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Meet David L Soltz,
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From the
Executive Editor
This
November,
must admit,
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Bush began
44th president of the United States and,
we'll elect the
seems
it
his
like the
campaigning started as soon as President
second term. The process
for selecting the president of one
of the 14 institutions in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
is
also
time-consuming and rigorous but, thankfully, the
As many of you know, just
L. Soltz.
last
similarities
month we welcomed BUS 18th
end
right there.
president, Dr. David
You've already seen his photo on the cover of this issue of Bloomsburg: The
University Magazine,
At BU, the
and
you'll get to
meet him
in a story beginning
on page
6.
new university president is both complicated and detailed.
process began nearly two years ago when former President Jessica S.
The search
for a
Kozloff announced her retirement date of Dec. 31, 2007, ending a tenure that began
July
1,
1994.
new president involved many people, not only at Bloomsburg
University but also around the commonwealth. PASSHE Policy 1983-13-A outlines
Selecting a
each of the
composed
For example, the policy requires establishing a search committee
steps.
of members of BUs Council of Trustees, faculty,
students, alumni
also requires the selection of a consulting firm to help the
search process
staff,
administration,
and the current or former president of a comparable
university. It
committee through the
and review of applications. The consulting firm of Witt/Kieffer received
well over a hundred applications
on our
behalf;
all
were reviewed by every member
of our presidential search committee.
members
Search committee
to
pre-interviewed 12 candidates and five were invited
campus last September and October
constituency groups.
The top
three
for extensive
two-day interviews with campus
names were presented, unranked,
to the
PASSHE
Board of Governors and Chancellor Judy Hample and, in mid-November, one was
offered
and accepted the
position.
President Soltz joins us at an exhilarating time in Bloomsburg University's history
We await the arrival of spring to see the
sodded and planted
and upgraded
last fall
full
beauty of the
new Academic Quad,
and dedicated during Homecoming Weekend. Renovated
instructional buildings are providing a learning
environment that
ensures our students enter the world fully prepared for tomorrow's careers and
technology. Students' housing needs
our current on-campus residence
.
.
halls
.
and wishes
and with a
...
are being addressed within
future housing project literally
on
upper campus' horizon.
We're proud of the overall experience
And now, we
our new president.
alumni.
Ja*o-
eagerly start a
BU
offers to
our students, faculty
staff
and
new era energized by the enthusiasm and ideas of
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Editor's note:
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the Presidents
The University Magazine,
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written by
BUs
in the spring
2008 issue
18th president, David
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of Bloomsburg:
Soltz-
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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a
State System of
member of the Pennsylvania
Higher Education
Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors
2007
as of December
Kenneth
Chair
E. Jarin,
Aaron Walton, Vice Chair
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair
Matthew
Baker
E.
Lammando
Marie Conley
Paul
FEATURES
Dlugolecki
S.
Daniel P. Elby
COVER STORY
Ryan Gebely
Michael K.
Hanna
Vincent J. Hughes
Kim E.
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Lyttle
Introducing President Soltz
Joshua O'Brien
Joseph
New President
Peltzer
David
L. Soltz
and his wife Robbie had
Guido M. Pichini
Edward G. Rendell
a detailed mental picture of the type of college
James J Rhoades
college
ChristineJ. Toretti Olson
Gerald
right
Chair
'68,
Ramona H.
Lammando
number
'94, Secretary
Alley
fit,'
to increase the
of undergraduates earning
math and
science
students.
several
The
associate professor has engineered
programs
make numbers add up
to
at all
'60
levels of education.
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David Klingerman
Sr.
Grads Unscripted
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Mowad
President,
Mauch believes any plan
'08
Charles C. Housenick
A. William Kelly
Bloomsburg University
HGTVs 'Design
common - BU alums. Neal
NBC's The Biggest Loser' and
Soltz
L.
good
degrees must begin with the youngest elementary
D'Amico
Roben Dampman '65
LaRoy G. Davis '67
David
a very
Math Matters
Elizabeth
Barth, Vice Chair
B.
Marie Conley
Joseph J.
was
it
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Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
Robert j. Gibble
F.
from the beginning like
says BU's 18th president.
Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
Judy G. Hample
James
and
seeking. 'Bloomsburg looked
Zahorchak
L.
Steven
town they were
have one thing in
Executive Editor
Liza Benedict
Star'
Gallagher '82 works for 'The Biggest Loser' as
Co-Editors
director of
photography and
Millard '03
was
Lisa
Hunsinger
'I
Eric Foster
Bonnie Martin
Husky Notes
Editor
Page 12
Brenda Hartman
Director of Alumni Affairs
In the
It's
Editorial Assistant
a
way
Star.'
and touch
lives.
Communications Assistants
student,
he went on
Deirdre Miller '07
University. In
Mong '08
Emily Watson '07
to
become
my photos and stories to put human
on the numerous and immediate
problems facing the homeless
of Legends
'86, football isn't just a
to teach lessons
want
faces directly
Gary Clark,
their plight,
it
simply ignore
into the
National College Football Hall of Fame.
Agency
Snavely Associates,
Capturing Invisible Lives
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LTD
Art Director
BU
art professor
Gary Clark has scoured many
Debbie Shephard
Retired
Designer
problem of homelessness. Through
Curt
Woodcock
and
inspire others to
become
draw
cities to
his photographs, Clark
works
attention to the
to raise
awareness
active in the fight.
Cover Photography
Eric Foster
On
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Pay
It
Forward:
From Bloomsburg
to Tibet
the Cover
David
Soltz
L.
the 18
is
Lh
When Anne-Sophie Ekelund 79
president of Bloomsburg
University of Pennsylvania.
graduated from BU, she
She never dreamed her journeys would take her
Address comments and questions
with her husband, work
to:
to build schools
and
to Tibet
knew
she wanted to
travel.
where she would marry and,
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institution
Bloomsburg
committed to
by way of prodding equal
employment oppommilies for
affirmative action
educational and
all
persons without regard to race, religion, gender,
age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability
or veteran status.
says
Once you
becomes much more
this problem.'
a coach at Wilkes
2007 he was inducted
today,'
retired art professor.
hear their stories, see their faces, understand
game.
After
helping turn BU's football program around as a
Johnson
Lynette
on 'Design
Company
For Frank Sheptock
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/'88M
Irene
a contestant
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difficult to
News Notes
Fellowship
and
Faith
Gillespie
campus
The
new
Maggie
Rev.
Protestant
minister
Gillespie, a
Bloomsburg resident with a
long history of service,
BU's Protestant
became
campus minster
last fall. Originally
from
Chicago, Gillespie
moved
to
Bloomsburg with her family 13
years ago and served at several
area churches before taking the
position at BU.
Mod Quad
As Protestant campus
On-campus park dedicated
minister, Gillespie interacts
often with students.
She leads
Sunday evening worship
services, organizes
Bible studies
weekend
weekly
and coordinates
retreats.
have always loved the
"I
at
Homecoming
Former BU President Jessica Kozloff was one of the speakers who formally dedicated the
Academic Quadrangle during Homecoming 2007. The quad, which extends from the Warren
Student Services Center to the Andruss Library, opened last fall and features lawns, walkways, a
sculpture garden and a fountain, a gift from the Class of 1940. The Academic Quad is the
centerpiece of a decade of expansion and renovation of many BU facil it ies. such as Centennial
Hall, Warren Student Services Center and McCormick Center, and an improvement to the
entrance and parking behind McCormick Center.
university setting," Gillespie
says.
"It is
an exciting
environment.
I
am
interested
in
working with young people
who may
be questioning and
are open to trying
I
hope
to get to
Heading off Hunger
Student
efforts feed local residents
new things.
know these
students well and share
- Donation of unused Flex
In Columbia County, where 11.5 percent of
the population lives
below poverty level,
BU
in
students have stepped
their lives."
sure food
is
up
to the plate to
make
A variety of volunteer efforts coordinated
the
SOLVE
Tim
Pelton,
VISTA volunteer. Student
- The Empty Bowls banquet. Held
campus hunger-awareness event
AmeriCorps/
- Food
efforts resulted in
Rev.
Maggie Gillespie
drives.
Student volunteers place
and more than $10,000 in 2006-07.
campus
hunger
- Souper Bowl
locally:
at the
fall,
collecting
of Caring. Students place
collection jars in pizza
raising several
and hoagie shops,
hundred
dollars.
- End-of-the-semester donations.
gather and repackage leftover food from
campus dining establishments
residence halls each
approximately a ton of food.
students are involved in the following
- Food Recovery. Students work with
campus food service provider Aramark to
.i&'0££?t;.°?
about
food collection boxes in local businesses and
efforts to fight
jk^2
raises
$4,000 each year.
donations of approximately 10 tons of food
BU
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history,
annually for the past five years, the on-
Office provides food to
Bloomsburg Food Cupboard and other
organizations, says
worth of food; over the program's
donations have totaled $44,000.
available for those in need.
through BU's
funds. For
2006-07, unused funds purchased $6,400
end of
says students leaving
each day. Pelton estimates about 8 tons of food
Pelton
campus donate about
thousand pounds of food each spring.
has been recovered that otherwise would have
been thrown away since the program
BLOOMSBURG
started.
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
a
Linking Theatres
BU joins forces with BTE
Catching Predators
Internship leads to Internet sting
BU and
By day, she had
job as a bank
summer
teller.
was
night, she
a
lease
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE) signed
BU's theatre department had identified a need for
improved
It
theatre
facilities,
and BTE was
in
need of a new
wasn't your average
source of income to help sustain the theatre.
summer internship.
worked together in
forensics
the past, including
has been in existence for quite
only believes she's
have
this formal lease
some
Felicia DiPrinzio
career in law
work with
Levittown
ship with
man who struck up
a chat
someone he thought was
room
and
arts
relation-
a 13-year-old
girl.
live professional theatre for
our community
students."
The
arrest of a
BTE Board
Bob
and, in particular,
the Briar Creek Police
Department, near Berwick, led to the
We are thrilled to
we are all very grateful
President
for the university's support," says
Tevis. "This
enforcement. Her
members
agreement confirms the importance of the
accomplished something
also
time.
agreement, and
worthwhile, but
hooked on a
BU and BTE had
faculty
"The relationship between the university and the ensemble
major
from Bala Cynwyd, not
is
BU
serving as directors, actors and designers.
Felicia DiPrinzio, a
computer
a
Krause Theatre in downtown Bloomsburg 87 days a year.
By
bait for
Internet sex predators.
the
agreement that allows the university to use the Alvina
lease, for
five years
$63,000 a
year, will continue for the next
with an annual increase based on the consumer
price index.
For DiPrinzio, the experience concluded the
uncertain path to discovering a meaningful career.
She graduated from high school with a vague
in
math and went on
in mathematics
remained
and
to get a
a job as a
Archaeology
Preserved
interest
bachelor of arts degree
bank
teller,
but
Anthropologists
dissatisfied.
earn access
A chance encounter with Scott Inch, professor
of mathematics, computer science
was the push she needed
forensics
and
to enroll as a
statistics,
computer
A team of
major with a minor in criminal justice.
anthropologists,
Then last summer, she earned an internship with
Briar
Creek
which includes
Police.
DeeAnne Wymer and Robert Harness
While talking about
and
the Briar Creek Police hatched a similar plan. She
a 13-year-old girl
and began cruising
Internet
was very
disturbing," she says of the predators
she encountered online, adding that the Pennsylvania
suspect she communicated with faced
more than 70
DiPrinzio found that the children predators target
easement to
sites for the
next 25 years.
Land owner Robert Harness, 89, created a
special legal
advises parents to "keep a dialog with your kids
they're doing.
Remind them never to
on
give out
personal information to strangers or meet them."
And what she found in the law enforcement
community was positive. "I've seen what it's like on
the other side of the flashing lights," she says. "They're
good people, with
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families, just
Paul Pacheco of SUNY-Geneseo and Jarrod Burks of Ohio
Valley Archaeological Consultants.
doing their job."
The easement
gives
unrestricted access to the property, including ownership
and the
right to bring university
students onto the property for archaeological field schools.
The Harness farm
tend to be bored, lonely and unsupervised. She
really
a legal
contains archaeological
of the excavated artifacts
felony charges after his arrest.
what
Wymer, has earned
easement in the name of the project co-directors, Wymer,
chat rooms.
"It
BU
DeeAnne
an Ohio farm that
professor
a television series that catches
Internet predators in sting operations, DiPrinzio
became
to
Hopewell site
is
well
known for the numerous
Hopewell moundbuilders ceremonial
terraces
and
sites
located
"The generosity of Mr. Harness guarantees
matter
and
on
its
floodplains.
who owns
their students
that,
no
the land in the future, the researchers
can conduct archaeological surveys and
excavations on the property," says
Wymer.
News Notes
Star Student
B Ufreshman
receives Dell Scholarship
Guidance and
BU
Growth
student in Pennsylvania and one of only 250 students from
Debbie joins
Sister
Sister
across the country to be
CCM
a scholarship
Maldonado
is
the only
awarded
through the Dell
Scholars Program.
Deborah Bomeman of
the Sisters of Saints Cyril
criminal justice major Jorge
The
and
Dell Scholarship,
funded
through the Michael and Susan
Methodius was appointed
Dell Foundation,
is
awarded
associate director of Catholic
to students
Campus
Ministry, serving
Sister
Debbie Borneman
financial
students with the Rev. Donald Cramer.
Noting that the
focuses
need who
participate
in a college readiness program.
Sisters of Saints Cyril
on education,
with qualifying
and Methodius
Since 2004, the foundation has
Sister
Debbie says she
excited
is
about her role in reaching out to students and helping
provided more than $9 million
in college scholarships.
to
expand CCM's ministry program.
Sister
for
Debbie believes that a college campus
more than
the acquisition of
knowledge
—
Maldonado, a graduate of
is
God?" she
through presence and
asks.
"I
hope
in the TRiO Upward
Bound Program at BU, starting in 2005, his sophomore year
in high school. Upward Bound, open to high school
Bloomsburg High School, was enrolled
it's
for
personal growth, too. "Are they growing in their
relationship with
to help
students from low-income backgrounds, stresses academics
availability."
and
diversity to prepare students to
members
Mr.
Mayor
BU
Recent grad leads town government
Dan Knorr
'07
is
history,
mean he
but that doesn't
lacks experience.
years of service as a council
member. Knorr ran unopposed
for mayor last fall and won
with 914 votes.
two-year term in January,
major in
a double
As a recent
relationship
because
I
after
He began
and
represent both the university students
equally. But
I
also
its
"It's
I
tough
have to
and town members
have a good perspective of both
which cenainly has
With three BU players from Philadelphia and
more from the metro area, the Huskies were almost as
much
of a
home
team as Villanova.
"I
it was
them
think
big for
personally to have
and
come out
and watch them
their family
friends
play in a big-time
ball
BU
sides,
lot
basket-
coach John
Sanow.
and
Green, center, drives on Villanovas Malcolm Grant
Philadelphia.
says
history.
between the university and the town.
Wachovia Center
environment,"
graduate, Knorr understands the important
represent a wide array of individuals,
at
during last falls exhibition game at the Wachovia Center in
his
graduating in December with
political science
first
vs. Villanova
BUs Jason
three
"As young as I am, I had
more experience than an
outsider, since I already had my
feet wet with town council,"
Knorr says, referring to his two
Dan Knorr
the
the
youngest mayor in Bloomsburg
town
become
of their families to attend college.
Huskies play
At 22,
Jorge Maldonado
"It
was
a
of fun for the
players even with
the final score."
Bloomsburg lost
to the Wildcats,
88-41.
advantages."
BLOOMSBURG
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Hockey Finesse
Field
Huskies repeat as
BU
NCAA champs
captured the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic
Association Division
II
field
5-2 win over UMass-Lowell
NCAA title,
six years
for
title
and ninth
last
a
November. The
Bloomsburg, the
fifth
The game was
in the last 12.
in the last
also a bit of
who were beaten by UML in
revenge for the Huskies,
2005
(UML)
head coach Jan Hutchinson, was
the 14th for
the second straight
hockey championship with
the
NCAA title game.
"I'm very excited for this
group of players," says
Hutchinson. "Every team
and
different,
Virtual
Classroom
this
is
group of
players fought hard
throughout the year,
Technology makes class accessible to
Sam
Slike, left,
all
overcoming
curriculum coordinator for BU's education
several losses,
to get here. But, ultimately,
think
was those
losses
of the deaf/hard of hearing program, uses an interactive
I
program
that helped us get to
for his online courses that allows students to
simultaneously watch a sign language interpreter, read
closed captions of Slike s lecture, type in questions
we wanted
and
instructional designer for the Institute for Instructional
Technology, adapted the program to include a videophone
and
instructor.
to
where
be and
that
is
NCAA champions."
review slides of the material. Pamela Bergman, an
for deaf students to
it
communicate back to the interpreter
in the photo with Slike is BU sign
Shown
language interpreter Kristen Fitzgerald-Eggleton.
Offensively,
Blooms-
burg finished the year with
132 goals scored, smashing
the previous record of 108 goals scored.
knew we had
"I
some very good scoring threats coming into
Hutchinson comments.
this
Easing the Transition
good.
It
"I
just never
does go to show that
the season,"
knew we would be
we had a lot
of depth in
that area."
BU, Lehigh Carbon CC forge agreements
Officials
from
BU and
degree at the Morgan Center
Lehigh
campus, where BU faculty
Carbon Community College
formalized
two agreements
will
designed to ease students'
degrees to BU bachelor's degrees.
An elementary education
BU
junior-
in
BU
elementary education.
Also signed
was
who
a dual-
begin their
elementary education courses at
college studies at any
LCCC
LCCC's Morgan Center
campus with plans
complete
in
to
students per year
an associate's degree
at the
in
education
community college
able to earn a
BU
will
bachelor's
be
their
coursework at BU, says
James Matta,
BU's assistant
vice president
and dean of
are enrolled
in
one or two
BU's health physics
program. Scholarship recipients will be selected through a
other criteria established by the NRC.
Students
may
receive up to four years of scholarship support
funding continues to be provided by the
NRC and
the student
maintains the necessary qualifications. Each scholarship
recipient
of
graduate studies and research.
must agree
one year
for
each
to
full
employment with the NRC
or partial year of
Total funding for this scholarship
David
R.
is
for a period
academic support.
program
is
$17,280 per year.
Simpson, associate professor of physics and engineer-
ing technology
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to provide scholarships for
who
competitive process based primarily on academic merit and
if
Tamaqua. Students who receive
received a grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC)
simplifies the transfer process
for students
to offer upper-level
Agency provides scholarship funds
and
admissions agreement that
completion program agreement
allows
all
senior-level courses
from LCCC associate's
transition
teach
IMRC Grant
and coordinator
of BU's health physics program,
serving as program director for the project.
President Soltz
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN
On an unseasonably warm and sunny day
in
mid-November,
the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's Board
of Governors
appointed David
L.
as
Soltz
Bloomsburg
University's 18th president. With his wife Robbie by his side,
the
new
president accepted, saying he
is
'delighted
and
honored with the wonderful opportunity at an excellent
university in an excellent system.'
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
David
and Robbie
were looking
Soltz
for
They wanted
a certain type of situation.
town where
sity
region.
on
had a
community
They wanted a univer-
positive influence
and the
the institution
the
with strong academics that served as the
LA., but
I
town in a rural
With Bloomsburg as our home,
nice to be in a college
it's
area near a major city.
Robbie and
a university located in a traditional
college
lived in
will enjoy the special qualities that
found in a close-knit community and the
cities like
my seventh year as promy academic experience, it was time
demic administration, and I was in
economy. They found
vost,"
in
Bloomsburg.
After a career spent at three different universities in
two Western
states,
he wanted in the
"I
David Soltz knew the
to
characteristics
says.
look for
that
'With
this opportunity, so I'd
dedicated
"I've
he would lead as president.
institution
saw Bloomsburg University's
he
been looking selectively.
my career to comprehensive universities
do the things
this university
and PASSHE do
such as provide access and opportunity
profile as very similar to
and highly valued degrees
lence in education
Central Washington, where he's served as provost and
graduates personally and professionally."
from the beginning
Soltz's
tenure as
looked right
affairs. "It
Soltz calls the similarities "striking"
was a very good fit."
BU's president began in early January,
like
it
following the retirement of Jessica
S. Kozloff,
"a talented leader
the
between Central
size of the student
new buildings,
college that
that benefit
body, the
the academic back-
became
a
comprehensive
university, the high-quality faculty, the dedicated staff
calls
him
who will serve both Bloomsburg and
commonwealth well."
Dr. Joseph Mowad, a member
mixture of old and
ground of a teachers
BU's presi-
dent for 13V2 years. Judy Hample, chancellor of the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education,
Washington and BU. "The
well,
for students, excel-
Central Washington University," he says as he leaves
senior vice president of academic
at a logical
of my career has been in aca-
cultural center while contributing significandy to the
it all
came
Soltz says his presidential aspirations
"Much
big
New York from time to time."
Philadelphia and
point in his career.
area's
can be
ability to visit
the pride the students
universities share,"
he
and alumni
feel
are qualities
and
both
says.
of BU's Council of
Trustees and chair of the presidential search committee,
agrees. "Dr. Soltz
is
uniquely qualified to provide the
necessary leadership to continue Bloomsburg University
moving forward in
Soltz
a very positive direction,"
grew up near Chicago and moved
an undergraduate student, earning
as
he
says.
to California
a bachelor's degree
in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley, in
1968 and
a doctor of biology degree
from the University
of California, Los Angeles, in 1974.
'When I went to
started
UCLA,
grad school at
see myself living in a major
urban
area,"
really didn't
I
he
says.
"Then,
and three kids and stayed
in
LA.
for
30
the Soltzes found the rural
on
to Ellensburg,
life
David
years."
After living for three decades in major California
moved
I
my career and got married. We had two careers
they love
cities,
when they
their home
Wash., in 2001. And,
three acres has provided lots of space for their four
horses and three dogs.
They
expect
to Ellensburg. "I
some might
conducted
research as a biologist, including field research in the desert regions of
"I
spent a
lot
I
'lores,
a senior art studio major from Danville, center,
BU President David L.
during their mid-November
His
priorities at
southern California," the
of time in small towns
and
new president says.
rural areas.
We've
and
to
know the
inviting student leaders to
academic
and
his wife Robbie
campus.
Bloomsburg include learning about the
and the neighboring
faculty, staff
He
and students
be an "advisory voice" in
issues, similar to a task force
Central Washington.
he
initiated at
expects to place a lot of emphasis
on educational exchange agreements, which he
are vitally important.
Continued on next page
WINTER 200
Soltz, right,
visit to the
issues important to the university
community, getting
didn't experience the "culture shock"
when they moved
greets
believes
.
"I've traveled to
to establish
Asia seven times
meaningful academic
exchange programs, including a
One
recent trip to Korea," he says.
of those agreements led to private
financing to support a professor of
From
Chinese.
that seed
grew a
David
and Roberta
L.
David
'Robbie' Soltz
Soltz
L.
tenure track faculty position and,
last year,
Chinese
an academic major in
David
Washington.
at Central
and senior vice president
Soltz served as provost
L.
Washington University before he became Bloomsburg
His wife, Roberta "Robbie" Soltz,
earned a doctor of biology degree
Jan.
7.
As
chief
academic
Ellensburg, Wash., he
officer of the regional
was
for
academic
affairs at Central
University's 18th president on
comprehensive university located
responsible for four colleges, the
in
graduate studies,
library,
from the University of California,
mem-
Irvine
and has been
ber
Central Washington. In
at
Ellensburg, she
Kittitas
a faculty
was
continuing education, international programs, research and grants, as well as student
academic support
Active
chair of the
member
of the Western Art Association's
board of directors. She
number
Committee
of
Academic
Officers for the state of
and as Central Washington University's representa-
was
the state representative on the executive committee of the Northwest Academic Forum.
Soltz also served on the executive
committee of the American Association of State
Cham-
local
Washington's
Higher Education Coordinating Board. For the past four years, he
tive to the State
also coordi-
he served as chair
of organizations related to higher education,
six public baccalaureate institutions
nated the Leadership Ellensburg
program through the
a
of the Inter-institutional
County Board of Health
Advisory Committee and a
in
services.
Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Grant Resource Center and
was an
original
member
ber of Commerce. Robbie Soltz was
on
the primary writer
a
number
of the implementation
High
Demand
From
fund Central Washington
Expan-
sion Program (STEP), designed to
increase recruitment, retention
American Democracy
Project.
Washington
Gov. Christine Gregoire appointed him to the Committee on the Education of Students
National Science Foundation grant
University's Science Talent
for the
of
grants, including a $1 million
to
committee
and
1
996
to
2001 Soltz
,
was dean
University at Los Angeles and, from
1
of natural
988
to
cal sciences at California State University,
1
As provost
or dean,
he
made
and
social sciences at California State
996, he chaired the department of biologi-
Long Beach. He also
of governors of the California Desert Studies
performance in science, technology,
in
Fields.
was
Consortium from 1992
official visits to
10 universities
in
chair of the board
until
2001
China, often negotiat-
engineering and math.
The couple views
Bloomsburg
their
move
ing cooperative
know,
opportunity. "You
a candi-
courses ranging from freshman seminar and general biology for non-majors to graduate
seminars on ecology and evolutionary biology.
Soltz earned a bachelor's degree
date interviews the institution, too,
and
I
about
"I
found
many positive
things
this institution," says Soltz.
like the feel of the
faculty
town, the
enthusiasm and the com-
mitted students
.
.
.
ley,
and a doctoral degree
in
about their education. All of the
is
zoology from the University of California, Berke-
biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His
research focuses on environmental biology and the population biology of fishes
stressful environments, such as high
book, a
temperature and high
symposium volume and numerous
b
Soltz
is
journal articles
the United
a Rotarian and, before moving to Bloomsburg,
Way of
Kittitas
mittee of Kittitas Valley
co-editor of
Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.
salinity.
He has
and environmental
was
a
living in
written one
reports.
member of the
board of
County and the strategic planning and implementation com-
Community
The new president enjoys
Bonnie Martin
in
good students
who are enthusiastic and happy
pieces are in place."
for international education opportunities. He's taught
to
tremendous
as a
agreements
hiking
Hospital.
and
fly
fishing in his leisure time and, with his wife
Robbie, rides and raises quarterhorses. The Soltzes have three young adult children and
two granddaughters.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
The number
granted
of bachelor's
degrees
the U.S. increased
in
24 percent between 1995 and 2005,
growing number
reflecting the
of
students pursuing a postsecondary
degree, according to the National
Center for Education Statistics. Yet
in
math- and science-related
the
number
of
fields,
degrees granted
actually declined.
A Bloomsburg
University professor
is
working to
change that trend.
Math Matters
STORY BY LYNETTE MONG
Mauch is always searching
new ways to help students suc-
Elizabeth
for
Mauch,
'08
associate professor of
really
mathematics, computer science and
ceed, from the youngest elementary
statistics,
student to the college senior. She
academic help and a positive living
particularly
tion rate
aware of the high
is
attri-
among science and math
students at the college level and
is
will
up on
giving
we hope
emphasis on math,
these students complete their studies.
students before they
To do
this, she's started a
summer
program
for young girls, led BU's
Math and Science Resource Center
and, most recently, helped
a
BU
attain
$600,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation.
The
grant, co-written
research,
is
with James
and
designed "to recruit and
retain students in the sciences
and
math, and to fund low-income students,"
fall, it
Mauch says. Beginning this
will provide
$10,000 per year
students
who
or science
13 scholarships of
for four years to
math
and satisfy low income
are majoring in
requirements. Scholarship recipients
will receive tutoring
Originally
from
through BU's
Student Support Services and
live in
fall
heavy
enter college. Every year,
organizes a
behind."
New York,
her master's and doctorate degrees
"We
from Lehigh University. She came
a certificate in
math content courses
for ele-
mentary education majors. Yet
after
nine years, she says, "Elementary
math is something I've become
increasingly interested
"It
math
interests
at the
elementary
because that
seem
to
Mauch
is
the time
keep them or
says.
interest.
get a lot of
good
college stu-
Emphathem
dents from around this area.
sizing
math and
when
they are younger will help us
retain
them as students when they
Mauch says. To make the
science to
are older,"
experience accessible, scholarships
summer 2008,
camp will be open to boys.
Mauch has no intentions of
are available and, in
the
slowing
in.
me how kids learn
down her efforts
BU students,
to help
present and future.
bringing projects to fruition.
level,
"I like
when we
And I love being involved with
lose them,"
To determine
the best
and Technology Living
methods
Community with
goes to elementary schools to
WINTER 2008
was
when the head of the
Learning
students in similar majors.
to
department assigned her to teach
several
girls
and high school, using
and demonstrations to
in middle
activities
education, but
Mauch
Math and Science
Summer Experience camp for
pique their
surprised
that retaining
to help
a Science
other
Mauch believes
degree from Moravian College and
math secondary
are in the
students begins long before they
Mauch received her undergraduate
Bloomsburg with
Matta, dean of graduate studies
"Through
tutoring, especially placing a
determined to find a way to help
you
every day."
keep students from
the sciences.
if
classroom, working with students
believes the additional
environment
leam what teaching methods
are effective
these students
to succeed."
and helping them
b
of teaching math, she often
work
with current teachers. "You only
Lynette
Mong
'08
is
an
Englislt/creative
writing major from Kennewick, Wash.
'The best moments found on
reality
TV are unscriptable, or beyond die
grasp of most scriptwriters,' writes
Michael Hirschorn, executive vice
president at
VH1,
May 2007 issue.
in Atlantic
Perhaps that explains
the appeal of the genre that's
staple
Monthly's
now a
of network programming.
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flnscf
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY
The
critics
of reality television say
it is
rife
And Emmy Awards won in 1993 and 1995
with
wannabe-actors and contrived storylines; however, there
is
another,
much brighter side
to the genre.
Bloomsburg University alums have found,
programming can provide
As two
along with another nomination in 1999,
field,
Now,
expand
as director of photography for
a career or to help build one. Neal Gallagher, director of
Loser," Gallagher
photography on NBC's "The Biggest Loser," gets to
and camera
watch the
hit weight-loss
for his
David Copper-
specials with magician
attest to
the quality of his work.
reality
great opportunities to
work on two
show unfold through his
lens.
is
in charge of 14
assistants.
"The Biggest
camera operators
He works with
the director to
develop the show's look, which includes
how inter-
Meanwhile, designer Lisa H-Millard impressed
views are shot and where cameras are placed. In addi-
producers enough
tion,
tants
on
"Design
to earn a spot as
the second season of
one of
1 1
contes-
HGTVs top-rated series,
he serves as the
liaison
"My job
Star."
is
half management, half
half putting out fires,"
Neal Gallagher:
dealing with people as
This one
Generally,
is
special'
it
show.
takes five
On any day,
had a long
for
cameraman and worked on
took him around the globe.
a freelance
career he finds so personally
and
professionally
rewarding has never been boring, he acknowledges.
10
we work 12-hour days and
cameras shooting as
WNEP-TV in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. He then moved
The
much about
actually shooting the
be anywhere from four
who
home in
to eight
there
much as
10 hours of footage. Multiply that by
you
it
find
takes a lot to
make
a
finale.
crew
is
Another challenge he faces
gets
not
all
live,
five
may
and
one-hour show."
Each season consists of 14 episodes plus a
industry. After graduating
assignments that
photography and
as
shooting days for each episode.
his
from Bloomsburg in 1982, he became a cameraman
become
it is
"It's
makes
career in the broadcast
to
he jokes.
Neal Gallagher,
Dallas, Pa., has
on
between the director and
the show's department heads.
is
live
making sure
of the shots they need. Although the
the
show
Gallagher points out, "we can't go back and
get the shot again."
Gallagher
is
extremely proud of the finished prod-
uct. "I've liked the other reality projects I've
done, but
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Neal Gallagher
'82, facing page,
takes in the scene from behind the camera on 'The Biggest Loser.'
In photo above, Clive Pearse, host of 'Design Star,' offers his perspective to contestant Lisa H-Millard '03.
this
one
is
special,"
he
says.
"I
honestly believe that
area;
our show helps people improve their quality of life.
do
it
We
without judging, making fun of or taking advan-
tage of
I
am of anything else in
also
see
'Behind the
scenes
and
was crazy
on "Design
Star"
tant
on the show's second
"I
relatively brief.
who
season of "Design
work within,"
graduate.
show
be on the show. In the
had
castmates'
first
live.
am
was
challenge, she
and
after
you
like
going to the bath-
are fitted with a microphone," she says.
"You need clearances
to
go into a store
good
as the
to film.
There are
for 1 1 people.
camera
And
lights are
on
while you are trying to sleep in the four hours allotted."
Married to Lee Millard '02
in
Bloomsburg
works
University's
for Atlantic
who coordinates exhibits
Haas
Equipment
Gallery, H-Millard
Specialists, a national
field
on
the
other career opportunities,
own design business, b
the
For a glimpse of Lisa H-Millard on
"Design Star" and samples of her design work, see
www.lisahmillard.com. To learn more about NBC's "The
selected to
Biggest Loser," see www.nbc.com/The_Biggest_Loser.
the other
Vegas penthouse
H-Millard incorporated
into her design of the garage
WINTER 200
the scenes during production.
including launching her
says
"I
I
a great opportunity for H-Millard to see
show will help her
are
my creative abilities."
to design the Las
names
room
Editor's note:
H-Millard's confidence paid off as she
contestants
was
restaurant design firm. She hopes her appearance
where you
tiptoes along the boundaries with-
out crossing them to
where they would
good contes-
a
season.
2003 Bloomsburg
also
what goes on behind
reality television
first
would make
given specific limitations to
type of person
Still,
says. "I
an oppor-
my personality and creative side."
sleep schedules are not
was
me
a great opportunity for people to
Millard's time in front
love the challenge of the show,
H-Millard, a
behind the
give
and commercially.
residentially
was
two bedrooms and two bathrooms
experience after she watched the
that she
working
that this
show would
the
camera, Lisa Hunsinger
she too learned a great deal from her
and decided
on
"You don't think about things
fun!'
a lot of time
of the camera
knew
It
While Gallagher spends
Star"
that being
tunity to test
Lisa H-Millard:
Star."
"Behind the scenes was crazy and fun!" she
knew
my career."
H-Millard has no regrets about
exit,
appearing on "Design
our contestants. I'm more proud of being part
of 'The Biggest Loser' than
however, the judges dismissed her from the show.
Despite her early
all
loft
of the
door
Kevin Gray
is
a freelance writer based
in the
Lehigh Valley.
STORY BY JIM DOYLE
V*
'72
In the
Company of
Frank Sheptock, seen during his college
career, facing page and at left, surprised
many when he chose to play for
Bloomsburg. His accomplishments led
to college footballs highest honor,
induction into the National Football
Foundation's College Football Hall of
Fame, in summer 2007, below.
Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and
Knute Rockne were among
54 pioneers
in
and
for
Sheptock
'86.
who were winless
The Huskies,
the season before
Sheptock arrived on campus,
an
college career, culminating in
Football Hall of Fame's first
class
1951.
in
unbeaten regular season and a
A college
to the Division
finals
coach credited with helping
to rebuild Huskies football
as a player
in
the 1980s
is
hall of
latest class.
high school football
The
had
was
a big decision to
star
make.
trip
me
as
an
also did a great job
The turnaround
in
burg's football fortune
Blooms-
came
slowly.
Sheptock was one of 14 freshmen
middle linebacker earned him
who
three first-team All-American
Bloomsburg was
And in summer 2007 he
started for the
petitive
1982 Huskies.
much more com-
than they had been in the
received college football's highest
two previous seasons, but they only
honor when he was inducted
managed
into
a 1-7-1 record.
the National Football Foundation's
hard to take
College Football Hall of Fame.
tock whose
Sheptock explains the appeal of
It
and
He
Sheptock's outstanding play at
a
fame's
a passion for
of recruiting my mom. Obviously,
my parents had a big influence on
my life and my decision."
national semi-
when he was a senior.
selections.
member of the
II
He had a passion for the
game and
individual.
showed steady progress during his
the College
gram.
had
That was
for a player like
Shep-
Mount Carmel teams
lost a total of
nine games in
George Landis' recruiting pitch:
his three years of varsity football.
several Pennsylvania State Athletic
"Coach Landis had
and
Walking
Conference schools were very
an
we
Huskies' season-ending 34-7 loss at
his senior year,
interested in his services. Millersville
and West Chester both seemed
like logical choices.
They were
conference powerhouses, and this
senior
all,
was used
he played
program
to winning. After
for the
winningest
in the history of high
there
was something
intriguing about the recruiting
pitch delivered
at
Bloomsburg
tually the
by
the
new coach
State College.
high school
star,
Even-
Mount
Carmel's Frank Sheptock, defied
logic
and decided on Bloomsburg,
a football
can win
at
'I
believe
Bloomsburg, and
believe that
I
East Stroudsburg, Sheptock
I
can build some of this
decided he'd had enough.
around you.' Here was a person
that
wanted
to try
"I
and rebuild
come
was with
girlfriend Lisa
something and give a group of individuals an opportunity to
off the field after the
in
and make an impact on the pro-
I'm outta here.
work
out.'
prevailed.
my mom and my
and
It's
I
said,
This
is it,
not going to
Obviously, cooler heads
Coach Landis refocused
me by telling me
school football.
Still
a passion
attitude that said
program
that
had
that I had made a
commitment and we would go
through some rough times. That
had a profound effect on me which
continues to this day as a coach and
a father
— overcoming
working through
to
your word.
"That's probably
a
adversity,
things, being true
what I'm most
two previous seasons, including a
proud of concerning my time at
Bloomsburg. I wanted out, but
humiliating 72-0 loss to Millersville
some people
in 1981.
in
combined record
of 1-18 in the
That decision turned out to be a
great
one
for
Bloomsburg
football
that
were important
my life refocused me. We were
able to hold
it
together
things around."
Continued on next page
WINTER 200
and turn
about.
touch?
How many lives can you
How many people can
you help?
Frank Sheptock, second mm left, takes the stage with other inductees
National Football Foundations College Football Hall of Fame.
'When you're allowed to do that
game that you love, you have to
to the
I
in a
ask yourself,
The Huskies
(23), as well as career
did, indeed,
turn things around. In 1983 they
Millersville just
removed from
With
72-0 loss to the
that
Chester in
It
may have been the
real turning
The
point in the Huskies' fortunes.
week before
in a
win
Bloomsburg's sophomore running
back, Vernon Rochester, suffered an
left him paralyzed. At
Redman Stadium the Huskies, in
tribute to their injured
from a 24-5
24 victory over the Golden Rams,
team
that
a
had beaten them 46-0 in
1984 the Huskies clinched
In
the
PSAC Eastern Division title on
Jay Dedea's 50-yard "Hail Mary"
pass to Curtis
final play.
Still
on the game's
Two weeks later
Bloomsburg
lost a
championship game
at
PSAC
at
Hershey.
stepped
favored IUP team 31-9 in the
PSAC
an overflow crowd
Stadium. They followed
with a 38-28 win over
Hampton in
a National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
(NCAA)
losing to North
quarterfinal before
Alabama
in the
national semifinals in Florence, Ala.
Sheptock ended his career
the final
(AFCA)
single
,
game
major college
Rozier,
poll.
He
Mid-Atlantic Conference
first
in his
and former Florida University
AFCA Region 2
in
rusher. Sheptock calls the experience
"phenomenal."
"The memories
it
in
in the
as
coach
'86, a
school
Berwick High School, and
their daughters Nicole, 16,
feel like this is
your day
was given the
the Heisman TroI
same treatment as
phy winners. I feel very fortunate that
the decisions I made as a young man
and
possible.
I
love the game, and
love being around the kids.
perspective,
it
it's
from a
football.
young men how
.
.
of rebuilding
.
is
also
lucky that Frank Shep-
Husky
football,
b
what
Jim Doyle 12 retired after teaching at
Southern Columbia High School for
32 years. He
to
how to be committed
to their families. That's
very lucky as a
When
your classroom, but
live their lives,
feel very,
differ-
day
tock decided 25 years ago to be part
I
teacher's
not about
me in
this type of
Bloomsburg University
anticipates a long coaching
I
make
ent ways to
very lucky
career. "Sure,
is
make you
person and a player."
Kelly, 13.
He
me. The people
College Football Hall of Fame
So many people touched
Berwick where he
with his wife Lisa
at
at the
eventually led to this type of situation.
from his home
nurse
brings back of
what I'm going through now, are
and your weekend.
also
Sheptock commutes to Wilkes
lives
starter
my time at Bloomsburg, in addition
III
(MAC)
football's
Bowden
Emmitt Smith who eventually
became the NFL's all-time leading
ranked
was named coach of the year
Football
and
a few
Heisman
Trophy winners Charlie Ward and
Mike
American Football Coaches
you're teaching
stand for tackles in a career (537),
Fame. He was part of a
that included
to
with school records that
still
20
very, very special to
1-1
1
would
honor when he
In 2006, Wilkes was
All-American selection and finished
single season (159)
him
I
good Lord
into the College Foot-
winningest coach Bobby
had a 74-44 career
you approach
with his third straight first-team
in coaching.
record going into the 2007 season.
of the year.
ciation
Bob Chesney gave him
12th season as the head coach of the
well as the
at
class of
when Demelfi
down Sheptock had his
Colonels, he
I
Sheptock received college
ball Hall of
fact that
over.
University and
Sheptock and the Huskies in 1985.
Redman
were
years later as an assistant at Wilkes
After an unbeaten regular season,
Bloomsburg destroyed the heavily
it
as long as the
was inducted
Lourdes Regional High
Association
Everything came together for
final in front of
with the
his playing days
In 1987,
never
allows
and
director of player personnel
12 th in the nation in Division
seven-point deci-
sion to California in the
it
football's ultimate
head coaching job. Currently
the previous season.
found
Ind.,
School. Joe Demelfi hired
25-
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heart-to-heart talk with Miami's
coach
teammate,
deficit for a
think
Dolphins. Afterward, he had a
to terms
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find something
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The last of
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injury that
rallied
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like to
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Mansfield,
at
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The National Law Center on
Homelessness and Poverty reports that
more than
3 million people experience
homelessness each year, including
1.3 million children.
Through
photography and advocacy, retired
BU
Gary Clark makes sure others
Professor
community.
truly see this invisible
Capturing
STORY BY KELLY MONITZ
Gary
F.
Clark cruised around abandoned buildings, small
wooded
patches and under bridges looking for Charlie and Lisa, a Florida
couple stranded, penniless and living on the streets of downtown
Wilkes-Barre.
The couple came
sick relative, but
squabble with no
tickets
to
way home. Lack of $140
—kept them on
the streets as
damp, bone-chilling autumn
Clark, a retired
less advocate,
before.
at
to northeastern Pennsylvania to care for a
found themselves on the wrong side of a family
He
nights.
Bloomsburg University
hoped
to
—
money for two bus
warm October days gave way
art
professor and
home-
connect with the pair he befriended the day
carried a bedroll, a soft, durable place to lay their heads
night until another solution could be found.
The
city
has two homeless shelters
women. But
— one
for
men and
one
for
the couple refused to separate for even a few hours,
Clark says. Nights found them huddled behind a city church and
other areas tucked just out of sight, largely invisible to the
nity
commu-
around them.
Clark, though, has always seen the homeless.
Even
as a boy, he saw them on
wondered about them. As an
adult, Clark walked among them
and mustered the courage to ask
the streets of
Retired
New York City and
BU professor Gary
Clark, far right, connects with
how they became homeless and
the homeless, including Charlie
what
and
their lives are like.
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Wilkes-Barre, applauds Gary Clark's work, because
he has brought awareness about people who fall through the cracks.
Episcopal Church
These men,
women and children
in
didn't hold back,
side of the railroad tracks
He
told Clark that
and was making
lunch.
own awareness and moved him to activism.
An award-winning artist, Clark uses his talents as a
but he remained out on the
photographer to put a
meets in
cities,
on the homeless people he
face
such as
New York and Philadelphia,
in smaller communities near his
Nearly
traits
and
stories
mashuga,
want
direcdy
Bloomsburg home.
Clark began posting their por-
awareness of the problem of home-
inspire others to activism.
plight,
it
stories, see their faces,
becomes much more
says.
Web site,
work locally and abroad and founded
his
presented his
the Northeast
the street
on
and eventually end homelessness.
The heart
of Clark's project, though,
one work with the homeless, a
is
shelters
for signs of makeshift
the large
A number
camped against a bridge support near
complex, but no one stays there now, he says,
A few blocks away,
St.
people started
site.
filing into the
Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen. The Catholic Social
Services program,
which provides lunches
dinners three nights per week,
stops in the
and
Diamond
City.
He hoped
daily
and
to find Charlie
the couple, Clark decided to
woman he met two years
A registered nurse and an alcoholic, Ellen lives in a
wooded patch on
a hilltop just outside the city limits.
Turning a corner, Clark spied an old
It
happened
weak to hold
right
old Welfare office."
through his
ate
Jimmy made
home and she got him help.
his flesh. Smoldering,
a friend's
come
a job.
Jimmy
lives inside
make him
now, but
still
including Ellen.
streets,
But she didn't
inside.
show up
at the
soup
Outside the building, 49-year-old Sandy waved to
Clark, excited to
friend,
Mike,
empty parking lot, and greeted him
hug. Mike had just left his camp on the other
tell
him her news. Her boss
offered her
a permanent position, another step toward the normal
life
a prescription
drug addiction
She started taking pain
One
pills
stole
from her.
following a surgery.
—
— and then she turned
prescription led to another
OxyContin
Vicodin, Percocet,
to the street drug,
heroin, she says.
"I
came out onto
the streets.
I
had a lot of experisaw a murder. I saw
ences out there," Sandy
recalls. "I
someone
There are desperate people
killed for $30.
out there."
Sandy was desperate, too. "I wouldn't eat for days. I
was a skeleton," she says. "I died three times. I went to
jail
15 times."
Her last
stay in the Luzerne
County prison saved her
because she took the help offered, got clean and started
life,
started looking for
ing
at
she says.
On this Sunday,
an apartment of her
Ruth's Place, the local
women's
Sandy had
own while stay-
shelter.
The most important lesson she learned through it
all is that anyone can end up on the streets. "I was a
homemaker. I was a stay-at-home mom. I came from
cutting through an
a
with a
to
18
train tracks,
don't forget that date.
and seared
rebuilding her
look for Ellen, a homeless
he lay along
19, 1999," Jimmy says, sitting inside the
"I
down from the
way to
her to
one of Clark's regular
Lisa there.
Not immediately seeing
ago.
is
afire as
another winter on the streets and hoped to convince
and unsecured doors and windows.
of homeless once
because an apartment building overlooks the
him
has attachments to those on the
A canister of pepper spray goes with
Sunday morning, Clark looked
set
His scarred body and damaged muscles
too
his one-on-
facet that often takes
him on all of his jaunts.
Weaving through a maze-like building complex on
a
and
kitchen this Sunday, either.
him into potentially dangerous situations on the streets.
Some of his subjects are drug and alcohol addicts or
mentally unstable.
own perils, though. Mike
when someone found and
Both Clark and Jimmy feared that she wouldn't survive
fledgling organization aims to unite students from
colleges throughout the region to help those living
its
That day, he woke up as flames
Pennsylvania Alliance Against Homelessness at BU.
The
has
February
passed out from more beer than he could handle.
and thousands
He has also
last
Jimmy, another of Wilkes-Barre's homeless, nearly
when two men doused him with lighter
simply
He calls his project Essential Humanity.
Millions have viewed the
streets
lost his life
clothes
have responded, Clark
unwilling or afraid to
street,
camp. He wasn't hurt; others haven't been
his
over here
ignore this problem."
to
as lucky.
soup kitchen.
understand their
difficult to
on the
"December
on the numerous and immediate problems
"Once you
facing the homeless today," Clark says.
hear their
burned
way
inside.
life
everything
fluid
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to raise
and
lessness
"I
five years ago,
and
up
set
his
he wasn't drinking anymore,
sharing their stories with him. Their plight raised his
good Christian
family,"
Sandy
says. "It
can happen
anyone."
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Wolownik, the head of Reach,
Stefanie
center at
St.
Stephen's Episcopal
Barre, agrees. "It could
Church
a drop-in
be any one of us," she
The homeless
tells
the story as part of Gary Clarks
the Northeast Pennsylvania Alliance Against Homeless-
says.
Wolownik works with the homeless every day,
helping some to re-establish themselves and others
meet day-to-day needs from clothing
Charlie Weiss' face
slide presentation, 'Essential Humanity,' offered during
in Wilkes-
ness' third
to
to blankets.
annual conference
who do good are
that's
there
all
what warmed him
last fall.
the time," Jeb says, explaining
to Clark.
This day, Jeb sat across the street from the soup
often find themselves in a deep, deep
hole, she says. They've lost their families, children,
kitchen with his dog, Aries, a Staffordshire bull
home and jobs, and some
Jeb and Aries
don't have the ability,
life. Some
work to rebuild, because they fear they'll
lose it all again, Wolownik says.
"They remember what they used to have," she says.
strength or knowledge needed to rebuild a
don't
want
"Working
to
for
$7.50 an hour
is
hard
if
they used to
to build a fireplace to
The drop-in
still
center, like the
Clark's regular stops.
have their pride."
fall
soup kitchen,
one of
is
who
through the cracks. The drop-in center has also
from blanket and clothing drives
that
hoped they would go
Most of Wilkes-Barre's homeless
where they can
soup kitchen or
not for himself, but
inside again during winter's
coldest months.
eating a
them
meal
and
finally
Lisa, the
found them
the soup kitchen, he told
for them, but had no luck
them back home. He hadn't given up,
he had a bedroll
though, he assured them.
The couple did get home, Wolownik said later. An
someone like Clark, came forward with their fare.
angel,
Although Clark admits he would have given the pair
stay near the city's
get a nourishing
When he
warm meal inside
that
finding help to get
he
organized or inspired others to conduct.
center,
warm through the
inside,
out of worry for his dog, which he rehabilitated. Clark
stranded Florida couple.
Wolownik applauds his work,
because he has brought awareness about people
benefitted
keep them
went
Clark's thoughts returned to Charlie
"They
terrier.
deep in the woods, where Jeb hopes
winter. Last year, Jeb
work for $15 an hour.
"Pride," she says.
live
at the
relax in front of a television at the
the
money if he had
was someone who
he wasn't the angel.
it,
felt
right
about
it.
"I
guess
Sometimes
it
that
drop-in center. Both are within blocks of each other, as
kind of thing happens. Someone gets moved by their
are the areas where the homeless seek meager shelters.
plight
When Clark first came to Wilkes-Barre, a few of the
homeless steered cleared of him, and not because his
street
name, Mashuga,
is
and does something.
"It's
a hit-or-miss thing, but sometimes people
connect," Clark said,
b
Yiddish for "crazy," either.
Jeb didn't approach Clark because he didn't
know if
Kelly Monitz, an award-winning journalist,
who did good.
"People
for the Standard-Speaker in Hazleton, Pa.
he was a do-gooder or someone
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is
a
staff writer
nne-Sophie Ekelund
Bloomsburg
79
enrolled at
State College
with faltering
English, a passion for learning
and
a
sense of amazement at an environment
where
creativity
was
aged.
The
travel
and leam about other
art
strongly encour-
major graduated with a desire to
cultures, never
dream-
ing she'd one day be involved in providing educational opportunities in a country far different
her native homeland
...
from
Sonam Jamyangling and
or her collegiate one.
Coming from a small town in Sweden, "the
move to Pennsylvania was not such a drastic change
Anne-Sophie Ekelund
for
me," Ekelund
says.
"As a foreign
—
my best to contribute to the international atmosphere at BSC at this time
there were about 20 international students on campus
but my new friends also came
student,
1
did
—
from towns in Pennsylvania such
as Berwick, Moosic,
Southampton and Holland."
Pay It Forward:
From Bloomsburg to Tibet
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN
WITH ANNE-SOPHIE EKELUND
'79
Ekelund traveled extensively
graduation and was living in
after
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Beijing in the
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and
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and decided
recalls.
Tibet
difficult,
to return
"Two years
had
I
it all
one day," she
later,
to Tibet to get married,
returned
I
be part of
inaugurating five schools and meet
new relatives."
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known to many as
Ekelund's husband,
Jamyangling,
is
"the school builder," a
as
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known
for its picturesque landscape
of snow-covered mountains and winding rivers.
Jamyangling had studied in Den-
mark as one
by
a
of 20 boys sponsored
Danish prince
after arriving in
in the Potala Palace,
requested to
which was
him by an
master painter of thangka, a
India as a refugee in 1959.
Society for School
scroll
painting
on
returned to the Tibetan Autono-
motifs.
could not have asked for
mous Region
a better
Twenty-seven years
later,
he
of the People's
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silk
Copco, IBM and private donors.
Ekelund says she hopes the
she says.
gift,"
As Jamyangling put
Republic of China as part of a
Swedish International Develop-
ment Authority, Volvo, Atlas
with Buddhist
wedding
and Culture
has received funding from the
older
Tibetan children being educated
in long
delegation to observe whether
hours, his health began to deterio-
human rights were being respected.
rate,
On the
Stockholm where they continued
and encouraged with opportunities
teachers with only three years of
work on projects for the society.
To support herself and her husband, Ekelund became a project
formal education taught children
manager
incredibly simple but effective
he saw great poverty
trip,
in the countryside
there
and noticed
that
were no schools. Instead,
as they sat
Back
began
and the couple returned
to
to
for the
through the organization's
will
Swedish furniture
one day
ahead."
'Pay
it
Forward,' which had an
on the ground.
industry, organizing exhibitions
concept," she says. "The phrase
Sweden, Jamyangling
and events abroad.
meant
in
five years of negotiations
Chinese authorities
for
with
permission
including
many orphans,
if
one did something good
individual, the other
attend
someone
good
home village
Swedish Tibetan Society
has done so
of Katsel. Eventually,
for
School
and Culture and
School and Culture became the
construction teams in the Tibetan
Autonomous Region and
foreign aid organization
allowed to build a school, a plan
grew
to
institutions,
108 educational
108
libraries
and
a
special gift to Ekelund.
"On our wedding day, he
announced
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would
to
me
also
that the organiza-
fund an
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school
for
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by local
the Swedish Tibetan Society for
built
would do some
Bloomsburg
else.
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many
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to as
Tibetan children as possible."
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Tibetan areas of China's Qinghai
Editor's note: For injonnation
and Yunnan provinces. Another
on the Swedish Tibetan Society
100 students attend high schools
for School and Culture, see
and
www. txbet-school. org. Anne-Sophie
Ekelund 19 may be contacted at
universities in China's coastal
cities
with the
society's support.
non-profit organization with
members,
the
for
another, instead of paying back that
Today, 13,000 children,
primary schools funded by the
that
efforts
supported
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to build a boarding school in his
first
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1990 and served
as
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Sports Hall of Fame.
first
into the hall of fame
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an adviser and coach.
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director for 13
on
of the Korean
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Quest sponsors
Quest program
offers
extended
trips
BU students, alumni
and friends. No experience
for
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BU.
and
became a real estate broker.
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Technology for his work as accounting director at the Hazleton
campus. He began teaching more than 33 years ago.
organization's 86-year history.
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on bike or on foot
trips
but requires a sense
of adventure.
Rock Climbing
at
Rocks, March 8
Smith
to 16:
Located within a
state
park in
the high desert plateau of
central Oregon,
Smith Rocks
has more than 1,400 climbing routes, offering something for
all skill levels.
Participants travel to
Walking Across
destinations in the
Way, two
commonwealth, across
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offered,
the U.S.,
in Africa,
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June 17
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of the English Lake District in July.
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prepared for any road or
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weather condition.
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Sept.
and Europe.
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villages
scenic long-distance walking
views of the
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trip is
beginning and
inexperienced backpackers,
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In addition to the programs
mounlisted
trails, is
located in the south-
west of Ireland, starting and
finishing in the
Tralee in the
town of
County of Kerry
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along the way. The
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and
distant hills.
day
above, Quest conducts
trips
on most weekends
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and designs customized team-
unique way
to
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England: Walking and Photo-
mountainous landscapes, the
additional information, contact
graphing the Lake
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July
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rural roads. Bikers
must be
(570)
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online at www.buquest.org.
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Athletic Hall of Fame
teacher.
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at Wellsville
Joseph Lubeskie, Kulpmont,
Lourdes Regional High School
Members of the 26th BU Athletic Hall of Fame
class
inducted
Graupp
last fall are
Toby Rank
Cuthbert-Jameson
'87, Kelly
Connelly '90 and Kathy Maguire-Stoudt
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'89, Bill
'92.
Rank played on the men's soccer team for four years and
scored 29 goals (number three all-time in school history)
and assisted on
He
from Our Lady of
40 years as a teacher
retired
after
and coach.
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'80,
14 goals.
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from Connecticut's
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Bristol
high
retired as a
school principal and later returned as a middle school
principal.
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High School
serves
on
the
board of the National Federation of
and was honored with
Athletics for wrestling
"Dennis Siegmann Day" in the City of Bristol for his service to
also
the school.
is
third in career
points with 71.
He was
a four-
time All-PSAC
East selection
was named
and
The newest inductees into BUs Athletic
Hall of Fame are shown with former
president Jessica Kozloff. They are, left to
right, front: Donna Graupp, Toby Rank and
Kelly Cuthbert-Jameson and, back: Kathy
Maguire-Stoudt, Kozloff and Bill Connelly.
field
hockey and
Softball.
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a two-year
is
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co-holder of the
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(four)
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game (nine).
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lacrosse
member
team and finished her career
leader in goals scored with 156
183 (now second in both
is
member
Kodak
Co.,
1,481 points (graduated in third place).
was named
also
He
first
team All-PSAC East both
years.
He was
B.
Jarman
(right) is president
and
of the National Center for
after a career at
where he was
Eastman
director of technology
He co-founded
the Infotonics
Dennis Moser, a special education teacher at Big Spring
High School, was a finalist for the Pennsylvania Teacher of the
Year Award. He has been teaching for 34 years.
Gregory Roussey was named director of transportation
construction-management services at Buchart-Hom Inc., Basco
Associates of York.
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Camp
Hill,
earned a
doctoral degree in educational leadership from
State University in
free
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with 534.
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Seminary in Van Nuys, Calif, with a graduate
starter for the
women's
Debbie Demko, a Pottstown High School English teacher,
was named to Cambridge Who's Who Among Executive and
Professional Women in Teaching and Education.
Patricia Bedeman Miller is dean of student affairs at
basketball team. She finished her career as the school's
Keystone College.
(now seventh) and
all-time leader in free throws attempted and made (514 and
361 respectively). She remains number two in steals with
284 and is 10th in assists with 225. Maguire-Stoudt was
")^/L John Bigelow (right) was promoted to
/ \3 president of New Jersey American
Water.
named
president in charge of regulatory programs
fourth leading scorer with 1,213 points
first
team All-PSAC East
as a junior.
He had been the company's
enterprise risk
WINTER
200
Penn
August 2007.
certificate in Christian ministry.
East as a junior.
Connelly holds BU's career record for
Maguire-Stoudt was a three-year
State University.
led the Huskies
both his sophomore and senior seasons and
named second team All-PSAC
years.
Technology Center near Rochester, N.Y.
1^7/i
of the men's basketball
BU's fourth all-time leading scorer with
in scoring in
1 1
in career points with
categories).
Connelly was a four-year
team and
and
of the
as the school's all-time
American film studies at Penn
in Quakertown.
Manufacturing Sciences
partnerships.
in her career
Upper Darby High
assistant principal for
He and his wife Mary live
of the field
hockey team, Graupp was a two-time Ail-American and
selection while playing for the Huskies.
was an
5 ^7 ~1 Rev. James Cavallero was appointed pastor of
/ A. Salem United Methodist Church of Danielsville. He
game
and points
member
principal for administrative operations at
to the
All-Region team
as a senior.
5^7/^ John Wolk has completed 37 years in education.
/ \J For the last three years, he has served as assistant
senior vice
and
management.
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Husky Notes
John Wetzel appointed
to Board of Pardons
^^T^T Mary Kropiewnicki (right)
/ / assistant provost for assessment and
is
program review
been employed
at
at
Wilkes University, She has
Wilkes since 1992, most
E.
recently serving as the director of the doctor of
education program.
Ernest Lemoncelli was
certified
by
the Princess Cruises
Alumni
Fla.,
approved or denied.
he
is
have enormous confidence
"I
treasurer of the Delta Pi/Sigma Pi
in John's expertise
Association.
and experi-
ence in corrections," says
Jerry Radocha stepped
down
as
head boys' basketball
Lt.
coach of Whitehall High School in 2007, ending his 25-year
coaching career
is
on whether clemency should be
cases to advise the governor
"commodore"
cruise professional at
A travel agent with Maxima World Travel Services,
Lake Worth,
to the
a five-person panel responsible for reviewing criminal
Academy as an expert
status.
Wetzel '98 was recently appointed
John
Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. The board of pardons
Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll,
who
at the school.
serves as chair of the
board. "The board of pardons
5^7Q Judy Spitzer Sexton
/ C3
will
(right) is director
of Clarke Pennsylvania Auditory/Oral
Center in Bryn Mawr.
an
early interventionist
specialist for
effective in
decisions with
Wetzel was nominated
Pennsylvania
and educational support
Lt.
Gov.
for the post
Catherine Baker Knoll and
Clarke and as a principal of the
Archbishop Ryan School
its
Mr. Wetzel joining our ranks."
A long-time educator of the
deaf and hard of hearing, she previously worked
as
be more
rendering
John
E.
Wetzel
for the Deaf.
approved
Joan Williams was named director of marketing at Ginger
Cove, a life-care retirement community in Annapolis, Md.
by Gov. Edward
Rendell and unanimously
He was sworn
the State Senate.
for
appointment by
in during a private
ceremony
in Harrisburg.
Wetzel, of Chambersburg, serves as warden of the Franklin
County
Prison.
He is currently working
towards a master's
degree in applied psychology from Penn
State.
}^7(~)
Kevin Wixted was appointed division chairman of
drawing, painting and photography at Alfred
University's School of Art and Design.
S
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State
Diane Lewis, Hellertown, was promoted
to
assistant director of continuing education at
Lehigh Valley campus. Previously assistant
of admissions at BU, she has
worked
at
Penn
Penn
to the director
State for the last
seven years.
5
Jimmi Simpson stars
Broadway show
Actor and alum Jimmi Simpson '98,
Aaron Sorkin's
play, 'The
BU students Nayeem
firm.
left,
discusses his role in
Farnsworth invention,' with,
left to right,
performance. Simpson stars in the Broadway production opposite
plays the
who invented
title
character, Philo T. Farnsworth,
1927 and was later pitted
RCA, played by Azaria, in a legal battle over
Farnsworth's patent. Simpson originated the role of Farnsworth at
the La Jolla Playhouse in California. 'The Farnsworth Invention'
began previews in October. Simpson graduated from BU with a
against the head of
Mary
Ellen Rutledge
was named
Eshelman
a shareholder in
land development and environmental consulting
Mechanicsburg and English professor Ervene Gulley following a
a boy genius
~1
JL. (right)
Rettew, a multidiscipline engineering, planning,
in
Islam of Bangladesh and Andrew Bliss of
Hank Azaria. Simpson
Q
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television in
She has been the company's
human
resources director since 2003.
Gina Spleen Jaeger
is
a captain with the U.S.
Navy
Medical Service Corps, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
Washington, D.C.
manager of
5Q ^ Scott Behrent,
O.W
operations with Farm Family Casualty
Pittsfield,
Mass.,
is
casualty
Insurance Co.
He
received an award for academic excellence
from the American
Institute for
Chartered Property Casualty
Underwriter.
degree in theatre arts.
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Kevin Kerrigan
is
in his
first
Colleen McAuliffe
term as treasurer of the
Commerce. He is a partner
accounting firm of Wiss and Co., Livingston.
Livingston (N.J.)
the
Chamber
McMane
Michael
and
is
Chamber
of
Commerce. He
a financial consultant with
Kathleen Moran, Newtown,
is
JT
Q %J
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5
CEO and owner of
Q
operations for
PPL
Electric Utilities for Luzerne,
financial
markets for Harte-Hanks
He was
Ohio.
Q \J
O
£l
Plasko was inducted into the Tamaqua Area
High School Athletic Hall of Fame. A standout in
Bill
C3 C3
coach
Q AJL Bryan
in high school,
he played
at
Allentown,
is
head
field
hockey
Parkland High School. She was previously
was a member of BU's
hockey team and an academic field hockey
the team's assistant coach. She
championship
C3
and basketball
Q Q Donna Hibshman,
5
previously president of The
Allegiant Group.
5
community sponsored
basketball at BU.
Cincin-
Inc.,
administrator of Bristol Glen,
is
a continuing care retirement
football, baseball
Carbon and Northumberland counties.
Stephen Drees (right) is managing director for
Schuylkill,
nati,
Theresa Loughney
by United Methodist Homes of New Jersey.
^y David J. Bonenberger is regional director of
C3 «_/
vice president for clinical
lives
AIG
5
9
is
operations for Acurian Inc.
Advisor Group.
Anthony J. Varano Jr., Berwyn,
Documents Solutions Group Inc.
chief financial officer for Girl Scouts
is
in the Heart of Pennsylvania.
in
in his third term as vice president
is
of the Livingston (N.J.)
in Livingston
of
Kellenberger
is
field
Ail-American.
plant
controller for Material Sciences Corp., Morrisville.
Births
Carla Williams Karboski '89 and
Tracy Walker Funk
husband, Ron, a daughter, Veronica
husband,
Marie, Dec. 16,2006
May
Pamela Palermo Schoenstein
Michael Gillespie
'91
Bree, a son, Benjamin Michael,
and husband, George, a
daughter, Grace Evelyn,
Oct. 23,
2007
Aug.
9,
Lisa
Rutkowski
Michael, Aug.
Loftus '92 and
7,
2007
2007
Jim Ahern
'93 and
'95, a son,
Jared Everson, June 24, 2007
Cathleen Zicari Flynn
Sherry Goliash Rine 00 and
husband, Chris, sons, Tanner
husband, Wade, twin sons, Gavin
'95 and wife,
2,
2004, and Collin
Jill
Riley
10,2006
Christopher, Aug.
2007
Yendrzeiwski Beddingfield
Sydney,
May
17,
2007
Angela Shoffler Charnosky
and husband, Andrew, twin
and husband, Dipesh, a son, Drue,
June
Sept. 11,2007
Erin High
a son, Michael,
2007
25,
'99 and husband,
2007
April 19,
'95,
2003; Audrey
Jessie,
and Alyssa
May 3, 2007
and husband, Michael, a daughter,
6,
2007
'96
Leigh,
June
Doan
12,
'99 and
2007
Joseph, Sept. 10,2007
husband,
and wife,
III,
Shelly Levan Stokes
Aug. 22, 2007
husband,
Holly Kapuschinsky
Kate, Feb. 24,
Magalengo
Eliza
'97 and husband,
Feb. 23,
2007
and husband. Kirk
husband, Kevin, twins, Reese and
fila,
5,
Marlena Zappile Thomas
'94 and
2007
WINTER 2008
'02 and
and husband, Wes, a son, Zander
'97
'99 and
Carl, a daughter, Jillian
2007
Ayers Booth
Thomas
daughter, Lia Sofie, Sept.
6,
Diane Sommers Reese
'98, a
husband, David, a daughter, Keira
Elizabeth, Sept.
Shawn
Wesley
2006
P.
Patrick,
Rosier
'00, a
Aug. 30, 2007
Laura Seigfried Seward 02 and
10,2007
June
21,
2007
Jasmine Slingwine Corazza
W07M and husband,
May 24, 2007
'97
2007
son,
18,
husband, Jeremy, a daughter, Emily,
'00 and
Charles,
Karen Craig Weingarten
Metzger Lahr
Jordan, Aug. 1,2007
May
Sept. 9, 2007
Kristin
Greta Keller Rosier '02 and
'94 and husband,
'94,
'00, a
daughter, Jenna Lynn, Jan. 15, 2007
Madison, June
husband, Michael, a son, Kordell
Rob Kutchi
and
husband, Carey, a daughter,
Scott, a daughter, Aislin Shae,
CalumSeamus,
'01
Joe Jachowicz
Jaclyn Janowicz Schaeffer '99
Michael Kaleta
'01
2007
Stacy Au Jachowicz
husband,
Stephanie "Niki" Jones Kutchi
a son,
29,
and husband, David, a son, Zachary
Debra, a son, Michael Robert
Carolyn Landis Brzezicki '94
Brooke, July
Sandi Schwartz Weisenfeld
a
daughters, Brook and Addison, June
Cover
Steven, a daughter, Mackenzie,
Colvin '96 and
husband, Charles Colvin
'98,
husband, Rick, a daughter, Audrey
4,
'00,
Consentino
Patty Mullen
Nicole, Nov. 12, 2004;
Jason Schmidt
daughter, Carly Ann, Sept. 10, 2007
Stacey Cardell Consentino
Aug. 1,2007
Marie, Sept.
Kate Mickel Schmidt 00 and
and husband, Michael
'96
9,
2007
Dec. 1,2006
twins, Grace and Andrew,
'93
9,
1
Wade,
husband, Adrian, a son, Jess Allen,
husband, Frank, a son, Ryan
and wife, Amy, daughters, Amanda
March
husband,
'99
Joseph, Aug. 29, 2007
Jeremy "Jerry" Schuebel
May
and Garett Austin,
2005, and a son, Landyn
'99 and husband, Kevin, a daughter,
Kimberly Nagy
'93 and
Jennifer Davis Olds '98 and
Aspen, Oct.
Tara Rothenberger Chauhan
Blydenburgh Ahern
husband,
'95 and
a son, Evan Russell,
Melissa Burns Pritchett'95 and
husband, Mark, a son, Nathan
Lori
10,
Eric,
'00 and
Al, a
daughter, Eve Mary, Aug. 15, 2007
Leslie
Barrows Steese
'04 and
husband, Jonathan Steese '04, a
son,
Connor Adam,
Oct. 2,
2006
Husky Notes
Mark Temons was a
He has
the Year Award.
chairman and coached
Kyle Kern
is
head
varsity basketball
coach
at
Allentown
Muncy high
the Pennsylvania Teacher of
finalist for
taught sciences, served as department
at
Bishop Neumann, Williamsport and
schools.
