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Bloomsburg:
The University Magazine

From the President

The Enduring Value of
a

Bloomsburg Degree

AT HOMECOMING, ALUMNI WEEKEND and other events, my conversations
with graduates often turn to their careers and the long-lasting benefits of their

Bloomsburg University degree.
For young alumni, the connection can be a straight
extracurricular activities

time employment. For those
it

may

not be as obvious

to job

...

who have been

how the

line:

from college courses and

shadowing and internship opportunities

in the

working world

for 20,

...

to full-

30 or more years, however,

degree they earned so long ago figures into the career they are

pursuing today.

One way they benefit,

of course,

is

The

their earnings power.

a bachelor’s degree can expect to earn twice as

much

U.S.

Census Bureau says a person with

as a high school graduate during his or her

lifetime.

But what about the benefits beyond dollars and cents?

worker

will

change careers

42 have held as

who,

at

many as

some point

five to

or her

show

that the average U.S.

seven times, stay at each job an average of 4.6 years and by age

10 separate positions.

in his

Statistics also

life,

What

is

the value of a bachelor’s degree to

has forged an entirely

new and,

someone

perhaps, unexpected career

path?

Quite simply, their degree has taught them
in their major, co-curricular activities,

how to

learn.

General education courses and courses

such as undergraduate research and service learning, and

career discovery, from job shadowing and internships to networking with alumni, have given
skill set like

no

other.

a self-assurance that enables

them

to take

a

on new challenges, formulate new ideas and succeed.

In this issue of Bloomsburg: The University Magazine, you will

career changes at midlife and others who, from the

start,

meet alumni who made

pursued

majors. Their Bloomsburg University degrees have served

fields

significant

seemingly unrelated to their

them exceedingly well.

DAVID SOLTZ
President,

Editor's note:

them

Their degree has made them more confident, competitive and competent with

Bloomsburg University

BU President David Soltz regtdarly offers his opinions on issues in higher

education and his vision for Bloomsburg University at bupresident.blogspot.com.

FEATURES
10

Hard Habits

Continuing
Kevin

Ball

in the

Break

to

research tradition at BU,

searches for a drug to shield

addicts from relapse.

12

Reinvent Yourself

Sometimes you just have
first,

app for

14

your own ideas

to put

and thanks to Patty Cara

an

’85, there’s

that.

Well Played
in game technolog}' and

As interest

development skyrockets,
Eric Preisz '00

is

GG

Interactive

CEO

meeting gamer demands

head on, and enjoying every moment of it.

16

Spirited Careers

Five alums on unrelated career paths choose

themselves by stepping out of their

to reinvent

comfort zones and finding their passion.

20

All

the World Loves a Clown

Clowning around might not seem
serious matter, but

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Chancellor, State System

President, Bloomsburg University

of Higher Education

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Executive Editor

Bloomsburg University

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Laura E. Ellsworth, Vice Chair

Council of Trustees

Editor

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Bonnie Martin

Richard Alloway

Mary Jane Bowes, Vice Chair

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WINTER

2015

1

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

unleash your inner husky

More than

1

20 sophomores were

Foundation

recognized on stage and welcomed

into

the nursing major during Bloomsburg
University’s

first

White Coat Ceremony.

to

support the White Coat

Ceremony. Each sophomore,

junior

and

senior nursing student took the Nightingale

Pledge and received a specially designed

FOSTER

Bloomsburg was one
schools
ERIC

2

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

the

commonwealth and 100

pin

as a reminder

to provide quality care.

Sophomores shown from

left

are sisters

nationwide chosen to receive a $3,000 grant

Yesenia and Yasmeen Mercado, Allison

from the American Association

Lloyd and

of

PHOTO:

in

of three nursing

Nursing and the Arnold

P.

of

Gold

Colleges

Savannah Copson.

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

around THE quad
Does what you eat

FAST FOOD. FRIED FOOD. Snack

food.

affect

how you learn?

A

in a task that

depended on the hippocampus,

study conducted by a Bloomsburg senior and

but did not have a similar impairment on

her faculty mentor suggests that a high-fat

a task that

diet including foods in these categories
affect

your

The

ability to learn

may

and remember.

the high-fat diet selectively

related brain structures intact.

Michener of Telford and her mentor, Eric

Both projects also suggest that consuming

Stouffer, associate professor of psychology,
rats fed a high-fat diet

likely to learn a

(CCP) task than

CCP

were

a high-fat diet

less

Conditioned Cue Preference
rats

on a low-fat

diet.

The

in the brains of

humans and

other vertebrates important in consolidating
information from short-term to long-term

memory and

in spatial navigation.

stress, often associated

Oxidative

with the effects of

typical aging.

project, Effect of a High-Fat Diet on a

Hippocampus-Dependent Conditioned Cue

Michener and Stouffer theorize that an

impairs the hippocampus, a major

in

earlier than

Michener presented the findings of the

this

increase in oxidative stress from the high-

component

much

would he expected with

research, water served as the rats’ reward.

fat diet

can contribute to a decline

cognitive performance

task requires rats to connect environ-

mental cues with a rewarding stimulus. In

says, that

damaged the

hippocampus while leaving other learning-

researchers, psychology major Paige

found that

was independent of the

hippocampus. This suggested, he

Preference Task, along with previous findings

aging,

is

defined as physiological stress caused

by damage from free

The

Conference

radicals.

research builds on an earlier project

Stouffer conducted with another student. In
that research, he demonstrated that rats fed a
high-fat diet

showed impaired

at the Society for

latent learning

in

Neuroscience 2014

Washington, D.C. Her research

was one of more than 30 projects funded
as part of

Bloomsburg

University’s 2014

Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and
Creative Activity

(URSCA) Awards

summer program.



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BOLIG LEADS STEM INITIATIVES
KIMBERLY LAZAR

scholarship

BOLIG

RILEY, a senior health physics major from
is

the

first

BU

recipient of the National

Academy

Engineering and

Mathematics (STEM)

Exelon Nuclear, one of the nation’s leading competitive

Education Center.

selected, students

must have

Responsible for

a

Riley credits BU’s health physics

program

for his success.

Coordinated by David Simpson, nuclear physics and health
physics professor,

BU

is

the only university in Pennsylvania

to offer a baccalaureate degree
“Dr.

Simpson

program

really put the opportunity

Riley says, “And he does that for

all

STEM

all

teachers, counselors and administrators
to ensure the continued success of the

STEM

program and

in health physics.

as an adviser

forward for me,"

and seniors enrolled

Program and

of his students.”

Following graduation, Riley hopes to continue his work
the nuclear power industry doing radiation protection. •

in

at

to the

its initiatives,

serves

high school juniors

STEM Magnet
promotes STEM initiatives
in

the

career and high school events. For

more

information, visit www.bloomu.edu/stem. •

Winning Ways

Lynda

MAGAZINE

PROFESSOR AUTHORS
ONLINE LEARNING COURSE
KARL KAPP,

facets of the

Education Center, she collaborates with

academic performance.

to

first

Technology,

minimum GPA of 3.0 and demonstrate determined work and

It

the

Riley received the scholarship following an internship

power generators. To be

Tell

is

director of BU’s Science,

of Nuclear Training Scholarship.

at

BU

First Director

garners national

Danville,

know what’s on

forward to hearing from you. •

Health physics major

ROBERT

us

let

www.bloomu.edu/magazine and by sending ideas for stories about yourself, other

IN

TOP

17

PERCENT

BLOOMSBURG: THE UNIVERSITY
MAGAZINE won a platinum award in

professor of instructional

technology, authored a course for the online

MarCom Awards 2014

learning company, Lynda.com. His course,

magazine was among the top

Gamification of Learning, focuses on the

of about 6,000 entries received.

benefits of incorporating achievements,

characters, challenges, competition and

MarCom Awards
tion for

is

competition.

The

17 percent

a creative competi-

any individual or organization

other gaming qualities into instruction in

involved in the concept, writing and design

the classroom and in the corporate office.

of print, visual, audio and

Kapp spent

and programs. Entries come from

Carpinteria,

a

week during August 2014

Calif.,

in

to film the course.

His blog, Kapp Notes, has a

full

account

web

materials

marketing and communication
departments, advertising agencies,

of his experience with Lynda.com at

public relations firms, design shops,

karIkapp.com/my-adventure-at-Iynda-com. •

production companies and freelancers. •

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Reaccredited
MIDDLE STATES

COMMISSION
THE MIDDLE STATES
COMMISSION

on Higher Education

accepted BU’s Periodic Review Report

and reaffirmed accreditation. The next
evaluation visit

The Middle

is

scheduled for 2018-19.

Commission on

States

Higher Education

a voluntary, non-

is

governmental, membership association
dedicated to quality assurance and

improvement through accreditation
via peer evaluation. Middle States

accreditation

public confidence

instills

in institutional mission, goals,

performance and resources through

its

rigorous accreditation standards and
their enforcement.

BU

Wall to Wall

The

LOCAL FIRM DONATES CUSTOM CARPET

full

report

is

available at

www.bloomu.edu/middlestates •
.

BLOOMSBURG CARPET INDUSTRIES

in

recently donated carpeting for the lobby and

company produced and donated

entryways of Carver Hall. The maroon

and entrances

carpeting bears the

official

gold and replaces the custom flooring the
for the lobby

AACSB

in 1994. •

university seal

BU’S

Transfer Partners

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS has

been reaccredited

for the

by the Association

to

Schools of Business,

second time

Advance Collegiate

known

as

AACSB

International.

AGREEMENT GUARANTEES

Initially accredited in

ADMISSION TO BU

2004 and

reaccredited in 2010, BU’s College of

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY and
agreement that
transfer to

will

help

agreement,

into

in

an

LCCC graduates

Bloomsburg to complete

bachelor’s degrees.

Business

Luzerne

County Community College entered

is

one of 716 business schools

48 countries and territories -

less

than 5 percent of the world’s business

programs - with

their

Founded

To take advantage of the

LCCC students must complete

is

in 1916,

AACSB accreditation.
AACSB International

the longest serving global accrediting

a dual admissions intent form before

body

completing 30

undergraduate, master’s and doctoral

degree with a

credits,

earn an associate’s

minimum

grade point average

BU within one year of
LCCC graduation. A full-time student who
of 2.0, and enroll at

has completed the appropriate associate’s

LCCC may be able to
a bachelor’s degree at BU within

degree program at

complete

The programs covered under the
art, biology,

P.

Leary, president,

and senior vice president
standing:

for

LCCC, and
academic

Rosana Reyes, dean

Ira

Blake, provost

affairs,

of enrollment

Fletcher, associate vice president

business,

chemistry, communications, computer
science, criminal justice, earth science,

English, geoscience, environmental science,

BU

management

and student development, LCCC; Dana Charles Clark,
provost and vice president for academic affairs, LCCC;
and Tom

degrees in business and accounting.

BU; and

and dean

in

first

offered bachelor’s degrees

business administration in 1934. In

fall

2014. 1,855 undergraduates were

of

enrolled in one of BU’s business majors:

extended programs, BU.

accounting, business education, infor-

geography, geology', history, mathematics

four regular semesters.

agreement include

Thomas

for business schools that offer

and

statistics,

modern languages,

physics,

early childhood education, political science,

psychology, social work, sociology

and

theatre.

Learn more

at

mation and technology management,
finance,

management

or marketing. BU’s

College of Business also offers master's

degrees in accounting, business administration

and business education. •

www.pcicollegetmnsfer.com. •

WINTER

2015

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

around
Grant Re-awarded
NURSING STUDENTS BENEFIT

48

DEPARTMENT OF NURSING was

BU’S

re-awarded the Advanced

Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT) Grant from the

Department of Health and Human

U.S.

Services, Health Resources,

and

Services Administration Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship.

Bloomsburg University
country to receive the

BU

first

one of just 65 schools from across the

is

AENT award.

earned the grant of $638,436

for $691,872 will provide tuition, fees

in 2012.

This year’s award

and textbook stipends to

approximately 48 nurse practitioner students over the next two

The two awards represent

years.

Play Time
EVENT ENCOURAGES IMAGINATION
MICHAEL PATTE, professor of education
believes that play in
to

one that

America has

“Children’s lives have
inside

shifted

now predominantly

is

become

it

To address

and child

from

A

life specialist,

a child-initiated activity

adult-directed.

progressively

and outside of school," Patte

implications

says,

“and I’m concerned about the

and his students collaborated

Pop-Up Adventure Playground

to

BU EARNS MILITARY FRIENDLY SCHOOL DESIGNATION
School designation from Victory Media for the

universities

to bring

BU for the first time. Pop-Up

open-minded exploration. Each playground “pops up”

community

environment

setting

where children can enjoy

for a short

time

this self-structured

adults

students

w ere
r

their

able to educate both children and

on the importance of child-initiated

play.



and trade schools

their efforts to ensure the

last fail.

in the

country in recognition of

academic success of military service

With more than 200 veterans enrolled
years, including 40 in

service

at

BU in the last three

2014, as well as about 100 veterans

fall

members among faculty and

upon the efforts of the

builds

By hosting the event attended by about 200 area youngsters and

BU

time

members, veterans and spouses.

for free.

parents. Patte and

first

The designation is awarded to the top 20 percent of colleges,

Adventure Playgrounds are composed of loose materials that encourage

in a

Salute

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY EARNED the Military Friendly

more structured both

has for their development as a whole person.”

this issue, Patte

the largest in the history of the

nursing program. •

staff,

and

BU’s recent growth

Office of Military

and Veterans

Resources and the Student Veterans Association. Other services
include a student veterans lounge, lectures by experts on
veterans’ issues and priority scheduling for student veterans. •

Saying Thanks
BU’S

MOST GENEROUS HONORED

BU RECOGNIZED

its

most generous benefactors with the creation

of the Wall of Distinction.
at the center of the

The

wall, located adjacent to the fountain

Academic Quad, displays plaques bearing the

names of donors w'hose contributions
million.

The donors, who

million in

gifts,

to the university

collectively represent

are listed in chronological order:

The Mitrani Family Foundation, Drew 76 and Susan
Jack
J.

L.

’65

Mertz

’42,

and Cecelia Mistal ’66 Toth, Norman

Benner Hudock 75, Robert

’89

6

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

72

Hostetter,

Terry H. 76 and JoAnn Schultz 77 Zeigler,

D.

F.

Watts

Greenly, Michael

’59,

Thomas

Barbara

Warren, Fred G. Smith, Community

Government Association, Barbara Dilworth, Duane
Basar

exceed $1

more than $25

L. ’85

R.

72 and Susan

and Beth Boguski, Stephan M.

and the Degenstein Foundation. •

Pettit

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ON THE HILL

BUHUSKIES.COM

By Scott Eddy
SPORTS ARE FULL OF CLICHES, some

escaped injury when he was thrown from his turret after roadside

of which compare an

competitive drive to the survival instinct of the battlefield.

athlete’s

One Bloomshurg football
knows the

player, redshirt

sophomore Eric Schwartz,

Schwartz began his collegiate football career nearly a decade ago as
a Shippensburg University quarterback.

what

it

he

says, “but that’s not the

took to succeed on the

know how to manage my time

field

"I

way

and

thought
it is

I

done.

I

didn’t

in the classroom.

I

know

he

says, "I

person

I

made

for a tree

knew I could

a route

In October 2009,

He joined the

U.S.

Marine

in the service, serving as a lance corporal

makes you

puts things into

after a tour of duty in the

unit.

With the GI

Bill to

Mediterranean

help with tuition,

he was deployed for nine months

employment of a heavy machine gun

time since midget football, Schwartz’s

over Millersville University and his

first

in a

win

career interception in a

Lock Haven.

This time around, he recognizes the importance of being a well-

balanced student-athlete. Studying exercise science, he
a

minor

in exceptionalities

is

considering

with a career goal of working in special

Now 27 years old.

he has the benefit of hindsight to share

some hard-earned wisdom with teammates.

in Kunjak.

Province, Afghanistan, as an infantry machine gunner.

first

season included a forced fumble and fumble recovery

education.

He

spent his days in direct combat on top of a truck, responsible for the
tactical

home

Playing safety for the
first

he considered

before promotion to corporal.

Helmand

Schwartz returned

Sea with an expeditionary

victory at

began when he followed

Corps and spent four years

It

perspective.”

worked

trimming company. But,

be.”

before receiving a football scholarship.

get back.

shot.

the determination to get back on track and be the

Swartz’s turnaround

when you

we were

Schwartz was ready to return to college and give football another

didn’t

correctly.”

warehouse and

getting shot at even' day,” he remembers. "Losing people

could just major

After academic struggles forced Schwartz out of school, he
in a pipe-fitting

exploded. “During the final parts of the deployment

appreciate what you have

difference firsthand.

in football,"

bombs

to provide direct fire in

“I tell

up. but

I

the guys not to

was able

make

to serve

the mistakes

my country and

perspective not only on football, but

life.”

I

made,” he says.

that gave

“I

me such

messed

a



support of his unit.

Danger was ever-present

for

Schwartz and his

unit.

Twice he

Scott

Eddy

is

assistant sports information editor.

WINTER

2015

7

TWO OF THE NEWEST Huskies may not

The

have posted eye-popping statistics on the
but their impact

field,

football

with

and

field

is

Gage,

undeniable. Both the

hockey teams partnered

Team IMPACT

to bring into the fold

is

is

to

team jersey on the

field

and expanding team-based support networks.

was given

There are more than 5,000 participants na-

team’s webpage.

tionwide, including children, siblings, parents,

“official"

a locker

With Sarah

came up

football

in

team reached the national quarterfinals

school history and the

short in the Super Region

1

first

mind, the

for

since 2008. But a valiant rally

Championship Game

at

Callaghan

Stadium, Athens, WVa., as Concord University held on for a 32-26 victory
to

move on

ter

Division

(11-2) rallied

and appeared

(13-0)

NCAY

to the

Bloomsburg

to

have

all

from
the

II

semifinals.

21 points

down

momentum

to tie in the third quar-

before the Mountain Lions

responded to keep their perfect season

alive.

BU’s Eddie Mateo rushed for 107 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries
while quarterback

Tim

Kelly completed 16 of 36 pass attempts for 239

yards and a score, rushing for another.
for 97 yards

D.J.

McFadden caught

five balls

and a score while Chad Hoffman had three catches

for 68

yards.

Senior middle linebacker Justin Shirk earned
tronics Super Region

All-America.

1

PSAC

East and Dak-

Defensive Player of the Year and second team

The Huskies defense

led the nation in turnovers generated

in 2014.

The Huskies
in

8

are

now 3-2

in national quarterfinal

2006. •

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

games,

last

- Sarah,

The Huskies
9,

winning

field

hockey team

no strangers

are

back to the community and,
to children in need.

The

September,

to giving

in particular,

football

donated more than $1,200

team

to the Children’s

Miracle Network at Geisinger Medical

Center

Another National Playoff Run
in

own

and a spot on the

student-athletes and coaches.

time

summer

its

who is also fighting leukemia.
member of the team, Sarah

of Bloomsburg

As an

fifth

in

Hospital in Danville.

hockey “signed”

special recruit this past

quality of life for children facing life-threat-

IN FALL 2014, BU’s

game

and taking donations

go toward Geisinger’s Janet Weis Children’s

sidelines at

home games.

ening and chronic illnesses by establishing

the

held a “Play for the Cure”
selling pink T-shirts

Huskies raised $1,000 through the event to

several

improve the

has visited

toward pediatric cancer research. The

Huskies
mission

He

and become the team’s biggest fan wearing

illness.

Team IMPACT’S

fighting leukemia.

the team, along with his parents and siblings,

his official

two young “recruits” who are battling serious

team welcomed 7-year-old

football

who

last spring.



A Season

Remember

to

THE HUSKIES men’s soccer team
of its finest seasons

last fall,

record for victories while reaching the
Division

II

Tournament

shutouts, also gave the Huskies

Conference (PSAC) competition.

posted one

matching the school

NCAA

Bloomsburg reached the PSAC Championship

Game

for the first time since

for the first time since 2011

and received

several honors. Four players - junior defender

Matt Zima and freshman goalkeeper Jared

1978.

One

of just 35 teams nationwide to earn a bid

to the national

tournament, the Huskies finished

the season with a 13-6-2 overall record and went

first

Roma Loboda

and junior defender Mike Bamford, second

Ott,

who

tied the school record with eight

first

team has received multiple Daktronics

time the
All-

Region honorees. In December, Zima was named
honorable mention Daktronics All-America and

became the

first

player in Huskies history to

receive Daktronics .All-America accolades.

Head coach

team - were accorded All-PSAC accolades. Zima
and

9-2-0 against Pennsylvania State Athletic

team, and senior defender

Ott,

two Daktronics

Region selections, the

All-Atlantic

Paul Payne was

named PSAC

Coach of the Year. •

An All-American
TriFecta
THREE WOMEN’S cross country runners earned
All-American honors as the Huskies finished
14th overall at the

championships

On
rain,

NCAA Division

II

national

in Louisville, Ky.

a course that

was shortened due

to

heavy

Hannah Boudreau. Kate Dodds and Lauren

Lehman earned All-American honors by finishing
35th. 39th

and 40th respectively. The top 40 are

named All-Americans.
Boudreau, a freshman, finished

up

Newest Members

Fame

of the Hall of

Members of the 33rd Athletic Hall of Fame Class were inducted last fall, bringing the number of members
to 158. Shown from left are Erica Miller '01, softball; Michael McFarland, athletic director; Roxann Emerick
Betz ’01, women’s lacrosse; Glen McNamee ’97, football; Tina Wikoski Bartholomew '95, cross country and
track and field; Roger Sanders, former wrestling coach; Julie Bugg ’99, women's soccer; David Soltz, BU

REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE Jerrin Toomey,

ter

the most in a single

Champion Scholar

game

(PSAC) Football

prior to the

awarded

is

to the student-athlete with the high-

est grade point average at

23 championship finals

each of the league’s

sites.

enjoyed a strong season on the

field as well as

part of the Huskies secondary, earning an exrole as the season

honored
of the

as the

Week

PSAC

went

on Oct.

25.

The

in 22:04.

As a team the Huskies finished

14th with 358 points, equaling their best previous

NCAA finish

in 2011.

PSAC

Bloomsburg was

also the top

school. •

three interceptions were

game by any Bloomsburg

Toomey continues an

impressive recent

history of Bloomsburg student- athletes earn-

ing the honor of Champion Scholar.

along.

He was

East Defensive Athlete

after intercepting three passes as

part of the Huskies’ 41-10 win over

Women’s

basketball player Nicole Southcott earned

the accolades last March.

A business management major, Toomey

panded

heat

1500 meters of the

finished in nearly a dead

player since 1993.

championship

November. The Champion Scholar

in

final

moving

Tradition Continued

of York, was honored as a 2014 Pennsylvania
State Athletic Conference

over the

Dodds and Lehman

finishing

president; and Dione Somerville, vice president for Student Affairs.

Champion

18 places

race.

in 21:59

player Aubrey Bossert

Women’s

won

lacrosse

the award in

2012 and 2013 while men’s soccer alumnus

Bryce Shaffer received the honor at the 2012
men’s soccer championships and

Tim Dorsch

claimed the award in men’s swimming during
the 2012-13 year. •

West Ches-

WINTER

2015

9

Hard Habits

Break
Statistics

show as many as 75 percent

of people

who try cocaine will become

addicted to

it.

Only one

in four

is

able

to quit without help.
by

TURNS OUT the expression “some

“Food seeking doesn't entail the same

changes

habits are hard to break”

profound change to the brain. Partly

tive

very real sense.

And

true in a

is

the reasons are

evolutionary;

was

biological.

Neuroscientist Kevin Ball
professor of psychology,

research that

may

is

’01,

associate

conducting

provide clues on

to help people kick a

drug or overeating

study the effects of chronic stress on
addicts’ relapse to cocaine seeking

unhealthy

eating habits.
“After addicts

the majority go back to using the drug

Ball.

“Addiction to drugs, like cocaine, heroin

or amphetamines,

is

so difficult to beat

because they cause very big changes to
brain structure and chemistry.”

While drug addiction and maladaptive
food seeking are not the same, “there
is

a lot of overlap in the brain systems

that drive both behaviors,” says Ball.

10

was advantageous

food

to seek

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

memory

also

occur after exposure to addictive drugs,
Ball explains. Addiction, therefore, is

economies, food

maladaptive form of learning that makes

isn’t

scarce anymore.”

as a

addicts vulnerable to relapse for months,

years or a lifetime after treatment.

The chemistry of addiction
When we do



something pleasurable

The role of stress

such as eating our favorite foods or

having sex — or are exposed to stimuli

“We know

that chronic stress

many diseases

from

that predict such things, our nerve cells

contributes to

release the neurotransmitter dopamine,

heart disease to cancer,” says

which

studying the role of chronic stress in

is

picked up by dopamine recep-

After a short time, the

reabsorbed by the nerve

dopamine

is

be used

cells to

again.

A similar

thing happens with dieting,” says

When

underlie adap-

sometimes conceptualized

tors.

complete cocaine rehab,

within a few months to a year.

our DNA.

how

Funded by a three-year, $263,271
grant from the National Institutes of
Health, he is using an animal model to

dieters’ relapse to

it

in

in the brain that

forms of learning and

out calorie-dense foods. In advanced

habit.

and

scarce,

it’s

it’s

ERIC FOSTER

relapse because

changes
in

in

it

...

Ball.

“I’m

induces lasting

brain regions implicated

addiction and relapse.”

Acute stress can be adaptive, says

Cocaine and similar drugs hijack our

Ball.

dopamine system by blocking
the reabsorption of the chemical. The
dopamine receptors are stimulated far

mechanism,

longer than normal, creating an intense

cobra sitting on your

chair.

But chronic

not adaptive

when

fight-or-flight

body’s

euphoria.
is

The chemistry of the

brain

altered and, with repeated exposure,

those changes can
lent, setting
It

become more

preva-

the stage for addiction.

appears that

many of the

physical

It

if

activates your body’s fight-or-flight
like

you would experience

you walked into your

stress

is

office to find a

mechanisms are continually
“Today we are exposed

activated.

to stresses that

constantly activate our fight-or-flight

mechanisms. Stress

at

home.

Stress at

Money worries. Information

work.

overload,” he says.
Stress

and cocaine both activate the

dopamine system, but through
mechanisms. And

it

different

turns out that acti-

dopamine system by

vation of the

stress

can reactivate an addictive behavior.

A possible remedy
In his study, Ball

is

investigating

whether a dopamine antagonist
drug

to block

body

— will

stress

on



dopamine receptors

a

the

in

reduce the effects of chronic

later relapse vulnerability.

The study

be conducted

will

in

three

stages.

Self-Administration Phase: Rats



be given the opportunity to

will

self-

administer cocaine or highly
palatable food pellets.

Extinction Phase:



food pellets

will

The cocaine

or

be withdrawn and

a source of stress introduced. This
stressor can entail being confined to

open container

a small
space.

A portion

in a bright

of the rats will be

administered a dopamine antagonist.

Reinstatement Phase: The



rats will

have the opportunity to respond to
cocaine- or food-associated cues. This

response

is

the

means

for

measuring

relapse.

The question
to

answer

is

that Ball

is

seeking

whether the dopamine

antagonist, given during the chronic
stress introduced at the extinction

phase, helps to shield the rats from relapsing into the addictive behavior.

And
will

if it

does, perhaps the research

one day lead

man

to a

way

to shield hu-

addicts from relapse. •

A Research

Tradition

THE BEHAVIORAL STUDIES that
Kevin

Ball

is

conducting are part of a

Cohen, with more than 75 publicaand 39 research grants, was the

tions

Ball’s latest

grant

is

his

second from

the National Institutes of Health.

continuing tradition at Bloomsburg

first

University.

sor to be awarded grants from the

MDMA (colloquially known as

National Science Foundation and the

ecstasy)

National Institutes of Health.

of addiction. •

A 2001 BU

graduate, Ball was

tored by Steven Cohen,

2009

after

who

men-

retired in

Bloomsburg University profes-

A

2011 grant focused on the effects of

and neurological foundations

36 years of service.

WINTER

2015

11

skills

she’d developed at the agency,

gathered a creative team.
with graphic designers

worked

“I

knew, sourced

I

the developers, and created the app,

TENideas, from concept
just under a year.”

The

interface

is

do, they find direction

more

ideas,

on a topic that

in

simple, but requires

Once they

users to explore the space.

erate

launch

to

on ways

to gen-

from doing research

interests

them

to think-

ing playfully to thinking deeply about

what they might ask for
granted them one wish.

“For younger users, the

be

filled

a genie

if

list

may

with party ideas or ways to

design their resumes,” Cara says.

“We

also have

some users who are
They use the app

entrepreneurs.
to

list

things they want to invent or

apps they want to develop. Lots of my
friends are writers

Reinvent Yourself
By LAURIE

today

is

AS PATTY CARA

’85

emptied her

went through nearly 30 years of notes.
They held her ideas, some of which

wanted to be involved in the
app world. I was ready for something
new,” she recalls. “And it did coalesce

that

way

in

my mind

- kind of like a

During that

was a now-or-never moment,” she
She could do what she knew which was safe - or she could branch
out. “Because I was a creative director
and came up with ideas for a living, I
decided I would apply all my ideas to
“It

my life

instead of creating things for

clients.

I

moment

who worked

because her husband,
at the

same agency,

lost

on the same day. But Cara
excited, too, about what was next
his job

her
“I

12

felt

in

“I

me

I

10 of her

to get into the digital

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own

ideas

think what surprised

began by visualizing it as
the equivalent of a task manager. But
that

is

then

I

realized that a task

a recipe for keeping

wanted

to focus

on

life

manager is
way it is. I

the

ideas, rather

than

wasn’t she



that voice that whispers that the idea

good enough,

it

will

never

fly,

enough or smart
enough or good enough or disciplined
enough to make things work?
that we’re not strong

“I

decided not to

listen to the

internal editor anymore,” she says. “I
felt

that the internal editor

me

from doing things that

had kept
wanted

I

to accomplish.” •

tasks. ‘To dos’ are tasks you're accus-

to

to doing.

An

idea

is

a

new way

do something.”

And what began as a list soon developed into an idea for an iTunes mobile
app. She visualized a way to give users
become better at genown ideas and, using the

the resources to

life.

wanted

down

every day.

tomed

live that philosophy.”

Scan,', yes,

written

first year,

ever plagued by the internal editor

isn’t

While working at the agency, she’d

says.

and freelancing,

direct result of the job loss.”

perfect storm.”

she’d never put into practice.

Just

my own busi-

app - a game — in the works, a book
proposal being shopped around on
the TENideas system - so I’m doing
all new things for me,” she says. “That
change in philosophy and focus was a

inspired by

‘85,

space,

advertising agency vice president, she

forward to

started

launched a mobile app, have a second

new philosophy.

desk after losing her job as an

decided from that

“I

ness, did consulting

a million mobile apps available

long-forgotten notes and a

and they

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is

available on the iTunes

App

Store in the Productivity section.

Laurie Creasy

based

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a freelance writer

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LARRY KELLER

“ There

are so

many people

playing video games
students want to learn

how
-

PREISZ

ERIC

OF

COURTESY

PHOTO:

1YLVANIA

to create

Eric Preisz ’00

them



games are a positive part

Sixty-four percent of parents believe video

of their children’s

LET'S SAY you have a

lives.

terrific idea for a

video

Alumnus Eric Preisz couldn’t agree more.

to learn

game. But you need a means of meshing the
various bells and whistles into a single piece of

One

software.

you hope,

that,

will

be enjoyed

by legions of devoted video game players.
by

Interactive, led

CEO

GG

teaching

it all

together.

GG

Interactive, formerly

Games,

is

a multi-faceted

known

its

name

game

the games. Preisz also believes the

complete with instruction,

GG

job sounded like a

much

lot

of fun. but the

better. That’s the

job he

took.

