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THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

HEY YOU'RE
GUY!
THAT
TV

and on Broadway.

He's in films,

Meet actor J I

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SIMPSON

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ALSO INSIDE
Safe Haven
Professor Babak Mohassel's
fueled by the issue of

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human

life is

rights.

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After the Deluge
No cleanup task was too much

for

and staff after
Storm Lee paid a visit.

students, faculty
Tropical

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16

State's Warden
John Wetzel '98 applies lessons
teamed on the football field to his

The

career

in

corrections.

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The University Magazine

From the President
The

total

number of volunteer

hours in 2011
previous

will surely surpass

tallies.

When Tropical

Storm Lee menaced our region
with record flooding in September,

hundreds of students, faculty and
staff responded to the community's
needs.

No job was

our student

others cleared

Faithful

Greeks and

mud from homes'

basements and

Arms

too large as

athletes,

first floors,

removed water-logged floors and
walls, worked at the Emergency
Management Agency's phone bank
and the local American Red Cross

of Volunteers

office,

cared for evacuees' pets at

Annie's Place, the animal shelter

on the Upper Campus, and so much
When classes resumed after

more.
IF

YOU WERE to define the qualities

what traits
would you choose? Topping my list,
in no particular order, would be a
of a vibrant community,

thriving business environment,

outstanding pubUc schools, low

"In 2010, our students, faculty and
staff contributed more than 80,550
hours of community service."

crime rate and compassionate people with both a strong

work

ethic

and a devotion to volunteer service.
The Town of Bloomsburg is such a
community' and contributing to its
vibranc}' are

Bloomsburg University's

students, faculty

Volunteerism
lives of

to take

advantage of

many opportunities

through the

coordinated

SOLVE volunteer

where they can put their
energ}', dedication and leadership
abilities to good use. In honor of
office

our

efforts,

the university's 10-day closure,

projects to benefit the

volunteer efforts continued.

two

so proud of the

BU was recognized

to fight

benefit local service agencies.

In 2010, our students, faculty

and

staff.

integral to the

BU Huskies. We encourage

our students
the

and
is

were three large-scale
community:
hunger and another to

particular note

staff contributed

more than

80,550 hours of community
service,

which the organization

Independent Sector valued

at

hour or more than
$1.65 million for the year. That
impressive amount nearly matches
the Bloomsburg University
$20.51 per

page 16.
French author Everett Mamor
said, "The world is hugged by the

arms of volunteers." It is
faculty, staff and students
have the Town of Bloomsburg in a
faithful

clear

our

tight

embrace.

— $1.67 million from Terry '76

and JoAnn

The

the Zeigler Institute for

DAVID

Professional Development.

President,

Roll.

Of

am

campus community represented by
those you will meet beginning on

again last spring with inclusion in

Community Service Honor

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of our

Foundation's largest donation to
date

President's Higher Education

members

'77 Zeigler to establish

L.

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Bloomsburg University

FEATURES
10 Hey. You're That

Guy!

Fans recognize Jimmi Simpson '98
from the array of characters he's
portrayed, including Lloyd Lowery
in

A&E's Breakout Kings.

14

Safe Haven

Professor Babak Mohassel brings

human rights from
Department of Homeland Security

passion for
to

BU classroom.

16

After the Deluge
Students, faculty and staff pitch in
to help their Bloomsburg neighbors
after historic flood.

19 Making a Clean Break
A BU alumni couple risked all with
it

move

where they built
a successful business on customer
service and client relations.
a

20

to California

The

Warden

State's

advocates for
John Wetzel
treatment and programs inmates
need for success after prison.
'98

22

The Write Stuff
Berwick High School teachers wanted
a student -staffed writing center

and

BU had the expertise to make it
happen. The resulting partnership
benefits students at both institutions.

Table

of

Contents

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
IS A MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE

Winter 2012

SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education Board
of Governors

Guide M.

Pichini, Chair

Marie Conley Lammando,
Vice Chair

Matthew

B.

E.

Vice Chair

Allien

III

Baker

Jennifer Branstetter

Tom Corbett
Sarah C. Darling
Michael K. Hanna

Ronald G. Henry
Kenneth M. Jarin
Bonnie L. Keener
Jonathan B. Mack
Joseph

F.

President, Bloomsburg University

Harold C. Shields
Robert S. Taylor
Ronald J. Tomalis
John T. Yudichak

David

Chancellor, State System

Aaron Walton,
Leonard

Jeffrey E. Piccola

McGinn

C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni

of Higher Education
John C. Cavanaugh

Bloomsburg University
Council of Trustees
Robert Dampman '65, Chair
Charles C. Housenick '60, Vice Chair
Patrick Wilson '91, Secretary
Ramona H. Alley
LaRoy G. Davis '67

Marcus Fuller '13
David W. Klingerman Sr
Joseph J.

Mowad '08H

L. Soltz

Executive Editor
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Editor
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What's

in

a

Name?

JOHN WAGGONER EXAMINES PERCEPTION
BASED ON FIRST NAMES
was a genius in the kitchen, but
she do in school? According to
research by John Waggoner, professor of
psychology, teachers today would expect

Julia
how
her
did a study
of students

Child
did

to

do pretty well.

Waggoner

recently

examining future teachers' expectations
based on their first nanne.

Waggoner became

interested in this subject while

reading Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen
J.

Dubner. In one chapter,

the authors looked at birth

born
between 1980
and 2000. Using information
collected about mothers at the
time of birth, the authors found
correlations between income
and education levels and
certificates for children

in California

name choice.
Although the findings

fasci-

nated him, Waggoner says the most important aspect
is

how the study was conducted. "They had extensive

data where others only had assumptions," he says.

Amy Covin, associate professor of psychology, has

mothers with less education and lower incomes.
Using names from the Freakonomics study, Waggoner's
findings mirrored those of Levitt and Dubner: children
with names associated with higher education and
socioeconomic levels are expected to be successful in
school, but children whose

between
teachers' expectations and students' success and

names

provided her expertise in educational psychology to
Waggoner's research. "The idea that something as

lower education

a long-standing interest in the relationship

simple as a student's
class,

first

name could

and thereby influence

was an

signal social

teachers' perceptions,

interesting possibility," Covill says.

are asso-

ciated with

...^

.

1

1

1

Names doti t hold any

magic power, but they could
ifidircctly affect you due to
people's perCCptiOflS.

"

and socioeconomic status aren't expected to do as well.
Although the research is something to consider,
Waggoner reminds us that names aren't the only decid-

Waggoner asked undergraduates to
predict how well children would perform based on
their first names. He picked names that are "equally

ing factors in our futures. His study only demonstrates

popular" - for example, Katherine is a common choice
for mothers with higher levels of education and

child to perform poorly in school.

In his study,

incomes, and

Amber is

similarly popular

among

that there

is

a relationship

between name choices and

socioeconomic and education

levels;

it

does not cause a

"Names don't hold any magic power," he says, "but they
could indirectly affect you due to people's perceptions."

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Bringing Books
to Cnildren
PROFESSOR AND ALUMNI WORK TOGETHER
PHILIP TUCKER, associate professor of special education,
has been working with BU alumni to bring books to
children at local schools. Each year, major book publishers
distribute copies of new books to kindergarten through
sixth grade classrooms through the International
Reading Association (IRA). The young students vote
on the books, and the winners are named the children's
choices for the year.

As coordinator for Region
Initiative,

I

of the Children's Choices

Tucker, along with alumni, helped distribute

copies of about 700

new children's titles

-

around 4,000

may keep
new books, giving children access to the literature

individual books. After the project, schools

the

for years to come.

Alumni participating in this effort are Jane Foderaro 'u,
Freeland Elementary School;

reading specialist

at

Hannah

elementary school teacher/reading

Irion

'10,

specialist at Halifax

Yurkanin

'87,

Elementary School;

reading specialist

at

Elementary School; Erin Morath
Kelly Elementary

Wendy Larock

Heights Terrace

'11,

reading specialist

at

and Linntown Intermediate Schools;

and Kevin Schadder '05, instructional support teacher
at McAdoo-Kelayres Elementary School. •

Pichini Visits

BU

Going with the Flow

CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
ENCOURAGES INTERACTION

STUDENTS STUDY WATER SYSTEMS
CYNTHIA VENN, associate professor of geography and

GUIDO PICHINI,

geosciences,

chair of the Pennsylvania State

System of Higher Education Board of Governors,
encouraged students to

become advocates

for the

grant supports the projects of four

summer interns,

commonwealth's public

providing them with experience both in the

universities during his

in the lab.

recent visit BU.

Caitlin Heller, Bloomsburg, biolog>' major, comparing
water chemistries across the Susquehanna River at
Danville, Milton, Shamokin Dam and Watsontown.

The

first

PASSHE

graduate to become chair
of the board, Pichini said

The

Eliza Reed,

interns

and

Shamokin,

field

and

their projects are:

allied health major,

studying

he believes a college education should provide the
skills students need to interact with others and praised
BU students' involvement with the community during

the chemistry of the Susquehanna River downstream

flood recovery efforts.

major, studying the geochemistry of Oneida

PASSHE's Board

of Governors

setting education, fiscal

is

first visit to

responsible for

and personnel

selecting university presidents. This

4

and Chris Hallen, professor of chemistry,
were awarded a $27,500 grant to support research on
the waters of the Susquehanna River watershed. The

BU in his new position.

policies

was

and

Pichini's



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of the confluence of the West and North branches.

Derek Weicht, Hanover, environmental science

mine drainage and

its effect

number 3

on Tomhicken Creek.

Jackie Yamrich, Chalfont, environmental science

major, studying the geochemistry of streams in the

watershed of the West Branch of Little Fishing Creek. •

Not Child's Play
TOYS FOR TOTS HELPS SMALLEST FLOOD VICTIMS
About 50

local children affected

flood received

new

by the September

2011

playthings at the Toys for Tots toy

give-away hosted by

BU volunteers, assisted by stu-

dents from Mansfield University. The toy distribution

was

inspired by a Bloomsburg youngster who, during

flood relief efforts, told a

BU volunteer he'd lost his toy

truck in the flood and asked for help. In addition to

new and gently used toys
and stuffed animals were provided by town residents
and high school athletes competing in the NEPA
Invitational hosted by BU's cross country team. •
donations from Toys for Tots,

Family Affair
A
PROFESSOR FOLLOWS
Debating:

HIS FATHER'S

HARRY

"NEIL" STRINE IV

'93, political

SPECIAL OLYMPICS

FOOTSTEPS

science professor

BU, not only enjoys debates but has the art of argument
running through his veins. His father, Harry Strine III,
professor emeritus, was director for the speech and debate
team during his time at BU. Although he retired in 2004,
he continued to direct the team the following year.
When no one stepped forward to become the new
director, Neil Strine was asked if he would take the
position since he and his wife, Danielle Harris Strine
'96, participated on the forensics team while students at
BU. He has led the team since 2005.
With a Strine as director of forensics for more than
40 years, Neil Strine hopes to continue his father's legacy,
both as an educator and as a competitor. •
at

Shiny Young Stars
BU RECEIVES GRANT FOR SUMMER CAMPS
BU'S COLLEGE OF Science and Technology and the
Bloomsburg University Foundation received a $15,000
grant from the Alcoa Foundation to support this sum-

mer's math and science camps for middle and high
school students.

The Alcoa Foundation

is

dedicated to

Bocce Bash
ANNUAL TOURNAMENT A SUCCESS

educating children about the environment and sus-

A total of 236 athletes from 17 counties participated

tainability.

in the

John Polhill, assistant dean of the College of Science
and Technology, and John Karas, assistant director of
development for the BU Foundation, worked together
with local Alcoa representatives at Kawneer Co. to

Special Olympics, sponsored

write the grant.

Past themes for

summer camp

sessions have been

chemical forensics, computer programming, renewable energy
inflatable

and

secret codes. This

summer,

a

new

planetarium will help campers experience

annual Bocce Bash Tournament for the
by BU's Exceptionality
Programs. BU student volunteers from organizations,
including Alpha Sigma Alpha, the women's soccer
club. Education Living and Learning Community,
Students Helping Students, Kappa Sigma,
Pennsylvania State Education Association and
the Student Council for Exceptional Children

worked
full

together to provide participants with a
day (wIRivities. •

the solar system. •

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Transitioning to College
STUDENT WINS FOR RESEARCH
BU EDUCATION MAJOR Brittany Vaszlavik won
prestigious

award

at

the National Collegiate

a

Honors

Council's recent conference in Phoenix for her poster,
Social Support and the College Freshman Experience.
"It has been my goal to identify the groups that
have a hard time

adjusting to college

and and are
most risk for

life

at

feelings of loneliness,
stress

and

isolation,"

says Vaszlavik, a

senior from Vernon,
N.J. "It is my hope
by identifying these

groups those feelings
can be ameliorated."

Also presenting
research at the confer-

ence was Katherine

Zimmerman,

a senior anthropology'

and English

major from Mechanicsburg. Zimmerman discussed a
training module she developed for camp counselors.

Camp Counseling 101: A Guide to Understanding and
Managing Your Camper's Behavior. The training module
be distributed free of charge to

summer camps

Going Underground

will

STUDENTS CLEAN AND EXPLORE CAVES
STUDENTS FROM the Bloomsburg University

R. Kozloff Undergraduate Research Scholarship. •

across the nation, supported by a Jessica

S.

and Stephen

Geoscience Society (BUGS) assisted two chapters of the
National Speleological Society — the York and Franklin
County Grottos — in removing graffiti from caves in
the Shippensburg area. Using drills and brushes,
workers cleaned the walls and then covered the rock
with mud. The group also explored the cave to learn
more about speleology, the study of caves and other
rocky features. Taking part in the project were
students Philip Anzelmo, Denville, N.J., shown in the
accompanying photo, along with Kendi Waltemyer,
Red Lion; Ario D'Amato, Conyngham; John Lenches,
Millville; Matthew Pisanchyn, Clarks Summit; and

Katrina Taylor, Tannersville. •

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Coming in First
PUBLICATIONS ARE WINNERS
TWO PUBLICATIONS designed by

Eric Foster in the

Marketing and Communications Office received
MarCom gold awards as first-place winners. The
publications are the First and Goal case statement for
the football fundraising campaign and the mailer for
the 2011-2012 Celebrity Artist Series. BU's publications

were among

i8 percent of more

received gold awards. •

than 6,000 entries that

Givin
students'
a stron
start
Sophomore Lauren Erdman, an

early

childhood education major, balances

academics, part-time work and a long
list

of volunteer activities.

The

financial boost of the Presidential

Leadership Scholarship supported

through the Henry Carver Fund allows
her do to more.

The scholarship's service requirements are
a natural

fit

for Lauren.

She volunteers

ASPCA and helped establish a
museum in downtown Bloomsburg.
local

at a

history

She also volunteers with Big Brothers/
Big Sisters, helping to give a strong start
to 9-year-old Tara.

You can help

a

Bloomsburg University

student get a strong start through the

Henry Carver Fund. Learn how

at:

www. bloom ufdn. org/hc/why

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Bloomsburg
UNIVERSITY
FOUNDATION,

Inc.

Bloomsburg University Foundation,

400

East Second Street

Bloomsburg, PA 17815
(570) 389-4128

Inc.

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Gridiron Hero
BU JUNIOR HELPS SAVE MOTHER, DAUGHTER

WHEN HE BECAME a firefighter at age 16, Bloomsburg
University' junior

Greg Waters followed

in the footsteps

of his father, currently captain of Churchville's Station

and

83,

his grandfather, a longtime firefighter. That

legacy and several hundred hours of training kicked in

when he and others from his
company helped save a mother and her 4-year-old

nearly two years ago

fire

daughter from their burning home.
On May 25, 2010, Waters recalls, he was hanging out

Richboro with other firefighters when
with possible entrapment in

at the station in

the call

came

in about a fire

neighboring Bucks County community

Ithe

of Upper Southampton. WTien Waters'

Tower 3, arrived on the scene, the
squad was told three people were trapped
on the second floor and they would have to
ventilate the windows. "By ventilating, we completely
smash the window and get the area open so it is easy to
get someone in or out and clear the house of heat and
truck,

smoke," he says.

"My heart was

racing, but

we are trained to get things

done

quickly, but properly," the

man

says.

"We

backup offensive

are always

always

"]Y^

reminded to do things the
nght way, because you can t
help anyone else if you can't

line-

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nght way, because
you can't help anyone
take care of yourself"
The actions of Waters and
else ifyou can't take
the

the others in his squad saved
the

care ofyourself.

woman and her daughter,

although another daughter, an infant, did not survive.
"(The experience) showed me how life can change in an
instant," says Waters.

Waters says his training as a

firefighter

has come into

play as a football player for the Huskies. "Training to do
things the right

way

serves

me well in

criminal justice major. "In both areas
correct way, you'll be successful

more

football," says the
if

you

train the

often than not."

fire, the Lower Bucks County chapter
American Red Cross honored Waters and members
of Rescue 73, Tower 3 and Engine 2 with the Real
Heroes 20U Award for their heroic actions. The companies
were also honored by the Pennsylvania House of

Following the

of the

Representatives for their
8

work

in the rescue effort. •

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Shaffer

Honored

BRYCE SHAFFER,
to the first

team

All- America for

from Gettysburg, was named
One Academic
Division II Men's Soccer, as

a junior

of the 2011 Capital

NCAA

by the College Sports Information Directors of
America (CoSIDA).
selected

was

Earlier in the post-season, Shaffer

selected for

One

the Daktronics All-Atlantic Region second team.

of just 22 soccer
players to be

chosen for the
all-region team,

he led the Huskies
to a

j^^^^^—
|V

Conference (PSAC)

*

'^S^Iitf^^^l
— '^P^BI^^^^^^^^^B
Bryce Shaffer
accepts the PSAC

Championship

left

appearance, their

PSAC commissioner

third in school
history.

He also was honored by a second team All-PSAC

into the Athletic Hall of

Fame

last fall

President David Soltz, center back. Inductees are.

are

shown

left to right:

with

BU

seated. Denise

Miller Warner 99. field hockey and Softball: Tracy Price Splain '92. swimming:
and Lori Shelly '91. Softball and field hockey: and back. Rich Kozicki 76.
swimming: SoltZ: and Mike Petersen '92. tennis.

and given the PSAC Champion Scholar Award.

selection

Shaffer led the 2011 Huskies with 17 points on eight
goals

30th Class Inducted
Alumni inducted

'^.^mpion Scholar Award from Steve
ly.

Pennsylvania

State Athletic

and one

assist,

game winners. His

with two of his goals coming as

biggest

games came against the

teams in West Virginia Wesleyan, Lock
Haven and Gannon. Shaffer netted two goals in each
of the games and was credited with one assist against
Lock Haven for a total of 13 points. A mid-season injury

region's top

New Face of Athletics
MIKE MCFARLAND'S FIRST fall as BU's athletic director
seemed under attack from Mother Nature — an
earthquake, a hurricane, flooding caused by Tropical
Stonn Lee and a freak October
snowstorm.

A half dozen athletic

events, mostly soccer,

limited Shaffer's playing time. •

had

be

to

rescheduled.

However, the forces of nature
dim McFarland's enthusiasm.

Hockey All-Americans

Field

didn't

THREE BU FIELD hockey players were named to the

"It is

Hockey Coaches Association/

2011 National Field

Longstreth AU-American team.

Amanda

Riley of Tannersville earned

her third, first-team Ail-American honor
in 2011.

The senior

led the Huskies in

goals scored with 14

and

in assists

with

Blandon, earned the

/^^^

American honor
keeper led

^Ra>
f

all

in

of Division

first-team All-

II this fall

work with

and students," he

says.

"While the

few months on the job have presented numerous
I am excited about building on the history

and excellent tradition of Husky athletics."
McFarland came to Bloomsburg in August

2011 after

mark

and event operations and

in

years

At Bucknell, McFarland served as the day-to-day
facility

scheduling.

promotional

of .853.

five

as the Patriot League's associate executive director.

supervisor of athletic

in

and was second

saves percentage with a

to

faculty, staff

challenges,

director for facilities

from

her career. The goal-

goals against average

"

a junior

first,

an honor

six years as Bucknell University's associate athletic

12 for a total of 40 points.

Meghan HoUenbach,

first

truly

such outstanding

facilities

and coordinator of all

He monitored marketing and

activities for all 27

Bison varsity sports

selection in her career.

and handled scheduling, maintenance, preparation
and event management issues for all activities.
Earlier in his career, McFarland was the communi-

fielder

cations director and,

Amber Aulenbach's second team AllAmerican honor is the

first

Ail-American

The junior midfrom Fleetwood was one of

Bloomsburg's top threats finishing with
seven goals and six assists for the year.

Bloomsburg finished with a

19-1 record,

won the Pennsylvania State Athletic
Conference championship and advanced
to the

NCAA Division II semi-finals.



later,

the assistant executive

director of the National Soccer Coaches Association

of America.

A 1991 graduate of Lindenwood University

he earned a master's degree from
Western Illinois University in 1994.
McFarland replaces Mary Gardner, who retired in
June 2011 after 23 years as BU's athletic director. •
in St. Charles, Mo.,

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You're That Guy!
For comedians,

it's

Lyle the Intern from Late Night with

David Letterman. For college students, it's Liam McPoyle
from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. For older TV
viewers, it's Lloyd Lowery from Breakout Kings.
And for movie buffs, it could be Armstrong in
Date Night, Crash in Herbie: Fully Loaded or any
character J I

MM

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SIMPSON

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films over the past decade.

Passersby recognize the

name

but seldom call out
OK with Simpson.

face,

and that's
"They come up to me and say, 'Hey, you're that guy
Simpson says. "Then they ask what I was in."
his

...

by

"
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BONNIE MARTIN
WINTER

2012

11

NO WONDER PEOPLE RECOGNIZE SIMPSON.

IT'S
His impressive list of credits ranges from summer
stock at Williamstown Theatre Festival to

and

Broadway

TV to films. When he started out, inspecting incom-

ing vehicles at the dock of Newark, N. J., during the day

and pursuing acting at night, he gave himself 10 years

to

He realized he'd beaten his own deadline half a
dozen years ago when income from his acting roles paid

make
all

it.

of his

to get

bills.

by on

"What a great year, to be

fortunate

he

acting, this fanciful career,"

enough

says.

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o
u
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CALL OF THE STAGE

only if he worked hard on the

"The

Originally a business major,

Simpson admits he wasn't

a moti-

vated student in high school or his

He signed up

early college years.

the greatest teachers in the

12

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for

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r R S

I

fii'st

final.

time

I

put

up

in a

grown

household with an apprecia-

tion of the arts. His parents encour-

and

to

senior years as a theatre major.

worked hard the

class,

last

couple

he appeared in

BU Players

aged him and his two older brothers

do "whatever makes you happy,"
he sa\'s. They supported his acting

move
home state of New Jersey to

aspirations, including the

from

his

productions, including his "sick role"

New York, \\'here he could concen-

of John W^ilkes Booth in Assassins,

trate

by
mentor and

directed
his

the late Michael Collins,
friend.

Simpson's previous acting experience was one role in a communit>'
S

theatre production, but he'd

my heart and soul itito it," he recalls.
And he loved "I spent my junior
"I

orld,"

T Y OF P E N N

the

years of college," he says. Outside of

him he could pass the course

BLOOM SB tRG

was
it.

an Introduction to Theatre class at
the end of his sophomore year,
thinking it would be easy: a mass
lecture :lass he could skip \\'henever
he pleased. And that's what he did
untU theatre arts faculty member
Karen Ansebn, who he calls "one of
told

final

Y L\ A N A
I

on

theatrical roles.

"When I got to New York, I had
no expectations," Simpson recalls.
"I had access to Lower Eastside
productions which I would do for

free to see if I could

in those.

I

be

really

Simpson needed

good

to

pursue a

rela-

tionship that, he says, "just clicked."

didn't plan."

Between acting jobs, he and other
worked on their
own projects, forming friendships
that remain strong today. "It's
struggling actors

Married for nearly

five years,

Simpson says their acting commitments often keep them apart. "We
constantly miss each other," he says.

solidifying having nothing together,"

he

says. "I can't

night

I

was

remember a

single

A

CAREER

"nerdy," a personality trait of some

fish-smelling apartment.

tiny,

TWO SIDES OF

Simpson considers himself

sitting alone in that

had a $500 camcorder and it was
an outlet that made us feel like we
were creating."
I

characters he's portrayed. "But

stopped trying to
about

'do'

nerd.

how to play this guy.

what's worked the most

AN AGENT

the person within.

Simpson met

his first agent

by

municating on a

chance. Professional performers

"I

around people who know more
than me. I really love knowledge
and information."

WHERE HAVE YOU SEEN ACTOR
JIMMI SIMPSON '98? PERHAPS...

of a career in stand-up, he took a

An
ing to

by a comedian. His

class taught

one-and-only stand-up routine was

FILM

seen by the comedian's agent,

Date Night

signed him.
"If you're

A

Quiet

working, you're in the

percent of actors," Simpson

says.

"Making it and not making

of Lying

is

Marriage

sadly arbitrary.

Final Draft

you

Zodiac

working, doing

Itty

Seraphim

Falls

fill

was

7

gaps between acting jobs

some

characters on people he has

known. "A screenplay I wrote

It's

little

centerpiece," says the actor,

worked
it

An agent can get

into auditions.

summer stock.

Committee

Bitty Titty

avid reader since he

a

few years ago has a pizza joint as a

of Invention

Little

who

1

top

love being

early in his career, basing

BROADWAY

Intentions

I

years old, Simpson turned to writ-

intentions

The Famsworth Invention

The Mother

human level.

enjoy playing really articulate

people," he adds, "and

One summer, with no

The Invention

finding

about com-

summer internship with

tage of the opportunity to learn.

Good

is

more

It's

For me,

led master classes during his four-

Williamstown (Mass.) Theatre
Festival, and Simpson took advan-

Taking Chances

It's

I

about net-

shows, doing

There's quite an

Pizza,

at

who

Bloomsburg's Napoli

known

as "Naps," for three

years. "A couple of the characters

are strongly inspired in the best

way by people I worked with."
Today, in addition to acting, he

TV pilots and screenplays
working toward getting

element of luck."

writes

ROSE RED

and is
them produced. He plans

Loser

A "lucky" acting role in the 2002

these projects, each one featuring a

TELEVISION

mini-series. Rose

Breakout Kings

Simpson

The Big Bang
Psych

Melanie Lynskey, best

Stay Alive

Loaded

Herbie: Fully
D.E.B.S.

It's

Always Sunny

Party

Rose
in

Philadelphia

Down

"I

in

was

My Name

Is

friends.

in Seattle six

NYPDBlue
The Division

Rose Red

Back

months and,

we became good

in

New York, I couldn't

Then 9/11 happened and as I watched (the scene
at the World Trade Centers) from
my roof, she sent a message: "Are you
OK?" That simple message was all

believes it's important
an actor to stay grounded, work
hard and remain committed. "I'm
constantly stunned that I'm still
working," he says. "Everything is
for

temporary."

stop thinking of her.

Investigation

Earl

Camivale
Cold Case

as

TV's Two and a Half Men.

Virtuality

House M.D.
Crime Scene
Eleventh Hour

known

role for his wife.

Simpson

to his wife, actress

the last month,

CSI:

Red introduced

to direct

rf,

Editor's note:

Jimmi Simpson

talks about his experiences as a

Bloomsburg University student

at

www.bloomu.edti/magazine. •

.
,

Bonnie Martin

is

editor of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine

WINTER

2012

13

TifEY SIT ACROSS a table and share
their emotional stories of verbal

and torture.
Babak Mohassel's recounting,

attacks, beatings, rape

In

plight of political refugees

law and

other

countries, abuses

— are blurred

an out-of-focus photograph.

They are applicants seeking political

history,

he listened as

attorneys presented evidence

and

"It

human

and

rights victims with

students and the community,

Mohassel hopes

applicants told their stories.

— names, ages, home

the specifics

like

edge of national security law, asylum

takes a certain degree of

to begin a dialogue

about the issues facing individuals

courage to come in front of a

in other countries

maker who will decide
whether you must return to your

solutions to

decision

and propose
end some of the abuses.

The center offers diverse programming in conjunction with the

asylum in the United States, hailing
from nations as varied as Russia,
Poland and Ethiopia. The vagueness

nation state to face persecution.

— the actions against

them
and so emotional," he says.

student club. Institute of Human

of the details

"We needed

recent presentation, the center

vacy. In

is

to protect their pri-

Babak Mohassel's memory,

though, the courage of the applicants
is

in crystalline focus.

For two years as adjudicator with
the Department of Homeland
Security in the Washington, D.C.
area,

Mohassel decided whether
would be granted

these people

asylum or be referred

to the courts.

The issue of human
his

life.

rights drives

Describing himself as both a

is

It

so intense

make

to

sure they got

Rights and Social Justice. For one

recognition for their testimony,

partnered with the Coalition of

and respect
as they shared something so special, so intimate, in an open space.

African Youth to discuss child

"I was impacting lives," he adds.
was determining whether people
could have asylum in the U.S. As
an adjudicator, it was a huge

to

responsibility."

going on there

that they got support

"I

A member of the Washington,
D.C, and

New Jersey bar associa-

Mohassel

slavery in the Democratic Republic

of the Congo. "Children are forced

work

in

mines and find minerals

used in cell phones,"
Mohassel says. "There are a

that are

number of human

rights violations

— minerals are

being stolen, children are being

exposed

Human

to

dangerous minerals.

and an attorney, Mohassel
began working with torture victims
and victims of other human rights
abuses before he earned his graduate
and law degrees from SUNY Buffalo
and Georgetown University Law
School. "I decided to become an
attorney in hopes of assisting them
more," he says.
"There were so many gruesome
events happening around the world,
I felt that there needed to be some
movement," says Mohassel, assis-

tions,

expressed a fear of returning to

and others who hear them.

tant professor of criminal justice at

their country during the process,"

people to not just learn the infor-

sociologist

still

accepts the

occasional political asylum case,

bono
for the Georgia Asylum and
Immigration Network (GAIN) and
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND).
Last summer, for example, he

The center also hosted
Manhattan attorney Travis Johnson,

Africa.

rights issues, including the abuse

the clients were facing deportation.

and exploitation of children.
Mohassel says he wants these

"The case was expediting their
removal from the U.S., and they

Human rights came in when I start-

the adjudicator."

"I

gave legal counsel

ed learning more about Amnesty

14

with forced movement issues in

who talked about domestic human

he explains.

While an adjudicator with the
Department of Homeland Security,
Mohassel decided the fate of individuals, including unaccompanied
youths under age 18, who feared a
return to their home country would
place them in danger of persecution
based on gender, political opinions
or nationality. Relying on his knowl-

mother and

three cases in Atlanta in which

when the individuals were seeing

and doing this type of

In another program, a

daughter shared their experiences

provided legal consultation to

BU since 2009. "I went to grad

International

criminal to various degrees."

offering his services pro

school to learn about society.

work. That fueled me."

rights violations are

Increasing Awareness
At BU, where he teaches courses in
criminology, criminal justice, and
national security law and terrorism, Mohassel has combined his
passion as a

civil rights

advocate

and experience with political
asylum cases in both the classroom
and the campus' Center for Human
Rights and Social Justice, which he
founded in 2009. By sharing the

stories to resonate

with his students
"I

want

remember what they
want to have this engagement touch them and for them to
become aware and think about it,
mation, but to
heard.

I

not just hear

them

it

in passing. I'd like

to deeply consider

it.

It's

one

thing to gain education and go

through school;

it's

another thing

become educated. I want the
audience to become educated about
to

these

human rights violations."

Sara

Hodon is a



freelance writer

and college-level English instructor
from Schuylkill County, Pa.

haven
The news is filled with stories of people
who stand up for freedom and justice in spite
of the danger that may await. BU professor
^ ^ ^
MOHASSEL wants his students to
^

understand basic human rights cannot be taken
for granted and be inspired to take action.

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classes had already been

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cancelled for a day and a half and most students had

Facilities

returned honne. By the time classes resumed on Sept. 19.

another record was

longest weather-related

set: the

BU s history.
Although some students,

closure

more than
f

in

faculty

and

staff

were

fall,

many were eager to

a helping hand. Student athletes remaining
practices

and contests logged a

in

total of 2.5A2

town

lend

University Police

provideda|^

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2.300 hours of support to town police and town

work crews. Employees used 18 pieces of university-owned
equipment to clean debris and transport evacuees and
service provider donated food to
the flood victims, and

BU s

Bloomsburg High School

for

hours of

their athletic activities.