Central Catholic High School.
Aaron Menapace was named Berks County
Interscholastic
He is
Hamburg
JC\
employed
as the director of interscholastic athletics at
Area School
5
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District.
C Michael
the
ride
raised
Marsha
District,
earned her master's in curriculum
Wilkes University.
at
in
support of the Young
E.
Wilkinson Kouf ^SfOlM. accepted a teaching
position with the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit 16,
teaching deaf and hard of hearing students
and instruction degree from BU in 2007.
Sharon Zuzelski Castano is the internship and mentoring
coordinator
participated in
three-day, 212-mile bicycle
Survival Coalition.
f\ Wendy Blass, an English teacher in the Berwick Area
School
Greg Orth
Gillespie and
y \J Tour de Pink — a
— which
$350,000
Athletic Association Athletic Administrator of the Year.
at
Danville
Middle School.
Denise Teles was awarded the local Wal-Mart Teacher of
works as a math teacher at Emmaus
the Year award. She
High School.
5(^/~i Tammy
Specht, a certified accountant, joined the
S \J Gratz National Bank's Board
Patti
Wylie was
Year Award. She
is
JC\/£ John D.
of Directors.
a literacy coach for pre -kindergarten to sixth
grade in East Lycoming School
y
1 John Andronis
Lisa Stockmal Starcher
loan portfolio manager at
is
Gerald Blancard performed with the
Battle
Creek Symphony
Ninth Symphony. His
recitals
have included appearances in Hawaii, San Francisco and
Coldwater and
for the Pennsylvania State Police
'
is fiscal
director
Bureau of Staff Services.
Suzanne Davis Glowaski earned her
master's in
education degree from Chestnut Hill College and
for the deaf at
Tom Paternostro,
Nate Conroy BU
'06 recently
is
Navy Reserve
a U.S.
students and
BU.
As
petty officer
returned from military service in Iraq.
first
A father of two,
He
is
an agent with Zuber
a board member and past president of
is
is
young alumni.
Conroy was
student,
Community
principal of the Nellie F. Bennett Elementary
School in the Point Pleasant,
N.J., district,
Nate Conroy
Pennsylvania State System of Higher
campus
tours for students
Orientation
very visible
He
and
their parents as
an
Workshop Leader and represented BU in a
way when his image was used on a university
billboard. After earning a bachelor's degree in secondary
Boyertown Area Wrestling Association.
James Karaba
BU
he
led
the
affairs,
Education Board of Governors.
Kurt Davidheiser, Boyertown,
Realty.
as assistant
alumni
Government Association and one of
three student representatives on the
Adolescent Females.
SO
a
president of the
a social studies instructor at the Danville Center for
JC\ "2
managing editor of Contact
representing the university to current
Sharon T. Kerstetter is a family and consumer science
is
the
Recent grad gains
alumni post
returned to
teacher at the Central Columbia School District.
class,
is
clinical trade journal for eyecare professionals.
director of
an interpreter
manager and head of
Creek in Michigan.
Batrie
Scott Frederick, Susquehanna Township,
'92
a project
Team
.A. Capital Bank.
as baritone soloist in Beethoven's
is
Rettew Associates Inc. of Manor Township.
office of
District.
Lens Spectrum, a
Jf\
Snyder
y\J land development operations in the Chambersburg
a finalist for the Pennsylvania Teacher of the
where he had served
education/ history Conroy taught social studies
at
Columbia-
Montour Area Vocational Technical School.
In his position as assistant to alumni affairs director
as assistant principal.
Jeanette Underhill teaches at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic
School in Lewistown.
Lynda
Conroy works with students and recent graduates
show them the benefits of staying connected to BU
Michaels,
to
through the Alumni Association, from career development
^C^k /i Janelle Banack
S
is
-I- teacher for Lititz
a part-time intervention specialist
Elementary School.
Chris Beadling, president of BU's Alumni Association,
also president of the
Doylestown Rotary Club.
Stacey Hohenberg (right) was promoted to
manager of corporate marketing communication
for ICF International. She earned her master's
degree in 2007 from Johns Hopkins University.
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and networking
rentals.
is
them
He
to
on life insurance and car
become involved and introduces
to discounts
invites
them
to
ways they may give back
to
BU
as a
mentor,
volunteer or donor.
"This
to sit
is
the coolest job in the world,"
around and
something we
talk to
people
who are
Conroy
says. "I get
passionate about
love."
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Marriages
Mark Kessler '87
Justine Boer '00 and Drew
and Heather
Hoshauer, March 20, 2007
Joellen
Frantzen, July 7,
Sept.
McGee '89 and
Melissa Calucci
Paul
2007
Davis, July 18,
Rebecca Savoth
'02 and
Emily Shockey '04 and Dan
Raymond Pastore '01,
2007
Nystrom, July7, 2007
2006
9,
Katie Stott '04 and Gerard
'00 and
Kathleen Yerkes '02 and
Gregory Steber
Patrick
McNamara, July 2007
Wirth, June 14,2007
Eric Deeter '90 and Beth
Christian, July 13,
Treas
Michael Morella
'93 and Angela
Hwa
Ranck, Aug. 11,2007
Hibshman
Gahn, July
3,
June
Jr. '05,
Sarah Campbell
Chad
2007
2,
Belloft 03 and Gretchen
Walker, June 23, 2007
John L Shultz
Jeffrey
'00 and Russell
Angela Martin
2007
Chung, June
Megan Rowe
'94 and Gina
2007
'00 and
Melanie Bennett
Jeanette Anna, July
Callahan
16,
Court Kauffman,
2007
Laura Gawthrop '05 and
Kendra
2007
L.
'03 and
Branchick
June
Philip Martin,
Susie
June
Nelson, Oct. 13,2006
'00, July 7,
Karen
Amanda Edelman
2007
03 and
Matthew Brown, Aug.
Becky Souder '95 and John
Susan Berryman
Trochimowicz, Sept. 23, 2006
Moyer'99,July7,2007
Lisa Mull '96 and Justin Frantz,
Danielle Kadingo
June 23, 2007
Thompson,
'01
05M
Tara Rynhart
'02,
Varner,
June
23,
and Scott
2007
May 27, 2007
and R.C.
Janene Marcus
2007
19,
2007
,
Lauren Mallen '03 and Peter
Spera
May
1 1
Kratz '05 and Justin
E.
Sauder, April 21, 2007
and Steven
'01
Brett
Mitchley, July 7, 2007
2007
9,
Sweeney '00 and Ryan
Charles Hughes '94 and Ruth
2007
'03 and Alan
'00 and Christian
Skultety, July 30,
7,
Amy Fox '05 and
Sun
2007
2,
'05 and David
2007
Spatz, July7,
'03 and
Ashley Scheller
'05 and Brian
McHale,
2007
April 21,
John W. Shank
Deborah Marinko
'97
and
Kristie
Donny Nichani
Meredith Marko
'97
Michael Harrigan,
May 27, 2007
Alicia
Chesney
Majcher,
May
Christopher Pietruszynski,
Heather McCarthy
Aug. 18,2007
Roger Billman
Jeffrey Piazza '01 and Michelle
Tiffany Smith '03 and Geoffrey
McCabe,July6,2007
Worthington, June 30, 2007
Laura Renda
Tarah Sperrazza
'98 and
Schreiber,
'98 and
June
2,
Kimberly Sislo
Ryzner, Aug.
'01
and Sean
March
25,
2007
'00, Sept. 9,
Rebecca Callas
Kathleen Shue, June 30, 2007
Leonard
Kimberly Wilcox
J.
Campbell,
'04 and
'05, Sept. 28,
Kevin
'01
and Aaron
Rickelle Dennell '04 and
Stephen
Davis, July 19,
P.
'03,
Nicole Del Gotto
Harvey '01,
Elise
Genco
'04 and
2,
2006
Berrocal, Aug. 31,
'02 and
Joel
Maura Luciano
Sept
Nov.
4,
2006
Lori Effinger '02 and
Michael Stower, July 14, 2007
Gensil
'03, April 10,
Ronald
2007
Irving,
July
'04 and Patrick
9,
Sitler,
2007
Nicole
Jeffrey Sledjeski
2007
7,
Nicholas Karnes 07 and Amy
Newhouse '04 and
Bowman, March
10,
2007
Justin Boyer, Oct. 14,2006
Karlen Reich '07 and Eric
Scott Neuhard '02M and Mary
Lindsey Sampsell '04 and
Beth Fitzgerald, March 15, 2007
Snyder,
JC\^7 Kimberly Shewack Babbish, West Hazleton,
y / earned the doctor of audiology degree from the
Pennsy vania College of Optometry
in Elkms.
is
teaching French and
Spanish to junior and high school students
WINTER
'06 and Dustin
2007
John
Maginn'01,0ct.8,2004
High School.
Danielle
2007
Belack, Aug. 4, 2007
June
Juan
Jennifer Gaffney '99 and
Kyrston Toomey Strauch
9,
Jennifer Doria '07 and
May 9, 2007
at
Sheppard, June
Ashlie Dell '07 and Dale
'02 and
Michelle Barbera
2006
School of Audiology
Sabo'02,May26,2007
2007
Aaron
'99 and
Jedd
2007
'99 and Michael
Heather Serfass
'06 and
Gardner, June 23, 2007
Debra Rudy
Justin Shipe
Stacey Emery
2007
Rawhouser, June 23, 2007
Phillip Updegraff '01 and
Welles, April 20, 2007
Norakus
'03 and Brian
Jeremy
'99 and
April 28,
Brandon Palmer '06 and
2007
11,2007
Nina Beacher
II,
Gina Ormont '06 and Jonathan
Bobby
Deanna
'98 and
Dawalt
Ashlee Howard
Porrovecchio,
Shane Mull
'03 and
and
2007
5,
Beverly Stoltzfus '05 and James
Phelps 01 and
at
Lake-Lehman
May
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12,
Q
Chris
Light
'06,
May
19,
2007
2007
Christine Butcher Christman earned her master's
>^0 degree in business administration, human resource
management, from St. Joseph s University.
Sherry Clements joined Geisinger's Children's Miracle
Network
as northeast regiona coordinator.
Lyndell Davis
is
vice-principal at
Hopewell Valley Central
High School.
200
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Husky Notes
7(~Jf| Jennifer Aponick is the supervisor of special
S/
education for Salisbury Township School
Brian Gasper
Thorpe Area School
the Jim
Minishak named vice
president of digital sales
for
Mike Montgomery
development
Adam
in
MSG Media
at
is
District.
Penn Kidder campus of
the principal of the
is
District.
and business
director of marketing
York-based SA Architects.
Nichols opened a marketing and consulting firm
Langhome.
Vishal Petigara joined Archer
& Greiner PC. in
Haddonfield, N.J., as an associate.
rank Minishak '84
was
recently
r:
named
Irv Sigler, BU's only Harlon Hill
coaching varsity football
at
award
recipient, is
Thomas Fitzsimons High School
in Philadelphia.
vice president of
MSG
digital sales at
Deaths
Media, working closely
with the
MSG Interactive
Babcock '52
division to generate rev-
Dorothy Bennetto Tubridy '27
James
enue through advertising
Margaret A. Bacon '29
HarryJ.Weist'56
and sponsorships.
Lydia
As
vice president of
digital sales,
Minishak
Rauch Davis Butler
'31
McHose
Lucile
Herman Swoyer
Ethel
'58
Herbert Scheuren '59
Lois Hirieman Quick '31
is
R.
Ecker '32
Yurgis Socha '59
Ann L
responsible for develop-
Frank Minishak
ing and executing a
MSG's digital
broadband video, wire-
prehensive digital sales strategy for
platforms, including
less
Web sites,
and video on demand
for
all
of
Madison Square Garden,
MSG and
Radio City Music Hall, television networks
FSNY, and the
New York
com-
Knicks and Rangers.
Mary Cole Smith
'32
Arlene Werkheiser
Mary
George
Traub '32
Betterly Maiers '33
Schuylkill
for the
County
member of the
Bar, has
been appointed
as judicial
Honorable Jacqueline Russell of the Court of
Pleas, in Schuylkill
law clerk
Common
County.
Petro
Laurie Chaple Schneider, Pike County,
assistant
is
Sr.
'34
is
the Charlotte Acupuncture
E.
Line '35
Hilderbrandt '36
and
herbalist at
and Wellness Center.
R. Phillips '36
Troy Barrall '38
H. Klotz '41
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
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K.
E.
Berkheiser
Harry
Peter
Pamell
William
'44
L.
Jr.
Schappell
72
Betty J. VanGorder
72
73
Robert M. Laubach
74
Cleo D. Kinney Pass '45
Bernard Salek
'46
Moyer
Schrader Walker '46
J.
Bertsch '49
E.
Donald
R.
Joseph
E.
Jarman
'50
Smethers '50
Sopko
Leah Wertman
L.
74
Stellfox
74/'88M
Marion Toolan Brieden
76
Catherine Reeve Stresing
'49
Leroy Keller Henry '50
Richard
Terry
70
70M
Neil K. Oberholtzer
Lorraine Utt
'69
Kathryn Endrizzi Walsh '69
Joseph V.Stulb '44-45 (Navy V-1 2)
Anthony Paulmeno
at
Lichtel '68
Robert E. Stroble '69
Dora Taylor Smith '42
Harry
more Husky Notes online
www.bloomualumni.com.
W.
Fairchild '68
James E.Shaughnessy
MaryT. Quigley'38
Phyllis
Find
'67
Wagner
W. John Strong
Beatrice "Bea" Kirchman
Lawrence
E.
Dobb
Judith
Richard
M. Helen Keefer Schnure
a licensed acupuncturist
'65
III
Rapella Turi '6B
Charles
a marketing
with Affinity Advantage Financial.
Todd Trembula
Ernest
Rowena
School in the Massanutten District in Virginia.
'63
Louise Holic DuBois '67
Marian McWilliams Cohen '37
Derek Long, North Salt Lake City, Utah, recently passed the
Utah Bar Exam.
Chris Robinson is the athletic director at Broadway High
Dowman
Frank C.
for
the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
Joanne Sipe Wimmer
Gladys RitterCroman '34
Edward
Angela Heverling received her law degree from
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and now works
'61
Pauline RengTurek '33
Andrew
Pennsylvania Bar and
Nace
Ann
Letha Crispell Schenck '34
Michelle Heffner, a
E.
'50
Fritz '51
76
Theodore Kalkbrenner '82
Wendy J. Whitmoyer '82
Barbara Kuchta Challenger '92
John F Kowaleski
Michael
J.
'93
"Penguin" Buck '94
Kathleen Leshock Bressi '95
Daniel Parrell '51
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
J(\(\ Tanya Bieski earned her master's of science in
\J v/ nursing degree at Salisbury University. She a
is
certified family
nurse practitioner in Berlin, Md. She was
recently published in Nursing
on
Economics
for her thesis
Angela Muchler, an
in
work
Joy Hubshman is marketing manager for the Masonic
an active adult retirement community.
Village at Dallas,
Dave Marcolla,
manager
He
an interventional radiology technologist
is
Lansdale, joined
for the Pennsylvania,
^f\^
Fred Fox graduated with a master's in computer
\J\£d science degree
AT&T as marketing
New Jersey and
from Stevens
Institute of
Technology
Delaware
Ryan Quinn
Pennsylvania
is
the educational services officer for the
Army National Guard
at Ft.
Indiantown
Gap, Annville.
Michael Nguyen '00/'02M passed the Pennsylvania
boards for his physical therapy assistant
license.
He
physical therapy at Central Pennsylvania College
is
state
teaching
Kevin Robatin, a physician's
medicine department
Kelly Smaltz
Conshohocken
is
assistant,
joined the family
Geisinger Medical
at
a sales associate
Peter Spera is a manufactunng manager with Havis- Shields
Equipment Corp, Warminster.
and working
Lancaster Orthopedic Group.
Group
in Sunbury.
Jf\^y Allison Carr received a second national interpreting
\J %J certificate from the Registry of Interpreters for the
Deaf in December 2006.
Benjamin Inners was promoted
with Coldwell Banker's
in
office.
May
2007.
He
is
"1
Ashman
Sheri
\J JL
'01M, Orwigsburg,
is
executive vice
president of marketing at First National
Bank of
Chester County.
Kimberly Boyce
Department
is
a
merchandise buyer with Boscov's
Store, Reading.
Elisabeth Erickson received a master of liberal arts degree
from Temple University in
May
Jessica Martin Fieldhouse
is
2007.
a planner with First Capital
Engineering of York. She has worked as an urban planner for
five years
and most recently was the
Kim Gasper received
city
planner for York.
a master's of science in education
May
degree from Graceland University in
2007.
to captain in the Air
Force
based in Colorado.
Matthew Kenenitz
}/"\
at
in 2007.
lives in Scranton.
markets.
at
2007.
Kristie Phelps
Eric Lansberry works as marketing coordinator for Caesars
Lakeville.
opened Susquehanna
Reading Hospital and Medical Center.
foreign nurse migration.
Pocono Resorts in
audiologist,
Valley Hearing Professionals at Brookpark Station, Lewisburg,
teaches English at
MMI Preparatory
School.
Kendra Branchick Martin, Mechanicsburg, is director of
media relations for Gettysburg College.
Lois O'Boyle was accepted to the graduate program in
marine biology at the University of West Florida.
Angela Runciman is studying comparative literature in the
doctoral program at SUNY Binghamton. She began teaching in
fall 2007 after working as a graduate assistant with recruitment
and admissions.
Heather Vogt, Williamsport, earned a master's degree in
education from Wilkes University. She is a learning support
teacher at Curtin Middle School.
Corporate partners offer benefits to alumni, friends
BU
alumni and friends can benefit from
their university
connection thanks to BU's corporate partners
offer special discounts
who
while giving financial support
and programs.
The proceeds generated from the corporate partners
program benefit the Athletic Scholarship Fund and the
to university students
Celebrity Artist Series, according to
Tom McGuire,
director of sports information, marketing
and promotions.
Corporate partners not only sponsor events, but also
provide additional rewards to those associated with the
university.
For example, several Bloomsburg area restaurants
offer discounts
and some
local hotels give special rates,
McGuire adds. Other corporate sponsors include banks and
credit unions, car dealerships, an amusement park and
television and radio stations.
BU alums can show their support
es
for these local business-
and take advantage of discounts when they return
WINTER
to Bloomsburg for events
Weekend, McGuire says.
"The best aspect
beneficial.
The
is
like
Homecoming and Alumni
these agreements are truly mutually
athletic financial
support boosts available
scholarship dollars to help attract talented students to represent the university.
Those associated with the Celebrity
Artist Series help bring diverse cultural opportunities to
our campus and the surrounding region, as
well," says Jim
Hollister, assistant vice president of university relations.
"For their
efforts, the
partners are recognized for their
support of higher education and get great exposure for their
businesses to our very large constituency," Hollister adds.
For a complete
to their
list
of BU's corporate partners
and
links
Web sites, visit www.bloomu.edu/visitor/motels.
To become involved
in
BU
as a corporate partner, contact
Tom McGuire at (570) 389-4413.
Husky Notes
Jf\ A
Rebecca Callas
is
Gina Ormont Sabo is teaching lOth-grade English in
Md.
Ronald Stump is a high school social studies teacher for
Baltimore,
a probation officer
with the
state of
v/^t New Jersey.
Amy Wilk,
Kristine Tofts (right) has entered first-year
a speech-language pathologist with Geisinger
Health South, Danville, holds a
in speech-language pathology
certificate of clinical
competence
from the American Speech-
£
is
Denver where she
is
a researcher at the University of
Bloomsburg, she was named outstanding
is
pursuing a master's degree.
N J.
Jf\^7 Anthony Borgia, Factoryville, athletic director and
\J / planning assistant room coordinator at Mountain
is
is
a supervisor in the
retirement group at Merrill Lynch.
pathologist at
'OS/WM
and language
Elizabeth/Humility of Mary Health Partners,
Cynthia McMillin
St.
is
a speech
Youngstown, Ohio.
Jason Scott is covering
Silver Springs as a reporter for the
Sentinel, Carlisle.
^f\/L Kristie Anzulavich is a nurse practitioner in the sleep
\J \J disorders center at Evangelical Community Hospital.
Bauman, Plains, a speech pathology graduate student,
is the 2007 recipient of the $ 1 ,000 Von Drach Memorial
Scholarship. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta
Lisa
honor societies.
Kara Anne Boneillo
is
View High School.
Jamie Houseknecht is a research associate with Becton,
Dickinson and Co., a biomedical firm. He works within the
biosensor performance and development department.
Kristen Koveleski was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi National
Honor Society Award of Excellence. Koveleski is pursuing her
doctorate in sport and exercise psychology.
Adriann Schick, Muncy, joined the audit staff of Brown
Schultz Sheridan
& Fritz.
Paul Zipko
employed
EZ
is
Soft, Inc., in
as
He
Malvern.
an automation engineer
is
the son of
for
Dawn and Ken
Zipko 78.
enrolled at Wingate University, where
studying for a master's in education degree.
John Neil Delia Croce '06M
is
enrolled in
Temple
Alumna leads
University's dentistry program.
Justin C. Hill
in
scholarship.
Joseph Yasinskas, Clarks Summit, teaches ninth-grade
English and world history at Scranton Preparatory School.
an eighth-grade learning support
Kevin Leonard, Flemington,
is
Virginia School of
biology senior student and received the Phi
teacher at Haverford Middle School.
she
West
Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, W.Va. While
Kappa Phi Honors Program
Combs
Nicole
Timothy Finnegan
Pi
studies at the
at
Language Hearing Association.
Jf\
\J %J
the
Mar Lin.
Schuylkill Technology Centers in
is
WABC-TV
teaching in the Donegal Area School District
Mount Joy.
Christopher Kuebler joined the police force
in
Upper
E
Saucon Township.
Funk Campbell
ebecca
'83
was recently promot-
-ed to president and
general
manager of WABC-TV,
ABC's flagship
station in the
largest television
Rebecca Funk Campbell
nation,
position, she has overall
management
for the station, including
Internet site
and
its
and
In her
new
responsibility
three digital
"Live with Regis
market in the
New York.
TV channels,
Kelly,"
which
is
produced by WABC-TV.
Campbell had been president and general manager of
WPVI-TV,
the
ABC affiliate
in Philadelphia, since 2003.
She joined the station in 1997 and served as program
director and, later, as vice president of
Cruisin' Seattle
Earlier in
BU alumnus Bill Garson
and his wife Dana of Seattle, Wash.,
hosted an alumni cruise aboard the Dana Lou II in late September.
Among those
Halstead
'84,
'63
attending the event were,
left to right,
front row:
BU Alumni Director Lynda Michaels ^ASSM, Valerie
Frey '93 and Kathy Rogers 71; and back row: Chris Billet '94,
Garson
'63,
former
Kozloff '07H and
30
Pam
BU
Bill
President Jessica Kozloff '07H, Dr. Steve
Nancy Anderson
programming.
her career, Campbell worked
Pittsburgh,
at
KDKA-TV in
WFMZ-TV in Allentown and WGAL-TV in
The Philadelphia Business Journal named her
2007 Women of Distinction award.
She and her husband John are the parents of two
children, Dylan and Taylor Anne.
Lancaster.
a recipient of the
'58.
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as
endar
7
f/lfr,
Noted ceramist and sculptor Toshiko Takaezu
campus
she cast on BU's
Academic Calendar
in 1987,
is
Celebrity Artist Series
Events are held
Haas Center for
in
Spring 2008
the Arts, Mitrani Hall, or Carver Hall,
Spring Break Begins
Kenneth
March 8
Saturday,
more
17,
Gross Auditorium. For
information, call the
box office
at (5701 389-4409 or check the
Classes Resume
Monday, March
S.
Web site at http://
Celebrity Artist
8 a.m.
installed.
visits
the
new Academic Quad where 'Endless Circle,' the
BU art professor Karl Beamer is shown at left.
bell
Friend and
Bloomsburg University-
Alumni Association Board
Community Orchestra
Directors Meeting
Symphony Ball
Saturday, May 3,
Saturday, Feb. 23
6 p.m.
Philadelphia Alumni Mixer
Kehr Union, Ballroom: Reservations
required, (570)
of
389-4289
or
Phantoms
at Philadelphia
Hockey Game
mjelinkek@bloomu.edu
March
(date to be announced)
orgs, bloomu. edu/arts/celebrity_ list,
Day- No
Reading
Thursday and
Friday,
Classes
May and
1
htm.
2
Association cardholders pay half
of the
Classes End
ticket's
face value for all
shows. Programs and dates are
May 3
Saturday,
Community Government
Theater
Harrisburg Alumni Mixer
Tickets for theatrical productions are
Thursday, March 6
available at the
Arts box office
the
noon
to
Carver Hall Chapter Wine
Finals
10
Center
Friday,
Dreams
May 9
Motion: Paul Taylor
Dance Company
Undergraduate Commencement
May
Saturday,
in
10
Saturday, April
5,
times and
tickets, call the
Board ticket
Session
Session
I
-May
Bloomsburg Players:
-
II
III
July
Broadway at Bloomsburg:
19 to June 27
1
-May
Mitrani Hall, $25
Haas
Gallery of Art
are open to the public free of charge.
More
information about shows
is
available at http://departments
Center
tickets, call
Board ticket
Annual BU Jazz Festival Boby
Tickets go on sale
& The Warriors of
Wonderful Sound
show
the Program
389-4340.
office, (570)
March
March 20
Wyoming Valley Alumni Mixer
Thursday, March 27
Alumni
in
Monday to
Week
the Classroom
Friday, April 7 to 11
17.
Alumni Weekend
Friday to Sunday, April
1 1
to 13
Alumni Awards Luncheon
Saturday, April 12
Grad Finale
the alumni online community at
www.bloomualumni.com
Mitrani Hall, $5
16 to
Alumni Events
Visit
noon
Friday, April 25,
Lehigh Valley Alumni Mixer
Thursday,
226
Bloomsburg. For
St.,
Wonderful Sound: Ninth
Zankel
Lysistrata
April
20, Alvina Krause Theatre,
times and
19 to Aug. 8
Art Exhibits
Exhibits in the
Evita
Sunday, April 13,8 p.m.
to Aug. 8
Program
389-4340.
office, (570)
Wednesday to Sunday,
Session
show
8 p.m.
Mitrani Hall, $20
Summer 2008
226
Bloomsburg. For
St.,
March 13
20 to
Feb.
24, Alvina Krause Theatre,
Mitrani Hall, $20
Graduate Commencement
Thursday,
Wednesday to Sunday,
Saturday, Feb. 16, 8 p.m.
May
and Cheese Social
Moonchildren
Voodoo Daddy
End
Saturday,
Bloomsburg Players:
Swing, Daddy-o: Big Bad
May 5
March 7
4 p.m.
Finals Begin
Monday,
Northern Virginia Alumni Mixer
Friday,
Fridays from
subject to change.
Haas Center for
Mondays through
Wednesday and
and
Thursday, April 16
17, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
for further
details or to register. For information,
Alumni Association Board of
Concerts
contact the Alumni Affairs Office at
Directors Meeting
Dylan Vitone
The concerts listed below are open
15701 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 or
Saturday,
Photography, through Feb. 15
to the public free of charge unless
alum@bloomu.edu.
Yoshiko Shimano
indicated otherwise.
Geisinger
Chamber Orchestra:
Florida
Spring Concert
February (dates to be announced)
bloomu. edu/art/gallery. html.
Printmaking, Feb.
25 to March 28
Juried Student Art Exhibition
April 7 to
Sunday, March
25
St.
2,
2:30 p.m.
Matthew Lutheran
123 N. Market
St.,
Church,
BU Alumni
the latest information
Alumni Mixer
events,
Sunday, March 30, 2:30 p.m.
Siblings'
Thursday, Feb. 7
in Charlotte, N.C.
Carver Hall Chapter Dinner
Wolfgang, oboe
and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Kehr Union, Ballroom
WINTER
and Children's
Friday to Sunday, April 11 to 13
Saturday, April 26
Tuesday, Feb. 12
Web site:
Saturday April 19, 3 p.m.
29
Renaissance Jamboree
Alumni Mixer
Mitrani Hall. Featuring Randall
Gospel Choir: Gospelrama
to
Saturday, Feb. 9
Haas Center for the
www. bloomu. edu/today
Weekend
June 27
Weekend
check the university
Arts,
Friday to Sunday,
Special Events
Community Orchestra Concert
on upcoming
Multicultural Alumni
Maryland Alumni Mixer
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg University-
17
Jesse Bryan/John Cook
Reception
Basketball Alumni Reunion
For
May
Parents and Family Weekend
Friday to Sunday. Sept.
1
2 to 14
performance
Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, Feb. 16
Friday to Sunday, Nov.
1
and 2
Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
The
original barn, related
outbuildings and a field of
corn and cabbage can be seen
in the foreground in this
1893
photograph. In the background
is
the dormitory complex, later
WaUer
A Look at the Campus' Rural Past
Barns, Hogs, and Crops:
The
remnant of Bloomsburg University's
last
bam, disappeared
agricultural past, the old
as a
pan
for students to
agriculture.
90 years of farming and animal husbandry
years, students
of daily
and
for students
life
in 1869, a dormitory
was
a
had
to
faculty.
be
equipment needed
to plant
1870 where Luzerne Hall
is
This winter photo of the 1894
campus barn, taken about 1950,
shows the Class of 1917
now located. Most
of the crops
bam was built in
now located, and
where
Elwell Residence Hall
and harvest the
first
two
grew
worth of vegetables on
plots of land
Equally
bam to house their horses and to store
farmland east of campus. The
first
more than $1,000
faculty.
literary institute to a
constructed to house students and
the
1913
leam about
During the
normal school
essential
in
from campus 50 years ago, ending nearly
For the school to grow from a
Hall.
went
the dining hall
to
greenhouse to the
and
background
is
left.
In the
Navy Hall and
included onions,
the right are swing sets for
crops grown nearby helped to supplement the food
radishes, lettuce,
students in the Ben franklin
served in the dining
tomatoes, potatoes,
Training School.
is
the
hall.
In 1894, the site of the
bam was needed for an
bam was torn down and a
employees' dormitory The
new one was constructed in the area of the current
Northumberland Hall. The new barn was two stories
tall
with more than 1,500 square
as a stable
The
and
feet available for
for storage of the school
raising of animals gained
the presidents residence.
house be
built near
Two years
later,
that a "piggery"
Buckalew
to
com and cabbage.
Student involvement soon ceased, however, and by
the mid- 1920s the effort produced such a limited
amount
of food that
now
Principal
and slaughter
provide meat for the
"piggery"
and end
The old
but
its
days were numbered
it!
to build a
perform the
razed
in 1938.
Northumberland
member Daniel
rural past
program
when
of
the carpentry shop
With plans
new men's residence hall,
during summer 1958 to clear
primary work involved in growing crops, faculty
Hartline began a biology
college-sponsored agricultural
bam remained in use for the storage
garbage problem. The hogs could eat
S.
all
plumbing and carpentry supplies and lawn machinery,
was completed
to
became a money-losing
work. Farming was completely phased out a year later.
dining hall and to take care of the school's extensive
Although employees continued
it
endeavor. In 1927, President Francis Haas asked the
Trustees to approve the removal of the Buckalew
wagon.
renewed importance
following the 1903 purchase of Buckalew Place,
Judson Welsh suggested
use
to
Hall.
The
in place
by 1955
the
bam was
the
way
last trace
for
of the campus"
was no more.
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The University Store.
Brown. Red. Black. Turquoise. Lavender. Burnt Orange. Lime Green.
Hours:
And Pink. .make
Monday through Thursday:
.
that
colors today as fans
But no matter the
gold
Hot Pink! Traditional styling comes in untraditional
show
their
Husky
color, every T-shirt
and every fan
are true
maroon and
Priced at just $9.99 each, the 100 percent cotton T-shirts with the white
great
add
a certain zip to anyone's collection of
new look as BU ushers in a new era,
sizes small to
Friday: 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday:
at heart!
full-chest design
XXL, with some
For more traditional
hats, T-shirts, sweatshirts
gray and white.
University Store stocks a
and other
And all Husky fans
attire in
Noon
to 5 p.m.
Sunday: Noon to 4 p.m.
BU attire. A
the shirts are available in adult
full
The University Store
400 East Second Street
colors sized for children, too.
tastes, the
7:45 a.m. to 8 p.m.
pride in T-shirts of various hues.
range of BU
the customary maroon, gold,
can find hundreds of giftware items
and BU apparel, as well as gift cards in any amount, at the University
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Paul Taylor has used bodies
choreography,
known
showcased
in
in
motion to
for
its
aspects of
illustrate
life
since 1954. His
extraordinary athleticism and naturalism,
is
PBS's American Masters series program, "Dancemaker."
BU's unique program includes a
new dance, "De
Suenos," meaning
"of dreams," set to music from the Kronos Quartet's CD,
"Nuevo." Also on the program are "Musical Offering"
Kingdom"
(1986) and "Cloven
part of
(1976).
The 2008
tour,
American Masterpieces: Three Centuries
of Artistic Genius,
Endowment
is
supported by the National
for the Arts
and the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts.
Tckets are $20
k
BU
for adults
and $1
for
students and children ages 12 and
younger. For information,
call
the Haas
Center Box Office at (570) 389-4409.
y»
Paul Taylor
Dance Company
Saturday, April
5,
8 p.m.
Haas Center for the Arts
Mitrani Hall
esplanade photo C
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SPRING 2008
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V
BU alumnus carries his
alma mater to the top.
Mountaintop, that is. Page w.
Team's accolades come after season
of hard work and heartache. Page 18.
Eyewitness
to
Mount St. Helens
eruption studies, explains volcanic
activity.
Page
6.
News Notes
Music
to Their Ears
Program earns accreditation
Work vs.
Good Work
BU's music program earned accreditation from the National
Association of Schools of Music (NASM). BU's program
617 programs accredited
Prof studies personal
"Reviewers visited campus two years ago and again
values in the workplace
spring," says
Stephen
Clickard, chairperson of the
department. "They examined our curriculum and
For Joan
Miller, assistant
listened to our students
professor of nursing, there
difference
is
a
between "work"
and "good work"
— and
interested
and
Joan Miller
that
in
exit our
and
in
rewarding career.
Miller has taught in BU's nursing department for
13 years. During that time, she noticed nursing
last
music
facilities
and
and ensembles perform. They were
the musicianship level of our students as they enter
in
BU's music program, which consists of tracks
music education
liberal arts,
one of
program. Our students did very well."
Enrollment
difference can turn a job into an inspired
is
nationally.
certification K-12, audio/video recording
has grown from 14 majors
in
1997
to
76 majors
and
in
2007. The department has eight full-time faculty and four
adjunct faculty.
students were becoming increasingly jaded toward
their future profession,
prompting her
to
look into
ways of encouraging excellence and moral
among nurses
accountability
Miller
entering the workforce.
soon discovered The
GoodWork Project,
Harvard professor Howard Gardner's multidisciplinary study of good
work
— work
quality, socially responsible
that
is
excellent in
and meaningful.
Although research on business, journalism and law
were already in progress, no studies had been
conducted in the nursing
24
field.
So, Miller interviewed
professional nurses at various stages of their careers
to determine
their values
why they are in the profession, establish
beliefs and leam how they overcome
and
obstacles in the workplace with those values in mind.
She found that the values those nurses developed
early
had the strongest hold on them
this in
mind, Miller determined that
for nurses
life.
With
should be taught early in their education
and reinforced
freshman nursing seminar course
good work
last fall
profession
—
models
— from
and found
one's family or
are essential," Miller says. "Students
enter this profession because they
others and,
when asked about
their desire to
want
to help
values that support
be a good nurse, they say they
wouldn't compromise the integrity they learned
from those mentors."
expertise
into a
mentors often inspired these values in young
nurses. "Role
Journalistic Perspective
Media pros share
later.
Miller incorporated the idea of
that
later in
ethical standards
Journalism professor Walter Brasch moderates a discussion panel
during the Journalism Institute, a day-long event attended by about
150 high school students and their advisers. Panelists included Mike
Lewis,
WNEP-TV anchor; Justin Walden,
national media specialist for
Geisinger Health System; Brandi Mankiewicz '94, associate publisher
of Journal Newspapers; and Joanne Arbogast, managing features
editor for the Daily Item, Sunbury,
and
editor of Inside Pennsylvania
BU graduates participating in the institute were
Andy Heintzelman '85, editor for the News-Item, Shamokin; Sam
magazine. Other
Bidleman
'76,
newspaper adviser
Bloomsburg High School; Pat
at
Trosky '95M, features and entertainment editor of the Citizen's Voice,
Wilkes-Barre; Danielle Lynch '07, reporter for the Daily Local News,
West Chester; Maryjayne Reibsome
'02,
graphics and
Web
designer;
Nicole Clark '07, a graduate student in BU's institute for interactive
technologies; Matt Colosimo '06,
BU
broadcast engineer; and
Jonathan Gass '05, copy editor and page designer for the
News, Harrisburg.
Patriot-
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Sharing Experience
Program brings young profs to BU
A new program offers young professors the opportunity to
develop their professional
teach at BU.
skills
while they
program, designed
for recent graduates of doctorate
programs and graduate students entering the
doctorate study,
welcomes applicants from
under-represented populations
working
work and
live,
The Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars
as faculty
final stages of
historically
who want to
gain experience
members.
The program encourages diversity within the campus
community and exposes students to different cultures and
ideas, according to provost James
Mackin. Frederick
Douglass Teaching Scholars are also introduced
benefits of working at
BU and have
to the
Ivan Turnipseed, assistant professor of business management,
the opportunity to
become involved in campus organizations and initiatives.
The first Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars, Wazi
Apoh,
assistant professor of anthropology,
have created and taught specialty courses, worked with
faculty
members within
campus and served
management, has taught courses
is
as
in
who
and human resources
both
Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars.
fields.
Apoh, who
from Ghana, created two new courses focusing on the
archaeology of Africa and the anthropology of human
"The scholars gain teaching experience and, hopefully,
learn
temporary
their departments. Turnipseed,
specializes in the hospitality industry
left,
first
and Ivan
Turnipseed, assistant professor of business management,
student organizations on
and Wazi Apoh, assistant professor of anthropology, are BU's
rights.
from our
institution," says Jonathan Lincoln, assistant
vice president for academic affairs. "Students can take
specialty courses they wouldn't normally
have the
opportunity to take. Current faculty have the chance to
mentor and leam from the new
faculty
future applicant pool increases. In
program
is
a
win
for
members, and our
my opinion,
this
everyone involved."
Forward Motion
Redman Stadium renovations begin
Renovations are underway at
Stadium,
home
Redman
of the Huskies since 1974.
After gaining approval from the Council of
Trustees
in
late-December 2007, work
moved ahead on the
project that features
a press box with elevator,
artificial turf field,
new
railings,
a
new
visitor bleachers.
ments
will bring
new
rest rooms,
track and field facilities,
parking
lot
Many of the
and new
improve-
the stadium into
compliance with requirements of the
Americans with
Disabilities
The Trustees accepted the
Act (ADA).
bid of
$3.2 million, along with an additional
$250,000 for
lights,
pending approval
from the Federal Aviation Agency. The
FAA's decision
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is
expected
later this year.
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Volcano Watcher
STORY BY MARK
CNN, MSNBC, Fox
News, USA Today and
Carolyn Driedger
75
U.S. glaciers were
all
she
National Geographic
are just a
few of the
media outlets that
have turned to Carolyn
Driedger '75 for an
first
left
Mount St.
Helens and Mount
Rainier from her
vantage point at
the U.S. Geological
Survey's Cascades
DIXON
Pennsylvania in the 1970s to study glaciers.
out west, so
had the opportunity
it
was in Washington and Alaska
to observe these large
that
chunks of ice and
how
bureaucrats respond to them. In Alaska, Driedger and her colleagues in the
U.S. Geological Survey
Glacier
was
(USGS) reported
to officials that Alaska's
Columbia
calving off icebergs at an accelerating rate.
"People laughed," Driedger
MT RAINIER
VOLCANO/LAHAR
WARNING SIREN
Silly bureaucrats. In
dodge one of those
recalls.
1989, while trying to
bergs, the
Exxon Valdez
oil
tanker struck a reef and spilled 10.8 million
understanding of
activity at
E.
gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound.
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ACTIVATED GO TO HIGHER
GROUND
QUESTIONS??
CALL PIERCE COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
253-798-7470
Cleanup cost
millions. Today, researchers
predict that the 30-mile-long
will fully disintegrate within
Columbia Glacier
50
years, to
be
replaced by a water-filled fjord.
But the
spill
wasn't Driedger's turning point.
What changed her life was a visit on May
17, 1980, to
Coldwater Ridge,
an observation point in southwestern Washington from which volcanologists
were monitoring a long-dormant
— though rumbling— volcano
five
miles away.
Volcano Observatory.
on glaciers, was there
know-how. The mountain was covered with glaciers and she
track the effects of its increasing warmth upon them. "The volca-
Driedger, interested in the effect of volcanic action
to share her
hoped
Snow-capped Mount Rainier is a picturesque and potentially dangerous - backdrop to many
communities in Washington state.
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to
nologist
on duty, David Johnston,
Continued on next page
said
it
wasn't safe there and told
me
to
—
After the eruption of
Mount
volcano could do.
addition to the 57 dead,
In
Helens, politicians realized
St.
Mount
St.
what
a
Helens had
destroyed 27 bridges, nearly 200 homes and 185 miles of highway.
Rocks from the landslide and
go
home
for the night,"
lateral blast
covered 230 square miles.
she says.
The next morning, she was driving
back
volcano
to the
when she wit-
nessed the catastrophic landslide
and eruption, which swept away
on Cold-
the observation point
water Ridge, opened a gaping hole
and reduced the
summit elevation by
in the volcano
volcano's
more than 1,300 feet. Johnston,
last words to headquarters
whose
were, "Vancouver, Vancouver, this
is it,"
was
killed.
In retrospect, the disaster
created a "once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity," says Driedger.
Suddenly, politicians realized
what a volcano could
do. In
addition to the 57 dead,
Mount
St.
Helens had destroyed 27 bridges,
nearly
still
Damage
to public
property alone was estimated
$1.1 billion
—
and
at
in a rural, mostly
lateral blast
covered
230 square miles and the volcanic
which were an average
measured more
depth of 150
feet,
than 600
deep in
feet
of the
it
also
Some
Other
disasters
places.
of Columbia's
than 130
of
Mount
feet
the
a flow
composed
A lahar
itself.
of volcanic
rock and ash and water that
descends the slopes of a volcano,
usually along a river valley.
The
— which binds
and
motive
—was
by
water
together
previously
the debris
provides
supplied
on
its
the ice
the summit.
"Removal of snow and
the volcano doesn't
St.
Helens,
Driedger. "A lot of ice
ably vaporized
on
on
as
think,''
says
was prob-
that day, but a
electrical conductivity of ice
different than
lahar
which followed the
killed
impulse and measuring
takes to return,
we can
how long it
determine
More than a dozen major volcanic peaks are sprinkled
around
Oregon, Washington and northern
California, but the closest to a
23,000 people. In the Philip-
1991 Pinatubo eruption
with rock," she
by sending an
the thickness of the ice."
hun-
major population center is Mount
Rainier, only
54 miles from
Seattle
and the nearly 600,000 people
dreds of people while the eruption
who live
killed sigrtificantly fewer people.
Tacoma (194,000) and Puyallup
(33,000)— are closer.
"Around
that time,
(USGS)
real-
there.
Other
cities
we would have mud flows
in an eruption," she says. "So we
one cubic mile of perennial snow
decided that we'd better figure out
and
how much snow and ice we had to
Driedger.
ized that
Driedger and her colleagues per-
formed hundreds of measurements
on Cascades volcanoes, using a portable "ice radar"
and
receives
"As
ice
it
turned out, there
system that sends
an electronic pulse.
is
about
on Mount Rainier," says
"It's as much as on all the
other Cascades volcanoes
deal with."
ice
happen
quickly as you might
del Ruiz
town of Armero,
pines, the lahar
that followed the erup-
not the eruption
re-emphasized
high with a top speed
mudflow,
is
explains. "So,
1985, the eruption
Nevada
"The
valley
remains on
40 miles per hour. The
swamped
damage was
ice
volcano produced a lahar more
killing
force
of the land surrounding
the mountain today."
caused by the lahar, or volcanic
is
much
went down the
in the lahar.
this concept. In
layers,
Much
lot of
Rocks from the land-
forested area.
tion,
exists in
significantly altering the areas environment.
200 homes and 185 miles
of highway.
slide
Volcanic ash
com-
bined." Because of the volcano's
massive ice load and close proximity to large
populations,
siders Rainier the
USGS
con-
most dangerous
volcano in the Northwest. Geologi-
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Wash. Bacon frequendy opposes
Driedger stands
stump
leveled by
beside the
of a tree
a prehistoric lahar.
proposed developments in areas subject to flooding, lahars
and other
hazards. Like Driedger, he
is
used
to
being ignored.
"Development laws
developments
.
.
allow
.
proceed which
to
should be stopped," says Bacon,
"including the big ones near Rainier
cal studies, previously
in the
updated during the past decade
and the mountain
is
now studded
with sensors.
"People won't listen to you
when
we
we had
ized that
at
real-
to beef up the
USGS
the
— and her
know if Mount
wobbles. But
pan
to
much as
only the scien-
of the story.
to Driedger,
USGS
its
presuming
they were approved.
ness.
emergency prepared-
She speaks frequently
pub-
at
meetings, where she has learned
to strike a
can't say
areas.
Don't build any-
thing,'
"
gest
that municipalities avoid put-
is
she says. "So, what
sug-
I
So, as at the start of Driedger's
But she
family
on high ground
Evidence
is
survive lahars.
When
abundant.
Then, as a sort of bonus, she
room on
"It
had
tains,"
she
a great
who chaired
compiled copious
west
but
Driedger proposed an outreach
program
and
to educate officials
the public about volcanic
mic hazards.
In 1995,
and
ied
by
prehistoric lahars. But even
that doesn't alter
seis-
USGS
agreed and appointed her to run
it.
lot
of the
coming
phone
to
calls
were already
me because I was will-
ing to talk to reporters."
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He was always
challenging us to ask
questions and to not just
make
assumptions."
Married in 1992
to volcanologist
Larry Mastin, Driedger and her
husband
so what does
science education major. "Plus, a
the geography
department, was so inspiring.
with their daughter, Clara,
"The attitude
for
is
kind
of,
'It
another hundred years,
it
matter?'
"
she says.
Delivering such messages
challenge, sympathizes
serves
on
commission
is
activist
a local land-use
in Pierce
a
Vancouver, Wash.,
live in
whom
they adopted from China in 1997.
"Clara
is
the
knowledgeable
know," she
most volcanoballet
says.
dancer
I
B
Andrew
Bacon, an environmental
who
won't
great
Frantz,
development will happen.
happen
earth
had
Wendelin
tions exist forbidding development,
of my Bloomsburg days," explains
who had been an
many building
plans, says Driedger. If no regula-
was the only one who had a
background in education because
"I
Driedger,
unearth
side, they frequently
massive tree stumps that were bur-
most
view of the moun-
recalls. "I also
Puyallup Valley, an area of weak
the shelf.
lived
of her college career.
unstable rock
statistics,
the top floor of
where she
Hall,
1980 eruption, the agency had
on
in
tion.
revealed. In the years since the
Rainier's north-
in a Blue Bell, Pa.,
because of its mountain loca-
professors. Dr.
they mostly sat
up
part,
builders excavate foundations in
on
loves the mountains.
still
summer. She chose Bloomsburg,
Columbia
tures
may
which headed west every
and other
the
don't listen
be her biggest challenge.
scored a
on
who
career, officials
ting their hospitals, police stations
critical facilities
be
that they are safe since
Driedger grew
moderate stance on
development in lahar-prone
newer studies and
measurements and sensors
residents will
general public. She organizes semi-
valley floor." Typically, only struc-
had no mechanism of communiwhat
that reaches officials,
emergency professionals and the
"You
colleagues
Rainier so
that's
According
cating
ignorant of the danger, he says,
Cascades Volcano
Observatory
tific
— assigned
Most
event."
lic
monitoring of Cascade volcanoes."
Today, Driedger
today
program
drills that test
USGS
USGS
to Driedger,
has a multi-pronged educational
nars for teachers and participates in
things are quiet," says
Driedger. "Plus,
Thanks
performed
1960s and 70s, have been
which have a great chance of being
wiped out in an eruption or lahar
County,
Mark E. Dixon
Wayne, Pa.
is
ajreelance writer in
Quality academic programs,
reasonable costs and a
friendly environment draw
students to Bloomsburg
from across Pennsylvania.
The same traits also
attract students from
much farther away.
World
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STORY AND PHOTOS BY ERIC FOSTER
When Sharma arrived at Bloomsburg
Until he stepped onto Bloomsburg's campus,
Darpan
India,
Singhal, a native of Indore in central
had never seen snow. Neither had Amreen
Mosthapha from Bangladesh, Xianrui Meng of China
there were about
50
15 years ago,
international students
on campus
from a dozen counties. In 2007-08, Bloomsburg has
150 international students representing 58 nations.
or Marina Miranda of Brazil.
Despite their varied experiences, international
But Yulia Smotrova, a Russian student in Blooms-
students choose Bloomsburg for
many of the same
burg's master's of business administration program, says
reasons that native Pennsylvanians do: the reputation
one of the things she misses about home
the snow."
of academic programs, the small-town atmosphere
cities
the affordability.
"is
For Singhal and Miranda, growing up in
where the
typical winter temperatures are in the
(Fahrenheit), several inches of cold white stuff
BU's academic quad
is
something new and unique.
For Muscovite Smotrova, several inches
is
a
mere
dusting that hardly counts.
The
facts
on the ground may be the same, but the
campus from different
perspectives students bring to
locations
around the globe
are very different.
These
different perspectives are a valuable addition to the
intellectual
and
cultural climate
Madhav Sharma,
on campus, says
director of international education.
"International students bring the
knowledge and
experience of other cultures from around the world
to
our Pennsylvania students,
When Jessica Laasonen of Finland arrived at BU in
50s
on
who may never have
may interact and
fall
2006, she intended to stay just a year as an exchange
student. But she
found herself smitten with the town,
and her classes.
The latitude that American students have when
the university
choosing classes
is
something Laasonen finds
selected a track
and
that determines
take," she explains. "I
had
what courses you
a course in
Information Systems) here that
I
GIS (Global
would never be
able to
take outside of a technical school in Finland."
Smotrova,
who earned
a dual undergraduate degree
from both Bloomsburg and the Moscow Finance Acad-
emy under the Government
of the Russian Federation,
chose to continue her graduate studies
understand globalization firsthand," says Sharma.
because of the strong reputation of BU's
"In addition to bringing their perspective to the
exciting.
"In Finland, at the university level, you've already
traveled outside the U.S., so they
classroom, international students also spur American
and
at
Bloomsburg
MBA program
and of the American higher education system in
general.
Continued on page 12
students to go abroad by their example. In a regular
semester,
we have 30
to
and during the summer
a hundred."
35 students study abroad
that increases to
more than
Russian student Yulia Smotrova carries the
Slovakian flag during BU's homecoming parade
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"I
had
Britain or
a choice
between Newcastle College
Bloomsburg," she
says.
in Great
"The United States
is
considered to have the best higher education system in
the world.
And Bloomsburg is
Bloomsburg
is
mal exchange programs with
for-
Meng came
to
in January along with three other students
from Shandong University of Technology.
"This
student,
is
a peaceful
and
Bloomsburg completing
his
expected to arrive in
fall
18 to 24 months
at
computer science degree.
two dozen students
2010 from Shandong
Bloomsburg has formal exchange agreements with
ties
China and more than 20 universi-
worldwide. As the number of international stu-
dents
at
Bloomsburg has grown, so has the
says Laasonen, a junior business
man-
"Bloomsburg
feels
very
safe," says
positive
Miranda, a senior
mass communications major whose hometown, Sao
used
to
making it one of the
was
a
little
difficult to get
such a small town."
Although the Bloomsburg community has
offer, international
transportation,
students
still
much to
Food,
face challenges.
customs and manners are
all
different
from home.
"I'm a vegetarian
own food,"
day. Protein
and
and I have
says Singhal.
you have here.
University alone.
eight universities in
people
Street,
agement major from Helsinki. "That doesn't happen in
largest cities in the world. "It
More than 20 students from China currently are
studying on campus, including Meng and his cousin.
That number will continue to grow in the coming
years with a cohort of about
"When I walk into the shops on Main
Paulo, has 19 million residents,
beautiful town," says the
who will spend the next
charm of the
a city as big as Helsinki."
universities in other
countries, particularly China. Xianrui
Bloomsburg
through
attract students, the
community keeps them.
remember me,"
affordable."
also attracting students
While the academic programs
cook
to
"Our food
is
all
of my
not like a salad
We cook with 20 to 30 spices every
comes from nuts
cashews, almonds
like
pistachios."
Miranda misses the beans and
in Brazilian cuisine.
rice that are a staple
And, even when Smotrova can
"word of mouth."
locate the ingredients for a traditional Russian dish, she
"My sister had a friend who came here and said it
was a good school for business," says Mosthapha, who
finds that the
looks forward to a career in the U.S. as a financial
homesickness, the students admit.
manager or marketing manager.
end
"One of the
Miranda chose Bloomsburg based on the recom-
who earned a doctorate
from BU. And Singhal, whose
biggest differences
ica,
degree in audiology
don't have to act
is
a doctor, selected Bloomsburg because he
was
same.
on some
getting used to
the American cheerfulness," says Smotrova. "In
mendation of her cousin,
father
result just doesn't taste the
Subtle cultural differences can bring
you have
to
wear
a smile
happy
if
all
we
we aren't."
International students also discover a less-formal
could complete the well-regarded graduate program
atmosphere in U.S. classrooms. "In India, you
in exercise science in just over a year.
drink in
12
Amer-
the time. In Russia,
class," says Singhal.
"You have
to
can't
wear a
shirt
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and
trousers,
and you stand when the professor walks
Bloomsburg's international students often bring an
"My
extra degree of seriousness to their studies.
taught
me
things,"
fet.
to invest in education,
Smotrova
Get as
says. "I
much as you
who
took
and four
back
to Russia
how to
semester as an undergraduate
"I
will
go
my country and make Russia a
know 1 will be responsible for my
parents, too."
Singhal's experiences in his family's hospital have
given
gate
him
life. I
think about
why we
are
here in this world. Not about daily frustrations and
problems, but
why we
something
humanity.
for
should not waste
are
human.
Life
We should do
goes in seconds and
we
Just as these students devote themselves to their
own cultures and homelands.
There
there
her an opportunity to see her
Moscow has also given
home from a fresh per-
spective.
"When I went back
to Russia the last time,
was the
tourist,"
she says.
tures everywhere.
For me,
it
was
like
I
Like Smotrova,
was
"I
was taking
like a
many international
it
pic-
new country."
students
become informal ambassadors for their home countries. They march in BU's homecoming parade each fall
each spring semester that brings hundreds of guests
from the campus and community. And, through the
tional students
and
education
office, interna-
faculty serve as guest speakers
with
often believe Finland's largest
is
company,
cell
phone
"My countrybut 1 remind them that some
located in Japan.
men are bothered by this,
states have as many people as Finland. Do
we know the names of all the American states?"
American
Smotrova believes physical distance contributes to
Americans' lack of knowledge about the
world. "In Russia, you have neighbors.
Laasonen says one of her most gratifying experiences occurred in Riverside Elementary School in the
Danville School District where she talked to children
Laasonen, for example, says her American friends
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class.
when I helped,
community organizations.
it."
manufacturer Nokia,
This year,
five students.
efforts of the international
studies, they enjoy opportunities to teach their class-
mates about their
were
"Three
and, along with international faculty, host a banquet
a special sense of purpose. "I've seen the
between death and
says.
helped professor Luke Springman from
Smotrova's time away from
says Smotrova,
and help
I
I
were 25 students."
can.
a semester as a graduate student.
better place to live.
But there are signs of change, she
years ago,
languages and cultures with a Russian
not in tangible
become open-minded,"
six classes a
family
think of education as a buf-
"You're here to be a better person, learn
think logically,
When you live in the United States, it's the center of
the world. France seems so far away."
into the room."
about her
home
country and
its
holiday traditions.
In Finland, she says, "everyone
Claus
try,
lives in
knows
that Santa
Lapland, a northern region of the coun-
not the North Pole.
"At Riverside, the children asked
were
real,"
she says.
they don't
fly.' "
Eric Foster
is
"I
told them,
me
if
reindeer
Yes they are, but
b
rest of the
You
feel
it.
co-editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.
13
Stephan
Pettit '89
knew he needed
personal goal to achieve his
first
to set a
professional success.
A Harley-Davidson seemed like a logical choice.
STORY BY JACK SHERZER
Discipline
Ever drop
off
some
old paint cans,
and Drive
company, Clean Earth Systems, often
Since
much of the
cleaning products or batteries dur-
play a role in the disposal of hazard-
ardous waste
ing a household hazardous waste
ous materials such as these.
incinerators,
cleanup drive?
some
Or maybe
toxic waste site
what happens
read about
1989
Starting in 1993, Pettit, a
and wonder
Bloomsburg grad and Husky
din and other
line-
the best
way
is
it
to
same
time. But until recendy, a
the
lot of the materials
dug up and hauled away? Stephan
Pettit and his Tampa, Fla. -based
board!") into one of the
ers of
card-
main
suppli-
hazardous waste containers.
is
in a container that can be burned at
box company
it
that
pack the material
backer, has turned a small corrugated
("Don't call
special
seems obvious
dangerous materials that are being
to the
nation's haz-
burned in
were put in
stor-
age drums. Aside from being night-
mares to
store,
companies were
left
—
He was right.
with contaminated barrels that had
to
be crushed and thrown out in
expensive, hazardous waste landfills
when
came
the time
to destroy
1985 team
the
was pan of
won the
Penn-
sylvania State Athletic Conference
title
and was the
first team
win 12 games.
history to
the contents.
Pettit
that
in school
degree in mass communications,
biggest can hold three tons of mate-
which he thought would help him
—
rial
it
—
up
it is
totally
combustible. Pack
once, and that's
"This
it.
was a replacement
for steel
Pettit
headed back
New Jersey, where
to
sales world.
him
job selling photocopiers
rugated boxes and were running
the sales industry
my daddy did drums and
know,
his
daddy and so
hard
you
sell to
on.
It
was a
really
begin with."
But a desire to
sell
discipline to achieve
the
40-year-old
Pettit since
up in Middletown, N.J.
owned a printing com-
kid growing
His father
pany and spent
printing sales.
his entire career in
passed
Pettit's father
on a love of selling.
Sports also loomed large in Pettit's life. "I owe most of my professional career to sports,"
"There's the
cipline
and
of that
—
if it
comes
I've said
it
dis-
into
many
wasn't for football,
would not be where
I
of
I
am today."
while he was head coach of the
football team, a position
2000. Diana,
he
in
left
who is also vice
presi-
dent of the company, raises Arabian
horses on the couple's ranch outside of Tampa,
which they share
with four horses and two dogs. The
couple often travels to Vail, Colo.,
for
snowboarding.
was
One was
set-
ting a goal for yourself," Pettit says.
"I
always wanted a Harley-Davidson,
I
had
clipped
a picture of the Harley
my sun visor.
on
you
"After
get kicked out of six
row
receptionist as
copier,
for bothering the
you
try to sell a
always helps to have the
it
goal right there where
it.
you can
Something tangible you
are
see
work-
ing toward."
Pettit didn't get his
Harley in the
year he sold copiers, but he got
soon
after
moving
it
Tampa and
to
In his business, Pettit
is
eyeing
the global market. His corrugated
&J. Gallo
Winery, where he worked for three
containers meet
and
used anywhere in the world.
taking a sales job with E.
says.
teamwork and the
all
play in business.
times
he
— one
itself that I
taught very early on.
offices in a
he was a
his
wife of almost five years, Diana,
"There are certain tricks within
tough goals
have been characteristics of the
to take a
the toughest sales jobs to have.
so
— and
He
and
drums but in the beginning nobody
knew what we were selling," Pettit
says. "We came in with these corinto the old school network,
earned a
in the business
his father convinced
He competes in
an ice hockey league and met
Tampa Bay Cougars minor league
Not so with a corrugated box.
While it's built extra strong
the
At Bloomsburg,
sports seriously.
a half years.
strict
manager, take Clean
Nations standards, so they can be
And in his spare
researched the industry while
reconnecting with his love of
still
time,
Earth Systems on
the road for a trade
when
he's not playing sports, he's
a friend told
Pettit,
and Ashley
Skrzypek, regional
United
him about
environmental packaging. He
Then
Stephan
right,
show. Opposite
page: Pettit's passion
for motorcycles
inspired early
After graduating from Middle-
working at Gallo and, just a year
town High School South, Pettit was
recruited by various schools,
bought out
including Princeton and Rutgers.
became owner and president of
Then, he got a
burg.
It
call
from Blooms-
was 1984. Then-head
after
forming the business, he
Starting with a
sales
ing the program and Pettit
ida, Pettit
"I
had been on
other schools, but
Bloomsburg,
I
could
tell
in
New Jersey and Flor-
has guided the company's
now has
Earth Systems
when
houses with sales teams in each,
got to
program and
staff," Pettit says.
"You
they were going to be a
heck of a program."
Gibson Les Paul
about 30 employees
amount and growth rate
for the
company,"
we hit them
is mine." b
of reaching
$10 million
and
to
www.cleanearthsystems.com
work growing
still
more information
a goal
in sales this year.
his business, Pettit
Gibson
about Clean Earth Systems, go
more than
Despite the hard
Pettit says. "If
in 2008, that
takes his
Jack Sherzer
is
a professional writer
and Pennsylvania
lives in
native.
Hanisburg.
business success;
one of his company's
products (top).
have a goal of a certain
dollar
12 ware-
total,
A
guitar.
Editor's note: For
I
him his
next tangible business goal:
"I
warehouse and
growth across the country. Clean
it.
absolutely loved the
SPRING 200
1994 he
recruiting trips to
school, the football
the coaching
was
crew
This interest gave
guitar.
Clean Earth Systems.
coach George Landis was rebuildexcited to be part of
his partner. In
music and once again playing the
He cuirently
The mountaineer George Leigh Mallory said
'If
you cannot understand that there
is
man which responds to the challenge
and goes out to meet
of
life itself
won't see
it,
in 1922,
something
in
of this mountain
that the struggle
the struggle
is
upward and forever upward, then you
why we go.' A BU alum
is
among the few who
understand the challenge of the mountains.
When David Good played
for the
team
Huskies soccer
in the late 70s,
Good,
a
him
member
climbing,
started
Good
30 years
has a
takes a reminder of
new
Wyoming and,
for
moun-
Bloomsburg
Good
for
another
way
caught on to the sport immediately.
"I
doing more rock climbing, and the natural
mountain climbing. You
it
to
began a
some
of
the globe.
says. "If
I'd
ever done
mountain climbing
There's a lot of suffering that
early
is
some-
comes with climbing,
mornings, the cold, being dehy-
drated and hungry. Mentally,
many years after
him
thing you enjoy, you find that out pretty quickly.
between the
by 1996 he was looking
on
the second
is
Good,
"Grand Teton was unlike anything
before,"
of the Eastern College Athletic
is
mountain, Grand Teton, in
Grand Teton
the highest points
to the top.
extension of rock climbing
first
feet,
was an
When a friend introduced him to rock
Good
his
course of adventure that would take
1979, continued to play soccer for
to stay active.
Good climbed
Nelson Field House that
inevitable part of
How much
'How much bigger?
says.
highest peak in
to
Conference tournament championship soccer team in
graduation, but
Good
Mount Olympus
appreciation for
— and he always
he
"
June 1998. At 6,530
practice. Nearly
tains
higher?'
dreaded the run up
later,
University with
are always asking,
it's
very tough. People
more times because they think they can't
do it, rather than not being able to do it physically. It's
amazing what the body can do, but they let their
minds take over.
probably
"But
I
fail
love the challenge of it, to see a
and wonder what's up
to get
up
there,
and then
mountain
figure out
how
there myself."
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tainly
want
a guide,"
major mountain
Good
says, "but
planned on
I
Since he began climbing,
Aneto was the
Good has conquered
mountains in South America, Europe, Africa and
along with the U.S.
Asia,
He has climbed 15 peaks in Colo-
—
Of the famed "Seven Summits" the highest
seven continents
Good has conquered
Mount Elbrus in Russia and Mount Kilimanjaro in
rado alone.
peaks on
two:
first
my own."
—
all
Tanzania. Although he and his wife took a break from
climbing following the birth of their daughter, Eleanor,
in 2004, the appeal of the
ERIIMG
BU Alumni Association event in Adanta, Good
At a
told former
newfound
alumni director Doug Hippenstiel about his
interest in climbing. If Hippenstiel
would
send him a Bloomsburg University banner, Good joked,
he would climb
to the
year,
Good has been
more
of the Seven Summits.
McKinley
—
in June
fourth of the Seven
mits
there, too," Good says.
"When Doug actually sent me such a nice banner, I
thought, well, I better make it up to the top now," Good
Bloomsburg up
laughs. Since then, the reminder of
been with him on every climbing
And as for Everest?
"If I
gua under
my belt, Everest
Bloomsburg has
trip
if
climbed Island Peak in
Nepal so
I've
seen
in the
and has graced
Hood, Uncompahgre, Bierstadt,
Sherman and many other peaks. "A couple of
climbing buddies know that on every mountain
But
doesn't happen, I've
I
can
it,
at least
say
that I've stood
shadow of it."
For Good, the experi-
the tops of Kilimanjaro,
ence of the climb
Antero,
just as powerful as reaching
they've got to get a
banner shot,"
says.
In 2000,
to climb Pico
traveled to Spain with his wife, Janet,
de Aneto in the Pyrenees. At
Aneto was the
first
1
1,168
feet,
major overseas mountain that Good
climbed without the aid of a guide. The couple prepared
for their alpine ascent
training with backpacks that
50 pounds. "When you
by running
regularly
climbing,
you
feet,
night at
one's
around and you're above
the trees, the view
sibly experience in
you
get
is
any other
something you
can't pos-
situation. That's
most beautiful things about climbing
cer-
Lynette
for
me."
one ofthe
B
Mong
'08
is
an English/creative writing major from
Kennewick, Wash., and BU's Student Employee of the Year
for 2007-08.
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at
when no
and
weighed between 40 and
first start
,000
itself is
'When you're
the summit.
camping out
1 1
Good
the highest peak in
and expects Mount Aconcagua,
Sum-
it
Good
Mount
he'll scale.
sponsors' banners,
on summits waving their
thought it would be great to get
up with me,
climb
can get Denali and Aconca-
always had a soft spot for Bloomsburg and, after
they get
—
two
at least
the highest peak in South
may be a possibility.
my
He plans to
America, to become the
seeing pictures of people
I
preparing to climb
known as Denali
also
North America,
summit of his next mountain
with the banner in hand.
"I
mountains hadn't faded. Since
own investment consulting business last
opening his
Many Feet One
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY
For the self-proclaimed "daddy's
girl,"
In
late
December, 'CBS Sports Presents
Championships of the
cross country runner at
featured
member of the 2007
the story of one
women's
NCAA'
cross country team,
West
of the season
is
Virginia University,
BU
accomplishments. "He was
athletic
always
Bethany
my coach and my best
friend," she says.
It
was running and the
support of her teammates that
the heartaches and
helped her through her
Running, she
the victories that were shared by
time
every
There comes
country
when
in
a
cross
race
it.
This
her
fell
down
while trimming a
if
when his condition
improved enough
season of BU s 2007 women's cross
moved
country team.
gram; however, in mid-October, he
clot in his
brought
me up to
you always
finish
and
something bad happens, you
find a
he could be
way around it," she
says. "I
just couldn't imagine being without
my team.
into a rehabilitation pro-
developed a blood
father
believe that
tree.
optimistic
that
father's funeral.
"My
true of exceptional teams, as well.
The hard work began last May
of the team set a
"made
goals to achieve
returned to practice just days after
Want proof? Consider the amazing
when members
The team still
and she
that
had
sense."
grief.
a refuge
Bethany Schwing of Hershey, was
Schwing and her teammates were
is
was
says,
Kevin Schwing, father of junior
when he
Exceptional runners expect the
pain and push through
all.
paralyzed from the neck
pain begins to take hold.
was an
integral part of his daughter's
Schwing. But, for this close-knit team, the
real story
was overwhelming.
the loss
Kevin Schwing, a standout track and
little
sounds
It
like
such a
thing, but with everything in
my life falling apart, they were
lung
and died suddenly.
very normal."
goal to qualify for nationals. Their
dedication to achieving that goal
evident from the
season
first
was
One for the Record Books: BU Women's Cross Country 2007
race of the
at Buffalo State College, says
• First
coach Karen Brandt.
attitude that they
the race
and
were the best in
• First National Collegiate Athletic
that they could beat
anyone," notes Brandt,
East Regional
who has
•
coached the Huskies men's and
women's teams
"You need
that
for
nine seasons.
•
going to hurt. This
is
that
of the Year,
United States Track, Field and Cross Country
of the Year,
Karen Brandt
it is
• First trip to
not a
• First
Off the course, the team faced a
September,
NCAA
the
Division
II
Cross Country
Championships
sport for the faint of heart."
different type of pain. In
PSAC Women's Cross Country Coach
Coaches Association East Region Coach
go out and run as hard as you can
really
Association (NCAA)
title
Karen Brandt
kind of confidence to
when you know in advance
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
(PSAC) championship
"They went out there with the
women's
Honors, senior
runner to receive Ail-American
Amber Hackenberg
Karen Brandt
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
—
Heart
Returning to the routine of
practices
and competition, the team
made
way to
its
State Athletic
the Pennsylvania
Conference (PSAC)
meet where three teammates
ished in the top 15
—
fin-
senior Amber
Hackenberg of Mifflinburg, fifth;
sophomore Andrea Kellock of
and Schwing,
Lansdale, ninth;
The
13th.
up
followed
trio
that
performance by finishing in the top
10 in the National Collegiate Athletic
Association
Regional, with
(NCAA)
East
Hackenberg
finish-
ing sixth, Kellock, seventh, and
Schwing, ninth. And, Bloomsburg
capped
off its
amazing season by
24
finishing 15 th out of
in the
NCAA Division II National Cross
Country Championships held
at
Missouri Southern University.
