EDINBORO UNIVERSITY
OF

PENNSYLVANIA
Office of Public Information and Publications
Edinboro, PA 16444
(814) 732-2745 or 2929
Fax (814) 732-2621

December 28, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO UNIVERSITY WINS SPECIAL GRANT
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania President Foster F. Diebold has announced that a
member of the university faculty has been awarded a special mini-grant from Pennsylvania
Campus Compact to develop and promote a network for service learning in northwestern
Pennsylvania. The grant was one of only eight awarded in the Commonwealth.
The $4,000 grant was awarded to Dr. Marilyn Sheerer, an associate professor in
Edinboro University’s Elementary Education Department and chair of that department. Funds
for the grant were provided by the Federal Corporation for National and Community Service
and administered through Pennsylvania Campus Compact’s Collegiate Fellows program and the
Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities.
Campus Compact is a national coalition of college and university presidents pledged to
promoting the ideal of volunteerism and to mobilizing college students to perform volunteer
work in their communities. Programs are administered through state-level organizations, such as
Pennsylvania Campus Compact, to develop and create student community service and servicelearning opportunities that will foster greater civic responsibility among college students.
Collegiate Fellows is a pilot project which has evolved through a partnership with
PennSERVE to create a model community service network in each region of the state.
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December 21,1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO PRESIDENT’S AWARDS PRESENTED TO
ELAINE HANKS AND GREG McMILLAN
Two Edinboro University of Pennsylvania employees, Elaine Hanks of the housekeeping
staff and Greg McMillan of the maintenance department, were honored recently at presentation
ceremonies for the eighth annual President Foster F. Diebold Outstanding Housekeeping and
Maintenance Employee Awards.
Presenting the awards in a Van Houten Dining Hall ceremony were Edinboro’s Vice
President for Administration and Institutional Advancement David M. O’Dessa, and William
Coleman, the University’s assistant vice president for facilities.
Hanks, a 24-year University employee, is responsible for the care and appearance of
Centennial Hall. She is also the president of campus AFSCME local 2329, and was a past
loaned executive from the school to the United Way of Erie County. The Corry native, now a
resident of Cambridge Springs, says that the most rewarding part of her job is working with
Edinboro students.
McMillan, an electrician in the maintenance department since 1988, lives in Norrisville
with his wife and four children. The Conneautville native says that his greatest reward is the
good people he works with.
Past winners of the Presidential Housekeeping and Maintenance Awards were:
Krystyna Slepowronska and Ronald Wellman (1987); Barbara Loucks and George Lint (1988);
Roberta (Pat) Harriman and David Cooling (1989); Janet Payne and Tim Elder (1990);
Jeanette Shearer and Ralph (Ed) Payne (1991); Clive Bedow and Stanley Bielak (1992); and
Edith Raun and David Slayton (1993).
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December 19, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO GRADUATES HONORED BY THE
PENNSYLVANIA ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
Three Edinboro University of Pennsylvania graduates were recently honored at the
annual convention of the Pennsylvania Art Education Association (PAEA).
Patricia Smith, an elementary art teacher in the General McLane School District in
Edinboro, was selected as the Outstanding Pennsylvania Elementary Art Educator of the Year
by the PAEA for 1994. Smith, a 1970 graduate of Edinboro University, was nominated for the
award by Kathleen Stevens, an assistant professor at the University.
A 1965 graduate of Lakeview High School, Smith earned both her bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from Edinboro University. These days, she splits her time between teaching at
the McKean and Edinboro Elementary schools.
Among her accomplishments are the establishment of permanent student art collections
framed in each building of the school district. Smith also coordinated a video that highlights the
school district’s arts programs. She originated the annual fourth grade billboard contest in
cooperation with Penn Advertising Co. in celebration of Youth Art Month.
She has served as a regional representative of the PAEA, is a member of the Erie Art
Museum, and is an active member of the Erie Area Fund for the Arts Education Committee.
Smith received a handmade PAEA pin for her award.
Eugenia Gay Thompson, a 1973 graduate of Edinboro, was honored as the Outstanding
Pennsylvania Middle Art Educator of the Year in 1993 by the PAEA. Thompson is the art
teacher for Connellsville Junior High East in the Connellsville Area School District.
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Thompson has served as chair of the Connellsville “Art for Young Child” Curriculum
Task Force which resulted in the publication of a K-3 curriculum guide. She has also served as
the public relations director for the district education association and published billboards as
well as a bi-annual calendar of events for distribution in the community.
Thompson is known as a dynamic, high energy, creative teacher who takes art very
seriously. She acts as cooperating teacher of student teachers from Seton Hill College and as an
art education student observation site teacher for Penn State, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, and California University of Pennsylvania.
Marlene G. Paulick, a third Edinboro alumnus, honored by the PAEA, is an art teacher
at Ingomar Middle School in the North Allegheny School District. Paulick was named
Outstanding Pennsylvania Middle School Art Educator of the Year for 1994 by the PAEA.
Paulick was nominated for the award by Murley Kay Boyce Kight, a 1959 graduate of
Edinboro.
Paulick’s accomplishments include teaching and supervising student teachers and
revising the curricula in two schools, producing favorable Middle States evaluations. She has
served as a counselor for art clubs, dramatic and musical productions, and yearbooks. During
four summers, she was art director for the Chatham College Music and Arts Summer Day
Camp.
For the past four years, she has served as co-chair of the Western Pennsylvania
Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition and was instrumental in reviving the competition after a 17year hiatus. Paulick received her bachelor’s degree in art education from Edinboro University in
1960. She also holds a master’s degree in education from Penn State University.
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Eugenia Gay Thompson
is the art teacher for
ConnellsvUle Junior High East
in Connellsville Area School
District. Gay has served as
chair of the Connellsville “Art
for Young Child” Curriculum
T^sk Force that resulted in
publication of a K-3 curricu­
lum guidQi^he served as the
Public Relations Director for
the district education associa­
tion and published billboards ^
and a bi-Euinual Calendar of^
E>vents for distribution in the *
community.
Eugenia Gay Thompson is
•a dynamic, high energy, ex^^eptionally creative teacher. By
4vord and deed Gay signals to both students and administration
4:hat art is very serious business. She acts as cooperating teacher
education student observation site teacher for Penn State,^^
Indiana University of Pennsylvania and California University of
^Pennsylvania. She is an outstanding Pennsylvania Middle Art
Educator.........Stuart R. Thompson, Art Education Faculty at
Seton Hill College, nominator. Letters of support were written by
William L. Wilson, Director of Federal Programs and Co-Chair
of In-Service Council for Cormellsville Area School District, Jane
Culver, President of Connellsville Area Education Association,
R(^rt A. McLuckey, Principal of Connellsville Junior High
East, Christopher C. Homlck, Instrumental Music Instructor
for Connellsville Junior High East & Kenneth R. Washington,
English Teacher and Student Council Advisor for Connellsville
Junior High East.
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elementary art educator
•Patricia Smith, an elementary art
i^eacher in the General McLane
•School District, has been selected as
•the Outstanding Pennsylvania Ele•mentary Art Educator of the Year.
Smith received her award from
• the Pennsylvania Art Education As•sociation (PAEA) recently in Phila.delphia.
•Smith joined seven other recipi»ents of art educator awards ranging
/from categories such as secondary
/art educator and museum art edu»cator.
'“Saturday night was just a won•derful night,” Smith said.
•She received a handmade PAEA
/pin for her award.
The daughter of Edward and El­
len Wallace .of Millcreek, Smith was
raised in Sandy Lake, Pa., and now
makes her home in Erie with her
husband, Elmer C. Smith Jr. She
has a son, Douglas Moore, and a
stepson, Michael Smith, both at col­
lege.
• ♦was nominated for the award by
'Kathleen Stevens, an assistant pro^fessor at EdinboroUniversity. Let­
ters of support were written for
Smith by Jerome Englert, McKean
Elementary School principal, and
Mary Rosiak, an art teacher at
McDowell Intermediate High
School.
A1965 graduate of Lakeview High
'School, Smith earned bachelor’s and
•master’s degrees from Edinboro
•University. She splits her time be>tween teaching at McKean Elemen-

