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FOR RELEASE ON FRIDAY, APRIL 29,1994:
MEDIA ADVISORY
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania will hold a special ceremony at 11:30 a.m., Sunday,
May 1, to dedicate the Surinder S. Dhillon and Sukhbans K. Dhillon Physical Education Center
at Crawford Hall Gymnasium on the Edinboro campus. Mrs. Sukhbans (pronounced "SUEKWENS") K. Dhillon of Falls Church, Va., will join University President Foster F. Diebold to
dedicate the Center, which is part of the project to expand and refurbish Crawford Hall under
Pennsylvania's "Operation Jump Start" program.
Mrs. Dhillon will dedicate the Center, which will significantly enhance Edinboro's
already nationally-acclaimed support and services program for students with disabilities, in
memory of her son, the late Surinder S. Dhillon.
Edinboro University will also hold its annual Honors Convocation on Sunday, May 1,
1:30 p.m., in the McComb Fieldhouse. President Diebold will again make special recognition of
Mrs. Dhillon during the Convocation for her longstanding support of Edinboro University's
program for students with disabilities, which is one of the nation's largest and most renowned.
Media coverage is invited.
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April 28, 1994

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BARON-FORNESS LIBRARY HOSTS AUDUBON DISPLAYS
A display of "The Many Facets of the Presque Isle Audubon Society" will open with a
reception, Sunday, May 8, at 3 p.m. at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania's Baron-Fomess
Library.
The displays on the first and second floors of the library will include wildflowers,
artwork by Audubon members, a presentation on conservation by the Purple Martin
Conservation Association, and a presentation on feeding wild birds. Two of the displays will
feature books created by the third and fourth graders at the Miller School.
Following the reception there will be a nature walk around campus.
For further information, contact Lee Ann Reiners at Baron-Fomess Library, 732-2273.
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April 27,1994

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EDINBORO HONORS EIGHT FOR ART CONTRIBUTIONS
The Edinboro University Alumni Association recently hosted its fourth annual Art
Achievement Awards ceremony to recognize the Edinboro alumni, faculty and staff who have
given their talents to art and art education.
Now in its fourth year, the Art Achievement Awards program at Edinboro has honored an
impressive and diverse group of artists and educators. Past award recipients have included
painters and sculptors, gallery owners and museum administrators, filmmakers and set designers,
and art educators at the elementary, secondary and university levels. The program has become a
fitting recognition of Edinboro University's longstanding tradition of excellence in art and art
education.
The eight artists and art educators honored at the 1994 ceremony were Joe Alexander,
Evelyn Askey-Zaleski, William Bahmermann, Alfred Bloch, Beth Linden Cornell, David
Gamble, Dom Howlett, and Sam Moses.
Alexander ('73), along with his Edinboro classmate and roommate Sam Moses, operates
one of the most successful recording studios on the East Coast. KAJEM Studios, located in the
original Derringer gun factory in Gladwyne, Pa., has become a world-class operation with a list
of clients that reads like a who's who of popular contemporary recording artists and groups. A
musician himself, he excels as a recording engineer and producer, using a technique in which he
thinks of music as an audio canvas where sounds can be manipulated like images on a painting.
His expertise has brought him membership in several professional societies, including the Audio
Engineering Society, the Society of Professional Audio Recording Studios, and the National
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Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences - the group that produces the Grammy Awards. He is
especially proud to be among the voting members for those awards.
Askey-Zaleski (79, '82) has taught art to children and adults for more than 20 years, and
is currently an art teacher at Fort Le^uel^igh School in Waterford, Pa. She is an active
member of the Pennsylvania Art Education Association, serving as the Region Two
representative, and was awarded the Association's Outstanding Art Educator Award in 1986. As
an artist, she has been elected to membership in the Northwestern Pennsylvania Artists
Association, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, and the
Allied Artists of America. Her work has been juried into and won awards in many regional and
national exhibitions, including the International Small Painting Exhibition, Rocky Mountain
National Exhibition, the Allied Artists of America Exhibitions, the San Diego Watercolor
Society International Exhibition, and the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American
Watercolors. Her work is included in private collections throughout the U.S., and in Japan,
Germany, and Ireland. She was recently selected by Erie's WQLN-TV/FM to create the image
for their 1994 "54 Suite."
Bahmermann ('37) enjoyed more than 40 years in dual careers as a fine arts educator and
a commissioned portrait painter. While an art teacher in Pennsylvania schools from Bradford, to
Bala Cynwyd, to Lower Merion, 125 of his students were recipients of scholarships in the
National Scholastic Art Scholarship Award Competition. His highly acclaimed portraits hang in
many public, private and corporate collections in the eastern United States, and he has won
numerous art awards in local and national exhibits, including the Academic Artists of America,
American Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Watercolor Club, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, The Artists International Portrait Competition, and the Annual Art Show held in the
Capitol Building in Harrisburg. During his long and distinguished career, he was awarded
fellowships to the Vermont Studio Colony and to the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony for the
Arts in New York, and was the recipient of a special citation from the State House of
Representatives for his "notable endeavors in the arts." At age 80, he continues to conduct solo
and educational art shows, as well as jury others.
Bloch ('43) began his 36-year career as an art teacher in Erie schools after service in
World War II. He eventually moved to California where he taught art in schools in Redwood
City and Sacramento, as well as at Sierra College in Rocklin, where he was named professor
emeritus in 1981. Over the years, he also taught students at the University of Hawaii, the
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University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University. His versatile career included
award-winning work in photography, portraiture, photojournalism, and visual materials
production. Bloch, who was unable to attend the Edinboro ceremony asked Dr. James
McMurray, a professor in Edinboro University's Art Department, to accept the award in his
behalf.
Cornell ('68) is the fine arts and humanities adviser for the Pennsylvania Department of
Education in Harrisburg. Prior to that, she was chief executive officer of Performing Tree, Inc., a
non-profit arts education service organization in Lx)s Angeles. She is the director of education
for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and serves on the executive boards of the
Pennsylvania Art Education Association, Pennsylvania Alliance for Arts Education,
Pennsylvania Coalition for Arts Education, and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association,
and on the education committees of the Theatre Association of Pennsylvania and the
Pennsylvania State Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. She
serves on the Kennedy Center's National Advisory Committee for the National Arts Education
Network, and, in 1992, won the Kennedy Center Award for Outstanding Leadership in Arts
Education. She has managed the Artists in Schools program for the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts and led it to national recognition for quality and design, and has been an editorial advisor
for Am and Activities magazine since 1986.
Gamble ('74, '77) is the national marketing director for American Art Clay Co., Inc., of
Indianapolis, as well as a working studio artist. He has developed and taught more than 60
workshops in printmaking and ceramics at schools, universities and art centers throughout the
country. His work in his Plainfield, Indiana, studio includes handbuilt, multi-fired ceramic
platters, limited edition lithographic prints, drawings, and collages. His work was the subject of
a recent solo exhibition at the University of Indianapolis, and has appeared in several books on
ceramics. He continues to exhibit his unique work at select galleries and exhibitions nationally,
as well as teach summer sessions on drawing and printing on clay at the acclaimed Arrowmont
School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Howlett, a professor emeritus at Edinboro University, joined Edinboro's art faculty in
1962 after nine years of teaching and supervising art in Pennsylvania public schools. During his
two-decade Edinboro career, he taught courses in art history, art appreciation and art education,
and twice served as Art Department co-chairman. He chaired the committee that designed the
original master's in art education degree program at Edinboro, and designed and supervised the
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art education field experience program in area school systems. In 1982 he was recognized for
professional service to the field of art education by being named the first university-level
recipient of the Pennsylvania Art Education Association’s Outstanding Art Educator Award.
Known for his work in lettering and calligraphy, he has also exhibited drawings and opaque
watercolors both regionally and nationally. During his art career, he was the Art Department's
charter adviser to the Student Art League and the Student Chapter of the National Art Education
Association, and held professional memberships in the National Art Education Association,
Eastern Arts Association, Pennsylvania Art Education Association, the International Society for
the Study of Education Through Art, American Society for Aesthetics, and the National Society
for the Study of Education.
Moses (’72), along with his Edinboro classmate and roommate Joe Alexander, operates
KAJEM Studios near Philadelphia. A visual artist with an eye for design and experience in
construction, he left a high school teaching position in the General Braddock School District,
near Pittsburgh, to join Alexander in the late 1970s at the newly-formed KAJEM Studios. While
in Pittsburgh, he was a member of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers Group, where he produced a
number of independent films, short features and documentaries. One documentary short,
"Wheels of the Bus," was shot on location in the hills of West Virginia and was used by the
Appalachian Emergency Fund for fund-raising campaigns. His paintings were also chosen by the
Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Guild for exhibition in a number of group shows, including
Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Arts Festival. Several of his works from a solo show were purchased
by various Pittsburgh-based corporations. Since joining KAJEM Studios, he has produced
award-winning advertising campaigns and radio spots for Pepsi, McDonald s and Delta Airlines,
and has designed recording studios for internationally-known recording artists. One design
earned him the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Philadelphia's Center City Proprietor s
Association.
A commemorative bronze sculpture, named the "Waldo" for Edinboro art pioneer Waldo
Bates, was created for presentation to award recipients by Chuck McCleary, a member of the
Edinboro University art faculty. McCleary fashioned the sculpture using a lost wax process and
based it on a floral motif to produce an abstracted still life. The original sculpture, along with a
complete listing of those who have been honored, is permanently displayed in the University's
Doucette Hall, near the entrance to Bruce Gallery. Each award recipient receives a statuette of
that sculpture.
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The selection committee for the Art Achievement Awards was formed by the Edinboro
University Alumni Association five years ago. Committee members are retired Edinboro art
professors Henry Katzwinkel ('56) and Russell McCommons, ('25, '27) and a 1991 "Waldo"
recipient; 1940 Edinboro graduate Shirley Harrison; university art professors Donna Nicholas
and James Vredevoogd; and Janet Bowker ('84), Edinboro University's acting director of alumni
affairs.
Bowker and David Sheneman ('64), president of the Edinboro University Alumni
Association, presented the awards. David O'Dessa ('61), Edinboro vice president for
administration and institutional advancement, was master of ceremonies for the event.
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Honored at the Edinboro University Alumni Association's fourth annual Art Achievement
Awards ceremony were (from left): David Gamble, Sam Moses, Joe Alexander, Evelyn AskeyZalesky, William Bahmermann, Edinboro art professor Dr. Jim McMurray (accepting for Alfred
Bloch), Beth Linden Cornell, and Dorn Howlett.