“My office was

tests

has created video games in a

room," Preisz

in

the [computer] server

was

recalls. “I

freezing."

moving on

He stav ed

company

and career development, and when

where he worked on 3-D simulations of the

actors,

sound

it

his

company

to a

vehicle assembly building at NASA’s

hired a Los .Angeles film crew

Kennedy

Space Station.

and shot scenes on Hollywood

When

stages.

for autistic children asked

own computer

Preisz started his

programming business

A prototype game

"engine,”

first

second one paid

for five years, before

not in developing

video games, but in producing a

The

learning

variety of areas, including customer service

and

independent video game developers. The

company made

aids,

and grades.

justice course,

in

Vancouver, Wash., that makes software
for

isn’t just in

developed an adventure game for a criminal

as Garage-

company based

how to create

that produced training simulations for soldiers.

them,” he says.

value

games themselves can be valuable classroom

Eric Preisz '00, could be

the source of the missing element that ties

how to create

The educational

in

Orlando, his clients

included the U.S. .Army and Air Force and

youngsters to perform "simple tasks such as

Disney Imagineering. For Disney, his company

Torque, that has evolved into several versions.

matching," he says. “If the student wasn’t able

created two interactive games for visitors as

Simply put, a video game engine takes the

to solve the puzzle,

components of a game, such

give

graphics, and pulls

them

all

as audio

and

together in a

it

would progressively

them bigger and bigger

At the same time, he began teaching a

Regardless of skill levels at video games and

Independent game makers are the primary

simulations, "the key to this kind of work

is

buyers of those engines. “Lots of them have tech

usability testing," says Preisz,

jobs and do this as a hobby," Preisz says. “Others

people to try out a

new product. “The most

important thing

to

employed by v ideo game makers and want

branch out on their own. The
of people will try to

reality

It is

hits.

to

made

engines and

that a lot

make

10

as

opposed

to

is

what

do

often recruits

watch what they're doing

they're telling you."

developed

it

GG

its

Interactive

Torque game

“You have

to

games and hope one
-

Eric Preisz ’00

A little ‘Donkey Kong’?
Preisz’s career

a branch office of

GG

Interactive

to create standards for courses

development,
committee.
to follow, so

it

the location of

- decided

on video game

invited Preisz to

sen e on

He learned there was no

a

curriculum

GG created a prototype of four

high school courses to be taken over two years,
similar to earlier

many people

work

in Florida.

“There are so

plating video games; students want

GG in

2009

in a technical

CEO

and became

taught.

in

January

months, the company has been

effort to build a world-class

entertainment

him from

Meanwhile, he has worked on several projects
with Microsoft, including one that teaches

path was anything but

Bloomsburg native played

"Donkey Kong" and other games
but then he

-

started with

same subject he

says contractual stipulations bar

predictable. Sure, the

the state of Nevada

That led him to

his department's chair.

co-write a book on the

elaborating.

as its future.

When

faster

- at Full Sail University in Florida and

platform for a world-class theme park." Preisz

increasingly to education and entertainment

Educational value

became

- basically,

make games run

involved in the support phase “of a multi-year

hits”

licenses so affordable that

Now the company is looking

or better

2011. In recent

make 10

game optimization

techniques and tools to

He

even the smallest aspiring video game magnate
could buy one.

course on video

sales position

games

That's a do-or-die business.”

not a business model that

emulated. Instead,

is

to

who

to

make money off a game, but

few actually succeed. You have
and hope one

geodesic sphere.

succeeded.”

single piece of software.

are

they exited the ride at Epcot's Spaceship Earth

hints until they

“I

as a youngster,

company," says Preisz.

who manages

projects and products, occasionally writes code

and oversees 13 employees
ily, it

literacy for people in developing

countries. “AYe built cartoon-like stories and

mini-games that teach people how to use their

lost interest.

played video games less than everybody

at this

computer

in

two

cities.

Luck-

turned out playing video games wasn’t a

prerequisite for success in the industry.

mouse, email, productivity

and other functions,” he

tools,

says.

scheduled to be offered in

the Internet,

The program

at least

is

20 languages.

“Everybody has a different way to use game
technology," Preisz says. “I think I’ve got the
coolest job in the world." •

After graduation, he had two job offers: one

Larry Keller

is

a freelance writer based in

from the maker of a Formula One race car game;
Philadelphia.

the other from a Washington, D.C..

company

WINTER

2015

15

The famous quote attributed to Confucius
that you
In 2003,

Adam

like,
Bartles

and you

will

was planning on graduate

school when, burned out on academia, he decided to
return home.

On

a whim, he sent an unsolicited ap-

plication to Appalachian

and unwittingly took

Brewing Co.

in

Harrisburg

the first step toward a

new

Fraternity brothers

Moyer
open

talked for

together.

As

Thomas Yozzo and Chris

20 years of businesses

and spirits exploded five years
on the perfect venture: a
It

they could

the market for hand-crafted beer
ago, the friends agreed

Matthew Hall worked for a beer distributor while

Myrna,

told

counseling psychology when his wife,

him he needed

a

hobby and gave him

a book on winemaking. Fast forward 25 years and
friends, loving the wines

Anderson and a fellow

professor made, convinced the pair

to

open a winery.

Adam

success as a salesman for a large Philadelphia beer

degree.

distributor following graduation.

know

But as he got

the people manufacturing the beer he

was

start at the

appeal for the hands-on side of the busi-

ness grew.

on different career paths, but

they share two key characteristics: the courage
to take a risk

and desire

to forge a career out of

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

still

not sure

ground

why they

at small

called

me

in."

breweries usually

level regardless of experi-

ence, and Bartles was no exception.
in the

All five started

"Em

New employees

to

He began

packaging area, building cardboard beer

cases and helping to run the bottle-labeling

machine.
as

much

He made

it

a point to get involved in

of the operation as he could and within

two months he made

his first batch of beer - a

thousand gallons of ABC’s dark Susquehanna

An unexpected
“I

had decided

school and had

One day
maybe

I

1

Stout.

offer

moved home

to Elizabethtown.

the thought popped into

would

Bartles realized he

wasn't going to graduate

like to

make

my mind

that

beer,” says 34-year-

education to rise

in

would need some formal

the brewing industry and

turned to Chicago’s top-rated Siebel Institute,

where he completed three weeks of coursework.

He then

16

Bartles of his decision to apply to

Appalachian Brewery after earning his English

was 1967 and Myles Anderson had just earned

his doctorate in

old

life.”

earning his business management degree and enjoyed

what they enjoy most.

distillery.

“Choose a job

never have to work a day in your

selling, the

career.

says,

spent six weeks at an independent.

1

“Our story is we had this
idea and worked like craz
to make it happen - it's
the American Dream.”
Chris

>

-

Moyer ’92

apprenticeship included a

room

the brewery

at

and breakfast.

While

in

Germany he

Brewing Co.

applied to Victory

in Philadelphia. "I

knew I could

experience a career with Victory and wouldn’t

have to make another move,” says
started in

2007

as an assistant

Bartles,

who

on the bottling

line.

started

my education

and experience,

1

on the bottom rung. By the end of 2007,

was able to operate

all

the processes.

the equipment and run

all

Then

I

started training other

people," says Bartles, Victory’s director of operations.

"Brewing

You have

a

is

very

much an

apprenticeship.

head brewer and assistant brewers

and you need to work your way through.”
As director of operations, Bartles

is

involved

in all aspects of the

company, which

saw demand

beer grow by 30 percent. The

company

for

is

opened

a

modern

last

year

facility in

building another brew house

Kennett Square. Bartles says he looks forward

to developing

pany continue
“I’ve
"I

its

recently

Parkesburg and
in

During freshman year

at

Bloomsburg, Chris

new beers and helping the comto grow.

Hudson

bag Thomas Yozzo was using and

wanted

been following

my passion," Bartles says.

would turn

out."

is

how things

said,

From

first

two went on

to

become Theta

From

a sales

for Oracle’s business with the

From

of service.

the start, they

from

and other raw

where he

Department of

retired with

older

we would end

up around a campfire, and we would

talk

about

something with our hands," says Moyer,

44.

The

friends started thinking about the explosion in

mark with the

as

us,

we wanted

to get

back

Yozzo, 45.

an agricultural product and the

Their

first

product was vodka.

selling spirit in the country

to age
a

is

going to

be,”

adds.

it.

“It’s

the biggest

and you don’t need

For a small business that has to invest

tremendous amount of money, the thought of

Yozzo approached

police department,

they decided their business venture was

years

On

is

really impossible,"

Moyer

average, the distillery

bottles a

bison farms or golf courses - always doing

and liquors and,

five miles

having to put something aside to age for several

of one day sharing a business.
little

roots,” says

Moyer

in

20 years

The men married, took numerous

“As the kids got a

our

can be, the better your product

manager

family vacations together and started dreaming

the 20-year

and

became

purer you get and closer to the source you

Defense and Yozzo served as a police officer
N.Y.,

N.Y. that

come from farms within

"Spirits are

Moyer working as

Newburgh,

y

distillery.

“That was a goal for
to

in sociology.

there the friends traveled differ-

ent paths:

of the

in 1992,

a degree in accounting and Yozzo

degree

'c

discussion about Moyer’s

service, the

Moyer with
a

Clermont,

Valley Distillers.

materials

with

in

their farm, the barley, rye

that

V-

Yozzo,

to create a natural product using

National Guard experience and Yozzo’s Coast

Guard

Thomas

local ingredients. In addition to apples

"Hey, military?”

craft beers

never would have guessed this

apple orchard

Moyer was doing laundry when he spotted the
duffle

V

-

In July 2013, they bought the small farm

reality

Chi fraternity brothers. Both graduated

“Despite

I

Turning business dreams into

-

left,

Jennifer Moyer and Chris Moyer

;*

family-owned brewery near Munich. His unpaid

*

s^From

month and

says.

makes 1,000

alternates

between making

fruit-based and grain-based liquors. Moyer’s
wife, the

former Jennifer Theiss

in the business

and the

men

’92, also

works

say they would

love to have their children get involved.

now or

never.

WINTER

2015

17

If there’s a

men

say

it's

message

what they’ve done, the

in

your dream. "People are

to follow

really intrigued with the notion that
I

knew each other

business. We’ve

had

‘You motivated

me

this idea

pen

-

do

to

and worked

it’s

number

a

Tom and

26 years and started

for

X.’

of people

Our

story

crazy to

like

the American Dream,”

is

make

this

us

tell

ings.

it

hap-

“You need to step out of your comfort zone,”
for

it.”

While

at

Bloomsburg, Matthew Hall worked

for an area beer distributor and, after graduating
in

2007 with

a

degree

in

business management,

he took a sales job with a large Philadelphia beer
wholesaler. Hall had started

making his own

beer during college, and his interest in brewing

grew
“I

as

he

would

visited breweries as part of his job.
talk to the

lot

of competition for open-

Like Bartles, he took a beer-making course

spending time

in

Chicago and

Even
’62,

was hired by the Yards Brewing Co.

position in the packaging department.

money than he made
in

little

to

foreshadow the success to come.

with his parents

in sales
in

College and both dean of students and a vice
president at Gonzaga University

in

Philadelphia, starting in 2010 at an entry-level

less

former Myrna Bassett

.Anderson became dean of students at York

Within two weeks of returning home, Hall,
29,

after his wife, the

gave him a book on winemaking and he

began experimenting, there was

Germany.

move

From home brewer to master brewer

was a

at Siebel Institute,

we had

Moyer says.

Yozzo adds. "Try something new and go

Hall began applying to breweries, but soon
realized there

He made

and had

to

Bucks County, but

faculty at Walla Walla (Wash.)

in 1977.

The

position allowed

his teaching roots

two-and-a-half years, he’s been a brewer.

for

“I can’t

imagine myself doing anything else,”

beer, enjoy

it

this happen.’

my shift I

and think, T was
I

can pour a

a part of

making

many

industries

and

to

Community

him

to return to

found the Institute

Enology and Viticulture

at the

college in 2000. This college

community

program provides

students with hands-on experience in the pro-

duction of grapes, winemaking and wine

sales.

At the community' college, he met Gordy

also love seeing other people en-

joy the product. There are not

Spokane and

College as a counselor and psychology professor

he loved what he was doing. For the past

Hall says. “At the end of

in

Regis College in Denver before joining the

Venneri and the two started making wine

in

where people are excited about what you’re

the Anderson’s backyard,

much

to the delight

doing.”

of their friends. This was

at the

time that the

guys working there, the

wine industry

in

Walla Walla was budding. “We

brewers and the bottling guys, and they were
very excited and very happy about what they

had fun and gave our wine away to friends and

A command performance

acquaintances.

were

doing,” Hall says.

"There was an overall

The world of winemaking wasn’t even

when Myles Anderson

Then people encouraged

to

’62

excitement with the growth of the craft beer

passing thought

industry - they had a product they could stand

graduated from Bloomsburg with a degree

go commercial so they could buy

Anderson

says. "At first

of. I

thought that was the

ultimate connection of labor and love.”

18

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

elementary education and psychology, then
stayed at

we planned

it,”

to

do just

in

a small business

behind and be proud

us

a

BU for another three years to teach.

and not have more than 1,000

cases a year

-

That has

changed.

all

enough

to

pay for our hobby.”

The

winery, Walla

in 1995.

The

first

the operation

bottles

first

year. Today, the

W alla Vintners, opened
were sold

turned a profit

winery

in

Meagan, and

much

seventh

around 6,000

sells

cases of various red wines a year and

family business

1997 and

in its

community' college full-time

until

he says the key

quality

and the customer. The Andersons

wine

for their

50-year reunion at Bloomsburg in 2012.
not just in the wine

who

he retired

pleasure business,” he says.

“We make

stay in touch with our customers
in

basis

is

known

soil

for growing grapes - a fact that has resulted

it

now there

industry.

When Anderson's

was the eighth
are

900

we

and provide beautiful wines they would
else.”



for its wines,

Anderson says Washington has incredible

booming wine

sure

on a regular

normally not be able to get anywhere

Although California

to

to never stop paying attention to the

business, we’re really in the relationship and

and

June 2014.

in

is

Anderson. Though the

established,

“We know that w'e’re

a business that’s very expensive

continued to direct the wine program at the

Walla;

is

w'ere delighted to donate the

their son-in-law; Judah, are very

winery opened,

this far," says

w ell

wine

a

is still

- the Andersons’ daughter.

challenging to operate,” says .Anderson, 74,

in a

would go
winery
success

a part of the winery.

“It’s

had no idea when w e started that we
r

“I

in

Walla

in the state,

Jack Sherzer

is

a professional writer and

principal partner with

Message Prose, a

communications and public relations firm

in

Harrisburg.

with 175

Walla Walla alone.

Family Enterprise
For John Braganini, the art and business of
crafting wine

is

a family tradition.

“We grew up thinking of wine

as food,"

says Braganini 75, president of Great Lakes

Insurance Agency Inc. and a

member of BU’s

College of Business Advisory Board.

Today Braganini, along with
members,
founded

part

is

other family

six

owner of St. Julian Winery,

in Ontario,

Canada,

in 1921

by

his

grandfather, Mariano Meconi, and relocated to

Michigan

in the 1930s.

Named

for the patron

saint of the founder’s birthplace in Italy,

Julian
It

is

St.

Michigan’s oldest and largest winery.

produces more than 50 varieties of wine and

ships 150,000 cases annually, as well as another

100,000 cases of beverages, such as non-

champagne.

alcoholic

About 90 percent of the wine
Michigan, but

it is

is

sold in

also available in other

areas of the Midwest. Braganini says sales are

increasing 4 to 6 percent a year, but

"it’s

getting

harder to get on the shelves. You have to either
get bigger or smaller.” In response,

St.

Julian

Winery is pursuing a direct-to-customer
model through

But quantity has not come
of quality.

wines
in

St.

sales

their website, mmstjulian.com.
at the

Julian’s consistently

expense

produces

- both sweet and dry - that win awards

Michigan and throughout the United

Braganini

is

grigio while
typically

variety

States.

particularly fond of his pinot
St. Julian’s

grown

made

in

Albarino, a white grape

in Spain,

is

the

first

of that

Michigan. •

WINTER

2015

19

World Loves a Clown

All the

WILLIE COLON

by

ON AUG. 4. 2014,
‘86

Pastor

Mike Dubbs

walked out of his house

Pines, N.C., eager to

clown mission.
his alter-ego.

regalia



Southern

embark on

He was decked

Dubbsy,

black

in

in full

his first

out as

hobo clown

felt hat, thrift store shirt

and pants, hideous brown vest with a
99-cent price tag, red suspenders, mis-

matched

rental

bowling shoes

to help spread a

little



ready

laughter, love

and

healing to another continent.

At the Raleigh-Durham Airport, he

was the only clown in town. At JFK in
New York City, he came upon two other
clowns who were going his way. And at
the Jorge Chavez Airport in Lima. Peru,

20

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Dubbsy and
corner and

his

clown friends turned

a

“There was nothing but clowns!” he
recalls. “It
It

was

like a

clown explosion.”

sounds spectacularly

consider

this:

from your front door

in character,” he
“They want committed people
who are willing to say, ‘Here’s what I’m

explains.

...

silly,

Nutrition was the

theme

sion to Iquitos, Peru. Organized by the

Gesundheit! Institute, a West Virginiafacility,



• • •

hut

of this year’s two-week clown mis-

based alternative health care

doing. I’m a clown.’

“Eclectic” pretty much sums up
Mike Dubbs’ resume and life adventures. This Bloomsburg native and Tau
Kappa Epsilon brother graduated with
a bachelor’s

degree

in

business and

He

has been a

the mission brought together 130 clown

office administration.

volunteers from 16 countries to address

professional photographer and a town-

the high incidence of malnutrition in

ship manager, and says he misses the
10 years he volunteered as the football

the region.

As

for flying to Peru as

“One requirement

is

Dubbsy?

that you travel

game announcer

at

Redman Stadium. “I
game and subs

got a good seat for every

I could see hope in their faces.
had never seen such poverty and such
joy in the same place.”

and

I

He

he’d brought along because the children

and study

workshops

it

and yelling “El

for the volunteers

and

to a village

down

the

Amazon

“And when they found out

me to

pastor, they asked

mental health

who

speaks a

I

local

Spanish.

little

“I

was

makeup."

One

of his biggest take-aways was

the small

ignored for years, he began

down

the

it’s

path that led to his current position as
pastor at

stuff. “I

worried about

Community Congregational

colorful,"

clown
outfit

visit,

learned not to be so

my costume

he

says.

not in

as long as

“The joy

is

in

in

anger and other negative emotions and

Meanwhile, the path that led to
its

Dubbs
would

in college. “I

dress as a gorilla or a clown or a kissing

handit and take balloons to hospitals

and people’s homes,” he

morphed

clowning for

says.

That

Based on his experience, Mike Dubbs
understands
“If

momentary distraction from whatever
problems we might have,” he says. “I
see that at the hospital. And like to
imagine that when the kids in Peru are
having a hard day, they think about the

clowns and

who

told

Gesundheit! Institute

And

in

how accurate my

Willie

Colon

is

a freelance writer

based

Philadelphia.

Humor provides

a

momentary distraction
from whatever problems
we might have”

Institute has

Dr.

Patch

Adams

led a

group of volunteer clowns to the former

Adams promotes an

Dubbs about the

Soviet Union.



alternative health care

and the pos-

model that

connects individual health to the health

of going international with his

community and the world.
Robin Williams famously portrayed him

of the family,
• • •

in the

Peru was an incredible experience,
says,



when founder

clowning.

Dubbs

smile." •

the

is.”

The Gesundheit!

was a clown friend from

the hospital

sibility

pretty well already.

organized clown missions since 198S,

that one thing often leads to
it

it

nothing else, humor provides a

kids’ parties.

volunteers at a local hospital.

another,

it.”

- Mike Dubbs ’86

into full-on

Today he clowns several times a
month as part of a group of clown

way

it,

origins in a job

had while he was

the

humor get us to the point of
Duncan asks. “We’re looking
and folks like Patch Adams are

“But can
thriving?”

Southern Pines.

clowning had

eventually

helps us deal with sadness,

experiences, she says.

in

Church

more

I

probably that old cliche: Don’t sweat
says.

Humor also

still

dressed as a clown, just without the face

happier

live longer, they’re

helping us understand

says Dubbs,

-

it,”

productive at work, they earn more.”

into

River.

was a

a

correlational evidence

talk to patients

clinic,”

“We have

it

Duncan
growing body of

and measure

it

people tend to

These events provided Dubbs, a self-taught juggler and
clown, a unique chance to improve his
clowning by visiting schools, nursing
homes and prisons and taking a trip

at a

“At this point there’s not a lot of

says.

participants alike.

he

professor. But we’re getting there.

science, so we’re trying to define

The two weeks were packed with

like Balzano’s,”

Mary Katherine

remembers having a hard
time unfurling the Bloomsburg banner

Loho! El Lobo! (The Wolf! The Wolf!).”

After finally heeding a calling he'd

yet, says

Duncan, Bloomsburg psychology

also

kept running up to

from places

Not quite

but the opening day wel-

come parade was

extra special. “That

was the highlight

as the kids’ faces

lit

when they saw the clowns,” he recalls.
“They knew we were there for them.

1998 hit movie. Patch Adams.

There are

six to 10 clown trips every
and they’re meant to create joyful
atmospheres that enhance the well-

year,

up

being of individuals and groups. But
there hard evidence that

humor

is

heals?

WINTER

2015

21

Beth and Mike Bogus

FROM SMALL-TOWN BOY in rural

1997 above a tattoo parlor, Eastern has grown

Wayne County to

from a start-up

president of a workers’

compensation insurance
quartered

in Lancaster,

employs 24S insurance professionals. Eastern

— the education he

went public on the

received, the friendships he

a difference in his career

small-town

feel

says Boguski

ing in 16 states with eight regional offices that

specialist head-

made and

continued alumni involvement

was looking

and

his

'85. “I

it

life.

was an excellent

and an expanded business school. And

was

affordable.

I

funded

it

my college education

with a student loan and a

summer job

as a

including internships, job shadowing and

capstone experiences provided through BU’s
Professional

U

program. The

gift will also

with ongoing efforts for BU’s Science,

assist

continues to serve as the president of Eastern.

Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Just as important as the academic

at

Bloomsburg.

“I

was a member

of the Zeta Psi fraternity and involved in

(STEM) Magnet School
immersion program

learned the importance of interpersonal

skills

and developing relationships.

I still

BU

Foundation’s annual fund.

As a first-generation college graduate,

intramural and inter-fraternity council sports.
I

— as well as the Henry Carver Fund,

students
the

— a two-year

for local high school

Boguski

BU

feels a strong

students.

“My

connection to today’s

parents and grandparents

have lifelong Bloomsburg University friends

did not have the opportunity to attend college.

and continue an annual birthday celebration

I

at

trip

much more than a good
Bloomsburg. He found the academic

preparation that provided a foundation for
his career
start

— a journey that led him to the

as Eastern, in 1997. Since

opening

with several Zeta

Psi fraternity brothers.

Bloomsburg University

is

a special place with

special people.”

up of Eastern Alliance Insurance Group,

known

22

a larger publicly

high-impact experiential opportunities,

Boguski found

lifeguard.”

fit

2006 and then

Directors and, with his wife, Beth, committed
$1 million to the Foundation to support

traded company, in January 2014. Boguski

formed

in

business and Bloomsburg had a great reputation

in

preparation were the friendships Boguski

fit,"

planned on majoring

NASDAQ

merged with ProAssurance,

his

— have made

for a university with a rural,

and

company operat-

Michael Boguski says

Bloomsburg University

“I

to a public

in

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

As an alumnus, he serves on the

Bloomsburg University Foundation Board of

was blessed and very fortunate

Bloomsburg

University'.

Even

percent of the students are

Beth and

I

to attend

today, nearly

first

generation.

see an important mission in

supporting these students.”



40

Albert Fisher

CPA and

’60s
Larry W. Greenly
’65

won

and

a gold

of Southern Nevada,

for the Arts. Previously,

J.

Fisher Accounting

Behr served

Terry Guers ’77/78M

as

chairman of the Fine Arts

retired after

Department

from Bloomsburg enabled him to

in

Moonbeam

achieve success in the accounting

Pamela, reside on Chincoteague

and education world. He made

Island,

a promise to himself when he

Cottage Collection, a gallery/shop.

Kutztown, Fleetwood and

John C. Olaynick 71 retired from
the Palm Beach County (Fla.)
Water Utilities as an environmental
analyst. He resides in West Palm
Beach where he is a flight

1992,

Children’s

for his nonfiction

Black Fighter Pilot. His

book

Young Adult Book
the 2014 NM/AZ Book Awards.
Dale Hunsinger

'65, principal

in

scholarship.

70s

of

Homestead-Wakefield Elementary
Air,

Md„ was named

Harford County Principal of the

Blair

Year for 2013.

Louis H. and Katherine

by the

Berks County Intermediate Unit,

Va„ and own the Island

while serving schools in the

Brandywine Heights

districts.

In

he became an employee of

the Kutztown Area School District

from which he retired

June

in

2014 after 22 years. Guers
in

Muhlenberg Township

lives
in

instructor.

Reading

S.

Zbinden

Ann Donovan Motsko 72
Community Service Award. The award

John Vanderbeck 77 was
promoted to chief executive

Virginia

received the Ben Franklin

Robert Boose ’6$ was

Ministry and Leadership at Austin

awarded honorary

(Texas) Presbyterian Theological

fellowship in the

Seminary, Austin.

American College

June with 20 years of service as
senior pastor of Preston Hollow

ty Foundation’s

distinction recognizes exceptional

Presbyterian Church

the winner’s choosing.

contributions to dentistry and the

Texas.

dental profession by individuals

was honored by

who do

gift to

of Dentists. This

for 14 years

the

area.

Monie 70 was named the

Distinguished Professor of Pastoral

not hold a dental degree

was employed

his wife,

graduated that he would endow a

also

the Best

He and

He

pathologist in Berks County.

at Girard College

Philadelphia.

in

36 years as a speech-language

Scholarship, Fisher says graduating

certificate in

book, Eugene Bullard: World's First

School, Bel

Commission

the national 2014

Book Awards

won

the Albert

championship tournaments
2000 and 2010.

Virginia

Las Vegas, created

NCAA

led the Yellow Jackets to

is

commissioner to the

emeritus at the College

in

medal

Robert Behr 71

’69,

professor

Upon

He

retired in

in Dallas,

his retirement,

endow

Monie

but have significantly advanced

Distinguished Chair of Homiletics

the profession of oral health.

at

Austin Seminary.

accompanied by a $1,000 grant

Communities, based

in

West

Point.

from the Wayne County Communi-

and

is

Ben Franklin Fund

designated to the charity of

John Mondschein 78

retired after

teaching business and coaching track and field for 36 years at

Parkland High School (PHS), Al-

he

a $2.5 million

the Blair R.

is

officer

of ACTS Retirement-Life

Arthur Luptovvski 73

is

an

lentown.

He was

inducted into the

advance scout with the Detroit

PHS

Pistons of the National Basketball

and

He was previously the
American Internationa] College
head basketball coach where he

inducted into the Whitehall High

Association.

Gifts

athletic hall of

field

fame

as a track

coach and was previously

School athletic hall of fame as a

member of the

1973 football team.

from Daniel Tearpock 70

THE LATE DANIEL TEARPOCK 70, noted geologist,

bequeathed a collection of Native American

arrowheads to the university that
tline

Science Center. Tearpock,

also gave

$50,000

displayed in Har-

is

who

died Feb.

9,

2014,

to the university' in his will.

In 1988, Tearpock founded Subsurface Consultants

& Associates which grew into an

international

consulting and training firm with multiple branch
offices.

He was

a

well-known figure

and gas

in the oil

industry and remained committed to his profession
as a successful oil finder, to educating

and mentoring

the next generation of talent in the geosciences and
to serving his

community.

In recent years,

Tearpock received multiple honors

and awards commemorating his professional
achievements, including the American Association
of Professional Geologists (AAPG) Division of
Professional Affairs’ Heritage Award, the

AAPG

Honorary Member Award and nomination

to the

Advisory Board of Bloomsburg University’s College
of Science and Technology.

WINTER

2015

23

George Antochy 79

retired

John Keegan

from

technology company based

public

’84, a certified

Media. Knox holds an

in

accountant,

tion after 32 years. His last position

officer at

was as manager, client planning
and design, responsible for the

Center of New Jersey.

60,000 administrative computers

speaking with accountants

Allison Straub

nationwide about software and

assistant professor of nursing at

technology. Keegan

Misericordia University.

in

from the

June 2009

U.S.

after

Army

The

the chief financial

Holy Family University and

Surgery

Plastic

He

is

certified Six

also

Reserve

30 years

global

of service.

is

a chartered

and

analysis professional

she was a

certified

’90

is

a Path

program coordina-

to Success

is

worked

at

BBBS

since 1994,

recently as a school-based

Chambersburg YMCA. Christian

mentoring coordinator.

most

assistant director

Bryan Noaker '90 retired

as

principal of the Milton Area

Rodney Zechman

Cameron Smith

School

the Revolution.3 Ironman-distance

District.

'84

competed

in

triathlon in Sandusky, Ohio.

Lake

’80s

in

and 26.2-mile marathon run

on the boards of Juniata Valley

finishers,

Financial Corp. and Juniata

Division for

Valley Bank. Berry

and

the chief

second

men

first in his

He is married
Wood ’86.

executive officer and president
of Solar Renewable Energy and

in

for 23 years

since 2004.

He

at

has more than

reside in Selinsgrove.

Ann DiBernado Clements ’92
received the 2014 Rosalie Kaleda

Scholarship for advanced practice
registered nurses. Clements, a

Dale Sinnott ’89 retired from the
U.S. Air

age group, 50 to 54.

Force concluding more

than 25 years of active military

former Sandi

duty. Sinnott’s last

assignment was

as the chief of the Director of Op’85

and served as principal

wound, ostomy and continence

erations

promoted

Zechman

age 40 and older,

Jane Runey Knox

High

for the district

also oversees security for

in the Master’s

to the

He worked

School.

more than 200

Achieve Energy Solutions, and

owns Berry Group Management.

vice

20 years of bank experience. He
and his fiance, Jennifer Riordan,

10 hours, 48 minutes, he crossed

the line seventh of

a director

is

of The Northumberland National

the bank.

Erie, 112-mile bicycle ride

’88

president of branch administration

Bank.

Completing the 2.4-mile swim

is

Luann Naugle Smith

tor with Big Brothers/Big Sisters

since 2011.

professional.

Arlington Texas Independent

is

is

the executive director of the

was the

kindergarten teacher with the

’83

Maloney ’86M

Carla Shearer Christian '88

information technology

retired after 25 years of teaching.

Douglas Berry

Belt.

management accountant,

corporate financial planning and

last 18 years,

a

of Lancaster County. Smith has

certified treasury professional,

Laura Adolphson Antochy 79
For the

Sigma Green

is

an associate with K2 Enterprises,

used throughout the FAA. Antochy
retired

is

’90s

MBA from

the Federal Aviation Administra-

was

Deployment Requirements

certified nurse at the Williamsport

Regional Medical Center, will use
the funds toward her education to

become

a certified registered nurse

practitioner through

Bloomsburg

University.

Branch, Defense Intelligence Agen-

to chief operating officer

Healthcare Administrative

cy, at

the Pentagon, Washington,

D.C. Sinnott resides in Alexandria,

Partners, a medical data and

Va.,

Angela Taylor

Hummel

’92 has

attained the Senior Professional

and has three children.

Duane Carey honored
DUANE CAREY ’91 was named

Carey joined the chamber

GovConnects, the chamber’s

Howard County (Md.) Chamber

immediately after starting his

of Commerce’s Business Person

business.

of the Year during the chamber’s

years on the board of directors,

member

annual Signature Event. Carey

including one year as chair;

organization that fights child

president at

&

IMPACT

is

Marketing

Public Relations, which started

founding

He

business-to-government

has served eight

is

Carey has
a

member of the Young

Professionals

Network of Howard

member

10 years ago in his basement and

County; and a

now serves

leadership team that launched

clients in six states.

of the

board

for Shari’s Promise,

sexual abuse, and as

the

initiative.

also served as a

an

member of

Howard Hospital Foundation

Board of Directors.

Bob Marquette top CEO
BOB MARQUETTE

Marquette has been involved

70,

president/CEO of Members

1st

Federal Credit Union, was chosen
as

CEO of the Year among credit

unions with more than $250

24

with the credit union

movement

since 1973, working 28 of those

years with

Members

1st

Federal

Credit Union, headquartered in

A member

Credit Union Association, he
serves on the boards of Capital

Region Economic Development
Corp. and the Ronald

House

Charities,

McDonald

and the advisory

boards of the Children’s Miracle

million in assets by the National

Mechanicsburg.