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'tary School and Edinboro Elementa/ly School.
Among her accomplishments are
‘the establishment of permanent stu“dent art collections framed in each
^building of the school district. She
also coordinated production of “Arts
•Alive,” a video highlighting the
.school district’s arts programs, and
originated the annual fourth grade
^ billboard contest in cooperation with
Penn Advertising Co. celebrating
'Youth Art Month.
' She has served as a regional rep. resentative of the Pennsylvania Art
• Education Association and is a
'member of the Erie Art Museum.

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Patricia Smith, art teacher in the
General McLane School District,
has been named Art Educator of the
Year by the Pennsylvania Art Edu­
cators Association.
Besides her teaching duties,
'Smith is an active member of the
-Erie Area ^d for the Arts Educa- tion Committee. She will receive the
PAEA award Oct. 21 in Philadelphia,
during the association’s annual con­
vention.

Outstanding teacher
Marlene G. Paulick, an art
teacher at Ingomar Middle
Scho^ has been named Out­
standing Pennsylvania Middle
School Art Educator of the year
by the Pennsylvania Art Edut;^n Association.
^The award was presented at
the annual PAEA conference re^cendy in I^iiladelphia.
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pervising student teachers, Pauv
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schools, producing favorable MidtUe States evaluawiw^She has
served as a counselor forpsi
chiba dramatic and musical pro­
ductions, and yearbooks. For four
summers, she was art director for
the Chatl]^ College Music and
Arts Summer DsQ^Camp.
For the past four years, she
has served as ccnrhair of the
Western Penfiss^vania Scholastic
Art Awarc^Exhibition, and was
instrumental in reviving that com­
petition after a 17-year hiatus.
Paulick, a native of Natrona
Heights, hol(te a bachelor’s degp^in art education from Edinboro University in Erie County,
/and a masters degree in educa­
tion fnnn Penn State.

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December 16, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

DIEBOLD NAMES SEVEN EMERITI
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania President Foster F. Diebold recently awarded
emeritus status - one of the most prestigious recognitions in the profession of higher
education - to seven retired members of Edinboro University’s distinguished faculty and
administration.
Recognized with emeritus status were: Dr. Maurice Holloway, Edinboro;
Mr. Robert Klingler, Erie; Mr. James McDonald, Edinboro; Dr. James McElroy, Edinboro;
and Dr. Robert Zanotti, Edinboro.
Two others were recognized posthumously: Dr. Kizhakapothil Jacob, and
Mr. Daniel Trainer. Notification of emeritus status was made, respectively, to
Mrs. Saramma Jacob, of Fairview, and to Mrs. Gisela Trainer, of Edinboro.
To be named emeriti, Edinboro University’s policy criteria require ten years of
exemplary service; retirement as a faculty member or administrator; and recognition
through nomination by colleagues in the profession for excellence in teaching, scholarly
research and publication, administration, or service to the university, community, and to the
profession and disciplines of the academy.
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Edinboro University of Pennsylvania President Foster F. Diebold (right) signs a
letter of intent to develop a 2/3 cooperative engineering program with Mehran
University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan. Also signing the letter is
Mahmoud A. Haroon, governor of the province of Sindh and chancellor of public
universities. Looking on is Mr. G.D. Memon, advisor to the governor.
The cooperative engineering program is an outgrowth of an academic linkage
established between the two schools in 1988 and renewed earlier this year.
During President Diebold’s administration, Edinboro University has established
nearly a dozen academic linkage programs with institutions in China, Morocco and
Pakistan.

EDINBORO UNIVERSITY
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PENNSYLVANIA
Office of Public Information and Publications
Edinboro, PA 16444
(814) 732-27A5 or 2929
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December 15, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR ATTENDS THE
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania’s Gregory D. Lessig, chairman of the department
of political science, recently attended the 25th Annual Leadership Conference sponsored by the
Center For The Study Of The Presidency. Lessig presented a paper as part of an issue panel on
presidential leadership.
An extensive number of distinguished speakers from the Clinton, Bush, Reagan and
Eisenhower administrations were present at the conference. Also present were members from
the Senate. A keynote address was given by Larry Pressler, Republican U. S. Senator
representing South Dakota.
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dent in 1988.
She is a graduate of the Graduate
Trust School in Evanston, 111.
GLENN HOLLAND, associate
professor of religious studies at Alle­
gheny College, was the featured
speaker at a conference on peace
and justice held at Zion Lutheran
Church in Oil City. The conference
was sponsored by the Committee on
Church and Society of the North- ,
west Pennsylvania Synod of the
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in
!
America.
;
ELLEN GRAY, associate profes-'
sor of sociology and anthropology at
Allegheny College, has been asked
to write ^e evaluation manual for
the National Center on Child Abuse
and Neglect The manual is part of a
series commissioned by the U.S. Ad­
ministration for Children, Youth and
Families. It will include a generk
evaluation manual and individual
evaluation manuals for Head Start, ’
the Children’s Bureau, the National
Center for Child Abuse and Neglect,
and the Families and Youth Service
Bureau. At Allegheny, she serves as
director of the Center for Applied
Social Science Research.
JOSEPH T. MARTIN, a roadway
progTETO coordinator for the Penn­
sylvania Department of Transporta­
tion’s Erie County Maintenance Di­
vision, has been dted for distin- i
guished service and presented the '
1994 Secretary’s Aw^ for Excel- ■
lence.
Former PennDOT Secretary
Howard Yerusalim recently present­
ed the department’s top award to
those selected firom among its 12,500
employees. Martin was one of 76 ,
who received the annual'awai^
Nominations spanned the entire
range of PennDOT woricers, &x)m
clerics, secretaries and road crews,
through managers, engineers and
other professionals. In addition to
beyond-the-call-of-duty job perform­
ance, the award recipients must
have a strong job safety record and
low sick leave usage.
Martin is a 14-year department
employee and is responsible for the
county budget, procurement, office
staff and coordination of highway
maintenance activities.

