Director of Alumni Affairs
care package business.
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/'88M
Editorial Assistant
Irene
Page 14
Johnson
Communications Assistants
Lynette
Mong
'08
its
own health
Agency
leadership skills along the
Snavely Associates,
risks.
Students in the
Community Health Nursing
course identify those risks and then create plans to educate residents, developing
Emily Watson '08
way
LTD
COVER STORY
Art Director
Debbie Shephard
Designer
Curt
Healthy Lessons
Each community has
Life through the
Page 16
Woodcock
Cover Photography
Gordon Wenzel/Impressions
For professor Vera Viditz-Ward, the focus returns time and time again
where her camera has documented
for
life
Lens
to Sierra Leone,
two decades.
On the Cover
Vera Viditz-Ward, professor of an and an history,
has spent two decades photographing the people
At
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of Sierra Leone.
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is
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to
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New Dean
Dianne Mark leads Professional Studies
Dianne Mark became dean of BU's
College of Professional Studies
in
early March.
She previously served as
associate dean of the College of
Education and
Human
Services
at Central Michigan University,
Mount
Pleasant, and
faculty
member
was
a
at Central
Michigan and at Drake University,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Dianne Mark
Mark, considered an expert on
the
ways parents can
help their children with homework, earned a
and master's and
bachelor's degree from Michigan State University
doctoral degrees from SUNY-Buffalo.
management development from
Education and
was one
of 13
She completed
female participants
in
Council of Education's National Leadership Forum
She has co-written
Mark Tapsak holds
Assistant professor
to
11
patents, with
more
and urban education and
come.
Industrious Researcher
Patents relate
Mark Tapsak,
to
more than
work
assistant
teach students the
methods needed
to
conduct
successful research. He's an
active researcher
with years
of industrial experience
earned his
1
Ann
fills
in
the American
December 2004.
co-author of the book, "Cultural Journey:
and Young Adults."
the vacancy created by the retirement of former dean
Lee.
medical devices
professor of chemistry, does
who
1th patent
November.
patents are king," says
who spent nine years
as a researcher for medical
that
I
accomplished in
my industry positions.
finally met my goal."
I
Tapsak, whose hobbies
woodworking and
wall off the object with
it
scar-like tissue," says
glucose molecules to pass to
Tapsak. "That solid wall of
the sensor for detection.
cells is
what prevents most
and, thereby, allowing
"The 'membrane
for use
implanted sensors from
with implantable devices,' a
metalworking, was attracted
functioning. For decades,
patent for
to the specific area of
scientists
polymer chemistry because
find
include
"it's
"In the industrial world,
Tapsak,
is
in
on issues related to students of color
Multicultural Literature for Children
Mark
last
articles
a certificate
the Harvard Institutes for Higher
a science
see things.
where you can
It's
easy to relate
ways
have worked to
to
work around
Dexcom, should
have a big impact on the
biomedical industry," says
Tapsak, adding that the
this issue."
Tapsak was part of a
long-term implantable
the chemical structure to
team involved
something mechanical."
an implantable glucose
available,
sensor for people with
more than 100
His patents are related to
in developing
sensor, although not yet
has been tested on
individuals.
Tapsak admits
device companies Medtronic
implantable medical devices,
diabetes. His role
and Dexcom before coming
such as pacemakers and
create the manufacturing
patent probably won't be his
procedures for a polymer
last. "It
membrane that encapsulated
an enzyme used on the
sensor. He also helped
design a membrane having a
24 months
to
Bloomsburg.
a
"I set
personal goal
many years
ago to obtain
at least
one
biosensors.
He explains
among the
chief challenges
that
of producing effective
patent per year. Between
implantable biosensors
September and November
working around the human
of last year,
my ninth,
1
was issued
10th and
1
1th
United States patents
for
body's
is
own immune system.
"With any
into the body,
large intrusion
our
cells will
was
to
three-dimensional structure
that prevents cells
from
forming a solid wall around
typicaUy takes 18 to
for patent
iners to look at
tion,
his 1 1th
and
exam-
an applica-
the discussion
period can take years," he
says. "Right now, I have
more than 20 applications
still
in the pipeline."
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Complex Plans
New apartments
land for the apartments from the Bloomsburg University Foundation.
Initial
plans
575 students
single
BU
the complex to house approximately 525 to
call for
gain approval
in
four-story buildings with apartments featuring
bedrooms and
full
kitchens. Features of the facility,
which
received approval from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors to begin construction of a
new
community
also will include a
fitness room,
were selected based on
student
results of a
comprehensive marketing survey. Studies also have
shown
BU has an unmet on-campus housing demand
apartment complex on upper campus. The Board of Governors
that
of
more
approved commonwealth bond financing for the project, anticipated to
than 700 students.
cost approximately $32 million, and accepted the
gift of
1
5 acres of
"This project should be seen as a positive step for the
BU
and the
university," says
that the
community would
students.
them
It
is
clearly
in
President Jessica Kozloff.
like to
community
"We know
see the university house more
the best interest of our students to provide
safe, affordable housing with the amenities they
want and
with appropriate supervision and co-curricular programming."
Construction
is
expected to start
in
early 2008,
apartments should be ready for students by the
and the
fall
2009 semester.
Degree of Three
Master's in counseling begins this fall
BU will offer a new master of education degree in guidance counseling and student affairs beginning this fall.
The new graduate program, approved by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board of Governors
earlier this year, will include three areas of specialization:
elementary education counseling, secondary education
counseling and student
James Matta,
BU
affairs
administration.
dean of graduate studies and
research, says admission to the program, offered
by the
department of educational studies and secondary
education, will be very competitive.
The new
master's
program, designed to meet the standards of the Council
for Accreditation of
Counseling and Related Educational
Programs, will require the completion of a
Humanitarian Awards
Four honored at MLK banquet
area of specialization.
600 hours
Four individuals were presented with BU's Martin
Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Awards
at the
14th annual
Martin Luther Kingjr. Banquet. The honorees
are,
from
Two
distinct experiences totaling
in supervised practice also will
be provided.
Lending a Hand
BU family gives
Town of Bloomsburg Police Chief Leo
who received the community award; BU
SOLVE director Jean Downing, who received the staff
during the
award; and Sharon Solloway, associate professor of early
friends volunteer for
left,
common core
of 33 credits, plus an additional 21 credits specific to an
of
time
standing:
Sokoloski,
childhood and elementary education,
faculty award. Seated is student
who
received the
honoree Judith Harry, a
senior biology major from Philadelphia. Harry
member of the Gospel
Choir, the
A Club, a
the Student Organization of Latinos.
SPRING 2007
is
a
mentor and
More than 135 alumni and
first
friends volunteered nearly
500 hours
seven months of 2006-07. Each year, alumni and
Homecoming, the Bloomsburg
Fair kiosk,
student
recruitment and high school college nights, alumni and athletic
events, university department-sponsored programs and speaking
engagements. Volunteers contribute additional hours serving on
advisory boards. For information on volunteer opportunities, contact
BU's Alumni Affairs Office at (570) 389-4058 or alum@bloomu.edu.
News Notes
By
Numbers
the
common personality
Study shows
type
Democracy
Matters
BU
By
you would
trade,
expect accounting
student sticks
professor William E.
with politics
Bealing to be a
guy.
Emily Kinkead of Williamsport, a
junior with a dual major
science and marine
is
was awarded
Fraud Examiners'
Democracy Matters since her freshman
in
designation.
is
a student-based, non-partisan
organization that aims to increase
awareness
member
it
has on the
is
also
William
bringing his numbers-
E. Beating
lives
oriented perspective to a
of students.
study with personality. For the past
she came to BU, Kinkead set a personal goal of
becoming part of the campus community; however, she found
that she lost interest
in
few meetings.
organizations after a
appeal to me. Then,
I
was
at Constitution
speakers and got interested
in
Day and saw the
of
the group, so
Democracy Matters, also
coordinator," Kinkead
hopes
I
involved with the local high schools.
Staley
and Charles Russo have administered the Myers-
Briggs
Type Indicator
students.
to
incoming freshmen accounting
The aim of the study is
correlation
went to the
to see
whether there
between students' personality profiles and
success as accounting majors.
is
a
referred to as
She wants
group more
to give high
An article written by the
the research won the
Northeast Decision Sciences Institute award for best paper
in education in 2006.
"It
show them how they
turns out there
personality profile
can start a chapter.
their
members and based on
four faculty
to get the
school students hands-on experience and
he and his
I
meeting and joined. Democracy Matters stuck," says Kinkead.
As president
five years,
accounting department colleagues Richard Baker, A. Blair
"I
joined a bunch of groups, but nothing stuck or they just didn't
"campus
Bloomsburg
at
since 1999,
Matters sponsors speakers and hosts events to increase
the awareness of politics and the impact
But Bealing, a faculty
of the political
process and reform campaign spending. At BU, Democracy
When
Fraud
Certified
Examiner (CFE)
year, she previously served as vice president.
Democracy Matters
he
the
Association of Certified
Emily Kinkead
president of
BU's chapter of Democracy
Matters. Involved
A
in
biology,
new
numbers
is.
specialist in auditing,
political
the
And he
is
a correlation between the
and success in the lower
courses," says Bealing,
who adds that
there
division
is
not enough
data to say that a correlation exists for students in upper
division courses.
Trash to Treasure
The
Winter sale raises $5,375 for United
Way
personality type correlated best with student
success
is
scheme.
The Trash
to Treasure sale held in
the Columbia County United
involved
BU
staff
Columbia County
Enterprise and
first
sale
collaborative effort
Sheriff's
Department,
WHLM-930,
local
was
established
United
in
May 2005
in
spring
Way by selling
campus and
The
2005
to raise
items donated by
surplus university items.
raised $2,400; the second sale a year
to Treasure sale
BU's Upper Campus.
who suspects that the same
many accountants.
fact raises interesting
of
which students choose
does our teaching
Bealing,
set for Saturday,
May
19, at
makers
is
who
to
questions for Bealing.
on
"Is this
in terms
become accounting majors or
style favor a particular
foresees
common to
more
type of student?"
years of studying of
personality types in accounting, says the results might
show
is
personality type
necessarily good? Is there self-selection going
later raised $10,000.
The next Trash
a personality type of realistic decision
shared by most of the accounting faculty, says Bealing,
Press
community volunteers.
students before they leave
The
Way. The
and faculty members, the United Way, the
Trash to Treasure
money for the
mid-January raised $5,375 for
labeled "sensing-judging" in the Myers-Briggs
It's
that self-selection plays a
choosing accounting.
methods be adapted
primary role in students
Or it may suggest
to suit individuaTs
that teaching
with different
personality types.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Power
in
Rawson wins
grant to study
Aging
muscle-building supplement
Rawson, assistant professor
Eric
science and athletics,
is
awarded
He's been
of exercise
an expert on creatine,
clinical applications to treat individuals
how creatine
congestive heart failure, muscular
His study
might help older Americans.
kind for BU.
"I've
the grant
is
in
Men
Older
the
of
first
and
multiple sclerosis, he adds.
Rawson's study
its
always been fascinated by
Rawson. "My
better athlete, but
undergo tests of strength, memory and
it
"We're not
their six-week study
going to be world-class
all
we
he says. "So
why
are
all
are expected to participate
will provide salary
give creatine only to
when
to a
who
group of people
articles
life
ments
as they
aided
in
in
He
older individuals.
the NIH study by
will
be
Mehdi Razzaghi,
professor of mathematics, computer
falls
and other accidents
meat
a
Still,
for Nutrition
in
Mark Tapsak,
assistant professor of chemistry.
Christopher
is
naturally occurring substance found
how creatine
research
science and statistics and
According to Rawson, creatine
researching
five
on creatine, including three that
can lead to slowed reaction times and
that cause injuries.
is
the research.
age. Cognitive impairment due to aging
increased risks of
Rawson
the study over
focus on the effects of creatine supple-
that lost muscle strength
diminishes people's quality of
may help
in
Rawson has published
aging nutritionally?"
Rawson notes
in
support for undergradu-
ate students to aid
muscle mass and combat
particularly
if
several years, and a portion of the NIH grant
going to get older,"
the biggest, strongest and fastest,
it
after
ends to determine
the effects are lasting. About 50 individuals
athletes, but
you can give
They will also be tested
reaction time.
turned into something
more rewarding.
Eric
begin this summer.
creatine over a six-week period and
interest in
creatine started with the goal of building the
lost
will
Participants will take a standard dose of
weightlifting," says
have
with
dystrophy, Huntington's disease and
"Central Adaptations to
is titled
performance. But Rawson's research
than
While
creatine, other researchers are exploring
Women," and
common
trials.
the anti-aging effects of
National Center for Complementary and
increase muscle strength and boost their
world-class athletes.
hundreds of
Alternative Medicine, to fund research into
Creatine Supplementation
focused on a group far more
in
Rawson focuses on
a dietary supplement that athletes use to
is
and effective
a $208,577 grant
from the National Institutes of Health,
director of the Center
and Weight Management at
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, will
food,
products, and creatine
serve as the study physician.
supplements have been found to be safe
older Americans.
Exploring Math and Science
Summer programs planned for female students
Female students in middle school and high school
are interested in
long
summer
math and
science can apply for a
who
week-
experience through BU's College of Science
and Technology.
Students
fall
who will
enter sixth, seventh or eighth grades in
for the
Experience for Young
1
Math and Science Summer
Women;
1th grade in the
fall
students entering ninth,
can apply for the CSI (Crime
Scene Investigation) Summer Experience for Young
Women. Both programs will run Monday to Friday, June 25
to 29,
from 9 a.m.
Both camps
hands-on
Middle school students
secret codes,
activities
will learn
and demonstrations.
about computer forensics,
motion geometry and chromatography; high
school students will learn about computer forensics, secret
2007 can apply
10th or
class presentations,
to
to explore different aspects of science
SPRING 2007
DNA collection and archeological forensics. Both
women
The
in
will
conclude with a panel session featuring
math- and science-related
cost of each
available. Details
program
is
fields.
$175, and scholarships are
and applications may be found
at http://
departments.bloomu.edu/MathCompSciStats/summercamp.
html. For information, contact Elizabeth Mauch, associate
4 p.m.
will provide students
codes,
programs
with the opportunity
and math through
professor of mathematics, computer science and
emauch@bloomu.edu
or (570) 389-4103.
statistics, at
A thousand years ago, a steady stream of
caravans traversed the high upland desert of
Uzbekistan as they made their way along the
Silk Road, the ancient trading route from China
to Western Europe. Although the Silk Road fell
into disuse as a major trade route by the year
1400, it is the site of new activity today as
pack animals share the road with trucks...
and traders are replaced by geologists and
engineers on the hunt for crude oil.
of Difference
STORY BY ERIC FOSTER WITH EDWARD BANASZEK
Edward Banaszek
'80
is
among the new breed
'80
of explorers in
Uzbekistan, a nation bordered by Afghanistan to the south and
Kazakhstan to the north. The senior geologist
Banaszek
and
is
how deep
the
initial
oil
wells
to drill them.
"Once the planning
to the well site
if
for Rosehill Energy,
responsible for determining the location of new
is
finalized
and examine
and
drilling
the rocks as
we
is
drill
plans were correct," says Banaszek.
underway,
them
"If
not,
to
I
go out
determine
we make any
modifications that are necessary."
The well
site is
nearly a 100 miles from the nearest
Outside the
cities,
the land
is
generally
flat,
are
more common than
ity.
But like the traders of a thousand years ago, the
constitute a
cars,
and
Karshi.
no running water or
there's
oil
electric-
workers
son of multicultural melange.
"In the field, translators are as
Banaszek,
city,
dry and remote. Donkeys
imponant
who speaks a little Uzbek and
ing meetings,
word flow goes from
Chinese, and back.
It is
as drilling engineers," says
Russian. "At our daily
English to
a small miracle
when
Uzbek
morn-
to Russian to
instructions are carried
out as originally intended."
Banaszek has nearly three decades of experience in geology
primarily in the
oil
industry. In June 1980, less than
graduation, he joined Exlog, an
his geologic career has taken
at locations
oil field
service
him around
two weeks
after
company. Since then,
the world to live
and work
ranging from Windsor, England, to Myanmar, formerly
known as Burma.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
word flow goes from English
meetings,
small miracle
It is a
when
Uzbek
to
At our
daily
morning
to Russian to Chinese,
and back.
'In the field, translators are as important as drilling engineers.
instiuctions are carried out as originally intended.'
EDWARD BANASZEK '80
work
His
began
in Central Asia
1997 when he
in
part of the
world
is still
Russian; however,
reviewed projects in Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia,
spoken outside the major
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. On location, he got a firsthand look at the oil and gas fields, analyzed the available
companies bring
data and discussed potential opportunities for western
mindset on
companies with government
"Many times
officials.
Uzbekistan, where Banaszek
slightly larger
currently working,
than California and one of only
on
ble land-locked" countries
it's
is
five
meaning
the planet,
is
"douthat
separated by two countries from an ocean. About a
tenth of the land area
river valleys,
making
cultivated in intensely irrigated
is
the country the world's second
But
largest cotton exporter.
and
fertilizers
pesticides have
tainted water supplies, contributing to health
among
densely populated
"It
world
more than
the population,
villages.
should never be forgotten that
is
this part of the
dangerous," Banaszek says. "Driving on the
roads, flying in old Russian jets, wild animals
the desert at night
right person,
all
and not paying the
of these can put your
"And working around
a drilling rig
"Add
gerous," adds Banaszek.
dubious
problems
half of which lives in
drilling
quality, potential language
wandering
right bribe to the
life
is
"The main ingredient that western personnel and
inherently dan-
problems and Uzbek
to this part of the
how to
this is
Gulf of Mexico
is
oil field,"
completely
at
is
a
modem
common in the
falsified to
latest five-year plans. Rosehill's
is
says Banaszek.
odds with the old
is
nonexistent here. Data
many records were
best, since
world
develop an
Soviet methods. Technology that
is
confusing
conform
mantra
Despite the danger of working in
Central Asia, Banaszek loves the chal-
The geology
lenges.
itself is fascinating,
the area being part of the former Tethy
Sea,
which
ago
when the
existed
200
million years
continents were located
in far different positions. But
the greatest rewards
people from
"I
is
one of
working with
over the world.
all
Edward Banaszek studies
have met some of the most
inter-
rock sample at the
(above). Images
esting people in the petroleum indus-
from simple
try,
potential
now working as
problems
rig
hands, and the odds of
Banaszek
chairman of the board of a Houston-
away
Banaszek says he's already been involved in one
underground
the only
—
the uncontrolled release of an
fluid, usually gas,
good thing about
it
from an
oil
well
was no one was
— "and
killed."
The influence of the former Soviet Union, of which
Uzbekistan was a part, continues. "Russians drilled
in the area throughout, the
70s and
left
for oil
the fields in
deplorable condition after better reserves were found in
Siberia," says Banaszek.
"The
common language
in this
in
gist are
manager,
American; one
the other
is
drilling engineer
Rosehill local staff are Uzbek; the
Kazakh; the cementing engineer
crew
is
Edward Banaszek
'80 has
Banaszek says he
can. "To learn a
become
sensitive to the hard-
and work
like
is
a darker side to
Uzbekistan," he says. "Anyone wanting to read about
can go to a
Web site
created by Craig Murray,
difficult
life in
business and politics
site
in
can be found
Uzbekistan
at:
is
oil
trader
is
field
by
Iranians."
not to be the "ugly" Amerilocal language, to live
to talk to others as equals is
a
not that
world of difference," he
says.
remains fascinated by living and working in
it
who was
eye opening." The
www.craigmurray.co.uk.
strives
few words in the
and makes
And he
the British ambassador to Uzbekistan. His account of
Web
from Spam; the pipe
they do, to eat and drink what they eat
and drink, and
with Rosehill Energy. "There
Chinese; the
We buy our pipes from a businessman from
Dubai, and they are trucked to the
The Darlc Side
is
mud engineers are
inspectors are from Azerbaijan; our
Tajik.
is
and geolo-
drilling supervisor is Bulgarian,
Pakistani; the drilling
Uzbekistan. "The people are friendly and very hospitable,"
he
says. "Last June,
one of our
translators got
married and everyone from the company was invited
to attend.
The ceremony was
traditional,
Uzbek and
Muslim, followed by a great party with over 500 guests
toasting the bride
SPRING 2007
and groom." b
on the
show
Uzbekistan
and saying
hello to area children.
November," says Banaszek.
British; the field
a
well site
scouting potential well
our current operation, the project manager
"In
in his
sites in the field
who was a mentor to me and passed
rise dramatically."
blowout in Uzbekistan
man
based company, John C. Thrash, a
oil
opposite page, from top,
roustabouts to the
rig
office,
shepherds
at
to the
believe nothing, verify everything.'
in jeopardy.
equipment of
Uzbek is
cities.
came from a
and
Chris Chappell's inspiration for mybestday.net
Maine vacation that included time spent with
dog and moments sailing alone.
STORY BY EMILY WATSON
Bloomsburg University graduate-level students enrolled
'08
A quote from Aristotle explains the
vision for
www.mybestday.net:
"Happiness
is
the
his wife
meaning and
the purpose of life, the whole aim
and end of human existence."
Managing Multimedia
in the
on the same kind of projects
Projects class
for
21
years.
had worked
Each
year,
they created proposals for a fictitious company, coming
up with
a marketing plan
1991, a
Web site design competition was added.
and other business
details. In
fall 2006, the class put a new spin on an old
when students worked with an actual company
owned by a BU alumnus.
But, in
idea
Chris Chappell '00M of Bloomsburg, founder and
CEO
Karl
of mybestday.net, contacted his former professor
Kapp
for
help with his business. Chappell remem-
bered writing the proposals and believed that working
for a real
"I
company would enhance
remembered
it
the class project.
went through the same rigorous competition.
would be
the
good ideas
a great
way to
that
we had, and
get ideas for
I
I
thought
my business
while working with the Institute for Interactive Technologies (IIT)," says Chappell.
"He came
"and
we
do the
to
me with this business idea," Kapp says,
decided to give
project.
worked on
He
it
to the students
already had the
and
let
them
Web site, so we
a request for proposal to give to students."
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The
idea behind mybestday.net was to discover
the roots of happiness by putting togedier stories
of the best days people have ever experienced.
The idea
for
mybestday.net
"Chris
came into the class to
company with the
started about 10 years ago but, at
discuss the
that time, Chappell thought the
students.
end
result
than a
book rather
The idea was to
would be
Web site.
He was able
to
experience they receive from these
request for proposals."
With
answer
questions and explain what he sees
a
for the
put together stories of the best
company," says Kapp, profes-
Students working in four teams
their lives to discover the roots
met with Kapp each week
of happiness.
possible solutions to problems they
"I
was on vacation
in
Maine in
a
come up with interactive
to
every day was perfect.
tions
ited time,
and
I
had unlim-
I
my two
my wife and my
was with
favorite 'people':
dog," says Chappell. "That's
I
started to think about
makes
a perfect
day
to discuss
encountered. Students were expected
cabin right along the water, and
sugges-
and marketing ideas and were
permitted to change anything about
what
who
to
profession-
Ryan
Johnson
mybestday.net was bom.
It
grew
to
an online
cates to
"This
to
& Johnson, enrolled in
from
efited
will
grow
the local business community.
that
working on
their
company
a real
more pride
ideas that were generated.
just as dedicated
involve
to use.
if it
same
helped
knowing people
ing.
will see
it. It
pushes
me more."
a
"No other
class
much so
has put
me
quickly. There
team dynamics, and
it
Reilly. "It
is,
experience
He
says
hands down, the best
I've
the suggestions
ideas that students did,
to validate
which
what I was think-
But some of them pointed
me in
says Chappell.
Chappell admits mybestday.net
mission, and he enjoys reading every
post that
comes
into the
Web site.
"I'm very passionate about
honestly believe
I'll
it's
do everything
I
this.
a great idea,
can to
success," says Chappell.
had."
he plans
thought of some of the
has become a bit of a personal
really
challenges the individual," says
all
"I
new direction,"
Reilly believes gaining real-world
experience was the best part of the
are
says.
the process will take about a year to
"You have more pride in your work
through so
company," he
rience with a real
weren't a real company," says Reilly.
project.
students
have expe-
Chappell started implementing the
in
a fantastic opportunity, but
would be
when these
for job interviews, they
At the completion of the project,
work.