BU employees and

volunteer time helping local residents remove water-

logged belongings from their

Management and

helpers to their destinations. Aramark, the university's food

adversely affected by the natural disaster that flooded 25
percent of Bloomsburg last

^

vice agency that coordinated flood relief efforts.

homes and shovel mud
members of Greek

Agape

athletic

to

for distribution to

department worked with

provide alternative venues for

A month

after flood

waters receded.

students, along with volunteers from

Mansfield University, provided nearly 50 local children with

from their basements. These athletes,

playthings at a Toys for Tots giveaway and athletes gave

organizations and other students volunteered, although

away

a severe shortage

in

potable water

meant showers were

faculty

and

staff

helping their neighbors, friends and families,

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never be the same. But

the affects of Tropical Storm Lee

as

football

will take

a long time to recover from this devastating flood, and

many areas

manned the phone bank at the Emergency

Operations Center: cared for evacuees' pets at the Upper

by

home

Columbia County and the Town

often unavailable.
In addition to

free tickets to the Huskies'

against Shippensburg.

the town are one

community

showed

BU s response

to

the university and

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MAKING A

CLEAN BREAK
by

SUE BEARD
Although the Ferraros agree it
to wager a guaranteed
paycheck on a well-planned
gamble, Jim says he used the fear

was scary

as "a motivator, a tool to

next sales

call."

commuting or

make the

And instead of

behind a
desk, Jim spent the bulk of his three
sitting

and senior high

children's junior

school years working from home.

The

Ferraros,

who met at the

Fed up with cold

for a business of their

Seven years

later,

gamble has paid

off.

own.

the Ferraros'

Executive

Southern

has grown from 20
employees to more than 100. Each
California,

night, the Ferraros'

out to clean

square

employees fan

more than

1

million

feet of commercial

He's also protective of his employees.

"Ninety- nine percent of our workforce

is

site. I

want

female,

treat

and I inspect every

my employees to feel safe

environment in which they're
I

look for companies that

our employees with respect."

He says he couldn't have done
any of it without his wife. The two
are partners— in life and in business
—with Debbie taking care of the
accounting and payroll and

On a frigid New Jersey Sunday in
wind chill was 20 below
Debbie remembers), the
Ferraros sat in their con do watching the Giants and Broncos vie for
the Super Bowl XXI championship
in Pasadena, Calif "I looked at him
and he looked at me, and we asked
ourselves what we were doing in
New Jersey," she remembers.
zero,"

"We weren't skiers, we weren't
we needed to go to

and

the strong relationship

involved in business decisions.

1987 ("The

Facility Services Inc., their thriving

janitorial service in

up the

is

he develops with his customers.

working.

risked their financial security, trad-

fits

he believes,

in the

corporate ladder.

ing Jim's corporate job with bene-

Jim developed his business model
while earning his MBA from the
University of Phoenix in the late
1990s. "I wanted a business based
on my two strengths: customer
service and client relations," he
says. He found a small janitorial
business for sale, bought a second
and merged the two.
The key to the business' success,

from Catholic high schools in Bucks
County, transferred to Bloomsburg
during their sophomore years. After
graduation, Debbie became a junior
accountant, while Jim started

industrial space.

snow people

The Ferraros, 1984 BU graduates, had three young children by
2004 but Jim admits he was hardly
a hands-on father. "I was on six

California," Jim says of the decision.

...

Within a one-month span in 1988,
they bought their
postal

first

business, a

annex franchise designed to

Advice for future entrepreneurs?
"Know the nuts and bolts of the
product or service you're offering,"
says Jim. "Listen to your clients talk

about their wants and needs before

They may not
know they need what you're offering,
so you may have to educate your
client. And find a mentor who's
been there and done that."
The Ferraros realize that some
you

offer anything.

may

look

tors. "It's

but

it's

down

their noses at jani-

not a glamorous business,

a service that has to be done,"

says Debbie.

planes in three days," he says of

provide supplemental income;

his hectic corporate career with a

purchased their first single-family

you're willing to do

home; and learned they were expect-

don't

school bus provider.

He yearned

to

spend more time with his wife and
children, set his own schedule and
enjoy the family's many outdoor
pursuits, which include running,
sailing and biking.

]

'Picky' about customers

Jersey Shore shortly after graduating

JIM AND DEBBIE Blake Ferraro
were about to turn 40 when they

ALUMNI PROFILE

ing their

first

baby.

The couple sold

Both subscribe

want

to the saying: "If

what other people

way

to do, you'll live the

other people aren't able to

live."



the fi^anchise about five years later

when Debbie became a stay-at-home

Sue Beard, the

mom to daughters Chelsea and

Record Herald in Waynesboro,

Jordyn and son Christian.

lives in

retired editor of The

North Fort Myers,

Pa.,

Fla.

WINTER

2012

19

by

JACK SHERZER

STATE'S

Warden
Former offensive lineman and coach JOHN WETZEL '98 says gridiron
lessons came into play as he worked his way up from corrections officer to
warden of the Franklin County Prison and, now, Pennsylvania's Secretary
of Corrections. "Watching game film, you better check your sensitivity at
the door because you're going to be judged on every step you take. At the
Franklin County Prison, we measured ourselves by our own standards,
which were always higher. And, that's what we're instilling here in the
Department of Corrections."
Pennsylvania's Secretary of Corrections says he's

potential to be good, productive citizens.

discovered certain truths during a career that's taken

interest to create

him through

productive,

three county prisons: Lack of a high

school diploma and real job skills are key factors
behind many incarcerations; placing non-violent,
low-risk offenders behind bars is counterproductive;
and society's best bet is to give inmates skills they need
for a

life

"The
that

outside prison.
reality of corrections,

even

at

the state level,

90 percent of the people are going to walk

is

out," says

John Wetzel '98, confirmed as corrections secretary in
May 2011. "The fact is the majority of inmates have the
20

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and

It's

in

our best

an environment where they can become
through programming, modeling

that's

appropriate behavior and increasing their

skill set."

Wetzel received his bachelor's degree in psychology

from Bloomsburg in 1998, and his corrections career
began to take off. He became warden at the Franklin
County Prison in January 2002 and, five years later,
former Gov. Ed Rendell appointed him

Board of Pardons as the corrections

to the state

expert.

The

appointment, he says, led to his selection as Gov.

Tom

Corbett's corrections secretary.

OF PENNSYLVANIA
1^

As warden at Franklin County Prison, Wetzel initiated
He oversaw the construction
of a new prison while expanding treatment and program
options so jail would be a last resort. And the numbers

John Wetzel, standing third from
left, poses with Huskies teammates.

alternatives to incarceration.

dropped.

When he started as warden, the county had

it had 297 by January 2011.
Wetzel directed the creation of the county's day

322 inmates;

reporting center, where offenders

who are attending

treatment for drug and alcohol abuse or classes to obtain

diploma are monitored while living at
home instead of at the prison. To make it happen, he
worked with the county judges, commissioners, district
attorney and other stakeholders in the community.
their high school

Today, on average, there are 120 offenders in the
county's day reporting center
center,

would be

sitting

— people who, before the

behind bars, says David

S. Keller,

chairman of the Franklin County Commissioners. Keller
credits Wetzel with focusing the county's criminal jus-

system on a more treatment-oriented approach and

tice

coordinating services so someone

who is,

Prison,

for example,

During his break from

continue to receive help after release from prison.

"John never

lost sight of two

safety

and helping people

going

to benefit greatly."

main

to return to

Bloomsburg

goals: public

college,

he played on the
Penn Piranha

two seasons until he tore his right Achilles tendon.
The injury stopped him from playing, but opened the
door to coaching the Chambersburg Cardinals semi-pro
for

get their lives

team and, as a volunteer offensive line coach, the
Shippensburg University Raiders.
William DiMascio, executive director of the

who lives in Chambersburg with his wife

Philadelphia-based inmate advocacy group

and four daughters, readily acknowledges that his
career path has been a bit unusual.

Pennsylvania Prison Society,

He was an indifferent student
whose main interest when he came
to Bloomsburg was playing on the

heartened by Wetzel's belief in

Huskies offensive

line.

He credits

PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF
CORRECTIONS
• $1.87 billion


27 correctional

"Wetzel has

facilities,

one motivational

boot camp, 14

Eileen Astor-Stetson, for the advice

centers, nearly 40 contract facilities

that

would propel him through

his

career.

"She told

me that I wouldn't be

happy working for someone

that

I

was headed with my

lack

of attention to education," he

More than 51.000 inmates



The average time served

turns out she was right."
Wetzel didn't immediately see

recalls. "It

the

wisdom

of his professor's advice.

of graduating, he

left



for

Wetzel admits the

inmates

of

an inmate

he has Corbett's backing. "In the
first cabinet meeting, the governor
said it's important to do the right

SOURCE: WWW.COR.STATE.PA.US

A semester short
football sea

to

providing needed programing, but

2010: $32,986

Bloomsburg after the

state's tight

budget presents a challenge

2009 was 50.2 months

Average annual cost
in

be a lot more humanistic than
some of his predecessors."
to

About 16.000 employees

in

he's not of the

"He's a very bright guy and a very
good people person, and he tends

academy



released

shown

lock-them-up-and-throw-awaythe-key approach," DiMascio says.

community corrections



wasn't as smart as me, but that's
the path

training

is

alternatives to incarceration.

budget

his adviser, psychology professor

and a

to

offensive line for the semi-pro Central

back on track,"
Keller says. "I think if he's given the freedom to set
some goals and the resources to accomplish them in
the way he was in Franklin County, Pennsylvania is
Wetzel,

knowing he wanted

complete his degree.

studying for high school equivalency certification can

things, for the right reasons, right

now. There

may be impediments. My job is

son in 1991 to take a full-time job as a guard in the

impediments out of the way." •

Lebanon County Prison, where he'd previously worked
part-time and his brother works today. A year later, he
became a corrections officer at the Berks County

Jack Sherzer
native.

is

to get the

a professional writer and Pennsylvania

He currently lives in

Harrisburg.

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2012

21

Ted Roggenbuck. director
of BU s Writing Center left,
discusses ways to improve
student writing with Bob
Calarco. Berwick High
Scfiool English teacher.

BERWICK HIGH scHOOl

adminis-

and English teachers
beHeved the time was right for
trators

student- staffed writing center.

saw

as a natural

it

way

a

They

to increase

and encourage students to spend more time reading
and writing. But, where to start?
Doing his own homework,
Berwick English teacher Bob

literacy skills

Calarco read

A

Guide to Creating

Student-Staffed Writing Centers in

Grades Six through 12 by Richard
Kent.

The book advised contacting
what

local universities to see

resources they
12 miles away,

may have. Just

Calarco found

Bloomsburg University's Writing
where director Ted
Roggenbuck and consultants
Jess Weber and Molly Phelan were
Center,

excited about the possibility of a
collaboration.

Consultants, as

BU Writing

Center student staffers are called,
offer aid to graduate

thewrite

graduate students

and under-

who need help

any stage of the writing process.
"Working in a writing center is one
of the most powerful learning
in

experiences a person will ever

stuff

by

BECKY LOCK

have," says Roggenbuck, assistant

professor of English. "Our job

and one of the things

Berwick High School teachers wanted
a student-staffed writing center and
BU had the expertise to make it happen.

The resulting partnership benefits
students at both institutions.

is

to

help improve writing instruction,
writers

is

that helps

talking about writing.

The more writing centers in the
area, the more prepared students
will be."

The

creation of the high school

center provided internship opportunities for

Phelan and Weber,

neither of whom had experience

with writing centers during their
high school years. Together, they

helped design and establish the
training

program for the high
The Write Place,

school's center,

22

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

which opened

in fall 2011, referring

and researching
other successful models. They created training lessons and hands-on

at

activities for 15

new consultants,

all

Weber also

Maryland's Salisbury University.

Although Weber and Phelan

to Kent's guide

graduated in spring
tion

2011, collabora-

between the two institutions

continues this year with

coming to a peer, they won't be
worried about being judged or
graded and they will take more
risks in their writing."

BU repre-

"The benefits of a university

sented by Michael Sherry, assistant

writing center to the university

administered training in Berwick,

professor of English, and juniors

spending about an hour there each
week for eight weeks.
The pair asked the younger
trainees to write an essay explaining
their own writing process, then

Olivia Rios of Millersville

community are well-documented,"
says James Brown, dean of BU's

high school juniors.

took them on a

field trip to the

university's writing center,

where

they worked with college-age tutors.

and
Caitlyn Connolly of Newtown.
Rios,

who gave a presentation on

College of Liberal Arts. "What's
exciting about this collaboration

the opportunity our university

National Conference on Peer

students had to participate in the

Tutoring in Writing in Miami

last

works to get Berwick teachers
more involved with the center.
fall,

creation of a high school writing

center and in the design and imple-

mentation of training materials for

BU

^

junior Olivia Rios, right, offers wrltinj

feedback

to

|

left:

Samantha^ower.

teach the high school writing

consultants

was how to recognize

Calarco says the high school center,

-:.xdHBK-^'>^''>£.vi.aJi^tal:idH

student writing consultants."

Weber currently

a.m. to 3 p.m. each
school day, aims to "change the

the writing center model for a high

culture of the building in terms

school in Maryland. She and

7:15

is

replicating

the difference between fixing a

of writing awareness." Initial feed-

Phelan both plan to direct their

and helping the writer,
Roggenbuck says. "They have to act
like readers, not experts. With high
school students, the more they act

back just one marking period into
the center's use is positive. "History

own

writer's text

like

an expert, the harder

it

is

for

the student to take responsibility."

Working

at

the center changed

the career plans of Weber

teachers are using the writing center's
services,

and science teachers send

students here to get help with their
lab reports.

I

feel

very optimistic,"

"I

centers one day.

think talking about your writ-

something everyone should
It makes us better
writers," Phelan says. "I've seen
ing

is

be able to do.

how beneficial a writing center is to
college students. Students are facing

Calarco says.

A writing center for high school

and

a pivotal time in high school.

Phelan. They switched their

students

majors to composition language

because

and rhetoric, and both earned
tuition waivers and graduate

at

think they think about audience

Becky Lock

assistantships in the master's pro-

and purpose when they are

photographer

gram

ing,"

in

composition and rhetoric

is

it

"especially important

encourages them to look

writing in a

J
1

/

and Alec Trapane.
.

open from

,

Berwick High School stud^ts

Katie Scopelliti, front
center:

One of the most important lessons Weber and Phelan needed to

is

The Write Place with Weber at the

new way.

Weber says.

"But,

I

if

The

writing center provides everything
I

would have wanted help with." •

don't

writ-

they are

is

a writer, editor

and

who works and lives

in Pennsylvania.

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Jloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Tship:

Ste{^

TUBE A BUSHY-HAIRED, Socially awkward BU

Sometimes, he acknowledges,

fate pushes you to the
what happened last September when
rains from Trnniral Storm T^p fnii<;pH hnrrl<;hin anrl

freshman" pushing a bin full of belongings into a tripled
rnom in Flwpll Hall Rlnnmchiirtr \/lct\rrnr Flan K'nnri' 'riT

higher

an apt description of himself in fall 2003.
"It's hard for people to visualize that kid when they
see me," he says. "It's easy for people to think, 'He has
confidence, he knows what he's talking about and he's
not afraid to speak to a group.' But those things never

heartbreak for his constituents. Unable to reach his

says

it's

just happen."

Knorr,

who double-majored in political science and

involvement in the Political Science
Student Association, forensics team and University
Democrats with building his confidence. Elected to
history, credits his

Bloomsburg Town Council in 2005, Knorr won his first
term as mayor in 2007 when he was just 21. He credits his
success to pushing himself out of his comfort zone.
"You get to a position and you make some mistakes
and you learn from them," he says. "Once you're confident and you feel you can move onto something bigger,
do it. You'll never truly be ready for something if it's a
higher

level."

level.

That's

own

home, which was untouched by the flood, Knorr held
Emergency Management Association meetings, met with
officials ft-om a local business for updates on an ammonia
leak and circulated through the community to make sure
residents' seemingly never-ending needs were addressed.
The effects of the flood caught up with him as he
stopped by a Saturday night dinner for victims and volunteers at the Caldwell Consistory. "I had been cut off"
from my house and it hit me: I, too, needed a meal from
someplace and a place to sleep for a few hours."
Knorr tried to remain optimistic as he reminded local
residents, "We will get through this. There will be a time
when the water isn't here and we will work through
everything together.

was certainly the biggest test I've faced so far," he
says. "If there was ever a moment when you realize why
you're in this position, that was it." •
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Allen Kessler and his wife,

Betty,

Sowash recognized

David M. Furman, Iowa, was

wedding anniversary in June 2011.

named human resources director
for the Consumer Lending Group

He taught in New Jersey schools

at

of Milton, celebrated their 50th

Linda Zyla

Sowash

ator from

Merck Pharmaceuticals.

as a sixth-grade teacher from

1

after 34 years of service.

Northumberland and

at

Benton high schools and Luzerne
Intermediate Unit

18,

a

PIAA
and

PASSHE schools during construction
Sowash was a founding participant for
the campus' Multicultural Affairs Office and the Women's Resource
Center Several current BU student and alumni affairs staff members
lowest of

1977
Geraldine Stish Shepperson,

Hazleton Area School

District, is

an accomplished baseball umpire,

head of operations

was inducted into the Luzerne
County Sports Hall of Fame last year.

Academy Charter School. She

1968
Mark Goldman,

a senior

human

at the Valley

began their careers under her guidance.
She has received numerous other campus awards, including the
Outstanding Service Award in 2008. She will be honored with a
plaque

at the

Dixon Center

Alumnus named VP

the University of Scranton and a

John Bigelow '76 was recently named senior vice president of business
services at American Water Works Co. Among his new responsibilities.
his focus will be on promoting efficiency and leading

doctoral degree in educational

ment

of Pennsylvania.

some

present a career program for

1978
Wyk is an attorney
Wyk
Consulting. A veteran, he served
Daniel Van

BU

students on social networking.

in the U.S. Air Force during

Desert Storm and continues his

1973

service as a colonel in the Air

Richard Schwanger is an

National Guard.

assistant technical professor of

of Bethel

accounting at King's College.

He holds a master's degree from

programs and entermanagement; chief financial officer, vice
president and treasurer of New Jersey American Water: and director,
treasurer and vice president of New Jersey American Water
Resources Co. He began his career at GPU System Cos.. where he
spent 18 years working

Houston, Texas.
is

in

finance.

Guiffre receives lifetime

1980
is

chief financial

Nick Guiffre

'78.

president and

He is a certified

public accountant, a certified

an assistant technical professor of

management accountant and

education at King's College.

certified treasury professional.

CEO

achievement award

of Bradford

White Corp.. was

Keenan Lifetime Achievement Award during
the American Supply Association (ASA) annual
meeting and member lunch. This award honors
individuals whose contributions and achievements
have improved the plumbing, heating, cooling and

presented the Fred

Lee Morgan Evans '74/'9oM

positions include senior

prise risk

officer of BPZ Resources,

1974

management

vice president of regulatory

VFW Post 6835.

Richard Menniti

Joseph's University.

St.

He is commander

business services

centralized support services.

His other

and consultant with Van

returned to his alma mater to

of

The president of New Jersey American Water
since 2007. Bigelow has a long history with
American Water, which serves approximately 15
million people throughout the U.S. and Canada.

with NASA's

Flight Center,

Harrisburg.

educational counseling from

leadership from the University

Goddard Space

in

holds a master's degree in

resource developspecialist

1

projects valued at $68 million.

formerly superintendent of the

basketball referee for 32 years

Brown

Sowash. who retired as BU s director of residence life, was influential in founding BU s Living
and Learning Communities program, which has
grown to
communities serving about 700 students. She kept housing costs at BU among the

Jean Eck Snook '76/'79M retired

Patrick "Tiger" Denoy, a long-time

educator

S.

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
(PASSHE).

Wells Fargo and Co.

Mifflinburg Area School District

1958

Suzanne

Distinguished Service Award, which honors current and fornner student affairs staff members at universities in the

and later returned to Pennsylvania,
where he retired as a chemical oper-

for service

'7iif76M received the

a

V.

in terms of education,
and industry image.
began working for the Bradford White

piping fields, especially
safety, service

Guiffre

Joseph Lapotsky '74/'79M,

who

taught business education and
a wrestling coach for

30 years,

is

was

more than

now serving on the

Bill

Reineberg is vice president of

risk

management and

nal auditor for Capital Blue Cross.

He has been with the company for
23 years.

1975

Joan Davis Shortall, a

James Ott, principal and president

education teacher,

was

selected

by

her peers as 2011-12 teacher of the

was appointed to the Lacka-

year for the Florence Career Center

wanna College Board of Trustees.

She

is

also one of four

include sales administrator,

Brian Mahlstedt

Ernest Jackson, a
is

senior vice

is

principal of Saint

president of commercial lending
for

BU Alumni

Association Board director,

Wayne Bank.

Michael's School

Complex, Netcong,

honor roll

teachers for the Florence District

One in Florence, S.C.

company

and executive vice president. He also was
honored with the Golden Eagle Award from the Association of
Independent Manufacturers' Representatives in 2003.

vice president of sales

1981

special

AppleTree Management Group

Inc.,

within the

chief inter-

Mount Carmel Borough Council.

for

Corp. after graduation from BU. His former positions

which serves

Jessica Spangler Harris, vice

N.J.,

president of the Houston branch

students from pre-

of the International Dyslexia
Association, received the

kindergarten through eighth grade.

Nancy

LeFevers Community Service
Award for leadership and

Gina Spleen Jaeger, a captain with
the U. S.

Navy Medical Service

contributions in the field of

Corps,

the

dyslexia

and the community.

is

commanding officer

of the Naval Health Clinic in

Corpus

Christi, Texas.

WINTER

2012

25

Bloomsburg L

ni\ ersir>

of Pennsylvania

husky
1983
Stephen J. Jones is Air Products'
China president, based
Shanghai.

1988

in

Bait

and Tackle, Manahawkin,

N.J.

A former business teacher

He is also senior vice

president and general manager of

Alumna serves as

Andy Tonnesen owns Tony's

and wrestling coach, he

is

the

Global Tonnage Gases Equipment
fourth generation of his family to

and Energy. He holds a master's

head the business.

degree from Temple University

and a law degree from the

1989

University- of Pennsylvania.

Brenda Dominick DeRenzo
'89/'90M

Abe Simon

is

academic vice prin-

cipal at

Holy Redeemer High

School,

where he is responsible

is

principal of

FogelsviUe Elementary School.

Kevin

L.

Moyer is

for the school's curriculum devel-

senior xdce president

opment, guidance and faculU'
at

Corporate Call

training.

Rebecca Kenvin Warren

first

'88 recently

female

was sworn

DA

as the first
female district attorney in the MontourColumbia Counties Judicial District.
Previously an assistant DA, Warren dedicated her election victory last fall to her
father and brother who were killed in a
2006 car accident. Their deaths motivated
me to seek this position." she says.
"Victims will have a voice."
Warren has been practicing law for 20
years. Before becoming Montour County's
district attorney she was a solicitor for
the prison board and served as an
assistant DA in Columbia County. She
has provided legal council to several towns and businesses in the
area and authored Columbia County's first child abuse protocol.
Warren lives in Danville with her husband. Rick Warren '89.
and their two children.
in

Center, Blue Bell.

1985

Julia Spychalski

Cindy Smith English, formerly
vice president of strategic initiatives for Geisinger

joined Elite

Health Plan,

Group Consulting of

Lewisburg. She

is

a

is

an early

inter-

vention development specialist for

REID Cliildren's Sei-vices, a division of The Amoore Group, King
of Prussia.

Little

1990

*

quality'

assurance and regulatory

Marc A. 'Varano is DanvUle

t«^^B

2MV^

He is an outreach coordinator

Joe Smits

is

LIFE program

Kulpmont.

in

1991
Francine Bebenek Ashby
vice president of

ment

for

is

vice president of fund develop-

business develop-

^^^r

for Geisinger Medical Center's

compliance for Integra, York.

1986

4^

Jl^friB

Rotary's Rotarian of the Year for
2011.

Haney is the director of

League

'91

was promoted

ment

for Albright

Care Services.

Saucon

to vice president of

International Baseball

and

is in

charge

JeffT. Gyurina

Bethlehem.
for

is

^

MontoursvLUe Borough.

academy
Leslie

David Hein

leadership development from
analytics

Pennsylvania State
a senior

of Mount Kilimanja^ in Tanzania, the highest

is

manager of sales

and reporting for

University-.

manager in human

Independence Blue Cross

in

Philadelphia.

resources for Pfizer Inc.

Ann Sieminski Moran was

1987
Loraine Santee Zelna

appointed to the Pennsylvania
is

associate
Historical

professor of medical imaging

at

and Museum

Commission by Gov.

Tom Corbett.

Misericordia University'.

26

Michele Rowland Cherry '92 hiked the

freestanding

received a master's degree in

She is

in 1993.

Lynch Smurthwaite

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF

PE

NNSY

LVA

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A

position.

an administrative assistant to the vice president.
Over the years, he has served as director of
regional operations and assistant international tournament director
Wilson, who played Little League baseball when he was a child,
volunteers with organizations, including United Way and Leadership
Lycoming, and has served on the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors and the Williamsport Area Recreation
Commission. He has been a member of BU's Council of Trustees

the police chief

He graduated from the poUce

new

of several Little

since 2009.

Technologies,

operations for

Softball. In his

League regional
centers in the U.S. and abroad and responsible for
coordinating the annual World Series tournaments
in eight divisions of baseball and Softball. He chairs
Little League International's Charter Committee,
Rules Committee and Tournament Committee.
He began working for Little League in 1993 as
he

health insurance executive.

L.

Patrick Wilson

member of the

Academy for Healthcare
Management and a certified

John

Wilson experiences success
on and off the field

mount^ in the world

1992
Jason Wolfe, founder and

CEO

of Wolfe, LLC, received the 2011

Ernst

& Young eCommerce

Entrepreneur of the Year award
for the western Pennsylvania
region. Wolfe started CouponsDirect,

the

Internet

first

coupon

site.

1999

2003

2008

Marissa Barrett earned a mas-

Lois Kirchner O'Boyle completed

James D'Amico 'o8/'loM

a master's degree in biology from

residence director and assistant

ter's degi'ee in historic

tion

preserva-

and regionalism from the

University of New Mexico.

Calista

director of student activities at

She presented the

Juniata College in Huntingdon.

at

results of her

the Joint Meeting of

Ichthyologists

Germany Beyer is princi-

and Herpetologists.

Jennifer Krott Chamberlain

earned a doctorate in physical

pal of Edgewood Elementary

2004

several online companies, including

School in the Pottstown School

Mark Roda is a

University.

MyCoupons.com.

District.

financial adviser

cal therapist at

with Lancaster-

in

1994

Shawn Rosier '00/'02M is a lead

based Sherman

analyst with the Epic computer-

Werst

His firm

is

company of

the parent

Amy Clewell Goodwin is director
Community

of diildren's ministry at

Mennonite Fellowship of Milton.

based training development team
at

Geisinger Medical Center,

1995
McNamara is a
member of the human services
Michaeleen

faculty

and professor of psychology

2001
Katherine

Lomax is director of

therapy from Shenandoah

& Co.

She

is

a geriatric physi-

Fox Rehabilitation

northern Virginia.

JiUiene Huffman, a U.S.
specialist,

2005
Andrew

Danville.

a

the University of West Florida.

research

2000

is

combat training at Fort

B. Cain,

Lititz, is

Army

graduated from basic
Sill,

Okla.

a busi-

ness analyst with Fulton Financial

Amy LoVaUo is a training spe-

Corp.'s information technology

cialist

with Esri in Charlotte, N.C.

department.

David Numberger was promoted

educational services with the

John "Jack" Lydic was named

to grocery

Technology.

Community Education Council of
Elk and Cameron counties.

offensive coordinator at

Food Markets, DownLngtown.

1996

Veronica Bubb Powell completed

he coaches quarterbacks and

Stefanie Pitcavage, Harrisburg,

Jodi Piekarski Loughlin '96M,

her second master's degree in

serves as assistant coordinator

earned a juris doctorate from

of athletic operations.

Widener University School of

John D. Pittenger is an environ-

laude.

at

Pennsylvania College of

manager at Wegmans

Misericordia University, where

Shenandoah,

is

an assistant pro-

tistics

from Virginia Tech and

stais

a

biostatistician

conducting undergraduate reading

Burlington, Mass.

graduate-level course

on profes-

clerk with the

Jones

of marketing and recruitment for

Oil

is

& Gas.

executive

for the

school boys' and

is

the high

girls'

head swun-

director of the Osterhout Free

2002

ming coach for the Parkland

Library in Wilkes-Barre.

Robert Pretopapa, a wealth

School

adviser with NothelferMorrone

earth

1997
Eugeniu Grigorescu, Hanover

passed the certified financial

Township,

planner examination.

is

director of the

Center for Teaching and Learning

Greta Keller Rosier

Scranton.

manager for an

1998
Jessica

Grim

Galle

is

is

operations

District,

where he teaches

and space science.

2009
Korie Dudrich was

the King's College Office of Career

Planning.

Rudy Inaba is director of nutri-

Jesse Cooper

and exercise for Cenegenics

Medical

Institute,

named

internship advising coordinator in

Las Vegas.

is

a defensive back

with the Philadelphia Soul of the

Arena Football League.

surgical unit at Geisinger Medical

John R. Sweeney is

Center, Danville.

agent with Weichert Realtors-

tenant in the U.S. Army, graduat-

Ruffmo Real Estate in Milford.

ed with honors and

account

Douglas A. Snyder is a member

Clemens, a Lansdale accounting

of the York County and

firm.

District of

inpatient medical/

manager at Baum Smith and
and business advisory

Middle

2006
tion

Excellence at the University of

Honorable John E.

the U.S. District Court

Pennsylvania.

Robert Robitaille

Financial Strategies, Allentown,

III in

cum

a federal judicial

Gathering, a subsidiary of Chief

Danville.

Richard C. Miller

is

mental coordinator for Chief

Geisinger Health Systems,

sional contributions.

She

Amy Cechman Wright is manager

courses in children's literature

and reading methodology and a

Law, graduating summa

with rnVentivHealth,

fessor at Misericordia University,

a real estate

David Watson, a second lieu-

his class

2007

from the

at

the top of

101st

Airbome's

Air Assault School. Watson

Pennsylvania Bar associations

Maribeth Brozena '07/'09M

returned from Afghanistan in

and an associate with the firm of

was

May 2011 and is stationed in

Becker & Strausbaugh

University's assistant field

P.C.

selected as Slippery

Rock
hockey

Kentucky.

coach.

WINTER

2012

27

Marriages

2010
Janel Petrovich '09/'ioM,

Shamokin Township,

is

employee assistance program

a

cheerleader with the Philadelphia
Eagles.

added

counselor

at

Red Rock Job Corps.

to the

35-member squad

Kayla

Trumbo was selected as

head volleyball coach
State Schuylkill.

Kaitlyn D'Annibale '09/'ioM
athletic trainer at

Universit}'.

trainer,

Bowie

is

State

A certified athletic

she works

at

She

for

is

Penn

an itinerant

the Schuylldll

Haven Area School

District.

David Hudak

'02

and Nichole

Light,

Pennsylvania

20U

Kristin Kasper '03 and Jeremy Rautzahn, April 30,

and John Bonievncz, Aug.
Byrne, Nov.

20U

6,

2010

6,

Shumway '03

Meredith Moore '04 and Kirk Lehman

Andrea Ballas

'08, Jan. 14, 2011

and Mark Teeters, July 23, 20U

'05

Harrisburg.

Shonda Kevick

and Jeremy Bruner, July

'05

2011

2,

Tiffany Schnure '05 and Timothy Spencer, Jvine u, 20U

Air Guard's
193rd Special Operations Wing,

He is currently

Stacey Halko '06M and Christopher Mears

'06

Abby Neff '06 and

2011

Jennifer

Joshua M. Rose accepted a

20U

'04, July 9,

Jonathan Kline '06 and Kristin Schroeder, June 26, 20U

Marina Miranda

in flight school.

of sales operations at Kiwaii 100

New Zealand Spring

2010

10,

2011

10,

as a pilot with the

College of Osteopathic Medicine,

Water Co., Hellertown.

June

Meredith Leonard '04M and Edward O'DonneU

a medical student at Lake Erie

Percent True

and George Powell, May 29, 2010

'01

Jessica Lightcap '04 and Kristopher

Amy Cortellini, Mount Carmel,

Adam Heffelfinger is manager

2011

sioned as a second lieutenant in

and assigned

at

Veronica Bubb

2011

18,

7,

Andrew Wentz was commisthe U.S. Air Force

Hill.