BONNIE ROBINSON, a sales
associate with RE/MAX RE. Group
in Erie, and a full-time Realtor since
1987, has been awarded the Certi­
fied Residential Specialist designa­
tion by the Residential Sales Coimcil
of the Realtors National Marketing
Institute, an affiliate of the National
Association of Realtors.
Fewer than 3 percent of Realtors
hold the CRS designation.
Robinson is a member of the
Greater Erie Board of Realtors and
chaired the Realtors Community
Service Committee in 1994, which
worked to assist Habitat for Human­
ity.
JAMES F. KUBANEY, formerly
of Erie, has been named assistant
vice president in Metropolitan Com­
mercial Banking at PlJc Bank in
Pittsburgh. He started his career at
PNC five years ago as a retail
branch management trainee and
has held several irasitions before his
most recent appointment He will
continue to Mroik as a relationship
manager for 35 clients and a $22 mil­
lion loan portfolio. He earned a BA
degree in economics and business
administration and an M.B A, from
the University of Pittsburgh
RICHARD HIRSCH. senior
alarm technician for Doyle Alarm
Services Inc., has been elected to
head the Northwest Region of the
Pennsylvania Burglar and Fire
Alarm Association.
He will have a seat on the state
Board of Directors for 1995.
He has been with Doyle Alarm
Services for 14 years and has been a
member of the PBFAA for nine
years.
He has been certified by the p/ational Burglar and Fire Alarm Asso­
ciation as a Level One Technician.

HIRSCH

ROOD

ROGER D. ROOD, an agent for
the Prudential Insurance Co. in
Erie, has been granted the LUTC
Fellow professional designation.
LUTCF is conferred upon life un­
derwriters who meet training and
educational requirements and mem-

gustine, Pla.
^gal Services National Headquar­
MARY BIRDSONG, lecturer in
ters in Cleveland, Ohio, and as an
arts at Penn State-Behrend, recent­ ■feccount
manager with WRC Marly presented “Pop Art and the Con­
wting, a division of Watt, Roop &
sumer Culture of the Sixties” at
^Co., a Cleveland-based public rela­
Mercyhurst College. The lecture ex­ tions and mariceting fir^ where she
amined the relationship between
pop art and consumer products, es­
served such accounts AT&T Global
pecially fotyfitems.
Information Solutions, Bingham
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Inc., and DIECO. She is a member
FACULTY MEMBERS DrTSergio
of the Erie Advertising Club.
TINA OONNATHAN, progr^
F^ardo-Acosta, project associate in
astronomy; Dr. Maria Womack; as­ _ coordinator of international studies,
sistant professor of physics; and Dr. ; progrante and services at Edinboro
Roger Knacke, professor of physics, V University, was one of 26 people reattended the 26th annual meeting of i centiy elected new fellows into the
the Division for Planetary Sciences i class of 1994 of the Society for Valof the American Astronomical Soci­ J ues and Higher Education. She adety, held recently in Washington,
ministers international student adD.C. At the conference Knacke pre­ j mission at the university and en­
sented “Infrared Spectra of the R
sures compliance by current and
Post-Impact Events of Comet Shoe­ , prospective students with immigramaker-Levy 9.”
•' tion regulations. She attended the
DR DIANA HUME GEORGE,
; SVHE Fellows 1993 Meeting at
professor of English and women’s
; Bowdoin College in Maine as an in­
studies at Penn State-Behrend, has
stitutional representative, /j/ysf'
had four poems from a sequence,
GREGORY D. LESSIG, Oiaic“Burning the Photographs,” select­ mM of the Department of Political
ed for publication in “Feminist Stud­ Science at Edffiboro University, re­
ies” in 1995. “Spoon River Poetry
cently attended the 25th Annual
Review” will publish her review arti­ Leadership Conference, sponsored
cle on recent books of poetry written by the Center for the Sturty of the
by women.
ftesidency. He presented a paper
DR COLLEEN E. KELLEY, as­ as part of an issue panel on presi­
sistant professor of speech corrunu- dent!^ leadership. A number of dis­
nication at Perm State-Behrend,
tinguished speakers frt>m the Clin­
taught an Elderhostel Program,
ton, Bush, Ifeagan and Eisenhower
“Redefining the American First,
administrations were present at the
Lady” at the Chautauqua Institu­
conference. Members of the U.S.
tion.
Senate also attended and Sen. Larry
DAN PERRITANO, head soccer Pressler, R-S.Dak., gave a keynote
and baseball coach at Perm Stateaddress.
Behrend, was the guest speaker at
STEPHEN D. CARLSON, M.D.,
the Hopewell High School Soccer
an anesthesiologist, has been ap­
Banquet for the honoring of their
pointed to the medical staff of WCA
team.
Hospital in Jamestown, N.Y. He is a
JAMES R CARROLL JR has
native of North Tonawanda, N.Y.,
been named director of the Media
and completed his premedical edu­
and Instructional Support Center at cation at Creighton University, with
Perm State-Behrend.
a BA in ptychology and at Brigham
He previously served as senior in­ Young University, where he earned
structional services specialist at
a Ph.D. in psychology. He returned
Perm State’s McKeesport Campus.
to Creighton for his medical degree.
He earned a B.S. degree in vocation­ He completed an internship and re­
al education/industr^ fixrm the Uni­ sidencies in both surgery and
versity of Pittsburgh.
anesthesiology at SUNY Syracuse.
He has participated in specialty ro­
tations in neurosurgical anesthesia,
outpatient anesthesia, pediatric
anesthesia at Cincinnati (Ohio) Chil­
dren’s Hospital, obstetric anesthesia
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
in Boston, Mass., thoracic and vasc­
ular anesthesia, cardiac anesthesia,
and pain management. He served as
a clinical assistant instructor in the
Department of Anesthesiology at
SUNY Syracuse and is serving as an