Association of Federal Credit

of the Regulatory Review

Network and the Arc of Cumber-

Unions (NAFCU).

Committee of the Pennsylvania

land and Perry counties.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

husky
Human Resources certification.
Hummel is the vice president of
in

human resources at Evangelical
Communin' Hospital. Lewisburg.

Bonnie

Munn Heintzelman ’95

an instructor of nursing

Urban

’92

is

head of the

Ulthera Business Unit, responsible
for

all

of the company’s commerthe

cial activities in

sales,

including

U.S.,

He joined Ulthera

October 2009 as the organization's
first sales

leader and has 21 years of

commercial experience

in the

US.

pharmaceutical and medical device
industries.

Urban earned

his

MBA

Loyola College in Baltimore.

of Nursing,

He

Steven Fahs ’94

is

of .Ally Bank.

He

internal auditor

is

a certified

and

certified

Insti-

Accoun-

director of the Bureau

to

May 2011

w'hen he assumed additional
responsibilities for multiple
facilities.

of Audits with the Pennsy Ivania

Medical Center School

Thomas Jefferson

Shawn Simchock

Office of the Budget.

’02 has entered

University School of Nursing and

into priestly formation for the

the Central Susquehanna Licensed

diocese of Scranton at

Practical

’00s

Nurse Career Center.

sales

McLaughlin

’95

Baltimore.

Kyle Sahd ’01

A certified financial planner, she
was employed

same capacity

at

is

Nicholas Seier

manager

in the

Cole Taylor

an ordained

Jeremy Thompson ’02
is director of power

priest.

at

’01.

CBIZ

a

CPA.

accounting at Public

is

MHM. He

Service Enterprise

provides financial, asset

Mortgage.

securitization and

'95

in

is

manager and senior loan
Mortgage Netw ork Inc.

previously'

Mary’s

St.

Seminary and University

officer at

Gregory Orth

senior vice

is

December 2006

a council

tants.

review's

president and chief internal auditor

is

Pennsylvania

tute of Certified Public

Leslie KufFel

in

’98

Pennsylv ania College of

marketing and commercial

strategy.

at

member of the

Technology. She previously taught
at Geisinger

Patrick

John Kaschak

is

at

on

Group, specializing in

due diligence

warehouse

collateral

derivativ e accounting.

diversified

PSEG

is

a

energy company

New Jersey

lines of credit to the financial

headquartered

of THincBOX, a business

services community, including

and one of the 10

largest electric

dev elopment company, and an

private equity firms,

companies

US.

authorized licensee of Sandler

and venture

is

president

hedge funds

in

in the

,

capital firms.

Jeffrey AVhitenight

’95M was
promoted to senior vice president,

Corporate and Community'

Matthew Funk ’04 is a senior
associate with Quantum Financial
Management in Allentown. Funk,

Relations at Seton Hill University,

a certified financial planner,

financial officer of Harleysville

responsible for loan operations

was chosen

10-y ear veteran of the financial

Savings Financial Corp. and Har-

and branch administration, at
Columbia Bank and Trust Co.

Magazine's 40 Under 40. Selected
from a nomination pool of more

wife, Jackie,

than 225 candidates, the 2014

in New' Tripoli.

auditor of investments and

Training in Lancaster.
Kristofer Smith

derivatives.

M. Shane Michalak

leysville Savings

'94

is

chief

Bank. Michalak

First

previously serv ed as vice president,
controller

and

treasurer.

A CPA

for over 18 years. Michalak

Michael Devaney '98

is

’01.

director of

for Pittsburgh

on

overseeing operations in York,

visibility, diversity

of Certified Public Accountants,

Adams and Northumberland

impact on the region.

Pennsylvania Institute of Certified

counties. Devaney' recently serv ed

Public Accountants and Financial

as the senior district

manager

Waste Management

in Philadel-

Managers

is

a

Institute

Society' of Philadelphia.

He and his wife, LaYonne. have
three children, Jordan.
9;

and Braeden,

7.

11;

M.

Seth,

phia He has a master’s degree
public administration from

He

lives

a

with his

and their son. Levi,

honorees were chosen based

chief

operating officer of Rabbit Transit,

member of the .American

services industry.

is

their passion,

Matthew Sterenczak

commitment,
and overall

James Aurand ’02M

in

Penn

State University.

is

is

the

Easttown Middle School, Berwyn.
Prior to joining

for

’04

assistant principal of Tredyffiin

T

E, Sterenczak

served as acting assistant principal

acting

administrator at Susque-View

for Middle School East

Home Nursing and Rehabilitation

acting principal of Evergreen

Center.

He previously' served

facility

administrator from

as

and as

Elementary' School in the

Perkiomen Valley School

District.

Of Mice and McMenamin
JAMES McMENAMIN

appeared as Whit
Of Mice and Men in Broadway’s Longacre
Theatre. The play, adapted from a novella
‘01

in

by John Steinbeck, starred James Franco
and Chris O’Dowd, and was screened
internationally by National Theatre Live.

McMenamin’s acting credits include TY’s
The Good Wife, Law and Order SVU and

Law and Order; and New York theatre
productions of Ashville. The Bad Guys, Suicide
Inc.,

Middletown, Our Town and

Xaked. as

yvell as

Armed and

regional theatre and

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble.

WINTER

2

0

1

s

25

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

huskynotes
Sterenczak received his master’s

Brittany Delaney Brooks '09

degree in educational leadership

a speech language pathologist

and

principal’s certification

He

Lehigh University.

is

from

enrolled

the doctoral program in

in

educational leadership at Lehigh.

Trevor Saylor ’05
principal at

is

assistant

Bermudian Springs

Elementary School

in

at Jersey

in the

April Harris-Snyder ’12M

a children’s

is

therapist at Philhaven,

Shore Hospital. Brooks

began her career

Mount

leading marketing efforts at

career coordinator at Lackawanna

degree

College. Harris-Snyder works with

in professional clinical

counseling/psychology from

all

treating and preventing

LaSalle University

co-curricular experience at the col-

departments to improve the

promote positive community

communication/swallowing

lege,

disorders and voice and cognitive

standards and assist in enforcing

difficulties.

the student code of conduct. She

and her husband, Matthew, have

Browne ’09

is

three sons, Harrison, Everett and

a student in

Henry Snyder.

the Faculty of Medical Sciences at

the University of the West Indies,

Michael Hower 13

Knoebels Amusement Resort.

St.

Elysburg.

goal of becoming a physician.

planner for Juniata County'.

associate director of the Center for

Anthony Smith '09 signed for the
2015 American Indoor Football

women’s basketball coach

Engagement, Service, and Learn-

season as a linebacker with the

Justin

ing at Shippensburg University.

ASI Panthers

tant in the assurance practice at

He

his collegiate career,

James D’Amico ’08/T0M

is

the

previously served as residence

Augustine, Trinidad, with the

in

Smith played

with the Wichita Wild of the

Student Activities.

Champions Professional Indoor
Football League for

’08

is

two seasons.

Erdman T2,

& Young,

a staff accoun-

the assistant
at Saint

Francis University. Oxenrider

Lydia Shedden 13

Erdman met

associate at Cargill Wyalusing, a

BU. Stebila
ball

’10s

is

previously spent one year as an

Philadelphia,

Stebila while student

teaching during his

an international

an associate

completed the Steamtown Marathon in
October 2014 with Mike Stebila ’97.
Ernst

student adviser at Ohio University,

where he is an immigration specialist and advises about 800 international students on immigration

is

Kayla Oxenrider 13

Reading. Following

director and assistant director of

Ryan Geiger

the

Gretna. Groff received her master's

York Springs.

Mary Frances Hynoski Helwig’06M

is

associate dean of students and

Philadelphia area, diagnosing,

Sherrol

is

Brittany Groff 'll

is

coach

is

at

last

a teacher

semester

at

assistant coach at Albright College.

beef processing

is

an operations

facility.

and basketStephanie Winters 14

Selinsgrove Area

High School.

is

a full-time

special education teacher with the

Danville Area Middle School.

compliance, academic concerns

Michael Hamlin TO

and cross-cultural adjustment.

basketball coach with Mansfield

is

an assistant

University.

Nardone acquires
East Bay

Correction

MARIO NARDONE ’99, acquired a wealth
management and investment advisory firm
now known as East Bay Financial Services.
East Bay

is

a Registered Investment Advi-

sor which provides portfolio

and financial advice

management

GER\LD

incorrectly identified in the

Husky Notes

Magazine’s Fall 2014 issue.
Strauss

advisory services to financial professionals.

Nardone’s career began with Vanguard
in Valley

Forge before

before he relocated to Charleston,

S.C.,

to serve as chief investment officer

and chief compliance
Financial Concepts.

officer at

He earned

Morris
the

Chartered Financial Analyst designation
in

2003 and serves

Society'

26

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

section of

Bloomsburg: The University

to individuals, families

and nonprofits, plus consulting and co-

mutual funds

STRAUSS was

H.

as president of CFA

South Carolina.

is

professor emeritus of

English at Bloomsburg University,

where he was on the
1961 to 1993
as assistant

faculty

from

and served many years
department

regret the error.

chair.

We

4

VITAL STATISTICS
Obituaries

Marriages
Alan M. Parker '82 and

and Bryan Kauffman, Nov.

2,

2014

Shari Sanger ’02 and Eric Marderness, Oct.

6,

2013

Jen Barkume

’95

Amanda Babb

2013

Julie Fullerton, Dec. 31,

and Omar Porrata,

’04

Carol

McCloughan

Stephanie Gates ’04 and Nathaniel Harrison

Aug.

'03.

2014

8.

’05

Debra Christoffel

2011

4.

and Charles Snyder, June 21, 2014

Sarah Lepley '05 and Brian

May

Driscoll,

N.

Hill

'06

and Ann

Anthony

Hill,

June

21,

2014

'53

May

Keffer '06 and Jessica Sparkes,

Mary Sabatelle Archer 73
’55

Andrew

Higgins ’56

’06

and Erika Sorgule, June

Meredith Michael ’07 and Thad Neidrick, July

Alyssa Madeira '08 and

Tom

DiSalvatore

Philip

74

Damiter

John McCauley 77

2014

5,

2014

Barbara

Jr. ’05,

Brian Mitterling ’08 and Jeana Robertson, Sept.

7,

2013

A. Louise

2014

’61

Sharon Kintzer

Adam

Lynsi Ulsamer ’08 and Jordan Yohn, July 10, 2014

’61

Judith
Jill

’65

Reardon

’96

Shuminski Donovan ’97

Elizabeth

Rutski ’65

Audrey McClure

’84

Dorothy Smith Loyack ’84

’61

Knapp Thomas

George Pekala

’82

’83

Abraham Simon

'61

Christine Harnish Haehnel ’63

Harry Phillips ’08 and Veronica Bruce, July 19, 2014

Jo Kirchhoff

Richard Kowker ’82

Thomas Hunsinger

Joseph Kleczynski

Sept.

8,

Holly

Charles Housenick ’60

2013

4,

4,

’59

Faye Lee Aumiller Rager

2014

77

Cheryl Kleckner

Laura Niehoff Belber

Matthew Lavinia

72

Kathleen Roarty

Charles Ronald Perry ’59

’06 and Brooke Colgan, on Aug. 22,

Mark Kamenetz

72

Nicholas Kindt

2010

10,

Thomas
Justin

72

Lucille Matter Jolin

Douglas Erickson

John Kosoloski
Ashley Childs ’06 and Kleanthis Daras, Oct.

Charles Hess 71

'51

'52

Carl Hinger ’54

2014

31,

’69

George Geise

’52

John Trisko

'68

Jean Cleaver Stank 70

Francis Bidelspach

Kanyuck

’68

Pamela Evans Martin

Anne Magera Rishe

Richard Keyser ’50

Calvin
Arithe Sorber '04 and Benjamin Kline, June

Hilkert ’45

'49

Carson Whitesell
2014

April 12,

’67

Samuel Hand

David Hildenbrand ’67

Frosini ’45

Louise Garard Frontera '49

Jessica Dunmoyer ’03 and Paul McGinnis

Megan Brewington

Fegely ’37

Enzo

Raub

Tonya Kehler

’05

’07

’66

Steffanie Barnhart ’09 and Nathaniel Kimble. Oct. 12, 2013

Births

Holly Bergin '09 and Brian Pitcavage 09, March 22, 2014

Bridget

Bond

'09 and

Gene Ryerson

2014

09. Aug. 23,

Gregory Chomyn
Kelly Bressi ’09 and

James Lesko

Jena Oley 09 and James Nestico

'12.

’09.

May

31.

2014

Erika Strawn Kuntz '99 and husband, Matt, a daughter, Adelyn Hope,

June 21 201
,

Aug. 23, 2014

Jennifer Jones ’10 and John Haefner, June 21, 2014

Nicholas
Katharine Wennell '10 and Phillip Haberek

Mary Ziegler
Lisa Baier

’10 and Bryan

’11

Gushen, July

’09. Oct. 12,

2013

James

’02,

William, Aug. 23,

Lisa Laboskie

’11

'11

and Matthew Ridner

June

’08.

23,

2012

and Matthew Dooley, June 21, 2014

Ashley M. Furman

’12

and Ezra

S.

Papincak

Kelly

Aug.

'12. July 20,

2013

’12

and Andrew McAteer

Alaina Strouse '12 and

Megan Gurecki

’13

Adam

Johnson,

’12,

May

May

17,

31,

2014

2014

and James Jefferson, June 28, 2014

’14 and Nicholas

Ross

’14, July 19,

3,

2014

’04

and husband,

Carl,

a daughter,

Lillian

Moon,

2014

2,

2014

Jackson William, May

19,

'01,

a son,

2014

Stefanie Patches Sanders ’04 and husband, Keith, a son, Sawyer William,

2014

Elizabeth Patches Nati ’05 and husband, Joe, a son, Brandon James,

11,2014

Ashley Childs Daras

to:

a son, Mason Michael, Aug. 27, 2014

Rachelle Simon Rohner ’04 and husband. Bradley Rohner

April

Send information

wife, Erin,

2014

Brennan Durante

July 17,

Amy Thomas

and

Arithe Sorber Kline ’04 and husband, Benjamin, a son, Charles Lee,

June

Amanda Speck

Lillian

Jessica Dunmoyer McGinnis ’03 and husband, Paul, a son, Nicholas

and Kyle Whitford ’10 June 27, 2014

Janelle Grexon

Seier ’01 and wife, Krystel, a daughter, Eleanour

Alexandria, Aug. 25, 2014

Michael Kohan

2014

12,

’96 and wife, Heather, a daughter, Aibhlinn Marie,

Dec. 16, 2012

’06

and husband. Kleanthis, a daughter,

Ellie

Brooke,

Aug. 30, 2013

magazine@bloomu.edu

Brittany Costa Fritz ’10 and husband, Dereck Fritz ’10, a daughter,

Bloomsburg: The University Magazine

Emalyn Lee, May

Waller Administration Building

Janelle Grexon Ridner

400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301

May

24,

30.

2014
’11

and husband, Matthew Ridner

’08,

a son, Brayden,

2014

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27

up

the line
SHOE

BIZ: Vincent Ottomanelli

Salvatore Ferragamo

'88,

CEO and regional director of

— The Americas, spoke to two dozen BU art and

marketing students at the flagship store
Trip.

reunions, networking and special events

in

New York City during a Husky Road

The company visit was offered through BU’s Professional U

initiative.

TOGETHER AGAIN: Shown at Lambda Alpha Mu's reunion last fall,
from

left,

are seated: Diane

Danzer

Gill

78, Roseann Finn Luther 77,
Gill Moore 79,
Ann Kapuschinsky

Diane Abruzzesse Fink 77, Sharon Gettel 78, Melanie

Deb Artz Barry

73, Darlene Clarke Amsler 78,

Roslevich '80 and Sharon Sweinhart Jankauskas 79: and standing: Kathy

Eckenroth 79, Karen Moran Mulrooney
'80,

Brenda Myers Monick

Kushnerick

Herman

’82,

'80,

'81,

Cathie Readdy Wienchek

Rebecca Koppenhaver Kline

Pamela Kirk Kraske

'83,

Karen Reinert Wilkinson 78, Cindy NawTocki Dmochowski
Diana Wells Schaffer

HAPPY EVER AFTER:
'63.

married on

May 31,

and Nancy McFerran Rupert Stackhouse

Rosenbaum

The couple

left,

'62, Lisa

Stackhouse Bankus

May 2013 and were

2014, at Eldersburg, Md. Joining in the celebration

were, standing from

28

Gar)- ‘63

seated, reunited at their 50-year class reunion in

Don Rosenbaum

Stackhouse Good

'65,

Joanne Shafer

'62,

'90,

Mary Ellen Goodbrod

Donald Denick

Pileski '64

resides in Forest, Va.

BLOOMSBL RG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

'63,

Joan

and Don Poust

'63.

'81.

'80,

Pam Hazen

Nancy

Figard

'83

and

'81,

WITH THANKS: Stanley and Beverly Oberrender of Bloomsburg presented a sculpture to BU’s nursing
department to honor

five students

following a collision near

campus

— now graduates — who came to the rescue when their car burst into flames

in

August 2013. Shown from

President David Soltz. Others

PREVIEW DAY:
District:

Steve Carr
left,

Cheryl Latorre

Brian Case
’97,

’87,

'80,

superintendent, Danville Area School

manager of academic

relations,

PPL

Corp.;

CPA, manager of audit and accounting, Kreisher

and

Miller,

left

are the sculpture artist Jef McGreevy, Stanley

Thomas Machovec ’14 and BU
who assisted were Nicole Slagle 14, Jacob Ribecky 14 and David Arnold.

and Beverly Oberrender, students involved

rescue James Gould T4 and

in the

FRIENDS FROM

’89:

Alumni from the Class of 1989, who have been getting

together every year since graduation, posed for a

from

talked to freshmen about the value of internships and job shadowing

during Welcome Week.

mini-reunion at Lake Hopatcong,

N.J.

From

left

selfie

during their 25th

are Tina LaGreca, Sue

Dougherty, Michelle Garrity Nolan, Monique Manning Heffner and Sherri

Shuman

Kreisher.

HOMECOMING VOLUNTEERS: Alumni and friends of BU who

WELCOME BACK: Among hundreds of alumni attending the Homecoming

volunteered

Tent Party

included, from

Ellzy

last fall

were, from

left,

10 and Stephanie Devaughn

Tiana
10.

Patillo ’09, Asia

Burnett

'09, Felicia

Nori Lewis,

at

the

BU

left,

BU Alumni Association’s Homecoming Tent Party
Diane Steckel; Mark Steckel

Foundation; Barbara Willders

'93; Juli

'83;

Miller '92;

and Mary

Braccilli ’90.

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29

over THE shoulder

Dancing for a Good Cause
by

ROBERT DUNKELBERGER, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST

FROM 27 COUPLES at its start, two dancers remained on
floor after 86

hours and one minute to win Bloomsburg’s

the

first

Subsequent marathons were typically held

in late

January

or early February and organized around a particular theme.

theme was the United

dance marathon, originally organized as a fundraiser for the

In 1976, for example, the

American Cancer

Bicentennial and the marathon was limited to 50 hours in

Society'.

Breaking the world record of 84.5

hours established by the Guinness Book of World Records, the

exhausted couple,

Manny Santayana and

received $300 and

gifts

from

Sherry Warmkessel,

local merchants, while the

Can-

cer Society’s local chapter received approximately $6,000.

The marathon
was expected

to

that began in

Kehr Union on

end on Sunday, Jan.

26. but

Jan. 24, 1975,

continued on for

two more days. Rules designated each dancer’s body must be

moving
the

The

at all times,

floor,

with only their hands and feet touching

and couples had

definition of dancing

to

dance 50 minutes of every hour.

was

loose, since the contestants

States

duration, one for each state, to avoid serious injuries.

Contestants began the marathon dressed

answered

historical trivia questions

prizes based

on money

raised and

in

costumes. They

and were

number

eligible for

of hours danced.

Dancers received longer breaks than the year before and
could take a shower after 30 hours.
Originally an independent event, the
a service project

marathon became

sponsored by the Program Board. By 1978,

33 contestants completed 50 hours of dancing in front of an

estimated 1,500 spectators

Room and

in

Kehr Union’s Multipurpose

more than $9,000 for the American Diabetes

sometimes played cards or threw a Frisbee. Local bands played
music and Scranton Commons and local businesses provided

Association. In addition to the endurance contests, the

food and beverages.

marathons began

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

raised

to include

one or two 12-hour mini-

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in

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half of the

winning couple,

from

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following the


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the right foreground are

interviewed by a reporter

Participants
in

1975.

some

records played by the

danced

in

costume

at the

campus

radio station.

1976 Bicentennial-themed marathon held

the Kehr Union.

marathons. The theme of the smaller events

School. Local hands continued to perform, supplemented

The 60s with couples competing

by music from the campus radio

the Frug, Jerk, Limbo,

in contests

Mashed Potato and

in 1978 was
where they danced

A variety of charities benefited from the proceeds over
the years, including the Easter Seals Society in 1979, the

year the marathon was held in Centennial

balloons

in 1980; the

Multiple Sclerosis Fund in 1981, and the American Red Cross

classmates,

maximum

who pledged

Much

of the

5 or 10 cents an

money came from

hour up

and high school students; of the

registrants in 1983, 77

of

in 1985,

ceiling.

the dance marathon was limited

one 10-hour mini-marathon.

20 dancers
Program Board-sponsored event

Participation began to decline, with just

participating in the final
in 1987.

Although interest lessened

marathons held from 1975

In addition to college students, entrants included local

marathon

from the

to 25 hours in length, with

to a

of 20 hours.

residents, senior citizens

fell

Beginning

first

Gym: the Mental

Health Society of Columbia and Montour Counties
- Bloomsburg Chapter in 1982.

station’s large collection

records and, at the completion of each successful marathon,

Twist.

to benefit charitable causes.
171

came from Bloomsburg High

University wanted to
...

and they

at the end, the 13

to 1987 raised

make

The

dance

more than $80,000

students at Bloomsburg

a difference while

having fun

did. •

WINTER

2015

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calendar
Academic Calendar
SPRING 2015

Take 6

Senior Exit

Saturday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.

The 25th Anniversary Tour

April

Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium

Thursday, April 2, 8 p.m.

Reception: April 21, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Spring Break Begins

Spring Orchestra Concert

Mitrani Hall

Monday, March 9

Sunday, April 12, 2:30 p.m.

$30

Haas Center

adults/$15 children and

&

daisy

Monday, March 16

Guitar Ensemble Concert

Classes End

Tuesday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 17,

Haas Center

Carver Hall

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

$25

Percussion Ensemble Concert

May 5

Tuesday,

Haas Center

BU

Friday,

7:30

May 9

SUMMER
I:

Session

II:

& BU

June 29 - Aug. 7

III:

at

Concert Band

performances are

Sunday, April 19, 2:30 p.m.

are $6; seniors

Haas Center

$4.

Sunday,

28

Alumni and Students

formances are

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

recommended

Wednesday,

April

Networking Reception

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 5

to

7 p.m.

Pine Barn Inn, Danville

BU

7:30 p.m.; Sunday
at

3 p.m. Adult

tickets

All-Athletics

Alumni Day

Saturday, April 18

and non-BU students are

students and

CGA

cardhold-

Performing Arts Box Office, located

Knoebels Amusement Resort

May 18 - June 26

(800) 526-0254

atum@btoomu.edu.

Husky Leadership Summit

students

ers are free. Tickets are available at the

Aug. 7

Affairs office at

to

contact the

Thursday, Friday and Saturday per-

Bloomsburg

St.,

2015

May 18 -

for details

Gross Auditorium

S.

adults/$12 kids

for adult audiences. All

Alumni Weekend
Friday to Sunday, April

25

to

27

in

the lobby of the Haas Center for the Arts,

Pops Concert

Session

Alumni
or

productions are generally

pm

Presbyterian Church,

345 Market

Session

7:30 p.m.

Bloomsburg University Players theatre

Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday,

register. For information,

Saturday, Feb.

Choirs Spring Concert

First

www.btoomuatumni.com

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

Friday, April 17,

Commencement
May 8

Graduate

Alumni Events
on these and additional events or

Theatre

May 9

Saturday,

mayhem

Thursday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.

End

Finals

students

American musical group

Kenneth
Finals Begin

BU

Visit

Rani Arbo

21 to

for the Arts

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

Resume

Monday, May 4

Show
May 9

Women’s Choral Ensemble

Haas Center

Classes

Activities and Events

26, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

or at the door days of the performance.

Knoebels Amusement Resort, Elysburg

www.bloomu.edu/buplayers-current.

BU Community

The Nosemaker’s Apprentice

Special Events
Homecoming Weekend

Concerts
Listed events are

open to the public

Orchestra

Symphony Ball
Saturday, May 2, 6

free of charge. For information

p.m.

March

and

4286.

All

or call

570-389-

programs, dates, times and

locations are subject to change.

226

Events

in

the

Haas Center

Thursday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m.

Haas Center

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

2014-15

and Carver

Celebrity Artist

Haas Center

Kenneth

S.

Gross

box

office at

570-389-

or visit www.cas.buzz. Programs

St.

123 Market

St.,

Bloomsburg

Haas Center

for

April 1, 2, 6,

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

Wednesday,

BU

students

For the latest information on
Fifth

7 p.m.

Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium

26 and 27
for the Arts

Times

to

be announced

Exhibitions

in

the Haas Gallery of Art are

to the public

and

more information,

free of charge.

gallery hours

Sunday, March 29, 8 p.m.

btoomu.edu/art/haas.html.

Leah Schreiber Johnson, Printmaker
children and

BU

students

Feb. 10 to

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

March 12

Reception: Feb 10, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Student

7:30 p.m.

and

reception times, visit http: I/departments.

for the Arts

$45 adults/$22

Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium

32

upcoming events, check the
Bloomsburg University website
www.bloomu.edu.

Ensemble Dance Minor Concert

For

Husky Singers
Friday, April 10,

Annual Repertory

& Hyde
National Broadway Tour

Mitrani Hall
April 8,

7:30 p.m.

Art Exhibits
children and

Jekyll

Haas Center

Guest Guitar Recital

7,

Lab Theatre/Bookstore Annex

the Arts

Mitrani Hall

Jazz Fest

Haas Center

One-Act Plays

Student-written and -directed projects

open
April 1, all-day event

20

Bloomsburg

Saturday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m.

$30 adults/$15

Wednesday,

Weekend

Friday to Sunday, Sept. 18 to

Mitrani Hall

Argentine tango, Song of Eva Peron

Matthew Lutheran Church,

St.,

Haas Center
Tango Buenos Aires

Sunday, March 22, 2:30 p.m.

Center

Original

April

and dates are subject to change.

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

Chamber Orchestra

Parents and Family

3 p.m.

1,

Auditorium. For information and to order

4409

Friday, Feb. 27, all-day event

the

in

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall,

Hall,

tickets, call the

Stringposium

7:30 p.m.

Celebrity Artist Series
Series season will be presented

Honors Recital

to 28,

Alvina Krause Theatre,

additional events, see http://departments.

bloomu.edu/music

25

Feb.

Danville Elks

and

Friday to Sunday, Oct. 16 to 18

by Nick Jones and Rachel Shukert

Show

March 26

to April

14

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Alzheimer’s:
Not Normal Aging
The

5

million patients,
15.5 million caregivers. Page
toll:

10

ALSO INSIDE
Melody, of Healing
Music’s invisible touch balances mind, body,

spirit.

Page 18

Engine of Opportunity and Growth
BU

dollars

weave through commonwealth’s

fabric.

Page 20

From the President
State of the University
EACH SPRING, I host a breakfast meeting to update local leaders of business,
industry and government on the State of the University. Based on information

from

a recent study

this year

I

was

by Economic Modeling Specialists International (EMSI),

able to quantify our institution’s positive impact.

The EMSI survey looked

from 2012-13 and found

at figures

in that year alone

to the economy of
And our benefit extends

Bloomsburg University added more than $350 million
Northeastern Pennsylvania. (See story on page 20.)

beyond our region

...

of the state, from helping to create a
attracts

new businesses and

is

more productive workforce

to serving as a

magnet that

industry.

For companies planning to open a
decision

far

and beyond dollars and cents. Bloomsburg University touches every corner

new plant or expand

existing facilities, a crucial part of this

based on which area offers the best workforce. With

this in

mind,

we have partnered

— Lehigh Carbon, Reading Area, HACC and Northampton — to
offer our Bachelor of Applied Science in Technical Leadership on their campuses. We also

with four community colleges

welcome
programs

gifted high school students to our
in particular are

we hope will

stay

on

at

campus

for a

head

start

on

their college studies.

Two

meeting the needs of these high-achieving students, many of whom

Bloomsburg to pursue

Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

their bachelor’s degrees

— our growing Science,

(STEM) Magnet Program and our dual-admission

Advance College Experience (ACE) program.

We have been encouraged by the renewed commitment to education funding from our new
governor,

Tom Wolf. Although we cannot predict the outcome

way through the legislative

process,

it is

as his

proposed budget makes

refreshing to be part of a discussion that

its

may bring a level
many years.

of funding Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education has not experienced in

The

vitality of

here.

our region

relies

Bloomsburg University

is

on the strength of our university and those who study and work
a

tremendous asset

for Northeastern Pennsylvania.

economic impact study confirms what we have known

all

The new

along.

DAVID SOLTZ
President,

Editor's note:

Bloomsburg University

BE President David Soltz regularly offers his opinions on issues in higher

education and his vision for Bloomsburg University at bupresident.bIogspot.com.

FEATURES
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Alzheimer’s: Not Normal Aging

The

statistics.

Day

’93,

The warning signs.

Claire

senior vice president of the

Alzheimer’s Association, Delaware Valley
Chapter, says there’s no reason to face
age-related dementia alone.

14

Maturing Gracefully
What does it mean to be “elderly?”
Courses on aging help dispel
stereotypes.

17

What Have Learned:
Work and Identity
I

Lowe marvels

Professor Scott

we

18

how

at

define ourselves.

Melody

Healing

of

Played in health care and hospice
musical selections by Terri

settings,

Matkosky Fevang

20

body and

spirit.

Engine

of

’86 balance

mind,

Opportunity

and Growth
It’s

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Chancellor, State System

President, Bloomsburg University

of Higher Education

David

L.

Soltz

Frank T. Brogan

Executive Editor

Bloomsburg University

Rosalee Rush

Ronald G. Henry. Vice Chair

Council of Trustees

Editor

David M. Maser. Vice Chair

Patrick Wilson '91

Bonnie Martin

Richard Alloway

Mary Jane Bowes, Vice Chair

Photography Editor

Nancy Vasta '9WS8M, Secretary

Eric Foster

of

Governors

Guido M.

Matthew

Chair

Pichini.

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Ramona

Chair

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Sarah Galbally

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Phillips

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SPRING 2015

1

Saxophonist Charlie Bryant, a senior music major from Philadelphia,
rehearses with the Bloomsburg University Jazz Ensemble. The

ensemble

— made up of 25 musicians - will perform
in

Stephen Clickard, professor

music and director

for Visual

and Performing

students majoring

in

of

Arts, the Jazz

music and other

Ensemble

49th

of
is

BU’s Center

made up

of

disciplines. To earn the invitation

to perform at the festival, Clickard submitted a

of the group performing.

at the

Switzerland this July. Led by

annual Montreux Jazz Festival

20-minute recording

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

around THE quad

Of this World: An
THERE IS BLOOMSBURG, the town.
Bloomsburg, the university.
Bloomsburg, the asterioid.

Thanks

And now,

is

named

for the

Hartline family: Keffer, a 1920

teacher

gested the designation “Bloomsburg”

Astronomical

to the International

of astronomers responsible for the

BNS

who retired in 1935; and his
who also taught at

for

to Bloomsburg University and the
hometown ofH.K. Hartline (1903-

Shepard

1983),

“Asteroids are often
things people
says.

“Those

want

who

named

to honor,”

discover an asteroid

have the right to name

mythology or honor
he

says.

An asteroid

Mauna Kea on

Sept. 14, 2006.