2011

Jason Helcoski '02 and Nicole Narcavage, July

Thomas Hector '04 and Heidi

Evans '07/McBryan

Seton

Brian Kasarda '00 and Jessica Ervin, June

Alicia Averto '04

Football Clinic.

is

and Ed Everdale, May 21,

'89

and learning support teacher for

summer

camps for youth, including the
Jahri

Marx

Jennifer Warsing '99 and Christopher Hampton, April 20, 20U

Amy Belnap '01 and Richard Clarke, May

She is one of 15 cheerleaders

for 20U.

head

Antoinette

Steve Switzer is a trainee

Shymansky

Hope Swenson

and Matthiew Forgeard- France

Ke\Tn Ream, Oct.

'06

'06 and

2,

'06, Nov. 3,

2010

Rudy Inaba

20U

'06, April 26,

and Adam Pankake, July 23, 20U

position vvdth Select Medical

Andrew Osipower is a water

Joseph Yasinskas '06 and Jennifer Petrovsky, June

Corp., Mechanicsburg.

Kristen Barrett '07 and

polo coach and part-time business
teacher at
School.

Upper Perkiomen High

He also plays for a master's

team in the American Water Polo

Jeremy J. Scheibelhut is a
accountant with the
office of Boyer

& Ritter.

Main Line League.

staff

Camp Hill

Kristin Brovra '07 and

June

'06,

Dana DiSalvatore
Kristie

Gardner

Tara K. Robuck is an elementary'
Kathleen
guidance counselor with the

'07

'07

'07

and Stephen Post

and

Lyons

Elliot

May 7, 20U

'06,

'08, July 30,

and Nicholas Dermes

1,

20U

Oct. 16,

20U

Amanda

an assistant volleyball coach

Penn

at

State Schuylkill.

and Joshua Newport,

Laura Laboskie '08 and Jerrod

Cole, Sept.

20U

3,

Amanda Mills '08 and Brandon Zwalkuski, May 21, 20u
Victoria Yurksza '08 and Casey Lucas, June
Julia

Camara Calvo

Patricia

Hannon

'09

'09

and Dan Acor

and Marcus

C.J.

'10,

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Shawn

Amanda Milo '10 and John
Whitney Peachey
Ashley Romanot

Greg Swendsen

'10

'10

Meghan Burrows
Haili Shetler 'u

'10

Hill,

'09,

21,

20U

20U

June u, 20U

June u, 2011

Mot\'ka, Aug. 20, lou

and Matthew Reed

and Mark

'10,

Palubinsky-,

and Shannon KeUy,

'11

2009

Coulter

Roslevich '09 and Stephanie Jo

Lindsay Young '09 and Eric Ewing

12,

Oct.

Kristin Pohle '09 and Steven Codey, Aug. 26,

FIND MORE

20U

15,

Christina Golasa '08 and Daniel Piatt '09, Aug.
Hertlein '08

8,

2011

learning support teacher in the
District, is

20u

McMahon '07 and Sean MaMnmuLk, April 22, 2011

Ashley Shappell, a middle school

Area School

20U

'06, July 16,

Tiffani Corliss '08 and Kyle Bogart, June

Pottsville

2010

20U

Matthew BleUer '05, May 22, 2010

Deirdre Miller '07 and Scott Coup '05/'07M, Oct.

District.

26,

4,

Annette Conigliaro '07 and Darren Adair '07

Karen Hause

Midd-West School

Tim Brockman

April

June

18,

16,

Sept. 30, 2010

and Eric Solomon, June 4, 20U

and Daniel Coombe, Nov.

19,

20U

20u

20U

20u

VITAL STATISTICS
Obituaries

Births
Cathleen Zicari Flynn '93 and husband, Frank, a
daughter, Sarah

Ann, March 8,

2011

Lucy Gergen Bridy
Harriet E.

Samuel Ronald Bashore

'25

Adams '28

Agnes Cotterman Bonham Hayman
Janeen Schrann Sutryk

'93

and husband, Jaime, a

Dorothy Jones Berry

'32

'29

'67

Brumbaugh Mehle

Elaine

Michael Mellinger

William Rowett

'67

'67

'67

son, Michael

Mary Kathryn Moyer Leiby '33
Natalie Clipsham Lucca '97 and husband, Todd, a
daughter, Evelyn,

March

7,

2011

Holly Kapuschinsky Magalengo '97 and husband,
Scott, a daughter,

Tavia Skye, June

20u

12,

Velma Mordan

Kerstetter '35

Edward P. Kupskyjr.
Jimmie

E.

Masich

Daniel "Danny" Litwhiler '38

Richard O. Wilhour

Edna

W. James Kephart

'70

Theodore J. Rynn

'70

Keller

McBride '40

Martha Zehner Brown
Frank M. Taylor
Robert

F.

'43

David G. Moharter

'43

Hartman

'68

'68
'68

'71

Kathleen Tanner Cook

'47

'73

Marissa Barrett '99 and husband, Eric Harvilicz,
a son, Barrett Samuel Harvilicz, Aug.

Irvin R. Yeager
12,

2010

Henry

E.

Crawford

Mark Bohr '99 and wife, Jennifer, a son,

Elroy Dalberg

Alexander Lucas, July

John Purcell

27,

James

'47

2011

a son, Holden Michael, July 26, 2011

Cathy Carr Zavacki

'99

'48

Laurel Traub

Veronica Bubb Powell

'01

18,

and husband, George, a

daughter, Alyssa Marie, Aug.

31,

2011

Sara Eberhard Orozco '02 and husband, Misael,
twins, David

and Abigail, June 28,

2011

Crystal Klinger Eisenhauer '03 and husband,

Heim '75
'75

'51

Gary M. LevWs

'51

'80

Elizabeth McBride Keiser

Robert E. Harris

Susan Motyka Haddick

'53

Marion D. Giangiulio

'56

Susan Radwell Miller

Lundy

'58

John

Ernest "Gene"

Pace

S.

Wendy J. Queen '88/'9iM
Michael A. Medina

'89

William Algatt '60

Mary Miller McGinley '90

Lola Rigel Porter '60

Tracy Lynn Donovan

RoyE.

Gay Foster Meyers

Shif[letJr.'6o
'60

Gina Nork DeVitis '02M

Matthew M.

'61

Bleistein '04

James J. Naglejr.

'62

Susan K. Shade '05M

twin boys, Joseph and Jack, Sept. 20, 2011

John

'63

James

F.

Travis

"T.J."

E.

Rockwell

Robert R.
Jeffrey, a

and husband,

daughter, Lily Marie, Aug.

27,

'64

Nancy Bamett Erway

'64

Justin

Brennan

'06

Olesh

M. Harakel

'07

'08

2011

John
Nichol

Erdman

'93

'95

Carrie Montella Mish '03 and husband, Michael,

'03

'84

'86

OrviUe H. Fine

'59

'81

'84

WilliamJ. Weldon'58

Wilbur G. Person

Rebecca Kinney Peterson

'75

Andrew "Andy" Hasay '78

M. Janice Rider Tyler '52

Edwin J. Zarek

John, a daughter, Abigail Olivia, Sept. 22, 2011

'74

Gina Gonzalez Mannella

Faythe Hackett Puterbaugh

Richard Schwartz

2011

'74

Michael G. Malanga

'49

and husband, Tim, a

daughter, Natalie Marlene, Aug.

Neary

Elaine Kielar Tensa

'48

Thomas McAndrew '50
Jaclyn Janowicz Schaeffer '99 and husband, Wes,

E.

McElwee Reinford '03 and husband, Kent,

P.

Ian Francis O'Malley '08

'64

Milton "Rip" Van Winkle

David

a daughter, Ever Lynn, Aug. 24, 2011

Minalda

'65

WiUiam R Welk 'lo

E. Bassett '66

Ashley Henry Whiteman '04 and husband,
Timothy, twin sons,

Mason and Henry,

Dec.

2,

2010

Jennifer DeFrain Stacknick '05 and husband,
Jason, a son, Levi Elway, Sept.

6,

2011

Victoria Yurksza Lucas '08 and husband, Casey, a
son. Chase, Aug. 18, 2011

WINTER

2012

29

LINEUP
REUNIONS. NETWORKING. AND SPECIAL EVENTS

TO THE MOVIES: Bob and Wendy Piekos Pflugler both Class of 1988.
won the BU Alumni Association's Homecoming Tent Party grand prize

CLASS OF

1

956:

Shown,

Members

of the Class of

1

of a

home

and

their children.

theater system. They are joined by

BU

President David Soltz

Joshua and Jessica.

956 pose at the 55-year

Barbara Bennett Nichols. Tina
Valente Skiptunis. Lori Deibert Bodenhom. Helene Flecknoe.
Jacqueline Albert-Michehl and Charlotte Rummage Winter: and standreunion.

ing:

left to right,

are. seated:

Harrison Morson. Charles Kwiatkoski. Doris Krzywicki Smith.

Bill

Bunny Bowman Bitner Charles Skiptunis. Mike Homick. Sarae
Uhrich Homick U. Roslyn Verona Pennington. Joanne Hester Gentry.
Bitner.

John Koch and Betty Carvolth Johnston.

CELEBRATING FOUR DECADES: More than 60 alumni celebrated AO
years of Sigma Sigma Sigma during Homecoming 201
Shown in
photo, left to right, are Kerry Snyder Foley '92. Debra Hogan-Byme
'93. Karen Craig Weingarten
Valerie Reilly Metzker
1

92/'94M and Shelly May Smith

WATCHING
national

TV

IN

.

'95.

WARMINSTER: Alumni watched Huskies football on
organized by BU Alumni Association regional

at parties

Among

in Warminster are. left to
and Sue Smith Bednarik '8^; standing, front row: Bill Fonner 71. Melissa Harris Brown '90. Gary
Metarko 71. Alice Kotch Cromwell 66 Hedy Fuchs Davis '82. Rich
Boerner '65 and wife Kathy and Lee Davis '67: Standing, back row:
Bob Beam '70. John Dasch '70. Tom Beier '71. Sandi Wood Smith '86
and Ken Cromwell '66.

networks.

right, front:

those attending a party

Cameron Smith

'84

.

CLASS OF 1961: The Class of 1961 marked its 50-year reunion during
Homecoming 201 Members of the reunion committee, left to right,
are: Argie Zevas Andralis. Mary Ann Kiessling Beasom. reunion chair
1

.

Marti Williams Frey Marjorie Ginnick Stover. Constance Terzopolos
Gail Hurter

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BLOOM.SBURG UNIVER.SITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Gerber

and

CaLENDaR
I

Activities

and Events

Academic Calendar

Celebrity Artist Series

SPRING 2012

The following events

Spring Break Begins

Monday, March

12

Resume
March

Classes

Saturday,

8 a.m.

17,

Monday, May

7

to change.

Commencement

May

National Broadway Tour

Celebrating Black History and

Women's History months
18,

8 p.m.

12

Complexions
Featuring

Session

seen on So You Think You Can

Session
Session

III:

July 2 to Aug. 10

Exhibitions in the Haas Gallery
of Art are open to the public free

more infomiation,
hours and reception times,

of charge. For

visit

Jazz Festival
Friday, April

Haas Center

13,

noon

for the Arts,

Mitrani Hall

March

departments.bloomu.edu/

art/haas.html.

Jazz saxophone

Concert Band

Sunday, April 15, 2:30 p.m.
Haas Center for the Arts,

Gospelrama

31,

Kehr Union, Ballroom

Women's Choral Ensemble

8 p.m.

to mid-April

Senior Exit Show/

April

1

to

Alvina Krause Theatre,
226 Center St., Bloomsburg

phenom

appears with jazz legend
Friday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.

www.bloomualumni.com

for details or to register.
at

(570) 389-4058, (800) 526-0254

Concert Choir

or alum@bloomu.edu.

Saturday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian

345 Market

St.,

Church,

Bloomsburg

New: Moving to May
Alumni Weekend
Friday through Sunday,

Concerts

Knoebels Amusement Resort

May

Listed events are open to the

"Pops" Concert

Alumni Awards Luncheon
29.

Concert Band,

Chamber Orchestra
Sunday, March 4, 2:30 p.m.
St. Matthew Lutheran Church,
123 N. Market St. Bloomsburg

Ensemble
Monday, April 30, 7 p.m.,
Carver Hall, K.S. Gross
Auditorium

18 to

Husky Singers

March 30, 7:30 p.m.
Haas Center for the Arts,
Friday,

Mitrani Hall

20

Class of 1962 50-year reunion

Special Events
Husky Leadership Summit
Saturday,

March

Monty's, Upper

Symphony

3

Campus

Ball

May 5,

6 p.m.

Kehr Union, Ballroom
Featuring University-Community
Orchestra
Reservations: (570) 389-4287

May 12

Reception: April
11

Bloomsburg

The Shape of Things
by Neil LaBute

Saturday,

March

St.,

Contact Alumni Affairs

Guitar

Late

Phone

Mitrani Hall

Weather permitting

Show

Cell

Visit

music/Music Events.html.

Juried Student Art

Haas

by Sarah Ruhl

Wednesday, April 25, 7 p.m.
Haas Center for the Arts,

http://departments.bloomu.edu/

a.m. to 2 p.m.

the

Alumni Events

Wind Ensemble

sculpture

11

call

April 18 to 22,

Sunday, April 23^ 2:30 p.m.
Carver Hall, K.S. Gross

Sunday, April

March 19
Reception: March 8,

Dead Man s

226 Center

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

Feb. 17 to

when
show

Feb. 22 to 26,

For information, see

Erik Waterkotte, printmaking

until 7 p.m.

classes are in session. For

Alvina Krause Theatre,

public free of charge.

Feb. 13

Wednesdays

Center Box Office, (570) 389-4409.

Michael Francis Donovan.

Through

Haas Center for the Arts
Box Office, open Mondays
through Fridays from noon to
4 p.m. and remaining open
at the

times and tickets,

Grace Kelly with Phil Woods

Art Exhibits

gallei-y

Desmond Richardson,

Dance
Saturday,

for the Arts,

Mitrani Hall

Bloomsburg University

Auditorium

Ballet

SUMMER

2012
I: May 21 to Aug. 10
II: May 21 to June 29

7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 20

The Color Purple

Saturday, Feb.

10,

Mitrani Hall

11

Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday,

Programs

Friday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m.

May 11

Friday,

Haas Center

Philadelphia area

May

Graduate

season will be presented in the
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall. For more information and
to order tickets, call the box office
at (570) 389-4409 or visit

Chamber Orchestra
Leading players from the

End

Friday,

Players productions are available

The Philadelphia Virtuosi

Finals Begin

Finals

Tuesday, April

and dates are subject

May 4

Friday,

Tickets for

2011-12 Celebrity Artist Series

www.bloomu.edu/cas.

Classes End

Theatre
Percussion Ensemble

in the

1,

a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

University-Community Orchestra

Sunday, April 1, 2:30 p.m.
Haas Center for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall

Parents' and Family

Weekend

Friday to Sunday,
Sept. 14 to 16

Homecoming Weekend
Friday to Sunday,
Oct. 12 to 14

WINTER

2012

31

Keller's

Jungle Killers

^jROBERT DUNKELBERGER, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST
cized at the time as a legitimate

ceremony, Lowery admitted their
actual wedding occurred two

weeks

earlier in Joliet,

111.,

with

her family in attendance.

The couple continued

to tour

with the wild animals for the next
three years, but the 63-year-old
Keller began to experience health

problems.

He

collapsed in front

of his wife and 3,000 spectators

during a performance in Corpus
Christi, Texas,

Attempts

on Oct.

to revive

14, i960.

him were

unsuccessful.

The

BLOOMSBURG NATIVE

ended his academic

George
Keller was an accomplished artist

career in 1950 to devote his

hired in 1921 to teach fine arts at

attention to performing with his

the Bloomsburg State

Normal

cats.

had another gift —
an outstanding rapport with and
School.

He

Keller

also

The

Killers,

act, Keller's

full

Jungle

appeared as one of the

student body of the state teachers

shows at Disneyland and in
Madison Square Garden with
Ringling Brothers and Barnum
& Bailey Circus. He met singer
Virginia Lowery in 1954 while

college adopted the animal as

touring with the Polack Brothers

love for animals.

In the late 1920s, Keller began

and

raising huskies

in 1933 the

its

However, it was
the gift of a mountain lion a year
earlier that enabled him to have
his own wild animal act, a dream
athletic mascot.

since childhood. For the next 18
years, Keller continued to teach
college students while

circus act with
cats,

many breeds

of big

including lions, mountain

lions, tigers

32

honing his

and leopards.

first

act

continued with Keller's

assistant Bill

Scamihorn

until a

1971 accident in Colorado killed

Lapchak and injured
The remaining
animals were sold, bringing an
end to Keller's Jungle Killers.
In honor of George Keller,
BU's Andruss Library Special
Collections has more than 30
books about circuses and wild
driver Al

several of the cats.

Circus.

animal training, including his
autobiography. Here Keller —

in

Train This. •

The pair became engaged
early 1956 and bought a ranch

together in the Malibu Hills,

northwest of Los Angeles.
Lowery, now 87 years old,
recently talked for the first time
about her years with Keller,
recalling their

on Feb.

wedding ceremony

19, 1957,

in a circus ring in

Cleveland, Ohio. Although publi-

BLOOMSBL'RG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Editor's Note: University archivist

Robert Dunkelberger interviewed
Virginia

Lowery

near Agoura

in

August 2011

Hills, Calif.,

for his

upcoming book: Keller's Jungle
Killers: The Story of a College
Professor and His Wild Animal Act.

THE UNIVERSITY

I

LOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

Bloomsburg memories.
Often,

it's

the tiny details that go unnoticed, but can

bring back memories of a time or a place. That's the

campus by Prints
"Bloomsburg" and "Huskies"
in architectural and landscaping details. From a winding pathway in the Academic Quad to the zigzag roofline
of Haas Center for the Arts, images in these framed,
matted prints will always remind you of BU's beauty.
The University Store offers hundreds of items
Bloomsburg students and alumni can wear, display
and enjoy. Shop for BU insignia gifts from T-shirts,
sweatshirts and hats to pennants, stadium blankets
and glassware. And remember to stop back often for
the apparel that lets you show your Husky pride in the
latest colors and styles. Can't decide? Gift cards are
available in any amount.
The University Store offers the convenience of shopping
online for hundreds of items at bloomustore.com.

For a traditional shopping experience, the University
Store is open seven days a week, with extended hours

idea behind the images of BU's

for special Saturday events. Stop

Charming

for everything

that spell out

by

in

person or online

BU.

Semester Hours
Monday through Thursday:
7:i45

a.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday: 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday: Noon

to 4:30

p.m.

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THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING

SHAKING

IN

BLOOMSBURG.

ON ANY GIVEN weekend and many week nights,
you'll find

something special

to

do

in

Bloomsburg

— on campus, downtown or both.
Beyond major university events scheduled
months in advance, there are performances by the
community's nationally recognized Bloomsburg
Theatre Ensemble, gallery exhibits, literature read-

documentary film screenings, intimate music
and the occasional dance extravaganza like
the BU Dance Ensemble Spring Show (pictured).
Check out www.blooinu.edu/arts_culture, find out
what's happening at the university and downtown,
and schedule some fun.
ings,

recitals

Putting on a Clinic
Uninsured, uwderinsured find care at
Volunteers

High

in

Medicine

facility,

page

io

Demand

Motivated students thrive

in

BU s

rigorous nursing program, page i6

Turn down the Volume
Tile beat

goes on

warn, hearing

but,

may

professors

not.

page

22

€1

Bloomsburgi
The University Magazine

From the President
It

means students may define their

interests

and professional goals

through coursework and co-curricular

and extracurricular
it

activities.

signifies the culture,

tools

And

knowledge,

and guidance Bloomsburg

University' provides so students

may

immerse themselves in a particular
field. Unleash Your Inner Husky

Unleash Your
Inner Husky
WE EXPECT TO hear Bloomsburg
when we are sitting in
stands at Redman Stadium

(of)

Huskies"

Field.

Some may be

the

surprised, however, to hear about

Husky — specifically Unleash
Your Inner Husky — in connection
with academics and co-curricular
the

activities.

Archivist Robert Dunkelberger
tells

us professor and animal trainer

George Keller introduced the husky
as Bloomsburg's mascot in 1933, and
the

first

Roongo was a full-blooded

North Greenland husky whose
name was a combination of the
school colors,

have portrayed the Husky
Homecoming 1979.
Our current Roongo, portrayed
most recently by Mike Hall 'uM (see
since

14,

page

9), is

who get

and give back to

campus and the community."

easily

one of the most

popular incarnations. Often
described as "cute," he has

more

A photo feature on page 2 of this
issue of Bloomsburg: The University

than 1,200 Facebook "friends,"

Magazine offers one example of
what it means to Unleash Your

but his appeal extends beyond his

Inner Husky. For alurmia Eileen

appearance and

Albertson

athletic

symbolism.

Bloomsburg students identifS' with
the Husky because he embodies
the qualities they and generations
before them have demonstrated as

who get involved,

Chapman and today's

students. Unleash

Your Inner

Husky' is a celebration of educational
opportunities limited only by a
student's desire, ability

and

imagination.

and give back to the campus
and the communit>'^.
Unleash Your Inner Husky
represents Bloomsburg University's
commitment to creating a supporth^e
lead,

'91,

who you will meet in a stor>' on
page

motivated scholars

motivated scholars

maroon and gold.

Students, including Phil Peterson

and
beyond with excellent, experienced
and dedicated faculty as their
guides and collaborators. It aptly
describes what is often called the
Bloomsburg University Experience.
laboratory, the local community'

involved, lead,

overlooking the newly christened

Danny Hale

who follow

"The Husky embodies the qualities

University referred to as "the

the

stands for students

their passions in the classroom, the

learning environment that meets

DAVID

students" individual academic needs.

President,

L.

SOLTZ

Bloomsburg University

10

Putting on a Clinic

Medical care awaits Columbia County's

uninsured and underinsured at a
clinic started by BU alumna Bette

Anderson Grey.

14

Applied Medicine

Mixing health care knowledge
with technology, Philip Peterson

'91

provides reference materials doctors,

nurses and pharmacists that can

fit

in a pocket.

16

High

Demand

The program
is

rigorous.

are in high

is selective.

The training

And BU nursing graduates
demand.

19

Tour de

First

impressions are always important.

Campus

No one knows this better than
students

who introduce BU

the

to

prospective students and their
families.

22

Turn Down the Volume
Your tunes may be good for your
soul, but hard on your ears. Is your
iPod hurting your hearing?

Table

of

Contents

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
IS A MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE

Spring 2012

SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education Board
of Governors

Guide M.

Pichini, Chair

Marie Conley

Lammando

'94,

Leonard

Matthew

President, Bloomsburg University

Chancellor, State System

Editor
Bonnie Martin

of Higher Education
John C. Cavanaugh

Vice Chair

Aaron Walton,

Harold C. Shields
Robert S, Taylor
Ronald J. Tomalis
John T. Yudichak

Vice Chair

B. Altieri III

E. Bal
Jennifer Branstetter

Tom Corbett
Sarah C. Darling
Michael K. Hanna
Ronald G. Henry
Kenneth M. Jarin
Bonnie L. Keener
Jonathan B. Mack
Joseph F. McGinn
C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni

L. Soltz

Executive Editor
Rosalee Rush

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08

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On the Hill

Over the Shoulder
Calendar of Events

Bloomsburg: The University Magazine

Photography Editor

is

published three

Eric Foster

Council of Trustees
Robert Dampman '65, Chair
Charles C. Housenick '60, Vice Chair
Patrick Wilson '91, Secretary

times a year for alumni, current students' families and
friends of the university. Husky Notes and other alumni

Director of Alumni AfTairs
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wvvw.bloomualunini.com. Contact Alumni Affairs by phone,

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Editorial Assistant

David W. Klingerman Sr.
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2 0 12

'

The AGAPE warehouse is stacked with mattresses and beds,
furniture, food supplies. Eileen Albertson

Chapman '67/'69M

created the organization with her late husband,

Billy, to "fill

the

gaps" between people in need and available community services.

Located in the center of Bloomsburg,
clearinghouse for

relief efforts after the

Tropical Storm Lee.

September 2011 flooding from

^

|

-

AGAPE became the town's
^

Perhaps no one better embodies the hard-headedness and
soft-heartedness needed to run an organization like AGAPE than

Chapman. She retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after 30 years of ^
service and was the first woman in U.S. history to preside as a military
judge in the Navy and Marines. She's also a lay minister at Lime
Ridge Community Church.
AGAPE's mission goes far beyond flood relief. The organization
sponsors programs ranging from community meals, assistance
for former prisoners transitioning to life after incarceration, and
volunteer home repair and maintenance for the disabled and elderly.

..

Chapman received the Columbia-Montour
Chamber of Commerce's outstanding citizen award. And many
For her leadership,

thanks from residents of her community. •
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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

around-THE qusid

'ROOM.' a cylindrical space about 8 feet
is completely darkened with the

THE

across,

door closed. The chair looks

be
its

like

it

would

home in the cockpit of a spaceship. But
purpose is very down-to-earth, it's an

at

instrunnent, a rotational chair, used by audiologists to

diagnose balance disorders.
"These types of chairs are sort of atypical," says
Jorge Gonzalez,

BU assistant professor of audiolog>'.

to detecting

movement and

balance," he says.

the patients perform a battery of eye
to

determine

if

pathways that generate eye movements. We look for an
involuntary eye movement called Nystagmus
which is
normal when we rotate a patient in the dark or when
...

we

irrigate the ears

with

generally not normal

By looking at

all

warm

or cool water, but

in the inner ear is off and

is

located in

Bloomsburg

University's Centennial Hall as part of the Speech,

Language and Hearing

As its name
that



it

Clinic.

implies, the rotational chair does just

rotates

and moves

at

an average of 60 degrees

per second. By seating a patient in the chair and
monitoring eye movements with high-speed cameras,

Gonzalez

is

able to diagnose balance issues.

A full test

takes four hours to complete.

"Each inner ear has a section or organ that

devoted

causing the balance issues."

Each student in BU's Doctor of Audiology program
spends a semester helping Gonzalez with his research.
During that study, the students gain experience with
the rotational chair and, like Gonzalez appreciate
value.

"It's

this here.

extremely beneficial to have a rare tool

It

its

like

does a tremendous amount to show us

different things about the inner ear's balance function

that

we wouldn't be

More than 200
is

and differwhich organ

the combination of test results

Administration, there are only about 20 across the
of them

is

of the time."

ent measurements, Gonzalez can "pinpoint

One

tests

there are abnormalities in the neural

"Outside the Department of Defense and the Veterans
country."

"We have

movement

in the Speech,

able to detect otherwise."

patients treated for balance problems

Language and Hearing Clinic would agree. •
SPRING 2012

3

Bloomsburg Uni\'ersit>' of Pennsylvania

arouncfTHE^iiistai

BU'S

COLLEGE

of Liberal Arts

throughout the year," says James
Brown, dean of the College of

\Miile art exhibitions, theatri-

dance perfonn-

introduced the Center for \^isual

cal productions,

and Perfomiing Arts

community' earlier this year with an

ances, recitals

afternoon of fi'ee entertainment in

held throughout the academic

plan set by the College of Liberal

most of these events take
place on campus. "We hope that

.Ajts.

the

to the

Moose Exchange in

events,

do\\"nto\vn

featured the Jazz Ensemble, Dance

b\'

Ensemble, Pep Band, Husky

tion

Singers and

Liberal Arts.

This is the first step of a long-term

year,

A Taste of the Arts

Bloomsburg.

all

and other musical
open to the public, are

perfonning

temporary

BU Players, along

\

enue," Bro^vn says,

\\"e hope to find a
permanent location so \ve can
make these showcases more
accessible to the communitv." •

in a central loca-

"hi the fuaire,

more community' members
will enjoy the talent and see the
hard w ork our students put in

with readings and art displays.

"The Moose Exchange is a

Compounding the Problem turki SH RESEARCHER LEARNS TECHNIQUE
WITH THE WORLD honey bee

feeding on their blood, resulting

populations facing

why and how

research on finding out

to fix this

prob-

lem. John Hranitz, professor of biological and allied
health science, studies the bee population, assisted
his

on-campus

'

in

^

,

f Iw^
John Hranitz

levels,

researchers are able to

stress level the bees are

under

subjecting bees to sub-lethal stress," Hranitz says. "So

Nazimye Cunes,
Honey bees play an

although
inte-

gral role in agriculture.

Due

we may

manifests
to

ductivity

itself in

not be

killing

them,

this stress

ways that can cause declines

still

in

pro-

through reproductive or behavioral problems."

This spring, Hranitz and Cunes dissected bees'

pollinate large fields of crops

brains to observe the levels of stress protein that result

continuously throughout the

from mite abatement practices. The researchers met at
the Beekeeping Development-Application and Research

"Humans use

without honey bee

activity

years

could be

detrimental to food production.
pesticides mainly to

manage harmful

bugs and mites," says Hranitz. "Certain mites are ven/
harmful to the honey bee." These mites weaken bees by
MSBI

marker of the

Turkish research partner,

warmer months. A few

Nazimye Gunes

BLOO

establish a

(rightl

with research partner,

4

in

when certain pesticides are applied.
Through the use of these pesticides, we may be

lab during

their social nature, they can

[/

^\

the recent drop

be damaging to bees. By studying the bee's brain and
reading the stress protein

the spring semester by his

Sw-""

in

the honey bee population. However, pesticides can also

steep losses, scientists worldwide are focusing their

RG

LM

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ER

S

I

T V OF P E N N

S

V

L\

A

M

.\

Center

at

Uludag University

Cunes research
studied

how

at BU.

A

in

Turkey, which funded

veterinan/ biochemist,

Cunes

Hranitz conducts the stress protein tests

so she can share what she's learned with her colleagues

back home. •

New Trustees

Academic Stand- Outs
GRADUATING SENIOR

IS

FINALIST FOR PASSHE

AWARD

SCHLEGEL, STOLARICK JOIN COUNCIL

KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN IS one of two finalists in this year's Syed R.
Ali-Zaidi Award for Academic Excellence. The award, sponsored by the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Foundation,

was established by

Ali-Zaidi, a charter

member of PASSHE's Board of
who excel in the pursuit of

Governors, to recognize System students

knowledge. Zimmerman, a special education and elementary education
major, received a $500 award at BU's spring commencement.

BU

CHARLES

E.

Trustees

at the

BU

35 years in the Shikellamy School
District,

where he was Student
Council adviser, athletic

and football
and basketball coach.
He has served on a

left to right, are:

director

President David L. Soltz; finalist Katherine

Zimmerman; Stephen Kokoska, professor of mathematics, computer
science and statistics and honors program director; and Lisa Lapina,
elementary and early childhood education major.

February meeting.

Schlegel taught social studies for

Eric Stouffer, assistant professor of psychology; Jessica Smith, psychology

major; Robbie Soltz and

'60 of

Sunbury and Kenneth Stolarick '77 of
Pine Grove joined BU's Council of

President David Soltz and his wife Robbie hosted a dinner for

graduating seniors nominated for the award. Shown,

SCHLEGEL JR.

number of commissions,
boards and authorities,
including Sunbury City Council,

Sunbury Revitalization Incorporated
and Sunbury Municipal Authority,
and was honored by the Episcopal
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania with
the Spirit of the Diocese

Award and

the Shell Award. His three children
are

BU graduates: businessman

Charles Schlegel

Shikellamy

III '83,

teacher Pamela Schlegel

Lehman

'84

and State Rep. Lynda Schlegel-Culver
'95. The new Trustee fills the unexpired
term of Marie Conley Lammando '94.
Stolarick

is

vice president of

commercial banking for M&T Bank,
Pottsville. He serves as board vice

^1^^

president of Schuylkill

Community Action and
board treasurer of
Schuylkill

YMCA and

Northeast Pennsylvania

Heart of the Matter
BU OFFERS NEW CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAM
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY, in cooperation with Bloomsburg Hospital,
is

offering a cardiac rehabilitation exercise

age 18 and older with

known

program for adults
and risk

stable heart disease

factors for heart disease.

According

to

Timothy McConnell, chair of BU's exercise
and director of the program which began

He received the 2011

Milt Sorin

science department

Volunteer of the Year

in January, the sessions are designed to help individuals

the Schuylkill

reduce their risk for heart disease by increasing their level of regular
exercise

Manufacturers and
Employers Association. He also is
a board member of Schuylkill
Economic Development Corp.
and Pine Grove Area Education
Foundation and chair of St. Peter's
Lutheran Church Endowment Fund.

and physical

activity.

In addition, participants will receive

individualized instruction on cardiovascular risk reduction.

For more information on enrollment or
science department at (570) 389-4361. •

fees, contact

BU's exercise

Award from

YMCA.