"The
girls
were motivated
for
the team above any individual goals
or leadership roles," Hackenberg
explains.
"I
we would have
a
The PSAC
and
which was run
could do
And
in the
showed me
rain,
mud
j«fl
they proved
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the determination she
runners in the
first
saw
for
Bethany Schwing,
race to the
"They were so excited
assistant
coach
— and husband
rewards.
"The awards are definitely not
and
alone," she says. "Jim
together in
just feeling in love with being alive
training
and young and being
Nothing happens with regard
for the
that
at nationals."
coach of the year
awards Brandt amassed, she
SPRING 200
is
team demonstrated
of the team's success, she explains.
mine
recalls.
van
cross country
that great effort can yield great
work
in the
2007 season.
Jim Brandt has been a key architect
"Whenever
weekend
they were singing and laughing and
and happy," she
center, during the
The 2007 Bloomsburg women's
quick to share the honors. Her
in her
unbridled joy they showed at
nationals.
Running was a refuge
many highlights
from the 2007 season, from
As
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this."
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all
I
building our team and then
our team without the
both of us."
predominantly
sport, the
aspects of
and coaching the
Maybe more important
was that, in what
to their success
is
an individual
Huskies fought through
the pain together,
b
athletes.
to
efforts of
Kevin Gray
is
a freelance writer based
in the Lehigh Valley.
he
chance
offers residents a
something
to try
than the
different
softball, baseball
or
swimming leagues
commonly found in
municipal recreation
programs. So
far,
Myers has
organized and led kayaking,
canoeing, rock climbing and
caving
Educational
trips.
programs examine topics
such as bike maintenance
and animal
He also
tracking.
develops
programs, budgets and
business plans; coordinates
with outside vendors,
landowners and university
and interviews and
staff;
For years, community recreation programs have
been dominated by traditional sports
hires crews to
—baseball,
BU alum,
But with the help of a
one community's program
is
trips.
"I'm the only
person running the entire program,"
Myers
tennis, basketball.
run
says. "I
have to have
enthusiasm and energy.
I
deal with
unseen problems and roadblocks but
giving residents a
have to stay positive and keep the
taste for adventure.
energy flowing for the lads."
"I'm putting together an environ-
icture this:
is
sailing
go on the Susquehanna Sojourn, a
line drops.
weeklong canoe
Nine-
feet, straight
down.
know what's below.
you push yourself through
Aaron Myers
After
sure he
push himself
teach.
"I
and
member of BU's
a deep-
seated one, with roots firmly
planted by his parents. "Ever since
could remember, there have been
20
ideally
wanted
to
and
one-man show."
man
show.
for that
"raw beginners"
them
says.
and now I'm
to
an
to introduce
activity
a love for
and
all
it. "It's
We follow a
'challenge by choice' approach. We
about the right
want
attitude.
to create a safe, comfortable
environment
wanted a
he
a
Blacksburg appears to have picked
foster in
was working with high school
families
on
is
I
college kids before
Now
town of
Blacksburg, Va.
His love for adventure
And,
It's
You set your
for you.
own goals and limits.
there's
good
It's
your
trip;
no competition. Just have
time."
a
b
working with the community,
Now he is outdoors
supervisor for the college
"I
There's also the marketing side of it.
Myers says he loves
Myers was
the adventure field
to re-establish the nature center here.
the right
a career that
college environment,"
where he kayaked and led
Quest program.
internships,
continued education.
he once did on the Youghieny
trips as a
two
wanted
work in
his fellow adventurers, just as
paddling
trip that teaches
combined personal adventures with
ability."
The 28-year-old Harrisburg
River,
would
about the Susquehanna River's
it,"
'03. "It's exhilarat-
native continues to
I
impact on the Chesapeake Bay."
pushing your mental
and physical
and
Eagle Scout says.
ahead of you, the hori-
"You don't
ing. You're
trips," the
"During summers, Dad and
teen
says
and
family outings, hikes, canoe
kayak
down a river. Mere feet
zon
But,
Your kayak
smoothly
mental education program and trying
it's
and young
professionals.
the first-timer
coming out
a trip, the family out to
have a
good time and doing things
in their
Blacksburg gives Aaron a budget
of $30,000 to $40,000.
more about
Blacksburg's recreation program, see
www.blacksburg.gov/recreation.
Becky Lock
is
a writer,
editor
photographer who works and
backyard," Myers says.
I
Editor's note: To learn
With
and
lives
in Pennsylvania.
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STORY BY LAURIE CREASY
Parents often say they'll
Ted Williams
show his
Ted
do anything
'85 attempted a grueling physical ordeal to
10-year-old daughter that anything
Williams '85 always thought taking on a
possible.
who turned 10 in January, has cerebral
many girls her age, she studies the piano,
palsy. Like
would be exciting someday. "Then
someday is now," he says.
does well in school and loves to
...
1
real-
financial adviser for Ameriprise in Lancaster,
R2R2R as
Pa.,
attempted the
tion
and stamina, of course, but he had an additional
a test of his determina-
anything she sets
show my daughter Mariah that
her mind and heart to, she can do,"
he admits.
want her
reason.
Mariah,
is
48-mile Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim run
ized that
The
for their children.
"I
wanted
"I
just
to
to
know she shouldn't let
her physical limitations hold her back."
sing.
She had the lead
in her church's Christmas musical last year
favorite activity is
younger
sister,
Gianna.
But, she's also faced
children. She's
and her
swimming with her mom, dad and
more challenges than most
endured Botox injections and physical
therapy. She can walk, but not well, after several surgeries
and missed the
last
month
of first grade as she
recuperated from operations on both of her
legs.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Williams and Herr had to run in single
—
edge of the canyon
walk on,
let
the
trails
At one point, Williams looked
"I
thought,
make
along the
difficult to
alone run. They had only their thoughts for
company. Some of those thoughts were
drop.
file
were narrow and
if I
stumble and
bleak.
down into
fall,
a 2,000-foot
me?
will they find
What will I do? Every step,
you're constantly looking down
it's hard to look
Will
I
Will
it?
I
stop?
—
around. With every foot placement, you're stepping on a
rock
that's sliding out.
"In
But
I
my business," he says,
come up with
couldn't
"I
come up with solutions.
a solution to this, except to
keep running."
At one point, the pair spotted three huge bighorn
sheep perched on a rock above the
trail. It
was
like
something straight out of National Geographic, Williams
They chased
says.
In the
the sheep
predawn
his eyes played tricks
there
on a lawn
paper.
and continued
their run.
almost 23 hours into their run,
light
on him.
"I
know I saw a guy sitting
news-
chair, at the top of a hill, reading a
We got closer and closer, and
it
was just
a rock."
Williams swears he heard voices, too, even though no
one was around.
The goal of Ted Williams, left, and his friend Ralph Henwas to complete a 48-mile run of the Grand Canyon in
Then, miraculously, the pair did hear voices
realized they
were returning
—
they
to their starting point just as
just 24 hours. Opposite page: Williams passes an
enormous boulder along a narrow
others were setting out
trail.
downed
"She was laid
up
in
bed
for three
months, and
and gave each other
it
took about a year until she improved her walk," her
She used a wheelchair and walker
father says.
eral
months, but refused
when
to take her
Proud of his daughter's determination, Williams
his
own.
realized
"I
she wanted," he
if I
difficult
to quit.
The
longest he'd ever
one stretch was about two hours.
call
—
Now he was
a brutal task that
impossible. Yet he couldn't go back.
was I going
to
tell
her
I
couldn't
do what
I
some
"How
planned
to
do?" he asks.
He and
morning one day last
Ralph Herr, started
spring.
at
4:30 in the
On the south side
canyon, people were about to
of the
behind. The silence was complete.
SPRING 2008
didn't feel
months
until
he
felt
a sense
avoid people for a while.
hopes
as
it
full
that
has in
"I
just
be around the hustle and busde," he
to
significance of what he did
someday
it
will
make
says.
may not understand
and why, but he
a difference in her
life,
his.
The R2R2R has motivated Williams to take on other
"Anybody who can run the Grand
Canyon can run a marathon," he says, laughing. Then
there's the possibility of hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro,
the fourth highest peak in the world. Or maybe he'll go
physical challenges.
South America or Africa
shamans.
he
"I've just
says. "It's a
to try a vision quest
been reading about
whole other journey."
with
how that works,"
b
start their daily routines.
On the north side in the dead of night, the runners left
civilization far
several
Williams admits that Mariah
to
his friend,
made him
want
today the
too."
it,
than he anticipated and, several hours into the
going to multiply that by 12
might
do
— but Williams
took six to eight weeks, he estimates, before he could
didn't
do anything
R2R2R quickly became more
24-hour run, he wanted
at
got to
It
walk without pain and
lonely run
a challenge of
told her she could
recalls, "I've
Williams admits the
run
by taking on
to further inspire her
a high five
They
and jelly sandwiches
of accomplishment. Unexpectedly, he also found that the
she entered second grade, he adds.
hoped
the rim-to-rim-to-rim run.
a sense of achievement.
for sev-
walker with her
on
celebratory peanut butter
Laurie Creasy, a native ofCatawissa,
master of science degree in
is
working on her
human computer interaction.
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worked as a counselor
career, was a teacher.
5^ Q Harriet Adams turned 99 January 2008. She
.wO taught 45 years the Bloomsburg School
in
for
and
District
Kay Frances Leonard Baker, Etters, is in her 37th
West Shore School District. She has
year with the
for the last
31 years and, earlier in her
in
5^70
retired in 1974.
Steve
Neumyer
(right) is vice
/ £* president/sales with Associated Paper
?
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Gergen, a
l
and
more than 30 years as
Inc. in
retired teacher, administrator
naval officer, has served for
sports information director for
Mount Carmel Area schools.
2008.
and
9 C?("J Glen Spaid was inducted
«_J
y High School
into the Central
Hall of Fame.
He earned
12
Conyers, Ga.
He was
installed as president
of the Georgia Sanitary Suppliers Association for
He
their
lives in Loganville
two
with his wife, Kathy,
sons.
Rev. Donald Raffensperger, Elizabethville,
Columbia
marked
letters
and baseball and led the basketball and
county and District 4 championships.
his
40th anniversary as a minister in the Central
in basketball, soccer
Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
soccer teams to
in 2007.
Russell "Skip"
'68 High
He and his wife, Constance, celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary in December 2007.
Kathy Sandy was appointed secretary of the board of
Rudy was inducted into the Exeter
He was a three-
School Hall of Fame this year.
directors for the Association of Girl Scout Executive Staff, a
national professional development
year starter at defensive end for the Huskies in the '60s.
for
Quest
trips
Bloomsburg University's
Quest program
extended
offers
trips
BU students, alumni
and friends. No experience
for
is
necessary for
many of
these trips,
and most
equipment
is
provided.
Varied amounts of physical
stamina are required.
Participants travel to
destinations in the
com-
monwealth, across the U.S.,
and
South and
in Africa,
Iceland Biking:
unique way
to see Iceland's
tour will take cyclists across
the country's gravel-surfaced
rural roads. Bikers
must be
prepared for any road or
weather condition.
Walking Across
Ireland:
The Dingle Way,
Sept. 17
The Dingle Way,
to 26:
one of Ireland's most scenic
long-distance walking
trails,
Mountain bikers can experience the unique
Quests coast to coast tour.
located in the southwest
and
town of
Photographing the Lake
Tralee in the
1
to 8:
Professional photographer
will lead the
tour through the English
District's
Walking
County of Kerry.
Costa Rica Mountain Biking:
2008,
to Jan. 10,
2009: Cross
160 miles of Costa
Rica's
small
and market towns
with views of the
towering volcanoes, pristine
Irish
mountain lakes and
rivers
distant
hills.
and dense
a
tropical rain
on a mountain bike
consistent 85 degrees.
forests
in
on
customized teambuilding and
the Cotswold:
Romans and Saxons,
June 10
to 20,
2009: Journey
other experiences to meet each
group's needs. For additional
information, contact Quest at
history in a rural region
quest@bloomu.edu, (570)
sculpted by the early Celts,
389-2100 or check online at
Romans and Saxons who
www.buquest.org.
cared for a landscape that
is
quintessentially English.
beaches, raging Whitewater
Sea,
Celts,
through 2,000 years of British
Coast to Coast, Dec 30,
high-altitude cloud forests,
villages
terrain of Costa Rica
of Ireland, starting
finishing in the
Lake
A Northern
A
mountainous landscapes, the
England: Walking and
Dave Ashby
and advocacy organization
staff.
Adventure, July 17 to 27:
is
Districtjuly
Girl Scout
span the globe
Central America
and Europe.
employed
at
In addition to the
programs
listed
above, Quest conducts day trips
on most weekends and designs
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,
5^7^ Barbara Smith Ries
O
/
5^7/t
for
an
assistant librarian at the
Births
lives in Lancaster.
Debbie Stevens Dellegrotti
TI
/
is
Hershey Public Library. She
is
the principal at
Sheckler Elementary School. She taught in Berwick
28 years before moving
to the
Catasauqua Area School
retired in
November 2007 from
the U.S. Air
Force after 31 years of service.
October 2007.
$2,000
A stroke victim herself,
Heart/Stroke
Walk
for the cause.
O
contributions in advancing the technology of clinical laboratory
He
science.
is
system development
a specialist in
at
Lisa
10,2007
Brem
Kaitlyn
and husband, Michael, twins,
March
8,
Anne, Nov. 28, 2007
2007
and husband,
June
Jeffrey,
a daughter, Kelly Nicole,
husband, Justin
'00, a daughter,
Carly
Dec. 14,2007
husband,
to
Kuwait with the
Army
a one-year deploy-
Reserves in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. His wife, Laura Adolphson Antochy
'79, teaches kindergarten in Arlington, Texas,
Becky Tait Reilly was
Galleries,
where they
Cahoone
f3*_J
in
Q f\
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William Dalius Jr.
is
is
a pilot-in-command with
ERAMed,
emergency medical technician
(right)
relations
department as a public
manager.
He
Q/C
Christine Honis Lizbinski
teacher at
is
a
music
Preparatory School.
30 years.
Deborah Luckett Slattery
Society for almost
also serves as a firefighter/
for the
MMI
She has taught music through the Hazleton Philharmonic
Medical Center's LifeFlight 4 from the
Williamsport Regional Airport.
Jan. 25, 2008
2007
C3vJ
7
administrative division.
Chuck Meachum
'03, a
daughter, Delainey McLaren,
'98 and wife,
chief financial officer of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons and assistant director of the
flying Geisinger
'03 and
Brandon Weese
joined Allen Tate Co.'s marketing
and public
relations
C3
4,
Jocelyn Lee,
Pagano Weese
Q "2 Karen Halderman Murray
5
still life
the traditional style of the old world masters.
5
and
Michele, a daughter, Catharine
Grace, Nov.
'00 and
M. Schreibeis
live.
the featured artist at Michelyn
Doylestown, in September 2007. She paints
D.J.
'97
2007
May 2, 2007
husband, Ed, a son, Ryan James,
George Antochy completed
16,
Chi-Chen Ho Schreibeis
publications and patents.
S ment
Jeffrey, a son, Ethan
Amy Lautermilch Wood '96
and husband, Paul Wood '95,
Kara Morton Kearney
/
2006
Cutillo '00 and
Jennifer Hart Eberly '00/'02M
Behring, Glasgow, Del., and has been credited with multiple
5^7Ci Col.
2006, and
April 25,
husband, Randy, a daughter,
'96
Nov. 23, 2007
Dade
Kyle, twin daughters,
Ellison, April 24,
a daughter, Avary Elizabeth,
Charlotte and Gavin,
designation from his employer in recognition of his
2007
Morgan,
Amy Goodyear Chermela
she raised more than
5^7Q Dr. John Mizzer received the Dade Behring Fellow
/
6,
Scott Bird '96 and wife, Sara,
Oct.
Ann Wanner Moser participated in the
in
Lauren Pasini Pursel '98/*99M
and husband,
daughter, Emily Grace, Oct.
District six years ago.
Mary Beth Lech
Marsha Childs Dieffender
'92/"06M and husband, Wayne, a
William Cameron Engine
Co., Lewisburg.
received the outstanding
chemistry teacher award from the Susquehanna Valley Section
of the
American Chemical
High School.
Society.
She
is
a chemistry teacher
at Danville
?Q1
O
was
Ernest Jackson was promoted to principal
-1- Chester
Academy Middle School in
also elected the Section 9
Association of Wrestling of
chairman
for the
is
director of retail
services for Bayhealth Medical Center, including
Q^ Raymond
5
J.
Fagan
is
to the accounting firm of
A certified public
accountant, he has been
more than 25
Previously,
he was president and chief executive
Banks
Inc.
officer of Mutual Inspection
and president of capital region with Community
Inc.
Brian D.
Hamm,
Center Valley, joined Beard Miller Co.
Reading, as a senior accountant in the audit and accounting
department.
22
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He has worked
years.
SPRING 200
5
QQ
C3C3
is
in his eighth year as director of
athletics for Villanova University.
Carol Fastrich Aranos
marketing
for
is
vice president of
AmeriChoice Federal Credit Union.
and more than seven years of credit union experience.
Diane Gard Brennan, Tucson, Ariz., is serving as
president of the International
in the financial industry for
Coach Federation,
a
worldwide
organization aimed at advancing professional coaching. She
owns
years.
a senior commercial loan officer with
Commerce Bank/Harrisburg in Swatara Township.
Bureau
Q^7 Vince Nicastro
5
She has more than 13 years of sales and marketing experience
Distasio Jr., Mountain Top, was
associated with the firm for
Jeffrey S.
Kent General
hospitals.
O.W admitted as a principal
Snyder and Clemente.
He
United States
New York.
Patricia Carachilo Rossi, Dover, Del.,
and Milford Memorial
at the
Chester, N.Y.
a
coaching business, Brennan Associates, and has co-
book on coaching.
Filomena Costantino Covert, Shavertown, earned a
doctoral degree in mathematics education from Temple
University. She is an adjunct professor for Luzerne County
Community College and Wilkes University and a district
edited a
consultant for the Luzerne Intermediate Unit. She serves
on
the Pennsylvania mathematics advisory committee
has been nominated 15 times for Who's
and
Who Among
American Teachers.
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Margaret Marshalick Faust
of nursing at
is an instructor
Penn College of Technology in
Williamsport. She has been affiliated with Evangelical
Community
}£\/~\
Hospital, Lewisburg, since 1989.
Michelle Seibert Appel received the best
/ \3
practitioner paper
award from the Northeast
Association for Institutional Research. She
director for enrollment policy
is
the associate
and planning at the University
of Maryland.
Katie
Peter
McKeown
Nero and the
member of the
Clements, King of Prussia, sang with
Philly
Philly
Pops in December 2007 as a
Festival Chorus. She is an itinerant
Pops
teacher of the hearing impaired with
Montgomery County
Intermediate Unit.
Mark Reinhardt,
school principal, effective July
He
become
associate high
1.
to the
Super Bowl XLII, center, poses
talent statistician for
with Fox sportscasters Troy Aikman, analyst,
left,
and Joe Buck,
play-by-play announcer, last February in Phoenix. Sfida provided
and return distances and other significant
Aikman and Buck shared throughout the game. He's
the yards gained, punt
E. Schriner, formerly of MontoursvOle,
promoted
Statistician
Ed Mida '94M,
currently ninth-grade house principal
in the Hempfield School District, will
Bruce
Super
was
numbers
rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army.
serves in the Military District of Washington, D.C., as a
that
also been statistician for the Philadelphia 76ers
and the
Philadel-
phia Eagles.
joint staff officer after completing a tour in Iraq.
?C\ "1
7
Linda
Tammy Lee Morsch won a Mothers' Day poem contest
Mann Burklow of New Jersey participated
-M- in a 26-mile Marine
Corps marathon
to raise
money
after
her honor, with the help of their grandmother. She
Richard Remington
ment and development
home
Ga.
He
lives
is
vice president of product
for
manage-
a stay-at-
is
mom raising her two boys.
Reed Construction Data, Norcross,
with his wife, Renee Farrell Remington '91, and
their three children in
poem in
her 6-year-old twin sons submitted the winning
for injured military personnel.
Cumming,
Paul Christman was promoted to director
7(^/f
S
Ga.
-L
of financial analysis
and
cost accounting at
Teleflex Medical.
?("J"^ Ricky Bonomo,
y^
Harrisburg,
was honored as one of
Fame and Museum's
the National Wrestling Hall of
distinguished members, Class of 2008.
He
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Kenneth Rossi is supervisor
Blue Mountain School District.
captured three
titles for
BU.
of special education for the
Christopher Helt
St.
Charles
WVIA Public Television for four years.
Gretchen
^CJ^
/ \J
is
director of
program and education
for the Alzheimer's Association's
2007 Pennsylvania
Politics
Mountain School
director of curriculum for
District.
attorney
JC\j£
from Lower Saucon Township, was named
a
College, Philadelphia.
the Blue
(right), a trial
Murchison is director
and family services at Girard
Gillies
of counseling
Gwendolyn Witmer-Belding is
Delaware
Valley Chapter.
Tracy Finken
a senior business services partner at the
Susan Dantona Jolley (right) is director of
donor relations for Wilkes University. She was
vice president of development/major and planned
gifts at
Claire Day, a specialist in dementia education,
is
Way branch of York Traditions Bank.
Rising Star
by Law
Jesse Ergott
S\J
&
Pershing
magazine.
is
executive director of neighborhood
housing for the City of Scranton.
W. Markle Jr.,
Elysburg,
was promoted
to
the rank of major in the Pennsylvania National Guard.
Find
more Husky Notes
online at
www. bloomualumni. com.
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
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member of the guard
A
more than 20 years, he is a veteran
of Operation Iraqi Freedom II and a Bronze Star recipient. He
teaches science at Danville High School.
for
Megan Pesavento Murray, an
English teacher
at
Easton Area High School, achieved national board
cation in
2007 from
certifi-
the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards.
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Marriages
Peter Sobrinski '84 and Janice
Lee, July 22,
John
E.
2007
Lisa
Brennan
'00 and Robert
Alicia
11,2007
Langmayer, July 28, 2007
Siegfried, Aug.
Gnall '90 and
Stacie Gottstein '00 and
Donna
Robert
L.
Jordan
Kenneth Marx
'02 and
James T.
Chulada
'04,
Stacey Sims
02 and
Jr.
Nicole Reinert 04 and Ryan
Shepherd, June 22, 2007
Mehalick'98,July6,2007
Marc Varano
'90 and Karen
Gina Libertore
Barsh, Aug. 25,
2007
Arnold, Oct. 19,2007
Jessica Mistretta, Aug. 18, 2007
Regan O'Malley
Jennifer Schott '02 and Blake
June
11,2007
Katrina Yashin, Aug.
'05 and Jacob
Veronica Butters
'00 and
Dave
2007
30,
'04 and John Natt
Michael Maziekas
'02 and
Lepley,
June
2007
16,
Emily Eaton 05 and Jeffrey
'95 and Jason
Grace Bognatz
Woelkers, Oct. 14,2006
Higgins
Kirstin Foust '95 and Simon
Eileen Bell
McElrea, June 9,2007
July 19, 2007
Jr.,
'00 and Daniel
Nov. 2, 2007
Nichols
'05, Oct. 6,
2007
Gable, Oct. 15,2007
Crystal J. Hollednak '05 and
'01
and
Garney,
Elliot
Cunningham
Leslie
'03 and Ryan
Gary
J.
Rodgers
July 27, 2007
Jr.,
Perryman, Sept. 22, 2007
Devon Jo Orner '05 and
Andes '96 and
M and
Pamela
A.
Popovitch, Oct. 13,2007
David
Burns, Aug. 18,2007
Robyn Kuhar
Steven Collins
'01
Carver, April 11,
2007
Holly
Robert
B.
Brennan
'01
Nicole Dorzinsky
Antonelli,
June
2,
'03 and
John
Manney, June
Brian
2007
9,
2007
Lacy Phillips '05 and Adam
'96 and Russell
Caiazzo, July 27,
2007
Peter Clement Frederick Jr. '03
and Tara
and Kristen Shomper, July
7,
Wilson, Sept. 15,2007
2007
Amanda Smith
Cheryl Purta '96 and Michael
Kathryn Curry
Jaworski, April 28, 2007
Puskar, Nov. 24,
'01
and
Michelle Giannone
Carl
Storm
'96 and David Cawley,
Elizabeth H. Smith
'01
Micah
Paul A. Cacciamani '97 and
Katie Stockinger
W03M and
Corey Collier
Oct 5,2007
Lauren
E.
Pollock,
Aug. 18,2007
Adams
'98 and Gary
Gorbey, Aug. 25, 2007
'01,
2007
and
Aug. 10, 2007
J.
'05 and
Kishbaugh '07M,
Jared
13,2007
Oct.
Jason Dermes 03/05M
2007
Oct. 27,
Lori
'03 and
Amber Yeagle
'05 and Michael
Spotts, Nov. 22,
2007
Heidi Kalafut 03 and Nicholas
Daley
'03, Sept.
Michelle Breneman
'06 and
Calvin Martin, Sept.
2007
1,2007
William Kaledas
Jr.
8,
03 and
Allison N. Gill 06 and
Jennifer
Jessica Lepley, June 23, 2007
Bean, Dec. 24, 2007
Danielle H. Zeske
and
'01
Christopher
Wayne Vidzicki '02,
Aug
Christina
Mish, July 21, 2007
2007
14,
Christopher Embert '98 and
Maria
Izaguirre, July 21,
2007
Straus,
Shane Tamecki
'98 and Angela
Angstadt, Nov.
2007
2,
May
Husted, July
7,
2007
'02 and Justin
Billie
Jean Nogle
Bloom '07 and George
June
Ritchey,
Andrea Brouse
L.
Carrie Montella '03 and Michael
16,
2007
'03 and
Jennifer M. Davis '07 and
12,
2007
Timothy
Tyler, Sept.
15,2007
Bradley Oravitz, Oct.
Rebecca
Mollie Connors '02 and
Jr. '02
Lawrence Pryzblick
Phillips '03 and
Michael Kalmbach
2007
Newman '07 and
Nicole
'03,
Allyson Arnold '99 and Andrew
5,
Lehman,
Kevin
May 26, 2007
July 21, 2007
Melissa M. DeFinnis
Hackman, June 30, 2006
Jared
Mark Bohr '99 and
L.
Spaide, June
1
'02 and
6,
2007
Keriann Nicole Stark '03 and
Stephanie Stacharowski
and Michael
Jennifer
Hausman
'07
01,
Angel Alvarado, Aug. 16,2007
Piazza, Oct. 20,
Autumn Gibbons '02 and
2007
Matthew Quinn
Leon
'02,
Oct
June
7,
2007
O'Neill IV '99 and Alissa
Amy Pokrywka
Biedermann
Dayna Gulden
Brotman, Dec. 1,2007
22,
2007
Gretchen Angstadt '04 and Kurt
'03,
May 27, 2007
'02 and
Natalie Moriano '04 and
Eronn Culver
'99 and Jeffrey
Santino Ferretti
'03,
Clauss, Oct. 20, 2007
Nov. 11,2006
Mark R. Owens, an
Barnes
attorney,
was
elected a partner at
& Thomburg's Indianapolis office.
Methodist Church, Drums. She previously served churches in
Gilberton, Shamokin, East Stroudsburg
Angela Snader Schadt is vice president and portfolio
manager in Fulton Financial Advisors' investment division.
5fJ^T Stephanie Bombay is a community income devel-
S/
opment
specialist for the
Rev. Drena L. Hubler Miller
SPRING 2008
is
American Cancer
pastor of
St.
Society.
Paul's United
and Willistown.
Sarah Nielson Signorelli is the major gifts officer for
institutional advancement at Saint Joseph's College, West
Hartford, Conn.
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Jennifer
Adams is assistant dean at Colgate
University.
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?(")}(")} Jeffrey Witts, Dickson City,
Mall
Jill
Yazwinsky Dougherty,
at Springfield
High School, Delaware County, received a
is
a regional
Options and Management Services.
baseball coach, he
coach
for
Kirk
A
manager
for
Health
now volunteers as an assistant baseball
fitness center,
Transformation
J(\(\
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instructional technology
2007. She
is
Lisa Brennan Siegfried earned a master's degree in
from Towson University in
employed as a high school social studies teacher
by the Baltimore County Public School System.
Jf\ "1
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Richard Cardamone, Harrisburg,
Commonwealth
with the
is
a division chief
of Pennsylvania's bureau
of financial management.
& Fitness, in Carlisle.
Christopher
Peter Trentacoste was promoted to university housing
director at Northern
office.
former high school
Mechanicsburg schools.
Ream opened a
Training
to
a ninth-grade reading specialist
$25,000 Milken Family Foundation award for exceptional
talent and accomplishments inside and outside the classroom.
Mike Hancock, Lemoyne,
was promoted
branch manager of Pennstar Bank's Steamtown
Kentucky University.
Reibsome was sworn into the Pennsylvania
November 2007 during a ceremony in the
L.
Bar Association in
Dauphin County Courthouse. He
is
a probation/parole officer
in Charlottesville, Va.
Alums connect in the region, workplace
helped create one.
A wine and cheese social,
event, brought together nearly
Conroy
their first official
100 alumni from the
area.
believes the Carver Hall Chapter will play
an
important role in the future of the Alumni Association.
need more
can serve in that capacity in terms of town-gown
recruiting
"We
local advocates for the university. This chapter
from
local
relations,
high schools and volunteering on
campus," Conroy says. "In the past we've had a core group
of alumni in the area
who
acted as volunteers, but with the
creation of a chapter like this we're opening ourselves
larger
up
to a
group of individuals.
"The Carver Hall Chapter
will provide
an
official
alumni
presence in the community that can advocate and volunteer
BU
President David L. Soltz, center, spends a few
with
BU Trustee Dr. Joseph Mowad,
left,
and Jim
moments
Cleary,
and employee relations for
Geisinger Health System, during an Alumni Association
reception at the Pine Barn Inn, Danville. Nearly 75 alumni and
associate vice president of labor
their guests attended the reception, as well as
BU
and students. Approximately 350 BU grads work
on behalf of the university," Conroy adds.
The Alumni Association is also linking alums
workplace. "There
with
affinity
professional lives.
for the
fraternity, a sports
If
Anew
not host an event for
for
alumni in the
workplace are two ways the Alumni Association
is
helping
university
BU
and each
graduates stay connected with the
The newest chapter of the Alumni Association, the
is focused on bringing together
alums living in Bloomsburg and surrounding areas.
established chapters across the state
and
country for alumni to get together and network, but
we
hadn't done anything to revitalize a chapter for people
within 20 miles," says Nathan Conroy, assistant director
of alumni
affairs.
in the
alumni events
all
for a sorority or
why
who work at a specific
a specific graduation year,
alumni
says.
BU alumni employed by Geisinger Health
System met for a social at the Pine Bam Inn in Danville. With
In February,
about 350 alumni employed by Geisinger and
many living
BU
in the Bloomsburg/Danville area, the event provided
other.
Carver Hall Chapter,
"We had
you host an event
team or
company?" Conroy
alumni chapter and events
a trend of hosting
groups that alumni have created during their
faculty, staff
Geisinger Health System.
is
Lynda Michaels, alumni
affairs director,
recognized the need for a local chapter and,
last fall,
President David Soltz with the opportunity to see the strong
connection between university alumni and the region.
Chapter and workplace events are just two of the many
ways the Alumni Association helps alums stay in touch.
"When you have an alumni event, it doesn't necessarily
have to be at the campus," Conroy says. "No matter where
—
North Carolina, Virginia
the event
is
held
everyone
is
talking about Bloomsburg. That's the kind of
Danville,
unique atmosphere you find
at these events."
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2007.
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
Beautifying Bloomsburg:
The
Outdoor Art on Campus
plan to enrich the Bloomsburg campus
with pieces of art began 15 years
school
moved
1867. The
tain near Carver Hall, a
above town in
to the hill
first
after the
major addition was the foun-
gift
from the Class of 1882.
Other fountains followed, as well as indoor art such as
stained glass
windows, sculptures and
paintings.
In the early 1970s, outdoor art of a less-traditional
nature was
installed in the areas
between many of the
campus' newly constructed buildings.
were a wooden oak totem and a
steel
Among these
fountain
sculpture placed outside the south entrance of the
Bakeless Center in 1972
and
a steel-and-fiberglass
tonal sculpture installed in front of the Haas Center
Although these pieces were purchased
others were completed
on
a
outright,
commissioned
basis.
Competitions leading to commissioned work resulted
in the centerpiece for the Aumiller Plaza on the south
Kehr Union in 1979 and a
Bloomsburg mascot, the husky,
burg area sculptor
E.
Richard
statue of the
in 1983.
Blooms-
Bonham won
the
national competition to create the bronze husky,
sponsored by the Community Government and
Alumni
associations. Installed
on
the Carver Hall
lawn and dedicated on Oct. 22, 1984, the husky
still
stands near the intersection of Perm and
Second
streets.
The death
of longtime art department chairper-
son Percival Roberts in 1984 provided the greatest
impetus
The
for bringing
outdoor
art to the
campus.
following year, the Council of Trustees
established the Percival R. Roberts
Sculpture Garden
III
Memorial
in the mall area south of the
McCormick Center and east of the former Andruss
Library, now the Warren Student Services Center.
Two Elongated Forms
'Two Elongated Forms' by James Myford of
Slippery Rock
is
featured along the
walkway
between Kehr Union and Scranton Commons.
30
ment
staff
from the
art
department and develop-
office were responsible for acquiring appropriate
artwork for
The
first
this space.
piece placed in the garden
commissioned work, a bronze
known artist
bell
was another
by the
internationally
Toshiko Takaezu,
who had
a long personal and professional
relationship with the Roberts family.
The sculpture garden and
were
officially
Oct.
1,
bell
dedicated on
1989. The quest for
additional sculptures led
the university to art collectors Philip
Berman
the following year.
side of
Faculty and
and Muriel
of Allentown
who,
for a decade, gave
many fine pieces
of art to the
school.
The Bermans began
collecting paintings in
1948,
expanding
later
their
scope to include sculpture.
As
their collection grew,
works
the couple donated
to universities in the
Philadelphia area. In 1989,
the Philip
and Muriel
Berman Museum of Art
was dedicated at Ursinus
College and, five years
a sculpture park
later,
established in their
at the
was
honor
Lehigh Valley
Hospital in Allentown.
The
Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education also
benefited from their
generosity; Muriel
was a member
Berman
of the State
System's Board of Governors
and, throughout the 1980s and 1990s,
universities as well as the
all
14
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Dixon Center in Harrisburg
an from the couple's collection.
The Bermans made their first contributions
received
Tonal Sculpture
'Tonal Sculpture' by artist Joe
to the
Haas Center
Moss greets visitors
for the Arts.
to
"Standing Adolescent," was installed in the sculpture
column and marble screen by Sternal; two interrelated
sculptures, the "King and Queen," by Sternal and
Martha Enzmann; and the "Stone Benches" by
garden in
University of Alberta art professor Peter Hide. All were
Bloomsburg in 1989 with three bronze sculptures by
Minnesota
the
artist
fall
Michael
Price.
One of these,
1990. Three other sculptures donated by
Bermans were
also placed in the mall
snake near the Bakeless Center and a
Centennial
artist
area— a steel
steel
totem by
Gym, both created by psychiatrist-tumed-
Ernest Shaw, and a marble bench along the
walkway
at the east
sculpted by
Philip
made
the
artist
end of the McCormick Center,
Thomas
in
1997 and his wife
the last donations of large sculptures to the
university the following year. She donated a marble
STRING 2008
bordered by Bakeless, the Warren
Student Services Center and the mall.
With
the creation of the
dedicated
at
the Class of
Academic Quad,
homecoming last
fall,
six sculptures
1940 fountain were moved from
and
their
previous locations to the garden area in front of
Sternal.
Berman passed away
installed in the area
Andruss Library. The Percival
R. Roberts
Memorial Sculpture Garden
now part of the new
landscaped quad.
is
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Students have a pickup ball game outside Lycoming Hall.
I
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Session
II
Session
III
-
Women's
Berks
Camp, July 7
www.bloomualumni.com forfurthe r
Red Bridge Recreation Area;
Women's
details or to register. For information,
Thursday, Aug. 14
July 18 to 20
contact the Alumni Affairs Office at
Finger Lakes
Visit the
Summer 2008
Session
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Alumni Events
Academic Calendar
alumni online community at
19 to June 27
July
19 to Aug. 8
(5701 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 or
Fall
2008
Friday, Sept.
Wine Tour
Field
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Intensive
Special Events
May
44th Annual Reading Conference
17
Thursday and
Friday,
May 15 and
1
and
Bloomsburg
Saturday,
1
Thanksgiving Break
No Classes
Friday,
Nov. 26 to 28
Classes Resume
Monday, Dec.
1
Alumni House; Tuesday, June 10
Monday to
benefits Columbia County
Hiawatha Cruise; Thursday, June 12
Way
Math and Science Camps
Summer
Weekend
June 27 to 29
Saturday, Dec. 8 to 13
Experience, sixth- through
eighth-graders
,
Monday to
July 14 to 17, 9 a.m. to
4
p.m.;
emauch@bloomu.edu
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Athletic Hall of
Saturday, Dec. 13
nth-
Monday to Thursday,
or (570) 389-41
Bloom
at the
Ocean
City,
Beach,
Md.
Fame
Induction
Friday, Oct. 10; reception,
dinner,
6 p.m.;
New Student Activities
Orientation
Saturday to Monday, June 28 to 30
Act 101/EOP Orientation
and 30
Freshman Preview
Monday through Thursday, June 16
to
1
9,
Soccer,
Women's
Soccer, July 6 to 10
7 p.m. Monty's
Monday, Aug. 4
Friday to Sunday, Sept. 12 to 14
1
and 2
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Park;
Swimming
Husky Gold, June 8 to 12
orJune 15to 19
Stroke Development, June 8 to 12
or
June 15to 19
Tennis
Tennis
Camp
I,
Tennis
Camp
II,
Tennis
Camp
III,
June 21
to
25
July 19 to 23
July 26 to 30
Parent/Child
I,
June 20 to 22
Parent/Child ll/Big Brother,
Senior High
Team Camps,
July 6 to 10 and July 13 to 17
Intensive Training
Wednesday, Aug. 6
26
June 27 to 29
Homecoming Weekend
Friday to Sunday, Nov.
McDade
to
Wrestling
Wilkes-Barre
Lions Pavilion;
June 21
Camp,
Summer Camps
July 6 to 12
For more information and brochures,
Junior/Senior High Technique Camp,
Alumni Summer Picnic,
call Kevin
Lehigh Valley
or go to www.buhuskies.com.
Wood at (570) 389-4371
July 13 to 17
Covered Bridge Park; Thursday,
Baseball
and Monday through
Aug. 7
Rookie Day Camp, July 14 to 17
Thursday, June 23 to 26
Bloom
Transfer Orientation
Wednesday and Thursday,
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Lackawanna
Sunday and Monday, June 29
Fall
Women's
Saturday, Aug. 2
Parents and Family Weekend
Summer Freshman
11
High School, July 13 to 16
Saturday, July 14 to 19
12
Undergraduate Commencement
Summer
and CSI
Experience, ninth- through
graders;
for information,
Stratford Festival 2008
Friday, Dec.
United
June 9 to
Soccer
Harrisburg
June 13
and Aug. 3 to 7
Upper Campus;
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Friday to Sunday,
Graduate Commencement
8 a.m. to noon;
Litwhiler Field,
Jesse Bryan/John Cook
Exams
17,
Montoursville
Multicultural Alumni
Final
May
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Classes End
Saturday, Dec. 6
Team Camp, Aug. 3 to 7
Youth Football Day Camp,
early birds, 7 a.m.; adjacent to
City Island; Friday,
Camp,
Football
Trash to Treasure
Friday and Saturday, Oct.
Individual
16
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Reading Days - No Classes
Team and
Goalkeepers Camps, July 27 to 31
Directors Meeting
Saturday,
Classes
1
Wednesday to
Team Camp,
July 27 to 31
Alumni Association Board of
Monday, Aug. 25
Monday, Sept.
Basketball
Hockey
Intensive
12
alum@bloomu.edu.
Classes Begin
Labor Day
Day
to 11
to Aug. 8
1
-May
Basketball Individual
at the
Beach,
Avalon, N.J.
July 9
and 10
Day Camp
I,
Day Camp
II,
July 21 to 24
July 28 to 31
Saturday, Aug. 9
Basketball
For
the latest information
on upcoming
events,
check the university
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Men's Basketball Day Camp,
Adult/Non-Traditional
Philadelphia
June 23 to 27
Web site:
Orientation
Tuesday, Aug. 12
Men's Basketball Team Camp,
www. bloomu. edw'today
Alumni Summer Picnic,
June 27
Saturday, Aug. 23
Welcome Weekend
Lancaster
Thursday to Sunday, Aug. 21 to 24
Long's Park;
to
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Wednesday, Aug. 13
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From the President's Desk
on
the height of this year's primary election season, the announcer
During
Bloomsburg's
local radio station
mused on Sen. Barack Obama's
connection to both President George
genetic
W. Bush and Vice President Dick
May 2007 shows that
Cheney. Genealogical research in the news since
the senator
is
a 10th cousin to
our current president and an eighth cousin to his
vice president.
This political campaign has focused the attention of the American public
many issues,
including identity, and
common identifying characteristic
it is
for these three distantly related politicians.
Bloomsburg University connection, on the other hand,
is
30 who met at
I
last spring's
is
a
The
much easier to trace.
There are the family connections that cross generations,
Reinhart
on
apparent that a penchant for politics
like
Ruth Yeager
alumni weekend with her great-nephew,
Brian Collins 77, and his daughter, Victoria Collins '05. There are connections
between alumni
Sharon
who work for the same organization, like Tim Pritchard and
1990 graduates who are being inducted together into
Reilly Zemaitis,
Athletic Hall of Fame
and
are
the
employed by the pharmaceutical company
AstraZenica.
And there
community,
like the collaborative investigative efforts of forensics expert
are connections
assistant professor of anthropology
between our
faculty, staff
and the
Conrad Quintyn and Pennsylvania
larger
and
State Police
Shawn Williams '93 told in this issue's cover story.
There's also a bond grounded in the affection alumni hold for their university.
The English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson said, "I am a part of all that I have met,"
Corp.
and, clearly, Bloomsburg University alumni agree, renewing connections through
the online
community (www.bloomualumni.com) and
at
alumni events.
been continually impressed with the strength of this enduring
alumni give of their time, treasure and
Since beginning
talents to their
my tenure as president,
I
I
have
as I've witnessed
tie
alma mater.
have been building
my own
connections with students and their families, alumni, friends of the university and
residents of this region
first
and
the state.
commencement ceremonies
represent
As
I
have been proud to confer degrees during the
in the
Academic Quadrangle and honored
to
BU in a variety of settings.
president,
I
will
continue to expand
upon Bloomsburg University's legacy of
excellence. That connection will be formalized before colleagues, family, friends
members
of the Bloomsburg University
community on
Friday, Oct. 3 1 with
inauguration as the institution's 18th president. Please join us.
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using cooking
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to shuttle students
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on
last
wrestling
title.
the mats has earned
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him
national recognition.
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up
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that
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Shawn Williams
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blood
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member Conrad Quintyn
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Vorlicek
Stacy Pane Segal's childhood passion for horses has turned into
much more.
Today, the
Cover Photography
1999 grad works
Eric Foster
On
to save
them from
the slaughterhouse.
the Cover
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Shawn M.
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Williams '93 works to bring closure to
victims' families.
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Council of Trustees
Barth
Change
in Leadership
Cavanaugh becomes third PASSHE chancellor
named
chair;
Najpauer appointed
Steven Barth, Lewisburg, recently
was
appointed to a two-year
term as chair of BU's Council of Trustees. Senior vice president
John
and loan
C. Cavanaugh, former
West Florida
officer at
Community
Bank, Milton, Barth has been a
president of the University of
member of the
in Pensacola,
Council of Trustees
He succeeds former
became chancellor of the
since 1998.
Pennsylvania State System of
chairperson Robert Gibble
Higher Education in July. He
succeeds Judy G. Hample as
vice chairperson Robert
head of the System
Dampman
that
13
sister institutions
1
and
Cavanaugh
superintendent of the Bensalem
John
C.
Cavanaugh
chancellor for academic affairs at the University of
at
Township School
Wilmington. He also held various
Lammando
who
'94, Harrisburg,
and Long, a
stetter
provost for academic programs and planning and
consulting firm.
political
in the State
history, attended St. Joseph's
new student
fall.
representative this
Nicole Najpauer, a senior
College in Philadelphia before earning a bachelor's
from Northampton, replaces
degree in psychology from the University of Delaware
James D'Amico who graduated
in 1975.
He also
is
Trustees also are welcoming a
associate provost for graduate studies.
Systems nearly 25-year
and
employed by Hallowell Bran-
positions at the University of Delaware, including vice
Cavanaugh, the third chancellor
District,
secretary Marie Conley
served as provost and vice
North Carolina
Ringtown, a
Robert Tomlinson and retired
enrolls
10,000 students.
Previously,
'65,
legislative assistant to state Sen.
includes Bloomsburg and her
more than
'68.
Also serving as officers are
holds both a master's degree and a
in
May. An early childhood/
Nicole Najpauer
doctoral degree in psychology from the University of
elementary education major, Najpauer
Notre Dame.
service and consistently on the dean's
is
active
list.
in
community
She was appointed
to
the Trustees by Gov. Ed Rendell.
Legislative Reports
Local lawmaker videotapes tour
with president
State Rep.
David Millard,
right,
who represents Pennsylvania's
109th
district,
tour with
taped a campus
BU President David Soltz
in early June.
The program,
for broadcast
on
slated
the Pennsylvania
Cable Network (PCN), spodights
new academic programs,
achievements,
facility
faculty
renovations
and the perceptions of the
university's 18th president
completion of his
Millard
is
first
upon
semester.
a 1988 graduate of
Bloomsburg University.
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Campaigning for Mom
Chelsea Clinton has 'conversation' with
BU
Chelsea Clinton spoke about issues ranging
from education and health care
to
renewable
energy and the war in Iraq as she represented
her mother, former Democratic presidential
contender Sen. Hillary Clinton,
at
BU during
primary election season. In the hour-long
question-and-answer session, Clinton asked
200-member audience, made up mainly
the
BU students, to decide which issues
your own assessments."
"We should
"first
of
are important, reach out for
think about this election in the context of our
answers and "make
the former
lives," said
Our Voice,
daughter" while standing in front of a banner stating, "Hillblazers:
Our Future."
Among the
topics Clinton, 28, discussed
on her mother's behalf were public
education, college affordability, public service,
Iraq war, foreign policy, renewable energy,
civil
unions, discrimination laws, the
NATO, drug costs,
Social Security,
immigration and national security, universal health care and trade agreements.
Making an
earlier
campaign stop
actors Dule Hill, star of "The
at
BU in support
West Wing" and
of Sen. Barack
"Psych,"
Obama were TV
and Zachary Quinto,
star of
"Heroes" and "24." The pair, touring college campuses nationwide, stressed the
Chelsea Clinton shares her mother's views
importance of registering to vote while answering questions before a standing-room
during a campaign stop in Kehr Union,
audience in Kehr Union.
Fireside Lounge.
Innovation at a Distance
Deaf/hard of hearing faculty receive
Tickets to Learning
BU hosts Honors Program to China
national recognition
BU
Samuel
Slike, curriculum coordinator for BU's
education of the
took
its
summer hosting the annual
turn this
Honors Program
trip for
two students from each of the
deaf/hard of hearing program, and Pamela Berman, instructional
14 institutions in the Pennsylvania State System of
designer for the Institute for Instructional Technology, received a
Higher Education. The students, including
2008
International Distance Learning
Award from the United
States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). Slike and
Berman
received the award, Best Practices for Distance Learning
Programming
use of
—
Wimba
combines
Online Technology
Classroom, a
in
Higher Education, for their
virtual learning
program that
instruction.
They were recognized
for using
Wimba
to offer
courses specifically designed for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Through Wimba, students have access to a sign-language
interpreter
and closed-caption
text,
which accompany the
standard slide presentation and instructor's voice. "We're making
it
major from Perkasie, and Maureen Dameron, a junior
nursing major from Chambersburg, received
scholarships
which covered the
credits, travel
possible for deaf and hard of hearing people to have equal
access to information via the internet," says
Slike.
full
costs of 6 academic
and room and board in China.
The students studied
interactive technologies with traditional styles of
BU
representatives Sarah Beltz, an elementary education
the people, policies
and
preferences of modem China during four weeks at
Shandong University of Technology and Yunnan
Normal University. The group was accompanied by BU
faculty
members Jing Luo, professor of languages and
and Youmin Lu, professor of mathematics,
cultures,
computer science and
Robbie
Soltz, wife of
Daniel Brown, a
BU
statistics,
BU
along with biologist
president David Soltz,
student from Howard, Pa.
and
News Notes
Boots on the Ground
Retired prof to keep on mapping
International Exchange
Nineteenth century technology
BU enters agreement with Cameroonian universities
has a place in the
still
modem world
and Duane Braun, recently
retired
professor of geosciences, has the
BU
Provost James
Mackin and English
professor
Ekema Agbaw
—
I
Yaounde
II.
notebook
his
Buea,
in
hand and
undergraduate
Later,
and
Braun
the help of
field assistants.
he drew the maps using
plastic
Duane Braun
Mylar sheets on top of a
light table.
"The three
Njeuma, rector of the
University of Yaounde I in
Cameroon, left, shakes hands
with BU Provost James Mackin
Dorothy
universities that
we
have committed to
working with
are
L.
"Technology hasn't changed geologic
significantly," says Braun. "It is
ground'
With
an international
exchange agreement between the
two institutions.
to finalize
among the premier
universities in
to begin student
exchanges with
all
Resources
field,
no one would
end up
online, viewable
maps
on Google Earth and
the
Web site, www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/openfile/
ofloc.aspx.
will come away from a visit to
Cameroon with a whole new sense of their place in
Bloomsburg students
Braun
retired
Moving with
the world."
work with
Buea and Yaounde
I
universities expressed interest in enrolling their students
in BU's audiology/speech pathology, exceptionality
institute for interactive technologies
just like in the 19th century."
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural
exchanges to occur in the near future. I'm sure
officials at
mapping
on the
guess that his Surficial Geology (glacial deposits)
of these universities almost immediately, with faculty
According to Mackin,
field
a lot of 'boots
a global positioning system as Braun's only piece of
eventually
"We hope
officials at
stuff,
still
modem technology when he is in the
Cameroon," says
Mackin.
years,
deposits, with a waterproof
with three Cameroonian
universities
25
northeastern Pennsylvania's glacial
this spring
Yaounde
last
charted 9,000 square miles of
formalized exchange
agreements
Over the
proof.
from
BU
at the
end of the spring semester.
his wife to the Pine Tree State,
the Maine Geological Survey to
Maine which
is,
he plans
compared with Pennsylvania,
and miles of wilderness
to
map northern
"just miles
to explore geologically."
and
programs, while
the University of Yaounde
II
focused on BU's
business programs.
Star
Power
Program earns accreditation
In
the
Know
BU's theatre arts program recently earned accreditation from the
National Association of Schools of Theatre. Only 150 programs
Emergency
notification
system
in
place
nationwide are accredited
self-study
BU's faculty, staff and students
campus emergency
now have immediate
information, thanks to a
access to
new system
to be sent quickly via e-mail,
Students sign up as part of the process
phone and
when
text
a two-year process that includes
"The reviewers saw our performance of 'Urinetown' and spent a
that allows
lot of
messages
in
and an on-campus review.
messages.
time with students," says Bruce Candlish, associate professor
of theatre arts. "They
examined our curriculum very
carefully,
registering electroni-
as well."
cally for classes,
and nearly
half of BU's faculty
and
staff
have
In
signed up voluntarily. The system, available only to students, faculty
and
staff
with
be used solely
official
in
Bloomsburg University e-mail addresses,
case of a life-threatening emergency. Plans
the system to be tested each semester.
will
call for
addition to the quality of the student production, reviewers
noted that the lease arrangement to use the Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble's Alvina Krause Theatre, located downtown,
was
a
temporary solution for needed theatre space. The current
renovation of Haas Center for the Arts
Candlish, as
it
will greatly
expand the
is
also helpful, says
size of the
scene and
costume shops.
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good
Ride the Rails with Roongo
The coal car
is
available at a cost of
coal load, plus $4.95 shipping
Fourth 'Spirit of BU' car available
payable to the Supervisory Roundtable,
Orders are being accepted by BU's Supervisory Roundtable for the
the "Spirit of BU" series, a three-bay offset
in
side hopper car. Proceeds will benefit student scholarships
Camp HERO
Camp Victory,
at
The metal
Bloomsburg, Pa. 1781
(570)
and
may be
car.
Checks,
sent to Kim
Schmitz, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400
St.,
fourth of six train cars
$55 each, which includes a
and handling per
389-5107
orders
is
5.
Bob Wislock
or
more information,
For
at (570) 389-4529.
Second
E.
call
Schmitz at
The deadline
for
Sept. 30.
Millville.
die cast coal car,
produced by Weaver Models,
Northumberland, is an "0" gauge,
triple track,
1
model with
:48 scale
three-rail trucks
complete brake system,
undername and
',
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III
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highly detailed styrene
body. Both colors,
Pacific yellow,
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and couplers, a
maroon and Union
wrap around the
entire
car which sports the Huskies logo.
TALE of Two Teachers
BU
faculty
Two
faculty
Graduate Studies Leader
members win teaching award
Biolo/jist is
members were
BU's newest dean
selected for the
new
2008 Teaching and Learning Enchancement
Lawrence
(TALE) Outstanding Teaching award. Margie
assistant vice president
Eckroth-Bucher, associate professor of nursing,
dean of graduate studies
and Jennifer
and
Stotter, assistant professor of
work and
were recognized
for their outstanding teaching
criminal justice,
undergraduate spring
is
BU's
and
research, filling a
vacancy created by the
sociology, social
at BU's
Fritz
retirement of James Matta.
Most recently chair
commencement
ceremonies. Winners were nominated by
and professor of the
May
department of biological
graduates.
Eckroth-Bucher
was nominated
and
sciences
for her
director of
Margie Eckroth-Bucher
ability to inspire
the professional science
her students to recognize and
understand the needs of patients
According to one nomination
who have
letter,
"She
is
mental health challenges.
the epitome of
Dalhousie University in
was nominated
for her "motivating
and strengths-based"
engage her students
in critical
was
thinking, to
Both faculty
their
FALL 200
BU
director with the National Science
encourage them to
Foundation, Division of Biological Infrastructure.
Foundation, and plaques recognizing
a
Marine Biosciences, and
Institute for
received $750 professional development
achievement.
was
Canada,
a
community and national events."
members
also
program
make
"complete assignments professionally and with pride" and to become
stipends, sponsored by the
Nova Scotia. He
research officer with the National Research Council-
recognized for her ability to
teaching style, which inspires her students to "take a stand,
difference and have a voice." Stotter
Fritz
previously taught at Northern Arizona University and
a listener."
"involved with
Lawrence
at the
University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, Fritz
what a
nurse should be: professional, caring, a teacher, an advocate and
Stotter
program
master's
Fritz, who was bom in New York City and grew
up near Philadelphia, was a Peace Corps volunteer in
the Philippines. He earned a bachelor's degree from
State University of
master's
New York,
Stony Brook, and
and doctoral degrees from Rutgers
University
and completed post-doctoral study
biology
Harvard University.
at
in cell
Reaction
STORY BY KELLY MONITZ
'90
By any definition, Toni Trumbo Bell was a 'nontraditional' student when she
entered college. Her persistence and patience pulled her through and, today,
motivate students in the classroom and research
Trumbo
Toni
Wal-Mart the
Bell couldn't see herself
while
retail giant
rose to
Bell
rest of
her
still
life.
working
She started
a teenager
and quickly
management. But she wanted something
wanted
at
at the
to
school to
become
a high
school biology teacher, but the decision wasn't without
obstacles. Bell
was 23 years
itself
presented
new challenges. Her adviser
than helpful, she says, and she found herself
on her own only to discover
wanted and needed
that all of the biology courses she
were
go back
to
less
trying to schedule classes
else.
to teach.
She decided
College
was
lab.
closed.
Her
first
tion. After
week
in class brought another revela-
spending just a short amount of time with
her 18-year-old classmates, Bell learned that she no
old, divorced, raising a
preschooler and living in government-subsidized
longer wanted to teach at the high school
housing in Kentucky. She needed
figured
to take the College
I
would
get fired
Boards, apply to schools, find financial aid and figure
teaching job," Bell says.
how she would balance a full class
an energetic toddler. And it was April.
teaching was not for me."
out
Bell was, as she
Accepted
Bell
still is,
load, a job
and
which she
applied,
chose the University of Louisville and embarked
on a life path that would bring her to Bloomsburg
University where she has taught chemistry and bio-
knew she
couldn't
rent,
and signed up
I
to school full-
for
which
food stamps,
medical assistance and any other government program
that could help her.
tuition
She received grants to pay
and found another program
for
that paid for
books. She also had help from her son Brandon's
grandparents,
and attended
who watched him while
classes.
started rethinking her course of study, switching to
field
where
she worked
far
fewer
made
since deciding to
go back to school, pursuing a chemistry degree wasn't
easy. "I didn't sleep a lot," Bell says.
work and go
time, so Bell reduced her hours at Wal-Mart,
lowered her
prospects available
Like the other choices she'd
at first, Bell says. "Basically,
my faith in God."
She
was
number of job
after graduation. That's when she
extremely popular, limiting the
another science, chemistry, a
chemistry for the past six years.
put
decided high school
undergrads ventured.
7
The path wasn't easy
"1
Next, she realized that her major, biology,
undeterred and motivated.
to all of the schools to
level. "I
from any high school
rambunctious preschooler.
until nine, after
he went
at
"My son was
couldn't crack a
a
book
to bed."
Bell studied until 1 or
work
I
2 a.m. and got up for
5 a.m. She went to school year-round,
working more hours on breaks. And the cycle went
on for three and a half years until she completed
her degree in 1996.
Weary, Bell wasn't interested in going to graduate
school, as one of her professors encouraged her to do.
Continued on page 8
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Lindsay Baglini-Beagle '05 works in the lab at GlaxoSmithKline.
Heart
Research
in
Trumbo
Toni
Bell's
former students credit her mix of patience
and persistence with leading them
to careers
And, for Lindsay Baglini-Beagle
some
her career ambitions
person
DeVore
who
is
'06,
who now works for
always ready
"Toni assisted
me
my
in
he says. "Toni
Shelia Hovi '05
research, helping
was
me
remembers wanting
it
me to
chickenpox vaccines for Merck, says
Bell
different
in
"used
accepted a
ways"
own
F.
Pennell '06,
"She treats
all
full
I
I
did from that class," she says.
scientist.
Wake
scholarship to
and earned a master's degree
biology.
take," says Michael
highly doubt that
in
the research lab
Applying to both
She recently accepted
in
Forest School of Medicine
biochemistry and molecular
a position as a biochemist
for GlaxoSmithKline.
believe one of the key traits passed on from her
I
I
I
medical and graduate schools, Baglini-Beagle eventually
is
to be
"Toni introduced
passionate and carry along a strong work ethic at whatever
for Absorption Systems.
wasn't for Toni,
whether to become a doctor or
her abilities. Hovi,
she understood.
career path
changed
and eventually Baglini-Beagle had to make a decision
to take part in Bell's
and over
if it
That academic collaboration continued
"She was very patient with me," Hovi adds.
"I
'05, Bell's influence
she had to conquer a dreaded
enjoyed biochemistry more than any other chemistry class
would have taken as much as
understand the
with the instrumenta-
was beyond
different analogies, explaining over
until
"I
had taken. However,
born to be an educator."
research project, but thinking
who now makes
Corning, sees her as a
to help a student or colleague.
idea of research as well as training
tion,"
first
class, biochemistry.
didn't anticipate.
Chris
but
...
me
to biochemistry
and the world
research science. Not only had she taught
who now works
of
me how to do the
science, she had such a passion for the science that she
me
of her students like her
love
it,"
made
she says.
children."
C
I mother the students a
lot.
That doesn't mean I eoddle them. I tell them
3
like it
is.
- Toni Trumbo Bell
She wanted to work, but four
different colleges and, after
months
numerous
after
graduating with a
bachelors in chemistry she hadn't
Bloomsburg University.
found a job she wanted and was
still
working
when she
at
Wal-Mart. That's
decided to give grad
school another look.
As
it
Bell
remembers
a sought-after teaching
ized she could teach just about
anything. That
work
resulted in
"I
if
—
do
to see
me.
to
says.
Bell wishes more young people
would consider studying science
and encourages some of her stu-
dismay I'm a
always something to leam," she
all
I
real person."
with questions about
er
started looking for a teaching job
doesn't
2001. Bell applied to 50
on
dents to continue on.
get
Bells students also
October
go into industry, she
not demands, class-
want the students
with her doctorate in 2002, but
at the college level in
to
my stories. love to
tell stories, much to my husband's
They
a paycheck.
She finished graduate school
wants
projects that she
been afforded had she chosen
room participation.
real-
and continues
taking
and having open
dialogues with her students and
encourages,
when her professors
sure
own research,
luxury that she wouldn't have
schools wanted her and tuition
assistant
closely with them,
isn't
them
to
own research, working
she has one now. She believes in
honesty, caring
turned out, graduate
their
her
crafting a
teaching philosophy, but
wasn't an issue, Bell says. Plus, she
became
She encourages her students
do
interviews, chose
and
it's
"It's
hard
wonderful and there
come
to her
says. "I
life. "I
moth-
the rest of
can see myself doing
is
this
my life." b
a lot," she says. "That
mean I coddle them.
I tell
them like it is. A lot of them become like my own kids."
BLOOMSBURG
Kelly Monitz '90,
journalist,
is
a
an award-winning
staff writer for the
Standard-Speaker
in Hazleton, Pa.
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Biofuel
is
of BU's
By
projected to displace 9 percent
consumption and reduce
fossil-fuel- based carbon dioxide
diesel
emissions by 57,000 pounds a year.
Power
Students riding a shuttle bus between the upper and lower campuses
this fall
may detect a
pulling
up
familiar scent in the
to the curb, they
den, unexpected craving
...
air.
In
fact, if it's
may find that they also
bus No. 5
1
experience a sud-
mi
J9kc
for french fries.
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BU's biofuel bus, the brainchild of Nathaniel Greene, associate professor
of physics
and engineering technology, and Mark Tapsak,
sor of chemistry, has been configured to run
on
campus dining services' used cooking oil. Cleaner
than traditional
places the
assistant profes-
diesel fuel processed
for the
from
as
mKS&
wok
environment
diesel, the financial savings are significant as biofuel re-
60 gallons of fuel the
shuttle
bus consumes in a
typical
Nathaniel Greene
week
Mark Tapsak
during the semester.
The
university also plans to use a biofuel blend for the remainder of
diesel fleet. Biofuel is projected to displace
sumption and reduce
pounds
The
fossil-fuel-based
its
9 percent of BU's diesel con-
carbon dioxide emissions by 57,000
a year.
university
committed $13,000 toward the project from the
Foundation Margin of Excellence Grant, President's Fund
Initiatives
and
President's
Fund
for Staff
Development,
for
BU
<-$%
Academic
b
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Ricky Bonomo,
left,
celebrates his induction
into the National Wrestling Hall of
his twin brother
and fellow
Fame with
wrestler, Rocky.
STORY BY MARION VALANOSKI
Among the names that stand
out in the history of BU wrestling
are Shorty Hitchcock and twins Rocky and Ricky Bonomo. Two
decades after capturing NCAA championships, Ricky Bonomo
continues to collect accolades as one of BU's all-time top grapplers.
icky
Bonomo
describes his recent induction
wrestling team.
The
first
year
we were at Bloomsburg,
I
into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in
IStillwater, Okla. as a
ence
when he compares his
"humbling" experi-
ourselves to the academics
wanted
record with those of
The
previous inductees.
"When you look up
the
at all
the plaques
of coaches and former wrestlers
list
accomplishments, what
we
both red-shirted and used the time to acclimate
I
did pales in
and read
and
off
and
many respects
to
what we
to do."
first
time they were allowed to
Huskies wrestling team, the Bonomos
mats would never be the same.
their
find out
competing against boys
"It
was
work out with the
knew life on the
like
going from
to wrestling against men," says
them," says Bonomo, the most decorated wrestler in
Bonomo, who now runs
Bloomsburg University history and the owner of three
competitors of all ages in suburban Harrisburg.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Division
I
individual championships.
"I
"Whatever we accomplished
(NCAA)
am
honored
to
my name mentioned in the same breath as Dan
Gable, Wad Schalles, Bobby Weaver and Shamokin
have
Area's
Mai
head coach
'92
at
and twin brother Rocky, who
is
Lock Haven University, planned
the
to
work with their father after graduating from LakeLehman High School despite receiving offers from
several Division
I
wrestling programs, including
Nebraska and Clarion. Through the intercession of
another Huskies standout and former
NCAA
titlist
Floyd "Shorty" Hitchcock, they overcame several
academic obstacles and began their collegiate
lives at
BU.
"In high school
Bonomo says,
aside
and we
"but
we proved ourselves athletically,"
we had to prove ourselves
in
high school was brushed
had to prove ourselves on the mats to our
teammates and the coaches.
"Coach (Roger) Sanders was intimidating.
walked
Paul."
Bonomo
a wrestling school for
into the
room, everyone
knew
going to work. There was no 'dogging'
When he
they were
it
or hiding, and
he had us prepared both physically and mentally
to wrestle."
During Bonomo's
first
season of competition, he and
Rocky both missed AU-American
The next
status
by one match.
three years, however, were nothing short of
outstanding.
"What
I
learned that
first
year was that
I
belong with
Bonomo says. "That year,
from Penn State who went on to win
beat Jim
these individuals,"
I
Martin
the national
championship. And, Rock and
I
developed a we-can-do-
this attitude."
academically in order to compete collegiately on the
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Bonomo's sophomore campaign produced a 34-2
record that included nine pins and
1 1
technical
and, after beating Iowa's Matt Egland, the
three
NCAA titles.
mark and
year,
his
first
falls
by
a career record of 1 16-12-3
and
(PSAC) and the Eastern
Bonomo
national
hand
it
title,
the
mat
for that first
all
and you
wrestling
television lights," Ricky
is
champion.
gunning
to
knock
My third year
I
off the
at
used
why my matches were so close.
"There were times going to tournaments during
senior year that
I
just
wanted
to get out of the car
my
and
who
my best
who was his high
him and
was necessary
move he
perfected
in high school
to wrestling
everything
putting into
to attend college.
and
was passed on
college,"
me and
at his garage-
applies a different
depending upon the age group
with
class he's dealing
still
to
Bonomo says.
comes down
at the
to enjoying
time but
what you
are doing.
134 (pounds) because of making weight, and people
couldn't understand
it
and weight
126 and
did
to
had the
being serious about what you were doing. The
approach
defending
wrestled a lot
if 1
Working with today's wresders
Bonomo recalls.
I
into place."
fall
credits Hitchcock,
tumed-mat room, Bonomo
forget the
"That second year you are a 'marked man' because
everyone
I
but once you shake your opponent's
becomes
crowd and
still
'bear-hug'
was nervous going out on
on the
who passed away in 2002, was a happy-gowho showed me you can have fun while
"Shorty,
lucky guy
"I
me and reassured me
that
all
school history. Brother Rocky, a two-time Aillist
and coming out a winner.
school coach, for pushing
motion
with a record of 110-19.
comprehend
much less what goes into making it
would
everything
Wrestling League (EWL), he remains the third best in
American, comes in fourth on BU's all-time win
can't
support of my teammates, coaches and brother
three wrestler
of the year awards from both the Pennsylvania State
Athletic Conference
level,
I
encouraged
going 28-2 and capturing a third individual crown.
With
Most people
it all.
of the pressure that goes into competing
the tournament
second championship and, in his senior
illustrious collegiate career
all
Division
of
His junior year featured a 28-3
he capped an
walk away from
"I
fun,"
want the younger guys
Bonomo says.
but don't make
if it's
meant
"Let
a job
it
to be.
to
them
work hard but have
get
and the
exposed
to the sport
rest will fall into place
For the bigger and more
experienced wrestlers, the workouts are more intense.
You want
to instill in
at the right time."
Ma/ion Valanoski
them
the importance of peaking
b
is
a freelance spoils writerfrom
Shamokin, Pa.
After
much
success on the mats at the high school and
college levels,
Bonomo now shares
like this one,
his winning moves,
with today's young wrestlers.
Garments created of unique materials take over the runway during
Personal Adornment Day. Shown left to right in accompanying
photos are Matthew Dunbar, a sophomore from Jim Thorpe,
modeling an outfit of found clothing and aluminum cans
assembled by Steve Martz, a sophomore from Catawissa. Modeling
their own creations are, center, Nadeen Roberts, a junior from
Bloomsburg, appearing in digitally printed fabrics, adorned with
wire, beads and hand-dyed cotton, and Danielle Urbanowicz, a
May 2008 graduate from Knoxville, Tenn., wearing an ensemble
fashioned of recycled umbrellas in various sizes.
-__,
Fabric of
Expression
^^^^*-
STORY AND PHOTOS BY ERIC FOSTER
Duct tape. Aluminum
Steel.
cans. Vinyl records.
Not contents you'll find listed on a
but common materials
for garments modeled at Bloomsburg's annual
typical clothing label,
Personal
Adornment Day.
some two dozen student designers have
work on an impromptu runway in the Haas Gallery
students exhibiting their designs, the show is the
the past four Aprils,
Forshown
off their
of An. For the
culmination of weeks of work.
"Some students
are excited,
some
are terrified," says Meredith
Re
Grimsley, associate professor of an and the organizer of Personal
Adornment Day. "But they
all
feedback from the audience.
have the experience of collaborating, getting
It's
closing the circle, creating a professional
experience for them."