He sug-

name

Ra- Shalom to memorialize the

in

in

2008 with

an asteroid of his own, Mikeshepard.
International Astronomical

Union’s citation states: Michael

female pioneer in planetary science,
for example, carries the

winner of the Nobel Prize

Physiology or Medicine in 1967.

The

scientists,

countries, musicians, artists or
historic events,

citation reads:

Shepard was honored

it.”

the normal school.

discovered the asteroid at Hawaii’s

Asteroid 397279 Bloomsburg’s

earlier this year.

discovered by Eleanor Helin, an early

Joe Masiero, a scientist with the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in California,

not permitted.

The town of
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, is home

mother, Harriet,

Shepard’s friend and colleague

Commercial names and the
monikers of modern politicians are
Israel.

names of objects and features within
the solar system. They approved it

Many asteroid names come from

Bloomsburg Normal School (BNS)
graduate; his father, Daniel, a

known as Bloomsburg

Union, the professional organization

Michael Shepard, chair
of environmental, geographical and
geological sciences, an asteroid was
named in honor of the town, the
university and the hometown of
H. Keffer Hartline, who shared the
1967 Nobel Prize for Medicine. BU’s
to

science building

asteroid

Shepard (b. 1962), a professor of
geology and geosciences at Bloomsburg
University of Pennsylvania,
specializes in radar

Camp

David Peace Accords signed by
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and
Prime Minister Menachem Begin of

and optical

remote sensing of the minor and the
terrestrial planets. •

SPRING 2015

3

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

around
New

First

Division

Endowed

Professorship

BREINERS SUPPORT NURSING DOCTORAL PROGRAM

FLETCHER NAMED VICE PRESIDENT

TOM FLETCHER has been
named

vice president for

management and dean of extended

strategic enrollment

programs, leading the university’s

new division,

Strategic

Enrollment Management.

Formerly associate vice
president and dean for extended

programs, Fletcher joined

Bloomsburg

in

2005.

He

previously served in
administrative roles at Lehigh Carbon

Community

College,

Luzerne County Community College and McCann School of
Business and Technology. He earned bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from Penn State.

The new

division

encompasses recruitment and

From

Shaw

left:

’10;

Julie

and Ed Breiner;

A GIFT OF

enrollment, including admissions, financial aid, registrar

and institutional research, as well as distance education and
web-based instruction, extended programs, corporate and
continuing education, off-campus programs, Advance
College Experience (ACE), summer college, winter session
and global and multicultural education. •

their daughter,

$1.9

light coating of snow

hamper the Community Government Associadidn’t

Big Event from having

another record turnout, with

more than

2,275 volunteers

working at 150 job

Edward and Julianne
first endowed

Miller Breiner established the university’s

professorship in support of an exceptional teacher,

mentor and

leader.

The

couple, both

members

of the

Class of 1977, set up the professorship within the

Department of Nursing, specifically in support of
BU’s new Doctor of Nursing Practice.
of Nursing creates a

used for research, conferences,

CHILLY TEMPERATURES

tion’s

Amanda

new

senior faculty position, with additional funding to be

RECORD NUMBER OF STUDENTS TURN OUT
and a

their niece,

Ficca.

MILLION to the Bloomsburg

University Foundation from

The Breiner Professorship

Really Big Event

Martha Rudi;

and nursing department chairperson Michelle

sites.

Locations included the

Bloomsburg Diner, YMCA,
Fernville Park and about

travel,

software and

equipment or other professional expenses.

“We
gift

talked with university officials about

could make

ways our

BU a stronger university,” says Julie

“With the health profession, there is a
make a huge impact as far as healing
and caring. Nursing really resonated with us.”
Breiner.

potential to

“For Bloomsburg University, there is no stronger
endorsement of our mission and the lifelong impact
we have on our students than the support of our
alumni,” says BU President David Soltz. “The Breiner
Professorship of Nursing enables us to bring in a

member who will

scholarly senior faculty

chores, such as raking, painting, gardening, mulching, debris

Doctor of Nursing Practice, grow the program through
research, teaching and innovation and mentor the next

removal and other spring-cleaning duties.

The

single-day

community service event gives students

the opportunity to say “thank you” to Bloomsburg area
residents and

show appreciation

for their

from home. •

4

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

home away

lead our

new

100 local residences. Student volunteers tackled a host of

generation of nursing professionals.”

The Breiners previously established
for students in the College of Business

Science and Technology. •

four scholarships

and College of

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BU

look forward to hearing from you. •

Soltz.

Good

MILLERS ESTABLISH DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP

Resource Grant

MARY KATHERINE DUNCAN,

PITT

professor of psychology,
first

is

BU’s

Joan and Fred Miller

Distinguished Professor of Good

Work. The Millers established the
three-year, renewable distinguished
professorship with a blended gift
of $500,000 to the Bloomsburg
University Foundation. Joan Miller
is

a

BU professor emeritus of nursing;

her husband

a physician

“The distinguished professor

will

creatively choose options that will

enhance student and faculty learning
and experiences, enabling faculty
to advance as educators and
encouraging students to advance as
leaders in a chosen profession.”
Miller has been involved in the

Good Work

Initiative at

BU, a project

focused on student excellence, ethics

“Young people entering professional life all aspire to do good work,

and engagement. Duncan, originator
of the BU Toy Library and a member
of the BU Honors Program Advisory
Committee, also is part of the BU

but they find challenges,” says Miller.

Good Work

is

specializing in dermatology.

RESEARCHES

SALAMANDERS’ HABITAT

AMBER PITT, assistant professor of biological and allied health
science,

was awarded

a

Wild

Resource Conservation Grant of
$38,463 from the Pennsylvania
Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources to examine
the effect of land-use regimes on
hellbender habitat and population persistence in Pennsylvania.

Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus
alleganiensis) are large, long-

Initiative. •

lived, aquatic

salamanders that

inhabit highly oxygenated, fast-

Ready

to

Rock

FACULTY, STUDENTS

MAP

GEOLOGICAL FEATURES
AS PART OF the U.S.

Geological

Survey’s StateMap program,

McLaurin
mapping the geology of central
and eastern Pennsylvania. The
associate professor Brett

flowing streams and rivers in the
eastern United States. Hellbend-

sediment
and chemical contamination of
streams, and degrading habitat
has resulted in sharp declines in
population. This research will
ers are sensitive to

silt,

reveal the current distribution of

is

primary objective of the StateMap

program is to establish the geologic framework of areas that are vital to the
welfare of individual states. Recently, McLaurin mapped a 1,000 foot deep
well that was drilled north of Williamsport. He and a group of BU students
brought back to campus a 1,000-foot rock core to describe and catalog for

hellbenders in an area that has

undergone dramatic land use
changes and provide information
that can be used as the basis of
management and conservation
decisions.

the project. •

SPRING 2015

5

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

around

Black

Steph

America

in

Pettit

Stadium

BU OFFICIALLY DEDICATES

SOLEDAD O’BRIEN BRINGS TOUR TO BU

ON UPPER CAMPUS

FIELD

SOLEDAD O’BRIEN, journalist and CNN
personality, brought her Black in

tour to

America

BU for a conversation focused on

how policing impacts lives. Her interactive
presentation included insights from
rights leader

civil

Benjamin Jealous and labor

economist Julianne Malveaux, along with
a

Skype discussion with actress/song-

Carmen

writer

Perez.

“Young people of all colors are more
inclusive in terms of race today,” O’Brien
says.

“But progress has been uneven.

Fewer than half of U.S.

citizens believe

Shown from

left

athletic director;

blacks are fairly treated.” •

and

at the dedication are

BU

Mike McFarland,

President David Soltz; Steph Pettit;

Erik Evans, vice president for university

advancement.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY celebrated a

ASBMB

BAS-TL Times 2
HACC, NORTHAMPTON TO

lifelong
Pettit

All-Athletic

Accreditation
BU

TWO COMMUNITY COLLEGES

THE DEPARTMENT of Chemistry

FIRST

IN

STATE SYSTEM

and Biochemistry received a three-

offer the Bachelor of Applied Science in

year provisional accreditation from

Technical Leadership at their campuses.

the American Society of Biochemis-

HACC,

try

Central Pennsylvania’s

ty College,

Communi-

and Northampton Community

program.

BU is

the

in fall 2015.

State

System of Higher Education

ships for both

to be

awarded an ASBMB

The program, known as BAS-TL, enables community college graduates who
have earned associate’s degrees in applied

BU bachelor’s

degree program at the community college

campus. The degree program provides
the skills and training needed to enter

management positions,

including communication, collaboration,

first

Improvements

“I

ship and educational goals.

ASBMB

evaluators praised the program for

“strong experiential learning and

offer BU’s

BAS-TL



and

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

want

all

our coaches and student-

athletes to have the opportunity to

come

BU as well as compete at an outstanding
venue,” says Pettit. “I spent a lot of my time
where

this

stadium stands

when

it

was

a prac-

tice football field, so this area is special to

performance and learning objectives in individual courses.” •

Pettit

founded Clean Earth Systems

me.”

in

1993 and has seen the company grow into a

nationwide distributor of hazardous waste
containers.
Fla.,

6

have a passion for Bloomsburg University
I

extensive lab experiences, excel-

thorough assessment of student
also

to the field

is

to

learning into the curriculum, and



facil-

hockey, men’s and women’s

faculty scholar-

management and

Two other community colleges —

wind screens and scoreboard. The

soccer and women’s lacrosse teams.

lent integration of inquiry-based

conflict resolution.

which was

new field

with seating for more than 700 fans,

BU’s biochemistry program was

facilities,

to the stadium,

constructed in 2006, include the

home

rated on factors including research

laboratory

Redman

Stadium.

ity,

accreditation.

also

Campaign and

contributed to the banner project at

university in Pennsylvania’s

leadership, workplace diversity, project

Lehigh Carbon and Reading Area

football for

men and women. He was

co-chair of BU’s First and Goal

turf,

supervisory or

who played

first

member

the Huskies, contributed $1 million toward

and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

for the biochemistry

College will host the program beginning

science to complete the

Pettit, a

stadium improvements and athletic scholar-

BU to

recently entered agreements with

Alumni Day.

of the Class of 1989

OFFER DEGREE PROGRAM

IS

Husky with the dedication of Steph

Stadium during the university’s

The company, based

in

Tampa,

operates 12 warehouses across the U.S. •

ON THE HILL

Senior Rachel Brooker,

left,

and

junior Caroline

sports

Hodgins earned

trips to the

NCAA

Division

II

National

Swimming Championships

this year for the Huskies.

IN THE POOL, Rachel Brooker and Caroline Hodgins
swim different events but share a similar story: neither

200- and 1000-free and earning honorable mention
American in 500- and 1000-free events.

started her collegiate career with the Huskies.

The pair agrees Marvin is a big reason for their success.
“Coach Marvin has a great outlook,” says Brooker, who
graduates this year. “I never wanted to succeed as much

Brooker, a butterfly specialist, began at

New Jersey’s

Rider University, transferring after seeing the success her
sister, Kelsey, had at BU. Hodgins, a freestylist and
daughter of Ted ’89 and Christine O’Rourke Hodgins ’88,
started at Maryland’s Towson University but transferred

older

to

BU looking for a better balance between academics,

athletics

and

social

of Stu Marvin 78.

together,

under the coaching

Now success binds them.

At the recent NCAA Division II Championship meet the
duo broke several school records and earned All-America
honors. Brooker, a psychology major from Stevens, be-

came

someone

had no

like I did for

a two-time All-American after finishing fifth in the

him.

Coming here showed me

I

limits in the water.”

“Rachel and Caroline have been awesome additions
to

our program,” says Marvin, the Pennsylvania State

Athletic Conference

life.

Swimming brought them

for

All-

Women’s Swimming Coach

of the

“Both came away from their previous teams a little
disillusioned with the sport but have found new life here
at BU. They easily transitioned onto the team, primarily
because of their familiarity with the university. Having
that level of comfort allowed Rachel and Caroline to fall in
love with the sport all over again.” •
Year.

200-fly and seventh in the 100-fly. Hodgins, an exercise

science major from Schwenksville, broke two of the oldest

Bloomsburg records, lowering marks

Tom McGuire is sports information director.

set in 1986 in the

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7

Women’s Basketball
Makes Another ‘Sweet’ Run
FOR THE SECOND

Top Coaches
HEAD COACHES Bernie
Empie, women’s cross
country, and Stu Marvin

straight

season, the

women’s basketball

team made

a

’78, women’s swimming,
were named Pennsylvania

deep postseason

State Athletic Conference

run, reaching the national

Sweet

16 of the

(PSAC) Coach of the Year

NCAA

Tournament. It’s
the first time the Huskies have
reached the national Sweet 16
Division

in

The Huskies advanced to the
Champion-

Atlantic Regional

Game

after

NCAA Tourna-

ment wins over Gannon,

81-76,

and Shepherd, 85-69. Bloomsburg battled to the wire in the
regional
falling in

national

title

contest before

its fifth

fin-

Regionals and the PSAC Championships.
Bloomsburg also won the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) D-II Championships
and ranked 21st in the final national D-II poll.
tic

Marvin guided the Huskies

to a second-

place finish at

PSAC

Championships, just

72-69.

five

years after finishing ninth

straight outright Pennsylvania State

at the event.

During the

2014-15 season, the Huskies

finishing the season 26-5.

Seniors Marla Simmons, Lebanon, and Jocelyn Ford, Ithaca,
to the Atlantic

Huskies

— the highest finish for a PSAC school
and tied with the best finish ever for a BU
team — and second at both the NCAA Atlan-

Athletic Conference Eastern Division regular season championship,

were named

after the

NCAA D-II National Champi-

overtime to eventual

champion California University of Pennsylvania,

Bloomsburg won

Empie was honored
ished 14th at the

onships

back-to-back years.

ship

in their sports.

II

posted a dual meet record
N.Y.,

of

Region All-Tournament Team.

8-1,

the team’s best

mark

since the 1992-93 season,

Simmons also was named PSAC East Athlete of the Year and newcomer Camden Boehner, Gettysburg, earned PSAC Freshman of the
Year accolades. Head coach Bill Cleary was named PSAC East Coach
of the Year. Ford picked up Second Team All-PSAC East recognition

established 14 school records and had 46

new

top 10 times. Bloomsburg was also ranked
nationally, earning a No. 13 ranking

from

collegeswimming.com. •

along with redshirt junior Adreana Sadowski, Fleetwood. •

Cleary,

Simmons Earn

WBCA

Honors

THE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
COACHES ASSOCIATION (WBCA)
honored head coach Bill Cleary and senior
Marla Simmons for their efforts during
the 2014-15 season.

Cleary was

named WBCA Atlantic

Region Coach of the Year and a finalist for
National Coach of the Year after guiding
the Huskies to a 26-5 overall record and
a 20-2

mark

against

PSAC

competition.

Simmons, who has helped the team to 102
wins in four seasons, was named an honorable mention All-America selection by the
WBCA. She will graduate with the most
victories of any player in program history
after powering the Huskies with a team
high 14.4 points per game this year. •

8

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Strong Start

Southcott Repeats

HANNAH BOUDREAU was named

as Champion Scholar

the Pennsylvania State Athletic

Conference (PSAC) Women’s Cross
Country Freshman of the Year.
Boudreau, of Hampstead, Md., earned
All-American honors after finishing
35th at the NCAA Division II National Championships
in Louisville, Ky. During the season she received NCAA
All-Region honors by finishing sixth at the regional race

and picked up All-PSAC honors with a 15th-place finish
at the PSAC Championships. Boudreau was also sixth
at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)
Division II Championships, third at the Husky
Invitational and eighth at Slippery Rock University. •

Field

Hockey

Recognized
for

Academics

THE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM was
recognized
excellence

last fall for

academic

— a team GPA of 3.0 or better — by the

National Field Hockey Coaches Association. Bloomsburg
was one of nine Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

(PSAC) schools presented with the Division
Academic Team Award.

II

National

In addition, sophomore Samantha Peters was named
one of the Division II Scholars of Distinction. Players
selected to the team achieved a cumulative GPA of
3.90 or higher through the first semester of the 201415 academic year. Peters, of Yeagertown, was one of 24
student-athletes to receive the award from the PSAC. •
Junior Nicole Southcott,
Chesick, earned

left,

shown with PSAC Associate Commissioner

PSAC Women’s

second consecutive

Basketball

Champion Scholar honors

Carlin

for the

JUNIOR NICOLE SOUTHCOTT earned the title of 2015
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Women’s
Basketball

achieved

Champion

Scholar, repeating the

honor she

last season.

The Champion Scholar

is

awarded

to the student-

athlete with the highest grade point average at each of

the league’s 23 championship finals

Downingtown,

Football’s

year.

is

sites. Southcott, from
an early childhood/special education

major.

She continues a Bloomsburg tradition. Other studenthonor are: Jerrin Toomey, football,
2014; Aubrey Bossert, women’s lacrosse, 2012 and 2013;
Bryce Shaffer, men’s soccer, 2012; and Tim Dorsch, men’s
swimming, 2012-13. •
athletes earning the

Winning Season

THE FOOTBALL TEAM had a season to remember
winning another Pennsylvania State Athletic
Conference (PSAC) East title and reaching the national
quarterfinals. The Huskies capped their 11-2 season by
receiving the 2014 Eastern College Athletic Conference
(ECAC) Lambert Meadowlands Award at the annual
ECAC Awards Banquet at MetLife Stadium in East
in 2014,

Rutherford, N.J.
It marks the third time in school history that the
Huskies have received the Lambert Award, joining
the 1985 and 2000 teams.

Bloomsburg has 142 victories over the past 15 years,
more than any other Super Region One team. Only
three Division II teams nationwide have more wins
during that span. •

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9

:

Alzheimer’s
Not Normal Aging
COLON

By WILLIE

From former President Ronald Reagan and entertainer Glen Campbell to the
fictional Alice Howland portrayed by actress Julianne Moore in the film, Still
Alice Alzheimer’s disease steals a lifetime of memories
,

for oneself.

There

is

disease,”

and don’t wait to get help. Those
are the twin neon-flashing-light
messages that Claire Day ’93 comes
back to again and again when she

to

ways

a

whole commu-

for people to feel supported.

“Alzheimer’s

is

a disease that will

progress to 24-hour care,” she adds.

Americans

“It’s

not something people should

are living with this deadly disease,

take on without a care team.

which mostly affects those 65 and
older. As the Baby Boomer generation
ages, those numbers are projected to
skyrocket. There is no cure, but there
is help. And the sooner you look for

to

help, the better, says Day, the senior

vice president of the Alzheimer’s

Association, Delaware Valley Chapter.

For one thing, there are more

treat-

ment options that can delay the onset
of symptoms for those in the early
stages of Alzheimer’s, a neurodegenerative disease that

makes up 60

to

80

percent of dementia cases.
Early detection also benefits the

estimated 15.5 million caregivers.
“Families tend to say things
‘That’s just
ize,”

Aunt

Jenny.’

Day says. “But

like,

We rational-

early diagnosis

allows for better planning, such as

conversations about future care and

completing a living will.”

Reaching out early can help people
avoid another common problem.
“This can be a very isolating

need

It’s

OK

Day became

interested in

from Bloomsburg. Her

first social

work job was at a continuing care
retirement community in Central
Pennsylvania that bucked the status

quo of the early

by creating a
special unit for those with dementia.
’90s

She also began volunteering for

which trained her to run a monthly
support group. “The more I got
involved as a volunteer, the more I
wanted to advocate for change in the
dementia field,” Day says. “Now I get
do that every

day.”

Her work with the

association also

helped her understand one basic fact:
Alzheimer’s is not normal aging. “We
shouldn’t lose the ability to

between

comb, or the
words,”

a

a car

ability to

tell

the

key and a

use

common

when

woman called, worried that she

might be
disease.

in the early stages of the

Her concern was justified.

“She called because she opened the
freezer and found a tape dispenser,”

Day says. “She spent

10 minutes
on someone else,
but she lived alone and finally
realized, ‘There’s no one who could
have done this but me.’ ”
it

Memory loss and
are

two of the

first

misplacing things

signs that there

could be a problem. Other early
warning signs include difficulty

completing familiar tasks, confusion
with time or place, and changes in

mood

or personality'.

But Day

the Alzheimer’s Association,

difference

staffing the national

Alzheimer’s helpline years ago

trying to blame

help.”

Alzheimer’s soon after graduating

to

Day recalls

Day says. “Caregivers need

know that there’s

nity of people out there, that there are

talks about Alzheimer’s.
5 million

ability to care

no cure.

DON’T GO THROUGH IT ALONE

More than

and the

forgetting

is

quick to note that

where you

left

the car keys

shouldn’t automatically send you

scrambling for the helpline number.
Instead, be alert to changes in an
individual’s

normal behavior.

“If my mother forgets a name, that’s
no surprise to me. She’s never been
good with names,” Day explains. “But
if she can’t do a crossword puzzle,
then I would get worried because
she can finish The New York Times

crossword.”

Day says.
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11

As the disease progresses, the

initial

person needs more and more help,

such as reminders to do basic tasks
and step-by-step instructions for how
to make a meal. Behavior changes also
are

common, including a potential

for

promise. However, there

is

some optimism surrounding research
on early intervention and treatment
for people

with no symptoms.

is

another bright spot.

wandering and increased aggression
that Day says is often caused by an
unmet need. “The challenge is
figuring out what that need is,”

we do is help people
understand why this needs to be such

she says.

funds, and provides a

“Part of what

a priority,”

Day says. The

association

helps raise awareness and research

wide range

of resources and support tools for

The

statistics

on Alzheimer’s ring

alarm bells on multiple

One

levels.

— or
— have Alzheim-

in nine seniors over 65

roughly

11

percent

Almost two-thirds of Americans
with Alzheimer’s are women, mainly
for a simple reason. “The biggest risk
factor is age,” Day says, “and women
er’s.

But even younger people get
Alzheimer’s: an estimated 200,000
Americans under 65 are living with
the disease.

The strain on the health care system and the nation’s economy is enormous. According to the

New England

Journal of Medicine, Alzheimer’s is
already the nation’s costliest disease.

One

report estimates that, given the

current trajectory,

it

will cost $20.8

over the next 36 years to pay
for care, with Medicare bearing the

trillion

brunt of that
It’s

cost.

also the sixth leading cause of

death in the

U.S., killing

more people

than breast and prostate cancer

combined. Average life expectancy
after diagnosis is about eight to
12 years.

“What typically ends the life of
someone with Alzheimer’s is what the
disease does to other systems in the
body,”

Day explains. For example,

the disease progresses, a person

as

may

lose the ability to control swallowing.

This can lead to fluid build-up in the
lungs, causing

pneumonia and,

often,

death.

So where

is

nately, recent

the hope? Unfortudrug trials for new

treatments are falling short of their

12

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

is

and

a federal

effectively treat Alzheimer’s

“While

we

don’t have the estimated

$2 billion a year

we need

to get treatment

by 2025,” Day

“we

for research
says,

are seeing that researchers and

more
They are making changes

the government are paying
attention.

we

hadn’t seen in previous decades.”

Of course, everyone

is

Along with its year-round
work, the group organizes the Walk to
End Alzheimer’s, which takes place in
more than 600 locations — including
Bloomsburg — and participates in

brain.

National Alzheimer’s Disease

“I still

Awareness Month, enacted by former
President Ronald Reagan in 1983.

surprised by anything.

caregivers.

In terms of awareness of and

live longer.”

example,

disease by 2025.

The work of the Alzheimer’s
Association

in 2012, for

bipartisan effort that aims to prevent

waiting for

that big breakthrough that will lead

and an answer to the central
mystery surrounding the disease.

to a cure

“We know what’s happening in the
We don’t know why,” Day says.
maintain that

to see the

So

that’s

day when

what

it

won’t be

I

I

I

hope

can

say,

I live

‘Huh.

was.’ ” •

attention to the disease, things are

moving

in the right direction.

The

National Alzheimer’s Plan unveiled

Willie Colon

based

is

a freelance writer

in Philadelphia.

AI^HEIMHpf,
10 early signs and symptoms
1.

Memory

loss that disrupts daily

life

2. Challenges in planning or solving

problems

3. Difficulty completing familiar tasks at

home,

at

work or

at leisure

4. Confusion with time or place
5. Trouble

understanding visual images and spatial relationships

6.

New

7.

Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps

8.

Decreased or poor judgment

9.

Withdrawal from work or social

10.

problems with words

Changes

in

mood and

in

speaking or writing

activities

personality

Source: Alzheimer’s Association

WALK TO

Bloomsburg, Pa.
Saturday, Sept. 19,

2015

10 a.m.

ALZHEIMER'S

more information contact:
Krista Somers
570-822-9915

alzheimer’s

ksomers@alz.org

For

Qj) association

Concerned about Alzheimer’s or caring
Call the Alzheimer’s Association

for

someone with the disease?

24-hour helpline: 800-272-3900

Get more information

at alz.org.

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Gerontology: The study

of the aging process
and individuals as they grow from middle age
through later life, including the study of

physical, mental and social changes in older

people as they age; the investigation of the
changes in society resulting from our aging
population; and the application of this knowledge
to policies and programs. As a result of the
multidisciplinary focus of gerontology,

professionals from diverse fields call
themselves "gerontologists."

m

Careers
Aging, published by the Gerontological
Society of America and the Association for
Gerontology in Higher Education

“College students generally
feel far

away from

dijficultfor

them

old age.

to

It's

connect

where they are at 20

to

where

they’re going to be at 80.”
Marion Mason,
professor of psychology

Maturing Gracefully
by

AN AMERICAN BORN in 1900 could
expect to

47 years. Today’s
Americans can anticipate living

beyond

live

their 75th birthdays.

A longer — and more vital —
lifespan,

combined with

a

huge

“bubble” of aging Baby Boomers born

between 1946 and 1964, will double
the number of Americans 65 and
over in the next 35 years. In fact, by
2029, more than 20 percent of the
U.S. population will be over 65, and
by 2056, those 65 and over will outnumber people under 18.

14

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SUE A. BEARD

Experts say those older Americans

be healthier than in the past,
translating into an almost limitless
opportunity for development and
delivery of new products and services.
And those careers won’t be limited
to health care. There will be a need
for architects and engineers to design
living space for the aging, ergonomics
specialists, nutritionists, senior advocates, financial planners and wellness
coaches, to name but a few.
also will

To meet

demand, Bloomsburg University expects to add a
that

new multi-disciplinary minor, Aging
Studies and Gerontology

— not to be

confused with “geriatrics,” the study
of diseases of the aging

— by fall 2016.

Psychology professor Marion
Mason chairs the committee that’s
spent two years developing the

expected minor. She has written a
textbook on the subject and teaches
Life Span Psychology, Adulthood and
Aging and Principles of Gerontology.

Her definition of gerontology focuses
on positive aspects of aging, rather
than physical decline.

where they

are at

going to be

at 80.”

20

to

where

they’re

When she asks her students to
brainstorm the term “elderly,” they
draw on negative stereotypes, she
a
says. “But when they get personal
grandmother, for example they get
...

...

another picture.

It’s

Tobey Scharding,

exciting.”

assistant profes-

sor of philosophy, has been including

more

issues related to older people in

her Medical Ethics

class,

which draws

mostly sophomores.

She believes the study of gerontology has dual benefits. Not only will it
help students in their future careers,
it

will give

them

a

new perspective on

make smart lifestyle
they grow older, she says.

aging so they can
choices as

“In an ordinary curriculum, you’re

not exposed to a
aging,”

of life.

lot

Scharding
It’s

of points about

says.

“But

it’s

part

so exciting that we’re

making these changes.”

“I’ve

always been drawn to older

people,” she says, noting her parents

were
born and that she

in their early

40s

is

a

when she was

Baby Boomer

Destroying stereotypes
Ronnie Evans may well personify
the modern senior. An associate
professor of sociology, she will turn

Students weigh in
Mary
McCauley
and
Paige
Campbell
Michener say their part-time jobs
were key to their interest in the field.
Senior psychology majors

herself.

70 in August.

The new minor, she explains,
“pairs well with a number of majors,

who earned her doctorate in
when
she was in her 50s, devel2004
oped a BU course called Social Work

the minor

and Issues of Aging. “In any practice

provided in-home care since she was
in

a career concentration in gerontol-

our students go into, they are going to
interact with aging people,” she says.
“Social work is going to be huge in

ogy established more than 20 years

this field.”

including psychology, business, social

work, nursing, exercise science, allied
health, biology and speech pathol-

ogy and audiology” and will replace

ago.

Where the career concentration

attracted just 61 students primarily

from psychology, social work and
nursing, the minor will draw students
from three of BU’s four colleges —
Liberal Arts, Business, and Science
and Technology — and will expose
far more BU students to the growing
field.

“I’m so excited about this minor,”

Mason

says. “It will

open students’

eyes to the possibility that almost

any major could be intertwined with
gerontology.”

McCauley,

Evans,

She finds many students have

who

interviewed 191

fellow students about their interest in

Mason

is

developing, has

high school. Likewise, Michener

false

stereotypes about seniors. “I think
for them to see how I’m
They see how an active,
positive outlook can help.” Her
it’s

good

aging.

students also interview older friends

members and create a
scrapbook for them as another mythbusting exercise. Many choose field
placements in aging to complete their
or family

internship.

Mason

agrees

it’s

vital to

break

stereotypes. “College students generally feel far

away from old age,” she
them to connect

says. “It’s difficult for

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15

new tasks

rodents’ ability to learn

and determined those with poor
were unable to learn.

“One reason some students are
not interested in working with
older adults

have

is

“With obesity rising, that could
have a huge impact,” Michener says.
“I entered Bloomsburg not knowing

because they will

to face their

own fear of

what I wanted to do, but the research
has changed my life. I now have a
focus on what I want to do with the

death and disability
- BU senior Mary Campbell McCauley

rest of

my life.”

Michener has been accepted
also

where she will work with Bryan
who was Stouffer’s mentor, in
further research on the aging brain. •
sity,

working with

Devan,

because they will have

older adults

is

to face their

own fear of death and

to

graduate school at Towson Univer-

show “one reason some students

are not interested in

diets

disability.”

Michener
has worked in a nursing

home

since

and
that students

in their lives.

Fort Myers, Fla.

Seminar on the Aging Brain

Working with

Editor’s note: Learn

summer

rats in a

will

Bloomsburg: The

in

University Magazine, Winter 2015.

on older

effects of a high-fat diet

more about Paige

Michener’s research project

research project, she studied the

be a positive time
However, the findings

it

newspaper

for directing her career path.

generally anticipate older age with
the idea that

his

a retired

is

editor and freelance writer based in

associate professor of psychology,

she was a teen.

McCauley found

Sue A. Beard

credits Eric Stouffer,

Taking Healthy Aging into the Community
SENIORS

IN

COLUMBIA

and Montour

— and Bloomsburg University
students — are benefiting from an intercounties

professional effort launched

The Center

for

in fall

2014.

Healthy Aging was

those two counties, where 17 percent

of the population

The center
faculty

with

offers

is

over the age of 65.

an opportunity

and students

community

The center

is

rather than bring

into the

them

interact

who

a specific

community

BU

Deb Sanders.

departments

nursing, social

Faculty involved

in

the Center for Healthy Aging are, from

left:

Lori

Metzger, nursing; Ronnie Evans, sociology, social work and criminal
justice;

Mary Jo Larcom, psychology; Tom Zalewski, audiology and

speech pathology; Debra Sanders, nursing; and Shiloh
sociology, social

16

work and criminal

Erdley,

justice.

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

educational sessions on topics such
as hearing aids, balance and

work and psychology
of the

fall

prevention, diabetic complications,
in

the older

adult population and healthy aging.

the center has reached

between 80 and 90 seniors, according

BU

students participate as part of

example, students

can choose to complete the nursing
program’s 45-hour practicum, part of
the leadership and

— audiology,

work with administrators

needs and

seniors'

their course work. For

students and faculty from four

university

Based on

to Sanders.

to us,” explains

co-directs the center with

fellow nursing faculty

assisted living facilities,

In its first year,
in

Lori Metzger, assistant professor of

nursing,

in

cooking for one, bullying

for

and

seniors.

not housed

“We go

building.

to help

held

according to Metzger.

feedback, the center has presented

born out of the needs of older individuals
in

senior centers, and a few have been

management

course,

with the center.