Stolarick

fills

the unexpired term of Steven Barth.
Additionally, Dr. Joseph Mowad
'08H of Danville and Nancy Vasta'97/
'98M of Langhorne were reappointed
to six-year terms. •

SPRING 2012

5

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

jjtL

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aroundTii^
Who's

Your Classroom?

in

GIFT ESTABLISHES MCDOWELL INSTITUTE
A $2 MILLION commitment to the Bloomsburg University
Foundation by philanthropist Susan McDowell of
Selinsgrove

is

establishing the

McDowell

Institute for

Teacher Excellence in Positive Behavior Support. The
gift is

BU

the largest in the history of the

The McDowell

Foundation.

Institute is designed to equip educators

with strategies, practices and experiences to effectively
support the academic, social and emotional growth of
all

ior

students. Instruction in

methods of positive behav-

support will be incorporated into the curriculum,

beginning with freshman -year introductory courses and
Today, she believes, the need

carrying through to student teaching.

and understanding is with the public school
My hope is that, through the institute,
caring, wise and compassionate

professional, she noticed the children in every troop

people will understand the situations

who were withdrawn,
wanted

to comfort

antisocial or unlikeable

and

them.

"For some children, the only relationship that

in the

is

safe

teachers.

classroom and be effective

teachers." •

technology and electronics engineering technology will

Energetic Faculty
GRANT FUNDS KIOSK
NATHANIEL "NED" GREENE,

develop software for the kiosk.*

professor of physics, and

Jeff Brunskill, associate professor of geography

and

Partnering for BAS Degree
OFFER NEW PROGRAM

geosciences, recently received a $39,900 E2

BU, LCCC, LCTI

Energy to Educate grant from Constellation
Energy to support the BU energy monitoring
kiosk. The grant was one of 14 awarded by

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE System of Higher Education's
Board of Governors approved a new major for Bloomsburg

Constellation Energy.

Science in Technical Leadership. The program

The kiosk

is

the second phase of BU's

University earlier this year - the Bachelor of Applied

first

of its kind in the 14

is

the

PASSHE institutions.

The Bachelor of Applied Science

solar project. In the first phase, a 14-panel, 3.5 kilowatt

in Technical

demand for technical

array was installed on the south-facing slope between

Leadership addresses the growing

Ben Franklin Hall and East Second Street at a cost of
$20,000, supported by a Bloomsburg
University Foundation Margin of

has earned an Associate of Applied Science degree from

Excellence grant, a Presidential Strategic

Planning grant and contributions from
BU's Academic Affairs and Green
5^

~

campus

Initiative.

electrical grid

Generated power

and

eligible for

is

Campus

tied to the

Pennsylvania solar

alternative energy credits.

The second phase of the project, supported by the E2
Energy to Educate grant, is scheduled for 2012-2013. A
structure similar to a bus shelter will be constructed to
house an interactive digital display, energy meters and
a two-axis solar panel that tracks the sun in real time.
Faculty- student teams in computer science, instructional

6

greater than ever.

is

McDowell, a member of the BU Foundation Board
of Directors, is the daughter of teachers in western
Pennsylvania. She saw firsthand her mother's efforts
to help needy students. Later as a Girl Scout leader and

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

skills

a

combined with professional

skills.

community college will build upon

A student who

that degree with

courses in information technology, communications
studies, accounting, business education, information

and technology management and general education.
The program also will be open to those already in the
workforce.

The new BU program is a partnership with Lehigh
Carbon Community College (LCCC) and the Lehigh
Career and Technical Institute (LCTI), both located in

may
LCCC and students enrolled at LCTI

Schnecksville. All bachelor's degree requirements

be completed

at

can enter the program

at the

high school

class will enroll in fall 2012. •

level.

The

first

Every
creates

an

impajCt.

Sebastian Ramirez dreams of

becoming

a medical imager



of being able to look inside people,

identify ailments

Thanks

and help them.

to gifts to the

Henry Carver

Fund that gave Ramirez support
through Honors and Presidential
Leadership program scholarships,
that

dream

is

one step closer

to

reality.

Next

fall,

2014,

Ramirez, class of

will

go to the University

of Pennsylvania for the clinical

part of his education.

And he already has begun

own

his

tradition of giving, like

other students

in

the Honors and

Presidential Leadership programs.

He has been an

active volunteer

homeless shelter and the
American Cancer Society.

for a

To learn how you and the Henry I
Carver Fund can help students like
Ramirez,

call

(570) 389-4128.

I

Bloomsbur^
TbS
UNIVERSITY
FOUNDATION,

Inc.

sports

ON THE HILL
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TOM MCGU IRE

Team

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AND COVERAGE, GO ONLINE

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BUHUSKIES.COM

Four

of

SUCCESS ON AND OFF THE COURT NURTURES FRIENDSHIPS
THE PROSPECTS for the BU women's
basketball team

were bleak in the mid-

The team was struggling
numbers
and even fewer
with low
wins. It was time for a change in
strategy and attitude, a transformation that began with the hiring of
head coach Bill Cleary in 2008.
to late-2000s.

In Cleary's

first

season, the pro-

gram showed renewed signs of life
with 11 wins and the conference
Rookie of the Year, guard Kelsey
Gallagher of East Stroudsburg. But

when Cleary recruited Lauren

Ellis

of Bangor, Alyssa Flanagan of

Dana Wieller of Bethlehem
and Kayla Oxenrider of Ashland,
Freeland,

three years ago, the rebuilding

process took

off.

Today, these players

make the Huskies

a

team

seriously, contributing to
this past season.

to

be taken
Success on the court nurtured a

26 wins

friendship off the court for these four

They captured the

players,

Pennsylvania State Athletic

Conference (PSAC) Eastern
the second straight year

the team's

first trip to

title

first

for

recruiting class. "The attrac-

tion for all us

and earned

the

who were part of Cleary's

NCAA

championships in 10 years.

was

that

Bloomsburg

who

is

a great school, has a coach

is

honest with us and the chance to

play right away," says

Flanagan, Wieller and Oxenrider

same

freshman

tripled

year. In

room their

such

tight quarters,

they bonded quickly and, along with

became inseparable on and
off the court. They have roomed
together since their sophomore year,
Ellis,

visited each other's
to

Notre

ball

homes, traveled

Dame University for foot-

games and spent vacation time

the Flanagan family's rental in

at

North Carolina's Outer Banks.

The foursome looks forward
one more year on the court to
continue their winning ways.
to

8

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF

P E

N N

S

'S'

LVA

N IA

is

that future team-

mates form strong friendships

like

theirs, friendships to last a lifetime.
"I

think part of the success

we

have had as a team," Flanagan
says, "has come from us being so
close off the court." •

Ellis.

Residence hall assignments placed

in the

Their wish

97 Scholar-Athletes

Honored
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY honored
97 university scholar- athletes during
a recent luncheon. To be selected,
student-athletes

must achieve a grade

point average of 3.25 or higher over
the past two semesters or a cumulative

grade point average of 3.25 or higher.
In addition to the 97 student- athletes,

and transfer students
were honored for achieving a 3.25
CPA. Names of all students honored
can be found at www.buhuskies.com/
25 freshman

scholar-athletei2. •

Roongo Revealed
IT'S BIG,

FURRY AND

BU fan's favorite mascot —

every

Roongo. But inside the furry costume
University student

is

a

Dorsch Recognized

Hall,

'ii

who brings the character to life. For
who portrayed Roongo

from

Academics

Champion Scholar
Award at the men's
swimming champi-

Bloomsburg

the last four years the person

was Mike Hall

for

TIM DORSCH, a senior from Schwenksville, received
the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC)

The PSAC
Champion Scholar
Awards program hon-

onship.

Danielsville.

who graduates this spring with a master's

degree in curriculum and instruction, came to

ors the student-athlete

Bloomsburg as a swimmer, but an injury forced him out
of the pool. He got the itch to be Roongo after seeing the
mascot in action at a football game and responding to a
posting on BU's website.

Mike :Roongo' Hall

'11. center.- is

shown

with the top grade
point average

who

is

competing at the site
of each of the PSAC's 23 team championship finals.
Dorsch compiled a 3.90 cumulative grade point
average while majoring in secondary education and
German. He is the second BU student-athlete to earn
the honor this academic year, joining Bryce Shaffer of
Gettysburg who was the winner at the men's soccer
championships. •

"I

Hall,

was not scared

the

first

time

I

was Roongo," says

who spent summer 2011 as the backup mascot for

the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees Triple

team. "More than anything,
I

I

had never done anything like

it

before or been in front

of 5,000 people. Doing both at the

same time was

unnerving, but about 10 minutes into

game it fell

A baseball

was apprehensive because
slightly

my first football

right into place."

Over the years Hall, a.k.a. Roongo, appeared at alumand Homecoming and fired up the crowd at
Huskies sporting events. A hit with both young and old,
he's lost count of the number of times he posed for photos
at the University Store, Redman Stadium or walking
around campus.
"My best memory as Roongo is impossible to choose,"
says Hall. "Whether it was watching our field hockey
team win their third straight national title at home or our
football team win the PSAC East football title by beating
Kutztown or going crazy in the stands behind the basket
during both men's and women's games, I enjoyed so
many exciting and wonderful moments as Roongo. I will
ni events

be able

tell

stories for the rest of

Champs Remembered
MEMBERS OF

my life.

I

and every time I donned the costume." •

treasured each

women's basketball team
celebrated the 20th anniversary of winning the
the 1991-92

school's only Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

(PSAC) women's basketball championship during
halftime of the Huskies vs. West Chester game earlier
this year.

The 1991-92 team finished with a 22-8 overall record
and won the PSAC title with a victory over Edinboro.
The team was led by head coach Joe Bressi, Bloomsburg's
all-time wins leader with 175. Two team members,
Michelle Simons and Kathy Maguire Stoudt, have
been inducted into BU's Athletic Hall of Fame.

Team members shown

are: Lesley Seitzinger

Kathy Maguire Stoudt, Melissa
'93,
Butterworth
Careen Bulka Caufield '94, Vicki
Eichelberger Souders '93 and Brenda Ryan Hossler '94. •
Colegrove

'94,

SPRING

2 0

12

9

JACK SHERZER

by

Putting on a Clinic
Nearly one-third of Americans are uninsured or underinsured.
In Columbia County, the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic is

meeting the needs of more than 1,500 patients
otherwise could not afford medical care.
LORI REESE CAN'T FORGET the man who came

who

into

the Columbia County Volunteers in Medicine Clinic

looking for a

way to help control his

adult son's high

blood pressure. The man's wife had died and he was the
sole caretaker for his mentally disabled son.

and

struggling financially,

it

He was

soon became clear that

he wasn't able to afford his son's blood pressure
medication or his own.

"They were trying to decide what they could do on
very little income. They actually asked me, 'What
medication do I absolutely have to take and what can I
let go?' Even the ones he needed, he was taking every
other day to stretch them out. Sometimes they would go
a

week without medicine

it

refilled," says Reese,

University in

Reese did a

until they could afford to

have

who graduated from Bloomsburg

December

2011 with a degree in nursing.

shift at the clinic as part

of a class in public

health nursing.
"I

knew there were

Millville.

to skip

"But

I

these problems," says Reese of

never had anyone say they were forced

medications for financial reasons until

the clinic, and

it

really struck

Since opening

its

County Volunteers

I

was

in

home."

doors in early 2007, the Columbia

in

Medicine Clinic has provided

the only option for ongoing health care assistance for

many of the area's uninsured and

underinsured.

The Mifflinville-based clinic was founded by Bette
Anderson Grey '81, who experienced firsthand the
possibility of not
illness.

The

having insurance to help with a serious

setting also provides a unique educational

opportunity for Bloomsburg University's nursing students,

who can choose to spend at least one shift in the clinic
as part of their studies.

SPRING 2012

11

FINANCIAL REALITIES
"I

think

very

it's

much an eye-opening experience

students to see the people that

for

come through; some-

times they are amazed that the people are their peers,

people that haven't had the opportunities that some of

our college students have had and don't have insurance,
says Lori Metzger,
assistant professor of

THE BEGINNING
The clinic is one of 86 such

sites in 25 states affiliated

with Vermont-based Volunteers in Medicine. VIM is a
nonprofit agency that grew out of a clinic Dr. Jack B.

McConnell opened in 1992 in Hilton Head, S.C. When
McConnell realized a large number of working people
in the region were
forced to go without

nursing. "As nurses,

we

medical care because

care for patients

and need

they didn't have insur-

be in

to

front of them.

ance, he recruited

The

volunteer doctors and

students need to see
a real

nurses,

example of

were

many of whom

retired, to help.

someone who is in a
quandary of having to
buy heart medication

clinics follow today.

or groceries that

native, didn't plan

week.

I

can

tell

it,

never

make an impact

it

While the

on
running a clinic, but
she always had an

will

unless they experience

interest in medicine.
it."

plight of Americans

without insurance has received
national attention,

many who

Since the Columbia County Volunteers
Clinic inc.

numbers

of patients

forced to go without care

2011: 2.248 visits

high copays and deductibles.

doors

in

in biology

in

2007. the

seeking care has steadily

visits for the

past three years:

and

general medical treatment, the

offers help to those with depression

In

and

64 had been without insurance
coverage for at least 12 months
as of early 2010, despite the fact

201

1

.

there

were

Center as a respiratory therapist.

But after her husband

clinic

and other

41 patients

who sought

help

supplemental health insurance

from her employment

Community

received mental health counseling.

How

to

Help

at

Sunbury

Hospital.

During her recovery she saw a

from the volunteer dermatologist and 99 patients

who

lost his job

became ill and ultimately needed a hysterectomy.
Luckily, she still had COBRA

mental health issues, as well as skin disorders.

more than 30

from Bloomsburg, she

trained at nearby Geisinger Medical

in 2003, she

2009: 906 visits
In addition to

to the federal Centers

million adults between 18

its

2010: 1.234 visits

because they can't afford

Prevention,

opened

Medicine

grown. Patient

for Disease Control

After earning a bachelor's degree

Visits Increase

have some insurance also are

According

a formula the

Grey, a Berwick

them

about

but

It's

television report about a free clinic

in

New Jersey and called

Volunteers in Medicine for infor-

Donations may be sent to the Columbia County
one in three had an income
mation. She didn't pursue it at the
Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, Inc., 310 East Third
between $44,000 and $65,000.
time, instead going back to work at
St., Mifflinville, Pa. 18631 or made through
Roughly half suffered from high
the hospital. Then, in August 2004
www.ccvim.org. All donations are tax deductible.
— on the same day the hospital
blood pressure, diabetes or

asthma
all conditions which, if left untreated, can
announced it was ending its pulmonary rehab proresult in expensive emergency hospital care.
gram, leaving Grey jobless — she received another call
Sherry Burke's first experience with the clinic was
from VIM asking if she was still interested. She was.
four years ago, when she thought she was having
Grey worked with the Columbia County Commissioners
stomach problems but, after testing at the clinic, found
and human services department and in March 2007
out she was pregnant. More recently. Burke, 35, was
began holding clinic hours one night a week at the
diagnosed with high blood pressure during a routine
Columbia Montour Family Health offices. "The first
checkup. Burke's husband works as a welder and
night we had 10 patients and, of course, there were
insurance isn't available through his temporary jobs.
only five seats in the waiting room," she recalls.
The clinic has helped the Berwick mother of two
Grey had looked at the clinic's current home in
obtain the medication she needs.
Mifflinville, but there was no way the fledgling opera"I don't have a doctor and I can't afford the copays
tion could afford the lease. Fate stepped in again when
and stuff like that," Burke says. "If it wasn't for the
Bloomsburg area businessman Myles Katerman, who
clinic, I don't know where I'd be."
knew McConnell from Hilton Head, offered to buy the
building. At first Grey asked him to only lease the

that

12

BLOO.M.SBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENN.SYLVANIA

facility,

But

since she wasn't sure the cHnic

when

the landlord

wanted

would survive.
August 2009,

to sell in

the automobile carpeting executive bought the property.

PAID STAFF, VOLUNTEERS, STUDENTS
The clinic now offers daytime appointments Monday
through Wednesday and evening hours on Thursday.
It employs a receptionist, nurse and physician assistant,
who is able to prescribe a pre-approved list of medications.

A retired Geisinger oncologist. Dr. James Gallagher,

volunteers as the

clinic's

Grants and donations keep the

clinic afloat,

constant struggle, she says.
There's never a shortage of

and Noreen

Chikotas, associate professor of nurs-

working on an arrange-

ing at BU,

is

ment

may give the clinic some

that

staffing assistance. Chikotas, director

of the university's nurse practitioner

program, wants her students
at the clinic as part

the clinic's staff sees are diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, anxiety

and depression.

to help

A needs assessment com-

pleted as part of the process to open the clinic revealed 28

percent of Columbia County's residents were uninsured.

The clinic has also diagnosed cancer in 48 patients.
Some, because they didn't have insurance, only sought
cancers

and Grey is always reaching out to pharmaceutical
and medical equipment companies. Funding is a

patients, however,

Grey estimates that 35 percent of patients come to the clinic for "runny noses and not feeling well," but most have
serious ailments. The most common chronic conditions

help after their

medical director and other

doctors and medical professionals pitch in to see
patients.

THE NEED

we

symptoms became severe. "Some of the
it was unbelievable that the people

saw,

were walking around feeling like this, but they couldn't
go for care," Grey says. "Lots of them live on a shoestring,
minimum wage jobs, and they say, 'Oh, I'll be OK, I'll be
OK,' but the reality is they're not OK."
Susan Kelley, VIM's director of operations, says Grey is not alone in seeing a
real need for their services. "Each year
we hear from our clinics that there is
more demand. Certainly, with the
economic situation, there have been
more people who for one reason or
another no longer have insurance,"
Kelley says. "So there

of their studies.

is

a higher

Because her students already are

demand

nurses, they'll be able to share in the

same time, it is harder to raise funds."
The 52-year-old Grey has come to see

work while they

\

^""^

t

learn.

their

own

practices

with her family. Her son David,

and

prescribe certain medications after

the board of directors

Chikotas

establishing a collaborative agreement

with a doctor,

19,

who often serves as a paid consultant.

Chikotas hopes to help at the clinic under a collaborative

agreement with Dr. Leon Francis
teers at the clinic. (Editor's note:

'77,

who also volun-

At press time,

ment was awaiting state approval, with

and, at the

the clinic as a calling, one she shares

In Pennsylvania, nurse practitioners

may set up

at the clinic level

the agree-

the possibility of

beginning this spring.)

A needs assessment completed
before the clinic opened in

2007

revealed 28 percent of Columbia
County's residents were uninsured.

often brings his guitar to the clinic to

play for patients in the waiting room. Recently, the clinic

began a food pantry.
suddenly wake up to do this. This was not a
life goal, but something happened to put me on this path,"
Grey says. "I look back on all my medical experiences and
everything I've done and it all came to fruition here."
Chris Minnier of Berwick already has an undergraduate biology degree from the University of Pittsburgh
and is taking additional science classes at BU to prepare
also

"I didn't

himself for training as a physician assistant.

most Thursday nights.
never had much patient contact

He volun-

teers at the clinic
"I really

in school, so dealing

before, even

with patients was important to

In addition to providing training for her students,

me," the 25-year-old says. Spending time in the clinic

Chikotas says the effort aHgns with one of the initiatives

has made him appreciate the need for such services.

of the university's strategic plan: fostering

and develop-

ing a strong sense of community. "In our nurse practi-

Columbia
County or the surrounding counties, so they are not
going to move. Most of them will stay and look for practice sites," Chikotas says. "My hope would be that I can
open the eyes of these students so they can see the
needs and become volunteers in the community."
tioner program, these are folks that live in

on

25, is

and son Jeffrey,

"I

was

we

really surprised at

both the range of things

and the range of people that we see,"
Minnier says. "I know it's not the most affluent area and

that

there's

didn't

see

always going to be people in need of help, but

know it was

Jack Sherzer
native.

He

is

I

nearly as dire." •

a professional writer

and Pennsylvania

currently lives in Harrisburg.

SPRING 2012

13

Applied Medicin

by

REBECCA RHODIN

The average user has 65 apps installed on his or her
P)hone and more than three-quarters are used for games
or social networking, according to Flurry, a mobile
.

'

much more than fun and
games, apps developed by Unbound Medicine are a

analytics firm. Suitable for

valuable resource for medical professionals worldwide.

14

BLOOMSBt'RG UNI

ALTHOUGH HE grew up nurtured

personnel and includes the CIA's

the

by

World Factbook with details about
every country on the planet. It

itself

arose from concern for the suffering

costume driving around in a red
and white microbus with "Go
Huskies" painted on it.
At Bloomsburg, Peterson also

computers, Philip Peterson

'91

majored in philosophy at Bloomsburg

and

University,

pinnings of his

it

forms the under-

life

in the business

world. Take, for example, the

list

of skills a major in philosophy

caused by the catastrophic earth-

quake and tsunami
Ocean in 2004.

Peterson says that he and

imparts: critical thinking, problem

communicating
and questioning one's own values
and commitments. Peterson uses
them daily on the job.

effectively

solving,

"I see

philosophy as being

at

the

leading edge of every science," he

much about

says. "It's not so

study-

ing philosophers as about under-

standing what

is

the next question."

Determining what that question
and how to answer it, as well as
ruminating on the big questions of
is

life,

guide Peterson in his role as

in the Indian

Unbound president

served as a residence adviser, worked

Dr. William

are scarce, but doctors can find

He was

chapter of the national fraternity

Theta Chi. After graduation, he

Europe as an international
manager and systems architect
for Ovid Technologies, a provider
of computer search systems for
lived in

sales

answers by mobile phone apps.
Closer to home, simply being

an employer helps a segment of
humanity "to be good people in
their community and beyond,"
"It is

drug store and deejayed at a bar.
part of a group of about
two dozen students that started a
at a

Detmer are "passionate about
solving information needs, which
are greater in some places than
others." Those include African
countries where telephone landlines

Peterson notes.

town and people of Bloomsburg
Oh, yes, and for a time that
was him inside the Husky mascot

health-care institutions.

Dreaming of settling down
farmhouse amid rolling hills,

my thought

when their basic needs
are much more likely to be

in a

Peterson eventually returned to

chief technology officer of Unbound

that people,

Pennsylvania, where he lives with

Medicine, a maker of phone apps

are met,

wife Janice Kirkwood, stepdaughter

for doctors, nurses

and students.

For the "untechnological," apps are

computer tools installed in mobile
phones that let people perform
specific tasks

answer

to a

such as getting the

medical question or

looking up a drug.
Peterson directs Unbound's
software development and product
offerings.

Based

in Charlottesville,

Va., the 12-year-old

company forms

good, loving people than not."

Paige Frey, 20; daughter Haley,

Although he majored in philosophy in college, computer science ran
a close second and, in fact, Peterson
could have double-majored by taking
a few more courses. Growing up in
Newtown, Bucks County, he says
he knew a lot "at the core level"
about computers: "I was reared on
them, probably centering around

and son Aidan,

gaming."

Hopkins University and

develops software to deliver the

information to medical personnel.

Apps such

as Nursing Central,

Medicine Central and The Merck

Manual
needed

and Paris, France, including
Bloomsburg graduates Ralph
Nardell '91 and Dan Kornegay '93.

Va.;

For Peterson, time spent examining one's

"I

that

am lucky to be in an industry
is

am lucky to be in an industry

growing

— health care and

mobile technology," says Peterson,
45, "and fortunate to be able to

have a job that is, at its core, doing
good things for people."
In particular.

Unbound produces

Relief Central, a free

app

that sup-

plies information to disaster relief

philosophically


"I

Philip Peterson

had a couple ofjobs in computI would fall asleep in,"

is

hurtles into the

future. Once, mobile

that is growing ... andfortunate to
be able to have a job that is, at its
core, doing good things for people.'*

to help diagnose patients,

answer questions and research

life

tempered by the frenetic pace of
the mobile phone app business as
it

"/

Suite can provide references

information, Peterson says.

company employs

Today, his

people in Media, Pa.; Charlottesville,

partnerships with super- sources
like Johns

14;

11.

'91

phones only made
calls,

but devices

including the original

Palm

Pilot,

iPhone,

iPad,

Amazon's Kindle

Fire,

Blackberry

Playbook, Nokia Lumia and

er science that

Motorola Droid put an end

he says of his days at Bloomsburg,
where he followed his brother Chris

Now, Peterson says, "You can
never stop and look back at what
you did. We're constantly on our
toes. If I'm planning more than
three months out, it's probably

'80,

now an anesthesiologist in

was something like
and converting
them into shipping labels. It was
boring compared to what I was
Lancaster.

"It

taking invoices

doing for fun."
Peterson loved college, embracing

to that.

unrealistic." •

Rebecca Rhodin

is

a freelance

writer based in Wescosville, Pa.

SPRING 2012

1

GRADUATES OF Bloomsburg
University's nursing

assured of a job

Master of Science

program are

when they graduate.

But a nursing degree from

BU

in

Nursing with

concentrations in adult and family

nurse practitioner, adult health cUni-

community
nursing administration and

nurse

cal

specialist,

the master's program,
1985.

first

offered in

With the exception of the nurse

anesthetist program, the typical

graduate student

is

a part-time stu-

dent juggling family and career. The

requires sacrifice, hard work, dedica-

health,

and lots of determination.
"It's a tough and stressfijil program,
but it prepares you for the real world

nurse anesthesia.

120 graduate students are generally

High expectations

in

The

all

tion

of nursing," says Kayla Farr,

who

18-year-old nursing students

Unit at Geisinger Medical Center four

Bloomsburg with a determination not found in most majors,
Ficca says. Freshman year is filled

months before she graduated

with challenging courses in the

landed her current job as a registered

nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care

Up to 1,000 high

in 2010.

school students,

most from Pennsylvania, apply
each year for admission to the
Bachelor of Science in Nursing

arrive at

or part of their educations. The

nurse practitioner program

Ficca, chair of the department.

nursing students a year to substan-

SUE

A.

This May, the

BEARD

first class will

grad-

which educates nurse anesthetists.
Offered exclusively in conjunction

with Geisinger, the 33-month pro-

gram admitted its first 12 students
chosen from a

field

one of the leading programs of its kind,
offering both undergraduate and graduate
degrees in the ever- advancing profession.
into

of 40 applicants

Students spend the

reflects students' deter-

mination, she adds.

first

nine

months at BU, where they earn 24
core credits. That's followed by 24
months at Geisinger for more classroom work and about 1,500 hours in
operating rooms — nearly three times
the on-the-job training required by
the Council on Accreditation.
"Enrollment

dard grades



— in August 2009.

BU's nursing department, which produced
its first 45 graduates in 1979, has evolved

ing to reflect today's explosion of

the

uate from the newest program,

Demand
The curriculum, constantly evolv-

is

draw and its graduates are in
the most demand, Ficca says.

biggest

anatomy, chemistry and psychology.
To advance to the sophomore year,
students must have at least a 2.5
GPA and a minimum grade of C in
all required classes. The fact that BU
generally loses only five freshman

J^J^jJ-^

many cases their employers fund

natural and social sciences, including

program. Less than 10 percent —
between 70 or 80 students — are
admitted, according to Michelle

^j;

and

in school to further their careers

students to the

is

limited to expose

maximum number of

Art Richer, program
and a nurse anesthetist.
"Anything less would dilute the
cases," says

knowledge and technology, has a
reputation for being rigorous, and
Bloomsburg graduates boast a high

riences in nearby hospitals begin in

passage rate on required licensing

in complexity, as

exams. The competitiveness of the

ences that take students to Geisinger

time commitment. "They're either in

application process allows

Medical Center and hospitals in

the operating

Bloomsburg "to take the best of the

Berwick, Bloomsburg, Lewisburg and

and

Shamokin two or three days each week.
"Within three months of gradua-

says Richer, adding students

best," says Ficca,

who has chaired

the department since spring 2011.

The nursing department prepares
undergraduates for a wide range of

Nursing classes with
the

clinical

expe-

sophomore year. Classes increase
do clinical experi-

tion, we're at

100 percent placement,"

Ficca says.

specialties, including critical care,

director

experience students have."

Once a student begins, it's a fuU-

it's

Master's programs

trauma and home care, and offers a

The same placement rate is true for

must

prepare for each case by reviewing
pathology reports, considering drug
interactions, assessing their patients'

health

obstetrics, pediatrics, rehabilitation,

room or the classroom,

a constant learning process,"

and choosing the appropriate

drugs and dosages for the procedure.
Richer says the proximity of
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2

0 12

17

Remembering

a Founder

LAURETTA PIERCE, one

of the founding faculty in

Department, had a

soft spot in

need
Bloomsburg

University's Nursing

her heart for graduate students. So
that Annetta Pierce, a retired

Teaching critical thinking skills is

is fitting

it

secondary educator,

no simple task, yet recent graduate

counselor and administrator, has endowed a
scholarship fund

who

nurses

in

her twin sisters

Farr says the nursing program does a

memory to

aid

terrific job. "Critical

are continuing their educations beyond

The Dr Lauretta Pierce Scholarship

^^^^^^A-

^^^^^H

criteria for the

Nursing

in

$1,000 awards are exemplary character,

scholarship and drive, as well as financial need.

^^^^1
'^^^^^

Lauretta Pierce

was

a trained nurse

who

The challenges
Health care

not

is

immune from cut-

backs in the workforce, and today's

taught at

Harrisburg's Polyclinic Hospital, Wilmington General

Lauretta Pierce

skill I

will

one or more students. The

to

thinking is a

use every day in the NICU," she says.

the baccalaureate level.

be presented each year

be comfortable with decision-

to

making skills," she adds."

Penn State/Hershey Medical Center and the
Bloomsburg faculty in 1974, helping to
nursing curriculum and serving as a pathophysiology and

medical
acutely

facilities

ill

Hospital,

staffers,

are treating

more

patients with fewer

according to Ficca.

University of Pennsylvania before joining the

write the fledgling

research instructor Pierce

and chair

for

two years

was

until

assistant chair of the department from 1988 to 1990

her retirement

in

December

Bloomsburg s graduate nursing program earned its
away Nov. 1. 2009. after suffering a massive stroke.
Annetta Pierce

made

1

initial

991

,

Under her leadership.
She passed

accreditation.

Technological advances

prolonged

bers of patients
care

a S25.000 donation to establish the scholarship

in tribute to
in

her

"

scholarship established

homes and hospitals, but on the well

in

that graduate students will benefit

her honor "She

know what

felt

grad students are committed

their career goals are

and are able

to give

elderly

from a
back very

tered by the Bloomsburg University Foundation. More information
at www.bloomu.edu/aid/bu_scholarships. The recipients will

of the chair of the nursing department

is

is

adminis-

available online

be chosen by a committee

and two nurse

instructors.)

Ever-changing

have to travel to various hospitals to

explosion and impact of technology

they can get

it

all

...

atrics, transplants,

At Geisinger,

obstetrics, pedi-

heart surgery

"

Monica Masemer, a 2006 graduate
of BU's Bachelor of Science in

is

and clinical and technology issues."
While Ficca believes Bloomsburg

go before she graduates from the

on the profession. The 16 fuU-time and

members are

expected to stay current with devel-

opments and share that information.
Ficca says, citing radical evolutions

operating room three or four days a

settings over the last

cases

— and she loves every moment.

"It's

"I've

a

gift to

be a nurse," she

says.

had an amazing career so far. You

have to be selfless and put others before
yourself.

It's

just so rewarding.

school's tough schedule

is

Grad

temporary

compared to saving someone's

life."

The future
Ficca hopes the future includes

community-spedfic health promotion

and disease prevention — "keeping
people well as opposed to treating
them only when they are sick."
She also believes nursing will play

nursing care delivery and inpatient

as she prepares for the next day's

because expectations are getting

in medications, treatment plans,

anesthesia program. She's in the

week — days that begin at 4:45 a.m.
and continue late into the evenings

two decades.

a larger role in the delivery of health
care to the insured, uninsured

we have electronic
medical
records, new
charting and
equipment and the use of human

underinsured.

and mechanical simulations in classrooms and learning labs," she adds.

lations,

"In technology,

"All give students the

opportunity to

enhance their clinical judgment

in a

Since nursing

Bloomsburg is increasing students'

literally is

a Hfe-

and- death career, "our graduates

BLOO.MSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

she says.

And there's the hope that
Bloomsbui-g will one day offer a
doctorate in nursing practice, which
will

safe setting."

and

A challenge specific to

contact with culturally diverse popu-

comply with accrediting standards

and meet the educational needs of
advanced practice nurses. •

Sue A. Beard, the retired editor of The Record Herald, Waynesboro,
18

meeting the challenges, the nursing

higher and higher."