"It's
I
the assignment
a challenge but believes
project gives students
local tech
helps con-
their involvement. "Chris
go
He knew that
"It
probably use something from
every group, so
degree.
to
economy and add
company to the tech center."
Kapp believes all students ben-
master's in instruction technology
would be
gift certifi-
retailer.
helping to seed the tech-
is
Kapp's class as he pursues his
encompass both the university and
reward
tribute to the local
Reilly '06/'07M, a native
country to interview people on
way home
GSKIZ
students in the class with
another
selected their favorite.
of Yardley currently interning with
the
be located. Chappell
businesses," says Kapp.
A full-time job prevented
on
office will
arranged with
teams presented the proposal
als,
from vacation in 2005 the idea of
Center, where the mybestday.net
nology center and
Chappell from traveling across the
their best day, so
Bloomsburg Regional Technology
completing the assignment, the
more than 30 corporate
for other
people, what leads to happiness."
efforts of the
Innovation Zone (GSKIZ) and the
Web site, except the logo. After
the
when
combines the
project
Greater Susquehanna Keystone
sor of instructional technology.
days people have had throughout
the involvement of a
Bloomsburg area business, the
make
I
and
it
a
b
"Not only do the students get
to present their ideas,"
adds Kapp,
"but the corporate professionals
see the students
STRING 2007
and the learning
Emily Watson '08 from Danville,
majoring in economics.
Pa.,
is
Chances are their classmates and professors don't
have a
clue.
courses,
The Bureau of Labor
Statistics
reports that 68.6 percent of
2005's high school graduates
went on to college the highest
percentage ever recorded.
—
Through BU's ACE program,
regional students can get a head
start,
completing high school
studies and earning college
credits at the same time.
take the tests
They enroll
in
one or more
do the reading, complete the
and earn the
credits. Just don't
BU
projects,
ask to see a
high school diploma.
They
are area high school juniors
enrolled at
and
seniors
Bloomsburg through the Advance College
Experience program (ACE)
— anywhere from 60
to
100 students each semester and as many as 150 during
the
summer.
ACE, begun
in 2003, is the only
program of its type
within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, says James Matta, assistant vice president
of graduate studies
and
research.
and dean
The program enables
high school students to take courses
locations
satellite
on
at
Ashli Yakabovicz says she
BU's campus or at
a space-available basis. Students
was ready
pay
to leave high
when she
school behind
a discounted rate of either 25 or 50 percent of regular
based on the
tuition,
its
class' location,
apply toward a degree
BU
at
or
and
The cred-
all fees.
may be
BU
enrolled at
through the
ACE program in fall 2006.
transferred to
another college or university.
"We wanted
faculty
and
staff
were the pioneers
sending their kids here, a few as early as eighth grade.
thought
if it is
rest of the
Program Board, which plans
to recruit exceptional students," Matta
"Bloomsburg
says.
good
for
them,
it
ought to be good
activities like films,
We
for the
community."
most of her
friends don't
trips.
concerts
She admits that
know she's technically still
a
high school student.
Shikellamy High School in Sunbury has hosted BU's
western
and
civilization, general
psychology and composition
For the former Girl Scout
who served as
treasurer of
Northwest's band and president of the school's biology
came
courses as evening classes. "Students can take classes at
club, the extracurricular involvement
Bloomsburg's campus," says Shikellamy guidance coun-
studying
at the college level
school,
never had to open a book. Then, in chemistry
selor
Fred Coleman, "but a
classes closer to
lot
of parents prefer they take
home."
The Shikellamy School
District limits students to
college-level course each semester,
fees
but pays
all
one
tuition
and
with funds awarded through Pennsylvania's dual-
enrollment grant program. "The students get a
what
be doing
they'll
"They
really
at
feel for
Coleman says.
of learning, and they can
the college level,"
enjoy the challenge
get into their
major courses sooner when they enroll in
college as freshmen."
Fitting
on-campus courses
may require
BU's
a
little
leave
into a high school schedule
creativity, says
registrar's office.
Bonnie Girton from
"Some students go
to
and go back. Some take an evening
high school,
class.
Their
worked out on an individual basis, based on
what they want to take here and their high school requireschedule
is
ments. .how
.
much flexibility they have."
different courses, ranging
classes like
ics
from general education
composition and U.S. history to biology, phys-
and math. "We
are
professor said
chapters for a
test
group tutoring
on
meeting the needs of these
gifted
shinny,
I
"I
to
move
on," recalls Ashli Yakabovicz of
was bored and needed something more
challenging." So, rather than return to Northwest Area
into
Lycoming Residence Hall
full-time at
last
moved
August and enrolled
BU.
Immediately, she found a group of friends, thanks to
her trombone and the Maroon and Gold Marching Band.
She formed other friendships within the
to contribute.
"My mother says I've matured a lot," she adds. "This
opened up so many opportunities I wouldn't have had."
Yakabovicz's positive first-year experience also convinced
her to stay
on at BU
to
pursue a pre-med major.
Matta says introducing outstanding students
another plus of the
great place this
is,
ACE
leadership program for residence hall students;
to
BU is
program. "Students see what a
and we find
that they stay.
like the university
"The
They had an
and want
college," says Girton.
head
to
be a pan of it."
ACE program provides such a wonderful start for
start,
"To be able to enter college with
plus the benefits of a reduction in tuition.
a
and the
a
How
b
The following schools and school
ACE program:
districts
Benton, BeiyAck,
Bloomsburg, Cardinal Brennan, Central Columbia, Columbia
County Christian, Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech, Danville, East
Lycoming, Greater Nanticoke, Jersey Shore, Lewisburg, Line
Mountain, Midd-West, Mifflinburg,
Millville,
Montgomeiy,
Mount Carmel, Muncy, Northwest, Our Lady ojLourdes,
Phoenixville, Selimgrove, Shamolzin,
Shenandoah
Shikellamy, Southern Columbia and
Wanior Run. For details,
see www.bloomu.edu/ace.
BU Jazz Band;
DASL (Developing Ambitious Student Leaders),
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My best friend here is from
Germany, and everybody has new ideas
currently participate in the
Senior High School for 12th grade, Yakabovicz
three
know every person. Bloomsburg is the whole
melting pot of diversity.
Editor's note:
are ready to start their college
Matta says.
was ready
first
involved learning about different cultures. "In Shick-
and they both need and
"I
read the
learned to study through
sessions."
can you go wrong?"
Shickshinny.
I
"In high
Yakabovicz says some of her best experiences have
who are exploring where their interests lie. In
many cases, they have outrun the high school curriculum
students
careers,"
we had to
Friday.
but
naturally,
effort.
experience and became comfortable. They decide they
High school students have enrolled in about two
dozen
I
class, the
took more
Bonnie Martin
is
co-editor oj Bloomsburg:
University Magazine.
The
Valley,
Rente Remsky Antes '93
a cookie store," Antes says. "There
remembers when she was
first-year
student
at
a
is
University living in Elwell Resi-
dence
Hall.
in
Every few months,
New Jersey
is
among
the top 10 states with
the fastest growth
rates for
women-
owned
businesses,
according to the
Center for Women's
Business Research.
good news for
an alumna and her
aunt, who co-own an
That's
online business based
in
Pitman, N.J.
homemade
"Before
cookies from
eating them," she recalls.
was
especially nice that
It
less intimidated to
knowing
aging
that
I
baking
Mama Antes'
14
varieties
of cookies that are primarily
"For the
feel a little
be there alone
me from home."
first
we
only orders
family,"
had family encour-
last
few months, the
got were from
Antes laughs. "In
September,
we
fact, until
only averaged
about 10 orders per month."
Delicious
Endeavor
And, then, there were the
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY
offers
its
marketed online.
"It
freshman
made me
always
Pitman, N.J.
Cookie Express
everyone
it,
my room, piled on my
bed
year.
Antes, the original
"Mama Antes"
facility in
you knew
in
—Kathy
—from
an aunt
her Aunt Ellen.
would be
mind."
Antes operates the business with
she would receive a package of
delicious
something special about receiving
something home -baked with you
Bloomsburg
"stress-
relief
packages" that parents often
send
to their sons
the
and daughters
end of each semester.
"It
at
was 14
That month, however,
Mama
Antes' Cookie Express received a
boost from the Philadelphia-based
Preston
& Steve Morning Show on
radio station
WMMR.
"My husband works for WMMR.
When the show reached number
one in the market, he wanted
to
do
remember that finals
was an awesome time for a little sug-
something
make some
cookies for the guys,"
ar pick-me-up," she adds.
Antes
"Whenever they raved
years ago, but
I
Now a stay-at-home mother,
Antes took generous portions of
those memories,
mixed
in the busi-
ness experience she gained during
her career in
retail financial analysis
and planning, and seasoned
a family
member known
for
it
with
her bak-
Mama Antes'
nice, so
says.
he asked us
about the cookies on the
Web site would go
air,
to
our
from getting
15 hits a day to 1,000."
The orders began
flowing, along
with a return appearance on the
show. Weeks
later,
Renee and Kathy
concocted six original recipes and
the hosts chose one to
become
Cookie Express (www.Mamas
show's
The winner
CookieExpress.com), an online
dubbed
cookie care package business that
Gadzookie!
launched in February 2006.
Nov.
ing
skills.
The
result?
"Those college memories were
definitely
ing the
an inspiration
company into
for develop-
a cookie care
package company as opposed to just
official
cookie.
the Preston
the
& Steve
—was introduced
on-air
15.
"After
our appearance,
I
checked
my e-mail on my phone," Antes recalls.
"We had 24
orders,
and by the
end of the day, we had received 120
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According to Antes, the
most rewarding aspects of
owning her own business
the time
it
are
allows her to spend
with her family, the good that
company
the
able to
is
do
charitable organizations
for
and
the feedback she receives
from
grateful customers.
She
credits her time at
Bloomsburg
was
—where she
a business administra-
tion/marketing major, a
member of the
Concert
Committee and
a sister in
the Phi Delta sorority
—with
make the transifrom her hometown to
helping her
tion
the "real world."
"Although I'm from
the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
which
area,
isn't
too far
from Bloomsburg,
ence
my experi-
at the university
opened
me up to a much bigger
world," she explains.
"It
me grow into
an
helped
independent person."
The
positive professional
influence of Mary Ericksen,
formerly the head of BU's
marketing department, has
inspired Antes, both during
her career as a marketing
analyst for a division of Liz
Claiborne Inc. and
now as
an
entrepreneur. "Professor
Ericksen offered great advice
and was very supportive of
orders.
orders
For about a month,
coming in
we had
constantly."
A key component of the business
is its
commitment
to support-
ing local charitable organizations.
of its Lip Smackin'
Lemon Cookies
me.
I
appreciated that she didn't sugar-
you have
work ex-
goes to the Alex's Lemonade
coat the fact that
Stand Foundation, which funds
tremely hard to achieve what you want."
childhood cancer research.
In
its first
year of operation,
to
Indeed, as business grows for
Mama
Antes' Cookie Express, Antes has
Mama Antes' Cookie Express
Mama Antes' cookies have been
discovered that, at least in the cookie
donates 20 percent of the sale of
enjoyed by soldiers in Iraq and
business, a
the Gadzookie to Philadelphia-
individual customers throughout
very good thing,
based hunger
the United States.
relief organization,
Philabundance, and 20 percent of
the proceeds generated
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by the
sale
little
sugar coating can be a
b
The company
also has established several
Kevin Gray
corporate accounts.
the Lehigh Valley.
is
a freelance writer based
in
STORY BY LYNETTE MONG
Columbia County,
Pa.,
is
home
to nearly 65,000 residents
who live
in
housing units across 485 square miles. Are there health concerns they
On the
course
day of their Community Health Nursing
first
last
August, 30 senior nursing students were
given a syllabus
—and
a county. Throughout the
semester, the students researched
variety of health factors affecting
home
and analyzed
a
Columbia County,
of Bloomsburg University, then used that
information to educate the community
Community Health
28,701
all
Anna
are important, says senior nursing student
Berd of Media,
and they
set
up
Pa.
"We
picked our
share?
own leaders,
a timeline for the rest of the
semester," she says.
"Students and professors met to discuss problem
areas,
but most meetings and aspects of the project
were student-run and organized," adds Candace
itself.
Nursing, a required compo-
Levengood, a senior from Harleysville,
Pa.,
who
nent of the nursing curriculum, introduces students
served as one of three team leaders.
community resources, teaches them how to
and perhaps most
importantly
allows them to act as leaders among
established, the students begin researching the
their peers.
information like behavioral risk factors and health
to
—
interact with the public
—
Past
Lewisburg, with the students in
fall
and
'06
extending the reach of the project to encompass
all
of Columbia County.
The students then use the
data they've collected to determine the community's
greatest health risks
and
groups are formed and a timeline
assigned community. They gather
of Health, but
either as a class or in small groups.
communities include Danville, Sunbury,
Muncy and
as
is
statistical
demographics from the Pennsylvania Department
Every semester, students research a specific
community,
As soon
create a plan to educate
much
interactive.
nity itself
of their research
is
firsthand
"They are involved in the
commu-
from the very beginning, coordinating
interviews with key informants, attending
council meetings, school board meetings
that will give
them more information on
town
—anything
the
com-
munity," says Michelle Ficca, assistant chair of the
nursing department and course faculty member.
residents about those risks.
Because students organize almost every aspect
of the project as a class, leadership and
teamwork
"Within the
we expect all
first
four weeks of the semester,
quantitative data to be gathered.
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'We
what
try to dovetail
the scale of this project
already being
is
is
done
but expand on them.'
Sheila Hartung, assistant professor of nursing
This allows students the time to focus on the
project
itself,"
businesses donated
according to Sheila Hartung, assistant
professor of nursing
and the Community Health
"Their goal then
That
is
their data
when
the real
work begins.
and determining focus
create lesson plans to determine
each
and
community," Ficca adds.
After studying
areas, the students
how they will address
"Based on our research in Columbia County,
determined there was a knowledge
we
deficit related to
heart disease," says Levengood, "so one
team goal was
members about heart health."
fall's class included communicommunity resources and
educate community
for last
cable diseases, safety,
cancer prevention.
publicity.
At a December health
fair
in the
Columbia Mall,
disease prevention, led small
on health and
Commu-
Although the
?
^3
course has always been a
required component of
the nursing program,
has grown considerably,
Hartung
performed health screenings and organized
such as puppet shows
activities,
what
is
done
in each
fair,
American Red Cross,
including local fitness
local police
and
fire
departments, and Bloomsburg University's Drug and
Alcohol Wellness Network,
focus on a specific area's
dovetail
health needs for the
already being
Community Health Nursing
community,
course taught by (opposite
but the scale of this
is
page) Michelle Ficca,
quite large,
known as DAWN.
Local
left,
and Sheila Hartung.
and
a variety of services are
involved.
We don't want to duplicate other programs,
The
says.
project serves as a valuable resource for the
community. Residents not only benefit from the
for children.
Students contacted local vendors and health representatives to participate in the
Each semester, students
says.
"We try to
but expand on them," Hartung
group discussions,
•.
DnBr..'
•
nity Health Nursing
project
the students distributed information
clubs, the
all
the scope of the projects
topic.
Other focus areas
yHi
SQEl'tiH
and students
organized
to analyze the information
is
identify health risks to the
gift
cards to be used as door
prizes,
Nursing course coordinator.
to
each community, but
quite large, and a variety of services are involved.
We don't want to duplicate other programs,
—
in
and information provided
at
communities have used the
the health
statistical
fairs,
services
but some
data collected
by
students for projects and grants, according to Hartung.
Yet for the students, the benefits of the project go far
beyond numbers and
The chance
figures.
to get out of the classroom
community was
the
and
into the
most valuable aspect of the experi-
ence for Berd. "This whole project makes you realize
how much you have grown, even since your sophomore
year. This is much more than a classroom presentation.
You have
to
be professional
at all
times because you are
dealing with real people and real situations."
"I feel
more confident with myself in any
team
after serving as a
plans to
work
leader,"
Levengood
situation
says.
She
in the pediatric intensive care unit at
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh after graduating this
May. "As a nurse, you have to be willing to make yourself
known. You
can't
This project taught
Lynette
Mong
'08
is
Kennewick, Wash.
The Columbia Mall provided
December's health
fair.
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the setting for last
be wishy-washy in
me
an
to take
on
this profession.
that responsibility."
English/creative writing
b
major from
STORY BY ERIC FOSTER
The images of Sierra Leone
are indelible. Scenes of daily
in the capital city of Freetown,
life
women and children
in villages, chiefs in ceremonial garb.
Sierra
Leone are equally
These images of
indelible in the
life
of Vera
in Connecticut
two years
earlier,
She had
to
make
a change.
who created them in a
more than two decades ago.
Much has changed in this West African nation since
Viditz-Ward made her first photographs. A civil war
wracked the country throughout the 1990s, and tens of
John
career that began
early 1960s.
thousands of people were killed in a nation
received a surprise telephone
—
ple
their
More than 2
—were
a third of the population
homes by
slightly
million peo-
displaced from
art history,
con-
nected with Sierra Leone long before joining Bloomsburg
The photographer's journey
began in 1976 when she was a photographer's assistant
for a publishing company, setting up lights, carrying
University's faculty in 1988.
equipment.
fine arts in
And
frustrated.
So she applied to the
F.
Her
Kennedy introduced
program
application interview didn't
—"The
promising
recruiter laughed
was a photographer"
called with
needed
the
one
offer
when I
—but nine months
and one
a photographer
and
She had earned a bachelor of
photography from the University of Hanford
to Africa, there
was an opera
er and me from the
who stuck it out."
said
later
I
she
The Peace Corps
call.
offer only.
art
in the
seem very
"They
teacher in Free-
town, Sierra Leone," says Viditz-Ward.
the fighting.
Viditz-Ward, professor of art and
to
Peace Corps, a childhood ambition since President
Viditz-Ward, the photographer
smaller than South Carolina.
and she longed
do some shooting.
singer, a
Peace Corps.
I
"On
a plane
trumpet play-
was
the only one
She received an intensive course in Krio, the
English-based lingua franca spoken in the Freetown
area
by the descendants of four groups of former
African slaves, and
was assigned
to the ministries of
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education and agriculture. "They sent
me all over the
It was
week for processing,"
says Viditz-Ward, who continues to work with tradi-
country, taking photos of development projects.
six
weeks
tional film
with
a
and chemical darkroom techniques along
digital
In the
back
in the field, then
imaging.
field,
the travel
and work could be physically
grueling. Viditz-Ward lived in villages with families.
Accommodations were
sparse,
and she
the ground, she recalls, but "the people
ibly hospitable.
things.
I
often slept
on
were so incred-
was doing these shoots of mundane
But in the process,
I
was
starting to
make con-
nections with the chiefs and the villagers."
Her term
Ward
in Sierra
Leone expired in 1980. Viditz-
returned to the U.S. and pursued her master of
fine arts in
photography
at
Indiana University Bloom-
ington, earning a degree in 1988.
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latest visit to Sierra
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documented an archaeological
excavation at an African slave
fort
on Bunce
Island.
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shoots of mundane
things. But in the
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process, was starting
to make connections
with the chiefs and
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villagers.'
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war broke
in the 1990s, even after civil
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the
experiences of African immigrants in Philadelphia and
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Institute of
Ethnic Studies, both in Philadelphia, and throughout
Europe and
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people in the
lives of
Africa.
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first
chapter for "The
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Thomas N.
Hull,
saw
display at the Smithsonian.
Critics
El
Corps member and current
selected after fonner Peace
have praised Viditz-Ward 's photographs
transcending boundaries between
art,
for
sociology and
anthropology. She's personally committed to avoiding
cliches
When
a project to help
life's
events. She's
women from
now
20 villages
in
first
summer and
last
Mano
involved
lives.
met with the group during her trip
plans to return this year to teach
the basics of photography. The project
the
much
Sierra
Leone keep a photographic history of their own
Viditz-Ward
River Union
is
them
sponsored by
Women's Peace Network, which
has received numerous international grants and awards
for
efforts to
its
math
empower village women
part of the project,
Viditz-Ward
is
seeking dona-
tions of cameras.
Needed are
sturdy, single-lens reflex
eras
(film,
lens
and working
cam-
not digital) with a
light
meter,
such as Nikon FMs, Pentax
K1 000s or
Canon
F1
s.
in
the after-
For infor-
mation, contact her at vviditz®
bloomu.edu or (570) 389-4851.
end of the
at the
'80s.
wants you to photograph a
"The internariot
or starving
children," she explains. "They're not interested in a
ritual that
may be very important
to the people or in
the everyday lives of Africans."
Last
summer, four years
Viditz-Ward returned
photos and locate
of Sierra
after the civil
Leone
to Sierra
artists
Leonean work
war ended,
to exhibit her
who could mount an exhibit
at the U.S.
Embassy. She also
served as a photographic consultant at an archaeological excavation of
an 18th-century slave
"In the aftermath of the war,
friends
of the recent war.
As
work in Africa
tional press
she's not teaching, Vera Viditz-Ward spends
of her time chronicling
in
to
Images
Historic
their own terms,
down the Associated Press' offer
and photographs people on
the reason she turned
and found some new
there's a lot that's missing.
there were elders.
tion
is
I
fort.
found some old
artists,"
she says. "But
When I was there in
1987,
Now over 50 percent of the popula-
under 35 years
old."
Also missing was the connection between the
country's children
language
intact,
and
its past.
Her fluency in the Krio
Viditz-Ward found herself teaching
the traditional nursery
rhymes
to children
who had
never heard them because of war-time upheavals.
"People were astounded
pean' speak their language."
Eric Foster
is
when
they heard a 'Euro-
b
co-editor of Bloomsburg:
The
University Magazine.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Visitors feel a connection to
Westminster Abbey, Big Ben,
Stonehenge and the Tower of London, then come back to the U.S.
At Home
London
STORY BY TRACEY M
DOOMS
with photographs, postcards and plans
to return to Great Britain someday. Gary
Groenheim
he
is
'91 not only returned, today
a dual British
and U.S.
citizen.
Gary Groenheim '91 has come a long way—an
entire
ocean away
—
he graduated from
since
Bloomsburg University.
For the past year, Groenheim, 38, has been in charge
of all marketing
and advertising
for
London-based
CNBC
Europe, the leading pan-European business and financial
TV channel.
London
Prior to signing
for six years
manager
for
on with CNBC, he
lived in
while working as a senior marketing
Time magazine.
He says his
decision to pursue opportunities abroad
goes back to his participation in an international student
exchange
"It
was
at Sheffield
Hallam University in summer 1991.
my first time in Europe, and it made quite an imwho
month
pression
on me,"
after the
exchange backpacking around the continent.
says Groenheim,
spent a
His choice of a career in the communications
grew from
a
field
day spent with an alumnus who worked in
magazine publishing. A Husky Ambassador, Groenheim
was majoring in business administration without a particular career goal in
mind. But
with Jim Walter, an alumnus
azine in
after
spending one day
who worked at
People mag-
New York, he learned about different areas within
the publishing business. That connection led to
work with
and now
media
People, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, Time.
CNBC Europe,
available in
.
more than 100
million homes, 1,400 banks and financial institutions,
and luxury hotel rooms throughout Europe, the Middle
East
and Africa.
Groenheim markets
CNBC Europe both to all those
He
viewers and to advertisers.
from advertising
oversees everything
to broadcast partnerships to
communica-
tion materials.
"Our current audience
consists of business leaders,
and those in the
financial services industry,"
investors
says.
"My biggest
challenge
is
ing that reaches this time-poor audience, establishes
Continued on next page
he
creating marketing messag-
'After seven years in
dream of living
decided to take die
it. I
starting his studies at
Towson
time with the channel."
was
Groenheim
plenty of potential viewers and
advertisers
—and
creates a
challenge. "Europe
is
unique
made
of many
says.