A fascination and focus on fabric was something that Grimsley brought
with her
when she came
to
BU in 2003.
Continued on next page
13
'As teachers, we're challenging
them
they bring to the work because
if they care,
to value the personal element
the audience will care.'
- Meredith Re Grimsley
"There's a sense of process
connection that
tactile
I
with other mediums," says
I am using
my mother,
Gail Re, use so there's a personal
connection for
me
there, as well."
A native of Atlanta,
had the exhibitions," says
Beamer,
Grimsley. "With fabric,
materials that I'd seen
"She had the resume and she
and
didn't get
Grimsley
who
most
will retire in
December after teaching at
Bloomsburg for 37 years. "Her
work was floating around
sculpture and installation. I'm
the resident skeptic on
personal voice
component to the art
program here's a space, how
can I have you interact with it as
came
to
initially
BU on a temporary one-
year basis and
was
selected for the
permanent position
here, Karl
Beamer mentioned
done something
that
we
he had
it
into
something that included bringing
in a visiting artist,
which
elevates
the experience for the students."
Fellow faculty
she
jumped
right
member Karl
in love with
art,
who
May with an
and
is
of
BU
in
"Professor
Grimsley loves teaching, loves
what she does, and
Beamer, for one, couldn't be
to
happier to have her as a colleague.
was
do
a lot of things
it
inspired
on
me
my own.
in the studios 24/7."
idea, find the
are going to
that idea.
And
they
have to defend that
Students have focused
from childhood."
is
on
often
her personal medical concerns.
University of Georgia for her
arts.
an
it?
come up with
best way to
to
For Rugg, the focus
degree
now attending the
master's of fine
"They need
Rebecca Ru§g
on childhood disease, family
issues and memories of nature
Rebecca
art studio
spend
hours and hours on
idea.
using
graduated from
they're going to
communicate
that exuberance."
fabric in design," says
Rugg,
the '80s," says
developed
And
all
"I fell
like Personal
Adornment Day in
Grimsley. "So
in with
that's
so valuable that
—
Her exuberance has a way
rubbing off on students.
after a
national search the next year.
"When I came
but she brought
that
a viewer?
"What
personal
content, their
degrees in fine arts at the Univer-
Georgia and taught there as
one of the
says Grimsley.
is their
installations,
an adjunct professor. She
is
difficult things
for students to find,
earned her bachelor's and master's
sity of
That "personal
voice"
1
"I'm diabetic, and I make a lot
work about my fears of things
that could go wrong with my
health," she says. "I was in the
library at
what
1
all
of
hours, researching
was going
to
make,
how
I
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Creative expressions from Meredith Re
Grimsleys
own
portfolio include, left to
'What Do You See,' 'If It Causes You
to Sin' and 'Blood Money.'
right,
was going to make
concept behind
it
it."
communicated her
and the
Kaitlin
Rugg
fears
work
with
to
—
shoe design
Adornment Day
2008
creation for
lighthearted princess theme,
the top.
proud
of,"
2007
the designer's Tribeca" line.
"Stitching details can
plans to graduate in December.
Though she
"It
Rugg found
had
on her work in
all classes.
make
stressed
your
It
While the end product may be
students say a project usually
or
when
with a piece of paper and
a pencil.
"Drawing
is
the foundation of
with sketches and getting the
McAteer learned
"Everyone should
on work
to
make
them
to value
the personal element they bring to
the
work because
if
they care, the
audience will care."
day, students find that people's
familiarity
with fabric and clothing
can make
textiles
effective art
it
an especially
medium. "Everybody
every day," says Rugg.
fast.
She
recalls
shoe she designed from
flat
with a
jeweled upper. "I'm close to the
sample
size
size (size
6
9 for men) so
pair that
I
wore
all
for
I
women,
had a white
the time,"
It's
in
discipline," says Grimsley.
written aspects of their ideas."
The practice
says,
of drawing, she
can increase awareness and
truly see the
not just students interested
working in design or academia
who benefit from art classes,
know how to
draw and should keep a sketchbook to record the visual and
offers the artist the ability to
says McAteer.
Through Personal Adornment
wears
first
the ground up, a
it."
"As teachers," says Grfmsley,
"we're challenging
the
an
work, Grimsley and her
any art
of hands-
class.
aspect of a thing."
starts
experience designing shoes
of
helps you think about every
abstract
any
didn't have
all
she says. "All
she started with Kenneth Cole,
And then a lot
"With
and more focused in
classes,"
took about a month of planning
materials.
that
a positive effect
a dress, a pair of shoes or
is
break the product."
who
art,
the art classes
students should take an art
now an assistant product
thought out," says McAteer.
"I
that you're
says Sandore,
is
"Every part of the design
how much work it takes
something
on
still
required serious planning.
to get
staff full-time in January
and
changing to
the creative outlet, you're less
development manager with a focus
incorporating a lampshade with
learned
Kenneth Cole in
for
months, McAteer joined the
several
had a
But creating the piece
art training
After interning with the firm for
Student Cortney Sandore's
woven into
direct
New York City.
a dress
reminiscent of a straight] acket.
holiday lights
more
to the public in a
way. She's applied her
her entry in the 2007 Personal
Adornment Day
A strong biology major before
McAteer '06 takes her
says
world and "appreci-
ate the beauty that can be vital
to creativity."
And, perhaps,
for students, to
Grfmsley. About half of her
inspire the fashions they create for
students are majoring in other
Personal
subjects,
and Grimsley
Adornment Day. b
finds they
"Your work can be understood
bring a different perspective to
Eric Foster is co-editor of Bloomsburg:
by people."
the class.
Vie University Magazine.
a
The
pieces of the crime investigation puzzle can be as
basic as handwritten notes in a binder or as sophisticated
as
computer
relies
on
analysis
of DNA. Solving the puzzle often
the collaboration of experts united in the goal
of bringing closure to
Victims
families.
^bice
STORY BY JACK SHERZ
was
the
end of January 2008 when
a state road
worker made
a grisly discovery
Italong the side of Interstate 80. Trash bags—each containing body pans of what
appeared
Unlike the gizmos that
help solve crimes in an
hour on TV, many of
Cpl.
Shawn
file,
—
a pen, a
three-ring binder
map
as
be a light-skinned adult
and a
of his territory.
woman
—had been
tossed
on
the side of the
it
Williams'
tools are low-tech
rotary card
to
made its way through rural Monroe and Wayne counties.
"I remember that day when I was sitting in my office in Bloomsburg and 1 heard
'Hey Swiftwater just found some body parts on the interstate,'" recalls Pennsylvania
State Police Cpl. Shawn M. Williams '93, referring to the state police barracks near
highway
the sites of the discovery. "In
like that."
my career,
that is the
first
time
I've
seen anything
Even
Unit,
as Williams,
one of only 19 troopers assigned
departments Criminal Investigation Assessment
to the
made
he had
his
to call:
way
to the scene,
he knew someone
Conrad Quintyn, an
of anthropology
at
Bloomsburg
else
assistant professor
University.
Immediately upon arriving in Bloomsburg in 2005,
to the authorities, who
know if the bones someone found in the
woods are human or animal. "When I heard of body
Quintyn offered his services
often
need
to
parts not being together
specialty,
knew, with Quintyns
I
he may be able
to tell
us what kind of
instrument was used to dismember the body,"
Williams says.
"That was
"I
look
my job, to
find out whether a knife
saw was used, an
used, a
ax, whatever,"
at the surface of the
Quintyn
was
says.
bones, and the striations on
the surface of the bones can give
you an
#~
indication of
whether its a knife or saw."
One
places
thing Quintyn looks for are "false starts," or
where someone
out and
start
Such areas can
and then had
tell
a lot about the tool used;
Such information
arrest,
Unidentified Caucasian Female
if it's
a saw,
Located on Dec. 20, 1976 in White Haven,
an
after
important both before and
is
Quintyn and Williams
kind of tools used in a
narrow
their
'Beth Doe'
back
to
number of teeth per inch can be determined.
the
an
tried to cut
again because the going got too tough.
list
agree.
Knowing
killing helps police
of suspects
and conduct
arrest, if the cutting tool is
when
Carbon County, Pa.
after
the
Vital Statistics
they
And
searches.
recovered in the
Estimated age: Late teens to early 20s
(bom between 1954 and 1960)
suspects possession, connecting the tool to the victim
is
Approximate height and weight: 5 foot 4 inches,
powerful evidence in court.
In this case,
Quintyn
told authorities that a
used and gave them an idea of what
33-year-old
trial
to look for.
man was ultimately arrested and
on homicide
charges.
saw was
is
A
awaiting
When police searched
130 to 150 pounds
Dental: Fillings and some missing teeth
Blood Type:
Distinguishing Characteristics: Medium-length,
the
maris Tobyhanna home, in addition to finding the
natural (not dyed)
woman's hands hidden
circular mole above left eye,
investigators also
in a wall of the
found a saw and
house,
different
kinds of
brown hair. Brown eyes. Small
mole on left cheek.
Scar on left leg just above heel,
saw blades.
length.
5% inches in
No previous fractures. May have been of
Mediterranean heritage.
Almost by Chance
The
zeal Williams
obvious. But both
Cause of death: Strangled, then shot in the neck
and Quintyn bring
came
to their
to their
work
chosen professions
is
Other: Carrying a full-term, white female fetus
al-
most by chance.
Williams, 37,
Updated sketch by Frank Bender, Nov.
came
to
Courtesy of Cpl.
intending to pursue a career in the communications
field.
Already successful spinning records
paid for
much of his college,
Continued on next pa^
IS,
2007
Bloomsburg University
at parties
—
Used with permission
it
—he was thinking
he says
Shawn Williams, Pennsylvania State Police
'Many people don't
realize that
bones are a
living tissue
and from the bones you can determine population
variations, individual variations.'
- Conrad Quintyn,
and had an internship
of a career in television
assistant professor
at a
of anthropology
was
get into the department and, for a while, there
a
Scranton station helping to produce a local program
hiring freeze. Finally in 1997, he took the test for the
about outdoor
second time and, just when he was beginning
life.
But walking through the McCormick Center for
Human Sendees one
day,
Williams was spotted by a
who gave him a
Pennsylvania State Police recruiter,
brochure about the department and a career as a
trooper.
"It
The hook was
you do
to
me
recruiter, the
way
about police work and the things that
—do you
like to
work on your own and make
important decisions and be involved in interesting
investigations
and help people?"
major with a concentration in telecommunications, he
as a dispatcher for the university's
police department. After he graduated, he
an
officer
became
with the university police.
His goal, Williams says, was to be a
and, ultimately, a detective. But
it's
testing. In
become
that's
detective a year after
come
state
trooper
a slow process to
for
the
left
a state police cadet.
that took the test
were only 300 or 400
In a career arc
1999, he
who made
when I
he
it,"
says.
he was made a
full circle,
becoming a trooper and,
in
January 2003, was transferred back to the Bloomsburg
station,
where he worked
as a criminal investigator
with Troop N. In 2005, three years
While Williams remained a mass communications
began working
and
university's police force to
did, there
was just the demeanor of the
he spoke
further interviews
"Out of the 12,000 people
set.
to think
he was out of luck once again, he was called
that
after
becoming
part of the elite Criminal Investigation Assessment
Unit,
he was promoted
"My job is victim
know these people
to corporal.
driven," Williams says.
don't
"I
them being murdered but,
by the time the investigation is over, I know them
better than some of their own family members.
"It's really the victim's voice we are trying to work
for. They don't have a voice and they need a criminal
investigator to
be
prior to
that voice for them."
Williams acknowledges that he and his partner,
Thomas
Cpl.
C.
McAndrew, put
in long hours,
which
can sometimes be tough on his wife, Rebecca Kissinger
Williams "95A)7M, and their four children, ages 3
to 11.
"Rebecca
involved as
is
supportive of what
I
do and
much as me," he says.
And, sometimes, what he sees can be hard
with.
The toughest case
2006 when
Conrad Quintyn,
right,
peers into
the grave or
Beth Doe" as her
body is exhumed
more than three
decades after she
was murdered.
a
for
him occurred
to deal
in January
man shot his wife and their two young
children in a motel before turning the
His wife survived and
gun on
summoned help. The
himself.
father,
who shot himself in the stomach, also survived and is
now on death row after being convicted of killing the
two
children.
"That was a horrendous scene to see two
little
kids,
when you have your own kids. But you
put that aside and work the case and get the
especially
have to
job done," Williams says, adding that he
his faith.
feel
"I
inspired a lot of time,
is
helped by
me well-grounded and
that God is leading me in
think that keeps
I
the right direction through these cases."
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Conrad Quintyn,
left,
explains the
information that can be determined by
analyzing bones, including race, gender
and
age, to students enrolled in
Forensic Anthropology.
Fascination with Bones
when Quintyn was
Like Williams,
what
to
do with
his
life,
and one day helping
on
police catch killers wasn't even
Bom in London,
his horizon.
Quintyn moved
Flonda with his family when he was
It
was
that has fascinated
and find her
killer.
they could obtain
are studied to determine a persons cause of death. His
and
DNA from the fetus could help identify the
child's father.
The body had been wrapped
the
hope
drawing attention
prompt someone
believe
"I can't
says.
the bones
bones are a
living
you can determine
"We
to the old case
come forward.
someone is not missing this
would
to
missing pilots in Vietnam
and from
in plastic before being
The exhumation was widely publicized with
that
had a recognizable
tissue
to
DNA samples—something not done in
experience includes helping the military search for
don't realize that
name to "Beth Doe"
exhume the body so
real
They arranged
1976. Those samples could help identify family members,
preserved.
forensic
anthropology, in which the bones and overall skeleton
"Many people
who work on cold cases,
once more to give a
to try
placed in the coffin and, even after three decades, was well
from the University of
Ann Arbor, and a specialty in
wanted
him ever
His interest led to a doctorate in
biological anthropology
Michigan,
to
high school.
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, that
at
Quintyn found something
since: bones.
in
medic with the Marines
after serving as a
and enrolling
Williams and his partner,
thinking about
the notion of anthropology
thought,
face
She
girl.
and she was pregnant," Williams
why can't
this
be solved?
Let's
give
So
far,
no
But with the
leads.
DNA evidence
and other information being re-examined,
population variations, individual variations. You can
collected
determine the physique of an individual, age, sex,
Williams and his partner, McAndrew, hope to soon
You can determine so
kinds of trauma from the bones, and
race, stature, cause of death.
many different
even some
After
he
diseases,"
coming
to
Bloomsburg from
let
area police
temporary
a
a
last
body buried
New York at
know he was
available to help. State police called
experience
on Quintyn's
October when they wanted
for
30
identify "Beth Doe."
For Quintyn,
too,
it's
about bringing justice for the
victim and helping their families. 'You bring closure to the
says.
faculty position at the State University of
Oswego, Quintyn
it
another shot."
to
exhume
family, that's the
important thing. You're not just an
academic writing a
lot
of articles in journals.
do something worthwhile," he
makes you
feel
good
closure to families."
at
the
says. "This is
end of the
day,
You want
to
one thing
that
you bring
b
years.
"Beth Doe" was found
by
a child playing
on the
Editor's note:
Anyone with information on
the "Beth
Doe"
banks of the Lehigh River on Dec. 20, 1976. Someone
homicide
had tossed three suitcases from the Interstate 80 bridge
between Bloomsburg and Hazleton. The suitcase
Shawn M. Williams
missed the water and landed on the bank, revealing the
Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania native.
woman's dismembered remains
He currently
authorities
were able
shot in the neck and
inside.
to determine she
was 18
to
At the time,
was pregnant,
25 years
old.
is
asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police Cpl.
lives in
at
shawwillia@state.pa.us.
Hanisburg.
Kescue
STORY BY BECKY LOCK
Dogs may be man's
best friend, but equines are
BU grad on their side.
lucky to have one
Pane Segal's childhood love of horses matured into respect,
Stacy
admiration and a true dedication
their health and welfare,
to
all
valuable attributes in her position as equine protection specialist
with the
Humane
"There
ongoing
is
Society of the United States (HSUS).
never a
'typical day' here," Segal says of
projects. Right
now, I'm compiling
operations in the U.S. But,
es.
I
her job.
a database of
all
can be interrupted by a rescue
call
We try to answer e-mail questions, provide information.
scale seizure,
Segal's
named
we may
path
to
about hors-
If it's
a large-
get involved."
advocacy
for
equines started on the back of a horse
Skipper. After graduating from
in communications
have several
"I
horse rescue
and
BU
in
1999 with a bachelor's degree
political science, Segal, 31,
worked
at
Carnegie
Mellon University, near Pittsburgh. Her job involved lobbying federal and
local
lawmakers on defense
issues for the university.
"I
learned
how influ-
ence and power play into decision making and the appropriation process,"
Some of Stacy Pane
earliest
Segal's
memories involve
horses, with hooves or
with rockers.
says the Hazleton native.
"It
In her free time, she'd go
per,
whom she
was an eye-opening experience."
trail
riding at a nearby farm, usually
describes as "difficult, with a few
bad
on Skip-
habits." But, to the
farm owner, the 6-year-old Appaloosa-cross gelding was "bad" and destined for the "meat truck."
Horrified to learn of the plans for Skipper, she researched slaughter-
houses and learned that horses were being slaughtered
sumption.
"I
realized
BLOOM SBURG
I
had probably passed horse
for
trailers
human con-
going to the
New
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
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most from being with and around
horses is an acute connectedness to nature and the ability to
live absolutely in the moment.'
'I
think the feeling
I
get
- Stacy Pane Segal '99
Holland auction, near Lancaster,
and has been involved in
where every Monday they
sell
high-profile rescues. Last year, for
floored.
example,
horses for slaughter.
I
could not believe
ing could
was
she says.
wonder if her
Segal began to
insights into
I
it,"
governmental lobby-
instill
in
lawmakers an
when
state action in
"One
with groups such as the Equine
duced
had been
intro-
in the U.S. Congress
"From
of
'killer'
convinced him
"I
helped with the
age and care of the horses and to
Prevention Act.
find rescues to take
"The
Humane
Society of the
United States was a leader in lob-
really
rewarding to leam that
Slaughter Prevention Act, which
centers
on education. "Our main
has been pending in the House
focus
the Horses:
and Senate
for Life
says.
few years," she
"They had a government
affairs
and
for a
team working on
state levels to pass
protect animals
and
federal
laws to
fight
laws that
goal
is
is
make good
all
that ensures pets are included in
care, horses
disaster planning so evacuees
or more."
them behind.
Another increases penalties
dog and cock
Segal has
year as a
for
fighting.
worked
for
about a
member of the HSUS
Equine Protection Department
life.
can
"Today,
is.
and the
truly reflect
feeling,
ability to live
back what you
and
that forces
These days, Segal
band, Stephen, and three
30 years
that
Segal has
owned him
Horse Care,"
for
owners and
to "help horse
their horses
I
the other horses
b
much is
The Humane
Society of the United States
as
the
backed by 10.5 mil-
lion Americans.
way since,
is
nation's largest animal protection
organization,
out-
reach and response."
a long
dog,"
have to worry about now."
Editor's note:
of
abuse, neglect and cruelty," Segal
come
puppy
have suc-
up being victims
says of her job. "So
to
more than personal-
are barely
ity quirks. "It's all
cessful relationships so fewer
horses end
"He's like a big
its"
program."
is
him
life.
she says, adding that his "bad hab-
described as "the cornerstone of
The hope
stall.
for almost
four years, after leasing
She's
cats.
same "unruly" Appaloosa
save his
Companions
to
lives in
helped research the society's
Life
be
to
Park, Md., with her hus-
equine cruelty workshops and
the Horses:
are
you
About 40 minutes away, Skipper,
In this role, she's assisted with
to
get
moment. Horses
gelding, has a comfortable
"Complete Guide
I
an acute connectedness
is
Tacoma
him at
With proper
live to
he
at
think the feeling
I
absolutely in the
necessary to
decisions for
stages of his
I am
how effort-
ning or even just grazing,
your time with them."
properly care for a horse and
include a recently passed measure
Leam more
at
www.hsus.org.
a 3-year-old, she rode an imagi-
nary horse around her
as a
first-
visited a
Segal s love of horses
her leisure activities.
is
central to her career
and
I
run-
field,
mentally 'show up' completely for
to help potential, current
is
my horse out in the
time.
aware of your emotions and
"Its
and long-time horse owners un-
would harm them." Those laws
don't have to leave
Companions
program," she says.
derstand what
see
horses
work
Segal's
gentle at
Even now, when
same
to nature
For horse owners,
was ab-
most from being with and around
in. It's
horses get rescued."
bying for the American Horse
and wise and
the
lessly graceful
tri-
the American Horse Slaughter
them
I
remember being struck by how
always just amazed
to relinquish his horses to us,"
Segal says.
"I
beautiful
buyer called from
Wyoming and we
that point on,
big and strong they seemed, but
housed in pens or headed
to slaughter.
les-
old
solutely horse crazy," Segal says.
Illinois,
the horses that were awaiting
sale,
bill that
Texas and
when she was 8 years
just strengthened the bond.
three equine
HSUS found lodging for all
the
horses. Then, while volunteering
of a
sons
slaughterhouses closed due to
interest in protecting the lives of
Protection Network, Segal learned
with her friend Beth. Riding
several
home or,
and second-grader, she
couple of pastured horses
Becky Lock
is
a
writer, editor
photographer who worlds and
in Pcnns\'lvania.
and
lives
.
Husky Notes
5 J^ C* John Nemetz
kJ «_/
(right),
New Jersey, was
honored by the National Wrestling
Hall of
Fame with
award.
Now retired, he taught history and
a lifetime service to wrestling
coached wrestling in Toms River schools
for
more than 20
wrestling
He
years.
also served as a
official.
'58 William
who
Bower,
L.
department
1
at
retired
from the business
Berwick Senior High School
after
marked his 50th wedding anniversary
wife, Kay Hummel Bower.
years of service,
2008 with
5 £^ f\ Carl Janetka marked his 10th
Dining with the family
his daughter, Victoria Collins '05.
trips
for
extended
trips
BU students, alumni and
No experience is
friends.
necessary for
trips,
is
many of these
and most equipment
provided. Varied amounts
of physical stamina are
required. Participants
travel to destinations in
the
commonwealth,
the U.S.,
and in
Mountain Biking Adventure,
Way is
Dec. 30, 2008 to Jan.
the walk completes a circuit
of the Dingle Peninsula,
and finishing in
town of Tralee in the
starting
the
County of Kerry. Accommodations include bed
10, 2009:
of teaching, coaching
and
Kathleen Durkin Janetka
'69,
land was settled by a Celtic
houses, inns and ancient
people more than 2,000 years
churches before finishing
ago and
the North Yorkshire Moors.
today.
artifacts are still visible
The leader
is
Roy Smith,
rsmith@bloomu edu
The leader is Roy Smith,
Walk Across England - Coast
June 22 to July
In addition to the
listed
4,
walk
programs
above, Quest also
conducts day trips on most
weekends and custom-
raging Whitewater rivers and
England through some of
designs teambuilding
mountain
rior,
bikes.
forests
on
The 160-mile
covers the country's inte-
from the bustling
streets
and the pipeline
Pacific
Coast to the canopies of virgin
Brett
The leader
the island's
most
and
other experiences to meet
beautiful
mountains and moorland. The
groups' needs. For additional
walk
infoimation, contact Quest at
will
begin in the Lake
District region of northwest
quest@bloomu.edu or (570)
England, passing through the
389-21 00 or check online at
mountainous and
www.buquest.org.
hilly land-
scape of highland sheep farms
and
villages of stone -walled
Simpson, bsimpson®
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Cotswold Ring, England
2009:
The Cotswold
Way
18,
is
one of the most scenic walks
to
be found in the British
Its rural
Isles.
character has been
preserved, with quiet lanes,
thatched cottages and rose vine
covered stone walls reminiscent of an age long past.
The
at
rsmith@bloomu.edu.
.
across the breadth of northern
Walking Tour, June 10 to
the southwest of Ireland,
wife,
2009: Participants will
bloomu.edu.
in
38 years
after
He and
altitude cloud forests, towering
long-distance walking
cliffs
1997
administration.
volcanoes, pristine beaches,
is
along low-lying peat bogs
District in
to Coast,
tropical rainforests.
trails
for
ProQuest K-12. He retired from the Upper Dublin School
Participants will cross high-
one of Ireland's most scenic
and mountains. Located
Roy
waves of Quepos on the
Ireland:
and farms, beaches,
is
Costa Rica: Coast to Coast
of San Jose
The Dingle Way, Sept. 17
The Dingle
leader
Smith, rsmith@bloomu.edu.
trip
and Europe.
Walking Across
The
houses.
Africa,
South and Central America
to 26:
and breakfast inns and guest
dense tropical rain
across
anniversary in
second career as an education consultant
span the globe
Quest program
offers
his
30
May
have three children and two grandchildren.
Bloomsburg University's
S
\J
Ruth Reinhart '30, left, was the oldest graduate attending a reunion
for alumni from the 1930s and '40s during Alumni Weekend. She
was accompanied by her great-nephew Brian Collins '77, right, and
Quest
his
in
Participants in Quest's
island's
most beautiful
Walk Across England enjoy some
scenery.
of the
5 £l £^ Larty Greenly
(right)
is
vice president
Athletics Hall of Fame
\J *J and past president of South West
Writers, an organization to help aspiring writers
which received the Bravos Award for excellence
and was honored as Albuquerque's Outstanding
to induct five
Arts Organization for 2007.
?/£
Q
Robert
E.
Boose
Theon
executive
(right),
Society,
was awarded
—Jim Garman
Wayne Memonal
—
director of
Health Foundation, was
members
named
'85 and wife, Kelly,
a daughter, Audrey Nicole, April
25,
Garman was Bloomsburg's
Faith,
Girman Morgan
'92
in
Cooper, Sept.
7,
2007
Hayes
Jack Boyd, March
17,
'94,
a son,
2008
Karen Craig Weingarten
May
12,
2008
and husband, Joseph, a son, Ethan
Joseph, March
'96,
a
husband, Curt, a daughter, Abigail
March
Jennifer Adams
Bean
'98 and
husband, Gary, a daughter, Juliana,
April 22,
'01
June
4,
2008
a
'02
Kiszy,
2007
Trisha Leitzel Hoffman '03 and
18,2008
and husband. Tommy, a daughter,
Kelly McCauslin Kuntz '03 and
3,
2008
March
27,
Mackenzie, April
2008
Wertz
PSAC
singles titles
in
1990 and
"98
Williams
'02, a son,
Casey
May 9, 2008
Michael,
Helen Rose, Nov. 16,2007
Kristen Millard Fourspring '04
'98 and
husband, Kevin, twin sons, Jake
and Chase, March
13,
2008
and husband,
Keith, a daughter,
Hannah, Dec. 24, 2007
and
holds the single season records
and
triples,
selection
and two PSAC doubles
sixth in 1991)
1988 and 1989,
all
with
three
sixth in
titles
and was
1988 and 1989, 17th
and doubles (second in both
1991 and eighth in 1991). He
posted a record of 133-42 and holds the school record for
most
singles wins.
Torok earned All-American honors in the
1977 and was part of the 400-free relay team
All-American in 1975 and 1978.
all
PSAC runner-up in both
and the 400-relay and had
in his career.
200-free in
that earned
He was an NCAA-
four years in a total of 1 1 events.
also a three-time
and husband, Gerald, a daughter,
Melissa Wright Wilson
base and caught, holds
He was an All-Conference
Lisa Schneider Williams '03
and husband, Derek
2008
4,
a junior,
seasons at Bloomsburg.
qualifier
husband, Kyle, a daughter, Casey
Crystal Kovaschertz
first
husband, Stacy, a daughter, Sydney
Abigail,
Katie Getz Kilian '98 and
As
Lamy was a three-time All-American. He won four
Logan Joseph,
husband, Mark, a son, Forest, Jan.
March
played
for batting average, hitting .479 in 1990,
10 in 1990.
Chrissy Mantione Campenni '98
Lucia Grace,
who
nationally ranked in singles (33rd in
6,
and
fourth)
sixth).
team-high 18 goals while, as a senior, she
triples (16). Pritchard also
2008
a son, Chris, Nov.
She finished her
48 (now
the career school records for batting average (.443)
and
Murphy '98,
'01, a son,
Conference (PSAC)
NCAA title.
three assists.
Pritchard,
2008
Chris Repshis '02 and wife,
2008
25,
'00
Melissa Berringer Pfistner
Pfistner
Clarke Steiner '97 and
Grace,
Reilly scored a
and husband, Michael John
daughter, Norah Joy
posted
finished second in goals scored with 12 while adding
son, Ryan, Aug. 30, 2007
Jennifer Bedosky Hestor '95
and husband, Brad Hestor
'98, a son,
12,
Kaci Diem Murphy
State Athletic
second in career points with 108 (now
'99 and
a daughter,
May
He
helped the team to an overall mark of 25-9.
career second in career goals with
Lauren Balanzco Gozzard
husband, Frank
2008
2,
2008
Ambrocik Roth
Charlotte Use,
Flaska '95
wrestling championships.
two Pennsylvania
a daughter,
Eric,
senior,
meet mark of 29-1 in his four years and
overall dual
championships and one
and husband,
Amanda Shepard
(NCAA)
conference wrestling
become the first
he was one of four Huskies
to
at the National Collegiate Athletic
McNamara '99,
Keri
of
Reilly was a two-time AU-American in field hockey.
Charles Regis, Nov. 19, 2007
and husband, Kevin, a son, Gannon
Association
an
Reilly
number
She helped Bloomsburg to a four-year record of 82-9-4,
McNamara
husband, Chris Roth
'94
As a
compete
'99 and husband, Brian
Avery, February
Nicole Boyd-Hayes '94 and
husband, Daniel
'99 and
first
1957 and went on
wrestlers to
March 1,2008
Jessica Kehrer
and husband, Shawn, a son.
Lori
Young Jacobsen
and Sharon
brings the total
to 125.
champion
husband, David, a daughter, Cora
2008
Christine
Craig,
Jill
'59,
Keith Torok 79,
'90, baseball;
Zemaitis '90, field hockey
three-time champ.
Joseph Dowd
'91, tennis;
swimming; Tim Pritchard
to the Art
American College of Healthcare Executives
a fellow of the
Lamy
wrestling; Roly
the Pierre Fauchard
and Science of Dentistry Award.
G. Richard Garman, executive
be inducted
class will
during a ceremony in Monty's.
Friday, Oct. 10,
The induction of five graduates
\JC3 director of the Massachusetts Dental
Academy's Outstanding Contributions
27th Athletic Hall of Fame
Torok was
the 200-free
a total of 15 top-six finishes
He set Bloomsburg records in six individual
events and three relay events, one of which stood for
28
years.
For
ticket information, call
(570) 389-4413.
BU's sports information
office at
Husky Notes
?/£("} John McKay retired as principal
U/
Our Lady of
of
Lourdes Regional High School.
Kerry Hoffman,
5^T/~\
a
former
BU swimmer, was
in-
/ \J ducted into the Berks County Aquatic Hall of Fame.
A charter member of the Berks County Chapter of Swimming
and Diving
he worked as an
Officials,
official for
37
years.
5^7~1 James
Gilhooley (right), Dunmore,
was appointed to the Pennsylvania
Professional Standards and Practices Commission
by Gov. Ed Rendell. In June, he offered a presentation at the Association for Childhood Education
International World Conference in Moscow,
/
.A.
Russia.
area,
A long-time
he currendy
School
District,
an
from Lackawanna
for
Trail
nine years.
retired as director of technology
School District
after
more than
/
Sam Mantione
retired in June
2007 from
E.L.
-W Meyers High School in Wilkes-Barre after 35 years.
Daniel
Rang joined Murphy McCormack
as a vice president for business
Business
development and
Group
relation-
ship management.
Maureen Hauck is
'73.consulting
at the
assistant director for business
Small Business Development
standout Stu Marvin
Bloomsburg
as the
78 returned
He became
1975 and equaled
among
He was the
in the business
BU
in
May after teaching
education and business information
systems department for 27 years.
Richard Pohle retired after teaching science at Honesdale
High School, Wayne Highlands School District, for the past
33 years. He was science department chair for 20 years and
coached golf for 10 years. He and wife, Susan Burkavage
Pohle 74, have two children attending BU.
Tim Wagner received the Bloomsburg YMCA Vanguard
in
2008.
also
winning 28 national USMS championships.
its
aquatics program.
He
Swimming
Ocean Rescue and
Community Pool system. He coached
Lauderdale swim team and Fort Lauderdale
the Fort Lauderdale
All-American award winner in
Marvin
He was
a two-time
athlete of the year
awarded the Robert
male senior
worked 24 years for
and Recreation
Hall of Fame Complex, Fort Lauderdale
that effort in 1977. In 1978,
winner of the school's underclassman
B.
Redman Award
athlete in 1978.
swimmer inducted into the university's
Fame in 1990. Marvin still holds the
first
Athletic Hall of
-L
Stu Marvin
the
the top performers in five races to gain
as the school's top
/4 Janice Keil retired from
coordinated the operation of the International
All-American recognition in each race.
award and was
9^7
/
Department and directed
Pennsylvania State Athletic
university's first triple
finished
Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma.
the City of Fort Lauderdale's (Fla.) Parks
1-time Ail-American performer and
titles.
The company, a provider of
After graduating from BU, Marvin
mens and women's swim teams.
As a swimmer at BU, Marvin was an
five
.
for corrosion protection of
fabricated steel products, has plants in Ohio, Colorado, Texas,
as
head coach
for the
Conference
1
United States Masters Swimming (USMS) records as well
Former Huskies swimming
won
May
and coatings
BU swimmer returns as coach
Former
1
Stock Market on
hot-dip galvanizing
of North American
presided over the closing bell of the
Award for community service
Center, Bucknell University.
to
NASDAQ
Inc.,
three decades as
an educator and administrator.
1^7^
"74, chief executive officer
Galvanizing and Coatings
where he was superintendent
Renee Zimmerman Kay
for Chichester
Ronald Evans
Keystone College.
assistant professor at
retired in June
NASDAQ bell
Evans rings
educator in the Scranton
is
Robert Jurbala
C^ffl^l
the Fort
Ocean Rescue Competition team and worked with Fort
Lauderdale Aquatics.
"At this point in
my life, my passion for swimming has
my loyalty to the university has never
never been deeper and
been
stronger," says Marvin.
talent to the
"I
hope
to attract great
young
program, boost the confidence in each athlete
and work towards improving our position in die conference
and returning
the
program
to national
prominence."
school record in the 100-free and has established 12
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY
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F.
Marriages
Michael W. Williams
'88
and
Kuntz'03,Nov.24,2007
Kelly Garner '95 and Craig
Exley, April
1,2008
Michael Ogurkis
Rhoads 02 and Jim
Kristin
Michele Richards, Sept. 1,2007
'97 and Lorine
Angelo, Sept. 29, 2007
Erin Stevens '02 and Keith Leal,
Sara Dietterick
Jarinko,
Henry Larsen
Rachel Cianchetta
Michael Rich, Aug.
Saylor, Oct.
'00 and
April 28,
March
Keith Sharp
Kristina
Steven Stracka
'01
and
Lents,
Talia Coppola
Whitlock,
May
'01
5,
Jenn DiMaria
Tighe, April 26,
Leonard
and James
2008
Michael Fedorco
'01
Adam
Oct. 13,
'01
2007
Melissa Knapick
'04 and
Mathew
13,2007
Kline, Oct.
Kristen Millard '04 and Keith
and
'04 and
Ryan
Laura Gavio 01 and
Angela Moll
Michael Barletta
Sirak
Melissa Derr '02 and Michael
Amy Reap '04 and John
Angstadt, June 23, 2007
June
Kramer, Sept.
8,
'02 and Robert
2,
June
30,
W06M and
Evan Witmer
Louis Gasper
Deviney,Aug.4,2007
Watson
retired
beeswax products business
'04 and Sarah
from teaching
She
is
after
31 years
president of her
in Sanford, Fla.
own
She and husband,
Greg, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 2007.
5^"7
/
C
Patricia
Strunk Crissman, Camarillo,
«_/ senior business analyst with
Amgen
Calif., is a
Inc.
Joseph Scopelliti, Berwick, is community relations manager
for PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick.
Brady Stroh is director of the Center for Geospatial Information Services at Penn State Harrisburg.
FALL 200
s
Aug. 31, 2007
Harold Kern
Jr.,
Oct. 20,
Joshua Rogers,
2007
Mary Duke 07Au.D and
Megan Meyers '07
April 26,
Catlin, July 28,
Remaley
and Travis
2007
Justin Dietz, Dec. 28, 2007
Deitterick, July 28,
2008
and James
2007
Christine Miller 07 and
Alejandro Maeso, March 31, 2007
2007
05 and Jeremy
Shingler'05, Sept. 21, 2007
Jill
2007
Serfass, Aug. 25,
Piermattei '05 and
Amber
4,
Amber Cherry '07
Christopher Czock
Amy Puntar
Lisa Phillips 02 and
Ingrid Karnes
Lawlor,
Timothy Valentine, June 30, 2007
as a secondary school educator.
Michael Wysolmerski,
Aug
'05 and Justin
Jennifer Marshall '05 and
Mark
2007
2007
Allison Ridge
2007
'07,
Aug. 24, 2007
Bethany Brensinger 07 and
Smith, June 30, 2007
Thomas
'05,
Nicholas Smith, Aug. 18,2007
'05 and Bryan
Gina Marino
2007
Briana Bashore '07M and
2008
Brandi Michael '05 and
Fourspring, July 28, 2007
'06,
Bonatz
Brandy McHenry 05 and
2007
3,
14,
2008
5,
Jennifer Smith '06 and Brent
2007
June
'04,
'06 and Brooke
Seltzer, Dec. 22,
Shannon Killeen 05 and Ken
Ferguson
'06 and Kaitlin
Alicia Marinos '06 and Timothy
Brian Buttari, July 7, 2007
Ashley Lux
2007
29,
'05, Sept. 28,
Unger, Nov.
Voorhees, Oct. 20, 2007
Andrea Flowers
2007
Adria Kowalski '04 and Kasey
and
Jacquelyn Muller
Vanessa Garrapy
Jr.,
Rebecca Callas 04 and Kevin
and Richard
2008
'01
Truman
June
Welliver, Jan.
Travis Pena, Nov. 3,
'03 and
Ryan
Aug. 25, 2007
Jason Kehoe
Natalie Hutchinson '05 and
2007
Kristin Barnett '04 and Pete
Nov. 24, 2007
'05 and
Cara Gulden '05M and
Douglas Wilcox
01,
Graziano
Bruce Shafer
2007
11,
Jeremy Eck
2007
Kristin
2007
Mensch'06,June16,2007
Klotz,
'03 and
Ty
'06 and
4,
'06 and
Ashley Dreese
'05/"06M and Jake Ramsey,
Oct. 7,
2008
Eric Kolva '03 and Carrie Laabs,
'00 and
Trisha Calderone
Kevin
Jeffrey Gritman "04/05M
Shawn
13,2007
Melissa Zavada
'03, April 26,
Nov. 17,2007
Bethany Finkenbinder
'03 and
Andrea Falcone
Ketchem, Sept. 29, 2007
Melissa Shelly
'03 and Calvin
May 26, 2007
Rogers
Gwen
'00 and
III
'05 and
Wartman'05,July28,2007
Erica Eltringham '05 and
Dec 29, 2007
'04,
Ashley Behrer
Frank Rabena, Dec. 29, 2007
Melissa Walsh
'05 and Jason
June9, 2007
Thomas Schaeffer '02,
III
Martin,
'00 and
Wagaman '05 and Jason
McCauslin, Dec. 1,2007
Cherie Wallace '02 and Frank
Janel Beaver
Donna Kaniewski
Kara
05M
Scholl
Desiree Hockenbery 00 and
2007
Bartkus '05M and
Christopher Strobl
July 22, 2006
Greg Bisignano, June
9,
Amanda
Amanda Smith
'07 and
Kishbaugh
Oct 13,2007
Erica
'05 and William
'05,
Jared
Young 07 and Kirby
Blass'07,Dec.29,2007
Engleman, Nov. 10,2007
5'"7'/C David
/
E.
Coffman
is
president of the South Central
\J Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified
Public Accountants.
Barbara A. Wanchisen, Nanticoke, is director for the
board on behavioral, cognitive and sensory sciences of the
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Education.
5^7 ^7 Matthew Connell,
/ /
Brodheadsville,
Northampton Community
College's
is
dean of
Monroe campus.
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Linda Ebbrell Lapp, Bloomsburg,
president of the local
is
Ivy Club for 2008-09.
Rich Robbins
is
associate
dean of arts and sciences
at
Bucknell University.
Wendy
Spease Stafford, Stevens, earned a doctor of
audiology degree from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry,
Elkins Park. She has her
5
own practice
in the Cocalico area.
Q £l Conrad Haenny was named
teacher of the year
C3 \J at Woodglen School in Lebanon Township, New
Jersey. After 17 years in accounting
and
finance,
he
now
teaches sixth-grade mathematics.
Julia Reichel Hertz, a registered nurse, was
named
clinical
manager for Lighthouse Hospice in New Jersey.
Richard F. King, treasurer and finance coordinator for
Schlouch Inc., received the 2008 Debra Hahn Memorial
Award from the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA). He is a certified public accountant.
Victor Koons, owner of a Danville graphic design company, received a 2007 Silver Addy award from the Northeast
Pennsylvania Advertising Club and American Advertising
care
Teammates
Several
members
cruise into their 50s
of 1976-79 men's soccer team celebrated their
50th birthdays with a Caribbean cruise. Shown in matching shirts
with the logo 'BSC/50" are,
left
to right:
Glenn Chestnut
'80,
Mark
Steele '80,
Toby Rank
'80,
George
Fedele '80 and Steve Buch '80.
They were joined on the cruise by wives Lois Hertzog Fedele '80,
Metz Rank '79, Robbie Buch, Gaye Steele and Debra Farrell
Federation.
Julie
Chestnut
'80,
who
Glenn Noack was inducted
submitted the photo.
ketball Hall of
Fame. He
is
into the Lehigh Valley Bas-
principal at the George D. Steckel
Elementary School.
5^0
/ C3
Homesale
Don Zimmerman, Muhlenberg Township,
real estate license
He is
Services.
earned a
and joined Coldwell Banker Landis
also
owner
EZ Packaging
of
Mark West
SenowA Inc.
Solutions.
}
J^7(\
/ S auxiliary and facility operations at the University of
David Harr
associate vice president for
is
Q ^T Ann
C3 /
named
is
president and chief financial officer of
Pavkovic Grove has been president of her
technical writing firm for six years
own
and was recendy
president of a group of technical writers.
Notre Dame.
Joel E. Terschak,
officer for
St.
Louis, Mo.,
is
chief administrative
Bunge North America. He and
wife, Krista,
have
six children.
5
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Sam Malandra is
executive vice president of sales
and marketing
CRM manager.
'81 Roanne
promoted
for
Heisner Tombasco, Allentown, was
Corp., where she's
^
^
Q
O.W
for
26
PPL
years.
Dr. Larry Maturani joined Clarion Hospital as an
internal
medicine
Cheryl Roberts
Financial
to director of logistical services for
worked
Group
is
specialist.
the marketing
manager
at
Harbor Lights
of the Lehigh Valley.
Alumni Association honors
Dr.
5
QA
Or!
U.S.
9
Stephanie Jonas-Sullivan was transferred
Wiesbaden, Germany,
Army.
QC
O
Marie Tanzos
for a three-year tour
with the
Beil, Nazareth, is the supervisor for
Sandra O'Brien Brettler was elected
with the national board of directors
coordinator
at
Penn
State
She
right, a
who
BU Trustee and
Geisinger Medical
chaired BU's presidential search committee,
was named an honorary alumnus
at the
Alumni Association's
annual meeting during Alumni Weekend. Also recognized were
*_/ J.C. Penney's online catalog department.
tion of Neuroscience Nurses.
Joseph Mowad,
Center physician
to
trio
is
to a three-year
for the
the
CFC
term
American Associa-
gamma
Brenda Shaffer Conger '78, center, who received the 2007
Distinguished Service Award, and Gary Groenheim '90, recipient of
the 2007 Young Alumnus of the Year award. Conger is president of
knife nurse
Hershey Medical Center.
BLOOMS
International,
an advocacy group
for persons with cardiofa-
ciocutaneous syndrome, including her son, and their families.
Groenheim,
who was
and advertising
BU
for
unable to attend,
London-based
is
CNBC
in charge of marketing
Europe.
Shown
at left is
President David Soltz.
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5
QQ
Stephen Bujno owns a pottery studio
(3 C3
in Adamsville,
Deaths
Lancaster County.
who works
Eileen Finn Colarusso,
for the
Archdiocese of
Baltimore as coordinator of deaf ministry, signed for the deaf
Ruth Allen Smith '26
and hard of hearing when Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass
at Nationals Stadium in Washington, D.C
Ethel
Kimmel
Jacqueline
Tri- Valley
School
Deibert, an elementary teacher in the
District,
"Recipes and Memories of
George
Lavere A. Dieffenbach Hoyt '30
Barry H.
S
L.
Ocker was promoted
is
to lieutenant colonel in the
Nurse
associate director for the Air Force
Corps and program manager
for
Manpower and
Organization,
Office of the Surgeon General, Boiling Air Force Base.
Tina Trager, a
AlbinaZadra Davis
5fJ/\ Paul J. Lewis
is
Joseph Rebarchakjr.
Penn Bank.
'31
Peter
'31
Pokego '65
P.
Irene Sitler Frantz '66
'31
Joseph
P.
Kenneth
Earl
a senior accountant with
High
is
Bangs '33
E.
O'Neill
D.
Jr.
'69
Schnure '69
Stover '69
Gregg
Strausser '33
Maudmae Edwards
Eldridge '34
Drue W. Folk
Carl David
^ Christopher Hunt, Wind Gap,
/
is
Mary
diver,
Pilates studio in Shillington.
Hatfield,
is
72
Diane
Dildine '43
K.
Blessing
75
a senior vice president in
Kramer
Karen Startzel Merchlinski
Susan
Kobilis Nesbitt
Clifton S.
Skow
Brent G.
Heywood 77
D. Keith
Sneddon 78
'46
'47
John W.Williams
75
Maria Russoniello Lewis
Ellen Kohrherr '45
Nellie A.
73
"Moe" Leighow 74
chief financial
Moravian Hall Square.
Miller, former Cirque du Soleil acrobat/high
own
Morris
Julian A. Zinzarella '44
officer for
Robert Mindick,
'42
Magill '43
F.
72
Minnie Krotzer Watson
Snyder '42
Kathryn Keener
Andrew
Sr.
72
Hoover
R.
David London
'41
\~ Township
George G. Kinney is director of planning for Palmer
in Northampton County.
Kevin Reynolds was named men's basketball coach at
Slippery Rock University.
William
'36
Gladys Rinard Ruesch
Col.
Kendall '70
Judy Kline Boris
Helen Hestor Merrill '35
northern region manager for Mid
T.
Regina Degatis Lubrecht '70
Howard W. Brochyus
has opened her
John M. Castetter '64
'31
"1
Kimm
'61
Ditton '63
L.
Irma Lawton Eyer '32
Lt.
S^
'58
Deppen
Edith Boyer Miller '31
Donald
S\J Corporate Services, East Lampeter Township.
9£J
'58
Oswald
Renn
E.
Charles
Marion Hazeltine Meixell
June
Zr
Drumm
Elizabeth
Peter Evancho
J.
certified nutritional consultant, is coordina-
tor for Activate Phoenixville Area.
9£\
'30
Welsh
R.
'57
Fahringer '58
E.
Kenneth
Mahantongo Elementary School."
Myron
U.S. Air Force. She
'29
Penman
G.
has co-authored a second book,
Q f\ Karen
Jody
Mabel
Charles
Helen Cott Berger '30
Wells Fuller, South Auburn, was promoted
to district manager of the northern region for First
CJ
Liberty Bank and Trust.
9
John Forgach
'29
Moore Moorhead
Dr.
William
F.
Johnson
Louis Marinangeli
'50
76
7B
79
79
commercial lending with Sovereign Bank.
Doug
Pape, Wilkes-Barre,
is
Gene
Luzerne County's chief
a certified public accountant,
is
president
of the Central Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public
Accountants
for
2008-09.
He
is
a partner with
Stanton, Echard &r Ronan, State College.
'93
1
Barbara Rone Davis is director of curriculum
Tulpehocken Area School District in
Day
'51
Patti Tuckett
'51
Deborah Tobin Olive '80
Kathleen Boychuck '52
Thomas
C.
Jones
Ruth
'52
T.
Yeager '80
Glenn A. Faulkner '85
Mildred Pliscott Furgele '53
Vincent G. Solarek '94
Judith Fry McCarthy '54
Travis
also secretary of the Mid-Atlantic
(right), director of
Catizone '80
L.
Hoopengardner
'07
for
Berks County.
Claire
Search
Ukasin Vukevich
clerk/manager.
Timothy Ronan,
D.
Region of the University
Continuing Education Association.
programs and
education for the Philadelphia Alzheimer's Association,
was a BU Alumni
in the
JC\
Classroom
presenter in Apnl.
Kurt Davidheiser, Barto,
with Herb Real Estate Inc.
is
a real estate agent
for more than 20 months in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Kuwait and Qatar.
Michael Zigner, Allentown, is director of industry
deployed
Community College. He
Stacey Belhumer earned a master's degree in education
and a
certification in
media technology from
Montclair State University.
Kevin Watts, Maryland, a major in the U.S. Army, was
honored for completing 25 years of military service. He was
partnerships at Lehigh Carbon
A
/1
Dennis Murri has been a language arts teacher at Ridgefield
(N.J.) High School since 1995. He has been an assistant
wrestling coach at the school for 14 years, earning regional and
district honors for coaching in 1998, and also coaches track.
Park
^
7 %J
Jf\
is
Wade
Becker,
Etters, is a partner
with the auditing
and accounting department of the Beard
Miller Co.
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Matthew Gross earned
a master's degree in business
administration/accounting from DeSales University.
He and
Smith Gross '95, live in Doylestown.
Robert "Bobby" James Jr. (right) was ap-
wife, Shelly
m
A
pointed defensive coordinator for the Bulldog
football
program
He
Carolina.
at
also
is
Wingate University in North
pro liaison for the program.
Dale Kline, Philadelphia, co-owner of Atlantic
States Realty, is president of the
A.k
board of direc-
Roxborough Development Corp.
tors of the
JC\/£ Matt Hare (nght) a faculty member
Zr\3 at the University of California at
is
at Irvine, Laguna Hills,
and San Clemente high schools.
Jodi Piekarski Loughlin '96M has earned a
doctoral degree in adult education from Penn
State Harrisburg. She is a teacher and reading
curriculum coordinator at the Shenandoah Valley
Irvine
and
Trabuco
School
a
stnng coach
Hills
'Spice'
HGTVs 'Spice Up My Kitchen'
left.
^C\^7 Cheryl Knapp Fallon presented the
exhibition of her photography at the
House Museum, Lewisburg,
in
first
at the
Limer-
to participate in a three-day
walk
to
Summit
raise money for
member of the
been appointed
as judicial
Sacramento,
law clerk
at
Lehigh
chair of Gilda's
Chambers
Northampton
the Northampton
of
psychotherapy practice in
Calif.
Karen Malinowski graduated with honors from
Law with a juris
works with the Maryland's attorney
staff
the Uni-
doctorate. She
general's office
and
speech language pathologist with Care Resources
as a
Inc.
^€\C\ Christopher Chappell is an organizational develop\J\J ment specialist with the Geisinger Health System.
Ogur is
Shawn
Danville,
Omega
is
also associate
board
Valley, a local chapter of the
In April,
and active in local
Dave was a BU Alumni
in
a planning consultant at the
Water Department.
Rosier
(right), a
systems analyst and
was
a
BU Alumni in the
Classroom
Pamela Brennan Burns, Selinsgrove, is community
office manager for First National Bank, formerly
Bank.
Sherry Arbogast Glosek,
School
a special education teacher, is as
elementary school principal for the Shamokin Area
District.
Matt Kaminski, Worcester, was promoted to director of
first-year initiatives and judicial affairs at Montgomery County
Community
College.
clothing business.
Brian K. Sims opened his
own law office
in Philadelphia.
}/~V^ Pamela Pheasant, Harrisburg, is employed with
VJ ^J the Pennsylvania Department of State as a human
resource analyst, specializing in position classification and
labor relations. She earned a master's degree in arts administration
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for
Kathleen Lloyd-Kurtz, Hazleton, launched an online
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.
versity of Baltimore School of
Commerce.
of
Philadelphia
assistant
a solo
Club Delaware
manager
Delaware market of ATT,
national cancer support organization,
^f\ ~\
\J JL.
Vanessa Klingensmith is central regional coordinator for
the Children's Miracle Network at Janet Weis Children's Hospital,
senior marketing
for Tri- Valley
District.
Susan Goetz opened
is
presenter in April.
Hauser Gibbs is principal
Borough Elementary Schools in
5fj))("j) Lori
yS
Lansdale,
EpicCare trainer with Geisinger Health Systems,
Pennsylvania Bar
County Court of Common Pleas.
Michael Kogut is head football coach
High School.
Area School
and
the Classroom presenter.
fall.
?f^Q Jessica Grim Galle, a senior accountant, has joined
>^0 Baum, Smith and Clemens of Lansdale.
Association, has
in
right,
May and June.
New Jersey and
the Pennsylvania,
Stacy
Michelle Heffner, a
in
where he has worked since 2007. He
chiropractic practice in Blue Ridge
breast-cancer research this
The episode aired
Dave Marcolla,
Flegel Rouzer, Waynesboro, a breast cancer sur-
opened a
and plans
home
solo
May.
an optometrist, opened a practice
Paist,
Mindy
kitchen at their
Packwood
ick Professional Building.
vivor,
new
Also shown in the Zavackis'
Easton are the show's hosts, Lauren Lake, second from
Jeff Devlin.
Jason
team recently remodeled the kitchen
left, and husband, Tim,
of Cathy Carr Zavacki '99, second from
District.
7/
added to kitchen
from Shenandoah University Conservatory.
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Ryan Kudasik '05M,
Gettysburg,
is
an instructional
designer in the e-learning department of JPL Productions.
Lauren McGill, an
actress with Hazletoris Pennsylvania
Theatre of Performing Arts, directed the production of "Barefoot in the Park."
Jf\jC
Trisha Grace
is
museum coordinator for the Ship-
\J\J pensburg Historical Society.
James "Jay" Graham is the owner of Jay's Crab Shack in
Ocean City, NJ.
Jennifer Wootsick is a geospatial analyst at the Center for
Geospatial Information Services, Penn State Hairisburg. She
was recently appointed operations manager for the Pennsylvania
GIS Conference.
5/~\^T Robert
At the head of the
Jill
Dougherty '98M, a teacher
\J /
class
at Springfield (Pa.)
High School,
award from Milken Family Foundation
Chairman Lowell Milken. The award, presented at the 2008 Milken
receives a $25,000
Family Foundation National Education Conference in Los Angeles,
recognizes exceptional talent and accomplishments inside
Calif.,
and outside the classroom.
J(\ ^5 Chaza Fares Abdul, office manager of The Medical
\JkJ House, Adas, earned a master's degree in business
administration through the University of Phoenix.
Christy Carpenter Barkley was
by
the
named
teacher of the year
at
BU
linebacker, joined the
Ashley Geiser, Montoursville, was named wellness director
RiverWoods Senior Living Community.
Danielle Lynch received a
first-place
award from the
Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) for
newspaper series she co-authored for the Daily Local News,
West Chester.
Jennifer Malukas is a pediatric intensive care nurse with
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey.
Valerie Malukas '07M is a fifth-grade learning support
teacher with the Harford County School District, Bel Air, Md.
Ashley Miller is a mathematics teacher for the Shamokin
a
Area School
Merrimack Elementary School, Hampton, Va. She
teaches
Biernat, a former
Reading Express indoor football team.
District.
Jason Yeager
is
a
computer software developer
Teena Edwards Curnow was promoted to supervisor with
Smith Elliott Reams and Co.
the accounting firm of
Christina Bilo Felten joined Midwives
of Allentown. She
tion of Licensed
is
a
member of the
& Associates Inc.
Pennsylvania Associa-
Midwives and the American College of Nurse
Midwives.
Bethany Samson Fluck was promoted to human resource
Devereux Pocono Center.
Andrea Falcone Gritman, Norristown, is a field sales
Scientech, Berwick.
5/"\Q Amanda Dabashinsky, Schuylkill Haven, who
\JO recently earned
student teaching
at
a degree in special education,
D.H.H. Lengel Middle School in
Stefanie Pitcavage, Ashland, received a Dixon Scholarship
Brian Wagner, Schuylkill Haven, was commissioned as
a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.
Services, Schuylkill
Christopher Smith
Cooper
Hill
is
an
Haven, as a
Country Club, Flemington,
A.
is
real estate agent.
N J.
Woman,"
this
a
the author
World War
II
and
certification as a
commumca-
at Palisades
second-
Middle School. Evan's
grandfather, Basil Steele '34, graduated from
late great-
Bloomsburg
Normal School and was an elementary school teacher in what
is
is
now the
Lake Lehman School
District.
director of "The Other
comedic drama
that
was performed
year at the Hershey Area Playhouse.
Jamie Frey
is
the marketing
for the Pennsylvania region of
Jeffrey
and event planning manager
ActionCoach.
Gritman '04A)5M, Norristown,
is
the senior
e-learning designer for LeanForward.
Jf\
C
\J\J
Erin
as a
Duane "Butch" Wickard 79, pnncipal of Upper Perkiomen
Middle School, and Eileen Callahan Wickard '80, gifted
tions at Pierce College, Philadelphia.
Jennifer Feldser
working
ary English teacher, following in the footsteps of his parents,
support teacher
supervisor of
is
.
assistant professional at the
Jf\A^ Elise Genco Berrocal
\J
Evan Duane Wickard earned
Landis
He
public affairs officer at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
associate for Richardson Electronics.
Mindy Putak Harrison joined Coldwell Banker
is
Pottsville.
from the Widener University School of Law.
director at
HomeSale
for
grade.
fifth
Dumin is director of admissions for John W.
Hallahan Girls Catholic High School in Philadelphia.
more Husky Notes online at
www.btoomualumni.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
Bill
Jones,
first
chairperson of BU's special education department, spent
decades touching the
lives of
hundreds
of students and, with his wife
Joan,
building a family of special education teachers that includes four of their six
children, two daughters-in-law
To honor
Bill
Department
and a granddaughter.
and Joan's commitment
of Exceptionality
to special education, their family
programs established the Jones Center
Education Excellence. The dream of the Jones Center
is to
and BU's
for Special
ensure
that all individuals with exceptionalities receive appropriate
education and support services.
Learn how you can support the Jones Center or pay tribute to the
mentors who inspired your career
at
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Mdar of Events
Human Services,
BU!s Academic Quadrangle is bordered by, left to right, McCormick Center for
Waller Administration Building, Andruss Library and Centennial Hall.
Academic Calendar
Fall
Art Exhibits
Exhibitions are
open
free of charge.
Due
to the public
Celebrity Artist Series
Bloomsburg University-
All events in the 2008-09 Celebrity
Community Orchestra
2008
Reading Days - No Classes
and Saturday,
Friday
Oct. 10 to
of the Haas Center for the Arts,
1
Thanksgiving Break
No Classes
Wednesday to
Friday, Nov.
to the renovation
26 to 28
exhibits will
be offered in alternate
updated information,
1
S.
and
lobby,
visit
4777 Old Berwick Road, Bloomsburg
box office,
Gombert The Real
Me
human face
at (570) 389-4409 or
the
visit
Web site at www.
Celebrity Artist
2:30 p.m.
9,
Central Columbia High School
Auditorium
Gross Auditorium. For more
Alumni Events
Contact the Alumni Affairs Office at
bloomu. edu/today/celebrity.php.
(5701 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 or
Community Government Association
alum@bloomu.edu
cardholders pay half of the
Details are also available at
ticket's
Through Sept. 19
face value for all shows. Programs
Kehr Union, Multicultural Center
www.bloomualumni.com.
Alumni and Open 5K Race
Pamela Marks: Works on Paper
Saturday, Dec. 8 to
1
Graduate Commencement
Paintings and drawings
Reception: Wednesday, Oct.
12
Parents Weekend:
Saturday, Sept.
Forbidden Broadway
Contact: Karen Brandt, cross country
Saturday, Sept. 13, 6:30 and
coach, at kbrandt@bloomu.edu
Oct. 6 to 31
1
6,
Undergraduate Commencement
11 a.m. to
2 p.m.
Kehr Union, Multicultural Center
Athletic Hall of
Presidential Inauguration Event:
Saturday, Dec. 13
Toshiko Takaezu: Works from the
Spring 2009
Permanent Collection
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Wednesday,
$20
Homecoming Weekend:
November, Dates to be announced
Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats
Andruss Library
Sunday, Nov.
Day -
2,
information.
A Taste of Bloomsburg
8 p.m., $20
Kerry Stuart Coppin:
Broadway State of Mind:
Saturday, Nov.
Monday, Jan. 19
Photography
Adam Pascal
Homecoming
Jan. 20 to Feb. 13, 2009
Saturday, Nov. 15, 8 p.m.,
Reception: Monday, Feb. 2,
Saturday, Feb. 28
11 a.m. to
Classes Resume
Monday, March
9,
Location to be announced
8 a.m.
Anne Mondro and Donovan
Widmer: Sculpture
Classes End
Saturday, April 25
Finals
27
End
Saturday,
March 2
to 27,
2009
Student Art Exhibition
2009
Grad Finale
Saturday, Dec.
6,
7:30 p.m., $20
Broadway Review:
Five
Guys
Quest Reunion
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Named Moe
Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009, 8 p.m., $20
Day Romance:
Simone on Simone
Friday, Feb. 13,
Saturday,
1
Special Events
2009, 8 p.m., $20
Ahn Trio
March
Friday, April 3,
Inauguration of President
Friday, Oct. 31,
Nelson
2009, 7:30 p.m., $20
Field
10 a.m.
House
Homecoming Weekend
Saturday to Sunday, Nov.
Football, Huskies vs.
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events, check the university
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Web site:
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Fall
Conceit
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to 2
Redman Stadium.
are $8 for adults and $3
of charge.
Chamber Orchestra:
St.
1
West Chester
Golden Rams, Saturday, Nov.
Concerts
the latest information
Weekend
David Soltz
14, 2009,
Simply Sinatra: Steve Lippia
May 2
Parents and Family
Friday to Sunday, Sept. 12 to 14
8 p.m., $20
Undergraduate Commencement
For
game
Fenstemaker Alumni House Lawn
Tuesday, Nov. 11,11 a.m. to 6 p.m
Dates and location to be announced
Graduate Commencement
Saturday,
preceding
Holiday Show: Chestnut
Valentine's
April
May 2
May
,
Brass Company
Classical:
Friday,
$20
1
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Location to be announced
Finals Begin
April
2 p.m.
Campus
Call BU's sports information office,
No Classes
Spring Break Begins
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10,6 p.m.
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Ceramics
Monday, Jan.1
Jr.
Friday, Oct.
Monty's, Upper
Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.,
Classes Begin
Martin Luther King
12:30 p.m.
5,
9 p.m., $20
Monday,
for information.
and dates are subject to change.
Exams
Friday, Dec.
presented in Carver Hall, Kenneth
temporarily located in the Carver Hall
Carl
Saturday, Dec. 6
Monday to
Sunday, Nov.
be
information about shows
Renditions of the
Final
will
information, call the
www. bloomu. edu/today/arts.php.
Classes End
season
venues on campus. For more
Classes Resume
Monday, Dec.
Artist Series
St.,
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By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
Bloomsburg: Simulated Conventions on Campus
Politicking in
Presidential candidates and their family
members
traversed Pennsylvania in search of
votes in spring 2008, including former
daughter Chelsea Clinton,
who spoke
first
in
Kehr Union's Fireside Lounge, and her dad, former
President
Bill
Clinton,
who
Bloomsburg
led a rally at
Middle School.
But
this
was not
the
first visit
to
Bloomsburg from
a
former or future president or presidential candidate.
For many years, notable
at
politicians
spoke on campus
simulated political conventions organized to help
students leam
The
May
first
how the
was held
nominating process works.
in the Carver Hall auditorium in
1928, with three more conventions in 1940,
1948 and 1952.
When the simulated conventions
returned in 1968, nationally
politicians
were invited
known
to provide the
keynote address or distinguished
lecture.
Gerald Ford, a Michigan
congressman
38th president, gave
the opening address for the
Republican convention in Centennial
student delegates'
candidate of choice was
Future President Gerald R. Ford
delivers the keynote address at
the simulated Republican
Convention in Centennial
on March
16, 1968.
Gym
1972
it
New York
was Mr.
Bill,
the time
on "Saturday Night
the
much-abused
Bloomsburg students
McGovern
Hunter
S.
clay
puppet featured
selected candidates creatively.
Thompson and Mr.
Family" in 1972 and talk
Bill,
TV show
show host David
Letterman and entertainer Frank Sinatra, both in
who
convention, with South Dakota Sen.
1984, the year of the
George McGovern nominated
ran as an independent candidate for president four
for
president. McGovern returned the
by twice appearing on the Bloomsburg campus.
In 1976 he gave a preliminary address in Haas
Auditorium, with the convention two weeks
nominating Arizona Rep. Morris Udall.
then-Georgia Gov.
Jimmy
in 1980,
first
Carter placed third,
behind Udall and journalist Hunter
McGovern returned
later
On the
S.
Thompson.
once again as
final
convention. Anderson,
years earlier, presented the distinguished lecture that
year;
Colorado Sen. Gar)' Hart was chosen as the
candidate to face incumbent President Ronald Reagan.
Although the conventions gradually became more
boisterous
and
were entertaining
chaotic, they
as well
as educational, with candidates nominated, platfonns
created
and well-known
political figures
their vision for the country.
a
presenting
For a brief period every
campus came
with debate and
distinguished lecturer, while student delegates to the
four years, the
mock Republican convention nominated
thousands of college and high school students were
Illinois
John Anderson. Coming in a strong second
in
at
Live."
nominees included Archie Bunker from the
"All in the
was a Democratic
favor
ballot,
presidential candidate George
Rep.
1980
receives a
from convention chairman Pierce Atwater on March 25, 1976.
In addition to
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.
In
T-shirt
who would later serve
as the nation's
Gym. The
The 1972 Democratic
given a
real-life
alive
education in the
political process.
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greats.
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Retired prof sees
the
homeless
through his camera's
lens.
Page
16.
From the
Executive Editor
This
November,
must admit,
I
Bush began
44th president of the United States and,
we'll elect the
seems
it
his
like the
campaigning started as soon as President
second term. The process
for selecting the president of one
of the 14 institutions in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
is
also
time-consuming and rigorous but, thankfully, the
As many of you know, just
L. Soltz.
last
similarities
month we welcomed BUS 18th
end
right there.
president, Dr. David
You've already seen his photo on the cover of this issue of Bloomsburg: The
University Magazine,
At BU, the
and
you'll get to
meet him
in a story beginning
on page
6.
new university president is both complicated and detailed.
process began nearly two years ago when former President Jessica S.
The search
for a
Kozloff announced her retirement date of Dec. 31, 2007, ending a tenure that began
July
1,
1994.
new president involved many people, not only at Bloomsburg
University but also around the commonwealth. PASSHE Policy 1983-13-A outlines
Selecting a
each of the
composed
For example, the policy requires establishing a search committee
steps.
of members of BUs Council of Trustees, faculty,
students, alumni
also requires the selection of a consulting firm to help the
search process
staff,
administration,
and the current or former president of a comparable
university. It
committee through the
and review of applications. The consulting firm of Witt/Kieffer received
well over a hundred applications
on our
behalf;
all
were reviewed by every member
of our presidential search committee.
members
Search committee
to
pre-interviewed 12 candidates and five were invited
campus last September and October
constituency groups.
The top
three
for extensive
two-day interviews with campus
names were presented, unranked,
to the
PASSHE
Board of Governors and Chancellor Judy Hample and, in mid-November, one was
offered
and accepted the
position.
President Soltz joins us at an exhilarating time in Bloomsburg University's history
We await the arrival of spring to see the
sodded and planted
and upgraded
last fall
full
beauty of the
new Academic Quad,
and dedicated during Homecoming Weekend. Renovated
instructional buildings are providing a learning
environment that
ensures our students enter the world fully prepared for tomorrow's careers and
technology. Students' housing needs
our current on-campus residence
.
.
halls
.
and wishes
and with a
...
are being addressed within
future housing project literally
on
upper campus' horizon.
We're proud of the overall experience
And now, we
our new president.
alumni.
Ja*o-
eagerly start a
BU
offers to
our students, faculty
staff
and
new era energized by the enthusiasm and ideas of
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Editor's note:
From
the Presidents
The University Magazine,
Desk retun\s
written by
BUs
in the spring
2008 issue
18th president, David
L
of Bloomsburg:
Soltz-
.
.
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is a
State System of
member of the Pennsylvania
Higher Education
Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education Board of Governors
2007
as of December
Kenneth
Chair
E. Jarin,
Aaron Walton, Vice Chair
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair
Matthew
Baker
E.
Lammando
Marie Conley
Paul
FEATURES
Dlugolecki
S.
Daniel P. Elby
COVER STORY
Ryan Gebely
Michael K.
Hanna
Vincent J. Hughes
Kim E.
Page 6
Lyttle
Introducing President Soltz
Joshua O'Brien
Joseph
New President
Peltzer
David
L. Soltz
and his wife Robbie had
Guido M. Pichini
Edward G. Rendell
a detailed mental picture of the type of college
James J Rhoades
college
ChristineJ. Toretti Olson
Gerald
right
Chair
'68,
Ramona H.
Lammando
number
'94, Secretary
Alley
fit,'
to increase the
of undergraduates earning
math and
science
students.
several
The
associate professor has engineered
programs
make numbers add up
to
at all
'60
levels of education.
71
David Klingerman
Sr.