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At the conference, she was pre-1
sented with an award that recog- '
nized her outstanding sales per- formance on the national level.
She has been with Premier, a :
jewelry and fashion company, for
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STEADMAN •

DENNIS F. STEADMAN, for­
merly of Erie, has been named vice
president of U.S. Operations for the
Merck AgVet Division of Merck &
Co. Inc.
He is responsible for a full range
of marireting, sales, technical ser­
vices, planning and business devel­
opment activities. He will also direct
government and industry relations
in the United States, the division’s
largest mariret.
He previously served as executive
director of the Pacific Region, with
responsibilities for Merck AgVet op­
erations in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, Japan, Cltina and South­
east Asia
He joined the company in 1987 as
director of crop protection market­
ing. He earned a B.S. degree in agri­
cultural business management and
an M.S. in agricultural economics
fr^m Penn State University. Before
joining Merck AgVet, he was vice
president of sales and marketing
and vice president of agri-business
at Chase Econometrics.
JIM REESE of General Extermi-

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December 15, 1994

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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATION GRAPHICS STUDENTS HAVE
PORTFOLIOS REVIEWED BY WORLD RENOWN DESIGNER
Communication graphics students from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania were on
hand to hear a lecture by Charles Spencer Anderson, internationally acclaimed designer and
founder of the Chailes S. Anderson Design Company in Minnesota. Anderson recently spoke
about the influence of technology on the future of design at the Erie Advertising Club’s
monthly meeting.
Fifteen Edinboro University advanced communication graphics students had the
opportunity to display their portfolios to Erie Advertising Club members prior to Anderson’s
lecture. After his lecture, Anderson reviewed the portfolios personally, giving encouragement
and advice.
Diane Crandall, an art professor at Edinboro University, helped organize the opportunity
for her students to be present at this important event sponsored by the Erie Advertising Club. “It
was a very educational experience for the students and brought recognition to the Edinboro
University Art Department,” said Crandall.
The Charles S. Anderson Design Company specializes in product design and
development, naming, consulting, identity, and package design. Among some of the companies
they have worked with are the French Paper Company, Paramount Pictures and Turner Network
Television.

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The design company’s work has been included in national and international design
publications, the Library of Congress permanent collection, the Museum of Modern Art in
Hiroshima, and the Institute of Contemporary arts in London.
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December 15, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO UNIVERSITY STAFF MEMBER ELECTED INTO
SOCIETY FOR VALUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION (SVHE)
Tina Oonnithan, program coordinator of international studies, programs and services at
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, was one of 26 recently elected new fellows for the class
of 1994 into the Society for Values in Higher Education (SVHE).
Oonnithan administers international student admission at the University and ensures
compliance by current and prospective students with immigration regulations. Oonnithan
attended the SVHE’s 1993 Fellows Meeting at Bowdoin College in Maine as an institutional
representative.
Fellowship in the SVHE involves the members in national and regional projects to work
at fulfilling the Society’s mission: to promote classroom teaching that illuminates the moral
issues inherent in serious inquiry, to reinforce engaged teaching and learning, and to foster
community environments conducive to the intellectual fellowship that is the basis of
professional and personal development.
A learned society, the SVHE, was founded in 1923 by Yale Professor Charles Foster
Kent. Membership in SVHE includes the fields of ethics, theology, religious studies,
philosophy, sciences, humanities and the professions. Those who are eligible for election to
SVHE are graduate students in their final years of doctoral studies as well as postdoctoral
faculty, administrators and other professionals.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the SVHE initiated the General Education Models (GEM
Project) studies that resulted in national reform of general education requirements and
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publications by related academic organizations. The main focus of the SVHE in the 1980s and
1990s has been the promotion of interdisciplinary studies that provide a focus on values for all
disciplines, with a particular emphasis on managing diversity in the workplace, academic and
non-academic.
The SVHE has sponsored national seminars on ethics and management, values and
institutional decision-making, and multiculturalism. The Society also developed the first
“Values Audit” for use by American colleges and universities. In 1994, the SVHE embarked
upon a three year series of workshops for beginning teachers.
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December 14, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

DR. JEAN FAIETA NAMED PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT
AT EDINBORO UNIVERSITY
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania President Foster F Diebold recently announced the
appointment of Dr. Jean Crockett Faieta as his executive assistant in the Office of the President.
She will assume her new responsibilities at the beginning of the spring 1995 semester.
A member of the University’s faculty since 1989, Faieta comes to her new position from
Edinboro University’s Department of Special Education and School Psychology, where she
served as department chair. Before chairing the department, she was an associate professor of
school psychology and special education, instructing courses in human learning, mental
retardation, learning disabilities, and gifted and diagnostic prescriptive teaching.
Prior to her employment at Edinboro University, Faieta was a practicum coordinator for
graduate and undergraduate special education majors at West Virginia University.
A native of Brownsville, Pa., Faieta earned a bachelor of science degree in speech
pathology and audiology, and while on a graduate fellowship, a master of education degree in
mentally/physically handicapped, both at California University of Pennsylvania. She earned her
doctorate in education in mildly handicapped/gifted, with a minor in educational administration,
at West Virginia University.
Faieta succeeds Mr. Clifford Cox, who, after more than 38 years in the education
profession - including 26 years at Edinboro University, the last eight as President Diebold’s
executive assistant - is retiring.
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December 14, 1994