"Pan-European marketing of a
singular message to these varying
audiences
differs dramatically
marketing
to
from
one mass market in the
what
where
University,
dad was teaching and
to
home,
I
wasn't getting the
sity,"
Groenheim
He looked
for a
school in Penn-
Perm
"It
atmosphere and
"It
TV channel.
says.
2000, he became a senior
for
Time
Inc.
London.
"It
had been
a bit of a culture
to live in
Amsterdam," he
says.
"From
the time
ing in London,
where
BU,
to
.
I
.
I felt
started
I
work-
much more
at
decided that London was
.1
wanted
to stay."
People led to a job as production
and
his college semester abroad.
intro-
site for
Europe,
streaming of
TV channel plus a searchable
And he
office
earlier
experience at
manager with People and
Sports Illustrated in
continued to
New York. He
move up
the ladder in
cultures
—
the food, the arts and
ing world, but the lure of Europe
to increase his
was
his personal travels and, during the
still
there.
experiences,
"Through
I'd
all
these
always had a long-
worked on worldwide programming
from the World Economic Forum's
"After seven years in
annual meeting
to
decided
I
pursue
New York,
either going to have
this
dream
of living in
knowledge through
past year, his business trips through-
out Europe and Asia.
Recently, for example, his job
I
was
he explains. He's been able
took him to Barcelona, Spain, where
CNBC Europe was the official
broadcaster for the 3 GSM mobile
Davos, Switzerland.
from Baltimore,
transferred to
really
history,"
ing to return to Europe," he says.
January in
"I
value learning about different
New York's publishing and advertis-
archive of on-air interviews.
Originally
international accounts
Europe's market-
campaign across Europe.
Groenheim
for
& Kennedy. He
Groenheim says he developed his
"great passion" for Europe during
new viewer-focused adver-
last
and accepted
an account manager
shock
home.
felt right."
After graduation from
visited the
Groenheim's
He's guided the relaunch of the
the
just
risk."
Amsterdam
Groenheim has
numerous ways. He's
live
worked on
to
parent of People
Inc.,
Illustrated,
a position as
seemed
have the best combination of
European, English-language busi-
CNBC.com Web
Time
and moved
freestyle)
such a beautiful campus," he
incorporating
offices of
swam backstroke and
and found Bloomsburg.
to
where he had previously
marketing manager
things, with a great
tising
Groenheim moved
Vista. In
draws on the strengths of
a
decided to take the
'91
including Nike, Coca-Cola and Alta
State
the channel as the leading pan-
duced
I
program and a good swim team (he
says,
ing in
it.
alumnus) with a strong business
to
pumped up CNBC
forgo
ad agency Wieden
recalls.
sylvania (his dad's a
-GARY GROKNHKIM
risk.'
and Sports
full
experience of going away to univer-
A successful campaign, he
In just one year,
my
living so close
in
I
Europe or make the decision
a psychology professor. "After
U.S."
ness and financial
now
is
his father
going to the same school where
countries with different cultures,
languages and media outlets," he
was either going
Europe or make the
decided
to have to pursue this
CNBC as essential, must-see TV, and
Marketing a product that reaches
I
decision to forgo
encourages them to spend more
across Europe gives
New York,
BU
telecommunications trade show. The
after
next week, he flew to
produce an event
New York to
for a
European
advertiser interested in reaching the
U.S. market.
And
the next
found him helping
month
to host the Euro-
pean Business Leaders Awards back
in
London.
It's
a hectic schedule,
but one that appeals to Groenheim.
"I
really
enjoy working for dynamic
businesses in a multinational
environment," he says,
Tracey M.
and
b
Dooms is a freelance writer
editor living in State College, Pa.
to lead.
»
to learn
to grow
BU senior Lauren Lewis talks with a
group of students who attended a program
sponsored by Bloomsburg University's
Women's Resource Center last year.
—
In just three years since
its
opening in October 2003,
To learn how you can contribute to the university
Bloomsburg University's Women's Resource Center has
become a significant resource for students, faculty, staff
programs that are important to you, contact the
and prospective students.
www.bloomu.edii/giving, or by phone at 570-389-4524.
The Women's Resource Center sponsors biweekly
Bloomsburg University Foundation online
at
You too can make a difference in the lives of young men
and women.
seminars and a variety of workshops and serves as a
men and women
on issues ranging from anorexia to domestic
clearinghouse for information for
alike
violence
and difficult relationships.
Recognizing the value of this vital campus resource,
William and Wylla Mae "Bunny" Bitner, both class of
1956,
made a contribution to the Bloomsburg University
Foundation to enhance the center and
its
work.
Bloomsburg
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FOUNDATION,
Inc.
Husky Notes
Quest extended
and abroad
destinations in U.S.
Walking Across England,
Bloomsburg
Quest
University's
program
extended
trips for
friends.
BU
from
and
to
No experience is
necessary for
many of
these trips,
and most
equipment
is
June 22
St. Bee's
the Irish Sea
shores of the North Sea,
begins in the Lake District
region and finishes across the
provided.
North Yorkshire moors. The
leader
stamina are required.
bloomu.edu.
in
on
Robin Hood's Bay on the
Varied amounts of physical
Biking
The walk
to July 4:
across northern England,
offers
students, alumni
bound for
trips
Holland, June 2
is
Roy Smith, rsmith®
Mountain Biking
the
in
to 13: This 12 -day tour
Rockies: Colorado Wild-
along the back roads of
flowers, Aug. 16 to 23:
Holland and Belgium
is
designed for the weekend
biker.
The
begin
trip will
Crested Butte, recently
named
the wildflower capital
of the U.S., will be the base
and end in Amsterdam,
for this trip in the
with two- or three-day
Rockies.
stops in three towns.
from Crested Butte
Participants
may travel
between centers by
bike.
The leader
is
train or
Brett
Colorado
The group
City, Colo., often
altitude of
7,000
will bike
to
Lake
above an
feet,
cross terrain ranging
as they
from
Simpson, bsimpson®
old logging roads to single
bloomu.edu.
tracks.
The leader
Hikers follow a path in Ecuador believed to have been used
by the Incas.
is
Brett
Simpson, bsimpson®
Lost Trail of the Incas,
bloomu.edu.
Ecuador, Jan.
Bike Tour through the
Finger Lakes Wine Country,
Oct. 6 to 8:
The Finger
Lakes wineries, combined
with the unique
glacial
landscape and small-town
charm, provide the perfect
backdrop
group
for cyclists.
will bike
The
through
vineyard-covered
hillsides,
along country roads and
pastoral scenes.
will stop at
The tour
some
of the
more notable winenes.
The leader
is
1
to 12,
2008: This trek begins
Roy Smith,
rsmith@bloomu.edu.
at
the Indian village Oyacachi,
high in the Andes, and
descends into the
Amazon
Basin, following a long-
abandoned
The
trail.
route,
which descends more than
5,000
feet, is
believed to
have been used by the
Incas
and pre-Incas
trade route
as a
and by 17th-
century Jesuit priests to
service their missions.
The
leader
is
Roy Smith,
rsmith@bloomu edu
.
For additional infounation,
including costs
and physical
requirements, call (570) 389Riders pass through a
wildflower
meadow
2100, check online at
in
Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
www.buquest.org or contact
trip leaders at
addresses provided.
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Krapf serves
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as pastor of Grace United
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Methodist Church, Lemoyne.
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vice
of Elections
Foley was appointed
chairman of the Dawson County (Ga.) Board
and
Registrations.
He was
Stephen T. Young was promoted
president with Sovereign Bank.
manager of the Lewisburg
Ul
for
William
W.
is
a
member
county commissioner
of the
5
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Ed Madalis
Sarah Kowalski
retired after
more than two
the Walter
Jr decades in educational administration, mainly with
Run School District.
Ken Saunders, Newtown Township,
the Warrior
a
He now spends his
/ \J
and
is
is
also president
and
treasurer of
improving the education and health of
Reilly,
pastel at the
area.
Bucks County, displayed her
Howard
Gallery of Fine Art,
art
work
New Hope.
after
working
U.S.
Navy and
for
many years
as
an electronics engineer
for the
in the private sector.
vice president for academic affairs at King's College.
who will retain
the rank of professor of education,
is
Whitman Distinguished Professor.
Mary Coddington Umlauf retired from the North
Schuylkill School District in 2006.
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Stephen J. Bushinski, Brandonville, was admitted
Supreme Court. A graduate of Widener University School of Law, he is the assistant
chief counsel, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs,
5
to practice before the U.S.
Commonwealth
/
Army Reserve,
She has been exhibiting through the Doylestown Art League
time traveling.
the college's John H.A.
9 ^7"0
He
Mount Carmel
Rebecca Tait
in oil
a colonel in the
a clinical psych specialist with Geisinger
is
profit dedicated to
retired in
^1*7 C\ Nicholas Holodick, Mountain Top, was appointed
Holodick,
community banking
& Nancy Madalis Memorial Trust Fund, a non-
children in the
1999 after
long career teaching biology and coaching track and cross
country teams.
to a vice
serving in Kuwait.
Medical Center, Danville.
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is
office.
George Antochy,
7
/
County Commis-
sioners Association of Pennsylvania.
5 £~
He
Haas, a retired Lewisburg Area School
District teacher, is serving as a
Union County and
has joined the
Times-Dispatch as
nalism career in 1979.
also elected to the
Democratic State Committee.
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(right)
(Va.)
managing editor. She previously worked as editor
of The Forum in Fargo, N.D. She began her jour-
term as
to his third
Richmond
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Edward Krzykwa,
a chiropractor for
29
of Pennsylvania.
years,
j-* completed a course of study in optimum nutritional
support for patients with conditions such as
bowel syndrome and
colitis, irritable
arthritis.
5 ^T *2 Kenneth Houck graduated from the Pennsylvania
/
Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. He'll have his first
one-man gallery show in Exton in June.
Martin Kleiner, Lebanon, has been named to the board of
O
directors of the Arabian
members. He breeds,
Horse Association, which has 46,000
and shows Arabian horses.
employed by NEPA Community Federal Credit
Union, Stroudsburg. He was Elk of the Year for the Bangor
Lodge 1106m 2005-06.
Douglas Yocom, president and CEO of Precision Medical
Products Inc., Ephrata, was recognized as an outstanding
business leader by the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame.
He is a member of the Bloomsburg University Foundation
Pete Nell
trains
is
Board of Directors.
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Richard Myron Linn, Bloomsburg,
the National
Teachers for 2005-06.
Honor
He
Roll's
teaches
is
a
member of
Outstanding American
fifth
Elementary in the Bloomsburg School
grade at
WW. Evans
Mundy talks to BU students
State Rep. Phyllis
Mundy '70, who
represents the 120th district
District.
in
Luzerne County, toured BU's campus, spoke with political
and met with BU President Jessica Kozloff earlier
While on campus, Mundy was given a Bradley
science students
^7C
^au ^ Shearn and his wife Arlene received a Top 10
/ %J award for 2006 from the Solano Association
of Realtors, Vallejo, Calif. They were one of only two teams
5
recognized this year.
this semester.
Shoemaker
Shown
print of Carver Hall to display in her Harrisburg office.
in the
Michaels
accompanying photo,
left
to right, are
Lynda Fedor-
^/^M, BUs director of alumni affairs; Mundy; and Jim
Hollister '78, BU's assistant vice president for university relations.
SPRING
Husky Notes
'97 grad directs BU's
Mountain Top, owner of an investment
company, passed the securities law exam.
Michael A.
Incitti,
Faith Ganss
Smeck
received a
Commonwealth
work unit/group award
vania, Office of the Budget,
recogniz-
ing outstanding employee achievement. Chief of the state's
public welfare client benefit system division, she works in the
Human Services
Public Health and
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Daniel Wiest
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analysis for
Comptroller
office.
Kate
new
'97
director of BU's
is
the
Upward
Bound program. Previously
Upward Bound's assistant director,
Bauman joined the program in 2005
as
Tyco
Bauman
Jesberg
and
director of strategic planning
is
Upward Bound
of Pennsyl-
academic coordinator. She
a
fills
Electronics, Harrisburg.
vacancy created by the retirement of
Q^
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Rick DiLiberto was appointed
as
to a three-year
chairman of the Delaware Commission on
Heritage and Culture
term
Stargatt
is
& Taylor, LLP,
Wilmington, Del.
Vicky Kistler
Bureau
after
is
Bauman worked
Italian
by state Gov. Ruth Ann Minner. He
an attorney with Young Conaway
acting director for the Allentown Health
working 13 years as the bureau's communicable
disease manager.
admissions
at
in residence
Kevin
L. Hulsizer, director of internal audit for
Penn
State Hazleton,
career services at DeSales University before joining BU's
Upward Bound staff.
Upward Bound is open to high school students from lowincome backgrounds. The program
diversity to prepare students to
KidsPeace, was one of 35 citizens honored for
life at
Bauman
Delaware Valley College and as director of
their families to attend college.
'83
Kate Jesberg
longtime director Maureen Mulligan.
started in
school
academics and
stresses
become
members
Upward Bound
the
At BU, the
first
of
1978 and currently serves students from 10 area
districts.
completing the Lehigh Valley community leadership develop-
ment program.
Q
John J. Miravich received the distinguished service award
from the general alumni association of Penn State's Dickinson
School of Law. He is a shareholder with Stevens
Lee, Read-
John Chapin, associate professor of communicate %J tions at Penn State Beaver, received the
National Organization for Victim Assistance 2006 Stephen
ing,
Schafer Award.
He
7
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Michael Harrington (right) of Clarence, N.Y.,
was promoted to chief financial officer of both
First
Niagara Bank and
First
Group. He had been the
&
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services for
vocalist
and
County,
Oxford Communications,
guitarist
OU
District,
P.
Orchestra and as a
Pa.
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was
worldwide
marketing, reimbursement and national accounts for Small
Bones Innovations
and prosecuting online predators.
Barbara Emerick Wevodau, Juniata Township, has a
N.J.,
to senior vice president of
5
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School
New Bloomfield.
Julie Franchi, Chambersburg,
the
more Husky Notes online
www.bloomualumni.com.
at
a learning
District.
Dianne Haduck owns
Inc.
is
support teacher in the Greencastle -Antrim
a
dance studio in Taylor.
Ken Kirsch completed his
Find
to lieutenant of the
Police
Crimes Against Children Task Force,
specializing in locating
with the ensemble Touch
Christopher Frederick, Holmdel,
near Harrisburg.
Ward was promoted
general law practice in
promoted
affairs law.
districts.
Department in Montgomery
18-year veteran, he works with the district
attorney's Internet
the Sky.
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governments and school
Whitemarsh Township
media
and government
Lewis Correale HI is the principal of West
Hanover Elementary School in the Central
Christopher
(right) is director of
Symphony
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Dauphin School
firm's senior vice
Lambertville, N.J. She also performs as a flutist
with the Olney
practices municipal
also advises local
CJ /
Niagara Financial
president and treasurer.
Karin Suttmann
where he
first
novel,
"Demon Alcohol and
Monstermen."
David Lesko was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the
The ceremony took place at the Pentagon,
where he is serving on active duty.
Air Force Reserve.
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
Gwen
Sheets Raifsnider
is
a real estate broker with
Coldwell Banker United, Charlotte,
N.C
Steven M. Williams, Mechanicsburg, joined the
of Cohen, Seglias, Pallas, Greenhall
partner in Cohen's Harrisburg
legal firm
& Funnan as a resident
office.
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was
Phillipsburg, N.J.,
Tiffane Maltba, Leesburg, Va.,
elected chair of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge
Commission. He is director of corporate development for
Aqua New Jersey.
Karen Duzick Kepner, Shamokin, was guest speaker at
the Women's Expo 2007, sponsored by the Brush Valley
Foundation for Growth and Wellness. A certified registered
nurse practitioner for more than three decades, she owns
AltemaMed LCC.
Michael Moskovitz
for
is
vice president of health care
L.
is
Evelyn
Randy
author of the suspense novel
Omega
^
S^
representative for the Miller-Keystone Blood Center.
Christopher
W.
O
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Eileen Dautrich,
Births
Metzger Scott
husband,
John Scott
'87
'86,
daughter, Delaney, June
and
a
8,
and husband,
2006
'90 and wife,
Katherine, a daughter, Ruth,
as the
Carolina Adult Education Teacher of
He works at
assists
the Colleton
County
with the English as a Second
Jennifer Oiler
Catawissa,
is
a
program
supervisor/special projects administrator for the Central
Young Jacobsen
Oct. 29,
Shoup '94/'98M,
Trigg, a son, Clayton
'99 and
Susquehanna Intermediate Unit, Division of Special Education,
where she has worked for 12 years.
2006
Mike Montgomery '99 and wife,
Gina Vicario Waring
and husband,
'90
Katie, a daughter,
Bob Waring
'91,
a daughter, Alexa Cameron,
Nicole Zomerfeld George
husband,
Theresa Weber Beadling
'93
and husband, Chris Beadling
daughter, Melissa
Dave George
Owen, June
14,
Michael, April
May 2006
Colleen Evans Neumayer '93
Mark Neumayer
daughter, Blair Victoria,
husband, Stanislav
Melissa Kane Pagotto
'94 and
husband, Chris Pagotto
'93,
7,
a
2006
'94 and
husband, Michel Piche, a
'97
May 25, 2006
and wife.
Shannon, a daughter, Morgan
'02 and
Yann
'99,
a daughter, Lilianna Noelle,
Dec. 25, 2006
husband,
Stephen Carr
01
2005, and a son,
Bethany Samson Fluck
2006
daughter, Audrey,
5,
Kamus Yann
Kristina
Melissa Repas
2006
Garett Ryan, July 21, 2006
'93 and husband,
James, Dec.
and
and husband, Ryan, a son, Pearse
Godlewsky
and husband,
'01
'02, a son,
Rebecca Gerber McGeehan
Shannon, Sept. 20, 2006
George, a son, Carter,
Rose Michael,
Jan. 22, 2007
Jan. 17,2007
Noelle, Dec.
'97,
husband, David, a son, Peter David,
Dec. 1,2006
son, Brogan
of
Language program.
Heather Sabol Russell
Jill
John Makara
Sept. 7,
Chamber
Christopher J.J. Horvath was honored
-L South
the Year for 2005-06.
Patricia
'92, a
executive vice president
of the TriCounty Area
School District and
Hendricks
is
manager.
Bank.
S
Elizabeth
Inc. as financial services
Commerce, Pottstown.
Jf\ A
'94, a
Lynch, Athens Township, has rejoined
Kilmer Insurance Agency
}£\
of
A. Wolff, Ridley Park, earned a master's of science
Timothy A. Brooks was appointed the emergency
management coordinator for Hanover Township,
Northampton County, by Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell.
He continues to work as a police officer in Bethlehem.
Kellyanne Hagenbuch, Easton, is a donor resource
5 C\
banking
Brenda Snyder Fiorenza was promoted to
community office manager for the Sunbury branch
yj
is project manager for the Pennsylvaand Abuse Detection System in Camp Hill.
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Inc. She writes under the
pen name Ann Kelly.
David Waldman, Bristow, Va., was promoted to lieutenant
colonel in the Army. He is an intelligence officer assigned to the
Situation Room in the White House, Washington D.C.
Zr
with
degree in organizational development and leadership from
"Dead On," published by iUniverse,
}£^/~\
a senior recruiter
Thompson
nia Medicaid Fraud
SNB bank.
Kelly Cuthbert Robinson
is
CreativeSourcing, serving clients along the East Coast.
Samson
Jason Fluck
Jay, Aug. 22,
'03 and
'03, a son,
Alumni share work
BU
Lisa Schneider Williams '03 and
husband, Derek Williams
son,
Matthew, Dec.
4,
'02, a
2006
Jennifer Kleinfelter Deiter '05
and husband, Michael, a son, Blake,
Aug. 21, 2006
experiences
2006
alumni led roundtable discussions about
their graduate school
and work experiences during the recent Multicultural Employer
Exchange. About 75 BU juniors and seniors participated in the
event sponsored by BU's Career Development Center and Multicultural Center. Alumni presenters included, left to right, Ivonne
Mann '98, Lance Collier '06, Maria
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/88M, BU's director
and Jeff Beilman '98.
Gutierrez Bucher '91, George
Breen Billmeyer
'01,
of Alumni Affairs,
11,2006
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25
Husky Notes
'95 *
Jennifer
DiMarco earned
a master's of business
administration degree from
sity.
St.
Joseph's Univer-
She works as a compliance consultant to the
pharmaceutical industry.
5 /~\ /I Fred Gaffhey is executive director of the Chamber
of Commerce in Seneca County, N.Y.
y\J
5tf~\^7 Colleen Lupashunski,
S
/
Danville,
is
a
secondary
school learning support teacher in the Bloomsburg
Area School
District.
Meredith Marko, formerly of Hazleton, earned a doctoral
degree in communication from the University of NebraskaLincoln.
She
New York at
is
assistant professor at the State University of
Geneseo and
specializes in interpersonal
and
family communication.
Krissy Marks, child coordinator with the Williamsport
YMCA,
is
part of a
team overseeing the
city's
programs. She helps plan and manage the
recreation
summer
camps program.
Christina
Nordmark was
inducted into the Luzerne
County Sports Hall of Fame. She
Wilkes-Barre Area School
is
District's
a
math
Alumnus honored
teacher for
GAR High School.
Brian Regnier, Reading, was promoted to senior manager at
for dedication to
Beard Miller Co. LLP, a financial services firm.
Bucks Beautiful
Christopher Beadling '94, Doylestown, vice
president of the Bloomsburg University
ni
Central Bucks
Chamber
of
recognizing his dedication,
ism
to
Bucks
Bucks
Commerce Laurel Award,
commitment and volunteer-
Beautiful.
Beautiful, a non-profit
Bucks Chamber of Commerce,
and extend
and
at
Alum-
Board of Directors, received the 2006
program of the Central
is
designed to promote
the development of gardens in
communities
business premises and private homes. Beadling's
involvement with Bucks Beautiful began in 1995
he served
as a
member
Fair Committee;
of the Bucks Beautiful
when
Garden
he chaired the committee from 2003
to 2006.
In the accompanying photo, Beadling accepts the
Tri Sigma sisters celebrate in
2006 Bucks
Washington, D.C.
ent Denise Sezack.
A group
of Tri Sigma sisters,
all
Award from 2005
recipi-
members of the Class of 1980,
gathered in Washington, D.C, for an unofficial reunion weekend
last fall. Traveling
Beautiful Laurel
from Colorado,
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
and North Carolina, the group shopped, toured the White
House and shared memories and photographs. They plan to get
together next year to celebrate their 50th birthdays. Alumnae shown
in the accompanying photo, from left to right, are: front row
Sue
Kingeter Puderbach, Mindy McMaster, Jill Laylon Confair and Terry
Mizdol Giordano, and back row Marianne Deska Braithwaite,
Nancy Whitman Peterson and Annie Silvonek Dempsey.
Virginia
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more Husky Notes online at
www.bloomualumni.com.
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
Find
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Marriages
'86 and William
Rose Kosak
Moore,
Oct. 31,
Jill Silvi '91
20,
2006
and Troy Roth,
Oct.
Stephanie Minnaugh
'99 and
Nicole Buck
Stephen
2006
Renz, June 23, 2006
Libhart, July 8,
Michael Panisak
'99 and
Carey Lazevnick
Thomas, June
'92 and
Sean
Neil Stoddart '99 and
Kristin
Dent, June 21, 2006
2006
16,
'05 and Angela
16,2006
Kinsley, Sept.
Jaclyn DeLeonardis
Shannon Dolon
2006
Jesse Chubb
'03 and Charles
Elsie Dressier '05 and
'03 and
Ralph Rossi
Wert, April
Adam
2006
8,
April Egli '03 and Aaron
Jonathan Evans
Trometter, July 22, 2006
Persing, Aug.
'05 and Alissa
12,2006
Kelly Stultz '99 and Joseph
Brandilyn Fowler '03 and
Christine Gasper '05 and Aaron
Angelo
Matthew
Russell
Riquel Flowers '95 and Robert
Christine Orefice '00 and John
Lois Kirchner '03 and Robert
Hutchinson, July 15, 2006
Hopkins, July 22, 2006
O'Boyle
Robert Skuba '95 and Caroline
Jamie Tyson
Christina Baird '95 and William
Kiessling
II.