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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY HONORS CONVOCATION SET FOR MAY 1
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania will host its 1994 Honors Convocation at
1:30 p.m., Sunday, May 1, in McComb Fieldhouse to recognize students who attained academic
honors during the 1993-94 academic year. Receiving special recognition will be 32 whose
degrees will be awarded Summa Cum Laude (grade point average of 3.8 to 4.0), 51 at Magna
Cum Laude (3.6 to 3.79 grade point average), and 68 recognized as Cum Laude graduates
(3.4 to 3.59 grade point average).
The University’s Honors Program will honor seven graduates of its program and another
78 students will receive departmental awards for academic excellence from individual faculty
departments.
Others to be recognized with special Honors Convocation certificates will be freshmen
who were on the Dean's List the previous semester, and sophomores, juniors and seniors on the
Dean's List for more than half of their consecutive enrollment at Edinboro University.
Two graduating seniors will speak at the ceremonies: Denise Bunner (Cambridge
Springs) and Mark Flanigan (Pittsburgh).
Leading the academic procession will be student marshals Katherine Kardohley
(Conneaut, Ohio) and Louis Vitale (Erie).
The highlight of this year's Honors Convocation will be a special recognition by
President Foster F. Diebold of Mrs. Sukhbans K. Dhillon, a longstanding friend of Edinboro
University and champion for the advancement of persons with disabilities. Prior to the Honors
Convocation, Mrs. Dhillon joined President Diebold to dedicate the Surinder S. Dhillon and
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Sukhbans K. Dhillon Education Center in Crawford Hall Gymnasium. The Center is part of the
project to refurbish and expand the Crawford Hall complex under Pennsylvania's "Operation
Jump Start" program, and was dedicated by Mrs. Dhillon in memory of her son, Surinder, to
enable Edinboro University students with disabilities to experience life to the fullest.
The annual Honors Convocation, one of Edinboro University's finest traditions, began as
a day of commemoration in the mid-1970's.
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April 25, 1994