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EDINBORO SENIORS LEARN TO EAT THEIR WAY TO A JOB
It may be the most important moment of your career. The company you’ve been dying
to work for has invited you back for a second interview - but this time it’s over dinner at the
toniest restaurant in town. You’ve picked out your best suit, shined your shoes and rehearsed
your answers to any questions they might fire at you. The evening is going just as planned
when suddenly, the waiter brings you the wrong order and spills cheesecake in the CEO’s lap.
What do you do?
Your best bet is to ask Sherry Reynolds and Janice Stamm, the creators of “Executive
Eating: Eating Your Way to a Job,” an all-too-real simulation of what to do at your job
interview dinner when everything that can go wrong, does.
They are also professors in the business and economics department at Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania. They came up with Executive Eating because students were finding
themselves being interviewed over lunch or dinner without any experience on how to act or
what to say.
Their plan was simple but very effective. With the sponsorship of the Business and
Accounting Club and the help of its advisor, Paul Lisowski, Reynolds and Stamm invited ten
seniors who will graduate this month to a mock business dinner at the University Club in Van
Houten Dining Hall. The students were met at the door by the maitre d’, played skillfully by
Doug Irwin, president of the club. He escorted them to their tables where they met with the
CEOs of the Reynolds Company and the Stamm Company.
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For the next three hours they became the subjects of and/or witness to all of the mishaps
and pitfalls that one could possibly experience at a job interview dinner.
“Some of the time we coached them on what to do and what to expect,” said Reynolds.
“The rest of the time we just let it happen.” The dining hall chef and waiters were in on the
scheme and did their utmost to add to the mayhem. Everyone complimented the food service
staff on its performance.
Reynolds and Stamm aren’t revealing all of the awkward situations they concocted for
their students - they want to surprise next semester’s graduating seniors when they present
Executive Eating II.
“The purpose of this exercise is to make our students comfortable and confident in a
restaurant setting,” said Reynolds. “This is not an Emily Post course on etiquette. This is a
lesson on knowing what to do in a very real situation.”
The evening to remember also brought up touchy subjects such as what to do about
ordering alcohol and whether to order the surf and turf, the chili dog or something in-between.
Other fine points covered included how to enter and leave graciously, when to stand when the
host or hostess arrives, how to push one’s chair in when one’s feet don’t touch the floor - both
Reynolds and Stamm have had to master that art - and why dessert should be avoided.
Why is executive eating an important job skill? Employers want to see how a
prospective employee behaves in a public setting, and they want to be confident that he or she
will work well with their clients and customers.
Stamm and Reynolds are well qualified to teach others about lunch in the fast lane.
Stamm is a former IRS tax attorney who practiced law in Ohio before becoming a professor.
Reynolds is a former marketing executive from Chicago whose clients have included Fortune
100 companies.
So how did the soon-to-be Edinboro graduates fare? “I was proud of them,” said
Reynolds. “They were dressed to kill, they looked great and they conducted themselves
wonderfully. They sincerely wanted to learn this business skill. They learned things they would
never have learned any other way except by doing them.”
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JEFF AND DEBRA SPAULDING - FORGING A NEW ERIE REGION
If anyone has doubts about the future of the Erie area, they would do well to look at the
example of Jeff and Debra Spaulding. He deals in multi-million dollar projects of concrete and
steel: she works with the hearts and minds of small children. He is a facilitator for large public
works that will change the face of Erie for decades: she creates academic programs for her
students that will last a lifetime.
Jeff is the director of economic and community development for the city of Erie. Debra
is the principal of the very modern Robison Elementary School in the Ft. LeBoeuf School
District. Together - but in their own ways - the Spauldings are playing important roles in
shaping the future of northwestern Pennsylvania.
They met at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where he majored in political science
and she studied elementary education. Both graduated in 1977. Jeff immediately went to work
for the newly reorganized Erie County government in community planning, primarily in
transportation and economic development. He spent four years with County Executive Russell
D. “Robby” Robison and seven years with his successor, Judy Lynch. In January of 1990,
newly-elected Erie Mayor Joyce Savocchio invited him to join her administration.
As director of economic and community development, Spaulding has many duties and
wears many hats while administering a $4.5 million budget. His office deals with parks, street
location, planning and zoning issues, and the Erie enterprise zone.

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For the past four years, Spaulding’s office has been at the forefront of several major
projects in the city including the new baseball stadium and the Bay front Center project which
includes the new Erie County Library, the museum, and the proposed Lake Erie Aquarium.
It is not uncommon for the planning of these large projects to take two or three years
before they become public knowledge. Spaulding’s office is often involved with them from the
start. “Our job is to facilitate what they want to do,” he said.
The baseball stadium began to take shape in 1990 when the team owner told the city
that Ainsworth Field would no longer be suitable. Spaulding went to work with Team Erie to
find funding for a $78,000 feasibility study. His office issued the request for proposals and
eventually found backing in the private sector. He has been fully involved with the project since
its inception. His role has included managing the many contractors, handling the applications
for funding from the state and other sources, and keeping Team Erie informed of every step.
The Bay front redevelopment project began four years ago when Penelec began looking
for something to do with its power generating site near the foot of State Street. As he did with
the stadium, Spaulding got involved early, working largely as a liaison and source of
information for all of the parties. His expertise is knowing who to talk to and what is necessary
to get things done. He also has been working behind the scenes for three years on the federal
courthouse remodeling project, which is awaiting funding.
“My job is helping to conceive, plan, develop and coordinate,” said Spaulding,
“whatever it takes to make it successful.”
His position as point man for development for the City of Erie requires him to travel
occasionally. He accompanied the Mayor as part of the Erie delegation that visited its sister city
of Zibo, China, this year. Although the delegation members were mostly representing business,
the inclusion of government representatives is crucial. In China, it is the government that
oversees and approves private business ventures. By including representatives of the Mayor’s
office, the delegation demonstrated its official blessing. Spaulding’s office will help maintain
those relationships between business and government here, while providing linkages to China.
The bread and butter of his work is helping local people carry out their development and
expansion plans.
“Our strength is the local people,” he said. “We try to work with them to help get their
projects done right. Much of the daily routine for this office involves code enforcement and
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inspectors and a zoning office. Most of our focus is in the industrial market because this is
where true local wealth is generated. We have to interpret local codes and ordinances and help
the people involved understand them.”
While Jeff Spaulding has been planning for the future of Erie, his wife Debra has been
planning for the future of students in the Ft. LeBoeuf School District since 1988. As principal,
she works closely with students and teachers alike. She likes to keep a connection to the
children and to teaching. They see her as a teacher as much as a principal. She is also involved
in planning, instructional leadership and promoting professional development for her teachers.
One of her most rewarding projects was helping to plan and design the new Robison
Elementary School, which was dedicated in early November. Among the features of the new
facility is a building-wide computer network. The students have direct access to the library with
file servers throughout the school.
“People are totally amazed at how completely different the school is now compared with
the old Robison school,” said Spaulding. “It has been completely remodeled and expanded.”
More important than the bricks and mortar and high-tech gadgets are the school’s
faculty and staff for whom Spaulding has nothing but praise. Together they are implementing
creative teaching programs - especially in the math area - and including students who in the
past would have been pulled out of regular education classrooms and put into special education
programs. Other innovations include day care, after-school recreation, and a transitional first
grade program. The school has also developed a strong parent teacher organization for its 372
students in grades K-5.
Debra loves her job as principal but would someday like to earn a doctorate and teach at
the college level. In addition to her bachelor’s degree, she has principal’s certification from
Edinboro and a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
At home with their three-year-old son, Kyle, the Spauldings talk shop frequently. “Jeff is
very helpful to me,” said Debra, “especially in building concerns. During the planning for the
new school we would look at the floor plans, and he would make suggestions. Once he said, T
can see where you can have a separate cafeteria,’ instead of the combined one in the plans. I
took his idea back to the planning group and they liked it. So it became part of the building.
He’s very insightful and practical,” she said.