Grads Unscripted
Page 10
Mowad
President,
Mauch believes any plan
'08
Charles C. Housenick
A. William Kelly
Bloomsburg University
HGTVs 'Design
common - BU alums. Neal
NBC's The Biggest Loser' and
Soltz
L.
good
degrees must begin with the youngest elementary
D'Amico
Roben Dampman '65
LaRoy G. Davis '67
David
a very
Math Matters
Elizabeth
Barth, Vice Chair
B.
Marie Conley
Joseph J.
was
it
Page 9
Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees
Robert j. Gibble
F.
from the beginning like
says BU's 18th president.
Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
Judy G. Hample
James
and
seeking. 'Bloomsburg looked
Zahorchak
L.
Steven
town they were
have one thing in
Executive Editor
Liza Benedict
Star'
Gallagher '82 works for 'The Biggest Loser' as
Co-Editors
director of
photography and
Millard '03
was
Lisa
Hunsinger
'I
Eric Foster
Bonnie Martin
Husky Notes
Editor
Page 12
Brenda Hartman
Director of Alumni Affairs
In the
It's
Editorial Assistant
a
way
Star.'
and touch
lives.
Communications Assistants
student,
he went on
Deirdre Miller '07
University. In
Mong '08
Emily Watson '07
to
become
my photos and stories to put human
on the numerous and immediate
problems facing the homeless
of Legends
'86, football isn't just a
to teach lessons
want
faces directly
Gary Clark,
their plight,
it
simply ignore
into the
National College Football Hall of Fame.
Agency
Snavely Associates,
Capturing Invisible Lives
Page 16
LTD
Art Director
BU
art professor
Gary Clark has scoured many
Debbie Shephard
Retired
Designer
problem of homelessness. Through
Curt
Woodcock
and
inspire others to
become
draw
cities to
his photographs, Clark
works
attention to the
to raise
awareness
active in the fight.
Cover Photography
Eric Foster
On
Page 20
Pay
It
Forward:
From Bloomsburg
to Tibet
the Cover
David
Soltz
L.
the 18
is
Lh
When Anne-Sophie Ekelund 79
president of Bloomsburg
University of Pennsylvania.
graduated from BU, she
She never dreamed her journeys would take her
Address comments and questions
with her husband, work
to:
to build schools
and
to Tibet
knew
she wanted to
travel.
where she would marry and,
libraries.
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Bloomsburg University
and
is
is
an
AA/EEO
accessible to disabled persons.
University of Pennsylvania
is
institution
Bloomsburg
committed to
by way of prodding equal
employment oppommilies for
affirmative action
educational and
all
persons without regard to race, religion, gender,
age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability
or veteran status.
says
Once you
becomes much more
this problem.'
a coach at Wilkes
2007 he was inducted
today,'
retired art professor.
hear their stories, see their faces, understand
game.
After
helping turn BU's football program around as a
Johnson
Lynette
on 'Design
Company
For Frank Sheptock
Lynda Fedor-Michaels '87/'88M
Irene
a contestant
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difficult to
News Notes
Fellowship
and
Faith
Gillespie
campus
The
new
Maggie
Rev.
Protestant
minister
Gillespie, a
Bloomsburg resident with a
long history of service,
BU's Protestant
became
campus minster
last fall. Originally
from
Chicago, Gillespie
moved
to
Bloomsburg with her family 13
years ago and served at several
area churches before taking the
position at BU.
Mod Quad
As Protestant campus
On-campus park dedicated
minister, Gillespie interacts
often with students.
She leads
Sunday evening worship
services, organizes
Bible studies
weekend
weekly
and coordinates
retreats.
have always loved the
"I
at
Homecoming
Former BU President Jessica Kozloff was one of the speakers who formally dedicated the
Academic Quadrangle during Homecoming 2007. The quad, which extends from the Warren
Student Services Center to the Andruss Library, opened last fall and features lawns, walkways, a
sculpture garden and a fountain, a gift from the Class of 1940. The Academic Quad is the
centerpiece of a decade of expansion and renovation of many BU facil it ies. such as Centennial
Hall, Warren Student Services Center and McCormick Center, and an improvement to the
entrance and parking behind McCormick Center.
university setting," Gillespie
says.
"It is
an exciting
environment.
I
am
interested
in
working with young people
who may
be questioning and
are open to trying
I
hope
to get to
Heading off Hunger
Student
efforts feed local residents
new things.
know these
students well and share
- Donation of unused Flex
In Columbia County, where 11.5 percent of
the population lives
below poverty level,
BU
in
students have stepped
their lives."
sure food
is
up
to the plate to
make
A variety of volunteer efforts coordinated
the
SOLVE
Tim
Pelton,
VISTA volunteer. Student
- The Empty Bowls banquet. Held
campus hunger-awareness event
AmeriCorps/
- Food
efforts resulted in
Rev.
Maggie Gillespie
drives.
Student volunteers place
and more than $10,000 in 2006-07.
campus
hunger
- Souper Bowl
locally:
at the
fall,
collecting
of Caring. Students place
collection jars in pizza
raising several
and hoagie shops,
hundred
dollars.
- End-of-the-semester donations.
gather and repackage leftover food from
campus dining establishments
residence halls each
approximately a ton of food.
students are involved in the following
- Food Recovery. Students work with
campus food service provider Aramark to
.i&'0££?t;.°?
about
food collection boxes in local businesses and
efforts to fight
jk^2
raises
$4,000 each year.
donations of approximately 10 tons of food
BU
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history,
annually for the past five years, the on-
Office provides food to
Bloomsburg Food Cupboard and other
organizations, says
worth of food; over the program's
donations have totaled $44,000.
available for those in need.
through BU's
funds. For
2006-07, unused funds purchased $6,400
end of
says students leaving
each day. Pelton estimates about 8 tons of food
Pelton
campus donate about
thousand pounds of food each spring.
has been recovered that otherwise would have
been thrown away since the program
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a
Linking Theatres
BU joins forces with BTE
Catching Predators
Internship leads to Internet sting
BU and
By day, she had
job as a bank
summer
teller.
was
night, she
a
lease
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE) signed
BU's theatre department had identified a need for
improved
It
theatre
facilities,
and BTE was
in
need of a new
wasn't your average
source of income to help sustain the theatre.
summer internship.
worked together in
forensics
the past, including
has been in existence for quite
only believes she's
have
this formal lease
some
Felicia DiPrinzio
career in law
work with
Levittown
ship with
man who struck up
a chat
someone he thought was
room
and
arts
relation-
a 13-year-old
girl.
live professional theatre for
our community
students."
The
arrest of a
BTE Board
Bob
and, in particular,
the Briar Creek Police
Department, near Berwick, led to the
We are thrilled to
we are all very grateful
President
for the university's support," says
Tevis. "This
enforcement. Her
members
agreement confirms the importance of the
accomplished something
also
time.
agreement, and
worthwhile, but
hooked on a
BU and BTE had
faculty
"The relationship between the university and the ensemble
major
from Bala Cynwyd, not
is
BU
serving as directors, actors and designers.
Felicia DiPrinzio, a
computer
a
Krause Theatre in downtown Bloomsburg 87 days a year.
By
bait for
Internet sex predators.
the
agreement that allows the university to use the Alvina
lease, for
five years
$63,000 a
year, will continue for the next
with an annual increase based on the consumer
price index.
For DiPrinzio, the experience concluded the
uncertain path to discovering a meaningful career.
She graduated from high school with a vague
in
math and went on
in mathematics
remained
and
to get a
a job as a
Archaeology
Preserved
interest
bachelor of arts degree
bank
teller,
but
Anthropologists
dissatisfied.
earn access
A chance encounter with Scott Inch, professor
of mathematics, computer science
was the push she needed
forensics
and
to enroll as a
statistics,
computer
A team of
major with a minor in criminal justice.
anthropologists,
Then last summer, she earned an internship with
Briar
Creek
which includes
Police.
DeeAnne Wymer and Robert Harness
While talking about
and
the Briar Creek Police hatched a similar plan. She
a 13-year-old girl
and began cruising
Internet
was very
disturbing," she says of the predators
she encountered online, adding that the Pennsylvania
suspect she communicated with faced
more than 70
DiPrinzio found that the children predators target
easement to
sites for the
next 25 years.
Land owner Robert Harness, 89, created a
special legal
advises parents to "keep a dialog with your kids
they're doing.
Remind them never to
on
give out
personal information to strangers or meet them."
And what she found in the law enforcement
community was positive. "I've seen what it's like on
the other side of the flashing lights," she says. "They're
good people, with
WINTER 200
families, just
Paul Pacheco of SUNY-Geneseo and Jarrod Burks of Ohio
Valley Archaeological Consultants.
doing their job."
The easement
gives
unrestricted access to the property, including ownership
and the
right to bring university
students onto the property for archaeological field schools.
The Harness farm
tend to be bored, lonely and unsupervised. She
really
a legal
contains archaeological
of the excavated artifacts
felony charges after his arrest.
what
Wymer, has earned
easement in the name of the project co-directors, Wymer,
chat rooms.
"It
BU
DeeAnne
an Ohio farm that
professor
a television series that catches
Internet predators in sting operations, DiPrinzio
became
to
Hopewell site
is
well
known for the numerous
Hopewell moundbuilders ceremonial
terraces
and
sites
located
"The generosity of Mr. Harness guarantees
matter
and
on
its
floodplains.
who owns
their students
that,
no
the land in the future, the researchers
can conduct archaeological surveys and
excavations on the property," says
Wymer.
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Star Student
B Ufreshman
receives Dell Scholarship
Guidance and
BU
Growth
student in Pennsylvania and one of only 250 students from
Debbie joins
Sister
Sister
across the country to be
CCM
a scholarship
Maldonado
is
the only
awarded
through the Dell
Scholars Program.
Deborah Bomeman of
the Sisters of Saints Cyril
criminal justice major Jorge
The
and
Dell Scholarship,
funded
through the Michael and Susan
Methodius was appointed
Dell Foundation,
is
awarded
associate director of Catholic
to students
Campus
Ministry, serving
Sister
Debbie Borneman
financial
students with the Rev. Donald Cramer.
Noting that the
focuses
need who
participate
in a college readiness program.
Sisters of Saints Cyril
on education,
with qualifying
and Methodius
Since 2004, the foundation has
Sister
Debbie says she
excited
is
about her role in reaching out to students and helping
provided more than $9 million
in college scholarships.
to
expand CCM's ministry program.
Sister
for
Debbie believes that a college campus
more than
the acquisition of
knowledge
—
Maldonado, a graduate of
is
God?" she
through presence and
asks.
"I
hope
in the TRiO Upward
Bound Program at BU, starting in 2005, his sophomore year
in high school. Upward Bound, open to high school
Bloomsburg High School, was enrolled
it's
for
personal growth, too. "Are they growing in their
relationship with
to help
students from low-income backgrounds, stresses academics
availability."
and
diversity to prepare students to
members
Mr.
Mayor
BU
Recent grad leads town government
Dan Knorr
'07
is
history,
mean he
but that doesn't
lacks experience.
years of service as a council
member. Knorr ran unopposed
for mayor last fall and won
with 914 votes.
two-year term in January,
major in
a double
As a recent
relationship
because
I
after
He began
and
represent both the university students
equally. But
I
also
its
"It's
I
tough
have to
and town members
have a good perspective of both
which cenainly has
With three BU players from Philadelphia and
more from the metro area, the Huskies were almost as
much
of a
home
team as Villanova.
"I
it was
them
think
big for
personally to have
and
come out
and watch them
their family
friends
play in a big-time
ball
BU
sides,
lot
basket-
coach John
Sanow.
and
Green, center, drives on Villanovas Malcolm Grant
Philadelphia.
says
history.
between the university and the town.
Wachovia Center
environment,"
graduate, Knorr understands the important
represent a wide array of individuals,
at
during last falls exhibition game at the Wachovia Center in
his
graduating in December with
political science
first
vs. Villanova
BUs Jason
three
"As young as I am, I had
more experience than an
outsider, since I already had my
feet wet with town council,"
Knorr says, referring to his two
Dan Knorr
the
the
youngest mayor in Bloomsburg
town
become
of their families to attend college.
Huskies play
At 22,
Jorge Maldonado
"It
was
a
of fun for the
players even with
the final score."
Bloomsburg lost
to the Wildcats,
88-41.
advantages."
BLOOMSBURG
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Hockey Finesse
Field
Huskies repeat as
BU
NCAA champs
captured the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic
Association Division
II
field
5-2 win over UMass-Lowell
NCAA title,
six years
for
title
and ninth
last
a
November. The
Bloomsburg, the
fifth
The game was
in the last 12.
in the last
also a bit of
who were beaten by UML in
revenge for the Huskies,
2005
(UML)
head coach Jan Hutchinson, was
the 14th for
the second straight
hockey championship with
the
NCAA title game.
"I'm very excited for this
group of players," says
Hutchinson. "Every team
and
different,
Virtual
Classroom
this
is
group of
players fought hard
throughout the year,
Technology makes class accessible to
Sam
Slike, left,
all
overcoming
curriculum coordinator for BU's education
several losses,
to get here. But, ultimately,
think
was those
losses
of the deaf/hard of hearing program, uses an interactive
I
program
that helped us get to
for his online courses that allows students to
simultaneously watch a sign language interpreter, read
closed captions of Slike s lecture, type in questions
we wanted
and
instructional designer for the Institute for Instructional
Technology, adapted the program to include a videophone
and
instructor.
to
where
be and
that
is
NCAA champions."
review slides of the material. Pamela Bergman, an
for deaf students to
it
communicate back to the interpreter
in the photo with Slike is BU sign
Shown
language interpreter Kristen Fitzgerald-Eggleton.
Offensively,
Blooms-
burg finished the year with
132 goals scored, smashing
the previous record of 108 goals scored.
knew we had
"I
some very good scoring threats coming into
Hutchinson comments.
this
Easing the Transition
good.
It
"I
just never
does go to show that
the season,"
knew we would be
we had a lot
of depth in
that area."
BU, Lehigh Carbon CC forge agreements
Officials
from
BU and
degree at the Morgan Center
Lehigh
campus, where BU faculty
Carbon Community College
formalized
two agreements
will
designed to ease students'
degrees to BU bachelor's degrees.
An elementary education
BU
junior-
in
BU
elementary education.
Also signed
was
who
a dual-
begin their
elementary education courses at
college studies at any
LCCC
LCCC's Morgan Center
campus with plans
complete
in
to
students per year
an associate's degree
at the
in
education
community college
able to earn a
BU
will
bachelor's
be
their
coursework at BU, says
James Matta,
BU's assistant
vice president
and dean of
are enrolled
in
one or two
BU's health physics
program. Scholarship recipients will be selected through a
other criteria established by the NRC.
Students
may
receive up to four years of scholarship support
funding continues to be provided by the
NRC and
the student
maintains the necessary qualifications. Each scholarship
recipient
of
graduate studies and research.
must agree
one year
for
each
to
full
employment with the NRC
or partial year of
Total funding for this scholarship
David
R.
is
for a period
academic support.
program
is
$17,280 per year.
Simpson, associate professor of physics and engineer-
ing technology
WINTER. 200
to provide scholarships for
who
competitive process based primarily on academic merit and
if
Tamaqua. Students who receive
received a grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC)
simplifies the transfer process
for students
to offer upper-level
Agency provides scholarship funds
and
admissions agreement that
completion program agreement
allows
all
senior-level courses
from LCCC associate's
transition
teach
IMRC Grant
and coordinator
of BU's health physics program,
serving as program director for the project.
President Soltz
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN
On an unseasonably warm and sunny day
in
mid-November,
the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's Board
of Governors
appointed David
L.
as
Soltz
Bloomsburg
University's 18th president. With his wife Robbie by his side,
the
new
president accepted, saying he
is
'delighted
and
honored with the wonderful opportunity at an excellent
university in an excellent system.'
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
David
and Robbie
were looking
Soltz
for
They wanted
a certain type of situation.
town where
sity
region.
on
had a
community
They wanted a univer-
positive influence
and the
the institution
the
with strong academics that served as the
LA., but
I
town in a rural
With Bloomsburg as our home,
nice to be in a college
it's
area near a major city.
Robbie and
a university located in a traditional
college
lived in
will enjoy the special qualities that
found in a close-knit community and the
cities like
my seventh year as promy academic experience, it was time
demic administration, and I was in
economy. They found
vost,"
in
Bloomsburg.
After a career spent at three different universities in
two Western
states,
he wanted in the
"I
David Soltz knew the
to
characteristics
says.
look for
that
'With
this opportunity, so I'd
dedicated
"I've
he would lead as president.
institution
saw Bloomsburg University's
he
been looking selectively.
my career to comprehensive universities
do the things
this university
and PASSHE do
such as provide access and opportunity
profile as very similar to
and highly valued degrees
lence in education
Central Washington, where he's served as provost and
graduates personally and professionally."
from the beginning
Soltz's
tenure as
looked right
affairs. "It
Soltz calls the similarities "striking"
was a very good fit."
BU's president began in early January,
like
it
following the retirement of Jessica
S. Kozloff,
"a talented leader
the
between Central
size of the student
new buildings,
college that
that benefit
body, the
the academic back-
became
a
comprehensive
university, the high-quality faculty, the dedicated staff
calls
him
who will serve both Bloomsburg and
commonwealth well."
Dr. Joseph Mowad, a member
mixture of old and
ground of a teachers
BU's presi-
dent for 13V2 years. Judy Hample, chancellor of the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education,
Washington and BU. "The
well,
for students, excel-
Central Washington University," he says as he leaves
senior vice president of academic
at a logical
of my career has been in aca-
cultural center while contributing significandy to the
it all
came
Soltz says his presidential aspirations
"Much
big
New York from time to time."
Philadelphia and
point in his career.
area's
can be
ability to visit
the pride the students
universities share,"
he
and alumni
feel
are qualities
and
both
says.
of BU's Council of
Trustees and chair of the presidential search committee,
agrees. "Dr. Soltz
is
uniquely qualified to provide the
necessary leadership to continue Bloomsburg University
moving forward in
Soltz
a very positive direction,"
grew up near Chicago and moved
an undergraduate student, earning
as
he
says.
to California
a bachelor's degree
in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley, in
1968 and
a doctor of biology degree
from the University
of California, Los Angeles, in 1974.
'When I went to
started
UCLA,
grad school at
see myself living in a major
urban
area,"
really didn't
I
he
says.
"Then,
and three kids and stayed
in
LA.
for
30
the Soltzes found the rural
on
to Ellensburg,
life
David
years."
After living for three decades in major California
moved
I
my career and got married. We had two careers
they love
cities,
when they
their home
Wash., in 2001. And,
three acres has provided lots of space for their four
horses and three dogs.
They
expect
to Ellensburg. "I
some might
conducted
research as a biologist, including field research in the desert regions of
"I
spent a
lot
I
'lores,
a senior art studio major from Danville, center,
BU President David L.
during their mid-November
His
priorities at
southern California," the
of time in small towns
and
new president says.
rural areas.
We've
and
to
know the
inviting student leaders to
academic
and
his wife Robbie
campus.
Bloomsburg include learning about the
and the neighboring
faculty, staff
He
and students
be an "advisory voice" in
issues, similar to a task force
Central Washington.
he
initiated at
expects to place a lot of emphasis
on educational exchange agreements, which he
are vitally important.
Continued on next page
WINTER 200
Soltz, right,
visit to the
issues important to the university
community, getting
didn't experience the "culture shock"
when they moved
greets
believes
.
"I've traveled to
to establish
Asia seven times
meaningful academic
exchange programs, including a
One
recent trip to Korea," he says.
of those agreements led to private
financing to support a professor of
From
Chinese.
that seed
grew a
David
and Roberta
L.
David
'Robbie' Soltz
Soltz
L.
tenure track faculty position and,
last year,
Chinese
an academic major in
David
Washington.
at Central
and senior vice president
Soltz served as provost
L.
Washington University before he became Bloomsburg
His wife, Roberta "Robbie" Soltz,
earned a doctor of biology degree
Jan.
7.
As
chief
academic
Ellensburg, Wash., he
officer of the regional
was
for
academic
affairs at Central
University's 18th president on
comprehensive university located
responsible for four colleges, the
in
graduate studies,
library,
from the University of California,
mem-
Irvine
and has been
ber
Central Washington. In
at
Ellensburg, she
Kittitas
a faculty
was
continuing education, international programs, research and grants, as well as student
academic support
Active
chair of the
member
of the Western Art Association's
board of directors. She
number
Committee
of
Academic
Officers for the state of
and as Central Washington University's representa-
was
the state representative on the executive committee of the Northwest Academic Forum.
Soltz also served on the executive
committee of the American Association of State
Cham-
local
Washington's
Higher Education Coordinating Board. For the past four years, he
tive to the State
also coordi-
he served as chair
of organizations related to higher education,
six public baccalaureate institutions
nated the Leadership Ellensburg
program through the
a
of the Inter-institutional
County Board of Health
Advisory Committee and a
in
services.
Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Grant Resource Center and
was an
original
member
ber of Commerce. Robbie Soltz was
on
the primary writer
a
number
of the implementation
High
Demand
From
fund Central Washington
Expan-
sion Program (STEP), designed to
increase recruitment, retention
American Democracy
Project.
Washington
Gov. Christine Gregoire appointed him to the Committee on the Education of Students
National Science Foundation grant
University's Science Talent
for the
of
grants, including a $1 million
to
committee
and
1
996
to
2001 Soltz
,
was dean
University at Los Angeles and, from
1
of natural
988
to
cal sciences at California State University,
1
As provost
or dean,
he
made
and
social sciences at California State
996, he chaired the department of biologi-
Long Beach. He also
of governors of the California Desert Studies
performance in science, technology,
in
Fields.
was
Consortium from 1992
official visits to
10 universities
in
chair of the board
until
2001
China, often negotiat-
engineering and math.
The couple views
Bloomsburg
their
move
ing cooperative
know,
opportunity. "You
a candi-
courses ranging from freshman seminar and general biology for non-majors to graduate
seminars on ecology and evolutionary biology.
Soltz earned a bachelor's degree
date interviews the institution, too,
and
I
about
"I
found
many positive
things
this institution," says Soltz.
like the feel of the
faculty
town, the
enthusiasm and the com-
mitted students
.
.
.
ley,
and a doctoral degree
in
about their education. All of the
is
zoology from the University of California, Berke-
biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His
research focuses on environmental biology and the population biology of fishes
stressful environments, such as high
book, a
temperature and high
symposium volume and numerous
b
Soltz
is
journal articles
the United
a Rotarian and, before moving to Bloomsburg,
Way of
Kittitas
mittee of Kittitas Valley
co-editor of
Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.
salinity.
He has
and environmental
was
a
living in
written one
reports.
member of the
board of
County and the strategic planning and implementation com-
Community
The new president enjoys
Bonnie Martin
in
good students
who are enthusiastic and happy
pieces are in place."
for international education opportunities. He's taught
to
tremendous
as a
agreements
hiking
Hospital.
and
fly
fishing in his leisure time and, with his wife
Robbie, rides and raises quarterhorses. The Soltzes have three young adult children and
two granddaughters.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
The number
granted
of bachelor's
degrees
the U.S. increased
in
24 percent between 1995 and 2005,
growing number
reflecting the
of
students pursuing a postsecondary
degree, according to the National
Center for Education Statistics. Yet
in
math- and science-related
the
number
of
fields,
degrees granted
actually declined.
A Bloomsburg
University professor
is
working to
change that trend.
Math Matters
STORY BY LYNETTE MONG
Mauch is always searching
new ways to help students suc-
Elizabeth
for
Mauch,
'08
associate professor of
really
mathematics, computer science and
ceed, from the youngest elementary
statistics,
student to the college senior. She
academic help and a positive living
particularly
tion rate
aware of the high
is
attri-
among science and math
students at the college level and
is
will
up on
giving
we hope
emphasis on math,
these students complete their studies.
students before they
To do
this, she's started a
summer
program
for young girls, led BU's
Math and Science Resource Center
and, most recently, helped
a
BU
attain
$600,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation.
The
grant, co-written
research,
is
with James
and
designed "to recruit and
retain students in the sciences
and
math, and to fund low-income students,"
fall, it
Mauch says. Beginning this
will provide
$10,000 per year
students
who
or science
13 scholarships of
for four years to
math
and satisfy low income
are majoring in
requirements. Scholarship recipients
will receive tutoring
Originally
from
through BU's
Student Support Services and
live in
fall
heavy
enter college. Every year,
organizes a
behind."
New York,
her master's and doctorate degrees
"We
from Lehigh University. She came
a certificate in
math content courses
for ele-
mentary education majors. Yet
after
nine years, she says, "Elementary
math is something I've become
increasingly interested
"It
math
interests
at the
elementary
because that
seem
to
Mauch
is
the time
keep them or
says.
interest.
get a lot of
good
college stu-
Emphathem
dents from around this area.
sizing
math and
when
they are younger will help us
retain
them as students when they
Mauch says. To make the
science to
are older,"
experience accessible, scholarships
summer 2008,
camp will be open to boys.
Mauch has no intentions of
are available and, in
the
slowing
in.
me how kids learn
down her efforts
BU students,
to help
present and future.
bringing projects to fruition.
level,
"I like
when we
And I love being involved with
lose them,"
To determine
the best
and Technology Living
methods
Community with
goes to elementary schools to
WINTER 2008
was
when the head of the
Learning
students in similar majors.
to
department assigned her to teach
several
girls
and high school, using
and demonstrations to
in middle
activities
education, but
Mauch
Math and Science
Summer Experience camp for
pique their
surprised
that retaining
to help
a Science
other
Mauch believes
degree from Moravian College and
math secondary
are in the
students begins long before they
Mauch received her undergraduate
Bloomsburg with
Matta, dean of graduate studies
"Through
tutoring, especially placing a
determined to find a way to help
you
every day."
keep students from
the sciences.
if
classroom, working with students
believes the additional
environment
leam what teaching methods
are effective
these students
to succeed."
and helping them
b
of teaching math, she often
work
with current teachers. "You only
Lynette
Mong
'08
is
an
Englislt/creative
writing major from Kennewick, Wash.
'The best moments found on
reality
TV are unscriptable, or beyond die
grasp of most scriptwriters,' writes
Michael Hirschorn, executive vice
president at
VH1,
May 2007 issue.
in Atlantic
Perhaps that explains
the appeal of the genre that's
staple
Monthly's
now a
of network programming.
&>
flnscf
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY
The
critics
of reality television say
it is
rife
And Emmy Awards won in 1993 and 1995
with
wannabe-actors and contrived storylines; however, there
is
another,
much brighter side
to the genre.
Bloomsburg University alums have found,
programming can provide
As two
along with another nomination in 1999,
field,
Now,
expand
as director of photography for
a career or to help build one. Neal Gallagher, director of
Loser," Gallagher
photography on NBC's "The Biggest Loser," gets to
and camera
watch the
hit weight-loss
for his
David Copper-
specials with magician
attest to
the quality of his work.
reality
great opportunities to
work on two
show unfold through his
lens.
is
in charge of 14
assistants.
"The Biggest
camera operators
He works with
the director to
develop the show's look, which includes
how inter-
Meanwhile, designer Lisa H-Millard impressed
views are shot and where cameras are placed. In addi-
producers enough
tion,
tants
on
"Design
to earn a spot as
the second season of
one of
1 1
contes-
HGTVs top-rated series,
he serves as the
liaison
"My job
Star."
is
half management, half
half putting out fires,"
Neal Gallagher:
dealing with people as
This one
Generally,
is
special'
it
show.
takes five
On any day,
had a long
for
cameraman and worked on
took him around the globe.
a freelance
career he finds so personally
and
professionally
rewarding has never been boring, he acknowledges.
10
we work 12-hour days and
cameras shooting as
WNEP-TV in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. He then moved
The
much about
actually shooting the
be anywhere from four
who
home in
to eight
there
much as
10 hours of footage. Multiply that by
you
it
find
takes a lot to
make
a
finale.
crew
is
Another challenge he faces
gets
not
all
live,
five
may
and
one-hour show."
Each season consists of 14 episodes plus a
industry. After graduating
assignments that
photography and
as
shooting days for each episode.
his
from Bloomsburg in 1982, he became a cameraman
become
it is
"It's
makes
career in the broadcast
to
he jokes.
Neal Gallagher,
Dallas, Pa., has
on
between the director and
the show's department heads.
is
live
making sure
of the shots they need. Although the
the
show
Gallagher points out, "we can't go back and
get the shot again."
Gallagher
is
extremely proud of the finished prod-
uct. "I've liked the other reality projects I've
done, but
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Neal Gallagher
'82, facing page,
takes in the scene from behind the camera on 'The Biggest Loser.'
In photo above, Clive Pearse, host of 'Design Star,' offers his perspective to contestant Lisa H-Millard '03.
this
one
is
special,"
he
says.
"I
honestly believe that
area;
our show helps people improve their quality of life.
do
it
We
without judging, making fun of or taking advan-
tage of
I
am of anything else in
also
see
'Behind the
scenes
and
was crazy
on "Design
Star"
tant
on the show's second
"I
relatively brief.
who
season of "Design
work within,"
graduate.
show
be on the show. In the
had
castmates'
first
live.
am
was
challenge, she
and
after
you
like
going to the bath-
are fitted with a microphone," she says.
"You need clearances
to
go into a store
good
as the
to film.
There are
for 1 1 people.
camera
And
lights are
on
while you are trying to sleep in the four hours allotted."
Married to Lee Millard '02
in
Bloomsburg
works
University's
for Atlantic
who coordinates exhibits
Haas
Equipment
Gallery, H-Millard
Specialists, a national
field
on
the
other career opportunities,
own design business, b
the
For a glimpse of Lisa H-Millard on
"Design Star" and samples of her design work, see
www.lisahmillard.com. To learn more about NBC's "The
selected to
Biggest Loser," see www.nbc.com/The_Biggest_Loser.
the other
Vegas penthouse
H-Millard incorporated
into her design of the garage
WINTER 200
the scenes during production.
including launching her
says
"I
I
a great opportunity for H-Millard to see
show will help her
are
my creative abilities."
to design the Las
names
room
Editor's note:
H-Millard's confidence paid off as she
contestants
was
restaurant design firm. She hopes her appearance
where you
tiptoes along the boundaries with-
out crossing them to
where they would
good contes-
a
season.
2003 Bloomsburg
also
what goes on behind
reality television
first
would make
given specific limitations to
type of person
Still,
says. "I
an oppor-
my personality and creative side."
sleep schedules are not
was
me
a great opportunity for people to
Millard's time in front
love the challenge of the show,
H-Millard, a
behind the
give
and commercially.
residentially
was
two bedrooms and two bathrooms
experience after she watched the
that she
working
that this
show would
the
camera, Lisa Hunsinger
she too learned a great deal from her
and decided
on
"You don't think about things
fun!'
a lot of time
of the camera
knew
It
While Gallagher spends
Star"
that being
tunity to test
Lisa H-Millard:
Star."
"Behind the scenes was crazy and fun!" she
knew
my career."
H-Millard has no regrets about
exit,
appearing on "Design
our contestants. I'm more proud of being part
of 'The Biggest Loser' than
however, the judges dismissed her from the show.
Despite her early
all
loft
of the
door
Kevin Gray
is
a freelance writer based
in the
Lehigh Valley.
STORY BY JIM DOYLE
V*
'72
In the
Company of
Frank Sheptock, seen during his college
career, facing page and at left, surprised
many when he chose to play for
Bloomsburg. His accomplishments led
to college footballs highest honor,
induction into the National Football
Foundation's College Football Hall of
Fame, in summer 2007, below.
Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and
Knute Rockne were among
54 pioneers
in
and
for
Sheptock
'86.
who were winless
The Huskies,
the season before
Sheptock arrived on campus,
an
college career, culminating in
Football Hall of Fame's first
class
1951.
in
unbeaten regular season and a
A college
to the Division
finals
coach credited with helping
to rebuild Huskies football
as a player
in
the 1980s
is
hall of
latest class.
high school football
The
had
was
a big decision to
star
make.
trip
me
as
an
also did a great job
The turnaround
in
burg's football fortune
Blooms-
came
slowly.
Sheptock was one of 14 freshmen
middle linebacker earned him
who
three first-team All-American
Bloomsburg was
And in summer 2007 he
started for the
petitive
1982 Huskies.
much more com-
than they had been in the
received college football's highest
two previous seasons, but they only
honor when he was inducted
managed
into
a 1-7-1 record.
the National Football Foundation's
hard to take
College Football Hall of Fame.
tock whose
Sheptock explains the appeal of
It
and
He
Sheptock's outstanding play at
a
fame's
a passion for
of recruiting my mom. Obviously,
my parents had a big influence on
my life and my decision."
national semi-
when he was a senior.
selections.
member of the
II
He had a passion for the
game and
individual.
showed steady progress during his
the College
gram.
had
That was
for a player like
Shep-
Mount Carmel teams
lost a total of
nine games in
George Landis' recruiting pitch:
his three years of varsity football.
several Pennsylvania State Athletic
"Coach Landis had
and
Walking
Conference schools were very
an
we
Huskies' season-ending 34-7 loss at
his senior year,
interested in his services. Millersville
and West Chester both seemed
like logical choices.
They were
conference powerhouses, and this
senior
all,
was used
he played
program
to winning. After
for the
winningest
in the history of high
there
was something
intriguing about the recruiting
pitch delivered
at
Bloomsburg
tually the
by
the
new coach
State College.
high school
star,
Even-
Mount
Carmel's Frank Sheptock, defied
logic
and decided on Bloomsburg,
a football
can win
at
'I
believe
Bloomsburg, and
believe that
I
East Stroudsburg, Sheptock
I
can build some of this
decided he'd had enough.
around you.' Here was a person
that
wanted
to try
"I
and rebuild
come
was with
girlfriend Lisa
something and give a group of individuals an opportunity to
off the field after the
in
and make an impact on the pro-
I'm outta here.
work
out.'
prevailed.
my mom and my
and
It's
I
said,
This
is it,
not going to
Obviously, cooler heads
Coach Landis refocused
me by telling me
school football.
Still
a passion
attitude that said
program
that
had
that I had made a
commitment and we would go
through some rough times. That
had a profound effect on me which
continues to this day as a coach and
a father
— overcoming
working through
to
your word.
"That's probably
a
adversity,
things, being true
what I'm most
two previous seasons, including a
proud of concerning my time at
Bloomsburg. I wanted out, but
humiliating 72-0 loss to Millersville
some people
in 1981.
in
combined record
of 1-18 in the
That decision turned out to be a
great
one
for
Bloomsburg
football
that
were important
my life refocused me. We were
able to hold
it
together
things around."
Continued on next page
WINTER 200
and turn
about.
touch?
How many lives can you
How many people can
you help?
Frank Sheptock, second mm left, takes the stage with other inductees
National Football Foundations College Football Hall of Fame.
'When you're allowed to do that
game that you love, you have to
to the
I
in a
ask yourself,
The Huskies
(23), as well as career
did, indeed,
turn things around. In 1983 they
Millersville just
removed from
With
72-0 loss to the
that
Chester in
It
may have been the
real turning
The
point in the Huskies' fortunes.
week before
in a
win
Bloomsburg's sophomore running
back, Vernon Rochester, suffered an
left him paralyzed. At
Redman Stadium the Huskies, in
tribute to their injured
from a 24-5
24 victory over the Golden Rams,
team
that
a
had beaten them 46-0 in
1984 the Huskies clinched
In
the
PSAC Eastern Division title on
Jay Dedea's 50-yard "Hail Mary"
pass to Curtis
final play.
Still
on the game's
Two weeks later
Bloomsburg
lost a
championship game
at
PSAC
at
Hershey.
stepped
favored IUP team 31-9 in the
PSAC
an overflow crowd
Stadium. They followed
with a 38-28 win over
Hampton in
a National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
(NCAA)
losing to North
quarterfinal before
Alabama
in the
national semifinals in Florence, Ala.
Sheptock ended his career
the final
(AFCA)
single
,
game
major college
Rozier,
poll.
He
Mid-Atlantic Conference
first
in his
and former Florida University
AFCA Region 2
in
rusher. Sheptock calls the experience
"phenomenal."
"The memories
it
in
in the
as
coach
'86, a
school
Berwick High School, and
their daughters Nicole, 16,
feel like this is
your day
was given the
the Heisman TroI
same treatment as
phy winners. I feel very fortunate that
the decisions I made as a young man
and
possible.
I
love the game, and
love being around the kids.
perspective,
it
it's
from a
football.
young men how
.
.
of rebuilding
.
is
also
lucky that Frank Shep-
Husky
football,
b
what
Jim Doyle 12 retired after teaching at
Southern Columbia High School for
32 years. He
to
how to be committed
to their families. That's
very lucky as a
When
your classroom, but
live their lives,
feel very,
differ-
day
tock decided 25 years ago to be part
I
teacher's
not about
me in
this type of
Bloomsburg University
anticipates a long coaching
I
make
ent ways to
very lucky
career. "Sure,
is
make you
person and a player."
Kelly, 13.
He
me. The people
College Football Hall of Fame
So many people touched
Berwick where he
with his wife Lisa
at
at the
eventually led to this type of situation.
from his home
nurse
brings back of
what I'm going through now, are
and your weekend.
also
Sheptock commutes to Wilkes
lives
starter
my time at Bloomsburg, in addition
III
(MAC)
football's
Bowden
Emmitt Smith who eventually
became the NFL's all-time leading
ranked
was named coach of the year
Football
and
a few
Heisman
Trophy winners Charlie Ward and
Mike
American Football Coaches
you're teaching
stand for tackles in a career (537),
Fame. He was part of a
that included
to
with school records that
still
20
very, very special to
1-1
1
would
honor when he
In 2006, Wilkes was
All-American selection and finished
single season (159)
him
I
good Lord
into the College Foot-
winningest coach Bobby
had a 74-44 career
you approach
with his third straight first-team
in coaching.
record going into the 2007 season.
of the year.
ciation
Bob Chesney gave him
12th season as the head coach of the
well as the
at
class of
when Demelfi
down Sheptock had his
Colonels, he
I
Sheptock received college
ball Hall of
fact that
over.
University and
Sheptock and the Huskies in 1985.
Redman
were
years later as an assistant at Wilkes
After an unbeaten regular season,
Bloomsburg destroyed the heavily
it
as long as the
was inducted
Lourdes Regional High
Association
Everything came together for
final in front of
with the
his playing days
In 1987,
never
allows
and
director of player personnel
12 th in the nation in Division
seven-point deci-
sion to California in the
it
football's ultimate
head coaching job. Currently
the previous season.
found
Ind.,
School. Joe Demelfi hired
25-
1
do
heart-to-heart talk with Miami's
coach
teammate,
deficit for a
think
Dolphins. Afterward, he had a
to terms
I
find something
me to do it because I love it."
On July 21, 2007, in South Bend,
The last of
was with the Miami
the opportunity to be an assistant
injury that
rallied
I
like to
the professional level.
came
Mansfield,
at
his college career over,
several tryouts
How lucky am I?
would
I
enjoy more than playing football, but
Sheptock's goal was to play at
two seasons
was the win over West
week five, however, that
Marauders.
thought
recoveries (12).
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finished 5-5 including a
fumble
it's all
is
the radio play-by-play
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The National Law Center on
Homelessness and Poverty reports that
more than
3 million people experience
homelessness each year, including
1.3 million children.
Through
photography and advocacy, retired
BU
Gary Clark makes sure others
Professor
community.
truly see this invisible
Capturing
STORY BY KELLY MONITZ
Gary
F.
Clark cruised around abandoned buildings, small
wooded
patches and under bridges looking for Charlie and Lisa, a Florida
couple stranded, penniless and living on the streets of downtown
Wilkes-Barre.
The couple came
sick relative, but
squabble with no
tickets
to
way home. Lack of $140
—kept them on
the streets as
damp, bone-chilling autumn
Clark, a retired
less advocate,
before.
at
to northeastern Pennsylvania to care for a
found themselves on the wrong side of a family
He
nights.
Bloomsburg University
hoped
to
—
money for two bus
warm October days gave way
art
professor and
home-
connect with the pair he befriended the day
carried a bedroll, a soft, durable place to lay their heads
night until another solution could be found.
The
city
has two homeless shelters
women. But
— one
for
men and
one
for
the couple refused to separate for even a few hours,
Clark says. Nights found them huddled behind a city church and
other areas tucked just out of sight, largely invisible to the
nity
commu-
around them.
Clark, though, has always seen the homeless.
Even
as a boy, he saw them on
wondered about them. As an
adult, Clark walked among them
and mustered the courage to ask
the streets of
Retired
New York City and
BU professor Gary
Clark, far right, connects with
how they became homeless and
the homeless, including Charlie
what
and
their lives are like.
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Stefanie Wolownik, the head of Reach, a drop-in center at St. Stephen's
Wilkes-Barre, applauds Gary Clark's work, because
he has brought awareness about people who fall through the cracks.
Episcopal Church
These men,
women and children
in
didn't hold back,
side of the railroad tracks
He
told Clark that
and was making
lunch.
own awareness and moved him to activism.
An award-winning artist, Clark uses his talents as a
but he remained out on the
photographer to put a
meets in
cities,
on the homeless people he
face
such as
New York and Philadelphia,
in smaller communities near his
Nearly
traits
and
stories
mashuga,
want
direcdy
Bloomsburg home.
Clark began posting their por-
awareness of the problem of home-
inspire others to activism.
plight,
it
stories, see their faces,
becomes much more
says.
Web site,
work locally and abroad and founded
his
presented his
the Northeast
the street
on
and eventually end homelessness.
The heart
of Clark's project, though,
one work with the homeless, a
is
shelters
for signs of makeshift
the large
A number
camped against a bridge support near
complex, but no one stays there now, he says,
A few blocks away,
St.
people started
site.
filing into the
Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen. The Catholic Social
Services program,
which provides lunches
dinners three nights per week,
stops in the
and
Diamond
City.
He hoped
daily
and
to find Charlie
the couple, Clark decided to
woman he met two years
A registered nurse and an alcoholic, Ellen lives in a
wooded patch on
a hilltop just outside the city limits.
Turning a corner, Clark spied an old
It
happened
weak to hold
right
old Welfare office."
through his
ate
Jimmy made
home and she got him help.
his flesh. Smoldering,
a friend's
come
a job.
Jimmy
lives inside
make him
now, but
still
including Ellen.
streets,
But she didn't
inside.
show up
at the
soup
Outside the building, 49-year-old Sandy waved to
Clark, excited to
friend,
Mike,
empty parking lot, and greeted him
hug. Mike had just left his camp on the other
tell
him her news. Her boss
offered her
a permanent position, another step toward the normal
life
a prescription
drug addiction
She started taking pain
One
pills
stole
from her.
following a surgery.
—
— and then she turned
prescription led to another
OxyContin
Vicodin, Percocet,
to the street drug,
heroin, she says.
"I
came out onto
the streets.
I
had a lot of experisaw a murder. I saw
ences out there," Sandy
recalls. "I
someone
There are desperate people
killed for $30.
out there."
Sandy was desperate, too. "I wouldn't eat for days. I
was a skeleton," she says. "I died three times. I went to
jail
15 times."
Her last
stay in the Luzerne
County prison saved her
because she took the help offered, got clean and started
life,
started looking for
ing
at
she says.
On this Sunday,
an apartment of her
Ruth's Place, the local
women's
Sandy had
own while stay-
shelter.
The most important lesson she learned through it
all is that anyone can end up on the streets. "I was a
homemaker. I was a stay-at-home mom. I came from
cutting through an
a
with a
to
18
train tracks,
don't forget that date.
and seared
rebuilding her
look for Ellen, a homeless
he lay along
19, 1999," Jimmy says, sitting inside the
"I
down from the
way to
her to
one of Clark's regular
Lisa there.
Not immediately seeing
ago.
is
afire as
another winter on the streets and hoped to convince
and unsecured doors and windows.
of homeless once
because an apartment building overlooks the
him
has attachments to those on the
A canister of pepper spray goes with
Sunday morning, Clark looked
set
His scarred body and damaged muscles
too
his one-on-
facet that often takes
him on all of his jaunts.
Weaving through a maze-like building complex on
a
and
kitchen this Sunday, either.
him into potentially dangerous situations on the streets.
Some of his subjects are drug and alcohol addicts or
mentally unstable.
own perils, though. Mike
when someone found and
Both Clark and Jimmy feared that she wouldn't survive
fledgling organization aims to unite students from
colleges throughout the region to help those living
its
That day, he woke up as flames
Pennsylvania Alliance Against Homelessness at BU.
The
has
February
passed out from more beer than he could handle.
and thousands
He has also
last
Jimmy, another of Wilkes-Barre's homeless, nearly
when two men doused him with lighter
simply
He calls his project Essential Humanity.
Millions have viewed the
streets
lost his life
clothes
have responded, Clark
unwilling or afraid to
street,
camp. He wasn't hurt; others haven't been
his
over here
ignore this problem."
to
as lucky.
soup kitchen.
understand their
difficult to
on the
"December
on the numerous and immediate problems
"Once you
facing the homeless today," Clark says.
hear their
burned
way
inside.
life
everything
fluid
my photos and stories to put human faces
a
Life
lost
on a photo Weblog, www.fotolog.net/
to raise
and
lessness
"I
five years ago,
and
up
set
his
he wasn't drinking anymore,
sharing their stories with him. Their plight raised his
good Christian
family,"
Sandy
says. "It
can happen
anyone."
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Wolownik, the head of Reach,
Stefanie
center at
St.
Stephen's Episcopal
Barre, agrees. "It could
Church
a drop-in
be any one of us," she
The homeless
tells
the story as part of Gary Clarks
the Northeast Pennsylvania Alliance Against Homeless-
says.
Wolownik works with the homeless every day,
helping some to re-establish themselves and others
meet day-to-day needs from clothing
Charlie Weiss' face
slide presentation, 'Essential Humanity,' offered during
in Wilkes-
ness' third
to
to blankets.
annual conference
who do good are
that's
there
all
what warmed him
last fall.
the time," Jeb says, explaining
to Clark.
This day, Jeb sat across the street from the soup
often find themselves in a deep, deep
hole, she says. They've lost their families, children,
kitchen with his dog, Aries, a Staffordshire bull
home and jobs, and some
Jeb and Aries
don't have the ability,
life. Some
work to rebuild, because they fear they'll
lose it all again, Wolownik says.
"They remember what they used to have," she says.
strength or knowledge needed to rebuild a
don't
want
"Working
to
for
$7.50 an hour
is
hard
if
they used to
to build a fireplace to
The drop-in
still
center, like the
Clark's regular stops.
have their pride."
fall
soup kitchen,
one of
is
who
through the cracks. The drop-in center has also
from blanket and clothing drives
that
hoped they would go
Most of Wilkes-Barre's homeless
where they can
soup kitchen or
not for himself, but
inside again during winter's
coldest months.
eating a
them
meal
and
finally
Lisa, the
found them
the soup kitchen, he told
for them, but had no luck
them back home. He hadn't given up,
he had a bedroll
though, he assured them.
The couple did get home, Wolownik said later. An
someone like Clark, came forward with their fare.
angel,
Although Clark admits he would have given the pair
stay near the city's
get a nourishing
When he
warm meal inside
that
finding help to get
he
organized or inspired others to conduct.
center,
warm through the
inside,
out of worry for his dog, which he rehabilitated. Clark
stranded Florida couple.
Wolownik applauds his work,
because he has brought awareness about people
benefitted
keep them
went
Clark's thoughts returned to Charlie
"They
terrier.
deep in the woods, where Jeb hopes
winter. Last year, Jeb
work for $15 an hour.
"Pride," she says.
live
at the
relax in front of a television at the
the
money if he had
was someone who
he wasn't the angel.
it,
felt
right
about
it.
"I
guess
Sometimes
it
that
drop-in center. Both are within blocks of each other, as
kind of thing happens. Someone gets moved by their
are the areas where the homeless seek meager shelters.
plight
When Clark first came to Wilkes-Barre, a few of the
homeless steered cleared of him, and not because his
street
name, Mashuga,
is
and does something.
"It's
a hit-or-miss thing, but sometimes people
connect," Clark said,
b
Yiddish for "crazy," either.
Jeb didn't approach Clark because he didn't
know if
Kelly Monitz, an award-winning journalist,
who did good.
"People
for the Standard-Speaker in Hazleton, Pa.
he was a do-gooder or someone
WINTER 200
is
a
staff writer
nne-Sophie Ekelund
Bloomsburg
79
enrolled at
State College
with faltering
English, a passion for learning
and
a
sense of amazement at an environment
where
creativity
was
aged.
The
travel
and leam about other
art
strongly encour-
major graduated with a desire to
cultures, never
dream-
ing she'd one day be involved in providing educational opportunities in a country far different
her native homeland
...
from
Sonam Jamyangling and
or her collegiate one.
Coming from a small town in Sweden, "the
move to Pennsylvania was not such a drastic change
Anne-Sophie Ekelund
for
me," Ekelund
says.
"As a foreign
—
my best to contribute to the international atmosphere at BSC at this time
there were about 20 international students on campus
but my new friends also came
student,
1
did
—
from towns in Pennsylvania such
as Berwick, Moosic,
Southampton and Holland."
Pay It Forward:
From Bloomsburg to Tibet
STORY BY BONNIE MARTIN
WITH ANNE-SOPHIE EKELUND
'79
Ekelund traveled extensively
graduation and was living in
after
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and
interesting place
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I
and decided
recalls.
Tibet
difficult,
to return
"Two years
had
I
it all
one day," she
later,
to Tibet to get married,
returned
I
be part of
inaugurating five schools and meet
new relatives."
Sonam
known to many as
Ekelund's husband,
Jamyangling,
is
"the school builder," a
as
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Tibet, often called 'the roof of the world,' is
Bom in Tibet,
known
for its picturesque landscape
of snow-covered mountains and winding rivers.
Jamyangling had studied in Den-
mark as one
by
a
of 20 boys sponsored
Danish prince
after arriving in
in the Potala Palace,
requested to
which was
him by an
master painter of thangka, a
India as a refugee in 1959.
Society for School
scroll
painting
on
returned to the Tibetan Autono-
motifs.
could not have asked for
mous Region
a better
Twenty-seven years
later,
he
of the People's
I
silk
Copco, IBM and private donors.
Ekelund says she hopes the
she says.
gift,"
As Jamyangling put
Republic of China as part of a
Swedish International Develop-
ment Authority, Volvo, Atlas
with Buddhist
wedding
and Culture
has received funding from the
older
Tibetan children being educated
in long
delegation to observe whether
hours, his health began to deterio-
human rights were being respected.
rate,
On the
Stockholm where they continued
and encouraged with opportunities
teachers with only three years of
work on projects for the society.
To support herself and her husband, Ekelund became a project
formal education taught children
manager
incredibly simple but effective
he saw great poverty
trip,
in the countryside
there
and noticed
that
were no schools. Instead,
as they sat
Back
began
and the couple returned
to
to
for the
through the organization's
will
Swedish furniture
one day
ahead."
'Pay
it
Forward,' which had an
on the ground.
industry, organizing exhibitions
concept," she says. "The phrase
Sweden, Jamyangling
and events abroad.
meant
in
five years of negotiations
Chinese authorities
for
with
permission
including
many orphans,
if
one did something good
individual, the other
attend
someone
good
home village
Swedish Tibetan Society
has done so
of Katsel. Eventually,
for
School
and Culture and
School and Culture became the
construction teams in the Tibetan
Autonomous Region and
foreign aid organization
allowed to build a school, a plan
grew
to
institutions,
108 educational
108
libraries
and
a
special gift to Ekelund.
"On our wedding day, he
announced
tion
would
to
me
also
that the organiza-
fund an
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art
school
for
would
by local
the Swedish Tibetan Society for
built
would do some
Bloomsburg
else.
much for me, and
like to pass this
on
I
many
b
to as
Tibetan children as possible."
the
Tibetan areas of China's Qinghai
Editor's note: For injonnation
and Yunnan provinces. Another
on the Swedish Tibetan Society
100 students attend high schools
for School and Culture, see
and
www. txbet-school. org. Anne-Sophie
Ekelund 19 may be contacted at
universities in China's coastal
cities
with the
society's support.
non-profit organization with
members,
the
for
another, instead of paying back that
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primary schools funded by the
that
efforts
supported
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to build a boarding school in his
first
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Joe Thompson,
\J \~
a retired
coach and teacher, was
inducted into the Luzerne County Sports Hall of
Fame. He was a member of the National Association of
56
'
Charles
P.
Intercollegiate Athletics national wrestling
"Skip"
Valente Skiptunas
on Hilton Head
50th wedding anniversary aboard the cruise ship,
level.
Island, S.C.,
Greek
Insignia, while touring the
UO
and celebrated
are living
their
elementary
7 dl *2 Harry Mathias
from careers in education.
(right) retired
They
Isles.
Tina taught
district
at the
Skip served as a teacher, head football coach,
principal and, for the last
20 years of his 40-year
school superintendent in
New York State.
career, as a
for the
9/^ A
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sixth female to hold the top office in the
Dale A. Krothe,
years,
is
retired as a
a
BU Alumm Board
in his eighth year of service
Area School Board.
chairs the
A U.S.
Navy veteran
mathematics teacher
BU
at
after
the Berwick
33
War, he
He
years.
was inducted
1990 and served
as
Vince Gilotti was inducted
Sports Hall of Fame.
first
into the hall of fame
District.
He
taught in the
an adviser and coach.
into the
Jim Thorpe
A graduate of Jim Thorpe High
began
All-State football selection in the school's
his professional career as a teacher
Jj^
\J
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Harry Ravert, Fredericksburg, Va., is semiretired
after 32 years working for the U.S. Army and five
years with General Dynamics. He now works part-time as an
Army consultant.
alumni veterans committee.
Bloomsburg University's
director for 13
on
of the Korean
Berwick
Quest sponsors
Quest program
offers
extended
trips
BU students, alumni
and friends. No experience
for
is
BU.
and
became a real estate broker.
Frank Rizzo was honored by McCann School of Business and
Technology for his work as accounting director at the Hazleton
campus. He began teaching more than 33 years ago.
organization's 86-year history.
'60
at
later
Club of Hazleton,
elected president of the Kiwanis
becoming the
to
School, he was the
^T Nancy Gilgannon, a BU professor emeritus, was
O/
Sr.
Warrior Run School
from 1963
history. Gilotti
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team while
Skiptunas and Tina A.
necessary for
many
these trips,
and most
equipment
is
of
provided.
Varied amounts of physical
stamina are required.
on bike or on foot
trips
but requires a sense
of adventure.
Rock Climbing
at
Rocks, March 8
Smith
to 16:
Located within a
state
park in
the high desert plateau of
central Oregon,
Smith Rocks
has more than 1,400 climbing routes, offering something for
all skill levels.
Participants travel to
Walking Across
destinations in the
Way, two
commonwealth, across
Dingle
and
offered,
the U.S.,
in Africa,
Ireland:
June 17
The
Scenes like this await participants in Quest's photographic tour
of the English Lake District in July.
trips
to
26 and
17 to 26: The Dingle
lead the tour through the
prepared for any road or
English Lake
weather condition.
South and Central America
Sept.
and Europe.
Way, one of Ireland's most
villages
scenic long-distance walking
views of the
Backpack the Grand
Canyon, March 8 to 16:
The journey will begin
on the South Rim, explor-
open
to
trip is
beginning and
inexperienced backpackers,
small
and market towns with
Irish Sea,
In addition to the programs
mounlisted
trails, is
located in the south-
west of Ireland, starting and
finishing in the
Tralee in the
town of
County of Kerry
ing the canyon's diversity
along the way. The
District's
tain lakes
and
distant hills.
day
above, Quest conducts
trips
on most weekends
A Northern
Adventure, July 17 to 27: A
and designs customized team-
unique way
to
Iceland Biking:
to see Iceland's
building
and other experiences
meet groups' needs. For
England: Walking and Photo-
mountainous landscapes, the
additional information, contact
graphing the Lake
tour will take cyclists across
Quest at quest@bloomu.edu or
July
1 to 8:
District,
Professional
pho-
tographer Dave Ashby will
the country's gravel-surfaced
rural roads. Bikers
must be
(570)
389-2100 or check
online at www.buquest.org.
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^7 Mary Ann Kaminski Charles retired after more
\J / than 32 years as an elementary and middle school
9 /I
Five inducted into
Athletic Hall of Fame
teacher.
She worked mostly
at Wellsville
Joseph Lubeskie, Kulpmont,
Lourdes Regional High School
Members of the 26th BU Athletic Hall of Fame
class
inducted
Graupp
last fall are
Toby Rank
Cuthbert-Jameson
'87, Kelly
Connelly '90 and Kathy Maguire-Stoudt
5
'89, Bill
'92.
Rank played on the men's soccer team for four years and
scored 29 goals (number three all-time in school history)
and assisted on
He
from Our Lady of
40 years as a teacher
retired
after
and coach.
Donna
'80,
14 goals.
Elementary School in
the Dillsburg area.
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Dennis Siegmann
retired
from Connecticut's
Public Schools after 35 years.
He
Bristol
high
retired as a
school principal and later returned as a middle school
principal.
He
High School
serves
on
the
board of the National Federation of
and was honored with
Athletics for wrestling
"Dennis Siegmann Day" in the City of Bristol for his service to
also
the school.
is
third in career
points with 71.
He was
a four-
time All-PSAC
East selection
was named
and
The newest inductees into BUs Athletic
Hall of Fame are shown with former
president Jessica Kozloff. They are, left to
right, front: Donna Graupp, Toby Rank and
Kelly Cuthbert-Jameson and, back: Kathy
Maguire-Stoudt, Kozloff and Bill Connelly.
field
hockey and
Softball.
As
a two-year
is
Rank
co-holder of the
school record for
goals in a
(four)
School. Prior to that, he
game (nine).
Graupp played
in a
is
also teaching
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two-time All-PSAC (Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference)
and had
She totaled 28 goals
three assists. In softball she earned
All-Region honors during her career.
Cuthbert-Jameson was a four-year
lacrosse
member
team and finished her career
leader in goals scored with 156
183 (now second in both
is
member
Kodak
Co.,
1,481 points (graduated in third place).
was named
also
He
first
team All-PSAC East both
years.
He was
B.
Jarman
(right) is president
and
of the National Center for
after a career at
where he was
Eastman
director of technology
He co-founded
the Infotonics
Dennis Moser, a special education teacher at Big Spring
High School, was a finalist for the Pennsylvania Teacher of the
Year Award. He has been teaching for 34 years.
Gregory Roussey was named director of transportation
construction-management services at Buchart-Hom Inc., Basco
Associates of York.
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Stephen A. Andrejack,
Camp
Hill,
earned a
doctoral degree in educational leadership from
State University in
free
throws attempted
with 534.
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Mary Lou Alfonso graduated from The King's
Seminary in Van Nuys, Calif, with a graduate
starter for the
women's
Debbie Demko, a Pottstown High School English teacher,
was named to Cambridge Who's Who Among Executive and
Professional Women in Teaching and Education.
Patricia Bedeman Miller is dean of student affairs at
basketball team. She finished her career as the school's
Keystone College.
(now seventh) and
all-time leader in free throws attempted and made (514 and
361 respectively). She remains number two in steals with
284 and is 10th in assists with 225. Maguire-Stoudt was
")^/L John Bigelow (right) was promoted to
/ \3 president of New Jersey American
Water.
named
president in charge of regulatory programs
fourth leading scorer with 1,213 points
first
team All-PSAC East
as a junior.
He had been the company's
enterprise risk
WINTER
200
Penn
August 2007.
certificate in Christian ministry.
East as a junior.
Connelly holds BU's career record for
Maguire-Stoudt was a three-year
State University.
led the Huskies
both his sophomore and senior seasons and
named second team All-PSAC
years.
Technology Center near Rochester, N.Y.
1^7/i
of the men's basketball
BU's fourth all-time leading scorer with
in scoring in
1 1
in career points with
categories).
Connelly was a four-year
team and
and
of the
as the school's all-time
American film studies at Penn
in Quakertown.
Manufacturing Sciences
partnerships.
in her career
Upper Darby High
assistant principal for
He and his wife Mary live
of the field
hockey team, Graupp was a two-time Ail-American and
selection while playing for the Huskies.
was an
5 ^7 ~1 Rev. James Cavallero was appointed pastor of
/ A. Salem United Methodist Church of Danielsville. He
game
and points
member
principal for administrative operations at
to the
All-Region team
as a senior.
5^7/^ John Wolk has completed 37 years in education.
/ \J For the last three years, he has served as assistant
senior vice
and
management.
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Husky Notes
John Wetzel appointed
to Board of Pardons
^^T^T Mary Kropiewnicki (right)
/ / assistant provost for assessment and
is
program review
been employed
at
at
Wilkes University, She has
Wilkes since 1992, most
E.
recently serving as the director of the doctor of
education program.
Ernest Lemoncelli was
certified
by
the Princess Cruises
Alumni
Fla.,
approved or denied.
he
is
have enormous confidence
"I
treasurer of the Delta Pi/Sigma Pi
in John's expertise
Association.
and experi-
ence in corrections," says
Jerry Radocha stepped
down
as
head boys' basketball
Lt.
coach of Whitehall High School in 2007, ending his 25-year
coaching career
is
on whether clemency should be
cases to advise the governor
"commodore"
cruise professional at
A travel agent with Maxima World Travel Services,
Lake Worth,
to the
a five-person panel responsible for reviewing criminal
Academy as an expert
status.
Wetzel '98 was recently appointed
John
Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. The board of pardons
Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll,
who
at the school.
serves as chair of the
board. "The board of pardons
5^7Q Judy Spitzer Sexton
/ C3
will
(right) is director
of Clarke Pennsylvania Auditory/Oral
Center in Bryn Mawr.
an
early interventionist
specialist for
effective in
decisions with
Wetzel was nominated
Pennsylvania
and educational support
Lt.
Gov.
for the post
Catherine Baker Knoll and
Clarke and as a principal of the
Archbishop Ryan School
its
Mr. Wetzel joining our ranks."
A long-time educator of the
deaf and hard of hearing, she previously worked
as
be more
rendering
John
E.
Wetzel
for the Deaf.
approved
Joan Williams was named director of marketing at Ginger
Cove, a life-care retirement community in Annapolis, Md.
by Gov. Edward
Rendell and unanimously
He was sworn
the State Senate.
for
appointment by
in during a private
ceremony
in Harrisburg.
Wetzel, of Chambersburg, serves as warden of the Franklin
County
Prison.
He is currently working
towards a master's
degree in applied psychology from Penn
State.
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Kevin Wixted was appointed division chairman of
drawing, painting and photography at Alfred
University's School of Art and Design.
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Diane Lewis, Hellertown, was promoted
to
assistant director of continuing education at
Lehigh Valley campus. Previously assistant
of admissions at BU, she has
worked
at
Penn
Penn
to the director
State for the last
seven years.
5
Jimmi Simpson stars
Broadway show
Actor and alum Jimmi Simpson '98,
Aaron Sorkin's
play, 'The
BU students Nayeem
firm.
left,
discusses his role in
Farnsworth invention,' with,
left to right,
performance. Simpson stars in the Broadway production opposite
plays the
who invented
title
character, Philo T. Farnsworth,
1927 and was later pitted
RCA, played by Azaria, in a legal battle over
Farnsworth's patent. Simpson originated the role of Farnsworth at
the La Jolla Playhouse in California. 'The Farnsworth Invention'
began previews in October. Simpson graduated from BU with a
against the head of
Mary
Ellen Rutledge
was named
Eshelman
a shareholder in
land development and environmental consulting
Mechanicsburg and English professor Ervene Gulley following a
a boy genius
~1
JL. (right)
Rettew, a multidiscipline engineering, planning,
in
Islam of Bangladesh and Andrew Bliss of
Hank Azaria. Simpson
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television in
She has been the company's
human
resources director since 2003.
Gina Spleen Jaeger
is
a captain with the U.S.
Navy
Medical Service Corps, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
Washington, D.C.
manager of
5Q ^ Scott Behrent,
O.W
operations with Farm Family Casualty
Pittsfield,
Mass.,
is
casualty
Insurance Co.
He
received an award for academic excellence
from the American
Institute for
Chartered Property Casualty
Underwriter.
degree in theatre arts.
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Kevin Kerrigan
is
in his
first
Colleen McAuliffe
term as treasurer of the
Commerce. He is a partner
accounting firm of Wiss and Co., Livingston.
Livingston (N.J.)
the
Chamber
McMane
Michael
and
is
Chamber
of
Commerce. He
a financial consultant with
Kathleen Moran, Newtown,
is
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CEO and owner of
Q
operations for
PPL
Electric Utilities for Luzerne,
financial
markets for Harte-Hanks
He was
Ohio.
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Plasko was inducted into the Tamaqua Area
High School Athletic Hall of Fame. A standout in
Bill
C3 C3
coach
Q AJL Bryan
in high school,
he played
at
Allentown,
is
head
field
hockey
Parkland High School. She was previously
was a member of BU's
hockey team and an academic field hockey
the team's assistant coach. She
championship
C3
and basketball
Q Q Donna Hibshman,
5
previously president of The
Allegiant Group.
5
community sponsored
basketball at BU.
Cincin-
Inc.,
administrator of Bristol Glen,
is
a continuing care retirement
football, baseball
Carbon and Northumberland counties.
Stephen Drees (right) is managing director for
Schuylkill,
nati,
Theresa Loughney
by United Methodist Homes of New Jersey.
^y David J. Bonenberger is regional director of
C3 «_/
vice president for clinical
lives
AIG
5
9
is
operations for Acurian Inc.
Advisor Group.
Anthony J. Varano Jr., Berwyn,
Documents Solutions Group Inc.
chief financial officer for Girl Scouts
is
in the Heart of Pennsylvania.
in
in his third term as vice president
is
of the Livingston (N.J.)
in Livingston
of
Kellenberger
is
field
Ail-American.
plant
controller for Material Sciences Corp., Morrisville.
Births
Carla Williams Karboski '89 and
Tracy Walker Funk
husband, Ron, a daughter, Veronica
husband,
Marie, Dec. 16,2006
May
Pamela Palermo Schoenstein
Michael Gillespie
'91
Bree, a son, Benjamin Michael,
and husband, George, a
daughter, Grace Evelyn,
Oct. 23,
2007
Aug.
9,
Lisa
Rutkowski
Michael, Aug.
Loftus '92 and
7,
2007
2007
Jim Ahern
'93 and
'95, a son,
Jared Everson, June 24, 2007
Cathleen Zicari Flynn
Sherry Goliash Rine 00 and
husband, Chris, sons, Tanner
husband, Wade, twin sons, Gavin
'95 and wife,
2,
2004, and Collin
Jill
Riley
10,2006
Christopher, Aug.
2007
Yendrzeiwski Beddingfield
Sydney,
May
17,
2007
Angela Shoffler Charnosky
and husband, Andrew, twin
and husband, Dipesh, a son, Drue,
June
Sept. 11,2007
Erin High
a son, Michael,
2007
25,
'99 and husband,
2007
April 19,
'95,
2003; Audrey
Jessie,
and Alyssa
May 3, 2007
and husband, Michael, a daughter,
6,
2007
'96
Leigh,
June
Doan
12,
'99 and
2007
Joseph, Sept. 10,2007
husband,
and wife,
III,
Shelly Levan Stokes
Aug. 22, 2007
husband,
Holly Kapuschinsky
Kate, Feb. 24,
Magalengo
Eliza
'97 and husband,
Feb. 23,
2007
and husband. Kirk
husband, Kevin, twins, Reese and
fila,
5,
Marlena Zappile Thomas
'94 and
2007
WINTER 2008
'02 and
and husband, Wes, a son, Zander
'97
'99 and
Carl, a daughter, Jillian
2007
Ayers Booth
Thomas
daughter, Lia Sofie, Sept.
6,
Diane Sommers Reese
'98, a
husband, David, a daughter, Keira
Elizabeth, Sept.
Shawn
Wesley
2006
P.
Patrick,
Rosier
'00, a
Aug. 30, 2007
Laura Seigfried Seward 02 and
10,2007
June
21,
2007
Jasmine Slingwine Corazza
W07M and husband,
May 24, 2007
'97
2007
son,
18,
husband, Jeremy, a daughter, Emily,
'00 and
Charles,
Karen Craig Weingarten
Metzger Lahr
Jordan, Aug. 1,2007
May
Sept. 9, 2007
Kristin
Greta Keller Rosier '02 and
'94 and husband,
'94,
'00, a
daughter, Jenna Lynn, Jan. 15, 2007
Madison, June
husband, Michael, a son, Kordell
Rob Kutchi
and
husband, Carey, a daughter,
Scott, a daughter, Aislin Shae,
CalumSeamus,
'01
Joe Jachowicz
Jaclyn Janowicz Schaeffer '99
Michael Kaleta
'01
2007
Stacy Au Jachowicz
husband,
Stephanie "Niki" Jones Kutchi
a son,
29,
and husband, David, a son, Zachary
Debra, a son, Michael Robert
Carolyn Landis Brzezicki '94
Brooke, July
Sandi Schwartz Weisenfeld
a
daughters, Brook and Addison, June
Cover
Steven, a daughter, Mackenzie,
Colvin '96 and
husband, Charles Colvin
'98,
husband, Rick, a daughter, Audrey
4,
'00,
Consentino
Patty Mullen
Nicole, Nov. 12, 2004;
Jason Schmidt
daughter, Carly Ann, Sept. 10, 2007
Stacey Cardell Consentino
Aug. 1,2007
Marie, Sept.
Kate Mickel Schmidt 00 and
and husband, Michael
'96
9,
2007
Dec. 1,2006
twins, Grace and Andrew,
'93
9,
1
Wade,
husband, Adrian, a son, Jess Allen,
husband, Frank, a son, Ryan
and wife, Amy, daughters, Amanda
March
husband,
'99
Joseph, Aug. 29, 2007
Jeremy "Jerry" Schuebel
May
and Garett Austin,
2005, and a son, Landyn
'99 and husband, Kevin, a daughter,
Kimberly Nagy
'93 and
Jennifer Davis Olds '98 and
Aspen, Oct.