Brownson,
May 13, 2006
April 22,
2006
'00 and Steven
Miller, July 22,
Dan Miller '96 and
Leslie
Denise Zlobik
McAnallen, Sept.
2006
Lienhard,
3,
Aimee Alapack '97
Wolfe, Nov.
4,
and Paul
Traci
2006
Brown
Jr.,
'01
Russell Starke '97 and Lisa Hare,
Lisa Sobolesky
Aug. 26, 2006
Hendricks
Denise Swartz
June
24,
'97
and Brian
Hill,
Kim Cherry
Madara
2006
Jr.,
Jamie Hunsinger
Matthew
Sue Bednar '98 and Jim
Conte, Nov.
4,
June
Katie Getz '98 and Kyle
'98 and
Christopher Rooney, Aug. 26, 2006
Dominica DiRocco
'99 and
Steven Guzzi, Sept. 29, 2006
Beaudry, Aug.
2006
D.J.
'02 and
Chad Moser,
April
Wiest
Mongold,
Andrea Weaver '02M and
Adria
Andrews
Jones, Oct.
,
2006
at
Beard Miller Co. LLP, a financial services firm.
a unit coordinator in the
16,2006
Oct.
21,2006
Umbel
'04 and Ian Keck,
'06,
July 22, 2006
Tricia Novinger '06 and James
Danielle Wittig '06 and
13,
7,
Edward
Mariano '04M
Stephanie
Wood '06 and
Benjamin Apfelbaum,
2006
'05 and
Oct. 8,
2006
Howard
2006
John Wetzel was elected president of the Pennsylvania
County Corrections Association.
/
Zr
the
Charles "Chuck" Kovacs
earned
certification in the
SOX Institute in San Francisco,
Sr.
'99M, Wysox, has
Sarbanes-Oxley Act from
Calif.
emergency
room at UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh.
Taryn Reed Troutman, a special education teacher in the
Upper Dauphin Area School District, is a member of the
Cambridge Who's Who of Teachers.
Justin C. Wagner earned the chartered financial analyst
CFA Institute. He works as a senior
J(\ f\
\J \J
Lisa Brennan teaches high school social studies for
Baltimore County (Md.) Public Schools.
Kathleen Dreisbach, Harrisburg,
tant for
is
an operations consul-
Verizon Wireless.
Dave Marcolla was named advisory board member
Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce
of the
Eastern
investment analyst for Vanguard's Asset Management Services
Leadership Program.
in Malvern.
Gilda's Club,
SPRING 2007
2006
Erica Long '06 and Daniel
'04 and Ronnie
James Merante,
1
'05 and
30,
Tennille Allman '06 and Dustin
2006
May
Jason Claudfelter, Readirig, was named senior manager
designation from the
25,
Adley,
July
Zimmerman
Morrison, Sept. 30, 2006
Megan
December 2006
'05 and Dustin
Patkalitsky, Sept.
'04 and Timothy
Teresa Mercuri
June
Paciotti 02 and Roberto
2006
Nicole Albright '06 and Joseph
2006
Mary Schleppy '04 and Timothy
James
a substance abuse officer.
is
Nicole
July 1,2006
'02 and
Winter
7,
Jason Hoover, Sept.
Whiteman, Aug. 19,2006
Cahoone was promoted
Rupp
Mark
12,2006
Ashley Henry
1,2006
unit for the Delaws ire
Christy Reed
'04 and
2006
5,
Mitchell, Aug.
Stahl,
'02,
Erin
Lindsay Eck '04 and Nathan
Daniel
to the house arrest
County Probation and Parole
Department where he has worked since 1999, most recently as
?("JQ
Zr C3
13,
Wess,Oct.31,2006
Benevides
Heilman, Oct.
Brian
Allison Drake '04 and Ryan
2006
Denise Mullen
Kilian,
Dec. 22, 2006
Kendra McCabe
10,
2006
Brouse, Sept. 30, 2006
Gina Bakowicz
2006
'05 and Candida
2006
7,
Jaclyn Sybesma '05 and John
5,
and George
Reiner, July
Amy Juck '02 and
Del
2006
1
Benton
'99, April 22,
Keri Abbott '98 and Curtis Pickett,
July
Home, May
'01
July 29, 2006
Weller, Oct.
2006
Oct. 21,
'02 and
'03,
Kim Matlack '03M and
and George
5,
Henry Sladek
2006
'03 and
Malanoski
Kristi
'00 and Richard
Aug.
29,
Jr., April
Zachary Miers
2006
May 6, 2006
Clugston
Krepich
He
is
also chair of the associate
Delaware Valley
,
Pa.,
board of
an organization providing
Husky Notes
He works as
Commerce Bank.
support to cancer patients.
regional
manager
for
Eastern
Justine Miller works for Ricoh Corp.,
product
")f\
N.J., as a regional
trainer.
Jenn DiMaria, Mechanicsburg, works
~\
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mf^m
1
Montgomery
for the
Pennsylvania State Bank.
Melissa Groeling, Hatfield,
is
author of the novel
"Beauty Marks."
Snook Jr.,
Allen
Easton,
is
assistant director of athletics at
Pfeiffer University.
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Jamie Aurand is the administrator of Susque-View
Home, Lock Haven. He previously was vice presi-
dent/operations for Albright Care Services, Lewisburg.
L
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Mary Agnes Brown was production
stage
manager
for the
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble's 2007 performance of Richard
Dresser's
"Rounding Third."
Danielle
at
Vlaryann Lindberg, executive director of the
BU
Foundation
shown with members of the Delta Pi/Sigma Pi
\lumni Association Chuck Ranck '68, left, and David
center, is
Jecoteau
the Line
Kristin Rhoads is a fifth-grade teacher for Loudoun
County Public Schools and a graduate student at George
Mason University.
Jf\ /2 Thomas J. Brogan Jr. has been admitted to practice
\J %J law as a member of the Maryland State Bar AssociaHe earned a law degree from Shepard Broad Law Center at
Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Rebecca Donahue, Lebanon County, was honored as a top
tion.
scholarship
listing
i
"'he
Delta Pi/Sigma Pi
Alumni Association
the longe\ity of
one of the
BU
while ensuring
Daniel Frederick joined the accounting firm of Meisel,
at
'grand reunion" held in Lancaster in October
efforts of Ernie
the brothers
a
2004
Lemoncelli 77. More
than 200 brothers attended the event and
to
& Lewis in Roseland, N.J.
Zachary Miers
The idea of an alumni group was sparked
commitment
Public Accountant examination.
Tuteur
university's oldest
social fraternities.
through the
agent with Century 21 Krall Real Estate.
Craig Evans, Willow Grove, passed the Uniform Certified
has established a scholarship to help brothers
_1_ currently attending
3
a ninth-grade English teacher
District.
'86.
Brothers establish
r
Wagner Koser is
Mountain School
made
a
become more involved with BU and
who are now students.
is head wrestling coach at Shore Regional
High School, West Long Branch, N.J.
Chris Smith is an assistant golf professional at Palm-Aire
Country Club, Pompano Beach, Fla. He was previously assistant
golf professional at The Architects Golf Club, Phillipsburg, N.J.
Peter
Umlauf is an audio
technician at
PRG in Las Vegas.
Today, the Delta
Alumni Association boasts more than
600 members.
The scholarship is currently in its second, or
i/Sigma Pi
uuilding, stage with a three-pronged goal: establish
the scholarship with initial funding, reach a
Dalance of $10,000 for
endowment
in less than the
maximum five years and become an annual award
available to students who are active Delta Pi brothers.
For information on establishing a scholarship
or contributing to an existing scholarship,
contact the Bloomsburg University Foundation at
(570) 389-4524.
Wrestlers return
BU
President Jessica Kozloff, second from
left,
greets former
BU
and coaches at an on-campus reunion earlier this year.
Shown in the accompanying photo, left to right, are Bill Paule '65,
Kozloff, Don Poust '63 and Roger Sanders, former wrestling coach.
wrestlers
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Jarrett Austin Witt, Bethlehem, was promoted to regional
development manager in charge of business recruitment and
Stelma
Economic Development Corp.
retention for the Lehigh Valley
named vice
^f\/i Lisa Brown, York, is a marketing coordinator at
\J _£. John Hilliard Insurance Agency Inc.
president at
Christine DeMelfi, Berwick,
is
vice president of the
Columbia-Montour Chamber of Commerce.
Maria Engles serves as the Young Lawyers Division
Lackawanna
coordinator for the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
AnnWSIM
Marie Stelma
Ann Marie Stelma
Jill
of Pittston
was named vice president for continuing
Lackawanna College, Scranton.
One
at
of the institution's four vice presidents, Stelma
administers
all
facets of
Lackawanna's continuing education
department, including training programs designed to meet
and industry and the
the needs of business
GED
allied health,
She
and adult
institution's
basic education programs.
center that will
open
in the
new Susquehanna County
fall.
Stelma previously served as Lackawanna's academic
development
specialist
at
education. Earlier in her career, she
instructional specialist for Luzerne
worked
an
Tunkhannock
She recently earned a doctoral degree in
administration from
Marywood
District.
Ashley Henry Whiteman
for the
is
a speech-language pathologist
Cheshire Center in Greensboro,
N.C
£
Lindsay Galbraith is a stage manager for the
American Family Theatre for Youth. She completed
a national tour managing "A Christmas Carol." This year, she
Jf\
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be stage manager for "The Wizard of Oz" during an
Christopher Gass
District.
development with specialization
Exeter
extended tour of the southern U.S.
County Community
College and as a reading specialist for the
Area School
as
at
Avis Elementary School in the Jersey Shore Area
School
will
and director of developmental
in clinical study with a doctor in Dubois.
Township Middle School in Reading.
Mary Lou Mrozinski Jensen is a kindergarten teacher
also oversees the college's satellite centers in Hazleton,
Honesdale and Towanda and a
is
Michelle Lachawiec teaches mathematics
recently
education
Foltz received her white coat as an audiology doctorate
candidate. She
human
in higher education
University, Scranton.
is
a field technician with the
Arizona
Transportation Research Center.
Matthew Gerst, Danville, is a police officer with the
Mahoning Township police. He worked as a part-time officer
for the Danville police after graduating from Lackawanna
College Police Academy in 2005.
Bethany B. Hueholt passed her second-year candidacy
exam at
the University of Virginia graduate school of chemistry
in Charlottesville, Va.
Kristina Knight
Deaths
is
group and hospitality
the
group
sales for
sales
manager in charge of
Mandalay Baseball
Properties,
Wilkes-Barre.
Eva
Thomas McGuire
Alice
Machung
Verna
Warren
E.
'24
Marlin
Diksa '29
Home
MaryBeth Reisinger works
'57
Sandra Goodhart
'29
Marjorie
Atiyeh '59
Morgan Pomicter
'62
for Personal Fitness,
Camp
Hill,
as a trainer.
Dan Sevison is head coach of the Bloomsburg High School
wrestling team.
Phyllis
Newman Albertini
MaryAhearn
'33
N. Donald
Young '63
Teresa Barrett McDonald '65
Reilly '33
Roberta "Bertie" Conrad Nevill '34
Jack Lamont Keller '66
Edna Stevens '35
Joanne Kugler Whetstone
Irene
'39
BoninWenrich
Margaret
Fretz
'67
Conrad '68
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VJ\J
Meredith Bertecher, Boothwyn, was inducted
into Beta
department
Roy Gunther '44-45 (Navy
V-1 2)
Jack Kuney '44-45 (Navy V-1 2)
Theodore Pstrak
Sr.
'44-45
(Navy V-1 2)
E.
'69
Ronald Meixsell
Jr.
'50
Griffiths '54
Camille Richie
Romig Rabuck 73
Sandra Massaro '80
is
a victim's advocate for people with
and coordinator
for the deaf consumer advocate at
The Independent Living Resource Center of Northeast Florida,
disabilities
74
75
in the gastroenterology
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.
Tau Nursing Honor Society, is working as a health occupations
instructor at the Columbia Montour Area Vo-Tech School.
71
Sr.
at
74
Jacksonville, Fla.
Bryan Scruggs
is
an IT support
specialist for Harrah's
Entertainment, Chester.
Kelly Smetana
is
a
group
sales coordinator for
Baseball Properties, Wilkes-Barre.
SPRING 2007
College of Business
Tracy Golder, Bloomsburg, a member of the Theta Sigma
Dum 70
Mildred Belford
Williams
Sr.
Rosalind Sanderson Shelly
'48
Mary Ann Martz
Scala
Frank Bosevich
William Orner '48
Robert
S.
Lynn Shaeffer
Edith
Donald Blackburn '46
Mary Rush
Joseph
Gamma Sigma,
Honor Society.
Lynn Freeze '06M works
Mandalay
V.
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelbcrget; University Archivist
A Celebration of Spring: May Day at Bloomsburg
May
ed
Day was
a
European holiday
for centuries to
celebrat-
honor the coming
of spring. Bloomsburg began
its
own
five
the terraced
the current
site
lawn stretching
of Luzerne Hall.
east
from Perm Street
Crowds ranged
to
in size
to more than 3,000 spectators.
The Queen of May, always elected by the students,
often perform traditional
the college orchestra and,
later,
the
by
Maroon and
Gold Band.
The
decades.
Most May Day celebrations were held mid-afternoon
on
would
English or American dances accompanied
May Day tradition on May 2, 1910,
with 40 more May Day ceremonies following over the
next
elementary students from the campus' Ben Franklin
Training School
final
event of the ceremony was the
winding of May
Poles.
Some
years, nearly
were hung with brightly colored ribbons
wrapped
in intricate patterns.
It
20 poles
that
were
was an elaborate
from several hundred
ceremony, often involving more than 300 people,
was crowned
weeks before the
first.
Then, female college students and
most
in full costume,
who practiced
for several
event.
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The
ritual
surrounding
May Day became less
formal through the decades.
Grosek and her attendants hold court by the old gym, with the band
at
May Queen Ann
on May 11, 1938
left,
(opposite page). Students from the Ben Franklin Training School and college students stand
ready to wind the brightly colored ribbons attached to
to
May Poles on May
The ceremonies welcomed each spring from 1910
1921, then returned in 1928 after a seven-year
hiatus.
When the May Day celebration resumed, it was
primarily a training school event with a younger
From 1937 until 1963,
War II and, again, in the
female student as the queen.
with breaks during World
mid-1950s when no ceremonies were held,
student was crowned the
Queen
of
a college
May every year.
By the 1960s, times were changing. The lawn
that
had seen so many wonderful pageants was torn up to
allow for the construction of Montour and Schuylkill
residence halls, and the training school would soon be
SPRING 2007
8,
1957 (above).
The final ceremony was held at the east end
campus
of
at the current sites of the Chestnut Street
parking lot and the Andruss Library
Former students from the Ben Franklin Training
School still look back fondly on the May Day
ceremonies. A tradition is gone but for more than
closed.
50 years thousands of college students,
local children
and delighted spectators enjoyed a spectacle
spring they never forgot.
to
Academic Calendar
Special Events
Transfer Orientation
Football
Youth Development Camp,
Thursday, June 21, and Monday,
Summer Session 2007
Session
I
-May 29 to July 6
Session
II
Session
III
- June
1
-July 9
8 to July 27
to
August 17
IV - May 29 to June 1
V - June 8 to July 6
Session
Session
1
Session VI -July 9 to July 27
Session VII- June 18to July 27
Session
Fall
VIII
43rd Annual Reading
June
Aug. 6
Thursday and
Orientation
and
Labor
Day- No
Classes
Day- No
Welcome Weekend
Saturday,
Thursday, Aug. 23, to Sunday,
July 8 to 12
Girls
Day Camp,
July 9 to 12
Boys
Homecoming Weekend
Friday to Sunday, Oct.
1
Parents and Family
Weekend
9 to 21
information. Details also are listed
Friday to Sunday, Nov. 2 to
UK
Elite
Camp, July 22
to
26
Softball
To be announced
Swimming
4
Resident Camp, June
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Summer Camps
Harrisburg
For more information and
Wednesday, June 13
brochures, call (570) 389-4371
Day Camp, July 9
or go to www.buhuskies.com.
Stratford Festival 2007
Friday,
Saturday, July 9 to 14
Wednesday, July
Baseball
Wilkes-Barre
Exams
Monday, July
Husky Day Camp
I,
Husky Day Camp
II,
July 23 to 26
Graduate Commencement
Father-Son
June 29
Aug. 3 to 5
Commencement
to July
Day Camp, June 18
Thursday, July 19
Day Camp, July 16
to
22
Individual
Thursday, Aug. 2
Team Camp,
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Field
I,
to
Weekend
II,
1
Camp, June 29
1
Senior High
July 13 to 15
Team Camp
I,
July 9 to 15
20
Intensive Training
Camp,
July 8 to 14
Girls Basketball
Lehigh Valley
Weekend
to July
Big Brother
Team Camp,
Undergraduate
1
Wrestling
Parent/Child
Weekend Camp,
Berks County
Alumni Summer Picnic,
to Aug.
June 22 to 24
Alumni Summer Picnic,
14
Camp, June 23 to 27
Parent/Child
Boys Basketball
1
Tennis
Camp, July 28
1
Saturday,
1
Rookie Camp, July 9 to 12
July 30 to Aug. 2
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Saturday, Dec. 8
to
1
to 12
Camp, July 21 to 25
1
Classes End
Camp, June 24
to
28
July 20 to 22
Senior High
Team Camp
II,
July 15 to 19
1
New Student Activities
Summer Freshman
Orientation
Saturday to Monday, June 16 to 18
Act 101/EOP Orientation
Sunday and Monday, June 17
and 18
Fall
Camp,
Trick Girls Resident
Hat Trick
Kehr Union
oralum@bloomu.edu
Montoursville
Saturday, Dec.
Induction
at (570) 389-4058, (800) 526-0254
Monday, Nov. 26
Friday, Dec.
Fame
Saturday, Sept. 15, 6 p.m.,
for
28
to
Upper Campus
Athletic Hall of
Alumni Summer Picnic,
to
Field Player
19, BU's
Aug. 26
Classes Resume
1
May
Hat
Monday to
Dec.
and Boys Soccer Plus Camp;
Academy, June 23
Nov. 21 to 23
Monday to
Soccer
Goalkeeper and
No Classes
Final
17
Girls
www. bloomualumni. com.
Thanksgiving Break -
Wednesday to
May
Classes
12
Friday, Oct.
Friday,
Kehr Union
at the alumni online community,
Monday, Sept. 3
Reading
13
July 22 to 25
Trash to Treasure
Contact the Alumni Affairs Office
Monday, Aug. 27
18,
Saturday, Aug. 25
Alumni Events
Classes Begin
Team Camp,
Adull/Non-Traditional
- May 29 to August 17
2007
11 to
Conference
Lackawanna
Wednesday, Aug. 8
Team Camp,
July 15to 19
Team/lndividual/Goalkeepers
Camp, July 29
Husky Training Camp Special,
to Aug. 2
July 8 to 19
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Team/Goalkeepers Camp,
Aug. 5 to 9
Lancaster
Wednesday, Aug. 15
Reunion, Class of 1962
Freshman Preview
Junior High
Hockey
For the
latest
information on upcoming
Saturday, Oct. 20
events, check the university
Web site:
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 19
and 20; Monday through Thursday,
June 25
to
wwv. bloomu. edu/todav
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them. Elvis Presley sang about them.
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on
to
them.
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display and enjoy as they hold on to
those special
college memories.
Consider giftware
or clothing, like
an alumni cap,
T-shirt, sweatshirt,
travel
mug,
license plate frame or decal for a
special graduation
gift.
Or, perhaps, a
BU afghan, stadium
or chair. BU insignia gifts,
diploma frame,
blanket
from
T-shirts, sweatshirts
and caps
to
pennants, glassware and stuffed
animals, are great
gifts for all ages,
including the special high school grad
who will soon become a BU
freshman.
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in
any amount.
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convenience of shopping online for
hundreds of items
at
www.bloomu.
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shopping
experience, the University Store
is
open seven days a week during the
academic year and Mondays through
Fridays during the summer. Stop
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person or online for everything BU.
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now? Simply put, I'm so very grateful
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thing.
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for the privilege of serving this university
When people ask,
contemplate leaving BU.
days winding down?"
excited about a
I
usually respond,
new chapter in my life,
"Well,
"I feel just like
but very sorry to be
much."
I
are naturally excited about
less responsibility
moving
and more time with each
other,
to
Arizona and enjoying
our children and
grandchildren. We're looking forward to pursuing personal interests that have been
put on hold for
and much
many years.
But
there's
no doubt we
leave with a tear in our eyes.
.
gratitude in our hearts.
What is it that we'll miss about BU?
•
Interacting with the wonderful folks
it is
the talented staff
who
take such pride in this place, whether
on campus or alumni who we meet
•
Watching students grow, both personally and
•
And, being
this university
has added value to their
all
intellectually,
over this country;
and knowing
that
lives;
a colleague of the talented faculty
who
take teaching so seriously,
even as they continually pursue scholarly and creative endeavors.
On a personal level, I know
one of the
I'll
miss getting up each day excited to go to work
greatest public universities in this country
has gone by that
I
haven't
felt
privileged to have
can honesty say that not a day
I
both honored and humbled by the opportunity
president of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
been a part of her history
I
at
know that I'll continue
as the years
go by and
this
to
be
to feel
outstanding
university grows ever stronger.
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Higher Education
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Education Board of Governors
as ofJuly
2007
Kenneth
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Paul S. Dlugolecki
Darnel P. Elby
A Place
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Ryan Gebely
for Pets
Michael K. Hanna
Vincent j. Hughes
2006 prompted people and
High waters
in
Joseph M. Pelizer
companions
to start looking for higher
Guido M.
when
their furry
Joshua O'Brien
Edward
Pichini
G, Rendell
Christine
Toretli
J.
Olson
"Annie's Place," the largest
Aaron A. Walton
Gerald
L.
Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
Judy G. Hample
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Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
Steven
B.
Ramona
shelter for
Faith, Family, Football
Danny Hale
to
no stranger
is
to the
produce a winning Division
But
'94, Secretary
H. Alley
hard work required
it
was Lady Luck who
football
II
initially
program.
brought him
to
BU
as coach 15 years ago.
'08
Dampman '65
LaRoyG. Davis
their efforts to create
emergency
Chair
Lammando
James D'Amico
Robert
'68,
Barth, Vice Chair
Marie Conley
The animal response team
animals in Columbia County
Zahorchak
Robert J. Gibble
C.A.R.T. found BU.
and the university combined
JamesJ. Rhoades
ground. That's
On
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Call for
BU
Charles C. Housenick '60
A. William Kelly
David
W. Klingerman
Joseph J.
As
71
Sr.
BU Trustee,
institution's
Mowad
expanded
Bloomsburg University
President,
a
Dr.
Mowad attributes the
Joseph
growing academic reputation and
facilities
over the
last
Jessica Sledge Kozlofl
leadership of the university's
Executive Editor
Jessica Sledge Kozioff.
13 years to the
first
female president,
Liza Benedict
The Other Dr. Kozioff
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Co-Editors
Eric Foster
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Bonnie Martin
Starting over isn't always easy, especially after
Husky Notes Editor
years, but for Dr. Steve Kozioff the decision to start
Brenda Hartman
Dr. Joseph
Mowad
graduated from the University
of Scranton but, as a Trustee, he's devoted to BU.
over in Bloomsburg went hand in hand with
Director of Alumni Affairs
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/88M
supporting his
Editorial Assistant
next big
Irene
wife's career.
move -
to the
ready for his
home
in Arizona.
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Woodcock
and her plans
Cover Photography
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for at least a
on
president.
decade
at the
helm when she became
As she approaches retirement
in
December, she
the institution she's led for 13 years, her path to the presidency
for the future.