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Jeff has included Debra in his work by taking her to building sites like the new baseball
stadium. There are times when she would like to be included a little more, like on his trip to
China. Still, she often feels she is a part of the redevelopment of Erie.
“Jeff is really excited about the stadium, the aquarium and all the Bayfront development
going on. It’s going to be something spectacular.”
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EDINBORO GRADUATES 813 IN WINTER CEREMONY
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania President Foster F. Diebold, now in the 16th year of
his presidency, conferred master’s, bachelor’s and associate degrees to more than 800 new
graduates during winter 1994 Commencement ceremonies Sunday at the University’s McComb
Fieldhouse.
The newest graduates join 790 May graduates for a total of 1,603 Edinboro degrees
awarded during the 1994 calendar year.
In his welcoming remarks to the graduating class and the Fieldhouse audience of more
than 3,000, Diebold once again counted himself among the growing number of educators who
believe that the teaching of a core of basic values - tolerance, honesty, respect, civility,
diligence - belongs in the classroom, both in the formative years and particularly in higher
education.
“A truly educated person graduating from a college or university today should have a
moral dimension to his or her academic experience, along with an enhanced ability to analyze
and reflect on values issues so that they eventually strengthen and deepen one’s own values
framework,” Diebold said.
Diebold told of lecturing two undergraduate classes during the past several weeks on
topics of ethics and values in American education and in journalism.
“I can report to you today that the discussions I had with those students and the questions
they asked clearly indicated a need for, and most importantly, a desire for, guidance and
leadership in developing the analytical skills and techniques needed to develop an arsenal of
values.”
Diebold said that educators should attempt to transmit to students those values generally
shared by the university community and society at large.
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“We should teach, model and engage students in thoughtful processes for developing,
refining and critically assessing values to create a university that assists students both to become
more aware of values issues and to fashion values frameworks that are consistent, defensible to
themselves, and in keeping with the best of human traditions,” said Diebold, “and we should
want our students and graduates to have the moral courage to act responsibly on their
principles.”
Dr. Jerry Covert, Edinboro University’s dean of science, management and technologies,
was the featured Commencement speaker.
Speaking on “The New Citizenship,” Covert told the graduates of a new, more abstract
meaning of the term, one that says that we, as members of a society, have responsibilities to
interact with the world around us in ways that add to the common good.
“As college graduates you bear a heavier burden than many of the other citizens of the
country,” Covert said. “Because of your education, you have a greater awareness of what you
can contribute to the greater community.
“You can think of it as a debt you owe to society, or as a call to get involved, to become a
participating member of the community, and to serve when called,” said Covert.
Covert spoke of Campus Compact, an organization of college and university campuses
that facilitates the concept of outreach and the process of interacting with the communities in
which they work.
“Edinboro University has been actively involved in the Pennsylvania Campus Compact
for several years now,” said Covert, “and we have been rapidly expanding our involvement.”
Covert said that student organizations and clubs on the Edinboro campus all have a
service or volunteer component, and that during the 1993-94 academic year, more than 10,000
hours of documented community service were provided by Edinboro University students.
“As you graduate today and move on from the university into the larger community, I
hope that you have had an opportunity to develop community service as a major part of your
experience here at Edinboro University,” said Covert. “In doing so, not only have you helped the
community and the University, but you have also helped yourself... you have provided yourself
with an experience from which you will benefit throughout your life.”
Diebold also conferred the degree Doctor of Laws (legum doctor, honoris causa), upon
His Excellency the Honorable Governor and Chancellor Mahmoud A. Haroon, governor of the
province of Sindh in Pakistan and chancellor of the six universities of Sindh.