Colum-

The center

2013

initially

was funded by

a

Presidential Strategic Planning

bia/Montour Area Agency on Aging and

Grant totaling $21,000 to be distributed

directors of the counties’ eight senior

over three years.

centers.

The goal

adults on

how

to

is

to

educate older

maintain their health,

“Our approach
it's

remain independent and stay safe. Most

ers added. “After

programs have been offered

with seniors.”

in

the

is

rather unique

in

that

an interdisciplinary approach," Sandall,

we

all

interface

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IF

I

HAVE LEARNED ANYTHING in the almost 28

years that

I

have been

at

Bloomsburg University,

it is

the

importance of my work to my understanding of who I
am. We all fill many roles in life — spouse, parent, friend,

community member,

citizen

— but to the outside world I

present myself as a professor of philosophy. That’s
I

who

am.
I

decided to major in philosophy after that

ductory class showed
interested

me were part of this discipline. Having made

the decision early as an undergraduate,

before

I

first intro-

me the questions and issues that

started asking

it

wasn’t long

my professors what I had to do to

get a job teaching philosophy.

To

their credit, they didn’t tell

field is just

too crowded and

I

me to forget it, that the
my time

shouldn’t waste

I came to Bloomsburg, and have been happily working
something I love ever since.

at

But for current students and recent graduates, the
world has changed. We’ve all heard the statistics about
flux and fluidity in the workplace, that the typical person
changes not just jobs, but careers, multiple times over
his or her work life. And perhaps because of that amount
of flux and change, many younger employees view work
simply as a means to an end, a way to earn a good salary
in order to do the other things in life that they value.

That view of one’s work may well be the rational
Still, I worry
about what is lost in doing so: the sense of belonging to a
profession or occupation and the recognition that work
is an important part of “This is who I am.”
strategy to adopt in these circumstances.

trying for a faculty job. Rather, they patiently explained
I needed to take, and how difficult it
me make my own decision.

the academic path

would

be,

and

let

Perhaps naively, I pursued the path they laid out,
my undergraduate degree in philosophy, and
going on to earn my doctorate. Over 10 years, from the
day I entered college to the completion of my Ph.D., I
thought about how great it would be to teach, to be a
finishing

professor of philosophy.

A year after finishing my degree

Scott C.

Lowe

Professor and Department Chair, Philosophy

Bloomsburg University

SPRING 2015

17

CANNER

LARRY

PHOTOS:

Health care

nationwide recognize the healing power of music

facilities

played at a patient’s bedside. As the philosopher Plato said, “Rhythm

and harmony find their way into the inward places of the
THE FIRST TIME Terri Matkosky

who practices in various

Fevang

the University of Maryland Medical

as

Center and Mercy Hospital, both in
Baltimore. She also plays music on
her keyboard at Hospice of the Chesapeake in Pasadena, Md. She grew up
playing piano and writing music, but
it wasn’t until she became a therapeutic musician that she found purpose.

music

’86 played

music

for a hospice

patient, she played for the

mother of a

longtime friend.

“We
space.

created this amazing sacred
It’s

a space

where there

no worries; everyone
she says.

normal

are

feels peaceful,”

“It doesn’t really exist in

lives. It

only exists

our

if you’re

able to observe the transitioning of

human life.” Two hours
friend’s

later,

her

mother passed away.

Fevang is

a therapeutic

musician

“Once

I

found

divisions of

this career, every-

my life made sense.
Every note I ever wrote in my life
thing

I

ever did in

made sense,”

says Fevang.

A therapeutic musician is defined
someone who provides one-on-one
for the

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

ill

and dying, with the

intention of creating a healing

environment. Therapeutic music

from music therapy, which
to physical therapy and
uses music to achieve goals over a
differs
is

more akin

period of time.

Fevang uses the vibration of music
enhance the patients’ physical and
mental states, change heart rates and
oxygen levels, and reduce pain and
to

anxiety.

18

soul.”

mean

“Healing doesn’t necessarily
curing

— it can — but very often it

means balance: balancing mind, body,
and spirit,” Fevangsays. “The music
can serve to create a space where the
person

who

actively dying can feel

is

safe to leave.”

She did an internship with
Maryland Public Television between
her junior and senior years, and met
her future husband, Michael Fevang.
University.

After graduation, she

moved

to

Baltimore to begin her career in

TV

production. Through connections

At the University of Maryland

Medical Center, Fevang

a

is

member
The

of the Integrative Care Team.

with the sound department at the
TV station, she was introduced to
composing music for film and TV

team works under doctors’ orders as
an acknowledged tool used to aid in

imbedded

barest characteristics. In

how I’m going
music to meet the pacan change the key it’s

decide

to interpret the
tient’s

needs.

written

in,

I

play

all

a simple melody.

I

a

CMP

The

certification required

Fevang

to intern in a variety of medical set-

and play 45 hours of bedside

keyboard so she could wheel
around the hospitals.

every

is

cell

the chords, or just

can play

it

One

of
at

intending

in

a peaceful, loving,

healing
Terri

it

of the places she interned was

the University of Maryland Medi-

shock trauma center.

“I

remember thinking, ‘How can I do
this among all this intensity, heartbreak, and pain?’ ” Fevang says. “Then

way”

Matkosky Fevang ’86

my husband said, ‘If you can help, you

“I take

I

become

through the Music for Healing and
Transition Program, a not-for-profit
therapeutic music educational program.

cal Center’s
it

-

something that someone
else has done, but then transform
it into something that will come
through me and reach the patient,”
Fevang says. “Most pieces are written
for orchestras, so I break the music

in

my body. Em

Scrooge.

moment,

(CMP). For the next year and

a half, she studied to

for her

For her musical selections,

the

tioner

music. She had a stand custom built

“Everything I play

Fevang draws inspiration from film
soundtracks. She is a fan of British
composer Richard Rodney Bennett,
Italian composer Ennio Morricone,
and music from the 1970 TV movie

its

Fervang came across an online

posting for a certified music practi-

tings

conventional treatments.

down to

2011,

should help’ and

I

realized, if I could

get past the fear, this could be some-

thing I’m meant to do.” •
and, in the early 1990s, wrote music
for television stations, including PBS.

But

when her children, Graham and

For more information, contact Terri

Fevang at terrifevang@gmail.com.

Georgia, were born in 1996 and 2000,

she realized that the short deadlines

Susan Field T1/’12M

weren’t conducive to family

writer based in Philadelphia.

life.

Re-entering the job market in

is

a freelance

fall

slower

to relax the patient, or faster to

lift

the patient up.”

Music can have great power

if it’s

being used intentionally. “What’s
the difference between hearing your
favorite musician in concert, as op-

posed

to sitting at

home

in

your living

room? In concert, the musician is
intentionally playing to get you to
something. The musician

is

feel

bringing

something to life. It can transform
you and the space you’re occupying,”
Fevang says. “Everything I play is

embedded

in every cell of

I’m intending

it

my body.

in a peaceful, loving,

healing way.”

Background Music
Originally from the village of Peck-

a few miles north of Scranton,
Fevang studied theatre and mass
communications at Bloomsburg

ville,

SPRING 2015

19

to.

ByJACKSHERZER
“Ben Franklin once

said, ‘An

investment

in

knowledge pays the best interest.’

He was referring to the best interest for society,” says Mehdi

Haririan,

chair of BU’s economics department. BU’s recent economic impact study
reinforces Franklin’s wise adage.

“FOLLOW THE DOLLAR” has long

whole and

been the catchphrase of financial
sleuths. Trying to figure out the “bang
for the buck” is as old as, well, money
itself. Bloomsburg University graduates and students alike enthusiasti-

“When we talk about economic
impact, we talk about direct and
indirect,” says Mehdi Haririan, who

vania and, on average, they spend

chairs BU’s economics department.

university students. In 2012-13 alone,

to society in general.

“When we do

a study,

we

approximately 10,000 students are
from outside Northeastern Pennsyl$80.3 million during their years as
that spending

look at

came

to

more than $30

cally describe the university’s lasting

four major areas: the demographic,

million for groceries, rent, trans-

impact on their lives. But what is the
impact in dollars and

economic, social and political

portation and other living expenses

impact.”

— money that directly benefited the

university’s

cents?

The

Haririan says that means not only
top-line

number

is

impressive.

university, its students

added more than $350 million

but also looking

economy of Northeastern Pennsylvania, according to a study

by Idaho-

at the

impact,” Haririan says.

people

from taxpayer support for the university’s

operations.

healthier
likely to

more

“We

life

make

so the crime

likely to

be

get involved in the community.”

marketing plans and tackle large

itself.

town
The Big
which this year drew more

One such

and

project

than 2,200 students

is

who

helped with

chores such as raking, painting and
spring cleaning, in spite of a fresh

benefit

20

to

Event,

also

politically active

areas ranging from website design

service projects that benefit the

choices and are less

down. Students are

providing an average of 81,000 hours
Students assist local nonprofits in

see that

are better educated

commit crimes,

rate goes

But that number, large as it is,
doesn’t begin to capture the economic

Bloomsburg University’s
students and alumni bring to the
local community, to Pennsylvania

who

community

of volunteer service each year.

“For instance, there’s a social

International. Just 12 percent of that

— $43 million — came

and visitors,
ongoing impact

of the university’s graduates.

based Economic Modeling Specialists

$350 million

BU’s students are active in the
as well as on campus,

quantifying the direct spending of the

In 2012-13, Bloomsburg University
to the

local region.

Time on campus
as a

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

More than

half of Bloomsburg’s

coating of snow.

EDUCATION LEVEL

Less than

Associate’s

high school

ANNUAL INCOME
INCREASE FROM
PREVIOUS LEVEL

Ask any organization helped by
BU’s students and you’ll hear the
assistance

is

invaluable. In fiscal

terms, that labor equals $18.44 an

“If Bloomsburg University did

not

exist,

come

not only would people not

to the region,

but a

would move out of state

people
pursue

lot of

to

“The

hour, counting the taxes, insurance

opportunities,” Haririan says.

and other costs associated with fulltime workers. Put another way, that’s
$1.5 million worth of volunteer help

university creates jobs and preserves

the

community receives

jobs.

That

where

states are

Read

quantified. •

the full report at

bloomu.edu/economic-impact.

one of the functions of

Higher education
better

In an age

Husky power,

higher education.”

annually.

Beyond graduation

is

Bloomsburg, taxpayers see a 3.2
percent return on the investment.

life

Jack Sherzer is a professional writer
and principal partner with Message
Prose, a communications and public

also leads to

choices. $tatistically,

college graduates are less likely to

incur medical costs associated with

trying to keep their best and brightest,

smoking, alcoholism, obesity, drug

Bloomsburg graduates tend to make
Pennsylvania their home. Thirty-six

students enrolled in 2012-13, Pennsyl-

percent of alumni stay in the region

vania will realize a savings of $153.6

for at least a year, providing $175

million for

abuse and mental disorders. For

BU

unneeded services related
medical care, unemployment

relations firm in Harrisburg.

(Editor’s note:

Economic Modeling Specialists

International’s conservative approach to

economic impact studies considers only the
effects

of students who moved

to the

area to

pursue an education. A study commissioned

million in added income to the local

to

economy. Seventy-four percent put

benefits and the criminal justice

down permanent roots. And their

system. Over the working lives of

Bloomsburg and sister

BU degrees lead to employment

those same students, Pennsylvania

even larger impact when the spending of all

opportunities equaling $3.40 in

can expect to receive $43.4 million

higher wages for every $1 spent

higher tax receipts.

on

tuition

expenses.

and other college-related

Added together, for every $1
money used to support

by Pennsylvania’s State System ofHigher

Education and released

in

students

in late

spring shows

institutions

have an

is tallied.)

in

public

SPRING 2015

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Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

husky notes
The people.

Ask anyone who knows Jim Hollister 78,

assistant vice

president for external relations, and they will

tell

you “the

what brought Hollister to Bloomsburg University
as an undergraduate, brought him back to campus as sports
information director and kept him at the university as
people”

is

communications director and

assistant vice president.

also “the people” that Hollister says

he

summer.

retires this

As

It’s

he will miss most when

assistant vice president for external relations, Hollister

meets with BU’s constituents and connects them with people
at BU. He makes a point of going where they feel
He calls it his “away-game” theory.

and programs
comfortable.

Hollister has a lot of experience with

games, as well. As a student, he was the
represent

away games
first

...

and home

tennis player to

BU at the singles competition at the NCAA national

championships, while winning two Pennsylvania State Athletic

Conference (PSAC) singles
first

titles

and one doubles

title.

BU’s

full-time sports information director for 15 years, he

was

inducted into BU’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001.
After sports information

came communications

position he held for six years.
official

spokesman and

a

director, a

While working as the university’s

member of the president’s

Hollister says he learned

more about BU than

at

cabinet,

any other time.

He fielded questions from reporters nationwide when a total
of eight students died in two separate fires at off-campus
residences.

As

difficult as

had the most impact on

They

are also the events that he believes

positive changes.

are inspected
fire

those deaths were, Hollister says they

his career.

As a result,

all

prompted the most

off-campus student residences

and must be equipped with smoke detectors and

extinguishers.

Whether in time of tragedy or an ordinary daily event,
Hollister says

BU is filled with people whom he can depend on,

who love the university and who he knows will advance the
university long after he leaves. He will miss them but, he
stresses, that’s

FOSTER

“I
ERIC

not to be confused with regret

am leaving not-at-all sad,” Hollister says, “but very, very
On an absolute high.”

happy.

Because of that, Hollister says

it is

the perfect time to

retire.

PHOTO:

Read more ofJim Hollister’s story at hloomu.edu/magazine.

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’60s

experience as purchasing/personnel officer

Cindy Tarr ’80

and assistant township manager for Frank-

School District after after 33 years in

lin

Larry Greenly ’65

the author of Eugene

trator for

Montgomery Township.

among the top
tural

books

is

listed

James

Padglick

10 multicul-

Magazine.

He

also

including president. She and her husband
F.

and

principal,

74 and

his wife,

reside in Danville and have

77, a retired

Mary Ann Latzgo

Brandon and

was recently

completed a 2,716-mile bicycle

trip

from their

Arizona home to their summer residence

in

Scott Feinstein

’81 is is vice president

Ollie’s

of Writers.

through 10 states and were on the road for 59

joined Ollie’s in 1997.

as an instant replay

many more bicycle

days.

They plan to

trips

throughout the country.

take

70s

at

Bargain Outlet, Harrisburg. Feinstein

Cilurso Feinstein

He and his wife, Vickie

’83, a

reading specialist/

Lower Dauphin High
Hummelstown.

instructional coach at

School, live in

at

Lincoln Financial Field.

Duane Greenly 72 was

sons,

and divisional merchandise manager

Bloomsburg. They bicycled self-supported

communicator during Eagles home games

two

Jared.

accepted into the Poets and Writers Director}'

Dennis Crim ’69 works

positions in

Padglick 76, a retired nuclear power worker,

for 2015 in the

American Library Association Booklist

math support. She held many

the Milton Area Education Association,

Bullard: World’s First Black

Fighter Pilot, which

from the Milton

elementary school classrooms providing

Township, township administrator for

Branchburg, South Brunswick, and adminis-

is

retired

Dorothy Bauman Rhone 75, broker/owner
of Century 21 Covered Bridges Realty, was

Dorothy Masom ’81M received

installed as a district vice president for the

Achievement Award from the International

a Lifetime

Masom, who has

Pennsylvania Association of Realtors. She

Encaustic Artists.

and her husband of 41 years, Rick, have two

her works in solo shows and at museums,

daughters and four grandchildren.

galleries

and

universities, has

exhibited

won numerous

awards for her work in encaustics, a pigment

elected to a three-

year term on Central Penn College’s board of

Gregg Scarlato 75

directors.

charge of business develop-

ment

for the

is

in

WASAHAD

with melted wax. Her book, Encaustic Painting,

outlines the painting process and traces

the history of the medium. As the

first

book

Barbara Ann Scaccia Senapedis 72 was

Group, Wilmington, Del.

published on this subject,

promoted

WASAHAD is an internet

the permanent collection of the

marketing, social media,

Museum and numerous university libraries.

to research analyst

with Johnson

College. She earned a master’s degree

Marywood University and

from

Alan Dakey 73

is

president and

as

president/CEO of Peoples Neighborhood

Bank.

An

J.

Paul Getty'

technology company. Scarlato has two sons,

John Quigley ’81 was appointed

Gregg II and Trevor.

of the Department of Environmental Protec-

CEO at Bank

of Bird-in-Hand. Dakey previously served

included in

cyber security and cloud

a doctoral degree

from Penn State University.

it is

tion

Daniel Confalone
for Sacred

79 is chief financial officer

Healthcare System

in Allentown.

by Gov.

as secretary

Tom Wolf. Quigley served as

secretary of the Department of Conservation

and Natural Resources from April 2009

to

Confalone oversees the financial operations of

January 2011. Prior to his appointment,

vania Bankers Association and Pennsylvania

both Sacred Heart Hospital and

Quigley worked for the agency in several

Association of Community Bankers, he

Care System.

a

active participant of the Pennsyl-

member of the

is

Millersburg Area School

Board, West Shore

Chamber of Commerce

and Harrisburg Area

YMCA Board of Direc-

Financial

on the

Health-

Management Association, he serves

editorial

Financial

its

A member of the Healthcare

Management magazine.

and operations, and as chief of staff.

Paul Bass ’82 was inducted into the National
Wrestling Hall of Fame. Bass

Cheri Bohler Rinehart

Joseph McGavin 74
for the Society of

is

publication director

Health and Physical Educa-

(SHAPE America)

more than 35

in Reston, Va.

79 was elected to

a three-year term on Central Penn College’s

his wife, Karen, live in Springfield, Va..

and

are the parents of three children: Linn,

Mag-

is

the head

Westhampton Beach High
School, Westhampton Beach, N.Y.

wrestling coach at

board of directors.

He has

years’ experience in journalism

and publications management. McGavin and

gie

initiatives

review board of Healthcare

tors.

tors

capacities, including overseeing strategic

Stephen Jones
Larry Mussoline 79

is

superintendent of

’83

is

president and

CEO

of Covanta Holding Corp., Morristown, N. J.

Downingtown STEM (Science, Technology,

Jones most recently served as senior vice

Engineering and Mathematics) Academy.

president and general manager at Air

Products and Chemicals Inc.

and Colin.

’80s
'I Donato

”l

^

*

gomery Township administrator,

1

*

^ JM
y VP

ii
iB

John L. Haney ’85

Nieman 74, Montwas recognized by

adviser with

Richard Donahue ’80 was a speaker

at

South

Carolina’s annual teacher cadet instructor

is

a senior principal

R&Q Solutions, Pittsburgh.

Before joining R&Q, he was the director
of quality assurance and regulatory compli-

the International City and

conference in Myrtle Beach. His program

ance for the surgical instruments division

Count}’ Managers Associa-

focused on standardized test-taking strategies

of Integra LifeSciences, in York.

tion for

more than 30 years

for teenagers.

of public service. All told,

Nieman has more than 35

years public sector

SPRING 2015

23

Pamela Shupp ’85 is president of the Pennsylvania Economic Development Association

global provider of engineer-

John Wetzel

ing and integrated consulting

as Pennsylvania’s secretary

(PEDA) Board of Directors. PEDA

services. Foley previously

wide association of local,

state,

is

the state-

corporate and

served as senior director,

nonprofit economic development professionals.

Shupp

also represents

corporate communications

PEDA on the Team

for Pacific

Pennsylvania Board of Directors.

Co.,

and held communica-

tions leadership roles with
is managing director and
Morgan Stanley Wealth

Gas and Electric

GSI Commerce,

PJM Interconnection

Michael Glovas ’86

Radian International,

financial adviser at

and Progress Energy. Foley

is

a standing

H

’98 continues

of corrections under Gov.

Tom Wolf, who took office
in January. Originally ap-

pointed in 2011 by former

Tom Corbett, Wetzel is

Gov.

management and operations of the Department of Corrections which
houses more than 51,000 inmates. Wetzel also
was named to the Charles Colson Task Force
responsible for the

Management in Easton. He has been with the

member of the

firm since 1994.

Business Communicators and Public Rela-

on Federal Corrections. Created by Congress,

tions Society of America.

the nine-person, bipartisan, task force

Lyndon Yearick
was elected

International Association of

’86

is

responsible for examining challenges in the

to the State

of Delaware’s General

Assembly, representing
the 34th District.

James Stepanski ’90M was appointed to the
Towanda School Board. Stepanski, who owns
the Only the Best pizza shop in Wysox Township, worked 10 years for PTS Learning

federal corrections system

Systems of King of Prussia, teaching

Justice and the president at the

and developing

practical, data-driven policy responses.

task force will present

mendations

The

findings and recom-

its

to Congress, the

Department of
end of 2015.

information technology professionals to set

David Koslosky
of directors at

’87

is

serving on the board

Art Campbell ’99

up networks using Microsoft software.

Downingtown

PRWeb SonaCare Medical, a

manufacturer of medical ultrasound devices.

Eileen Bernhard Dautrich ’93
of TriCounty Area

is

president

Pottstown.

Vanguard’s 11-member senior

James

leadership team, directing

vacancy on the Mount Carmel Area School

the firm’s financial adviser

Board.

services division. For the

Hughes

He

is

was appointed

to

a

fill

an account manager for Baker

was
and data governance director of LNP Fulton

in

is

senior vice president

Financial James of Willow Grove.

1988.

the leader of a

program

at

new life

Stephanie Lordi Heller ’96

is

business

man-

ager of the Wyalusing Area School District.

a 25-year career in the federal corrections

private business and served as a supervisor in

system, advancing from case manager at peni-

the business office of Frontier

New York to

She has more than 18 years’ experience

a

in

Communica-

New York’s

Hudson Valley.

tions in Dallas.

Emmy award for best evening

newscast. Palovick

Brenda DeRenzo Dominick

’89

was ap-

pointed Parkland School District’s director of

is

part of a

journalists staffing Action

on

team of

News Jax,

is

slated to

move into her new position July 1.

for global

Kevin Bledsoe ’04

is

self-storage broker-

property-management and consulting firm.
Julie

Orner Donell

’04

was inducted

into the

at

earned seven varsity

James Strohecker ’96

is

letters

while she was

Oxford, graduating in the class of 1999. She

coached high school track and

field

hockey

and continues to play competitive hockey.

airing

WJAX and WFOX in Jacksonville, Fla.

student services. DeRenzo, currently Fogels-

Elementary School principal,

research and

Dow Chemical Co.,

Maurice Dennis

’05

was promoted

assistant vice president
ville

is

age adviser at Investment Real Estate LLC, a

nell

Jerry Palovick ’96 was awarded a 2014
Suncoast

Hill Einsla ’02

development manager responsible

Oxford High School Sports Wall of Fame. Do-

supervisory U.S. probation and parole officer

covering a five-county area in

responsible for the clinic’s

is

Collegeville.

Barclays Capital.

men who are returning home from Lackawanna County Prison. Long previously had

and

He

innovation strategy at

data integrity standards and controls at

the Employ-

ment Opportunity and Training Center of
Northeast Pennsylvania, centered on assisting

tentiaries in Pennsylvania

director and lead

care.

Melinda

He

previously was vice president and head of
is

is facility

day-to-day operations and quality of patient

David James ’94

Long ’89

Michael Getz ’00

physical therapist at Phoenix Rehabilitation,

Bloomsburg.

in Mill Hall.

European businesses. He joined Vanguard

skills/job readiness

Engineering and Mathematics) Academy.

’OOs
Britt ’94

responsible for managing Vanguard’s U.K. and

Scott

headmaster of the

Chamber of Commerce,

Thomas Rampulla ’87 was
named to a new role on

past seven years, he

is

STEM (Science, Technology,

township manager

of East Lampeter Township. Strohecker has

to

and commercial loan

officer of Wayne Bank. Before joining the
Wayne Bank, Dennis worked as a commercial

credit analyst

been employed by the township since

and

in private

accounting.

He

wife, Karie,

and son, Reese.

lives in

and public

Honesdale with his

February 2002.

’90s
Nancy Lineman ’97
Beth Foley MinkoflF’90

is

executive vice

president and chief communications officer of

Michael Baker International of Pittsburgh, a

24

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

ment

is

She resides

in Silver

deputy chief govern-

Montgomery
Spring, Md.

affairs officer for

College.

Jennifer Davis Rarig ’07

is

Columbia Area High School
softball coach.

the Southern

varsity

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

husky
Andrea Zimmerman Feeney ’08M

Kaitlyn Schiccatano ’10

is

Brian Hertzog

certified as a

is

cytotechnologist from the Anisa

the communications coordinator at the

I.

Kanbour

’13

and Derek Franchino T4

are featured in the 2014 edition of Careers in

Magee Women’s

Professional Selling. Hertzog

Wilkes-Barre office of Borton-Lawson,

School of Cytotechnology at

an architectural and engineering firm.

Hospital-University of Pittsburgh Medical

ecutive and Franchino

Center. Schiccatano accepted a position with

with Gartner

Meritus Health Medical Center-Trivergent

consulting

Adrienne Mael ’08
of the United

is

the president and

CEO

Way of Columbia County. Mael

previously headed

Downtown Bloomsburg

Health Alliance of Western Maryland

sploops.com

is

a

doctor of

field

coach

at

technology research and

company based

in

Stamford, Conn.

Sean Roth T3 and Paul Rosa T3 launched

Hagerstown.
Victoria Davis T3

nursing practice degree. She

an account ex-

is

an account manager

in

Inc.

Joni Pyle Todhunter ’08 earned

Inc., a

is

is

the head girls track and

last fall to give sports fans

an

outlet to rant about their favorite teams’

Shikellamy High School.

successes or failures.

a nursing

The

develop sploops.com as

pair

began

to

BU students with

instructor at Pennsylvania College of

Joe Fisher

Technology

multimedia journalist for

competitions sponsored by Pennsylvania’s

WAVY-TV 10

State

in Williamsport.

’13 is a

of Portsmouth,

Va. Fisher previously

’10s

at

Samantha Mason ’10 earned

a certificate of

financing from student business plan

reporter/

KSWO-TV,

the

worked

ABC

Zone. They formed the legal partnership,

affili-

ate in

Lawton, Okla./Wichita

Vast Frontier Innovations LLC. Roth works

Falls,

Texas.

in

merit in law practice at the Western Michigan
University’s

Thomas M. Cooley Law

System of Higher Education and the

Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation

supply chain management with Target and

Rosa works in the

School.

office.

New York Yankees front

Their partnership

known

is

as Vast

Frontier Innovations.

Five honored with alumni awards
FACULTY EMERITUS James Cole of Bloomswas named an honorary alumnus during
the BU Alumni Association’s 2015 awards

outstanding service to BU, the

ceremony.

Association or humanity were:

burg

Cole joined BU’s faculty

He was instrumental

in

in

Alumni who were honored

accomplishments

in

for significant

their professions

and

Maroon and Gold Excellence Award:


BU Alumni

Gregory

Bowden

'01, Collegeville, financial

adviser and vice president, wealth

ment,

1968.

for

UBS

Financial Services,

held leadership roles at

Distinguished Service Award:

expanding

BU

John Chapin ’85, Aliquippa,

BU Alumni

professor of communications at Penn State

and a volunteer participant

programs

University, president of the board of directors

Institute for Professional

in



medical imaging, pre-physical

Women’s Center

Beaver County and

therapy, pre-occupational therapy, pre-

of the

pharmacy and pre-physician assistant. He
served as department chair and retired in 2001

a volunteer at Allegheny County’s Crisis

with

33

years of service. Active

in

the

Center North, Pittsburgh,

honored

commu-

for his

work as

nity,

and personal advocate

for

domestic violence.

Cole also served on the board of directors
Columbia-Montour Home Health, including

terms as president and treasurer. He earned

of



who has been

Fla., retired

special agent for the state of California,

Michigan University and a doctoral degree from

is

State University.

who

recognized as a gang expert, teacher and

trainer after a

28-year career

in

in

BU’s Zeigler

Development (ZIPD)

Craig Evans '03, Abington, a certified public

accountant and manager

for victims of

Gary Williams 78, Kissimmee,

Association Board of Directors

Conference and Professional U program.


a professional

bachelor’s and master's degrees from Western

Illinois

as a student and

an alumnus, including a six-year term on the

include allied health science with academic

the Department of Biological Sciences to

manage-

who has

of audit

counting at Kreischer

Miller, a

area accounting firm,

who

and ac-

Philadelphia-

volunteers at the

ZIPD Conference, hosts BU students for
job shadowing through the Sophomore
Experiential Learning Program and supports
the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation.

law

enforcement where he fought gang violence.

SPRING 2015

25

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

husky
Career preparation focus

Legacy Scholarships awarded

of

A DOZEN STUDENTS whose

parents are

BU

alumni won Legacy Scholarships from the

Bloomsburg University Alumni Association. Each student received an award
for the spring




2015

of

Alumni presenters
from

of

Connie Weber

Budwash, daughter

Taylor



Alexandra Burns, daughter

of
of

300 students participated

Brady ’82

Barbara Mitten Budwash

mock

Anthony James

Roy Dennis, son



Danielle Ernes, daughter of Kevin Ernes '83



James

of Loretta Connolly

daughter of Jim Hollister



Kimberly



Abbey Porambo, daughter

Hollister,

of

address by John Wetzel

78

Louis Vining, son of Michelle Sorber Vining '86



Andrew

and

Kappel

Kristin Kerlin Hollister '03

for

semester. The

’89,

’98,

Susan Kocher

were recognized

BU Trustee and

’88

and Shawn Rosier ’00

for leadership contributions as

students and alumni.

Wurster, son of Marybeth Bergen '87

The annual Husky Leadership Summit

in

is

sponsored by the Office of Alumni Engagement,

Legacy Scholarships on their children's behalf. Winners are chosen by

December and the scholarship is applied to tuition for the
number of awards and amounts are determined each year.

random drawing

on leadership, alumni

Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Corrections. Paul

Roberta Spezialetti Porambo '81



Alumni apply

interviews, sessions

students and alumni, opening with a keynote

Dennis '06

son of Nancy Nimmerfron Fazio '90

Jr.,

2015 Husky

panel discussions and a networking lunch for

Caputo, son of Christina Mull Caputo '91



in the

Leadership Summit. The day-long event featured

'91

James Burns ’89



Fazio

annual Husky Leadership Summit were,

left,

APPROXIMATELY 40 alumni volunteers and

Seth Berry, son of Doug Berry '83

Bryan Brady, son

at the

Rick Rogers 77, Paul Kappel '89, Matti Prima 77, Kerri
Donald Sears '92 and Ted Hodgins '89.

$1,048

semester. Scholarship recipients and their parents are:



summit

Center for Leadership and Engagement, and

spring

Community Government Association.

Grads host Husky Career Road

Trip

RICHARD WISNIEWSKI ’82, deputy director of strategic industrial
at Sanofi Pasteur U.S., and other BU graduates hosted

planning

students for a

company in

Husky Career Road Trip at the global vaccine
The students, along with Barry Nolt,

Swiftwater.

assistant professor of biological

and

allied health sciences,

and Eric

Hawrelak, associate professor of chemistry, toured the company,

met with administrators and learned about career opportunities.
The students’ visit included a panel discussion with nine BU alumni
who work at Sanofi Pasteur.
Alumni

who welcomed

Husky Career Road Trips

James
Bill

left,

seated: Adrianna D'Amico Rogers ’07, Joni

Lavelle ’84, Jessica Beyer ’08

Harris ’95,

Rob Lange

and Lindsay Fennell

‘07;

and standing:

’91, Melissa Miller ’04, Joe Gabrielle ’03

Richard Wisniewski ’82.

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Sanofi Pasteur are, from

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provide students with opportunities to

meet professionals and learn about career

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fields.

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Marriages
John Conrad
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Robin

J.

Jennifer

and Annette Rowe, May 31 201

’81

Lillian

,

Haney

L.

Obituaries

'85

and Bruce

Leavy Bassion

Barkume

Johanna Moss

’95

’02

’88

2014

R. Martin. Aug. 30,

and

Earl

Bartley, Sept. 15,

L.

and Bryan Kauffman. Nov.

and Daniel Kluger, Oct.

2013

2014

2,

Jeffrey Fellman ’06 and Danielle Schatz, Oct.