Tara Rothenberger Chauhan
Blydenburgh Ahern
husband,
'95 and
a son, Evan Russell,
Melissa Burns Pritchett'95 and
husband, Mark, a son, Nathan
Lori
10,
Eric,
'00 and
Al, a
daughter, Eve Mary, Aug. 15, 2007
Leslie
Barrows Steese
'04 and
husband, Jonathan Steese '04, a
son,
Connor Adam,
Oct. 2,
2006
Husky Notes
Mark Temons was a
He has
the Year Award.
chairman and coached
Kyle Kern
is
head
varsity basketball
coach
at
Allentown
Muncy high
the Pennsylvania Teacher of
finalist for
taught sciences, served as department
at
Bishop Neumann, Williamsport and
schools.
Central Catholic High School.
Aaron Menapace was named Berks County
Interscholastic
He is
Hamburg
JC\
employed
as the director of interscholastic athletics at
Area School
5
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District.
C Michael
the
ride
raised
Marsha
District,
earned her master's in curriculum
Wilkes University.
at
in
support of the Young
E.
Wilkinson Kouf ^SfOlM. accepted a teaching
position with the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit 16,
teaching deaf and hard of hearing students
and instruction degree from BU in 2007.
Sharon Zuzelski Castano is the internship and mentoring
coordinator
participated in
three-day, 212-mile bicycle
Survival Coalition.
f\ Wendy Blass, an English teacher in the Berwick Area
School
Greg Orth
Gillespie and
y \J Tour de Pink — a
— which
$350,000
Athletic Association Athletic Administrator of the Year.
at
Danville
Middle School.
Denise Teles was awarded the local Wal-Mart Teacher of
works as a math teacher at Emmaus
the Year award. She
High School.
5(^/~i Tammy
Specht, a certified accountant, joined the
S \J Gratz National Bank's Board
Patti
Wylie was
Year Award. She
is
JC\/£ John D.
of Directors.
a literacy coach for pre -kindergarten to sixth
grade in East Lycoming School
y
1 John Andronis
Lisa Stockmal Starcher
loan portfolio manager at
is
Gerald Blancard performed with the
Battle
Creek Symphony
Ninth Symphony. His
recitals
have included appearances in Hawaii, San Francisco and
Coldwater and
for the Pennsylvania State Police
'
is fiscal
director
Bureau of Staff Services.
Suzanne Davis Glowaski earned her
master's in
education degree from Chestnut Hill College and
for the deaf at
Tom Paternostro,
Nate Conroy BU
'06 recently
is
Navy Reserve
a U.S.
students and
BU.
As
petty officer
returned from military service in Iraq.
first
A father of two,
He
is
an agent with Zuber
a board member and past president of
is
is
young alumni.
Conroy was
student,
Community
principal of the Nellie F. Bennett Elementary
School in the Point Pleasant,
N.J., district,
Nate Conroy
Pennsylvania State System of Higher
campus
tours for students
Orientation
very visible
He
and
their parents as
an
Workshop Leader and represented BU in a
way when his image was used on a university
billboard. After earning a bachelor's degree in secondary
Boyertown Area Wrestling Association.
James Karaba
BU
he
led
the
affairs,
Education Board of Governors.
Kurt Davidheiser, Boyertown,
Realty.
as assistant
alumni
Government Association and one of
three student representatives on the
Adolescent Females.
SO
a
president of the
a social studies instructor at the Danville Center for
JC\ "2
managing editor of Contact
representing the university to current
Sharon T. Kerstetter is a family and consumer science
is
the
Recent grad gains
alumni post
returned to
teacher at the Central Columbia School District.
class,
is
clinical trade journal for eyecare professionals.
director of
an interpreter
manager and head of
Creek in Michigan.
Batrie
Scott Frederick, Susquehanna Township,
'92
a project
Team
.A. Capital Bank.
as baritone soloist in Beethoven's
is
Rettew Associates Inc. of Manor Township.
office of
District.
Lens Spectrum, a
Jf\
Snyder
y\J land development operations in the Chambersburg
a finalist for the Pennsylvania Teacher of the
where he had served
education/ history Conroy taught social studies
at
Columbia-
Montour Area Vocational Technical School.
In his position as assistant to alumni affairs director
as assistant principal.
Jeanette Underhill teaches at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic
School in Lewistown.
Lynda
Conroy works with students and recent graduates
show them the benefits of staying connected to BU
Michaels,
to
through the Alumni Association, from career development
^C^k /i Janelle Banack
S
is
-I- teacher for Lititz
a part-time intervention specialist
Elementary School.
Chris Beadling, president of BU's Alumni Association,
also president of the
Doylestown Rotary Club.
Stacey Hohenberg (right) was promoted to
manager of corporate marketing communication
for ICF International. She earned her master's
degree in 2007 from Johns Hopkins University.
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and networking
rentals.
is
them
He
to
on life insurance and car
become involved and introduces
to discounts
invites
them
to
ways they may give back
to
BU
as a
mentor,
volunteer or donor.
"This
to sit
is
the coolest job in the world,"
around and
something we
talk to
people
who are
Conroy
says. "I get
passionate about
love."
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Marriages
Mark Kessler '87
Justine Boer '00 and Drew
and Heather
Hoshauer, March 20, 2007
Joellen
Frantzen, July 7,
Sept.
McGee '89 and
Melissa Calucci
Paul
2007
Davis, July 18,
Rebecca Savoth
'02 and
Emily Shockey '04 and Dan
Raymond Pastore '01,
2007
Nystrom, July7, 2007
2006
9,
Katie Stott '04 and Gerard
'00 and
Kathleen Yerkes '02 and
Gregory Steber
Patrick
McNamara, July 2007
Wirth, June 14,2007
Eric Deeter '90 and Beth
Christian, July 13,
Treas
Michael Morella
'93 and Angela
Hwa
Ranck, Aug. 11,2007
Hibshman
Gahn, July
3,
June
Jr. '05,
Sarah Campbell
Chad
2007
2,
Belloft 03 and Gretchen
Walker, June 23, 2007
John L Shultz
Jeffrey
'00 and Russell
Angela Martin
2007
Chung, June
Megan Rowe
'94 and Gina
2007
'00 and
Melanie Bennett
Jeanette Anna, July
Callahan
16,
Court Kauffman,
2007
Laura Gawthrop '05 and
Kendra
2007
L.
'03 and
Branchick
June
Philip Martin,
Susie
June
Nelson, Oct. 13,2006
'00, July 7,
Karen
Amanda Edelman
2007
03 and
Matthew Brown, Aug.
Becky Souder '95 and John
Susan Berryman
Trochimowicz, Sept. 23, 2006
Moyer'99,July7,2007
Lisa Mull '96 and Justin Frantz,
Danielle Kadingo
June 23, 2007
Thompson,
'01
05M
Tara Rynhart
'02,
Varner,
June
23,
and Scott
2007
May 27, 2007
and R.C.
Janene Marcus
2007
19,
2007
,
Lauren Mallen '03 and Peter
Spera
May
1 1
Kratz '05 and Justin
E.
Sauder, April 21, 2007
and Steven
'01
Brett
Mitchley, July 7, 2007
2007
9,
Sweeney '00 and Ryan
Charles Hughes '94 and Ruth
2007
'03 and Alan
'00 and Christian
Skultety, July 30,
7,
Amy Fox '05 and
Sun
2007
2,
'05 and David
2007
Spatz, July7,
'03 and
Ashley Scheller
'05 and Brian
McHale,
2007
April 21,
John W. Shank
Deborah Marinko
'97
and
Kristie
Donny Nichani
Meredith Marko
'97
Michael Harrigan,
May 27, 2007
Alicia
Chesney
Majcher,
May
Christopher Pietruszynski,
Heather McCarthy
Aug. 18,2007
Roger Billman
Jeffrey Piazza '01 and Michelle
Tiffany Smith '03 and Geoffrey
McCabe,July6,2007
Worthington, June 30, 2007
Laura Renda
Tarah Sperrazza
'98 and
Schreiber,
'98 and
June
2,
Kimberly Sislo
Ryzner, Aug.
'01
and Sean
March
25,
2007
'00, Sept. 9,
Rebecca Callas
Kathleen Shue, June 30, 2007
Leonard
Kimberly Wilcox
J.
Campbell,
'04 and
'05, Sept. 28,
Kevin
'01
and Aaron
Rickelle Dennell '04 and
Stephen
Davis, July 19,
P.
'03,
Nicole Del Gotto
Harvey '01,
Elise
Genco
'04 and
2,
2006
Berrocal, Aug. 31,
'02 and
Joel
Maura Luciano
Sept
Nov.
4,
2006
Lori Effinger '02 and
Michael Stower, July 14, 2007
Gensil
'03, April 10,
Ronald
2007
Irving,
July
'04 and Patrick
9,
Sitler,
2007
Nicole
Jeffrey Sledjeski
2007
7,
Nicholas Karnes 07 and Amy
Newhouse '04 and
Bowman, March
10,
2007
Justin Boyer, Oct. 14,2006
Karlen Reich '07 and Eric
Scott Neuhard '02M and Mary
Lindsey Sampsell '04 and
Beth Fitzgerald, March 15, 2007
Snyder,
JC\^7 Kimberly Shewack Babbish, West Hazleton,
y / earned the doctor of audiology degree from the
Pennsy vania College of Optometry
in Elkms.
is
teaching French and
Spanish to junior and high school students
WINTER
'06 and Dustin
2007
John
Maginn'01,0ct.8,2004
High School.
Danielle
2007
Belack, Aug. 4, 2007
June
Juan
Jennifer Gaffney '99 and
Kyrston Toomey Strauch
9,
Jennifer Doria '07 and
May 9, 2007
at
Sheppard, June
Ashlie Dell '07 and Dale
'02 and
Michelle Barbera
2006
School of Audiology
Sabo'02,May26,2007
2007
Aaron
'99 and
Jedd
2007
'99 and Michael
Heather Serfass
'06 and
Gardner, June 23, 2007
Debra Rudy
Justin Shipe
Stacey Emery
2007
Rawhouser, June 23, 2007
Phillip Updegraff '01 and
Welles, April 20, 2007
Norakus
'03 and Brian
Jeremy
'99 and
April 28,
Brandon Palmer '06 and
2007
11,2007
Nina Beacher
II,
Gina Ormont '06 and Jonathan
Bobby
Deanna
'98 and
Dawalt
Ashlee Howard
Porrovecchio,
Shane Mull
'03 and
and
2007
5,
Beverly Stoltzfus '05 and James
Phelps 01 and
at
Lake-Lehman
May
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12,
Q
Chris
Light
'06,
May
19,
2007
2007
Christine Butcher Christman earned her master's
>^0 degree in business administration, human resource
management, from St. Joseph s University.
Sherry Clements joined Geisinger's Children's Miracle
Network
as northeast regiona coordinator.
Lyndell Davis
is
vice-principal at
Hopewell Valley Central
High School.
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27
Husky Notes
7(~Jf| Jennifer Aponick is the supervisor of special
S/
education for Salisbury Township School
Brian Gasper
Thorpe Area School
the Jim
Minishak named vice
president of digital sales
for
Mike Montgomery
development
Adam
in
MSG Media
at
is
District.
Penn Kidder campus of
the principal of the
is
District.
and business
director of marketing
York-based SA Architects.
Nichols opened a marketing and consulting firm
Langhome.
Vishal Petigara joined Archer
& Greiner PC. in
Haddonfield, N.J., as an associate.
rank Minishak '84
was
recently
r:
named
Irv Sigler, BU's only Harlon Hill
coaching varsity football
at
award
recipient, is
Thomas Fitzsimons High School
in Philadelphia.
vice president of
MSG
digital sales at
Deaths
Media, working closely
with the
MSG Interactive
Babcock '52
division to generate rev-
Dorothy Bennetto Tubridy '27
James
enue through advertising
Margaret A. Bacon '29
HarryJ.Weist'56
and sponsorships.
Lydia
As
vice president of
digital sales,
Minishak
Rauch Davis Butler
'31
McHose
Lucile
Herman Swoyer
Ethel
'58
Herbert Scheuren '59
Lois Hirieman Quick '31
is
R.
Ecker '32
Yurgis Socha '59
Ann L
responsible for develop-
Frank Minishak
ing and executing a
MSG's digital
broadband video, wire-
prehensive digital sales strategy for
platforms, including
less
Web sites,
and video on demand
for
all
of
Madison Square Garden,
MSG and
Radio City Music Hall, television networks
FSNY, and the
New York
com-
Knicks and Rangers.
Mary Cole Smith
'32
Arlene Werkheiser
Mary
George
Traub '32
Betterly Maiers '33
Schuylkill
for the
County
member of the
Bar, has
been appointed
as judicial
Honorable Jacqueline Russell of the Court of
Pleas, in Schuylkill
law clerk
Common
County.
Petro
Laurie Chaple Schneider, Pike County,
assistant
is
Sr.
'34
is
the Charlotte Acupuncture
E.
Line '35
Hilderbrandt '36
and
herbalist at
and Wellness Center.
R. Phillips '36
Troy Barrall '38
H. Klotz '41
Send information to alum@bloomu.edu
or to Alumni Affairs, Fenstemaker
Alumni House, Bloomsburg University
of Pennsylvania, 400 E. Second St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815
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K.
E.
Berkheiser
Harry
Peter
Pamell
William
'44
L.
Jr.
Schappell
72
Betty J. VanGorder
72
73
Robert M. Laubach
74
Cleo D. Kinney Pass '45
Bernard Salek
'46
Moyer
Schrader Walker '46
J.
Bertsch '49
E.
Donald
R.
Joseph
E.
Jarman
'50
Smethers '50
Sopko
Leah Wertman
L.
74
Stellfox
74/'88M
Marion Toolan Brieden
76
Catherine Reeve Stresing
'49
Leroy Keller Henry '50
Richard
Terry
70
70M
Neil K. Oberholtzer
Lorraine Utt
'69
Kathryn Endrizzi Walsh '69
Joseph V.Stulb '44-45 (Navy V-1 2)
Anthony Paulmeno
at
Lichtel '68
Robert E. Stroble '69
Dora Taylor Smith '42
Harry
more Husky Notes online
www.bloomualumni.com.
W.
Fairchild '68
James E.Shaughnessy
MaryT. Quigley'38
Phyllis
Find
'67
Wagner
W. John Strong
Beatrice "Bea" Kirchman
Lawrence
E.
Dobb
Judith
Richard
M. Helen Keefer Schnure
a licensed acupuncturist
'65
III
Rapella Turi '6B
Charles
a marketing
with Affinity Advantage Financial.
Todd Trembula
Ernest
Rowena
School in the Massanutten District in Virginia.
'63
Louise Holic DuBois '67
Marian McWilliams Cohen '37
Derek Long, North Salt Lake City, Utah, recently passed the
Utah Bar Exam.
Chris Robinson is the athletic director at Broadway High
Dowman
Frank C.
for
the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
Joanne Sipe Wimmer
Gladys RitterCroman '34
Edward
Angela Heverling received her law degree from
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and now works
'61
Pauline RengTurek '33
Andrew
Pennsylvania Bar and
Nace
Ann
Letha Crispell Schenck '34
Michelle Heffner, a
E.
'50
Fritz '51
76
Theodore Kalkbrenner '82
Wendy J. Whitmoyer '82
Barbara Kuchta Challenger '92
John F Kowaleski
Michael
J.
'93
"Penguin" Buck '94
Kathleen Leshock Bressi '95
Daniel Parrell '51
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
J(\(\ Tanya Bieski earned her master's of science in
\J v/ nursing degree at Salisbury University. She a
is
certified family
nurse practitioner in Berlin, Md. She was
recently published in Nursing
on
Economics
for her thesis
Angela Muchler, an
in
work
Joy Hubshman is marketing manager for the Masonic
an active adult retirement community.
Village at Dallas,
Dave Marcolla,
manager
He
an interventional radiology technologist
is
Lansdale, joined
for the Pennsylvania,
^f\^
Fred Fox graduated with a master's in computer
\J\£d science degree
AT&T as marketing
New Jersey and
from Stevens
Institute of
Technology
Delaware
Ryan Quinn
Pennsylvania
is
the educational services officer for the
Army National Guard
at Ft.
Indiantown
Gap, Annville.
Michael Nguyen '00/'02M passed the Pennsylvania
boards for his physical therapy assistant
license.
He
physical therapy at Central Pennsylvania College
is
state
teaching
Kevin Robatin, a physician's
medicine department
Kelly Smaltz
Conshohocken
is
assistant,
joined the family
Geisinger Medical
at
a sales associate
Peter Spera is a manufactunng manager with Havis- Shields
Equipment Corp, Warminster.
and working
Lancaster Orthopedic Group.
Group
in Sunbury.
Jf\^y Allison Carr received a second national interpreting
\J %J certificate from the Registry of Interpreters for the
Deaf in December 2006.
Benjamin Inners was promoted
with Coldwell Banker's
in
office.
May
2007.
He
is
"1
Ashman
Sheri
\J JL
'01M, Orwigsburg,
is
executive vice
president of marketing at First National
Bank of
Chester County.
Kimberly Boyce
Department
is
a
merchandise buyer with Boscov's
Store, Reading.
Elisabeth Erickson received a master of liberal arts degree
from Temple University in
May
Jessica Martin Fieldhouse
is
2007.
a planner with First Capital
Engineering of York. She has worked as an urban planner for
five years
and most recently was the
Kim Gasper received
city
planner for York.
a master's of science in education
May
degree from Graceland University in
2007.
to captain in the Air
Force
based in Colorado.
Matthew Kenenitz
}/"\
at
in 2007.
lives in Scranton.
markets.
at
2007.
Kristie Phelps
Eric Lansberry works as marketing coordinator for Caesars
Lakeville.
opened Susquehanna
Reading Hospital and Medical Center.
foreign nurse migration.
Pocono Resorts in
audiologist,
Valley Hearing Professionals at Brookpark Station, Lewisburg,
teaches English at
MMI Preparatory
School.
Kendra Branchick Martin, Mechanicsburg, is director of
media relations for Gettysburg College.
Lois O'Boyle was accepted to the graduate program in
marine biology at the University of West Florida.
Angela Runciman is studying comparative literature in the
doctoral program at SUNY Binghamton. She began teaching in
fall 2007 after working as a graduate assistant with recruitment
and admissions.
Heather Vogt, Williamsport, earned a master's degree in
education from Wilkes University. She is a learning support
teacher at Curtin Middle School.
Corporate partners offer benefits to alumni, friends
BU
alumni and friends can benefit from
their university
connection thanks to BU's corporate partners
offer special discounts
who
while giving financial support
and programs.
The proceeds generated from the corporate partners
program benefit the Athletic Scholarship Fund and the
to university students
Celebrity Artist Series, according to
Tom McGuire,
director of sports information, marketing
and promotions.
Corporate partners not only sponsor events, but also
provide additional rewards to those associated with the
university.
For example, several Bloomsburg area restaurants
offer discounts
and some
local hotels give special rates,
McGuire adds. Other corporate sponsors include banks and
credit unions, car dealerships, an amusement park and
television and radio stations.
BU alums can show their support
es
for these local business-
and take advantage of discounts when they return
WINTER
to Bloomsburg for events
Weekend, McGuire says.
"The best aspect
beneficial.
The
is
like
Homecoming and Alumni
these agreements are truly mutually
athletic financial
support boosts available
scholarship dollars to help attract talented students to represent the university.
Those associated with the Celebrity
Artist Series help bring diverse cultural opportunities to
our campus and the surrounding region, as
well," says Jim
Hollister, assistant vice president of university relations.
"For their
efforts, the
partners are recognized for their
support of higher education and get great exposure for their
businesses to our very large constituency," Hollister adds.
For a complete
to their
list
of BU's corporate partners
and
links
Web sites, visit www.bloomu.edu/visitor/motels.
To become involved
in
BU
as a corporate partner, contact
Tom McGuire at (570) 389-4413.
Husky Notes
Jf\ A
Rebecca Callas
is
Gina Ormont Sabo is teaching lOth-grade English in
Md.
Ronald Stump is a high school social studies teacher for
Baltimore,
a probation officer
with the
state of
v/^t New Jersey.
Amy Wilk,
Kristine Tofts (right) has entered first-year
a speech-language pathologist with Geisinger
Health South, Danville, holds a
in speech-language pathology
certificate of clinical
competence
from the American Speech-
£
is
Denver where she
is
a researcher at the University of
Bloomsburg, she was named outstanding
is
pursuing a master's degree.
N J.
Jf\^7 Anthony Borgia, Factoryville, athletic director and
\J / planning assistant room coordinator at Mountain
is
is
a supervisor in the
retirement group at Merrill Lynch.
pathologist at
'OS/WM
and language
Elizabeth/Humility of Mary Health Partners,
Cynthia McMillin
St.
is
a speech
Youngstown, Ohio.
Jason Scott is covering
Silver Springs as a reporter for the
Sentinel, Carlisle.
^f\/L Kristie Anzulavich is a nurse practitioner in the sleep
\J \J disorders center at Evangelical Community Hospital.
Bauman, Plains, a speech pathology graduate student,
is the 2007 recipient of the $ 1 ,000 Von Drach Memorial
Scholarship. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta
Lisa
honor societies.
Kara Anne Boneillo
is
View High School.
Jamie Houseknecht is a research associate with Becton,
Dickinson and Co., a biomedical firm. He works within the
biosensor performance and development department.
Kristen Koveleski was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi National
Honor Society Award of Excellence. Koveleski is pursuing her
doctorate in sport and exercise psychology.
Adriann Schick, Muncy, joined the audit staff of Brown
Schultz Sheridan
& Fritz.
Paul Zipko
employed
EZ
is
Soft, Inc., in
as
He
Malvern.
an automation engineer
is
the son of
for
Dawn and Ken
Zipko 78.
enrolled at Wingate University, where
studying for a master's in education degree.
John Neil Delia Croce '06M
is
enrolled in
Temple
Alumna leads
University's dentistry program.
Justin C. Hill
in
scholarship.
Joseph Yasinskas, Clarks Summit, teaches ninth-grade
English and world history at Scranton Preparatory School.
an eighth-grade learning support
Kevin Leonard, Flemington,
is
Virginia School of
biology senior student and received the Phi
teacher at Haverford Middle School.
she
West
Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, W.Va. While
Kappa Phi Honors Program
Combs
Nicole
Timothy Finnegan
Pi
studies at the
at
Language Hearing Association.
Jf\
\J %J
the
Mar Lin.
Schuylkill Technology Centers in
is
WABC-TV
teaching in the Donegal Area School District
Mount Joy.
Christopher Kuebler joined the police force
in
Upper
E
Saucon Township.
Funk Campbell
ebecca
'83
was recently promot-
-ed to president and
general
manager of WABC-TV,
ABC's flagship
station in the
largest television
Rebecca Funk Campbell
nation,
position, she has overall
management
for the station, including
Internet site
and
its
and
In her
new
responsibility
three digital
"Live with Regis
market in the
New York.
TV channels,
Kelly,"
which
is
produced by WABC-TV.
Campbell had been president and general manager of
WPVI-TV,
the
ABC affiliate
in Philadelphia, since 2003.
She joined the station in 1997 and served as program
director and, later, as vice president of
Cruisin' Seattle
Earlier in
BU alumnus Bill Garson
and his wife Dana of Seattle, Wash.,
hosted an alumni cruise aboard the Dana Lou II in late September.
Among those
Halstead
'84,
'63
attending the event were,
left to right,
front row:
BU Alumni Director Lynda Michaels ^ASSM, Valerie
Frey '93 and Kathy Rogers 71; and back row: Chris Billet '94,
Garson
'63,
former
Kozloff '07H and
30
Pam
BU
Bill
President Jessica Kozloff '07H, Dr. Steve
Nancy Anderson
programming.
her career, Campbell worked
Pittsburgh,
at
KDKA-TV in
WFMZ-TV in Allentown and WGAL-TV in
The Philadelphia Business Journal named her
2007 Women of Distinction award.
She and her husband John are the parents of two
children, Dylan and Taylor Anne.
Lancaster.
a recipient of the
'58.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
as
endar
7
f/lfr,
Noted ceramist and sculptor Toshiko Takaezu
campus
she cast on BU's
Academic Calendar
in 1987,
is
Celebrity Artist Series
Events are held
Haas Center for
in
Spring 2008
the Arts, Mitrani Hall, or Carver Hall,
Spring Break Begins
Kenneth
March 8
Saturday,
more
17,
Gross Auditorium. For
information, call the
box office
at (5701 389-4409 or check the
Classes Resume
Monday, March
S.
Web site at http://
Celebrity Artist
8 a.m.
installed.
visits
the
new Academic Quad where 'Endless Circle,' the
BU art professor Karl Beamer is shown at left.
bell
Friend and
Bloomsburg University-
Alumni Association Board
Community Orchestra
Directors Meeting
Symphony Ball
Saturday, May 3,
Saturday, Feb. 23
6 p.m.
Philadelphia Alumni Mixer
Kehr Union, Ballroom: Reservations
required, (570)
of
389-4289
or
Phantoms
at Philadelphia
Hockey Game
mjelinkek@bloomu.edu
March
(date to be announced)
orgs, bloomu. edu/arts/celebrity_ list,
Day- No
Reading
Thursday and
Friday,
Classes
May and
1
htm.
2
Association cardholders pay half
of the
Classes End
ticket's
face value for all
shows. Programs and dates are
May 3
Saturday,
Community Government
Theater
Harrisburg Alumni Mixer
Tickets for theatrical productions are
Thursday, March 6
available at the
Arts box office
the
noon
to
Carver Hall Chapter Wine
Finals
10
Center
Friday,
Dreams
May 9
Motion: Paul Taylor
Dance Company
Undergraduate Commencement
May
Saturday,
in
10
Saturday, April
5,
times and
tickets, call the
Board ticket
Session
Session
I
-May
Bloomsburg Players:
-
II
III
July
Broadway at Bloomsburg:
19 to June 27
1
-May
Mitrani Hall, $25
Haas
Gallery of Art
are open to the public free of charge.
More
information about shows
is
available at http://departments
Center
tickets, call
Board ticket
Annual BU Jazz Festival Boby
Tickets go on sale
& The Warriors of
Wonderful Sound
show
the Program
389-4340.
office, (570)
March
March 20
Wyoming Valley Alumni Mixer
Thursday, March 27
Alumni
in
Monday to
Week
the Classroom
Friday, April 7 to 11
17.
Alumni Weekend
Friday to Sunday, April
1 1
to 13
Alumni Awards Luncheon
Saturday, April 12
Grad Finale
the alumni online community at
www.bloomualumni.com
Mitrani Hall, $5
16 to
Alumni Events
Visit
noon
Friday, April 25,
Lehigh Valley Alumni Mixer
Thursday,
226
Bloomsburg. For
St.,
Wonderful Sound: Ninth
Zankel
Lysistrata
April
20, Alvina Krause Theatre,
times and
19 to Aug. 8
Art Exhibits
Exhibits in the
Evita
Sunday, April 13,8 p.m.
to Aug. 8
Program
389-4340.
office, (570)
Wednesday to Sunday,
Session
show
8 p.m.
Mitrani Hall, $20
Summer 2008
226
Bloomsburg. For
St.,
March 13
20 to
Feb.
24, Alvina Krause Theatre,
Mitrani Hall, $20
Graduate Commencement
Thursday,
Wednesday to Sunday,
Saturday, Feb. 16, 8 p.m.
May
and Cheese Social
Moonchildren
Voodoo Daddy
End
Saturday,
Bloomsburg Players:
Swing, Daddy-o: Big Bad
May 5
March 7
4 p.m.
Finals Begin
Monday,
Northern Virginia Alumni Mixer
Friday,
Fridays from
subject to change.
Haas Center for
Mondays through
Wednesday and
and
Thursday, April 16
17, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
for further
details or to register. For information,
Alumni Association Board of
Concerts
contact the Alumni Affairs Office at
Directors Meeting
Dylan Vitone
The concerts listed below are open
15701 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 or
Saturday,
Photography, through Feb. 15
to the public free of charge unless
alum@bloomu.edu.
Yoshiko Shimano
indicated otherwise.
Geisinger
Chamber Orchestra:
Florida
Spring Concert
February (dates to be announced)
bloomu. edu/art/gallery. html.
Printmaking, Feb.
25 to March 28
Juried Student Art Exhibition
April 7 to
Sunday, March
25
St.
2,
2:30 p.m.
Matthew Lutheran
123 N. Market
St.,
Church,
BU Alumni
the latest information
Alumni Mixer
events,
Sunday, March 30, 2:30 p.m.
Siblings'
Thursday, Feb. 7
in Charlotte, N.C.
Carver Hall Chapter Dinner
Wolfgang, oboe
and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Kehr Union, Ballroom
WINTER
and Children's
Friday to Sunday, April 11 to 13
Saturday, April 26
Tuesday, Feb. 12
Web site:
Saturday April 19, 3 p.m.
29
Renaissance Jamboree
Alumni Mixer
Mitrani Hall. Featuring Randall
Gospel Choir: Gospelrama
to
Saturday, Feb. 9
Haas Center for the
www. bloomu. edu/today
Weekend
June 27
Weekend
check the university
Arts,
Friday to Sunday,
Special Events
Community Orchestra Concert
on upcoming
Multicultural Alumni
Maryland Alumni Mixer
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg University-
17
Jesse Bryan/John Cook
Reception
Basketball Alumni Reunion
For
May
Parents and Family Weekend
Friday to Sunday. Sept.
1
2 to 14
performance
Homecoming Weekend
Saturday, Feb. 16
Friday to Sunday, Nov.
1
and 2
Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
The
original barn, related
outbuildings and a field of
corn and cabbage can be seen
in the foreground in this
1893
photograph. In the background
is
the dormitory complex, later
WaUer
A Look at the Campus' Rural Past
Barns, Hogs, and Crops:
The
remnant of Bloomsburg University's
last
bam, disappeared
agricultural past, the old
as a
pan
for students to
agriculture.
90 years of farming and animal husbandry
years, students
of daily
and
for students
life
in 1869, a dormitory
was
a
had
to
faculty.
be
equipment needed
to plant
1870 where Luzerne Hall
is
This winter photo of the 1894
campus barn, taken about 1950,
shows the Class of 1917
now located. Most
of the crops
bam was built in
now located, and
where
Elwell Residence Hall
and harvest the
first
two
grew
worth of vegetables on
plots of land
Equally
bam to house their horses and to store
farmland east of campus. The
first
more than $1,000
faculty.
literary institute to a
constructed to house students and
the
1913
leam about
During the
normal school
essential
in
from campus 50 years ago, ending nearly
For the school to grow from a
Hall.
went
the dining hall
to
greenhouse to the
and
background
is
left.
In the
Navy Hall and
included onions,
the right are swing sets for
crops grown nearby helped to supplement the food
radishes, lettuce,
students in the Ben franklin
served in the dining
tomatoes, potatoes,
Training School.
is
the
hall.
In 1894, the site of the
bam was needed for an
bam was torn down and a
employees' dormitory The
new one was constructed in the area of the current
Northumberland Hall. The new barn was two stories
tall
with more than 1,500 square
as a stable
The
and
feet available for
for storage of the school
raising of animals gained
the presidents residence.
house be
built near
Two years
later,
that a "piggery"
Buckalew
to
com and cabbage.
Student involvement soon ceased, however, and by
the mid- 1920s the effort produced such a limited
amount
of food that
now
Principal
and slaughter
provide meat for the
"piggery"
and end
The old
but
its
days were numbered
it!
to build a
perform the
razed
in 1938.
Northumberland
member Daniel
rural past
program
when
of
the carpentry shop
With plans
new men's residence hall,
during summer 1958 to clear
primary work involved in growing crops, faculty
Hartline began a biology
college-sponsored agricultural
bam remained in use for the storage
garbage problem. The hogs could eat
S.
all
plumbing and carpentry supplies and lawn machinery,
was completed
to
became a money-losing
work. Farming was completely phased out a year later.
dining hall and to take care of the school's extensive
Although employees continued
it
endeavor. In 1927, President Francis Haas asked the
Trustees to approve the removal of the Buckalew
wagon.
renewed importance
following the 1903 purchase of Buckalew Place,
Judson Welsh suggested
use
to
Hall.
The
in place
by 1955
the
bam was
the
way
last trace
for
of the campus"
was no more.
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BU alumnus carries his
alma mater to the top.
Mountaintop, that is. Page w.
Team's accolades come after season
of hard work and heartache. Page 18.
Eyewitness
to
Mount St. Helens
eruption studies, explains volcanic
activity.
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6.
News Notes
Music
to Their Ears
Program earns accreditation
Work vs.
Good Work
BU's music program earned accreditation from the National
Association of Schools of Music (NASM). BU's program
617 programs accredited
Prof studies personal
"Reviewers visited campus two years ago and again
values in the workplace
spring," says
Stephen
Clickard, chairperson of the
department. "They examined our curriculum and
For Joan
Miller, assistant
listened to our students
professor of nursing, there
difference
is
a
between "work"
and "good work"
— and
interested
and
Joan Miller
that
in
exit our
and
in
rewarding career.
Miller has taught in BU's nursing department for
13 years. During that time, she noticed nursing
last
music
facilities
and
and ensembles perform. They were
the musicianship level of our students as they enter
in
BU's music program, which consists of tracks
music education
liberal arts,
one of
program. Our students did very well."
Enrollment
difference can turn a job into an inspired
is
nationally.
certification K-12, audio/video recording
has grown from 14 majors
in
1997
to
76 majors
and
in
2007. The department has eight full-time faculty and four
adjunct faculty.
students were becoming increasingly jaded toward
their future profession,
prompting her
to
look into
ways of encouraging excellence and moral
among nurses
accountability
Miller
entering the workforce.
soon discovered The
GoodWork Project,
Harvard professor Howard Gardner's multidisciplinary study of good
work
— work
quality, socially responsible
that
is
excellent in
and meaningful.
Although research on business, journalism and law
were already in progress, no studies had been
conducted in the nursing
24
field.
So, Miller interviewed
professional nurses at various stages of their careers
to determine
their values
why they are in the profession, establish
beliefs and leam how they overcome
and
obstacles in the workplace with those values in mind.
She found that the values those nurses developed
early
had the strongest hold on them
this in
mind, Miller determined that
for nurses
life.
With
should be taught early in their education
and reinforced
freshman nursing seminar course
good work
last fall
profession
—
models
— from
and found
one's family or
are essential," Miller says. "Students
enter this profession because they
others and,
when asked about
their desire to
want
to help
values that support
be a good nurse, they say they
wouldn't compromise the integrity they learned
from those mentors."
expertise
into a
mentors often inspired these values in young
nurses. "Role
Journalistic Perspective
Media pros share
later.
Miller incorporated the idea of
that
later in
ethical standards
Journalism professor Walter Brasch moderates a discussion panel
during the Journalism Institute, a day-long event attended by about
150 high school students and their advisers. Panelists included Mike
Lewis,
WNEP-TV anchor; Justin Walden,
national media specialist for
Geisinger Health System; Brandi Mankiewicz '94, associate publisher
of Journal Newspapers; and Joanne Arbogast, managing features
editor for the Daily Item, Sunbury,
and
editor of Inside Pennsylvania
BU graduates participating in the institute were
Andy Heintzelman '85, editor for the News-Item, Shamokin; Sam
magazine. Other
Bidleman
'76,
newspaper adviser
Bloomsburg High School; Pat
at
Trosky '95M, features and entertainment editor of the Citizen's Voice,
Wilkes-Barre; Danielle Lynch '07, reporter for the Daily Local News,
West Chester; Maryjayne Reibsome
'02,
graphics and
Web
designer;
Nicole Clark '07, a graduate student in BU's institute for interactive
technologies; Matt Colosimo '06,
BU
broadcast engineer; and
Jonathan Gass '05, copy editor and page designer for the
News, Harrisburg.
Patriot-
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Sharing Experience
Program brings young profs to BU
A new program offers young professors the opportunity to
develop their professional
teach at BU.
skills
while they
program, designed
for recent graduates of doctorate
programs and graduate students entering the
doctorate study,
welcomes applicants from
under-represented populations
working
work and
live,
The Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars
as faculty
final stages of
historically
who want to
gain experience
members.
The program encourages diversity within the campus
community and exposes students to different cultures and
ideas, according to provost James
Mackin. Frederick
Douglass Teaching Scholars are also introduced
benefits of working at
BU and have
to the
Ivan Turnipseed, assistant professor of business management,
the opportunity to
become involved in campus organizations and initiatives.
The first Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars, Wazi
Apoh,
assistant professor of anthropology,
have created and taught specialty courses, worked with
faculty
members within
campus and served
management, has taught courses
is
as
in
who
and human resources
both
Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholars.
fields.
Apoh, who
from Ghana, created two new courses focusing on the
archaeology of Africa and the anthropology of human
"The scholars gain teaching experience and, hopefully,
learn
temporary
their departments. Turnipseed,
specializes in the hospitality industry
left,
first
and Ivan
Turnipseed, assistant professor of business management,
student organizations on
and Wazi Apoh, assistant professor of anthropology, are BU's
rights.
from our
institution," says Jonathan Lincoln, assistant
vice president for academic affairs. "Students can take
specialty courses they wouldn't normally
have the
opportunity to take. Current faculty have the chance to
mentor and leam from the new
faculty
future applicant pool increases. In
program
is
a
win
for
members, and our
my opinion,
this
everyone involved."
Forward Motion
Redman Stadium renovations begin
Renovations are underway at
Stadium,
home
Redman
of the Huskies since 1974.
After gaining approval from the Council of
Trustees
in
late-December 2007, work
moved ahead on the
project that features
a press box with elevator,
artificial turf field,
new
railings,
a
new
visitor bleachers.
ments
will bring
new
rest rooms,
track and field facilities,
parking
lot
Many of the
and new
improve-
the stadium into
compliance with requirements of the
Americans with
Disabilities
The Trustees accepted the
Act (ADA).
bid of
$3.2 million, along with an additional
$250,000 for
lights,
pending approval
from the Federal Aviation Agency. The
FAA's decision
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later this year.
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Volcano Watcher
STORY BY MARK
CNN, MSNBC, Fox
News, USA Today and
Carolyn Driedger
75
U.S. glaciers were
all
she
National Geographic
are just a
few of the
media outlets that
have turned to Carolyn
Driedger '75 for an
first
left
Mount St.
Helens and Mount
Rainier from her
vantage point at
the U.S. Geological
Survey's Cascades
DIXON
Pennsylvania in the 1970s to study glaciers.
out west, so
had the opportunity
it
was in Washington and Alaska
to observe these large
that
chunks of ice and
how
bureaucrats respond to them. In Alaska, Driedger and her colleagues in the
U.S. Geological Survey
Glacier
was
(USGS) reported
to officials that Alaska's
Columbia
calving off icebergs at an accelerating rate.
"People laughed," Driedger
MT RAINIER
VOLCANO/LAHAR
WARNING SIREN
Silly bureaucrats. In
dodge one of those
recalls.
1989, while trying to
bergs, the
Exxon Valdez
oil
tanker struck a reef and spilled 10.8 million
understanding of
activity at
E.
gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound.
WHEN SIREN IS
ACTIVATED GO TO HIGHER
GROUND
QUESTIONS??
CALL PIERCE COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
253-798-7470
Cleanup cost
millions. Today, researchers
predict that the 30-mile-long
will fully disintegrate within
Columbia Glacier
50
years, to
be
replaced by a water-filled fjord.
But the
spill
wasn't Driedger's turning point.
What changed her life was a visit on May
17, 1980, to
Coldwater Ridge,
an observation point in southwestern Washington from which volcanologists
were monitoring a long-dormant
— though rumbling— volcano
five
miles away.
Volcano Observatory.
on glaciers, was there
know-how. The mountain was covered with glaciers and she
track the effects of its increasing warmth upon them. "The volca-
Driedger, interested in the effect of volcanic action
to share her
hoped
Snow-capped Mount Rainier is a picturesque and potentially dangerous - backdrop to many
communities in Washington state.
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to
nologist
on duty, David Johnston,
Continued on next page
said
it
wasn't safe there and told
me
to
—
After the eruption of
Mount
volcano could do.
addition to the 57 dead,
In
Helens, politicians realized
St.
Mount
St.
what
a
Helens had
destroyed 27 bridges, nearly 200 homes and 185 miles of highway.
Rocks from the landslide and
go
home
for the night,"
lateral blast
covered 230 square miles.
she says.
The next morning, she was driving
back
volcano
to the
when she wit-
nessed the catastrophic landslide
and eruption, which swept away
on Cold-
the observation point
water Ridge, opened a gaping hole
and reduced the
summit elevation by
in the volcano
volcano's
more than 1,300 feet. Johnston,
last words to headquarters
whose
were, "Vancouver, Vancouver, this
is it,"
was
killed.
In retrospect, the disaster
created a "once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity," says Driedger.
Suddenly, politicians realized
what a volcano could
do. In
addition to the 57 dead,
Mount
St.
Helens had destroyed 27 bridges,
nearly
still
Damage
to public
property alone was estimated
$1.1 billion
—
and
at
in a rural, mostly
lateral blast
covered
230 square miles and the volcanic
which were an average
measured more
depth of 150
feet,
than 600
deep in
feet
of the
it
also
Some
Other
disasters
places.
of Columbia's
than 130
of
Mount
feet
the
a flow
composed
A lahar
itself.
of volcanic
rock and ash and water that
descends the slopes of a volcano,
usually along a river valley.
The
— which binds
and
motive
—was
by
water
together
previously
the debris
provides
supplied
on
its
the ice
the summit.
"Removal of snow and
the volcano doesn't
St.
Helens,
Driedger. "A lot of ice
ably vaporized
on
on
as
think,''
says
was prob-
that day, but a
electrical conductivity of ice
different than
lahar
which followed the
killed
impulse and measuring
takes to return,
we can
how long it
determine
More than a dozen major volcanic peaks are sprinkled
around
Oregon, Washington and northern
California, but the closest to a
23,000 people. In the Philip-
1991 Pinatubo eruption
with rock," she
by sending an
the thickness of the ice."
hun-
major population center is Mount
Rainier, only
54 miles from
Seattle
and the nearly 600,000 people
dreds of people while the eruption
who live
killed sigrtificantly fewer people.
Tacoma (194,000) and Puyallup
(33,000)— are closer.
"Around
that time,
(USGS)
real-
there.
Other
cities
we would have mud flows
in an eruption," she says. "So we
one cubic mile of perennial snow
decided that we'd better figure out
and
how much snow and ice we had to
Driedger.
ized that
Driedger and her colleagues per-
formed hundreds of measurements
on Cascades volcanoes, using a portable "ice radar"
and
receives
"As
ice
it
turned out, there
system that sends
an electronic pulse.
is
about
on Mount Rainier," says
"It's as much as on all the
other Cascades volcanoes
deal with."
ice
happen
quickly as you might
del Ruiz
town of Armero,
pines, the lahar
that followed the erup-
not the eruption
re-emphasized
high with a top speed
mudflow,
is
explains. "So,
1985, the eruption
Nevada
"The
valley
remains on
40 miles per hour. The
swamped
damage was
ice
volcano produced a lahar more
killing
force
of the land surrounding
the mountain today."
caused by the lahar, or volcanic
is
much
went down the
in the lahar.
this concept. In
layers,
Much
lot of
Rocks from the land-
forested area.
tion,
exists in
significantly altering the areas environment.
200 homes and 185 miles
of highway.
slide
Volcanic ash
com-
bined." Because of the volcano's
massive ice load and close proximity to large
populations,
siders Rainier the
USGS
con-
most dangerous
volcano in the Northwest. Geologi-
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Wash. Bacon frequendy opposes
Driedger stands
stump
leveled by
beside the
of a tree
a prehistoric lahar.
proposed developments in areas subject to flooding, lahars
and other
hazards. Like Driedger, he
is
used
to
being ignored.
"Development laws
developments
.
.
allow
.
proceed which
to
should be stopped," says Bacon,
"including the big ones near Rainier
cal studies, previously
in the
updated during the past decade
and the mountain
is
now studded
with sensors.
"People won't listen to you
when
we
we had
ized that
at
real-
to beef up the
USGS
the
— and her
know if Mount
wobbles. But
pan
to
much as
only the scien-
of the story.
to Driedger,
USGS
its
presuming
they were approved.
ness.
emergency prepared-
She speaks frequently
pub-
at
meetings, where she has learned
to strike a
can't say
areas.
Don't build any-
thing,'
"
gest
that municipalities avoid put-
is
she says. "So, what
sug-
I
So, as at the start of Driedger's
But she
family
on high ground
Evidence
is
survive lahars.
When
abundant.
Then, as a sort of bonus, she
room on
"It
had
tains,"
she
a great
who chaired
compiled copious
west
but
Driedger proposed an outreach
program
and
to educate officials
the public about volcanic
mic hazards.
In 1995,
and
ied
by
prehistoric lahars. But even
that doesn't alter
seis-
USGS
agreed and appointed her to run
it.
lot
of the
coming
phone
to
calls
were already
me because I was will-
ing to talk to reporters."
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He was always
challenging us to ask
questions and to not just
make
assumptions."
Married in 1992
to volcanologist
Larry Mastin, Driedger and her
husband
so what does
science education major. "Plus, a
the geography
department, was so inspiring.
with their daughter, Clara,
"The attitude
for
is
kind
of,
'It
another hundred years,
it
matter?'
"
she says.
Delivering such messages
challenge, sympathizes
serves
on
commission
is
activist
a local land-use
in Pierce
a
Vancouver, Wash.,
live in
whom
they adopted from China in 1997.
"Clara
is
the
knowledgeable
know," she
most volcanoballet
says.
dancer
I
B
Andrew
Bacon, an environmental
who
won't
great
Frantz,
development will happen.
happen
earth
had
Wendelin
tions exist forbidding development,
of my Bloomsburg days," explains
who had been an
many building
plans, says Driedger. If no regula-
was the only one who had a
background in education because
"I
Driedger,
unearth
side, they frequently
massive tree stumps that were bur-
most
view of the moun-
recalls. "I also
Puyallup Valley, an area of weak
the shelf.
lived
of her college career.
unstable rock
statistics,
the top floor of
where she
Hall,
1980 eruption, the agency had
on
in
tion.
revealed. In the years since the
Rainier's north-
in a Blue Bell, Pa.,
because of its mountain loca-
professors. Dr.
they mostly sat
up
part,
builders excavate foundations in
on
loves the mountains.
still
summer. She chose Bloomsburg,
Columbia
tures
may
which headed west every
and other
the
don't listen
be her biggest challenge.
scored a
on
who
career, officials
ting their hospitals, police stations
critical facilities
be
that they are safe since
Driedger grew
moderate stance on
development in lahar-prone
newer studies and
measurements and sensors
residents will
general public. She organizes semi-
valley floor." Typically, only struc-
had no mechanism of communiwhat
that reaches officials,
emergency professionals and the
"You
colleagues
Rainier so
that's
According
cating
ignorant of the danger, he says,
Cascades Volcano
Observatory
tific
— assigned
Most
event."
lic
monitoring of Cascade volcanoes."
Today, Driedger
today
program
drills that test
USGS
USGS
to Driedger,
has a multi-pronged educational
nars for teachers and participates in
things are quiet," says
Driedger. "Plus,
Thanks
performed
1960s and 70s, have been
which have a great chance of being
wiped out in an eruption or lahar
County,
Mark E. Dixon
Wayne, Pa.
is
ajreelance writer in
Quality academic programs,
reasonable costs and a
friendly environment draw
students to Bloomsburg
from across Pennsylvania.
The same traits also
attract students from
much farther away.
World
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STORY AND PHOTOS BY ERIC FOSTER
When Sharma arrived at Bloomsburg
Until he stepped onto Bloomsburg's campus,
Darpan
India,
Singhal, a native of Indore in central
had never seen snow. Neither had Amreen
Mosthapha from Bangladesh, Xianrui Meng of China
there were about
50
15 years ago,
international students
on campus
from a dozen counties. In 2007-08, Bloomsburg has
150 international students representing 58 nations.
or Marina Miranda of Brazil.
Despite their varied experiences, international
But Yulia Smotrova, a Russian student in Blooms-
students choose Bloomsburg for
many of the same
burg's master's of business administration program, says
reasons that native Pennsylvanians do: the reputation
one of the things she misses about home
the snow."
of academic programs, the small-town atmosphere
cities
the affordability.
"is
For Singhal and Miranda, growing up in
where the
typical winter temperatures are in the
(Fahrenheit), several inches of cold white stuff
BU's academic quad
is
something new and unique.
For Muscovite Smotrova, several inches
is
a
mere
dusting that hardly counts.
The
facts
on the ground may be the same, but the
campus from different
perspectives students bring to
locations
around the globe
are very different.
These
different perspectives are a valuable addition to the
intellectual
and
cultural climate
Madhav Sharma,
on campus, says
director of international education.
"International students bring the
knowledge and
experience of other cultures from around the world
to
our Pennsylvania students,
When Jessica Laasonen of Finland arrived at BU in
50s
on
who may never have
may interact and
fall
2006, she intended to stay just a year as an exchange
student. But she
found herself smitten with the town,
and her classes.
The latitude that American students have when
the university
choosing classes
is
something Laasonen finds
selected a track
and
that determines
take," she explains. "I
had
what courses you
a course in
Information Systems) here that
I
GIS (Global
would never be
able to
take outside of a technical school in Finland."
Smotrova,
who earned
a dual undergraduate degree
from both Bloomsburg and the Moscow Finance Acad-
emy under the Government
of the Russian Federation,
chose to continue her graduate studies
understand globalization firsthand," says Sharma.
because of the strong reputation of BU's
"In addition to bringing their perspective to the
exciting.
"In Finland, at the university level, you've already
traveled outside the U.S., so they
classroom, international students also spur American
and
at
Bloomsburg
MBA program
and of the American higher education system in
general.
Continued on page 12
students to go abroad by their example. In a regular
semester,
we have 30
to
and during the summer
a hundred."
35 students study abroad
that increases to
more than
Russian student Yulia Smotrova carries the
Slovakian flag during BU's homecoming parade
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"I
had
Britain or
a choice
between Newcastle College
Bloomsburg," she
says.
in Great
"The United States
is
considered to have the best higher education system in
the world.
And Bloomsburg is
Bloomsburg
is
mal exchange programs with
for-
Meng came
to
in January along with three other students
from Shandong University of Technology.
"This
student,
is
a peaceful
and
Bloomsburg completing
his
expected to arrive in
fall
18 to 24 months
at
computer science degree.
two dozen students
2010 from Shandong
Bloomsburg has formal exchange agreements with
ties
China and more than 20 universi-
worldwide. As the number of international stu-
dents
at
Bloomsburg has grown, so has the
says Laasonen, a junior business
man-
"Bloomsburg
feels
very
safe," says
positive
Miranda, a senior
mass communications major whose hometown, Sao
used
to
making it one of the
was
a
little
difficult to get
such a small town."
Although the Bloomsburg community has
offer, international
transportation,
students
still
much to
Food,
face challenges.
customs and manners are
all
different
from home.
"I'm a vegetarian
own food,"
day. Protein
and
and I have
says Singhal.
you have here.
University alone.
eight universities in
people
Street,
agement major from Helsinki. "That doesn't happen in
largest cities in the world. "It
More than 20 students from China currently are
studying on campus, including Meng and his cousin.
That number will continue to grow in the coming
years with a cohort of about
"When I walk into the shops on Main
Paulo, has 19 million residents,
beautiful town," says the
who will spend the next
charm of the
a city as big as Helsinki."
universities in other
countries, particularly China. Xianrui
Bloomsburg
through
attract students, the
community keeps them.
remember me,"
affordable."
also attracting students
While the academic programs
cook
to
"Our food
is
all
of my
not like a salad
We cook with 20 to 30 spices every
comes from nuts
cashews, almonds
like
pistachios."
Miranda misses the beans and
in Brazilian cuisine.
rice that are a staple
And, even when Smotrova can
"word of mouth."
locate the ingredients for a traditional Russian dish, she
"My sister had a friend who came here and said it
was a good school for business," says Mosthapha, who
finds that the
looks forward to a career in the U.S. as a financial
homesickness, the students admit.
manager or marketing manager.
end
"One of the
Miranda chose Bloomsburg based on the recom-
who earned a doctorate
from BU. And Singhal, whose
biggest differences
ica,
degree in audiology
don't have to act
is
a doctor, selected Bloomsburg because he
was
same.
on some
getting used to
the American cheerfulness," says Smotrova. "In
mendation of her cousin,
father
result just doesn't taste the
Subtle cultural differences can bring
you have
to
wear
a smile
happy
if
all
we
we aren't."
International students also discover a less-formal
could complete the well-regarded graduate program
atmosphere in U.S. classrooms. "In India, you
in exercise science in just over a year.
drink in
12
Amer-
the time. In Russia,
class," says Singhal.
"You have
to
can't
wear a
shirt
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and
trousers,
and you stand when the professor walks
Bloomsburg's international students often bring an
"My
extra degree of seriousness to their studies.
taught
me
things,"
fet.
to invest in education,
Smotrova
Get as
says. "I
much as you
who
took
and four
back
to Russia
how to
semester as an undergraduate
"I
will
go
my country and make Russia a
know 1 will be responsible for my
parents, too."
Singhal's experiences in his family's hospital have
given
gate
him
life. I
think about
why we
are
here in this world. Not about daily frustrations and
problems, but
why we
something
humanity.
for
should not waste
are
human.
Life
We should do
goes in seconds and
we
Just as these students devote themselves to their
own cultures and homelands.
There
there
her an opportunity to see her
Moscow has also given
home from a fresh per-
spective.
"When I went back
to Russia the last time,
was the
tourist,"
she says.
tures everywhere.
For me,
it
was
like
I
Like Smotrova,
was
"I
was taking
like a
many international
it
pic-
new country."
students
become informal ambassadors for their home countries. They march in BU's homecoming parade each fall
each spring semester that brings hundreds of guests
from the campus and community. And, through the
tional students
and
education
office, interna-
faculty serve as guest speakers
with
often believe Finland's largest
is
company,
cell
phone
"My countrybut 1 remind them that some
located in Japan.
men are bothered by this,
states have as many people as Finland. Do
we know the names of all the American states?"
American
Smotrova believes physical distance contributes to
Americans' lack of knowledge about the
world. "In Russia, you have neighbors.
Laasonen says one of her most gratifying experiences occurred in Riverside Elementary School in the
Danville School District where she talked to children
Laasonen, for example, says her American friends
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class.
when I helped,
community organizations.
it."
manufacturer Nokia,
This year,
five students.
efforts of the international
studies, they enjoy opportunities to teach their class-
mates about their
were
"Three
and, along with international faculty, host a banquet
a special sense of purpose. "I've seen the
between death and
says.
helped professor Luke Springman from
Smotrova's time away from
says Smotrova,
and help
I
I
were 25 students."
can.
a semester as a graduate student.
better place to live.
But there are signs of change, she
years ago,
languages and cultures with a Russian
not in tangible
become open-minded,"
six classes a
family
think of education as a buf-
"You're here to be a better person, learn
think logically,
When you live in the United States, it's the center of
the world. France seems so far away."
into the room."
about her
home
country and
its
holiday traditions.
In Finland, she says, "everyone
Claus
try,
lives in
knows
that Santa
Lapland, a northern region of the coun-
not the North Pole.
"At Riverside, the children asked
were
real,"
she says.
they don't
fly.' "
Eric Foster
is
"I
told them,
me
if
reindeer
Yes they are, but
b
rest of the
You
feel
it.
co-editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.
13
Stephan
Pettit '89
knew he needed
personal goal to achieve his
first
to set a
professional success.
A Harley-Davidson seemed like a logical choice.
STORY BY JACK SHERZER
Discipline
Ever drop
off
some
old paint cans,
and Drive
company, Clean Earth Systems, often
Since
much of the
cleaning products or batteries dur-
play a role in the disposal of hazard-
ardous waste
ing a household hazardous waste
ous materials such as these.
incinerators,
cleanup drive?
some
Or maybe
toxic waste site
what happens
read about
1989
Starting in 1993, Pettit, a
and wonder
Bloomsburg grad and Husky
din and other
line-
the best
way
is
it
to
same
time. But until recendy, a
the
lot of the materials
dug up and hauled away? Stephan
Pettit and his Tampa, Fla. -based
board!") into one of the
ers of
card-
main
suppli-
hazardous waste containers.
is
in a container that can be burned at
box company
it
that
pack the material
backer, has turned a small corrugated
("Don't call
special
seems obvious
dangerous materials that are being
to the
nation's haz-
burned in
were put in
stor-
age drums. Aside from being night-
mares to
store,
companies were
left
—
He was right.
with contaminated barrels that had
to
be crushed and thrown out in
expensive, hazardous waste landfills
when
came
the time
to destroy
1985 team
the
was pan of
won the
Penn-
sylvania State Athletic Conference
title
and was the
first team
win 12 games.
history to
the contents.
Pettit
that
in school
degree in mass communications,
biggest can hold three tons of mate-
which he thought would help him
—
rial
it
—
up
it is
totally
combustible. Pack
once, and that's
"This
it.
was a replacement
for steel
Pettit
headed back
New Jersey, where
to
sales world.
him
job selling photocopiers
rugated boxes and were running
the sales industry
my daddy did drums and
know,
his
daddy and so
hard
you
sell to
on.
It
was a
really
begin with."
But a desire to
sell
discipline to achieve
the
40-year-old
Pettit since
up in Middletown, N.J.
owned a printing com-
kid growing
His father
pany and spent
printing sales.
his entire career in
passed
Pettit's father
on a love of selling.
Sports also loomed large in Pettit's life. "I owe most of my professional career to sports,"
"There's the
cipline
and
of that
—
if it
comes
I've said
it
dis-
into
many
wasn't for football,
would not be where
I
of
I
am today."
while he was head coach of the
football team, a position
2000. Diana,
he
in
left
who is also vice
presi-
dent of the company, raises Arabian
horses on the couple's ranch outside of Tampa,
which they share
with four horses and two dogs. The
couple often travels to Vail, Colo.,
for
snowboarding.
was
One was
set-
ting a goal for yourself," Pettit says.
"I
always wanted a Harley-Davidson,
I
had
clipped
a picture of the Harley
my sun visor.
on
you
"After
get kicked out of six
row
receptionist as
copier,
for bothering the
you
try to sell a
always helps to have the
it
goal right there where
it.
you can
Something tangible you
are
see
work-
ing toward."
Pettit didn't get his
Harley in the
year he sold copiers, but he got
soon
after
moving
it
Tampa and
to
In his business, Pettit
is
eyeing
the global market. His corrugated
&J. Gallo
Winery, where he worked for three
containers meet
and
used anywhere in the world.
taking a sales job with E.
says.
teamwork and the
all
play in business.
times
he
— one
itself that I
taught very early on.
offices in a
he was a
his
wife of almost five years, Diana,
"There are certain tricks within
tough goals
have been characteristics of the
to take a
the toughest sales jobs to have.
so
— and
He
and
drums but in the beginning nobody
knew what we were selling," Pettit
says. "We came in with these corinto the old school network,
earned a
in the business
his father convinced
He competes in
an ice hockey league and met
Tampa Bay Cougars minor league
Not so with a corrugated box.
While it's built extra strong
the
At Bloomsburg,
sports seriously.
a half years.
strict
manager, take Clean
Nations standards, so they can be
And in his spare
researched the industry while
reconnecting with his love of
still
time,
Earth Systems on
the road for a trade
when
he's not playing sports, he's
a friend told
Pettit,
and Ashley
Skrzypek, regional
United
him about
environmental packaging. He
Then
Stephan
right,
show. Opposite
page: Pettit's passion
for motorcycles
inspired early
After graduating from Middle-
working at Gallo and, just a year
town High School South, Pettit was
recruited by various schools,
bought out
including Princeton and Rutgers.
became owner and president of
Then, he got a
burg.
It
call
from Blooms-
was 1984. Then-head
after
forming the business, he
Starting with a
sales
ing the program and Pettit
ida, Pettit
"I
had been on
other schools, but
Bloomsburg,
I
could
tell
in
New Jersey and Flor-
has guided the company's
now has
Earth Systems
when
houses with sales teams in each,
got to
program and
staff," Pettit says.
"You
they were going to be a
heck of a program."
Gibson Les Paul
about 30 employees
amount and growth rate
for the
company,"
we hit them
is mine." b
of reaching
$10 million
and
to
www.cleanearthsystems.com
work growing
still
more information
a goal
in sales this year.
his business, Pettit
Gibson
about Clean Earth Systems, go
more than
Despite the hard
Pettit says. "If
in 2008, that
takes his
Jack Sherzer
is
a professional writer
and Pennsylvania
lives in
native.
Hanisburg.
business success;
one of his company's
products (top).
have a goal of a certain
dollar
12 ware-
total,
A
guitar.
Editor's note: For
I
him his
next tangible business goal:
"I
warehouse and
growth across the country. Clean
it.
absolutely loved the
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1994 he
recruiting trips to
school, the football
the coaching
was
crew
This interest gave
guitar.
Clean Earth Systems.
coach George Landis was rebuildexcited to be part of
his partner. In
music and once again playing the
He cuirently
The mountaineer George Leigh Mallory said
'If
you cannot understand that there
is
man which responds to the challenge
and goes out to meet
of
life itself
won't see
it,
in 1922,
something
in
of this mountain
that the struggle
the struggle
is
upward and forever upward, then you
why we go.' A BU alum
is
among the few who
understand the challenge of the mountains.
When David Good played
for the
team
Huskies soccer
in the late 70s,
Good,
a
him
member
climbing,
started
Good
30 years
has a
takes a reminder of
new
Wyoming and,
for
moun-
Bloomsburg
Good
for
another
way
caught on to the sport immediately.
"I
doing more rock climbing, and the natural
mountain climbing. You
it
to
began a
some
of
the globe.
says. "If
I'd
ever done
mountain climbing
There's a lot of suffering that
early
is
some-
comes with climbing,
mornings, the cold, being dehy-
drated and hungry. Mentally,
many years after
him
thing you enjoy, you find that out pretty quickly.
between the
by 1996 he was looking
on
the second
is
Good,
"Grand Teton was unlike anything
before,"
of the Eastern College Athletic
is
mountain, Grand Teton, in
Grand Teton
the highest points
to the top.
extension of rock climbing
first
feet,
was an
When a friend introduced him to rock
Good
his
course of adventure that would take
1979, continued to play soccer for
to stay active.
Good climbed
Nelson Field House that
inevitable part of
How much
'How much bigger?
says.
highest peak in
to
Conference tournament championship soccer team in
graduation, but
Good
Mount Olympus
appreciation for
— and he always
he
"
June 1998. At 6,530
practice. Nearly
tains
higher?'
dreaded the run up
later,
University with
are always asking,
it's
very tough. People
more times because they think they can't
do it, rather than not being able to do it physically. It's
amazing what the body can do, but they let their
minds take over.
probably
"But
I
fail
love the challenge of it, to see a
and wonder what's up
to get
up
there,
and then
mountain
figure out
how
there myself."
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tainly
want
a guide,"
major mountain
Good
says, "but
planned on
I
Since he began climbing,
Aneto was the
Good has conquered
mountains in South America, Europe, Africa and
along with the U.S.
Asia,
He has climbed 15 peaks in Colo-
—
Of the famed "Seven Summits" the highest
seven continents
Good has conquered
Mount Elbrus in Russia and Mount Kilimanjaro in
rado alone.
peaks on
two:
first
my own."
—
all
Tanzania. Although he and his wife took a break from
climbing following the birth of their daughter, Eleanor,
in 2004, the appeal of the
ERIIMG
BU Alumni Association event in Adanta, Good
At a
told former
newfound
alumni director Doug Hippenstiel about his
interest in climbing. If Hippenstiel
would
send him a Bloomsburg University banner, Good joked,
he would climb
to the
year,
Good has been
more
of the Seven Summits.
McKinley
—
in June
fourth of the Seven
mits
there, too," Good says.
"When Doug actually sent me such a nice banner, I
thought, well, I better make it up to the top now," Good
Bloomsburg up
laughs. Since then, the reminder of
been with him on every climbing
And as for Everest?
"If I
gua under
my belt, Everest
Bloomsburg has
trip
if
climbed Island Peak in
Nepal so
I've
seen
in the
and has graced
Hood, Uncompahgre, Bierstadt,
Sherman and many other peaks. "A couple of
climbing buddies know that on every mountain
But
doesn't happen, I've
I
can
it,
at least
say
that I've stood
shadow of it."
For Good, the experi-
the tops of Kilimanjaro,
ence of the climb
Antero,
just as powerful as reaching
they've got to get a
banner shot,"
says.
In 2000,
to climb Pico
traveled to Spain with his wife, Janet,
de Aneto in the Pyrenees. At
Aneto was the
first
1
1,168
feet,
major overseas mountain that Good
climbed without the aid of a guide. The couple prepared
for their alpine ascent
training with backpacks that
50 pounds. "When you
by running
regularly
climbing,
you
feet,
night at
one's
around and you're above
the trees, the view
sibly experience in
you
get
is
any other
something you
can't pos-
situation. That's
most beautiful things about climbing
cer-
Lynette
for
me."
one ofthe
B
Mong
'08
is
an English/creative writing major from
Kennewick, Wash., and BU's Student Employee of the Year
for 2007-08.
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at
when no
and
weighed between 40 and
first start
,000
itself is
'When you're
the summit.
camping out
1 1
Good
the highest peak in
and expects Mount Aconcagua,
Sum-
it
Good
Mount
he'll scale.
sponsors' banners,
on summits waving their
thought it would be great to get
up with me,
climb
can get Denali and Aconca-
always had a soft spot for Bloomsburg and, after
they get
—
two
at least
the highest peak in South
may be a possibility.
my
He plans to
America, to become the
seeing pictures of people
I
preparing to climb
known as Denali
also
North America,
summit of his next mountain
with the banner in hand.
"I
mountains hadn't faded. Since
own investment consulting business last
opening his
Many Feet One
STORY BY KEVIN GRAY
For the self-proclaimed "daddy's
girl,"
In
late
December, 'CBS Sports Presents
Championships of the
cross country runner at
featured
member of the 2007
the story of one
women's
NCAA'
cross country team,
West
of the season
is
Virginia University,
BU
accomplishments. "He was
athletic
always
Bethany
my coach and my best
friend," she says.
It
was running and the
support of her teammates that
the heartaches and
helped her through her
Running, she
the victories that were shared by
time
every
There comes
country
when
in
a
cross
race
it.
This
her
fell
down
while trimming a
if
when his condition
improved enough
season of BU s 2007 women's cross
moved
country team.
gram; however, in mid-October, he
clot in his
brought
me up to
you always
finish
and
something bad happens, you
find a
he could be
way around it," she
says. "I
just couldn't imagine being without
my team.
into a rehabilitation pro-
developed a blood
father
believe that
tree.
optimistic
that
father's funeral.
"My
true of exceptional teams, as well.
The hard work began last May
of the team set a
"made
goals to achieve
returned to practice just days after
Want proof? Consider the amazing
when members
The team still
and she
that
had
sense."
grief.
a refuge
Bethany Schwing of Hershey, was
Schwing and her teammates were
is
was
says,
Kevin Schwing, father of junior
when he
Exceptional runners expect the
pain and push through
all.
paralyzed from the neck
pain begins to take hold.
was an
integral part of his daughter's
Schwing. But, for this close-knit team, the
real story
was overwhelming.
the loss
Kevin Schwing, a standout track and
little
sounds
It
like
such a
thing, but with everything in
my life falling apart, they were
lung
and died suddenly.
very normal."
goal to qualify for nationals. Their
dedication to achieving that goal
evident from the
season
first
was
One for the Record Books: BU Women's Cross Country 2007
race of the
at Buffalo State College, says
• First
coach Karen Brandt.
attitude that they
the race
and
were the best in
• First National Collegiate Athletic
that they could beat
anyone," notes Brandt,
East Regional
who has
•
coached the Huskies men's and
women's teams
"You need
that
for
nine seasons.
•
going to hurt. This
is
that
of the Year,
United States Track, Field and Cross Country
of the Year,
Karen Brandt
it is
• First trip to
not a
• First
Off the course, the team faced a
September,
NCAA
the
Division
II
Cross Country
Championships
sport for the faint of heart."
different type of pain. In
PSAC Women's Cross Country Coach
Coaches Association East Region Coach
go out and run as hard as you can
really
Association (NCAA)
title
Karen Brandt
kind of confidence to
when you know in advance
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
(PSAC) championship
"They went out there with the
women's
Honors, senior
runner to receive Ail-American
Amber Hackenberg
Karen Brandt
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
—
Heart
Returning to the routine of
practices
and competition, the team
made
way to
its
State Athletic
the Pennsylvania
Conference (PSAC)
meet where three teammates
ished in the top 15
—
fin-
senior Amber
Hackenberg of Mifflinburg, fifth;
sophomore Andrea Kellock of
and Schwing,
Lansdale, ninth;
The
13th.
up
followed
trio
that
performance by finishing in the top
10 in the National Collegiate Athletic
Association
Regional, with
(NCAA)
East
Hackenberg
finish-
ing sixth, Kellock, seventh, and
Schwing, ninth. And, Bloomsburg
capped
off its
amazing season by
24
finishing 15 th out of
in the
NCAA Division II National Cross
Country Championships held
at
Missouri Southern University.
"The
girls
were motivated
for
the team above any individual goals
or leadership roles," Hackenberg
explains.
"I
we would have
a
The PSAC
and
which was run
could do
And
in the
showed me
rain,
mud
j«fl
they proved
^HHBHHHB^Bil
i
it.
For Coach
the determination she
runners in the
first
saw
for
Bethany Schwing,
race to the
"They were so excited
assistant
coach
— and husband
rewards.
"The awards are definitely not
and
alone," she says. "Jim
together in
just feeling in love with being alive
training
and young and being
Nothing happens with regard
for the
that
at nationals."
coach of the year
awards Brandt amassed, she
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is
team demonstrated
of the team's success, she explains.
mine
recalls.
van
cross country
that great effort can yield great
work
in the
2007 season.
Jim Brandt has been a key architect
"Whenever
weekend
they were singing and laughing and
and happy," she
center, during the
The 2007 Bloomsburg women's
quick to share the honors. Her
in her
unbridled joy they showed at
nationals.