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Haroon was chosen by Edinboro University and its Council of Trustees to receive the
honorary doctorate in recognition of his dedication to the furtherance of human dignity and
social justice, his commitment to public service on behalf of the developing nation of Pakistan
and the Pakistani people, both at home and abroad, and for his support of a decade of partnership
with Edinboro University in global education and international understanding.
In his brief acceptance remarks, Haroon said that it was a memorable day for the
graduates and for him, because “an international university, which has dealings with the
developing world, has gone out to educate us, help us, and now has honored me beyond my
comprehension.”
Haroon said he hoped that the international education program started by Edinboro
University will expand all over the world and that “each one of us will learn to teach the other.
“We enter universities, schools and colleges to learn to be educated, and once educated,
we try to learn the depths of how we have been educated so that we may reach out and
implement the pinnacle of humanity,” said Haroon.
“I request and hope and pray that you will be with me at all times and help me to abide
by the honor you have bestowed on me,” he concluded.
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Walt Disney animator Bill Waldman, left, reviews the portfolio of an aspiring animator
at a reception in his honor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, December 2-3. Waldman
returned to his alma mater to discuss his work and career as an animator. Me attended
screenings of the animated film Thumbelina, and met with animation majors to review their
portfolios.
During his career with the Don Bluth studio, Warner Bros, and Disney, Waldman has
worked on Thiimbelina and A Troll In Central Park, the Warner Bros, family entertainment logo
and such characters as Tweety Bird, Bugs Bunny and Pepe le Pew. He is currently a key
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CHINESE EDUCATION DELEGATION TO VISIT EDINBORO UNIVERSITY DEC. 9
A six-person delegation of the National Education Commission of the Peoples’ Republic
of China, under the auspices of the World Bank, will visit Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Friday, Dec. 9, to observe organization, programming and laboratory school activities in the
University’s Miller Research Learning Center.
Edinboro University’s “sister school” academic linkage agreement with Zibo Teachers’
College in China’s Shandong Province has gained the attention of the National Education
Commission. In their effort to improve teacher education in China, they wish to use Edinboro’s
acclaimed Miller Research Learning Center laboratory school as a model.
Best times for coverage of the delegation’s visit on Friday are: between 9:30 and
10:00 a.m., when the delegates tour Miller Lab School classes; and between 1:00 and 2:15 p.m.
when Miller tours continue. Tours of the school’s computer laboratory and the University’s
Center for Excellence in Teaching are included in the afternoon’s agenda.
The delegates will remain in the Erie/Edinboro area through Monday, and will attend
Edinboro University’s winter 1995 Commencement ceremonies at 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 11, in
McComb Fieldhouse.
Media coverage of the delegation’s visit to the Miller Research Learning Center is
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EDINBORO RESEARCH PROJECTS
BRING FACULTY AND STUDENTS TOGETHER
Every other Friday at noon, a small group of students meets with psychology professor
Dr. Cynthia Legin-Bucell in her office at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. For nearly an
hour they discuss psychology or learn the hows and whys of psychological research. This day
they are discussing the findings of an article published in the Journal of Psychology and
Psychiatry on the ways mothers express emotions to their children.
The group is a spinoff of a joint research project between the University and the
Developmental Follow-Up Clinic at Hamot Medical Center. The students are meeting
informally, outside of class, to learn more about what they hope will be their career field. They
are there not because of any course requirement, but because they want to be there.
Although psychology is an especially hot area for faculty-student research, this group is
just one example of the many joint faculty-student research projects quietly under way on the
Edinboro campus.
Dr. Gregory Morrow specializes in studying interpersonal relationships. He and graduate
student Carol Chaffin-Page (Cochranton) are in the midst of an investigation of long-distance
relationships. Using a structured diary called the Rochester Interaction Record, they compare
the daily social interaction between couples who live far apart and those who live closer
together. Over a two-week period, the couples document any interaction that is ten minutes or
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The study began nearly a year ago when 75 couples were recruited from among the
students in the University’s psychology classes. This semester, Chaffin-Page is contacting those
couples again to see which ones are still together. She is also setting up the computer data files
to record and sort the information.
One of the things Morrow wants to learn from the study is where people involved in
long-distance relationships get social support. He believes that long-distance relationships have
a better chance of surviving when couples are closer and when those involved have sources of
social support outside of their romantic relationship.
Psychology professor Dr. James Miller collaborated with honors student Susan Scherer
on a study completed earlier this year on age-related differences in memory. Miller has learned
that young people learn as well as adults, but they learn differently. Furthermore, Miller said
forgetting something is not a result of losing knowledge, it is a problem of retrieval. “Once we
learn something, we don’t forget it,” said Miller. “We just have difficulty finding it.”
Scherer, who has since graduated, was involved in every phase of the study. She was
responsible for running the experiments daily and analyzing the data. “It was like working with
a colleague,” said Miller.
Faculty members of the geoscience department have long been involving students
collaboratively in their research. Some of the projects include geologic field mapping, fossil
identification, groundwater monitoring, geophysical exploration, and urban planning and
resource development.
One of the important benefits of geologic research is finding groundwater. This year
professor Jeff Gryta, with assistance from students like Bill Richter (Edinboro) and Greg Carder
(Saegertown), was successful in locating a source of plentiful drinking water for the borough of
Albion. They used a device that measures the electrical resistivity of the ground as a way of
determining what lies beneath the surface. “It’s a geophysical technique to find out what might
be beneath you,” said Gryta.
Students Brian Bullock (Cambridge Springs) and Terry Gebhardt (Edinboro) have been
monitoring groundwater at two sites as part of a state-mandated regulatory program. The
monitoring is required by the state for many facilities - such as trailer parks - that provide
water to customers from privately owned water sources. Earlier this year, faculty and students
from the department discovered a rare fossil from a gigantic fish that lived in the ocean waters
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that covered Erie County in the Devonian Period, 350 million years ago. Geology major Kevin
Yeager (Erie) is currently studying this and several other fish fossils recently collected from the
local Devonian age bedrock.
Graduate student Georgia Hudy (Edinboro), who is earning a master’s degree in
educational psychology, is taking part in a study of the ethical beliefs and practices of college
students and faculty. Edinboro’s institutes for Ethics and Values Education and Curriculum,
Instruction and Collaboration - working with faculty from Shippensburg University - received
a $4,000 grant from the State System of Higher Education to examine academic integrity on the
two campuses. The initial project - a survey of undergraduate students at Edinboro and
Shippensburg - was adapted by Hudy for faculty on the Edinboro campus. She is looking into
faculty perceptions of cheating and plagiarism and how they respond to such incidents. Once
the survey is completed, Hudy’s job will be to analyze the data and report on the results.
Hudy’s work was in conjunction with Edinboro grant committee members Dr. Peggy
Bevevino, program director; Dr. Ken Adams; and professor Sherry Reynolds. They will present
the results of the undergraduate and faculty surveys at the University’s 1995 Academic Festival
in February.
Several faculty and students from the department of educational services are involved in
a study of effective teaching practices in northwestern Pennsylvania. Since 1992, more than 200
secondary education majors have been recording their classroom observations of effective
teaching as part of their junior field experience. These observations are categorized and entered
into a faculty-designed computer data base. The information can then be analyzed according to
several variables related to effective teaching practices. In April of this year, Bevevino, Adams
and Dr. Dawn Snodgrass presented preliminary findings on classroom management at the
Pennsylvania Educational Research Association conference. Two graduate students have also
completed their own studies of classroom management techniques and strategies to meet the
individual needs of students.
The researchers plan to use the data to learn how well the department is preparing its
preservice education majors to recognize effective teaching practices. They also hope to learn to
what extent teachers in grades 6-12 in English, mathematics, science and social studies are
using learning theory to make their teaching more effective.

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EDINBORO’S COX CONDUCTS NEW YORK ALL-STATE ORCHESTRA
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania’s Clifford Cox, executive assistant to the president,
was recently selected to conduct the New York Regional All-State Orchestra. The orchestra is
composed of 94 young people from the central region of New York who underwent a series of
intense rehearsals prior to the concert.
A frequent conductor of festival orchestras throughout the Atlantic seaboard, Cox is
well-known as a musician, educator and clinician. This was his second appearance with the New
York orchestra.
In February, Cox will conduct the Central Western District Band in Huntingdon, Pa.
Some 135 musicians will gather for rehearsals and a concert of both traditional and
contemporary band music.
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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
1994 WINTER COMMENCEMENT

/ Sunday, December 11, 2:00 p.m., McComb Fieldhouse
/ 813 students will receive master’s, bachelor's and associate degrees. Thirty associate
degrees will be awarded, 657 bachelor’s degrees, and 126 master’s degrees.
/ The degree Doctor of Laws, le%wn doctor, honoris causa, will be presented to
Mahmoud A. Haroon, governor of the province of Sindh in Pakistan and Chancellor
of the six universities of Sindh.
^ Featured speaker is Dr. Jerry Covert, Edinboro’s Dean of Science Management and
Technologies. His topic is “The New Citizenship.”
/ Serving as University Marshal is J. Roland “Pete” Lafferty, assistant professor in the
art department, with 29 years of service to Edinboro University.
/ With a May graduating class of 790 students, Edinboro granted approximately 1,603
degrees during the 1994 calendar year.
/ 15 undergraduate students will graduate with summa cum laude honors (3.80 to 4.00
grade point average) 42 with magna cum laude honors (3.60 to 3.79), and 56 cum
laude (3.40 to 3.59).