"Nothing is stagnant in health care,"

Nursing program, has about a year
to

Ficca says the biggest challenge

keeping up with the knowledge

22 part-time faculty

...

including theoretical

program can never rest on its laurels.
"The curriculum needs to be fluid

Bloomsburg to Geisinger, eight miles
away in Danville, makes the program
attractive. "At some schools, students
their experiences.

...

perspectives, the latest developments

is

all

services they need.

be knowledgeable about almost
everything

Bloomsburg. the Pierce scholarship

(Editor's note: Like all scholarships at

and the

"We find our graduates need to

to

quickly to their professions." Alichnie says.

get

an increased focus on older

adults, not just those in nursing

more they could do with their lives, Annetta remembers.
was a close friend of Lauretta and says her

former colleague would be pleased

made up

do preventive

Because people are living longer,
there's

Faculty emerita Christine Alichnie

nursing careers,

to

and tend to be more ill when

research work. She really valued education, and she thought the more education
got, the

fail

mean
num-

increasing

they enter the system, Ficca explains.

her sister "Lauretta really got involved with the master s degree students

nurses

lives, yet

Pa., lives in

North Fort Myers,

Fla.

"

"WHAT'S THE FOOD LIKE?"
"How are roommates
BU 's Admissions
staff hears all of these questions and many more from
"What

are the meal plaii options?"

chosen?" "What's in Centennial Hall?"

and their parents. Pro\ iding
answers for visiting families — and making sure each
prospectix e students

\'isitor's first

impression

is

a positive

one

— is the job of

student tour guides.

Meet De\'on Mills, NicoUe Skiemiont, Christina Davis
and Di-eka Williams who talk alxtut their role as student
tour guides and its impact on their owii college e\^)erience.
Devon

Mills.

Senior

Computer Forensics Major/ Criminal Justice Minor
Hometown: Watsontown. Pa.

Bloomsburg Unix ersity stood out
of important wa\ s — her

the famih connecrion (her father

De\ on Mills

to

number

much easier to
know the campus. I know

in a

is

so

''It's

financial aid package,
Philip Mills '9A "96^1)

where everything is now.

all, the fact that the college had intei-preters
accommodate her hearing impairment. .As she started
her senior x ear at BU, Mills w as looking for an oncampus job. "The tour guide was one of the positions
1 applied for because I knew I could do it e\ en witli ni\

and. abov e
to

Mills

was

hired, she read

up on

the important

infonnation she'd be sharing with families and shad-

owed an experienced toiu" guide before she took gi'oups
on her o\\-n. The three \ ears' w orth of BU know ledge
she'd accunudated was also put to good use.
.\ big part of Mills' job is to answer questions over
the course of the tour. One of the most frequenth asked
questions? "People always ask
cars ft-eshman year," she

if

thought

it xx ould be cool to see xvhat goes on," she saj's.
had such an amazing experience mx' fi-eshman x ear. I
XX anted to gix e people an amazing experience like I had."

"I

Skiermont gets manx questions about lix ing on cam"I get questions about meal plans. I also get a lot of

pus.

w eek. She

Mills gi\ es an average of two toiu-s a

sa\ s a

good tour guide "has the abilit\ to adapt to an>- situadon.
is fi-iendh- and open or eas\ -going. imderstands how to
gi\ e good lectures or make it interesting for the audience
and has enough knowledge to answer most of the questions diat the audience ma>' ha\'e." At the same time,
the "perfect" campus visitor "is am one that is interested
in learning aboiu Bloomsburg Uni\ ersity. w ill actualh
listen and asks a lot of questions."
As Mills' college career wraps up. she sa\"s her time
as a tour guide has helped her in man\ wax s. "It has
given me more confidence and helped me become more
x\

1 liked the w ax it looked," she says.
Once at BU, she x\"anted to find a xx-ax' to pax' it fonx-aixl
and share hei- experience xvith others. Skiemiont xvas
an Orientation Workshop Leader (OWL) as a sophomom
and beliex ed she could do ex en more as a tour guide. "I

the\ can bring their

sa\"s.

comfortable with dealing

Nirolle Skiermont

been done,

hearing loss," she explains.

Once



ith different

t>

pes of people."

questions about residence

domis

life



things like xvhich

are co-ed and can thex' hax'e microxvax^es

and
most families xvant to see a
lecture hall, xx hich is decidedlx different from most
high school classrooms. "I alxvax s trx" to shoxx them
refrigerators."

xvhat

it

looks

She

like,"

sax s

she says.

Skiennont leads an
xx

eek,

and

sax s

ax

erage of three or four tours per

her job has

its

adx antages.

"It's

so

easier to knoxx the campus," she laughs. "I knoxx
ex

er\lhing

is

much
xx

here

noxx."

She also credits die Admissions staff for the w ork diex"
do schediding toure. "The tours are about the pai'ents

and students, but the behind-die-scenes
a good toiu"."

stuff makes for

Nicolle Skiermont. Senior

ChminalJustice Major/Spanish Minor

Christina Davis. Junior

Hometown: Southampton.

Communication Studies Major

As

a

Pa.

high school student looking at colleges. Nicolle

Skiermont says BU had just w hat she w as looking tor.
"It was a medium-sized school and it had m\ major.
I w ent to campus for a tour. Seeing how beautiful and
open it was. and seeing all of the renoxations that had
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OMSBI RG

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S

I

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Hometown:

Philadelphia. Pa.

For Christina Dax

atmosphere
she says
colleges.



is,

BU's small size and friendly
different from home."

— "something totallx

appealed to her w hen she xx as considering
She describes herself as shx b\ nature, xx hich

campus visitors might find hard to believe. Besides
working as a tour guide, Davis is a talented hip-hop
dancer who recently won the "Lens on Talent"
competition sponsored by BET.
Davis says she helps the families feel at ease by simply
being herself "I go with my experiences on campus and
what it's really like to be a student here," she says. "I try
to keep them laughing and smiling."
Davis says

it's

important to find something in

common

starting top

left,

clockwise:

Skiermont talks
with parents and prospective
students in the Warren
Student Services Center
Devon Mills gathers a group
at Northumberland Hall
and Christina Davis leads
visitors along the

passing Waller

with the families on her tours. "Everybody

which

is

what keeps

have anything to

it

say,

interesting.

or

I

is different,

Quad,

home, but the campus is
home in no
That's certainly been true

likely to feel like

time.

for Williams,

because

it

who chose BU

was one of the few

schools that offered her major.

"I wanted to major in optometry,
and BU advertised pre-optomeThat, combined with the beautiful BU

Administration Building.

Some people don't
try,"

crack a joke and they don't

leave

Nicolle

she says.

well-prepared for anything that comes your way and

campus, made choosing a college easy for Williams.
Williams says that she usually "clicks" with out-ofstate students because she understands their fears and
anxieties. "If you are not a people person, or if you

know how to react. Whether it's a parent who asks a
lot of questions or those who don't ask anything, I just

you, because you are really selling the school. If you

go with the type of audience

don't love the campus,

say anything.

I

like families

who have questions,

especially the students."

Davis says she's also learned to be

I

flexible.

"Be

haven't liked your time at BU, this

have."

is

not the job for

you probably won't make a good

tour guide."

Williams' experience as a tour guide has helped put

Dreka Williams. Senior. Pre-med Major

Hometown: Gaithersburg. Md.

Moving to college

is

stressful

enough, but moving to an

out-of-state institution is another level of stress all

remind me
why I chose BU."

helps



its

Editor's note:

Maryland, can relate

Bloomsburg University, see www.bloomu.edu/admissions.

It's

a feeling

to

the students she takes on
Dreka Williams

tours

For answers

to

many

questions about

Contact the Admissions Office at buadmiss@bloomu.edu.

who are feeling a bit

nervous about leaving home. Sharing her story helps
reassure

days

Dreka
Williams remembers well.
Williams, originally from

own.

"Going on a tour

own college experience in perspective. "Even on
when I don't feel like doing a tour, going on a tour
helps remind me why I chose BU. When I'm not feeling
my best, it helps give me a pick-me-up, too." •
her

to

them that not only will they do well once they

Sara

Hodon is a freelance writer and college-level

English instructor from Schuylkill County, Pa.

SPRING 2012

21

own an iPod or M
player, Paragon Media Strategies reports. How many are playing their
music much too loud?
More than 75 percent of young people

ROCK

'N'

ROLL and volume,

lots

and

lots of volume, just naturally

Pipe that volume from iPods and other

and

a personal playlist enjoyed today

ages 14 to 24

go together.

MP3 players directly into a listener's ears

may damage

hearing later in

life.

A recent study by students of Pamela Smith and Tom Zalewski, associate
professors of audiology and speech pathology, revealed that nearly

92 percent of 459 Bloomsburg University students surveyed use a personal
listening device,

most often with earbuds, which are placed

directly

into the ear canal.

Earbuds' proximity to the eardrum, coupled with
a practically never-ending supply of music at potentially

loss,

unsafe volume

although

years,

Smith

it

levels,

can lead to hearing

may not be noticed for several

says.

Symptoms

of damage include

ringing in the ears, muffled voices or a sense of
fullness in the ears.

"Headphones ampUfy sound, and new technology is
producing sound-isolating headphones or earbuds,"

Zalewski says. "These tiny devices can produce the

sound levels of a rock concert. When you put the two together
and if you listen to it loud enough for long enough you are
-v
putting yourself at risk for hearing damage. "
^
Two simple steps can reduce the chance of damage — which can
be permanent. First, turn down the volume, Zalewski says. "If you can \^
hold a conversation in a normal level of voice with someone three or four v
v
feet away, then it's usually safe. If you have to speak up or ask the individual
you are speaking with to repeat himself or herself, then it's too loud."
And don't listen for hours at a time. "Take some breaks and walk away from the
sound intensity," he says.
Carolyn K. Novaleski '10 was the student co-chair of the study's research committee.
An iPod user, she prefers loud music, but limits the amount of time she is plugged in to
her device to "maybe one to two hours a week." Novaleski, who earned a bachelor's
degree in speech pathology/audiology and receives her master's degree this spring, is
...

...

representative of others in her

\\

field.

The BU survey showed students in communication-related majors, such as
speech-language pathology/ audiology, education of the deaf and hard of hearing and
American Sign Language interpreters, are less likely to set their iPods at higher volumes
in noisy backgrounds. They also are more likely to believe that manufacturers of MP3
players should build devices to limit audio/volimie level settings, an option available in
current iPod software.

Other major findings

are:

Male students are more likely to listen to iPods
at louder volume levels than females.
• Non-white students are more likely to
listen at louder volume levels than white students.
"Ultimately
our role is an educational one," Smith says of the survey. "If users
have the information they can make an informed decision about their iPod use." •


...

Becky Lock is a writer, editor and photographer who works
and lives in Pennsylvania.
22

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

TURN Down
THE VOLUME
by

BECKY LOCK

\

SPRING 2012

23

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Right to
the Point

WITH A GROWING public interest in alternative medicine,

acupuncture work for me was tiie

no wonder acupuncture is appearing in more areas
— the military sometimes uses the technique as part of
a treatment program for post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). Acupuncturist Todd Trembula '98, co-founder
of Charlotte (N.C.) Acupuncture and Wellness Center,
is pleased with the trend and optimistic about the

me go to school."

it's

future of natural medicine.

"The most common misconception is that it's painfiil,"
Trembula says, explaining the needles used at his
practice are only 0.16 mm thick and come with insertion
tubes. Most patients report very litde or no pain, he adds.
Trembula first heard of acupuncture in a medical
anthropology class he took at BU, although it was a
chance meeting with an acupuncturist in 1999 that
prompted him to explore the field. The doctor invited
Trembula to observe his office on a busy day and, after
hearing about the patients' experiences, "I had a gut
feeling this was what I wanted to do," he says. "Seeing

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While pain management is a common goal of acupunc
can be used to treat a range of ailments.
Trembula often sees patients with digestive problems, and
his partner, Hope Peek, works with patients to overcome
infertility and other reproductive health issues. Treatment
strategies may include herbal medicines and working
ture, the technique

together with other medical professionals.

Trembula hopes

to see the application of acupuncture

integrated into the medical system. "There are a

number

of medical settings where acupuncture can enhance the
effects of the conventional care patients are receiving,"

he says. "It can help stave off" surgery, reduce pain and
inflammation in a post-op rehabilitative setting, help
people come off" meds. Using acupuncture alongside
modem Western treatments would, in the very least,
increase their quality of life and possibly lessen overall
health care costs."*

Melanie Berger Wiscount

1971
won

Jim Berkheiser

New Jersey

a

Poetry Prize honorable mention

poem, Gorgeous, and was

for his

nominated

for a Pushcart Prize

poem, When Dad Harped.

for his

Four honored with alumni awards

'84/'04M, a business and
technology teacher

Larry A. Fry

Palmyra

School District, was one of 50

named a Siemens STEM
Institute Fellow. She also was

teachers
2011

one of 101 teachers
at the

1973

at

who competed

Microsoft Partners in

Learning U.S. Innovative
is

an accounting

Educator Forum.

i-eceived a

was named honorary

101/EOP since 1996,
he served as assistant director from 1977 to 1996.
Wright is actively involved in the University-Community
Task Force on Racial Equity University Committee for
Protected Class Issues, the advisory board for Frederick
Douglass Institute and Bloomsburg Rotary Club.
of the year. Director of Act

Awards were:

Kathleen Shanoski Mulligan 67/'69M. Bloomsburg. the

1985

of

Vicki Morris Benion

Donald Bechtel

Wright, of Bloomsburg.

alumnus

Receiving Distinguished Service

operations manager and vice president of Fulton Financial Coi-p.

Wright, director of BU s Act 101/EOP program, and three alumni
were honored by the Alumni Association.
Irvin

is

executive

curriculum and instruction

School

District

at

and co-founder

the

of the Danville

Town

doctorate of education in leader-

Association of CoUege Stores

Development Center). Active

ship and policy studies from

Foundation.

she served on the Planning Commission
and. last

Virginia Tech University.

1987
Lehigh Valley

at

of Logical Writing Solutions
is

Christian High School.

1979

Inc.,

degrees

I'O^tl

health information technology

group.

\f



'

Call

district attorney.

Deborah, celebrated their 40th

wedding anniversary

is

Anderson Grey 81. Berwick, a registered resand certified pulmonary function technologist. who founded the Columbia County Volunteers
in Medicine Clinic and chairs its newsletter committee.
Bette

to

biology from Bloomsburg.

in 2011.

The Maroon and Gold Excellence Award went

Rich Donahue teaches business

Denmark-Olar middle

and high

schools,

Denmark,

1991

and counselor

Gary Groenheim
joined Bloomberg
Television as com-

mercial director for

Scott

Kevin Reynolds

chair of its government technology

ball

commission.

University.

is

head basket-

to Scranton,

Valley

and Beyond.

A

Visitor's

The Lackawanna

is

Michael

Zeiser '93 recently

C.

is

vice president

and community

assistant

manager of West Milton

Office

Coach of the

experience managing financial and administrative
organizations as CFO of Sytex Inc. and vice president of

business operations for Lockheed Martin s Army-Navy
programs. Prior to entering private industry. Zeiser held public
accounting positions with Kreischer Miller. He lives in Doylestown with

Year.

1992
Quay Hanna,

became senior vice president and chief
MacAu lay- Brown Inc.. an engineering
and technical services company supporting the U.S.
Department of Defense. He has more than 19 years of
financial officer of

He was the 2008-09

author of Bus

his wife,

Rebecca Anderson Zeiser

'94.

and

their three daughters.

America: Revelations of a Redneck,
a speaker for

Shippensburg

University's annual

Michael Loeh

BU s

senior VP/CFO

Zeiser

Conference Western Division

was

1984

in

and Retention, she has held positions at
Shippensburg and Miami universities. She earned a
bachelor's degree in social work from Bloomsburg. a master's in counseling and is pursuing a doctorate in education administration. She is

coach for Slippery Rock

and author of Pennsylvania's

Guide

of

of Diversity

Pennsylvania State Athletic

Northeast Treasures:

Community College

Hong Kong.

TechQuest board of directors and

Lackawanna Heritage

at the

Philadelphia. Previously assistant director

the Asia-Pacific
region, based in

Council of Central Pennsylvania's

Daniel Perry is the chief operating

to

Lynette Luckers 01. Philadelphia, assistant professor

S.C.

McCabe is president of
IMR Digital, Camp Hill. He also
is a member of the Technology

of

clinic has provided free health services
uninsured and underinsured working citizens of
Columbia and lower Luzerne counties (see story page 10). From 200^
to 2010. Grey served on the State Board of Medicine and was the
board's vice president in 2009. She received her bachelor s degree in

1980
classes at

BU

member

a

Since 2007. the

j

'

1990

State Bank.

years

AGAPE

chair of the

Piratory therapist

^^|y"^t

Zdzislaw Kordecki and wife,

office

for 20

the Alumni Association s Carver Hall Chapter.

4i
T

Schuylkill County's first assistant

Valley

Bloomsburg.

of

special education and communication disorders from

in

co-chair of the Technology

Council of Central Pennsylvania's

William Reiley was named

officer for

was volunteer

and a doctorate from Penn State University Mulligan

If^

matics teacher

fall,

the

in

Center for Flood Relief following Tropical Storm Lee. She holds

Ann Pavkovic Grove, president

Henry Crush, an educator for
more than 20 years, is a mathe-

Daycare

Center for Child Development (now the Danville Child

director of the National

1978

director

first

Bloomsburg Area

March

for

Humanity.

Maillie, Falconiero

Vicki Marold Johannes

1995

1993
Robert Hershey Jr.

is

community office manager for

is

a partner in

and

Co., a

Pottstown accounting firm.
received

He

CPA designation in 1995.

Mitchell

Hanna is communication

manager for Quarryville
Presbyterian Retirement

Community, Lancaster.

The Dime Bank, Hawley.
Lorena Kutza is an

associate

Glenn Haug is girls'

buyer for Cherokee

coach

Pharmaceuticals, Riverside.

School.

at

varsity soccer

Paramus (N.J.) High

He was named coach of

the year after his team finished the

season with a 12-5 record.

SPRING 2012

25

Michael Kwasnoski

is

Maria McGinty-Ferris is an asso-

a lieu-

tenant colonel in the U.S. Air

He commands

Force.

ciate attorney

the 30th

Curtin

Comptroller

&

with

Heefner,

a Bucks County

Alumna

directs state
,

tfie

Squadron

at

law finn.

I

is

California.

ParenteBeard's insurance indus-

community office

manager for Miffiinburg Bank

2002

Trust Co.'s Shamokin

Scott

&
Dam and

New Berlin offices.

is

a partner in

Neuhard '02M, a faculty
member in Pennsylvania College
of Technology's electronics and

1998

computer engineering technology

David Manbeck, manager at
Beyer and Ritter

department,

CPA and

experience

in

Pennsylvania state government, including

Publishing's Who's
Collegiate Faculty.

Who in

series as

Chris Thompson, Ephrata,

He was recognized for outstand-

coach of the Lehigh Valley Steel

ing contributions to his profession

Hawks indoor football team.

and community as part of the

MS Leadership Class.

2003
is

a

Vishal Petigara, attorney and

Northumberland County Career

member of the business and

and Technology Center, Coal

finance department of Obermayer

Township.

Central Bucks

Chamber

Juney Bamett

is

2000

for

and Phelps, a financial advisory
and investment banking firm

Kansas University.

Michael Taylor published a

a talent

manager at Duff

in

New York City.

Race.

1

Monocacy Middle

Amanda Malles is a CT technolo-

2006

gist for Johns

John W. Martin III '06M is business manager for Caldwell,

He teaches language arts at

Frederick,

Heckles and Egan

2007

Construction's

Michael Averto

north branch in

owner of Otreva Design,

MillvLUe.

School,

He is also

an adjunct faculty

Md.

Justin Flock

is

the owner/

a teacher of English as a second

operator of Flook's Landscaping,

language in the Harrisburg area,

Bloomsburg.

first

translations into 10 languages.

founder and
a

Scranton website design and

development company.

Megan Pugh

of Technology, teaching courses in

Josh London

business and computer technology.

solutions executive at Regulatory

Frank Beasley is the head

nology solutions provider in King

Miller,

Conyngham,

assistant wrestling coach at

of Prussia.

joined ParenteBeard as a staff

Binghamton

Mashbum Wiest 'oiM

2004

School Board and an agent for

Joseph Baker

Square Diehl Realty

nator for

Inc.,

Sunbury.

is

a housing coordi-

CMSU-MHMR, serving

Snyder and Union counties.

F

li

NN

.S

Bowman Goshert is a

registered nurse at the Janet

residents of Columbia, Montour,

BLOOMSBURG UNIVER.SITY OF

risk diligence

Sonja Parr Flook

Heather

member of the Shikellamy

is

University.

accountant.

26

is

DataCorp, a risk intelligence tech-

childen's book,

Night Noises, which includes

a

Hopkins Bayview

Medical Center in Baltimore, Md.

member at Pennsylvania College

Carole LaPlante 'oiM, Dauphin,

Cheryl

for the Secret

and
bank fraud, counterfeiting and forgery. A graduate of St. John s University
School of Law. she has A years' experience with her own law firm and
Shearman & Sterling, dealing with executive compensation disclosure,
corporate governance issues and other securities taws matters.

young adult book. Survival of the
Fittest: The Last Hope for the Human
the

2001
published her

Norberg served as a special agent

assistant

strength and conditioning coach

is

Earlier in her career.

Service, investigating federal crimes including telecommunications

Hippel, spoke

Economic Forecast 2012 program.

acquisition

Jane Norberg '91 was appointed deputy chief of the Securities and
Exchange Commission's (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower earlier this
year overseeing a program that helps ensure complaints are handled
appropriately and recommends awards for information leading to commission enforcement action. Individuals may receive awards if information they provide helps the SEC identify fraud and other security law violations, minimizing harm to investors and holding accountable those
responsible for unlawful conduct.

Debbi Dobson '03/'04M

1999

is

computer technology instructor at

Melinda Lewis

Governor s Commission on Women Role Model Award and the Governor s
Commission on Latino Affairs Award in Health.

Norberg oversees Whistleblower program

part of the 25th anniversary class.

Rebmann Maxwell

of staff at the

included in the

is

Leadership Harrisburg Area's

Harrisburg

and chief

Pennsylvania Department of Aging
After graduating from BU with a bachelors degree
in business administration, Bucher earned an MBA in
health care administration from Regis University A native of San Juan.
Puerto Rico, Bucher is the first Hispanic to reach the deputy secretary
level in Pennsylvania state government, where she has received the

2011-12 edition of Montclair

Consultants, graduated from

community leadership

AARP members.

Pennsylvania's Executive Council She has more
than 16 years of leadership, policy and management

Jason Jacobs

eight years as deputy secretary

Brian Neitz

is

s 1.7 million

AARP

Force Base,

try practice.

at the

commonwealtfi

Prior to her appointment, she served two years on

Vandenberg Air

FA

AARP

Ivonne Gutierrez Bucher 91 the new state director of AARP Pennsylvania,
is leading advocacy, connmunify outreacti and education work to benefit

Y LVAN

I

A

Weis

Children's Hospital at Geisinger

Medical Center, Danville.

is

a teacher for

the Millville Area School District.

2008
Nicole

2009

Shoop Shebelskie is

2010

Barbara Caccia

a

is

Brittany Bender

junior sales

associate at Toll Brothers City

research assistant at Geisinger

Medical Center, Danville.

Living,

Horsham. She

is

also a

member of town council in
Lyndsey Snyder Beasley, a certi-

& Associates,

Shawn Clark operates Shawn

Katie Zaccarino

Pennsauken Intermediate School.

Sarah Kline Ryan

is

a middle

Smith

Elizabeth A. Jung is an admissions

Ashley Erdman

director

Dune Energy's board of directors.
The principal/owner of KP Energy since January 201
Keener
previously was managing director of Imperial Capital and principal and
managing director of Petrobridge Investment. He earned a bachelor s
degree in business administration and accounting from BU and a
masters degree in business administration from Loyola University
R.

Keener

'81 is

serving on

1

Kressler accepts

Regan

"

f

is

V

ck

J

is

University,

Madison,

N.J.

Zachary Pearce

is

a

member of

the Delaware Valley School Board.

Coombe is a

marketing coordinator with

Shawn

Geisinger Health System.

for ParenteBeard, Reading.

Ziegler

is

an accountant

&

CORRECTIONS
Giuffre receives lifetime
Nick Giuffre

the Fred

V.

customer success VP

responsible for client services, account

and

counselor at Fairleigh Dickinson

'risk'

Mike Regan 78 joined the executive team of Alteryx
Inc. as vice president of customer success, where he

_ Jl

one of eight

.

Barbara A. Lawless Kressler 77. a 23-year veteran
of the insurance industry, was promoted to vice president of Keystone Insurers Group s Risk Solutions
Division. Kressler who has worked with KIG for
seven years, started her career with Hutchison
Insurance Agency as a commercial account manager
She worked for Briar Creek Mutual for eight years,
joining KIG in 2005 as assistant vice president.

""^^^

is

Phillies.

Haili Shetler

Keener named Dune Energy
Michael

Intermediate Unit.

2011

District.

an

Zeigler

Kenis and Co.

Elliott

school counselor for Danville

School

is

Ashby and

services through the Luzerne

Day is senior associate

baUgirls for the 2012 Philadelphia

New Jersey's

Au.D.

'11

Audiology. She also provides

E.

a special

is

McClelland

Sparta, N.J.

Jennifer

Spring, N.J.

Clark Funeral Home, Lansford.

education teacher in

Jill

audiologist for

for

Endicott, N.Y.

man-

Laurel

fied public accountant, joined

Vieira

project

is

ager for Stascom Technologies,

management

training. Previously vice president of operations

Kace, Regan held senior

management

roles at

^^^^j

at

f^BPi*

global software organizations, startups and growth

78.

president and

CEO

of

achievement award

Bradford White Corp..

was presented

Keenan Lifetime Achievement Award during the American
Supply Association (ASA) annual meeting and member
lunch. This award honors individuals whose contributions
and achievements have improved the plumbing, heating,
cooling and piping fields, especially in terms of education,
safety service and industry image,
Giuffre began working for the Bradford White Corp.
after graduation

company

from BU. His former positions within the

include sales administrator vice president of

sales and executive vice president.

He also was honored with the Golden

Eagle Award from the Association of Independent Manufacturers
Representatives in 2003.

name was misspelled when this story
Winter 2012 issue. We apologize for the error

Editor's note: Nick Giuffre's last
originally

appeared

in the

stage companies, including Portal Software, Siebel,

Sybase, Datasweep and MarketLive. He earned an

MBA

from Lehigh

Wilson promoted

University,

Alteryx

is

a provider of strategic analytics

based

in Irvine, Calif.

Patrick W. Wilson

'91 of

to

senior vice president

vice president of operations
for Little

^

Alumni return with career advice

Conference presenters included: Kristin Mock Austin

'02.

director of Admissions/coordinator of orientation, BU: Scott
'06, digital

Bowden

assistant

Hemmons

marketing project manager Thompson/Reuters: Greg

01, vice

president-investments,

UBS

Financial Services Inc.

and president, BU Alumni Association Board; Phil Ferdinand '82,
managing partner Green Sky Business Development: Paul Kappel '89.
president. Junior Achievement of Delaware Valley: Whitney Purcell '11,
Student Life coordinator Lycoming College: and Kathleen Oatley Mangold
'98, assistant director of Residential Services, Muhlenberg College.
Also participating were former campus leaders: Tom Kresch 10.
Shalanda Gray '96. Lynette Luckers 01, Jennifer Shymansky Inaba 06,
J R. Sperry '89. Dave Marcolla 00 and Jennifer Bosset 06.
And, Rudy Inaba 06, Megan Harter 07, Scott McCabe '80, John
Ludrof 86, Chris Jackson 85, Bill Koch 85, Tristan Zelinka 08, Emily
O Holla 08, Joe Yasinskas 06 and Heather Bowman Goshert 06.

League

International. In his

new

position.

Wilson, previously vice president of operations for

Little

League Baseball and Softball, is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the operations of Little League

Alumni working in careers ranging from law and financial services
to technology and educational administration took part in the fifth
annual Husky Leadership Summit in March, sponsored by BU s Alumni
Affairs Office,

was promoted to senior
and program development

Williamsport recently

International s five regional centers in the United States

and four abroad. Wilson is tournament director for the
'^S?
Little League Baseball World Series and chairman of the
Little League International Charter and Tournament Committees. He
oversees all operations, marketing and communications divisions of
Little League International.
Wilson began working for Little League in 1993 as an administrative
assistant to the vice president. Over the years, he has served as director
of regional operations and assistant international tournament director
Wilson, who played Little League baseball as a child, volunteers with
organizations, including United Way and Leadership Lycoming, and has
served on the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce Board of
Directors and the Williamsport Area Recreation Commission. He has
been a member of BU s Council of Trustees since 2009.
Editor's note: Patrick Wilson s

appeared

in the

title

Winter 2012 issue.

was

incorrect

We apologize

when

this story originally

for the error

SPRING 2012

27

VITAL STATISTICS
Marriages

Births

Kip McCabe '83 and Angela Belander, July 9, 2011
Thomas Venesky '97 and Kathleen Burt-Salter, Oct.

David Wilson Ashelman Jr.
No\'. 20,

'99

Obituaries

Jennifer R.B.
22, 2011

and Carolyn Joy Sutton,

Adams '98 and husband,

Adams,

Helen Martin Watts

Dec.

2,

2011

Martha

and Stephen Hammond, Nov.

and Sean Shappell, Aug.

'01

Gina Belianca

'01

'02

and Edwin Weidow,

13,

2010

Cara Evangelista DeCicco

'99

and

Feb. 4, 2012

Sept. 10, 2011

'03

and Mariko Kubomi, July 30,

Jacob Hartman '03 and Carolyn Salisbun Hart Eno, July
Alicia Averto '04 and John Boniewicz, Aug.

6,

and Maria Smime, Aug.

Rhiannon Grohol '05M and Robert
Kimberly Hess

'05

'05

2012

May 29,

Oct. 23, 2010

Lauren Casparro '06 and Quinn Conaboy, Dec.
Heather Diener '06 and Seth Cramer, June

John Chruney

2011

John

31,

10,

2011

2011

Becca Mulutzie Beitler '02 and
husband, Ian Beitler

Gage Dan, Nov.

17,

'03,

husband, Greg
Genevieve, Feb.

8,

2012

'07

and

Elliot

Lyons

Liz

'08, July 30, 2011

Melissa Godfrey '07 and Christopher Allen, Sept. 24, 2011

Miriah Matrician '07 and Michael Wascavage, Oct.
Jennifer Pahira '07 and

Damian

Bugg\,',

Ashley Snyder

'07

Julie Stavig '07

and Matthew Stewart

and Jared Schoch

July

15,

'05, Feb.

21,

'02

and

Blackburn

E.

L.

Ronald

fiance,

Baer

Joyce

'65

Aislen Fiona, Dec.

Robert D. Harvey

10,

2011

Joseph

2011

Shirley

'65

'67

Marmo '67

James J. Rosini
12,

25 2011
'05,

F.

William J. Rosini

husband, Tom, a son, Noah, Nov.

2009

'67

McCormick Anspach

William Harris Jr.

Thomas Guzick 'os/'07M and

Fred E. Yohey

Lindsey Nally '08 and Martin Pastor

'69

Maria Pellegrino Vezend>'
8,

2011

'08, July 9,

Oct.

21,

June Culver Hoover

20U

'71

Maryjo Angotti Falbo

Lyndsey Snyder

husband, Joseph, a son,

Brian Hanratty

Julia

Benjamin Joseph, Feb.

L\'lo,

June

25, 2011

'08 and Frank Beasley '06, July 30, 2011
Camara-Calvo '09 and Daniel Acor '10, Oct. 21, 2011

Megan Smith '09M and

Robert Tunon, Aug.

Benshoff '10 and Ryan

13,

9,

Kent T. Baldwin

Amy Puntar Shingler '05 and husband,

and Tom Kresch
May 28, 20U
Amanda Scheno '10 and Michael McHenry Jr. '08, Oct. 8, 2011

Jeremy, a son, Wesley Read, Oct.

Kathryn Schultz

TyLean

'10

'10,

'11

and Matthew Frank,

Sept. 10, 2011

5,

2011

HUSKY NOTES

Online at

www.bloonnualunnni.conn

Send infoiination

to:

alum@blooiiiu.cdii or

E. Nean,- '74

Marilyn Hemstreet Smith '77M

Paisley Polley '06 and

'81

Daniel Blackledge '83

Brian D. Gennaria '86

Jan. 18, 2012

Marlene Monichelli Nikoden
Stanle\ R.