Running was a refuge
many highlights
from the 2007 season, from
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building our team and then
our team without the
both of us."
predominantly
sport, the
aspects of
and coaching the
Maybe more important
was that, in what
to their success
is
an individual
Huskies fought through
the pain together,
b
athletes.
to
efforts of
Kevin Gray
is
a freelance writer based
in the Lehigh Valley.
he
chance
offers residents a
something
to try
than the
different
softball, baseball
or
swimming leagues
commonly found in
municipal recreation
programs. So
far,
Myers has
organized and led kayaking,
canoeing, rock climbing and
caving
Educational
trips.
programs examine topics
such as bike maintenance
and animal
He also
tracking.
develops
programs, budgets and
business plans; coordinates
with outside vendors,
landowners and university
and interviews and
staff;
For years, community recreation programs have
been dominated by traditional sports
hires crews to
—baseball,
BU alum,
But with the help of a
one community's program
is
trips.
"I'm the only
person running the entire program,"
Myers
tennis, basketball.
run
says. "I
have to have
enthusiasm and energy.
I
deal with
unseen problems and roadblocks but
giving residents a
have to stay positive and keep the
taste for adventure.
energy flowing for the lads."
"I'm putting together an environ-
icture this:
is
sailing
go on the Susquehanna Sojourn, a
line drops.
weeklong canoe
Nine-
feet, straight
down.
know what's below.
you push yourself through
Aaron Myers
After
sure he
push himself
teach.
"I
and
member of BU's
a deep-
seated one, with roots firmly
planted by his parents. "Ever since
could remember, there have been
20
ideally
wanted
to
and
one-man show."
man
show.
for that
"raw beginners"
them
says.
and now I'm
to
an
to introduce
activity
a love for
and
all
it. "It's
We follow a
'challenge by choice' approach. We
about the right
want
attitude.
to create a safe, comfortable
environment
wanted a
he
a
Blacksburg appears to have picked
foster in
was working with high school
families
on
is
I
college kids before
Now
town of
Blacksburg, Va.
His love for adventure
And,
It's
You set your
for you.
own goals and limits.
there's
good
It's
your
trip;
no competition. Just have
time."
a
b
working with the community,
Now he is outdoors
supervisor for the college
"I
There's also the marketing side of it.
Myers says he loves
Myers was
the adventure field
to re-establish the nature center here.
the right
a career that
college environment,"
where he kayaked and led
Quest program.
internships,
continued education.
he once did on the Youghieny
trips as a
two
wanted
work in
his fellow adventurers, just as
paddling
trip that teaches
combined personal adventures with
ability."
The 28-year-old Harrisburg
River,
would
about the Susquehanna River's
it,"
'03. "It's exhilarat-
native continues to
I
impact on the Chesapeake Bay."
pushing your mental
and physical
and
Eagle Scout says.
ahead of you, the hori-
"You don't
ing. You're
trips," the
"During summers, Dad and
teen
says
and
family outings, hikes, canoe
kayak
down a river. Mere feet
zon
But,
Your kayak
smoothly
mental education program and trying
it's
and young
professionals.
the first-timer
coming out
a trip, the family out to
have a
good time and doing things
in their
Blacksburg gives Aaron a budget
of $30,000 to $40,000.
more about
Blacksburg's recreation program, see
www.blacksburg.gov/recreation.
Becky Lock
is
a writer,
editor
photographer who works and
backyard," Myers says.
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and
lives
in Pennsylvania.
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STORY BY LAURIE CREASY
Parents often say they'll
Ted Williams
show his
Ted
do anything
'85 attempted a grueling physical ordeal to
10-year-old daughter that anything
Williams '85 always thought taking on a
possible.
who turned 10 in January, has cerebral
many girls her age, she studies the piano,
palsy. Like
would be exciting someday. "Then
someday is now," he says.
does well in school and loves to
...
1
real-
financial adviser for Ameriprise in Lancaster,
R2R2R as
Pa.,
attempted the
tion
and stamina, of course, but he had an additional
a test of his determina-
anything she sets
show my daughter Mariah that
her mind and heart to, she can do,"
he admits.
want her
reason.
Mariah,
is
48-mile Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim run
ized that
The
for their children.
"I
wanted
"I
just
to
to
know she shouldn't let
her physical limitations hold her back."
sing.
She had the lead
in her church's Christmas musical last year
favorite activity is
younger
sister,
Gianna.
But, she's also faced
children. She's
and her
swimming with her mom, dad and
more challenges than most
endured Botox injections and physical
therapy. She can walk, but not well, after several surgeries
and missed the
last
month
of first grade as she
recuperated from operations on both of her
legs.
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Williams and Herr had to run in single
—
edge of the canyon
walk on,
let
the
trails
At one point, Williams looked
"I
thought,
make
along the
difficult to
alone run. They had only their thoughts for
company. Some of those thoughts were
drop.
file
were narrow and
if I
stumble and
bleak.
down into
fall,
a 2,000-foot
me?
will they find
What will I do? Every step,
you're constantly looking down
it's hard to look
Will
I
Will
it?
I
stop?
—
around. With every foot placement, you're stepping on a
rock
that's sliding out.
"In
But
I
my business," he says,
come up with
couldn't
"I
come up with solutions.
a solution to this, except to
keep running."
At one point, the pair spotted three huge bighorn
sheep perched on a rock above the
trail. It
was
like
something straight out of National Geographic, Williams
They chased
says.
In the
the sheep
predawn
his eyes played tricks
there
on a lawn
paper.
and continued
their run.
almost 23 hours into their run,
light
on him.
"I
know I saw a guy sitting
news-
chair, at the top of a hill, reading a
We got closer and closer, and
it
was just
a rock."
Williams swears he heard voices, too, even though no
one was around.
The goal of Ted Williams, left, and his friend Ralph Henwas to complete a 48-mile run of the Grand Canyon in
Then, miraculously, the pair did hear voices
realized they
were returning
—
they
to their starting point just as
just 24 hours. Opposite page: Williams passes an
enormous boulder along a narrow
others were setting out
trail.
downed
"She was laid
up
in
bed
for three
months, and
and gave each other
it
took about a year until she improved her walk," her
She used a wheelchair and walker
father says.
eral
months, but refused
when
to take her
Proud of his daughter's determination, Williams
his
own.
realized
"I
she wanted," he
if I
difficult
to quit.
The
longest he'd ever
one stretch was about two hours.
call
—
Now he was
a brutal task that
impossible. Yet he couldn't go back.
was I going
to
tell
her
I
couldn't
do what
I
some
"How
planned
to
do?" he asks.
He and
morning one day last
Ralph Herr, started
spring.
at
4:30 in the
On the south side
canyon, people were about to
of the
behind. The silence was complete.
SPRING 2008
didn't feel
months
until
he
felt
a sense
avoid people for a while.
hopes
as
it
full
that
has in
"I
just
be around the hustle and busde," he
to
significance of what he did
someday
it
will
make
says.
may not understand
and why, but he
a difference in her
life,
his.
The R2R2R has motivated Williams to take on other
"Anybody who can run the Grand
Canyon can run a marathon," he says, laughing. Then
there's the possibility of hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro,
the fourth highest peak in the world. Or maybe he'll go
physical challenges.
South America or Africa
shamans.
he
"I've just
says. "It's a
to try a vision quest
been reading about
whole other journey."
with
how that works,"
b
start their daily routines.
On the north side in the dead of night, the runners left
civilization far
several
Williams admits that Mariah
to
his friend,
made him
want
today the
too."
it,
than he anticipated and, several hours into the
going to multiply that by 12
might
do
— but Williams
took six to eight weeks, he estimates, before he could
didn't
do anything
R2R2R quickly became more
24-hour run, he wanted
at
got to
It
walk without pain and
lonely run
a challenge of
told her she could
recalls, "I've
Williams admits the
run
by taking on
to further inspire her
a high five
They
and jelly sandwiches
of accomplishment. Unexpectedly, he also found that the
she entered second grade, he adds.
hoped
the rim-to-rim-to-rim run.
a sense of achievement.
for sev-
walker with her
on
celebratory peanut butter
Laurie Creasy, a native ofCatawissa,
master of science degree in
is
working on her
human computer interaction.
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worked as a counselor
career, was a teacher.
5^ Q Harriet Adams turned 99 January 2008. She
.wO taught 45 years the Bloomsburg School
in
for
and
District
Kay Frances Leonard Baker, Etters, is in her 37th
West Shore School District. She has
year with the
for the last
31 years and, earlier in her
in
5^70
retired in 1974.
Steve
Neumyer
(right) is vice
/ £* president/sales with Associated Paper
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Gergen, a
l
and
more than 30 years as
Inc. in
retired teacher, administrator
naval officer, has served for
sports information director for
Mount Carmel Area schools.
2008.
and
9 C?("J Glen Spaid was inducted
«_J
y High School
into the Central
Hall of Fame.
He earned
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Conyers, Ga.
He was
installed as president
of the Georgia Sanitary Suppliers Association for
He
their
lives in Loganville
two
with his wife, Kathy,
sons.
Rev. Donald Raffensperger, Elizabethville,
Columbia
marked
letters
and baseball and led the basketball and
county and District 4 championships.
his
40th anniversary as a minister in the Central
in basketball, soccer
Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
soccer teams to
in 2007.
Russell "Skip"
'68 High
He and his wife, Constance, celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary in December 2007.
Kathy Sandy was appointed secretary of the board of
Rudy was inducted into the Exeter
He was a three-
School Hall of Fame this year.
directors for the Association of Girl Scout Executive Staff, a
national professional development
year starter at defensive end for the Huskies in the '60s.
for
Quest
trips
Bloomsburg University's
Quest program
extended
offers
trips
BU students, alumni
and friends. No experience
for
is
necessary for
many of
these trips,
and most
equipment
is
provided.
Varied amounts of physical
stamina are required.
Participants travel to
destinations in the
com-
monwealth, across the U.S.,
and
South and
in Africa,
Iceland Biking:
unique way
to see Iceland's
tour will take cyclists across
the country's gravel-surfaced
rural roads. Bikers
must be
prepared for any road or
weather condition.
Walking Across
Ireland:
The Dingle Way,
Sept. 17
The Dingle Way,
to 26:
one of Ireland's most scenic
long-distance walking
trails,
Mountain bikers can experience the unique
Quests coast to coast tour.
located in the southwest
and
town of
Photographing the Lake
Tralee in the
1
to 8:
Professional photographer
will lead the
tour through the English
District's
Walking
County of Kerry.
Costa Rica Mountain Biking:
2008,
to Jan. 10,
2009: Cross
160 miles of Costa
Rica's
small
and market towns
with views of the
towering volcanoes, pristine
Irish
mountain lakes and
rivers
distant
hills.
and dense
a
tropical rain
on a mountain bike
consistent 85 degrees.
forests
in
on
customized teambuilding and
the Cotswold:
Romans and Saxons,
June 10
to 20,
2009: Journey
other experiences to meet each
group's needs. For additional
information, contact Quest at
history in a rural region
quest@bloomu.edu, (570)
sculpted by the early Celts,
389-2100 or check online at
Romans and Saxons who
www.buquest.org.
cared for a landscape that
is
quintessentially English.
beaches, raging Whitewater
Sea,
Celts,
through 2,000 years of British
Coast to Coast, Dec 30,
high-altitude cloud forests,
villages
terrain of Costa Rica
of Ireland, starting
finishing in the
Lake
A Northern
A
mountainous landscapes, the
England: Walking and
Dave Ashby
and advocacy organization
staff.
Adventure, July 17 to 27:
is
Districtjuly
Girl Scout
span the globe
Central America
and Europe.
employed
at
In addition to the
programs
listed
above, Quest conducts day trips
on most weekends and designs
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5^7^ Barbara Smith Ries
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for
an
assistant librarian at the
Births
lives in Lancaster.
Debbie Stevens Dellegrotti
TI
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is
Hershey Public Library. She
is
the principal at
Sheckler Elementary School. She taught in Berwick
28 years before moving
to the
Catasauqua Area School
retired in
November 2007 from
the U.S. Air
Force after 31 years of service.
October 2007.
$2,000
A stroke victim herself,
Heart/Stroke
Walk
for the cause.
O
contributions in advancing the technology of clinical laboratory
He
science.
is
system development
a specialist in
at
Lisa
10,2007
Brem
Kaitlyn
and husband, Michael, twins,
March
8,
Anne, Nov. 28, 2007
2007
and husband,
June
Jeffrey,
a daughter, Kelly Nicole,
husband, Justin
'00, a daughter,
Carly
Dec. 14,2007
husband,
to
Kuwait with the
Army
a one-year deploy-
Reserves in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. His wife, Laura Adolphson Antochy
'79, teaches kindergarten in Arlington, Texas,
Becky Tait Reilly was
Galleries,
where they
Cahoone
f3*_J
in
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William Dalius Jr.
is
is
a pilot-in-command with
ERAMed,
emergency medical technician
(right)
relations
department as a public
manager.
He
Q/C
Christine Honis Lizbinski
teacher at
is
a
music
Preparatory School.
30 years.
Deborah Luckett Slattery
Society for almost
also serves as a firefighter/
for the
MMI
She has taught music through the Hazleton Philharmonic
Medical Center's LifeFlight 4 from the
Williamsport Regional Airport.
Jan. 25, 2008
2007
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administrative division.
Chuck Meachum
'03, a
daughter, Delainey McLaren,
'98 and wife,
chief financial officer of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons and assistant director of the
flying Geisinger
'03 and
Brandon Weese
joined Allen Tate Co.'s marketing
and public
relations
C3
4,
Jocelyn Lee,
Pagano Weese
Q "2 Karen Halderman Murray
5
still life
the traditional style of the old world masters.
5
and
Michele, a daughter, Catharine
Grace, Nov.
'00 and
M. Schreibeis
live.
the featured artist at Michelyn
Doylestown, in September 2007. She paints
D.J.
'97
2007
May 2, 2007
husband, Ed, a son, Ryan James,
George Antochy completed
16,
Chi-Chen Ho Schreibeis
publications and patents.
S ment
Jeffrey, a son, Ethan
Amy Lautermilch Wood '96
and husband, Paul Wood '95,
Kara Morton Kearney
/
2006
Cutillo '00 and
Jennifer Hart Eberly '00/'02M
Behring, Glasgow, Del., and has been credited with multiple
5^7Ci Col.
2006, and
April 25,
husband, Randy, a daughter,
'96
Nov. 23, 2007
Dade
Kyle, twin daughters,
Ellison, April 24,
a daughter, Avary Elizabeth,
Charlotte and Gavin,
designation from his employer in recognition of his
2007
Morgan,
Amy Goodyear Chermela
she raised more than
5^7Q Dr. John Mizzer received the Dade Behring Fellow
/
6,
Scott Bird '96 and wife, Sara,
Oct.
Ann Wanner Moser participated in the
in
Lauren Pasini Pursel '98/*99M
and husband,
daughter, Emily Grace, Oct.
District six years ago.
Mary Beth Lech
Marsha Childs Dieffender
'92/"06M and husband, Wayne, a
William Cameron Engine
Co., Lewisburg.
received the outstanding
chemistry teacher award from the Susquehanna Valley Section
of the
American Chemical
High School.
Society.
She
is
a chemistry teacher
at Danville
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was
Ernest Jackson was promoted to principal
-1- Chester
Academy Middle School in
also elected the Section 9
Association of Wrestling of
chairman
for the
is
director of retail
services for Bayhealth Medical Center, including
Q^ Raymond
5
J.
Fagan
is
to the accounting firm of
A certified public
accountant, he has been
more than 25
Previously,
he was president and chief executive
Banks
Inc.
officer of Mutual Inspection
and president of capital region with Community
Inc.
Brian D.
Hamm,
Center Valley, joined Beard Miller Co.
Reading, as a senior accountant in the audit and accounting
department.
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He has worked
years.
SPRING 200
5
C3C3
is
in his eighth year as director of
athletics for Villanova University.
Carol Fastrich Aranos
marketing
for
is
vice president of
AmeriChoice Federal Credit Union.
and more than seven years of credit union experience.
Diane Gard Brennan, Tucson, Ariz., is serving as
president of the International
in the financial industry for
Coach Federation,
a
worldwide
organization aimed at advancing professional coaching. She
owns
years.
a senior commercial loan officer with
Commerce Bank/Harrisburg in Swatara Township.
Bureau
Q^7 Vince Nicastro
5
She has more than 13 years of sales and marketing experience
Distasio Jr., Mountain Top, was
associated with the firm for
Jeffrey S.
Kent General
hospitals.
O.W admitted as a principal
Snyder and Clemente.
He
United States
New York.
Patricia Carachilo Rossi, Dover, Del.,
and Milford Memorial
at the
Chester, N.Y.
a
coaching business, Brennan Associates, and has co-
book on coaching.
Filomena Costantino Covert, Shavertown, earned a
doctoral degree in mathematics education from Temple
University. She is an adjunct professor for Luzerne County
Community College and Wilkes University and a district
edited a
consultant for the Luzerne Intermediate Unit. She serves
on
the Pennsylvania mathematics advisory committee
has been nominated 15 times for Who's
and
Who Among
American Teachers.
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Margaret Marshalick Faust
of nursing at
is an instructor
Penn College of Technology in
Williamsport. She has been affiliated with Evangelical
Community
}£\/~\
Hospital, Lewisburg, since 1989.
Michelle Seibert Appel received the best
/ \3
practitioner paper
award from the Northeast
Association for Institutional Research. She
director for enrollment policy
is
the associate
and planning at the University
of Maryland.
Katie
Peter
McKeown
Nero and the
member of the
Clements, King of Prussia, sang with
Philly
Philly
Pops in December 2007 as a
Festival Chorus. She is an itinerant
Pops
teacher of the hearing impaired with
Montgomery County
Intermediate Unit.
Mark Reinhardt,
school principal, effective July
He
become
associate high
1.
to the
Super Bowl XLII, center, poses
talent statistician for
with Fox sportscasters Troy Aikman, analyst,
left,
and Joe Buck,
play-by-play announcer, last February in Phoenix. Sfida provided
and return distances and other significant
Aikman and Buck shared throughout the game. He's
the yards gained, punt
E. Schriner, formerly of MontoursvOle,
promoted
Statistician
Ed Mida '94M,
currently ninth-grade house principal
in the Hempfield School District, will
Bruce
Super
was
numbers
rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army.
serves in the Military District of Washington, D.C., as a
that
also been statistician for the Philadelphia 76ers
and the
Philadel-
phia Eagles.
joint staff officer after completing a tour in Iraq.
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Linda
Tammy Lee Morsch won a Mothers' Day poem contest
Mann Burklow of New Jersey participated
-M- in a 26-mile Marine
Corps marathon
to raise
money
after
her honor, with the help of their grandmother. She
Richard Remington
ment and development
home
Ga.
He
lives
is
vice president of product
for
manage-
a stay-at-
is
mom raising her two boys.
Reed Construction Data, Norcross,
with his wife, Renee Farrell Remington '91, and
their three children in
poem in
her 6-year-old twin sons submitted the winning
for injured military personnel.
Cumming,
Paul Christman was promoted to director
7(^/f
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Ga.
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of financial analysis
and
cost accounting at
Teleflex Medical.
?("J"^ Ricky Bonomo,
y^
Harrisburg,
was honored as one of
Fame and Museum's
the National Wrestling Hall of
distinguished members, Class of 2008.
He
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Kenneth Rossi is supervisor
Blue Mountain School District.
captured three
titles for
BU.
of special education for the
Christopher Helt
St.
Charles
WVIA Public Television for four years.
Gretchen
^CJ^
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is
director of
program and education
for the Alzheimer's Association's
2007 Pennsylvania
Politics
Mountain School
director of curriculum for
District.
attorney
JC\j£
from Lower Saucon Township, was named
a
College, Philadelphia.
the Blue
(right), a trial
Murchison is director
and family services at Girard
Gillies
of counseling
Gwendolyn Witmer-Belding is
Delaware
Valley Chapter.
Tracy Finken
a senior business services partner at the
Susan Dantona Jolley (right) is director of
donor relations for Wilkes University. She was
vice president of development/major and planned
gifts at
Claire Day, a specialist in dementia education,
is
Way branch of York Traditions Bank.
Rising Star
by Law
Jesse Ergott
S\J
&
Pershing
magazine.
is
executive director of neighborhood
housing for the City of Scranton.
W. Markle Jr.,
Elysburg,
was promoted
to
the rank of major in the Pennsylvania National Guard.
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more Husky Notes
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A
more than 20 years, he is a veteran
of Operation Iraqi Freedom II and a Bronze Star recipient. He
teaches science at Danville High School.
for
Megan Pesavento Murray, an
English teacher
at
Easton Area High School, achieved national board
cation in
2007 from
certifi-
the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards.
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Marriages
Peter Sobrinski '84 and Janice
Lee, July 22,
John
E.
2007
Lisa
Brennan
'00 and Robert
Alicia
11,2007
Langmayer, July 28, 2007
Siegfried, Aug.
Gnall '90 and
Stacie Gottstein '00 and
Donna
Robert
L.
Jordan
Kenneth Marx
'02 and
James T.
Chulada
'04,
Stacey Sims
02 and
Jr.
Nicole Reinert 04 and Ryan
Shepherd, June 22, 2007
Mehalick'98,July6,2007
Marc Varano
'90 and Karen
Gina Libertore
Barsh, Aug. 25,
2007
Arnold, Oct. 19,2007
Jessica Mistretta, Aug. 18, 2007
Regan O'Malley
Jennifer Schott '02 and Blake
June
11,2007
Katrina Yashin, Aug.
'05 and Jacob
Veronica Butters
'00 and
Dave
2007
30,
'04 and John Natt
Michael Maziekas
'02 and
Lepley,
June
2007
16,
Emily Eaton 05 and Jeffrey
'95 and Jason
Grace Bognatz
Woelkers, Oct. 14,2006
Higgins
Kirstin Foust '95 and Simon
Eileen Bell
McElrea, June 9,2007
July 19, 2007
Jr.,
'00 and Daniel
Nov. 2, 2007
Nichols
'05, Oct. 6,
2007
Gable, Oct. 15,2007
Crystal J. Hollednak '05 and
'01
and
Garney,
Elliot
Cunningham
Leslie
'03 and Ryan
Gary
J.
Rodgers
July 27, 2007
Jr.,
Perryman, Sept. 22, 2007
Devon Jo Orner '05 and
Andes '96 and
M and
Pamela
A.
Popovitch, Oct. 13,2007
David
Burns, Aug. 18,2007
Robyn Kuhar
Steven Collins
'01
Carver, April 11,
2007
Holly
Robert
B.
Brennan
'01
Nicole Dorzinsky
Antonelli,
June
2,
'03 and
John
Manney, June
Brian
2007
9,
2007
Lacy Phillips '05 and Adam
'96 and Russell
Caiazzo, July 27,
2007
Peter Clement Frederick Jr. '03
and Tara
and Kristen Shomper, July
7,
Wilson, Sept. 15,2007
2007
Amanda Smith
Cheryl Purta '96 and Michael
Kathryn Curry
Jaworski, April 28, 2007
Puskar, Nov. 24,
'01
and
Michelle Giannone
Carl
Storm
'96 and David Cawley,
Elizabeth H. Smith
'01
Micah
Paul A. Cacciamani '97 and
Katie Stockinger
W03M and
Corey Collier
Oct 5,2007
Lauren
E.
Pollock,
Aug. 18,2007
Adams
'98 and Gary
Gorbey, Aug. 25, 2007
'01,
2007
and
Aug. 10, 2007
J.
'05 and
Kishbaugh '07M,
Jared
13,2007
Oct.
Jason Dermes 03/05M
2007
Oct. 27,
Lori
'03 and
Amber Yeagle
'05 and Michael
Spotts, Nov. 22,
2007
Heidi Kalafut 03 and Nicholas
Daley
'03, Sept.
Michelle Breneman
'06 and
Calvin Martin, Sept.
2007
1,2007
William Kaledas
Jr.
8,
03 and
Allison N. Gill 06 and
Jennifer
Jessica Lepley, June 23, 2007
Bean, Dec. 24, 2007
Danielle H. Zeske
and
'01
Christopher
Wayne Vidzicki '02,
Aug
Christina
Mish, July 21, 2007
2007
14,
Christopher Embert '98 and
Maria
Izaguirre, July 21,
2007
Straus,
Shane Tamecki
'98 and Angela
Angstadt, Nov.
2007
2,
May
Husted, July
7,
2007
'02 and Justin
Billie
Jean Nogle
Bloom '07 and George
June
Ritchey,
Andrea Brouse
L.
Carrie Montella '03 and Michael
16,
2007
'03 and
Jennifer M. Davis '07 and
12,
2007
Timothy
Tyler, Sept.
15,2007
Bradley Oravitz, Oct.
Rebecca
Mollie Connors '02 and
Jr. '02
Lawrence Pryzblick
Phillips '03 and
Michael Kalmbach
2007
Newman '07 and
Nicole
'03,
Allyson Arnold '99 and Andrew
5,
Lehman,
Kevin
May 26, 2007
July 21, 2007
Melissa M. DeFinnis
Hackman, June 30, 2006
Jared
Mark Bohr '99 and
L.
Spaide, June
1
'02 and
6,
2007
Keriann Nicole Stark '03 and
Stephanie Stacharowski
and Michael
Jennifer
Hausman
'07
01,
Angel Alvarado, Aug. 16,2007
Piazza, Oct. 20,
Autumn Gibbons '02 and
2007
Matthew Quinn
Leon
'02,
Oct
June
7,
2007
O'Neill IV '99 and Alissa
Amy Pokrywka
Biedermann
Dayna Gulden
Brotman, Dec. 1,2007
22,
2007
Gretchen Angstadt '04 and Kurt
'03,
May 27, 2007
'02 and
Natalie Moriano '04 and
Eronn Culver
'99 and Jeffrey
Santino Ferretti
'03,
Clauss, Oct. 20, 2007
Nov. 11,2006
Mark R. Owens, an
Barnes
attorney,
was
elected a partner at
& Thomburg's Indianapolis office.
Methodist Church, Drums. She previously served churches in
Gilberton, Shamokin, East Stroudsburg
Angela Snader Schadt is vice president and portfolio
manager in Fulton Financial Advisors' investment division.
5fJ^T Stephanie Bombay is a community income devel-
S/
opment
specialist for the
Rev. Drena L. Hubler Miller
SPRING 2008
is
American Cancer
pastor of
St.
Society.
Paul's United
and Willistown.
Sarah Nielson Signorelli is the major gifts officer for
institutional advancement at Saint Joseph's College, West
Hartford, Conn.
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Jennifer
Adams is assistant dean at Colgate
University.
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Mall
Jill
Yazwinsky Dougherty,
at Springfield
High School, Delaware County, received a
is
a regional
Options and Management Services.
baseball coach, he
coach
for
Kirk
A
manager
for
Health
now volunteers as an assistant baseball
fitness center,
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instructional technology
2007. She
is
Lisa Brennan Siegfried earned a master's degree in
from Towson University in
employed as a high school social studies teacher
by the Baltimore County Public School System.
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Richard Cardamone, Harrisburg,
Commonwealth
with the
is
a division chief
of Pennsylvania's bureau
of financial management.
& Fitness, in Carlisle.
Christopher
Peter Trentacoste was promoted to university housing
director at Northern
office.
former high school
Mechanicsburg schools.
Ream opened a
Training
to
a ninth-grade reading specialist
$25,000 Milken Family Foundation award for exceptional
talent and accomplishments inside and outside the classroom.
Mike Hancock, Lemoyne,
was promoted
branch manager of Pennstar Bank's Steamtown
Kentucky University.
Reibsome was sworn into the Pennsylvania
November 2007 during a ceremony in the
L.
Bar Association in
Dauphin County Courthouse. He
is
a probation/parole officer
in Charlottesville, Va.
Alums connect in the region, workplace
helped create one.
A wine and cheese social,
event, brought together nearly
Conroy
their first official
100 alumni from the
area.
believes the Carver Hall Chapter will play
an
important role in the future of the Alumni Association.
need more
can serve in that capacity in terms of town-gown
recruiting
"We
local advocates for the university. This chapter
from
local
relations,
high schools and volunteering on
campus," Conroy says. "In the past we've had a core group
of alumni in the area
who
acted as volunteers, but with the
creation of a chapter like this we're opening ourselves
larger
up
to a
group of individuals.
"The Carver Hall Chapter
will provide
an
official
alumni
presence in the community that can advocate and volunteer
BU
President David L. Soltz, center, spends a few
with
BU Trustee Dr. Joseph Mowad,
left,
and Jim
moments
Cleary,
and employee relations for
Geisinger Health System, during an Alumni Association
reception at the Pine Barn Inn, Danville. Nearly 75 alumni and
associate vice president of labor
their guests attended the reception, as well as
BU
and students. Approximately 350 BU grads work
on behalf of the university," Conroy adds.
The Alumni Association is also linking alums
workplace. "There
with
affinity
professional lives.
for the
fraternity, a sports
If
Anew
not host an event for
for
alumni in the
workplace are two ways the Alumni Association
is
helping
university
BU
and each
graduates stay connected with the
The newest chapter of the Alumni Association, the
is focused on bringing together
alums living in Bloomsburg and surrounding areas.
established chapters across the state
and
country for alumni to get together and network, but
we
hadn't done anything to revitalize a chapter for people
within 20 miles," says Nathan Conroy, assistant director
of alumni
affairs.
in the
alumni events
all
for a sorority or
why
who work at a specific
a specific graduation year,
alumni
says.
BU alumni employed by Geisinger Health
System met for a social at the Pine Bam Inn in Danville. With
In February,
about 350 alumni employed by Geisinger and
many living
BU
in the Bloomsburg/Danville area, the event provided
other.
Carver Hall Chapter,
"We had
you host an event
team or
company?" Conroy
alumni chapter and events
a trend of hosting
groups that alumni have created during their
faculty, staff
Geisinger Health System.
is
Lynda Michaels, alumni
affairs director,
recognized the need for a local chapter and,
last fall,
President David Soltz with the opportunity to see the strong
connection between university alumni and the region.
Chapter and workplace events are just two of the many
ways the Alumni Association helps alums stay in touch.
"When you have an alumni event, it doesn't necessarily
have to be at the campus," Conroy says. "No matter where
—
North Carolina, Virginia
the event
is
held
everyone
is
talking about Bloomsburg. That's the kind of
Danville,
unique atmosphere you find
at these events."
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Kelly Dinan, Mountain Top, is recruitment and
employment manager for the human resources department
Deaths
at
Marguerite Minnich Schumacher '28
John
Danko
E.
Misericordia University.
Amy Hart is a nurse at the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown.
Matthew Kenenitz 'CB/'OSM teaches English at MMI
Donald Coffman '58
Ruth Shapiro Dickstein '27
'58
Preparatory School.
Dorothy Traub Winegarden
'28
Congetta "Connie" Pecora Kotch '30
Kenneth
Hawk
E.
/'39M
'31
Dorothy Foust Wright
Irene Draina
Betty
John V.Noble
Melba Beck Hyde
'32
Edward
Ronald
He
with the Wyomissing
received his real estate license
2007.
Marc Pomarico
is
an
associate
producer
is
manager of the
the
'64
systems design department for Mountain
'64
Kramm
for
World
instructional
Top Technologies
in Pittsburgh.
R. Linsey '64
P.
Aaron Zeamer,
Jf\/i
'65
Wenzel
Sarah "Sally" Fleming Hartman '66
'36
Amidon
Frantz
a sales associate
'59
Kenna
J.
Janet Seibert
'33
Lucille Gilchrist Kindig '35
Mary
in
Kristoff '59
is
Coldwell Banker.
Brent Yates '03M
Michael
Walton
'59
Boop
L.
office of
Wrestling Entertainment.
'32
'32
Mary Bray Smith
Ryan Messner
Robert Zegley '58
Joan Stablum
'31
Dorothy Hartman Moore
G. Richards '58
Donald
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School of Law,
a graduate of
Widener University
is
a law clerk serving a Lancaster
is
a third-grade teacher
County court judge.
Mayer
A. David
'36
Gail
Josephine Brown Johnson '40
Helen Johnson Scammell
Harold "Butch" Hoover
Anthony
Leonard
R.
J.
E.
Francis "Frank" Ruth
Swigonski '49
Gricoski '50
Eugene Hummel '53
James
E.
C.
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Marlene Gordon
Joyce Kline Krick '56
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Joseph
Kopera
Susan
J ess i ca Barker
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Heather
Easton Area School
with the
District.
'83
Starr '56
Bowman is a
registered nurse at Geisinger
Medical Center's Janet Weis Children's Hospital,
was featured
2007 issue of Susquehanna Life magazine.
Michael Celona is editor of Medstar Television's "Forensic
Files," a medical detective show that airs on truTV (formerly
Court TV) and appears in 142 countries.
Dustin Raster works as a field production manager with
Banyan Productions, Philadelphia, which produces the TLC
Danville, caring for pediatric cancer patients. She
in the
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Lutz
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Jean Martin Rinck
Valente '43
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Thaddeus
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Christine Jendrzejewski
Magill '43
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Theresa Zoranski
'41
Eleanor Reilly Dolphin '43
Andrew
Oakum-Satteson Brunt 73
fall
show, "Trading Spaces."
Brian K. Sims, a Philadelphia attorney,
M.D. News magazine and
Bar Reporter.
University
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He
is
the legal editor of
The Philadelphia
a member of the Bloomsburg
Ronald Stump
serves as
master's
program
Mar
Lin.
He
is
enrolled in BU's
in instructional technology.
Alumni Association Board.
Colleen Horan
Kramm 'CH/TOM was appointed
coordinator of educational technology
Kristin Mock-Austin
at
the
is
an
Mack Trucks,
is
and treatment
services at Central Baptist
voice disorders under a partnership program
associate director of
with the University of Kentucky College of
Health Sciences.
Veterinary Medicine.
Kevin Yurasits
^f\^7 Anysia Ensslen (right), a speech language
\J / pathologist, is providing evaluation
Hospital, Lexington, Ky. She serves clients with
admissions with Ross University School of Medicine and
an applications systems analyst with
Brian
Kunsman was an intern on NBC-TVs
"Late Night with
Allentown.
Jason Lech,
Find
a high school social studies teacher for the
associate editor of
Colonial Intermediate Unit in Easton.
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Schuylkill Technology Centers,
Mario Dianese
recently passed the uniform
certified public
accountant examination.
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an advertising department
&
sales
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Herald, Pottsville.
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High School.
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
Beautifying Bloomsburg:
The
Outdoor Art on Campus
plan to enrich the Bloomsburg campus
with pieces of art began 15 years
school
moved
1867. The
tain near Carver Hall, a
above town in
to the hill
first
after the
major addition was the foun-
gift
from the Class of 1882.
Other fountains followed, as well as indoor art such as
stained glass
windows, sculptures and
paintings.
In the early 1970s, outdoor art of a less-traditional
nature was
installed in the areas
between many of the
campus' newly constructed buildings.
were a wooden oak totem and a
steel
Among these
fountain
sculpture placed outside the south entrance of the
Bakeless Center in 1972
and
a steel-and-fiberglass
tonal sculpture installed in front of the Haas Center
Although these pieces were purchased
others were completed
on
a
outright,
commissioned
basis.
Competitions leading to commissioned work resulted
in the centerpiece for the Aumiller Plaza on the south
Kehr Union in 1979 and a
Bloomsburg mascot, the husky,
burg area sculptor
E.
Richard
statue of the
in 1983.
Blooms-
Bonham won
the
national competition to create the bronze husky,
sponsored by the Community Government and
Alumni
associations. Installed
on
the Carver Hall
lawn and dedicated on Oct. 22, 1984, the husky
still
stands near the intersection of Perm and
Second
streets.
The death
of longtime art department chairper-
son Percival Roberts in 1984 provided the greatest
impetus
The
for bringing
outdoor
art to the
campus.
following year, the Council of Trustees
established the Percival R. Roberts
Sculpture Garden
III
Memorial
in the mall area south of the
McCormick Center and east of the former Andruss
Library, now the Warren Student Services Center.
Two Elongated Forms
'Two Elongated Forms' by James Myford of
Slippery Rock
is
featured along the
walkway
between Kehr Union and Scranton Commons.
30
ment
staff
from the
art
department and develop-
office were responsible for acquiring appropriate
artwork for
The
first
this space.
piece placed in the garden
commissioned work, a bronze
known artist
bell
was another
by the
internationally
Toshiko Takaezu,
who had
a long personal and professional
relationship with the Roberts family.
The sculpture garden and
were
officially
Oct.
1,
bell
dedicated on
1989. The quest for
additional sculptures led
the university to art collectors Philip
Berman
the following year.
side of
Faculty and
and Muriel
of Allentown
who,
for a decade, gave
many fine pieces
of art to the
school.
The Bermans began
collecting paintings in
1948,
expanding
later
their
scope to include sculpture.
As
their collection grew,
works
the couple donated
to universities in the
Philadelphia area. In 1989,
the Philip
and Muriel
Berman Museum of Art
was dedicated at Ursinus
College and, five years
a sculpture park
later,
established in their
at the
was
honor
Lehigh Valley
Hospital in Allentown.
The
Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education also
benefited from their
generosity; Muriel
was a member
Berman
of the State
System's Board of Governors
and, throughout the 1980s and 1990s,
universities as well as the
all
14
PASSHE
Dixon Center in Harrisburg
an from the couple's collection.
The Bermans made their first contributions
received
Tonal Sculpture
'Tonal Sculpture' by artist Joe
to the
Haas Center
Moss greets visitors
for the Arts.
to
"Standing Adolescent," was installed in the sculpture
column and marble screen by Sternal; two interrelated
sculptures, the "King and Queen," by Sternal and
Martha Enzmann; and the "Stone Benches" by
garden in
University of Alberta art professor Peter Hide. All were
Bloomsburg in 1989 with three bronze sculptures by
Minnesota
the
artist
fall
Michael
Price.
One of these,
1990. Three other sculptures donated by
Bermans were
also placed in the mall
snake near the Bakeless Center and a
Centennial
artist
area— a steel
steel
totem by
Gym, both created by psychiatrist-tumed-
Ernest Shaw, and a marble bench along the
walkway
at the east
sculpted by
Philip
made
the
artist
end of the McCormick Center,
Thomas
in
1997 and his wife
the last donations of large sculptures to the
university the following year. She donated a marble
STRING 2008
bordered by Bakeless, the Warren
Student Services Center and the mall.
With
the creation of the
dedicated
at
the Class of
Academic Quad,
homecoming last
fall,
six sculptures
1940 fountain were moved from
and
their
previous locations to the garden area in front of
Sternal.
Berman passed away
installed in the area
Andruss Library. The Percival
R. Roberts
Memorial Sculpture Garden
now part of the new
landscaped quad.
is
III
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1
ar of Evfents
m *
Students have a pickup ball game outside Lycoming Hall.
I
-May
Session
II
Session
III
-
Women's
Berks
Camp, July 7
www.bloomualumni.com forfurthe r
Red Bridge Recreation Area;
Women's
details or to register. For information,
Thursday, Aug. 14
July 18 to 20
contact the Alumni Affairs Office at
Finger Lakes
Visit the
Summer 2008
Session
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Alumni Events
Academic Calendar
alumni online community at
19 to June 27
July
19 to Aug. 8
(5701 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 or
Fall
2008
Friday, Sept.
Wine Tour
Field
- No
Intensive
Special Events
May
44th Annual Reading Conference
17
Thursday and
Friday,
May 15 and
1
and
Bloomsburg
Saturday,
1
Thanksgiving Break
No Classes
Friday,
Nov. 26 to 28
Classes Resume
Monday, Dec.
1
Alumni House; Tuesday, June 10
Monday to
benefits Columbia County
Hiawatha Cruise; Thursday, June 12
Way
Math and Science Camps
Summer
Weekend
June 27 to 29
Saturday, Dec. 8 to 13
Experience, sixth- through
eighth-graders
,
Monday to
July 14 to 17, 9 a.m. to
4
p.m.;
emauch@bloomu.edu
03
Athletic Hall of
Saturday, Dec. 13
nth-
Monday to Thursday,
or (570) 389-41
Bloom
at the
Ocean
City,
Beach,
Md.
Fame
Induction
Friday, Oct. 10; reception,
dinner,
6 p.m.;
New Student Activities
Orientation
Saturday to Monday, June 28 to 30
Act 101/EOP Orientation
and 30
Freshman Preview
Monday through Thursday, June 16
to
1
9,
Soccer,
Women's
Soccer, July 6 to 10
7 p.m. Monty's
Monday, Aug. 4
Friday to Sunday, Sept. 12 to 14
1
and 2
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Park;
Swimming
Husky Gold, June 8 to 12
orJune 15to 19
Stroke Development, June 8 to 12
or
June 15to 19
Tennis
Tennis
Camp
I,
Tennis
Camp
II,
Tennis
Camp
III,
June 21
to
25
July 19 to 23
July 26 to 30
Parent/Child
I,
June 20 to 22
Parent/Child ll/Big Brother,
Senior High
Team Camps,
July 6 to 10 and July 13 to 17
Intensive Training
Wednesday, Aug. 6
26
June 27 to 29
Homecoming Weekend
Friday to Sunday, Nov.
McDade
to
Wrestling
Wilkes-Barre
Lions Pavilion;
June 21
Camp,
Summer Camps
July 6 to 12
For more information and brochures,
Junior/Senior High Technique Camp,
Alumni Summer Picnic,
call Kevin
Lehigh Valley
or go to www.buhuskies.com.
Wood at (570) 389-4371
July 13 to 17
Covered Bridge Park; Thursday,
Baseball
and Monday through
Aug. 7
Rookie Day Camp, July 14 to 17
Thursday, June 23 to 26
Bloom
Transfer Orientation
Wednesday and Thursday,
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Lackawanna
Sunday and Monday, June 29
Fall
Women's
Saturday, Aug. 2
Parents and Family Weekend
Summer Freshman
11
High School, July 13 to 16
Saturday, July 14 to 19
12
Undergraduate Commencement
Summer
and CSI
Experience, ninth- through
graders;
for information,
Stratford Festival 2008
Friday, Dec.
United
June 9 to
Soccer
Harrisburg
June 13
and Aug. 3 to 7
Upper Campus;
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Friday to Sunday,
Graduate Commencement
8 a.m. to noon;
Litwhiler Field,
Jesse Bryan/John Cook
Exams
17,
Montoursville
Multicultural Alumni
Final
May
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Classes End
Saturday, Dec. 6
Team Camp, Aug. 3 to 7
Youth Football Day Camp,
early birds, 7 a.m.; adjacent to
City Island; Friday,
Camp,
Football
Trash to Treasure
Friday and Saturday, Oct.
Individual
16
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Reading Days - No Classes
Team and
Goalkeepers Camps, July 27 to 31
Directors Meeting
Saturday,
Classes
1
Wednesday to
Team Camp,
July 27 to 31
Alumni Association Board of
Monday, Aug. 25
Monday, Sept.
Basketball
Hockey
Intensive
12
alum@bloomu.edu.
Classes Begin
Labor Day
Day
to 11
to Aug. 8
1
-May
Basketball Individual
at the
Beach,
Avalon, N.J.
July 9
and 10
Day Camp
I,
Day Camp
II,
July 21 to 24
July 28 to 31
Saturday, Aug. 9
Basketball
For
the latest information
on upcoming
events,
check the university
Alumni Summer Picnic,
Men's Basketball Day Camp,
Adult/Non-Traditional
Philadelphia
June 23 to 27
Web site:
Orientation
Tuesday, Aug. 12
Men's Basketball Team Camp,
www. bloomu. edw'today
Alumni Summer Picnic,
June 27
Saturday, Aug. 23
Welcome Weekend
Lancaster
Thursday to Sunday, Aug. 21 to 24
Long's Park;
to
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Wednesday, Aug. 13
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promise,
sang Natalie Merchant in the early
1990s as lead singer of the 10,000 Maniacs.
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From the President's Desk
on
the height of this year's primary election season, the announcer
During
Bloomsburg's
local radio station
mused on Sen. Barack Obama's
connection to both President George
genetic
W. Bush and Vice President Dick
May 2007 shows that
Cheney. Genealogical research in the news since
the senator
is
a 10th cousin to
our current president and an eighth cousin to his
vice president.
This political campaign has focused the attention of the American public
many issues,
including identity, and
common identifying characteristic
it is
for these three distantly related politicians.
Bloomsburg University connection, on the other hand,
is
30 who met at
I
last spring's
is
a
The
much easier to trace.
There are the family connections that cross generations,
Reinhart
on
apparent that a penchant for politics
like
Ruth Yeager
alumni weekend with her great-nephew,
Brian Collins 77, and his daughter, Victoria Collins '05. There are connections
between alumni
Sharon
who work for the same organization, like Tim Pritchard and
1990 graduates who are being inducted together into
Reilly Zemaitis,
Athletic Hall of Fame
and
are
the
employed by the pharmaceutical company
AstraZenica.
And there
community,
like the collaborative investigative efforts of forensics expert
are connections
assistant professor of anthropology
between our
faculty, staff
and the
Conrad Quintyn and Pennsylvania
larger
and
State Police
Shawn Williams '93 told in this issue's cover story.
There's also a bond grounded in the affection alumni hold for their university.
The English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson said, "I am a part of all that I have met,"
Corp.
and, clearly, Bloomsburg University alumni agree, renewing connections through
the online
community (www.bloomualumni.com) and
at
alumni events.
been continually impressed with the strength of this enduring
alumni give of their time, treasure and
Since beginning
talents to their
my tenure as president,
I
I
have
as I've witnessed
tie
alma mater.
have been building
my own
connections with students and their families, alumni, friends of the university and
residents of this region
first
and
the state.
commencement ceremonies
represent
As
I
have been proud to confer degrees during the
in the
Academic Quadrangle and honored
to
BU in a variety of settings.
president,
I
will
continue to expand
upon Bloomsburg University's legacy of
excellence. That connection will be formalized before colleagues, family, friends
members
of the Bloomsburg University
community on
Friday, Oct. 3 1 with
inauguration as the institution's 18th president. Please join us.
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2008
Chair
Jarin,
Aaron Walton, Vice Chair
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni, Vice Chair
Matthew
Baker
E.
Marie Conley
Paul
S.
Lammando
FEATURES
Dlugolecki
Daniel P. Elby
Michael K. Hanna
Vincent J. Hughes
Kim
Chain Reaction
Page 6
E. Lyllle
Joshua O'Brien
Chemistry professor Toni Trambo
Guido M.
Edward G. Rendell
Pichini
what
it
takes to
become
a teacher
Bell
.
.
.
knew
she had
and made
it
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happen. In the classroom and the
ChristincJ. Toreui
Gerald
L
Zahorchak
students to
work hard
for
lab,
she inspires
BU
what they want.
Plus four vacancies
Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
Fry Power
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John C. Cavanaugh
Bloonisburg University Council of Trustees
B. Barth,
Robert
Dampman
Marie Conley
Ramona H.
'65,
an innovative way
Vice Chair
Lammando
using cooking
'94, Secretary
BU professors create
the tank, but not with diesel.
Fill
Chair
Steven
oil
to shuttle students
from the Scranton
around campus,
Commons.
Alley
LaRoy G. Davis
'67
Mat Marvel
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Charles C. Housenick "60
A. William Kelly
Two decades
ago, Ricky
Bonomo
'92
thought he'd
71
David Klingerman
earned his
Sr.
JosephJ.Mowad'OSH
life
on
last
wrestling
title.
the mats has earned
Today, his dedication to
him
national recognition.
Nicole Najpauer '09
President,
David
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Bloomsburg University
Fabric of Expression
Solu
L.
Co- Editors
Professor Meredith Re Grimsley brings playing dress
Eric Foster
up
to the college level, helping her students learn
Bonnie Martin
that
Husky Notes Editor
unusual materials can result in unique
Williamsport freshman Charts Ditamore models
artistic creations.
Brenda Hariman
a duct tape ensemble, fashioned by sophomore
Director of Alumni Affairs
Dominique Filiziani of Barnesville, during
Personal Adornment Day 2008.
COVER STORY
Lynda Fedor-Michaels'87/'88M
Editorial Assistant
Irene
Page 16
Johnson
Victims'Voice
Communications Assistants
Shawn Williams
Lauren Kopich '09
Ashli Yakabovicz '10
blood
Agency
Snavely Associates,
trail
'93 joins forces with faculty
member Conrad Quintyn
to follow the
of murderers. Together, they delve into cases, both cold and recent, to
bnng
closure to victims' families.
LTD
Art Director
Debbie Shephard
To
Page 20
Adam
the Rescue
Vorlicek
Stacy Pane Segal's childhood passion for horses has turned into
much more.
Today, the
Cover Photography
1999 grad works
Eric Foster
On
to save
them from
the slaughterhouse.
the Cover
Pennsylvania State Police Cpl.
Shawn M.
DEPARTMENTS
Williams '93 works to bring closure to
victims' families.
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News Notes
Council of Trustees
Barth
Change
in Leadership
Cavanaugh becomes third PASSHE chancellor
named
chair;
Najpauer appointed
Steven Barth, Lewisburg, recently
was
appointed to a two-year
term as chair of BU's Council of Trustees. Senior vice president
John
and loan
C. Cavanaugh, former
West Florida
officer at
Community
Bank, Milton, Barth has been a
president of the University of
member of the
in Pensacola,
Council of Trustees
He succeeds former
became chancellor of the
since 1998.
Pennsylvania State System of
chairperson Robert Gibble
Higher Education in July. He
succeeds Judy G. Hample as
vice chairperson Robert
head of the System
Dampman
that
13
sister institutions
1
and
Cavanaugh
superintendent of the Bensalem
John
C.
Cavanaugh
chancellor for academic affairs at the University of
at
Township School
Wilmington. He also held various
Lammando
who
'94, Harrisburg,
and Long, a
stetter
provost for academic programs and planning and
consulting firm.
political
in the State
history, attended St. Joseph's
new student
fall.
representative this
Nicole Najpauer, a senior
College in Philadelphia before earning a bachelor's
from Northampton, replaces
degree in psychology from the University of Delaware
James D'Amico who graduated
in 1975.
He also
is
Trustees also are welcoming a
associate provost for graduate studies.
Systems nearly 25-year
and
employed by Hallowell Bran-
positions at the University of Delaware, including vice
Cavanaugh, the third chancellor
District,
secretary Marie Conley
served as provost and vice
North Carolina
Ringtown, a
Robert Tomlinson and retired
enrolls
10,000 students.
Previously,
'65,
legislative assistant to state Sen.
includes Bloomsburg and her
more than
'68.
Also serving as officers are
holds both a master's degree and a
in
May. An early childhood/
Nicole Najpauer
doctoral degree in psychology from the University of
elementary education major, Najpauer
Notre Dame.
service and consistently on the dean's
is
active
list.
in
community
She was appointed
to
the Trustees by Gov. Ed Rendell.
Legislative Reports
Local lawmaker videotapes tour
with president
State Rep.
David Millard,
right,
who represents Pennsylvania's
109th
district,
tour with
taped a campus
BU President David Soltz
in early June.
The program,
for broadcast
on
slated
the Pennsylvania
Cable Network (PCN), spodights
new academic programs,
achievements,
facility
faculty
renovations
and the perceptions of the
university's 18th president
completion of his
Millard
is
first
upon
semester.
a 1988 graduate of
Bloomsburg University.
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Campaigning for Mom
Chelsea Clinton has 'conversation' with
BU
Chelsea Clinton spoke about issues ranging
from education and health care
to
renewable
energy and the war in Iraq as she represented
her mother, former Democratic presidential
contender Sen. Hillary Clinton,
at
BU during
primary election season. In the hour-long
question-and-answer session, Clinton asked
200-member audience, made up mainly
the
BU students, to decide which issues
your own assessments."
"We should
"first
of
are important, reach out for
think about this election in the context of our
answers and "make
the former
lives," said
Our Voice,
daughter" while standing in front of a banner stating, "Hillblazers:
Our Future."
Among the
topics Clinton, 28, discussed
on her mother's behalf were public
education, college affordability, public service,
Iraq war, foreign policy, renewable energy,
civil
unions, discrimination laws, the
NATO, drug costs,
Social Security,
immigration and national security, universal health care and trade agreements.
Making an
earlier
campaign stop
actors Dule Hill, star of "The
at
BU in support
West Wing" and
of Sen. Barack
"Psych,"
Obama were TV
and Zachary Quinto,
star of
"Heroes" and "24." The pair, touring college campuses nationwide, stressed the
Chelsea Clinton shares her mother's views
importance of registering to vote while answering questions before a standing-room
during a campaign stop in Kehr Union,
audience in Kehr Union.
Fireside Lounge.
Innovation at a Distance
Deaf/hard of hearing faculty receive
Tickets to Learning
BU hosts Honors Program to China
national recognition
BU
Samuel
Slike, curriculum coordinator for BU's
education of the
took
its
summer hosting the annual
turn this
Honors Program
trip for
two students from each of the
deaf/hard of hearing program, and Pamela Berman, instructional
14 institutions in the Pennsylvania State System of
designer for the Institute for Instructional Technology, received a
Higher Education. The students, including
2008
International Distance Learning
Award from the United
States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). Slike and
Berman
received the award, Best Practices for Distance Learning
Programming
use of
—
Wimba
combines
Online Technology
Classroom, a
in
Higher Education, for their
virtual learning
program that
instruction.
They were recognized
for using
Wimba
to offer
courses specifically designed for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Through Wimba, students have access to a sign-language
interpreter
and closed-caption
text,
which accompany the
standard slide presentation and instructor's voice. "We're making
it
major from Perkasie, and Maureen Dameron, a junior
nursing major from Chambersburg, received
scholarships
which covered the
credits, travel
possible for deaf and hard of hearing people to have equal
access to information via the internet," says
Slike.
full
costs of 6 academic
and room and board in China.
The students studied
interactive technologies with traditional styles of
BU
representatives Sarah Beltz, an elementary education
the people, policies
and
preferences of modem China during four weeks at
Shandong University of Technology and Yunnan
Normal University. The group was accompanied by BU
faculty
members Jing Luo, professor of languages and
and Youmin Lu, professor of mathematics,
cultures,
computer science and
Robbie
Soltz, wife of
Daniel Brown, a
BU
statistics,
BU
along with biologist
president David Soltz,
student from Howard, Pa.
and
News Notes
Boots on the Ground
Retired prof to keep on mapping
International Exchange
Nineteenth century technology
BU enters agreement with Cameroonian universities
has a place in the
still
modem world
and Duane Braun, recently
retired
professor of geosciences, has the
BU
Provost James
Mackin and English
professor
Ekema Agbaw
—
I
Yaounde
II.
notebook
his
Buea,
in
hand and
undergraduate
Later,
and
Braun
the help of
field assistants.
he drew the maps using
plastic
Duane Braun
Mylar sheets on top of a
light table.
"The three
Njeuma, rector of the
University of Yaounde I in
Cameroon, left, shakes hands
with BU Provost James Mackin
Dorothy
universities that
we
have committed to
working with
are
L.
"Technology hasn't changed geologic
significantly," says Braun. "It is
ground'
With
an international
exchange agreement between the
two institutions.
to finalize
among the premier
universities in
to begin student
exchanges with
all
Resources
field,
no one would
end up
online, viewable
maps
on Google Earth and
the
Web site, www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/openfile/
ofloc.aspx.
will come away from a visit to
Cameroon with a whole new sense of their place in
Bloomsburg students
Braun
retired
Moving with
the world."
work with
Buea and Yaounde
I
universities expressed interest in enrolling their students
in BU's audiology/speech pathology, exceptionality
institute for interactive technologies
just like in the 19th century."
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural
exchanges to occur in the near future. I'm sure
officials at
mapping
on the
guess that his Surficial Geology (glacial deposits)
of these universities almost immediately, with faculty
According to Mackin,
field
a lot of 'boots
a global positioning system as Braun's only piece of
eventually
"We hope
officials at
stuff,
still
modem technology when he is in the
Cameroon," says
Mackin.
years,
deposits, with a waterproof
with three Cameroonian
universities
25
northeastern Pennsylvania's glacial
this spring
Yaounde
last
charted 9,000 square miles of
formalized exchange
agreements
Over the
proof.
from
BU
at the
end of the spring semester.
his wife to the Pine Tree State,
the Maine Geological Survey to
Maine which
is,
he plans
compared with Pennsylvania,
and miles of wilderness
to
map northern
"just miles
to explore geologically."
and
programs, while
the University of Yaounde
II
focused on BU's
business programs.
Star
Power
Program earns accreditation
In
the
Know
BU's theatre arts program recently earned accreditation from the
National Association of Schools of Theatre. Only 150 programs
Emergency
notification
system
in
place
nationwide are accredited
self-study
BU's faculty, staff and students
campus emergency
now have immediate
information, thanks to a
access to
new system
to be sent quickly via e-mail,
Students sign up as part of the process
phone and
when
text
a two-year process that includes
"The reviewers saw our performance of 'Urinetown' and spent a
that allows
lot of
messages
in
and an on-campus review.
messages.
time with students," says Bruce Candlish, associate professor
of theatre arts. "They
examined our curriculum very
carefully,
registering electroni-
as well."
cally for classes,
and nearly
half of BU's faculty
and
staff
have
In
signed up voluntarily. The system, available only to students, faculty
and
staff
with
be used solely
official
in
Bloomsburg University e-mail addresses,
case of a life-threatening emergency. Plans
the system to be tested each semester.
will
call for
addition to the quality of the student production, reviewers
noted that the lease arrangement to use the Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble's Alvina Krause Theatre, located downtown,
was
a
temporary solution for needed theatre space. The current
renovation of Haas Center for the Arts
Candlish, as
it
will greatly
expand the
is
also helpful, says
size of the
scene and
costume shops.
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
good
Ride the Rails with Roongo
The coal car
is
available at a cost of
coal load, plus $4.95 shipping
Fourth 'Spirit of BU' car available
payable to the Supervisory Roundtable,
Orders are being accepted by BU's Supervisory Roundtable for the
the "Spirit of BU" series, a three-bay offset
in
side hopper car. Proceeds will benefit student scholarships
Camp HERO
Camp Victory,
at
The metal
Bloomsburg, Pa. 1781
(570)
and
may be
car.
Checks,
sent to Kim
Schmitz, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 400
St.,
fourth of six train cars
$55 each, which includes a
and handling per
389-5107
orders
is
5.
Bob Wislock
or
more information,
For
at (570) 389-4529.
Second
E.
call
Schmitz at
The deadline
for
Sept. 30.
Millville.
die cast coal car,
produced by Weaver Models,
Northumberland, is an "0" gauge,
triple track,
1
model with
:48 scale
three-rail trucks
complete brake system,
undername and
',
1
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OF PENNSYLVANIA
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III
fully detailed
highly detailed styrene
body. Both colors,
Pacific yellow,
,*l
and couplers, a
maroon and Union
wrap around the
entire
car which sports the Huskies logo.
TALE of Two Teachers
BU
faculty
Two
faculty
Graduate Studies Leader
members win teaching award
Biolo/jist is
members were
BU's newest dean
selected for the
new
2008 Teaching and Learning Enchancement
Lawrence
(TALE) Outstanding Teaching award. Margie
assistant vice president
Eckroth-Bucher, associate professor of nursing,
dean of graduate studies
and Jennifer
and
Stotter, assistant professor of
work and
were recognized
for their outstanding teaching
criminal justice,
undergraduate spring
is
BU's
and
research, filling a
vacancy created by the
sociology, social
at BU's
Fritz
retirement of James Matta.
Most recently chair
commencement
ceremonies. Winners were nominated by
and professor of the
May
department of biological
graduates.
Eckroth-Bucher
was nominated
and
sciences
for her
director of
Margie Eckroth-Bucher
ability to inspire
the professional science
her students to recognize and
understand the needs of patients
According to one nomination
who have
letter,
"She
is
mental health challenges.
the epitome of
Dalhousie University in
was nominated
for her "motivating
and strengths-based"
engage her students
in critical
was
thinking, to
Both faculty
their
FALL 200
BU
director with the National Science
encourage them to
Foundation, Division of Biological Infrastructure.
Foundation, and plaques recognizing
a
Marine Biosciences, and
Institute for
received $750 professional development
achievement.
was
Canada,
a
community and national events."
members
also
program
make
"complete assignments professionally and with pride" and to become
stipends, sponsored by the
Nova Scotia. He
research officer with the National Research Council-
recognized for her ability to
teaching style, which inspires her students to "take a stand,
difference and have a voice." Stotter
Fritz
previously taught at Northern Arizona University and
a listener."
"involved with
Lawrence
at the
University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, Fritz
what a
nurse should be: professional, caring, a teacher, an advocate and
Stotter
program
master's
Fritz, who was bom in New York City and grew
up near Philadelphia, was a Peace Corps volunteer in
the Philippines. He earned a bachelor's degree from
State University of
master's
New York,
Stony Brook, and
and doctoral degrees from Rutgers
University
and completed post-doctoral study
biology
Harvard University.
at
in cell
Reaction
STORY BY KELLY MONITZ
'90
By any definition, Toni Trumbo Bell was a 'nontraditional' student when she
entered college. Her persistence and patience pulled her through and, today,
motivate students in the classroom and research
Trumbo
Toni
Wal-Mart the
Bell couldn't see herself
while
retail giant
rose to
Bell
rest of
her
still
life.
working
She started
a teenager
and quickly
management. But she wanted something
wanted
at
at the
to
school to
become
a high
school biology teacher, but the decision wasn't without
obstacles. Bell
was 23 years
itself
presented
new challenges. Her adviser
than helpful, she says, and she found herself
on her own only to discover
wanted and needed
that all of the biology courses she
were
go back
to
less
trying to schedule classes
else.
to teach.
She decided
College
was
lab.
closed.
Her
first
tion. After
week
in class brought another revela-
spending just a short amount of time with
her 18-year-old classmates, Bell learned that she no
old, divorced, raising a
preschooler and living in government-subsidized
longer wanted to teach at the high school
housing in Kentucky. She needed
figured
to take the College
I
would
get fired
Boards, apply to schools, find financial aid and figure
teaching job," Bell says.
how she would balance a full class
an energetic toddler. And it was April.
teaching was not for me."
out
Bell was, as she
Accepted
Bell
still is,
load, a job
and
which she
applied,
chose the University of Louisville and embarked
on a life path that would bring her to Bloomsburg
University where she has taught chemistry and bio-
knew she
couldn't
rent,
and signed up
I
to school full-
for
which
food stamps,
medical assistance and any other government program
that could help her.
tuition
She received grants to pay
and found another program
for
that paid for
books. She also had help from her son Brandon's
grandparents,
and attended
who watched him while
classes.
started rethinking her course of study, switching to
field
where
she worked
far
fewer
made
since deciding to
go back to school, pursuing a chemistry degree wasn't
easy. "I didn't sleep a lot," Bell says.
work and go
time, so Bell reduced her hours at Wal-Mart,
lowered her
prospects available
Like the other choices she'd
at first, Bell says. "Basically,
my faith in God."
She
was
number of job
after graduation. That's when she
extremely popular, limiting the
another science, chemistry, a
chemistry for the past six years.
put
decided high school
undergrads ventured.
7
The path wasn't easy
"1
Next, she realized that her major, biology,
undeterred and motivated.
to all of the schools to
level. "I
from any high school
rambunctious preschooler.
until nine, after
he went
at
"My son was
couldn't crack a
a
book
to bed."
Bell studied until 1 or
work
I
2 a.m. and got up for
5 a.m. She went to school year-round,
working more hours on breaks. And the cycle went
on for three and a half years until she completed
her degree in 1996.
Weary, Bell wasn't interested in going to graduate
school, as one of her professors encouraged her to do.
Continued on page 8
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a
Lindsay Baglini-Beagle '05 works in the lab at GlaxoSmithKline.
Heart
Research
in
Trumbo
Toni
Bell's
former students credit her mix of patience
and persistence with leading them
to careers
And, for Lindsay Baglini-Beagle
some
her career ambitions
person
DeVore
who
is
'06,
who now works for
always ready
"Toni assisted
me
my
in
he says. "Toni
Shelia Hovi '05
research, helping
was
me
remembers wanting
it
me to
chickenpox vaccines for Merck, says
Bell
different
in
"used
accepted a
ways"
own
F.
Pennell '06,
"She treats
all
full
I
I
did from that class," she says.
scientist.
Wake
scholarship to
and earned a master's degree
biology.
take," says Michael
highly doubt that
in
the research lab
Applying to both
She recently accepted
in
Forest School of Medicine
biochemistry and molecular
a position as a biochemist
for GlaxoSmithKline.
believe one of the key traits passed on from her
I
I
I
medical and graduate schools, Baglini-Beagle eventually
is
to be
"Toni introduced
passionate and carry along a strong work ethic at whatever
for Absorption Systems.
wasn't for Toni,
whether to become a doctor or
her abilities. Hovi,
she understood.
career path
changed
and eventually Baglini-Beagle had to make a decision
to take part in Bell's
and over
if it
That academic collaboration continued
"She was very patient with me," Hovi adds.
"I
'05, Bell's influence
she had to conquer a dreaded
enjoyed biochemistry more than any other chemistry class
would have taken as much as
understand the
with the instrumenta-
was beyond
different analogies, explaining over
until
"I
had taken. However,
born to be an educator."
research project, but thinking
who now makes
Corning, sees her as a
to help a student or colleague.
idea of research as well as training
tion,"
first
class, biochemistry.
didn't anticipate.
Chris
but
...
me
to biochemistry
and the world
research science. Not only had she taught
who now works
of
me how to do the
science, she had such a passion for the science that she
me
of her students like her
love
it,"
made
she says.
children."
C
I mother the students a
lot.
That doesn't mean I eoddle them. I tell them
3
like it
is.
- Toni Trumbo Bell
She wanted to work, but four
different colleges and, after
months
numerous
after
graduating with a
bachelors in chemistry she hadn't
Bloomsburg University.
found a job she wanted and was
still
working
when she
at
Wal-Mart. That's
decided to give grad
school another look.
As
it
Bell
remembers
a sought-after teaching
ized she could teach just about
anything. That
work
resulted in
"I
if
—
do
to see
me.
to
says.
Bell wishes more young people
would consider studying science
and encourages some of her stu-
dismay I'm a
always something to leam," she
all
I
real person."
with questions about
er
started looking for a teaching job
doesn't
2001. Bell applied to 50
on
dents to continue on.
get
Bells students also
October
go into industry, she
not demands, class-
want the students
with her doctorate in 2002, but
at the college level in
to
my stories. love to
tell stories, much to my husband's
They
a paycheck.
She finished graduate school
wants
projects that she
been afforded had she chosen
room participation.
real-
and continues
taking
and having open
dialogues with her students and
encourages,
when her professors
sure
own research,
luxury that she wouldn't have
schools wanted her and tuition
assistant
closely with them,
isn't
them
to
own research, working
she has one now. She believes in
honesty, caring
turned out, graduate
their
her
crafting a
teaching philosophy, but
wasn't an issue, Bell says. Plus, she
became
She encourages her students
do
interviews, chose
and
it's
"It's
hard
wonderful and there
come
to her
says. "I
life. "I
moth-
the rest of
can see myself doing
is
this
my life." b
a lot," she says. "That
mean I coddle them.
I tell
them like it is. A lot of them become like my own kids."
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Kelly Monitz '90,
journalist,
is
a
an award-winning
staff writer for the
Standard-Speaker
in Hazleton, Pa.
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Biofuel
is
of BU's
By
projected to displace 9 percent
consumption and reduce
fossil-fuel- based carbon dioxide
diesel
emissions by 57,000 pounds a year.
Power
Students riding a shuttle bus between the upper and lower campuses
this fall
may detect a
pulling
up
familiar scent in the
to the curb, they
den, unexpected craving
...
air.
In
fact, if it's
may find that they also
bus No. 5
1
experience a sud-
mi
J9kc
for french fries.
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BU's biofuel bus, the brainchild of Nathaniel Greene, associate professor
of physics
and engineering technology, and Mark Tapsak,
sor of chemistry, has been configured to run
on
campus dining services' used cooking oil. Cleaner
than traditional
places the
assistant profes-
diesel fuel processed
for the
from
as
mKS&
wok
environment
diesel, the financial savings are significant as biofuel re-
60 gallons of fuel the
shuttle
bus consumes in a
typical
Nathaniel Greene
week
Mark Tapsak
during the semester.
The
university also plans to use a biofuel blend for the remainder of
diesel fleet. Biofuel is projected to displace
sumption and reduce
pounds
The
fossil-fuel-based
its
9 percent of BU's diesel con-
carbon dioxide emissions by 57,000
a year.
university
committed $13,000 toward the project from the
Foundation Margin of Excellence Grant, President's Fund
Initiatives
and
President's
Fund
for Staff
Development,
for
BU
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UNIVERSITY
Ricky Bonomo,
left,
celebrates his induction
into the National Wrestling Hall of
his twin brother
and fellow
Fame with
wrestler, Rocky.
STORY BY MARION VALANOSKI
Among the names that stand
out in the history of BU wrestling
are Shorty Hitchcock and twins Rocky and Ricky Bonomo. Two
decades after capturing NCAA championships, Ricky Bonomo
continues to collect accolades as one of BU's all-time top grapplers.
icky
Bonomo
describes his recent induction
wrestling team.
The
first
year
we were at Bloomsburg,
I
into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in
IStillwater, Okla. as a
ence
when he compares his
"humbling" experi-
ourselves to the academics
wanted
record with those of
The
previous inductees.
"When you look up
the
at all
the plaques
of coaches and former wrestlers
list
accomplishments, what
we
both red-shirted and used the time to acclimate
I
did pales in
and read
and
off
and
many respects
to
what we
to do."
first
time they were allowed to
Huskies wrestling team, the Bonomos
mats would never be the same.
their
find out
competing against boys
"It
was
work out with the
knew life on the
like
going from
to wrestling against men," says
them," says Bonomo, the most decorated wrestler in
Bonomo, who now runs
Bloomsburg University history and the owner of three
competitors of all ages in suburban Harrisburg.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Division
I
individual championships.