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December 5,1994
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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TUTOR RURAL ADOLESCENTS
In a unique cooperative program, students from the General McLane School District and
the Hermitage House Youth Facility are benefiting from weekly sessions with students from
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Thirty-five elementary or secondary education majors
meet weekly with 90 middle school students and their parents and 20 Hermitage House
adolescents and their supervisors to assist in developing productive study skills.
Under the direction of Edinboro faculty members Dr. Mary Jo Campbell and Dr. Dawn
Snodgrass, the program is called “Triangles for Success,” since it involves three partners: tutors,
students, and adults.
Sessions focus on reading study skills, not specific course content. Each week the
students bring a book they need to read or an assignment they have to prepare, and the tutors
help them learn how to study and improve their literacy skills regardless of the subject area. The
adults also receive a packet of information containing techniques they can use with the students
during or after school.
Following a Christmas break, the program will resume in January and continue through
May. For additional information, contact Dr. Dawn Snodgrass, department of educational
services, Edinboro University, 814-732-2830.
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EDINBORO GRAD HEADS MARKETING FOR GROVE CITY FACTORY SHOPS
If you have heard or read something recently about the Grove City Factory Shops - the
new 234,000 sq. ft. factory outlet mall along 1-79 in Mercer County - Ann Mamell probably
had something to do with it. Mamell is assistant general manager and director of marketing for
one of the hottest shopping destinations in western Pennsylvania.
She is in charge of all marketing, merchant relations, public relations, advertising, and
promotions, as well as assisting with the operating systems. The 1989 graduate of Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania has primary responsibility for attracting customers to what is a new
concept for this part of the state. Since phase one of the Factory Shops opened August 19, more
than 500,000 customers have visited the stores. Many of them have come because of MameU’s
work.
Factory outlets are retail stores - usually owned by the manufacturer - that offer a full
line of products. They are usually located in remote areas to avoid direct competition with
traditional retailers in established shopping areas. Because many of them are not allowed to
advertise, they rely on Mamell to promote the entire outlet center.
So, why would someone drive 50 miles from Pittsburgh or 70 miles from Erie to shop at
the Grove City Factory Shops?
The answers are simple: price and selection. “The items we sell are anywhere from 25
to 75 percent below retail,” said Mamell, “with the average being 35 percent off retail. Most
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shoppers can find things here that aren’t available in most areas of the country. The other
advantage is that many factory shops will stock the entire line of a certain label or
manufacturer.”
The Factory Shops are located within 100 miles of 8.5 million people. Nearly 24,000
cars pass by every day on 1-79. Mamell said people will travel up to 77 miles to go to outlet
stores. So far, that has proven true at Grove City. “It’s beyond our expectations,” said Mamell.
“People are coming for the outlet experience.”
The key markets for Mamell are Pittsburgh and Youngstown. She uses a combination of
TV, radio and newspaper advertising, but admits the best advertising is word of mouth and
driving by on 1-79. She also targets bus trips from different parts of the country, especially
shoppers from New York and Canada, who find Pennsylvania’s tax-free clothing irresistible.
Mamell points to other factors contributing to the Factory Shops’ success. “The property
was built with the customer in mind,” she said. “The architecture, landscaping and gardens all
promote a pleasant shopping atmosphere.”
The architecture style is known as regionalism. The brickwork reflects the buildings of
nearby Grove City College. The archways were influenced by the Allegheny County
courthouse. Landscaping draws its inspiration from the surrounding Mercer County
countryside, as does the covered bridge in the playground. The steelwork is derived from the
bridges of Pittsburgh.
Another advantage is the distance to competing outlet sites. The nearest are Georgian
Place in Somerset - more than 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and Aurora Farms in Aurora,
Ohio. By the time the holiday shopping season is in full swing the Factory Shops will have 64
stores open. When phase three of constmction is done sometime in 1995, the Grove City outlet
will have 100 stores in business.
Mamell began her career in retailing while still a student at Edinboro, majoring in
speech conununications. She served an internship at the Millcreek Mall under the tutelage of
Anne Stonesifer, who also graduated from Edinboro. There Mamell worked full time for three
months as assistant marketing director, doing a little bit of everything. “It was an excellent
experience,” she said.
Following graduation she returned to the Pittsburgh area as a specialty buyer for an
office supply company. She then got her first mall job as assistant marketing director for three
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Cafaro Company to be marketing director for its St. Clairsville, Ohio, mall. Two years later she
was promoted to group marketing manager at Cafaro’s Youngstown, Ohio, headquarters.
She then decided to take a break from the retail mall scene and go to Florida to work for
Prime Retail, a company in the factory outlet industry. “The outlet industry is the fastest
growing part of retail, and I wanted to be a part of it,” she said.
Shortly after arriving in Florida, Mamell learned that Prime Retail and another Fru-Con
Development Company were planning to build a factory outlet site back in Pennsylvania. She
requested a transfer to the new facility and got her wish in June of 1994.
To keep up with all her duties, she wears many hats and typically puts in up to 70 hours
in a six or seven-day work week. “It’s a very demanding position, but I absolutely love my job.
I enjoy the fast pace.”
There are no typical days in her work, but it is not uncommon for her to find upwards of
50 phone messages on her desk in the morning. Fler days are spent working with the merchants,
creating and monitoring marketing and promotional plans, keeping an eye on sales, and creating
reports for the home office.
She credits her experiences at Edinboro University with preparing her for her work. She
had a management position at the campus radio station which allowed her to have ownership of
projects. Mamell said her internship at the Millcreek Mall was priceless. “I was fortunate
Edinboro had an internship program. It was a very positive experience,” she said.
Despite her intense schedule, she does find time for a personal life. She is engaged to
Lee Ackerman, from Baden, and they plan to wed next July.
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Ann Mamell is looking for the Grove City Factory Shops to be a big hit with area shoppers.

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Internationally recognized photojoumalist Susan Meiselas will speak at Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania, Wednesday, December 7, at 6 p.m. in 119 Doucette Hall. Meiselas
is a member of Magnum, a world-wide organization of photojournalists. She is noted for her
many years of documenting war and its effects on people’s lives in such places as Nicaragua,
Chile, and El Salvador. Her appearance is sponsored by the Student Government Association.
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