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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY PRESENTS CONCERT OF CHORAL MUSIC
Edinboro University will present a concert, ’’Choral Music from the Twentieth Century,”
on May 7, at 8:00 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium. Performances by the University Singers and
University Chorale will feature composers from all over the world, including Randall
Thompson, Pablo Casals, and Gustav Holst.
Several student soloists will be featured, along with student conductor Rohna Jones. The
University Chorale will perform a vocal jazz set. Both groups are conducted by Dr. Peter
van den Honert.
The public is invited to attend free of charge.
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April 25, 1994
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BEN WILEY TO SERVE AS FEATURED SPEAKER
AT EDINBORO'S SPRING COMMENCEMENT
R. Benjamin Wiley, executive director of the Greater Erie Community Action Committee
(GECAC) and chairperson of the Edinboro University Council of Trustees, will serve as the
featured speaker at Edinboro's spring commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15.
An Edinboro trustee since 1983, Wiley has served as the Council's vice chair since 1991
and was appointed chairperson January 1st of this year. Since 1969, Wiley has been the
executive director of GECAC, a non-profit corporation which administers provision of a broad
cross-section of community services and activities in the general program areas of child and
youth development, transportation, housing, food and nutrition, education, employment and
training, drug and alcohol abuse clinical services, and multiple services for the elderly.
One of the region's most highly-regarded social services administrators, Wiley was
named GECAC's Man of the Year several times. In more than two decades of commitment to the
citizens of the City and County of Erie, he has been the recipient of many awards. One of the
more notable was the 1988 National Child Labor Council's Lewis Hine Award for professional
volunteer service to children and youth. He was also last year's recipient of the AFL-CIO
Community Services Award from the Erie Central Labor Council and the first recipient of the
"Chamber President's Leadership Award for Business and Community Service" by the Erie
Chamber of Commerce. In 1989, he was named Employer of the Year by the Business and
Professional Women of West Erie County.
In 1992, Wiley was appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey to serve on the
newly-created Commission on African-American Affairs. He was one of 25 distinguished
Pennsylvania community leaders, educators, and business and labor leaders named to the panel
to advise the state's chief executive on public policy and legislation concerning Pennsylvania's
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black residents. Statewide problems the commission is charged to address include the growing
poverty rate among black citizens, high incidence of black-on-black crime, drug and alcohol
addiction, and health care.
Edinboro President Foster F. Diebold will confer degrees on 790 students at the spring
Commencement ceremony. With a December graduating class of 800 students, Edinboro granted
approximately 1,590 associate, bachelor's and master's degrees during the 1993-94 academic
year.
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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY POLICE MARK 20 YEARS ON THE BEAT
It was April 1, 1974 when the police department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
began operations. Police chief David Varner, who also began work that day, recently marked the
20th anniversary by recalling the events of the past two decades.
"It was a dream opportunity," Varner said. "Not many people get a chance to start their
own department."
The entire department was housed in a cubicle in the Faculty Annex building where the
first few months were spent organizing the department, ordering equipment, and hiring and
training officers. From day one, the new campus police were in full uniform with sidearms and
marked police cars. It was quite a change. Prior to 1974, the University had relied on a
contracted security force of a dozen or so retirees.
"There was some apprehension about how we were going to be accepted on a campus
that never really had a police department," said Varner. "But there were no protests or
demonstrations from students, faculty or anyone."
A couple of serious incidents within a 30-day period that first fall may have convinced
people that police were needed on campus. Two non-students were arrested and sent to prison
for sexual assault. An armed robber>* in Rose Hall resulted in the arrests of three other people.
Spurred on by those incidents, the department soon matured into an 18-person
department. Of that original group, eight officers are still with the force: Paul Bennetti, James
Caldwell, Michael Cardarelli, Ronald Harriger, James Reynolds, Jeffrey Robb, David Zilian and
Varner.
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Much has changed in college police since 1974. Vamer said students are a different
group now. They are more interested in getting an education and there are more non-traditional
students. "In spite of what you hear about violent crime in America, we don't see as much
violence now as we did 20 years ago. The last four or five years the number of reported crimes
at the University has come down. What is really interesting is that a year ago at this time we had
92 reported criminal incidents. This year we have 34. The bottom has dropped out of the
market," he said. "If I had stock in crime. I'd sell it."
For many of the officers, the most memorable event in the force's history was the arrest
of a dormitory arsonist in 1989. "It stands out because it was such a total department and
University effort," said Vamer. "When the string of fires began the department went on a sevendays-a-week, 12-hours-a-day schedule. We split the force in half and worked from seven to
seven. Officers patrolled the dorms all night, every night. There was total commitment from the
administration, student affairs office and the maintenance staff. Maintenance worked overtime
on weekends to put up temporary smoke detectors in the dormitories. Anyone who was involved
would do absolutely anything we asked of them. That's why it stands out."
The break in the case came at the scene of what turned out to be the last, and worst, fire.
Two of the police officers tried to put out the flames and had to be assisted out of the building
after inhaling too much smoke. As they and other staff people were being treated in the
ambulance, a young man appeared who said he also needed treatment. One officer overheard the
doctor say, "I don't know why this guy's here, he's fine."
The officer immediately became suspicious, because it is common for suspects in cases
like this to hide among the victims. The police called the man in for questioning. Varner said
everything he learned in 20 years of law enforcement went into that interview. After 2 1/2 hours
the suspect confessed.
"It wasn't like winning the Super Bowl, but when you have that many people pulling
toward a common goal, it's a great relief," Vamer said.
During its 20-year existence, the department has continually added to its arsenal of crime
prevention services. Operation I-Dent encourages students and staff to mark their valuable
personal property with their driver's license number. Engraving guns are available in the
dormitories and from the police.
Officers conduct crime prevention surveys of University facilities to identify and correct
crime conducive conditions such as ineffective locks, poor lighting, overgrown shmbbery and
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high value equipment in need of additional security. Student officers patrol the campus, lock
doors, turn on lights and watch for suspicious activity. A campus-wide intrusion alarm system is
connected to a central computer in the University police office and is monitored 24 hours a day.
State-of-the-art security cameras are used in various locations on campus to protect people and
property.
Currently the force is in the process of completing the computerization of everything
within the department including parking enforcement. The department hopes to expand the use
of technology in the areas of surveillance and intrusion alarms as cost effective ways of
providing better police protection.
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April 21,1994

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PUBLIC CAN WITNESS SOLAR ECLIPSE AT EDINBORO OBSERVATORY
The solar observatory on the campus of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania will be
open to the public during the annular eclipse of the sun, Tuesday, May 10,1994. Physics
professor and solar astronomer Dr. James LoPresto said the eclipse will last less than four hours
with maximum coverage taking place around 1:21 p.m.
Observers will have the opportunity to watch the eclipse in complete safety through the
use of a heliostat, a mirror device that projects an image of the sun onto a wall. The University's
main telescope will also be used with special filters to view the sun direcdy.
At its maximum point, 94 percent of the sun will be covered by the moon, leaving only a
ring visible in the Erie area. The eclipse will be visible from southern Maine to southern New
Mexico, crossing over Erie, Toledo, central Illinois and Missouri, and the panhandle of Texas. It
will pass over a major solar observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, near Alamagordo. It will then
continue over northern Mexico and central Baja into the Pacific Ocean.
Because space is limited at the observatory in Cooper Hall, reservations will be required.
To make a reservation, call the observatory at 732-2469.
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President Foster F. Diebold, (left) welcomes Dr. Brian E. Schrag to Edinboro University
of Pennsylvania for a symposium on political correctness. Schrag, executive secretary for the
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, is also a senior scholar and adjunct associate
professor of philosophy at Indiana University.
His visit to Edinboro was sponsored by the University’s Institute for Ethics and Values
Education, which is headed by Dr. Peg Bevevino (right), of the University's educational services
department. The Institute is part of Edinboro's Center for Excellence in Teaching.