"I
"Whatever we accomplished
(NCAA)
am
honored
to
my name mentioned in the same breath as Dan
Gable, Wad Schalles, Bobby Weaver and Shamokin
have
Area's
Mai
head coach
'92
at
and twin brother Rocky, who
is
Lock Haven University, planned
the
to
work with their father after graduating from LakeLehman High School despite receiving offers from
several Division
I
wrestling programs, including
Nebraska and Clarion. Through the intercession of
another Huskies standout and former
NCAA
titlist
Floyd "Shorty" Hitchcock, they overcame several
academic obstacles and began their collegiate
lives at
BU.
"In high school
Bonomo says,
aside
and we
"but
we proved ourselves athletically,"
we had to prove ourselves
in
high school was brushed
had to prove ourselves on the mats to our
teammates and the coaches.
"Coach (Roger) Sanders was intimidating.
walked
Paul."
Bonomo
a wrestling school for
into the
room, everyone
knew
going to work. There was no 'dogging'
When he
they were
it
or hiding, and
he had us prepared both physically and mentally
to wrestle."
During Bonomo's
first
season of competition, he and
Rocky both missed AU-American
The next
status
by one match.
three years, however, were nothing short of
outstanding.
"What
I
learned that
first
year was that
I
belong with
Bonomo says. "That year,
from Penn State who went on to win
beat Jim
these individuals,"
I
Martin
the national
championship. And, Rock and
I
developed a we-can-do-
this attitude."
academically in order to compete collegiately on the
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Bonomo's sophomore campaign produced a 34-2
record that included nine pins and
1 1
technical
and, after beating Iowa's Matt Egland, the
three
NCAA titles.
mark and
year,
his
first
falls
by
a career record of 1 16-12-3
and
(PSAC) and the Eastern
Bonomo
national
hand
it
title,
the
mat
for that first
all
and you
wrestling
television lights," Ricky
is
champion.
gunning
to
knock
My third year
I
off the
at
used
why my matches were so close.
"There were times going to tournaments during
senior year that
I
just
wanted
to get out of the car
my
and
who
my best
who was his high
him and
was necessary
move he
perfected
in high school
to wrestling
everything
putting into
to attend college.
and
was passed on
college,"
me and
at his garage-
applies a different
depending upon the age group
with
class he's dealing
still
to
Bonomo says.
comes down
at the
to enjoying
time but
what you
are doing.
134 (pounds) because of making weight, and people
couldn't understand
it
and weight
126 and
did
to
had the
being serious about what you were doing. The
approach
defending
wrestled a lot
if 1
Working with today's wresders
Bonomo recalls.
I
into place."
fall
credits Hitchcock,
tumed-mat room, Bonomo
forget the
"That second year you are a 'marked man' because
everyone
I
but once you shake your opponent's
becomes
crowd and
still
'bear-hug'
was nervous going out on
on the
who passed away in 2002, was a happy-gowho showed me you can have fun while
"Shorty,
lucky guy
"I
me and reassured me
that
all
school history. Brother Rocky, a two-time Aillist
and coming out a winner.
school coach, for pushing
motion
with a record of 110-19.
comprehend
much less what goes into making it
would
everything
Wrestling League (EWL), he remains the third best in
American, comes in fourth on BU's all-time win
can't
support of my teammates, coaches and brother
three wrestler
of the year awards from both the Pennsylvania State
Athletic Conference
level,
I
encouraged
going 28-2 and capturing a third individual crown.
With
Most people
it all.
of the pressure that goes into competing
the tournament
second championship and, in his senior
illustrious collegiate career
all
Division
of
His junior year featured a 28-3
he capped an
walk away from
"I
fun,"
want the younger guys
Bonomo says.
but don't make
if it's
meant
"Let
a job
it
to be.
to
them
work hard but have
get
and the
exposed
to the sport
rest will fall into place
For the bigger and more
experienced wrestlers, the workouts are more intense.
You want
to instill in
at the right time."
Ma/ion Valanoski
them
the importance of peaking
b
is
a freelance spoils writerfrom
Shamokin, Pa.
After
much
success on the mats at the high school and
college levels,
Bonomo now shares
like this one,
his winning moves,
with today's young wrestlers.
Garments created of unique materials take over the runway during
Personal Adornment Day. Shown left to right in accompanying
photos are Matthew Dunbar, a sophomore from Jim Thorpe,
modeling an outfit of found clothing and aluminum cans
assembled by Steve Martz, a sophomore from Catawissa. Modeling
their own creations are, center, Nadeen Roberts, a junior from
Bloomsburg, appearing in digitally printed fabrics, adorned with
wire, beads and hand-dyed cotton, and Danielle Urbanowicz, a
May 2008 graduate from Knoxville, Tenn., wearing an ensemble
fashioned of recycled umbrellas in various sizes.
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Fabric of
Expression
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STORY AND PHOTOS BY ERIC FOSTER
Duct tape. Aluminum
Steel.
cans. Vinyl records.
Not contents you'll find listed on a
but common materials
for garments modeled at Bloomsburg's annual
typical clothing label,
Personal
Adornment Day.
some two dozen student designers have
work on an impromptu runway in the Haas Gallery
students exhibiting their designs, the show is the
the past four Aprils,
Forshown
off their
of An. For the
culmination of weeks of work.
"Some students
are excited,
some
are terrified," says Meredith
Re
Grimsley, associate professor of an and the organizer of Personal
Adornment Day. "But they
all
feedback from the audience.
have the experience of collaborating, getting
It's
closing the circle, creating a professional
experience for them."
A fascination and focus on fabric was something that Grimsley brought
with her
when she came
to
BU in 2003.
Continued on next page
13
'As teachers, we're challenging
them
they bring to the work because
if they care,
to value the personal element
the audience will care.'
- Meredith Re Grimsley
"There's a sense of process
connection that
tactile
I
with other mediums," says
I am using
my mother,
Gail Re, use so there's a personal
connection for
me
there, as well."
A native of Atlanta,
had the exhibitions," says
Beamer,
Grimsley. "With fabric,
materials that I'd seen
"She had the resume and she
and
didn't get
Grimsley
who
most
will retire in
December after teaching at
Bloomsburg for 37 years. "Her
work was floating around
sculpture and installation. I'm
the resident skeptic on
personal voice
component to the art
program here's a space, how
can I have you interact with it as
came
to
initially
BU on a temporary one-
year basis and
was
selected for the
permanent position
here, Karl
Beamer mentioned
done something
that
we
he had
it
into
something that included bringing
in a visiting artist,
which
elevates
the experience for the students."
Fellow faculty
she
jumped
right
member Karl
in love with
art,
who
May with an
and
is
of
BU
in
"Professor
Grimsley loves teaching, loves
what she does, and
Beamer, for one, couldn't be
to
happier to have her as a colleague.
was
do
a lot of things
it
inspired
on
me
my own.
in the studios 24/7."
idea, find the
are going to
that idea.
And
they
have to defend that
Students have focused
from childhood."
is
on
often
her personal medical concerns.
University of Georgia for her
arts.
an
it?
come up with
best way to
to
For Rugg, the focus
degree
now attending the
master's of fine
"They need
Rebecca Ru§g
on childhood disease, family
issues and memories of nature
Rebecca
art studio
spend
hours and hours on
idea.
using
graduated from
they're going to
communicate
that exuberance."
fabric in design," says
Rugg,
the '80s," says
developed
And
all
"I fell
like Personal
Adornment Day in
Grimsley. "So
in with
that's
so valuable that
—
Her exuberance has a way
rubbing off on students.
after a
national search the next year.
"When I came
but she brought
that
a viewer?
"What
personal
content, their
degrees in fine arts at the Univer-
Georgia and taught there as
one of the
says Grimsley.
is their
installations,
an adjunct professor. She
is
difficult things
for students to find,
earned her bachelor's and master's
sity of
That "personal
voice"
1
"I'm diabetic, and I make a lot
work about my fears of things
that could go wrong with my
health," she says. "I was in the
library at
what
1
all
of
hours, researching
was going
to
make,
how
I
BLOOMSBURG THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Creative expressions from Meredith Re
Grimsleys
own
portfolio include, left to
'What Do You See,' 'If It Causes You
to Sin' and 'Blood Money.'
right,
was going to make
concept behind
it
it."
communicated her
and the
Kaitlin
Rugg
fears
work
with
to
—
shoe design
Adornment Day
2008
creation for
lighthearted princess theme,
the top.
proud
of,"
2007
the designer's Tribeca" line.
"Stitching details can
plans to graduate in December.
Though she
"It
Rugg found
had
on her work in
all classes.
make
stressed
your
It
While the end product may be
students say a project usually
or
when
with a piece of paper and
a pencil.
"Drawing
is
the foundation of
with sketches and getting the
McAteer learned
"Everyone should
on work
to
make
them
to value
the personal element they bring to
the
work because
if
they care, the
audience will care."
day, students find that people's
familiarity
with fabric and clothing
can make
textiles
effective art
it
an especially
medium. "Everybody
every day," says Rugg.
fast.
She
recalls
shoe she designed from
flat
with a
jeweled upper. "I'm close to the
sample
size
size (size
6
9 for men) so
pair that
I
wore
all
for
I
women,
had a white
the time,"
It's
in
discipline," says Grimsley.
written aspects of their ideas."
The practice
says,
of drawing, she
can increase awareness and
truly see the
not just students interested
working in design or academia
who benefit from art classes,
know how to
draw and should keep a sketchbook to record the visual and
offers the artist the ability to
says McAteer.
Through Personal Adornment
wears
first
the ground up, a
it."
"As teachers," says Grfmsley,
"we're challenging
the
an
work, Grimsley and her
any art
of hands-
class.
aspect of a thing."
starts
experience designing shoes
of
helps you think about every
abstract
any
didn't have
all
she says. "All
she started with Kenneth Cole,
And then a lot
"With
and more focused in
classes,"
took about a month of planning
materials.
that
a positive effect
a dress, a pair of shoes or
is
break the product."
who
art,
the art classes
students should take an art
now an assistant product
thought out," says McAteer.
"I
that you're
says Sandore,
is
"Every part of the design
how much work it takes
something
on
still
required serious planning.
to get
staff full-time in January
and
changing to
the creative outlet, you're less
development manager with a focus
incorporating a lampshade with
learned
Kenneth Cole in
for
months, McAteer joined the
several
had a
But creating the piece
art training
After interning with the firm for
Student Cortney Sandore's
woven into
direct
New York City.
a dress
reminiscent of a straight] acket.
holiday lights
more
to the public in a
way. She's applied her
her entry in the 2007 Personal
Adornment Day
A strong biology major before
McAteer '06 takes her
says
world and "appreci-
ate the beauty that can be vital
to creativity."
And, perhaps,
for students, to
Grfmsley. About half of her
inspire the fashions they create for
students are majoring in other
Personal
subjects,
and Grimsley
Adornment Day. b
finds they
"Your work can be understood
bring a different perspective to
Eric Foster is co-editor of Bloomsburg:
by people."
the class.
Vie University Magazine.
a
The
pieces of the crime investigation puzzle can be as
basic as handwritten notes in a binder or as sophisticated
as
computer
relies
on
analysis
of DNA. Solving the puzzle often
the collaboration of experts united in the goal
of bringing closure to
Victims
families.
^bice
STORY BY JACK SHERZ
was
the
end of January 2008 when
a state road
worker made
a grisly discovery
Italong the side of Interstate 80. Trash bags—each containing body pans of what
appeared
Unlike the gizmos that
help solve crimes in an
hour on TV, many of
Cpl.
Shawn
file,
—
a pen, a
three-ring binder
map
as
be a light-skinned adult
and a
of his territory.
woman
—had been
tossed
on
the side of the
it
Williams'
tools are low-tech
rotary card
to
made its way through rural Monroe and Wayne counties.
"I remember that day when I was sitting in my office in Bloomsburg and 1 heard
'Hey Swiftwater just found some body parts on the interstate,'" recalls Pennsylvania
State Police Cpl. Shawn M. Williams '93, referring to the state police barracks near
highway
the sites of the discovery. "In
like that."
my career,
that is the
first
time
I've
seen anything
Even
Unit,
as Williams,
one of only 19 troopers assigned
departments Criminal Investigation Assessment
to the
made
he had
his
to call:
way
to the scene,
he knew someone
Conrad Quintyn, an
of anthropology
at
Bloomsburg
else
assistant professor
University.
Immediately upon arriving in Bloomsburg in 2005,
to the authorities, who
know if the bones someone found in the
woods are human or animal. "When I heard of body
Quintyn offered his services
often
need
to
parts not being together
specialty,
knew, with Quintyns
I
he may be able
to tell
us what kind of
instrument was used to dismember the body,"
Williams says.
"That was
"I
look
my job, to
find out whether a knife
saw was used, an
used, a
ax, whatever,"
at the surface of the
Quintyn
was
says.
bones, and the striations on
the surface of the bones can give
you an
#~
indication of
whether its a knife or saw."
One
places
thing Quintyn looks for are "false starts," or
where someone
out and
start
Such areas can
and then had
tell
a lot about the tool used;
Such information
arrest,
Unidentified Caucasian Female
if it's
a saw,
Located on Dec. 20, 1976 in White Haven,
an
after
important both before and
is
Quintyn and Williams
kind of tools used in a
narrow
their
'Beth Doe'
back
to
number of teeth per inch can be determined.
the
an
tried to cut
again because the going got too tough.
list
agree.
Knowing
killing helps police
of suspects
and conduct
arrest, if the cutting tool is
when
Carbon County, Pa.
after
the
Vital Statistics
they
And
searches.
recovered in the
Estimated age: Late teens to early 20s
(bom between 1954 and 1960)
suspects possession, connecting the tool to the victim
is
Approximate height and weight: 5 foot 4 inches,
powerful evidence in court.
In this case,
Quintyn
told authorities that a
used and gave them an idea of what
33-year-old
trial
to look for.
man was ultimately arrested and
on homicide
charges.
saw was
is
A
awaiting
When police searched
130 to 150 pounds
Dental: Fillings and some missing teeth
Blood Type:
Distinguishing Characteristics: Medium-length,
the
maris Tobyhanna home, in addition to finding the
natural (not dyed)
woman's hands hidden
circular mole above left eye,
investigators also
in a wall of the
found a saw and
house,
different
kinds of
brown hair. Brown eyes. Small
mole on left cheek.
Scar on left leg just above heel,
saw blades.
length.
5% inches in
No previous fractures. May have been of
Mediterranean heritage.
Almost by Chance
The
zeal Williams
obvious. But both
Cause of death: Strangled, then shot in the neck
and Quintyn bring
came
to their
to their
work
chosen professions
is
Other: Carrying a full-term, white female fetus
al-
most by chance.
Williams, 37,
Updated sketch by Frank Bender, Nov.
came
to
Courtesy of Cpl.
intending to pursue a career in the communications
field.
Already successful spinning records
paid for
much of his college,
Continued on next pa^
IS,
2007
Bloomsburg University
at parties
—
Used with permission
it
—he was thinking
he says
Shawn Williams, Pennsylvania State Police
'Many people don't
realize that
bones are a
living tissue
and from the bones you can determine population
variations, individual variations.'
- Conrad Quintyn,
and had an internship
of a career in television
assistant professor
at a
of anthropology
was
get into the department and, for a while, there
a
Scranton station helping to produce a local program
hiring freeze. Finally in 1997, he took the test for the
about outdoor
second time and, just when he was beginning
life.
But walking through the McCormick Center for
Human Sendees one
day,
Williams was spotted by a
who gave him a
Pennsylvania State Police recruiter,
brochure about the department and a career as a
trooper.
"It
The hook was
you do
to
me
recruiter, the
way
about police work and the things that
—do you
like to
work on your own and make
important decisions and be involved in interesting
investigations
and help people?"
major with a concentration in telecommunications, he
as a dispatcher for the university's
police department. After he graduated, he
an
officer
became
with the university police.
His goal, Williams says, was to be a
and, ultimately, a detective. But
it's
testing. In
become
that's
detective a year after
come
state
trooper
a slow process to
for
the
left
a state police cadet.
that took the test
were only 300 or 400
In a career arc
1999, he
who made
when I
he
it,"
says.
he was made a
full circle,
becoming a trooper and,
in
January 2003, was transferred back to the Bloomsburg
station,
where he worked
as a criminal investigator
with Troop N. In 2005, three years
While Williams remained a mass communications
began working
and
university's police force to
did, there
was just the demeanor of the
he spoke
further interviews
"Out of the 12,000 people
set.
to think
he was out of luck once again, he was called
that
after
becoming
part of the elite Criminal Investigation Assessment
Unit,
he was promoted
"My job is victim
know these people
to corporal.
driven," Williams says.
don't
"I
them being murdered but,
by the time the investigation is over, I know them
better than some of their own family members.
"It's really the victim's voice we are trying to work
for. They don't have a voice and they need a criminal
investigator to
be
prior to
that voice for them."
Williams acknowledges that he and his partner,
Thomas
Cpl.
C.
McAndrew, put
in long hours,
which
can sometimes be tough on his wife, Rebecca Kissinger
Williams "95A)7M, and their four children, ages 3
to 11.
"Rebecca
involved as
is
supportive of what
I
do and
much as me," he says.
And, sometimes, what he sees can be hard
with.
The toughest case
2006 when
Conrad Quintyn,
right,
peers into
the grave or
Beth Doe" as her
body is exhumed
more than three
decades after she
was murdered.
a
for
him occurred
to deal
in January
man shot his wife and their two young
children in a motel before turning the
His wife survived and
gun on
summoned help. The
himself.
father,
who shot himself in the stomach, also survived and is
now on death row after being convicted of killing the
two
children.
"That was a horrendous scene to see two
little
kids,
when you have your own kids. But you
put that aside and work the case and get the
especially
have to
job done," Williams says, adding that he
his faith.
feel
"I
inspired a lot of time,
is
helped by
me well-grounded and
that God is leading me in
think that keeps
I
the right direction through these cases."
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MAGAZINE
Conrad Quintyn,
left,
explains the
information that can be determined by
analyzing bones, including race, gender
and
age, to students enrolled in
Forensic Anthropology.
Fascination with Bones
when Quintyn was
Like Williams,
what
to
do with
his
life,
and one day helping
on
police catch killers wasn't even
Bom in London,
his horizon.
Quintyn moved
Flonda with his family when he was
It
was
that has fascinated
and find her
killer.
they could obtain
are studied to determine a persons cause of death. His
and
DNA from the fetus could help identify the
child's father.
The body had been wrapped
the
hope
drawing attention
prompt someone
believe
"I can't
says.
the bones
bones are a
living
you can determine
"We
to the old case
come forward.
someone is not missing this
would
to
missing pilots in Vietnam
and from
in plastic before being
The exhumation was widely publicized with
that
had a recognizable
tissue
to
DNA samples—something not done in
experience includes helping the military search for
don't realize that
name to "Beth Doe"
exhume the body so
real
They arranged
1976. Those samples could help identify family members,
preserved.
forensic
anthropology, in which the bones and overall skeleton
"Many people
who work on cold cases,
once more to give a
to try
placed in the coffin and, even after three decades, was well
from the University of
Ann Arbor, and a specialty in
wanted
him ever
His interest led to a doctorate in
biological anthropology
Michigan,
to
high school.
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, that
at
Quintyn found something
since: bones.
in
medic with the Marines
after serving as a
and enrolling
Williams and his partner,
thinking about
the notion of anthropology
thought,
face
She
girl.
and she was pregnant," Williams
why can't
this
be solved?
Let's
give
So
far,
no
But with the
leads.
DNA evidence
and other information being re-examined,
population variations, individual variations. You can
collected
determine the physique of an individual, age, sex,
Williams and his partner, McAndrew, hope to soon
You can determine so
kinds of trauma from the bones, and
race, stature, cause of death.
many different
even some
After
he
diseases,"
coming
to
Bloomsburg from
let
area police
temporary
a
a
last
body buried
New York at
know he was
available to help. State police called
experience
on Quintyn's
October when they wanted
for
30
identify "Beth Doe."
For Quintyn,
too,
it's
about bringing justice for the
victim and helping their families. 'You bring closure to the
says.
faculty position at the State University of
Oswego, Quintyn
it
another shot."
to
exhume
family, that's the
important thing. You're not just an
academic writing a
lot
of articles in journals.
do something worthwhile," he
makes you
feel
good
closure to families."
at
the
says. "This is
end of the
day,
You want
to
one thing
that
you bring
b
years.
"Beth Doe" was found
by
a child playing
on the
Editor's note:
Anyone with information on
the "Beth
Doe"
banks of the Lehigh River on Dec. 20, 1976. Someone
homicide
had tossed three suitcases from the Interstate 80 bridge
between Bloomsburg and Hazleton. The suitcase
Shawn M. Williams
missed the water and landed on the bank, revealing the
Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and Pennsylvania native.
woman's dismembered remains
He currently
authorities
were able
shot in the neck and
inside.
to determine she
was 18
to
At the time,
was pregnant,
25 years
old.
is
asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police Cpl.
lives in
at
shawwillia@state.pa.us.
Hanisburg.
Kescue
STORY BY BECKY LOCK
Dogs may be man's
best friend, but equines are
BU grad on their side.
lucky to have one
Pane Segal's childhood love of horses matured into respect,
Stacy
admiration and a true dedication
their health and welfare,
to
all
valuable attributes in her position as equine protection specialist
with the
Humane
"There
ongoing
is
Society of the United States (HSUS).
never a
'typical day' here," Segal says of
projects. Right
now, I'm compiling
operations in the U.S. But,
es.
I
her job.
a database of
all
can be interrupted by a rescue
call
We try to answer e-mail questions, provide information.
scale seizure,
Segal's
named
we may
path
to
about hors-
If it's
a large-
get involved."
advocacy
for
equines started on the back of a horse
Skipper. After graduating from
in communications
have several
"I
horse rescue
and
BU
in
1999 with a bachelor's degree
political science, Segal, 31,
worked
at
Carnegie
Mellon University, near Pittsburgh. Her job involved lobbying federal and
local
lawmakers on defense
issues for the university.
"I
learned
how influ-
ence and power play into decision making and the appropriation process,"
Some of Stacy Pane
earliest
Segal's
memories involve
horses, with hooves or
with rockers.
says the Hazleton native.
"It
In her free time, she'd go
per,
whom she
was an eye-opening experience."
trail
riding at a nearby farm, usually
describes as "difficult, with a few
bad
on Skip-
habits." But, to the
farm owner, the 6-year-old Appaloosa-cross gelding was "bad" and destined for the "meat truck."
Horrified to learn of the plans for Skipper, she researched slaughter-
houses and learned that horses were being slaughtered
sumption.
"I
realized
BLOOM SBURG
I
had probably passed horse
for
trailers
human con-
going to the
New
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
—
most from being with and around
horses is an acute connectedness to nature and the ability to
live absolutely in the moment.'
'I
think the feeling
I
get
- Stacy Pane Segal '99
Holland auction, near Lancaster,
and has been involved in
where every Monday they
sell
high-profile rescues. Last year, for
floored.
example,
horses for slaughter.
I
could not believe
ing could
was
she says.
wonder if her
Segal began to
insights into
I
it,"
governmental lobby-
instill
in
lawmakers an
when
state action in
"One
with groups such as the Equine
duced
had been
intro-
in the U.S. Congress
"From
of
'killer'
convinced him
"I
helped with the
age and care of the horses and to
Prevention Act.
find rescues to take
"The
Humane
Society of the
United States was a leader in lob-
really
rewarding to leam that
Slaughter Prevention Act, which
centers
on education. "Our main
has been pending in the House
focus
the Horses:
and Senate
for Life
says.
few years," she
"They had a government
affairs
and
for a
team working on
state levels to pass
protect animals
and
federal
laws to
fight
laws that
goal
is
is
make good
all
that ensures pets are included in
care, horses
disaster planning so evacuees
or more."
them behind.
Another increases penalties
dog and cock
Segal has
year as a
for
fighting.
worked
for
about a
member of the HSUS
Equine Protection Department
life.
can
"Today,
is.
and the
truly reflect
feeling,
ability to live
back what you
and
that forces
These days, Segal
band, Stephen, and three
30 years
that
Segal has
owned him
Horse Care,"
for
owners and
to "help horse
their horses
I
the other horses
b
much is
The Humane
Society of the United States
as
the
backed by 10.5 mil-
lion Americans.
way since,
is
nation's largest animal protection
organization,
out-
reach and response."
a long
dog,"
have to worry about now."
Editor's note:
of
abuse, neglect and cruelty," Segal
come
puppy
have suc-
up being victims
says of her job. "So
to
more than personal-
are barely
ity quirks. "It's all
cessful relationships so fewer
horses end
"He's like a big
its"
program."
is
him
life.
she says, adding that his "bad hab-
described as "the cornerstone of
The hope
stall.
for almost
four years, after leasing
She's
cats.
same "unruly" Appaloosa
save his
Companions
to
lives in
helped research the society's
Life
be
to
Park, Md., with her hus-
equine cruelty workshops and
the Horses:
are
you
About 40 minutes away, Skipper,
In this role, she's assisted with
to
get
moment. Horses
gelding, has a comfortable
"Complete Guide
I
an acute connectedness
is
Tacoma
him at
With proper
live to
he
at
think the feeling
I
absolutely in the
necessary to
decisions for
stages of his
I am
how effort-
ning or even just grazing,
your time with them."
properly care for a horse and
include a recently passed measure
Leam more
at
www.hsus.org.
a 3-year-old, she rode an imagi-
nary horse around her
as a
first-
visited a
Segal s love of horses
her leisure activities.
is
central to her career
and
I
run-
field,
mentally 'show up' completely for
to help potential, current
is
my horse out in the
time.
aware of your emotions and
"Its
and long-time horse owners un-
would harm them." Those laws
don't have to leave
Companions
program," she says.
derstand what
see
horses
work
Segal's
gentle at
Even now, when
same
to nature
For horse owners,
was ab-
most from being with and around
in. It's
horses get rescued."
bying for the American Horse
and wise and
the
lessly graceful
tri-
the American Horse Slaughter
them
I
remember being struck by how
always just amazed
to relinquish his horses to us,"
Segal says.
"I
beautiful
buyer called from
Wyoming and we
that point on,
big and strong they seemed, but
housed in pens or headed
to slaughter.
les-
old
solutely horse crazy," Segal says.
Illinois,
the horses that were awaiting
sale,
bill that
Texas and
when she was 8 years
just strengthened the bond.
three equine
HSUS found lodging for all
the
horses. Then, while volunteering
of a
sons
slaughterhouses closed due to
interest in protecting the lives of
Protection Network, Segal learned
with her friend Beth. Riding
several
home or,
and second-grader, she
couple of pastured horses
Becky Lock
is
a
writer, editor
photographer who worlds and
in Pcnns\'lvania.
and
lives
.
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(right),
New Jersey, was
honored by the National Wrestling
Hall of
Fame with
award.
Now retired, he taught history and
a lifetime service to wrestling
coached wrestling in Toms River schools
for
more than 20
wrestling
He
years.
also served as a
official.
'58 William
who
Bower,
L.
department
1
at
retired
from the business
Berwick Senior High School
after
marked his 50th wedding anniversary
wife, Kay Hummel Bower.
years of service,
2008 with
5 £^ f\ Carl Janetka marked his 10th
Dining with the family
his daughter, Victoria Collins '05.
trips
for
extended
trips
BU students, alumni and
No experience is
friends.
necessary for
trips,
is
many of these
and most equipment
provided. Varied amounts
of physical stamina are
required. Participants
travel to destinations in
the
commonwealth,
the U.S.,
and in
Mountain Biking Adventure,
Way is
Dec. 30, 2008 to Jan.
the walk completes a circuit
of the Dingle Peninsula,
and finishing in
town of Tralee in the
starting
the
County of Kerry. Accommodations include bed
10, 2009:
of teaching, coaching
and
Kathleen Durkin Janetka
'69,
land was settled by a Celtic
houses, inns and ancient
people more than 2,000 years
churches before finishing
ago and
the North Yorkshire Moors.
today.
artifacts are still visible
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is
Roy Smith,
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designs teambuilding
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covered stone walls reminiscent of an age long past.
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Participants will cross high-
one of Ireland's most scenic
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waves of Quepos on the
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is
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of San Jose
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and Europe.
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The
houses.
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South and Central America
to 26:
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dense tropical rain
across
anniversary in
second career as an education consultant
span the globe
Quest program
offers
his
30
May
have three children and two grandchildren.
Bloomsburg University's
S
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Ruth Reinhart '30, left, was the oldest graduate attending a reunion
for alumni from the 1930s and '40s during Alumni Weekend. She
was accompanied by her great-nephew Brian Collins '77, right, and
Quest
his
in
Participants in Quest's
island's
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Walk Across England enjoy some
scenery.
of the
5 £l £^ Larty Greenly
(right)
is
vice president
Athletics Hall of Fame
\J *J and past president of South West
Writers, an organization to help aspiring writers
which received the Bravos Award for excellence
and was honored as Albuquerque's Outstanding
to induct five
Arts Organization for 2007.
?/£
Q
Robert
E.
Boose
Theon
executive
(right),
Society,
was awarded
—Jim Garman
Wayne Memonal
—
director of
Health Foundation, was
members
named
'85 and wife, Kelly,
a daughter, Audrey Nicole, April
25,
Garman was Bloomsburg's
Faith,
Girman Morgan
'92
in
Cooper, Sept.
7,
2007
Hayes
Jack Boyd, March
17,
'94,
a son,
2008
Karen Craig Weingarten
May
12,
2008
and husband, Joseph, a son, Ethan
Joseph, March
'96,
a
husband, Curt, a daughter, Abigail
March
Jennifer Adams
Bean
'98 and
husband, Gary, a daughter, Juliana,
April 22,
'01
June
4,
2008
a
'02
Kiszy,
2007
Trisha Leitzel Hoffman '03 and
18,2008
and husband. Tommy, a daughter,
Kelly McCauslin Kuntz '03 and
3,
2008
March
27,
Mackenzie, April
2008
Wertz
PSAC
singles titles
in
1990 and
"98
Williams
'02, a son,
Casey
May 9, 2008
Michael,
Helen Rose, Nov. 16,2007
Kristen Millard Fourspring '04
'98 and
husband, Kevin, twin sons, Jake
and Chase, March
13,
2008
and husband,
Keith, a daughter,
Hannah, Dec. 24, 2007
and
holds the single season records
and
triples,
selection
and two PSAC doubles
sixth in 1991)
1988 and 1989,
all
with
three
sixth in
titles
and was
1988 and 1989, 17th
and doubles (second in both
1991 and eighth in 1991). He
posted a record of 133-42 and holds the school record for
most
singles wins.
Torok earned All-American honors in the
1977 and was part of the 400-free relay team
All-American in 1975 and 1978.
all
PSAC runner-up in both
and the 400-relay and had
in his career.
200-free in
that earned
He was an NCAA-
four years in a total of 1 1 events.
also a three-time
and husband, Gerald, a daughter,
Melissa Wright Wilson
base and caught, holds
He was an All-Conference
Lisa Schneider Williams '03
and husband, Derek
2008
4,
a junior,
seasons at Bloomsburg.
qualifier
husband, Kyle, a daughter, Casey
Crystal Kovaschertz
first
husband, Stacy, a daughter, Sydney
Abigail,
Katie Getz Kilian '98 and
As
Lamy was a three-time All-American. He won four
Logan Joseph,
husband, Mark, a son, Forest, Jan.
March
played
for batting average, hitting .479 in 1990,
10 in 1990.
Chrissy Mantione Campenni '98
Lucia Grace,
who
nationally ranked in singles (33rd in
6,
and
fourth)
sixth).
team-high 18 goals while, as a senior, she
triples (16). Pritchard also
2008
a son, Chris, Nov.
She finished her
48 (now
the career school records for batting average (.443)
and
Murphy '98,
'01, a son,
Conference (PSAC)
NCAA title.
three assists.
Pritchard,
2008
Chris Repshis '02 and wife,
2008
25,
'00
Melissa Berringer Pfistner
Pfistner
Clarke Steiner '97 and
Grace,
Reilly scored a
and husband, Michael John
daughter, Norah Joy
posted
finished second in goals scored with 12 while adding
son, Ryan, Aug. 30, 2007
Jennifer Bedosky Hestor '95
and husband, Brad Hestor
'98, a son,
12,
Kaci Diem Murphy
State Athletic
second in career points with 108 (now
'99 and
a daughter,
May
He
helped the team to an overall mark of 25-9.
career second in career goals with
Lauren Balanzco Gozzard
husband, Frank
2008
2,
2008
Ambrocik Roth
Charlotte Use,
Flaska '95
wrestling championships.
two Pennsylvania
a daughter,
Eric,
senior,
meet mark of 29-1 in his four years and
overall dual
championships and one
and husband,
Amanda Shepard
(NCAA)
conference wrestling
become the first
he was one of four Huskies
to
at the National Collegiate Athletic
McNamara '99,
Keri
of
Reilly was a two-time AU-American in field hockey.
Charles Regis, Nov. 19, 2007
and husband, Kevin, a son, Gannon
Association
an
Reilly
number
She helped Bloomsburg to a four-year record of 82-9-4,
McNamara
husband, Chris Roth
'94
As a
compete
'99 and husband, Brian
Avery, February
Nicole Boyd-Hayes '94 and
husband, Daniel
'99 and
first
1957 and went on
wrestlers to
March 1,2008
Jessica Kehrer
and husband, Shawn, a son.
Lori
Young Jacobsen
and Sharon
brings the total
to 125.
champion
husband, David, a daughter, Cora
2008
Christine
Craig,
Jill
'59,
Keith Torok 79,
'90, baseball;
Zemaitis '90, field hockey
three-time champ.
Joseph Dowd
'91, tennis;
swimming; Tim Pritchard
to the Art
American College of Healthcare Executives
a fellow of the
Lamy
wrestling; Roly
the Pierre Fauchard
and Science of Dentistry Award.
G. Richard Garman, executive
be inducted
class will
during a ceremony in Monty's.
Friday, Oct. 10,
The induction of five graduates
\JC3 director of the Massachusetts Dental
Academy's Outstanding Contributions
27th Athletic Hall of Fame
Torok was
the 200-free
a total of 15 top-six finishes
He set Bloomsburg records in six individual
events and three relay events, one of which stood for
28
years.
For
ticket information, call
(570) 389-4413.
BU's sports information
office at
Husky Notes
?/£("} John McKay retired as principal
U/
Our Lady of
of
Lourdes Regional High School.
Kerry Hoffman,
5^T/~\
a
former
BU swimmer, was
in-
/ \J ducted into the Berks County Aquatic Hall of Fame.
A charter member of the Berks County Chapter of Swimming
and Diving
he worked as an
Officials,
official for
37
years.
5^7~1 James
Gilhooley (right), Dunmore,
was appointed to the Pennsylvania
Professional Standards and Practices Commission
by Gov. Ed Rendell. In June, he offered a presentation at the Association for Childhood Education
International World Conference in Moscow,
/
.A.
Russia.
area,
A long-time
he currendy
School
District,
an
from Lackawanna
for
Trail
nine years.
retired as director of technology
School District
after
more than
/
Sam Mantione
retired in June
2007 from
E.L.
-W Meyers High School in Wilkes-Barre after 35 years.
Daniel
Rang joined Murphy McCormack
as a vice president for business
Business
development and
Group
relation-
ship management.
Maureen Hauck is
'73.consulting
at the
assistant director for business
Small Business Development
standout Stu Marvin
Bloomsburg
as the
78 returned
He became
1975 and equaled
among
He was the
in the business
BU
in
May after teaching
education and business information
systems department for 27 years.
Richard Pohle retired after teaching science at Honesdale
High School, Wayne Highlands School District, for the past
33 years. He was science department chair for 20 years and
coached golf for 10 years. He and wife, Susan Burkavage
Pohle 74, have two children attending BU.
Tim Wagner received the Bloomsburg YMCA Vanguard
in
2008.
also
winning 28 national USMS championships.
its
aquatics program.
He
Swimming
Ocean Rescue and
Community Pool system. He coached
Lauderdale swim team and Fort Lauderdale
the Fort Lauderdale
All-American award winner in
Marvin
He was
a two-time
athlete of the year
awarded the Robert
male senior
worked 24 years for
and Recreation
Hall of Fame Complex, Fort Lauderdale
that effort in 1977. In 1978,
winner of the school's underclassman
B.
Redman Award
athlete in 1978.
swimmer inducted into the university's
Fame in 1990. Marvin still holds the
first
Athletic Hall of
-L
Stu Marvin
the
the top performers in five races to gain
as the school's top
/4 Janice Keil retired from
coordinated the operation of the International
All-American recognition in each race.
award and was
9^7
/
Department and directed
Pennsylvania State Athletic
university's first triple
finished
Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma.
the City of Fort Lauderdale's (Fla.) Parks
1-time Ail-American performer and
titles.
The company, a provider of
After graduating from BU, Marvin
mens and women's swim teams.
As a swimmer at BU, Marvin was an
five
.
for corrosion protection of
fabricated steel products, has plants in Ohio, Colorado, Texas,
as
head coach
for the
Conference
1
United States Masters Swimming (USMS) records as well
Former Huskies swimming
won
May
and coatings
BU swimmer returns as coach
Former
1
Stock Market on
hot-dip galvanizing
of North American
presided over the closing bell of the
Award for community service
Center, Bucknell University.
to
NASDAQ
Inc.,
three decades as
an educator and administrator.
1^7^
"74, chief executive officer
Galvanizing and Coatings
where he was superintendent
Renee Zimmerman Kay
for Chichester
Ronald Evans
Keystone College.
assistant professor at
retired in June
NASDAQ bell
Evans rings
educator in the Scranton
is
Robert Jurbala
C^ffl^l
the Fort
Ocean Rescue Competition team and worked with Fort
Lauderdale Aquatics.
"At this point in
my life, my passion for swimming has
my loyalty to the university has never
never been deeper and
been
stronger," says Marvin.
talent to the
"I
hope
to attract great
young
program, boost the confidence in each athlete
and work towards improving our position in die conference
and returning
the
program
to national
prominence."
school record in the 100-free and has established 12
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F.
Marriages
Michael W. Williams
'88
and
Kuntz'03,Nov.24,2007
Kelly Garner '95 and Craig
Exley, April
1,2008
Michael Ogurkis
Rhoads 02 and Jim
Kristin
Michele Richards, Sept. 1,2007
'97 and Lorine
Angelo, Sept. 29, 2007
Erin Stevens '02 and Keith Leal,
Sara Dietterick
Jarinko,
Henry Larsen
Rachel Cianchetta
Michael Rich, Aug.
Saylor, Oct.
'00 and
April 28,
March
Keith Sharp
Kristina
Steven Stracka
'01
and
Lents,
Talia Coppola
Whitlock,
May
'01
5,
Jenn DiMaria
Tighe, April 26,
Leonard
and James
2008
Michael Fedorco
'01
Adam
Oct. 13,
'01
2007
Melissa Knapick
'04 and
Mathew
13,2007
Kline, Oct.
Kristen Millard '04 and Keith
and
'04 and
Ryan
Laura Gavio 01 and
Angela Moll
Michael Barletta
Sirak
Melissa Derr '02 and Michael
Amy Reap '04 and John
Angstadt, June 23, 2007
June
Kramer, Sept.
8,
'02 and Robert
2,
June
30,
W06M and
Evan Witmer
Louis Gasper
Deviney,Aug.4,2007
Watson
retired
beeswax products business
'04 and Sarah
from teaching
She
is
after
31 years
president of her
in Sanford, Fla.
own
She and husband,
Greg, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 2007.
5^"7
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Patricia
Strunk Crissman, Camarillo,
«_/ senior business analyst with
Amgen
Calif., is a
Inc.
Joseph Scopelliti, Berwick, is community relations manager
for PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick.
Brady Stroh is director of the Center for Geospatial Information Services at Penn State Harrisburg.
FALL 200
s
Aug. 31, 2007
Harold Kern
Jr.,
Oct. 20,
Joshua Rogers,
2007
Mary Duke 07Au.D and
Megan Meyers '07
April 26,
Catlin, July 28,
Remaley
and Travis
2007
Justin Dietz, Dec. 28, 2007
Deitterick, July 28,
2008
and James
2007
Christine Miller 07 and
Alejandro Maeso, March 31, 2007
2007
05 and Jeremy
Shingler'05, Sept. 21, 2007
Jill
2007
Serfass, Aug. 25,
Piermattei '05 and
Amber
4,
Amber Cherry '07
Christopher Czock
Amy Puntar
Lisa Phillips 02 and
Ingrid Karnes
Lawlor,
Timothy Valentine, June 30, 2007
as a secondary school educator.
Michael Wysolmerski,
Aug
'05 and Justin
Jennifer Marshall '05 and
Mark
2007
2007
Allison Ridge
2007
'07,
Aug. 24, 2007
Bethany Brensinger 07 and
Smith, June 30, 2007
Thomas
'05,
Nicholas Smith, Aug. 18,2007
'05 and Bryan
Gina Marino
2007
Briana Bashore '07M and
2008
Brandi Michael '05 and
Fourspring, July 28, 2007
'06,
Bonatz
Brandy McHenry 05 and
2007
3,
14,
2008
5,
Jennifer Smith '06 and Brent
2007
June
'04,
'06 and Brooke
Seltzer, Dec. 22,
Shannon Killeen 05 and Ken
Ferguson
'06 and Kaitlin
Alicia Marinos '06 and Timothy
Brian Buttari, July 7, 2007
Ashley Lux
2007
29,
'05, Sept. 28,
Unger, Nov.
Voorhees, Oct. 20, 2007
Andrea Flowers
2007
Adria Kowalski '04 and Kasey
and
Jacquelyn Muller
Vanessa Garrapy
Jr.,
Rebecca Callas 04 and Kevin
and Richard
2008
'01
Truman
June
Welliver, Jan.
Travis Pena, Nov. 3,
'03 and
Ryan
Aug. 25, 2007
Jason Kehoe
Natalie Hutchinson '05 and
2007
Kristin Barnett '04 and Pete
Nov. 24, 2007
'05 and
Cara Gulden '05M and
Douglas Wilcox
01,
Graziano
Bruce Shafer
2007
11,
Jeremy Eck
2007
Kristin
2007
Mensch'06,June16,2007
Klotz,
'03 and
Ty
'06 and
4,
'06 and
Ashley Dreese
'05/"06M and Jake Ramsey,
Oct. 7,
2008
Eric Kolva '03 and Carrie Laabs,
'00 and
Trisha Calderone
Kevin
Jeffrey Gritman "04/05M
Shawn
13,2007
Melissa Zavada
'03, April 26,
Nov. 17,2007
Bethany Finkenbinder
'03 and
Andrea Falcone
Ketchem, Sept. 29, 2007
Melissa Shelly
'03 and Calvin
May 26, 2007
Rogers
Gwen
'00 and
III
'05 and
Wartman'05,July28,2007
Erica Eltringham '05 and
Dec 29, 2007
'04,
Ashley Behrer
Frank Rabena, Dec. 29, 2007
Melissa Walsh
'05 and Jason
June9, 2007
Thomas Schaeffer '02,
III
Martin,
'00 and
Wagaman '05 and Jason
McCauslin, Dec. 1,2007
Cherie Wallace '02 and Frank
Janel Beaver
Donna Kaniewski
Kara
05M
Scholl
Desiree Hockenbery 00 and
2007
Bartkus '05M and
Christopher Strobl
July 22, 2006
Greg Bisignano, June
9,
Amanda
Amanda Smith
'07 and
Kishbaugh
Oct 13,2007
Erica
'05 and William
'05,
Jared
Young 07 and Kirby
Blass'07,Dec.29,2007
Engleman, Nov. 10,2007
5'"7'/C David
/
E.
Coffman
is
president of the South Central
\J Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified
Public Accountants.
Barbara A. Wanchisen, Nanticoke, is director for the
board on behavioral, cognitive and sensory sciences of the
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Education.
5^7 ^7 Matthew Connell,
/ /
Brodheadsville,
Northampton Community
College's
is
dean of
Monroe campus.
25
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Linda Ebbrell Lapp, Bloomsburg,
president of the local
is
Ivy Club for 2008-09.
Rich Robbins
is
associate
dean of arts and sciences
at
Bucknell University.
Wendy
Spease Stafford, Stevens, earned a doctor of
audiology degree from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry,
Elkins Park. She has her
5
own practice
in the Cocalico area.
Q £l Conrad Haenny was named
teacher of the year
C3 \J at Woodglen School in Lebanon Township, New
Jersey. After 17 years in accounting
and
finance,
he
now
teaches sixth-grade mathematics.
Julia Reichel Hertz, a registered nurse, was
named
clinical
manager for Lighthouse Hospice in New Jersey.
Richard F. King, treasurer and finance coordinator for
Schlouch Inc., received the 2008 Debra Hahn Memorial
Award from the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA). He is a certified public accountant.
Victor Koons, owner of a Danville graphic design company, received a 2007 Silver Addy award from the Northeast
Pennsylvania Advertising Club and American Advertising
care
Teammates
Several
members
cruise into their 50s
of 1976-79 men's soccer team celebrated their
50th birthdays with a Caribbean cruise. Shown in matching shirts
with the logo 'BSC/50" are,
left
to right:
Glenn Chestnut
'80,
Mark
Steele '80,
Toby Rank
'80,
George
Fedele '80 and Steve Buch '80.
They were joined on the cruise by wives Lois Hertzog Fedele '80,
Metz Rank '79, Robbie Buch, Gaye Steele and Debra Farrell
Federation.
Julie
Chestnut
'80,
who
Glenn Noack was inducted
submitted the photo.
ketball Hall of
Fame. He
is
into the Lehigh Valley Bas-
principal at the George D. Steckel
Elementary School.
5^0
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Homesale
Don Zimmerman, Muhlenberg Township,
real estate license
He is
Services.
earned a
and joined Coldwell Banker Landis
also
owner
EZ Packaging
of
Mark West
SenowA Inc.
Solutions.
}
J^7(\
/ S auxiliary and facility operations at the University of
David Harr
associate vice president for
is
Q ^T Ann
C3 /
named
is
president and chief financial officer of
Pavkovic Grove has been president of her
technical writing firm for six years
own
and was recendy
president of a group of technical writers.
Notre Dame.
Joel E. Terschak,
officer for
St.
Louis, Mo.,
is
chief administrative
Bunge North America. He and
wife, Krista,
have
six children.
5
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Sam Malandra is
executive vice president of sales
and marketing
CRM manager.
'81 Roanne
promoted
for
Heisner Tombasco, Allentown, was
Corp., where she's
^
^
Q
O.W
for
26
PPL
years.
Dr. Larry Maturani joined Clarion Hospital as an
internal
medicine
Cheryl Roberts
Financial
to director of logistical services for
worked
Group
is
specialist.
the marketing
manager
at
Harbor Lights
of the Lehigh Valley.
Alumni Association honors
Dr.
5
QA
Or!
U.S.
9
Stephanie Jonas-Sullivan was transferred
Wiesbaden, Germany,
Army.
QC
O
Marie Tanzos
for a three-year tour
with the
Beil, Nazareth, is the supervisor for
Sandra O'Brien Brettler was elected
with the national board of directors
coordinator
at
Penn
State
She
right, a
who
BU Trustee and
Geisinger Medical
chaired BU's presidential search committee,
was named an honorary alumnus
at the
Alumni Association's
annual meeting during Alumni Weekend. Also recognized were
*_/ J.C. Penney's online catalog department.
tion of Neuroscience Nurses.
Joseph Mowad,
Center physician
to
trio
is
to a three-year
for the
the
CFC
term
American Associa-
gamma
Brenda Shaffer Conger '78, center, who received the 2007
Distinguished Service Award, and Gary Groenheim '90, recipient of
the 2007 Young Alumnus of the Year award. Conger is president of
knife nurse
Hershey Medical Center.
BLOOMS
International,
an advocacy group
for persons with cardiofa-
ciocutaneous syndrome, including her son, and their families.
Groenheim,
who was
and advertising
BU
for
unable to attend,
London-based
is
CNBC
in charge of marketing
Europe.
Shown
at left is
President David Soltz.
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Stephen Bujno owns a pottery studio
(3 C3
in Adamsville,
Deaths
Lancaster County.
who works
Eileen Finn Colarusso,
for the
Archdiocese of
Baltimore as coordinator of deaf ministry, signed for the deaf
Ruth Allen Smith '26
and hard of hearing when Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass
at Nationals Stadium in Washington, D.C
Ethel
Kimmel
Jacqueline
Tri- Valley
School
Deibert, an elementary teacher in the
District,
"Recipes and Memories of
George
Lavere A. Dieffenbach Hoyt '30
Barry H.
S
L.
Ocker was promoted
is
to lieutenant colonel in the
Nurse
associate director for the Air Force
Corps and program manager
for
Manpower and
Organization,
Office of the Surgeon General, Boiling Air Force Base.
Tina Trager, a
AlbinaZadra Davis
5fJ/\ Paul J. Lewis
is
Joseph Rebarchakjr.
Penn Bank.
'31
Peter
'31
Pokego '65
P.
Irene Sitler Frantz '66
'31
Joseph
P.
Kenneth
Earl
a senior accountant with
High
is
Bangs '33
E.
O'Neill
D.
Jr.
'69
Schnure '69
Stover '69
Gregg
Strausser '33
Maudmae Edwards
Eldridge '34
Drue W. Folk
Carl David
^ Christopher Hunt, Wind Gap,
/
is
Mary
diver,
Pilates studio in Shillington.
Hatfield,
is
72
Diane
Dildine '43
K.
Blessing
75
a senior vice president in
Kramer
Karen Startzel Merchlinski
Susan
Kobilis Nesbitt
Clifton S.
Skow
Brent G.
Heywood 77
D. Keith
Sneddon 78
'46
'47
John W.Williams
75
Maria Russoniello Lewis
Ellen Kohrherr '45
Nellie A.
73
"Moe" Leighow 74
chief financial
Moravian Hall Square.
Miller, former Cirque du Soleil acrobat/high
own
Morris
Julian A. Zinzarella '44
officer for
Robert Mindick,
'42
Magill '43
F.
72
Minnie Krotzer Watson
Snyder '42
Kathryn Keener
Andrew
Sr.
72
Hoover
R.
David London
'41
\~ Township
George G. Kinney is director of planning for Palmer
in Northampton County.
Kevin Reynolds was named men's basketball coach at
Slippery Rock University.
William
'36
Gladys Rinard Ruesch
Col.
Kendall '70
Judy Kline Boris
Helen Hestor Merrill '35
northern region manager for Mid
T.
Regina Degatis Lubrecht '70
Howard W. Brochyus
has opened her
John M. Castetter '64
'31
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Kimm
'61
Ditton '63
L.
Irma Lawton Eyer '32
Lt.
S^
'58
Deppen
Edith Boyer Miller '31
Donald
S\J Corporate Services, East Lampeter Township.
9£J
'58
Oswald
Renn
E.
Charles
Marion Hazeltine Meixell
June
Zr
Drumm
Elizabeth
Peter Evancho
J.
certified nutritional consultant, is coordina-
tor for Activate Phoenixville Area.
9£\
'30
Welsh
R.
'57
Fahringer '58
E.
Kenneth
Mahantongo Elementary School."
Myron
U.S. Air Force. She
'29
Penman
G.
has co-authored a second book,
Q f\ Karen
Jody
Mabel
Charles
Helen Cott Berger '30
Wells Fuller, South Auburn, was promoted
to district manager of the northern region for First
CJ
Liberty Bank and Trust.
9
John Forgach
'29
Moore Moorhead
Dr.
William
F.
Johnson
Louis Marinangeli
'50
76
7B
79
79
commercial lending with Sovereign Bank.
Doug
Pape, Wilkes-Barre,
is
Gene
Luzerne County's chief
a certified public accountant,
is
president
of the Central Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public
Accountants
for
2008-09.
He
is
a partner with
Stanton, Echard &r Ronan, State College.
'93
1
Barbara Rone Davis is director of curriculum
Tulpehocken Area School District in
Day
'51
Patti Tuckett
'51
Deborah Tobin Olive '80
Kathleen Boychuck '52
Thomas
C.
Jones
Ruth
'52
T.
Yeager '80
Glenn A. Faulkner '85
Mildred Pliscott Furgele '53
Vincent G. Solarek '94
Judith Fry McCarthy '54
Travis
also secretary of the Mid-Atlantic
(right), director of
Catizone '80
L.
Hoopengardner
'07
for
Berks County.
Claire
Search
Ukasin Vukevich
clerk/manager.
Timothy Ronan,
D.
Region of the University
Continuing Education Association.
programs and
education for the Philadelphia Alzheimer's Association,
was a BU Alumni
in the
JC\
Classroom
presenter in Apnl.
Kurt Davidheiser, Barto,
with Herb Real Estate Inc.
is
a real estate agent
for more than 20 months in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Kuwait and Qatar.
Michael Zigner, Allentown, is director of industry
deployed
Community College. He
Stacey Belhumer earned a master's degree in education
and a
certification in
media technology from
Montclair State University.
Kevin Watts, Maryland, a major in the U.S. Army, was
honored for completing 25 years of military service. He was
partnerships at Lehigh Carbon
A
/1
Dennis Murri has been a language arts teacher at Ridgefield
(N.J.) High School since 1995. He has been an assistant
wrestling coach at the school for 14 years, earning regional and
district honors for coaching in 1998, and also coaches track.
Park
^
7 %J
Jf\
is
Wade
Becker,
Etters, is a partner
with the auditing
and accounting department of the Beard
Miller Co.
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Matthew Gross earned
a master's degree in business
administration/accounting from DeSales University.
He and
Smith Gross '95, live in Doylestown.
Robert "Bobby" James Jr. (right) was ap-
wife, Shelly
m
A
pointed defensive coordinator for the Bulldog
football
program
He
Carolina.
at
also
is
Wingate University in North
pro liaison for the program.
Dale Kline, Philadelphia, co-owner of Atlantic
States Realty, is president of the
A.k
board of direc-
Roxborough Development Corp.
tors of the
JC\/£ Matt Hare (nght) a faculty member
Zr\3 at the University of California at
is
at Irvine, Laguna Hills,
and San Clemente high schools.
Jodi Piekarski Loughlin '96M has earned a
doctoral degree in adult education from Penn
State Harrisburg. She is a teacher and reading
curriculum coordinator at the Shenandoah Valley
Irvine
and
Trabuco
School
a
stnng coach
Hills
'Spice'
HGTVs 'Spice Up My Kitchen'
left.
^C\^7 Cheryl Knapp Fallon presented the
exhibition of her photography at the
House Museum, Lewisburg,
in
first
at the
Limer-
to participate in a three-day
walk
to
Summit
raise money for
member of the
been appointed
as judicial
Sacramento,
law clerk
at
Lehigh
chair of Gilda's
Chambers
Northampton
the Northampton
of
psychotherapy practice in
Calif.
Karen Malinowski graduated with honors from
Law with a juris
works with the Maryland's attorney
staff
the Uni-
doctorate. She
general's office
and
speech language pathologist with Care Resources
as a
Inc.
^€\C\ Christopher Chappell is an organizational develop\J\J ment specialist with the Geisinger Health System.
Ogur is
Shawn
Danville,
Omega
is
also associate
board
Valley, a local chapter of the
In April,
and active in local
Dave was a BU Alumni
in
a planning consultant at the
Water Department.
Rosier
(right), a
systems analyst and
was
a
BU Alumni in the
Classroom
Pamela Brennan Burns, Selinsgrove, is community
office manager for First National Bank, formerly
Bank.
Sherry Arbogast Glosek,
School
a special education teacher, is as
elementary school principal for the Shamokin Area
District.
Matt Kaminski, Worcester, was promoted to director of
first-year initiatives and judicial affairs at Montgomery County
Community
College.
clothing business.
Brian K. Sims opened his
own law office
in Philadelphia.
}/~V^ Pamela Pheasant, Harrisburg, is employed with
VJ ^J the Pennsylvania Department of State as a human
resource analyst, specializing in position classification and
labor relations. She earned a master's degree in arts administration
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for
Kathleen Lloyd-Kurtz, Hazleton, launched an online
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.
versity of Baltimore School of
Commerce.
of
Philadelphia
assistant
a solo
Club Delaware
manager
Delaware market of ATT,
national cancer support organization,
^f\ ~\
\J JL.
Vanessa Klingensmith is central regional coordinator for
the Children's Miracle Network at Janet Weis Children's Hospital,
senior marketing
for Tri- Valley
District.
Susan Goetz opened
is
presenter in April.
Hauser Gibbs is principal
Borough Elementary Schools in
5fj))("j) Lori
yS
Lansdale,
EpicCare trainer with Geisinger Health Systems,
Pennsylvania Bar
County Court of Common Pleas.
Michael Kogut is head football coach
High School.
Area School
and
the Classroom presenter.
fall.
?f^Q Jessica Grim Galle, a senior accountant, has joined
>^0 Baum, Smith and Clemens of Lansdale.
Association, has
in
right,
May and June.
New Jersey and
the Pennsylvania,
Stacy
Michelle Heffner, a
in
where he has worked since 2007. He
chiropractic practice in Blue Ridge
breast-cancer research this
The episode aired
Dave Marcolla,
Flegel Rouzer, Waynesboro, a breast cancer sur-
opened a
and plans
home
solo
May.
an optometrist, opened a practice
Paist,
Mindy
kitchen at their
Packwood
ick Professional Building.
vivor,
new
Also shown in the Zavackis'
Easton are the show's hosts, Lauren Lake, second from
Jeff Devlin.
Jason
team recently remodeled the kitchen
left, and husband, Tim,
of Cathy Carr Zavacki '99, second from
District.
7/
added to kitchen
from Shenandoah University Conservatory.
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Ryan Kudasik '05M,
Gettysburg,
is
an instructional
designer in the e-learning department of JPL Productions.
Lauren McGill, an
actress with Hazletoris Pennsylvania
Theatre of Performing Arts, directed the production of "Barefoot in the Park."
Jf\jC
Trisha Grace
is
museum coordinator for the Ship-
\J\J pensburg Historical Society.
James "Jay" Graham is the owner of Jay's Crab Shack in
Ocean City, NJ.
Jennifer Wootsick is a geospatial analyst at the Center for
Geospatial Information Services, Penn State Hairisburg. She
was recently appointed operations manager for the Pennsylvania
GIS Conference.
5/~\^T Robert
At the head of the
Jill
Dougherty '98M, a teacher
\J /
class
at Springfield (Pa.)
High School,
award from Milken Family Foundation
Chairman Lowell Milken. The award, presented at the 2008 Milken
receives a $25,000
Family Foundation National Education Conference in Los Angeles,
recognizes exceptional talent and accomplishments inside
Calif.,
and outside the classroom.
J(\ ^5 Chaza Fares Abdul, office manager of The Medical
\JkJ House, Adas, earned a master's degree in business
administration through the University of Phoenix.
Christy Carpenter Barkley was
by
the
named
teacher of the year
at
BU
linebacker, joined the
Ashley Geiser, Montoursville, was named wellness director
RiverWoods Senior Living Community.
Danielle Lynch received a
first-place
award from the
Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) for
newspaper series she co-authored for the Daily Local News,
West Chester.
Jennifer Malukas is a pediatric intensive care nurse with
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey.
Valerie Malukas '07M is a fifth-grade learning support
teacher with the Harford County School District, Bel Air, Md.
Ashley Miller is a mathematics teacher for the Shamokin
a
Area School
Merrimack Elementary School, Hampton, Va. She
teaches
Biernat, a former
Reading Express indoor football team.
District.
Jason Yeager
is
a
computer software developer
Teena Edwards Curnow was promoted to supervisor with
Smith Elliott Reams and Co.
the accounting firm of
Christina Bilo Felten joined Midwives
of Allentown. She
tion of Licensed
is
a
member of the
& Associates Inc.
Pennsylvania Associa-
Midwives and the American College of Nurse
Midwives.
Bethany Samson Fluck was promoted to human resource
Devereux Pocono Center.
Andrea Falcone Gritman, Norristown, is a field sales
Scientech, Berwick.
5/"\Q Amanda Dabashinsky, Schuylkill Haven, who
\JO recently earned
student teaching
at
a degree in special education,
D.H.H. Lengel Middle School in
Stefanie Pitcavage, Ashland, received a Dixon Scholarship
Brian Wagner, Schuylkill Haven, was commissioned as
a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.
Services, Schuylkill
Christopher Smith
Cooper
Hill
is
an
Haven, as a
Country Club, Flemington,
A.
is
real estate agent.
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Woman,"
this
a
the author
World War
II
and
certification as a
commumca-
at Palisades
second-
Middle School. Evan's
grandfather, Basil Steele '34, graduated from
late great-
Bloomsburg
Normal School and was an elementary school teacher in what
is
is
now the
Lake Lehman School
District.
director of "The Other
comedic drama
that
was performed
year at the Hershey Area Playhouse.
Jamie Frey
is
the marketing
for the Pennsylvania region of
Jeffrey
and event planning manager
ActionCoach.
Gritman '04A)5M, Norristown,
is
the senior
e-learning designer for LeanForward.
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Erin
as a
Duane "Butch" Wickard 79, pnncipal of Upper Perkiomen
Middle School, and Eileen Callahan Wickard '80, gifted
tions at Pierce College, Philadelphia.
Jennifer Feldser
working
ary English teacher, following in the footsteps of his parents,
support teacher
supervisor of
is
.
assistant professional at the
Jf\A^ Elise Genco Berrocal
\J
Evan Duane Wickard earned
Landis
He
public affairs officer at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
associate for Richardson Electronics.
Mindy Putak Harrison joined Coldwell Banker
is
Pottsville.
from the Widener University School of Law.
director at
HomeSale
for
grade.
fifth
Dumin is director of admissions for John W.
Hallahan Girls Catholic High School in Philadelphia.
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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
Bill
Jones,
first
chairperson of BU's special education department, spent
decades touching the
lives of
hundreds
of students and, with his wife
Joan,
building a family of special education teachers that includes four of their six
children, two daughters-in-law
To honor
Bill
Department
and a granddaughter.
and Joan's commitment
of Exceptionality
to special education, their family
programs established the Jones Center
Education Excellence. The dream of the Jones Center
is to
and BU's
for Special
ensure
that all individuals with exceptionalities receive appropriate
education and support services.
Learn how you can support the Jones Center or pay tribute to the
mentors who inspired your career
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Human Services,
BU!s Academic Quadrangle is bordered by, left to right, McCormick Center for
Waller Administration Building, Andruss Library and Centennial Hall.
Academic Calendar
Fall
Art Exhibits
Exhibitions are
open
free of charge.
Due
to the public
Celebrity Artist Series
Bloomsburg University-
All events in the 2008-09 Celebrity
Community Orchestra
2008
Reading Days - No Classes
and Saturday,
Friday
Oct. 10 to
of the Haas Center for the Arts,
1
Thanksgiving Break
No Classes
Wednesday to
Friday, Nov.
to the renovation
26 to 28
exhibits will
be offered in alternate
updated information,
1
S.
and
lobby,
visit
4777 Old Berwick Road, Bloomsburg
box office,
Gombert The Real
Me
human face
at (570) 389-4409 or
the
visit
Web site at www.
Celebrity Artist
2:30 p.m.
9,
Central Columbia High School
Auditorium
Gross Auditorium. For more
Alumni Events
Contact the Alumni Affairs Office at
bloomu. edu/today/celebrity.php.
(5701 389-4058, (800) 526-0254 or
Community Government Association
alum@bloomu.edu
cardholders pay half of the
Details are also available at
ticket's
Through Sept. 19
face value for all shows. Programs
Kehr Union, Multicultural Center
www.bloomualumni.com.
Alumni and Open 5K Race
Pamela Marks: Works on Paper
Saturday, Dec. 8 to
1
Graduate Commencement
Paintings and drawings
Reception: Wednesday, Oct.
12
Parents Weekend:
Saturday, Sept.
Forbidden Broadway
Contact: Karen Brandt, cross country
Saturday, Sept. 13, 6:30 and
coach, at kbrandt@bloomu.edu
Oct. 6 to 31
1
6,
Undergraduate Commencement
11 a.m. to
2 p.m.
Kehr Union, Multicultural Center
Athletic Hall of
Presidential Inauguration Event:
Saturday, Dec. 13
Toshiko Takaezu: Works from the
Spring 2009
Permanent Collection
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Wednesday,
$20
Homecoming Weekend:
November, Dates to be announced
Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats
Andruss Library
Sunday, Nov.
Day -
2,
information.
A Taste of Bloomsburg
8 p.m., $20
Kerry Stuart Coppin:
Broadway State of Mind:
Saturday, Nov.
Monday, Jan. 19
Photography
Adam Pascal
Homecoming
Jan. 20 to Feb. 13, 2009
Saturday, Nov. 15, 8 p.m.,
Reception: Monday, Feb. 2,
Saturday, Feb. 28
11 a.m. to
Classes Resume
Monday, March
9,
Location to be announced
8 a.m.
Anne Mondro and Donovan
Widmer: Sculpture
Classes End
Saturday, April 25
Finals
27
End
Saturday,
March 2
to 27,
2009
Student Art Exhibition
2009
Grad Finale
Saturday, Dec.
6,
7:30 p.m., $20
Broadway Review:
Five
Guys
Quest Reunion
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Named Moe
Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009, 8 p.m., $20
Day Romance:
Simone on Simone
Friday, Feb. 13,
Saturday,
1
Special Events
2009, 8 p.m., $20
Ahn Trio
March
Friday, April 3,
Inauguration of President
Friday, Oct. 31,
Nelson
2009, 7:30 p.m., $20
Field
10 a.m.
House
Homecoming Weekend
Saturday to Sunday, Nov.
Football, Huskies vs.
on upcoming
events, check the university
www. bloomu. edu/today
Listed events are
free
Web site:
open
to the public
3:30 p.m.,
f^
and senior citizens. BUS'
Fall
Conceit
Sunday, Oct. 26, 2:30 p.m.
Matthew Lutheran
123 N. Market
to 2
Redman Stadium.
are $8 for adults and $3
of charge.
Chamber Orchestra:
St.
1
West Chester
Golden Rams, Saturday, Nov.
Concerts
the latest information
Weekend
David Soltz
14, 2009,
Simply Sinatra: Steve Lippia
May 2
Parents and Family
Friday to Sunday, Sept. 12 to 14
8 p.m., $20
Undergraduate Commencement
For
game
Fenstemaker Alumni House Lawn
Tuesday, Nov. 11,11 a.m. to 6 p.m
Dates and location to be announced
Graduate Commencement
Saturday,
preceding
Holiday Show: Chestnut
Valentine's
April
May 2
May
,
Brass Company
Classical:
Friday,
$20
1
football
Location to be announced
Finals Begin
April
2 p.m.
Campus
Call BU's sports information office,
No Classes
Spring Break Begins
Fame Dinner
10,6 p.m.
(570) 389-4413, for ticket
Ceramics
Monday, Jan.1
Jr.
Friday, Oct.
Monty's, Upper
Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.,
Classes Begin
Martin Luther King
12:30 p.m.
5,
9 p.m., $20
Monday,
for information.
and dates are subject to change.
Exams
Friday, Dec.
presented in Carver Hall, Kenneth
temporarily located in the Carver Hall
Carl
Saturday, Dec. 6
Monday to
Sunday, Nov.
be
information about shows
Renditions of the
Final
will
information, call the
www. bloomu. edu/today/arts.php.
Classes End
season
venues on campus. For more
Classes Resume
Monday, Dec.
Artist Series
St.,
Church,
Bloomsburg
a valid ID are admitted
open two hours
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Over the Shoulder
By Robert Dunkelberger, University Archivist
Bloomsburg: Simulated Conventions on Campus
Politicking in
Presidential candidates and their family
members
traversed Pennsylvania in search of
votes in spring 2008, including former
daughter Chelsea Clinton,
who spoke
first
in
Kehr Union's Fireside Lounge, and her dad, former
President
Bill
Clinton,
who
Bloomsburg
led a rally at
Middle School.
But
this
was not
the
first visit
to
Bloomsburg from
a
former or future president or presidential candidate.
For many years, notable
at
politicians
spoke on campus
simulated political conventions organized to help
students leam
The
May
first
how the
was held
nominating process works.
in the Carver Hall auditorium in
1928, with three more conventions in 1940,
1948 and 1952.
When the simulated conventions
returned in 1968, nationally
politicians
were invited
known
to provide the
keynote address or distinguished
lecture.
Gerald Ford, a Michigan
congressman
38th president, gave
the opening address for the
Republican convention in Centennial
student delegates'
candidate of choice was
Future President Gerald R. Ford
delivers the keynote address at
the simulated Republican
Convention in Centennial
on March
16, 1968.
Gym
1972
it
New York
was Mr.
Bill,
the time
on "Saturday Night
the
much-abused
Bloomsburg students
McGovern
Hunter
S.
clay
puppet featured
selected candidates creatively.
Thompson and Mr.
Family" in 1972 and talk
Bill,
TV show
show host David
Letterman and entertainer Frank Sinatra, both in
who
convention, with South Dakota Sen.
1984, the year of the
George McGovern nominated
ran as an independent candidate for president four
for
president. McGovern returned the
by twice appearing on the Bloomsburg campus.
In 1976 he gave a preliminary address in Haas
Auditorium, with the convention two weeks
nominating Arizona Rep. Morris Udall.
then-Georgia Gov.
Jimmy
in 1980,
first
Carter placed third,
behind Udall and journalist Hunter
McGovern returned
later
On the
S.
Thompson.
once again as
final
convention. Anderson,
years earlier, presented the distinguished lecture that
year;
Colorado Sen. Gar)' Hart was chosen as the
candidate to face incumbent President Ronald Reagan.
Although the conventions gradually became more
boisterous
and
were entertaining
chaotic, they
as well
as educational, with candidates nominated, platfonns
created
and well-known
political figures
their vision for the country.
a
presenting
For a brief period every
campus came
with debate and
distinguished lecturer, while student delegates to the
four years, the
mock Republican convention nominated
thousands of college and high school students were
Illinois
John Anderson. Coming in a strong second
in
at
Live."
nominees included Archie Bunker from the
"All in the
was a Democratic
favor
ballot,
presidential candidate George
Rep.
1980
receives a
from convention chairman Pierce Atwater on March 25, 1976.
In addition to
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.
In
T-shirt
who would later serve
as the nation's
Gym. The
The 1972 Democratic
given a
real-life
alive
education in the
political process.
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