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President Jessica Kozioff
Steve pause
hoped
Bloomsburg University's 17th
Debbie Shephard
BU
he's
Johnson
Communications Assistant
Emily Walson '08
Curt
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couples retirement
and her husband
on the portico of Carver
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FALL 2007
News Notes
Fashioning a Future
Grant funds project
in
Guatemala
A recent BU graduate and
from the Kathryn
two of her childhood
Wasserman
spent part of the
working on
friends
summer
who
Nescopeck,
Mi
'07 of
Refugio, a Christian
school located outside
Guatemala City
earned a
that
provides education, food,
bachelor's degree in
anthropology in May,
traveled to
to
pursue the project through
lives
of women in Guatemala.
Pfromm
100
Pfromm
and Winter decided
a project
designed to change the
Julie
Davis'
Projects for Peace.
Guatemala
clothing, medical assistance
and outreach
to
services to
junior majoring in Spanish at
more than 250 students
and their families.
'We decided to do a
Bucknell University. Another
sewing co-op to get women
work with her friend,
Danielle Winter, Berwick, a
from the Guatemala
Rachael Prosseda,
friend,
Dump
Julie
Pfromm and Rachael Prosseda
"This project
is
good
a
example of grassroots
development," says
Wamer.
and
majonng in anthropology, documented the
experience on film for an
involved," says
with Faith Wamer, associate
the
anthropology internship.
professor of anthropology at
people's lives, they truly
The
a poster
trip
came from
Winter saw on
Bucknell's
campus
Pfromm.
The students worked
idea for the
Guatemala
the surrounding areas
BU,
to
that
fit
come up with an idea
the grant's goal. The
project
offering a
able,
had
to
Students
travel
from
shower valves
cross-
Mi Refugio
homes in
at
their
the Guatemala City garbage
Charley Chyko,
special
do
cultural understanding."
Drop by Drop
BU saves water with
than improve
economic conditions of
promote peace and
be sustain-
promote peace and be
completed in one summer.
$10,000 grant opportunity
development projects do so
much more
all
building materials.
hopes
believe that grassroots
"I
halls
and
Pfromm
that teaching the
women to sew will also
empower them. "The
made from the
profits
sale
of the products will be
split.
Half will go to
renewing the resources
needed and the other
will
half
go to the women,"
Pfromm
BU plumbing foreman, had
campus residence
to scavenge for food,
clothing, recyclables
from Berwick, a Bloomsburg
senior
dump
says.
the valves installed
in
and apartments during academic breaks
over the past year. The valves pay for themselves through water and
When
students returned for the
fall
semester, they were on
course to use nearly a million fewer gallons of water per month
than
in
special
previous years. The savings are due to the installation of
shower valves
shower head
in all
fitted
like
George Shuman
air
with the water so that
same amount
the
II
of
water
is
valves.
BU
is
the
it
both looks
being used," says
of Pennsylvania Gardens, the environmental
firm in Williamsport, Pa., that supplied the
first
in just
several months.
Ed Valovage, assistant director of residence
BU, admits that he
was
skeptical about
life
for operations at
whether students would
accept the change. "We've tried water-saving shower heads
in
the
past," he says, "and students just didn't accept them.
of BU's residence halls.
"The shower valves mix
and feels
between the shower arm and
sewage savings
German-engineered
educational institution
in
the United States
to install the water-saving devices.
"But
had no complaints, and the water savings were
water a month, and
that's before all of the
campus
halls
had the
valves installed."
Valovage estimates that the shower head valves reduce water
usage
"The user does not recognize a loss of shower comfort," he
we
phenomenal," he says. "We've saved 600,000 to 700,000 gallons of
in
the residence halls by 25 percent
- an
annual savings of
8 million gallons of water.
says, adding that the valves can also save energy used to heat
the water.
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Forecasts,
Weather
Graphs and Gauges
Den Web site provides information for
community
Locally collected weather information
is
Web site created by two BU professors.
can be found
at
http://weather.bloomu.edu.
"Bloomsburg seems
of weather reporting.
I
to
fall
between the cracks in terms
know that people in the community
Web site
could really use a
directs
now available on a
The Weather Den
them to other Web
that organizes information
sites to
answer
and
specific
questions," says Patricia Beyer, associate professor of
David W. Klingerman
James
Sr.
F.
geography and geosciences.
D'Amico
Beyer maintains the
New Trustees
Web site, which draws information
from the Weather Logging System 8000 (WLS) located on
BU's campus. Jeff Brunskfll, assistant professor of
Klingerman, D'Amico appointed to council
geography and geosciences, maintains the weather
David W. Klingerman
of
Sr.
of
Bloomsburg and James
Mount Carmel were appointed
F.
monitoring system, which provides information on
D'Amico
temperature, relative humidity,
to BU's Council of Trustees in
rainfall
and
late spring.
Vice president of
facilities,
projects,
hotels
JDK Management
Co.,
views of the weather.
which operates nursing
assisted living facilities
past 35 years, he has
owned and operated
in
In addition to
nursing care and
northeast Pennsylvania since 1981. For the
owned Klingerman
making weather information
the community, the
available to
Web site allows students in
meteorology and physical geography courses
Farms, which produces
soybeans, corn, wheat and beef cattle on more than 800 acres
direction,
features links to other weather services.
and restaurants and oversees land development
Klingerman has
wind speed and
A webcam provides live-action
The Weather Den Web site also
solar radiation.
to gain
hands-on experience in monitoring weather.
in
Columbia County.
Klingerman served on the school board for the Bloomsburg Area
School District from 1977 to 1992, including two terms as president.
War and Rebellion
He earned a
History major
bachelor's degree
University and
is
in
economics from Columbia
certified as a licensed nursing
Klingerman and his wife, the former Donna
home
Kline,
assists
have four children
Senior Roger Thrash, of
and nine grandchildren.
Conyngham, worked
D'Amico, the Council of Trustees student representative,
majoring
in
with journal
administrator.
is
a senior
with Jeff Davis, associate
elementary education. While attending BU, he has been
Web
employed with Quest as a
manager. He
is
professor of history
also president of the
Student Pennsylvania State Education Association, senator for the
Community Government Association and a member
international honor society
in
education. D'Amico
is
of
Kappa Delta
active
in
Pennsylvania History:
A Journal of Mid-
Pi,
the Boy
Atlantic Studies, to
Scouts, the Association for Supervision of Curriculum and Development
prepare a special
and the Association
summer issue
for
and
associate editor of
Childhood Education International.
on
Flex for Food
focused
the Seven Years
and
War
Pontiac's Rebellion.
Thrash, a transfer
Students contribute $6,400 to local facility
student, says he
was
Roger Thrash
BU students
inspired to attend
contributed $6,400 of unused funds from their Flex
accounts to the Bloomsburg Food Cupboard at the end of the spring
semester. Flex funds are a portion of the students' meal plans that
can be used at campus dining outlets
like
cash from a debit card.
Over the previous seven years, students contributed $44,000 to the
Bloomsburg Food Cupboard.
FALL 2007
after
hearing history department chair William
speak
at
commencement several years ago. He expects
May 2008 with a bachelor's degree in
to graduate in
history
BU
Hudon
and minor
in anthropology.
News Notes
New Dean
Ermatinger leads College of
Liberal Arts
Top Teachers
Professors win TALE
Award
James W. Ermatinger became
dean of the College of
the
Two
faculty
members were
Liberal Arts in July.
recognized recently for their
Previously chair of the
outstanding teaching. Frank
history department at
D'Angelo, assistant professor of
early childhood
Southeast Missouri State
and elementary
education, and Janet
University, Ermatinger
Bodenman,
earned a doctorate in history
professor of communications
at
were
studies and theatre arts,
selected as the 2007 Teaching and
ancient Greek and
Learning Enhancement (TALE)
arts
Outstanding Teachers.
for
potential.
and
their full
we
State.
and
for his "energetic
front of our peers."
As an
Fall of the
Roman Empire"
of other books, teaching publications
and
Ermatinger has focused his research on Diocletian's
in the ancient world,
and
classic archaeology.
In addition to Southeast Missouri State, Ermatinger
inspiring"
use of up-to-date and relevant resources
who we
early childhood
of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney State College, Wright State
are
and
was
also credited for his
when
instructing students
elementary education professor, D'Angelo
on teaching strategies.
D'Angelo and Bodenman were nominated by graduating
They both received a $750 professional development
stipend, sponsored by the
number
at
taught at Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio, the University
was nominated
teaching style, which gives students "confidence to be
seniors.
and a
San Diego
and transport
will
Frank D'Angelo
in
Roman history. He earned a master of
history at San Diego State University
legacy of classic antiquity in revolutionary America, trade
meet her expectations.'"
and speak up
is
economic reforms, Roman geography and numismatics, the
"Bodenman reminds
her students that she raises the
D'Angelo
a
articles,
According to one
bar because she 'knows
degree
Author of "The Decline and
her ability to challenge students
nomination,
James W. Ermatinger
bachelor of science degree in biology
Bodenman was nominated
and help them reach
Indiana University,
Bloomington, focusing on
BU
University in Dayton, Ohio,
Richmond,
and Earlham College
in
Ind.
Grant for Nursing
Department part of state
initiative
Foundation, and a plaque to
BU's nursing department received a $66,620
recognize their achievements.
Pennsylvania Clinical Education Grant as part of a
statewide initiative to increase the
Life
Less Taxing
Students help
file
Clinical
issued to 38 recipients in
137 electronic returns
number of nurses.
Education Grants totaling $3.6 million were
47
counties.
The funding is
designed to improve faculty coordination and training
BU students
electronically filed 137
returns and 68 state returns
income tax returns
—
as part of the
—
services, enable
nursing programs to incorporate
69 federal
simulation technology into the curriculum and increase
BU Student Accounting
the
number
of students
Association's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. Students
also completed returns
and forms that may only be
who
can enroll in nursing
programs. BU's grant, received in conjunction with the
paper format,
filed in
Central Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board, will
such as returns for nonresident aliens and
local
income tax
The BU Student Accounting Association's VITA program
returns.
be used
to
support a simulated learning lab supervisor
offers free
position in the nursing department.
tax help each year for low- to moderate-income people and area
residents age 60 and older
tax returns.
BU
who
cannot prepare their
own
federal income
budget to ease the
is
the
official
VITA
site for
accounting and
state's
nursing shortage.
Columbia and Montour
counties. Eric Gockley, of Stevens, a senior accounting major,
program coordinator, and A.
The grants are part
2006-2007 state
of a $7.5 million fund set aside in the
was VITA
Blair Staley, associate professor of
MBA coordinator,
is
faculty adviser.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Return to the Rails
Third
'Spirit
ofBU' car available
Orders are being accepted by BU's Supervisory Roundtable for the third of six train cars in the "Spirit of
series,
a
wood side refrigerator car.
benefit student scholarships
and
the logo
BU"
at
Camp
logo.
The wood
C&O blue and
Both the
the entire car.
side refrigerator car
is
available at a cost of
$50 each, plus $4.95 shipping and handling per
Victory, Millville.
The metal
tagline of Aramark Corp., BU's food service
and the Husky
New UP yellow wrap around
Proceeds wiLL
Camp HERO
and
provider,
die cast refrigerator car,
produced by
Checks, payable to the Supervisory Roundtable,
Kim Schmitz, Bloomsburg University
Weaver Models, Northumberland, is an "O" gauge,
triple track, 1:48 scale model with three-rail trucks and
sent to
couplers, a complete brake system, fully detailed
For more information,
underframe and highly detailed styrene body.
4529. The deadline
It
Pennsylvania,
sports
400
E.
Second
call
St.,
car.
may be
of
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815.
Bob Wislock
at
(570) 389-
for orders is Oct. 15.
Professional Practice
Presidential Search
Group checks hearing
at Special
Olympics
Candidates meet with community, industry leaders
Jackie Davie, assistant professor of audiology, and
The candidates
for
BU president visiting the university are
with leaders in town and
at the
four audiology doctoral students
meeting
campus.
Candidates meet with the mayor of Bloomsburg, members of
Town Council,
the president of the
Commerce and leaders
Columbia Montour Chamber of
of local industries.
with university leaders, including current
Kozloff, the vice presidents,
—
Vicky Baker and
Lynda Steelman, both of Bloomsburg; Nicole Hella,
They
BU
of Troy, Mich.;
N.J.
and Stacie VanBodegon, of Wayne,
—
volunteered to screen athletes' hearing at the
Pennsylvania Special Olympics
also
have sessions
Summer Games
at
Penn State's University Park Campus. The Special
President Jessica
union representatives and
faculty
and
Olympics Healthy Athletes Healthy Hearing Program
is
designed to screen the hearing of athletes, provide
student leaders.
The goal
of the presidential search committee, chaired
Trustee Joseph
Mowad,
November. Kozloff will
about the search
for
is
to
have a
retire in
new president
by
BU
appointed by
December. Updated information
BU's next president can be found
at
www.
corrective (hearing aids)
and preventive (custom
swim
where possible and study
earplugs) services
the prevalence of hearing loss
athletes. Davie
in
Special Olympics
and the BU students tested
approximately 250 athletes over the weekend.
bloomu.edu/president/search.
FALL 2007
A Place for Pets
STORY BY LYNETTE M
ON G
The number one reason people don't evacuate their homes during an
emergency is because they don't want to leave their pets behind, according
to Pennsylvania's State Animal Response Team (SART). Bloomsburg
University hopes to help solve that problem in Columbia County.
When floodwaters struck Columbia County in summer
evacuation
2006, Bloomsburg University opened
volunteers to care for them.
community.
And Annie, BU
9-year-old Shih-Tzu,
its
was on hand
to
welcome
evacuated citizens and their pets with a
Just a few
weeks
later,
doors to the
President Jessica Kozloffs
BU
wag
sites
of her
tail.
teamed with the
will
have food, shelter and
The Columbia/Montour branch of C.A.R.T. was
created in April
the
where pets
2005 with
recently retired veterinarian
Larry Smith serving as coordinator. C.A.R.T. immediately
began
to organize resources, evacuation sites
and when
2006
and
Columbia
Columbia/Montour County Animal Response Team, or
volunteers,
C.A.R.T., to establish an official safe haven for evacu-
County just over a year later, the organization was put
ated pets during future emergencies.
largest
emergency
one of the
shelter site in
BU is now the
Columbia County and
universities in the state to
first
become
a
C.A.R.T.
and
is
a countywide organization that coordi-
trains volunteers to evacuate
service animals
and
livestock in
residents are told to leave their
flood struck
to the test.
"We
thought
we were
prepared, but the flood was
so extensive. Unfortunately,
many resource locations
were based in the northern pan of Columbia County
designated resource location.
nates
the
household
an emergency.
homes, county
mobilize C.A.R.T., which then sets
pets,
When
officials
up designated
and
inaccessible to us because roads
Smith
says.
"We needed a location
were closed,"
that
was
large
and
centrally located."
When an emergency situation is declared and people are instructed to evacuate
—
as
many had
to
do
—they
during the 2006 flood
are often forced to leave
their pets or livestock behind.
housing
President Kozloff and
"The Red Cross will find
Annie
but they can't accept animals,"
for people,
according to Cheryl John, BU's
facilities
coordinator. So, residents often
must choose between
the risk of staying in their
homes with
visit
with
Ashley Lynn, a senior
math
scheduling
statistics
major
from Riverside, in the
Softball dugout.
their pets or
leaving their pets to fend for themselves.
"When it became
evident that there were no
provisions for pets, that
was when
this really
emergency
took
off,"
Smith adds.
safe.
Within several days of opening
its
doors to evacu-
situations, C.A.R.T. 's
primary role
tools
and encourages
all
pet owners to keep their
pets vaccinated, according to Smith.
many residents brought pets with
be prepared
them.
Kozloff began working with C.A.R.T. to
an
official
emergency animal
soon
shelter
be used
pus,
for shelters,
all
located
and C.A.R.T. examined the
on BU's upper cam-
sites,
map
Positioning System (GPS) to
"Part of
our job
is
to
educate pet owners on
for situations like this,"
Smith
how to
b
says,
make BU
after the
floodwaters receded. Cheryl John identified three sites
to
to
C.A.R.T. advocates microchips as identification
BU had approximately 100 people on campus.
And, because BU wasn't a Red Cross evacuation site,
ees,
is
educate owners about precautions to keep their pets
using a Global
possible evacuation
routes to the campus.
Editor's note: Annie passed
away May
11, 2007, after
struggling with the last stages of kidney disease for
nearly six months.
little
dog, she
Lynette
Mong
As President Kozloff said, "For
made
'08
is
a
an
a
huge impact."
English/creative writing
major from
Kenncwick, Wash.
A few weeks after the mapping process, both the
university
official
and C.A.R.T approved
evacuation
dubbed
site.
Staff
and
campus as an
members
in honor of
the
faculty
the shelter "Annie's Place,"
In case of emergency, volunteers from both
BU would immediately begin
the appropriate
animals, based
on-campus
sites for
to
on weather conditions and
site avail-
"BU volunteers would be involved in
organization and maintenance aspects of the
says Jean
Downing,
after the
the
shelter,"
director of BU's volunteer office.
Faculty, staff or students
check pets into the
prepare
evacuated
ability.
would organize
shelter, feed
the
site,
them and clean up
animals return to their homes. C.A.R.T.
volunteers
would work with
the animals themselves.
"The C.A.R.T. volunteers are trained
animals in distress,"
The BU
sites are
would be allowed
with
Downing adds.
equipped
animals, including dogs, cats
as gerbils, hamsters
to deal
to accept
household
and "pocket
and guinea
pigs,
pets,"
such
and owners
and
larger animals at additional facilities
within the county.
Funded through
the U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture, C.A.R.T. is primarily a grassroots organization
that
depends on donations and volunteers. In non-
FALL 2007
out the country began creating programs to account for
pets in emergency situations. The PETS Act requires
any county or state filing for aid through the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide
information on how they will accommodate household
pets and service animals.
"North Carolina started one of the first programs in
1999 after Hurricane Floyd. They realized they needed
something in place at the state and county level,"
says Larry Smith, Columbia County's Animal Response
Team
coordinator.
According to the Pennsylvania State Animal Response
Team Web site, more than 3 million domestic pets and
farm animals were lost during Floyd. Since then, almost
every state along the East Coast has implemented a
similar program.
The PETS Act, also known as "No Pets
to visit their pets at BU's shelter
during designated visiting hours. C.A.R.T. can house
livestock
Pets Left Behind
After the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards
(PETS) Act was passed in late 2006, counties through-
Kozloff s dog Annie, BU's unofficial mascot.
C.A.R.T. and
IMo
Left Behind,"
a bipartisan initiative that came about mainly as a
result of Hurricane Katrina. Smith says it already has
created a widespread response. "Out of the 67 counties
was
in
Pennsylvania, 57 currently have C.A.R.T.
will be nationwide."
Soon these programs
in place.
Faith, Family, Football
STORY BY JIM DOYLE
Danny Hale
is
a
man with
a
'72
Danny Hale walked away from
1988 following
deep religious
fate as
him
to
much
faith.
But
it
as faith that
was
brought
Bloomsburg University
his
as
the
most
successful Division II
a motel in the
Danny
in the country.
Hershey
area,
which they ran while
served for the next four football seasons as an
coach to
Then
fate
Gump May at Hershey High School.
stepped
in.
Only
a
day or two
after the
couple decided that Hale should return to college
coaching, he learned that the head coaching job
open
at
his
was
Bloomsburg. Hale threw together his resume
and decided
programs
at
compiled a 40-13 record. He and his wife Diane bought
head football coach of
the Huskies, he has built one of
college coaching in
winning seasons as head coach
alma mater, West Chester University, where he
assistant
where,
five
to revisit the site of
two
losses suffered
by
West Chester teams.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
T T
1
'
I
Danny Hale made
1
it
clear
11
mat the experience
at
Bloomsburg was going to be about more than
FORMER HUSKIES QUARTERBACK GLEN MCNAMEE
"It
happened
to
When George Landis built a
be around
Husky powerhouse
Thanksgiving of 1992," Hale
recalls,
"one of those days
was breathtakingly
here.
when
beautiful
The campus and
it
up
the kind-
we met struck
ness of the people
me big time."
One
dates,
of several
dozen candi-
Hale got the position and
program
that
around
had
a foot-
suffered
through a 1-9 record the previous
season. His
first
—
linebacker Frank Sheptock,
first
priority
was
some
in with
I
think the idea had set
that
maybe,
Bloomsburg, we're
at
doomed
to
fail-
That Cal win kind of created a
ure.
an eventual three-time All-American
spark which led to a flame which led
linebacker and recent inductee into
to a fire."
the College Football Hall of Fame.
the task of turning
ball
started the process with his very
recruit
'97
that 0-2 start,
in the '80s, he
just football.'
Hale's
first
helped rebuild Husky
class
included Glen
football.
McNamee
have been in serious hurt.
fire
bum in the
continues to
football pro-
That
gram. Starting with that victory over
'97, a
California, the
quarterback from Philipsburg, N.J.
"Without Glen McNamee,
That
Bloomsburg University
recruiting class also
we would
He ended
one
tie.
won
Huskies have
113 games against only 33
They have won
losses
and
eight shared
or outright Pennsylvania State Ath-
up coming in and learning the system in a short period of time and
letic
defensive coordinator John Devlin
performing well as a freshman,"
winning streak against PSAC oppo-
and
Hale says.
putting together an experienced
coaching
staff that
included
offensive coordinator Bill Hart.
The next
priority
recruiting class.
was his
finished Hale's
first
season, 1993, with a 5-6 record,
winning four of their
last five
games.
But, they started slowly the following
season.
a
McNamee
shoulder in the
son-opening
separated his
first
quarter of a sea-
loss to
New Haven and
Hale's Huskies have earned five
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) postseason
national
title
game
in
Husky standout
players include run-
who
won the
victory against California University
to the nation's best Division
three turned
—
—around.
the season
"Glen
Husky
as well as the
Sigler,
Harlon
Hill
in
tingham,
who was third in the ballot-
American
offensive
lineman Jahri
who started every game last
shoulder was
season as a rookie with the
that
to
hurting, but he
up and we beat
a
team
we shouldn't have. We went on
eight games. If we had lost,
win
I'm not sure
them
I
could have kept
McNamee, now
the head coach
Dauphin High School,
New
Orleans Saints.
Last season Hale finished in the
top 10 of the Liberty Mutual Coach
of the Year competition
tured
together."
at Central
player;
ing for that award in 2005; and All-
McNamee came back and
still
II
current senior tailback Jamar Brit-
Evans,
it
1997
trophy awarded
played against California. That
sucked
the
national semifinals last season.
pensburg. Hale thinks a one-point
week
II
2000 and
ning back Irv
of Pennsylvania in
on an ABC
and was
narrated by Keith Jackson.
named
fea-
television special
He was
the national coach of the year
near Harrisburg, agrees with Hale on
in 2000; regional
the importance of that game. "After
four times, including last season; and
coach of the year
coach of the year in the
Coach Danny Hale,
and
McBryan provide
center,
assistant coach Brian
10 times
PSAC East
overall, including eight
times as BU's coach.
guidance on the sidelines.
Continued on next page
FALL 2007
playoff
berths, reaching the Division
didn't play in a 10-7 loss at Ship-
program
titles
21 -game regular season
nents going into the 2007 season.
The Huskies
first
Conference (PSAC) East
and have
words on the
offered encouraging
dren.
Of
charter flights to playoff games.
Kozloffs impending retirement,
Hale says,
"I will
at
miss her. She and
biggest supporters, not only of footathletics as a whole."
but
on
Victories
he
She has
says.
"She has to
to be flexible."
Hale
first
him
to the sidelines,
but his motivation goes well beyond
and Xs and Os.
relationships off of it have character-
victories
ized Hale's 14 years at Bloomsburg,
coach, you have a great impact
but there has been adversity, as well.
those lives you're dealing with," he
Defensive coordinator John Devlin
says. "I believe
passed away in 1998.
Hale's
positive
and was given
years old
a
way
"If
only
50/50
chance of survival. With the help of
have affected in a
I
who treated his illness and a
those people Hale's coaching has
"He made
positively affected.
that the experience at
was going
He made
large family that lifted his spirits,
academics were important.