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790 STUDENTS TO GRADUATE AT EDINBORO'S SPRING COMMENCEMENT
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania President Foster F. Diebold, now completing the
15th year of his presidency, will confer degrees on 790 students at Edinboro's spring
Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15, at 2:00 p.m. in McComb Fieldhouse. With a
December graduating class of 800 students, Edinboro granted approximately 1,590 associate,
bachelor's and master's degrees during the 1993-94 academic year.
Carrying the ceremonial mace and leading the academic procession at the ceremony will
be Dr. James MacCluskie, professor in the department of Educational Services. With a 30-year
career at Edinboro, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in educational foundations
and provides supervision and evaluation of education majors serving field experiences
throughout northwestern Pennsylvania.
MacCluskie received a bachelor of science degree in science from Millersville
University of Pa. in 1958. He earned a master's in secondary education/botany from Penn State
in 1962 and complete his doctorate in secondary education at Penn State in 1969. In addition, he
has completed numerous National Science Foundation seminars on such topics as Internet,
French, Spanish, and programming in ADA.
Through the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit and other educational
organizations, MacCluskie has presented many workshops and seminars on such topics as word
processing, computer programming and literacy, college algebra, and statistics.
Thirty-two undergraduate students will be graduating with summa cum laude honors
(3.80 to 4.00 grade point average) 52 with magna cum laude honors (3.60 to 3.79), and 69 cum
laude (3.40 to 3.59). In addition, seven students will be graduating as part of the University's
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LOCAL STUDENT INDUCTED INTO HONORARY SOCIETY
Karen S. Finley, 7738 Fairlane Dr., Fairview, a student at Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania, was recently inducted into Psi Chi, the National Honorary Society. Administered
by the American Psychological Association, the honorary society recognizes students for their
outstanding academic achievement in psychology coursework.
She and her husband Richard have two children, Carolyn and Emil John. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Opatich of Erie.
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LOCAL STUDENT INDUCTED INTO HONORARY SOCIETY
Karen M. Huels, 55 Broad St., Sandy Lake, a student at Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania, was recently inducted into Psi Chi, the National Honorary Society. Administered
by the American Psychological Association, the honorary society recognizes students for their
outstanding academic achievement in psychology coursework.
She has one child, Michelle. She is the daughter of Mary D. Frantz of Stoneboro and
Walter R. Frantz of Hueytown, Alabama.
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LOCAL STUDENT INDUCTED INTO HONORARY SOCIETY
Janice Lynn McKinney, a student at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, was recently
inducted into Psi Chi, the National Honorary Society. Administered by the American
Psychological Association, the honorary society recognizes students for their outstanding
academic achievement in psychology coursework.
She is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Ken Wilson, RD 3, Meadville.
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Amanda L. Mitchell, a criminal justice major at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania,
was recently inducted into Psi Chi, the National Honorary Society. Administered by the
American Psychological Association, the honorary society recognizes students for thenoutstanding academic achievement in psychology coursework.
She is the daughter of Ms. Dorothy Mitchell, RD 1, Seneca.
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LOCAL STUDENT INDUCTED INTO HONORARY SOCIETY
Carolyn S. Rea, 10044 S. Meadville St, Cranesville, a student at Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania, was recently inducted into Psi Chi, the National Honorary Society. Administered
by the American Psychological Association, the honorary society recognizes students for thenoutstanding academic achievement in psychology coursework.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Collins, RD 1, Ninevah, New York.
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April 18,1994

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LOCAL STUDENT INDUCTED INTO HONORARY SOCIETY
Nicole M. Ropchock, 200 Dundee Dr., West Mifflin, a student at Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania, was recently inducted into Psi Chi, the National Honorary Society. Administered
by the American Psychological Association, the honorary society recognizes students for their
outstanding academic achievement in psychology coursework.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. DeWayne Swift, 22669 Titusville Rd., Pleasantville.
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April 18,1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

LOCAL STUDENT INDUCTED INTO HONORARY SOCIETY
Joseph M. Yeager, 1532 Lehigh Street, Erie, a student at Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania, was recently inducted into Psi Chi, the National Honorary Society. Administered
by the American Psychological Association, the honorary society recognizes students for their
outstanding academic achievement in psychology coursework.
Joseph is a member of the Psychology Club.
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Office of Public Information and Publications
Edinboro, PA 16444
(814) 732-2745 or 2929
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April 14, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO ANIMATION GRADUATE JOINS WIL VINTON STUDIOS
Steve Carpenter, a 1993 graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has accepted a
position with the Wil Vinton Studio in Portland, Oregon, as a systems administrator/animator.
Carpenter will be leading the studio's computer animation efforts, and his first project will be a
commercial for Coca Cola's Fanta soft drinks in the Latin America market.
The Wil Vinton Studio is best known for creating the California Raisins commercials
using claymation. Carpenter said its computer animation department is just starting to blossom.
"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to work for a well-known studio," he said. "It will be an
excellent experience to work with cutting-edge technology."
Carpenter, a native of Smethport, may be one of the few people in the industry to hold
degrees in animation and computer science — both of which he obtained at Edinboro. Since
graduating last year, he has been a free-lance animator for Tal advertising in Erie, working on
projects for Fisher Scientific, Westinghouse and General Electric.
At the Wil Vinton Studio he hopes to complete an animation piece he began at Edinboro
and enter it in the student Academy Awards. Carpenter's ultimate dream is to write and direct his
own animated feature films.
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April 13,1994
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
EDINBORO UNIVERSITY PRESENTS "WAITING TO EXHALE"
Edinboio University of Pennsylvania will present "Waiting to Exhale," a play based on
Ae 1992 best seller by Ms. Terry McMUlian. The performance will be held in Memonal
Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 29. The cost for admission is $1.00.

The novel reveals the life of four women friends who struggle with passion, family, and
work as they search for the "real thing." Tliis production explores the issues of love and pain, joy
and sadness, and fear and faith within the African-American experience. It wiU address sue
issues as youth violence, family values, and the direction and future of the Afhcan-Amencan
The production is sponsored by Edinboro University's Minonty Students United,
additional information, call the Office of Intercultural Relations at 814-732-2912.
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Waiting To Exhale
sponsored by Minority Students United (MSU)
for more information call 732-2912

Friday, April 29, 1994
Memorial Auditorium
8:00 p.m. Admission $1.00
A play based upon the 1992 Best Seller "Waiting to
Exhale" by Ms. Terry McMillian
This production explores, within the African
American Experience, the issues of Love & Pain,
Joy & Sadness, and Fear & Faith.
... a must see for anyone interested in the plight of
American Youth.
Bonnie McAndrew

... shows the passion and dignity of the African
American Experience.
Rfgi Spencer

... and excellent chronicle of faith in the face of
fear!
Lisa R. Brown

April 13,1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

DR. JAMS NORMAN HEADS EDINBORO'S ART EDUCATORS CONFERENCE
Noted art educator Dr. Janis Norman will be the guest speaker at the Design Connection,
the biennial art educators conference at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, April 22. Norman
is the chairperson of the art education department of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia
and is also a primary consultant for the Getty Arts Center for Education.
At the conference she will speak on Design as Creative Learning Process. "My research,
experience and study have convinced me that the concepts and skills learned in art are critical
keys to learning all disciplines, and that the perceptual development gained through an artcentered education will ultimately enhance a student's proficiency in many areas previously
thought to be unrelated," said Norman.
Norman has been an art educator for more than 25 years. She was founder and president
of the Art Education Connection of Greater Kansas City - a bi-state consortium of art
institutions, artists and educators - and has taught art and directed district programs. She
currently directs the Design as Creative Learning Process Institute, which instructs area teachers
in interdisciplinary design-based humanities education.
"I have spent the last 20 years looking for alternatives to humanize education and, in my
thinking, the arts are the key to making that work," said Norman. "They truly are the most
human thing that we do, and I believe whole-heartedly that arts education and the arts are a
catalyst for interdisciplinary learning."
For further information on the conference, contact Edinboro University's Institute for
Research and Community Services, 732-2671.
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April 12,1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