Thomas

’52

72
73
Richard Donald 75
Walter Fisch 75
John Chiavaroli 76
Douglas Park 78

Joseph Kinder

’55

Dolores Popp Hranitz '80

Robert White

Ryan Kenny

Amy

'07

and Kristen Spirko, Sept.

Dunkelberger

Adam

Smith

’08

'08

and

2014

6,

and Jeremy Bauder, Sept.

Thompson, May

Erin

Bethany Stone

’08

Karli Troisi ’08

and Daniel Phillips

17,

2014

2014

21,

Dec. 20, 2014

Kondash

Megan Kusko
Faith

’09 and

'09

Aug.

'08.

and Murray Douglas, Sept.

and Ryan Quilling

’09

Roland

Jeremy Carl

’09.

9,

2014

13,

2014

’56

Alfred Miller '58

Paul

and Dan Snyder

Sarah Burkhardt

'10

Jason Coyne

and Emily Machovec, Oct. 26, 2014

’10

Rebecca Haley

Hannah Mael

’10

’10

and Matthew

’10. Sept. 27,

and Angelo Melchiorre

Kathryn Mazol ’10 and Christian
Lia Stewart ’10 and

Chad

Lindsey Shemansky

'11

2014

’10, July 4,

2014

2014

Prickett. Sept. 27,

Crispell '09, Sept. 12,

2014

2012

Cancilla, April 27,

2014

and Brandon Horlacher

Emily Worth
Krysta

and James Hammett, Sept. 26. 2014

’11

'11

and David Sunderland, Oct.

Humphrey

’13

18,

and Bradley Travelpiece

David Laubach ’60

Michaela Busker Coulbourn ’86

Lauren Erdman

’14

Timothy Glennon '90

Whitney Steen O'Leary

Virginia Solt Kline ’62

Dugan '93
Christopher Kane ’96

’92

Rita Hall

Harold Andrews '64
Stephen Hartin '64
Jacqueline Burger Pearson

Katharine
’67

Sammon

Jason Claudfelter

William Pontius '68

Galdi ’97

’98
’04

Jane O’Malley Harakal

Robert Probert '68

Births
Shawn McShea ’98 and wife, Anitra, twin daughters, Audrey Morgan and
Brynley Rose, May 9, 2013
Ashley Sorber Lawson ’04/’05M and husband, Tony Lawson '03, a
son, Manning, July 22,

’14.

Lauren Warliga Masino
Jan. 25, 2015

2014

Kayla Stancavage '14 and Dakota Crouse, Oct.

’88

’89

Janice Fedroff Girardi '92

2014
'05

Ratkowski

a son, Tyler Gabriel, Dec.
6,

Woods

Lance Klimowicz

'62

and husband, Joshua, a son,

’05

and Joshua Fadden, May 25, 2014

and Ben Sheeler, Sept.

Nancie Hunt
’61

Bernard Gatski '62

Kristin Gabriel
’14

’83

Michael Yesalavage ’58

2014

June 29, 2014

Amanda Bukoski

’83

’09.

Aug. 1,2014

Sarah Sisock

'58

’82

Bowman

Jean Guzik Davies
E. Lynn Brobyn '84

Laurence Allen
’11, Oct. 25,

Peter

Welkom '81
Dugan '82

Gary Fetter

Eugene Fellin '61
Nancy Donohue McWilliams
Ronald Schock '61

Aug. 16, 2014

Jennifer Ruegner 09 and Jacob Sholder

Linda

’57

Wynn

’81

Kathleen Palubinsky

Richard Kratzer ’57

G. Richard

Danielle Clark '09 and Geoffrey Horton, Oct. 17, 2014
Kelly

'49

Harry Hughes '57

Joseph Jones

2014

and Matthew Bridges, June
’08.

Donald Carey
13,

Lucy Szabo

'49

Gretchen Troback McLain
David

2014

3,

70

Samuel Varano 72

'41

Lois Gruver Gassert ’41

Julia Pichel Sterling '49

2014

'05, Oct. 17,

Margaret Kauffman Candrick

Timothy McTaggart 71

Mary Ruth Tyson Lauck
Christopher Cooper ’04 and Eron Waters. Nov. 23, 2014
Jennifer Mehle ’05 and Glenn Curry

David Herring '69

’39

Marian Creveling Zeiders '46

2014

12,

Robenolt Coldren ’34

Savage Penman
Vivian Frey Payne ’40
Elizabeth Hawk Brown
Betty

11,

and husband, Greg Ratkowski

’05,

2014

5,

Elizabeth Larson Wanttaja 06 and husband,

2014

Silas Michael,

Ryan Wanttaja

’06,

a daughter, Gertrude Jean, Sept. 29, 2014

Lauren Lynch Weber

'06

and husband,

Brian, a daughter,

Savannah

Rae, Dec. 21, 2014
Kristen Barrett
daughter,

Brockman

Samantha Jade,

’07

Amanda Kisenwether Rachau

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and husband, Cody, a son, Enzo

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Kelly Ziegler Lisachenko ’09 and husband, Gregory, a daughter,

Bloomsburg: The University Magazine

Josephina Ann, Nov.

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400 East Second Street
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a daughter, Jocelyn Maria, Jan. 23, 2015
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Rose, Jan.

28

a

2015

3,

2015

’10

’08,

and husband, Dave, a daughter, Aubrey

the line

up

reunions, networking and special events

UNIVERSITY CLUB:
More than 70 alumni
and friends attended a
State of the University

reception with

BU

President David L. Soltz

Club of

at the University

Washington, D.C. Shown

from

left

with the

university crest are Kerri

Donald Sears

’92,

past

BUAA president; Marc
Steckel ’93; Soltz; and

Don Phillips

’70,

recent

president of the
University Club.

ALL IN THE GAME: Friends Joe Hilgar ’75, president of
the BU Alumni Association, and Mike Kopp ’74, Allentown
Central Catholic coach and athletic director,

met up at a
game against Kutztown University.
Gabby Maldonado, BU senior point guard

recent Huskies basketball

Shown from left are

Taylor Maldonado, Kopp, Hilgar and Central Catholic senior
Alyssa Mack. Over 38 years in the Lehigh Valley,

coached teams to more than 900 victories

Kopp has
- more than any

other Pennsylvania high school coach. His teams have
five

PIAA titles

won

THUMBS UP: U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, left, met Lauren Erdman
Army of Carlisle. The
community needs with the congressman and

Sheeler T4 while touring the Salvation
staff discussed

how federal and state funds
is

a business associate

help address those needs. Sheeler

with the Salvation Army.

since 2001.

SPRING 2015

.

over THE shoulder

Lamar Blass:
Hall of Fame Athlete and Soldier
by

ROBERT DUNKELBERGER,
UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST

THE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
is

home to

items documenting the history of the

school and the achievements of alumni.
acquisition

is

a battered

A recent

dog tag that belonged

to

one

Lamar Blass,
during World War II.

of the most celebrated early athletes,

who was killed

in action

grew up

southern Columbia
one year at Lehigh University,
transferred to Bloomsburg State Teachers College in
the fall of 1933. He majored in secondary education
with a concentration in mathematics and served
Blass

County and,

in Aristes in

after

as president of the senior class, although
athletics

where he stood

it

was

in

out.

Blass played football and basketball, but

was the

top all-around performer on four outstanding track

and field teams. He compiled points in the broad
jump, high jump, high hurdles, 100- and 220-yard
dashes, discus, and shot put, setting five school

records in the process. In 1937, he served as captain
for the

second time, and Bloomsburg won the

four consecutive state

first

of

titles in track.

Following graduation, Blass taught

at

Catawissa

two years before moving to New
Holland. Married to Marion Hogeland in August

High School
1941,

for

he entered the

U.S.

Army the following July,

seven months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl

Harbor brought the United States into World War
II. He was sent to officers’ training school and commissioned a second lieutenant in January 1943.

saw combat overseas in North Africa in March 1943, and was
sent to Naples, Italy, in November, after his promoAssigned to the

tion to

first

field artillery, Blass first

lieutenant. His final action occurred at

the Anzio beachhead, south of Rome, in

where his

30

unit, the

May 1944,

68th Armored Field Artillery

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Lt.

Lamar Blass

during World

he was

in

War

a bunker
II,

in Italy

shortly before

killed in action at

age 31

was attached

Battalion,

Armored

The

to the Fifth

Army’s

1st

Division.

on May
when his battery

division began a drive to the north

24. Five days later, Blass

was

killed

came under enemy fire. His commanding officer,
Field Duskin, who was with him when he died, said
of Blass, “Not only was he a superior officer, he was
one of the

finest

gentlemen that

I

have ever known.”

In the 1980s, a scholarship fund was established

honor and in 1991 he was elected to the
Bloomsburg University Athletic Hall of Fame. His
athletic legacy was summed up by the editor of The
Morning Press in 1944 who said, “If ever there was
a man who loved sports and lived by the code of
sportsmanship, it was Lt. Blass.” •
in Blass’

Blass with the trophy awarded to Bloomsburg for
title,

May

15,

1

937.

The trophy

is

now a

its first

part of the

state track

Bloomsburg

Blass with his wife, the former Marion Hogeland,

on

his

life

who donated much

of the material

to the archives.

University Archives.

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31

calendar
Academic Calendar

50-Year Reunion of the Class of 1965
Saturday, Oct. 17

SUMMER 2015
I:

Session

II:

Session

New

May 18 - Aug. 7

Session

May 18 - June 26
June 29 - Aug. 7

III:

Student Activities

Summer Freshman

Orientation

Friday and Saturday, June

26 and 27

Act 101/EOP Orientation

28

Sunday, June

FALL 2015
Classes Begin

Fall

Monday, Aug. 24

Freshman Preview

Monday through Wednesday,
June 22 to 24
Monday through Wednesday,

Labor Day, No Classes

Monday, Sept. 7

July 13 to 15

Reading Day
Tuesday, Nov. 24

Transfer Preview Days

Thursday and

Thanksgiving Recess

Wednesday, Nov. 25
Classes

Friday,

July 16 and 17

Resume

Welcome Weekend

Orientation

Thursday through Sunday,

Monday, Nov. 30

Aug.

20 through 23

Classes End
Friday, Dec.

4

Special Events

Finals Begin

Monday, Dec. 7
Trash to Treasure

End

Finals

Saturday,

Graduate

May

16; Early Bird,

8 a.m.;

Regular hours, 9 a.m. to noon. Kehr

Friday, Dec. 11

Union Ballroom. Benefits Columbia
County United Way, 570-784-3134

Commencement

Friday, Dec. 11

Undergraduate

Commencement

STEM

Alumni Events
Visit

www.bloomualumni.com

details

the Alumni Affairs office at

800-526-

alum@bloomu.edu.

Evening of Champions
Friday,

Adventure Camps

24

Homecoming Weekend
Friday to Sunday, Oct. 16 to 18

Parents and Family

Athletic Hall of

College of Business

Oct. 15

ZIPD Conference

Friday, Oct.

Induction

9

and 16

Career Day
Friday, Oct.

16

Lambda Alpha

Chi Alumni Reunion

For the latest information on

upcoming events, check the
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one-on-one attention for their success (see story on page 16).
The Student Success Collaborative
Using technology

to study trends

(SSC),

new this fall,

and roadblocks

also focuses

on the needs of each student.

to student success, this advising platform enables

faculty advisers to individualize the guidance they provide, creating a specific

pathway to

graduation and a career for each student.

Each student’s needs and

interests are also at the heart of our

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individual choice and gives students the opportunity to pursue their interests in the classroom and

beyond. This

flexibility,

along with networking, professional development and global education

opportunities, leads to a well-rounded perspective and lifelong personal and professional success.

Decades

after they

the Bloomsburg

have crossed the stage and received their diplomas, alumni

community who influenced

their lives



the exceptional faculty

and inspired them, caring staff who connected with them, alumni
fellow students
That’s
to

form

who

recall

members

who networked with them, and

shared both class assignments and the fun times.

what Bloomsburg University has always been

about: individual stories that

come together

a beautiful mosaic.

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Editor's note:

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BU President David Soltz regularly offers his opinions on issues in

education and his vision for Bloomsburg University at bupresident.blogspot.com.

higher

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in

Cameroon

Professor Scott Inch and Michael

Grube ’13/15M

battle cybercrime in

Cameroon with

12

online training.

At the Heart of Charm City

When Yvonne Wenger ’02
dream job

as a reporter

landed her

with The

Baltimore Sun, she couldn’t

would be

at

would challenge the

16

know she

the center of an event that

Champion

for

nation’s conscience.

Student Success

Thirty-eight years ago, Irvin Wright
in love

fell

with BU’s Act 101 program. As he

retires,

he leaves a legacy of students and

alumni

who say he changed

their lives.

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Fall

2015

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Bloomsburg University

David M. Maser, Vice Chair
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Matthew E. Baker
Jane M. Earll
Christopher H. Franklin

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Michael K.

Hanna

Ronald G. Henry
Jonathan B, Mack
Daniel P. Meuser
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Patrick Wilson 91 Chair
Mary Jane Bowes, Vice Chair
Nancy Vasta '97/'98M, Secretary
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Robert Dampman
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Joseph

Kenneth Stolarick 77
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FALL 2015

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meetings and other

year. This

Carlisle, returns to

fall,

activities

during the

Robinson, a senior marketing

campus with

her fourth dog, a

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German shepherd. Robinson shares her experiences with
Seeing Eye at bloomu.edu/magazine.

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

around THE quad
Where
Jobs
Are

FOSTER

ERIC

PHOTO:

WITHIN A YEAR of graduation,
nearly 90 percent of BU graduates are
employed, serving in the military or
continuing their education. For two

young alumnae,

it

wasn’t just about

20

to

24 with

at least a bachelor’s

group remains steady

finding jobs for themselves. They’ve

for this

started their professional lives helping

at 2.4 percent,

County search
employment through CareerLink’s

residents of Luzerne
for

Hazleton

office.

representative,

according to the

chronological order.




2015

and Chelsea Carpenter

worked
together since January 2015. They
majored in communication studies

enhance students’ preparation

for

entering the job market. These include

Understand that getting

The most effective way to land

a job

is

to apply for three or four



Take advantage of available

internships, career road trips, career
fairs

and on-campus interviews.
local

“We put our degree to use every day,”
says Cooke. “We use public speaking, interpersonal

leadership

skills

communication and

within our daily work.

We get a lot of people back on their feet
in the

working field and change a

lives. It is

lot

of

a great feeling.”

As the economy continues

so does the jobs outlook for recent
college graduates. According to the

National Center for Education Statistics,
the

employment

Many places,

CareerLink

like the

office, offer

shops; have case managers

Tips for jobseekers

help with resumes,

Based on their experiences with

work-

who can

mock interviews

and interview preparation; and

CareerLink, which provides career

supply labor market information

services under the direction of the

and job postings

in

your

area. •

Pennsylvania Department of Labor and
Industry,

to improve,

a job takes

time.

jobs each week.

workshops, job shadowing, academic

BU.

Know the

appearance, attitude and work ethic.


resources.
at

interview; an

process. This includes your

Opportunities through BU’s Center

U,

Resumes get you an

dos and don’ts of the interview

Career Experience, such as Professional

14, career navigator, have

sure you are qualified before

interview gets you a job.

state’s

Development and

Make

applying for a job.

Department of Labor and Industry.

for Professional

Erica Cooke 13, business services

in

job to the oldest in descending

degree

was 88.1 percent in 2014, the highest it’s
been since 2008, but still lower than the
peak year of 1990 when it was 93.3 percent. Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate

Cooke and Carpenter

offer

these tips for a successful job search:


Prepare a well-written resume.

For more information: BU’s Center for
Professional Development

and Career

Experience, bloomu.edu/careers, and

Include only the past 10 years of

Commonwealth Workforce Development

work

System/CareerLink, cwds.pa.gov.

history,

from the most recent

rate for jobseekers ages

FALL 2015

3

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

around THE
New Deans

BU WELCOMES KRUG, ARONSTAM

NEW DEANS assumed leadership of two colleges this

summer

Mary, Virginia Tech and Virginia

College of Business and Robert

Commonwealth University.

as

dean of the College

professor and chair of the

A native of State College,
to BU from Loyola
University New Orleans, where

department of biological

he held the Jack and Vada

director of Missouri

Reynolds Chair in International

Resource Center, a nonprofit

Business and served as associ-

service that provides clones of

ate

worked

dean of graduate programs.
in

banking in Germany and

Austria, held executive positions with Texas Instruments
at the

Aronstam previously was

of Science and Technology.

Krug came

PepsiCo and taught

&

— Jeffrey Krug as dean of the
Aronstam

Earlier in his career, he

Champaign, University of
Munster in Germany, William

and

University of Illinois at Urbana-

sciences at Missouri University

of Science and Technology and

S&T cDNA

human proteins. His varied
experience includes research director and senior scientist

with Guthrie Research
at

Institute, Sayre,

and faculty member

the Medical College of Georgia. •

Virginia

Woolf

in

Bloomsburg

BU HOSTS FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The Great

STEM

Adventure

CAMPERS EXPLORE ENVIRONMENT,
DNA, PROGRAMMING

NEARLY 250 international scholars attended the 25th annual
International Conference on Virginia Woolf hosted by BU in
early June.

The event

at

venues on campus and

in

town featured

150 research papers focused on Woolf and her female contem-

STUDENTS FROM fifth through 10th grades

poraries, presented

explored science, technology, engineering and

world, as well as by college and local high school students.

mathematics during the weeklong Great

Adventure Camps

at

STEM

Highlights included: an international art exhibit at

BU.

Campers entering fifth and

Gallery at Greenly Center, displaying the
sixth grades studied

the basics of geography and the environment,

seventh- and eighth-graders investigated the
brain and

DNA, and campers

human

entering ninth and 10th

grades use computer and mathematical

skills to

programming, criminal investigation, and
decrypt code. •

4

by professors and scholars from around the

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

learn

how to

work of 55

The

artists;

readings by British novelist Maggie Gee and a poet Cynthia

Hogue; theatrical reading of Septimus and Clarissa written by
Ellen McLaughin and performed by the playwright and

members

of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble; and a closing

by Woolf’s nephew, Cecil Woolf, and
wife, biographer Jean Moorcroft Wilson. •

banquet with

a talk

his

Jazzed

All

Up

ENSEMBLE PERFORMS AT MONTREUX,
UMBRIA FESTIVALS

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY’S Jazz Ensemble
at two major European events in July —
Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and the
Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. Led by Stephen

performed
the

Clickard, professor of music and director of BU’s

Center for Visual and Performing Arts, the Jazz

Ensemble features 25 students majoring in music
and other disciplines.

The ensemble was invited to perform at the
Montreux festival after Clickard submitted a 20minute recording of the group. Major entertainers
at both festivals included Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga,
Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. •

Going Downtown
GREENLY CENTER

IS

DEDICATED

DUANE AND SUE Basar Greenly, members of BU’s Class of 1972,
recently took part in a
in

ceremony to dedicate the Greenly Center

downtown Bloomsburg.
Strengthening BU’s partnership with the community, the

44,700-square-foot center

houses

is

home

to the

BU Foundation. It also

a first-floor art gallery, space for the Office of

and Continuing Education
a 40-seat

computer

lab

future, the third floor

staff,

Corporate

classrooms for BU’s mini-courses,

and a demonstration kitchen. In the

may provide

space for local businesses or

organizations.

Construction on the $8.25 million building was
thanks to a generous $1 million

CGA

gift

made

possible

from the Greenlys. •

Major Focus

Chief

SALLY McAVOY LEADS STUDENT
~

SALLY McAVOY,

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is

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT MAJOR BEGINS

GOVERNMENT
a senior

double majoring

from Wyomissing who

in early

and special education,

is

childhood

of a product through
for

the 2015-16 academic year. She previously served

IkL'' MIS

as

CGA’s secretary and executive

assistant.

As president, McAvoy hopes to continue to
^ improve student involvement on campus, create
a better awareness of CGA and enhance the relationship between
BU students and town residents. She is building upon her experiences during summer 2014 as the CGA intern working within the
Student Affairs Division.

CGA serves as the bridge between students and administration,
supports more than 300 clubs and organizations, provides scholarships to students, and operates the University Store, the Student

Recreation Center and Honeysuckle Student Apartments. •

this fall. The major,
management process from the creation

Supply Chain Management,
focusing on the

president of the

Community Government Association (CGA)

THE COLLEGE of Business introduced a new major,

its

consumption,

is

directed by

John Grandzol, professor of management.
BU’s program has a sharp focus on operations,
logistics

and sourcing, and prepares students

for

mid- and upper-level career tracks. In addition to
extensive academic experiences,
related

all

students will have

work experience upon graduation.

From this new major comes

the possibility of a

European Union Commerce,
which would allow students to travel between
universities in European Union countries to learn
future specialization,

about supply chain management in foreign settings.

A future new minor,

International Supply Chain,

may soon follow. •

FALL 2015

5

Bloomshurg University of Pennsylvania

around THE
Baltimore Award
BLAKE HONORED BY BLACK CONFERENCE
IRA BLAKE, provost and senior vice president for academic
affairs, was honored with the Pennsylvania Black Conference
on Higher Education’s Mary Baltimore Award for outstanding
service to the organization.

The conference

first

convened

in 1971,

organized by

Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Rep. K. Leroy
aide

Mary Davis

Irvis, his

Baltimore, and black educators from across

the commonwealth. Baltimore carried out a key role in coordi-

nating the

first

The award
individual

and subsequent meetings of the organization.

in Baltimore’s

honor

who demonstrates

is

given each year to an

dedication and

commitment to

achieving the goals of the organization. •

Outstanding Teachers
TRIO SELECTED FOR

AWARD

THREE FACULTY MEMBERS were honored at spring commencement

as the

Teaching and Learning Enhancement (TALE)

Outstanding Teachers for the 2014-2015 academic
is

bestowed annually by BU’s

year.

The award

TALE center to faculty members

nominated by students. This year’s winners are Darrin Kass,
professor of management; Shiloh Erdley, assistant professor of
sociology, social

work and criminal justice; and Mary Katherine

Waibel-Duncan, professor of psychology.

Each winner received a plaque and a $1,000 professional
development stipend sponsored by the Bloomshurg University
Foundation. •

Speaking Up

Best Paper
AN ARTICLE by Shaheen Awan, pro-

PROGRAM RANKED AMONG TOP IN COUNTRY
BU’S SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY graduate pro-

fessor of speech-language pathology,

gram ranked among the top programs

AWAN'S ARTICLE TOPS

IN

SLP

2014

Exploring the Relationship Between
Spectral

and Cepstral Measures of

gathered from more than 70,000

Voice and the Voice Handicap Index

program ranked 16th

(VHI), was selected by Journal of

students representing approximately 1,600 graduate pro-

Voice as the best speech language

grams nationwide.

pathology paper of 2014.

Graduate Programs ranked the University of WisconsinMadison in the top slot, followed by Teachers College at
Columbia University and Georgia State University. Edinboro

The journal received
submissions in 2014.

a record

number

of manuscript

Awan has published

56 papers in

the Journal of Voice over the past 20 years •

in data

University, BU’s sister institution in Pennsylvania’s State

System of Higher Education,

6

in the country in a

survey conducted by Graduate Programs, an online review
resource, between Sept. 1, 2012, and March 31, 2015. BU’s

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

is

rated 21st. •

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Like Father, Like Son
by SCOTT EDDY

INSIDE THE HOME DUGOUT at
Danny Litwhiler Field stands a plaque
honoring the man who guided
Huskies baseball to more victories
than any other coach in program
history. The late Matt Haney Sr. was
at the helm of Huskies baseball from
1991 to 2005, leading the team to more
than 300 victories and its lone NCAA

Division II

World

Series appearance.

While the plaque dedicated

this

including a pair of wins

last season,

over nationally ranked opponents.

Haney brings

to his

new position

the lessons he learned as he watched
his father coach.

me how to
says.

“My father taught

analyze everything,” he

“His aggressive nature in coach-

ing and the things he did in baseball

We want to force
make decisions. His

translate to soccer.

the other team to

competitiveness and willingness to

past spring serves as a reminder of

win

Haney’s service to the university, the

Matt Haney Sr. turned to coaching
after an injury forced him to make a

name endures on the upper
campus with the arrival of his son,
Matt Haney Jr. ’90, who was named
head coach of the women’s soccer
program in May. He served as an asfamily

coach for both the men’s and
women’s soccer teams last year, helping the men’s team to its first NCAA
sistant

Division II
since 1978,

Tournament appearance
and takes over a women’s

program that posted

a 7-8-3 record

really stuck

career change.

with me.”

He

also hit the class-

room, earning an art degree from BU.
His son would later wear the maroon
and gold as goalkeeper for the 1994
Huskies men’s soccer team after a
playing career at Wilkes University.
Haney,

who served coaching stints

in Division

I,

II

and

III,

“His No.

1

victory

was graduatthem for

ing players and preparing
life,”

he

says.

“He always believed

the student-athletes are here to be

students

first.

my dad fell ill, a number of
former players came back and
shared stories of their time with him,
really proving his point on the
relationships he formed with them.”
“After

his

Now another Haney aims to create
his

own legacy at Bloomsburg. “My

father spent a long period of time

Bloomsburg University Husky
and that was the happiest time of his
as a

life,”

in,

his son recalls. “I put

my time

learned a lot about coaching and

was

able to get this opportunity.

I

am

come back and honor my
memory by following in his

thrilled to
father’s

footsteps at Bloomsburg.” •

also learned

from his father that success goes
beyond wins on the field.

Scott

Eddy is

assistant director of

Sports Information.

FALL 2015

Shirk Signs with Colts

JUSTIN SHIRK T3

signed a free agent

contract with the NFL’s Indianapolis
Colts in July.

Shirk compiled 392 tackles and 18.0
sacks during his four seasons with the

Huskies.

He turned in his

campaign

finest

2014 while pursuing

in

graduate studies, leading the team

with 120 tackles, including 21.5 tackles
for loss

and

11.0 sacks.

Following the 2014 season, Shirk’s

awards included All-America honors

from the Associated Press and
Daktronics.

He was

Cliff Harris

Award

a finalist for the

as the top small

school defensive player in the nation
after earning

Pennsylvania State

Athletic Conference

(PSAC) East and

The Harrisburg native, who became
first Bloomsburg men’s track and
field national champion in the javelin in

Webster was selected

2012, will try to join three other former

while teammate Matt Feiler was signed

NFL rosters. Jahri Evans,
a fourth-round pick of New Orleans

to a free agent contract

the

Huskies on

in 2006, has

been selected

in the fourth

round of the draft by the Detroit Lions

by the Houston

Texans, spending the 2014 season on the
practice squad before re-signing with

to six

Daktronics Super Region One Defensive

consecutive Pro Bowls with the Saints

Player of the Year honors.

as

one of the best right guards

NFL. Last season, defensive end Larry

the Texans. •

in the

Parker Earns All-Region Softball Honors
SOFTBALL PLAYER Taylor Parker

Division II Conference Commissioners

team All-Pennsylvania State Athletic
Conference (PSAC) as a pitcher in 2015,
and PSAC East Freshman of the Year
and second team All-PSAC East as a

Association.

utility

of Dewart was

named second team

All-Atlantic Region

by the Daktronics/

Parker, a sophomore, finished the

year 14-5 with a

1.81

ERA. She had

complete games with

five

12

the 33rd straight season, a conference

shutouts

while striking out 108 and walking 41
in 131 innings.

8

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

She was also named

pitcher in 2014.

Bloomsburg finished 26-16 on the
year and reached the PSAC playoffs for

first

record. •

Saintilus Turns Pro in Italy

ALSSENE SAINTILUS

is

playing

professional basketball for

ASD

Sport

e Cultura Patti in Italy’s National
Series.

camp

The season

in

C

started with training

August and

run through

will

the end of May, including playoffs and

championship

play.

In his final season at BU, he averaged
13.8 points

per game and led the

Huskies’ men’s basketball team in

rebounding with

rebounds per

8.4

contest while shooting over 56 percent

from the

floor. Saintilus

posted seven

double-doubles as a senior and finished

with

his collegiate career

CoSIDA Winner
SCOTT EDDY,
assistant sports

PSAC
Scholar-Athletes

Scholar-Athletes must

maintain a 3.25 cumulative grade
point average while competing in an
intercollegiate varsity sport.

total -

88

PSAC

Scholar-Athlete

women and 46 men - marks

the third straight year that the Huskies

have surpassed the

total

ous year. Find more

at

Class

THE 34th ATHLETIC

of Fame class will be inducted

first

place

Directors

State Athletic Conference (PSAC).

Bloomsburg’s

Fame

captured

Information

from the previ-

buhuskies.com. •

(CoSIDA) Fred
Stabley

Sr.

Writing

2. Eddy was honored for
on Huskies football player Eric
Schwartz, who had a tour of duty in Afghan-

Contest District
his story

istan while serving in the Marines. Eddy,

who recently completed his second year at
Bloomsburg, was recognized
zation’s annual

workshop

at

the organi-

in Orlando, Fla.

The winning story appeared

in the

Friday, Oct.

9,

membership

Hall

bringing the

total to 163.

This

year’s inductees are Dale Sullivan

Association

were recognized for the 2014-15
academic year by the Pennsylvania

PSAC

Hall of

information director,

in the College Sports

Scholar-Athletes
A TOTAL of 134 PSAC

34th

1,132 points. •

winter

2015 issue of Bloomsburg: The University

’61,

wrestling; Michelle Martin

Custer

’97, field

Stamm

’96,

hockey;

women’s

Kim

basketball;

Rob Dixon ’99, men’s tennis; and
Marcus Nilsson ’99, men’s tennis.
Learn more about new
members of the Athletic Hall
of Fame atbuhuskies.com. For
information on tickets to the

dinner and induction ceremony,
contact the sports information
office at 570-389-4411. •

Magazine. •

FALL 2015

9

Scott Inch,

left,

and

his

former student Michael Grube collaborated on a project to

MORE THAN 23 million people live
in the Central African

Cameroon. Only one

Republic of

is

recognized as

In Cameroon, cybercrime

officers or lawyers

Cameroon's law enforcement community

with a basic understanding of

digital forensics is

significantly within the next year, thanks

is

police

Inch

in partnership

understand the

BU’s bachelor’s degree program in

is

digital forensics,

which began nearly

A popular undergraduate

contain, says Scott Inch ’86, professor

10 years ago.

of mathematics, computer science and

major, digital forensics
field that

is

an evolving

teaches students to retrieve

out of the country’s courts simply

information from computer hard drives,

because

cell

do not grasp the

technology involved.

But the number of Cameroonian

10

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

“The law hasn’t caught up to
“Cameroon

technology,” Inch says.

in

officials

neighboring nations, with Nigeria as
the worst offender.

Inch developed most of the courses

inner workings of today’s technology

Cases have been thrown

by

with Michael Grube

originating inside the country and in

’13/T5M.

and the potential evidence devices

statistics.

include terrorism, drug violations,

human trafficking and scams

expected to grow

to interactive online training created

a digital forensics expert.

common, but few judges,

officials

train

phones, tablets and other devices

to fight cybercrime

and use

in legal

proceedings. Major crimes in

Cameroon

experiencing a

lot

of cybercrime,

including scams, because people don’t

understand technology. Cameroon
cash culture and citizens wire

make purchases,
card as

is

a

money to

rather than use a credit

we would. There

when their purchases do

is

no recourse

not arrive.”

Cameroonian expert

content and designed simple online

Inch learned of the scarcity of
knowledge from Ali Joan Beri Wacka,
often referred to as “Cameroon’s digital
forensics expert,” through two years
of email correspondence followed by a
visit to Bloomsburg’s campus. Wacka

training, but

earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees

dergraduate degree in digital forensics

in

computer science from Abubakar

Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi,
Nigeria. However, her efforts to pursue a
doctoral degree in digital forensics were
stymied until she met faculty from BU’s
Institute for Instructional
(IIT),

Technology

who were visiting Cameroon’s

to

he wanted the training

be presented

in a

who could take the project

to the next level:

Mike Grube, whose un-

and studies toward a master’s degree
in instructional

technology

a natural for his required

“She and

I

A native of Easton, Grube came to
computers gained not only through BU’s

who

an adviser for Wacka’s

doctoral studies.