Hummel

'92

Alumni Affairs

Alison Slawek Gilmore '00

Fenstemaker Alumni House

Justin

Bloomsburg University' of Pennsylvania
400 E. Second Street, Bloomsburg,
Pennsylvania 17815

28

James

'74

'74

William B. Heiss

husband, Jonathan, a son, SOas George,

FIND MORE

'72

'73

Denise Bailey Hanrattj'

2012

2011

Klinger, Sept. 17, 2011

'70

2011

Jessica Silfies Muller '05 and

Dana Neuhauser '08 and Gregory

Aubree Kann

'68

'69

wife, Sara, a daughter. Piper Elizabeth,

Melissa Gerst '08 and Brian Brannon, Oct.

Kelli

'61

'65

Christopher Ross, a daughter,

Alison Poff Burkholder '05 and

2011

9,

Krewson

2011

'07, Oct. 8, 2011

Rachael Bennington '08 and Gabriel Hutchinson
Nov.

Ronald

Marie Reimensnyder Gray '65

Adam Brua '07 and Ashley Brough, July 16, 2011
Gardner

'59

Thomas M. Wagner '60
Arlan

Lindsay Brior '07 and Matthew Christensen

Kristie

'59

'59

Herman W. Howard Jn

Bowden '02 and
Bowden '01, a daughter,

Jennifer Endress

Muir 'o6/'o8M and Ke\in Salmon, Nov. 19, 2010
Michelle Wilt '06 and Matthew Vogel, Oct. 22, 2011
Kelly

E. Shaffer Jr. '56

Joseph Fosko

2011

'54

'56

Robert Corrigan

a son,

25, 2011

Jonathan Kline '06 and Kristin Schroeder, June 26, 2011

'51

'53

Walbum '55

Allen B.

William Thomas, Aug.

15,

Schell

Fulmer

and husband, Brian, a son,

2011

Amanda Ireland '05/'o6M and Adam Quinton '07, Sept.
Heather Bowman '06 and Jesse Goshert, June 11, 2011

S.

'51

Robert "Bopper" Plafcan

Stephanie Hontz McLaughlin 'GO

2011

Mummey

Rishel,

Mordan

Thurston
13,

and Michael DeAngelis,

and Mark

1,

Evitts Miller

Florence

Bn ne, Nov. 6, 2010

Heidi

Lawrence

Gwenn Gudmundson

Nancy

husband, Dan, a son, Declan Rhys,
Feb.

2011

Thomas Hector '04 and
Piccini Jr. '04

23, 2011

'48

'49

Thomas McAndrew '50

Regan O'Malley Higgins '00 and

2011

'48

Peggy Lewis Keenan
William Homisak

Wendy Teschner '02 and Chris Weatherford, Dec. 30, 2011
Joseph Conroy

'40

'44

Woodhouse '46

Stitzel

Elroy Dalberg

husband, Joseph, a son, Luca Joseph,

2011

27,

'38

Elnora linger Houck

2010

Rachael Semcheski

Laura Shultz

George Sharp

Ga:-y T. Bean, a daughter, Vivienne

BLOOMSBtRG UNIVERSITY OF

P E

.\

N

S

Y L VA N I A

M. Harakel

'08

'91

LINEUP
REUNIONS. NETWORKING. AND SPECIAL EVENTS

CAPITAL AREA NETWORK: Among Harrisburg area alumni attending
networking mixer at McGrath's Pub were A.J. Geiselman 05. Lin
Nester '68 and Mark Roda OA and his wife, Ann.

a

ALUMNI LEGACY SCHOLARSHIPS: Twelve students whose parents are
BU alumni were selected by random drawing for $1,060 Legacy
Scholarships. Members of BU Alumni Association Executive Board and
shown left to right are: First row: Lauren Hess U;
alumni board secretary: and Greg Bowden 01. alumni
board president; second row: Danielle Roth '15 and Amy Scott 05.
board member at large: third row: Ashley Jackson 15: Kerri Donald

scholarship winners
Rich Uliasz

Sears

'92.

'97.

board vice president: and Alexa Kirk

Courtney Berger

15.

Thomas

Cimaglia

13: fourth

row: Devan Smith 15: and sixth row: Meredith

'83: fifth

row:

U and Lynne Rishel Homiak
Salmon 'U and

Elaine McCauley 15. Student recipients not present are Aaron Kline 15.

Matthew Wendling 15 and Anthony

Miller

U.

GETTING SOCIAL: Alumni attending

a mixer of the Alumni

Association's Lehigh Valley Network are.
08.

Michael Reed 05 and Megan Verholy

left to right:

Travis Behler

08.

HUSKY WEDDING: When Thomas Kresch 10 and Aubree Kann 10
married in Gettysburg last May BU students and alumni joined in the
celebration. Shown left to right are. front row: Becca Sherman. Jennee
Coombe
Kresch

09.

'8^.

Josh Gross

09.

Bryan Hart

Robert Kresch. Todd

07,

Cummings

groom
'83,

s

mother Debbie

Ginny

Cummings

'82.

Ross OA. Cindy Shultz 87. Ben Shultz '87 and
Amanda Williams 09: and back row: Nicole Baruch 10, Katie Kelly 11,
Jessica Mest 10, Patrick Gilliland. Lucas Wither 10. Matthew Truscott
10. Nicole Truscott 09. Kaity Black 11. Steve Krasucki. bridegroom
Thomas Kresch 10. bride Aubree Kann Kresch 10. groom s father Tom
Kresch '81. Todd Wolinsky 09. Jerome Manley 10. Terrence Haynes 10.
Ryan Donnelley 11. Rachel Rehrig 10. Jamie Heise 11 and Jessica Frey

Alice Carpenter 95, Mike

PENGUIN POWER: The Morgan

family cheered on the Wilkes-Barre/

Scranton Penguins during the Northeast Pennsylvania Network s
Alumni Night. They are. from left. Jacqui Morgan, children Brendan

and Blake, and Rick Morgan

'81.

SPRING 2012

29

Waller Hall:
Center of Campus Life
^jROBERT DUNKELBERGER, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST
THERE IS ONE iconic image of
Bloomsburg University that lives
on in the minds of alumni from
years past, it is the Long Porch on
IF

education as a normal school, but a

the facility to the model school,

dormitory was required for the

which provided additional space
for a library, faculty offices and
more dorm rooms. While Carver
Hall held only classrooms and an

Ground was

transformation.

broken

in

summer

the facility

1868,

was completed

the following year, and

the institute

became the

Bloomsburg State
Normal School. But, on
Sept. 4, 1875, the campus'
first

dormitory burned.

The new one

that

began

to rise in its place less

than two months

would

officially

later

be

honoring David J.

Waller Jr., the two-term principal
of the normal school.

the Waller Hall dormitory.

Stretching impressively along

Second

Street, the

porch was lined

with rocking chairs where

socializ-

ing students admired a gorgeous
view looking out over the
Susquehanna River Valley. Many
fond memories were made there,

but

it

was not

the

building on the

was

campus
The first

first

site.

a dormitory that lasted just

The new dormitory, completed
in 1876, contained not

only rooms for male

and female students,
but also the campus
dining room, a kitchen

and apartments for the
normal school principal,
faculty

and

staff.

1891 included a

seven years.
In 1867, several

months

after the

An

addition constructed in

porch

and an enlarged area
room; an
annex completed three

completion of Carver Hall, the

for the dining

Bloomsburg Literary Institute had
an opportunity to offer teacher

years later connected

30

BLOOMSBURG

L'

MVER

.S

I

TY

OF PENNSYLVANIA

.

As the normal
the

first



was

the

life.

school and,

state teachers college

later,

grew during

half of the 20th centurj^

numerous improvements updated
the dormitory's appearance and
usefulness, including elevators and
the remodeled dining room and
library.

named Waller Hall in
1927,

auditorium. Waller Hall
center of campus

A large lobby created near
became an active
and Tiffany windows

the west entrance
social area,

were placed in the annex. Many of
the rooms previously occupied by
female students were remodeled in

and during summer
Husky Lounge
was demolished to make
room for Kehr Union. By

1942 to house the male naval

who trained at the college
during World War II. A brick

1971 the

cadets

porch replaced the original
wooden one in fall 1949, and a
fountain

was

1973,

offices

courtyard the following year.

The most profound changes
took place during the building's
last 25

campus landscape

years of existence, as

enrollment continued to grow and
students needed places to congregate. When the president's office

and the business

office

moved

to

And, when the library, now the
Warren Student Services Center,
opened in 1966, the bookstore and

the remodeled Carver Hall in 1954,

additional study space filled in

space opened in Waller for a larger

where the

lobby and social area. Likewise, the

Husky Lounge was born in 1956
when the gymnasium, added to the
building in 1894, was converted to
a place to socialize

snack.

and enjoy a

The function of other spaces

within Waller changed as well. In
1957, after

the College

only a few faculty

remained in
Waller Hall, and the
landmark building
disappeared from the

installed in the

Commons

was completed, the first-floor dining room became the new library.

library

had been

located.

But even before the mid-1960s.
Waller's demise

along with

its

was

in the plans,

replacement: a mod-

Hall the following year.

Although Waller Hall is gone,
more than a memory. The
Andruss Library, which opened in
it

is

1998, sports a portico reminiscent

of the Long Porch; Waller's Tiffany
windows are visible above the por-

looking out over the Academic

ern dormitory. Waller Hall came

tico,

down

Quadrangle. Adjacent

in sections, starting

with the

connection to the former model

make room for
Commons. The last
moved from Waller to

in

January 1975 to be
replaced by Lycoming Residence

library. Dr. Waller's

to the

name graces

school in 1967 to

another structure, the Waller

the Scranton

Administration Building, introducing

students

his legacy to each

Columbia Hall

in

December 1970

new generation

of

students.

SPRING 2012

31

CaLENDaR
and Events

Activities

New Student Activities

Academic Calendar
SUMMER 2012

Summer Freshman

Session

Sunday, July

I:

Monday, May

21 - Friday,

Sunday, July

II:

Monday, May

21 - Friday,

III:

Monday, July

2 - Friday,

Aug. 10

Orientation
to

Treasure

Saturday,

Freshman Preview

Tuesday to Thursday June 26 to 28;
Monday to Wednesday, July 9 to 11

Thursday and Friday, July 12 and

May 19; Early bird, 8 a.m.;

ACE

Orientation

Summer Experience,

sixth-

Visit www.blooinualtimni.com for

dates, details or to register for

or (570) 389-4508

these events and more. Contact

Thanksgiving Recess Begins

Alumni

Tuesday, Nov. 20, 10 p.m.

(800) 526-0254 or alum@bloomu.edu.

Friday to Sunday, Sept. 14 to 16

May
• Alumni Weekend, Friday

Friday to Sunday, Oct. 12 to 14

Classes

Resume

Monday, Nov.

26,

8 a.m.

Affairs at (570) 389-4058,

through Sunday,

May 18

to

Saturday, Dec. 8

Luncheon and Class of 1962
Reunion

Awards

Finals Begin

June


Finals

End

Friday, Dec. 14



Carver Hall Chapter
Baltimore Day Trip
Inner Harbor Orioles/
Phillies

Graduate

Commencement


Friday, Dec. 14

Philly

game

Area Network,

Philadelphia Phillies Outing

Undergraduate Commencement



Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs Outing



Capital

Saturday, Dec. 15

Area Network Picnic

August






Seacrets,

Ocean

City,

Summer

Picnic

September


Carver Hall Chapter

Annual Yard

32

BLOOMSBURG

UNIVER

.S

I

TY

Md.

Carver Hall Chapter Alumni
Day, Knoebels Amusement Resort

Lehigh Valley Network

Sale

OF PENNSYLVANIA

Weekend

20

Featuring Alumni

Monday, Dec. 10

Parents and Family

Homecoming Weekend

Classes End

hockey, football, soccer,
tennis, wrestling,

basketball, cross country, track

information for each camp,

Tuesday, Nov. 20

Alumni Events

summer camps in

and Fireside Lounge
Benefits Columbia County
United Way, (570) 784-31.34

Reading Day

Labor Day. No Classes
Sept. 3

offers

and

through eighth-graders, and
CSI Summer Experience, ninththrough iith-graders; Monday
through Friday, June 25 to 29
jpohill@bloomu.edu

Saturday, Aug. 25

Monday,

BU

the following sports: baseball,

Regular hours, 9 a.m. to noon
Kehr Union, Multicultural Center

Math and Science Camps
Non-Traditional/

Camps

swimming,

13

Classes Begin

Monday, Aug. 27

Summer Athletic

field

Trash

1

Transfer Orientation

FALL 2012

and Learning Conference

Thursday and Friday, May 17 and 18
(Formerly the Reading Conference)

June 29
Fall

Session

Literacy

Orientation

1

Aug. 10

ACT101/EOP
Session

Special Events

Athletic Hall of

Fame

Friday, Nov.

cocktails at 6 p.m.;

dinner

at 7

2;

p.m.

Induction

field,

and

lacrosse. For dates,

fees, registration info

www.bucamps.com.

and contact
visit

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OF HANDS
Alumni, students bee
family as they share

common bond

of langu

Page 12

ALSO INSIDE

Power

of Positive

Teach, reinforce proper conduct
before problems begin. That's
Positive Behavior Support. Page 18

The Education Equation
Desire to mentor inspires College
f

Education's

new dean.

WW.BLOOMU.EDU^

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f

Bloomsburg:
The University Magazine

From the President
arrived nearly five years ago,

covered Bloomsburg had

all

I

dis-

of the

was looking for: committed
and staff,
strong academics and, of course, a
beautiful campus. .A? president, I have
qualities

I

students, dedicated facultv-

experienced firsthand Bloomsburg's
supportive and personal approach
to education. This

is

exemplified by

MyCore, our new model

for

fulfill-

ing general education requirements

through experiential learning oppor-

complement classroom
have welcomed our new

tunities that

learning.

I

Bloomsburg students, who fit in from
and watched as they
grow to their full potential while pretheir first day,

Why

paring for careers that are right for

And I have met many devoted
alumni whose love for Bloomsburg
them.

Bloomsburg?

is

contagious.

more

I

The more

I

know, the

am convinced that this

is

a

special place.

As a reader of Bloomsburg: The
your perception
of BU is based on both your personal
experiences here and the stories of
the students, facultv; staff and alumni
you meet through these pages. What
would you say to convince a prospective student to attend Bloomsburg?
University Magazine,

WHAT SETS BLOOMSBURG
.\PART?
lic

As you would imagine,

Penns> lvania's 14 pub-

universities, 130 four-year institu-

and nearly 270 post-secondary
options, ranging from trade schools to
rions

medical schools,

why should

a student

choose Bloomsburg Universit> ? Or,
for that matter,

any college

believe

ides. According to the
Census Bureau, a college gi-aducan expect to earn about SI mil-

education prov
U.S.

ate

lion

more than

a high school gi'aduate

during his or her lifetime, a financial
benefit to the gi-eater

at all?

Today, institutions in Pennsylvania

I

strongh' in the ad\ antages a college

communitv

gi'aduate possesses the cognitiv^e

among this

fulh'

season's political ads, are

tive

undergraduates. And, for the

first

time in a generation, some national

media and government leaders are
questioning whether the overall value
of a college education is worth the
debt accrued.

sent to

magazine@
in the

newly

designed online magazine, bloomu.

edu magazine, and will help us reach
tomorrow 's Huskies.

taxes paid. Professionally, a college

and elsew here are competing for fewer college-age students. TV, newspaper and radio messages, interspersed
vying for the same pool of prospec-

in

the form of federal, state and local

Comments

bloomu.edu may appear

decision-making

skills to

and

success-

maneuver changing careers and

And personally, colgraduates are more satisfied with

career demands.
lege

and place gi'eat importance
on pursuing volunteer opportunities
and engaging in educational acti\ ities
their jobs

with their children.

But

why Bloomsburg? When

I

^^^^
DAVID SOLTZ
President,

Bloomsburg University

FEATURES
10

The Education Equation

Elizabeth

Mauch

brings a professor's

perspective and mentor's insight to her

new

dean of the College

role as

of Education.

12

The Voice

of

Hands

Students at the Pennsylvania School for
the Deaf and the BU alumni who teach
them form an extended family through

a

shared language.

16

Making the Grade

Jenna Mordan and Carrie Mensch,
top honor graduates in two Colleges,
have more

common

in

than

outstanding CPAs.

18

Power

show

of Positive

students what

reinforce

is

acceptable,

good conduct and reward them

when they

get

right. That's the

it

theory

behind Positive Behavior Support.

Table of Contents

22

Learning from a Child's Level

Students leave bucolic Bloomsburg for

teaching experience in an urban setting.

Fall

2012

DEPARTMENTS
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
IS A MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE
SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Pennsylvania State System
Education Board

of Higher

of

Governors

Guido M.

President, Bloomsburg University

of Higher Education

David L Sollz

John

Lammando

'94,

C Cavanaugh

Vice Chair

Editor

Dampman '65,
C Housenick

Robert

Matthew

Charles

Baker

Jennifer Branstetler

Patrick Wilson '91

Tom

Ramona

Corbett

Michael K.

Ronald G. Henry

Marcus

Kenneth M. Jarin

David

Bonnie

L,

Jonathan

Keener

Joseph
Charles

Secretary

J.

William Wiisl

MovKad '08H
'60

E. Stolarick '77

Kenneth

C,R. "Chuck" Pennoni

Nancy Vasta '97/'98M

Jeffrey

Designer

Hill

Sr.

E, Schlegel. Jr

Joseph F McGinn

Photography Editor
Eric Foster

'67

Klingerman

Bonnie Martin

Vice Chair

Fuller '13

W

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Chair
'60.

H. Alley

LaRoy G. Davis

Hanna

Rosalee Rush

Council of Trustees

Aaron A, Walton. Vice Chair
E,

Executive Editor

Bloomsburg University

Chairman

Pichini,

Marie Conley

Chancellor, State System

03 Around the Quad
08 On the
24 Husky Notes
30 Over the Shoulder
32 Calendar of Events

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY SENIOR
welcomes

of Harrisburg

Marcus

Fuller

opportunities to gain experience

and exercise leadership

skills

as he prepares

for

a

career as an elementary teacher.
Fuller, 22, is

now

in

second year as the student

his

representative to the Bloomsburg University Council
of Trustees.

A Board

as vice president

Governors scholar, he serves

of

Kappa Alpha

of

Interfraternity Council,

ex

Psi. president of the

officio with

Government Association and sings
Choir.

He

with 6- to

just
1

completed

Community

BU Gospel

summer working

2-year-olds at the Greater Zion Missionary

Baptist Church's

now

his ninth

the

with the

day camp

in

Harrisburg.

where he

is

co-director.

College wasn't a consideration

when

Dauphin County Technical School
science, but

Huskies

it

all fell

football

into

camp

High School's Glen

to

Fuller enrolled in

study computer

place after he attended a

with his coach. Central

McNamee

'97. Fuller is

Dauphin

majohng

in

elementary education and psychology.

How
"It

has

Fuller benefited from being

has helped

work and
skills,"

to

me to

understand

master people

he says.

"It

skills

makes me

how

a campus leader?
different

people

and communications

hold myself to a higher

standard."

o
O
u.

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

around THE quad

play
PUTTING FUN BACK

^
IN

EDUCATION

Michael Patte spent spring and
ing

and researching playwork

summer 2010

at

on a Distinguished Scholar's Fulbright

University
fellowship.

Goals

understand the

work begun

in

of Patte's fellowship

field of

America

in

the

field of

is

to better

playwork and

between BU and

Leeds Metropolitan University leading
of a

were

playwork, build upon the

establish a reciprocal relationship

ment

teach-

Leeds Metropolitan

to

develop-

playwork career concentration. Playwork

defined as creating and maintaining spaces for

children to play freely

IT

WASN'T OBVIOUS AT

FIRST, but a gradual change

in

the approach to child development led Michael Patte to
shift professional gears into

career

move

higher education research

—a

that could add a unique concentration to early

childhood education at Bloomsburg University.
"Today, children spend far

and exploration,"
and secondary
which are not well grounded in

says Patte, professor of educational studies

research, violate long-established principles of child devel-

opment and good

teaching."

As an elementary teacher for more than a decade, Patte
saw the role of play downgraded. Preparation for standardized testing

became

a priority while

many

less structured

student experiences, such as field trips and recess, were

being phased out. This firsthand experience sparked

Patte's

interest in advocating for the child's right to play.
"It

seemed

like the

weren't happening anymore," says Patte.

interested in the societal factors

opportunities for children to get lost

"I

became

happening in America that

were causing teachers and parents

to marginalize children's

play."

Armed with

more time being taught and

tested than they do learning through play

education. "These practices,

in play

months

a Fulbright scholarship, Patte spent five

2010 teaching and researching with Fraser
Brown, professor of playwork at Leeds Metropolitan University, a 29,000-student institution located about 200 miles
north of London. Playwork, with its roots in Europe, focuses
on providing play environments where children may laugh
and cry, explore and experiment, create and destroy, feel excited and be elated. According to Brown, children uniquely
learn and develop through the way they play. Playwork crein

ates a dedicated space

Patte

capped

concentration in

BU

the

first

where children may play

freely.

by conceptualizing a career
playwork that, if approved, would make

his fellowship

school in the country to offer this type

of program. •

FALL 2012

3

around THE

Ji

For Those
Who Follow
ACCOUNTING ALUMNUS, WIFE,
ESTABLISH SCHOLARSHIP
JOE JACQUES 74 and his wife, Joy, have

estab-

lished a five-year accounting scholarship to help

students fi-om their freshman year through their
master's degree. But the scholarship
at the student at the

scholarship

is

top of the

for students

is

not aimed

class. Instead,

the

who Joe Jacques might

recognize as his younger self
"I

was an

in college,"

OK student in high school, but excelled
he

says.

"Most scholarships are for

students with a 4.0 gi'ade point average. Ours
students

who

are good, hard workers

and

is

for

trying.

We want to give back to kids who may not be as
fortunate as others."

The Joe and Joy Jacques Accounting Scholar$250,000 donation to the
Bloomsburg University Foundation, is actually five

ship, established with a

individual five-year scholarships.

A student who

receives the award for freshman year

may renew it

each year through the master's degree

level if

he or

she shows progi-ess.

A member of BU's College of Business Advisory
is owner and CEO of Jacques Fi-

Board, Joe Jacques

Md. Joy Jacques is an academic
working with dyslexic students. •

nancial, Rockville,

therapist

ing department, the

CCNE FINDS NURSING PROGRAM
IN FULL COMPLIANCE

creditation standards.

nursing program to be
quality


in full

The

and effectiveness,

team found BU's

compliance with

all

are:

Mission and governance



Institutional

master's programs in nursing received



Curriculum and teaching-learning practices



Student and faculty outcomes

full

accredi-

from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing
(CCNE) Board of Commissioners. The

Education's

accreditations are effective as of Oct.
first

18,

2011, the

day of the program's on-site evaluation, and run

through

fall

2021.

According to Michelle Ficca, chair of BU's nurs-

HI.OOM.SBL KG

LMVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

four ac-

standards, based on progi'am

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY'S bachelor's and
tation

4

CCNE evaluation

Good Health

commitment and resources

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing created CCNE, an autonomous accrediting organization, in
1996.

CCNE

is

the only agency dedicated to the accredi-

tation of bachelor's
tion progi'ams. •

and gi^aduate-degi-ee nursing educa-

Telling TALEs
GREEN, STARMACK HONORED
NATHANIEL

R.

GREENE,

professor

of physics and engineering technology,

and Thomas

J.

Starmack,

associate professor of educational
studies and secondary education,
were selected as BU's Teaching and
Learning Enhancement (TALE) Out-

his achievement.

Greene and Starmack were
nominated for the award by May
graduates. Greene's nominators said
he "knows how to explain things in
many different ways" and motivates

them

to excel in

all

of their classes.

standing Teachers for spring 2012.

Starmack was recognized

Each received a $750 professional
development stipend, sponsored by
the Bloomsburg University Foundation, and a plaque to recognize

quality of his mentorship, counseling

for the

and direction which give students the
"necessary tools" for success following graduation. •

Tops with
TechQuest
INCH

NAMED EDUCATOR

OF THE YEAR
SCOTT INCH,

professor of

mathematics, computer scienceand
statistics,

was named TechQuest

Pennsylvania's 2012 Technology

Educator of the Yean Winners were
recognized

ceremony

in 11 categories

in Harrisburg's

during a

Whitaker

Center for the Arts and Sciences.

More than 100 statewide organizations

Funded for Five
BU'S TRIO UPWARD
BOUND CONTINUES

ties.

at

the application process and supports
school.

BU

has

campuses, learning

Inch developed and teaches the

at

BU

serves students attending target

high schools throughout Columbia,

Northumberland and Schuylkill
counties. •

courses in BU's bachelor's degree
in

computer forensics progi-am.

The program prepares
for careers extracting

students

and analyz-

ing information from computers,
cell

service projects.

TRiO Upward Bound

helped more than 1,100 students,
says Kate Bauman, director. Between
visiting college

BU. Participants take
improve academic performance and earn college credits.
They also go on field trips, attend
cultural events and participate in
at

classes to

college students nationwide navigate

Since 1978, the program at

Fleming, an international

engineering consulting firm.

may attend the Summer

Academy

U.S.

Pennsylvania Tech Awards. Inch's

award was presented by Gannett

abili-

When the academic year ends,

students

Department of Education. The program helps future first-generation

them throughout high

work with

tutors at their high schools to

program TRiO Upward Bound
BU was recently funded for a
by the

for the SAT, students

develop their interests and

THE COLLEGE preparation

additional five years

about financial aid and registering

and individuals submitted

over 200 nominations for this year's

phones and similar devices

involved in criminal

computer forensics

activity.

As

specialists,

may be employed with

they

law enforce-

ment, homeland security agencies,
law firms or private companies. •

FALL 2012

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
j

around THE ua
I

Interim

Dean
EBBS LEADING
COLLEGE OF
BUSINESS FOR
2012-13

WALLACE

IS

CGA PRESIDENT
GEORGE EBBS JR., retired president of Embry-

ASHLEY WALLACE,

president of the

ment Association (CGA)

Community Govern-

been involved in
student government since high school. That involvement
continued at BU where she was elected freshman class president. She joined the CGA executive board during her second
semester and served as its secretary during her sophomore
for 2012-13, has

year.

Riddle University,

pointment

is

serving a one-year ap-

as interim

Business. Ebbs,

who

dean of BU's College of

also taught aviation

ed business courses

at

improve communication
among departments, students and student-run organizations. She encourages students to share their thoughts and
concerns with CGA members and, above all, to participate in

campus
lege,"

to

organizations. "Getting involved

is

beneficial in col-

she says. "There are over 200 clubs and organizations

on campus, so students can find their niche and get
Wallace, of Hawley,

is

a junior early childhood

education major, with a minor

in

active."

and special

audiology and speech-

Columbia University

Graduate School of Business and
Institute of Brooklyn's

As president, Wallace hopes

in Polytechnic

MBA program.
new

assessment and planning for

and professional training

He earned a bachelor's

universities

institutions.

degree from Purdue

from the University

University, a master's degree

of Washington and a doctoral degree from Co-

lumbia University Graduate School of Business.

A national

search

is

under way

permanow dean
Eastern Michigan
for a

nent dean to replace Michael Tidwell,

CGA, she

of the College of Business at

is

historian for the Student Council of Exceptional

(OWL) and

Most

he served as a consultant to the governments of Abu Dhabi and Qatar conducting needs
recently,

language pathology. In addition to her involvement with
Children (SCEC), an orientation workshop leader

and

aerospace leadership at Embry-Riddle, instruct-

University. •

a Board of Governors scholar. •

Re-elected as vice chairs were Marie

Conley

Another Term
BU GRAD CONTINUES
AS VICE CHAIR
GUIDO

M. PICHINI of Wyomissinghas
been elected to a second term as chair of the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's Board of Governors. Pichini, a 1974
graduate of Kutztown University, is the first
PASSHE university alumnus to chair the
board that oversees the State System.

6

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Lammando of Harrisburg,

a 1994

graduate of Bloomsburg University, and

Aaron A. Walton of Allison Park, a graduate
of California University of Pennsylvania.
Pichini
Inc.

and

is

its

president of Security Guards
subsidiaries,

WSK and Associates

Consulting Group and Vigilant Security Services.

Lammando,

a former

Council of Trustees,

is

member of BU's

executive director

of the recently formed Paterno Foundation,

and Walton
for

is

Highmark

a retired senior vice president
Inc.



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"After originally signing with BU,

made

a call to

was hard
"I

me

for

asked to be

I

Coach Danny Hale that
to make," says Shirk.

out of my commit-

let

ment so could go to the University
of Oklahoma on a track scholarship.
I

Fortunately, he

me

and wished

was very encouraging
all

the best."

At Oklahoma, Shirk faced

competition

in

stiff

the javelin and missed

the football field so

much

that he

go to any Sooner games. Both
his throwing and his grades were
didn't

coming up

short.

It

was time

to

rethink everything.

"My

motivation level was very low,"

Shirk says.

"I

was not putting

in the

time needed to get better and was not
getting

done

it

talking with

was time

"My
asked

classroom. After
it

come home.

to

first call
if

in the

my parents, we decided
was

Coach Hale.
way I could do

to

there was a

I

both football and track, and he said he

would work

it

out with track Coach

Bernie Empie."

At Bloomsburg, Shirk returned
to the football field

and was named

second team All-PSAC East as a
linebacker. Following football season,

THE NUMBER of hours spent practicing for an event that

seconds

is

is

over in mere

what separates the

aver-

age student-athlete from those

who

become champions. For Justin

Shirk,

the journey began in Harrisburg,
where he first played football at age 5,
and led to Colorado where he became
Bloomsburg Uni\'ersit}''s first NC.A.'V
champion in track and field when he

won

the javelin

Shirk

title in

first tried

May.

track and field as

an eighth-grader as a way to keep

busy in the spring. He quickly learned
running wasn't for him but throw...

throw the javelin

like

had done before and

no one that age
set the national

record for freshmen, a record that

still

for the

stands.

Although he had

gix'at

with the javelin. Shirk's
football, playing for

McNamee

success

first

BU

love was

graduate Glen

'97 at Central

Dauphin

High School, near Harrisburg. He was
looking forward to playing college
football and his coach's alma mater
would be the place.

Then,

at a

meet

in the

spring of

go a javelin
throw that would dramatically change
his senior year. Shirk let

ing a javelin was a different story.

his

school record, and the scholarship of-

coaches describe only as

8

had what
"it."

He

could

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

life.

He

set the national high

fers for track started

coming in.

of his free weekends from

spring football practice, he qualified

The

football quarterback

he turned his attention to the javelin.

And on one

NCAA Championships.

After finishing fourth at the Pennsyh'ania State Athletic Conference

championships. Shirk went to
Colorado,

site

of the

NCAA

championships, and unleashed a 235foot, 11-inch

throw that put him

the Huskies' record book as the
national

"Here

champion
at

in track

Bloomsburg

I

and

ha\ e

in
first
field.

more

opportunities to achieve great things,"
says Shirk. "You

li\

e

and

learn,

and

one time that I learned that
Bloomsburg is the best environment
for me. I couldn't be happier." •

this

is

Back!

It's

DIXON TROPHY RETURNS TO BU
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY won
96.

The trophy

member

is

schools

the Dixon Trophy for 2011-12, the

awarded each year

to the

Bloomsburg won the trophy with 163 points

who needed

a sixth seed,

in

time since 1995-

the 16 full-time

the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC).

in

women's lacrosse team

the

Shippensburg University the

to outdistance

two-time defending champion, by a five-point margin.
Huskies,

first

among

top athletics program

It

was an improbable

finish for the

conference championship, as

to win the

order to claim the crown.

Bloomsburg netted a league-best 88 points on the women's side and 75 points on the
men's

side,

in field

Softball
'81

David Williams
center,

shown

is

president of

,

tlie IVIal
McFarland, athletic

with, left to right, Mil
Aubrey Bossert and Bryce

director:

Foundation,

members

Shaffer,

tennis,

and had runner-up finishes

and women's basketball. Bloomsburg registered a

fourth-place totals

in

football

place

third

and women's cross country and a

PSAC

titles

men's soccer, wrestling,

in

in

women's

fifth-place total in

tennis,

men's

basketball.

"Winning the Dixon Trophy, after starting the year with Bloomsburg's tragic flood,

ment

SAAC

Along with lacrosse, the Huskies also won

tied for third.

of the

Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC); and Courtney
Fretz,

which

hockey and men's

to the

a testa-

is

hard work, desire to be successful and drive of our student-athletes, coaches

adviser.

and

staff,"

says Michael McFarland, director

of athletics.