"SPEAKING AS A WOMAN" TOPIC OF EDINBORO LECTURE
The cultural, psychological and familial forces that silence women in a patriarchal
culture will be the topic of a lecture on April 21, at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Sharon O'Brien, a professor of American culture and English at Dickinson College, will
present "Speaking as a Woman: Questions of Silence, Questions of Voice," at 8 p.m. in the
Reeder Hall lecture room.
"Since in various ways women's voices are silenced in our culture, for a woman to define
the self means to create a voice," said O'Brien, "a difficult process since women often shape
their voices and selves to the needs of others."
In addition to discussing the forces that silence women, she will also discuss the forces
that can liberate women into speech. She will focus on those forms of creativity that allow
women to develop voices - gossip, conversation, letter-writing, journals and diaries, memoirs
and autobiography, as well as poetry and fiction. Following her remarks will be a question and
answer period. A reception for O'Brien will be held immediately after the event.
A graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard University, O'Brien has received
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned
Societies, and the American Philosophical Society. She received a Fulbright Lectureship at
Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and was honored with the Lindback Distinguished Teaching
Award. She holds the John Hope Caldwell Chair of American Culture at Dickinson College.
Her visit to Edinboro is funded by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and is
sponsored by the University's English and humanities club.
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Office of Public Information and Publications
Edinboro, PA 16444
(814) 732-2745 or 2929
Fax (814) 732-2621

April 12, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO UNIVERSITY TO PRESENT WORKSHOPS FOR DIETITIANS
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania will present a workshop series for dietitians and
dietary managers in long-term care, beginning April 27 and running through August 17, 1994,
from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Edinboro Inn. Participants can choose to attend any or all of
the five programs in the series.
Topics for the series will address major areas of concern in the administration of food
service and nutrition care. Each workshop includes case-studies and projects, so participants will
learn how to apply the concepts covered in the lectures. Applications have been submitted for
approval of a total of 30 continuing education units for registered dietitians and 30 clock hours
for dietary managers.
The instructor for the series is Diane DeBaise, M.S., R.D., a registered dietitian with
more than 10 years experience in long-term care. As a consultant dietitian, she has worked
extensively in the development of continued quality improvement, interdisciplinary nutrition
care planning, and food service management programs and clinical nutrition standards of care
for intermediate and skilled nursing facilities. DeBaise has a bachelor's degree in nutrition and a
master's in biology with a concentration in allied health from Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania.
The workshop series begins Wednesday, April 27, with "Menu Planning for Long-Term
Care: A Simplified Approach," followed by "Pro-Active Management in the Dietary
Department" to be held Friday, May 20. The third workshop in the series, "Continued Quality
Improvement in the Dietary Department," is scheduled for Wednesday, June 22, followed by
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WORKSHOP FOR DIETITIANS, Continued

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"Interdisciplinary Nutrition Careplanning in the Long-Term Care Setting" to be held Friday,
July 22. The last program in the series, "Common Nutrition Problems in the Elderly Nursing
Home Residents," will be held Wednesday, August 17. Registration will be accepted up to one
week in advance of each program. The fee for each workshop is $60 and includes lunch and
materials. A discount for registering for all five workshops is available.
For more information or to register, contact the Institute for Research and Community
Services, 139 Meadville Street, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, Pa., 16444, or
call 814-732-2671 or 1-800-526-0121.
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April 12,1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO UNIVERSITY PRESENTS COMMUNICATION SEMINAR
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania will present a Professional Secretaries Day
seminar, "Conflicts and Confrontations: Managing Communication Problems in the Office" on
Monday, April 25, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Porreco Extension Center in Erie.
The differences between male and female communication styles often lead to conflict
and confrontation in the office. Women may sometimes feel they are misunderstood by thenmale colleagues or managers, causing unnecessary stress. These misunderstandings are often the
result of miscommunication.
Issues such as harassment and confrontation create many stressful situations in the office.
During this seminar, you will learn to understand the gender gap between men and women.
Through many practical exercises in communication, you can learn skills to lessen conflict and
increase understanding.
Participants will have the opportunity to hear specific ways to communicate more
effectively with less stress from the owners of an international management development firm
which specializes in using each person's individual strength to lessen work place stress.
The fee for the program is $50, which includes all materials, luncheon buffet, and .6
continuing education units. For more information or to register for the seminar, contact the
Institute for Research and Community Services, 139 Meadville Street, Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania, Edinboro Pa., 16444, or call 814-732-2671 or 1-800-526-0121.
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PENNSYLVANIA

Office of Public Information and Publications
Edinboro, PA 16444
(814) 732-2745or2929
Fax (814) 732-2621

April 11, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
EDINBORO GRADUATE PRESERVING HISTORY AT GERMANTOWN ACADEMY
Part of Pennsylvania's early history might have gone unnoticed for several more decades
if Edwin N. Probert II hadn't opened an unmarked door at Germantown Academy. Three years
ago, Probert, an English teacher and drama coach at the Academy, found a 20' x 60' room in the
basement of the administration building that was full of trunks, boxes and dilapidated filing
cabinets. When he asked a secretary what it all was she replied: "That's where we put all the
stuff we don't know what to do with."
What Probert had stumbled upon was the Academy's heritage - nearly 230 years of
records, documents and artifacts from the earliest days of the school and the nation. "I was
dumfounded," said Probert. "I said, 'Somebody should do something about it.’ And they said to
me, 'Why don't you?"'
A graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Probert took up the challenge and
began a three-and-a-half year project just to sort through all of the material. Among the board
minutes, headmasters' reports and other mundane records, Probert discovered a significant
collection of George Washington memorabilia including the telescope he used at the battle of
Germantown. President Washington and his cabinet fled Philadelphia to Germantown during the
yellow fever epidemic of 1793. The cabinet met at the school, and Washington later enrolled his
adopted son, George Washington Parke Custis, as a student.
The most valuable part of the archives is probably the McCook Collection, a complete
set of signatures of all U. S. Presidents. PYobert said the collection has been valued at $25,000,