Huskies
Tyson not only survived, but he
had
became
he encouraged us
Danny Hale
Perhaps the most remarkable
game
was
in
Hales tenure
at
the Huskies 59-49
Bloomsburg
win
deep
religious faith
was extremely
important in getting them through
at the
Tyson's ordeal. "Knowing
2000
that God's in charge, that
national semifinal. Playing
home on the home
field of the number one-ranked team
3,000 miles from
19 points
Bloomsburg
trailed
by
do happen
deal with
to
to
it.
handle
comebacks
well
.my belief prepared
.
me
other aspects of Hale's
an enormous influence not only on
my coaching, but in all aspects of
my life."
So
how much longer will Hale
men as a head
be influencing young
football coach?
He
itself
life.
may choose
take
to
it
one year
Bloomsburg.
Evans led
the quality of life
"Our
relationship has
the service
lent,"
Hale says of Kozloff,
of big issues early on.
I
bye week
after his first
me on a
found
couple
Kozloff,
who
game
at
to
Mansfield on a
for the Saints.
Hale
is
also
Dallas (Pa.) Correctional Institute.
that
While
served two terms
faith
part of Hale's
NCAA Division II President's
been
Danny
—
the
I'm looking forward to the 15th."
and
life,
so
football are a big
is
his family.
praises Diane's role in raising
which includes four
Roman, Brandie, Tyson
and Christina, and nine grandchil-
Jim Doyle 12
at Southern
It's
b
retired after teaching
Columbia High School for
32 years. He
is
the radio play-by-play
voice for Bloomsburg University
their family,
football
children,
WHIM-AM.
way onto
Redman Stadium and
where
concerned
a fantastic 14-year experience.
Huskies as they made
the field at
a great place
is
"I
truly like
town, the people you work with.
Council, has led the cheers for the
their
It's
I
involved in a prison ministry at the
she was a person of her word."
on the
when he came
last fall
replaced.
at a time.
by play-
season. "She backed
last
Hale says he has no timetable.
ers or guest speakers; Jahri
became BU's president
turned 60
by having both knees
in
Before
attend a chapel service led
the Huskies'
community.
by example. He's had
truly led
BU President Jessica Kozloff wit-
who
We
to get involved
in the
nessed the historic victory firsthand.
been excel-
clear that
December, celebrating his birthday
it."
each game, players
in school history.
full
bad things
good people, but you
That belief manifests
after three quarters before
staging one of the biggest
He
it
good deeds program where
and help others
says his family's
University of California, Davis, in the
in the nation,
full-
in 2005.
clear
be about more than
to
just football.
a
it
Bloomsburg
doctors
the Huskies' starting
on
quite a few people."
The celebrating begins for the
coach and his team after a
back before graduating
you're a
Count Glen McNamee among
lymphoma, an
when he was
aggressive cancer,
11
And
was diagnosed with
son, Tyson,
T-cell lymphoblastic
victory.
bug
got the coaching
while serving in the Marines after an
injury forced
and good
the field
hard to be a coach's wife
level,"
have an independence about her.
her husband Steve were two of our
ball,
"It's
any
and men's
basketball
on
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Each of the 14
universities in
the Pennsylvania
State System of
Higher Education
is governed by a
Council of Trustees
whose members are
recommended by
the governor and
approved by the
state Senate. The
term of
Dr.
Joseph
Mowad's dedicated
service as a BU
Trustee has spanned
the presidency of
Jessica Kozloff.
On
STORY BY MARK
E.
DIXON
Educators don't often use
word
"bargain" to praise
the
audiology. We've added a College
an
of Science
institution of higher learning.
But Bloomsburg's return on invest-
ment
is
among
BU
Call for
the top reasons that
and Technology. During
our tenures, the number of applicants has increased.
SAT
Mowad is equally fond:
the 13-year presidency of Jessica
remains low in comparison to simi-
Kozloff so highly.
lar institutions.
—
She made Bloomsburg a
students," says
who is
our
lives of
Mowad,
also a senior vice president
and the Geisinger Founda-
tion, the philanthropic entity.
Mowad, who joined
ees about the
same time
the Trustthat
Kozloff arrived, can tick off her
accomplishments as
he
says.
been almost
started a
program
naming
his
done tremendous
children: "We've
things,"
if
"The campus has
totally renovated.
We
new college, a new degree
—
a doctorate in clinical
FALL 2007
Tuition
for
fathers
these mothers
scream out, That's
—
when he came
to Geisinger as
Now emeritus director of
urology, he
was educated
at the
University of Scranton, earned his
medical degree from Creighton
or more.
Omaha and
"These kids are going to school
Medical School in
about a third of that," he
completed his residency
the child of parents
Mowad
an associate in the urology department.
well,
—where annual
now $30,000
and
my kid!'
has practiced in Danville since
1968,
says.
A native of Scranton, Mowad is
of Geisinger Health System in
Danville
tuition is
a urologist
which
Mowad and his
from other schools
enhanced the
"She's
the part about
children graduated from
better bargain.
my eyes at gradua-
when I hear
Gov. Robert Casey in 1994,
Mowad serves as one of
its Trustees
and why he regards
And here's
tion
Appointed a Trustee by former
scores
have increased."
Dr. Joseph
brings tears to
who were not
at the
University of Maryland.
Mowad is actively involved
in a
college educated. After he joined
number
the Trustees, that background
He has
contributed to a strong sense of
Disease Advisory Committee and
affinity for
and
Bloomsburg's students
I
that almost
chaired the Governor's Renal
served on the boards of the First
National Bank of Danville and
their families.
"What
of professional associations.
liked immediately
was
Fulton Financial Corp.
been
50 percent of
Bloomsburg graduates were the
first
active
on
He has also
the boards of several
Montour County groups focused on
in their families to graduate from
college," says
Mowad.
"It
almost
Continued on next page
11
'What
I
liked immediately
was that almost
50 percent of Bloomsburg graduates were the
first
in their families to graduate
- Dr. Joseph
from
college.'
Mowad, Trustee
providing recreational opportunities,
which
feature suites
treating drug and alcohol problems
of four
rooms
and
around a central
providing child welfare services.
When Mowad took his seat as a
BU
Trustee, he
recalls,
library
are
some
condition.
what he and the
buildings were in poor
The
—
living area
much
had limited seating and
just a handful of computers linked
from
different
parents of most
students experi-
only by a local area network (LAN).
enced. Even so,
Workout facilities were lacking.
The outdated cafeteria was a serious
safety,
not luxury,
is
his top concern.
he
recruiting deficit. Residence halls
Increasingly,
were crowded, pushing many
says, parents are expressing a desire
be
housed
students into often-substandard
that their children
off-campus housing.
on campus, and Bloomsburg
All that has changed. In 1998, a
new
was completed, which
for 1 ,000 students,
offers seating
for
The 57,000-square-foot Student
Recreation Center, opened in 1995,
all
Joseph Mowad, second from
McCormick Center
is
BU
Services with
accommodate them.
Paralleling
more than 200
computers and wireless Internet
all.
trying to
105,000-square-foot library
safely
Dr.
right, tours the addition to the
Kozfoff,
the construction
for
Human
President Jessica
and Trustee LaRoy
ieft,
'Lee' Davis.
has been a strong emphasis on
academics. In 2003, BU's College of
Business was accredited by the Association to
And
Mowad, means BU
that, says
now pursues a more
Advance College Schools
active
and
of Business (AACSB), a process that
consistent quest for philanthropic
has since been expanded with a
took more than a decade. Also that
support, which has been successful
17,000-square-foot addition that
year, the university
doubled the
size of its cardio
and
expanded
due
in large part
its
30-year-old master's-level audiology
the university's
to Kozloff,
first
weight rooms and added a 35-foot
program with
climbing wall, plus another
educate professionals for careers in
nary estimates
an area the U.S. Bureau of Labor
that the university
sized basketball court.
full-
The old
3,000-square-foot Monty's dining
hall
was replaced by a 16,000-
Statistics lists as
serving stations and choices of
similar
makeover
in 1999-2000.
College of Business
and, in 2005, of Honeysuckle Apart-
owned by the Community
Government
Association. In addi-
tion, the university leased
operates the privately
Apartments adjacent
and
owned
to
now
Kile
campus.
"We're working very hard to get
more housing,"
that the
to get that AACSB
Mowad says, adding
that
says
Mowad, noting
newest residence
halls
—
was earned only
30 standards
capital
campaign
led
in 1998. Prelimi-
the time suggested
at
might
$8 million, but the end
collect
result
was
much more.
fields.
Commons got a
it
to
was hard
accreditation,"
On-campus and affiliated housing has grown with the construction, in 2001, of the Mount Olympus Apartments on upper campus
ments,
"It
program
one of the country's
30 fastest-growing
square-foot version with multiple
cuisine. Scranton
a doctoral
who
comprehensive
Fundraising expertise
only
criteria,
says
isn't
the search committee. His
after the
met about
also searching for
committed
related to the caliber
to
the
Mowad, who
team
leads
is
an educator who
of faculty, curriculum, students
standards and bridging the town-
and
gown
by
the educational level achieved
Perhaps the biggest challenge for
Kozloffs replacement
Mowad sees as vitally
— and one
important —
areas in
ture once provided
is
60 percent of
Bloomsburg's funding but
vides only about
40
now pro-
percent.
made up by
It's
clear
which
Mowad believes the next
president has big shoes to
fundraising. Pennsylvania's legisla-
is
— both
Kozloff has excelled.
students.
difference
divide
is
advancing academic
off returns the
Trustee
fill.
Kozl-
compliment of a
whom she describes as
"always there, always participating.
and devoted
to
BU."
.
b
The
tuition
financial gifts to the university.
and
Mark E. Dixon
is
a freelance writer in
Wayne, Pa.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
ozloff
STORY BY JACK SHERZER
Researcher John Gottman has
found that romance
where partners respect
a marriage
and
strongest in
is
care for each other in ordinary
ways. For Dr. Steve KozlofF,
respect
and care were
at the heart
of his willingness to move to
Bloomsburg
as "first spouse."
Dr. Steve Kozloff laughs
when asked about his
willingness to uproot his successful obstetrics
and gynecology
and follow
practice in Colorado
the other doctor in the house to Bloomsburg.
knew his wife Jessica was being
by headhunters who were offerall across the country. And yes, they
Yes, he
actively courted
ing jobs
had talked about her
potentially, that is
—
interest in potentially
taking
In 1994, Jessica Kozloff
for
academic and student
on something new.
was
vice president
affairs for
the State
was going
Colleges of Colorado. Steve's practice
They loved the outdoor life and shared
skiing condo with three other families. So.
well.
a
.
"When I
look back on
ever really thought
did," Steve Kozloff says,
received
no
some
offers
it, I
don't
was going
it
to
to those places,
searches. But
I
would be good
Then
the call
I
couldn't
and she pulled out of the
move
that
both of us."
came about
the presidency at
Bloomsburg University. This one was
different.
"When it came
'I
like
it
here,'
"
to
Bloomsburg,
I
said,
think
Steve says.
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FALL 2007
it
adding that Jessica
never hesitated about a
for
I
far as
from places where he had
interest in living. "I told her that
move
know that
go as
13
I'd
A brother in
New
Harrisburg, another brother in
Jersey and cousins living nearby
for Steve, a Pennsylvania native.
made the move easier
He secured an ob-gyn
position with Geisinger Medical Center in Danville
where, for the
an outpatient
is
no
Still,
"You've
Steve readily admits,
I
"Initially,
20 years and
left
your
starting
until
clinic.
easy thing.
practice of
and
three years, he also taught residents
last
at
all
security,
making
a big
life
change
was tough because
it
a
left
I
my friends," he says.
and you're in your mid-50s
something new. But
it
didn't take long
adjusted."
At the root of that adjustment was
Steve's willing-
sums up with one
word: Respect. Respect for his wife, for her career and
an understanding that she had worked with him as he
ness to support Jessica, which he
and Steve Kozloff take
husband and wife.
Jessica
pursued medicine.
"I
think you have to treat each other equally and
with respect.
ier to get
It's
some positions are eas- 1 can be a physician anywhere,
also true that
than others
Whether working out or accompanying his wife
but you can't be a university president anywhere," he
says.
their first steps together as
"Husbands and wives have
sions depending
on job
open about things
opportunities.
he
They have
to
be
like that."
Mutual respect has been
tionship,
to juggle those deci-
many university events,
presence
a constant in their rela-
"It
BU, although
at
funny
little
was
be the
to
the
first
would say Hey,
says.
I
he
says,
it
did
feel a
spouse."
wasn't
Dr. Kozloff,'
numero uno. Someone
and I would turn around,
but they weren't calling me, they were calling her,"
to medicine."
ally dating
of time that
physician, there are going to be times
Steve says he has enjoyed his time at Bloomsburg,
where the Kozloffs
live
on campus
in
Buckalew
Place,
enjoyed the students,
them," he says.
"I
Center and doing
I
says.
Steve
work at
met Jessica when he was doing postgraduate
the University of
enjoyed mingling with
especially enjoyed going to the
Rec
my workouts."
Nevada
in 1962.
He was
actu-
her roommate, but the spark was there, and
he and Jessica began dating.
In 1964, Jessica followed Steve to Philadelphia,
where he went
the official president's residence since 1926.
"I
he
to
a familiar
when you marry a
when problems
will arise," he says. "There was never one time when
she complained that I was devoting too much time
"She
knew ahead
at first,
"first
time
become
Steve has
to
medical school
began a doctoral program in
at Jefferson
and she
political science at the
University of Pennsylvania. After Steve's
first
year in
medical school, they married.
Steve says he decided to pursue obstetric medicine
because
"I
one's
life,"
practice,
one
it
offered
wanted
he
and
him a "happy practice."
to take care of the healthy part of somesays. "I liked the surgery
in
and
the office
ob-gyn you can combine everything in
specialty."
The couple
didn't stay in
one place
for long. After
Steve graduated from Jefferson in 1968, they again traveled west,
where he did
a four-year residency at the
University of Colorado. After that, as the Vietnam
War
continued and doctors were required to serve the miliSteve
and Jessica Kozloff pose with
earlier this year.
tary, the
their children
Rebecca and Kyle when they were youngsters,
left,
and
ticed
couple
ob-gyn
"When I
tion
at
moved
to California,
Beak Air Force
where Steve prac-
Base.
got out of the Air Force in 74, the big ques-
was where
I
would
practice.
I
could have gone any-
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where." The couple liked northern Colorado from
and the presence of Colorado
Steve's residency,
State
fulfilled Jessica's desire to be near a university.
So
it
was
Greeley, Colo., about
Bloomsburg came
Denver, until
Promises Made...and Kept
50 miles north of
calling.
van Association of
When Jessica wrote about Steve for the spousal tribute he recently received from the American Association
of State Colleges and Universities, she recalled how
some of her friends warned her that marrying a doctor
would mean she couldn't have her own career.
wrote,
"Steve turned
ca's friends
me within commuting
when asked whether he
warning her about the
but he does remember that his
own
he
that,
friends
says,
were
13 years ago.
They plan
year.
move once
again
the
at
end of this
Arizona where they
to retire to
argued, even
own a
While Jessica may do some consulting,
that advice
says,
he wants
to
spend time with
who lives in
and
Kyle, in Brentwood, Calif;
their
Phoenix; son,
a
father's
book
supportive spouse, Kyle, a
Wharton
grad,
is
was
stay-at-home dad while his wife works in the financial
field;
daughter Rebecca
is
career.
manage family and
ally,
two
down
994,
guess
it is
to love
and respect each
he always looked
at
not any better than me, and
we tried
and be on an equal footing with each
"Respect.
done
well,"
followed
It
he
me
takes time, that's
says.
work
together
20 or 25
years,
together.
faculty
now it was my
As
living in
Hanisburg, Pa.
me
we had
include a graduate school for
my first university teaching job
The pace
practiced.
in
Once
end.
down
itself,
to attend
life
Go
I
was
the
in
same
became much more
rou-
an American Council on Educatravel
away from
again, Steve willingly took over the supervision
mom traversed across the country.
to a dull roar.
academic
Colorado, a place
innocently
of
academic administration that required
vice president for
we
was
The
children
loved,
and
were
off to college.
life
was
I
was thriving.
Steve's practice
affairs.
answered the phone
good. One fateful day
in
to hear a search firm consultant
"just the perfect fit" for
Bloomsburg University
in
me. Would
apply
I
Pennsylvania?
I?
Could
last
I?
Steve's
25 years.
Now
for it!"
plans
private prac-
the residency program at a major training hospital
in
so very proud
award from the
we make
when a few years ago he won
the outstanding
residents!
in
Bloomsburg have been an incredible experience.
to retire
grandchildren await us,
We've both been so
B
a professional writer
FALL 2007
to get
Our almost 13 years
She
He has proven
After Steve finished medical school and
I
he loved to teaching
nearby.
we
and return
reflect
on
to the
how
west where our
lucky
children
and
we've been.
fortunate to have found professions that enriched our
and to have experienced such personal happiness. And
lutely
is
1
she's
why our marriage has
the degree.
finish
didn't listen!
With the move to Bloomsburg, Steve transitioned from the
lives
Jack Sherzer
enough
again settled
your turn.
other," Steve
other.
"We just work well
for the first
turn to follow her."
to
never
You can imagine the dinner conversation. Should
marriage as a
any better than she, and
I
answer: "You've patched you career around mine for the
tice
true partnership. "I'm not
I'd
I'm glad
primary parent who attended special events or picked up
for the presidency of
it's
"I
I
their careers for
looking for places to begin his practice. Steve
active teenagers while their
We lived
and Jessica
to one, well actu-
lots of advice.
While was commuting an hour each day
children.
was the
lucky
became a
two words.
says, stressing that
we began
describe an opportunity that
career as he
have done, his answer comes
a great one,
now that
many ways.
so
in
home for weeks on
a successful attor-
When asked what advice he would give to couples
trying to
wrong
tion fellowship in
1
ney balancing family and
was
But another opportunity presented
as the
currently a
our marriage
community where Steve
their four grandchildren.
page out of his
with
sick children at school.
Life
investment
if
down any opportunities that didn't
classes, he
of
Perhaps taking
in
women who submerged
within commuting distance. Then, the real work began. By this time
tine.
Now, he
the book about
his ob-gyn residency,
Steve says, at 67, he's looking forward to not working.
daughter, Rebecca Collins,
in
Well, I'm here to say right
I
Scottsdale.
my
husbands, only to be divorced for a younger, prettier woman. Besides, they
house on a golf course in Rio Verde, about 10 miles
from
had begun
I
were very tight. Actu-
decided to temporarily drop out of graduate
I
where my 1 960s feminist friends chimed
heard every story
two wonderful
Kozloffs will
the text of
program. "Your time will come," Steve promised.
turned
surprised at his decision to uproot a successful practice
The
but finances
is
school and took a teaching job at a local high school while he finished his
recalls Jessi-
of being a
pitfalls
No, he doesn't remember
doctor's wife.
We wanted to get married,
we were downright poor!
That's
that didn't
distance." (Editor's note: See the entire tribute at right.)
Steve chuckles
and
I
doctoral work.
to start his prac-
down any opportunities
include a graduate school for
following
I
needs in mind while choosing where
tice.
'
BU President Jessica Kozloff's tribute to her husband.
Sometimes, we just shouldn't listen to our friends!
When was dating Steve, he was in medical school
ally,
now that I'm glad didn't
pointing out how Steve kept her
"Well, I'm here to say right
listen!" Jessica
and Universities spousal tribute. The
State Colleges
blessed to have the love of a
man who
I've
been abso-
never forgot his promise!
The Kozloff
Presidency
STORY BY TRACEY M. DOOMS
How does BU President Jessica Kozloff
want to be remembered? "I hope that people
say,
'She
left this institution
she found
it,'"
stronger than
Kozloff says. "I think
what every president wants to
that's
leave behind."
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FALL 2007
her 13 years as presi-
Indent of Bloomsburg
University, Jessica
Sledge Kozloff has forged a
decisive path that has led to
rising enrollment,
an im-
proved physical campus
and
a
growing academic
The road
that
led her here, though,
was
reputation.
anything but direct, as she
detoured from her original
destination of high school
teacher.
"1
took that
first
istrative position
was
trying to patch
reer
around
she says. "In
admin-
because
I
my ca-
my husband's,"
my mind, be-
ing in the classroom was
the ultimate aspiration.
In
fact, I felt
sorry for
administrators."
Courtney Robinson '05 interviews
Soon, however, Kozloff gained a different perspec-
Kozloff for
the
BU
President Jessica
Homecoming Parade.
She not only found that being an administrator
tive.
was
BU-TV before
satisfying,
she discovered that she "liked being able
to influence decisions that could
impact a broader
State University), Kozloff moved to
group of students."
Today, Kozloff s decisions directly impact more than
8,700 students annually. .plus thousands more
.
will benefit
who
from her legacy in the years following her
retirement at the end of 2007.
husband Steve established
cal science
Colorado where
his career.
She taught
politi-
courses at the University of Northern Colo-
rado until her pan-time
position
was
eliminated.
"I
loved teaching and was
The path to the presidency
absolutely devastated
Growing up, Kozloff knew she wanted
to
work in
education. She frequently tagged along with her father,
who was superintendent of a small
in Texas.
"1
when
rural school district
always saw myself as a teacher," she
recalls.
Two powerful mentors reinforced her dream:
Kozloff s high school drama teacher, who inspired her
love of theater and made her realize how much a strong
that
door was shut,"
she says.
"I tell
students that
sometimes a very big
dis-
appointment can turn out
to
be a very positive
ence in
life,"
influ-
says Kozloff.
faculty-student relationship could mean,
She was asked
political science faculty
a position as an assistant
to think
With
about teaching
at
the postsecondary level.
a bachelor's degree in
in political science
(and
and a college
member, who encouraged her
education and master's
from the University of Nevada-Reno
later a doctorate in political science
from Colorado
to apply for
President Kozloff, right,
is
shown
UNC,
with Trustee
where she had just
lost
faculty emeritus Robert 'Doc'
her teaching job.
really
Warren.
dean of students
at
"I
missed teaching, but soon
Center
Bill
Kelly '71,
left,
and
BUs Student Services
named in Warrens honor.
is
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Jessica Sledge Kozloi
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
became
president of Bloomsburg University
on July
was
1994. Before that, she
1,
vice president for academic and
student
affairs for
of Colorado, a
regional
the State Colleges
rgsttl
system of four
campuses
serving 26,000
students. Previously, she held
several administrative positions at
the University of Northern Colorado
in
Greeley.
Kozloff, 66,
has taught under-
graduate courses
Nevada-Reno,
Colorado State University
Collins,
science
in political
at the University of
fawf
Fort
in
the University of Northern
Colorado and Metropolitan State
College of Denver and
member of the
was
a
graduate faculty at
the University of Northern Colorado.
An
author, lecturer
and consultant,
she earned a doctorate
in political
science from Colorado State
University.
work
The Kozloff family poses with Roongo in fall 2005. Seated, left to right, are Kyle Kozloff, his
wife Emme and their daughter lily. Standing, second row, are the Kozloffs' grandsons, Ethan
Collins and Cameron Kozloff. Standing, back row, are Becky Kozloff Collins holding daughter
Libby, her husband Jeff Collins, Roongo and Jessica and Steve Kozloff.
She completed master's
in political
science at the
where
University of Nevada-Reno,
she also earned a bachelor's degree
in
She serves on the Presidents
education.
Active
in
organizations on the
local, national
and
international
levels, Kozloff is chair of
States
the Middle
Commission on Higher
Collegiate Athletic Association
Leadership Group of the Higher
Presidents
Education Center for Alcohol and
tinues to serve on task forces for
Other Drug Prevention and,
the commission.
locally,
on the Geisinger Health Plan and the
She and her husband,
Education and just completed a
Geisinger Indemnity Insurance Co.
Kozloff, are
term on the board of directors
board of directors and the Geisinger
children
of the
American Association
Health System
of
State Colleges and Universities.
learned that
I
Council.
She served on the
enjoyed having an impact on students in
Even today, her philosophy
the old saying that "success
is
a modification of
ity that
comes from doing what
had
While serving
Instead, Kozloff says, "Success
finding something to love in
and do what you
to get to do what you
what you're doing."
comes from always
what you do. Follow your
love, of course,
but sometimes
love, you've got to
leam
to love
fellow,
dent
affairs for
in
working with both the National
much
anticipated," she says.
as vice president for
academic and stu-
the State Colleges of Colorado, Kozloff
from an executive search firm
wanted
call
to present
her as a candidate for university presidencies.