A Wish Come True

cess

CEO PLAYED DM TENNIS AT BU

Bloomsburg made the biggest jump from the previous

THE CONNECTION between the Make-A-Wish Foundation
and NCAA Division is a strong one. Since 2003, student-ath-

is

is

only half of the equation: they are accomplished

the true

measure

of this

seventh-place

finish in

was awarded,

1

"Our student-athletes'
in

suc-

field

the classroom, as well, and that

award."
year, climbing six spots from

201 0-1 1 The Huskies took top honors the

first

.

994-95 and

1

its

two years the trophy

995-96, and have eight top-five finishes overall, •

II

letes from Division

have helped raise more than $2

II

million

dollars for the organization.

CEO

The president and
David Williams

'81

,

was

of the

Make-A-Wish organization,

NCAA Divi-

a student-athlete at the

New Coach Hired

As a student

Anderson played

in all

STEPHANIE ANDERSON

seasons, starting

all

is

BU's new

women's soccer coach. Former
sion

level

II

member

as a four-year

ninth all-time

assistant

a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

(PSAC)

at

a graduate assistant

delivered the

May commencement address

to

BU's 1,297 undergraduates, met with the school's Student
Athlete Advisory

Committee

to

share his career experiences,

as an accountant with Shell

starling

in

four

She ranked

career goals with 32,

was

title

at

earned four

Drury University,

where she earned a master's degree

who

but four.

a three-time, all-conference selection and

was

Bucknell University, Anderson

as a senior.
Williams,

in

Nebraska Wesleyan,
73 games

BU's men's tennis team.

of

coach

He won

athlete at

Oil in the early

letters for the Prairie

Wolves.

As a sophomore, she was named most

in

organizational leadership and change,

valuable offensive player and received the

and assistant coach

at her

honor again as a senior when she was also

Nebraska Wesleyan

University.

alma mater,

named team

MVP



He

1980s.

found his true passion working with non-profit agencies: the

Houston Food Bank, Habitat
"It

was

me

great for

for

Humanity and Make-A-Wish.

to learn that

Make-A-Wish had partnered

with the

NCAA," Williams

Division

II

grow.

even

would love

I

in

said. "For that partnership to

was even more

and one

that

I

am

be with

trying to

have more schools get involved with

to

small ways,

special

like

helping

fulfill

us,

how

to

know about winning and

work as a team

to

lete IS

losing,

as well as

accomplish a goal. You have

prepared to handle things

be

to

something a student-ath-

like that,

AUBREY BOSSERT

a junior exercise science major from

Ambler, received the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

Champion Scholar Award

at the

women's lacrosse

championship.

a wish."

Williams said he likes to hire former student-athletes. "Former
student-athletes

Bossert Honored

The PSAC Champion Scholar Awards honor
athlete with the top grade point

the site of each of the

average who

the studentis

competing

PSAC's 23 team championship

at

finals.

Bossert has compiled a 3.943 cumulative grade point average.

She

is

BU

the third

already well aware of from his or her playing days."
student-athlete to earn the honor this

During his

commencement speech,

to follow their

Williams urged graduates

own dreams. He advised them

consider a question he

was asked

-

who won
in

at the

"What melts your butter?"

men's soccer championships, and Tim Dorsch

-

afraid to

fail,"



who won

Humanity That

means "What

is

your

Winning Story

Directors of America (CoSIDA) writing

contest for the second year

TOM McGUIRE,
what melts your

of Schwenksville,

men's swimming. •

passion, your inspiration?"
"Just figure out

year, joining Bryce Shaffer of Gettysburg,

during his job interview

with Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for

question

to seriously

academic

butter,"

he

said,

"and don't be

assistant director of

winning story

Marketing and Communications and director
of

Sports Information, took

District

II

first

place

College Sports Information

in

the

profile

on

BU

was "Standing

in

a row.

Tall,"

The

an athlete

baseball player Joey laniero,

which appeared

in

the spring 2011 issue of

Bloomsburg: The University Magazine. •

F

\LL

2 0

12

9

The Education Equation
by

SUE

A.

BEARD

FIFTY YEARS AGO,
readin', writin'

and

teachers taught

who

Students



the spring, that classroom becomes part

exhibit

professionalism and uphold

'rithmetic. Today,

of their student teaching experience.

they face complicated and, some-

ethical standards.

times, controversial issues including,

have to be professional from Day

but certainly not limited

to.

No

Child

1,"

she says. "If they have a

theft or

of charter schools, an explosion of

on their record,



"This

Elizabeth "Beth" Mauch, 41, dean of

dedicated to preparing Bloomsburg



engage

new world. Nearly 400 new


alumni, graduates of the Bloomsburg

abreast of new developments.

brings a teacher's perspec-



She joined
a mathemat-

Students

tive to the dean's position.

the university in 1999 as
ics

professor after earning a doctorate

from Lehigh University. Part of her
focus in the classroom was teaching
students how to teach mathematics

more young
math and science prompted

people in

are able to reflect

Students enrolled in the College of

to

maintain an overall grade-point

average of 3.0. To earn a teaching
certificate,

they also must pass a con-

exam administered by

sylvania

schools.
in

Department of Education or

Learn more about the Easton/Bethlehem

Finally,

No Child Left Behind
Mauch
arts

ing

it

2008 before accepting
the interim dean position with the
College of Education.

"I felt

I

could

impact more kids by mentoring the
faculty and the students I have encountered," she explains.

She was named permanent dean
on May 25 after three years as
interim dean.

says the qualities of an out-

standing teacher go far beyond "book
knowledge."

she says. "But, most of all, we're looking at what is in the hearts and minds
of our students."

five

characteristics in

work

with children. Those interactions

sometimes prompt education majors
to

choose other careers, but

come to that
Mauch says.

to

it's

better

realization early,

is

part of

the freshman year. With guidance, edu-

where they observe

students.

As part of

the experience, they answer a series of

questions and share

Beginning

in the

initial

impressions.

sophomore year and

senior year, students

its

future

choose from varied

"A good example of the 'middle' prois

in the Danville

notes. In the

some

to
6,

fill

will

call-

She

be able

the gap for their daughter, Edith,

she says, but not

all

students are so

fortunate.

She

common complaint

also hears a

among today's

teachers that they must

"teach to the test" to meet the standards

by the No Child Left Behind Law of

The law

requires 95 percent of

in

reading and math by 2014.

While Mauch agrees that standardized tests are necessary to

measure both

teachers' and students' progress, she

takes issue with the high stakes riding

percent

test results. "Ninety-five

proficiency

is

a

good

goal, but

think

I

officials are realizing that, obviously,

not an attainable goal.

teaching to the
ally learning.

test,

They

If

it's

you're only

students aren't re-

don't

wind up valu-

ing lifelong learning.

"The assessment
sarily

tests don't neces-

measure a teacher's

have become a necessary

skills
evil,"

and
she adds.

"Eventually, we'll get back to something

experiences.

gram

in

a "tragedy for our children."

on the

Field experience typically

Mauch

College of Education looks for

main

opportunities to

continuing through the early part of the

"Any educator must be good at the
teaching end and know their content,"

The

many

programs

public school students to be proficient

cation majors choose a school district

Characteristics of a teacher

Mauch

key

BU's College of Education gives
students

athletic

and her husband, James,

2001.

fall

worries about the loss of music,

and

ship with Robert Marande, dean of

ogy, during

during the second semester

student teaching.

set
is

also attend several events

tino dinner. (Editor's note:

the Penn-

similar agency in another state.

Interaction

They

the Bethlehem area, including a La-

her to serve an administrative internthe College of Science and Technol-

an intense, two-week

school districts due to budget cuts,

Education's programs are required

tent
desire to interest

who

and problem-solve.

effectively.

Her

staff.

Those who espouse lifelong
learning and are willing to keep

Normal School.

is

which students are im-

of their senior year, students engage in

administrators and support

ing in the footsteps of BU's earliest

in

mersed in a typically urban setting. A
good example is in Easton/Bethlehem,
where students stay at Lehigh University and assist teachers in the local

endeavors

in collaborative

with fellow teachers,

teachers graduate each year, follow-

Also offered

practicum

practicum on page 22.)

Students with the ability to

University's education graduates

Mauch

21st century America,

is

and our classrooms do not look
like they used to."

the College of Education, leads faculty

State

a school district

may not hire them in four years."
Those who embrace diversity.

world of cyberspace.

for this

retail

underage drinking citation

Left Behind mandates, the growth

knowledge, budgetary cutbacks,
decreases in public funding and the

"Our students

School

fall

different."



District,"

semester of

Sue A. Beard, the

retired editor of

The

the senior year, students work with a

Record Herald, Waynesboro, lives in

classroom teacher two days a week. In

North Fort Myers,

Fla.

teachers:

FALL 2012

U

Ashley Kleiner '10 teaches a preschool class
at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.

that

many children

take for granted

for example, learning to
a

The Voice of Hands
More than 200

ing

students, ages 3 to 21,

a

language of its own. These
or,

sometimes,

tri-lingual world.

Over the past four decades. Bloomsburg University alumni have become

BU

alumni are among their
teachers and principals.
Story and Photos by

is

p or t — are much more
without hearing. And sign-

like

children live in a hi-

attend the Pennsylvania School for the

Deaf

sound

difficult

part of the Pennsylvania School for

the Deaf family as teachers and administrators. Today, the staff includes

more than

ERIC FOSTER

a half dozen

BU graduates,

including elementary and middle

school principal Valerie Houser

who came

BY OUTWARD APPEARANCES,
the combined preschool/elementary

can Sign Language. These students
are deaf or hard of hearing.

school building nestled in tree-lined

suburban Philadelphia

is

like

any

other. Walls outside of classrooms

are decorated with children's

wagons

it's

Red

a

moments, you notice

little

elementary.

quieter than a typical

And

you
hand

in the stairwell

see the painting of a gi-eat blue

— index and pinkie upstretched, center fingers folded

down, thumb

out.

For the students here, the message
clear.

The hand

is

says "Love" in Ameri-

is

is

than a school. The Penn-

sylvania School for the

line the corridor.

After a few
that

art.

For these children, this building

much more



pronounce

Deaf campus

an extension of family for students

'84,

to the school as an intern in

1985 and never

left.

Her

office

is

locat-

ed in a building that was part of Gen.
George Washington's camp during the
Revolutionary War, one of the historic
structures the Pennsylvania School
for the

Deaf purchased

in 1984.

Bloomsburg University's history

in

from preschool through high school.
It's where they learn language — to
speak, to communicate. It's where

when

they discover a community that

established the gi-aduate progi'am in

speaks the same language they do.

the education of the deaf and hard of

According to the National Institute
on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 90 percent of deaf
children have hearing parents. Things

the education of the deaf dates to 1971
faculty emeritus Gerry

hearing.

The

Powers

culture of engagement,

so present at the School for the Deaf,
is

central to Bloomsburg's program,

as well.

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13

Culminating experiences
Students participate in a camp for the deaf each summer
in nearby Millville. The universitv' also sponsors a summer
mini-camp for deaf and hard of hearing preschool children.
Culminating experiences for the graduate students include
eight weeks of classroom exf>erience, primarily sign language

environments, and another eight weeks of experience with a
certified itinerant teacher of the deaf.

Engagement

is

what motivated Ashley Kleiner '10

to

become

a teacher at the School for the Deaf. Kleiner took a sign lan-

guage course as a high school freshman and fell in love with
it. She studied interpreting, but that wasn't enough.
"With interpreting, you have to step back and deliver the
message," she says. "It wasn't in\ ol\'ed enough for me, so I
went back to school for deaf education." •

photography editor of
Bloomsburg: The University Magazine.
Eric Foster

BUKJMSBl RO UMVEK

L

is

John

Polhill, assistant

dean of the

College of Science and Technology,

paid the ultimate compliment to

top honor graduates Carrie

and Jenna Mordan:
like Carrie

"I

Mensch

want people

and Jenna teaching

my children and
being role models for my children's
mathematics to

generation."
^

w

Making the Grade
^^^

/jyCHRISTINE HELLER

12

Recent graduates Carrie Mensch, top, and

EARNING a 4.0
work on

in college

is

enough

own. Add a double major,

its

student teaching,

community

service

and a part-time job and achieving such
a high

GPA starts

to

seem

impossible.

This past May, however, two students
rose to the challenge and became top
honor graduates, both earning the
highest gi-ades in two Colleges: the
College of Education and the College
of Science and Technology. Both also
received the National Science Founda-

Jenna Mordan,

tion Scholarship in Science, Technology,

in

Engineering and Mathematics

(S-STEM)

for four years.

And

one-in-a-million story has one
twist:

who

didn't

and Jenna Mordan

Mauch, dean

miles apart,

'12

gi-ew

When they came to BU, the
young women began spending" more
other.

time together, formed a friendship and

became roommates. The
Mensch explains. "We do a lot of things similarly
— we hate the same foods and even
have the same medicine allergy."

cousins only gi'ew closer,

From childhood, both women
knew they wanted to be teachers —
Mordan admits to "demanding" to be
the teacher when she played school.
she considered teaching art

or going into special education, but the

and

I

Mordan
gling with

near Bloomsburg, influenced her to

Mensch

relates to students strug-

explains.

subjects she finds difficult, and that

I

started student teaching,

who was

student

the last test
the

first

I

time

have over

my

failing,"

I

were

excit-

ed to learn she would be coming back
half time as a teacher this fall, while
also teaching at

Columbia Montour

Area Vocational-Technical School.

"I

was
I

can

What's next?
International education has always

been on Mordan's

radar.

When she

learned about International School
in the Philippines,
all

the facility offered,

summer

commualso offers

Mordan something unique.
I

they were recognized
and quickly learned the
importance of maintaining professionalism beyond the school walls. Mordan
acknowledges it can be difficult to
distinguish between being a friend
and being a mentor. "It's hard not to

laugh at students' jokes sometimes,"

"If

make

she admits, "but you need to

the

line clear."

Both young women say they

feel

prepared for their careers and credit

much

of their confidence to their

practicum, an intense course taken

The teaching position

she started this

how often

in public

she was

including a staff dedicated to extracurricular activities and

to improve."

As they prepared for their careers,
by

students."

the student's interest," says Mordan.

student teaching at Central Columbia,

It

saw the influence

needs a substitute,

who completed

had a

I

"We always want

Mensch and Mordan were taken aback

she says. "On

gave, he got a 93.

same decision after having
a good math teacher at Danville High
School. "The teacher has a huge role in

Mensch and Mordan stress that
making connections with students is
just as important as engaging them in

"When

perspective seems to work.

nity service.

the

Another shared family trait pushed
Mensch and Mordan to gain special-

math by remembering

impressed by

says her previous students

the principal investigator on obtaining the grant,

"We're both perfectionists," Mensch

mater.

math program at her alma
Central Columbia High School,

academics. Mensch,

who

workforce or graduate school. Elizabeth

izations outside of their double majors.

she says.

Manila

made

was

really enjoy seeing that bond,"

excellent

concentrate on that subject.

the College of Education, center,

of

STEM

which totaled $600,000.

eventually

Initially,

to enter the

spent the whole semester with them,

Mensch

up just 10
but they seldom saw each
'12

received the National Science Foundation Scholarship

they'd

chosen the same university.
Geographically, Carrie

right,

demonstrate financial need, enabling them

more

know

and Carrie Mensch,

grants to undergraduate institutions to support scholarships for academically talented students

their

these exemplary students are

second cousins

left,

Science, Technology, Engineenng and Mathematics (S-STEM) for four years. The program provides

no one

can go to classes

prior to student teaching that enables

participants to

become

familiar with

how a classroom works by shadowing
an educator

observe different teaching styles and

was the most beneficial experience I had at BU," says Mordan, who
had the opportunity to teach a few les-

environments."

sons during her practicum.

While their programs were similar, the cousins decided on different
concentrations. Mensch minored in

to

as a teacher's aide for the day.

huge learning experience

educational technology;



It's

I'll

a

get to

Mordan took

classes in special education

and earned

a concentration in exceptionalities.

"It

being

in front

"I

got used

of the class instead of

in the seat." •

Christine Heller

'12 is a creative writ-

ing major from Nazareth. She enjoys
leisurely walks

and bad puns.

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17

JACK SHERZER

Power of Positive
Philanthropist Susan McDowell's $2 million commitment
to the Bloomsburg University Foundation is establishing

McDowell

Teacher Excellence in Positive
Behavior Support. Teachers and students are benefiting.

the

KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN

Institute for

students no longer Just take a class

has

worked as a camp counselor since she
was 16. She is well acquainted with the
frustration a teacher feels

with a child

who

when

concentrating on classroom manage-

ment techniques and move
reinforced throughout

consistently misbe-

and

haves, despite constant scolding

all

of their

methods courses.

instructional

repeated efforts to reason with him.

Helping the faculty figure out

one of her first education classes
at Bloomsburg University, Zimmerman
learned a different approach to preBut

on, but

that the techniques and concepts are

faced

how

elements of Positive

to incorporate the

in

Behavior Support into the curricu-

children only what they're doing

lum is where the McDowell Institute
comes in. Housed in the university's
Navy Hall, a soon-to-be-hired direc-

wrong, teach them about appropriate

tor

behavior long before problems

helping professors work PBS into their

venting misbehavior: Instead of telling

start.

and

staff will

be tasked with both

And, when you do have to address

classrooms and working directly with

misbehavior, keep

students.

tell

it

positive. Don't just

a child to stop doing something

but, instead, redirect her to

what she

should be doing.
"I

found that

was
I

in

it

made

sense to

me

was everything that
the back of my mind; however,

right away.

It

never thought of it

before," says

student

Zimmerman, an honors

who graduated

in

May 2012

with bachelor's degrees in special and

elementary education.

The technique

the 22-year-old

— Positive Behavior Support —
being embraced throughout Blooms-

learned
is

burg's College of Education

focus of the

new McDowell

and

is

the

Institute

Teacher Excellence. It addresses a
problem many new teachers said they
were struggling to overcome.
for

Why PBS?

philanthropist Susan

While recent graduates said they left
BU with a thorough understanding of
their subject material, they reported

struggling with classroom discipline
issues,

in that light

The budding institute

re-

ceived a major boost in February

grade

both

levels.

at the

upper and lower

Bloomsburg's teaching

when

McDowell of

Selinsgrove gave a $2 million

gift to

the

Bloomsburg University Foundation.

Tim

Knoster, chair of the university's

Department of Exceptionality Progi'ams, says teachers

struggled, to

some

have historically

degi'ee,

how

with

graduates are not alone. According

to motivate students to

Department of Education,
more than 60 percent of first-time
teachers report feeling underequipped
to handle the social and emotional

propriate behavior, but these days the

to the U.S.

needs of the students they encounter.
In response, Bloomsburg has taken
comprehensive look at its education
classes in the past year and is injecting Positive Behavior Support (PBS)
methodologies throughout its cura

riculum. In practical terms,

it

means

problem
ingly,

is

there

engage

more complex.
is

in ap-

"Increas-

a greater proportion of

extreme levels of social
and emotional need. That need impedes, or makes virtually impossible,
helping those kids achieve academic
kids with really

outcomes."
It's a problem that cuts across socioeconomic lines at a time when budget

cutbacks

mean

teachers are handling
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FALL 2012

19

between classes or eating lunch in
'i'he teacher then makes
lists of what constitutes proper behavior in a given circumstance and writes
it on posters that are displayed in the
classroom. Now everyone knows what
halls

eagle shaped slip which they take to

the cafeteria,

the office. In return, they receive a

is

expected, and the students them-

The emphasis

placed on acknowl-

is

for regularly

these expectations.

When

meeting

a student

acts out, such as calling out in class,

the teacher not only says what not to
do, but

larger classrooms with less support,

in

who

is

"The basic principle
learn

playing a lead role

skills,

just as the

how we

i'eople help us focus

what we are trying

to learn,

we

all

of BU's

"For some children, the only relationship

al-

and understanding is with the

ready talking about

that

this challenge

public school teachers.

with students.

The

new emphasis

will

is

safe

My hope is that,

wise and compassionate people will

of short, online

understand the situations

training modules

is filled, all the students whose
names are in that row get prizes, such
as movie tickets, school supplies and
board games. The chart then starts

names of all Eagle Award winners
dozen names are drawn

al.so use other PBS methand posters hang in various areas
to remind students of what is expected.
"The key things we talk about here

remember safety and keep trying.
Those core values appear in every area
of the building to show students what's
Peters,
in

says teachers and



Philanthropist Susan

McDowell

"Traditional classroom

management

approaches are reactive

in nature,"

you do need

to redirect,

you

do what

are redirecting the student to

he or she should be doing."

In practice in Berwick

when Randy i\'ters, principal of
Orange Street Elementary School
Berwick Area School

part of the approach

is

being

District,

a real

bad behavior, teachers talk with students about what good behavior looks

His school, and the rest of the

and sounds

like,

to describe

what they should be doing

asking the youngsters

example, they are taking
classroom, walking

lil.()f)VI.SBLKC

LM\

KRSITY OF

I'EN

in

a

the

NSYLV AM A

in

came

to

the school seven years ago, there was

proactive. Instead of only responding
to

20

skills

and we receive ongoing reinforcement
in our use of those acquired skills over
time," Knoster say.s.

"With PBS, the emphasis

placed on prevention through teach-

for

were

and 27 out-of-

school suspensions, compared with 26

reinforcement as we learn those

test in the

Award,

Orange

In 2006-07, there

81 discipline referrals

at

The PBS approach

when,

staff" at

Street School have seen a dramatic

referrals

A key

who graduated from Bloomswon the 2011 Na-

1982 and

tional Distinguished i'rincipal

in the

year.

When

says.

ods,

2011-12.

ing.

for special

such as iPods, Peters

academic

is

rows of

of 10

the start of every

says.

in 10

student puts his

improvement.

education major

Knoster

100 squares

is

number on

a

name on a corresponding number and, when a row
10.

burg

classroom and be effective teachers"

that each teacher

complete

A

matches

expected."

through the McDowell Institute, caring,

include a series

will

that

are to be respectful, act responsibly,

education faculty

members were

number

Teachers

on

receive

the curriculum,

many

a

prizes,

helping to incorporate FBS into

says

department, inside the plastic egg

a
is

and pick an egg from
created by the art

are placed in a container and about

class has talked about.

making an already tough situation
more challenging, he says.
Knoster,

by raising

is

ne.st

over. At an end-of-the-year assembly,

reminds the student that the

way to get her attention
his hand to be called on

an eagle's

a chart with

selves helped create the expectations.

edging students

special pencil

problem with student behavior
district,

began using PBS methods.

One way his school emphasizes
good behavior is through Eagle
Awards. Every time students are
"caught being good," they receive an

"It

and only one suspension

was amazing

to

me how

in

quickly

According to the

U.S.

Department of Education,

more than 60 percent of
first- time

teachers report

feeling underequipped to

handle the social and
emotional needs of the
students they encounter.

we had

"Sometimes

positive results," Peters says,

adding that even the most difficult
students showed some improvement.

Connecting with students
Robert

Dampman,

Bloomsburg

home

Universit)' Council

important.

them

because

that's

hired to teach in

and how to best deal with the challenges. New teachers, he says, need

and never pass school," she says. "It's
important to always positively reinforce, even if it's a small 'you're doing
good, you're on the right track, you're
making progi'ess.' That was really
inspiring to them." •

them to
what they need."

who was recently
the New York City

For Zimmerman,

stand what their students are facing

ment because many said other teachthem they would be failures

ers told

to feel a sense

of normalcy and can allow
thrive,

problems and teachers must under-

Jack Sherzer

is

a professional writer

and Pennsylvania

native.

He

currently

lives in Harrisburg.

PBS is an important tool she
camp counselor. In addition
providing training at her camp

schools,

uses as a

to realize that to be effective, they
to

"If a student's

bad, the structure of

safe place helps

Schools are seeing kids with complex

must know how

life is

school and knowing they have a

of Trustees, believes the focus on
is

they need,

to talk to,

proach to the training.

chair of the

classroom management

that's all

someone to
confide in," says McCormick, whose
master's thesis and research on PBS
helped the university set up its apsomeone

to

connect with the

and several others, she

students.

Dampman,

a 1965 Bloomsburg
and former superintendent
in Bensalem School District, cautions
that despite the best teacher and

a training

module

working on

is

that she plans to

offer online.

gi'aduate

administrator efforts, there

much

that can be

time a child

phant
still

in the

going

is

done

room

is

only so

in the lim.ited

at school.

home

is

"The

ele-

(that) the child

to the

same

is

situation

Zimmerman

says she found

PBS

techniques worked, even with chil-

dren

at a juvenile

where she did

detention facility

a student teaching

would

placement. "Right away,

I

build rapport, getting to

know them

try to

and trying to use positive reinforce-

and may come back with the same
bad behavior the next day," he says.

While that's certainly true, Mike
McCormick 'lO/'UM, who teaches
Middle School,
been surprised at how effective PBS is, even with troubled kids.
For some, it marks the first time a
sixth grade at Danville

says he's

teacher has tried to teach appropriate
behavior, build rapport and reason

with them.

FALL 2012

21

Learningfrom the
Child's Level
Story and Photos bv V.RIC

TEACHING

isn't al\\ a\ s

room. Learning

isn't

Libout standing in front

alw a\

s

about silting

our

ol'

FOSTER

the class-

seat. Sixtv-

iiloomsburg

L

iiix

ersitx

students spent two weeks

undergraduate and graduate

threc future teachers found that education is often about
getting dow n to the children's lex el antl working shoulder-

Ma\ in kindergarten through
eighth-grade classrooms across the Bethlehem and Caston
Area sehot)l districts as part of the 2012 Urban l»racricum.

to-shoulder to help them overcome an obstacle, see things
new way or grasp a concept the\ didn't understand a

tant professor of earl\ childhood and adolescent education,

in a

moment ago.

in

\

in

During the practicum, organized by Frank D'Angelo.

assis-

lU students worked with students in one of five Lehigh

'V'al-

if

BU

f

student Kelly Assenza of Lake

Ariel, right,

gives personal attention to a student at Fountain
Hill

Elementary.

Among

others participating

2012 Urban Practicum, shown
from top,

in

photos at

the

in

right

are: Danielle Santoro, Schwenksville;

Frank D'Angelo, assistant professor, with Veronica
Tobin, Wllkes-Barre; Kylie Futterer, Royersford;

and Nicholas Thomas, Shickshinny.
Jj^

and Lincoln elementary schools and Broughal Middle School.

W orking beside experienced

teachers.

BU

students taught

and gained a better understanding of the situations urban schools and students face daily. And when the
school day ended for the children. BU students learned from
education professionals from throughout the Lehigh X alley,
including the superintendents and assistant superintendents
of Easton .\rea and Bethlehem school districts, elementary
lessons

principals

The

and cultural

leaders.

future teachers also engaged with the community,

experiencing Latino culture at a Catholic Mass conducted in
Spanish, a Puerto Rican dinner and a communit\' yard sale
that raised S8.S0 for the schools

The Urban Practicum

BU

students

is

and Latino Center

a specialized field experience for

who want to experience education

in inner-city

schools.

FAIL

2

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23

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

husky notes
NELSON "NELLIE" SWARTS

'63

has

fun volunteering, whether he's behind
the scenes or on the front

line,

so

it

seems

only natural that the Bloomsburg native
received the

first

William

T.

Derricott '66

Volunteer of the Year Award

last spring.

The award honors alumni whose
demonstrate BU's values and

IBM in
When

Swarts became a salesman for
1968 after teaching for

efforts

spirit.

five years.

he learned the company would match
employees' contributions, he wrote letters
to fellow
to

BU

alumni

at

IBM, asking them

donate to the university.

And

a loyal

volunteer was born. Over the years, he has
recruited prospective

BU

students in

New

Jersey and returned to his alma mater
to speak about corporate culture
sales experiences.

and

his

He serves on the Col-

lege of Business Advisory Board (which

he has done for almost 30 years), the

Bloomsburg

Universit>'

Foundation Board

of Directors and the Pennsylvania State

System of Higher Education (P.^SSHE)
Foundation Board of Directors. Along the
way, two family

path to a

Lunger

BU

'65

Scatigno

members



followed his

Susan Swarts
and daughter Karlyn Swarts
degree

sister

'93.

In addition to countless hours devoted

Bloomsburg University, Swarts has been
where he's
lived. A member of BU's first swim team,
he coached swim teams for more than
20 years and currently teaches children's
swim classes at West Shore Country Club
in Camp Hill. He has worked with Hospice
of Central Pennsylvania for 10 years and
to

active in every community'

served on committees at various churches,

most recently

Camp

at Christian Life Assembly,

Hill.

Perhaps what's most fascinating about
Swarts is his attitude - he doesn't consider
himself a hero, just a good guy
his

who loves

hometown, enjoys giving back and

believes the education he received at

enabled him to be successful. •

BU

Dennis

1958
William R. Freed retired

cember

Martin retired from

E.

after

in

De-

54 years as a teacher,

coach, athletic director, principal

and superintendent

Mechanics-

in

39 years

District. Folcroft, after

as a

management and information

Penn

State Harrisburg.

1974
F.

Flock

is

He

Community Foundation and

is

to

2002

in

numerous

and

A teacher

capacities,

district director

of

curriculum.

Phillip
status

Landers received emeritus

He

as professor of business
istration

retired

admin-

and management after

43 years as a faculty

member

Penn College and

predecessor.

its

Williamsport Area

Community

1972

James Magill 75/'82M,

a project

coordinator with Reynolds

from Bloom.sburg, was featured

From

LIS.

he served

in Iraq

and Transition Command,

Communications and

Computers.

of

A

retired

employee of the

Lehigh Valley Health Network

1985

Elder Care, and medical director

John Chapin received

was appointed chief medical

Susquehanna Life Magazine.

in

ficer of

risburg.

Ministries,

served on the Pennsylvania Inde-

delphia College of Osteopathic

pendent Living Council, Magill

Medicine.

poems

a newsletter

Certificate for

by and

Caucus

work on behalf of

victims of crime, the Outstanding

a 1983 gi^aduate of the Phila-

Citizenship

Award

in

recognition

of his service to Beaver County,
Pa.,

number

in a

law enforcement and the Gov-

ernor's Victim Service Pathfinder

of online forums. The Danville

News and

gressional Victims' Rights

is

a board certified family physician

U.S.

the U.S.

House of Representatives Con-

of-

He

and

1979

for

Organizational Capacity Building

Mark Robinson

citizens with disabilities.

Award.

He

is

professor of commu-

is

nications at Penn State Beaver
vice president of

Waltco

William Martin, Mechanicsburg,

sales at

P^^i^H

is

Corp.. Tallmadge,

m

What Liberals

L^^^fl

The Best Progressive

^H^^^

Quotes Ever.

in

editor of the book.

each of the

tial

last

U.S. Air

has

three presiden-

retired after

1980

Michael Harrington returned

Susquehanna Bancshares

at

School,

became

served during Desert Storm and

and

treasurer.

Formerly treasurer and chief

certified in art

investment officer

Patricia Koelsch Stoudt

who

of military service. Van Wyk.

Bloomsburg High School's Aca-

utive vice president

Denmark-Olar High

teacher

to

as exec-

at Fir.st

Niagara

Financial Group, he pre\ iously

34 years

entrepreneur, was inducted into

a senior vice

Richard Donahue, a business

education.

Force-Delaware Air Na-

Guard

is

land National Bank.

Gen. Daniel Van Wyk of the

tional

Stephen Hafer

Ohio,

Believe:

He

Lift

president with the Northumber-

election years.

Brig.

a business

Phoebe

Department of Justice who has

Construction Management, Har-

Duane Greenly,

2()().S,

Control.

of Phoebe Allentown Health Care,

a poet

published quote books
is

to

with the Multi-National Secu-

Thomas Renaldo VS/SIM

at

College.

Linda Cappellano

2004

in

staff positions in

South Korea and the

1978

1975

has published

from the Pennsylvania

College of Technology.

command and

Lehigh Valley Physicians Group,

including as an elementary school
principal

Institute,

rity

a

hanna Communitv Foundation,

from 1973

District

Leonard Wood, Mo, During nearly
30 years of service, he served

UHI.

to the students at

serves as

director of the Central Susque-

and administrator, he served the

Bangor School

training and mobilization at Fort

her commitment and dedication

School Alumni
Association.

102nd Training Division (Maneu-

Wilkes-Barre, in recognition to

senior vice

president of the Selinsgi'ove .Area

Gen. Thomas Evans of the
Army Reserve commands the

deputy commanding general for

from the United Hebrew

land National Bank.