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GERMANTOWN ACADEMY, Continued

and its most prized signatures are not those of Washington, Jefferson, or Lincoln, but rather of
presidents William Henry Harrison and James Garfield who died after less than a year in office.
The archives also has a small collection of fine and decorative arts including antique
tables, a Lukens grandfather clock built in 1834, and what Probert described as a beautifully
written charter for the school's founding.
Probert knew nothing about running an archives four years ago but has become a selftaught archivist and has been named the school’s collections control manager. One of the first
things he did was obtain a grant from the Berra Foundation to have the collection evaluated. A
second grant allowed Probert to catalog and re-house the collections. As the collections
manager, he spends two hours a day with the archives. The Academy remodeled the basement
into an archives facility and purchased a computer to assist in cataloging.
A native of the Philadelphia area, Probert graduated from Edinboro in 1965 and taught
for two years in Delaware before joining the faculty at Germantown Academy. He teaches
English and literature courses and was the school's drama coach for 17 years. He also earned a
master's degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania and recently became a
certified archivist. Presently he is earning a degree in art history from Cambridge University.
In addition to organizing and preserving the archives, Probert also mounts in-house
exhibits and displays much of the fine and decorative arts in public areas and is working to make
the archives available to the scholarly community. With very little publicity, the archives are
already visited by about 10 researchers a year.
Through his work with the archives, Probert was able to play historical detective and
ferret out some of the school's greatest myths. He recently authored a monograph on one of the
names long associated with Germantown Academy — A. Bronson Alcott, probably best known
as the father of Louisa May Alcott. Probert's article describes how the Academy's history was
rewritten on more than one occasion to suit the changing views of Alcott's role.
Germantown Academy opened its doors in August of 1761 as the Germantown Union
School. Its early history has many connections to the founding of the United States. The school
bell, for example, was cast in England and brought over on the tea ship Polly in 1774. Because
of the unrest in Philadelphia at that time, the Polly returned to England without unloading the
bell. It was not until ten years later that the bell was returned and placed in the bell tower. The
school building was used as a hospital by British troops during the Battle of Germantown. The
British also used the school's playing fields for the first cricket match played in America.
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GERMANTOWN ACADEMY, Continued

In addition to George Washington's visits to the school, the Marquis de Lafayette was
given a reception there where he was introduced to the student Fernando Bolivar, nephew and
adopted son of Simon Bolivar. The Academy's colors were red, white and blue until the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, when they were changed to red, blue and black.
The most significant change in the school's history came in September of 1965 when it
moved ten miles to an all-new facility on 160 acres in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, and, for
the second time in its history, became a coed institution. Today, the Academy has tripled its
enrollment since 1965 to 1,100 students in grades pre-school through 12th.
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Office of Public Information and Publications
Edinboro, PA 16444
(814) 732-2745 or 2929
Fax (814) 732-2621

April 8, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO UNIVERSITY ART STUDENT EXHIBITION OPENS APRIL 13
A show of new art by students at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania will open
Wednesday, April 13, in Bruce Gallery. This year's exhibition is juried by Texas artist Susan
Galey. It features art that is largely figurative and often large in scale. Students submitted works
in painting, drawing, graphic art, clay work, jewelry, sculpture, and film and video.
Gallery director Dr. William Cox said the result is an exhibition that is expressive and
dynamic. "What is evident is a concern for the making of art and the nature of art - with the
question of what constitutes good art work," he said.
Cox said some of the art is enigmatic and invites viewer speculation, other pieces are
humorous, and some work focuses on traditional kinds of art subjects and content. There is a
mix of references to popular culture and to personal individual content.
The exhibition opens with a public reception Wednesday, April 13, at 7 p.m. Gallery
hours are 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9. The
University Art Student Exhibition concludes May 7. For further information call
732-2513 or 2406.
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April 7,1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

STAND-UP COMEDIAN BRETT LEAKE TO PERFORM
AT EDINBORO UNIVERSITY
Stand-up comedian Brett Leake will perform at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania on
Saturday, April 16, at 8 p.m. in the University Center.
Leake, a professional comedian since the summer of 1983, is noted as being an
enthusiastic performer with a unique sense of humor that deals with events that can happen to
anyone on a daily basis. He believes humorous situations that have a universal appeal never fail.
During a show, Leake works his audience by keeping them in stitches while he dives into
the outer limits of human imperfection and uses that aspect as comedy. Leake writes jokes about
subjects that are interesting to him. "If it's interesting to me, even if it's not funny at all. I'll work
on it."
Despite having muscular dystrophy, Leake works 40 weeks a year with his shows lasting
anywhere from thirty to forty-five minutes. He feels that he would be no funnier if he were not
disabled. "When I first started doing comedy I felt defensive on stage, like I owed the audience
something. 'I'd better explain myself... because they won't give me a chance ...' I realized that
isn't really the case... I talk about the things I talk about with my friends."
Leake claims to feel rejuvenated every night he gives a performance, despite the fact that
his muscular dystrophy has gotten worse since he began as a comedian. "It just pumps me full. I
feel terrific. I don't have any aches and pains. I've got a good life ahead of me. I just hope to
keep doing stand-up as long as I can."

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Some of the comedians that Leake has opened for include Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Paula
Poundstone, Gilbert Gottfried, Emo Phillips, and Rita Rudner. His television appearances
include The Tonight Show, Comic Strip Live, Comedy Central, and the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
The event is open to the public and is free of charge. Anyone wishing further information
may contact the University Programming and Activities Office at (814) 732-2842.
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stage but his act doesn't need any help
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cry, silly things, my parems.rtiRathes
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unusual... they show some patience. V
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"my grandparents are hard of hearing
but they’re the first ones to know when
something’s too loud?”
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"Next time someone tells you you’re
not yourseif today, ask them: ‘So why
are you telling me?”
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"What do you do if you’re writing
and the pen stops working? Try it on
another piece of paper . . . it’s just a.
paper malfuncnon.' ’

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, teresdng to me, even if it's aoc funny at,
» ail. I’ll work on it. For instance. I’m
working on a bit right now about hat
sizes. I thought it was amazing what a
hat size means. It's ±c number chat’s
plugged into pie R squared to get the
circimference of your head. I chink it's
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trouble co get a hat size, I don't have
anything funny about chat yet but I’m
writing about it every day and then I’m
taking it up on stage to see if they chink
it's funny.”
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can't? ►
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movements. Other people can sit on a
chair and not worry about how they get
up. Before I sit down, I have co figure
out how I’m gonna get back up. .My legs
are rather weak so when I stand up on
stage J have co keep my ' ^:‘It*'^ a progressive disease . . . it's
vzotien worse since I’ve been dome com. edy_hiir r ThinV
^oaen worse siowe^
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^ night, especially on good .nights. It jusi_
• pumps me full. I fed cern^c...^- -d-oa—
.' have any aches and pa^T^
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bodied. It staned to show about the
rime I was 13 'out it’s not a depressing
thing because I have a lot of role models
in my family. My dad has the same
thing I do. .My uncle has the same t.ning
and my brother shows signs of ’it.
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• themsdves and
a good.n^Mii
’ #ahead of me. I just ho^^^keep zoingi*
Besides, Leake pomts out, being one
of Jerry's kicls has its advantages. When
he's in a 7-11, he never .-uns out
of change. ”I just reach in that piastic
plastic bubble and cut out the middle
man completely.”