“We

spent the

summer

working on her dissertation and talking
about future projects

we

could work on

together.”

After

Wacka returned home, she and

for training

members

of Cameroon’s

community. Inch created the

game

player and,

a professional online poker player.

admits he took his

BU education

more seriously after the U.S. Department of Justice shut down online poker
in 2011,

but says the

skills

he gained

through gaming taught him to “read
people,” a
clients’

Inch continued to develop the concept

legal

later,

program, but also as

handy talent

in

determining

needs for online training.

Grube “built the interactive modules
upon the foundation of content I
created,” Inch says, determining the

necessary information, writing a

two core courses for
however

digital forensics major,

college credits will not be awarded.

In the final stages of development, the

program should roll out in January 2016,
supported by a government minister’s
financial backing and his endorsement
7

of the partnership with the University
of Buea.

the project with a knowledge of

He

clicked,” says Inch,

as

it

internship.

a professional video

now serves

made

480-hour

match

training contains information similar

BU’s

Inch knew

activities to

self-paced online

to that included in

institution that provides study abroad

BU students. They put

The

with a voice over.

digital forensics

experiences for

and creating

fashion than a PowerPoint presentation

University of Buea, a 12,000-student

her in touch with Inch.

more innovative

storyline

the content.

BU will control the grading

and content and provide the technical
support.

Grube says the project has provided
insights for his career, including

estimate the
requires
this

one

amount of time

— he says he underestimated
— and how to gauge the depth

of training clients need.

most

is

how to

a project

‘What

I

love

being able to use both of my

degrees,”

Grube

says.

“And

to help the

university.”

“And,” Inch adds,

being seen

“Cameroon

loves

at the forefront of technology

in their region.” •

Bonnie Martin

is

editor of Bloomsburg:

The University Magazine.

FALL 2015

11

L

evening baseball game

THE TENSION in the

at

Camden

Yards, near Baltimore’s famous Inner

neighborhoods was palpable

when reporter Yvonne Wenger
began her

shift at

The Baltimore

Sun on Saturday, April

25.

was two days before the explosive
would shake the city and
the nation, and as Wenger began
It

riots that

writing about the eighth day of

nonviolent protests following Freddie
Gray’s death, the newsroom’s police

scanner started squawking.

That Saturday saw an estimated
1,200 people take to the streets in the

Demonstrators
remained peaceful despite growing
anger as details emerged about
allegations of police mistreatment
causing Gray’s injury and death. That
largest protest to date.

is,

12

until just before the Orioles’ early

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

‘Using language to feel emotion
and connect’

Harbor.

Wenger, The Baltimore Sun’s

marched four miles across the
city from West Baltimore, where
Freddie Gray was arrested, to the
Harbor and there were points where
people were obviously tense,” Wenger
says. “That night, I went back to the
newsroom and was writing the
mainbar when we started hearing
on the scanner that windows were
breaking around the Harbor area.”
“I

A line of police

in riot

gear

hall reporter since

company, she recalls being fascinated
by the authors the company
published.

way you can use language
make people feel emotion and to

“I like the

to

connect with another
ence,”

protesters outside the baseball park

that in writing.

quickly dispersed. As The Sun

nalism

was

an anomaly during an otherwise
peaceful march.”

There was little warning of what
to come.

was

says

word has always held
an attraction for her. Growing up in
southern Lancaster County, where
her father worked for a printing
the written

formed around Camden Yards, and

reported, “the brief flare-up

city

summer 2014,

Wenger

we

human experi-

says. “I like to capture
I

think in print jour-

often have a greater ability

to explore issues in depth.”

Wenger, who graduated from
Bloomsburg in 2002 with a double
major in mass communications and
political science, says

she visited

BU

by

and was hooked. She
pursued broadcast journalism, but her love of the written word
drew her to print journalism. She
became an editor of BU’s student
newspaper, The Voice, and remembers making tough decisions on how
to cover devastating stories, such
as a fraternity house fire in which
three students died and the death
of a young man who collapsed as he
in the fall of ’97
initially

JACK SHERZER

“No matter what newsroom

I’ve

been in — and I’ve sat in newsrooms
with people with Ivy League degrees
— my Bloomsburg degree has served

me well,” she says. “I’ve said to my
cousins, ‘You can go to a big

name

university and get the debt that

comes

with it’ — and yes, there are certain
advantages that come with networking

— but I would put my Bloomsburg

degree against anyone

else’s.”

played flag football.

Wenger worked as a reporter at The
Reading Eagle and The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C. The Sun was a
“goal paper” for her — a goal achieved
time

2012 and was hired. One thing
she learned along the way is that she
in

would stack her Bloomsburg training
against any other school.

she didn’t feel scared.
“I

saw broken windows and looted

shops,” says Wenger,

After graduating from Bloomsburg,

after she applied for the third

were talking about this on social
media and we started getting reports
that businesses were planning to close
early,” Wenger says. Rioting began
around 3 p.m. and Wenger was sent to
check out the central business district
and the touristy Inner Harbor area,
both close to The Sun offices. Initially,
she went out alone, and Wenger says

The Baltimore

riot

and

lingering questions
On Monday, April 27, one of the first
warning signs of the riot came when
the newspaper’s education reporter

mentioned teens were talking about
The Purge. The term describes a
society that allows a 12-hour period in

which

“We

all

crime

is

legalized.

started hearing that the kids

some

video. “I

went

who

also shot

into an African

hair braiding shop and the

so upset: her TV,

all

owner was

of her chemicals

and her weaves had been

stolen,

and

the weaves are very expensive.”

She also witnessed acts of good. “An
had been hit. Windows
were broken and people had stolen
liquor. Some construction workers
came by and boarded up the owner’s
Italian deli

windows

for him.”

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FALL 2015

13

Wenger

says she felt afraid only once.

A group of young

when

they saw her
walking quickly in the opposite
direction,” she says. “I suppose I may have been naive
because these young kids were maybe 12 or 13, and I
didn’t expect they could frighten me. It was a large group
and I’m just surprised that they were as aggressive as
they were because they were so young.”

people looting a store threatened her
shooting video.

In the

Were

“I started

wake of the

riots

unanswered questions remain.

the rioters egged on by agitators from outside

Baltimore? (The Sun

is

investigating but, so

majority of those arrested are from the

far,

the

city.)

Did Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake make
the rioting worse by not ordering police to take a

stronger approach to breaking up the riots?

Wenger

says the

she intended to

let

mayor strongly

refutes claims that

the rioters go unchallenged and says

her comments about the city giving space “to those

who wished to destroy” have been

misrepresented. But,

Wenger says, many believe the mayor’s decision not to
take a more combative approach prevented any rioters
or other citizens from being killed.

some ways it’s not surprising that Baltimore
became a powder keg, she says. Before the Gray incident,
In

her newspaper’s investigative series on police brutality
revealed that the city paid out claims of almost $6 million

over four years. At the same time, however, she has no

“Why Baltimore?”

ready answer to the question,

“These are issues that black America has been dealing
with for decades and I don’t know what made
Baltimore the flash point,” Wenger says. “During the
unrest, I received a call every day from Jesse Jackson.
His focus was on the cameras and the fact that people
have smartphones and are videotaping, allowing what
happened to Freddie Gray to go viral.”
She says Baltimore these days

is

safe

and

normal, but there are concerns over what

feels

back to

may happen as

the criminal cases against the officers charged in Gray’s

death move forward. Elected

officials, religious leaders,

academics and nonprofit groups are coming together
to figure out

how to

address the systemic issues

structural racism, poverty, drugs



and a lack of jobs



that contributed to the unrest.

As

far as

what comes

next,

Wenger

says, “It’s just

impossible to know. These are unpredictable times.”
Editor’s note: See

Yvonne Wenger’s Baltimore Sun

reporting by searching her

name

at baltimoresun.com. •

Jack Sherzer is a professional writer and principal
partner with Message Prose, a communications and
public relations firm in Harrisburg.

14

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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JERRY WEMPLE

by

I.

Back

when your

the days

in

S.

WILLIAM

grandfather’s father,
ILLUSTRATION:

maybe

was

his father,

amusement

young man down

a

make your back

on the

feel like

they

like

my

in

day,

them

call

nickel rides.

up and down, bucking around,

Steel boxes jacking

Back

shore

piers or the scruffy city lots over near

the wrong side of town, they used to

your hips

at the

it

was worked over with crowbar,

was smacked with

a plank.

word was out about those

Philly streets.

was

I

Nickel Rides by Jerry

nickel rides

Wemple

originally

journal devoted to social justice issues.

from the country, hard

in

was published in HEArt online, a literary
Wemple. BU professor of English, is the

author of three poetry collections.

down by

the

and the woods, but even

river

knew what was what. Saw

I

while stretching
waiting

my

between long-run

in

when

enough that

I

needed

to take a

head up another, act

like

I

left,

never

the paddy

jumped

out,

whacking him good with long

noticed,

How It Began

30th Street station

trains,

and four cops jumped

pulled up

enough that one day

clear

legs near the

a

sticks.

I

wagon

man

hardly

I

THE APRIL

figured soon

from

officers

illegal knife

the back of the

in

screech-lurching

to bust the brakes

II.

wagon

down

for a nickel ride.

the street

and run out

First off,

the war on drugs

there's a

war on people.

wars have

All

I

Charm

see

up

flames. Orange tongues of

in

us from brick buildings. The old people say

back

in

the King

nearly

riot,

ain’t

We

store.

had one good

like

a

Now

they were spun off their

Philly,

buried

-

Baltimore, D.C.

change

city of

of luck,

my
in

fifty

and

it’s

it’s

fire

I

own

I'm not

in

and out

nickel rides,

much

German

cemetery

saint’s

it

a limp,

isn’t

in

the

screaming and obviously

in

viral

pain Gray being dragged

The video raised



official

But a twist of
in

police headquarters were nonviolent. On April 25, however, a small
group of protesters damaged police vehicles and area businesses
and approached Camden Yards during an Orioles baseball game.
They were quickly dispersed by police.

fate,

Baltimore,

The following Monday, the

Manayunk

began, with news stations

riot

capturing scenes of protesters looting, setting

got a parcel of kin

rocks and other items at police,

section of Philly.

hard to fathom other blood



On April 18
the day before Gray's death
the first of what
would be daily protests occurred. Until Saturday, April 25, the
protests in front of the Western District police station, City Hall and

remember

to

could've been. Missed being born

Generation or two before them

medical care as he was taken to the

questions about the arrest and fueled community outrage.

young

I

for

to a police transport van by officers.

was

of focus,

conception, by a few weeks or a month.

the

it

dazed from the experience.

for cities.

on bicycles, who found what was described as an

Shortly after the arrest, video taken by bystanders went

showing

taunt

just as

burnt. Kids too

and focused

riots

District police station, but prosecutors say

years ago. They say

alone Reverend King dodge

let

war on drugs;

atrocities.

changed much since those days.

the neighborhood

Tupac

at once.

wars have casualties,

Baltimore

he was ignored.
From the police station, he was transported to the University of
Maryland Medical Center's R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center,
where he was treated for severe spinal injuries and fell into a coma.
He died on April 19.

Western

Only some wars have winners. Tonight

losers.

City

all

off the

clipped to the inside of his front pants pocket.

Gray repeatedly asked

a concept. There ain’t a

is

All

the gas

all

That unit

the driver wanted

like

touched

According to Baltimore police, Gray acted suspiciously as he ran

nothing, especially

him being cuffed and dumped

a side-vision glance of

it

the nation on the issue of police brutality.

cross the street,

saw

12, 2015, arrest of 25-year-old Freddie Gray should have

been simple. Instead,

Control

kin,

who

was restored by Monday

fires,

and throwing

retreated from the crowd.

night and a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m.

curfew was imposed.
all

those years removed, being sold

in

an auction house

Of course, there's a war on despair, too, though not

and having no spokesperson.
but

is

long going

like

the

It’s

rest.

I

avoid the nickel rides.

I

swampy

D.C.

While the

Likewise, despair too

watch on

my TV

it's

is

city didn’t

see another

against the Chicago White Sox at

often erratic, explosive even,

and so needs a people enemy. And sometimes
Me,

in

official

fifty

miles downriver

in

the next day's Orioles

public because of safety concerns

— the

the ballpark.

held without a crowd

in

game

Yards was closed to the

game was

first

time a major league

a concept,

them, but

in

the end

what's happening

In
it’s

us.

the aftermath of Gray’s arrest and death, six officers were

charged, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the
firing of the city's police chief

one hundred

riot,

Camden

slacked-jawed sorrow.

initiated

and the

U.S.

Department

of Justice

an investigation.

FALL

2015

15

WENZEL/IMPRESSIONS

GORDON

PHOTO:

Champion
for Student Success
By WILLIE

ON THE EVE of his retirement, Irvin
Wright

is

dealing with a serious case

of separation anxiety.

“Today
I

as

I

was leaving for lunch

started to get emotional about this

• ••

“He demanded more from me — he
helped me work harder than I thought

ment. “I was standing at the elevator

and

couldn’t feel

I

my legs. I had to

I needed to.”
“I

came

as a 17 year-old.

my 40s and Dr.
to

Wright

Now I’m

is still

a

in

mentor

me.”

It

its

students,

and

his path

wasn’t an easy transition, howev-

He remembers feeling taken aback
when he arrived at Bloomsburg. “I

“Dr.

Wright became like a father
nothing I do on a daily

figure. There’s

stand up.”

basis that I don’t

owe him for.”

It’s



••

be his

Ask former Act

101 students about

Wright, and they talk about the deep
level of

support he provided and

how

he always demanded their best despite the multiple barriers to success

they often faced. For some, he became
part of their extended families, at-

tending weddings and graduation
parties,

said,

‘There are no black people’,” he

recalls.

“The environment was not

very welcoming.”

hold myself steady to continue to

June 25, 2015. The next day will
last on staff. It will be the end
of a professional career that spanned
45 years, 38 of those at Bloomsburg
University working with the Act
101/Equal Opportunity Program, for
which he served as director from
1996 through 2012. The program
provides academic advising, tutoring,
mentorship and a precollege summer
program to students who are at a fi-

program and
was set.
er.

experience,” says Wright, former
associate dean for academic achieve-

COLON

and sometimes advising them

Hired as the Act 101 assistant direche moved to Bloomsburg
and, a year later, married his wife,
Judy, who had trouble getting a job
as a school teacher despite her strong
qualifications. And the couple had

tor in 1977,

to

file

several grievances against a

landlord

who

tried repeatedly to evict

them.

Wright was undeterred, but clearly
was a lot of work to be done.
“Jesse Bryan and I realized that we
needed to create a community that
embraced and supported differences,”
he says.
there

nancial, cultural, social or educational

about wrenching personal

disadvantage.

Their recollections swirl around
one fundamental truth summed up by
Act 101 alumnus Wayne Whitaker Sr.

students from different backgrounds

79, assistant director of diversity and

that Act 101 includes both whites and

Those who know him well describe
Wright as a champion for diversity
and social justice; a tireless administrator

mile

who without fail goes the

extra

— and beyond — for students.

“In 38 years, I’ve only missed
four graduations,” Wright says.

important for
I

me to be there because

know what the

through

“It’s

students have gone

to get to that point.

know how I do this.
because I’m motivated. It’s exciting work because I see the difference
“People want to

It’s

in students

when they get it — what

they need to do to be successful.”

retention at BU:

“He

is

crises.

dedicated to

students. That’s his heart.”

That dedication began in the summer of 1975. Wright was an assistant
football coach at the University of
Toledo when his close friend, Jesse
Bryan, encouraged him to use his
vacation time to work as a guidance
counselor for the Act 101 summer
program. Bryan was BU’s first fulltime director of Act 101.

Wright says he

fell in

Part of that

work involved helping

engage with one another. The

fact

students of color has helped foster a
multicultural environment.

He

also has

worked hard

to counter

the stigma that Act 101 students are
less

deserving of their spot at Blooms-

burg.

“Why bring these

students to

Bloomsburg when you know they
can’t make it?” Wright says, quoting
the attitude of some staff and faculty.
“But that’s not true. Our retention and
graduation rates keep going up.”

love with the
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FALL 2015

17

"

Wright remembers six-year graduation rates for underrepresented

minorities as low as 33 percent. For

the 2008 freshmen cohort, that figure

was

51.1 percent.

Improving retention and gradu-

Force on Racial Equity, the University

Committee for Protected Class Issues
and the Bloomsburg Rotary Club.
“The thing about people
tion

is

that

we have

level.

the committees you can.”

committed

says.

to sup-

porting students, you end up on

all

Wright also has made it a point to
on numerous committees and get
involved in the community. A very
sit

of those activities includes

the University'- Community Task

“He’s a

affairs at Bloomsburg. “He will always be the voice of social justice at

Bloomsburg.”

But while he’s no longer on staff,
is hardly going silent.

that voice

he says with a laugh.
be trying to figure out
what to do with the next chapter of

• ••

Wright

will

says

’95/’98M, director of multicultural

after

Irvin

civil rights trailblazer,”

Act 101 alumna Madelyn Rodriguez

“I’m not planning to do anything

students are the same. You

“Not
have to meet them where they are
in terms of readiness for college,”
Wright explains. “At the same time,
we have cracks that students fall
through and are never heard from
again. What can we do as an institution to help them?”

list

on more

to take

“If you’re really

short

my posi-

than just doing our job,” Wright

ation rates has meant a lot of work
with students and at the institutional

all

in

"

I

retire,”

“Basically,

be sorely missed.

used to go to Dr. Wright’s office
and talk about personal stuff going
on with me,” says Mara Carpenter
‘98. “He was one of the first people I
thought of to invite to my wedding.
Now, I’m a nurse anesthetist and an
“I

I’ll

my life.”
It’s

highly likely that a big part

of that next chapter will involve

Bloomsburg: He has already filled out
the necessary background clearance
forms so he can start volunteering.
Clearly,

he won’t be going far. •

equal opportunity officer in the U.S.

Army. What better way to honor
where I came from?”

Willie Colon

is

a freelance writer

based in Philadelphia.

Former Act 101 students credit
the program — and its longtime director Irvin Wright —
with providing the support and
encouragement they needed to
successfully navigate the aca-

demic, social and cultural
aspects of life at Bloomsburg.

Their testimonies speak to the

enduring impact that Wright

and the program have had on
their lives.

“Act 101 pretty
person. They

much saved me

opened doors

for

other schools didn't accept me.

Wright helped

me be who am
I

as a

me when
And

Dr.

today. He’s

not just an administrator; he's family.

Madelyn Rodriguez ’95/'98M,
Director of Multicultural Affairs,

Bloomsburg University

“What liked so much was that Dr. Wright
he forced me
demanded more from me
I



to

perform at a higher level and give back to

the program.

needed out
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of the program, too.

much

that

it

naturally

love Bloomsburg. For

me Act

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me

fill

and my

out

all

mom

my forms
would be

on the phone giving him the information
financial aid forms. With his help

a problem getting the forms

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I

burg,

and he helped

went back to grad school

from grad student

to

never had

I

in for

for

money.

at

Blooms-

me make the transition
employee. When a

student needs something I’m there because
that’s

what

Marcella

Dr.

Wright did with me.

Woods

’85, Coordinator of

remember the first day of the Act 1 01
summer program when we were all sitting
“I

in

the audience. Dr. Wright said, ‘Look

right.

Now look left. One

won’t graduate.

when

I

said,



of these students

That was profound. That's

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graduate.



I

decided

"I

would not have been academically

ready

if

not

for

the program.

told

me

I

couldn’t write either.

the level

I

needed

to

be at

Wayne Whitaker

knew that this
was an opportunity and had to make the

Bloomsburg University

do

everything into perspective.

I

came

in

I

was the

perfect candidate! The program got

my very best and really focus on the
academics. That first day helped me put
to

I

knowing I couldn't do math, and then they

Sr.

me to

.

79, Assistant

Director of Diversity and Retention,

I

most of it.”

Minority Affairs, Residence Life,

Nicole Mason ’04, Director of Marketing

Bloomsburg University

Strategy, Macy’s

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husky notes

Backstage Pass:

Have Bass,

'06

BEAUPRE

Will Travel

TOM

COURTESY

by

ERIC FOSTER

PHOTO:

I
TOM BEAUPRE measures time in tours, rather than years.

ing hours from venue to sold-out venue.

Beaupre has been the bass player for Florida Georgia Line’s
touring band for the past five years. You can almost see him
mentally converting tours to years

when

asked about the number

of shows he’s played with the country duo.

“We
the

did 256 shows in 2013. Last year

first

pre ’06,

66 days of this year,

who married

I

it

his sweetheart, Jessica, last

double platinum and

Composed

last year’s

to 170

Any thing Goes

is

in

Beau-

December.

Good Times

is

already gold.

of Florida-native Brian Kelley and Tyler

of Georgia, the country duo

and

for 57,” says

Florida Georgia Line’s 2012 album Here’s to the
is

Hubbard

burning up highways, as well as

charts.

Nine buses and a handful of semis

20

roll

through the wee morn-

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

is

And when the band

on stage

left in

the lights

and smoke, laying down the bass for crowds numbering in the
thousands.
Beaupre’s love of music comes a long

was 160

was on the road

takes the stage at 9 p.m., Beaupre

and rock (or country) music stardom.
music

fair

where,

among the

It

way from dazzling stages
comes from

a third-grade

trumpets, saxophones and

flutes,

he

saw an upright bass.
“I loved

it,

the feel of it, the sound of it.” Lessons followed. In

middle school, the bass was turned on
the band Green

Day figures

its

side

and

electrified

...

into Beaupre’s recollection of these

years. Guitar lessons followed in high school

and

college.

He went to Bloomsburg to study business, but switched majors
to music, studying jazz, theory and classical guitar. He played
open mics. His pop punk group, William West, won BU’s battle of

©


bucks, gigged on weekends and lived with

the bands one year.

And long before he

played Dirt on the

roommates,

who

good chance

included Brian Kelley

he’s listening to

“Every camp

is

NPR.

different,” says

Beaupre.

and Tyler Hubbard. Hubbard and Kelley

“Camp”

bass for Wagner’s Die Meistersingers with

formed Florida Georgia Line

group of people involved in a particular

the Bloomsburg University-Community

bringing a rock attitude to country music.

Orchestra.

Beaupre had kept

An open mic gave Beaupre the first clue
that this could be a career. “We must have

a natural

country music stage, he played upright

fit

his

in 2010,

chops sharp and was

for backing the

duo

live.

been playing the right covers, because the

summer of 2011, the band
manager said, ‘Get ready to not be home

audience kept calling for more.

much.’ That was the

Teah,

I

could do

I

thought,

“In the

first

time

I

was

paying all of my bills with music.”

this.’

“My professors encouraged me to shoot

Things were happening, and

fast.

for the stars,” says Beaupre. Instead of

Florida Georgia Line opened for well-

looking for recording internships close to

known country artists

home

Luke Bryan (2013) and Jason Aldean
(2014) and 11 dates for singer/songwriter

in Paoli,

he sent dozens of applica-

tions to Nashville,

Emerald

and he landed one

at

Taylor Swift in 2013.

Studios.

After graduation, Beaupre

worked

for

about a year for newspapers in the Paoli

ing their

Jake

Owen (2012),

They began

headlin-

own tours, as well, in 2013.

After the intensity of playing a show, he

area and doing music gigs on weekends.

keeps himself busy in the downtime on

Bigger stages beckoned. Beaupre took a

the road by working out, reading and

chance and moved to Nashville.

He tuned pianos, served lattes at Star-

playing golf, like
If you see

many of his bandmates.

Beaupre with earbuds, there’s a

music industry lingo for the

is

tour.

‘We’ve got a family-oriented setup

here.

No one’s chasing women or doing

drugs. We’re

all

husbands trying to make a

living for our families.

“This

the best of all worlds,” says

is

Beaupre. “Brian and Tyler have so
to

do

much

interviews with media, radio

...

stations

and that

and
is

fans.

to

We’ve got a job

make

to

do

sure those two guys

have a great-sounding band every night.
It’s

a great job.

“I lived

they’re

with them for two years and

awesome, down-to-earth. They’re

my boss and my friends. They’re my
friends

first.”

Eric Foster



is

photography editor
The University

for Bloomsburg:

Magazine.

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husky
weekly newspaper
Haven. Also editor of The

Schuylkill News, a

’40s
Bill

in Schuylkill

Selden ’43 received the Historic
Award from the Berwick

Preservation

was

Historical Society. Selden

also

honored for seven decades of service
by the district deputy grand master of
the 35th Masonic District.

Reading Eagle, Deitz coordinates work
between the companies, making Reading
Eagle Co.’s resources available for South
Schuylkill News. Deitz is a past president
of the Pennsylvania Society of

in the district.

graduated from the Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Gettysburg.

He was

coordinator of the Allentown

Area Lutheran Parish and Christ Church
in Hazleton.

He has served

as interim

Kevin R. Barr ’76 retired from the Cape
May County (N.J.) Special Services

St.

John’s

Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fogelsville.

Bonnie

L,

’63 retired

Hoffman Tyler
from teaching

the end of the 2014-15
academic year. For most
of her career, she taught
in 12-month environments
at

in alternative schools in

New Jersey, working with students who
did not succeed in district public schools.

Tyler

was recognized

for her faith in

public education and individual students

and service to her community during
an awards ceremony for high-achieving

hhh
seniors.

Jerry Walborn ’71 retired as a pilot
from United Airlines with over 25,000
accident-free flight hours.

J.

Dean Giambrone

’73 retired as a

and collections manager from
Henkels & McCoy, Blue Bell.
Harry Deitz ’74 is publisher of South
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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Brig. Gen.

Thomas P.
Army

’83, U.S.

^ Reserve, deputyprotection

-

director, force

and counter weapons
of mass destruction, the
Joint Staff, Washington,
D.C., was reassigned to deputy commanding general (operations), Troop
Program Unit, 80th Training Command,

9a

Total

Army

School System,

School District after 39 years teaching
at the middle, high school and post high

Richmond,

school levels. Barr

Christine Kuperavage Zanis ’84

is

a past president of

the district’s staff association, and

was

Va.

Penn Investors Trust

and

Zanis

his wife, Eileen, live in Palermo, N.J.

Richard Simons ’77 is first vice
chairman of The Association for
Manufacturing Technology. Simons,
chairman, president and CEO of
Hardinge Inc., Elmira, N.Y., has led
Hardinge as president and chief
executive officer since

May 2008.

is

vice

president and account officer of National

named Teacher of the Year in 2004. He

pastor at Zion’s Evangelical Lutheran

Church, Old Zionsville, and

.

Evans
v.-

from Bloomsburg Memorial
Elementary School. Faust taught 30 years

anniversary of his ordination. Trout

v

\

retired

Stanley Trout ’62 celebrated the 50th

University.

Newspaper Editors and the Pennsylvania
Associated Press Managing Editors.
Gail Georgette Gazdick Faust ’75

’60s

Denise Davies Berg ’82 is director of
alumni engagement at Millersville
University. Berg previously worked as
director of alumni relations at Mansfield

Co.,

Allentown.

responsible for managing,

is

expanding and servicing client
relationships in Berks and Schuylkill
counties and parts of Montgomery
County.

Robert Druckenmiller ’85

is

administrator of health care services
at

Masonic

Village, Elizabethtown.

Druckenmiller previously worked as

Dave Williams

’78

was inducted

into

chief financial officer and assistant

the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football

nursing home administrator

Coaches Association (PSFCA) Hall of
Fame. Williams was head coach at four
high schools — Mount Carmel, Shenandoah Valley, Tamaqua and Nazareth
Area — for a total of 16 seasons, posting

Acres Nursing and Rehab.

a career record of 135-53-1.

named PSFCA Coach

Williams was

of the Year three

times and was 1996 Associated Press

at

Pleasant

Jerry Ganz ’85 is vice president of
finance and chief financial officer at the
University of Connecticut Foundation.

He lives
C.J.

and

with his
and their children, Isabella,

in Ellington, Conn.,

wife, Elena,

Olivia.

Small School Coach of the Year.

Greg Kleponis

’85

is

a doctoral candi-

date in conflict studies at the University
of Bolton, United Kingdom. Kleponis

’80s

retired U.S. Air Force colonel

is

who

specialized in security operations and
’80, a

member

antiterrorism plans and programs and

Kappa

Gamma

served in advisory capacities in the

Carol McClain Kruskie
of Sigma Chapter, Delta

International, received an enrichment

Middle

grant from the Alpha Alpha state

resides in Greece.

organization. She will use the grant

money to conduct research.

East, Iraq

and Afghanistan. He

a

Lawrence Medaglia ’85 was appointed
to the Reading Area Community College

Frank Sheptock ’86

is

income group
and in institutional sales and marketing
and served as a portfolio manager with

a volunteer

financial division, fixed

coach at BU under
defensive coordinator Chet Henicle.
assistant football

Board of Education. Medaglia is
serving his fifth, four-year term as the
Berks County register of wills. He
previously was the administrative
supervisor of the Berks County district

Robert Fortuner ’87 is finance director
of Wayne Memorial Community Health
Centers, encompassing 14 medical,

team.

attorney’s office.

dental and specialty health care

professor of business and information

throughout Lackawanna, Pike
and Wayne counties. He previously

technology at

of schools for the Archdiocese of

worked

administration courses.

Washington with oversight for 68
elementary schools, 20 high schools
and seven early childhood programs
Washington, D.C., and suburban and

Carbondale, as the organization’s

Vanguard’s Stable Value Management

Cathleen Golden Ray ’87

offices

William Ryan

’85

superintendent

is

is

assistant

Mount Aloysius

College,

Cresson, where she teaches business

for Quality Perforating Inc.,

southern Maryland. The schools serve

superintendent of the Great Valley

Susan Keim Blake ’88M retired as
Head Start director. Blake
worked at the Danville Head Start
program for 25 years, and spent the

approximately 27,000 students.

School District. Palubinsky, assistant

12 years as director.

chief financial officer.

Danville

in

Regina Speaker Palubinsky ’87M

is

last

superintendent for Phoenixville Area

School District since 2010, was the
special assistant to the Pennsylvania

relations coordinator/spokesperson for

Insurance Co. Bolinger joined the com-

secretary of education and a high

the Pennsylvania Department of

pany as an accounting manager in 1988,
was promoted to vice president/chief
financial officer and elected treasurer.

school science teacher.

Environmental Protection’s Northeast

Brian Bolinger ’86

is

senior vice

president at the Tuscarora

He

is

a

member of the

Wayne

Pennsylvania

blog called “wurdsfromtheburbs” for five

He

recently published a selection

Accountants. Bolinger resides in

of essays, An Atheist for Christ,

Wyalusing with his wife, Valerie, and
children, Ty and Madisyn.

zon for Kindle.

Kelly Cuthbert

director,

Vanguard Europe, Valley Forge,

directing Vanguard’s Financial Advisor

and financial

assets.

adviser.

Brogna named

Services division,

which serves more

than 1,000 financial advisory firms
representing more than $1 trillion in

He

has worked in Vanguard’s

VP

wrote

Katrina: A Novel of New Orleans and

is

working on a sequel to Dead On, a timebending thriller optioned by Hollywood’s
Gold Circle Films.

THE NEW DIRECTOR of

cancer services

advancement and communication

Community Hospital,

at

Evangelical

with Allied Services Integrated

Lewisburg, Andrea Keefer

Health System. Brogna joined

Bertram

’89

is

responsible for

managing strategic planning,

and brings

budgeting, fiscal management,

compliance, productivity, and

in

new role.

reporting for the hospital’s

expanded cancer services program.

certificate in nonprofit

management from

the University of Scranton and

is

completing graduate studies

management

at

Misericordia University.

is

also

What Remained of

AS

communications and professional

Allied Services

Jameson

historical romances.

the award-winning

JIM BROGNA ’92 was named

more than 20 years of experience

in organizational

released

to Spellbound, another in her series of

vice president for corporate

director of development

Brogna earned a

Jameson ’89

Bertram directs cancer services

Allied Services in 1999 as executive

fundraising to his

anchor/reporter at WYOU-TV in
Wilkes-Barre.