Bangor Area High

U.S.

the excellence in teaching award

1967
award from the

in

1976

Ned

tor

Corbett

Barbara Rodda Welch received

Michael

distinguished educa-

Tom

Brig.

ver Support) and serves as the

president at the Northumber-

Fairchild recei\ ed the

1983

and commendation from

recognition of his service.

and coordina-

tor of principal certification at

VFW Post 683,S,

recently, as director of data

systems.

assistant professor

of

Pennsylvania Gov.

athletic director, principal and,

Camp

For 19 years, he was an

citation

mathematics teacher, coach,

most

commander

received a Pennsylvania House

burg, West Chester, i'ottsviile and
Hill.

is

the Southeast Deico School

worked

'80/81M

for

Susquehanna

earned a doctoral degi ee from

financial officer of the

Liberty University.

bank subsidiary

in

as chief

company's

New Jersey,

demic Hall of Fame, Graduates of
Distinction.

A Bloomsburg native,

Greenly made his mark as owner
of Ames True Temper, a lawn and

garden company

Patricia

Veach Johnson 72 M

was named agent of the month
at

Century

21 Alliance

Alumna named to women's commission
Michele Corbin Rudloff '95 was one of 28

A

Pennsylvanians recently appointed

business that manages Marcellus Shale

Pennsylvania Commission
Gov.

Tom

for

to the

Women

by

Corbett.

Corbin Holdings, a family

gas lease opportunities, Rudloff
in

West

is

active

the Orwigsburg Lions Club, Orwigsburg

Bicentennial Committee and Schuylkill
Rudloff, wtio

Chester's office.

limited partner in

has worked

in

state

goverment
County Republican Party She resides

for

1

6 years,

is

in

assistant director for budget-

Orwigsburg with her husband,

Brett.

ary affairs for Pennsylvania Speaker of the

1973
Timothy Kline

House Sam Smith. She
is

branch man-

ager of the Palmyra office of

is in

her second

The Pennsylvania Commission

term on the Onwigsburg Borough Council

is

and serves as council president.

economic and

committed

to

for

Women

developing and supporting

civic opportunities for

women.

Jonestown Bank and Trust.

FALL 2012

25

Christopher Potash

manager

is

Allentown Art Museum, Le-

at the

He

high Valley.

worked

pre\ iousty

Murray Savitsky

Patricia

of marketing and public relations

\

ance

is

senior

and chief compli-

ice president

TMG Health.

officer for

Dunmore.

sales

at V'iamedia \ertical Creative

Group

a

Diane Szader '90 '97M, director

Bethlehem, where he

in

coordinated video and web-based

of educational technologN- at Wal-

marketing campaigns.

lenpaupack Area School

District,

earned a doctorate of education

president and

chief executive officer of The Liberty Group, spoke

on "Shale Gas

Exploration: Driving an

Resurgence

Our

in

Economic

Nation," as part of Lycoming

senior

vs.

all-star

held in Hershey.

Rickert. a

CPA.

is

superin-

New Lebanon

super\ isor of special ser-

heading special education

Jason Brubaker,

vania Board of Directors.

based independent

How to Make,

HolK-wood-

a

Market

Bryan Fleming is principal of
BriarclifFHigh School in

in

Chester County. She teaches

in

the

.Mountain Lakes,

N.J.

Downingtown Area School

District.

2001

William Fiege

is

vice president

Elizabeth Garrigan-Byerly

of academic affairs at

tor of Friedens United

John Tyler Com-

Christ.

manager

for

is

academic dean

accounting

High Co. A resident

of Mount Joy, he previoush' was
finance

MaxOut

is

regional

manager

Temper

was an

pre\'iously

Randall Hess

Bank.

Tina Magray Trager

pas-

is

Church of

Oley

at

Ames True

Jason Jacobs, a public accountant,

at

Germanna Community'

College,

taught speech communication
at

opment, alumni relations and

Julie Chasser

Lancaster.

Kuzma

is

one of

at

Longwood

Aaron Welles

53 teachers

in

Brown

is

ersit\.

in

Jennifer Sprout Birdsall owns
the consignment shop.

for

Boutique. Hughesville.

new

She has worked

with

chief

human resources

officer.

human resources team

since 1997 as a

generalise operations manager, associate vice presi-

dent and vice president. Prior

to joining Geisinger,

Abloom

2003
Sean Eagan, Pen

of Transportation, adult education instructor at

the Schuylkill Intermediate Unit and adjunct professor

Area Community College. She earned a

master's degree at Ithaca College.

Inc. in

Ryan M. Allen

is

W hitehall Township.

Nicole Premuto-Fountain

Prior to joining First Citizens, he

manager of media

w orked

MetLife Stadium,

as

an accountant for

Allen. Rogers

and Osgood.

New York

tion director of

He

is

special educa-

Pennsbury School

previously was

director of special education and

student serv ices in the Southern
-Area School District.

is

the

relations for

home

to the

football teams, the Gi-

ants and the Jets.

Robert Mehalik

District.

loan

a vice president

with First Citizens National Bank.

Columbia

BLOOMSBtRG UNIVERSITY OF FE.NNSYLVANIA

.\rgyl, is a

independent mort-

gage lender Mortgage Network

1998

she

quality coordinator at the Pennsylvania Depart-

He

managing Key-

responsible for

officer with

Geisinger Health System's

Brayford 91

is

Canada.

Glenside.

Amy

ice

stone National Insurance Co.

director

Amy Brayford is HR chief

\

U'ayne Group of Companies.

University.

1997

SMART

Exemplary Educator Summit
Calgar\-, .AJberta,

of ad\ ancement services

assistant

The Tuscarora

North .\merica

selected to attend the

Melissa Harris

is

president with

is

1990

a partner at ParenteBeard's

Inc.

Strength

Bell.

is

insurance industry practice in

Germanna, and held devel-

teaching positions

Studios in Limerick, Exton and

26

to the Junior

elementary teacher

1994

is

and treasurer of

financial officer

at Harrisburg

& Co.,

munity College. He

executive vice president, chief

Arcadia L ni\

an accoun-

Sugarloaf

Achie\ ement of Central Pennsyl-

award, given to one

District in New
He previously was the

district's

vices,

1989

ment

& A.sbury,

is

tant at JonesKohanski

Without the Middleman.

programs.

was a

CPA and

received the Citadel

Township School

Geisinger's

partner with .\IcKonly

a

Communitv' Bank.

Jersey.

Blue

Autumn Remley Wolfe,

and Sell Your Movie

tendent of the

for

vania Institute of Certified Public

Accountants. She

1996

Philip Sallusti officiated at the Big

manager

eastern Chapter of the Pennsyl-

Kelly Lister Colquitt

commercial lend-

33 Football Classic, the Ohio

Aflinit>

software firm.

elected secretary of the North-

ing manager for First National

vice president,

Jason Kornegay

Donna Loeb

resources and training

book. Filmmaking Stujf:

1993

1988
game

and marketing for .Meridian,

human

Desiree Anderson, CPA, was

Heart of Learning

Studies.

Pennsylvania high school

1999
vice president of

filmmaker, published a
is

Manage-

College's Institute for

ment

1992
Joseph Castrogiovanni

Williamsport and

is

was appointed

from Wilkes Universitv.

1987
Dan Klingerman,

1995
John Leh

2004

Giovannini elected to

Shannon Fry Frantz was accepted

Eugene Giovannini 79, president

into Indiana University of Penn-

Community

sylvania's Literature

and Criticism

to the

doctoral progi-am.

of

College, Phioenix, Ariz.,

32-member board

American Association

of

AACC board

GateWay

State University and completed post-doctoral

was

work

elected

Pennsylvania's Whar-

at the University of

ton Institute.

of directors of ttie

Community Colleges

The

AACC

represents nearly

,200 two-year,

1

(AACC). Giovannini's three-year term began
associate degree-granting institutions and more

Jillian

Mead Tweet is an account

manager

July1.

than 13 million students

Credo Reference.

for

Giovannini has led

She works with the company's

GateWay Community

lege since March 2002.

international partners in Asia,

He

a growing number

Col-

Institute

the U.S., as well as

Puerto Rico, Japan, Great

holds a doctoral

degree from Virginia Polytechnic

in

of international

and

Britain,

members

in

Korea and the

United Arab Emirates.

the Middle East and South and

Central America.

2005
M

is

is

an assistant

Maurice Dennis

Bank's

Timothy

tion technology

MePush

Inc., a

Waugh Chapel

company.

He

Daniel Renninger

Jordan Mix, Williamsport,

is

purchasing manager for Con-

Andrea

Ballas Teeters

is

com-

Amanda Kisenwether

regional

12 Edison, N.J., cable

Primerica, where

a video
at

TV

TV news.

she has worked since

2011

2009. She resides in

Taryn Gilger

is

community

a

Penn

interventionist at

Mexico.

State

Hershey College of Medicine. She

Army Spc. Gregory Nyce
returned home after serving 10
is

manager

months

in the

in

is

healthy eating and exercise.

Forward Operating Bases

stan, at

Shinwar and Connolly.

Stacey Minarsky, an orthopedics
X-ray technician

office.

Maurice Flowers-Williams
officer with the

health education department at

an

is

at

Geisinger

Medical Center, Danville, was
part of a Rotary

Allentown Police

Group Study Ex-

change Team that traveled to the

Department.

Hospital.

Walk by Faith

assisting in the

research program to encourage

Nangarhar, Afghani-

practice of ParenteBcard's Allen-

coordinator in the community

Community

is

is

news cameraman

vice president with

counties.

auditing and accounting services

town

munity health and wellness

Evangelical

2010
Joseph M. DiGiacomo

New

Greg Christman

struction Specialties Inc.

group.

editor and

2007

a

She co-chairs the

Bcard's Allentown office.

on Wheels."

ness Solutions.

a

Young Friends membership

ing services practice of Parente-

The company, founded in 1987, is
known as the "Original Body Shop

as president at ShiftGo Busi-

Northamp-

owner

of a Colors on Parade franchise,

gomery and Delaware

at

Innotek Computer Consulting

and

the

park's

Filipovits, a

serving Chester, Berks, Mont-

previously worked

as a senior network engineer

is

Historical Park.

senior in the audit and account-

an informa-

computer services

is

park ranger and media specialist

ton accountant, was promoted to

Crofton, Md.

specialist with

Stephanie Loeb 'OQ/IOM

Hospital.

2008

is

Green Branch,

sion of Wayne Bank, Honesdale.

is

Community

at

with the Valley Forge National

manager of PNC

commercial lending divi-

Michael Levan

2009

communi-

State University.

a credit analyst

is

community

education department

Evangelical

University.

Christopher J. Kolakowski

in the

ty health

wrestling coach at North Carolina

the head football coach at

Binghamton

is

health instructor in the

Frank Beasley

Thomas "Tommy" Dempsey
'05

Ashley Geiser

2006

Philippines earlier this year.

Alumni Association looks to grow regional networks
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD
of Directors

is

enthusiastic about efforts

through volunteering.



Twenty-four directors, nominated and

under way to expand regional alumni

elected by graduates, serve on the

networks and provide other professional

Board. Beginning terms on the executive

opportunities for graduates, says Kerri

board for 2012-13

Donald Sears

'92, president.



The Alumni Association, which
represents more than 61,000 graduates
worldwide, has active regional networks
in

Bloomsburg, Harrisburg, Philadelphia,

the Lehigh Valley and Wilkes-Barre/



their

hometown

'92, vice

Resources,

Allentown.

Information about the
its

BU Alumni As-

networks, upcoming events

and alumni contacts may be found
www.bloomualumni.com.

at

Segal Co., Washington, D.C.

Vice president: Ted Hodgins

Secretaiy: Elizabeth

in

director
areas, forge professional

connections and develop marketable

Human

sourcing

'89, se-

Comcast, Philadelphia.


Huskies

Donald Sears

'75,

nior director, video product development,

Scranton. These networks allow graduates to connect with other

President: Kerri

Inc.,

sociation,

are:

president and director

The

Alumni

Treasurer: Joseph Hilgar

manager. Air Products and Chemicals

Kramer

member services,

'85,

Pennsylvania

Bar Association.

skills

FALL 2012

27

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

husky
VITAL STATISTICS

New Alumni Board

Annie McKenzie Morgan

members begin terms
Five graduates joined the

Board

24-member Alumni Association

of Directors effective July

1

Elected for two-year

.

Obituaries
Rhea Lee

Marriages
Glicl<,

Lorena Kutza '93rom and

L.

June

Ben Singer

18, 2011

David Porzi,

May

12,

2012

terms are:

Ashley Sorber '04/'05M and Tony Lawson

'03. Sept. 4.

2011

'34

Thompson

William

Darcle Kelsey '90 and Gary

'38

Mary Hess Aikman

'39

Simpson

'43

Rita Kipp
J.

'31

Laf ranee '32

Rosanna Creasy Broadt 48

Mary Hawk-Umanos Shoemaker
Stu Marvin 78, Bloomsburg, head

coach

BU's men's and women's

of

Kelly

Waugh

Megan

'05

and Drew Bankes

'03,

June

11.

2011

Pickett '07 and Eric Cleary '03, Oct. 22, 2011

swim teams.

Dara Frymoyer '08 and Chad Reinford, July

10,

2010

May

19,

2012

Faith Marvin '12 and Michael Potoeski,
Charles

Macedon.

N.Y.. senior

human

associate vice president for

resources at the University of Roch-

and an adjunct

ester, N.Y.,

the

in

Warner School

instructor

Stephanie

Mount

'90,

N.J,, information

technology

with

PHH

retail

Laurel,

Harold Emmitt

'51

'50

'52

Roy Sanders

Jesse, a son,

Teitelbaum '97 and husband,

James Bombay

Teitelbaum, Dec.

7.

2011

Richard Caton '56

James Browning
Anita

Alex Cameron, July

7,

2011

'56

Rose Gurski Vottero

Franklin

Heim

'61

Way

Justine Boer Frantzen '00 and husband. Drew, a
daughter, Leah JoAnn,

May

8th

2012

Ashley Sorber Lawson '04/'05M and husband, Tony, a

May

10,

'61

Redcliff '62

Joyce Michael

William Inch '63

firm.

daughter, Abigail,

'59

Rush Canouse 59
Winifred Donkochik

Mortgage,

mortgage

'51

Margaret Dawson Gearhart '56

Bombay

of Education.

John M. Mal
a national

George Young

Kenneth Hidlay '54

Births

Kristina Kett Fleming '98 and husband, Chris, a son,

manager

Zigmond Maciekowich

William Kline '53

Murphy

"Chucl<"

J.

'83/'86M,

Robert Balent '50

Sandra Jean Rose

'64

Larry Richie '65

2012

Robert Yeager '67
Greg Orth

'95,

strategist with

Alyssa Haraschak Deeble '05 and husband, Phil

Lancaster, sales

Deeble

Henry Rak

Consulting Partners, a subsidiary
of

McKinsey & Co,

'03, twin

seph. July

7,

sons.

Chase

Daniel and Dylan Jo-

2011

Veyda

'68

'69

Stephen Mihaly

Michael Butler '69

Lauren Warliga Masino '05 and husband, Joshua, a
daughter,

Anthony Gallagher

Noelle, Oct. 11, 2011

Drumm

Robert

'69

Ronald Cans 71
Maryjo Falbo Angotti '72

Heather

Bowman

Bloomsburg,
nurse and

Goshert

'06,

Lindsy Force Maxwell '05/'07M and husband. John, a

certified pediatric

member

daughter, Madeline Ann, March

4,

2012

of the

Rodgers

'05

Professional Practice Council at

Crystal Hollednak

Geisinger Medical Center, Danville,

daughter, Cara Lynn, March 23,

and husband, Gary, a

2012

Maurice Cardone '72

Herbert Frederick '73

Roger Renn
Marlin

Amy
Members who completed board

service at the end of

Chronister Scott '05 and husband, Jason, a son,

,

'60,

Rich Uliasz

Amy
'97,

Chronister Scott '05 and Scott Bird

'96.

former board secretary, resigned due to

Dara Frymoyer Reinford
son, Attan Nicholas,

May

Lois

'73

Hokenbrough

Young

'73

'74

Robert Massaker '75
Valene Komorowski Ciesluk '75

Ryan, March 18, 2012

June are former board president Greg Bowden 01 Dale
Krothe

'72

Joseph Royack

'08,

and husband, Chad, a

'77

John Branham

28, 2011

77

Walter Tiffany
other commitments.

Susan Brong Vanderslice
Kenneth Wagner

FIND

."Sr""'""""'
www.bloomualumni.com

Steven Poust

'80

Thomas Hockley

Send information

to:

Sean

alwrKii^bloomu.edu or

Alumni

Second St.
Bloomsburg, PA 17815

28

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BLOOMSHLKG LMVERSITYOF FENNSYLV.^NIA

'81

Kelly '83

Margaret Sorber Sponauer '83

Affairs

Fenstemaker Alumni House
Bloom.sburg University of Penns\

400

'79

Nancy Bobkoskie

MORE

'78

'79

Sandra Mason Mayo
Loretta
1\

ania

Hugh

Brown

'85

Jaramillo

'91

Kristen Veltri '08

'85

'49

the Lineup
reunions, networking and special events

FRIENDS FROM '52: These members of the Class of 952 get together
summer in the Poconos. They are, left to nght: Barbara Harman Adams,
1

Funk DeMars, Eleanor Young Adams,

Irene Eckert Harrison

every
Geraldine

and Ruth Glidden

Radicchi.

(KINDLE) FIRED UP: Dick Lloyd, chair

won

the grand prize of a Kindle Fire

Hunt, sponsored by the

BU Alumni

statue adjacent to Carver Hall

in

in

of the

Class

Association.

one

of

1962 Reunion Committee,

Weekend Photo Scavenger
Lloyd is shown at the Husky

the Alumni

of his

TRUE TO

BU:

Among

Nancy Lychos, members

SISTERS FROM THE 70S: DEB
for

a mini-reunion

ing 76, Linda

Christine

in

sisters from the 10th to 13th

King of Prussia. They are,

left

to right:

Appel Kennedy 76, Melinda Linn Garrigan 76, Karen Karnes 75,

77 and Sharon

Golf

rial

Geary DeVore 77, Nancy Mowrer Ressler 75, Jan Fetterman Hickey

75, Karen Carpenter Walsh

of the

Class

GOLF BUDDIES FOR A CAUSE:

pledge classes met

Gerry Lahson Down-

Slusser Boyland 77.

who attended

alumni from the 1930s to 1955

Bloomsburg Luncheon during Alumni Weekend were

winning photos.

Tournament were,

left

of 1952.

Playing

to right.

in

Bill

the 12th annual Bonnie Sell

Moul

'68,

Bonacci '69 and Bonnie

Sell's

Souderton Area High School where Mrs.

for

husband. Art

Sell '69.

Memo-

Ron Butfington '69, Jim
The tournament benefits a

memorial scholarship

at

the True to

Maynard Harnng and

Dr.

Sell '70 taught

31 years.

CLASS OF

'62:

Posing

for the

Class

of

1962 reunion photo

are,

left

to right, front row:

Stan Rose, Rose Marie Fisher Rose, Kathy Sinkler Montanye, Melvin Montanye, Myrna
Bassett Anderson, Carol Livingston and Helen Shervanick Vought; second row: Jane
Gilson Foltz,

Susan Katz

Newman, Judy

Lehrich, Sheila Leiter

Wolf,

Ann

Jane Welch Roche,

Sandra Humphrey Johnson, Peggy O'Donnell Demeter and Marilyn Rinehimer Lehew;
third row: Ellen

Handshaw
Baer

Willis,

Mae Clemens,

Margaret Bower

Mary

Ellen

Rosenbaum,

row: William Steinhard, Dick Lloyd,
Petruzzi, David Barbour,

and back

Plotts,

Silverman, Ed Taylor, Kathryn Buggy

row, standing:

Nelson

Sylvia

Stanitski,

Petrie Frie,

Nancy

Ruthann

Knauer Burns and Judy Waite Madden:

Tom Foley

'Nellie'

Barbara Sherts

Hammond, Joan

fourth

Vince Paupers, Robert Cook, Fran Guru

Swarts,

Don Rosenbaum and Ron

Joe Enney Dorothy Anderson Enney

Bill

Petruzzi;

Wiser, Joe Jennings,

Ted Andrewlevich, Myles Anderson, Lloyd Livingston, Fred Freyand Ron Davidheiser.
To learn more about class reunions, contact Alumni
bloomu.edu.

Affairs at

800-526-0254 or alum®

houlder

The Bloomsburg State
Teachers College
by

ROBERT DUNKELBERGER, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST

WHEN ARTHUR JENKINS received
the

first

bachelor's degree in educa-

degree.

Bloomsburg was granted the

authority to offer a bachelor's degree

June 1926.

from Bloomsburg State Teachers College on June 10, 1927, he was
among the first students to complete

The normal school officially became the Bloomsburg State Teachers

the school's four-year teaching

College in

tion

Bloomsburg had focused on

degree.

when
Institute was named a

teacher education since 1869
the Literary
state

normal school and an on-

campus
lished.

training school was estab-

But by the 1920s the

Com-

monwealth of Pennsylvania had
begun to standardize course offerings
and move from the two-year normal school certificate to a four-year

30

BLOOMSBLKG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

in

education

in

May

1927 and Francis Haas

was named its president later that
yean Over the next 12 years, he led
the school through some of its most
trying times
times of growth and
...

the current Andruss Library.

The

state allocated funds for construc-

and a new
where future teach-

tion of a laundry building

training school
ers could

complete student teaching

requirements.

The Ben

Franklin Training School,

dedicated on Nov.

8,

1930,

was the

fourth and last training school on

campus. The original training school,

hardship.

located in the campus'

Haas' tenure began with significant
development of the physical campus.
In 1929, the college purchased more
than 18 acres of land encompassing
the area from Spruce Street east to

was completed in 1869. After the
building burned in fall 1875, the training school was relocated for 12 years
to a temporary wooden structure.

first

dormi-

tory,

Hemlock

Hall.

The

training school

carpenter shop were completed or

nearing completion. Haas

burg

left

Blooms-

to serve as state superintendent

of public instruction and was replaced
by Harvey Andruss, who had been
serving as dean of instruction.

With the

start of World

War

FAirope, military preparedness

II in

became

important on the national and local
levels.

In 1940, the college began a

program

for training civilian pilots in

conjunction with the local airport, a

program that made Bloomsburg an
ideal location for hosting the Navy V-5
program for flight instructors beginning

in 1942.

The

following year, a

V-12 program for training officers was
started
A young

student

is all

smiles as his classmates sing during a 1955 program

in

the

Ben

Franklin Training Sctiool.

and both programs are credited

with keeping the college open during
the war. Enrollment reached record

then
later

moved to a classroom building,
named Noetling Hall, where it

remained

until the dedication of

Franklin,

now home

ers

and

determined the teachers colwould begin to specialize in certain disciplines and, for Bloomsburg, it
was business education, which began

department.

in 1930.

history, the

to

later.

to grow,

facilities

constructed and, by 1939, a

at 712 full-time

fell

courses in special

government. Athletic

Great Depression. Enroll-

students in 1926

first

thanks to funding from the federal

times in United States

ment that peaked

The

The campus continued

teachers college through one of the
difficult

state

education were offered six years

As president, Haas also led the

most

swelled by returning veterans, and

college's curriculum.

leges

facilities,

statistics

numbers

growth of the

The

Ben

to the university's

mainframe computand the math, computer science

network

but the Depression did not hinder the

were

new

gymnasium, junior high school and

549 by 1934,

at the war's conclusion,

after a brief decline in the early 1950s

the

number of students once again

increased.

To meet the growing demand

for

higher education, a separate dining facility was opened in 1957 and

construction started the following year

on a classroom building, Sutliff Hall,
and a residence hall. New North Hall,
now known as Northumberland. Two
years later, legislation was approved
to expand the curriculum at the state
teachers colleges and introduce graduate programs.

On

Jan.

8,

1960, the

word "Teachers" was dropped and the
school officially became Bloomsburg
State College.

An expanded curriculum

to prepare

students for careers in education and

other professions prompted tremen-

dous growth
population.

in the size

of the student

A school with

ment of 1,600 students

in

an enroll1959 sur-

passed 4,000 a decade later and 10,000

Although Bloomsburg

in fall 2011.

University

is

a

much

different institu-

was 85 years ago when it
grew from normal school to teachers
tion than

college,

to
President Harvey A. Andruss,
in front of

Carver Hall

in

left,

and John

Hocti,

dean

of instruction,

remove the word "Teachers" from the

wall

its

it

its

core of providing education

students and training the teach-

ers of tomorrow has not changed. •

1960, signifying the end of an era.

FALL 2012

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Activities and Events

4
Academic Calendar

Choral Concert
Featuring

FALL 2012

Celebrity Artist Series

Women's Choral Ensemble,
Events

Husky Singers and Concert Choir

Reading Day

Sunday, Oct. 14, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov.

20

in

Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium

Featuring Kristen Jelinek,

flute,

and

Resume

St.

St.,

Kenneth

Hall,

to order tickets, call the

389-4409

box

or visit

The Handsome

Saturday, Dec.

present Squirm Burpee

Percussion Ensemble

Haas Center

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

University-Community Orchestra

End

Sunday, Nov.

14

Friday, Dec.

office at

www.bloomu.

Haas Center

11,

Oct.

30 through

paintings

Nov. 27

Reception: Tuesday Oct. 30, 11 a.m.
to

2 p.m.; gallery

talks,

11:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.

Senior Exit

Show

Late November/Early

December,

TBA

Alumni Events

Little Devils

Visit

classic

melodrama

Haas Center

for

on these and additional events

or to register. For information, contact

the Alumni Affairs office at (570)

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

$34.50/$19.50

2:30 p.m.

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

www.bloomualumni.com

details

Saturday Sept. 15, 7 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 10
Finals

Gross

Vaudeville nouveau meets

Tuesday, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.

Finals Begin

S.

Bloomsburg

Classes End

8

Celebrity

be presented

installations

subject to change.

Matthew Lutheran Church

123 N. Market

will

edu/cas. Programs and dates are

Sunday, Oct. 28, 2:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 26, 8 a.m.

and Carver

(570)

Andrea Wittchen, harp

Classes

season

and

Auditorium. For more information and

Chamber Orchestra

Tuesday, Nov. 20, 10 p.m.

2012-2013

the

the Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani

Hall,

Thanksgiving Recess Begins

in

Artist Series

Sky Kim, drawings,

Child/

4058

526-0254,

or (800)

or

389-

alum@

bloomu.edu.

$17 BU Student

Alumni Board Meetings
Graduate

Commencement
14

Friday, Dec.

Koresh Dance

Jazz Ensemble

Philadelphia troupe

Thursday, Nov. 29, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 20,

Commencement

Saturday, Dec. 15

Haas Center

Carols by Candlelight
and Saturday, Dec.

Friday, Nov. 30,

SPRING 2013

1,

Classes Begin

Husky Singers and Women's

Monday, Jan. 28

Choral Ensemble

7:30 p.m. Featunng Concert

First

345 Market

Monday, March 18, 8 a.m.

Admission

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

$34.50/$19.50

Child/

Saturday Nov. 10

Fenstemaker Alumni House

Alumni Legacy Picnic
Saturday, Sept. 15,

$17 BU Student

11:30 a.m. to

Cirque Chinois

free, free tickets required;

Box

Office,

and
of the

p.m.

their students

Compliments

Fnday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m.

Association

Haas Center

1

alumni parents

Fenstemaker Alumni House
of

BU Alumni

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

Child/

Special Events

$17 BU Student

Saturday, March 23, 8 a.m.

to

People's Republic of China

$34.50/$19.50

Haas Center lobby

Resume

powerful

Open

Bloomsburg

St.,

Saturday Sept. 15
for

8 p.m.

The National Circus

available at Performing Arts

Classes

Choir,

Presbyterian Church

Spring Break Begins

known

stage presence and high-energy style

Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditohum

Undergraduate

Company

Parents and Family

Classes End
Friday,

May 10

Theatre

Midtow/n

Bloomsburg University Players theatre

Four original stars from Jersey Soys

productions are generally recommend-

Sunday, Dec.

ed for adult audiences.
Finals Begin

All

Wednesday,

Thursday, Friday and Saturday perfor-

Monday, May 13

mances

are at 7:30 p.m.;

Sunday

Finals
Friday,

End

May

tickets are $6; seniors

17
students are $4.

cardholders are

Commencement
May 17

Graduate
Friday,

Center

for

7:30 p.m.

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

$34.50/$19.50 Child/$17 BU Student
affiliated with nor a

performance

and non-BU

students and

Haas

the Arts, or at the door days

performance.

16

Homecoming Weekend
Fnday

to Sunday, Oct. 12 to 14

See back cover and

www.bloomualumni.com

Fame

Induction

Friday Nov. 2

Art Exhibits

Kehr Union Ballroom
Exhibitions

in

the Haas Gallery of Art

are

open

For

more information,

to the public free of charge.

and reception times,

May 18

Weekend

to Sunday, Sept. 14 to

Athletic Hall of

CGA

free. Tickets are

Office, located in the lobby of

of

9,

Fnday

of the show, Jersey Boys.

available at the Performing Arts Box

Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday,

BU

Haas Center

Not

performances are at 3 p.m. Adult

Men

Call

BU's Sports Information

(570) 389-4413,

Office,

for ticket information.

gallery hours

visit

departments.

For the latest information on

bloomu.edu/art/haas.html.

upcoming events, check the

Twelve Angry Jurors

Concerts
Listed events are

by Sherman

open

to the public

free of charge. For information,

389-4286.

All

32

Serge

Kay Knight,

paintings

Sept. 14 through Oct. 19

Alvina Krause Theatre

Reception: Thursday Oct. 11, 11 a.m.

226

to

Center

programs,

dates, times and locations are subject
to

L.

7 to 11

see

http://departments.bloomu.eclu/music
or call (570)

Nov

change.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PE.NNSYLVANIA

St.,

Bloomsburg

2 p.m.; gallery

talks,

11:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.

Bloomsburg University website,
www.blooivu.edu.

Home of the Huskies
You've seen them on campus

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your own.

Now you can designate your home as a Home of the

You're in luck!

UNIVERSITY
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Huskies with banners from the
University Store.
Available in two sizes - 30-by-

40-inch, double-sided banner

4

($24.99) and 13-by-18-inch garden

banner ($12.99) - these

flags are

perfect for letting your friends and

neighbors

know you're

rooting

for the Huskies. Also available are

matching beverage glasses ($9.99
each), magnets ($5.99 each) and
vinyl decals ($3.99 each).

Shop online or

in person for the

newest plush Husky or the

BU fashion,
T-shirts.

Or

latest

including neon bright

more traditional
find maroon and

for

tastes, you'll

gold giftware and clothing, like

HUSKY PROUD

alumni caps, T-shirts, sweatshirts,
travel

mugs and BU

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any amount.

The

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a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Friday: 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

fans during football season, the

Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

holiday season and year-round!

Sunday: Noon

to

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POOTBAU

9to11

Huskies vs.
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3:30 p.m., Redman Stadium
$10 Adults/$5 Students and Senior

a.m.,

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Complimentary continental
breakfast. Depart for campus bus
tours at 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m.

Citizens/Free

BU

students with ID

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11 a.m., LIghtstreet Road,

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Multicultural Alumni Networking

ROONGO'S -MARVefOUS

Reception, 6 p.m., Kehr Union,
Hideaway, RSVP by Oct 2

Noon to 2:30 p.m., Fenstemaker
Alumni House Lawn
• Music, food, beverages and
games for kids and adults
• Featured reunions: Classes of
1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002
• 50th anniversary: Department
of Environmental, Geographical
and Geological Sciences
Find details and register at www.
bloomualumni.com. Alumni registering online by Oct 2 will be entered to
win a 40-inch Samsung LED HDTV.
All kids dressed as superheroes will
receive Husky Heroes gift bags.
Prizes and entertainment compliments of Liberty Mutual, presenting
sponsor of the BU Alumni Association
tent party. Questions?

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Shippensburg Raiders

BU Sports Stadium,

Free

New THIS yaAR/
MOVie ON THe QUAD:
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8 p.m., Academic Quadrangle, Free
Sponsored by BU's Program Board
and the Alumni Association.
Bring lawn chairs or blankets.
Complimentary popcorn and hot
chocolate. Rain location:

Kehr Union Ballroom.

ReUNION OF FORMER

STUDENT

LiPg Le.fipPS"^

Time and Location: TBD

A special reunion is planned for
BU student

former leaders of

organizations including: Resident

Community
Community Government

Assistants and
Assistants;

Association (CGA) members and
leaders, Service Key recipients,

Call 1-800-526-0254.

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