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April 6, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO'S PRESIDENT DIEBOLD RETURNS
FROM SUCCESSFUL OVERSEAS TRIP
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania has enjoyed unprecedented growth in its global
initiatives and expansive programs for internationalizing its campus during the 15-year
presidency of Foster F. Diebold. Acclaim and international recognition for these programs for
their reach and quality have accompanied that growth.
Returning recently from a 15-day overseas trip to visit the various institutions with which
Edinboro has academic linkages, Diebold spoke of the importance he has placed and continues
to place on the University's international dimension and the dual benefit that students from both
worlds, domestic and foreign, stand to gain.
"Our relationships in those countries where we hold formal educational linkage
agreements, as well as on the Edinboro campus, are indeed forwarding the cause of world
understanding," said Diebold. "Terms such as 'global village' and 'world community' are now
more common than they were 15 years ago, which is a tribute to the philosophy we've pursued
with our programs and linkages in support of our formal mission of providing for international
education."
Before Diebold's recent trip, Edinboro University had formal linkage agreements with
eight institutions in two countries — seven in Pakistan and one in China — and an exploratory
agreement with a quasi-governmental association in Morocco. He returned carrying new
agreements with another institution in China, an eighth in Pakistan, and a formal agreement with
an emerging new university in Morocco.
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Diebold advocates academic linkage agreements as a better method of fostering
international understanding than the more traditional student-faculty exchange programs typical
at most colleges and universities. Linkages are more inclusive, flexible and directional, Diebold
said, and have the advantage of involving the institution on a larger scale than individual
exchanges. Plus, said Diebold, more opportunities are available to develop comprehensive
relationships through exchanges of library resources, consultations, communications links,
goodwill visits, and provision of faculty and staff expertise.
"One of the preoccupations of my presidency has been our commitment to a REAL
international education program, not a program that seeks only to increase the international
student population on campus, but one that truly seeks to promote understanding among people
of different national and cultural backgrounds, a program that in fact recognizes that the world is
becoming smaller in the sense of its interdependence," Diebold said.
"I think that the transference of cultural awareness I see on the Edinboro campus and
observe at our linked institutions is a tribute to our commitment," Diebold said. "It's thrilling
when I’m in a place like Zibo, China, or Karachi, Pakistan, and students from those countries
who've matriculated at Edinboro come up to me and ask about professors or classmates they ve
known while at Edinboro, or about other ties that were formed through interactions in student
clubs or in the dormitories.
"Edinboro students, both international and domestic, learn early on in their academic
careers that, first and foremost, they are STUDENTS, and one large family of students at that.
Students from Erie or Pittsburgh or wherever learn right away from the daily rigors of campus
life that students from China or Pakistan or Japan are by and large just like themselves in the
higher education scene."
During his stay in Pakistan, Diebold was joined by a four-member team of Edinboro
University administrators who presented a week-long series of workshops to the staffs and
faculty from a number of Pakistani universities with which Edinboro has current linkage
agreements. Attendance at the workshops numbered seventy.
Comprising the Edinboro team were Vice President for Financial Operations Richard
Morley; Dr. Jerry Covert, dean of science, management and technologies; Andrew Lawlor,
interim associate vice president for academic programs; and Dr. Donald Dilmore, director of
University libraries. Instruction at the workshops included presentations on Total Quality
Management applications in higher education, library automation, use of computers as
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worldwide research tools, and other matters of mutual interest geared toward improving
administrative efficiency and raising standards of teaching and research,
"An important part of the overall trip to me," said Diebold, "was our ability to deliver
training for workshops in those emerging nations. The idea that we can render administrative
and technical assistance to help them bring into contemporary practice improvements that we
have come to take for granted at Edinboro University in terms of computerization, insistence of
quality, and the notion of a collegial style of management, underscore the importance of the
linkage concept."
While in Pakistan, Diebold also formalized an academic linkage agreement with the
University of Karachi, the premier university in one of Pakistan's largest cities, and a leading
university in that country. That agreement brought to eight the number of institutions in Pakistan
that maintain formal linkages with Edinboro University. The others are: Balochistan University,
Mehran University of Science and Technology, Peshawar University, University of the Punjab,
Shah Abdul Latif University, University of Sindh, and the Foundation Public School, located in
Karachi.
During this and previous visits to Pakistan, Diebold has been told by American consular
officials that Edinboro University is making the largest single impact on Pakistani education of
any university from the U. S. Officials have said that, although a number of American colleges
and universities have contact with Pakistan through specific and narrowly-defined academic
projects involving one or two persons, it is only Edinboro that has the across-the-board level of
involvement that includes the university president, faculty, administrators, and others. The same
officials have said that they are especially impressed with the international education initiatives
and activities of Edinboro University, a medium-size, multi-purpose institution from a rural
community in Pennsylvania.
Diebold said that nearly everywhere he and the Edinboro contingent went in Pakistan,
they were met by Edinboro alumni. At the University of Sindh, he pointed out, there are some 13
faculty members who hold undergraduate or graduate Edinboro degrees. Diebold said that it was
not unusual to drive down the crowded streets of a Pakistani city of 10 million people and see an
Edinboro University bumper sticker or decal on the back window of a car. He went on to say
that he was met by the protocol chief of Pakistani International Airlines at the airport in Karachi,
who announced that he was forming an Edinboro University alumni chapter in that city.
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From Pakistan, Diebold travelled to the Peoples’ Republic of China, where Edinboro
University has maintained a formal linkage agreement with Zibo College in the City of Zibo,
Shandong Province. That agreement, which Diebold first formalized in 1987, was an outgrowth
of the 1985 "sister cities" agreement between the cities of Erie and Zibo to promote cooperation
and exchange between the two cities in the fields of business, education, science, and
technology. Diebold served on the original U. S. delegation to China as the education
representative. The late Louis Tullio, then mayor of Erie, headed that delegation.
Students and scholars have been coming to Edinboro since the 1986-87 academic year
under the terms of the agreement, which Diebold renewed during his latest visit. Many of the
Chinese have returned to their homeland after their Edinboro stay to teach and assume other
high positions and important assignments in government and business.
"We can be proud of what these students have accomplished since leaving Edinboro,"
said Diebold. "They are creating a ripple effect in the developing culture of their country, which
reflects favorably upon their education and experiences at Edinboro University."
Diebold also signed a new linkage agreement during the visit with Jinan University, a
ten-year-old institution in the City of Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. The agreement
with Jinan University, an institution with a profile similar to Edinboro's, is much like the linkage
with Zibo College, calling for the exchange of scholars and materials and student exchange
opportunities.
While in Jinan, Diebold met with the governor of Shandong Province, (population 86
million), who had come to Erie with Zibo's original "sister cities" delegation and had visited the
Edinboro University campus. He told Diebold that some 22 individuals from Shandong Province
had now been trained in the U.S. by Edinboro University, and that all had returned to take
positions of responsibility at various colleges and universities or in the municipal or provincial
government. Two more, he noted, have been transferred to Beijing where they work with the
World Bank in the educational finance area.
In Zibo, Diebold was given the key to the city and made an "honorary citizen" by the
mayor. During an earlier visit, Diebold was named honorary president of Zibo College and
professor for life by its president, Shumu Sun. Leaders at Zibo have told Diebold that Edinboro's
relationship has played a significant part in the school's expansion from a two-year normal
school to a four-year, comprehensive institution of higher learning. From one building in Zibo's
downtown area in 1985, the school has moved to a new 60-acre location with all new buildings
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and facilities that include a mammoth modem library, lecture hall, science facility, sports
complex, and living space for both students and faculty.
Diebold has been told repeatedly by American consular officials in China that Edinboro
University's relationship with Zibo College has played a singular influential role in advancing
higher education in that country.
The last stop on Diebold's overseas trip was the Kingdom of Morocco, where he
finalized with a special committee from the court of King Hassan the terms of a linkage
agreement between Edinboro and Akhawayn University, a new, western-style institution
scheduled to open in the fall of 1994 in the city of Ifrane, near Morocco's capital of Rabat.
The groundwork for the agreement was established last fall when Diebold signed a
tentative pact with Dr. Abdellatif Kriem, a personal interpreter to King Hassan and professor of
English at Morocco's Muhammad V University, during Kriem's visit to the Edinboro campus.
Kriem is also a member of the Royal Committee for the founding of Akhawayn University.
Kriem signed the agreement then on behalf of the Association Ribat Al-Fath, a quasigovemmental body headquartered in Rabat which promotes educational, cultural and economic
development both within Morocco and abroad. Association members are generally affiliated
with King Hassan's court and serve as ambassadors-at-large for the Kingdom to promote trends
and opportunities.
Diebold said that he has been in consultation with the Moroccans over the past several
years to provide them advice on a number of academic and administrative matters, such as the
design of a campus physical plant, curriculum design and development, and the need to have
policies and procedures in place before Akhawayn University opens this fall.
Diebold said that King Hassan had placed in trust nearly $60 million to found the new
university.
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April 5, 1994