"I
have an incredibly supportive husband
it,'
"
she says. Because Steve's family
Pennsylvania, the chief job at Bloomsburg
that
who said,
is
from
was appealing
1994, she became the 17th president of
and, on July
1,
Bloomsburg
University.
Governors Association and the Education Commission
Continued on next page
FALL 2007
my mind to the possibilmy administrative
further in
received a
'Let's try
The watershed moment in Kozloffs career came
1985-86 when she served as an American Council
on Education
I
and have four grandchildren.
on improving undergraduate education.
could go
career than
love."
heart
I
Stephen
two married
as well as biking, hiking and golfing.
National
of the States
Dr.
the parents of
Both Kozloffs enjoy music and theater,
"That experience really opened
a different environment."
you
Community Advisory
Commission and con-
'Success comes from always finding
something to love in what you do.'
- BU President Jessica
"Students will frequently ask me,
become
that
tell
a president?'
"
'How does one
Kozloff says. "Most presidents
know didn't set out to become
I
Kozloff
students, 'Prepare as best
a president.
you can
in
I
whatever
job you do. Be the best you can, and be open to
new possibilities.'
Accessible but decisive
Not only was Kozloffs path to
influenced by her early moves
career,
but her presidential
the presidency
to
support her husband's
style is affected
by her
gender, she says.
"I
can't
speak
for
all
female presidents, but
am probably seen as more
image of a president," she
tional
came from
the West,
because
I
ture are
more open and
I
think
I
accessible than the tradisays.
"That
where the
may be
style
and
informal. But a lot of what
culI
bring to the position
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker
and
chats with
is grounded in my life as a mother
my experiences as a marriage partner.
"While Steve was so busy establishing his practice,
made
the decision to put
hockey game.
I
learned a lot about patience and decision
making from those
I
unpopular decision, and the reaction
is
prise,"
she says. "Sometimes
taken off guard
"I
when
1
stunned sur-
think people are a
the tough side
comes
and welcome
.
who understand
sion has to be made."
Bloomsburg campus.
cers
in 2001, the
and a major bomb
scare
Council of Trustees for approval, police
were armed
at
on
When she brought the issue
offi-
many of the 14 institutions in the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. "The
who listen
make
the
to BU's
little
out.
differing viewpoints before they
decision. .but
arm university police. Her decision to
recommend doing so came in the wake of the 1999
the policy to
Sept. 1 1 terrorist attacks
have to make an
have tried to model myself after leaders
of Kozloffs most difficult decisions involved
Columbine High School tragedy and,
full-time parenting days."
Kozloff views her accessible image as a double-
edged sword. "There are times when
One
proud
of them and have never regretted making that decision.
1
'75, left,
Kozloff at a field
my career on hold until the
children were ready for school," she says. "I'm so
Besides,
BU President Jessica
a
that ultimately a deci-
was not popular with a very vocal
decision
community," she
recalls,
"but
part of the
you just have
to
go
ahead and make that decision."
Although making unpopular decisions comes with
the territory, she says she
many issues as she
tries to get
consensus on as
can, a tie-in with the political
science theory she learned in college. That theory
differentiates
interests.
vital for
police
between primary and secondary
A primary interest is one that is absolutely
the well-being of an organization; arming the
was one such
issue for her.
President Kozloff meets with students in the atrium of
the Warren Student Services Center.
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A secondary interest is an objective a person would
like to
accomplish, but
remembers
moving
absolutely essential. She
several years ago
the
visible to a
isn't
husky
statue
when
from a
prominent location near a
way through
the heart of the campus.
it;
the husky
stays
less
it is
offers of other
years, Kozloff has
"When
Steve
where
"I
just
it is.'"
been tempted with
and I made the
come here, it was with the understanding
if
it
worked
that,
out, we would stay here," she says. "I
1
would
hoped that
be able to stay at least 10 years.
Plus,
I
had
with the place."
When she retires on Dec.
is
incredibly
a jewel."
proud
to note that all
Bloomsburg provosts
whom she has
retiring president is
three former
would be
themselves. Just as mentors helped further her career,
folks
decision to
fallen in love
that they
she says. "This
"Some
higher education positions, but never
followed through.
them
worked with have gone on
Lasting legacy
Over the past 13
"I tell
this job,"
new brick walk-
started a drive to 'Save the Husky,' " she recalls.
said, 'Hey, forget
The
she suggested
spot where
Bloomsburg.
lucky to get
all
them
to
"I try
not to micromanage."
be innovative,
try to
I
do
be
she says.
self-starters,"
Kozloff is exploring her options for retirement,
level.
the doctoral
at
"I'm not ready to completely give
up being
involved with higher education," she says.
still
have something to
"I
think
I
give."
Regardless of what she chooses, the focus of her
be
different.
in professions
"Both Steve and
and family on the
second," she says.
Still,
"It's
life
have been involved
I
where we have had
president since Harvey A. Andruss (1939-1969).
vacating have called her for information about
to
ranging from consulting to teaching
lives
is
presidents
who work for me is encourage
the people
have the longest tenure of any Bloomsburg University
Already, a few candidates for the position she
become
she focuses on mentoring others. "What
with
will
31, 2007, Kozloff will
to
to put
our personal
time to put our marriage
front burner."
the Kozloffs won't be leaving Bloomsburg
University entirely behind. Already they have donated
$50,000
to help
fund an endowment
for the Kozloff
Undergraduate Research Awards. The Alumni Association
is
matching any additional contributions
endowment, up
$25,000 from alumni
to
to the
who gradu-
ated during her tenure. Each award will provide a
stipend for a student to
work with
a particular faculty
member on a joint creative or scholarly project.
"When I try to describe the essence of Bloomsburg
University, that close faculty-student relationship
comes
to
mind," Jessica Kozloff says.
fortunate during
and
to help
Steve
"I
have been so
my career to have people mentor me
me see
and I would
greater possibilities for myself.
like to
be remembered here
as
helping that to happen.
"I
pass
think that's an obligation that
on to
Tracey M.
the next generation."
all
of us have, to
b
Dooms is a freelance writer and editor living in
State College, Pa.
New Orleans Saints offensive guard Jahri Evans returns to
BU in May 2007 to get his diploma and pose with the
university president.
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Husky Notes
Quest sponsors
trips
on bike or on foot
Bloomsburg
Quest
University's
program
extended
offers
trips for
No
friends.
BU
and
students, alumni
experience
many
necessary for
is
of
these trips,
and most
equipment
is
provided.
Varied amounts of
physical stamina are
required. Participants
travel to destinations in
the
commonwealth,
across the U.S.,
and
in
Africa, South and Central
Iceland
America and Europe.
is
the destination of a Quest biking trip from July 17 to 27, 2008.
Finger Lakes Bike and
Wine Tour,
Oct. 6:
The
unique
glacial
the
landscape
and small-town charm of
New York, pro-
Central
vide the perfect backdrop
for cyclists.
The group
hillsides,
country roads and pastoral scenes.
stop at
The tour
some
of the
notable wineries.
will
more
The
is Roy Smith,
rsmith@bloomu edu
leader
.
Costa Rica: Coast to Coast
Mountain Biking Adventure, Dec. 29,
8,
2007
to Jan.
2008: Participants will
cross high-altitude cloud
forests,
towering volca-
noes, pristine beaches,
raging Whitewater rivers
and dense
forests
tropical rain
on mountain
bikes.
will explore the
from the
yon on
foot,
Grand Can-
descending from
the rim into
and the pipeline waves of
This
Quepos on
heartiest of backpackers,
the Pacific Coast
to the canopies of virgin tropical rainforests.
Brett
along
covers the
bustling streets of San Jose
will
bike through vineyard-
covered
trip
country's interior,
Finger Lakes wineries,
combined with
The 160-mile
The leader
is
Simpson, bsimpson®
bloomu.edu.
its
inner reaches.
trip will challenge the
will offer
something
but
for every-
one.
The
son,
bsimpson@bloomu.edu.
leader
is
Walking Across
Brett
Simp-
Ireland:
The
Lost Trail of the Incas, Ecua-
Dingle Way, June 17 to 26,
dor, Jan. 1 to 12, 2008: This
2008: The Dingle
trek begins at the Indian village,
Oyacachi, high in the
Andes, and descends into the
Amazon
Basin, following a
long-abandoned
route descends
5,000
feet
and
trail.
The
more than
is
believed to
of Ireland's
Way is one
most scenic long-
distance walking
farms, beaches,
cliffs
The
leader
is
mis-
Roy
Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu.
Backpack the Grand Canyon,
March 8 to 16, 2008: Hikers
a geologi-
country with a population
density of eight people per
square mile. The bike route
begins and ends in the
capital of Reykjavik, travel-
ing north and west of the
city,
mainly on paved
roads.
in
Accommodations
The
leader
is
Roy
In addition to the
listed
completes a
conducts day trips on most
circuit of the
in the
Din-
and
town of Tralee
County of Kerry
Accommodations include bed
and breakfast inns and guesthouses.
The leader
is
are
farm cottages and guest-
southwest of Ireland, the walk
finishing in the
priests to service their
is
volcanically rich
Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu.
and
and pre-Incas
sions.
and
mountains. Located in the
gle Peninsula, starting
and by 17th-century Jesuit
2008: Iceland
cally
houses.
low-lying peat bogs and
have been used by the Incas
as a trade route
along
trails
Iceland Biking: Northern
Adventure, July 17 to 27,
Roy
Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu
programs
above, Quest also
weekends and custom-designs
teambuilding and other
experiences to meet groups'
needs.
tion,
For additional informa-
contact Quest at
quest@bloomu.edu or
(570)
389-2100 or check
online at www.buquest.org.
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Virtual career center
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Three BU departments have teamed up to bring
the services of a virtual career center to students
and alumni free of charge.
The partnership of BU's Alumni Affairs Office, Career
Development Center and College of Business allows
alumni and students
available
to use career
management
CareerBeam provides
New York City, has released "Topsy
& Sullivan's
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Don
Athletic Hall of
won the
Poust,
Langhome
inducted into the
Fame. While
(right),
was
Muncy High School
at
Bloomsburg, he
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
(PSAC) wrestling
title
at
177 pounds and was a
silver medalist twice at
National Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA) tournaments.
services
through CareerBeam. Described as a virtual
career success center,
Sickinger,
Turvy Loves," an adaptation of Gilbert
musical based on W.S. Gilbert's play, "Engaged."
alumni
free to
Bob
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tools to
research companies and industries, look for current and
upcoming job openings, create a personal career profile,
build a resume and write cover letters.
The program's database technology allows the user
to research a company and receive information from
"job triggers," criteria that indicates a company may
be moving into the hiring mode, according to Lynda
Fedor-Michaels, director of Alumni Affairs.
To use the free service, BU alumni must register at the
alumni online community, www.bloomualumni.com.
BU's Career Development Center, housed in the
Warren Student Services Center, provides career
counseling and planning assistance to all students
and alumni. Director Carol Bamett says CareerBeam's
features "serve as an excellent complement to other
BU basketball team captain
who coached high school and college squads, was
Jack Mascioli, a former
inducted into the Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame.
He
is
a
retired educator.
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Marcia Bryan teaches part-time at the Little Lambs
Nursery School, Dublin. She also works with
individuals with developmental disabilities.
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Joyce E. Brobst participated in an Oxford University Roundtable on science and religion in March.
educator, she presented a paper
David Bo wen,
Frackville,
marketing consultant
who
is
on teaching
evolution.
a public relations
and
serves as volunteer coordinator for
Chamber of Commerce, Shamokin. He was
named the chamber's member of the year.
W. John Strong, a retired high school business teacher who
the Brush Valley
recently
teaches part-time at Springhouse
Computer School, was
honored by the Octorara Community Education Foundation.
services already offered to students."
Barnett says David G. Martin, dean of the College
of Business,
first
introduced CareerBeam
College of Business
management
is
at
1/CC^k Joanne Jackson,
BU. The
integrating the use of this career
tool into the curriculum.
"CareerBeam
will
allow us to reinforce the process of career development
to
our students and
to
use
this as a device to
help our
maximum potential," Martin says.
may access CareerBeam's services
students achieve their
Current students
through the
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a teacher at East Hills
Middle
School in the Bethlehem area, serves on the
Allentown School Board. She co-chairs the Allentown Safety
Task Force.
Michael L. Smith, Newport, a wrestling coach and official,
was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Smith
is the owner of a sportswear company.
Web sites of BU's Career Development
Center, www.bloomu.edu/departments/cardev/pages/
CDCmrnf.html, or College of Business,
bloomu.edu. Registration
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trilogy,
is
Sharp has completed
the third
book
in his
"Jonathon Nicholas, American Entrepre-
neur." Sharp, 92, a teacher in Folcroft
years,
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required.
and Chester
for
34
began writing and publishing in retirement.
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Magill, Millerstown, and his late daughter
Susan Magill Reynolds 71 are co-authors of
"A Soldier's Psalm, an Odyssey of America's Restless Warriors,
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Hail to the Chiefs
BU
President Jessica Kozloff '07H, second from
left, is
shown with
past presidents of the Alumni Board during Alumni Weekend.
The past presidents are, left to right, John Scrimgeour '53, Sheri
Lippowitsch '81, Mary Anne Majikas Klemkosky '59, Nancy Lychos
'52, Sandra Jefferson Rupp '71 and Pat McAndrew '70.
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Silveri, Berks
BU alumnus Woolrich's
County, a high school football and
wrestling coach for
many years, was inducted into
the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of
new president
Fame.
ames Griggs
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John Thompson spoke
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Center for Slavic Studies.
and senior
Hazleton Area
at the
He
is
j
vice president
Columbia Bank and
trust officer at First
Scott Heffelfinger
affirmative action at
is
Reading Area
R° Dert Tabachini Jr. was named
for the
served the
NY. and
Northeastern School
superintendent
District,
where he has
Ward is a trustee of the Village
Corporate and Investment Banking in
company
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Keifer
Area School
is
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and
previously
7^TQ
Hamburg
to the
Woolrich board of
was
earlier
been
Gill (right)
is
director of
purchasing and materials management
Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of
He
is
past president of the
Tamaqua Area Chamber
of
Commerce and
volunteers for the Sellersville Theater for the
Mary Catherine Weisskopf McGarvey,
a former
for the
Tom A.
Pennsylvania.
teacher.
director of the Free Library of Springfield
Joe Micko,
James Griggs
HSBC
New York.
supenntendent of Danville schools, where he had
a principal
2005 and was named
finance in
M
of Larchmont,
superintendent of the
District.
since joining
A Williamsport
he became vice president of
native,
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in 1987.
directors in 2006.
senior vice president, resources and energy, at
5^7/i
former
CEO Roswell Brayton Jr.
and accounting
finance
four years as assistant superintendent.
last
Richard J.
year, following the death of
and
presi-
Inc. earlier this
Griggs has held various positions in
human resources and
Community College.
director of
the
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was named
dent of Woolrich
president
Trust Co., Bloomsburg.
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Norristown,
is
Performing Arts.
Township.
football player
and wrestler, was
7^70 Laurie Johnson Gaylord chairs the Martin County
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inducted into the Carbon County Sports Hall of Fame.
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School Board in Florida, where she
lives
with
husband, Marc, and their two children. She has a private
7 ^7*2 Emory
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and
Guffrovich, an admissions
golf coach at
Penn
State
officer,
professor
practice as a certified auditor)'- verbal therapist.
Duane
Lehigh Valley, was
L.
Wickard Jr.
is
principal of Upper
Perldomen
presented with the 2007 Student Appreciation and
Middle School in East Greenville. His wife Eileen Callahan
Recognition Award.
Wickard
'80
is
a reading specialist
and teacher of gifted
students at Palisades Middle School in Kintnersville. Their son,
Mademann,
C Susan Haas
and
7^7
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teacher
Statesville,
N.C.,
is
lead
Paul Shearn and wife Arlene have been recognized as one
RE/MAX
teams
of California
and Hawaii's top 50
for year-to-date productivity for
J^7j£
Leo O'Donnell was honored
/ \J
at St.
Bemie
Miller, Media, retired after
John Neumann
7
2007.
for
30 years of teaching
is
director for
on the Gasldn Advisory Panel
as a
Pennsylvania Department of Education appointee.
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at
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Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
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David
W.
Mcllwaine, president and
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& Industry.
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CEO
of
HVAC
Distributors Inc., received the Small Business Person
Commerce
7
of
an associate professor of mathematics
the University of Nevada, Reno.
is
of the Year
30 years with the
He
education services with the Pennsylvania State Education
Association and serves
majoring in secondary education/English
education
residential sales
School, Palmerton.
Delaware County Intermediate Unit.
is
Lynda Wiest was named among Nevada's Women
Achievement. She
programs in Davie County, N.C.
of
Evan,
special educator for alternative school
the Lancaster
County Chamber of
Garry Benfer, Mifflinburg, was promoted
to senior
-1- vice president, loan administration, for Mifflinburg
Bank and Trust.
Peggy Kemp Fry was recognized by Wells Fargo Bank,
where she works as vice president in marketing for the
consumer credit group.
Ernest Jackson was head wrestling coach of a youth folkstyle team that placed seventh out of 564 entries in a national
tournament
at the University of
Barbara Hornberger Keihm
Northern Iowa.
is
director of human resources
for Wintellect, a Microsoft gold partner technical consulting
firm in Atlanta, Ga.
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Wendy Woolcock,
a speech pathologist for
23
was
years,
a
guest speaker at an annual autism event in the Sunbury area.
Christopher Malocu, West Mahanoy Township,
from teaching
after
She
is
the rural service director for Turning Point, a non-
profit organization that provides services to
26 years with Schuylkill Intermediate
Unit No. 29.
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Michael A. Galantino, Berwyn,
C5
'89 Suzanne
Killian
is
assistant director of the Federal
Reserve System's board of governors in Washington
D.C. This
He
Inc.
private client
serves
on
group
for
is
Boenning
director of
& Scattergood
the marketing board of the Philadelphia
Stock Exchange.
her third position with the Federal Reserve.
is
Andrew Vincent, Hampton, Va., was
Benton Area School
District's
academic
inducted into the
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Jeffrey Barr
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He
hall of fame.
trained fighter pilots before retiring from the Air Force
now
domestic
violence victims.
retired
and
develops satellite-guided weapons and instruments for
the military.
company for 12 years.
Dave "Slim" Laslo,
works
pilot,
was named
Insurance, Allentown.
retired
a principal of Miers
He
has been with the
Navy/Air Force Reserves C-130
Denver, Colo., and owns a
for Frontier Airlines in
residential cleaning business.
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Erik J. Chuss
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for
SMS/800
Piscataway, N.J. He's a
is
Larry Medaglia
vice president of business operation
Database Service Management
at
Inc.,
is
the register of wills for Berks County, a
position he has held for 12 years.
member of the Forks Township
Planning Commission.
Michelle A. Benner
'86
Lorna Locascio Clause, Pen Argyl, earned a master's in
human resources from the University of Phoenix Online.
is
a
team director
at
Turner
Investment Partners, Berwyn.
Births
Donna
Hartranft Holt '86 and
Christina
Murphy Sweeny '95,
husband, Matthew, a son, Jett
and husband, Charles, a son,
Kang, Dec. 14,2006
Ethan Murphy,
May
12,
2004,
Michele Homay Schlicher
'97
Tom Murray '99 and wife,
and husband, Mike, a daughter,
Christine, a son,
Abbie Paige, March
March
5,
2007
7,
Evan Thomas,
2007
Kathryn "Kate" Valvardi
and a daughter, Katelin Ann,
Katrina Miller Dvorznak '98 and
Stacey Williams Snyder
Peters '90 and husband,
June
husband, David, a daughter,
husband, Garrett, a son, Curtis
Makenzie Georgia, Jan.
John, Feb. 16, 2007
Thomas
Peters
Joseph
F.
8,
2006
'93
Ciccarone
and wife, Dawn, a son, Franco,
Nov.
9,
2006
Susan Dresher Cunningham
'91, a son,
Sean Thomas, Nov.
5,
2006
'96
9,
and husband, Steve, a son. Carter
Vicky Edinger Nguyen
Joseph, March
and husband, Michael
Nicole
2,
2006
Hower Jurgill
husband, Edward, a son,
'96 and
Eric,
Nguyen
Kayley,
2007
'98
Darlene Weihbrecht
Steinberger'99and husband,
W02M, a daughter,
March
21,
'99 and
Robert, a son,
March
2007
12,
Andrew Joseph,
2007
Jean-Marie Manfredonia
September 2006
Julie Guisewhite Novia '98
Amy Lynn
Zarzaca '94 and husband,
Christy Shaffer Lusk '96 and
and husband. Marc, a daughter,
husband, Tony, a daughter, Alyssa
Anthony J. Zarzaca
Burkel Tucci '99 and
husband, Christopher Lusk
Adelaide Charlotte,
Rose, Dec. 30, 2005
Anthony Joseph, Nov. 11,2006
'95/"98M, a son, Tadd Timothy,
March
Jennifer Marinari Kiley '00 and
Michael Elgin
Oct. 2,
'94, a son,
'95 and wife,
3,
2007
Danielle Barkasy Gowarty
'95
and husband, Edward, a daughter,
Sophia Rose, Oct.
5,
2006
Meghan Vernon Mozi
'95 and
2006
Angela Gilby Tobey
Jane M. Nolan Schleppy
Rachel, a daughter, Katelynn,
March
2006
29,
'96
'98 and
husband, Joseph, a son, Daniel
husband,
a son,
Bill,
Noah
Patrick,
July 18, 2005
and husband, Mark, a son, Nolan
Joseph, Oct. 17,2006
Stephanie Hontz McLaughlin
Stephen, Feb. 24, 2007
Dawn Koons Yingling W03M
'00 and husband, Brian, a son,
Lesley Yeselavage Hess '97 and
and husband, Mark, a son, Brady
Jack Ryan, Dec.
husband, Tim, a daughter, Caitlyn,
Keith, Jan. 23,
Nov.
7,
2006
2007
3,
2006
Tracy Draper Kuehner
Vanessa Klingensmith
husband,
Ryan Kuehner
'01
and
01, a
husband, Patrick, a daughter,
Maggie Jara Heyer '97
Chappell '99M and husband,
son,
Hailey Lynn, April 10,2007
and husband, Joe, a daughter,
Christopher Chappell '00M,
Kimberly Armstrong Engleman
Dennis Murri
'95 and wife,
Stephanie, a daughter, Sydney
Diane,
Kelly
March
27,
2007
Minahan Sommers
'95
and husband, Mike, a son
Michael
Patrick, Feb. 2,
2007
Jacqueline Elizabeth,
a son, Everett, April 23,
March
Valerie
24,
2007
Chapman
Lill
Myles Gehrig, Feb. 27, 2007
2007
'02 and husband, Eric, a son, Ethan
'99M and
James, June
Carolyn Wilson Peters '97 and
husband, Frank, a son, Brendan
Amanda
husband, David, a son, Braedon
Michael, Oct. 27, 2006
and husband,
2007
Sara Duh Lutcavage
Scott, Feb. 8,
husband,
'99 and
Jason Lutcavage
a daughter, Molly Grace,
Jan. 10,2007
'99,
21,
2006
Eberly Tlumach '04
Dec. 13, 2006
llya,
a son, Elijah,
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Angela DiTommaso
is
and compliance
features inspirational
manager for the roofing and building maintenance dhision of
Tremco Inc.
Michael Dubbs earned a master's of divinity degree from
Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. He is a
United Methodist pastor in the Mount Union/
biographies
Shirley Smeltz
Brosius '62
Allenport area.
Victor Koons
(right),
owner
the Northeast Pennsylvania
at
hood
Addy
of Faith: 365
Women Who
About
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Made
in his fifth season as
is
a Difference,"
published
head wrestling coach at Lock Haven University.
Christine Ford is regulatory affairs specialist for B. Braun
last
Community Bankers national
sales
at the
year by
Howard Books,
sion of Simon
Medical Inc.