Across a Dark Highland Shore, a sequel

Morgan Stanley
Wealth Management, Easton, a group
composed of the firm’s top financial
advisers. Glovas is the managing director
at

community

on Ama-

Thomas Rampulla ’87 is managing
Chairman’s Club

the

Previously she was employed as an

’87 has has written a

years.

to the

is

Regional Office in Wilkes-Barre.

Joseph Pugnetti

Institute of Certified Public

Michael Glovas ’86 was named

Colleen Connolly ’88

the provider of health care and

human

Bertram joined Evangelical’s team

in

2007 to oversee
M. Humphreys

the administrative direction of the Thyra

Center for Breast Health. During her 24-year professional
career, she has

worked with major businesses throughout

services for northeastern Pennsylvanians with disabilities and

the Susquehanna Valley in roles related to development,

chronic

marketing and financial management.

illness.

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Business

’90s

Management

Institute at

’00s

the University of Kentucky.
Bill Shotwell ’95 was promoted to senior
key account manager for Precor, a global

Wendi Achey ’91 was promoted to

company, responsible for direct
and Delaware. He
has been employed with Precor since
2006 and has 20 years in the health and

professor of business marketing at

fitness

Northampton Community College,
Bethlehem. Before coming to NCC,
Achey was marketing manager at B.
Braun and director of marketing and

sales in Pennsylvania

including the

David Marcolla ’00
Paul

several awards,

ADDY Award, which is

J.

Clifford ’96

is

associate vice

president of university advancement at

He lives

the University of Oregon.

Eugene, Ore., with his wife, Jennefer
Boyle Clifford

’96,

in

and their three

children.
’91 of John

Todd Vankirk

state of Delaware.

Elementary School, Sunbury. He
previously was an elementary

Brian Martin ’92 was

named

director of NFL

Football Operations and

’96

is

elementary

principal for Chief Shikellamy

principal for

and served

Midd-West School

as the federal

and Rehab, based in
Montclair, N.J. Over the
he has trained more than

past 20 years,

100

NFL players, including Joe Flacco of

District

Peterson of the Arizona Cardinals.

Craig R. Shuey ’94 serves on the
Governor’s Transportation Funding
Advisory Commission. Shuey joined the
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission as
government affairs director in 2009 and

was named chief operating officer

in

coordinator.

coach
Jill

Yazwinsky Dougherty

’98

is

the

head of Stratford Friends School, Newtown Square, an elementary school for
students with learning differences.
Previously, Dougherty was the head of

and a reading teacher in the Southeast
Delaware County School District.

Howard Hodder ’98 was named
director of the geomatics service group

Rowland & Grubic Inc., Lancaster.
Hodder previously was geographic

pike Commission, Shuey

group manager.

Dennis Correll ’95M is associate dean
and admissions at

Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Correll has been

employed by Penn

College since 1986 in the areas of
financial aid,

budget and investments,

admissions and institutional

advancement.

He is a graduate of

Leadership Lycoming and the College

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

girls’

in 2015, surpassing

basketball

100

varsity wins.

Keith Glynn ’03
the

Lackawanna

is

business manager of

Trail School District.

Stephanie McCauley Hollick ’03 is
secretary/treasurer of the North Central
Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of
Certified Public Accountants for 2015-16.
Hollick is senior manager with Baker
Tilly Virchow Krause, Williamsport.

Stephen Glynn ’06

is

the technology

District.

Glynn previously was a system

WBRE-TV. He

Aimee Johnson
to the

director at Forest City Regional School

Wilkes-Barre and was employed

Metrick ’98 was named
for financial aid

basketball, concluded

head

administrator at Kings College,

director of the Senate Transportation
to 2009.

girls’

at

information systems specialty service

Committee from 2001

who has

served as an assistant coach in volleyball,
his eighth year as

January 2011. Prior to joining the Turn-

was executive

AT&T Wireless Home Services.

baseball and

programs

Woodlynde Upper School, a reading
specialist at Springfield High School

the Baltimore Ravens and Patrick

Comcast in
was previously
director of product management for
at

Conroy, a social studies teacher

Business Development for
Parabolic Performance

Communities

Christopher Conroy ’03 won the
Crystal Apple Award, selected by
members of the Shenandoah Valley
Chapter of the National Honor Society.

M.

Clayton Elementary School was named
elementary counselor of the year for the

senior director,

Philadelphia. Marcolla

She earned a master’s degree from
DeSales University.
field.

is

channel marketing for Xfinity

presented to designers in the advertising

Jan Edwards-Bomhardt

service provider.

fitness industry.

advertising at Integrated Biosciences.

Her work garnered

Eric Boughner ’00 is manager of
computer systems for Columbia County.
He was previously affiliated with
EvenLink in Sunbury, an Internet

Washington

under 40. Metrick

is

his wife, Jenna,

and sons, Ryan and Luke.

Michelle Kessler Dangle ’08

Business Journal’s 40
the

vice president of public

Comcast
Cable, overseeing Comcast’s communications throughout key media markets,
including the Washington region.

at

resides in Old Forge with

is

a

certified registered nurse practitioner
at

Susquehanna Health Endocrinology

at

Divine Providence Hospital in

relations for

Williamsport.

Darnell Hayes ’08 is branch executive
director of the Williamsport branch of the

ern Michigan,

of merit in law office

Mama, Eric Bellinger and
Meagan Good. Davis also toured China

YMCA. He previously worked as

was recognized by her peers with a lead-

with major

executive director for the Arcadia Branch

ership award.

of the Ocean

began

Mason earned a certificate
management and

Community YMCA and

his career at the

YMCA. Hayes lives
his wife, Janice,

in

Bloomsburg Area

Williamsport with

Dave Szolna 10

is

employed

probation officer with the

County Adult Probation

and their children,

Dominick and Jianna.

as a

Montgomery

Office.

Szolna

recently received his master’s degree in

artist Lil

artists.

Laura Pape 13 was inducted into the
Sigma Zeta Chapter of the Phi Alpha
National Social Work Honor Society. Pape
is enrolled in the master of social work
program at Marywood University.

criminal justice with a specialization in

Sarah Thompson Maneval ’09 is
community office manager at West
Milton State Bank’s Beaver Springs

Beginning her career
State

Bank

in

at

2010 as a

federal law enforcement.

Office.

West Milton

teller services

David Albertson 12 graduated from
Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College

Lydia Shedden 13 is human resources
assistant with Cargill, Wyalusing. She
began employment with Cargill as an
operations associate.

of Law.

Dana Wieller 13

representative, she has held positions as

the assistant

is

women’s

and community banking
officer. Maneval resides in Port Trevorton
with her husband, Jeremy, and their

Seth Arnold 12 is a Lancaster County
Northwest Regional Police officer. Arnold

basketball coach for Flagler College in

previously worked as a police officer at

graduate assistant

four children.

Harrisburg International Airport.

head

teller

completed

his

He

municipal police officer

St.

Augustine, Fla. Wieller served as a

University and

at

East Stroudsburg

was the

director of

basketball operations at Lafayette.

training in 2013.

Kyle Christy 14

’10s
Christina Davis 13 was featured on the

Samantha Mason 10 earned

a

law degree

from the Western Michigan University
Thomas M. Cooley Law School. At West-

at

is

the boys’ tennis coach

Tunkhannock Area High School.

TV show, The Real Dancers ofNorth
Hollywood. She worked with artists such
as

Emmy-nominated Shane Sparks from

So You Think You Can Dance, hip-hop

Four serve on exec committee
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION selected its executive

Other board members are Mary Frew Braccili

committee and new board members for the 2015-16 term,
which began July 1. Serving on the executive committee

Coppa ’00, Claire Day ’93, Todd Givier 10, Ernest Jackson ’81,
Ken Lastowka ’05, John Makara ’90, Stu Marvin 78, James
McMenamin ’78/’83, Marv Meneeley ’85/’87, Juli Herring
Miller ’92, John Nicodem ’86, Donato Nieman 74, Greg Orth
’95, Catherin Reuther ’09/10, Brian Roadarmel ’08/10, Todd

are Joe Yasinskas ’06, president; Barbara Willders ’83, vice
president; Elizabeth
’03, treasurer;

members

and

at large.

Kramer

’84, secretary;

Shawn Booker

Adam Black ’07 and Marc Steckel ’93,

Walker

’87

and Jake Williams

’90,

Michael

’87.

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Alum appears on
Orange

is

New

Black

JAMES McMENAMIN ’01 has joined the cast of
Orange is the New Black as corrections officer Charlie
“Donuts” Coates for the popular show’s third season.

He

also

appeared on the seventh season of Nurse

is filming a movie, The Long Home, with
James Franco and Ashton Kutcher.

Jackie and

His acting credits include TV’s The Good Wife, Law
and Order SVU, Person ofInterest, Unforgettable and

HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge. On stage, he

the

2009 off-Broadway revival of Our
Broadway revival of OfMice and
Men, starring Franco and Chris O’Dowd.

Higley receives Presidential

Award

appeared

in the

Town and

the 2014

Hodgins honored

SUSAN HIGLEY ’08M, a teacher
at

TED HODGINS

Hughesville Junior/Senior High

School,

is

among

the William

108 mathematics

who

Presidential

Award

in

The award

contributions of time and talent.

who

Senior director of customer

earned a master’s

degree in supervision of curricu-

experience for Comcast, Hodgins

lum and instruction and

graduated from

principal

(STEM)

classes to

seventh- through 12th-graders at Hughesville for nine years.
Previously, she taught 12 years in Cecil County,

in

active in

campus

radio stations

WBSC

As an alumnus, he has been involved

which benefits

STEM Partnership Grant and Three Region Partnership in

and helped organize alumni events

Math and Science Grant, which led to teaching NASA’s Summer of Innovation and Web 2.0 initiatives. Her partnership
with NASA’s Remote Sensing Earth Science Teacher Education

During his six-year term

for students to study local

impacts on the Chesapeake Bay. Co-author of NASA publicaYou, Higley

studying toward a doctorate in educational leadership

at

is

Im-

maculata University.

award recognizes outstanding kindergarten

Hodgins, a

TKE’s annual golf

in the Philadelphia area.

and

as an

member of the

Panel, provides job

College of Liberal Arts Advisory

shadowing experiences

at

offers career advice as a presenter for the

communications department and the Zeigler

Comcast
mass
Institute for

Professional Development (ZIPD) conference.

He

resides in Schwenksville with his wife, Christine

O’Rourke Hodgins

receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation.

Caroline, both

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

in

Alumni Affairs board
member, he served as treasurer and vice president and
chaired the technology and awards committees.

through 12th-grade science and mathematics teachers. Winners

26

WBUQ, BUTV

a scholarship for an undergraduate,

event,

workbook Solar Storms and

and

(Bloomsburg University Television) and Tau Kappa Epsilon
(TKE).

Md.

A nationally board-certified teacher, Higley has

program has provided opportunities

BU with a degree

mass communications. He was

participated in the Pennsylvania Multi-Region Math/Science/

presidential

devotion to and

University through volunteer

K-12 from BU, has taught science,

The

given to a graduate

enthusiasm for Bloomsburg

for Excellence

Mathematics and Science

technology, engineering and mathematics

tions, including the

is

who exemplifies

received the

Teaching.
Higley,

was named

Derricott

Volunteer of the Year for 2015.

and science teachers from across
the country

T.

’89

’88.

They have three

BU seniors, and Sean.

children,

James and

?

Every donor

makes a

A provision in your will or estate plan will cost you
nothing now, but can make
to a student

a

world of difference

tomorrow. Including

bequest to The

a

Bloomsburg University Foundation,
easiest

and most

significant gifts

Inc.,

is

one of the

you can make.

Why
It’s

revocable: If your plans or circumstances

change, you can easily revise the bequest.
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simple:

up your

One

paragraph in your will can

And it’s flexible: You can
program or allow us
are

set

gift.

to use

support a particular
for the needs that

it

most relevant when your

gift

is

Marc

received.

Steckel ’93,

Deputy Director, Complex Financial

Institutions at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

At

the same time, you’ll be helping a

new generation
remembers the benefit that Bloomsburg gave

of students prepare for their future.

decided to give back
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VITAL STATISTICS
Marriages
'88

Robin Leavy

Amy

Obituaries

and

Earl Bartley, Sept. 15,

2013

Allen '99 and Randy Probst, April 19, 2015

Helen Bond Berk ’30

Ella Knittle

Kathryn Brobst Hartman '36

Gerald Edwards

Kurt Whitmoyer '02 and Kerry Smathers, July 27, 2012

Isabelle

Olah Horvath

Nina Bindie ’05 and Jeffrey Tedesco, Sept. 27, 2014

Dorothy

Mae Grow

Diana G’Angeli ’05 and Kevin
Lisa

Bednar

’06

Ercolani, Oct. 25,

and Jesse Stoudt, July

19,

2014

Ann Brinckman

’07

Rebecca Morrow

’07

and Ryan McDonald

May

Klae Karas ’08 and Douglas Hunter, Aug.

15,

17,

Gloria Mainiero

2014

2014

2014

1,

’76

’76

Robert Grantier ’78

George Gera

’49

Deborah Germain Sponenberg
’50

B. Lois

Barbara Frederick Pentecost

Marissa Petrone ’14 and Paul Jacobs, Nov.

’74

Lawrence Knowles

Gerilyn Washtician

Walter Zorn

Ruth

Jenna
and Brad Lilly, Oct. 25, 2014
Tara Stackhouse '09 and Natalie Page ’10/’12M, June 13, 2015
Alina Yohn '09 and Christopher Wrench ’09, Oct. 10, 2014
Elissa Cook ’10 and Cody Concini ’12, Oct. 11, 2014
Rebecca Haley ’10 and Matthew Cancilla, April 27, 2012
Andrea Kellock ’10 and Tim Marcoe ’08, July 25, 2015
Jennifer Kubilus ’10 and Nicholas Horvath, Oct. 3, 2014
Mary Lorence ’10 and Frederick Schrader ’10, Jan. 3, 2015
Amanda Noll '10 and Timothy Shepherd, April 5, 2015
Nagy Ahmed ’11 and Emily Abraczinskas, June 20, 2014
Debon Berger ’11 and David Kolb ’08. Aug. 20, 2011
Rhiannon Diak ’11 and Brian Rennalls ’11, Oct. 18, 2014
Britni Nowakowski ’11 and Andrew Cenname ’10, May 15, 2015
Kathryn Walczuk ’12 and Kyle Dickerson ’12. Aug. 30, 2014
Brittany Mull ’13 and Andrew Maurer, Oct. 25, 2014
Ryan Lombardo ’14 and Amanda Williams, Aug. 11, 2013

’72

’73

'48

Devin

Peters '09

McHugh

Edward Raney

Jennifer

Kelly

Gavigan McLaughlin

Donald Rishe

Edward Smigelski

Serembus ’08 and Eric Laster, Nov. 12, 2010
Bownes ’09 and Robert Cohick '08. May 18, 2013
Bressi ’09 and James Lesko ’12, May 31, 2014

’46

’48

Dill

’69

’71

Kathleen Murphy Hughes ’74

’46

Mary Longo Pratico

A.

Thomas Ropel

Jean Dickinson Applegate

2014

18,

’07, Oct. 4,

Jennifer Cudzil ’08 and Joshua Abrams,

’43

Ruth Bishop Jones ’44

and Lang Osborne, Sept. 27, 2013

Lauren Maylath ’07 and Anthony Conston, July

Mary

Michael

Mabel Troy Heffelfinger

2014

Camille Richie ’06 and Justin Anderson, Nov. 24, 2014
Kristi

’41

’43

Shoemaker

Thomas

Rebecca

’51

Virginia

'51

'78

Ream

George Rick

Pawloski ’82

’82

Michael Peterman ’83

Schell ’55

Sharon Marie Cameron Toohey

Ellis

’56

Mark Kleback

Roland Schmidt '56

Kemp

Christine

Oshiro ’57

McNamara

Blazier ’86

Darrin Love ’88

Raymond Hargreaves

’58

Russell

Swody

'89

Richard Kressler ’58

Diane Weaver Breech ’90

Adabelle Hartman Shellenberger '60

John

’62

Nancy Glenn Thomas

'63

Isabelle Petrucci Yanni ’94

John Messer ’00M

Thomas Koppenheffer
Manganaro

’64

Janet Emery English '02

’64

Edward Laczkowski
John Woytowich

Ritz ’92

Robert Frankel ’94

William Berry ’64

Sherrill

’83

’85

Charles Bartol '87

Allen Acor ’58

John Ickes

’79

Hueholt ’80

Keeler ’53

Howard Healy
Patricia

Hess

Vincent Serine ’09

’64

Peter Cooke ’10
Carolyn Breznik ’12

’68

Linda Lechner ’69

2014

Births
Benjamin Yagle
15,

'95

and

Jennifer

wife, Brandi, a daughter, Elliotte Denise, Feb.

Serembus Laster

Jodi Merrey Albarano '00/’04M and husband,
Nicole, Aug.

1,

A.J.,

’00

and

wife,

Megan, a daughter, Laughlin Grace, Jan.

2,

Devin

Kurt Whitmoyer ’02 and

wife, Kerry, sons, Kelton,

and Keefer, born

2015

April 23,

born Jan. 13, 2014,

Cichello Miller ’03 and husband,

Bob

Miller ’04, a daughter,

Waugh Bankes

’05

Emersyn Marie, March

3,

III,

Jan.

3,

May

Amanda Brooks

21

,

’08,

a son,

2015

Lindsay Young Ewing ’09 and husband, Eric Ewing
Olivia Grace,

’09,

a daughter,

201

Winters ’09 and husband, John, a daughter, Claire

Madelyn, Sept. 29, 2014

Addison Grace, Dec. 22, 2014

and husband, Drew Bankes

’03,

a daughter,

2015

Jolene Bedics Hahn ’05 and husband, Garry, a daughter, Rylee Quinn,
3,

a son, Landon

May 18, 2015
Bownes Cohick ’09 and husband, Robert Cohick

Robert Keith

March

Eric,

Elizabeth,

2015

Kelly

and husband,

Elizabeth Spencer Siffel '08 and husband Sean, a daughter, Brooke

a daughter, Briana

2014

John Monahan

Tammy

’08

Kenneth, March 24, 2015

2015

Erin Heidlauf ’11/’12M, a daughter, Skye Lynn, Feb. 25, 2015

Debon Berger Kolb
David, May 25, 2014

’11

and husband, David Kolb

'08,

a son, Gabriel

2015

Jennifer DeFrain Stacknick '05 and husband, Jason, a daughter,

Maggie
Kristi

Elizabeth, Aug. 16,

2014

Ann Brinckman Osborne

Aryanna Grace, Oct.

9,

’07

and husband, Lang, a daughter,

2014

Jennifer Franklin Armstrong ’08 and husband, Jason, a son, Ryan
Perry,

March

29,

2015

Jennifer Krott Chamberlain ’08 and husband, Cory, a son, Cole

Thomas, Nov.

28

20,

2014

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reunions, networking and special events

A HUSKY WEDDING: When Becky Stitt 14 married
Justin Pierce 12 on June 20, 2015, BU alumni joined in
the celebration.

From

left are,

Nathan Con-

front row:

roy ’06, Tarra Carrathers 11, Justin Pierce 12, Becky
Stitt

14 and Jordyn Koveleski

Pierce 14, Janelle Pratt

Hunsinger Bankus 74, Kristin
Collins 14, Ashley Wallace 14, Kathleen Steinberg 14,
14; second row: Carol

THE KNOW: Attending the Alumni Association Board of Directors
annual retreat

are,

Barbara Willders

from

’83,

left,

front row:

Mary Frew

Keri Donald Sears

’92, Claire

Braccili ’90,

Stephanie Winters 14, Kristal Martinez 14,

Day ’93,

Kern

Kramer ’84, and Catherin Reuther ’09/T0; second row:
Shawn Booker ’03, Jake Williams ’87, Adam Black ’07, Stu Marvin
78, Brian Roadarmel ’08/T0M, Mike Coppa ’00 and Marc Steckel
Elizabeth

11,

Amanda Knauer ’07, Amy Phillips

Phillips ’03;

and third row: Eddie Tarlecky

Reyes ’14M, Garry

Combs

Kristi Barni Heiss

13 and Jennifer Pierce

’02,

Amanda
’96

and Joe

13, Emilio

Reade Carrathers

11,

’96.

’93; and third row: Ted Hodgins ’89, Jim McMenamin ’78/’83M,
Todd Walker ’97, Greg Orth ’95, Joe Hilgar 75 and Joe Yasinskas
’06. The board reviewed accomplishments, set 2015-16 goals and

heard presentations by Lynda Michaels ’87/’88M, assistant vice
president for alumni and professional engagement, and Irvin

Wright, retired associate dean for academic achievement,

who

addressed initiatives on campus diversity and student retention.

PHOTO: TED HODGINS

'89

STAYING CONNECTED:

Getting together at a recent

Alumni Association network event in Philadelphia are,
from left, front row: Ted Hodgins ’89, Scott Hemmons
’06,

John Makara

Jones

’03,

’90,

Colleen Brodbeck

Amanda Schaffer 10 and

and back row: Joseph McDermott

FORE!: About 100 alumni, friends and students attended the 28th
annual TKE Memorial Open at Raven’s Claw Golf Club, Pottstown.

Funds raised from the event, which began

as a

way to honor BU

towka

’05,

Mosley

’83

Justin

Dixon

’06,

’03,

’09,

Kenneth Las-

Clayton Ruley

and Todd Walker

’87.

Rebecca

Natalie Nelson ’09;

’02,

Mark

Find information on

future events at bloomualumni.com.

TKE brothers who have died, provide an annual scholarship to a
current BU student.

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over THE houlder

The Success of Apollo

13:

An example of the American Spirit
by Sue A. Beard

“HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM”

pilot

Jack Swigert, and lunar module

was in the
mission operations control room at
the Johnson Space Center on April 13,
1970, when commander Jim Lovell

pilot

Fred Haise - safely back to earth,

earned a degree in physics and math

put the

uttered those unforgettable words.

from Bloomsburg State College and
accepted a position as an aerospace

eight years later, in 1969, the world

Bernard

R.

Suchocki

’65

As an Apollo astronaut instructor

Kennedy Space
Florida, Suchocki was

a journey of 200,000 miles.

the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in

A Shamokin native, Suchocki

stationed at the

engineer with

Center

Playing catch-up
The space race was sparked when

NASA at the Kennedy

1957 and burgeoned
first

watched
walk on

man

when the USSR

in space in 1961. Just

U.S. astronaut Neil

Armstrong

Space Center, where he trained Apollo

the lunar surface during Apollo

assigned to the Apollo XIII mission

astronauts. In 1973, he transferred to

fulfilling

operations team.

the Johnson Space Center in Houston,

challenge in 1962 to put a

One

in

of two oxygen tanks on board

Texas, to

manage the development

had exploded, and the remaining tank
leaking. Suchocki and his team had

and testing of system software

was

Shuttle Avionics Integration Labora-

to react decisively to bring the three-

tory.

man crew - Lovell, command module

leaving

He

later

earned his law degree,

NASA and becoming a board-

certified trial attorney.

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BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

for the

President John

moon before the end

F.

11,

Kennedy’s

man on the

of that decade.

Suchocki and other

NASA instruc-

tors trained astronauts for Apollo
17, including ArmThey briefed prime and backup

missions 7 through
strong.

The

says

inscription

it

all:

-

Bernie

Thanks

for all of you

crew members on the primary guidance
and navigation system, backup stabilization and control system, and operation
of the command module
computer. And, using a

command

module simulator and a lunar module
simulator set up in the Kennedy Space
Center’s Flight

Crew Training Building,

many inputs and long

service

hours. Working with

you has been a pleasure. Ken

module would be completely

dead: no breathable oxygen, no fuel
cells,

no

electricity,

no potable water, no

squeezed into the

LEM,

designed to

support two astronauts for 49.5 hours.

That scenario —
most dramatic flight

program —
of the two oxygen tanks

Now,

it

would have

to support three

astronauts for nearly twice that long.

During the following days, Suchocki

in the history of the space

coordinated with engineers and

was the

maneuver at
the simulator before it was called up to
the crew. He worked with Ken Mattingly, an original member of the crew who
was sidelined by exposure to measles,

failure

aboard the service module.

Apollo 13
Apollo 13

on April

11,

lifted off

1970.

pad 39

Two days

at 1:13 p.m.

nearly 56 hours into the mission, the

unthinkable happened.

An explosion

ruptured oxygen tank 2 in the service

module and its debris caused tank
leak and the spacecraft to tumble.
“This

is

1

to

1

and

2,

new

module with the
And,

finally,

LEM attached.

For 25 years, Suchocki has been

— and some science

lessons, too
with others, mainly
school groups.

He estimates he’s made
as many as

PowerPoint presentations to
3,000 people over the years.

Among his most treasured belongings are the autographs of nearly every

Apollo astronaut and items flown in
space and carried to the lunar surface.

He and his wife,

Connie, have been

married for 47 years, and each wears a
wedding band carried aboard the Apollo
13 spacecraft in

an astronaut’s personal

pouch.
Semi-retired from his Forth Worth,
Texas, law firm

— Suchocki, Bulland &

Cummings — he and his wife have two
chidlren and four grandchildren. •

success. Lovell, Haise

and Swigert survived near-freezing
little

water and

ing re-entry to splash

a

harrow-

down in the South

Sue A. Beard

is

a retired

newspaper

editor and freelance writer based in

Fort Myers, Fla. Archivist Robert

Pacific.

a life-threatening situation,” says

Suchocki. “Without tanks

to create a

reentry checklist for a disabled service

temperatures,

when the problem became

flight

controllers to verify every

and other engineers

later, at

Team of about

sharing his story

performance to prepare them for any

led to the

XIII Mission Operations

colleagues hurriedly created a switch

command/service module was properly
powered down. All three astronauts

as part of the training.

Medal of Freedom on the Apollo

Sharing the story

malfunctions and critiquing

which

dential

While Lovell and Haise made their
way into the lunar excursion module, or
LEM, to power it up, Suchocki and his

mission phase, inserting system

But one scenario was not included

dent Richard Nixon bestowed the Presi-

100 people, including Suchocki.

checklist for Swigert to ensure the

might encounter.

Fred Haise, Jim Lovell

propulsion and no altitude control.”

they put astronauts through each

situation they

Mattingly.

Dunkelberger’s column on Bl' history
the

In recognition of their efforts, Presi-

will return in the

next

issue.

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Reading Day

University-Community Orchestra

Broadway Revival

Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 6,

Haas Center

Haas Center

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

$40

7:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 13,

Thanksgiving Recess

Sons

Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium

Visit

of

from America’s Got

Wind Ensemble
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m.

Classes End

Percussion Ensemble

Haas Center

$35

Monday, Dec. 7

Guitar Ensemble

End

Commencement

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

students

Company

Haas Center

BU

children and

students

Commencement

Undergraduate

Saturday, Dec. 12

St.,

345 Market

Presbyterian Church,

First

Bloomsburg

Exhibitions

new

the

in

The Gallery

this year,

at

of Art and,

Greenly Cen-

ter,

SPRING 2016

and Women’s Choral Ensemble. Free

to the public free of charge. For

Classes Begin

admission; tickets required. Available at

information, gallery hours and reception

Tuesday, Jan. 19

the Haas Center Box Office.

times,

50

E.

Main

visit

Jazz Ensemble

BU

Sunday, Dec. 6, 2:30 p.m.

Various Media

Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium

Sept. 3 to Oct.

Classes End

Haas Center

Monday, May 2

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Saturday,

May

7

Events

Commencement
May 6

Friday,

in

the

Haas Center
and Carver

Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday,

May 7

open

to the public free

and additional

events, see bloomu.edu/music-events or

570-389-4286.

Gross

S.

6

to Nov.

Queering Our World

6

15 and 16

Career Day

Reception: Nov. 6, 4 to 6 p.m.

Friday, Oct.

16

Neal Cox

All

programs, dates,

Haas Gallery

Reception: Nov. 12, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

BU

students

Nov. 16 to Jan. 15,

11,

for the Arts, Mitrani Flail

Choral Ensemble,

Husky Singers and the Concert Choir

2016

Greenly Center
17,

4

to

6 p.m.

Show

7:30 p.m.
Various Media
Nov. 18 to Dec. 12

matthaimovitz.com

$25

at

Reception: Nov.

Cellist

Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium

Choral Festival

Women's

children and

adults/$12 children and

BU

Haas

Gallery of Art

students
Reception: Nov. 19, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Woody

Allen’s Bullets Over

Broadway
Terri

Warpinski

Sunday, Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Fabric

Haas Center

Octuba Fest
Sunday, Oct. 18, noon
for the Arts, Mitrani Flail

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

Dec. 17 to Jan. 26,

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$40

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2016

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students
Reception: Jan. 26, 3016, 11 a.m. to

2 p.m.

upcoming events, check the
Bloomsburg University website
bloomu.edu.

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

Senior Exit

Sunday, Oct.

Home

Various Media

Matt Haimovitz,

Saturday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.

For the latest information on

Student Exhibit: Conceptions of
Saturday, Sept. 12, 8 p.m.

The Gallery

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of Art

With Mo’ Betta Love

Monday, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m.

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ZIPD Conference

Friday, Oct.

College of Science and Technology

at Greenly Center

Blues guitarist, vocalist, songwriter

Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello

Haas Center

9

Thursday and

Ana Popovic

Phoenix Park-Kirn, piano

Featuring

Friday, Oct.

Photography

to change.

Guest-Pianist

Haas Center

20

Induction

570-

Programs

or visit cas.buzz.

Oct.

The Gallery

Haas Center

Fall

8

of Art

Fame

College of Business

$32 adults/$16

Flail,

Athletic Hall of

LGBTQ Show:

times and locations are subject to change.

Carver

Weekend

Friday to Sunday, Sept. 18 to

Graphics: Mixed Media

Oct. 15 to Nov. 12

of charge. For information

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and dates are subject

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389-4409

Tailgate, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Celebrity Artist

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall,

Hall,

30-Year Reunion

Details at buhuskies.com

to order tickets, call the box office at

Concerts
Listed events are

2015-16

BU Husky Ambassador
Saturday, Nov. 7

Reception: Oct. 8, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Series season will be presented

17,

Hemlock Creek

at

Reunion, 5 to 8 p.m.

Sept. 11 to Oct.

Celebrity Artist Series

Graduate

Reunion Dinner, Saturday, Oct.
7 to 11 p.m., The Links

at Greenly Center

Haas Gallery

End

Chi Alpha Alumni Reunion

1

Margi Weir

May 3

Tuesday,

Lambda

Parents and Family

the Arts, Mitrani Hall

Contact Michael Parker for information,

Finals Begin

Finals

for

more

Reception: Sept. 3, 4 to 6 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 6, 5 p.m.

Alumni House

Bloomsburg, are open

Faculty

The Gallery

Tuba Christmas

17,

Alumni House Lawn

Monday, March 7

Monday, March 14

St.,

departments.bloomu.edu/art.

Spring Break Begins

Resume

6 to 8:30 p.m.,

Alumni House

Haas Gallery

Featuring Concert Choir, Husky Singers

Classes

17,

7 to 9 p.m.

Art Exhibits

7:30 p.m.

1965 50-Year Reunion

Get-together, Friday, Oct. 16,

Thursday, Dec. 3, and Saturday, Dec. 5,

Friday, Dec. 11

Class of

Saturday, Oct.

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

$30 adults/$15

Carols by Candlelight

Friday to Sunday, Oct. 16 to 18

Saturday, Oct.

parsonsdance.org

alum@bloomu.edu.

Alumni Tent Party

Saturday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m.

Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium

or

Monty’s

Company

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m.

on

register.

For information, contact Alumni Affairs at

800-526-0254

BSC

BU

adults/$17 children and

with music by East Village Opera

Haas Center

for details

Homecoming Weekend:
Once Upon a Time in Bloomsburg

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

Thursday, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m.

Finals Begin

bloomualumni.com

these and additional events or to

Talent,

8 p.m.

David Parsons Dance

Friday, Dec. 11

students

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4

BU

Serendip

Saturday, Nov. 21,

Resume
Monday, Nov. 30

Classes

Graduate

Alumni Events

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall

adults/$20 children and

Finalists

Wednesday, Nov. 25

Finals

Ragtime

Faculty Recital

Tuesday, Nov. 24

Friday, Dec.

of

8 p.m.

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Tracey Schmidt-Jaynes, flute

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