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Are you planning an educational program for the public? Grants for cultural programs
will be discussed at a free workshop at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday,
April 13. The workshop is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. To learn more,
call 1-800-462-0442 - the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. That's 1-800-462-0442.
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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY
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April 5, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

PENNSYLVANIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL
TO HOLD WORKSHOP AT EDINBORO UNIVERSITY
"New Directions in Cultural Programs: Grants and Special Projects for 1994-95," will be
the topic of a Pennsylvania Humanities Council workshop sponsored by Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania on Wednesday, April 13. The workshop, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the
University's Reeder Hall Lecture Room, is free and open to the public.
Leading the workshop will be the Council's executive director. Dr. Harry Ausprich, a
former president of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
Workshops typically run from 9 a.m. to noon, including the public meeting component,
with individual appointments available between 1 and 5 p.m. on the half-hour. To register for the
morning workshop or make an appointment for the afternoon, call the Council at 1-800-4620442 no later than April 8.
The Pennsylvania Humanities Council - a private, non-profit, statewide organization
supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, foundations, corporations
and individuals - promotes public understanding of the humanities within Pennsylvania. Each
year, the Council's volunteer members consider hundreds of grant proposals for programs in a
variety of formats, including conferences, lectures, exhibits, discussion groups, films, and radio
broadcasts. With an annual operating budget of $1.4 million, the Council awards grants to other
non-profit organizations for special public programs in the humanities across the
Commonwealth.

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Edinboro University President Foster F. Diebold was appointed to the Pennsylvania
Humanities Council last year. At the invitation of Sr. Margaret Cannon, of Scranton, the
Council's chair, Diebold began serving a three-year term in November 1993.
The Council supports programs for the adult public that are rooted in history, philosophy,
literature, and related subjects that explore the meaning and value of human life. Special themes
for 1994-95 include civic education, educational policy, women's studies, health and human
values, ethnic studies, Pennsylvania history, and the end of the 20th century.
Those attending the April 13 workshop and public meeting will be introduced to the
mission and purpose of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, as well as learn how they can
apply and receive grants for eligible projects. Again, the number to call and register is 1-800462-0442. For information locally, call Edinboro University's Public Information and
Publications Office, 732-2745.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EDINBORO SENIORS CARLA JOHNSON AND ALISA FELLER
SERVE GOVERNMENT INTERNSHIPS
Two students from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania are getting an inside look at
government this semester through internships in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. Carla
Johnson, an English writing major from Jefferson, Pa., is serving an internship in the White
House in the office of presidential letters and messages. Alisa Feller, a senior social work major,
is an intern this semester with the Department of Public Welfare in Harrisburg. She is
representing Edinboro in The Harrisburg Internship Semester (THIS), a program for outstanding
students in the State System of Higher Education.
Johnson actually works next door to the White House in the Old Executive Office
Building, an enormous, yet ornate, structure that once housed the departments of State, War, and
the Navy. Her department receives many of the letters written to President Clinton every day.
Her responsibilities include editing response letters, researching materials for responses to letters
on issues such as current world events and pending legislation, and putting together a style guide
for the writers. She also occasionally works on the White House comment line which the public
uses to express opinions to the White House.
The calls and letters are carefully noted to give the President a report on public opinion.
With so many letters coming in every day, it is impossible for the President to read each one, let
alone write a response.

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In addition to issue-related letters, the office of presidential letters and messages also
sends out letters of congratulations and condolence. During the Olympics the President
contacted the American athletes who won medals.
"It's a lot of fun," said Johnson. "I get to see much of what goes on in Washington and
the White House." She is probably the only student at Edinboro who has been introduced to
Socks, the presidential cat. Johnson is doing her internship through the Washington Center, a
clearing house for college students looking for internships in the District of Columbia. The
Washington Center arranges twice weekly breakfasts on Capitol Hill as well as night classes and
lectures for the interns.
Feller works in the Federal and State Relations Office, which acts as a liaison between
the Department of Public Welfare and the Pennsylvania legislature. She calls the internship an
opportunity of a lifetime. "It's great," she said. "I couldn't have asked for anything more. It opens
so many doors."
One of the special projects she is working on now involves proposed regulations for
nursing home reimbursement known as a case mix system. Under this system, nursing homes
would be reimbursed based on the level of care of each patient. Feller said her office has been
inundated with letters from various groups who want to comment on the proposal. The office has
sent more than 3,000 letters in response. Feller will use the project as the basis for one of her
research papers.
She was also involved in compiling a blue book for Secretary Karen F. Snider prior to
recent hearings before joint committees in both the House and Senate. Feller is now preparing
follow-up answers for questions raised by the legislators during the hearings.
Feller said everyone in Harrisburg welcomes her and her fellow interns in the THIS
program. "Secretary Snider even drives me to some of her hearings," she said.
A native of Lancaster, N.Y., Feller will graduate in May and hopes to eventually earn a
master's degree in public administration.
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