Michelle Karas, Dushore, spoke
the
Life-Changing Stories
Awards banquet.
5
is
author of "Sister-
of a Danville
graphic design firm, received the 2006 Silver
Addy Award
book
Brosius'
contracts
Schuster.
American
a divi-
&
The book
features biographical
and marketing conference
sketches of inspira-
in Orlando, Fla.
Karla Ketwitz, director of laboratory sendees
at
tional
Pardee
women,
includ-
Shirley Smeltz Brosius
Hospital, earned certification as a diplomat in laboratory
ing Mother Teresa,
medicine from the American Society for Clinical Pathology.
Dale Evans, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Dole and
Beamer, along with related Scripture.
Lisa
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Kevin Kem,
a project
manager with
Dun &
Brosius has written for a
Bradstreet, is the boys' basketball coach at Central
Catholic High School in the
AUentown
area.
JC\{\
Still
University, Kirksville,
She speaks
C. Briggs Jr. joined Arro Consulting Inc. as a
S \J planner
in the firm's
Gretchen Wirth
Montgomery County
With Teenagers and Pennsylvania Magazine.
at conferences, retreats and women's ministry
and
is
one of three
women ministering as Friends
of the Heart.
office.
from the Evangelical School of Theology, Brosius served
Verizon Wireless in
worked with
10 years as a director of Christian education. She received
the
the alumni of the year
more than nine years.
Kevin Kotch (right) is an associate in the
litigation department of Obermayer Rebmann
theft of
reli-
After earning a master's degree in Christian education
director, strategic sales, for
Maxwell
and
(right) is regional associate
Dallas-Fort Worth. She has
company
ing, Living
Mo.
events
Gene
of secular
Angels on Earth, Country Journal, Farm and Ranch Liv-
Alice Stauffer earned a master's in health administration
degree from A.T.
number
gious publications, such as Harrisburg's Patriot-News,
for
She
& Hippel LLP. He spoke about loss or
customer data
at a
award from the theology school
earlier this year.
lives in Millersburg
couple has two sons and
with her husband
five
Bill.
The
grandchildren.
meeting of the Phila-
delphia Bar Association's business law section.
Jf\
'91
Brenda Brewer
lacrosse coach at
is
the
W.
Susquehanna
Ann Brown is deputy warden of operations at the Berks
where she has worked since 1992.
Regis Kohler (right), associate professor of
Prison,
radiography
at
listed in
'Who's
.American Education 2007-08."
Perm College
director, capital asset valuation,
for Marshall
& Stevens, Philadelphia.
Scott Krzywicki
is
finance director of Asia Pacific
Anthony Zarzaca
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a national sales representative
with
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Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg.
Pennsylvania College of
Technology, will be
Lee Dorf is
operations for Albemarle, Richmond, Va.
University, Selinsgrove.
County
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women's
at
since 1987.
She has taught second and third grade
at the Florida school for
nine years.
Kathryn Yurchak, Muncy, has written 'Where Wigwams
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Bridgette R. Collier
is
a financial
Stood," a
consultant for six Lancaster-area branches of
Muncy
book
that tells of the struggles of early setders along
Creek.
M&T Securities.
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Marriages
'88 and
David Ferris
Hanna
Clark,
May 27, 2006
Heather Matthews
'00 and
Michael Yanoff, Oct. 14, 2006
Michelle Taylor '02 and Ryan
Amy Souter '04 and
Sweigert, June 24, 2006
Sept. 16, 2006
Sarah Delong
Lindsay Affeldt
Andrew
Berkheimer, Sept. 30, 2006
Bulawa
Colleen Smith, Sept.
Lynn Nesgoda
Jessica Bentley
Sherri
Whipple
'90 and Kenneth
'95 and
DerrekCummings
Tiffany
Timpko
'97 and
Megan
Bill ie
Jo Heintzelman
Oct. 28,
Acconzo
'98 and
Dec.
'99 and Nicole
Badway, Sept. 15,2006
'00 and Donald
Angela Bovard
Fure,
June
24,
2006
'00 and Justin
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'01
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and Stacy Adams,
Daren Moran
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23,
Heather Blank, Sept.
'02 and
Kathleen Connors
'03 and
Mark
Sarah Levering
May 5, 2007
Conety
Laura
Keith Perrigo
Gnall, Sept.
'03 and Timothy
2005
24,
Robert
2006
Mack '05 and Joshua
Sara Cornish 03 and
Teena Edwards
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June
'05,
and Kimberly
M and
2006
9,
Michael Deiter, Nov.
2006
Kent Strohecker '01
John
Jennifer Kleinfelter '05 and
Resnick, Aug. 12, 2006
Filardi '02,
2006
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July 8, 2006
III,
Michael Hackenberg 05 and
2006
Rebecca Young
Matthew
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Wayne
Jennifer Wolfe '02 and
Daniels, July 8,
and
2006
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Lauren
Sherry Yoder, Nov. 20, 2006
Curnow.Oct.21,2006
Amy Burkat '02 and Wayne
Doug Ratchford
Whitaker'01,June30,2006
Mikulski, Sept. 30,
2006
Widdick
Megan Burrows
'04 and Michael
Amber
16,2006
Ritz '05 and Francis
Novak, July
2006
8,
Leslie Starna '05 and John
'03 and Maria
III,
June
2006
17,
2006
Audrey Goodyear
Jennifer laniero '00 and Jason
Natow,
and Joseph
2006
Kime, Oct. 14,2006
Tori Miller
2006
'01
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Robert Metzger
James
2006
Oct. 28,
Jeffrey
'01 and Thomas
May 5, 2007
Sassaman, Sept.
West,
Joseph Leisse,
'02,
Brian Brinser,
Oct. 28,
'02 and
Andrew McCarthy, June
24,
2006
Bilbay '06 and William
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Schon, Oct. 21 2006
Shanna
Kathryn Ergott '06 and James
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2006
Gudikunst '02 and
Hillary
Carin Kessler '00 and
Stephen Gancar
Eric
III
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and Jeremy
Hess, July 22, 2006
Rebilas, Aug. 5,
Natalie Moriano '04 and
Sara Graybill
Santino Ferretti
Mathews,
2006
Williams, Oct. 14, 2006
Kari Kauffman '02 and Tim Nye,
Jason Lagowy
'00 and Angela
Sept. 23,
2006
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Luke Reynolds
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Chris Achuff is defensive
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at the
2007
athletic training
Dr.
Martin. Achuff, a former Huskies outside
Leon Frederick O'Neill
medical school
IV, Flourtown, attended
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic
at
currently an internal medicine resident at the
linebacker, started his coaching career as a student assistant
Medicine and
atBU.
University of Medicine and Denistry of
Jeffrey Beilman
is
a financial adviser for Ingargiola
Management Group, Dunmore.
Lynn Benfante completed a master's
tration degree
technologist
is
at
the Pennsylvania
S.
Supreme Court
Helveston
Associates, Lancaster.
FALL 2007
is
in
coach
to practice
law
December 2006.
a financial planner with
and
Rodgers
is
New Jersey.
the lead stereotactic biopsy
CAT scan and mammography technologist
a
an outpatient radiology center in Norwalk, Conn.
Jeremy Kipp
manager of
defined benefit services for Vanguard, Malvern.
Michelle Heffher, Bethlehem, was admitted
is
Heather Hintzen
Wealth
in business adminis-
from Drexel University. She
conference
in Texas.
conditioning football coach at University of
at
2007
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Philadelphia.
Program Coherence,"
Michael
2006
Katharine Walsh '06 and Scott
'02 and Rebecca
1,2006
product development director
CIGNA Healthcare,
for
Tennessee
Gray, Dec. 2,
Mantione, Sept. 16,2006
Greg Roskos
by
2006
Danielle Kramer '06 and Scott
'02 and
Michael Verba
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'06 and
Sept. 30,
Nov. 11,2006
Lauren Morrison
Kristen
'03,
is
men's and women's
at the University of
Mike Montgomery
assistant
swimming
Southern California.
received a master's in business
administration degree from Millersville University.
&
Ryan Morgan
is
principal of
School, Bloomsburg.
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Tom Murray is director of counseling and disability
services for the
Salem, N.C.
North Carolina School of the
He earned
family therapy, counselor education
Rinehart
completes
the University of Florida.
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on environmental
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and supervision, from
a doctoral degree in marriage
Stephen Bransfield earned a doctorate from Johns
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as a consultant.
nursing
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Port Carbon,
Panther Valley School
fellowship
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for
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sylvania (HAP), has completed a three-year Robert
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project.
ongoing
$30,000 grant
for a leadership
For her project, Rinehart implemented an
initiative to
department diversion. Partners were the
the national
insurers,
Rinehart's project included a statewide survey of
management practices, an audioconference attended by more than 600 hospital representatives and a hospital capacity management summit.
hospital capacity
A graduate of the Pennsylvania Rural Leadership
a founding president of the
Pennsylvania Rural Health Association, a
member of the
member
and
and the American Trauma
Earlier this year, she received the
of
Emergency
this
state's
a
board
Society.
Outstanding
chapter of the American College
Physicians. She
is
Daren Moran,
Enola,
is
an accountant
for the Capital
Area
Intermediate Unit.
Wilkes-Barre Vo-Tech School,
also
is
owner of Gelpia'z
Restaurant, Kingston.
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the CPA exam. She is an auditor with Leesport
Financial in Reading.
Lauren Morrison Richardson, Schwenksville,
is
a senior
quality assurance regulatory specialist for Biorexis Pharmaceuticals,
Contribution to Emergency Medicine in Pennsylvania
award from the
Community in
King of
Prussia.
of
Pennsylvania Emergency Health
Services Council
Retirement
master's degree in counseling psychology.
physicians and hospital administrators.
the National Rural Health Policy Board
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Pamela Brennan was promoted to corporate communicaOmega Bank after serving as a branch manager.
Eric Eichhorst was promoted to sales/marketing coordi-
Matthew Resnick is a senior accountant at Resnick Group,
Md.
Jamee Wilkas graduated from Immaculata University with a
Institute
RWJ Urgent Matters project,
Program, Rinehart
a master's of science degree
from Villanova University.
Jeffrey Piazza, director of admissions and recruitment for the
help Pennsylvania hospitals avoid
crowding, improve patient flow and reduce emergency
for Healthcare
Susan Berryman earned
in nursing education
Pnnceton, NJ.
Executive Nurse Fellowship.
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business manager for the
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juris doctorate in
worked
for the
May 2007.
Onondaga County
district attorney's office.
Tanya McAllister, Manheim Township, was promoted
to
business development coordinator for Horst Insurance.
Amy Snyder is an agent with the
Danville office of ERA
Classic Realty Inc.
award.
Jennifer
Webb,
a doctoral student at the University of
Carolina, attended a
summer workshop on
South
teaching about
terrorism at the University of Maryland.
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Heather Ogozaly
is
at
Western
a fourth-grade teacher in
District.
employed by Syracuse
University,
College of Law, as an assistant extemship coordinator.
Christine Snyder works for the Interboro School District
in Lansdale.
Robert Michael
Drum is a manager of Burroughs and
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in Myrtle Beach.
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Vamer is a licensed real estate agent in Maryland
Christine
and Virginia, working
for
Long
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curriculum and instruction and a certification in
in
English from BU. She teaches French and English at
specialist at
Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester, Vt.
is
a fitness specialist at
Kimberly Wagner joined the accounting firm of
Co., working from the company's
JonesKohanski
Sugarloaf
&
office.
'06 Timothy Brockman
is
an analytical chemist in
quality control for GlaxoSmithKline.
is
an emergency
services nurse at
Shamokin
Area Hospital.
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Montoursville,
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Angela Furca
Stephen Major, Elysburg, is a science teacher at Shamokin
High School and is pursuing a master's degree at BU.
Kimberlee Pedersen is attending a master's program
in international policy studies at La Trobe University,
Jennifer Petro
One
Muncy
High School.
Sarah Delong Graf is employed as a learning
Derek Rupert.
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Lauren Ferret "07M is director of sports information
and communications at Wellesley College.
membership development coordinator
with the Charleston, S.C., Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Raggio leads
Deaths
statewide office
'56
Thelma Gordon Harrison 77
Meade Shuman
Mary Heintzelman 78
Leonard Kapochus '57
Ruey Kenworthy Nygren 78
Loren J.
Teresa Arcarese '30
Renee Terzopolos
Ruth Herman '32
Bower
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'59
Gertrude Strein Howells
Owen Raggio
'69
was named
Maryland
secretary of the
'59
Department of Disabilities
Jean Ann Fenstermacher '60
earlier this year.
Kenneth Thomas '60
'33
atherine "Cathy"
She began her
Dorothy Lloyd Lewis Rice '33
Beatrice
Bums Comeau
Thelma Evans Williams
'33
Annetta Rohrbach
Shuman Laubach
'34
George
Freda
Sam Cohen
E.
'61
career as a speech
language therapist at a
'63
Molnar
Pennsylvania
Kenneth Musselman '64
'36
Margaret Hogendobler '38
Gladys Bingaman '66
Victor J. Ferrari '39
Wayne Marek '66
for people
Sara Dersham Laubach
Mary Keesler Sherwood
Howard Tomlinson
'41
'41
Lawrence
Frank
Mary Wagner Hoffman
Clair
Baum
'45
Billy
'47
Dugan
N.
J.
Patricia
Brian K.
Theodore Jurasik '47
Phillips
70
Carl
71
Raggio
Thomas
J.
Reed
'51
people with
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74
77
executive
served as associate director and then
disabilities,
Now,
the center
independent living serving Montgomery and Prince
George's counties in Maryland.
With the support
'81
of state agencies
and
individuals,
Raggio established the Maryland Youth Leadership
Forum in
1999. The
held each
summer
various disabilities
MD-YLF is
for
a four-day
2
7
program
high school students with
which emphasises
leadership,
independence and personal and career goal
Donald Blyler '53
an
she founded and served as
executive director of Independence
Seile Farley '99
DuaneR.Singley'02
'52
later
Margaret Robbins Perkins '84
Donna
become
Bower 72
Melanie Apple Williams
Jacques Grimes
to
Disabilities Council. After a five-year stint as
Patrick J. Flaherty '50
Alice
Maryland
to
independent contractor working on projects involving
Robin Olson Krzysik
Ulrich '50
and
McCreary Young 71
Mark McGee 78
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as a
district
executive director of the Maryland Developmental
Josephine Padula White '49
Paul
moved
County and
Susan McMinn Snyder
'49
worked
director of United Cerebral Palsy of Prince George's
for
Wilmer Kester
also
of Wyoming Valley.
Jarosiewicz '69
Monaghan'71
Joseph Doria
'49
earning bachelor s
and master's degrees from BU. She
speech therapist in a Pennsylvania school
Kenneth Weaver '68
Marlin Walsh
C. Yorks '42
Raggio
served as executive director for United Cerebral Palsy
Margaret
Peter Podwika '42
Stewart
'66
Glen H. Book '67
Fern McBride Whitebread '40
Owen
after
Joy Whiting Musselman
Jean Shuman Zehner '39
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with
intellectual disabilities
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and
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Calendar of Events
Academic Calendar
Fall
Queen Meets the
Art Exhibits
Exhibits in the
2007
Haas Gallery of Art
are open to the public free of
Reading
Day- No
Friday, Oct.
Classes
More
charge.
12
information about
shows is available at http://
Thanksgiving Break -
departments, bloomu.edu/art/
No Classes
gallery.html
Wednesday to
23
Friday, Nov. 21 to
Saturday, Oct. 20
Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.
Art Alumni Exhibition
Parents
Oct.
26
Beamer
Do Your Parents Know?:
1
Graduate Commencement
Homecoming
Weekend
Grad Finale
Mitrani Hall, $20; $10 for parents
Tuesday, Nov. 6
BU
siblings of
Poinsettia
Nov. 5 to 30
Dec. 14
students
Alumni Weekend
Friday to Sunday,
April 11 to 13,
Pops
Friday, Dec. 7,
Special Events
Mitrani Hall, Free admission
Exhibition
Commencement
Athletic Hall of
Swing, Daddy-o: Big Bad
Dec. 3 to 15
Saturday, Dec. 15
Induction
Saturday, Feb. 16,2008,8 p.m.
Kehr Union
Photography, Jan. 14 to
Mitrani Hall,
Classes Begin
Feb. 15,
Monday, Jan. 14
Jr.
Day -
Dreams
in
Motion: Paul Taylor
March
28,
5,
Football, Huskies vs. Millerville
2008, 8 p.m.
2008
Marauders, Saturday, Oct. 20,
Mitrani Hall, $20
Monday, Jan. 21
Juried Student Art Exhibition
Spring Break Begins
April
1:30 p.m.,
Broadway at Bloomsburg:
Monday,
Monday, March
17,
April 13, 2008,
1
May 3
$25
$8
for students
for adults
and senior
and $3
citizens.
Mitrani Hall,
Events are held in Haas Center for
Wonderful Sound: Ninth
admitted free. Gates open two
the Arts, Mitrani Hall, or Carver
Annual BU Jazz Festival
hours before kickoff.
Hall,
Kenneth
S.
Gross Auditorium.
For more information, call the box
office at (5701
Classes End
8 p.m.
Bedman Stadium.
Tickets are
Celebrity Artist Series
8 a.m.
Reading Day - No Classes
Thursday and Friday, May and 2
Evita
7 to 25, 2008
March 8
Classes Resume
Friday to Sunday, Oct. 19 to 21
Dedication of Academic Quad.
Dance Company
Printmaking, Feb. 25 to
Saturday, April
No Classes
Homecoming Weekend
$20
2008
Yoshiko Shimano
Martin Luther King
Saturday,
Fame
Saturday, Sept. 15, 6 p.m.
Voodoo Daddy
Dylan Vitone
Spring 2008
Saturday,
2008
7 p.m.
Studio Art Senior Exit
Undergraduate
game
Special Event
Saturday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m.
Holiday Concert
Exhibition class,
football
Fenstemaker Alumni House lawn
and
to
Brew
Mike Super
Ceramics, organized by the
Museum
Friday,
to Sept. 21
'n'
Saturday, Oct. 20, following
Saturday, Dec. 8
1
Chili
Mitrani Hall, $25
Classes End
Saturday, Dec.
9 and 20
Informal Reunion, Class of 1987
Illusionist
Monday to
1
The Producers
Art ot the Alumni: Juried Studio
Karl
$20
Friday and Saturday, Oct.
Monday, Nov. 26
Exams
1
Broadway at Bloomsburg:
Classes Resume
Final
Saturday, Sept.
Reunion, Class of 1962
Mitrani Hall,
Mixed media, Aug. 27
to
Tennis Alumni Reunion
Friday, Oct. 5, 8 p.m.
Monday,
Connie Wolfe
1
Classics: East
Company
Village Opera
389-4409 or check
the Celebrity Artist
Web site at
Bobby Zankel
of Wonderful
& The Warriors
Sound
Friday, April 25,
BU
students with a valid ID are
Parents and Family Weekend
Friday to Sunday, Nov. 2 to
4
2008, noon
Mitrani Hall, $5
h ttp://orgs. bloom u. edu/arts/
Finals Begin
celebrity_list.htm.
Monday, May 5
Government Association
Finals
cardholders pay half of the
End
Saturday,
May
Community
10
Contact the Alumni Affairs Office
ticket's
May 9
at (570) 389-4058, (800) 526-0254
face value for all shows. Programs
or alum@bloomu. edu for
and dates are subject to change.
information. Details also are listed
Graduate Commencement
Friday,
Alumni Events
www.bloomualumni.com.
Marionettes
Undergraduate
Commencement
Saturday, May 10
the latest information
on upcoming
events,
check the university
Saturday, Sept. 15, 2 p.m.
Alumni and Open 5K Race
Gross Auditorium, $15
Saturday, Sept. 8
Web site:
Contact: Karen Brandt, cross
www. bloomu. edu/today
country coach, (570) 389-5123
FALL 2007
For
at the alumni online community,
Family Entertainment: Cashore
Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberga; University Archivist
The Search
for a Leader:
BU Finds a President
BU
President Jessica Kozloff introduces herself to students
on her
May
Inbecome
1994.
on an interim
stressing
adding,
in Mitrani
Hall that day
and was
asked about her
if
president.
she became
is
students," she answered.
Jessica Kozloff talks with
students at a reception in her
honor on April 22, 1994.
that
I
am
student-oriented."
In March, the
Presidential Search
were recommended
to the
whose names
Council of Trustees. After
approval by the Trustees, the names were forwarded
James McCormick, who was chancellor of the
System of Higher Education, and the Board
of Governors.
on
Stephen
Dr.
Kozloff were guests at a reception in BU's Haas Center
for the Arts, attended
by more than 500
faculty, staff
and students.
Friday, July
Bloomsburg
Although
for the
1994, was Kozloff s
1,
first
day as
University's first female president.
filled
with meetings and the job of moving
—
new office, the day's events from planning
new library to touring the construction site
of the Student Recreation Center
—
work she would
served as an
face in the years
ahead. And, as improvements to the physical
campus
have continued during her tenure, Kozloffs number
one
priority has always
been the students,
who joined her for lunch
that
first
day
like those
to discuss
their concerns.
Committee endorsed
Kozloff as one of three candidates
formally hired
Apnl 21, 1994, she and her husband
indication of the
for the
"My strength is
my good fortune."
into her
"The reason
are here
of the world. I'm filled with a
One day after Kozloff was
Kozloff spoke at an
open forum
we
on top
feeling regarding
campus early in
1994 to interview for the position. The first, Jessica
Sledge Kozloff, vice president for academic and
student affairs for the State Colleges of Colorado, was
interviewed on Monday, Feb. 7.
to
priorities
once again her connection to students and
"I feel
sense of awesome responsibility and a wonderful
basis during the
search for the university's 17th president.
Four candidates were invited
in early
April to offer the position to Kozloff. She accepted,
State Teachers College graduate, agreed
to lead the university
State
1,
The boards executive committee voted
to
executive director of the Pennsylvania
Humanities Council. Curtis English, a 1956
to
July
1993, Bloomsburg University President
Harry Ausprich announced that he was leaving
Bloomsburg
first day,
During her interview 13 years ago, Kozloff said
she assumed her
first
presidency would be her
last.
December with the secondlongest tenure of any Bloomsburg president since
the normal school became a college in 1927 and with
It
was. She will
retire in
a legacy of
growth and achievement that
difficult to
match.
will
be
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your Husky pride,
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$37.99, the
just like a
dozen alumni did
at
Homecoming 2006 when they
purchased gold Paw Hood
sweatshirts
and put them on
before posing for photos with
one of Roongos biggest
fans,
BU President Jessica Kozloff.
Positively perfect for students,
their parents
and alumni, Paw
Hoods make
great holiday
In
fact,
hundreds of giftware
items and
gift
gifts.
BU
apparel, as well as
cards in any amount, are
available for holiday or
commencement
gifts
or as an
anytime reward for yourself at
the University Store,
open
seven days a week, and online
at
www.bloomu.edu/store.
Shown
in
Paw Hoods
White Haven,
left,
are students
Tim
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Thank retiring
BU President Jessica
13 wonderful years with your
Kozlofffor
gift to the Jessica S.
and
Stephen R. Kozloff Undergraduate Research Scholarship.
Drs. Jessica and Steve Kozloff established the
550,000 endowed scholarship to recognize the strong
faculty-student relationship that exists at
BU and to
inspire continued collaboration. This scholarship
direcdy to
is
Dr. Kozloff guided Bloomsburg University as
it
became
the
awarded
BU students involved in scholarly or creative work.
thriving university
it is
today.
Ensure that her commitment to
excellence will continue long after her retirement by supporting
The Alumni Association
is
to match, dollar for dollar,
who
attended
offering a $25,000 challenge grant
all
contributions
BU during Dr. Kozloff
members of the
classes
's
tenure. This
match
gives
of 1994 to 2007 the opportunity to double
their gifts to this scholarship
the Jessica
S.
and Stephen R. Kozloff Undergraduate Scholarship.
made by alumni
and to BU.
For more information about
gift
program, please
Association
Web
call
site at:
this scholarship
800-526-0254 or
fund or matching
visit
the
Alumni
www.bloomualumni.com.
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